Photogravure Portrait Photography

Set of three Edward Sheriff Curtis original photogravures; Quniaika- Mohave, Portfolio #2, Plate #60, Qahatika Water Girl, Portfolio #2, Plate #54, Home of the Havasupai, Portfolio ...

Photograph a lady in an evening dress. Original vintage photogravure, photography by Adolf Fassbender from his book "Pictorial Artistry: The Dramatization of the Beautiful" 1937. From a limited edition of 1000. Image measures 11" x 8.5" without borders. Adolf Fassbender made his living teaching amateur and professional photographers, but during the 1930s and 1940s he also produced heavily manipulated pictorial images. He harbored an idealized vision of photographic beauty, formed by traditional values and conservative aesthetics. He exhibited hundreds of individual prints throughout the United State but his most enduring contribution to the field was his 1937 book...

This was printed and signed later. Herbert Ritts Jr. (1952 – 2002) was an American fashion photographer and director known for his photographs of celebrities, models, and other cultural figures throughout the 1980s and 1990s. His work concentrated on black and white photography and portraits, often in the style of classical Greek sculpture, which emphasized the human shape. Born in Los Angeles, to a Jewish family, Ritts began his career working in the family furniture business. His father, Herb Ritts Sr., was a businessman, while his mother, Shirley Ritts, was an interior designer. He moved to the East Coast to attend Bard College in New York, where he majored in economics and art history, graduating in 1975. Later, while living in Los Angeles, he became interested in photography when he and friend Richard Gere, then an aspiring actor, decided to shoot some photographs in front of an old jacked up Buick. The picture gained Ritts some coverage and he began to be more serious about photography. He photographed Brooke Shields for the cover of the October 12, 1981 edition of Elle and he photographed Olivia Newton-John for her Physical album in 1981. Five years later he replicated that cover pose with Madonna for her 1986 release True Blue. Ritts was openly gay. During the 1980s and 1990s, Ritts prominently photographed celebrities in various locales throughout California. Some of his subjects during this time included Cher, Elizabeth Taylor, Denzel Washington, Johnny Depp, Ronald Reagan, David Bowie, Courtney Love, Liv Tyler, Matthew McConaughey...

Herbert Ritts Jr. (1952 – 2002) was an American fashion photographer and director known for his photographs of celebrities, models, and other cultural figures throughout the 1980s and 1990s. His work concentrated on black and white photography and portraits, often in the style of classical Greek sculpture, which emphasized the human shape. Born in Los Angeles, to a Jewish family, Ritts began his career working in the family furniture business. His father, Herb Ritts Sr., was a businessman, while his mother, Shirley Ritts, was an interior designer. He moved to the East Coast to attend Bard College in New York, where he majored in economics and art history, graduating in 1975. Later, while living in Los Angeles, he became interested in photography when he and friend Richard Gere, then an aspiring actor, decided to shoot some photographs in front of an old jacked up Buick. The picture gained Ritts some coverage and he began to be more serious about photography. He photographed Brooke Shields for the cover of the October 12, 1981 edition of Elle and he photographed Olivia Newton-John for her Physical album in 1981. Five years later he replicated that cover pose with Madonna for her 1986 release True Blue. Ritts was openly gay. During the 1980s and 1990s, Ritts prominently photographed celebrities in various locales throughout California. Some of his subjects during this time included Cher, Elizabeth Taylor, Denzel Washington, Johnny Depp, Ronald Reagan, David Bowie, Courtney Love, Liv Tyler, Matthew McConaughey...

Hand-pulled photogravure (Edition of 130) Estate stamped, l.r. Also signed, dated, and numbered by executor, recto 16 x 12.5 inches, sheet This artwork is offered by ClampArt, loc...