Super RARE! Edward Weston - Johan Hagemeyer, 1925, Gelatin Silver Print 1987

Description: Sale!!! Mega RARE! Beautiful famous portrait! Edward Weston - Portrait of Johan Hagemeyer, 1925 Vintage, RC Gelatin Silver Print This Print made in Japan under the official permission of Weston's estate to promote his touring photo exhibition in Japan. This was produced by Pacific Press Service (PPS), a Tokyo publishing company which also published a catalog for the exhibitions. These exhibitions were held at: - Odakyu Department Store, Tokyo from November 6 - 17, 1987. - Keihan Department Store, Osaka, January 15 -27, 1988. Gelatin Silver Print made to promote Weston's 1987-88 exhibition that toured Japan. Details: Glossy, RC medium weight gelatin silver print. - Photograph date: 1934 - Print date: 1987. Size: 8 x10 inches (204 mm × 254 mm). Edward Weston’s striking, semi-abstract black-and-white photographs expanded the medium’s aesthetic and conceptual boundaries. Weston was a founding member of the Group f/64 photography collective alongside fellow trailblazers such as Imogen Cunningham and Ansel Adams, and he shared his compatriots’ appreciation for the rugged beauty of the American landscape. Though the artist’s subjects also included still lifes, nudes, portraits, and industrial scenes, Weston’s compositions focused on abstract geometries and rich interplays of darkness and light. His work belongs in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, among others, and has sold for upwards of $1 million at auction. Johan Hagemeyer was a creative photographer who sometimes retouched or manipulated his photos. He was a contemporary and colleague of both Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, who both encouraged him to develop his skills in the photography field. He distanced himself from his more famous contemporaries when they disapproved of doctoring photographs. He felt that photography as an art form did not end with just the taking of a photograph. If it could be artistically improved he did so, much to the chagrin of his contemporaries. Hagemeyer also did not become as well-known as his contemporaries because he apparently did not market his photos aggressively. Upon his death in 1962, his complete oeuvre was found in his home. It is presently in the control of the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley. It contains 6,785 photographic items Hagemeyer was born in a lower middle class family in Amsterdam on June 1, 1884. He was one of four siblings and the parents were clearly encouraging their children to gain a good education so that they would be able to live a more affluent lifestyle than they did. Johan left school in his mid-teens to join an insurance brokerage firm. He was intellectually curious and became interested in literature, the arts and social sciences. He explored mysticism, anarchism, vegetarianism, politics and anything of interest to his curious mind. Along the way he developed an interest in horticulture, and was able to leave his job and go back to school to study it. Along the way two of his brothers also developed an interest in horticulture. After some time they decided to explore the practice of horticulture by growing fruit trees. America seemed the place to try it out, and that is how the three Hagemeyer siblings ended up in the United States, in California to be exact. The exact date of their arrival is not known but it must have been between 1905 and 1915. While in Holland, Hagemeyer already had become interested in photography, and it appears that after their arrival in the USA his two brothers became fruit growers but he became a photographer. He met photographer Alfred Stieglitz as early as 1916. Stieglitz convinced him to devote his life to photography. Hagemeyer moved between San Francisco and Carmel, and it was at Carmel that he met Edward Weston and the two developed a strong friendship which lasted until the two developed different views on how photography should be practiced. Although they apparently stayed in contact, their friendship cooled thereafter. Although his colleagues, Stieglitz and Weston, became quite famous with their photography, Hagemeyer apparently was unable to find a market for his photographs. Or he may not have been as much of a promoter of his photographs. At his death the above-mentioned collection of photographs were found at this home. They were fortunately saved for posterity. This is a truly special item - a gelatin silver print of Johan Hagemeyer, taken by the legendary photographer Edward Weston in 1925. The print was produced in Japan in 1987 and is a rare and valuable addition to any art collection. The artist and type are both listed as Edward Weston and print, respectively, with production technique as gelatin silver. The year of production is also given as 1987. The subject of the photograph is Johan Hagemeyer, an important figure in the art world of the early 20th century. Sale as is, no return. Also please a look my sales list thanks a lot to the following photographers Edward Weston Daido Moriyama Araki Josef Koudelka Saul Leiter Ray K Metzker Paolo Roversi Helmut Newton, Henri Cartier-Bresson Ernst Haas Harry Gruyaert Annie Leibovitz Peter Lindbergh Guy Bourdin Richard Avedon Herb Ritts, Ellen Von Unwerth Comme des Garçons Rei Kawakubo Irving Penn, Bruce Weber, Edward Steichen, George Hoyningen-Huene, Hiro, Erwin Blumenfeld Bruce Weber, Alex Webb Robert Frank Issey Miyake Robert Doisneau Steve Hiett Gueorgui Pinkhassov Andy Warhol Yayoi Kusama Magnum photos Harry Callahan Andre Kertesz Elliott Erwitt Bruce Davidson Guy Bourdin Steven Meisel, Martin Munkacsi Mario Giacomelli Bruce Gilden Sebastiao Salgado

Price: 585 USD

Location: New York, New York

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