ORIGINAL FRANCIS JAMES MORTIMER (1874-1944) 'CRASHING WAVES' GELATIN SILVER PHOTOGRAPH

This is really a wonderful original. I recently acquired a small collection of original photographs by Francis James Mortimer.  Most of them come out the Permanent Collection of The Camera Club in New York.  If you are not familiar with Mortimer, I have included his biography below.  A large gelatin silver photograph measuring 17 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches on original mount measuring 20 x 16 inches.  Photograph is signed in pencil lower right on the mount.  Photograph is in excellent condition with great tone and contrast.  A very small area of surface inconsistency within the waves.  On the back of the mount is a label for the other famous photographer Rosalind Maingot.  A pen notation of Mortimer and an inventory number. There is also the catalogue sticker from the Camera Club permanent collection on the back of the matte.  Photograph is taped verso at the top into a matte.  It should really be taken out and archivally framed to preserve this incredible important photograph.  If you collect early important photography, check my store for the 4 other Mortimer original photos I am selling.  Add $5 more for S&H&I for each additional photo you purchase.  

For those not familiar with the photographer his biography from a website that is committed to the important photographers of history reads: " Francis Mortimer, a keen yachtsman, is best known for his dramatic sea-scape, many being combination prints, coupled with other manipulations. He was elected a member of the Linked Ring in 1907; it was he, in fact, who was instrumental in its demise only a couple of years later, when editor of “Amateur Photographer.” In fact, his main sphere of influence lay in the various editorships of photographic journals, including “Photograms of the Year.” One of Mortimer’s most famous pictures is the “Gate of Goodbye” – a combination print made from a number of negatives, the background being the archway leading to Waterloo station, where many families parted with their sons and husbands, as they set off to the war.Mortimer was a close friend of Lord Carnarvon, an Egyptologist who was one of the two who discovered the Tutankhamen treasures. It is said that on one of his frequent visits to show photographs, he was often greeted with “What a wonderful lens your camera has”, which he found distinctly irritating. He got his own back; when one of Carnarvon’s guests displayed the grouse he had shot that day, Mortimer beamed with admiration, and then said “What a superb gun you must have!” Though Mortimer was an influential person who in his lifetime received many honors, his dislike for what he saw as “American temporary art crazes” left Britain somewhat isolated in the photographic world after the First World War As a result he tends – quite undeservedly – to be largely ignored in modern photographic history books."

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