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B.C. Binning
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Anton Bruehl’s collotypes are taken from the rare, first edition of Photographs of Mexico, a Delphic Studio Portfolio published by Photochrome Press, New York in 1933. The delicate tonal range of these collotype prints complement Bruehl’s interest in texture, pattern and spatial play. This scene of everyday life around Mexico City is typical of his photography. During this decade, few foreign photographers were interested in looking beyond picturesque cathedrals and ruins or idealized Mexicans. Two prominent exceptions however, were photographers Paul Strand and Anton Bruehl, who took a more intimate, modernist look at the people of Mexico. Bruehl, who later also became known for the high-quality color images that he produced for Conde Nast’s magazines, ran a commercial partnership with his brother Martin in New York from 1927 through the 1930s. Together they produced images remarkable for their unusual lighting effects and angles of view, strong, simple graphic organization, meticulous craftsmanship and understated humor. Creating abstract patterns of light and shadow through elaborate lighting designs, many of his theatrically staged celebrity and commercial photographs appeared as large promotional print ad campaigns and magazine spreads. With Fernand Bourges he developed a colour process that became the standard for color photography in the 1930’s.
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