Item Tag: 1903

ORIGINAL HARVEY AARON FALK (1903-1983) LAUDERDALE LAKE FISHING GELATIN SILVER PHOTOGRAPH This is a great piece. As anyone who has been following my store for the last few years, you know that I have been buying and selling more and more important photography. Being a collector of photography I am always on the lookout for good, undervalued, and under appreciated works. The works of Harvey Falk are definitely in that category. I have found one gallery that carries the photographers work and for those that dont know about him I have included his biography below. This is one of 4 Pictorialist nautical photographs I acquired from Falk’s later work. I am guessing these date to the 1960s’ or 1970s. This is a wonderful view of what I believe is a group fishing off the bank of Lauderdale Lake in Florida. A gelatin silver photograph measuring 15 1/2 x 19. This is printed in a matte instead of gloss like the other Falk prints I am offering. Photograph is in excellent condition. The back of the mount has a personal note from the photographer giving this image to friend’s of his. He must have thought highly of this work as he chose to give it as a gift. You can see some of the information on the back below the note that I assume is the artists signature, title, and location of the image. The note is dated 1979 but there is also a stamp date of 1970. Really a stunning work. In a complimentary frame that is ready to hang (all the Falk’s I am offering are in the same frame – so would make a great presentation hung in a grouping). Frame measures 17 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches. If you collect Art Photography, check my store for all the other photographs I am offering, particularly 3 other Falk photos. Add only $6 more for S&H&I for each additional photograph you purchase. For those not familiar with the artist his biography from a gallery that sells the artist’s work reads: “Falk made pictorial photographs during the 1940s. He lived in New York where h concentrated on architectural subjects. Harvey Aaron Falk was born on November 25th 1903 in New York City. He lived there most of his life and in the mid-1930s was employed by the Hayes Duster and Brush Company. He made a hobby of photography as a child and later was encouraged by his wife to resume making pictures. Mrs. Falk bought him a Contax camera and arranged a White Mountain vacation to rekindle his photographic interest. Falk was a longtime member of the Manhattan Camera Club, which he joined in 1938 and where quickly rose to leadership positions. In 1941 he servesd as secretary and three years later was president of the club, and office he also held in 1951. Falk exhibited his photographs in salons from about 1939 to the mid-1940s. This span of years was modest for a pictorialist, as was his annual total of photographs shown- forty-six at most. But Falk was highly ranked in terms of the percentage of his acceptances to submissions; for the 1939-1940 and 1940-1941 seasons he led all American pictorialists (trailing only Leonard Misonne of Belgium) in this tabulation of the American Annual of Photography. Mst of the prints he carefully made and submitted to salon juries were accepted for hanging. During the 1940s, American Photography, Camera, and Popular Photography reproduced Falk’s work. And Kodak used his most well known, World of Today, in a 1947 ad for photographic paper. World of Today shows the RCA Building of New York’s Rockefeller Center dramatically framed through Lee LAwrie’s Atlas sculpture at ground level. The tonal contrasts, sharp focus, and strong diagonals of the image are trademarks of modernisti-nfluenced late pictorialism. Falk never used manipulative printing processes and termed his architectural photographs “pictorial documentaries. “Falk traveled to Europe in 1951 but probably found the old-world subjects incompatible with his modernist outlook. He died in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in 1983.”CHECK THE PICTURES ON THIS GREAT PIECE. DONT MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY. Shipping and handling can be calculated based on the ebay shipping calculator. If you have any questions regarding the work, please dont hesitate to ask. Pictures are an excellent indication of condition. Though the shipping says it will take 5 days of handling, usually items are shipped much faster and if you pay right away, the item most likely will go out in the next day or two. If there is any problems with the item please dont hesitate to email me. I guarantee and stand 100% behind everything I sell. No reason to open up any sort of cases. Just simply contact me and I will handle any and all problems. 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