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Photography For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 1940s
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
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
Ella Fitzgerald at the Downbeat in New York
Located in Austin, TX
Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Milt (Milton) Jackson, and Timmie Rosenkrantz, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., circa Sept. 1947.
Ella Fit...
Category
1940s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Frida Kahlo en la casa azul, Coyoacán, Mexico. Platinum edition. B&W Portrait
By Leo Matiz
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Matiz managed to create intimate portraits, in which Frida seemed happy to surrender to her lens. The result was dynamic portraits of Khalo, a wonderful example of both the photograp...
Category
1940s Other Art Style Photography
Materials
Platinum
September Affair, Rome, 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 crowd gathering to watch the actors Joan Fontaine and Joseph Cotten on the set of Willia...
Category
1940s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Yellowstone Park - Upper Geyser Basin - Vintage Photo 1893
Located in Roma, IT
U. St. Yellowstone Park - Upper Geyser Basin - 23 September 1893 - is an original vintage b/w photo realized as part of a journey to Asia performed by...
Category
1890s Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
John Wayne in Car
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white portrait of actor John Wayne on the set of a movie, driving a car, circa 1947.
John Wayne, nicknamed "the Duke", was an American actor who became a popular icon thro...
Category
1940s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Frida Kahlo in the Blue House, Coyoacán, Mexico. Color Portrait
By Leo Matiz
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Matiz managed to create intimate portraits, in which Frida seemed happy to surrender to her lens. The result was dynamic portraits of Khalo, a wonderful example of both the photograp...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Color
"Walt Disney's Pinocchio" Lobby Card, USA 1940
Located in Cologne, DE
Walt Disney's Pinocchio, USA 1940, Animation, Lobby Card, The lobby cards would have been displayed inside the cinemas at the time of the film's release.
Pinocchio is a 1940 Americ...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Color
September Affair, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
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 direct...
Category
1940s American Realist Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Paul Lukas "Watch On The Rhine" - 1943 Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull
Located in Soquel, CA
Paul Lukas "Watch On The Rhine" - 1943 Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull
A 1943 black and white portrait photograph of actor Paul Lukas (Hungarian, 1894-1971) by Clarence Sincla...
Category
1940s American Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
On the Slopes of Fujiyama - Vintage Photograph - 1893
Located in Roma, IT
On the Solpes of Fujiama is a vintage black and white photograph.
It is part of a journey to Asia performed by prince Franz Ferdinand von Osterreich Este (1863-1914) , heir to the t...
Category
1890s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Paris, Demonstration on Blvd St Germain, 1947 Silver Gelatin B and W Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin black and white photograph by the Associated Press, Paris. It shows a demonstration on Boulevard Saint Germain in June 1947.
Features:
Original silver gela...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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...
Category
1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Coco Chanel, Paris, Silver Gelatin print. Printed Later
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This captivating black and white artwork portrays Coco Cha nel reclining gracefully on an ornate chaise longue. Her profile exudes elegance, accentuated by intricate jewelry that dra...
Category
1940s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marilyn Monroe Norma Jean Baker Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Color capture of actress Marilyn Monroe in her younger years, during the times of brown hair and being known as "Norma Jean Baker".
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One-of-a-kind original vintage press print fro...
Category
1940s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Black and White
Pont Marie, Paris — Mid-Century Photogravure
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Rémy Duval, 'Pont Marie, Paris', photogravure, 1946. A fine, richly-inked impression in warm black ink, on cream wove B.F.K. Rives paper; the sheet with dec...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Photogravure
Frida Kahlo in the Blue House, Coyoacán, Diptych. From the Frida Khalo Series
By Leo Matiz
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Matiz managed to create intimate portraits, in which Frida seemed happy to surrender to her lens. The result was dynamic portraits of Khalo, a wonderful example of both the photograp...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Color, Digital Pigment
The Key - Signed limited edition sensual fine art print, Contemporary photograph
By Geoff Halpin
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
The key - Signed limited edition monochrome pigment print - Edition of 5
Brighton, UK, 2002
This image was captured on film.
The negative was scanned creating a digital file which was then printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm (Acid-free and lignin-free paper, Museum quality paper for highest age resistance and a popular alternative to analogue baryta paper) using pigment inks which are known for their longevity.
Signed + numbered by artist with certificate of authenticity
Please note. There are three sizes of this print; each is an edition of five (5) making the total that can be printed as fifteen (15). This will include any custom sizes requested.
Archival pigment print available sizes ( Image size , the white margin is not counted) :
52 x 31 cm / 20,74 x 12,20 in. - Edition of 5
75 x 45 cm / 29,53 x 17,72 in. - Edition of 5
117 x 70 cm / 46,06 x 27,56 in. - Edition of 5
Geoff Halpin...
Category
1880s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Arc...
“studious academic and priest in library”
Located in Warren, NJ
Original oil on canvas in good condition Art 25” x 17.5”. Frame 31” x 23.5. Signed
Category
19th Century Photography
Materials
Oil
"Walt Disney's Pinocchio" Lobby Card, USA 1940
Located in Cologne, DE
Walt Disney's Pinocchio, USA 1940, Animation, Lobby Card, The lobby cards would have been displayed inside the cinemas at the time of the film's release.
Pinocchio is a 1940 Americ...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Color
The Church S. Restituita, Naples, Vintage photo by Fratelli Alinari - 1886 ca
By Fratelli Alinari
Located in Roma, IT
The Church S. Restituita, Naples, Vintage photo is a photo realized in the 1886 ca., by F.lli Alinari.
The photo depicts the Church S. Restituita in Naples, the marble bas-relief w...
Category
1880s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Paris, Les Halles Market, circa 1940, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Keystone View and Co.
View of The Halles Market in Paris, circa 1940.
Features:
Original silver gelatin print photography unframed.
Press photography.
Press agency: KEYSTONE VIEW CO, Paris.
Photographer: Anonymous.
Title: Paris, The Halles, circa 1940.
Provenance: Private collection.
Image Size: 3.15 in high (8.1 cm) x 4.33 in wide (11.6 cm) - Archivally matted in a 17 in x 13 in mat.
A typed caption at the back reads "Paris 1er ardt, Les Halles...
Category
1940s Art Deco Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ancient View of Guatemala City - Original Vintage Photos - 1880s
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient View of Guatemala is a set of four original albumen prints made realized in 1880s.
Prints in very good condition, applied on a single cardboard.
Caption in Italian ink hand...
Category
1880s Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
September Affair, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
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 direct...
Category
1940s American Realist Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Playful Elizabeth Taylor
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
This black and white action shot features the beautiful Elizabeth Taylor spinning on a grass lawn smiling as her skirt lifts in the air.
Elizabeth Taylor was an English-American ac...
Category
1940s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Animal Locomotion: Plate 682 (Stag Running), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Animal Locomotion: Plate 682 (Stag Running), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
Inscribed with Muybridge's letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date, stamped with Museum of Edin...
Category
Late 19th Century Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Philip Edmond Wodehouse - Vintage Photo - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Philip Edmond Wodehouse by De Jongh Studio, Lausanne, is a vintage photo, realized in the late 19th Century .
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
19th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Dinner Jazz" by Slim Aarons
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
"Dinner Jazz" by Slim Aarons
1949: American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong (1898 - 1971) enjoys a plate of spaghetti in Rome.
Unframed
Paper S...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White
Lisa with Turban, NY, Silver Gelatin print (Printer later)
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Lisa with Turban, NY 1940 (Printer later)Silver Gelatin print
Printed later 1984
Sheet size: 14 H x 11 W in.
Image size: 11.5 H x 9 W in.
Engraved signature on front
Hand written, ti...
Category
1940s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Kaiser Deluxe (1949)
Located in London, GB
Kaiser Deluxe (1956)
(Photo By Phillip Harrington)
1949
Kaiser Deluxe automobile.
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Size: 16x20''
Printed Later
About the Image:
Kaiser Permanente is an American integrated managed care consortium, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield.
NOTE OTHER SIZES OF THIS IMAGE AVAILABLE
10 x 12''
12 x 16''
16 x 20''
20 x 24''
20 x 30''
30 x 40''
FRAMING AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
About the Artist:
Phillip A. Harrington was born in 1920 and grew up in Holland, Michigan. He developed an interest in photography at an early age, joining the high school camera club at 16. At the age of 19, Harrington moved to New York City to study at the Clarence. H. White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Japan – Woman in winter outfit with umbrella (background of Mt. Fuji)
Located in Middletown, NY
Yokohama, Japan.
Hand-tinted albumen print, 10 1/4 x 8 inches (259 x 201 mm), unmounted; light cockling at corners.
[Nagasaki University Library, Catalog Number : 468].
A young wom...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Photography
Materials
Watercolor, Photographic Paper
Japan – Deshima, Nagasaki – Hand-colored Meiji Period photograph
Located in Middletown, NY
Yokohama, Japan: 1890s.
Hand-tinted albumen print, 7 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches (200 x 260 mm), captioned in negative at lower right. Unmounted; housed in an archival mat with clear mounti...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Photography
Materials
Watercolor, Photographic Paper
Frida Kahlo in Coyoacán, Mexico. Black and white Portrait photograph
By Leo Matiz
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Matiz managed to create intimate portraits, in which Frida seemed happy to surrender to her lens. The result was dynamic portraits of Khalo, a wonderful example of both the photograp...
Category
1940s Other Art Style Photography
Materials
Black and White, Digital Pigment
Yellowstone Park - Mr. Doose - Vintage Photo - 1893
Located in Roma, IT
Yellowstone Park - Mr. Doose - 25 September 1893 - is an original vintage black and white photo realized during a journey throughout the word performe...
Category
1890s Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Vintage Large Albumen Photo Jerusalem - House Of The "Rich Man"
Located in Surfside, FL
The Original American Colony was a colony established in Jerusalem in 1881 by members of a utopian society led by Anna and Horatio Spafford. Now a hotel in East Jerusalem, it is still known by that name today.
After suffering a series tragic losses following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (see hymn "It is Well with My Soul"), Chicago residents Anna and Horatio Spafford led a small American contingent in 1881 to Jerusalem to form a utopian society. The "American Colony," as it became known, was later joined by Swedish Christians. The society engaged in philanthropic work amongst the people of Jerusalem regardless of religious affiliation, gaining the trust of the local Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities.During and immediately after World War I, the American Colony carried out philanthropic work to alleviate the suffering of the local inhabitants, opening soup kitchens, hospitals, orphanages and other charitable ventures.
Towards the end of the 1950s, the society's communal residence was converted into the American Colony Hotel. The hotel is an integral part of the Jerusalem landscape where members of all communities in Jerusalem still meet. In 1992 representatives from the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel met in the hotel where they began talks that led to the historic 1993 Oslo Peace Accord.
Panorama of Jerusalem, c. 1890-1920
The Colony moved to the large house of a wealthy Arab landowner, Rabbah Husseini, outside the city walls in Sheikh Jarrah on the road to Nablus. Part of the building was used as a hostel for visitors from Europe and America. A small farm developed with animals, a butchery, a dairy, a bakery, a carpenter's shop, and a smithy. The economy was supplemented by a shop selling photographs, craft items and archaeological artifacts. The American Colonists were embraced by the Jewish and Palestinian communities for their good works, among them, teaching in both Muslim and Jewish schools.
Photography
Around 1900, Elijah Meyers, a member of the American Colony, began taking photographs of places and events in and around the city of Jerusalem. Meyers's work eventually expanded into a full-fledged photographic division within the Colony, including Hol Lars (Lewis) Larsson and G. Eric Matson, who later renamed the effort as the Matson Photographic Service. Their interest in archeological artifacts (such as the Lion Tower in Tripoli pictured here), and the detail of their photographs, led to widespread interest in their work by archeologists. The collection was later donated to the Library of Congress.
World War I
When the Ottoman Empire entered World War I as an ally of Germany in November 1914, Jerusalem and Palestine became a battleground between the Allied and the Central powers...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Indien - Nepal, Cattani Camp - Vintage Photograph - 1893
Located in Roma, IT
Indien - Nepal, Cattani Camp is a vintage black and white photograph.
It is part of a journey to Asia performed by prince Franz Ferdinand von Osterreich Este (1863-1914) , heir to t...
Category
1890s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Presidential Parade Washington President Eisenhower - Vintage Photograph - 1957
Located in Roma, IT
Presidential Parade Washington President Eisenhower 1957 is a vintage photograph.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Repose - Signed limited edition Figurative pigment print, Contemporary, Sensual
By Geoff Halpin
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Repose - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 5
London 1985
This image was captured on film.
The negative was scanned creating a digital file which was ...
Category
1880s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Arc...
Virginia, Thanksgiving Turkey Diner Vintage Silver Gelatin Print FSA WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Photo is 9X13.5 (image size), 16X20 is the mat. Mounted to original mat. Vintage photograph.
Marion Post (June 7, 1910 – November 24, 1990), later Marion Post Wolcott, was a noted American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression documenting poverty and deprivation.
Marion Post was born in New Jersey on June 7, 1910. Her parents split up and she was sent to boarding school, spending time at home with her mother in Greenwich Village when not at school. Here she met many artists and musicians and became interested in dance. She studied at The New School.
Post trained as a teacher, and went to work in a small town in Massachusetts. Here she saw the reality of the Depression and the problems of the poor. When the school closed she went to Europe to study with her sister Helen. Helen was studying with Trude Fleischmann, a Viennese photographer. Marion Post showed Fleischmann some of her photographs and was told to stick to photography.
Marion Post Wolcott with Rolleiflex and Speed Graphic in hand in Montgomery County, Maryland. While in Vienna she saw some of the Nazi attacks on the Jewish population and was horrified. Soon she and her sister had to return to America for safety. She went back to teaching but also continued her photography and became involved in the anti-fascist movement. At the New York Photo League she met Ralph Steiner and Paul Strand who encouraged her. When she found that the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin kept sending her to do "ladies' stories," Ralph Steiner took her portfolio to show Roy Stryker, head of the Farm Security Administration, and Paul Strand wrote a letter of recommendation. Stryker was impressed by her work and hired her immediately.
Post's photographs for the FSA often explore the political aspects of poverty and deprivation. They also often find humour in the situations she encountered.
In 1941 she met Leon Oliver Wolcott, deputy director of war relations for the U. S. Department of Agriculture under Franklin Roosevelt. They married, and she continued her assignments for the FSA, but resigned shortly thereafter in February 1942. She found it difficult to fit in her photography around raising a family and a great deal of traveling and living overseas.
In the 1970s, a renewed interest in Wolcott's images among scholars rekindled her own interest in photography. In 1978, Wolcott mounted her first solo exhibition in California, and by the 1980s the Smithsonian and the Metropolitan Museum of Art began to collect her photographs. The first monograph on her work was published in 1983. She was an advocate for women's rights; in 1986, Wolcott said: "Women have come a long way, but not far enough. . . . Speak with your images from your heart and soul" (Women in Photography Conference, Syracuse, N.Y.)
She and other FSA WPA photographers, including Esther Bubley...
Category
1940s American Realist Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lucille Ball on Silk
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning black and white capture of Lucille Ball lying on silk, looking seductively and elegantly to the camera.
Lucille Ball, in full Lucille Desire Ball, radio and motion-pictur...
Category
1940s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Doorway in the Temple of Kalabshe, Nubia
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Doorway in the Temple of Kalabshe, Nubia
Original gold toned albumin photograph, c. 1862
Unsigned as is usual
From: Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, c. 1862, Vol 1, (36 plates)
Published by...
Category
1860s Romantic Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Frida Kahlo in the Blue House (Diptych) Coyoacán, Mexico. 1943. Color Portraits
By Leo Matiz
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Matiz managed to create intimate portraits, in which Frida seemed happy to surrender to her lens. The result was dynamic portraits of Khalo, a wonderful example of both the photograp...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Color
China, the Port of Canton - Vintage Photograph - 1893
Located in Roma, IT
China, the Port of Canton is a vintage black and white photograph.
It is part of a journey to Asia performed by prince Franz Ferdinand von Osterreich Este (1863-1914) , heir to the ...
Category
1890s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Humoresque", Lobby Card, USA 1946
Located in Cologne, DE
Original black-and-white lobby card for the film "Humoresque" (1946) featuring John Garfield and Oscar Levant. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a serious moment between...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Color
Young Velvets Vogue 1949 Limited Edition Estate Print
Located in London, GB
Young Velvets, Young Prices photoshoot, 1949
Limited Edition Print
by Norman Parkinson
Three velvet-capped women huddle in gossip as another looks on during an October 1949 Vogue ...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
Joan Crawford and Pier Angeli with Dog
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white candid capture of classic film stars Pier Angeli and Joan Crawford sitting in a bedroom with a dog.
Joan Crawford was an American actress. She started her career as ...
Category
1940s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Historical Photo - Royal Family of England - Vintage Photo - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
A rare photo of the Royal Family of England in 1940s, with George VI, Queen Mary, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Early George Bowes-Lyon, a young Queen Elizab...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Untitled (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn)
By Irving Penn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Irving Penn
Title: Untitled (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn)
Medium: Glossy, fibre based paper
Date: New York, circa 1949
Dimensions: 11 x 14 inches
Stamped ...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Japanese Women in Tokyo - Original Albumen Print - 1880s/90s
Located in Roma, IT
Japanese women in Tokyo is an original vintage Albumen print hand colored, on single cardboard: 26 x 34 cm.
Realized between the 1880s and the early 18...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Tugboat, River Seine, Paris — Mid-Century Photogravure
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Rémy Duval, 'Tugboat, River Seine, Paris', photogravure, 1946. A fine, richly-inked impression in warm black ink, on cream wove B.F.K. Rives paper; the shee...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Photogravure
Erich Andres, Vintage, Rouen, 1941, 17, 5 x 12, 4 cm
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1941.
This photograph, taken in 1941 in Rouen, France, depicts a foggy street scene during World War II. The street is lined with traditional h...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Marilyn Monroe on the Shore - Photograph and Vintage Large Format Negative
Located in Austin, TX
~ Globe Photos Exclusive Offering for Sotheby's and 1stDibs ~
Offered exclusively to our Sotheby's and 1stDibs customers, Globe Photos is proud to announce a new hand-curated collec...
Category
1940s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Portrait of Ernest Hemingway - Vintage Photograph - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Ernest Hemingway is a black and white photograph realized in the 1940s.
Good conditions.
Category
1940s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 510.
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 510.
Contortions on the ground.
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887
Image size 7 1/4 x 16 1/2 inches
Muybridge copyright impr...
Category
1880s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Large Albumen Photo - Via Dolorosa In Station Of The Bross. Jerusalem
Located in Surfside, FL
The Original American Colony was a colony established in Jerusalem in 1881 by members of a utopian society led by Anna and Horatio Spafford. Now a hotel in East Jerusalem, it is still known by that name today.
After suffering a series tragic losses following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (see hymn "It is Well with My Soul"), Chicago residents Anna and Horatio Spafford led a small American contingent in 1881 to Jerusalem to form a utopian society. The "American Colony," as it became known, was later joined by Swedish Christians. The society engaged in philanthropic work amongst the people of Jerusalem regardless of religious affiliation, gaining the trust of the local Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities.During and immediately after World War I, the American Colony carried out philanthropic work to alleviate the suffering of the local inhabitants, opening soup kitchens, hospitals, orphanages and other charitable ventures.
Towards the end of the 1950s, the society's communal residence was converted into the American Colony Hotel. The hotel is an integral part of the Jerusalem landscape where members of all communities in Jerusalem still meet. In 1992 representatives from the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel met in the hotel where they began talks that led to the historic 1993 Oslo Peace Accord.
Panorama of Jerusalem, c. 1890-1920
The Colony moved to the large house of a wealthy Arab landowner, Rabbah Husseini, outside the city walls in Sheikh Jarrah on the road to Nablus. Part of the building was used as a hostel for visitors from Europe and America. A small farm developed with animals, a butchery, a dairy, a bakery, a carpenter's shop, and a smithy. The economy was supplemented by a shop selling photographs, craft items and archaeological artifacts. The American Colonists were embraced by the Jewish and Palestinian communities for their good works, among them, teaching in both Muslim and Jewish schools.
Photography
Around 1900, Elijah Meyers, a member of the American Colony, began taking photographs of places and events in and around the city of Jerusalem. Meyers's work eventually expanded into a full-fledged photographic division within the Colony, including Hol Lars (Lewis) Larsson and G. Eric Matson, who later renamed the effort as the Matson Photographic Service. Their interest in archeological artifacts (such as the Lion Tower in Tripoli pictured here), and the detail of their photographs, led to widespread interest in their work by archeologists. The collection was later donated to the Library of Congress.
World War I
When the Ottoman Empire entered World War I as an ally of Germany in November 1914, Jerusalem and Palestine became a battleground between the Allied and the Central powers...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Chicago 9
Located in New York, NY
Silver print. Overall sheet dimension is 16" x20". Signed by Siskind in pencil, and with the title and negative date in pencil on back of print. 1949 (Printed in 1980s).
Category
1940s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Backless Fashion" by Bill Brandt
By Bill Brandt
Located in London, GB
"Backless Fashion" by Bill Brandt
5th November 1949: Paris's latest fashion items place the accent on necklines, using roses, frills, and feathers to emphasize necks and bosoms. Thi...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White
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The first permanent image created by a camera — which materialized during the 1820s — is attributed to Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. The French inventor was on to something for sure. Kodak introduced roll film in the 1880s, allowing photography to become more democratic, although cameras wouldn’t be universally accessible until several decades later.
Digital photographic techniques, software, smartphone cameras and social-networking platforms such as Instagram have made it even easier in the modern era for budding photographers to capture the world around them as well as disseminate their images far and wide.
What might leading figures of visual art such as Andy Warhol have done with these tools at their disposal?
Today, when we aren’t looking at the digital photos that inundate us on our phones, we look to the past to celebrate the photographers who have broken rules as well as records — provocative and prolific artists like Horst P. Horst, Lillian Bassman and Helmut Newton, who altered the face of fashion and portrait photography; visionary documentary photographers such as Gordon Parks, whose best-known work was guided by social justice; and pioneers of street photography such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, who shot for revolutionary travel magazines like Holiday with the likes of globetrotting society lensman Slim Aarons.
Find photographers you may not know in Introspective and The Study — where you’ll read about Berenice Abbott, who positioned herself atop skyscrapers for the perfect shot, or “conceptual artist-adventurer” Charles Lindsay, whose work combines scientific rigor with artistic expression, or Massimo Listri, known for his epic interiors of opulent Old World libraries. Photographer Jeannette Montgomery Barron was given a Kodak camera as a child. Later, she shot on Polaroid film before buying her first 35mm camera in her teens. Barron's stunning portraits of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Warhol and other artists chronicle a crucial chapter of New York’s cultural history.
Throughout the past two centuries, photographers have used their medium to create expressive work that has resonated for generations. Shop a voluminous collection of this powerful fine photography on 1stDibs. Search by photographer to find the perfect piece for your living room wall, or spend some time with the work organized under various categories, such as landscape photography, nude photography and more.
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