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Style: Modern
Period: 1930s
Fifth Avenue Houses, #4, 6, 8, New York City
Located in Detroit, MI
Signed in pencil on mount.
the image date is 1936, printed 1980
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cologne, Germany 1935, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Charlie Chaplin - Vintage Photo - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Charlie Chaplin is a vintage black and white photograph realized during the 1930s.
Includes a wood frame.
This pretty photograph represents the actor Charlie Chaplin with a woman, probably during one of his famous sketches...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Karstadt-Haus at Hermannplatz, Berlin, 1937, Mauritius Publishing
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Heinz Pollmann. His are an unparalleled and intriguing insight into the working and everyday life of the time. I...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Karstadt-Haus at Hermannplatz, Berlin, 1937, Mauritius Publishing
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Heinz Pollmann. His are an unparalleled and intriguing insight into the working and everyday life of the time. I...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Water Skiing (1950) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Gorgeous Joan (1931) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Alamy)
A woman in white two-piece bathing suit water skiing cir...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Flooded Mall London
Located in London, GB
A man crossing a stretch of floodwater with the help of two chairs after a storm caused flooding in the Mall, London.
(Photo by H. F. Davis/Getty Images Archive London England)
Pa...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
New York City Skyscrapers, July 1931, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography Framed
By Press Agency Keystone View Company
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Press Agency Keystone View Company. New York City skyscrapers, July 7th, 1931.
Features:
Original Silver Gelatin Print Photog...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'Commissionaire’s Dog' Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Print
By Kurt Hutton
Located in London, GB
'Commissionaire’s Dog'
Kurt Hutton, 1938
A hotel commissionaire talking to a small dachshund dog in Piccadilly Circus, London, 1938.
A beautiful image of a commissionaire dressed ...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Skating Waiter by Horace Abrahams
Located in London, GB
"Skating Waiter" by Horace Abrahams
8th January 1938: A waiter skates across the ice at St. Moritz carrying a tray of drinks for his customers.
Unframed
Paper Size: 60" x 40'' (in...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
NYC 1939 World's Fair 5 - 8 x 10 photographs Mid 20th Century WPA Architectural
Located in New York, NY
NYC 1939 World's Fair 5 - 8 x 10 photographs Mid 20th Century WPA Architectural
Underwood and Underwood
1939 World’s Fair Photographs
8 x 10 inches each
All five prints are stamped...
Category
American Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Sun Beams Into Grand Central Station" by Hal Morey
Located in London, GB
"Sun Beams Into Grand Central Station" by Hal Morey
Beams of sunlight streaming through the windows at Grand Central Station, New York City, circa 1930.
Un...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Sun Beams Into Grand Central Station (1930) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Sun Beams Into Grand Central Station (1930) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Hal Morey/Getty Images)
Beams of sunlight streaming through the windows ...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Crowd Scene
Located in New York, NY
Edward Quigley
Crowd Scene, 1931
Vintage gelatin silver print
Artist's stamp on the back of the photograph
Frame Included
Frame bears labels from: Joel Soroka Gallery, Co Ota House, CA
Measurements:
Frame:
13 x 11.25 x 0.5 inch
Photograph:
4.5 x 3.5 inches
About Edward Quigley:
Edward Quigley was a leading American modernist who became known in the 1930s for his experimental photographic work with light. Quigley acquired his first camera at age twelve, joined the Photographic Society of Philadelphia in1929, and opened his own studio a year later. He supported himself with innovative advertising and editorial work published regularly in magazines such as U.S. Camera and Photographie, while winning prizes in numerous salons for his experimental light abstractions, captured with the aid of prisms and lenses to startling affect. Today, photographs by Edward Quigley are housed in the permanent collections of The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Biography Courtesy Robert Koch Gallery
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Robert Taylor
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition 46/250
Signed and numbered in black ink on print margin.
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Kurt Hutton Fair Fun 1938 Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Kurt Hutton
Located in London, GB
Fair Fun (1938) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Kurt Hutton/Getty Images)
Two young women enjoying themselves on the 'Caterpillar' ride at Southend Fair, Essex, October 1938...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Charis, Santa Monica
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Charis, Santa Monica" is a photograph by Edward Weston. It has the artist stamp on verso, “Negative by Edward Weston print by Cole Weston”. The framed photograph measures 15 1/4 x 1...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sun Beams Into Grand Central Station (1930) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Sun Beams Into Grand Central Station (1930) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Hal Morey/Getty Images)
Beams of sunlight streaming through the windows ...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
"Golf Lesson" by Reg Speller
Located in London, GB
"Golf Lesson" by Reg Speller
14th October 1937: Keith Dalby giving a golf lesson at Finchley golf club.
Unframed
Paper Size: 20" x 24'' (inches)
Printed 2022
Silver Gelatin Fibre ...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Prosperity on the Corner
By John Albok
Located in Dallas, TX
Vintage Silver Gelatin Print.
Title, date and signature on mat margin
1980 stamp in black ink twice on mount verso
Category
American Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cotton Club Marquee In NY (1938) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Cotton Club Marquee In NY (1938) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by George Karger/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Archive London England)
Taxis ...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Brassaï Original Black & White Photograph of a Street Fair
By Brassaï
Located in Larchmont, NY
BRASSAI (Hungarian–French, 1899-1984)
Street Fair on the Place d'Italie, 1931
Medium: Sheet-fed Gravure
Printing Date: 1970's
Printed in the USA
Image: 10 1/2 x 8 inches
Framed: 14 1/2 x 12 inches
Although his real nameis Gyula Halasz, he took the name Brassai from his birthplace, and it means someone who comes from Brasov. He used the name all his adult life and is known throughout the world as Brassai.
He was of Hungarian ethnic origins. Brasov in Transylvania has been a part of Romania since the end of the First World War, and that region is still largely populated by ‘Romanain-Hungarians.’ Two of these became well known in the film industry: Bela Lugosi and Gabriel Pascal. When the Austro-Hungarian Empire was dismantled after the War, most of its territories were distributed amongst a number of nations. It was at this time that Transylvania returned to its earlier identity as part of Romania.
Brassai had served in the Austro-Hungarian cavalry for the last year of the War, 1917-1918. After he settled in Paris in 1924, Brassai never returned to his homeland, remaining in exile for the rest of his life. His parents continued to live in Brasov but joined him for long visits in Paris.
In 1949 Brassai became a French citizen, having been a stateless person since 1947. He fell in love with a French woman, Gilberte Boyer, and they married in 1948. Gilberte worked closely with her husband as he pursued his photographic career, helping him develop prints in his dark-room, and often writing descriptions of the subjects and personalities. It was also in 1949 that a book with 207 photographs of Picasso’s sculptures was published, with photographs by Brassai. He and Picasso became friends and the latter asked him to photograph his work for this volume. Brassai was a frequent visitor to Picasso’s studio and there he took several portraits of the artist.
Brassai has become one of the leading photographers of the twentieth century with collectors all over the world seeking his work. In an era which produced several brilliant and inspired photographers, not least Brassai’s friend Man Ray, he was able to capture a quality of magic in the atmosphere, bordering on the supernatural. Many of his pictures were taken at night or in fog, a frequent condition in Paris in the early part of the twentieth century. Even his day time photographs capture a moment of eerie transition between the mundane and the surreal. He is on the doorstep of another world where time stands still. Light becomes spectral as if it is the breath of an invisible power. Figures seem set in amber. Wet cobbles seem to slither and flow. A Master of capturing the ordinary, Brassai saw things as they were but transmuted the scene through his use of the lens into something outside the ordinary.
Brassai was a familiar figure prowling round Paris after dark with his camera and tripod and heavy bag of glass photographic plates. He was sometimes accompanied by Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, or Leon Paul...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogravure
The Giant Generators
Located in Dallas, TX
Titled and signed, dated on mount margin.
Dry mounted to exhibition board with typed information on label on verso.
Frame size: 21 x 17 inches
This image was exhibited in Charles Sheeler's Power Series at the Dallas Museum of Art...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Tee Off (1939) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
Tee Off (1939) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Alamy)
6th April 1939.
A man playing golf teeing-off golf ball from tee with driver outdoor.
...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
"Hungry Elephant" by Fox Photos
Located in London, GB
"Hungry Elephant" by Fox Photos
An elephant named Mae West accepts an apple from a passing tram driver while taking her morning exercise along Gray's ...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Sun Beams Into Grand Central Station (1930) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Sun Beams Into Grand Central Station (1930) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Hal Morey/Getty Images)
Beams of sunlight streaming through the windows ...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
"Flooded Road" by J. A. Hampton
Located in London, GB
"Flooded Road" by J. A. Hampton
A pedestrian attempts to leap across a flooded road near Hyde Park in London, 3rd August 1939.
Unframed
Paper Size: 40"x 30'' (inches)
Printed 2022 ...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Cheetah Who Shops" by B C Parade
Located in London, GB
"Cheetah Who Shops" by B C Parade
American silent film actress Phyllis Gordon (1889 - 1964) window-shopping in Earls Court, London with her four-yea...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Bluebird Press Photos" by Central Press
Located in London, GB
"Bluebird Press Photos" by Central Press
9th January 1935: Cameramen filming British racing driver Malcolm Campbell as he poses with a new Bluebird whic...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Manuel Komroff
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed by Andre Kertesz
Vintage gelatin silver carte postale
3 1/2 x 5 3/8 in.
Signed in graphite in artist's hand on recto
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Tennis Leap" by Douglas Miller
Located in London, GB
"Tennis Leap" by Douglas Miller
22nd August 1932: Three young competitors leaping over the boundary between two tennis courts at the Essex Junior Champ...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Animal Friends" by Fox Photos
Located in London, GB
"Animal Friends" by Fox Photos
15th July 1931: Two women in bathing suits share a snack with a couple of sea lions during a display in Paris.
Unframed
Pape...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Joan Crawford - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Joan Crawford - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(Photo by Pictorial Press / Alamy Archives)
Joan Crawford (1905-1977) US film actress.
Additional Information:
Unframed
Pa...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Lumberjack (1939) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
Lumberjack (1939) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(Photo by Dorothea Lange/Alamy)
An unemployed lumberjack with his wife in a migrant workers camp for the bean harvest,
Marion County, Oregon, circa 1939.
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Size: 30x40''
Printed Later
Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
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
ACTORS ON SET, Bette Davis, Ladies Fashion, LEADING LADIES, Black and White, Photography, BnW, Vintage, Retro, Classic, Wood Cutter...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Standing Proud (1939) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Standing Proud (1939) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Herbert Mason/Daily Mail/Getty Images)
St Paul's cathedral standing above the surrounding burning buildings during the London blitz...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
"Penny Farthing Bugle" by Fox Photos
Located in London, GB
"Penny Farthing Bugle" by Fox Photos
17th October 1932: Edwin Davey, riding a penny farthing bicycle over Lambeth bridge in London, and blowing...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Bette Davis Eyes (1932) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
Bette Davis Eyes (1932) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(photo by Pictorial Press / Alamy Archives)
1932,
Portrait of actress Bette Davis.
Addi...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Untitled (Barefoot Woman on Bench with Cat)
By John Albok
Located in Dallas, TX
John Albok
Untitled (Barefoot Woman on Bench with Cat), 1938
Vintage gelatin silver print, 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.
Signed and dated in ink on mount margin by John Albok
Born in Munkacs, H...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Spectator Tennis (1938) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
Spectator Tennis (1938) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Alamy)
1st December 1938.
Spectators watching a tennis match at a country club.
Addi...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Swimmer Girls - Vintage B/W photo - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Swimmer Girls in lines of Practice is an original black and white photograph realized by an Anonymous photographer in 1930s.
With the stamp of "Colonia Prof. Artisti Varazze" on the ...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Stirrup Cup" by J. Gaiger
Located in London, GB
"Stirrup Cup" by J. Gaiger
28th February 1931: At Cowdray park, Midhurst, Sussex handing round a 'stirrup cup' at a hunt meet during 'coming of age' fest...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Swan In A Car" by Fox Photos
Located in London, GB
"Swan In A Car" by Fox Photos
6th April 1936: A tame swan named Leila is given a lift in the back of a car.
Unframed
Paper Size: 30" x 40'' (inches)
Printed 2022
Silver Gelatin Fi...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Mauretania" by Topical Press Agency
Located in London, GB
"Mauretania" by Topical Press Agency
The Cunard superliner Mauretania being refitted in the dry dock at Southampton.
Unframed
Paper Size: 60"x 40'' (inches)
Printed 2022
Silver Ge...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Model Boats" by Norman Smith
Located in London, GB
"Model Boats" by Norman Smith
20th June 1937: Three competitors for the 'Scrutton' Medals carrying their model sailing boats to the starting point...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Hyde Park, London, 1934
Located in Middletown, NY
An atmospheric and magical photo by master of the lens, photographic and cinematic, that captures a tranquil corner of Hyde Park. As Suschitzky himself said ...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Dukeries District" by Topical Press Agency
Located in London, GB
"Dukeries District" by Topical Press Agency
A German Opel racer leaving Welbeck Abbey, the seat of the dukes of Portland in Nottinghamshire, during the Prince Henry...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Table Tennis Stars" by John Kobal Foundation
Located in London, GB
"Table Tennis Stars" by John Kobal Foundation
American actors and friends Henry Fonda (1905 - 1982, left) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) play a game of t...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Clark's Great Escape" by John Kobal Foundation
Located in London, GB
"Clark's Great Escape" by John Kobal Foundation
17th October 1933: American actor Clark Gable (1901 - 1960) sitting in front of his car planning his journey with a map in front of h...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Marquees Venues" by Michael Ochs
Located in London, GB
"Marquees Venues" by Michael Ochs Archives
Marquees Venues (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives).
Unframed
Paper Size: 12" x 16'' (inches)
Printed 2022
Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Chorus Formation" by Sasha
Located in London, GB
"Chorus Formation" by Sasha
14th February 1933: The Albertina Rasch chorus girls who are appearing in 'Wild Violets'.
Unframed
Paper Size: 24" x 20'' (in...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Bette Davis (1935) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
Bette Davis Eyes (1932) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(photo by Pictorial Press / Alamy Archives)
1935,
Portrait of actress Bette Davis circa....
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
"Cotton Club Marquee In NY" by George Karger
Located in London, GB
"Cotton Club Marquee In NY" by George Karger
Taxis line up out side of the Cotton Club at Broadway and 48th Street circa 1938 in New York City, New York...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Shooting Party" by Reg Speller
Located in London, GB
"Shooting Party" by Reg Speller
10th October 1936: A woman takes aim with her shotgun during a shooting party at Borthwicks Farm, Hatfield, Hertfordshire. The group are perfectly fr...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Japanese Troops Read Dispatches - Vintage Photo 1938
Located in Roma, IT
Japanese Troops read dispatches is a b/w photographic print on polished paper by Atlantic-Photo, realized on August 3, 1938.
Stamp of agency and stereotype in German on the back.
Excellent conditions.
Here, a group of Japanese soldiers are in front of a notice board.
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"1st Class Travel" by Fox Photos
Located in London, GB
"1st Class Travel" by Fox Photos
September 1934: Mrs C Wylds behind the wheel with her pet pig at Terling in Essex.
Unframed
Paper Size: 16" x 20'' (inches)
Printed 2022
Silver Ge...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
'Commissionaire’s Dog' (Limited Edition)
By Kurt Hutton
Located in London, GB
'Commissionaire’s Dog' by Kurt Hutton
A hotel commissionaire talking to a small dachshund dog in Piccadilly Circus, London, 1938.
A beautiful image of a commissionaire dressed in u...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
"Dining Out" by Kurt Hutton
By Kurt Hutton
Located in London, GB
"Dining Out" by Kurt Hutton
10th December 1938: Diners at the former Prince Edward Theatre, now the London Casino, where they enjoy a full course meal and entertainment. Original Pu...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Prince Alexander Of Yugoslavia At Eto" by Keystone-France
Located in London, GB
"Prince Alexander Of Yugoslavia At Eton College 1937" by Keystone-France
UNITED KINGDOM - SEPTEMBER 23: Prince Alexander Of Yugoslavia (2Nd From Left), The Son Of Regent Prince Paul...
Category
Modern 1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
