Born in the Arizona territory, Arthur Kales received a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1903. While living in the Bay Area, he became interested in the burgeoning Pictorialist movement in photography that flourished there, and his images met with immediate success. Kales moved to Los Angeles to work in advertising but returned to San Francisco in 1917. In the following year, he nevertheless joined the Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles. For fourteen years beginning in 1922, Kales wrote about Pictorialist photography in western America for the journal Photograms of the Year. [quoted from Getty museum]
Tag: fan
Desiree Lubovska · 1919
Sisters G by Binder, 1929
Spanish women attired in 1924
The Fan (Margrethe Mather)
Kate Cutler, ca. 1897
Gladys Wiles, ca. 1910
Eastern Beauty, ca. 1933
This portrait is an example of one of the many that Violet Keene became famous for. She established and ran a studio in Toronto for her mother’s work from 1933, and later a studio for her own photography. She studied photography under her mother’s guidance from an early age, and this portrait has many of the classic Minna Keene attributes of her portraits taken in Cape Town around 1910, notably the floral background and position of the face looking away from the camera. Violet exhibited her work around the world and had a loyal following. [quoted from source]