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Photography For Sale
Period: 1940s
Period: Early 1900s
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

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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 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...
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1940s Modern Photography

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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...
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1940s Modern Photography

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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

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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

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Archival Pigment

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.
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1940s Photography

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Photographic Paper

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

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

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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 'New York Debutante'
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons New York Debutante 1955 (printed later) Silver gelatin print estate signature stamped edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity American model Jean Patchett weari...
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1940s Modern Photography

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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

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

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Oil

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

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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

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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

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

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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...
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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...
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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

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...
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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

Ferry Passengers
Located in London, GB
French film actress Mila Parely amuses passengers onboard the ferry from Tower Bridge, London, to Southend, Essex. Original Publication: Picture Post – 4412 – Mila Goes To Southend –...
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1940s Modern Photography

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Silver Gelatin

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

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Baroda City Street
Located in London, GB
A side street near the City Gate in Baroda City (later Vadodara), Gujarat, India, January 1947. Original Publication : Picture Post – 4325 – India – pub. 1947 (Photo Bert Hardy) ...
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1940s Modern 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

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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...
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1940s Modern Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Gravestone Leap-Frog
Located in London, GB
A young boy from the Gorbals area of Glasgow playing leap-frog over gravestones. Children play in the graveyard because they have no gardens or playgrounds. Original Publication: Pic...
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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

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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

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Silver Gelatin

Weegee "Sailor and Girl Kissing"
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Weegee (1899-1968) was equally fascinated and inspired by cinema and all of its tangents, from Hollywood movie stars to ordinary civilians going to the movies. While Weegee is typically associated with crime/disaster images, the broad theme of "entertainment" is a major component of his oeuvre. An interesting and provocative sub-genre of his cinema-related work are his images of couples (often heavy-petting) in movie theatres. Recent scholarship has established that many of Weegee's supposed clandestine images were actually staged or arranged with friends or co-operative strangers. Nevertheless, Weegee created these photographs in the dark with an array of clever techniques including infrared film, filtered flashbulb and triangular prism lens. Employed in shots such as this one, the prism lens would allow the artist to “see around corners,” useful at times when his subjects were in compromising locations. These images of kissing couples, Weegee wrote in 1959, were “his best seller, year in and year out.” "Sailor and GIrl at the Movies...
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1940s American Modern 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

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Silver Gelatin

Postcard with view of Rudberg's Pier, Beaver Lake, Hartland, Wisconsin
Located in Milwaukee, WI
With the invention of the halftone print process, photographic postcards like this became inexpensive to produce and became widely distributed in the first decades of the 20th centur...
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Early 1900s Tonalist Photography

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Lithograph

Chicago 48
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Aaron Siskind (1903-1992) started his career as a documentary photographer and a member of the Photo League. He and his colleagues were interested in photography as a tool to record and address social inequalities of the day. Many of his images from the 1930's for example explored life in Harlem. In the early 1940's Siskind drifted away from social depictions preferring to capture images that focused on textures and shapes. Images of advertising fragments, graffiti and sidewalks become engaging and hypnotic because of their abstract qualities rather than the subject matter. As a result he became one of the first "abstract" photographers. Siskind's aesthetic and sensibility evolved parallel to the Abstract Expressionist movement. As a result he was the only photographer to be included in the groundbreaking 9th Street Art...
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1940s Photography

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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

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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

Carrefour Sèvres-Babylone Willy Ronis Twentieth Century Humanist photography art
Located in Paris, FR
One of the most famous members of the Humanist photography in France. Signed lower right by the artist. Stamp of the artist's studio on the back.
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1940s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Paper, 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

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

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Photographic Paper

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...
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1940s American Realist Photography

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Emulsion, 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...
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1940s American Realist Photography

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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

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

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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

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Emulsion, Black and White, Digital

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

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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...
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1940s Modern Photography

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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

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Lambda

Untitled (Russian Peasant Woman in Church)
Located in Denton, TX
"Cappa-Russia" in pencil on print verso.
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1940s Modern Photography

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Silver Gelatin

"Polo Mishap On The Field" B&W Framed c1940s Photo by Freudy
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic polo photograph depicting a pair of players involved in a heady collision Photo Sz: x 10 3/4"H x 13 1/2"W Frame Sz: 16"H x 18 3/4"W
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1940s Photography

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Photographic Paper

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

Homage to Joseph Cornell (Old Monk Cherries / Post's Bran Flakes)
Located in Denton, TX
Homage to Joseph Cornell (Post's Bran Flakes), ca. 1940's 10 x 8 in., Vintage gelatin silver print Homage to Joseph Cornell (Old Monk Cherries), ca. 1940's 10 x 8 in., Vintage gela...
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1940s Modern Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Ed's Place, near Norfolk, Nebraska
By Wright Morris
Located in Denton, TX
Signed in pencil on print verso.
Category

1940s Modern Photography

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Silver Gelatin

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