MISS J. RANKEN

Hand-pulled photogravure, 7 3/4 x 6 inches [19.69 x 15.24 cm] printed on tissue and tipped on to the original laid paper leaf, 11 3/4 x 8 1/8 inches [29.85x 20.96 cm]. Archivally matted on rag board with window overmat. Fine. The image is a fine full-tone photogravure from CAMERA WORK 40, 1912. Adolf Meyer (1868 - 1946) a Parisian, was educated in Dresden, Germany. By the mid 1890s, he was a member of the Royal Photographic Society living in London, making portraits of the fashionable set. He exhibited widely with the Pictorialists in Paris, London, New York, among others, and was a Fellow of the Council of the Photo-Secession. By 1914, living in New York, he was appointed as the official fashion photographer for Vogue. At the end of the first world war, he returns to Paris, only to returned to the United States at the outbreak of World War II.