{"id":81962,"date":"2026-08-15T23:45:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T23:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=81962"},"modified":"2026-08-15T23:45:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T23:45:50","slug":"adolf-de-meyer-the-balloon-man-1912","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/catalog\/adolf-de-meyer-the-balloon-man-1912\/","title":{"rendered":"Adolf de Meyer: The Balloon Man, 1912"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Adolf de Meyer \u2014 <em>The Balloon Man<\/em> (1912)<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Camera Work, No. 40, October 1912<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An original photogravure reproduction of <strong>Adolf de Meyer\u2019s <em>The Balloon Man<\/em><\/strong>, published as Plate XII in <em>Camera Work<\/em> No. 40 in October 1912.<\/p>\n<p>The photograph depicts a balloon vendor in a cap surrounded by his balloons. De Meyer\u2019s soft-focus technique and subtle tonal range give the portrait a dreamlike, almost theatrical quality.<\/p>\n<p>This impression is printed on thin <strong>Japanese\/rice paper<\/strong> and is in excellent condition. Please see the accompanying photographs for details.<\/p>\n<h3>Details<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Adolf de Meyer (1868\u20131946)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> <em>The Balloon Man<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Date:<\/strong> 1912<\/li>\n<li><strong>Process:<\/strong> Hand-pulled photogravure<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publication:<\/strong> <em>Camera Work<\/em>, No. 40, October 1912<\/li>\n<li><strong>Plate:<\/strong> XII<\/li>\n<li><strong>Image size:<\/strong> 8\u215d \u00d7 6\u215d inches<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sheet size:<\/strong> approximately 12\u00bc \u00d7 8\u215c inches<\/li>\n<li><strong>Condition:<\/strong> Excellent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A fine example of de Meyer\u2019s Pictorialist photography and of the finely produced photogravures published in <em>Camera Work<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adolf de Meyer \u2014 The Balloon Man (1912) Camera Work, No. 40, October 1912 An original photogravure reproduction of Adolf de Meyer\u2019s The Balloon Man, published as Plate XII in Camera Work No. 40 in October 1912. The photograph depicts a balloon vendor in a cap surrounded by his balloons. De Meyer\u2019s soft-focus technique and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":81963,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[95],"product_tag":[1491,1320,1349,1296,1489],"class_list":["post-81962","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-vintage-photographs","product_tag-adolf-de-meyer","product_tag-camera-work","product_tag-fine-art-photography","product_tag-photogravure","product_tag-pictorialist-photography","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/81962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=81962"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=81962"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=81962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}