Date: circa 1920’s. Medium: Vintage Gelatin Silver Print. Printed single light weight paper. Measurements : 6 7/8 by 8 3/4″, 16 x 20″ matted. Provenance: Peter Fetterman Gallery Santa Monica CA. Linden Hayes Fine Art, San Francisco, CA. Sigismund Blumann was a prominent taste maker 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. 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 were probably his inventions) to create original photographs using chemical processes he invented. From 1924-33, Blumann edited. The leading West Coast photographic monthly. Subsequently, he established his periodical. Which he published until 1940. In these two magazines – for over 15 years – Blumann found a large audience of mainstream pictorial photographers. Thank You for Looking and Supporting our Small business.