Forms of the Microcosm: Forms of Construction and Movement, Anatomy of Invertebrates; Scales on a Butterfly Wing, Admiral, 720:1, 1928 (Abzug 1955)

About the Work

Over a period of thirty years, the graphic artist Carl Strüwe produced photographic images of geometric patterns and structures seen through a microscope. In analogy to the vocabulary of architecture, for example, he used the terms ‘shingles’ and ‘flying buttresses’ to refer to the shot of a butterfly wing. This photo graces the cover of his book Forms of the Microcosm: Shape and Design of a New Imagery, which was not published until 1955.