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The Old Days - Smoking - Early 20th Century

Early 20th Century

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 1915.  It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and political eve...

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, ...

Old Days  - Historical Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the Early 20th Century. Good conditions.

A charming Italian portrait in the manner of Salvador Maresca. The portrait depicts a man in a long white shirt and green flat cap smoking a pipe. Unsigned. Presented in a gilt frame...

A charming Italian oil portrait in the manner of Salvador Maresca. The scene depicts an old man lighting his pipe. Unsigned. Presented in a gilt frame. Part of a pair of oil portrait...

A striking portrait of an Italian man. The artist captures the man's face in great detail showing his deep weathered lines from age and experience and a gentle, knowledgeable look to...

"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...