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The Old Days - Ceremony - Early 20th Century

Early 20th Century

Gathering is a vintage photo, realized in the Early 20th Century . The artwork is a well-balanced composition.

The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Early 20th century.  It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and ...

The Old Days - Historical Photo  is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.  It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families,...

The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.  It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, ...

"Sidewalk Club of the Motherlode" a Lithobrome photograh by Sigismund Blumann (American, 1872-1956). Signed "Sigismund Blumann" lower right. Titled "Sidewalk Club of the Motherlode" on verso. Image size, 11.25"H x 13.25"W. Between 1923 and 1932, his pictures were accepted at photographic salons in Amsterdam, Toronto, Rochester, Seattle, and Los Angeles. In 1927, a one-person exhibition of his bromoil prints traveled to camera clubs in Chicago, Akron, Cincinnati, and New York. In addition to bromoil, a process that yields pointillistic images, Blumann utilized such unusual processes as kallitype (Vandyke brown), lithobrome, and pastelograph (the latter two probably his own inventions) to create original photographs using chemical processes he invented. Sigismund Blumann (1872–1956) (figure 1) was a prominent tastemaker in Californian photography during the 1920s and 1930s. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area for his entire career, he edited magazines, wrote books, and made creative photographs. From 1924 to 1933 Blumann edited Camera Craft, the leading West Coast photographic monthly. Subsequently he established his own periodical, Photo Art Monthly, which he published until 1940. In these two magazines — for over fifteen years — Blumann found a large audience of mainstream pictorial photographers. In addition, he wrote five instructional books on photography...

Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Diane Arbus, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1979. Published by Unite...

A unique original silver gelatin black and white photography. The International Autumn Fair in Lyon, France, 16th of March 1927. The crowd rushes to the entrance of The Internationa...

Unknown Photographer. ROBERT PEARY, THE LORD MAYOR OF MANCHESTER, ENGLAND AND OTHERS. Gelatin silver print, 1910. The image shows Commander Peary with Cha...