1950s Black and White Photography
Period: 1950s
Color: Black
Audrey Hepburn strolls in front of her Beverly Hills apartment, Closer View
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Steps Up, c21_19, 1953 -- "On a day off Audrey Hepburn strolls in front of her Beverly Hills apartment." One of Mark Shaw's most loved images of Audrey in her trademark boy's ...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Audrey Hepburn Dances, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn Dances, c24_16 -- Audrey Hepburn during the filming of Sabrina. Image size is 22" x 32" (for 24" x 36" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited e...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Audrey Hepburn Consults with Costumer, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn Consults with Costumer, c26_8 -- Audrey Hepburn enjoyed designing clothes as a hobby. She worked with Designer Edith Head on the costumes for the film Sabrina. Image s...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Audrey Hepburn Consults with Costumer, Head Up, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn Consults with Costumer, c26_24 -- Audrey Hepburn in her dressing room with costumer Edith Head photographed for LIFE in 1953. Image size is 22" x 32" (for 24" x 36" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper. Each print is Estate stamped on the back and signed and numbered by David Shaw, and accompanied by a letter of authenticity. Lead time is four to six weeks, but we often receive them sooner. *Please note this image is available in several sizes. Prices increase as editions sell out.
To the left of the photo is a standing woman in white button down shirt...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Audrey Hepburn Exits Studio Car, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn Exits Studio Car, c3_23 -- Audrey Hepburn was respected on the set of Sabrina for always knowing her lines thoroughly. Image size is 22" x 32" (for 24" x 36" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper. Each print is Estate stamped on the back and signed and numbered by David Shaw, and accompanied by a letter of authenticity. Lead time is four to six weeks, but we often receive them sooner. *Please note this image is available in several sizes. Prices increase as editions sell out.
Audrey Hepburn sits in the center of the photo, wearing a turtleneck coat and black pants. Her right hand is scratching her cheek while her right leg is hanging out of the car, with the passenger door wide open. On her lap is a stack of paper, while she turns her head to the rear of the car. Next to her, directly outside the car, stands another woman in a light trench coat...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Audrey Hepburn Bicycle, Riding, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn, c20_24 -- Audrey Hepburn on the set of Sabrina. Out take from the photo essay shot for the December 7, 1953 issue of LIFE. Image size is 22" x 32" (for 24" x 36" pape...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Audrey Hepburn strolls in front of her Beverly Hills apartment, Closer View
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Steps Up, c21_19, 1953 -- "On a day off Audrey Hepburn strolls in front of her Beverly Hills apartment." One of Mark Shaw's most loved images of Audrey in her trademark boy's ...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Vanity Fair Nude Side, Circa 1955
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Vanity Fair Nude Side -- This Mark Shaw image was part of an award winning Vanity Fair lingerie advertising campaign. THE 24” x 36” SIZE OF THIS IMAGE IS ONLY OFFERED IN AN EDITION O...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Slim Aarons Soho Waiters Race (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Soho Waiters Race, 1955
Waiters carrying half bottles of champagne set off on the annual waiters' race from Soho Square to Greek Street, in London's Soho, 1955
Estate stamped and...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Kennedy, Jackie Walking in the Woods, 1959
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
JBK Walking in the Woods nb_026 -- Jackie walks in the woods, 1959. Image size is 22" x 32" (for 24" x 36" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited editions on ...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Eifeltower, Paris, 1955
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1955.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photograph...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marlon Brando Kissing Dog, Libertyville, IL 1950 - Large Format Black & White
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
This is a large scale black and white photo of Marlon Brando as a young man at his family farm with his dog. In 1951 Life Magazine asked Art Shay to photograph Marlon Brando at his family home in Libertyville, IL. This is one of the photos from that shoot. In 2000, Art Shay published Album for an Age: Unconventional Words and Pictures from the Twentieth Century. This artwork is matted and framed.
Art Shay
Marlon Brando Kissing Dog...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons, Professional Gossip (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American actress and gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (1890 – 1966) chatting with James Stewart (1908 – 1997) during a New Year’s Eve cocktail party held at the Romanoff Restaurant in H...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Rhodos, Greece, Children dancing
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 1950.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photogr...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vanity Fair Pleated Grecian Back, Circa 1955
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Vanity Fair Pleated Grecian Back -- Vanity Fair lingerie photographed by Mark Shaw for an award winning campaign over the course of ten years. THE 24” x 36” SIZE OF THIS IMAGE IS ONL...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
V&A - Harry Hammond - Jerry Lewis - Limited Edition
By Harry Hammond
Located in London, GB
V&A - Harry Hammond - Jerry Lewis - Limited Edition
Jerry Lewis (1926-2017), Harry Hammond (1920-2009), England, 1958
© Victoria and Albert Museum, Londo...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
'Marilyn Relaxes In A Hotel Room' (Limited Edition)
Located in London, GB
'Marilyn Relaxes In A Hotel Room' by Ed Feingersh
Actress Marilyn Monroe reads the newspaper ‘Motion Picture Daily’ as she relaxes on a couch in her hotel room at the Ambassador Hot...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Audrey Hepburn Stands in Ballgown, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn Stands in Ballgown, c27_19 -- Audrey Hepburn during the filming of Sabrina. Image size is 10" x 15" (for 11" x 17" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order ...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Eifeltower, Paris, 1955
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1955.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photograph...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Eileen Ford Poses with Models, 1954
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Eileen Ford Poses with Models -- Eileen Ford with some of her top models as photographed by Mark Shaw. Image size is 40" x 50" (for 44" x 54" paper size). ...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Audrey Hepburn and William Holden on the set of Sabrina, Smiling, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn, c2_1 -- Audrey Hepburn and William Holden on the set of Sabrina. Image size is 13.75" x 20" (for 17" x 22" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limi...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Audrey Hepburn and William Holden on the set of Sabrina, Smiling, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn, c2_1 -- Audrey Hepburn and William Holden on the set of Sabrina. Image size is 10" x 15" (for 11" x 17" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Audrey Hepburn Stands in Ballgown, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn Stands in Ballgown, c27_19 -- Audrey Hepburn during the filming of Sabrina. Image size is 13.75" x 20" (for 17" x 22" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to ord...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Slim Aarons, Beauty Queen (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Beauty Queen, 1950
Silver Gelatin Print
Cosmetics queen Helena Rubinstein (1870 – 1965), third from right, at her Park Avenue, New York apart...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Audrey Hepburn and William Holden on the set of Sabrina, Smiling, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn, c2_1 -- Audrey Hepburn and William Holden on the set of Sabrina. Image size is 22" x 32" (for 24" x 36" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Audrey Hepburn Stands in Ballgown, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn Stands in Ballgown, c27_19 -- Audrey Hepburn during the filming of Sabrina. Image size is 22" x 32" (for 24" x 36" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order ...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Audrey Hepburn, 1953 - Bob Willoughby (Portrait Photography)
Located in London, GB
Audrey Hepburn, 1953 - Bob Willoughby (Portrait Photography)
Archival pigment print
Printed on 20 x 24 inch paper
From an edition of 25
Also available in alternative sizes
Bob W...
Category
Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Frank Sinatra, 1959 - Bob Willoughby (Portrait Photography)
Located in London, GB
Frank Sinatra, 1959 - Bob Willoughby (Portrait Photography)
Archival pigment print
Printed on 20 x 24 inch paper
From an edition of 25
Also available in alternative sizes
Bob Wi...
Category
Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Venice - Ponte dei Sospiri 1954
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1954.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photograph...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jack Kerouac, New York City, 1953 - Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography)
Located in London, GB
Jack Kerouac, New York City, 1953 - Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography)
Signed, inscribed with title and dated on accompanying artist’s label
Silver gelatin print, printed l...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Kings of Hollywood' (New Year's 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
Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Lambda
Luigi Musso - Maserati (full car), Pau
Located in Dallas, TX
Open Edition
Signed by artist in black ink on print margin by Jesse Alexander
Gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 in.
Jesse Alexander is considered one of the greatest race car photogra...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Louis Armstrong On Stage - Giant Oversize Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
Louis Armstrong On Stage - 1956
by Haywood Magee
huge Giant Oversize Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Print
Exquisite 60x40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size -
silver gelatin pri...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Che Guevara with his daughter
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
Rome - Butchers shop 1954
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1954.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photograph...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Seattle Tubing Society, Black and White Documentary Photography, Summer
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
Seattle Tubing Society, 1953 by Burt Glinn is one of the photographer's iconic 1950s shots - this one of people relaxing in inner tubes on a pond. The zeitgeist of madcap and fun, th...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin
Vic, Spain, Marketplace
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatin Print by Erich Andres, 1955.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photographe...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Avenue Simon Bolivar - Willy Ronis, 20th Century, French Humanist Photography
By Willy Ronis
Located in Paris, FR
One of the 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 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Audrey Hepburn on Set of Sabrina, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn, c9_10 -- Shot for Life in 1953, Audrey Hepburn is seen on the set of Sabrina with director Billy Wilder. Image size is 13.75" x 20" (for 17" x 22" paper size). All Ma...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Ruhr area, Mülheim, Germany 1947
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1947.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photograph...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cafe Culture
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
A waiter serving clients on the terrace of a cafe on the Champs-Elysees, Paris, June 1951. Original publication: Picture Post – 5343 – Sunday Morning In The Champs-Elysees – pub. 23r...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Eifeltower, Paris, 1955
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1955.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photograph...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Eifeltower, Paris, 1955
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1955.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photograph...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Eifeltower, Paris, 1955
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1955.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photograph...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Change and wash house, Essen, Germany 1952
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1947.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photograph...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
A walk in the park - Germany 1950ies - signed
Located in Cologne, DE
Couple walking in the park
Photographer: Rolf Gillhausen (May 31, 1922 in Cologne, died February 22, 2004 in Hamburg) was a German reportage photographer and journalist. He started...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Kennedy, John F. Portrait, Left Shoulder Front, Smiling, 1959
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
John F. Kennedy Portrait, 006d. Image size is 10" x 10" (for 11" x 17" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper. Each pri...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Coco Chanel Visits with Jeanne Moreau, 1957
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Chanel Visits with Jeanne Moreau, 1957 -- Chanel visits with the famous French film actress, Jeanne Moreau. Mark Shaw's informal, grainy, black and white images of Coco Chanel were c...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Encore Du Vin
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
A waiter serving clients outside a cafe in Le Mans, France, July 1955. Original publication: Picture Post – 7852 – Motor-Racing Must Go On ! – pub. 12th July...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vanity Fair Butterfly Robe Back, Circa 1955
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Vanity Fair Butterfly Robe Back -- Vanity Fair lingerie photographed by Mark Shaw for an award winning campaign over the course of ten years. THE 24” x 36” SIZE OF THIS IMAGE IS ONLY...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Dior, H-Line, Touching Fur Hat, 1954
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Dior H-Line, "1955," Touching Fur Hat, 1954 Image size is 13.75" x 20" (for 17" x 22" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuhle photo rag ...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Kennedys, Georgetown 1959
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Kennedys in Georgetown 1959 nb_014_015. Image size is 13.75" x 20" (for 17" x 22" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuhle photo rag pape...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Deena's back - Willy Ronis, 20th Century, French Humanist Photography
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 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
'Doris Day Applies Lipstick' (Silver Gelatin Print)
Located in London, GB
'Doris Day Applies Lipstick' 1959
Doris Day In 'Pillow Talk,' 1959.
The iconic singer and actress starred in the 1959 romantic comedy film directed by Mic...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition - New York Lights
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print (edition size 1/150).
A set of traffic lights on Park Avenue in New York City.
This photograph epitomises the travel style and glamour of the p...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Drinking Man
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
A man having a drink at a cafe in Gibraltar. 1954.
(Photo Bert Hardy)
A beautiful Limited Edition (ed size 300) silver gelatin fibre darkroom print made utilising the original ne...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Audrey Hepburn on Striped Sofa, Applies Lipstick, 1954
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn, r16_4 -- Audrey Hepburn looked incredible no matter what she was doing. This image is an out take from the photo shoot for the cover of the April 19, 1954 internation...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
'Ava Gardner Portrait' Oversize Limited Edition silver gelatin print
Located in London, GB
'Ava Gardner Portrait' Limited Edition silver gelatin print
ca 1950
Portrait of the actress Ava Gardner circa 1950. (photo by Pictorial Press / Alamy Archives)
(photo by Pictorial...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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