Capturing Nature (Zucker Art Books, NY 2022) is the ultimate guide to nature printing, a beautiful and invaluable reference work for scholars, artists, designers, botanists, and anyone interested in nature, botanical illustration, and printing.

Hailed as the earliest precursor to photography, nature printing is the practice of using impressions from the surface of natural objects such as leaves, flowering plants, ferns, seaweed, snakeskin, and more to produce an image. Capturing Nature is based on the Zucker Collection, the most extensive collection of nature prints ever assembled, with more than 13,000 images across 130 rare and seminal works from 1733 to 1902, including journals, published books, unique manuscripts, American currency, and instructional texts related to nature printing.

Matthew Zucker has spent decades curating the most extensive collection of nature prints ever assembled, with more than 13,000 images across 130 rare and seminal works, including journals, published books, unique manuscripts, American currency, and instructional texts related to nature printing from 1733 to 1902.

For the first time, readers will be able to view these nature prints presented side by side, enabling unique comparisons and undertaking a visually stunning journey through the developments over a 150-year period in printing methods including photography and examples of cyanotypes.