Photography
William E. Dassonville, "San Francisco Skyline from the Bay," ca, 1925
- Item Number
- 14
Item Description
William E. Dassonville (American, 1879-1957)
San Francisco Skyline from the Bay, ca. 1925
Gelatin silver print
Image: 8 x 10 inches
Framed: 16 x 20 inches
Signed beneath image on front
Beginning as a portrait photographer, William Dassonville counted many prominent artists among his friends and clientele, including John Muir, William Keith, and Maynard Dixon.
Later, he photographed the California landscape, capturing views of its dramatic coastline and rolling hills, as well as the Yosemite Valley and the High Sierra. His images hung alongside the work of Alfred Stieglitz, Clarence H. White, Gertrude Kasebier and other renowned artists of the Photo-Secession and the Arts and Crafts movement.
In the early 1920s, Dassonville shifted his attention to the San Francisco waterfront and bay, skyline, industrial towers, and skyscrapers while continuing to create superbly crafted photographs.
Dassonville frequently printed on his own line of photographic paper called Charcoal Black. The paper was prized by the most demanding photographers, among them Ansel Adams, who later lamented that he never again “found a paper that had the particular qualities of Dassonville’s Charcoal Black.”
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