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Period: 1950s
"I'm All Right Jack", Lobby Card, USA 1959
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "I'm All Right Jack" (1960) featuring Peter Sellers. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a scene with Peter Sellers in a suit and a group ...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Jacques Lipchitz Bronze Sculpture Photo Signed
Located in Surfside, FL
Adolph Studly, Swiss born American photographer. His work is kept in the Photographic Archive at The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. He was known for his gallery photograp...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Frosted Window
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This vintage silver gelatin print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount. This rare exhibition print in glossy paper (later prints of this image from Portfolio II were made on...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Desert Plant, Badlands, South Dakota
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This silver gelatin print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount. Likely printed in the 1980s.
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Kentucky 7 by Aaron Siskind, Silver Gelatin Print, Abstract Photography
Located in Denton, TX
Kentucky 7 by Aaron Siskind is an 11 x 14 inch silver gelatin print. The sheet size of this image is 11 x 14 inches, the image size is 9 5/16 x 12 5/16 inches. This photograph featur...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"The Human Jungle", Lobby Card, USA 1954
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "The Human Jungle" (1954) featuring Gary Merrill and Jan Sterling. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece shows a tense interaction between Jan Sterli...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
Untitled (artichokes) by Ida Lansky, ca. 1950, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
By Ida Lansky
Located in Denton, TX
Untitled (artichokes) by Ida G. Lansky features a detail shot of whole and cut up artichokes. The tones of this photograph are reversed, creating an abstract image from a common object. The produce is lit dramatically from the side, emphasizing it's intricate details.
Untitled (artichokes) by Ida G. Lansky is an 8 x 10 inch vintage silver gelatin print. This photograph includes the artist's stamp in black ink on print verso.
Ida G. Lansky was born in 1910 in Toronto, Canada. She pursued many careers in her lifetime including Nursing, Art, and Library Science. In 1928 she moved to New York City and later attended New York University, The Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn, NY and Cornell University. In 1942 she received a B.S. in Public Health Nursing.
Ida Lansky moved to Hawaii in 1945 and married Irving Lansky. She then moved to Nor- man, Oklahoma and then to Denton, Texas where she studied art and was mother to two children, Ellen and Michele.
From 1954 - 1959 she was in the Visual Art studies program at Texas Women’s University in Denton with an emphasis on photography. She studied under Carlotta Corpron...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Prince of Pirates", Lobby Card, USA 1953
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "Prince of Pirates" (1953) featuring John Derek, Barbara Rush, and Carla Balenda. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece showcases an intense scene wi...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
"The Human Jungle", Lobby Card, USA 1954
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "The Human Jungle" (1954) featuring Gary Merrill and Jan Sterling. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece depicts a dramatic struggle scene where Jan ...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
"I Love Lucy", Lobby Card, USA 1951
Located in Cologne, DE
Original black-and-white lobby card for the TV show "I Love Lucy" (1951) featuring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a charming domestic sce...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
"Human Desire", Lobby Card, USA 1954
Located in Cologne, DE
Original black-and-white lobby card for the film "Human Desire" (1954) featuring Gloria Grahame and Glenn Ford. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece ca...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
"The Human Jungle", Lobby Card, USA 1954
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "The Human Jungle" (1954) featuring Gary Merrill and Jan Sterling. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a dramatic backstage scene with Gar...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
"Desert Attack, aka Ice Cold in Alex", Lobby Card, USA 1958
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "Desert Attack" (1958) featuring John Mills and Sylvia Syms. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a tense scene between the characters port...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
Pipes. Abstract black and white vintage photograph. (Framed)
By Leo Matiz
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Black and white photographs that reveal the various facets and aesthetic searches of the legendary Colombian photographer, recognized as the creator of memorable realistic, abstract ...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Other Medium
"Love Me or Leave Me", Lobby Card, USA 1955
Located in Cologne, DE
Love Me or Leave Me, USA 1955, Director: Charles Vidor, Cast: Cameron Mitchell, Doris Day.
The lobby cards would have been displayed inside the cinemas at the time of the film's re...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
"The Human Jungle", Lobby Card, USA 1954
Located in Cologne, DE
Original scene photo from the film "The Human Jungle" (1954) featuring Jan Sterling and Gary Merrill. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a tense moment between Jan Sterli...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
La Fenice Venice Opera House by Erich Auerbach Oversize silver gelatine print
Located in London, GB
"La Fenice" by Erich Auerbach
A general view of the boxes at La Fenice, the Venice Opera House, 1954.
Unframed
Paper Size: 30" x 30'' (inches)
Printed...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Phone Call from a Stranger", Lobby Card, USA 1952
Located in Cologne, DE
Phone Call from a Stranger, USA 1952, Director: Jean Negulesco, Cast: Shelley Winters, Gary Merrill, Michael Rennie. The lobby cards would have been di...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
Kentucky 7, abstract black and white
Located in Greenwich, CT
His famous series that mimicked the abstract expressionist painters movement - but in photography. A great image and a striking work for any sophisticated or rustic environment. Ima...
Category
Abstract 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
' Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II ' (SLIM AARONS Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
' Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II ' Milan, 1960 by Slim Aarons.
View looking down the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Italy, 1960. Opened in 1890, the covered arcade is on th...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
'La Fenice' Venice Opera House Giant Silver Gelatin Print
By Frank Auerbach
Located in London, GB
'La Fenice' by Erich Auerbach
A general view of the boxes at La Fenice, the Venice Opera House, 1st January 1954.
A beautiful silver gelatin fibre pr...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Jacques Lipchitz Bronze Sculpture Photo Signed
Located in Surfside, FL
Adolph Studly, Swiss born American photographer. His work is kept in the Photographic Archive at The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. He was known for his gallery photograp...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Jacques Lipchitz Bronze Sculpture Photo Signed
Located in Surfside, FL
Adolph Studly, Swiss born American photographer. His work is kept in the Photographic Archive at The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. He was known for his gallery photograp...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Jacques Lipchitz Bronze Sculpture Photo Signed
Located in Surfside, FL
Adolph Studly, Swiss born American photographer. His work is kept in the Photographic Archive at The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. He was known for his gallery photograp...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
"The Pride and the Passion", Lobby Card, USA 1957
Located in Cologne, DE
Original color lobby card for the film "The Pride and the Passion" (1957) featuring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, and Sophia Loren. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a grou...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
"The Pride and the Passion", Lobby Card, USA 1957
Located in Cologne, DE
Original color lobby card for the film "The Pride and the Passion" (1957) featuring Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a tense scene between...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
"Desert Attack, aka Ice Cold in Alex", Lobby Card, USA 1958
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "Desert Attack" (1958) featuring John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle, and Harry Andrews. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a dramati...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
"Desert Attack, aka Ice Cold in Alex", Lobby Card, USA 1958
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "Desert Attack" (1958) featuring John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle, and Harry Andrews. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a dramati...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
"Desert Attack, aka Ice Cold in Alex", Lobby Card, USA 1958
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "Desert Attack" (1958) featuring John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle, and Harry Andrews. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a dramati...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
"Desert Attack, aka Ice Cold in Alex", Lobby Card, USA 1958
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "Desert Attack" (1958) featuring John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle, and Harry Andrews. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a tense s...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
"I'm All Right Jack", Lobby Card, USA 1959
Located in Cologne, DE
Original black-and-white lobby card for the film "I'm All Right Jack" (1960) featuring Peter Sellers, Ian Carmichael, and Marjorie Rhodes. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captu...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
"I'm All Right Jack", Lobby Card, USA 1959
Located in Cologne, DE
Original black-and-white lobby card for the film "I'm All Right Jack" (1960) featuring Peter Sellers and Terry-Thomas. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a humorous domes...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
"I'm All Right Jack", Lobby Card, USA 1959
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "I'm All Right Jack" (1960) featuring Peter Sellers, Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, and Margaret Rutherford. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece sho...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
"I'm All Right Jack", Lobby Card, USA 1959
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "I'm All Right Jack" (1960) featuring Peter Sellers and Terry-Thomas. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a comedic scene with Peter Selle...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
"I'm All Right Jack", Lobby Card, USA 1959
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "I'm All Right Jack" (1960) featuring Peter Sellers, Ian Carmichael, and Terry-Thomas. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece showcases a scene with I...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
"Prince of Pirates", Lobby Card, USA 1953
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "Prince of Pirates" (1953) featuring John Derek, Barbara Rush, and Carla Balenda. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece showcases an intense scene wi...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
"Prince of Pirates", Lobby Card, USA 1953
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "Prince of Pirates" (1953) featuring John Derek, Barbara Rush, and Carla Balenda. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece showcases scenes from the swa...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
"The Human Jungle", Lobby Card, USA 1954
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "The Human Jungle" (1954) featuring Gary Merrill and Jan Sterling.
This vintage cinema memorabilia piece showcases a dramatic arrest scene alongside...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
"Love Me or Leave Me", Lobby Card, USA 1955
Located in Cologne, DE
Love Me or Leave Me, USA 1955, Director: Charles Vidor, Cast: Cameron Mitchell, Doris Day.
The lobby cards would have been displayed inside the cinemas at the time of the film's re...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
"Imitation of Life", Lobby Card, USA 1959
Located in Cologne, DE
Imitation of Life, USA 1959, Director: Douglas Sirk, Cast: John Gavin, Lana Turner.
The lobby cards would have been displayed inside the cinemas at the time of the film's release.
...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Jacques Lipchitz Bronze Sculpture Photo Signed
Located in Surfside, FL
Adolph Studly, Swiss born American photographer. His work is kept in the Photographic Archive at The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. He was known for his gallery photograp...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Jacques Lipchitz Bronze Sculpture Photo Signed
Located in Surfside, FL
Adolph Studly, Swiss born American photographer. His work is kept in the Photographic Archive at The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. He was known for his gallery photograp...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Illusion by Ida Lansky, ca. 1950's, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print, Photography
By Ida Lansky
Located in Denton, TX
Illusion by Ida Lansky depicts a glass vase in front of a window with blinds. The background is distorted through the glass, abstracting the image by emphasizing the varying tones and shapes.
Illusion by Ida Lansky is listed as a 9.5 x 7.5 inch vintage gelatin silver print. This photograph is signed and titled in pencil on mount margin by artist.
Ida G. Lansky was born in 1910 in Toronto, Canada. She pursued many careers in her lifetime including Nursing, Art, and Library Science. In 1928 she moved to New York City and later attended New York University, The Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn, NY and Cornell University. In 1942 she received a B.S. in Public Health Nursing.
Ida Lansky moved to Hawaii in 1945 and married Irving Lansky. She then moved to Nor- man, Oklahoma and then to Denton, Texas where she studied art and was mother to two children, Ellen and Michele.
From 1954 - 1959 she was in the Visual Art studies program at Texas Women’s University in Denton with an emphasis on photography. She studied under Carlotta Corpron...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Nautilus
By Harold Town
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Harold Town (1924-1990) remains one of the most accomplished and fascinating characters from the "Painters Eleven" group.
While Town coined the group's name (based on the number of artists who simply attended their first meeting) his output was diverse, ever-changing and not restricted to painting.
Somewhat ironically, Town's first significant body of work, which established his reputation, was a group of monotype - which he called "Single Autographic Prints"
Town was introduced to lithography by fellow Painters Eleven member Oscar Cahen...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Monotype
Contemplation by Ida Lansky, c. 1950's, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
By Ida Lansky
Located in Denton, TX
Contemplation by Ida Lansky depicts a group of three statues. The figures are turned towards each other and away from the viewer, as if talking in secret.
This photograph is listed as a 9.5 x 7.5 inch vintage silver gelatin print. It is signed and titled in pencil on mount margin by the artist.
Ida G. Lansky was born in 1910 in Toronto, Canada. She pursued many careers in her lifetime including Nursing, Art, and Library Science. In 1928 she moved to New York City and later attended New York University, The Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn, NY and Cornell University. In 1942 she received a B.S. in Public Health Nursing.
Ida Lansky moved to Hawaii in 1945 and married Irving Lansky. She then moved to Nor- man, Oklahoma and then to Denton, Texas where she studied art and was mother to two children, Ellen and Michele.
From 1954 - 1959 she was in the Visual Art studies program at Texas Women’s University in Denton with an emphasis on photography. She studied under Carlotta Corpron...
Category
Modern 1950s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin