Book review of Capturing Nature by Matthew Zucker

Have you ever created a leaf rubbing? Or painted one facet of a pure object after which pressed it to paper to make a mirror picture? If so, you’ve engaged in nature printing, an historic follow that marries scientific documentation and artwork. Fossils are a sort of nature print, and leaf prints had been featured on early American forex. Relief printing, intaglio, cyanotype—all are sorts of nature printing.

Capturing Nature: 150 Years of Nature Printing examines this artwork kind by two centuries and throughout continents, illustrating no fewer than 45 sorts, compiled by Matthew Zucker and Pia Ostlund from the Zucker Collection, the most important assortment of nature prints on the earth. The ensuing quantity is a “wondrous mix of nature, technology, and the human desire for learning,” and it’s a shocking addition to any nature lover’s library.