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D155600-50C
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- 1969-03 (Creation)
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1969 Richards stock footage. Famous photographer Adolph "Papa" Fassbender paid a visit to Tacoma in late March of 1969 to conduct five days of instruction in modern advanced photography to 22 state photographers. The 12-hour-a-day classes were held in Lee Merrill's studio. Fassbender, born in Cologne, Germany in 1884, moved to the United States in 1912 and spent 15 years employed in the photography profession. He decided in 1927 to spend the rest of his life, which was to be a very long one, teaching and making art. Fassbender was an Honorary Master of Photography and had received many degrees and fellowships. He was inducted into the Photography Hall of Fame upon his death in 1980. Fassbender, with snow white hair, is seated with his wife Franke in the center of this March, 1969, color photograph. Names of the others in this large group are printed on the photograph. (www.iphf.org/inductees/afassbender.html; TNT 3-30-69, A-5)
Fassbender, Adolph; Guests--Tacoma--1960-1970; Photographers--Tacoma;