Lot Essay
Carel Blazer was known mostly for his journalistic and industrial photographs, probably due to the influence of his teacher, Hans Finsler with whom he studied in Zurich. In 1934-35 he shared studio space with Eva Besnyö. He taught several young photographers and dwelled in the photographic community of Holland in the 1930's. In fact, the pre-war period in his career marked a highpoint when he experimented extensively in the spirit of the New Photography. Unlike some of the other Dutch photographer's at the time, Blazer found that the risk of taking pictures illegally during the war was too great. He favored industrial work, particularly when it involved water as the pictures being offered here do. He enjoyed notoreity for his color work, and particularly for travel photographs he took through the 1960s. Very little of his early work remains today.