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Photography For Sale
Period: 1940s
Period: Early 1900s
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Floating 1947 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Floating 1947 A model floats in an evening dress, shot from underwater by Toni Frissell 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing availabl...
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1940s Modern Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Girl With Parasols 1948 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Girl With Parasols 1948 Beachwear fashion shoot eaturing sunshades by Toni Frissell 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing available s...
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1940s Modern Photography

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Archival Pigment

Girl On The Beach 1948 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Girl On The Beach 1948 Beachwear fashion shoot featuring sunshades by Toni Frissell 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing available...
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1940s Modern Photography

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Archival Pigment

Girl On The Beach 1948 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Girl On The Beach 1948 Beachwear fashion shoot featuring sunshades by Toni Frissell 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing available...
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1940s Modern Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Girl On The Beach 1948 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Girl On The Beach 1948 Beachwear fashion shoot featuring sunshades by Toni Frissell 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing available...
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1940s Modern Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Girl On The Beach 1948 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Girl On The Beach 1948 Beachwear fashion shoot featuring sunshades by Toni Frissell 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing available...
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1940s Modern Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Girl On The Beach 1947 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Girl On The Beach 1947 Beachwear fashion shoot by Toni Frissell 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing available see examples - plea...
Category

1940s Modern Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Girl On The Beach 1948 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Girl On The Beach 1948 Beachwear fashion shoot featuring sunshades by Toni Frissell 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing available...
Category

1940s Modern Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Girl On The Beach 1947 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Girl On The Beach 1947 Beachwear fashion shoot by Toni Frissell 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing available see examples - plea...
Category

1940s Modern Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Girl On The Beach 1947 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Girl On The Beach 1947 by Toni Frissell 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing available see examples - please enquire) Limited Sig...
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1940s Modern Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Girl In Yellow 1944 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Girl In Yellow 1944 Model in a yellow dress with matching yellow hat, USA by Toni Frissell 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed (framing ava...
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1940s Modern Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Jazz Scooter'
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Jazz Scooter 1949 (printed later) Silver gelatin print estate signature stamped edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity Lucille Brown takes control of the Vespa...
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1940s Modern Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Marx Brothers
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Karsh is a master 20th Century photographer. Karsh is known for his portraits of authors, scientists, artists, statesmen, musicians, and other dis...
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1940s Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons Style 'Last-minute Adjustments'
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Last-minute Adjustments 1955 (printed later) Silver gelatin print estate signature stamped edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity A young woman has last-minute...
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1940s Modern Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons Style 'September Affair'
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons September Affair 1949 Silver gelatin print estate signature stamped edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity A young woman mode...
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1940s Modern Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons 'Cricketers on the Pitch'
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Cricketers on the pitch, Belfast 1962 (printed later) Silver gelatin print estate signature stamped edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity Cricketers on the pi...
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1940s Modern Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Fluid Patterns
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, dated and numbered. Portfolio "Twelve Photographs", No. 13 György Kepes was a Hungarian artist born in 1906. He studied painting at Budapest’s Academy of Fine Arts. In 1937,...
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1940s Bauhaus Photography

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Silver Gelatin

'Marbles Championship' 1947 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Marbles Championship' A group of boys competing in a marble championship in Central Park, New York City, 1947. Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection...
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1940s Modern Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Prince, George WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT AND jAMES S. SHERMAN CAMPAIGN POSTERS, 1908.
Located in Portland, ME
Prince, George WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT AND JAMES S. SHERMAN CAMPAIGN POSTERS, 1908. The Taft with edge losses and a black line running from Taft's head to the right edge; the Sherman wit...
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Early 1900s Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Lithograph

WILLIAM MCKINLEY AND THEODORE ROOSEVELT CAMPAIGN POSTERS.
Located in Portland, ME
Prince, George WILLIAM MCKINLEY AND THEODORE ROOSEVELT CAMPAIGN POSTERS. Lithographs, 1900. With Prince's copyright, lower left, and Litho by Julius Bien NY, lower right. The McKinle...
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Early 1900s Photography

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Photographic Film, Lithograph

Junio Eskew, Houston Fat Stock Show
Located in Denton, TX
Signed and titled. Vintage gelatin silver print Johm Stryker was born in Rockford, Illinois, September 1, 1883. He is most remembered for his body of photographs he took of the "Olympic of Western sport"*- the Rodeo. During his lifetime he crossed America, working rodeos as an announcer, a producer, promoter and sometimes a rider. He invented the chute that the animals come out of and he developed new ways of photographing action during an event. Dramatic shots were taken from the ground, propping his camera on the toe of his right boot right next to a bucking bronco. Some historians believe that John Stryker was directly responsible for the growth and sophistication of the sport. His negatives are in the collection of the University of Texas at Permian Basin, Odessa. His photographs have been exhibited during his lifetime at the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming, and the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas. His photographs have been published widely including Life, Look, The Cattleman, The Western Horseman, and The Quarter Horse Journal. In 1977, The Rodeo of John Addison Stryker...
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1940s Modern Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

September Affair, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a crowd gathering to watch the actors Joan Fontaine and Joseph Cotten on the set of Willia...
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1940s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

September Affair, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a crowd gathering to watch the actors Joan Fontaine and Joseph Cotten on the set of Willia...
Category

1940s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

September Affair, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a crowd gathering to watch the actors Joan Fontaine and Joseph Cotten on the set of Willia...
Category

1940s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

'Waukesha Beach Resort, Milwaukee, Wis.' original color postcard by Jno T. Faber
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Produced by Jno T. Faber, a Milwaukee Publisher of postcards, this image shows the historic structure of the Waukesha Beach Resort on Pewaukee Lake. Before the hotel are yellow cars ...
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Early 1900s Other Art Style Photography

Materials

Lithograph

Push Start
Located in London, GB
English racing driver Reg Parnell (1911 – 1964) is given a push start in his Maserati during a road race in St Helier, Jersey, May 1947. Parnell went on...
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1940s Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Racing Car
Located in London, GB
A driver in his car during a race on the Channel Island of Jersey. Original Publication: Picture Post – 4364 – Road Racing In Jersey – pub. 1947 (Photo Bert Hardy) A beautiful Li...
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1940s Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Man Power
Located in London, GB
Mechanics giving Louis Chiron’s Maserati a push. Original Publication: Picture Post – 4364 – Road Racing In Jersey – pub. 1947 (Photo Bert Hardy) A beautiful Limited Edition (ed ...
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1940s Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Barmen
Located in London, GB
Barmen at the Screenwriters’ Club in London. Original Publication: Picture Post – 4586 – Guest Night At The Screenwriters – pub. 1948 (Photo Bert Hardy) A beautiful Limited Edi...
Category

1940s Modern Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Naumburg Bandshell, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s urban photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features couples dance to a live band performing at the Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park, New York Cit...
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1940s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Naumburg Bandshell, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s urban photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features couples dance to a live band performing at the Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park, New York Cit...
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1940s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Naumburg Bandshell, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s urban photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features couples dance to a live band performing at the Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park, New York Cit...
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1940s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Avro Lancaster Bomber VN-N R5689 original press photograph 1942 for Aeroplane
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage warbird aeroplane posters, photographs and paintings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller". Lan...
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1940s Realist Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Mary Illen, Ft. Worth, TX by John Stryker, Silver Gelatin Print, Photography
Located in Denton, TX
Mary Illen Ft. Worth, TX by John Stryker is a 10 x 8 inch silver gelatin print. This photograph is signed in ink on print recto and titled in pencil on print verso. This photograph features a cowgirl riding a light colored horse, resting at a river. The horse reaches down to the water for a drink, while the woman looks down lovingly at the horse. John Stryker was born in Rockford, Illinois, September 1, 1883. He is most remembered for his body of photographs he took of the "Olympic of Western sport"*- the Rodeo. During his lifetime he crossed America, working rodeos as an announcer, a producer, promoter and sometimes a rider. He invented the chute that the animals come out of and he developed new ways of photographing action during an event. Dramatic shots were taken from the ground, propping his camera on the toe of his right boot right next to a bucking bronco. Some historians believe that John Stryker was directly responsible for the growth and sophistication of the sport. His negatives are in the collection of the University of Texas at Permian Basin, Odessa. His photographs have been exhibited during his lifetime at the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming, and the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas. His photographs have been published widely including Life, Look, The Cattleman, The Western Horseman, and The Quarter Horse Journal. In 1977, The Rodeo of John Addison Stryker...
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1940s Modern Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Avro Lancaster R5845 YW-T after crash original 1943 silver gelatin photograph
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage warbird aeroplane posters, photographs and paintings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "...
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1940s Realist Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Avro Lancaster 'Birth of a Lancaster Bomber' original 1942 photograph
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage warbird aeroplane posters, photographs and paintings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller". Birth of a Lancaster Original Silver Gelatin photograph, 1942 19 x 25 cm Stamped to reverse “Topical Press Agency Limited, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street London” and (partially obscured) “Certified by Topical Press Agency as passed by censor” “The Avro Lancaster...
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1940s Realist Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Avro Lancaster Bomber arming D-Day +1 original 1944 photograph undercarriage
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage warbird aeroplane posters, photographs and paintings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "...
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1940s Realist Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Avro Lancaster Bomber LL683 original 1943 photograph Hercules Power Egg MkII
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage warbird aeroplane posters, photographs and paintings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "...
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1940s Realist Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Avro Lancaster Bomber at dispersal point 1943 original silver gelatin photograph
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage warbird aeroplane posters, photographs and paintings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller". An Avro Lancaster...
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1940s Realist Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Homestead Works of US Steel Munhall, Pennsylvania
Located in New York, NY
ANONYMOUS. (American). Homestead Works of US Steel Munhall, Pennsylvania, Gelatin Silver print. Pouring white-hot steel for the new Carnegie Institute of Te...
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1940s American Modern Photography

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Photographic Paper

Chicago 24, 1965
Located in Miami, FL
Great Price. The Art Institue of Chicago Signed, named and dated verso, Chicago 25, 1965, Printed 1965 Archivally Matted but not framed
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Photography

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Silver Gelatin

(American) Oil Well Supply company.
Located in New York, NY
ANONYMOUS. (American) Oil Well Supply company. Dallas TX, Photographer: Richie Photo. Workmen place pipes (iron tubes) in an oil well. Derrick produced by ...
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1940s American Modern Photography

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Photographic Paper

Henry Moore
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Karsh is a master 20th Century photographer. Karsh is known for his portraits of authors, scientists, artists, statesmen, musicians, and other dis...
Category

1940s Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

The Pine Camp Military area near Watertown, NY, August by Jack Delano, 1941
Located in Denton, TX
The Pine Camp Military area near Watertown, NY, August by Jack Delano is a 13.38 x 17.75 inch silver gelatin print. This photograph features a group of children and adults surroundin...
Category

1940s Modern Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

VE Day, Times Square, NYC by Ruth Orkin, 1945, Silver Gelatin Print, Photography
Located in Denton, TX
This black and white photograph by Ruth Orkin features five men standing with CBS camera equipment on top of a structure. They appear to be filming out into a large crowd at Times Sq...
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1940s Modern Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Four Kings of Hollywood, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A series of four shots of film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) enjoying a joke at...
Category

1940s American Realist Photography

Materials

Emulsion, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

Cross-section, Shell Still Life
Located in Carmel, CA
Mint Condition. Printed later. Framed in gun metal grey. Signed on mount lower right below image. Signed in graphite, verso. Cross-section 1943 / Ruth Bernhard.
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1940s Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Horse Auction Couple - Brooklyn
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on print verso. Signed in ink on print margin
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1940s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

September Affair, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features actress Joan Fontaine (1917 - 2003) and co-star Joseph Cotten (1905 - 1994) receive direction from William Dieterle (1893 - 1972), while filming, 'September Affair...
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1940s American Realist Photography

Materials

Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

September Affair, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features actress Joan Fontaine (1917 - 2003) and co-star Joseph Cotten (1905 - 1994) receive direction from William Dieterle (1893 - 1972), while filming, 'September Affair...
Category

1940s American Realist Photography

Materials

Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

The King of Jazz, Louis Armstrong in 1940s Rome, Black and White Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1949: Photographers taking pictures of American jazz trumpeter and singer, Louis Armstrong (1901 - 1971) as he plays his trumpet in the Colosseum, Rome. Slim Aarons The King of Jazz...
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1940s American Realist Photography

Materials

Emulsion, Black and White, Digital

Mother Brown by Clarence John Laughlin, 1945, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Denton, TX
Mother Brown by Clarence John Laughlin is a portrait of a nun leaning against a building outside. She is standing under an arch in the architecture, with her hands crossed while bein...
Category

1940s Modern Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Study of General Douglas MacArthur
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Final version eventually becoming part of nationally known "Leyendecker MacArthur Series" by Timken Roller Bearing Company. Unsigned. Bottom border features a pair cat sketches.
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1940s Photography

Materials

Oil

Children Playing Marbles, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on print verso. Jack Delano, born Jacob Ovcharov, moved from his native Russian to New York in 1923, at the age of 9. He went on to study illustr...
Category

1940s Modern Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Norma Shoulders, Henrietta, OK by John Stryker, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Denton, TX
Norma Shoulders, Henrietta, OK by John Stryker is a 10 x 8 inch vintage silver gelatin print. This photograph is signed in ink on print recto, and titled in pencil on print verso. John Stryker was born in Rockford, Illinois, September 1, 1883. He is most remembered for his body of photographs he took of the "Olympic of Western sport"*- the Rodeo. During his lifetime he crossed America, working rodeos as an announcer, a producer, promoter and sometimes a rider. He invented the chute that the animals come out of and he developed new ways of photographing action during an event. Dramatic shots were taken from the ground, propping his camera on the toe of his right boot right next to a bucking bronco. Some historians believe that John Stryker was directly responsible for the growth and sophistication of the sport. His negatives are in the collection of the University of Texas at Permian Basin, Odessa. His photographs have been exhibited during his lifetime at the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming, and the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas. His photographs have been published widely including Life, Look, The Cattleman, The Western Horseman, and The Quarter Horse Journal. In 1977, The Rodeo of John Addison Stryker...
Category

1940s Modern Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons, Handball in Central Park (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A group of young men playing handball at a court in the 95th Street playground, Central Park, New York City, 1948. Slim Aarons Handball in Central Park Chromogenic Lambda print Slim...
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1940s American Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Marilyn in Jean (1945)
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Nice picture of Marilyn, while she was still called Norma Jean Baker. By André de Dienes, the photographer who will reveal it in Hollywood. Photo taken in 1945, Marilyn being barely...
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1940s Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

The Aristocrat (In Front of John Albok's Store)
Located in Denton, TX
Vintage gelatin silver print Titled, dated and Estate stamp. Born in Munkacs, Hungary, John Albok learned photography as a boy. He came to the U.S. in 1921 finding work almost immed...
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1940s Modern Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

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