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Period: 1950s
Trafic jam in Bangkok -Thailand 1957 - Full Framed Black & White Fine Art Print
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork # 1 on 5 sold in limited edition in perfect condition
Trafic Jam in Bangkok
This is a Minimalist framing & presentation of the artwork :
The Fine Art print on Baryta paper i...
Category
Photorealist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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
Rural Retreat, Virginia
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed in pencil on verso; Stamped with photographer's copyright on verso
Gelatin Silver Print
Image: 15 1/2 x 19 3/8 inches; Paper: 16x20 inches; Matted 20x24 inches
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Why Do I Love You? Louis Armstrong at 14, 000 feet over Africa, May 1956
Located in New York, NY
A 16 x 20 inch gelatin silver print, with image size of 12 x 17.75 inches. Printed in 2004. "Larry Burrows Collection" and copyright stamps on verso.
Larry Burrows career as a LIFE ...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Douglas Fairbanks Jr with Dog
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white capture of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. posed sitting on a film set petting a dog.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was an American actor, producer, and decorated naval officer of Wor...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Rhonda Fleming Posing With Dog
Located in Austin, TX
This black and white capture features portrait of Rhonda Fleming sitting beside dog on bed at home.Rhonda Fleming was an American film and television actress and singer. She acted in...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Washington J Class 605, Shaffers Crossing, VA
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed on verso in pencil; Artist copyright stamp on verso
Gelatin Silver Print
Image: 19-3/8 x 15-1/2" inches, Paper: 20 x 16 inches
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Elegant Ankle
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
Customers sitting 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. 23rd June ...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Las Vegas Luxury Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Las Vegas Luxury
1954
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Austrian actress Mara Lane enjoys waiter service in the pool at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954.
unframe...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Jacques Lipchitz Bronze Sculpture Photo Signed
Located in Surfside, FL
Adolph Studly, Swiss born American photographer. His work is kept in the Photographic Archive at The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. He was known for his gallery photograp...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Cary Grant Dramatic Profile Portrait
Located in Austin, TX
Cary Grant was an English stage and Hollywood film actor who became an American citizen in 1942. Known for his transatlantic accent, debonair demeanor and "dashing good looks", Grant...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Iconics by Fabrizio La Torre - Set # 2 - Roma - 1956 - Vintage Photographs
Located in Brussels, BE
Artworks sold in perfect condition : Set # 2 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
"Elegant Ankle" by Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Elegant Ankle" by Bert Hardy
Customers sitting on the terrace of a cafe on the Champs-Elysees, Paris, June 1951. Original publication: Picture Post - 5...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Chevrolet Corvette" by Bob D'Olivo
Located in London, GB
"Chevrolet Corvette" by Bob D'Olivo
UNITED STATES - MAY 01: 1957 Ford Thunderbird - Chevrolet Corvette. These two V8 powered cars represent Detroit's...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
New Year At Romanoff’s 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New Year At Romanoff’s 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 – 1960), Van Heflin (1910 – 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 – 1961) and James Stewart ...
Category
Modern 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
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
Crying Child in Stroller, Vintage Print - Female Street Photographer
By Vivian Maier
Located in Miami, FL
Female Street Photographer Vivian Maier captures a riveting moment of a child consumed in grief. The physiological and psychological anguish dominates her...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marilyn Monroe, "Black Sitting"
Located in New York, NY
Estate-stamped. Includes black frame.
Milton H. Greene, famous for his fashion photography and celebrity portraits from the golden age of Hollywood, met Marilyn Monroe on a photo sh...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lucky Luciano, Sicily, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Sicilian-born American gangster Charles 'Lucky' Luciano (...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Ed Feingersh 'Marilyn Monroe Candid Moment' Limited Edition Photograph 20x16
By Ed Feingersh
Located in San Rafael, CA
Actress Marilyn Monroe reads the book "To the Actor: On the Technique of Acting" by Michael Chekhov in a quiet moment at the Ambassador Hotel in March 1955 in New York City, New York...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart at Premiere Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white photo of Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, and Lauren Bacall sitting at a table at the premiere of "How to Marry a Millionaire" on November 4, 1953 in Los Angeles, Cal...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Elvis Presley On His Motorcycle 1956 Limited Estate Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Elvis Presley on his Harley Davidson motorcycle at home in 1956.
(Photo Phillip Harrington)
Estate Stamped limited edition print
5 of 75
Large Oversize 30x20" inches / 76 x 51 c...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Eiffel Tower, Street Photography, Black and White, France 1950s, 17, 7 x 13 cm
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, Black and White
Moulin Rouge; Dancing; Black and White; Paris, 1950s, 17, 6 x 12, 7 cm
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, Black and White
Lucky Luciano, Sicily, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Sicilian-born American gangster Charles 'Lucky' Luciano (...
Category
American Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Norman Parkinson 'Golfing at Le Toque'
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Golfing at Le Toque
1939 printed later
Silver gelatin print
40 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and numbered on verso
A woman in a white suit hitting a golf ball in a sa...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Milton H. Greene - July Garland, Palace Theatre, NYC, 1952, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Available Sizes:
24" x 20" $6,500.00 Edition of 15
30" x 24" $7,500.00 Edition of 20
45" x 45" $10,000.00 Edition of 7
Printing is done on Exhibition Photo Baryta 310gsm paper.
...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Katharine Hepburn, Hollywood Actress 1950s, Black and White Portrait Photography
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
Burt Glinn photographed the 1950s Hollywood actress and star Katharine Hepburn during the filming of Tennessee William's "Suddenly Last Summer." The iconic Hepburn is captured joking...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
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
$413 Sale Price
30% Off
Milton H. Greene - Anita Ekberg, Smoking, 1951, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Available Sizes:
24" x 20" $3,000.00 Edition of 15
30" x 24" $4,000.00 Edition of 20
45" x 45" $8,500.00 Edition of 7
Printing is done on Exhibition Photo Baryta 310gsm paper.
...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Milton H. Greene - Alfred Hitchcock, American Airlines, 1959, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Available Sizes:
24" x 24" $3,000.00 Edition of 15
30" x 30" $4,000.00 Edition of 20
45" x 45" $8,500.00 Edition of 7
Printing is done on Exhibition Photo Baryta 310gsm paper.
...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marilyn Monroe - The Iconic Andy Warhol
Located in Austin, TX
In 2022 Andy Warhol’s Shot Sage Marilyn was sold for $195 million, making this iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe the most expensive work by a U.S. artist ever sold at auction.
Warh...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Norman Parkinson 'Wenda and Ostriches'
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Wenda and Ostriches
1951 (printed later)
C print
40 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
with certificate of authenticity from the Norman ...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jayne Mansfield Casino - Oversize Limited Print
Located in London, GB
Jayne Mansfield Casino 1955
by Frank Worth
This action shot features bombshell star Jayne Mansfield playing roulette in Las Vegas circa 1955
Captured by celebrity photographer Fr...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Princess of Monaco Grace Kelly
Located in New York, NY
Milton H. Greene
Grace Kelly
1955 (printed later)
All archival pigment prints, signed on reverse by the Estate
American actress and then Princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly for an Ameri...
Category
Modern 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, Printed Later
Waiters carrying half bottles of champagne set off on the annual waiters' race from Soho Square to Greek Street, i...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Fulham Football Fan's Fashion silver gelatin limited edition print
Located in London, GB
5th January 1957: Two young Fulham football fans Freda and Frank Hearn dressed in their club's colours of black and white, wait to board an 'Ipswich Sp...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marilyn Monroe, unique print of 1988 from original negative
Located in Cologne, DE
Ed Feingersh photographed Marilyn Monroe for Redbook magazine in March 1955 for a story which would follow Monroe through her daily routine, the photography to be candid and shot wit...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Tom Kelley 'Dorothy Dandridge'
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Dorothy Dandridge on the microphone
c. 1950's
C print
28 x 22 inches
Edition of 50
Photographs are printed on Archival Hahnemühle paper ...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Norman Parkinson 'Audrey Hepburn, Vogue''
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
'Audrey Hepburn, Vogue'
1952
Silver gelatin print
20 x 24 inches
Estate stamped and numbered on verso
“The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassi...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Milton H. Greene 'Princess of Monaco Grace Kelly'
Located in New York, NY
Milton H. Greene
Grace Kelly
1955 (printed later)
All archival pigment prints, signed on reverse by the Estate
American actress and then Princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly for an Ameri...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
A Rainy Commencement Ceremony
Located in Hong Kong, HK
”A Rainy Commencement Ceremony”, from the series ”The Gion Quarter”. 1953. Gelatin silver print, 1990s.
32 × 44,5 cm (40,3 × 50,4 cm) (12 ⅝ × 17 ½ in. (15 ⅞ × 19 ⅞ in.)).
A strip of...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
L'abre et la Poule, 1950
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed in ink on recto; Signed, titled and dated in pencil on verso
Gelatin silver print
Image: 10 3/4" x 14 7/8", Paper 12 x 16 inches, Matted 16" x 20"
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Patsy Pulitzer (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Patsy Pulitzer leaning against a seaplane belonging to the Everglades Flying Service, at Palm Beach, Florida, 1955.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Lambda
York Minster Minster Cathedral, the Nave Looking East Interior Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
York Minster Minster Cathedral, the Nave Looking East Interior Photograph
Silver Gelatin photographic Print of York Minster Cathedral, the Nave Looking East by Edwin Smith (British ...
Category
Realist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
View of Prague - Original Gelatin Silver Photograph
By Josef Sudek
Located in Paris, IDF
Josef Sudek
View of Prague
Original gelatin silver print
14 x 9 cm (c. 5.5 x 3.5 in)
Authenticated on the back by the workshop stamp (see picture)
Excellent condition
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Portrait of Giorgio Gaber - Vintage Photo - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Giorgio Gaber in 1959 is a vintage photographic print on single-coated paper.
Photograph probably made by Gianni Piccione for News Blitz.
Ink print of photographer (Pic...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
New York City, 1953 - Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography)
Located in London, GB
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 later
Availabl...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Park Avenue, New York City (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1953: A view of neatly arranged office and apartment blocks along Park Avenue in New York City.
Archival Fiber print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificat...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Elizabeth Taylor with Sunglasses for Giant - Oversize Limited Print
By Frank Worth
Located in London, GB
Elizabeth Taylor with Sunglasses for "Giant" 1955
by Frank Worth
This iconic and elegant portrait captured by celebrity photographer Frank Worth features actress Elizabeth Taylor o...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Elizabeth Taylor, Hollywood Star 1950s on Film Set, Black and White Photography
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
Burt Glinn photographed one of the most highly-paid celebrity actresses, Elizabeth Taylor, 1959 on set during the filming of "Suddenly Last Summer". In the candid photo, he captures ...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
John Huston, Black and White Photograph of 1950s Film Director of The Misfits
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
A black and white photograph from 1956 that captures John Huston, celebrated film director during the filming of The Misfits featuring Marilyn Monroe.
John Huston, 1956 by Burt Glin...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin
Acqua e fantasia, 1956 - Limited Edition Photorealist Black & White Photography
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork sold in perfect condition
Print called "Art 2014", format 42 x 60 cm. SERIES OF 5 PRINTS + 2 AP
An impressive flood of the Tiber had already battered the pontoons of the few ...
Category
Photorealist 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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
Cary Grant, Jane Wyman, and William Holden
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white candid portrait of Cary Grant, Jane Wyman, and William Holden sitting at the table, 1951.
Cary Grant was an English-American actor. Known for his mid-Atlantic acce...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
La Beguinage de Bruges, Belgique, 1954
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed in ink on recto; signed, titled and dated in pencil on verso
Paper 12" x 16", Matted 16" x 20"
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ruth Neumann, Kowloon Victoria Harbor, Hong Kong
Located in New York, NY
Ruth Neumann, Kowloon Victoria Harbor, Hong Kong
1957
Archival pigment print
Estate stamped, signed and numbered by Andrea Derujinsky with certificate ...
Category
Modern 1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jardin du Luxembourg (Premiere neige Luxembourg), 1955
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Jardin du Luxembourg (Premiere neige Luxembourg), 1955
Signed in ink on recto; signed, titled & dated in pencil on verso
Gelatin silver print
Image 10" x 15", Paper 12" x 16", Matted...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Milton H. Greene - Marilyn Monroe, on Set White Price Glory, 1954, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Available Sizes:
24" x 20" $5,000.00 Edition of 15
30" x 24" $6,000.00 Edition of 20
45" x 45" $10,000.00 Edition of 7
Printing is done on Exhibition Photo Baryta 310gsm paper.
...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Milton H. Greene - Marilyn Monroe, Ballerina, NY, 1954, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Available Sizes:
24" x 24" $7,000.00 Edition of 15
30" x 30" $8,000.00 Edition of 20
45" x 45" $12,000.00 Edition of 7
Printing is done on Exhibition Photo Baryta 310gsm paper.
...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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