JOSE ALEMANY, Photogram, 1935, 5.5x3.375" Gelatin silver print on carte postale, Printed c. 1935, Photographer's stamp on print verso.

Jose Alemany (1895-1951) was a polyglot, and passionate about literature. From a young age, he was involved in political and cultural organizations, and his nationalist, republican, and pacifist ideology forced him leave Spain in 1915 to go the United States. There he studied psychology at Columbia University and taught literature and Spanish language at the University of Syracuse.

Alemany lived in San Francisco, then returned to New York where he married Alta Costen in 1924. In 1926 he became a professor of modern languages and sociology at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, headquarters of the Photographic Society of America.

At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he gave conferences throughout the United States, speaking out against the fascists and in favor of the Republic. He was appointed president of the North American Committee of Aid to Spain for Pittsburgh.

Between 1936 and 1939 he focused on his activity as a photographer, exhibiting in salons in Pittsburg, Philadelphia, and Minneapolis. He is included in the book Who's Who in World Pictorial Photography. In 1938 he traveled to France to coincide with the first international exhibition of Surrealism in Paris. Due to his university training, Alemany knew the movement and the work of Freud, and from 1939 his work had a more surrealist bent. He spent summers in Provincetown, and captured its landscape of dunes, sand, and water. There he related to artists such as Hans Hoffman. In 1951, he died prematurely in Provincetown.

CREDIT: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Alemany_Bori

Excellent. Minor edge wear.