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Period: 1950s
Audrey Hepburn Supine Reading, Sitting up, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn, r8_10 -- Informal portrait of Audrey Hepburn. This image is an out take from the photo shoot for the December 7, 1953 issue of Life magazine. Image size is 22" x 22" (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.
A black and white photograph of Audrey Hepburn sitting and reading...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Long Bay Beach (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Long Bay Beach
1958 (printed later)
Fiber print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Anne Bindon of Paget East paddli...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Lambda
Kennedy, Jackie and Caroline, Book Cover, 1959
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Jackie and Caroline, Book Cover -- Jackie and Caroline on the beach in Hyannis Port, 1959. This photo was used as the cover of Mark Shaw's famous book, the John F. Kennedys, which wa...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Cool Capucine (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Cool Capucine
1955 (printed later)
Fiber print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
circa 1955: French actress Capuci...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Director And Star, Orson Welles on set of Othello'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Director And Star, Orson Welles on set of Othello
1952
Fiber print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
1952: Orson Welles (191...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Kennedy, Jackie Leads Horse, 1959
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
JBK Leads Horse nb_064_065 -- Shot for LIFE in 1959, Jackie Kennedy leads Sagebrush across a meadow at Merrywood, her mother's Virginia Estate. This image is also part of the Mark Shaw Photographic Archive's fine art gallery collection. 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 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.
A black and white photo of Jackie Kennedy...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
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
Royal Waltz (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Royal Waltz
1955 (printed later)
Fiber print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
circa 19...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Lambda
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Stanley Twardowicz Venice Italy Gondola Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Black & white vintage photo of Venice Italy in 1952 by American Abstract Expressionism artist Stanley Twardowicz (1917-2008).
It depicts a reflection...
Category
American Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Grey Dior Outside Paris Louvre Metro, BW 1957
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Dior, Palais de Glace Dress, 1957. 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 paper. Ea...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Patsy Pulitzer Private Transport (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 'Inga Lindgren And Poodles'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Inga Lindgren And Poodles
1956 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Swedish model Inga Lindgren...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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
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
Capucine (Slim Aarons estate edition)
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 mainly f...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
New England Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, 1955.
Slim Aarons
New England Skiing
Black an...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Saks Fifth Ave
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Tan France Auction Pick
A young woman modelling an outfit for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons
Saks Fifth Ave
Black and Whi...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Watching the horse races with binoculars, Deauville, France
By Robert Capa
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Capa (born Endre Ernő Friedmann October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was a Hungarian–American war photographer and photojournalist. He is considered by some to be the greatest com...
Category
Post-War 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Coco Chanel Lies on Divan, 1957
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Coco Lies on Divan, 1957 -- This photo, published in LIFE in 1957, shows Coco Chanel, aged 74, at her apartment on the Rue Cambon in Paris reclining on her massive divan. In notes ta...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Audrey Hepburn Looks Back, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn Turns, audrey_07 -- Photographed by Mark Shaw in 1953, this image is an outtake from the photo essay on Audrey Hepburn for the December 1953 issue of LIFE. Image size ...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Kowloon by Gleb Derujinsky, Vintage Fashion Photography
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Selected from Derujinsky: The Around The World Portfolio, shot in Kowloon, Hong Kong for Harper's Bazaar
Artist: Gleb Derujinsky
Title: Kowloon
Year: 1957
Estate Edition: signed, stamped and numbered on verso. Signed by Andrea Derujinsky. Archival pigment print on 100% cotton paper, baryta finish. Worldwide authorized edition:
24X24 from a portfolio edition of 20
36X36 from an edition of 5
Gleb was raised in a home dedicated to the arts. His father Gleb Derujinsky Sr. was a renowned sculptor, and his mother, Alexandra Micholoff Derujinsky, a classic pianist. By the age of 6 Gleb’s life long passion for photograph blossomed as he began to shoot, develop and print his own photographs. At 15 he became the youngest member of the famed New York Camera Club where he met and was influenced by the legendary photographers in the club including Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz.
Gleb’s fashion photography...
Category
Naturalistic 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Digging For Clams, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mrs. Leverett Saltonstall Shaw watches her children digging for clams at low tide on Black Beach, Massachusetts Bay.
Slim Aarons
Digging For Clams
Bl...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Audrey Hepburn in Grey Turtleneck Sweater, Glances Right , 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn, c23_14 -- Audrey Hepburn was photographed for LIFE magazine in 1953. The photo essay shows images from a regular day on the set. "…Not because there is anything so re...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Backgammon By The Pool
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary-Beth Turner playing backgammon by a swimming pool in Palm Beach, Florida, 1959.
Slim Aarons
Backgammon By The Pool...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Montmartre District in Paris, Black and White Original Photograph Postcard
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin black and white photography postcard by Albert Monier. Artistic view of Montmartre district in Paris, 1955. In the background is the dome of the Sacré-Coeu...
Category
Art Deco 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Postcard, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Official Estate Edition - Liz Pringle Refreshments in Jamaica
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Fashion model Liz Pringle drinking from a coconut at the Round Hill resort, Montego Bay, Jamaica, 1953.
photo by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre based print
Printed...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Royal Waltz'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Royal Waltz
1955
silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
circa 1955: In the forefront the Duke and D...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Windsors (Slim Aarons)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
The Windsors, 1953
Fiber print
The Duke (1894 - 1972) and Duchess of Windsor (1896 - 1986) dancing at the Waldorf Astoria, Park Avenue, New York.
Slim Aarons (1916-200...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Audrey Hepburn Portrait on Set of Sabrina, Street at Night, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey, r34_2 -- Audrey Hepburn in the studio village for Paramount's Sabrina Fair. Photographed for the December 7, 1953 issue of Life. Image size is 22" x 22" (for 24" x 36" paper ...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Audrey Hepburn White Shirt Portrait, 1954
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn White Shirt Portrait, r24_3 -- Informal portrait of Audrey Hepburn. Out take from the cover shoot for the April 19, 1954 international issue of Life. Image size is 22"...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Inga Lindgren And Poodles
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swedish model Inga Lindgren, wife of Argentinian finance minister Ceferino Alonso Irigoyen, wears designs by Vera Stewart with her standard poodles Aja...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
The Unmade Bed
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"The Unmade Bed" is a photograph by Imogen Cunningham. The photograph is signed in pencil, lower right, "Imogen Cunningham, 1957". The framed piece measure...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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 (1915 - 1985) directing Othell...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Official Estate Edition - Saks Fifth Avenue
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
A young woman modelling an outfit for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot, circa 1955.
photo by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre based print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Private Transport
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gladys 'Patsy' Bartlett (1928 - 2011, née Pulitzer, later Pulitzer Preston) rummaging in her bag on the seat of an open car, 1954. The car is parked by a plane belonging to the Everg...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
View from Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral 1950, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph. A view of Paris and the River Seine from the Notre Dame Cathedral, circa 1950.
Features:
Original Silver Gelatin Print Ph...
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
Provence, France, 1955 - Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography)
Located in London, GB
Provence, France, 1955 - Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography)
Signed, inscribed with title and dated on accompanying artist’s label
Silver gelatin print, printed later
Avail...
Category
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
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
Digging For Clams, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mrs. Leverett Saltonstall Shaw watches her children digging for clams at low tide on Black Beach, Massachusetts Bay.
Slim Aarons
Digging For Clams
Bl...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
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
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
Backgammon By The Pool
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary-Beth Turner playing backgammon by a swimming pool in Palm Beach, Florida, 1959.
Slim Aarons
Backgammon By The Pool...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Private Transport Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Private Transport
1954
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Gladys ‘Patsy’ Bartlett (1928 – 2011, née Pulitzer, later Pulitzer Preston) rummaging in her bag on the se...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jamaica Sea Sailing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Two men sailing their yacht 'Eel II' in Jamaica.
Slim Aarons
Spring Break
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Cert...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Digging For Clams, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mrs. Leverett Saltonstall Shaw watches her children digging for clams at low tide on Black Beach, Massachusetts Bay.
Slim Aarons
Digging For Clams
Bl...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Inga Lindgren And Poodles
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swedish model Inga Lindgren, wife of Argentinian finance minister Ceferino Alonso Irigoyen, wears designs by Vera Stewart with her standard poodles Aja...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Nikita Khrushchev & Richard Nixon, Moscow, 1959 - Elliott Erwitt
Located in London, GB
Nikita Khrushchev & Richard Nixon, Moscow, 1959 - Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography)
Signed, inscribed with title and dated on accompanying artist’s label
Silver gelatin p...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sill Life, Wine Bottle & Bread
By Bert Stern
Located in Carmel, CA
Rare early print.
Printed by Bert Stern 1958
Stamped on Verso
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Palm Bay Club, Estate Edition Photograph: 1950s Skiing in New Hampshire
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Two female skiers outside the Carroll Reed Ski Service Shop and Check Room in New Hampshire, 1955.
Slim Aarons
New England Skiing
Black and White Photogr...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
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
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
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
Kentucky 7 by Aaron Siskind, Silver Gelatin Print, Abstract Photography
Located in Dallas, TX
Kentucky 7 by Aaron Siskind is an 11 x 14 inch silver gelatin print. The sheet size of this image is 11 x 14 inches, the image size is 9 5/16 x 12 5/16 inches. This photograph featur...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
NY Apartments
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A block of apartments on Park Lane in New York. The building is stepped so that the design includes balconies for flats on each floor.
Slim Aarons
NY Apartments
Black and White Phot...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Black and White Portrait Photograph of Diego Rivera
By Herb Ritts
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white portrait photography by American fashion photographer Herbert Ritts Jr. The photograph depicts Diego Rivera (Diego María de la Concepción...
Category
Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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