Stocking ad, 1930s

Once a student of the famous Clarence H. White School of Photography, Anton Bruehl opened his own photography studio in 1925 with his brother Martin Bruehl and fellow photographer Ralph Steiner. Thereafter, Bruehl was the recipient of several top advertising awards through the 1930s. One of his most noted accomplishments within the history of photography is his development, together with color technician Fernand Bourges, of the Bruehl-Bourges color process for Condé Nast Publications, which lead to many of the artist's color images appearing in magazines during the mid-1930s. Bruehl's work was included in two of the most major photography exhibitions of the first half of the 20th century: Film und Foto at the Deutscher Werkbund in Stuttgart (1929) and Photography 1839-1937 at the Museum of Modern Art (1937).

The vintage print offered here is an exemplar of Bruehl's alluring imagery from his fashion advertising work of the 1930s.