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Relief - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century

Early 20th century

Relief-  Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century. Good conditions, aged with foxing.

Stone Relief-  Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the early 20th century by Alinari. Good conditions and aged.

Decorative Relief -Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century. Information is written on the lower in Italian. Good conditions, aged with foxing.

Stone Relief-  Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the early 20th century by Alinari. Good conditions and aged.

Linda Connor: Lick Observatory These celestial images are made from glass plate negatives that belong to the archive of the Lick Observatory in San Francisco. These images were mad...

Linda Connor: Lick Observatory These celestial images are made from glass plate negatives that belong to the archive of the Lick Observatory in San Francisco. These images were mad...

'Sculptured Drum, Temple of Artemis, Ephesus' Photogravure from a collection of photogravures depicting Greek and Roman marbles and bronzes in the British museum. Plate number above...

"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...