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Period: 1950s
Peter and Lilly Pulitzer, Palm Beach, Florida
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Staley-Wise Gallery offers photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images Archive in London. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Get...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, 1962
Located in London, GB
Archival pigment print
Printed on 20 x 24 inch paper
From an edition of 15
Also available in alternative sizes
Bob Willoughby is best-loved for his photojournalistic motion pictu...
Category
Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Price Upon Request
Jacqueline In Dior Suit at Eiffel Tower, Paris
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Marlon Brando during the filming of "The Wild One"
By Phil Stern
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Audrey Hepburn, Times Square
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition of 25
Larry, as he was known throughout the industry, was an award-winning photojournalist, who covered the political, social, and artistic events of his time for top publications such as Look, Life, The New York Times, Newsweek, The Saturday Evening Post, Vogue, Collier’s, and Parade Magazine. Fried became interested in photography while serving as a platoon sergeant with the First Infantry Division during World War II. He made a pinhole camera with a matchbox, and would shoot through the tank turret. Fried photographed the battle action and was surprised to learn they were sold to a wire service. His first published pictures were in Stars and Stripes. Influenced by wartime imagery, he returned to the States and went to the University of Miami on the GI Bill while working as a theatrical director and photographer.
He returned to his native New York City where he immersed himself in the theatrical world, shooting for PIX, Inc, the legendary photo-rep agency with friends such as George Karger...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Guatemala Recollection Cathedral, Antigua
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
A.J. Ynocencio
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print
George Platt Lynes studio stamp in black ink, verso
Also titled in pencil, verso
Formerly in the collection of Monroe Wheeler. This is one of Lynes' last works, which he printed from a paper negative.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
George Platt Lynes (1907-1955) was a renowned American fashion and commercial photographer who enjoyed the prime of his career during the 1930s and 1940s. Although he was very sought after by major fashion publications for his beautiful images and stunning compositions, his real passion was the male nude, which he photographed extensively in the privacy of his studio. His connections with New York City’s cultural influencers granted him access to beautiful models, dancers, and actors whom he photographed without leaving behind his friends, lovers, and even studio assistants. Due to the revolutionary and sexually charged aspects of his work, many of his photographs remained unknown and unpublished for years, some of them coming to the light only after they were left to Dr. Alfred Kinsey’s Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction after the artist’s death in 1955. Platt Lynes is recognized today as a master of 20th-century photography, and remains as one of the most important influencers of male portraiture...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Glenn Bishop IV
Located in New York, NY
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Smoke and Veil, Paris (Vogue)
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Male Nude II, N.Y.
Located in New York, NY
Selenium-toned gelatin silver print (Edition of 25)
Signed in pencil, recto
Also signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil, verso
20 x 16 inches, sheet size
14 x 14 inches, ima...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Stöffie, Magda, and Evi with Popcorn, Berlin, Germany
By Will McBride
Located in New York, NY
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Will McBride was born in 1931 in St. Louis, Missouri, and grew up in Chicago, Illinois. He...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Glenn Bishop
Located in New York, NY
This vintage gelatin silver print is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Paris - Robert Frank (Black and White Photography)
By Robert Frank
Located in London, GB
Paris - Robert Frank (Black and White Photography)
Signed and dated
Silver gelatin print, printed 1970s
14 x 11 inches
Frank’s photographs focused on elements of everyday life that ...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Tomb by Louis Sullivan
Located in New York, NY
Vintage gelatin silver print
Signed in pencil, verso
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Mel Fillini #2
Located in New York, NY
Vintage gelatin silver print
George Platt Lynes studio stamp in black ink, verso
Literature:
Crump, James. George Platt Lynes: Photographs from the Kinsey Institute. 1st ed., New York City, Bullfinch Press, 1993, pp. 65-67 [three other examples]
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
George Platt Lynes (1907-1955) was a renowned American fashion and commercial photographer who enjoyed the prime of his career during the 1930s and 1940s. Although he was very sought after by major fashion publications for his beautiful images and stunning compositions, his real passion was the male...
Category
Post-Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Mel Fillini #1
Located in New York, NY
Vintage gelatin silver print
George Platt Lynes studio stamp in black ink, verso
Literature:
Crump, James. George Platt Lynes: Photographs from the Kinsey Institute. 1st ed., New York City, Bullfinch Press, 1993, pp. 65-67 [three other examples]
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
George Platt Lynes (1907-1955) was a renowned American fashion and commercial photographer who enjoyed the prime of his career during the 1930s and 1940s. Although he was very sought after by major fashion publications for his beautiful images and stunning compositions, his real passion was the male...
Category
Post-Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Marlon Brando, on set of “Julius Caesar"
By Ruth Orkin
Located in New York, NY
Full Title:
Marlon Brando, photographed through dressing room mirrors on set of “Julius Caesar” at MGM Studios, Culver City, California
Gelatin silver print
Signed, titled, and date...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
La Trepidante Wanda
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer.
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Coup de Vent Rue Royale
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer.
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Twins at the Beach, Harper’s Bazaar
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer.
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Guatemala Recollection Cathedral, Antigua
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer.
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Wall Street
Located in New York, NY
From creator of poetic images to compelling storyteller, Jerry Schatzberg has, over the past three decades, excelled in both the realms of photography and filmmaking. Published in Vo...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Young and Carefree
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Young and Carefree, 1958: Christina and Alexander Onassis enjoying the sunshine at the Monte Carlo Beach Club
Staley-Wise Gallery offers photographi...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
C.Z. At Palm Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
C.Z. At Palm Beach, circa 1955: C.Z. Guest with Consuelo Vanderbilt at a party in Palm Beach
Staley-Wise Gallery offers photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and h...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Park Avenue
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Park Avenue, 1953: A view of neatly arranged office and apartment blocks along Park Avenue in New York City
Staley-Wise Gallery offers photographic prints...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Dior Ballgown, Paris
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer.
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Suzy Parker in Balenciaga along the Seine, Paris
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer.
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Wall Street, NYC
Located in Westwood, NJ
Leonard Freed is considered one of the most prolific and timely photojournalists of his generation. Born in Brooklyn, he traveled to Europe for the first time in 1952, where he disc...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Price Upon Request
Elizabeth Taylor, Mike Todd, and their daughter Liza, LIFE Magazine
Located in New York, NY
This photograph is stamped by the photographer's estate.
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Simone Crossing the Street
Located in New York, NY
This photograph is an Edition of 50. Please see additional editions listed below. All editions are signed by the photographer. Larger sizes may be available upon request.
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
The wedding of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier, Newport, Rhode Island
Located in New York, NY
This photograph is stamped by the photographer's estate.
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Natalie, Hammamet
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer.
Louise Dahl-Wolfe was born in California. After her first photograph published appeared in Vanity Fair in 1933, she moved to New York and opened her photography studio. Her early documentary portraits of rural America gave way to an established career as a staff fashion photographer for Harper’s Bazaar. Dahl-Wolfe was at the forefront of early color fashion photography...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Coco Chanel Leaning on Chair in her Apartment, Paris
Located in New York, NY
Louise Dahl-Wolfe was born in California. After her first photograph published appeared in Vanity Fair in 1933, she moved to New York and opened her photography studio. Her early documentary portraits of rural America gave way to an established career as a staff fashion photographer for Harper’s Bazaar. Dahl-Wolfe was at the forefront of early color fashion photography...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Colette in her apartment in the Palais Royale, Paris, Harper's Bazaar
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer.
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Black - With One White Glove: Barbara Mullen, Dress by Christian Dior, New York
Located in New York, NY
This photograph is an edition of 25 and is signed by the photographer.
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Audrey Hepburn
By Cecil Beaton
Located in New York, NY
Print is stamped by the photographer's estate.
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Marlon Brando with bongo drums at his Beverly Hills home
By Sid Avery
Located in New York, NY
This photograph is in an edition of 70 and is signed by the photographer.
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
New Look Corset: Christian Dior, Harper's Bazaar, 1950
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin Silver Print
16x20 inches
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dali's Mustache
Located in New York, NY
Dali's Mustache, 1953
11x14 inches
Edition of 250
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Dali Fishing
Located in New York, NY
Dali Fishing, 1954
11x14 inches
Edition of 250
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Tunic Suit, Sunny Hartnett, Harper's Bazaar, New York
Located in New York, NY
Suit by Charles James. Harper's Bazaar, New York, July 1955. All editions signed the photographer.
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
It's a Cinch, Carmen, New York, Harper's Bazaar
Located in New York, NY
Lingerie by Warner's. Harper's Bazaar, September 1951. All editions signed by the photographer.
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Born to Dance, Margie Cato, Dress by Emily Wilkins, New York
Located in New York, NY
Availability is subject to change without notice. All editions signed by the photographer.
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Woman Behind Cobwebbed Window
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Wynn Bullock (1902 – 1975) was born in Chicago and raised in South Pasadena, California. His early career was as a singer, and following high school he moved to New York where he performed in the chorus of Irving Berlin’s Music Box Revue and later with the show’s Road Company. During the mid-1920s, while performing in Europe, he became fascinated with artworks by Cezanne, Man Ray, and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy. Bullock once wrote, “My first ambition was to become a concert singer….But interpreting others’ creative work did not satisfy my own creative impulses and so I turned to photography.” Bullock bought a simple box camera and launched into amateur picture making.
In 1938 Bullock enrolled at the Los Angeles Art Center School. Three years later, his work was showcased in one of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's early solo photography exhibitions. During the 1940s, he conducted pioneering research to control the effect of solarization (a darkroom process for altering an image) and was awarded patents in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain for a “Photographic Process for Producing Line Image.”
Bullock was deeply inspired by fellow photographer Edward Weston, who he met in 1948, and Weston’s work motivated him to investigate straight photography. Throughout the 1950s, Bullock clarified his unique point of view, establishing a deep, direct connection with nature. A lifelong learner, he also read widely in the areas of physics, general semantics, philosophy, psychology, Eastern religion, and art.
Bullock came into the public spotlight when Museum of Modern Art curator Edward Steichen chose two of his photographs for the 1955 Family of Man exhibition. When the exhibition was shown at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., his photograph Let There Be Light, was voted most popular. The second, Child in Forest, became one of the exhibition’s most memorable images. By the end of that decade, his work was widely exhibited and published worldwide and in 1957, he was honored with a medal from the Salon of International Photography.
During the early 1960s, Bullock departed from the black-and-white imagery for which he was known and produced a major body of work, Color Light Abstractions, which expressed his belief that light is a great force at the heart of all being. Further image-making innovation included alternative approaches including extended time exposures, photograms, and negative printing.
During the 1960s and 1970s Bullock expanded his influence through other roles. In 1968, he became a trustee and chairman of the exhibition committee during formative years at Friends of Photography in Carmel, California. He taught advanced photography courses at Chicago’s Institute of Design during Aaron Siskind’s sabbatical and at San Francisco State College at John Gutmann’s invitation. In the last decades of his life, he lectured widely, participated in many photographic seminars and symposia, and was a guest instructor for the Ansel Adams Yosemite...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Male Nude II (Backside) N.Y.
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Edition of 10
Horst began his photography career in 1931 working for Paris Vogue. Shortly after he succeeded his friend and mentor, George Hoyningen-Huene, as head photographer of V...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Price Upon Request
India
By Marc Riboud
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Riboud was born in 1923 in Lyon. At the Great Exhibition of Paris in 1937, he took his first pictures with the small Vest-Pocket camera his father gave him. During the war, he took p...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
The Peacock, Jaipur, India
By Marc Riboud
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Riboud was born in 1923 in Lyon. At the Great Exhibition of Paris in 1937, he took his first pictures with the small Vest-Pocket camera his father gave him. During the war, he took p...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Dior Kerchief and Glove, Paris
By Irving Penn
Located in New York, NY
This photograph is an Edition of 9 and is signed by the photographer.
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Barbara, Paris
Located in New York, NY
William Klein
Barbara, Paris, 1956
gelatin silver print
30 x 40"
ed. of 30
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Male Nude, Back Study, New York
Located in New York, NY
All editions signed by the photographer.
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Price Upon Request
Kniphofia (Red Hot Poker – Torch Lily), New York,
Located in New York, NY
All editions signed by the photographer.
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Price Upon Request
Triangles: Male Nude, New York
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Price Upon Request
Male Nude I, (Knee, Frontal), New York
Located in New York, NY
All editions signed by the photographer.
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Jacqueline Bouvier and her sister Lee Radziwill, New York
Located in New York, NY
All editions signed by the photographer.
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
United Nations
By Ezra Stoller
Located in New York, NY
Full title: United Nations, International Team of Architects Led by Wallace K. Harrison, New York, NY
Ezra Stoller (American, 1915-2004) is known as ...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Price Upon Request
The Spotted Furs, Furred: Barbara Mullen in a coat by Traina-Norell, New York
Located in New York, NY
Lillian Bassman
The Spotted Furs, Furred: Barbara Mullen in a coat by Traina-Norell, New York. Harper's Bazaar, 1954
Gelatin Silver Print
image, 17 x 22...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
John F. Kennedy with Shirley Rogan Ellis and Betty LoSavio, Montego Bay Airport
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Staley-Wise Gallery offers photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images Archive in London. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Get...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Gloria Swanson awaiting the results of the Academy Award, New York
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
An Anxious Wait, 1951: Gloria Swanson awaits the results of the Best Actress award at a cafe on West 52nd Street, New York.
Staley-Wise Gallery offers photographic prints from the S...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
London, From Trafalgar Square to Whitehall & Parliament 1953
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed, titled & dated in pencil on verso.
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Kings of Hollywood
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Kings of Hollywood, 1957: Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper, and James Stewart at Romanoff’s in Beverly Hills.
Staley-Wise Gallery offers photog...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
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