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Period: 1950s
Pulitzer On The Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Patsy Pulitzer (nee Patsy Bartlett) at Palm Beach, Florida.
Slim Aarons
Pulitzer On The Beach
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Numbered and stamped by the Slim...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
NY Lights
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A set of traffic lights on Park Avenue in New York City.
Slim Aarons
NY Lights
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate....
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
New England Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A skier carrying his boots in New Hampshire, 1955.
New England Skiing
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Numbered and stamped b...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Eton Vs Harrow
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A view of spectators on the pitch at a cricket match between the public schools of Eton and Harrow at Lord's Cricket Ground, London, 1955.
Slim Aarons
Eton Vs Harrow
Black and Whit...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Eton Vs Harrow
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A view of spectators on the pitch at a cricket match between the public schools of Eton and Harrow at Lord's Cricket Ground, London, 1955.
Slim Aarons
Eton Vs Harrow
Black and Whit...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Luxury Dining
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Diners in a grand ballroom during a fashion show, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons
Luxury Dining
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aaron...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Luxury Dining
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Diners in a grand ballroom during a fashion show, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons
Luxury Dining
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aaron...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Luxury Dining
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Diners in a grand ballroom during a fashion show, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons
Luxury Dining
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aaron...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
French Polo Crowd
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A group of spectators at a polo match, France, circa 1950.
Slim Aarons
French Polo Crowd
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aaro...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
The Carlton Hotel
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Cadillac with Florida plates parked outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, circa 1955.
The Carlton Hotel
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons E...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
New England Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked 'Ski Instructors Only' in New Hampshire, 1955.
New England Skiing
Black and White Photography
Slim Aa...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
New England Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked 'Ski Instructors Only' in New Hampshire, 1955.
New England Skiing
Black and White Photography
Slim Aa...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Audrey Hepburn, Rockefeller Tower, New York
By George Douglas
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is all about the work of George Douglas, a brilliant photographer of the mid 20th Century. In the 1940s, 50s and 60s he worked for leading magazines of the day, both in Britain...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ernest Hemingway, Cuba
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Ken Heyman Limited Edition of ? Born in New York City in 1930, Ken Heyman first became interested in photography in high school. Later, during his student days at Columbia College-which were interrupted by a two-year stint in the army-his skill as a photographer grew, but still regarded photography as no more than a hobby. Then two events in college helped to direct him toward his career in photography. First, he sent off selections of his work to two national photography annuals and was pleased, indeed surprised, when both indicated they were eager to print his pictures-and did.
But perhaps more important was his becoming a student of the distinguished anthropologist Margaret Mead...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Illusion by Ida Lansky, ca. 1950's, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print, Photography
By Ida Lansky
Located in Denton, TX
Illusion by Ida Lansky depicts a glass vase in front of a window with blinds. The background is distorted through the glass, abstracting the image by emphasizing the varying tones and shapes.
Illusion by Ida Lansky is listed as a 9.5 x 7.5 inch vintage gelatin silver print. This photograph is signed and titled in pencil on mount margin by artist.
Ida G. Lansky was born in 1910 in Toronto, Canada. She pursued many careers in her lifetime including Nursing, Art, and Library Science. In 1928 she moved to New York City and later attended New York University, The Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn, NY and Cornell University. In 1942 she received a B.S. in Public Health Nursing.
Ida Lansky moved to Hawaii in 1945 and married Irving Lansky. She then moved to Nor- man, Oklahoma and then to Denton, Texas where she studied art and was mother to two children, Ellen and Michele.
From 1954 - 1959 she was in the Visual Art studies program at Texas Women’s University in Denton with an emphasis on photography. She studied under Carlotta Corpron...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sam Shaw Marilyn Monroe "Cocktail party during the USA - Israel football match"
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Sam Shaw
Marilyn Monroe
Cocktail party during the USA - Israel football match at Ebbets Field New York .
1959
Vintage silver print by Sam Shaw
Mounted o...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Swimming in Sand, Coney Island
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 200
Signed, dated and numbered by Harold Feinstein
Gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 in.
Harold Feinstein was born in Coney Island, New York, in 1931. He began photographing...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$2,550 Sale Price
32% Off
The Pilings
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount. This print comes directly from the personal collection of Edna Bullock, whose stamp and annotations in pencil adorn the reve...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Haywood Magee, Louis Armstrong on Stage Limited Edition Photographic Print 20x30
Located in San Rafael, CA
American jazz trumpeter and bandleader Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong (1900 - 1971), shouts after clarinettist Edmund Hall's solo, on stage during the band's British tour, May 19, 1956. An unidentified bassist stands in the foreground. (Photo by Haywood Magee...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Ken Heyman
Born in New York City in 1930, Ken Heyman first became interested in photography in high school. Later, during his student days at Columbia College-which were interrupted by a two-year stint in the army-his skill as a photographer grew, but still regarded photography as no more than a hobby. Then two events in college helped to direct him toward his career in photography. First, he sent off selections of his work to two national photography annuals and was pleased, indeed surprised, when both indicated they were eager to print his pictures-and did.
But perhaps more important was his becoming a student of the distinguished anthropologist Margaret Mead...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
1248 – René Groebli, Black and White, Nude, Photography, Body, Woman, Erotic
By René Groebli
Located in Zurich, CH
René GROEBLI (*1927, Switzerland)
1248, 1956
Vintage silver gelatin print on Baryta paper
Image 17 x 20.2 cm (6 3/4 x 8 in.)
Unique
Framed
Signed and date...
Category
Post-War 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
531 – René Groebli, Black and White, Nude, Photography, Body, Woman, Erotic, Art
By René Groebli
Located in Zurich, CH
René GROEBLI (*1927, Switzerland)
531, 1952
Vintage silver gelatin print on Baryta paper
Sheet 19.5 x 28.2 cm (7 5/8 x 11 1/8 in.)
Unique
Framed
Signed an...
Category
Post-War 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
1246 – René Groebli, Black and White, Nude, Photography, Body, Woman, Erotic
By René Groebli
Located in Zurich, CH
René GROEBLI (*1927, Switzerland)
1246, 1956
Vintage silver gelatin print on Baryta paper
Sheet 23 x 19.5 cm (9 x 7 5/8 in.)
Unique
Framed
Signed and date...
Category
Post-War 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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
Slim Aarons 'Soho Waiters Race'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Soho Waiters Race
1955
Silver gelatin fiber print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Caption: Waiters carrying half b...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Soho Waiters Race'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Soho Waiters Race
1955
Silver gelatin fiber print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Caption: Waiters carrying half b...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Chet Baker, 1953 - Bob Willoughby (Portrait Photography)
Located in London, GB
Chet Baker, 1953 - Bob Willoughby (Portrait Photography)
Archival pigment print
Printed on 20 x 24 inch paper
From an edition of 25
Also available in al...
Category
Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Soho Waiters Race'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Soho Waiters Race
1955
Silver gelatin print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Waiters carrying half bottles of champagne set off on the annual waiters' race from Soho Square...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Pablo Picasso
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Ken Heyman ...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
1247 – René Groebli, Black and White, Nude, Photography, Body, Woman, Erotic
By René Groebli
Located in Zurich, CH
René GROEBLI (*1927, Switzerland)
1247, 1956
Vintage silver gelatin print on Baryta paper
Sheet 19.7 x 21.2 cm (7 3/4 x 8 3/8 in.)
Unique
Framed
Signed an...
Category
Post-War 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Norman Parkinson 'Wenda and Ostriches 1951'
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Wenda and Ostriches
1951 (printed later)
C print
60 x 40 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso, printed in 2025.
British fashion model Wenda Pa...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Director And Star, Orson Welles on set of Othello
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1952: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985) in Venice during a break from filming 'Othello' which he directed and starred in.
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications ph...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Capucine (Slim Aarons estate edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Capucine
1957
Fiber print
40 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly f...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons Style 'Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell
1960 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Model Gr...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Patsy Pulitzer, Private Transport
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Patsy Pulitzer, Private Transport
1955
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Patsy Pulitzer rummag...
Category
American Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Style 'Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell
1960 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Model Gr...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Patsy Pulitzer (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Patsy Pulitzer rummaging in her bag on the seat of an open car Palm Beach, Florida, 1955.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the e...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Style 'Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell
1960 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Model Gr...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Jamaica Sea Sailing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Jamaica Sea Sailing, 1953
Fiber print
Estate edition of 150
Signature stamped and hand numbered with Certificate of authenticity
1953: Two men sailing their yacht 'Eel II' in Jamaic...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ready To Roll, John Ford in Hawaii (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Ready To Roll, John Ford in Hawaii, 1955
Fiber print
20 x 24 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Capucine'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Capucine, 1957
Fiber print
30 x 20 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainl...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Venetian Play, Orson Welles'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Venetian Play, 1952
Silver gelatin print
Estate edition of 150
Signature stamped and hand numbered with Certificate of authenticity
1952: Orson Welles (1...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Style 'Saks Fifth Ave'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Jean Patchett For Saks Fifth Avenue
1955 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
A young woman mod...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Soho Waiters Race (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Soho Waiters Race, 1955, Printed Later
Waiters carrying half bottles of champagne set off on the annual waiters' race from Soho Square to Greek Street, in London's Soho, 1955
Est...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Photographie Aérienne, 1950
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed in ink on recto; titled and dated in pencil on verso
Gelatin silver print
Image 11" x 9-1/2", Paper 16" x 12", Matted 20" x 16"
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Big Jay McNeely, 1951 - Bob Willoughby (Portrait Photography)
Located in London, GB
Big Jay McNeely, 1951 - 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 ...
Category
Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Contemplation by Ida Lansky, c. 1950's, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
By Ida Lansky
Located in Denton, TX
Contemplation by Ida Lansky depicts a group of three statues. The figures are turned towards each other and away from the viewer, as if talking in secret.
This photograph is listed as a 9.5 x 7.5 inch vintage silver gelatin print. It is signed and titled in pencil on mount margin by the artist.
Ida G. Lansky was born in 1910 in Toronto, Canada. She pursued many careers in her lifetime including Nursing, Art, and Library Science. In 1928 she moved to New York City and later attended New York University, The Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn, NY and Cornell University. In 1942 she received a B.S. in Public Health Nursing.
Ida Lansky moved to Hawaii in 1945 and married Irving Lansky. She then moved to Nor- man, Oklahoma and then to Denton, Texas where she studied art and was mother to two children, Ellen and Michele.
From 1954 - 1959 she was in the Visual Art studies program at Texas Women’s University in Denton with an emphasis on photography. She studied under Carlotta Corpron...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Emille Griffiths
By Ormond Gigli
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ORMOND GIGLI was born in New York City in 1925. He became famous early on during the 1950s for his photographs of theatre, celebrities, dance, exotic persons & places. His work appea...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Young Girl Wearing Fur Coat, NYC
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, dated and numbered.
Harold Feinstein was born in Coney Island, New York, in 1931. He began photographing in 1946 at the age of 15 and joined the Photo League at age 17. By...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Willie
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Ken Heyman ...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$6,000
Steve Reeves
Located in New York, NY
Steve Reeves
c. 1955
Titled, dated, and inscribed “Spartan Studios” in pencil, verso
Vintage gelatin silver print
5 x 4 inches
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Sunny Harnett, Chrysler, New York, Harper's Bazaar
By Tom Palumbo
Located in New York, NY
Stamped on the verso
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Miles Davis
By Tom Palumbo
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer on the verso
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Ford Fairlane Galaxie 500 Skyliner with Retractable Hardtop
By Tom Palumbo
Located in New York, NY
Stamped on the verso
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Fashion for Bazaar
By Tom Palumbo
Located in New York, NY
Stamped on the verso
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Anne St. Marie. Harper's Bazaar
By Tom Palumbo
Located in New York, NY
Stamped on the verso
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Anne St. Marie with flowers behind her, Harper's Bazaar
By Tom Palumbo
Located in New York, NY
Stamped on the veso
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Anne St. Marie with Flower on Lapel (Ping) Harper's Bazaar
By Tom Palumbo
Located in New York, NY
Stamped on the verso
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Paris, France
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Managua, Nicaragua
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
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