Laurence Salzmann

Laurence Salzmann is a native of Philadelphia who has worked as a photographer/ filmmaker since the early 1960's. His projects document the lives of little known groups in America and abroad. He looks at the lives of people ranging from occupants of single room occupancy hotels in New York City to transhumant shepherds in Transylvania, residents of Mexican villages, and Philadelphia Mummers. He's also the founder of Blue Flower Press.

Blue Flower's name comes from a non-existent blue flower first mentioned by the 19th Century German writer and poet Novalis in his unfinished novel, "Heinrich von Ofterdingen". This non-existent flower became for the German Romanticists a symbol of the unattainable and unending quest for perfection.

Blue Flower Press will continue to strive for perfection in all works published and distributed by Blue Flower. We welcome you to our YouTube and web-sites and hope that you will one day find the Blue Flower.