UNITED STATES - PICTORIALISM - LOUIS FLECKENSTEIN 1866-1943 - Lot 114

UNITED STATES - PICTORIALISM - LOUIS FLECKENSTEIN 1866-1943 "The Life Class", Long Beach, ca.1920. Photograph. Vintage silver print mounted on cardboard, signed and titled in pencil beneath the image, numerous American exhibition labels on the back. Image: 19.7 x 24.5 cm; mount: 45.7 x 36.3 cm Fleckenstein was active in Pictorialist circles from 1903 until his death in 1943. He helped found numerous photographic organizations such as the Salon Club of America and the Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles, whose members included Margrethe Mather and Edward Weston. Fleckenstein's photographs were frequently reproduced in contemporary photographic magazines such as "The American Annual of Photography", "Camera Craft" and "American Photography".