Art by Medium: Silver Gelatin

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Merce Cunningham with dancers performing in 1984. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. J...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Merce Cunningham, Barbara Lloyd and Albert Reid performing 'RainForest' with Andy Warhol's silver clouds in 1...

Lucien Clergue (FRENCH, 1934 - 2014) Gelatin silver photographic print depicting Pablo Picasso holding a baby. Picasso et sa filleule Olivia (Picasso et bébé) Mougins, 1967 Hand signed by the artist with hand written description. Titled and dated lower left. Mounted in a silver painted wooden frame with mat behind acrylic screen. Paper measures approx. 11 3/4" height x 9" width to sight. Framed measures approx. 17 1/4" height x 14 3/4" width. Lucien Clergue (French: 1934 – 2014) was a French photographer. He was Chairman of the Academy of Fine Arts, Paris for 2013. Lucien Clergue was born in Arles, France. At the age of 7 he began learning to play the violin, and after several years of study his teacher admitted that he had nothing more to teach him. Clergue was from a family of shopkeepers and could not afford to pursue further studies in a college or university school of music, such as a conservatory. In 1949, he learned the basics of photography. Four years later, at a corrida in Arles, he showed his photographs to Spanish painter Pablo Picasso who, though subdued, asked to see more of his work. Within a year and a half, young Clergue worked on his photography with the goal of sending more images to Picasso. During this period, he worked on a series of photographs of travelling entertainers, acrobats and harlequins, the Saltimbanques. He also worked on a series whose subject was carrion. On 4 November 1955 Lucien Clergue visited Picasso in Cannes, France. Their friendship lasted nearly 30 years until Picasso's death. Clergue's autobiographical book, Picasso My Friend, looks back on important moments of their relationship. In 1968, and with his friend Michel Tournier, Clergue founded the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival which is held annually in July in Arles. He exhibited his work at the festival during the years 1971–1973, 1975, 1979, 1982–1986, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 2000, 2003 and 2007. Clergue also illustrated books, among them a book by writer Yves Navarre. Clergue took many photographs of the gypsies of southern France, and was instrumental in propelling the guitarist Manitas de Plata to fame. Clergue is perhaps most remembered and respected for his black-and-white studies of light, shadow, and form, featuring sinuous nude female bodies, zebra stripes of light, dynamic sand dunes, and seascapes extracted from the coast of the Camargue. Clergue's photographs are in the collections of numerous well-known museums and private collectors. His vintage photographs have been exhibited in over 100 solo exhibitions worldwide, with noted exhibitions such as in 1961, at the Museum of Modern Art New York, the last exhibition organized by Edward Steichen with Lucien Clergue, Bill Brandt and Yasuhiro Ishimoto. Museums with large collections of his work include The Fogg Museum at Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His work, Fontaines du Grand Palais (Fountains of the Grand Palais), is in Museo cantonale d'arte [de] of Lugano. His vintage photographs of Jean Cocteau are on permanent display at the Jean Cocteau Museum in Menton, France. In the U.S., an exhibition of the Cocteau photographs was premiered at Westwood Gallery, New York City. In 2007, the city of Arles honored Lucien Clergue and dedicated a retrospective collection of 360 of his photographs dating from 1953 to 2007. He also received the 2007 Lucie Award. He was named Knight of the Légion d'honneur in 2003 and elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts of the Institute of France on 31 May 2006, at the same time as a new section dedicated to photography was created. Clergue was the first photographer to enter the Academy to a position devoted specifically to photography. He was Chairman of the Academy of Fine Arts for 2013. Lucien Clergue was married to the art curator Yolande Clergue, founder of The Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles. He was the father of two daughters: Anne Clergue, a curator of contemporary art who has worked at Leo Castelli Gallery, and Olivia Clergue, a handbag fashion designer whose godfather was Pablo Picasso. Pablo Picasso (1881 –1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramic artist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War. After 1906, the Fauvist work of the slightly older artist Henri Matisse motivated Picasso to explore more radical styles, beginning a fruitful rivalry between the two artists, who subsequently were often paired by critics as the leaders of modern art. In 1897, his realism began to show a Symbolist influence, for example, in a series of landscape...

8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph of dancer and choreographer Louis Falco, performing in 1962. This is a print that was published by a newspaper or...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of writer/performer Spalding Gray, 2002 signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a c...

16 x 20" vintage silver gelatin photograph, multiple exposure male nude. Titled, numbered, dated, and signed by Jack Mitchell on the recto. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Arch...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of dancer and choreographer David Parsons, 1986. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes directly fr...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of New York City Ballet dancer Violette Verdy backstage, 1968. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell A...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of the Plaza Hotel Fountain on Christmas Night 1965, part of a series he took that evening. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives ...

16 x 20" vintage silver gelatin photograph, multiple exposure male nude. Titled, numbered, dated, and signed by Jack Mitchell on the recto. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Arch...

16 x 20" vintage silver gelatin photograph, multiple exposure male nude. Titled, numbered, dated, and signed by Jack Mitchell on the recto. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Arch...

Toned gelatin silver print Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, recto 14 x 11 inches, sheet (Edition of 25) 20 x 16 inches, sheet (Edition of 25) 24 x 20 inches, sheet (Edition of 15) 40 x 30 inches, sheet (Edition of 15) This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Michael Crouser's series, "Mountain Ranch," is a ten-year look at the disappearing world of cattle ranching...

8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Edward Albee photographed in 1965. This is a print that was published by a ...

16 x 20" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Kenneth Rinker Dance Company performance in 1984 with dancers Nancy Nasworthy, Chase Winton, Chuck Finlon, Kristin Eliasberg, Chris Kauf...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Edward Villella in New York City Ballet's "Watermill", Jerome Robbins Dance/Drama, 1972. Comes directly f...

Brigitte Bardot, Spain, 1971 Silver gelatin print 20 x 16 inches Signed and numbered edition of 50 (rare) Brigitte Bardot on the set of ‘Les Petroleuses’ a.k.a. ‘The Legend of Fren...

Sailor's Light Seascape - Black & White Landscape Photograph Gorgeous black and white textured screen to negative by California landscape photographer Robert Tracy (American, 1926-2...

Derby Spectator A spectator looking through binoculars at the Derby horse races, Epsom, Surrey, June 1923. (Photo by Hulton / Getty Archive) Silver gelatin fibre print 30 x 40" p...

John Lennon Skiing By Arthur Steel Paper size: 44 x 33.5" / 112 x 85 cm Silver Gelatin Print 1960 (printed later) unframed hand signed limited edition of 30 note other print siz...

"Gold Mine of Serra Pelada" by Sebastião Salgado “What is it about a dull yellow metal that drives men to abandon their homes, sell their belongings and cross a continent in order t...

Signed limited edition print of David Bowie by Alec Byrne, taken at the Dorchester Hotel, July 1972 Alec Byrne signed limited edition prints are available ...

George Platt Lynes 1948 Photograph #4 of Balanchine Ballet ‘Orpheus’. George Platt Lynes rare original vintage 1948 silver gelatin photograph (dated by the NY City Public Library) of nude dancers Francisco Moncion and Nicholas Magallanes in George Balanchine's iconic mid-20th Century ballet Orpheus. Stamped on verso in dark blue ink at upper center, "GEORGE PLATT LYNES/145 EAST 52 STREET NEW YORK”. Photo shoot took place in NYC. Costumes and Set by ISAMU NAGUCHI. Photo is 7 5/8 x 9 1/4 inches, soft satin finish in excellent condition. This photograph is from my collection of 14 different poses in this series of nude photographs by Platt Lynes of Moncion and Magallanes in Orpheus. 8 different photographs are remaining and are available on request. Original gelatin silver prints that are stamped by the artist are rare. Photographs from this celebrated series are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), Museum of Modern Art (MOMA, NYC), the NYC Public Library, and the art archives of many prominent universities. George Platt Lynes (1907–1955), was a gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s through the early 1950s. From age eighteen, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate community in Paris when he became acquainted with the salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. He began photographing authors like Stein, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, and Colette and soon established himself as one of the premier fashion photographers in the Condé Nast stable, documenting the ballet companies of George Balanchine/Lincoln Kirstein, and pursuing a private obsession with seductive images of young male nudes rarely published in his lifetime. Orpheus represents a major 20th Century artistic collaboration between composer Igor Stravinsky, choreographer George Ballanchine, and artist/designer Isamu Naguchi. Orpheus is a thirty-minute neoclassical ballet composed by Igor Stravinsky in collaboration with choreographer George Balanchine in Hollywood, California in 1947. The work was commissioned by Ballet Society, later renamed New York City Ballet, which Balanchine founded with Lincoln Kirstein. Sets and costumes were created by Isamu Noguchi. Noguchi’s lyre harp from the production became the symbol of the New York City Ballet. Francisco Moncion (July 6, 1918 – April 1, 1995) was a charter member of the New York City Ballet. Over the course of his forty year career, choreographers George Balanchine, and Jerome Robbins in the New York City Ballet created 22 major roles for Moncion including the Dark Angel...

Signed and editioned mount recto. Titled, editioned and dated on Artist’s Choice stamp on mount verso. Also available larger in smaller editions outside of the book and print set. Pl...

Original, vintage silver gelatin print by Imogen Cunningham. Printed by the artist circa 1949 with Certificate of Authenticity from the trust on the back of the mount. Artist Biograp...

Rare 1979 Photograph of Jean Michel Basquiat: This rare Basquiat photograph was taken from Nicholas Taylor’s well-documented portfolio exploring hi...

Black and white silver gelatin photograph by Houston, TX artist Jim Reitz. The work features a man pushing a bike in a parking lot with the Houston city skyl...

Six Gondolas, Giardini ex Reali, Venice, Italy, 1980 - Michael Kenna Signed, dated and numbered on mount Signed, dated, inscribed with title and stamped with photographer's copyrigh...

By photographer John Minihan, Yves Saint Laurent, French designer with two fashion models, Betty Catroux (left) and Loulou de la Falaise, outside his 'Riv...

Ed. of 21, estate-stamped. Includes black frame with white mat. Norman Parkinson was the preeminent fashion photographer in Great Britain from the late 1930s until his death in 1990...

Edward Weston (1886-1958) is one of the most revered and influential pioneers of modern photography in the 20th century. Renowned for his technical prowess and artistic innovation,...

Jack Mitchell mid-20th Century beautiful nude photograph of a dancer in 1974. Highly collectible vintage original silver gelatin print, stamped verso by the photographer "Copyright 1...

From a portfolio of ten gelatin silver prints from original Meatyard negatives (1959-71) Printed April 1974 Edition of 130 Credit stamp, verso 7 x 7 inches, image 15 x 12 inches, mount This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. “In the 1950s few photographers, particularly men, chose their models from their own families. Meatyard, however, found inspiration in his three offspring. This was perhaps due to his interest in Ben Shahn’s postwar paintings of Italian children playing among the ruins of war; the dolls, puppets, and children in Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry...

Ice Skating Priests by Arthur Steel COUNTY DURHAM 1966 All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold. paper size - 44 x 33.5 " / 112 x 85...

Rudolf Nureyev – Applying His Make-up for the Filming of ‘valentino’, London, 1976 Limited Edition David Steen Estate Print Limited Edition: All prints are limited editions, no ...

Gelatin silver print, printed later signed in pencil, stamped photographer's copyright credit, stamped title and date, and stamped 'Printed for the/Center for Photographer Art/Collec...

This vintage silver gelatin photograph, printed in the late 1920s on Kodak Vitava Athena paper, is signed in pencil beneath the image with a typeset title centered in the lower margi...

g. paul – lotus 1996 Signed, dated, and numbered, verso Gelatin silver print 20 x 16 inches, sheet 15 x 15 inches, image (Edition of 30) $3500.00 This work is offered by CLAMP in...

Grace Jones is a musician and former model. A former star of the Studio 54 disco scene, she is known for her androgynous appearance, bold features, and subversive antics, making her one of the biggest pop stars of the 1980s. Andre Leon Talley...

Photograph of Grace Jones eating cake at the wedding of Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger in Hyannis Port, Maine in April 1986, taken by Andy Warho...

Art Shay photographed the community of Brooklyn, IL for Ebony Magazine, 1952. These photographs are the result of that experience. Brooklyn (popularly known as Lovejoy), is a village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. Located two miles north of East St. Louis, Illinois and three miles northeast of downtown St. Louis, Missouri, it is the oldest town incorporated by African Americans in the United States. It was founded by freed and fugitive slaves from St. Louis, led by "Mother" Priscilla Baltimore in the period of 1829 to 1839. Its motto is "Founded by Chance, Sustained by Courage". This photograph is framed. Art Shay Brooklyn Twins, 1952 silver gelatin print 14h x 11w in 35.56h x 27.94w cm ASY15054 “Art Shay’s photography shakes you up, sets you down gently, pats you on the head and then kicks you in the ass.” Roger Ebert “[Shay’s work] ranks with some of the greats of the 20th century.” Ellen & Richard Sandor, Renowned photo collectors “I’ve admired Art Shay’s work for almost forty years, and he keeps getting better. He can do anything with a camera, but what he mostly does is capture real moments and transform them into visual poetry. His work continues to be an inspiration to me.” William Friedkin, Director of French Connection “Art Shay is one of our finest photographers. His work over the past fifty years has artfully captured the beauty, humor, and pathos of America.” Studs Terkel “Art Shay is one of the best photojournalists I know. I’ve been a fan of his work since the early 1950s - before the launch of playboy magazine.” Hugh Hefner “Algren, Terkel, Royko, they gave us a voice. Art Shay gave us a face.” Tony Fitzpatrick, Chicago Artist “Art Shay is America’s Cartier-Bresson.” Thomas Dyja, author of The Third Coast “Chicago’s Art Shay in many ways is to American photography what Nelson Algren was to American writing: that rare and absolutely necessary citizen who’s blessed with a cold eye, a clear head, and a warm heart. What is it about Chicago that keeps giving us men like this?” Russell Banks, Novelist “The best images of Simone de Beauvoir and her times have been passed down to us by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gisele Freund, Robert Doisneau, Georges Brassai, and in America, the Chicago-based Art Shay, all world-class photographers.” Christophe Loviny, Art Editor, Paris “Art Shay is the best photo-journalist Chicago ever produced.” Arthur Siegel, photographer; IIT Institute of Design President “I have one of Art Shay’s pictures over my desk. It reminds me every morning of my Chicago roots. Arts photos, like me, have the Chicago accent, which may be to say he’s telling you the truth. I think it takes a realist to see the humor in things. I know it takes a realist to see the depths of tragedy. Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet

This vintage silver gelatin photograph, printed in the late 1920s on Kodak Vitava Athena paper, is signed in pencil beneath the image with a typeset title centered in the lower margi...

Bauhaus I Portfolio Ed. 33/70 Signed and dated in black ink on print margin.

New York City, 1977 - Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography) Signed, inscribed with title and dated on accompanying artist’s label Silver gelatin print, printed later Availabl...

Balthasar BURKHARD (1944–2010, Switzerland) Backseat, 1977 Silver gelatin print on Baryta paper, artist's wooden frame Sheet 108 x 132 cm (42 1/2 x 52 in.) From an edition of 5 A Gal...

Wonderful color photograph of the roller coaster at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk by California artist Deborah Eddy (American, b. 1943). Titled "Blue R...

Wonderful color photograph of the roller coaster and palm trees at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk by California artist Deborah Eddy (American, b. 1943)....

A behind-the-scenes image of Fawcett’s portrait photo shoot. When she comes to see the finished product, Warhol notes in his diary: “…I didn’t think Farrah liked it, but then she studied them for about half an hour and finally she love it…And she looked pretty, her hair was all washed, and she looked very very nice. She’s sweet.” Farrah Fawcett...

Steps, minimalist California summer vibes in this blue cinematic photograph from Richard Heeps 'Dream in Colour' Series. This artwork is a limited edition of 25, gloss photographic ...

Pool Slide, photograph from Richard Heeps Dream in Color series. This fun original artwork really shows Richard's unique eye as a photographer, creating this kitsch pop-art picture f...

Signed, dated, and titled in pencil with artist's copyright stamp on verso, blind-stamped on recto. Includes black frame. Taken on August 11, 1939, this is Horst's most recognizable...

Visitor At No 10 Snowman By Arthur Steel Paper size: 54 x 41" / 137 x 104 cm Silver Gelatin Print 1968 (printed later) unframed hand signed edition of 20 note other print sizes...

René GROEBLI (*1927, Switzerland) 521, 1952 Vintage silver gelatin print on Baryta paper Image 27.6 x 19 cm (10 7/8 x 7 1/2 in.) Sheet 34 x 23 cm (13 3/8 x 9 in.) Unique Framed Signed and dated on verso This photograph is part of the MoMA permanent collection. René Groebli (born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1927) secured his place among the elite of Swiss post-war photographers with his 1949 portfolio MAGIE DER SCHIENE (RAIL MAGIC). In the early fifties Groebli worked as reporter for Life, Picture Post and other international magazines. During the following years he owned a studio for industrial and advertising photography. In 1957 the American Color Annual named him MASTER OF COLOR. In the early 80s Groebli stopped working for advertising and rediscovered for himself the possibilities of expression that black & white photography offers. In 1999 the Zurich Kunsthaus (Art Museum) showed a representative selection of his photographs from the years 1946 to 1996. With NUDES René Groebli gives us a work for sensuous pleasure that had grown over half a century. In the long history of sensual art photography one is hard pressed to find anyone comparable to the Swiss photo...

Bob Gruen John Lennon NYC 1974 (printed later) 40 x 30 inches Signed and numbered edition of 75 Bob Gruen (born 1945) is an American photographer known for his rock 'n' roll photogr...

This early silver gelatin print is signed and dated in pencil on the front of the mount with the artist's Green Street label and typed title on the back of the mount. Likely printed ...

'Private Dancer' Brigitte Bardot 1961 by Giancarlo Botti Wonderfully intimate shot of the French sex symbol and icon, Brigitte Bardot, on set of the film 'A Very Private Affair' w...

An original silver gelatin print from the 1960's by American social documentary photographer Milton Rogovin.

San Giovanni Stained Glass, brutalist architecture interior photograph from Richard Heeps series A Short History of Milan. A Short History of Milan' began in November 2018 for a sp...

Captivated Audience by Arthur Steel SURREY 1979 All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold. paper size - 16 x 12" / 41 x 31 cm signed a...