Striking male nude study "The Mill" 1904 by American photographer Carl Rau 1858-1940. From a vintage copy of Photograms of the Year 1904, the annual publication of the London Salon of Photography.

13 x 11.5 cms vintage halftone book plate. Excellent condition.

Carl G. Rau was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, on November 3, 1858 moving in 1880 to La Crosse, Wisconsin, where he applied for U.S. naturalization. In December 1903, Rau and Louis Fleckenstein, of Faribault, Minnesota, formed the Salon Club of America, to promote a populist standard of pictorial photography. Originally, the club assembled portfolios that circulated among its members, but it soon became instrumental in organizing the American Photographic Salons, a series of nine annual exhibitions beginning in 1904. Rau exhibited elsewhere modestly around this time, including at the 1909 annual exhibition of the Wyoming Camera Club in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Juries for the Chicago Photographic Salon accepted his work in 1902 and 1903, and the catalog for the latter reproduced one of his images. He wrote four articles for the American Annual of Photography between 1899 and 1908, on such topics as portraiture and genre pictures. The annual also reproduced his images in 1904 and 1905. His subjects included nudes, still lifes, and landscapes. Carl Rau died after a long illness, at his La Crosse home, on December 29, 1940.

Delivered in an acid free archival sleeve and hard backed envelope.

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