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Photography For Sale
Period: 1940s
Period: Early 1900s
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Slim Aarons, Handball in Central Park (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
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...
Category
1940s American Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Pool In St Tropez (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests around the pool at a villa in St Tropez, France, circa 1970.
Slim Aarons
St Tropez Pool
Lambda Print
4 sizes available
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
40 x 60 inches
$3950
30 x ...
Category
1940s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Marbles Championship, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of boys competing in a marble championship in Central Park, New York City.
This i...
Category
1940s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
"Picasso with Tam", Photograph by Richard Ham 1945
By Richard Ham
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Richard Ham, American (1920 - )
Title: Picasso in Paris Studio - Picasso with Tam (Feb 7th, 1945)
Year: 1945, Printed in 2009
Medium:Gelatin Silver Print on Fiber Paper, sign...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
WENDELL WILLKIE STEPPING OUT OF A CAR
By Ben Greenhaus
Located in Portland, ME
Greenhaus, Ben (American, 1908-1951). WENDELL WILLKIE STEPPING OUT OF A CAR. Mounted gelatin silver photograph of Willkie, presumably during the campaign of 1940. c. 12 x 10 inches. ...
Category
1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The German Novelist Thomas Mann - Vintage photo - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
This Vintage Photo shows the German novelist and essayist Thomas Mann (1875-1955).
Category
1940s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Laszlo Willinger, "Crochet Top", original photograph from original negative
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original vintage photograph, from the original negative, shot by Laszlo Willinger in 1949. It depicts a young Marilyn Monroe wearing a crochet top. Hand signed by ...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
PHOTOGRAM
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ROI PARTRIDGE (1888-1964)
PHOTOGRAM c 1940
Gelatin Silver Print c. 1940 9 ½ x 7 ¾ signed & titled. Mounted on card. Partridge was a well known California etcher. He was married...
Category
1940s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Laszlo Willinger, "Jack Buetel", original photograph, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original vintage photograph by Laszlo Willinger taken circa 1943. It depicts "Old Hollywood" actor, Jack Buetel. This piece is hand signed by the photographer. The...
Category
1940s Other Art Style Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Marbles Championship, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of boys competing in a marble championship in Central Park, New York City.
This i...
Category
1940s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Handball in Central Park (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
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...
Category
1940s American Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Marlene Dietrich
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is a photolithograph from the original negative by Laszlo Willinger, originally taken in 1942 and printed at a later date. It depicts German actress, Marlene Dietrich...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Vintage print Wolfgang Roth playing musical instrument, Mandolin
Located in Surfside, FL
Vintage Silver Gelatin print. (possibly from Vogue Magazine).
This appears to be Wolfgang Roth and cast of possibly The Littlest Circus. Performers have horse heads. The photo is stamped on the back Halley Erskine of New York City.
Halley Erskine, Vogue photographer. The New York Times announced Halley’s marriage to Graham Erskine of Wilton, Connecticut October 18, 1940 at the bridegroom’s home at 212 East 48th Street in New York. Divorced six years later, Halley seemed to finally come into her own. She had started her career “pre-Graham” as a fashion editor for Vogue and Glamour magazines, often working on photo shoot sites with literary personalities, dancers, artists and actors. The writing and editing morphed into a love of photography which led to doing work for the Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan and House & Garden.
Impulsive and fearless, Halley was also known to do anything to capture the shot.
Halley did some teaching at The Famous Photographer’s School.
Halley was intensely curious, always learning and had a penchant for high technology gadgets.
Halley Erskine worked with the sculptor Seymour Lipton, Lee Krasner, Charles Ives, Horst, Diane Arbus and John Steinbeck/ art director at Vogue magazine she shot for Time and Life and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Wolfgang Roth fled Nazi Germany in 1933, arriving in New York by 1938. He apprenticed with Bertolt Brecht and Edwin Piscator in the underground Theatre and Opera of Pre War Nazi germany and studied at the Academy of Art in Berlin under Cesar Klein, a Member of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists where he befriended George Grosz who also ended up emigrating to the USA. Roth worked with Lazlo Moholy-Nagy in bringing to life his theater designs. He was an Instructor of Design at New York University (NYU) School of the Arts for many years
A great Mid-century Modern screenprint...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Get the Party Started" ~ Winter Visitors from Nearby Trailer Park, Florida
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Winter Visitors from Nearby Trailer Park, Picnicking Beside Car on Beach, Near Sarasota, Florida “Get the Party Started” is a gelatin silver print, signed by the artist on the front ...
Category
1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Willie, New Orleans
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
From the 50th Anniversary Portfolio (1902-1952) printed by Brett Weston (1951-1952).
Category
1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Style 'Burlington Arcade'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Burlington Arcade
1955 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Sh...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Portrait of Mrs Gilles - Photograph by Renzo Cinti - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Mrs Gilles is a Photograph realized by Renzo Cinti in the 1940s.
Good condition included a cream-colored carboard passpartout (32x23 cm).
Hand-signed by the artist on t...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Chaim Weizmann
By Lotte Jacobi
Located in Kansas City, MO
Lotte Jacobi
Chaim Weizmann
Photograph
Year: 1948
Size: 13.9x10.8in
Signed in the print
Lotte Jacobi Copyright Annotation lower left, recto
Ref.: 924802-1355
Lotte Jacobi (August 17, 1896 – May 6, 1990) was a leading American portrait photographer and photojournalist, known for her high-contrast black-and-white portrait photography, characterized by intimate, sometimes dramatic, sometimes idiosyncratic and often definitive humanist depictions of both ordinary people in the United States and Europe and some of the most important artists, thinkers and activists of the 20th century.
Jacobi's photographic style stressed informality, and sought to delve deeper into the traits of her subjects than traditional portraiture. She made a point of photographing subjects in their own environments, and talking to them while she worked. She explained the reasoning behind her approach this way:
"I just try and get people to talk, to relax, to be themselves. I don't like a passive, bored subject. I do portraits because I like people, and I want to bring out their personalities. Many photographers today, I think, are bringing out the worst part of people. I try and bring out the best."
Jacobi is perhaps best known for her "portrait of Albert Einstein (Princeton, 1938), whom she photographed candidly, seated at his desk, dishevelled and dressed in a leather jacket, a work that was refused by Life magazine for its simplicity." Other personality-driven portraits include "Eleanor Roosevelt sitting back, gesturing, and obviously speaking in midsentence; Marc Chagall depicted as a jovial family man; Thomas Mann appearing as thoughtful as his work; and more candid, gentle portraits of Einstein." Other celebrated subjects included poets W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, and May Sarton; philosopher Martin Buber; writer J.D. Salinger; writer and activist W. E. B. Du Bois; scientist Max Planck; artist Käthe Kollwitz; the actress and singer Lotte Lenya; the singer and activist Paul Robeson...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons Style 'Saks Fashion Show'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Burlington Arcade
1955 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Shops in Burlington Arcade, which r...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
William Carroll, Norma Jeane Triptych, original photograph
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This triptych is three original photographs printed from the original camera negatives, shot by Bill Carroll in 1945, and printed in 2010. These images depict a young Norma Jeane at ...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - Beijing 1940s, Muslim Shop - Vintage photo - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Beijing 1940s, Muslim Shop is a black and white vintage photo.
It belongs to a historical album including historical moments, royal families, and political events...
Category
1940s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Old Days - Historical Photo - Vintage Photo - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Old Days - Historical Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1940s.
Good conditions.
Category
1940s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Irish Mob at the Races
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white action shot of the Irish Mafia - James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Frank McHugh, and Spencer Tracy at the races, 1947.
This listing is for a limited edition archival print....
Category
1940s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
William Carroll, "Norma Jeane #21", original photograph
Located in Chatsworth, CA
An original photograph printed from the original camera negative, shot by Bill Carroll in 1945, and printed in 2010. This image depicts a young Norma Jeane at the beginning of her ca...
Category
1940s Other Art Style Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Queen Elisabeth and Princess Margaret - Royal family - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elisabeth and Princess Margaret Rose - Royal family is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1940s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of hist...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
William Carroll, "Norma Jeane #26, " original photograph, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original photograph from the original negative, shot by Bill Carroll in 1945 and printed at a later date. It depicts a young Marilyn Monroe (then known as Norma Jea...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Norma Jeane #13
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original photograph printed from the original camera negative, shot by Bill Carroll in 1945, and printed in 2010. This image depicts a young Norma Jeane at the begin...
Category
1940s Other Art Style Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Laszlo Willinger, "Hedy Lamarr", original photograph
Located in Chatsworth, CA
An original vintage photograph, shot by Laszlo Willinger in the 1940's. It depicts Austrian-born American film actress, Hedy Lamarr. Lamarr was known for...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Laszlo Willinger, "Mary Martin", original photograph from original negative
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original vintage photograph printed from the original negative, shot by Laszlo Willinger c. 1940's. It depicts the late movie and Broadway star, Mary Martin...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Assuan - Herzliche Grusse in 1909 - Vintage Photograph - 1909
Located in Roma, IT
Assuan - Herzliche Grusse in 1909 is a vintage photograph.
Hand-written on the lower and rear.
Good conditions.
Category
Early 1900s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Observant Father, 1949, Chicago, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Street photography was Art's true passion. He never went anywhere without his camera so he could capture moments like this one - a priest on a Chicago street "observing" one of his parishioners. Art saw humor in everyday life catching moments that the casual observer probably would have missed.
Art Shay
Observant Father, 1949
vintage silver gelatin print...
Category
1940s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sunlight on Water
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This silver gelatin contact print with margins (4 x 4 7/8 in) is signed in ink and numbered '7' in pencil on the front of the mount. Credited, titled and dated on gallery label affix...
Category
1940s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
King George 6th and Mother Queen - Vintage Photograph - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
King George 6th and Mother Queen is a photograph realized in the 1940s.
Good conditions.
The artwork is realized in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Dukes of Windsor Visiting New York - Vintage Photograph - 1956
Located in Roma, IT
The Dukes of Windsor Visiting New York is a vintage photograph realized in 25/09/1956.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Mother Queen - Vintage Photograph - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Mother Queen is a photograph realized in the 1940s.
Good conditions.
The artwork is realized in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
War Cemetary - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
War Cemetary is a photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
War Cemetary - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
War Cemetery is a photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Mr. Everett Colborn of Dublin, Texas (mounted) and Flight Officer Gene Autry
By John Stryker
Located in Denton, TX
Signed and titled.
Vintage gelatin silver prints.
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...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Big Shot Film - Humphrey Bogart and Irene Manning- Vintage Photo - 1942
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage b/w Photo.
A scene from the film "The Big Shot" with Humphrey Bogart and Irene Manning.
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons Style 'Florence Pritchett Smith'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Burlington Arcade
1955 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Model turned fashion editor turned ...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Women at Work - Vintage Photograph About Women Rights - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Women at Work - Vintage Photograph About Women Rights is an original black and white photograph realized in 1940 by an anonymous photographer.
With the ...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
E.G. Robinson, M. O'Sullivan, H. Courtright - Original b/w Photograph - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Jane Russell and Gloria Green is an original b/w photograph about Hollywod '40 realized by De Wan Studios.
On the back " Edward G. Robinson, Maureen O'Sullivan...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The American Actor Alan Ladd - Original Vintage Photograph - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The American Actor Alan Ladd.
Fair conditions, with some Damage.
Category
1940s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons 'Jazz Scooter'
By Slim Aarons
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...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Girl With Parasols 1948 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Girl With Parasols
1948
Beachwear fashion shoot featuring sunshades, 1948.
by Toni Frissell
16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size
Archival pigment print
unframed
(framing a...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Bikini 1946 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
The Bikini
1946
Fashion model Natahli (Natalie) Nickerson Paine wearing a bikini, lying on a platform near water, Montego Bay, Jamaica, 1946. (Toni Frissell)
“Model Dovima was ...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Workout On The Beach 1944 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Workout On The Beach
1944
A beachwear fashion shoot featuring a model on an exercise bar, USA
by Toni Frissell
48 x 72 “ / 121 x 182 cm - paper size
Archival pigment print
unfram...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Beachwear Fashion Shoot 1944 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Beachwear Fashion Shoot
1944
Model in a beachwear for a Vogue fashion shoot, Florida, USA, 1944.
by Toni Frissell
12 x 16" inches / 30 x 41 cm paper size
Archival pigment print...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Girl In Yellow 1944 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Girl In Yellow
1944
Model in a yellow dress with matching yellow hat, USA, 1944.
by Toni Frissell
16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size
Archival pigment print
unframed
(frami...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Florida Vogue 1944 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Florida Vogue
1944
February 1944 Vogue Florida Fashion shoot featuring a model in a pink bathing suit next to a parasol on a beach with the sky and ocean behind her.
by Toni Fris...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Collection of two vintage photos by Studio Orlay de Karwa - Photo 1900 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage photos. Collection of two vintage black and white photo portraits of a young beautiful and elegant woman, taken by Studio Orlay de Karwa in Rome. Years 1900/1910. Some foxin...
Category
Early 1900s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Washington Monument Fashion Sho 1949 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Washington Monument Fashion Shoot
1949
Fashion model posing in an evening gown with Tidal Basin and Washington Monument in the background, USA, 1949
by Toni Frissell
30 x 30" i...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Swimwear 1946 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Swimwear
1946
Fashion shoot featuring a model in swimwear, 1946.
by Toni Frissell
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Archival pigment print
unframed
(framing available s...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Workout On The Beach 1944 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Workout On The Beach
1944
A beachwear fashion shoot featuring a model on an exercise bar, USA, 1944.
by Toni Frissell
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Archival pigment...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Beachwear Fashion Shoot 1944 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Beachwear Fashion Shoot
1944
Model in a beachwear for a Vogue fashion shoot, Florida, USA, 1944.
by Toni Frissell
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Archival pigment print...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Evening Gown 1948 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Evening Gown
1948
Fashion shoot featuring a model in an evening gown
by Toni Frissell
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Archival pigment print
unframed
(framing availab...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Evening Gowns At Sunset 1946 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Evening Gowns At Sunset
1946
Two models in evening gowns looking at the sunset.
by Toni Frissell
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Archival pigment print
unframed
(frami...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Evening Gown 1948 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Evening Gown
1948
Fashion shoot featuring a model in an evening gown
by Toni Frissell
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Archival pigment print
unframed
(framing availab...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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