John Fass: Book Arts and Photography

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  • Part One:
    Photography by John Fass:

    John's First Photographs

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  • New York City: Urban Precisionism
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  • John's Apartment at the Bronx YMCA
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  • Pennsylvania Dutch Farms
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  • Lancaster County Covered Bridges
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  • Ephrata Cloister: Lancaster County
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  • Portraits of Esther and Clarence
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  • Alone in a Landscape
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  • Part Two:
    John's Printing & Publishing:

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  • John's Mentor: Bruce Rogers
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  • John's Book-Design Awards
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  • 1929: John Fass does Europe
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  • Christmas Cards by John Fass
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  • John's Harbor Press
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  • John Makes Marble Paper
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  • Louis How
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  • John's Commercial Printing
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  • Typophiles and Bibliophiles
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New York City in the 1940s

Photography by John Fass

 

Rockefellergold 
Above: Prometheus statue at Rockefeller Center

 

Soldier 
John Fass' career in printing, publishing, and graphic design kept him in Manhattan for much of his life. John was a country boy at heart, having grown up in Lancaster County, PA. Despite his lifelong celebration of his rural roots, John's photography also showcases his enthusiasm for his adopted city of New York.

Many of his urban photographs from the 1940s reflect the modern, precisionist sensibilities of the two Pennsylvania artists who pioneered Precisionism in modern art: Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler. Some of his other New York photographs document daily street life of the city, which he observed and photographed as an adopted son of the city.

 

Reilymarket 
Above: Reilly's Square Deal Market

 

Skyline 

Above:  View from the park

 

Chinatown 
 Above: Chinatown

 

Rockefeller Center 
 Above: Atlas statue and NBC building at Rockefeller Center

 

Gridiron 
Above:  The Flatiron Building

 

LiberalLoans


Above:  Liberal loans, a fish, and the Empire State Building

 

Skyline4 
Above: Manhattan skyline seen from Brooklyn
 

Chyrsler 
 Above:  The Chrysler Building

 

Nylibrary 
Above:  The New York Public Library

 

Lion2


 Above:  The New York Public Library

 

Ny12 
 Above:  The New York Public Library

 

Parade 
 Above:  Ticker tape parade

 

Windowdark 
  Above: Window shopping

 

Smogbridge 

Above:  The George Washington Bridge

 

Twofountain 

 Above: Square with fountain

 

Fountaindistance 

Above: Square with fountain

 

Ny8 
 
Above:  Manhattan skyline seen from Brooklyn

 

Ny14 
 Above:  U. S. S. Missouri in New York

 
Ny10 
 Above:  George Washington statue on Wall Street

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