Louis Fleckenstein
American, 1866 - 1943
In a recent issue of The Amateur Photographer appeared the picture of Louis Fleckenstein and the following editorial reference in the photographic " Who's Who" department. We hope that more of our workers will be so honored. Men like Mr. Fleckenstein are making great efforts to dignify the art and service of photography. It is but just that they should receive the recognition that is due them.
"Among the pictorial photographers from overseas whose work has become well-known in this country, Mr. Louis Fleckenstein, of Los Angeles, is an outstanding example. Many af his pictures have been reproduced in our pages and in Photoyrams of Ike Year. He is an example of the successful professional photographer who has been able to make his own ideas and methods dominate the output of his studio, and has been able to create a demand for broadly treated work among his clientele, as well as to achieve a position for himself in international exhibitions. He took up photography in 1896, while studying in Montana with an artist who despised not snapshot-photography, or the use of a small Kodak for note-taking for his pictures. Thus started, Mr. Fleckenstein, acquiring a camera of hia own, made rapid progress, and quickly came to the front in competitions and exhibitions. He was one of the organisers of tlie Salon Club of America, and settled in Los Angeles in California, starting as a professional photographer in 1907. lie has been the director of the Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles since 1912, and was recently elected a member of the London Salon of Photography He has worked in many processes; and the pictures by him with which visitors to recent exhibitions are f,imil:ar are remarkable for their breadth of treatment, and for a richness and depth which supeest multi-gum. He has strong ideas on the relationship of professional photography to pictorial work, which he puts into practice.'
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