Artist: Adolf Fassbender (German/American, 1884 - 1980). Title: "City Symphony [New York City]". Medium: Original vintage photogravure. Date: Composed c1937. Printed 1937. Dimensions: Image size: 11 x 8 7/16 in. (279 x 214 mm). Lot Note(s): Stamped with the photographer's signature, lower right recto. Edition of 1,000. High-grade archival paper. Ample margins. Fine, quality printing. Very good to fine condition. Comment(s): Fassbender was a successful professional photographer, a leading proponent of pictorialism, and a popular teacher of photography. He was in the top echelon of American pictorial photographers during the 1930s and 1940s, was exhibited internationally, and was widely reproduced in photographic periodicals. He was a founding member of the Photographic Society of America and a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society (F.R.P.S.). Fassbender was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame in 1980. [6516-3-400]