LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Blue-toned photogravure on chamois paper

Size Notes:

sheet size: 39.5 x 32 cm

Description:

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Markings:

Signed and titled by the photographer in pencil below the image in the margin

Literature:

Adolf Fassbender made a substantial contribution to twentieth-century photography in America. Alongside William Mortensen and Max Thorek, he was a leading pictorialist between the two world wars. His book, Pictorial Artistry remains the most lavish publication of its kind. It contains 40 large, lush hand-pulled gravures made either directly by or under the close supervision of Fassbender. He produced the film positives used for making the plates, supervised the plate making, chose the ink colors and oversaw the printing.