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Period: 1940s
Lancaster Bomber Lily Mars 1943 original silver gelatin photograph I
Located in London, GB
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Lancaster LL678 ‘Lily Mars’ – I
Original Silver Gelatin photograph, December 1943
12 x 16 cm
Stamped to reverse ‘The Photograph has been passed by Censor’ ‘Copyright This TP copyright illustration from “The Aeroplane” must not be reproduced without the written permission of Temple Press Ltd’.
‘A general view of an Avro Lancaster II with Hercules radial motors.’
300 Lancaster II aeroplanes were made, fitted with Bristol Hercules radial engines, as there was a worry that there would be a shortage of Merlin engines, reserved for the Spitfire and Hurricane.
Lily Mars was named after the 1943 American musical starring Judy Garland and was based at RAF Waterbeach, in Cambridgeshire. A podcast gives details of the final flight on 13 June 1944 which was to be the final raid of the crew’s tour. The bombing raid was of 303 Lancasters against the Nordstern synthetic oil plant at Gelsenkichen in the Ruhr, deep inside Germany and the aircraft took off at 23.12 hrs. On the home run LL678 was intercepted and shot down by a night fighter capitained by Oberleutnant Schmidt in a Bf 110 at 01.24 hrs at Zuidloo, a small hamlet, where five of the eight crew are buried; the other three crew members baled out and escaped. A memorial plaque...
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Realist 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Wall Scrawls, Hornitos California initialed EW
Located in Carmel, CA
Original Edward Weston!
Framed in black.
Initialed in pencil on lower right of dry mounted photograph. Dated 1940 in pencil. Excellent Condition.
Category
1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Charles E Brown Lancaster Bomber testbed jet engined WW2 original photograph
Located in London, GB
Charles E Brown (1896-1982)
Testbed Avro Lancaster Bomber LL735
Silver gelatin monochrome photographic print
19 x 25 cm
Stamped to reverse "6231-3 Copyright photograph by Charles E ...
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Realist 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Fill Her Up
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
Pit staff filling up Louis Chiron’s (1899 – 1979) Maserati. Original Publication: Picture Post – 4364 – Road Racing In Jersey – pub. 1947
(Photo Bert Hardy)
A beautiful Limited ...
Category
Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Avro Lancaster Bomber AU-Q being bombed up original press photograph 1940s
Located in London, GB
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Lan...
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Realist 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons - Buckingham Palace - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aaron - Buckingham Palace - Estate Stamped
Crowds watching a military parade outside Buckingham Palace, London, circa 1949. (Photo by Slim Aaro...
Category
Modern 1940s Black and White 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 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Dunes, Hazy Sun, White Sands, New Mexico
By Ansel Adams
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This early silver gelatin print is signed in pencil on the mount beneath the image. Printed in 1950 in an edition of 100 numbered copies and 5 presentation copies; this print is from...
Category
Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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
American Realist 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Avro Lancaster Bomber original 1943 silver gelatin photograph de-icing system
Located in London, GB
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Realist 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lancaster Bomber Lily Mars 1943 original silver gelatin photograph
Located in London, GB
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Lancaster LL678 ‘Lily Mars’ – 2
Original Silver Gelatin photograph, December 1943
12 x 16 cm
Stamped to reverse ‘The Photograph has been passed by Censor’ ‘Copyright This TP copyright illustration from “The Aeroplane” must not be reproduced without the written permission of Temple Press Ltd’.
‘Lancaster II heavy bombers are now flying with RAF BOMBER COMMAND.’
300 Lancaster II aeroplanes were made, fitted with Bristol Hercules radial engines...
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Realist 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Backstage At La Scala Essentials Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Backstage At La Scala
1948
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A chorus girl reads a movie magazine in a dressing room at La Scala opera house, Milan, November 1948...
Category
Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Techos, Mexico, Architectural landscape black and white Vintage Photograph.
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 ...
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Other Art Style 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
RAF Lancaster Bomber photograph for Flight Magazine Ref no 18300S World War II
Located in London, GB
From a series of Black and White Silver Gelatin photographs of Lancaster Bombers dating from the 1940s we have listed. Why not check out the others.
LANCASTER BOMBER AT AN AIRFIELD
...
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Realist 1940s Black and White Photography
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Photographic Paper
The King of Jazz, Louis Armstrong in Rome, Black and White Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
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...
Category
American Realist 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Black and White, Digital
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 direction from William Dieterle (1893 - 1972), while filming, 'September Affair...
Category
American Realist 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Hawker Siddeley original photograph Lancaster Bomber landing World War 2
Located in London, GB
From a series of Black and White photographs of Lancaster Bombers dating from the 1940s we have listed. Why not check out the others.
Lancaster bombe...
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Realist 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
New Year at Romanoff's
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) enjoy a joke at a New Year's party held at R...
Category
American Realist 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Citizen Kane Iconic Scene
By Alexander Kahle
Located in Austin, TX
Iconic scene from the influential film "Citizen Kane"..Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film produced by, directed by, and starring Orson Welles. He also co-wrote the screenplay...
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Contemporary 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Elizabeth Taylor Washing Face
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
A great candid capture of legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor at home washing her face in the bathroom.
Elizabeth Taylor was an English-American actress, businesswoman, and humanita...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
"Heavyweight" by Felix Man
Located in London, GB
"Heavyweight" by Felix Man
Eighteen-year-old animal trainer Zabuna lying under one of her performing elephants. This stunt forms part of her act for the Chessington Circus, currentl...
Category
Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Dominion Monarch" by Harry Todd
Located in London, GB
"Dominion Monarch" by Harry Todd
The 26,263 ton Shaw Savill liner Dominion Monarch dwarfs the surrounding houses in Saville Road from her dry dock at the King George V docks in Lond...
Category
Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Cafe De Flore, Paris In 19" by Keystone-France
Located in London, GB
"Cafe De Flore, Paris In 1948" by Keystone-France
Cafe De Flore, Paris, France, 1948.
Unframed
Paper Size: 16" x 16'' (inches)
Printed 2022
Silver Gel...
Category
Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Elizabeth Taylor At Home" by Earl Theisen
By Earl Theisen
Located in London, GB
"Elizabeth Taylor At Home" by Earl Theisen
LOS ANGELES - CIRCA 1947: Actress ElizabethTaylor helps at the dinner table at home circa 1947 in Los Angeles, California.
Unframed
Paper...
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Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Italian Party" by Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Italian Party" by Bert Hardy
September 1949: A party given by the mayor of Positano for Mercy Haystead (right), an 18-year old London student, on holiday ...
Category
Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Ascari At Silverstone" by Express
Located in London, GB
"Ascari At Silverstone" by Express
25th August 1949: Italian motor racing driver Alberto Ascari (left) approaching Stowe Corner in a Ferrari during the ...
Category
Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Juan Manuel Fangio" by Evening Standard
Located in London, GB
"Juan Manuel Fangio" by Evening Standard
Argentinian racing driver Juan Manuel Fangio in a Ferrari at Silverstone racetrack.
Unframed
Paper Size: 30" x...
Category
Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Orson Welles in the Studio
Located in Austin, TX
This black and white capture features Orson Welles posed seated on a chair in the studio.
Orson Welles was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, ...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Ingrid Bergman with Fan
Located in Austin, TX
Glamorous capture of actress Ingrid Bergman posed in the studio with a fan.
Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films and won thr...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Style 'Burlington Arcade'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Burlington Arcade
1955 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Sh...
Category
Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dangerous Perch (1940) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Dangerous Perch (1940) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Archive London)
Evacuee Barrie Peacop enjoys an ice cream as he sits on a mine ...
Category
Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
New Year at Romanoff's
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) enjoy a joke at a New Year's party held at R...
Category
American Realist 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Jazz Scooter: Louis Armstrong and Lucille Brown in 1940s Rome, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lucille Brown takes control of the Vespa scooter as her husband Louis Armstrong (1898 - 1971) displays his musical appreciation of the ancient Colosseum in Rome.
Slim Aarons
Jazz S...
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American Realist 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Black and White, Digital
Grange Meeting Fairfax County Virginia January 1940 Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Surfside, FL
photo is 9X13.5 (image size), 16X20 is the mat. Mounted to original mat. Vintage photograph.
Three young Grange members represent Flora, Ceres and Pamona in Fairfax, 1940.
Arthur Rothstein ( 1915 – 1985) was an American photographer. Rothstein is recognized as one of America’s premier photojournalists. During a career that spanned five decades, he provoked, entertained and informed the American people. His photographs ranged from a hometown baseball game to the drama of war, from struggling rural farmers to US Presidents. Rothstein was born in Manhattan, New York City, and he grew up in the Bronx. He was a graduate of Columbia University, where he was a founder of the University Camera Club and photography editor of the Columbian. Following his graduation from Columbia during the Great Depression, Rothstein was invited to Washington DC by one of his professors at Columbia, Roy Stryker. Rothstein had been Stryker's student at Columbia University in the early 1930s.
Stryker hired Rothstein to set up the darkroom for Stryker's Photo Unit of the Historical Section of the Resettlement Administration (RA).
Perhaps Rothstein's most famous...
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American Realist 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Laszlo Willinger, "Jack Buetel", original photograph, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original vintage photograph by Laszlo Willinger taken circa 1943. It depicts "Old Hollywood" actor, Jack Buetel. This piece is hand signed by the photographer. The...
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Other Art Style 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage print Wolfgang Roth playing musical instrument, Mandolin
Located in Surfside, FL
Vintage Silver Gelatin print. (possibly from Vogue Magazine).
This appears to be Wolfgang Roth and cast of possibly The Littlest Circus. Performers have horse heads. The photo is stamped on the back Halley Erskine of New York City.
Halley Erskine, Vogue photographer. The New York Times announced Halley’s marriage to Graham Erskine of Wilton, Connecticut October 18, 1940 at the bridegroom’s home at 212 East 48th Street in New York. Divorced six years later, Halley seemed to finally come into her own. She had started her career “pre-Graham” as a fashion editor for Vogue and Glamour magazines, often working on photo shoot sites with literary personalities, dancers, artists and actors. The writing and editing morphed into a love of photography which led to doing work for the Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan and House & Garden.
Impulsive and fearless, Halley was also known to do anything to capture the shot.
Halley did some teaching at The Famous Photographer’s School.
Halley was intensely curious, always learning and had a penchant for high technology gadgets.
Halley Erskine worked with the sculptor Seymour Lipton, Lee Krasner, Charles Ives, Horst, Diane Arbus and John Steinbeck/ art director at Vogue magazine she shot for Time and Life and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Wolfgang Roth fled Nazi Germany in 1933, arriving in New York by 1938. He apprenticed with Bertolt Brecht and Edwin Piscator in the underground Theatre and Opera of Pre War Nazi germany and studied at the Academy of Art in Berlin under Cesar Klein, a Member of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists where he befriended George Grosz who also ended up emigrating to the USA. Roth worked with Lazlo Moholy-Nagy in bringing to life his theater designs. He was an Instructor of Design at New York University (NYU) School of the Arts for many years
A great Mid-century Modern screenprint...
Category
Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sunlight on Water
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This silver gelatin contact print with margins (4 x 4 7/8 in) is signed in ink and numbered '7' in pencil on the front of the mount. Credited, titled and dated on gallery label affix...
Category
Abstract 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Get the Party Started" ~ Winter Visitors from Nearby Trailer Park, Florida
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Winter Visitors from Nearby Trailer Park, Picnicking Beside Car on Beach, Near Sarasota, Florida “Get the Party Started” is a gelatin silver print, signed by the artist on the front ...
Category
1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Style 'Saks Fashion Show'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Burlington Arcade
1955 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Shops in Burlington Arcade, which r...
Category
Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Carrefour Sèvres-Babylone Willy Ronis Twentieth Century Humanist photography art
By Willy Ronis
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.
Category
Contemporary 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Marx Brothers
By Yousuf Karsh
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...
Category
1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Junio Eskew, Houston Fat Stock Show
By John Stryker
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...
Category
Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Queen Elisabeth and Princess Margaret - Royal family - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elisabeth and Princess Margaret Rose - Royal family is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1940s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of hist...
Category
Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Observant Father, 1949, Chicago, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Street photography was Art's true passion. He never went anywhere without his camera so he could capture moments like this one - a priest on a Chicago street "observing" one of his parishioners. Art saw humor in everyday life catching moments that the casual observer probably would have missed.
Art Shay
Observant Father, 1949
vintage silver gelatin print...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Five Fireman 1940s Mid Century WPA Era Modern Baltimore Black & White Photograph
Located in New York, NY
Fine Fireman 1940s Mid Century WPA Era Modernism Baltimore Black & White Photograph. A. Aubrey Bodine (American, 1906-1970). Gelatin silver print, signed...
Category
Realist 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Style 'Florence Pritchett Smith'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Burlington Arcade
1955 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Model turned fashion editor turned ...
Category
Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Jazz Scooter'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Jazz Scooter
1949 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Lucille Brown takes control of the Vespa...
Category
Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
E.G. Robinson, M. O'Sullivan, H. Courtright - Original b/w Photograph - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Jane Russell and Gloria Green is an original b/w photograph about Hollywod '40 realized by De Wan Studios.
On the back " Edward G. Robinson, Maureen O'Sullivan...
Category
Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The American Actor Alan Ladd - Original Vintage Photograph - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The American Actor Alan Ladd.
Fair conditions, with some Damage.
Category
1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Mary Illen, Ft. Worth, TX by John Stryker, Silver Gelatin Print, Photography
By John Stryker
Located in Denton, TX
Mary Illen Ft. Worth, TX by John Stryker is a 10 x 8 inch silver gelatin print. This photograph is signed in ink on print recto and titled in pencil on print verso.
This photograph features a cowgirl riding a light colored horse, resting at a river. The horse reaches down to the water for a drink, while the woman looks down lovingly at the horse.
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...
Category
Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Jazz Scooter'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Jazz Scooter
1949 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Lucille Brown takes control of the Vespa...
Category
Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Style 'New York Debutante'
By Slim Aarons
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...
Category
Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Style 'Last-minute Adjustments'
By Slim Aarons
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...
Category
Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Style 'September Affair'
By Slim Aarons
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...
Category
Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Cricketers on the Pitch'
By Slim Aarons
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...
Category
Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Weegee "Sailor and Girl Kissing"
By Weegee
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...
Category
American Modern 1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Devils Silde, San Mateo California
By Minor White
Located in Carmel, CA
Framed in Rounded Wood. High Quality Muesum Glass.
Photograph in major museums and galleries around the world.
Own part of history!
Category
1940s Black and White 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 Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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