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Period: 1950s
Frank Sinatra in Tbird
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
In this photograph, Frank Sinatra is captured glancing over his shoulder at his friend, photographer Frank Worth, while sitting in his classic Ford Thunderbird.
Frank Sinatra was a...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Elvis Presley: The Wink
By Lloyd Dinkins
Located in Austin, TX
Vintage candid image of The King, Elvis Presley photographed early in his career in 1956 in Memphis Tennessee by Lloyd Dinkins.
Elvis Aaron Presley, also known simply as Elvis, was an American singer, musician, and actor. He is regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century and is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "The King". His energized interpretations of songs and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines during a transformative era in race relations...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Digital
Natalie Wood Classic Portrait
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Frank Worth captured this classic image of Natalie Wood in 1952. At this point Wood was already a star having starred in films including Miracle on 34th Street as a child but had not...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable, and Marilyn Monroe: "How to Marry a Millionaire"
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable, & Marilyn Monroe behind the scenes of "How to Marry a Millionaire".
How to Marry a Millionaire is a 1953 American romantic comedy film directed by Jean...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Marilyn Monroe "The Seven Year Itch"
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
This beautiful color image features Marilyn Monroe in her starring role for 'Seven Year Itch'.
The Seven Year Itch is a 1955 American romantic comedy film based on a 1952 three-ac...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Elizabeth Taylor Behind the Scenes
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
This iconic and elegant portrait captured by celebrity photographer Frank Worth features actress Elizabeth Taylor on the set of the film "Giant" for her role as character Leslie Bene...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital
Mamie Van Doren and Richard Long Getting Gas
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Vintage capture of Mamie Van Doren and Richard Long getting gas in a classic car.
Mamie Van Doren is an American actressmodelsingerand sex symbol. She is perhaps best remembered fo...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Elizabeth Taylor Up Close in "Giant"
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Awesome capture of starlet Elizabeth Taylor up close behind the scenes while filming 'Giant', 1955.
Giant is a 1956 American epic Western drama film, about sprawling epic coverin...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Equestrian Entrance' 1957 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Equestrian Entrance' Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
1957 Madame de la Haye-Jousselin on her horse at the gates to her chateau in Normandy.
Slim Aarons Chromogeni...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Playful Jayne Mansfield
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Playful recolored print of Jayne Mansfield smiling with hands and knees on floor.
Jayne Mansfield was an American film, theater, and television actress. She was also a singer and n...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Frank Sinatra at Sands Hotel
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
An artistically composed and colored photograph of Frank Sinatra in front of the Sands Motel with his Tbird. Sinatra at the Sands is a live album by Frank Sinatra accompanied by Coun...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Elizabeth Taylor As Leslie Benedict
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
This iconic and elegant portrait captured by celebrity photographer Frank Worth features actress Elizabeth Taylor on the set of the film 'Giant' for her role as character Leslie Bene...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Capture of Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis candid and laughing.
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, and model. Famous for playing comedic "blonde bombshell" characters,...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Frank Sinatra in Tbird
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
In this photograph, Frank Sinatra is captured glancing over his shoulder at his friend, photographer Frank Worth, while sitting in his classic Ford Thunderbird.
Frank Sinatra was a...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Bob Hope Exiting Trailer
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
This black and white action shot features Bob Hope exiting his trailer in 1955.
Bob Hope was a British-American stand-up comedianvaudevillianactorsingerdancerathlete and author. Wi...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
James Dean As Jett Rink in "Giant"
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
James Dean posed leaning with his hand on a fence post while filming a scene for "Giant", 1955.
Giant was the last of James Dean's three films as a leading actor, and earned him h...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'New England Skiing' 1955 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons 'New England Skiing'
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in Cranmore Mountain, New Hampshire, circa 1955 (Photo by Slim Aarons, printed later)
This photograph epitom...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons Lake Tahoe Canoes Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Lake Tahoe Canoes' by Slim Aarons
Young women canoeing on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, 1959.
Three young women are pictured in their red, turquoise, and white coloured canoes on ...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Pool At Lake Tahoe - Oversize C print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pool At Lake Tahoe
Bathers by a pool on the shore of Lake Tahoe, California, 1959.
Photo by Slim Aarons
Chromogenic print
Paper size 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm
Please note...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Swimmer And Sunbather' 1959 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Swimmer And Sunbather' 1959 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
An underwater swimmer and a sunbather at the Cal Neva Lodge on the shore of Lake Tahoe, 1959. The Cal Neva reso...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Color, C Print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - New England Skiing - Oversize C Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in Cranmore Mountain, New Hampshire, circa 1955.
Photo by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons C Type photograph
Paper size 40 x 4...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons Carlton Hotel Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Carlton Hotel' by Slim Aarons
The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958.
A couple dressed elegantly in all white tennis outfits with rackets in hand, wander past the...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Hotel Excelsior 1957 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Excelsior
1957 1957 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition C print
The beach front of the luxurious Excelsior Hotel on the Venice Lido, 1957.
Photo by Slim Aarons
Extra larg...
Category
1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Beverly Hills Hotel, Estate Edition Photograph, Classic Mint Green on Blue
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1957—Cars parked outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California.
Beverly Hills Hotel
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
40x40 inches
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aar...
Category
Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Capote At Home' Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Capote At Home' 1958 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Author Truman Capote (1924 – 1984) relaxes with a book and a cigarette in his cluttered apartment, Brooklyn Heights, New York...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Lido Life, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lido Life, Venice
1957
C print
Signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate.
A waiter serves fruit to bathers, ...
Category
Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Ursula Pacelli in Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Ursula Pacelli
1957 (printed later)
Chromogenic print
Signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate.
Ursula Pac...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolier'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Venice Gondolier
1957
C-Print
Signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate
A gondolier on the Grand Ca...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Portofino
1957
C print
Signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate.
The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in ...
Category
Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Westin Excelsior in Venice
1957
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons, an acclaimed fine art photo...
Category
Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Hotel Excelsior, Venice' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Hotel Excelsior, Venice
1957
C-Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate
CAPTION: The ...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Beauty and the Beast'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a tiger skin rug in the trophy room at socialite Laddie Sanford's home in Palm Beach, Florida.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition o...
Category
Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II' Limited Edition Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II' 1960 - Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped
View looking down the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Italy, 1960. Opened in 1890, the cover...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Beverly Hills Hotel' Official Limited Edition Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beverly Hills Hotel (1957)
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print
Cars parked outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957.
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Slim...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Color, C Print
Slim Aarons Palm Beach Idyll Official Estate Edition Super Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons 'Palm Beach Idyll' Estate Stamped Edition
A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA (Photo by Slim Aarons).
This photograph epitomises the travel styl...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons Carlton Hotel Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Carlton Hotel' by Slim Aarons
The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958.
A couple dressed elegantly in all white tennis outfits with rackets in hand, wander past the...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons Official Estate edition - Beverly Hills Hotel
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beverly Hills Hotel by Slim Aarons
Beautiful 1950's cars parked outside the iconic Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957.
Typically 'Slim' this photograph ep...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Tennis In The Bahamas 1957 Slim Aarons Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tennis In The Bahamas 1957 Slim Aarons Estate Print
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print (edition size 1/150).
Two women stand talking to a man on the edge of a tennis court in the...
Category
1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Relaxing at Lake Tahoe'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Relaxing at Lake Tahoe
1959
Archival pigment print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A group of people re...
Category
American Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ivy Nicholson, Traffic
Located in New York, NY
Ed. of 21, estate-stamped. Includes white frame.
Norman Parkinson was the preeminent fashion photographer in Great Britain from the late 1930s until his death in 1990. Born in 1913,...
Category
1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
'C. Z. Guest' Palm Beach SLIM AARONS ESTATE EDITION
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'C. Z. Guest' by Slim Aarons
American socialite Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest (aka C. Z. Guest, 1920 - 2003) with a Great Dane at her ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, in Palm Beach, Fl...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Vogue Dive 1944 Toni Frissell Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Vogue Dive 1944
A Vogue fashion shoot featuring a model jumping on a diving board wearing a bright 1940's yellow floral bikini, Florida USA 1944
by Toni Frissell
30 x 20" inches...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marina Piccola 1954 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marina Piccola
1954
Canzone del Mare at the Marina Piccola, Capri, Italy, 1954.
By Slim Aarons
30x20” / 76x51 cm - paper size
C-Type Print
unframed
Estate Stamped Edition
Ed...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Greece in 1957 - Athens (Print 2 of 50)
Located in Cologne, DE
A moment in time
In 2021, a gallery from Brussels contacted us. There, a photographic collection had been kept in tin boxes for decades, consisting of 6x6 glass slides in color.
Th...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Color
We Know Our Place (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
We Know Our Place (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
A Dalmatian dog lies at the feet of Mr and Mrs John M Seabrook as they pose...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Beverly Hills Hotel 1957 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Beverly Hills Hotel' 1957 Limited Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Beautiful 1950's cars parked outside the iconic Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957.
Typica...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Golf In Hong Kong 1959 Toni Frissell Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Golf In Hong Kong
1959
A group play golf on a coastl golf course, Hong Kong, 1959.
by Toni Frissell
16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size
Archival pigment print
unframed
(fr...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'The Beverly Hills Hotel Sign' - Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Beverly Hills Hotel
1957
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
The sign on the side of the Beverly Hills Hotel on...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Carlton Hotel Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Carlton Hotel' by Slim Aarons
The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958.
A couple dressed elegantly in all white tennis outfits with rackets in hand, wander past the...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Sun Worship (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Bianca Volpato sunning herself at Capri in a lilac coloured bikini.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Jamaica Relaxation 1965 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Jamaica Relaxation
1965
A group of friends sit on a sandy beach in front of a Jamaican house.
by Toni Frissell
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Archival pigment print
unfr...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Beverly Hills Hotel (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Cars parked outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate...
Category
American Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
La Coquille Club 1954 Toni Frissell Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
La Coquille Club, Florida 1954
Guests by the swimming pool of the La Coquille Club, Florida in December 1954
by Toni Frissell
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Archival pi...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Stowe Ski Slope 1955 Oversize Toni Frissell Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Stowe Ski Slope
1955
Cars parked at the foot of a ski slope at the Stowe Mountain resort, Vermont, USA, 1955.
by Toni Frissell
Very large 40 x 30" inche...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Lake Tahoe Couple' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Lake Tahoe Couple' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
A couple relax at a swimming pool in the summer sunshine near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959. The line on the bottom of the pool marks t...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Marilyn Monroe, "Beverly Glen Party"
Located in New York, NY
Ed. 6/20, estate-stamped. Includes black frame with white mat.
Milton H. Greene, famous for his fashion photography and celebrity portraits from the golden age of Hollywood, met Mar...
Category
1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Norman Parkinson Limited Estate Print Anne Gunning for Vogue
Located in London, GB
Anne Gunning for Vogue Estate Print
by Norman Parkinson
Fashion model Anne Gunning in a pink mohair coat outside the City Palace with an elephant, Jaipur, India, photographed for V...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tennis In The Bahamas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tennis In The Bahamas
1957
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Two women stand talking to a man on the edge of a tennis court in the Bahamas, circa 1957. Behind the main group stand a second group of people talking...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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