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- Burton_Frasher abstract "Burton Frasher (July 25, 1888 - April 24, 1955) was a California photographer and publisher of Mid-Century Modern ephemera. Burton Frasher was considered America's Southwest most prolific photographer at Mid-Century. His black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West have been widely reproduced.After years of traveling while working in the fruit packing industry, he and his wife Josephine opened a photo shop in La Verne, California in 1914. Six years later they moved to Pomona where Burton Frasher expanded his studio by publishing postcards. Frasher went to great lengths to find images for his real photo postcards. He traveled extensively through California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada, ranging up through Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, and down through Baja, California and Sonora, Mexico taking pictures during a time these locations were all still largely unassessable by roads. The photographers most famously associated with the American West are Edward Weston and Ansel Adams. Whereas Weston and Admas treated the landscape as a canvas for formal artistic exploration, Frasher sought to capture the scenic wonders. He included the distant vista, the trail of footsteps, and the occasional human being, all devices to keep monumentality in scale. In contrast, Weston focused on geologic forms and the textures of sand and sky, creating abstract compositions in which distances are utterly ambiguous. It is a measure of their separate achievements that the 1939 Works Project Administration’s Death Valley: A Guide reproduces images by both photographers.During the Depression and pre-war years he reproduced his images as printed linens manufactured by Curt Teich allowing national distribution. In 1948, over 3 1/2 million "Frasher Fotos" postcards were sold nationwide. Curt Teich was the most prominent and largest printer and publisher of Linen Type postcards, based in Chicago. Burton Frasher was one of most prominent publisher at the West Coast. Curt Teich printed most of the Linen Type postcards for Piltz utilizing Teich's "C.T. Art-Colortone" printing method. Other publishers in California include Stanley Piltz in San Francisco, Western Publishing and Novelty Company, Tichnor Art Company in Los Angeles, B. W. White in Monterey and Stephen H. Willlard in Palm Springs.Frasher looked closely at the developing urban landscape of the American West with a particular concentration on the cities of Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Frasher’s photographs detail the automobile’s profound impact on the architecture of these two cities. His extensive archive of night photographs in Las Vegas and Los Angeles explores an urban world designed for observation and navigation from behind the wheel of a slow moving motor vehicle. He combined a passion for automobile travel and photography into a postcard business that proved popular with motoring tourists of the 1930s and 1940s. Frasher’s photographs are a fascinating visual resource of a dynamic period in the history of modern California and the West.".
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- Burton_Frasher comment "Burton Frasher (July 25, 1888 - April 24, 1955) was a California photographer and publisher of Mid-Century Modern ephemera. Burton Frasher was considered America's Southwest most prolific photographer at Mid-Century. His black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West have been widely reproduced.After years of traveling while working in the fruit packing industry, he and his wife Josephine opened a photo shop in La Verne, California in 1914.".
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