20th Century Black and White Photography

Fabulous American landscape photography of a rural school house. From series "American Ruins, Ghosts on the Landscape" "Near Pomme de Terre Lake, Grant County, Minnesota," from smal...

Brigitte Bardot Hollywood starlet posed with vintage car, circa 1970. Brigitte Bardot is a French former actress, singer, and model as well as an animal rights activist. Famous for ...

An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘Sacha and Pearl ‘ who was captured on f...

New York City, 1977 - Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography) Signed, inscribed with title and dated on accompanying artist’s label Silver gelatin print, printed later Availabl...

'Woman on Road with Police on Bikes Behind' is a black and white photographic print on Hahnemuhle paper in an edition of 10 by Michael Ormerod. Featured in the 2024 posthumous solo...

English singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfull, photographed at The Salisbury pub in London, 1964. Available in the following sizes. All prints signed and numbered by Ger...

'Woman with ice Cream' is a black and white photographic print on Hahnemuhle paper in a limited edition of 10 by Michael Ormerod. Featured in the 2024 posthumous solo exhibition, '...

Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days. Taken from the world’s largest photographic archive, (Hulton Archive and Getty...

Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel for our multi-faceted but brie...

Majorettes on Parade by Michael Ormerod is an 8" x 10" black and white photographic print on Hahnemuhle paper from a limited edition of 10 prints. Featured in the 2024 posthumous s...

Don't Tell Mamma #16, 1994-2010 by Koray Erkaya From the series of Don't Tell Mamma Hahnemühle Photo Matt Fibre Duo 210 Paper Deckled Edge Image size: 24 in. H x 16 in. W (60 cm H x...

Georgia O'Keeffe is one of the most celebrated American modernist painters, best known for her paintings of flowers and New Mexico landscapes. This photograph is published in "America Andy Warhol...

Black and White, 1965 NYC a part of book which Kallay prepared for a German publisher.

Doug & Mike Starn Portrait of Leo Castelli inscribed to Nina Castelli Sundell, 1998-1999 Gelatin silver print on handmade paper (hand signed and inscribed to Nina Castelli Sundell) H...

This is a unique work. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also written on verso. Work comes with...

Head to toe by Elmer Batters Black and white Original Print Framed Image Size: 10 H x 7.75 W inches Sheet Size: 23.25 H x 19.25 W inches Frame Size: 24....

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...

Albert WATSON (*1942, Scotland) Swimsuit & Goggles, Mauritius, 1985 1985 Archival pigment print Image 142 x 107 cm (55 7/8 x 42 1/8 in.) Edition of 10, plus 2 AP Print only Albert...

Raquel - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 1983 - Edition of 5 This image was captured on film. The negative was scanned creating a digital file which was then prin...

Music has always been a passion for David Bailey. As a teenager, he played the trumpet, thinking for a while that music - rather than photography - might be his future. Among his musical heroes is Miles Davis...

Peter Orlovsky reads poem disrobed at Judson Memorial Church. Behind him is Allen Ginsberg - December 6th, 1964. (by Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village, New York City.) Phot...

Young Competitors (1925) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by MacGregor/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) 11th August 1925 Three young competitors arriving at the courts for th...

William S. Burroughs was an influential American writer and poet and a central figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s. He is perhaps best known for his 1959 novel Naked Lunch...

David Lee Roth of Van Halen by Neil Zlozower. Signed 16x20" print Obtained directly from the photographer, freshly printed.

Black and white candid capture of actress Katharine Hepburn walking her dogs in a pantsuit. Katharine Hepburn was an American actress whose career as a Hollywood leading lady spanne...

Artist: Howard Bingham, American (b. 1939) Title: Cassius Clay in Louisville, Pink Cadillac Medium: Gelatin Silver Print Photograph, signed by Bingham and autographed by Ali in marke...

Nude Portrait - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Alamy) A woman poses for a nude studio portrait. Additional Information: Unframed Paper Si...

Taken from the world’s largest photographic archive, (Hulton Archive and Getty Images), the Getty Images Gallery collection features an extraordinary time capsule of the last century...

Taken from the world’s largest photographic archive, (Hulton Archive and Getty Images), the Getty Images Gallery collection features an extraordinary time capsule of the last century...

Victor Arimondi (1942-2001). Portrait, ca. 1975. Period print measures 11 x 14 inches. Artist studio stamp on verso. Victor Arimondi (November 8, 1942 – July 24, 2001) was an Italian American photographer and model who lived and worked in Europe before moving to the United States in the late 1970s. His early fashion photography, his portraits of Grace Jones and other artists, and his male nudes photographed in New York and San Francisco captured the pre-AIDS culture of the 1970s and early 1980s. Arimondi's nudes were collected in several books, including David Leddick's award-winning[1] The Male Nude, (New York: Taschen 1998, 2005 and 2015). The photographer's later work documented homeless individuals in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood and the toll of the AIDS epidemic on the city. His photographs, featured in several posthumous exhibitions, also are in the collections of Sweden's museum of modern art, Moderna Museet, and San Francisco's GLBT Historical Society. Biography Arimondi was born Vittorio Maria Tevitti to his unwed mother, Alessandra Calligaris, in Bologna, Italy on November 8, 1942. His mother struggled financially, which left an impression on her only child. In 1948, she temporarily left him at a children's boarding school and orphanage in Italy to move to Sweden for a job. There she met and married Bruno Arimondi, who adopted her son. The family returned to Naples, Italy in 1952 where Victor graduated from high school.[1] In 1960, Arimondi returned to Sweden to study at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, although he did not graduate. Meanwhile, he worked at several blue collar jobs, including as a mailman, before he gave up on traditional full-time work to pursue what he considered more essential— a life of creative expression. He created costume-like clothing for himself and friends and at age 19 became a fashion model. Even as a teenager, the Italian born photographer who spent his 20s and 30s primarily based in Sweden, noted that he preferred fantasy to the trials of real life.[1] That conflict, and his passion for beauty as well as his sexual energy, were major factors in his life and his work.[2] From 1965 through 1972 Arimondi worked as model in London, Milan, Germany, New York and Stockholm, appearing in catalogs and fashion magazines including Vogue , Harper's Bazaar and Esquire and on the runway in several Valentino fashion shows. In 1972 he decided to try working on the other side of the lens as a photographer to better express his creativity.[2] Arimondi moved to New York in 1979 and continued to build his photography portfolio. Portrait of Bearded Man, New York City, 1979 Two years later, in 1981, he moved to San Francisco where he lived and worked for twenty years until his death of AIDS at age 58 on July 24, 2001. The year he moved to San Francisco, Arimondi opened a photo gallery in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood for a short time. When he struggled financially, he gave up on trying to earn a living through commercial fashion photography and closed the gallery.[3] Arimondi returned to modeling for the financial benefits, though he did so on less of an international scale than in his early years. He continued to create photographic portraits of the denizens of the San Francisco gay and arts cultures, to shoot male nudes and publish his work in magazines, and he began to compose and photograph evocative still lifes using his own photographic images. Many of them touched on the death of dozens of his former photography models from AIDS. Arimondi was in the midst of a new photography project that brought together his background as a fashion photographer and his more recent social documentary work when he died several months after he learned he was HIV-positive.[4] The project featured his former colleague, haute couture cover model Ivy Nicholson,[5] who he found living homeless in San Francisco. Several of the haunting portraits he took of her were later included in a noted group exhibit at SF Camerawork. Art Arimondi's early photography in the 1970s in Stockholm included portraits of the stars of Sweden's fashion, theater and dance worlds. His first two photography exhibits were in Stockholm and met with mixed reviews. But as he matured as a photographer and tapped into his fashion world contacts, Arimondi landed a number of commercial fashion jobs, including shooting for the Italian designer Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A.'s I.Magnin department store ad that ran in Vogue. Marlboro Man Nude, New York City,1980. He also shot other artists and models for his own portfolio, including Grace Jones, the Norwegian actress, Liv Ullmann, and the American writer, Norman Mailer. Arimondi's aesthetic vision was focused on fantasy and drama, and he prided himself on pushing limits.[6] Although less well-known than his San Francisco contemporary...

This beautiful vintage portrait features Rita Hayworth posed in a Hawaiian outfit, posed amongst palm trees.Rita Hayworth was an American actress and dancer. She achieved fame during...

The Brooklyn Bridge (1959) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Alamy) The Brooklyn Bridge and Downtown Manhattan, New York, USA, circa 1959. Ad...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. This photograph was from a session for After Dark magazine and was selected and signed by Jack Mitchell as one of his favorites. Jack’s artist statement on his work for the magazine: “After Dark was a magazine of entertainment, theater and the arts. It was a popular magazine, with a gay slant, enjoyed by many gay men, and some broad minded women and men. As well as (I learned years later) many closeted male youngsters. The magazine was ahead of its time, as advertisers were reluctant to place ads in an essentially gay magazine at that time. Today they swarm like bees to place their own hot ads in gay publications. I had been photographing on assignment for Dance Magazine well before After Dark was created. Being a friend of William (Bill) Como, the Editor, and being gay, I was called into service, for the life of the publication, to photograph many of the handsome young men and women, who were featured in After Dark. Needless to say, this was enjoyable work for me, Because, mixed in with the hot-looking young guys and gals sent to my studio were some famed performers like Debbie Reynolds, Giancarlo Giannini, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Natalie Wood, Placido Domingo, Sergio Franco...

Title: Eddie Van Halen #11 Artist: Richard E. Aaron Estate Edition: Hand numbered with estate chop mark in the margin, signature stamp on verso, archiv...

Willy Ronis (Paris, France, August 14, 1910 - Paris, September 12, 2009) was a French photographer who portrayed post-war Paris and Provence during his lifetime. Ronis' father was a ...

Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection. Please bear in mind that all prints are produced t...

Signed on the front of the mount. The image was made by Morley Baer in 1966. This print was made later, before the artist's passing, and is signed by the artist.

The daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli, Liza Minnelli became a successful actress and singer, winning an Academy Award in 1973 for her role in Cabaret. Liza entered Warho...

How to Marry a Millionaire is a 1953 American screwball comedy film directed by Jean Negulesco and written and produced by Nunnally Johnson. The screenplay was based on the plays The...

Sandwich Board in Street is a Black & White print on Hahnemuehle Paper available In this size of 24” x 34” in an edition of 10. Michael Ormerod was a British photographer with a dis...

Large photograph, Andy Warhol at the factory unsigned Dimensions: 20" by 16" Bears a pencil inscription Gianfranco Gorgoni verso Gianfranco Gorgoni (1941 – 2019) was an Italian ph...

Measures Photo 13.4375 x 10.4375 inches Framed 21.0625 x 17.0625 inches Signed by photographer in lower right hand corner Excellent condition. Lovely rare studio black and white...

This black and white film still features Clint Eastwood leaning against a car in his role for "The Beguiled". Clint Eastwood is an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and politicia...

16 x20" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Warhol Superstar Jane Forth, signed by Jack Mitchell and numbered 5/12. Nude Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certif...

Michael Mardikes Benton walking dog (Thomas Hart Benton Plate #6) Year: 1956, 2021 Pigment Ink on Archival Paper Photograph Image Size: 19x13.5 in Paper Size: 22x17 in Edition: Unique Monogrammed by hand Label signed and numbered by Estate Representative COA provided by Authorizing Body Additional COA provided by representing Gallery Ref.: 924802-908 Image included in the exhibition An Artist at Home in America: Michael Mardikes’ Photographs of Thomas Hart Benton at the Kansas City Public Library (November 20, 2021-May 15, 2022) One night in late 2020, as Nick Vedros was leaving the home of his Aunt Myrt and Uncle Michael Mardikes, his aunt suddenly asked him, “What are we going to do with all the negatives?” The noted Kansas City photographer was not sure what his 89-year-old aunt was talking about, until she handed him a notebook filled with more than 1000 negatives chronicling Thomas Hart Benton at home and in his studio. They had been filed away for almost seven decades. This startling discovery was the inspiration for the exhibition, “An Artist at Home in America: Michael Mardikes’ Photographs of Thomas Hart Benton” on view at the Kansas City Public Library Central Library. The exhibition is a must-see, not just for fans of Thomas Hart Benton but for devotees of exemplary photojournalism. Of the 1,080 photographs Mardikes took, only four had been published in an article he wrote for “This Month in Kansas City” magazine in 1966. The others were never printed, nor was their existence common knowledge. Although Vedros had been aware of his uncle’s assignment with Benton, he was stunned to discover that so much additional material existed. Vedros, who decided at age 12 to become a photographer himself after seeing his uncle’s work, was determined to organize an exhibition, and was especially interested in doing it as quickly as possible given his uncle’s advanced age and increasing frailty. Collaborating with Dan White, a photographer, master printer and friend since their time together at the University of Missouri journalism school, they selected 34 images to be printed and framed, researching the details with Steve Sitton, the director of the Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio Historic Site. Michael Mardikes had had a brief career as a commercial photographer before going on to work in management at the Ford Motor Company and later at UMKC. He made the acquaintance of Benton through Eugene Pyle, a former student of Benton’s and Mardikes’ photography instructor at the Art Institute. In 1955, Benton asked Mardikes to photograph him; Mardikes visited Benton 35 to 40 times, over a period of a few months in late 1955 and early 1956. Sitton told Vedros that not only was Mardikes’ amount of access incredible, but that the resulting body of work was unmatched. As the project progressed, Benton became focused on a mural commission for the River Club in 1956. Henry Adams, preeminent Benton scholar and former curator at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, provided some context for this particular work: “The commission to paint ‘Traders at Westport Landing’ came at a low point in Benton’s career, 1956, and initiated the late phase of Benton’s mural paintings. It was the first of a series of murals depicting the exploration and settlement of the west, which culminated in the Truman Library mural, which was completed in 1962. All these murals feature trading and friendly contact with the Indians, rather than conflict, and are arresting in their bright color and meticulous rendering of carefully researched detail. The River Club, which commissioned ‘Traders at Westport Landing,’ overlooks the Missouri River and has a panoramic view very similar to the one in Benton’s painting.” This group of black and white photos not only documents the artist’s working process but also reveals other aspects of his daily life: one memorable image reveals Rita Benton massaging her husband’s stiff shoulders after a long day in his studio. Other images show members of the River Club board visiting Benton’s studio to check on the progress of the mural. One charming image captures a candid moment of Rita Benton and Myrt Mardikes as they collaborated in the Benton kitchen making chicken kapama for their husbands. Nan Chisholm Nan Chisholm is an art consultant and appraiser of 19th- and 20th-century paintings. After a long association with Sotheby’s, she founded her own business in 2003. She has appeared as a fine art appraiser...

This dynamic black-and-white photograph, taken by Klaus Redenbacher in 1952, captures a male dancer mid-leap in a moment of sheer power, grace, and precision. Suspended in the air wi...

Albert Watson Charlotte Flossaut in Sombrero, New Mexico, 1988 Archival pigment print 76 x 61 cm (29 7/8 x 24 in.) Edition of 25 plus 2 AP Albert Watson was born 1942 in Edinburgh, ...

This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman modelling for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot. This is an estate stamped a...

From a Portfolio with 26 exclusive works of Jeanloup Sieff, limited to 200 copies. The photograph of Jeanloup Sieff has been produced as Collotype under the direct commandment of the...

This is a photogravure printed in the 1930's for a publication that showcased the best photographers of that year. They submitted a work they wanted featured to represent them and B...

Black and white photographs that reveal the various facets and aesthetic searches of the legendary Colombian photographer, recognized as the creator of memorable realistic, abstract and avant-garde images. They turned Leo Matiz into one of the most original and innovative personalities of universal photography in the 20th century. Leo Matiz is considered one of the tenth most influential photographers of the 20th century. His work as a photojournalist led him to travel extensively around the world, meeting and making friends with some of the most relevant figures of the 20th century. Matiz was an artist who never waited for beauty to come looking for him. He looked for her with his camera, wherever she was, whether it was the face of a child lost on a city street, a landscape, architectural wonders or the now famous portraits of the legendary artist Frida Kahlo. From Black & White Series Selenium print...

Artworks sold in perfect condition : Set # 1 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...

After a successful acting career in Europe, Peter Lorre came to the United States and starred in such classic films as “The Maltese Falcon”, “Arsenic and Old Lace”, and “Casablanca”....

This stunning black and white image features French actress, singer, dancer, and fashion model, who later became an animal rights activist, Brigitte Bardot. She was one of the best-k...

Diana Vreeland and Tinkerbelle photographed by Andy Warhol at a party with Diana Vreeland, Earl McGrath, Paul Simon and Carrie Fisher in 1980. Image dimensions: 8 x 10 in. This is ...

Ansel Adams and Ed Towler by Wilson D. Ellis (American, 20th Century). Titled "Ansel and Ed Towler 1936" on verso and signed "Wilson D Ellis" with date 7/16/35 under mat. Silver Brom...

Blackpool Railings (1951) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Bert Hardy / Getty Images Archive London) Two women chatting on the railings in B...

Brighton 27 - Platinum palladium on vellum with silver leafs Signed and numbered edition of 8 plus 2 AP with certificate of authenticity, unframed. The rarity of this type of p...