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Old days Photo - Mountain and Lake - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th Century

Mid-20th Century

Old days Photo - Mountain and Lake is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album ...

Old days Photo - Landscape is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the late 19th century. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including...

"Impressions of the High Sierras", a Lithobrome Photograph by Sigismund Blumann (American, 1872-1956). Signed "Sigismund Blumann" lower right. Titled "Impressions of the High Sierras" and signed "Sigismund Blumann" on verso. Unframed. Image size, 10.25"H x 13.25"W. 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...

A vintage black-and-white photograph of a landscape has a timeless, classic appeal. The lack of color allows the viewer to focus on the composition, light, shadows, textures, and con...