Michael Fassbender New York photogravure framed large *

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 Pictorial Artistry: The Dramatization of the Beautiful. Adolf Fassbender F.R.P.S. (1884-1980, American). A successful professional photographer, a leading pictorialist, and a popular teacher of photography. Fassbender was in the top echelon of American pictorial photographers during the 1930s and 1940s, was exhibited internationally, and was widely reproduced in photographic periodicals. He was a founding member of the Photographic Society of America, a national organization of committed amateurs. Fassbender was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame in 1980. His book, The Pictorial Artistry of Adolf Fassbender, B. Westerman, October, 1937, is recognized as one of the most lavish publications of pictorial photography after World War II. [See, The Pictorial Artistry of Adolf Fassbender, Fassbender Foundation 1994.] Item is in great condition and quality framed .. 20 SNAP IT UP Beautiful hanged anywhere in the house.