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Wonderful vintage large Sepia Photo of farm with tractor & McCormick Deering equipment in tow entitled Western Harvest circa 1950s by Adolf Fassbender. Measures approx. 19x14.5". Title written on back but photographers name is NOT noted - but we have slew of photos from Fassbender which are listing & certain this is his work. Condition is good 1/4" slight edge upper right. A very cool pic that would look great framed. Watermark for listing purposes only. We do not reproduce nor retain copies of any images we sell. This ships fast & FREE flat as we cant roll it so postage will cost more. Contact us with any questions & please follow our store we seek the rare & unique. More about Fassbender: Adolf Fassbender (1884-1980) was born in Grevenbroich, Germany, a small town near Cologne. Before entering the military, he initially assisted a photographer in Freiburg, Germany & subsequently worked in Dresden (where he also studied drawing & painting), Vienna (where he began specializing in hand-colored miniature portraits), & Antwerp. in 1911, he immigrated to the United States. He was first employed by the Selby Sisters & in 1921 opened his own New York studio. For the next seven years, he produced commercial, illustrative, & portrait photographs, some of which were exhibited at national conventions of the Photographers Association of America. He closed the business in 1928. At about this time, Fassbender became interested in pictorialism & began making creative pictures with the camera. He exhibited in pictorial salons for twenty years, beginning in 1925, when his work was first accepted by Londons Royal Photographic Society. He presented solo show in 1934 at the Camera Club of New York & in 1951 at the Smithsonian Institution. He joined camera clubs in New York, received honorary memberships from groups elsewhere, & was a founding member of the Photographic Society of America. Fassbender shared his techniques & theories by writing for the photographic press. He began in the early 1930s with a short series of articles in Camera about various control methods. His article "Why Bother," about the importance of manipulating the negative, was printed over time by three different publications. Most significant was his book Pictorial Artistry: The Dramatization of the Beautiful in Photography, published in 1937. After closing his studio in the late 1920s, Fassbender made his living as an instructor. He taught photography at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences from 1930 to 1935 & in the late 1940s at the Central Branch Brooklyn YMCA. He also conducted private & group classes at his Manhattan & New Jersey residences & lectured to camera clubs & professional conventions throughout the country. Over the course of his teaching career, from which he retired in 1970, he had more than 18,000 students. Exported By ExportYourStore :) SKU:274635424957_f9346993-1c2d_4_6A0 Vintage Photo Mccormick Deering Equipment Farm Adolf Fassbender C1950S 19x14
