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Bruehl, Anton
(b Hawker, Port Augusta, S. Australia, 11 March 1900; d San Francisco, CA, 10 Aug 1983). American photographer of Australian birth. He trained as an electrical engineer in Melbourne, but in 1919 he emigrated to the USA. He developed his interest in photography while working for the Western Electric Company, New York. In 1923 he attended an exhibition by students of Clarence H. White, who was then considered America’s most prominent Pictorialist photographer. White agreed to teach him privately, but by 1924 Bruehl had become both a regular student at White’s New York school and a member of his summer faculty in Canaan, CT. White encouraged the individualism shown by his students. Among them, Bruehl, Paul Outerbridge and Ralph Steiner (b 1899) became known for a crisp, graphic style that would distinguish the best commercial photography in the 1920s and 1930s.
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