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The Old Days Photo - Animals - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century

Early 20th Century

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

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

Old Days  - Animals is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.  It belongs to a historical album including historical moments, royal families, and polit...

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

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...

Beautiful shot of white horse. Diasec. Face mounted on acrylic. About the Artist: Known for his large format prints of equestrian portraits - commissioned by Ralph Lauren for all the Hamptons...

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...