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Period: 1950s
DOUGLAS JULEFF Vintage 1950s Photograph of "Beefcake" model Unidentified #2
Located in Glenford, NY
Rare early 1950s Original Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph by DOUGLAS JULEFF - also known as DOUG OF DETROIT - of an unidentified model (Unidentified #2). All of Juleff's records we...
Category
Post-War 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
DOUGLAS JULEFF Vintage 1950s Photograph of "Beefcake" model Harry Smith
Located in Glenford, NY
Rare early 1950s Original Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph by DOUGLAS JULEFF - also known as DOUG OF DETROIT - of model HARRY SMITH. Photograph is 8 x 10 ...
Category
Post-War 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
DOUGLAS JULEFF Vintage 1950s Photograph of "Beefcake" model Maynard Keith #2
Located in Glenford, NY
Rare early 1950s Original Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph by DOUGLAS JULEFF - also known as DOUG OF DETROIT - of model MAYNARD KEITH. This is #2 of a series of 4 images of Maynard ...
Category
Post-War 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Le Petit Parisien, Paris, France, Iconic Contemporary French Photography
By Willy Ronis
Located in New york, NY
A much sought after photograph Le Petit Parisien, 1952 by French photographer Willy Ronis is a black and white image, a gelatin silver print, measuring 30 x 23,5 cm 12 x 9in. The w...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
DOUGLAS JULEFF Vintage 1950s Photograph of "Beefcake" model Unidentified #3
Located in Glenford, NY
Rare early 1950s Original Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph by DOUGLAS JULEFF - also known as DOUG OF DETROIT - of an unidentified model (Unidentified #3). All of Juleff's records we...
Category
Post-War 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
DOUGLAS JULEFF Vintage 1950s Photograph of "Beefcake" model Val Memecek #2
Located in Glenford, NY
Rare early 1950s Original Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph by DOUGLAS JULEFF - also known as DOUG OF DETROIT - of model VAL MEMECEK. Photograph is 8 x 10 inches and is an excellent ...
Category
Post-War 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Elizabeth Taylor and Conrad Hilton on Their Wedding Day
By Frank Worth
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
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
DOUGLAS JULEFF Vintage 1950s Photograph of "Beefcake" model GEO WEIDER Framed
Located in Glenford, NY
Rare 1950s Original Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph by DOUGLAS JULEFF - also known as DOUG OF DETROIT - of model GEO WEIDER (as written on verso). Photograph is 8 x 10 inches and i...
Category
Post-War 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Grace Kelly and Cary Grant in Car for “To Catch a Thief”
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white film still of Grace Kelly and Cary Grant posed in car for the film “To Catch a Thief”, circa 1955.
To Catch a Thief is a 1955 American romantic thriller film directe...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Marilyn Monroe Pinup - 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
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
DOUGLAS JULEFF Vintage 1950s Beefcake Photograph of VIC SEIPKE & JIM PARK
Located in Glenford, NY
COLD WINTER SUPER SPECIAL...$960... Framed.
Rare 1950s Iconic Original Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph by DOUGLAS JULEFF - also known as DOUG OF DETROIT - of popular physique model...
Category
Post-War 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Marilyn Candid Moment" by Ed Feingersh
By Ed Feingersh
Located in London, GB
"Marilyn Candid Moment" by Ed Feingersh
NEW YORK - MARCH 1955: Actress Marilyn Monroe reads the book "To the Actor: On the Technique of Acting" by Michael Chekhov in a quiet moment at the Ambassador...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
DOUGLAS JULEFF Vintage 1950s Photograph of "Beefcake" model Dick Lee
Located in Glenford, NY
Rare early 1950s Original Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph by DOUGLAS JULEFF - also known as DOUG OF DETROIT - of model DICK LEE. Photograph is 8 x 10 inches and is an excellent exa...
Category
Post-War 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
DOUGLAS JULEFF Vintage 1950s Photograph of "Beefcake" model JEAN O'STRAND Framed
Located in Glenford, NY
COLD WINTER SPECIAL...$825...Framed.
Rare early 1950s Original Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph by DOUGLAS JULEFF - also known as DOUG OF DETROIT - of model JEAN O'STRAND. Photograp...
Category
Post-War 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marilyn Monroe Pinup Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
This black and white full body vintage original photograph features Marilyn Monroe posed in a bathing suit and heels.
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One-of-a-kind original vintage press print from the Celebri...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
DOUGLAS JULEFF Vintage 1950s Photograph of "Beefcake" model AL WALCH #2 Framed
Located in Glenford, NY
Cold Winter Special....$825...Framed.
Rare early 1950s Original Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph by DOUGLAS JULEFF - also known as DOUG OF DETROIT - of model AL WALCH. Photograph is...
Category
Post-War 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Inga Lindgren And Poodles, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Swedish model Inga Lindgren, wife of Argentinian finance minister Ceferino Alonso Irigoyen,...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Audrey Hepburn on the Set of "Sabrina"
Located in Austin, TX
This candid black and white capture features Audrey Hepburn, star of "Sabrina", candid on the set, posed against a large studio light.
Film and fashion icon Audrey Hepburn was a Bri...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
DOUGLAS JULEFF Vintage 1950s Photograph of Olympic Gold Medalist STAN STANCZYK
Located in Glenford, NY
Rare early 1950s Original Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph by DOUGLAS JULEFF - also known as DOUG OF DETROIT - of model, one of the finest, STAN STANCZYK. Stanczyk was a Gold Medali...
Category
Post-War 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
North By North West (1959) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
North By North West (1959) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(Photo by Pictorial Press / Alamy Archives)
1959,
Cary Grant in the film North...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Williamsburg, New York City, USA, Jewish Diaspora Street Photography 1950s
Located in New york, NY
Capturing the Jewish diaspora and the Hasidic community in Brooklyn, New York in the 1950s, this is subject matter which American photographer Leonard Freed from Brooklyn widely cov...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigme...
Holiday Hair Check, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s urban portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Faith Gibbons checks her hair in the mirror of a motor scooter, Bermuda. She is wear...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
New York Debutante, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a New York debutante having her headpiece pinned.
This is an estate stamped and hand numbe...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Lambda
DOUGLAS JULEFF Vintage 1950s Photograph "Beefcake" model LARRY KLEIN #2 Framed
Located in Glenford, NY
Rare 1950s Original Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph by DOUGLAS JULEFF - also known as DOUG OF DETROIT - of popular young physique model LARRY KLEIN. Klein is seen here in a double ...
Category
Post-War 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jayne Mansfield with Seagrams Dogs (Limited Edition of 10, No 3-5) - 40"x50"
By Barry Kramer
Located in New York, NY
Shot by Barry Kramer (1921- 1984), one of the most prolific photographers of his time, captures the essence of 1950's Hollywood movie star, Jane Mansfield...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Titter, Scantily Clad Woman Viewing Titter Magazine, 1950 Vintage Photograph
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
“Art Shay’s photography shakes you up, sets you down gently, pats you on the head and then kicks you in the ass.” Roger Ebert “[Shay’s work] ranks with some of the greats of the 20...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Naples, Italy, Cats, Black and White Street Photography 1950s
Located in New york, NY
American Photographer Leonard Freed travelled extensively and enjoyed Italy - a country he returned to often and photographed throughout his long photographic career. Cats, Naples, I...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Film, Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin
Che Guevara and Fidel Castro
Located in Cologne, DE
Osvaldo Salas, widely recognized as one of the world’s great press photographers, was born in Havana, Cuba in 1914. At the age of fourteen, he left Havan...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Kings of Hollywood'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
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 cocktail party ...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
DOUGLAS JULEFF Vintage 1950s Photograph "Beefcake" model LARRY KLEIN #1 Framed
Located in Glenford, NY
Rare 1950s Original Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph by DOUGLAS JULEFF - also known as DOUG OF DETROIT - of popular young physique model LARRY KLEIN. Klein is seen here in a double ...
Category
Post-War 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Norman Parkinson 'Fiona Campbell-Walter for Vogue, July 1951'
Located in New York, NY
Fiona Campbell-Walter (later Baroness Thyssen) on an English beach wearing an Estrava coat with a raffia hat from Eaton. British Vogue, July 1951
Fiona Campbell-Walter for Vogue, Ju...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
New York City, Two American Artists Helen Frankenthaler and David Smith
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
Painter Helen Frankenthaler and sculptor David Smith in Frankenthaler's studio in New York City, 1957 is a gelatin silver print, 20” x 16”, signed and stamped by the Glinn estate. Th...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Er Fusto, Roma Ciampino Airport (1953) Large size Black & White Fine Art Print
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork # 1 on 5 sold in limited edition in perfect condition
This photo was made in 1953, the negative was digitized during the artist's lifetime and the technical parameters (frami...
Category
Photorealist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Che Guevara
Located in Cologne, DE
Osvaldo Salas, widely recognized as one of the world’s great press photographers, was born in Havana, Cuba in 1914. At the age of fourteen, he left Havan...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Tradizioni scomparse, Hong Kong 1958 - Full Framed Black & White Fine Art Print
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork # 1 on 5 sold in limited edition in perfect condition
Tradizioni scomparse, Hong Kong
This photo was made in 1958, the negative was digitized during the artist's lifetime an...
Category
Photorealist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Audrey's Funny Face" by Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Audrey's Funny Face" by Bert Hardy
Actress Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) on the set of the Paramount musical 'Funny Face'. Costumes by Givenchy. Original Publication: Picture Post - 8...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Helen Frankenthaler, Painter New York City, Photograph of Woman Artist in 1950s
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
A documentary portrait of Helen Frankenthaler (1925-2011) in her studio in New York in the 1950s. Frankenthaler has remained a major American woman artist and female force of nature ...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Iconics by Fabrizio La Torre - Set # 1 - New York - 1956 - Vintage Photographs
Located in Brussels, BE
Artworks sold in perfect condition : Set # 1 composed of 5 Gallery Print 30x40 cm
This is an exceptional offer that we are presenting today. For almost four years, here on 1stdibs, a...
Category
Photorealist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Kings Of Hollywood Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Kings Of Hollywood 1957
Clark Gable (1901 – 1960), Van Heflin (1910 – 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 – 1961) and James Stewart (1908 – 1997) enjoying a joke at a New Year’s party held at...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Five Debutantes (1951) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Five Debutantes (1951) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Five members of the Debutante Cotillion rehearse for the Christmas Ball at the Waldorf Astoria Hot...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Frank Sinatra in his Ford Thunderbird
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
In this photograph, Frank Sinatra is captured glancing over his shoulder at his friend, photographer Frank Worth, while sitting in his classic Ford Thunderbird.
Frank Sinatra was a...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Hand Signed Limited Edition Print - Capucine 1957
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
1957: French actress Capucine, (Germaine Lefebvre) (1933 - 1990) fanning herself at a New Year's Eve party held at Romanoffs in Beverly Hills.
DESCRIPTION
Slim Aarons - Signed Life...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Audrey Hepburn in Gown with Dogs
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white glamour portrait of actress Audrey Hepburn posed smiling in a gown, walking poodles on leashes.
Audrey Hepburn was a British actress. Hepburn had a successful career...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Jazz Legends: Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
Located in Austin, TX
This awesome capture features jazz legends Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong posed smiling for the camera, circa 1956.
Louis Armstrong was an American trumpeter, composer, vocalis...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sammy Davis Junior, New York City, Portrait of African American Celebrity
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
Image of Sammy Davis Junior, 1959 by American photographer Burt Glinn was shot on Madison Avenue in New York after Sammy Davis Jr.'s last performance at the Copacabana nightclub in T...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Digital
Paris, Notre Dame Cathedral, Black and White Original Photography Postcard
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin black and white photography postcard by Albert Monier, Paris. Notre Dame Cathedral, circa 1950.
Features:
This original silver gelatin print photography po...
Category
Art Deco 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Postcard, Silver Gelatin
Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood's Glamour Icon
Located in London, GB
Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood's Glamour Icon
by Frank Worth / Globe Photos
paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm
edition of 24 only in this size
Archival pigment print
unframed
(fr...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Audrey Hepburn on Striped Sofa, Elbow Behind Head, 1954
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn, r23_7 -- Shot for the April 19, 1954 international issue of Life. Initially Audrey Hepburn did all she could to avoid Mark Shaw's cameras. When she realized they shar...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
"New Look" by Kurt Hutton
By Kurt Hutton
Located in London, GB
"New Look" by Kurt Hutton
A model wearing a black cocktail dress and a black velvet wide-brimmed hat, designed by Ronald Paterson. Original Publicatio...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Marilyn Monroe – CHANEL #5 - 8 x 10 Original Negative, 30x40 1/1 Print and NFT
Located in Austin, TX
Marilyn Monroe – CHANEL #5From the famous Movie Star News Collection this is a vintage, large format (10” by 8”) camera negative of Marilyn Monro...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Backgammon By The Pool, Palm Beach, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary-Beth Turner playing backgammon by a ...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
On Broadway, New York City (1955) - Large size Black & White Fine Art Print
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork # 1 on 5 sold in limited edition in perfect condition
This photo was made in 1955, the negative was digitized during the artist's lifetime and the technical parameters (framing, contrast, light, etc.) was approved by him. This is a very high quality fine art prints on 310 gr/m² Fine Art paper with museum quality pigment inks.
“ On Broadway, near Trinity Church”, New York December 1955. A rainy Sunday morning, a solitary pedestrian seems to be falling over on the slippery surface. As is always the case with Fabrizio La Torre’s photographs, quite apart from the artistic merit, this picture invites us to speculate what is the story behind it: why this deserted avenue at 11:10 on that particular morning, what was the man in the rain doing, why is that car defiantly parked right underneath a no parking sign...
Category
Photorealist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Iconics by Fabrizio La Torre - Set # 1 - New York - 1956 - Vintage Photographs
Located in Brussels, BE
Artworks sold in perfect condition : Set # 1 composed of 5 Gallery Print 30x40 cm
This is an exceptional offer that we are presenting today. For almost four years, here on 1stdibs, a...
Category
Photorealist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Holiday Hair Check, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s urban portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Faith Gibbons checks her hair in the mirror of a motor scooter, Bermuda. She is wear...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Paris, Black and White Street Photography in France 1950s
Located in New york, NY
Paris, 1981 by Louis Stettner is a 20 x 16in gelatin silver print on fiber paper. In an edition of 6, the photograph Ed 3/5 is dated, titled, and signed verso (photo back) by the art...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Kennedys, Hyannis Port, Jackie, Magazine Cover, 1959
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Kennedy, nb_100 -- Published on the cover of the Ladies Home Journal in 1961, this photo was actually taken in Hyannis Port in 1959 before JFK became president. THE 24” x 36” SIZE OF...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Untitled Portrait
By Seydou Keïta
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes framing with UV Plexi ($900 value), free shipping, and a 14-day return policy.
Seydou Keïta
Untitled Portrait, 1952 - 1955 (02158)
23...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Elvis Presley Graceland
Located in Austin, TX
Retro 1957 photograph depicting music's new sensation Elvis Presley posing for a photo outside of his new Memphis, Tennessee home, Graceland. This early portrayal was captured on Apr...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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