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Author: Archer, Fred R.
Title: Landscape
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Date Published: 1920; vintage print
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Gelatin silver print mounted on board. Image: 18x23.5 cm (7x9¼"); board: 45.7x35.6 cm (18x14").

Pencil-signed and titled by Fred R. Archer on mount in lower margin. Exhibit labels on reverse from The Camera Club of New York dated March, 1938 and Photo Art Gallery in San Francisco.

"Fred Archer was a member of the Los Angeles Camera Club and, in 1914, became a founding member of the Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles. From the mid-1930's through most of the 1940's Archer was director of the Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles, and he remainted the only photographer who was active until the club disbanded around 1950. He was a frequent salon exhibitor and lectured at camera clubs throughout the West. He wrote a number of articles and one book, Fred Archer on Portraiture. Archer taught at the Art Center School (now Art Center College of Design) in Pasadena and later ran the Fred Archer School of Photography in Los Angeles." - Pictorialism in California, p. 141.

Image sunned, a bit of silver mirroring; very good or better.