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Period: Mid-20th Century
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 Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mainbocher Corset
Located in New York, NY
Signed, dated, and titled in pencil with artist's copyright stamp on verso, blind-stamped on recto. Includes black frame.
Taken on August 11, 1939, this is Horst's most recognizable...
Category
Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marilyn Monroe - Photograph and Vintage Large Format Negative
Located in Austin, TX
~ Globe Photos Exclusive Offering for Sotheby's and 1stDibs ~
Offered exclusively to our Sotheby's and 1stDibs customers, Globe Photos is proud to announce a new hand-curated collec...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Muhammad Ali in the Ring, Black and White Photo by Howard Bingham
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Howard Bingham, American (b. 1939)
Title: Muhammad Ali in the Ring
Medium: Gelatin Silver Print Photograph, signed by Bingham and autographed by Ali in marker
Year: 1963 (...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jazz Scooter: Louis Armstrong and Lucille Brown in 1940s Rome, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lucille Brown takes control of the Vespa scooter as her husband Louis Armstrong (1898 - 1971) displays his musical appreciation of the ancient Colosseum in Rome.
Slim Aarons
Jazz S...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Black and White, Emulsion
Divers, East River, New York
Located in London, GB
Signed and stamped with photographer's ink stamps on reverse
Silver gelatin print, printed later
11 x 14 inches
Category
Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Canyon, Person, Black and White, USA 1960s, 23, 1 x 18, 2 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 Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Digging for Clams (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Mrs Hans Estin watches her children digging for clams at low tide on Black Beach, Massachusetts Bay, circa 1960
Slim Aarons
Digging for Clams on Black Beach
1960
Fiber Print
Estate...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Paris, The Buttes Chaumont Public Garden, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photography. Paris, The Buttes Chaumont public garden, circa 1930.
Features:
Original Silver Gelatin Print Photography Unframed.
Pres...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century 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 Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Vintage Print Silver Gelatin Signed Photograph Poet Allen Ginsberg Howl Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Allen Ginsberg reading Howl and other poems at Living Theater in 1959.
signed in ink and with photographer stamp verso and hand written title.
Irwin Allen ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Woman in Sheer Dress, Silver Gelatin Black & White Photograph by Art Shay
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
At what appears to be a costume party, this beautiful woman, draped in a sheer tunic, must have been the center of attention. Dressed as Aphrodite, she clearly commands those around her. With his camera as his constant companion, Shay was able to capture moments of everyday life and make them extraordinary. This artwork is currently unframed. Contact gallery for framing options.
Art Shay
Woman in Sheer Dress
silver gelatin print
20h x 16w in
50.80h x 40.64w cm
7ED.1.20.12005
ASY12005
“Art Shay’s photography shakes you up, sets you down gently, pats you on the head and then kicks you in the ass.”
Roger Ebert
“[Shay’s work] ranks with some of the greats of the 20th century.”
Ellen & Richard Sandor, Renowned photo collectors
“I’ve admired Art Shay’s work for almost forty years, and he keeps getting better. He can do anything with a camera, but what he mostly does is capture real moments and transform them into visual poetry. His work continues to be an inspiration to me.”
William Friedkin, Director of French Connection
“Art Shay is one of our finest photographers. His work over the past fifty years has artfully captured the beauty, humor, and pathos of America.”
Studs Terkel
“Art Shay is one of the best photojournalists I know. I’ve been a fan of his work since the early 1950s - before the launch of playboy magazine.”
Hugh Hefner
“Algren, Terkel, Royko, they gave us a voice. Art Shay gave us a face.”
Tony Fitzpatrick, Chicago Artist
“Art Shay is America’s Cartier-Bresson.”
Thomas Dyja, author of The Third Coast
“Chicago’s Art Shay in many ways is to American photography what Nelson Algren was to American writing: that rare and absolutely necessary citizen who’s blessed with a cold eye, a clear head, and a warm heart. What is it about Chicago that keeps giving us men like this?”
Russell Banks, Novelist
“The best images of Simone de Beauvoir and her times have been passed down to us by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gisele Freund, Robert Doisneau, Georges Brassai, and in America, the Chicago-based Art Shay, all world-class photographers.”
Christophe Loviny, Art Editor, Paris
“Art Shay is the best photo-journalist Chicago ever produced.”
Arthur Siegel, photographer; IIT Institute of Design President
“I have one of Art Shay’s pictures over my desk. It reminds me every morning of my Chicago roots. Arts photos, like me, have the Chicago accent, which may be to say he’s telling you the truth. I think it takes a realist to see the humor in things. I know it takes a realist to see the depths of tragedy. Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.”
David Mamet
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Milton H. Greene - Sophie Litvak, for Life Magazine, Paris, 1952, 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
Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Frank Sinatra - Reading the funnies
Located in Chicago, IL
Frank Sinatra at home in Hoboken New Jersey. Circa 1939. Relaxing in bed reading the cartoons from the newspaper. Photo taken by Nancy Sinatra Senior.
G...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Dead Tree, Sunset Crater National Monument, Arizona
By Ansel Adams
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This vintage silver gelatin print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount, with image number "11" in the lower left corner. Portfolio Two stamp with print #11 and set #A in red...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sutton Place, New York
By Brett Weston
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed and dated on the front of the mount. Printed later in the artist's career.
Category
Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Just JAZZ
By Karol Kallay
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
The photography on photo paper is stamped on the back by the author, certificate of origin will be added. Done in NY 1968 for a book about NY.
Category
Photorealist Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$438 Sale Price
88% Off
Photo Lithograph Jannis Kounellis Arte Povera Italian Avant Garde Etching
Located in Surfside, FL
'Lo faro il litterato tutta la vita'
Photo Lithography on rag paper
hand signed lower right in pencil: Kounellis
numbered 37/90.
Provenance: The Collection of Ileana Sonnabend (Mrs L...
Category
Arte Povera Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Lithograph
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 Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Surf Wagon, St. Petersburg Beach, FL - Black and White Photograph, Documentary
Located in Denton, TX
Surf Wagon, St. Petersburg Beach by Al Satterwhite is a black and white photograph featuring a group of teenagers sitting on top of a car filled with surfboards.
Archival Pigment P...
Category
Post-Modern Mid-20th Century 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
Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Four Kings of Hollywood, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A series of four shots of film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) enjoying a joke at...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Wall, Chestnut Street, Newark, NJ
By George Tice
Located in Westwood, NJ
Print: 10/23/98
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (Two Wrestlers), black and white 1960s male physique photography, queer
By Bob Mizer
Located in New York, NY
This black and white photograph by Bob Mizer is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
1964
Dated and numbered, verso
Vintage silver print
4.5 x 3.5 inches (11.4 x 8.9 cm), image
5 x...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
San Francisco. 'Seagull over Golden Gate Bridge, 1950s'. Book & Signed Print
By Fred Lyon
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An epic pictorial history of the City by the Bay
Starting with an early picture of a gang of badass gold prospectors who put this beautiful Northern California city on the map, this ambitious and immersive photographic history of San Francisco takes a winding tour through the city from the mid–nineteeth century to the present day.
Enjoy eye-catching views of the city’s most enduring landmarks and symbols: the Golden Gate Bridge, Chinatown, the picturesque trams that wind up and down the famously steep hills, the popular waterfront, its beautiful bay, and its spectacular cityscapes and vistas. San Francisco’s counterculture movements that shaped our collective consciousness are also featured prominently: the beats of North Beach, the hippies of Haight-Ashbury, the gay communities of Castro, and the Black Panthers of neighboring Oakland. Some of the city’s most famous residents also make appearances: Robin Williams, The Grateful Dead, Angela Davis...
Category
Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital, Digital Pigment
Milton H. Greene - Fashion, Eyes, 1966, 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
Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The King of Jazz: Louis Armstrong in Rome (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lucille Brown takes control of the Vespa scooter as her husband Louis Armstrong (1898 - 1971) displays his musical appreciation of the ancient Colosseum in Rome.
Slim Aarons
The Ki...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Black and White, Emulsion
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 Mid-20th Century 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 Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Hong Kong, Couple, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 29, 9 x 23, 8 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
'Hungry Elephant' Limited Edition Photographic Print by Getty, 20x30
Located in San Rafael, CA
An elephant named Mae West accepts an apple from a passing tram driver while taking her morning exercise along Gray's Inn Road, London, 16th December 1936. Mae is helping to publicis...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Barbara Mullen
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Barbara Mullen, 1960
C print
40 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
Irish-American fashion model Barbara Mullen photographed with dogs b...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
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 Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ecuador, Rio Pastaza, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 23, 2 x 23, 2 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Alberto Giacometti in his studio in Paris 1963
Located in Cologne, DE
The photographer Wolfgang Kühn photographed Alberto Giacometti in November 1963 in his studio in Paris in the 14th arrondissement at the address rue Hippolyte-Maindron. The appointment was arranged by the gallery owner Aimé Maeght. 17 photographs were made. In 1990 copies of them were deposited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In 2010, the Center of International Sculpture of the Wilhelm...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Brigitte Bardot Prepares to Meet the Press, London
Located in New York, NY
Image size is 15 x 19.5 inches. Printed in 1999. Larry Burrows Collection and copyright stamps on verso.
Larry Burrows career as a LIFE Magazine photographer culminated in his renow...
Category
Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Frank Sinatra - Me and My Shadow
Located in Chicago, IL
Portrait of Frank Sinatra circa 1939. Taken at their apartment on Garden St, Hoboken, NJ. Photo by Nancy Sinatra Senior. This striking photo is one of the family’s favorites. This is...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Person, Canyon, Utah, Black and White Photography, USA, 1960s, 16, 6 x 23, 4 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 Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Arches Nationalpark, Utah, Black and White, USA 1960s, 17, 3 x 23, 3 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 Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
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 Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Terry O'Neill 'Paul McCartney at Ringo Starr’s Wedding'
Located in New York, NY
Paul McCartney at Ringo Starr’s Wedding, 1961
Silver gelatin print
40 x 30 inches
Estate signature stamped numbered edition of 50
Paul McCartney plays the piano at the Ringo Starr’s...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ted Williams 'John Coltrane playing the saxophone'
By Ted Williams
Located in New York, NY
Ted Williams
John Coltrane playing the saxophone
1960 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
30 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition 25
with certificate of authenticity
Ca...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Boats at quay on Alster view to Hamburg city hall, Germany 1938, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Frida Kahlo, The Breton Portrait - Black and White Portrait, Celebrity, Woman
Located in Denton, TX
Frida Kahlo - The Breton Portrait by Nickolas Muray is a portrait of the Mexican painter commissioned by Andre Breton.
14.63 x 11.63 in.
Carbon Pigment Print
Edition of 30
Signed by...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Carbon Pigment
'Hungry Elephant' Limited Edition Photographic Print by Getty, 20x16
Located in San Rafael, CA
An elephant named Mae West accepts an apple from a passing tram driver while taking her morning exercise along Gray's Inn Road, London, 16th December 1936. Mae is helping to publicis...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Fantasy on the Dance Floor, Barbara Mullen, Paris
Located in Santa Monica, CA
signed and numbered in pencil on verso
Category
Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sun, shadows, buildings Koenigsplatz square Munich, Germany 1937, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been miss...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Peter Beard - Elephant's Embryo, Uganda, Platinum Print- Unsigned
By Peter Beard
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Elephant's Embryo, Uganda
Aributed to Peter Beard/Unsigned
The original photograph "unsigned" but documented by its inclusion in "Peter Beard - Fifty Years of Portraits, The End of the Game...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Harlem (Three Cowboys)
By John Albok
Located in Denton, TX
John Albok
Harlem (Three Cowboys), 1938
Vintage gelatin silver print, 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.
Titled in pencil on mount margin.
Signed and dated by John Albok in pencil, artist stamp in bl...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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 Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
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 Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Sun In Rock
By Minor White
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
The print is signed and dated in pencil on the front of the mount; titled, dated, stamped and labelled on the back of the mount.
This rare vintage enlargement comes from the Museum...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Würzburg, Germany 1935, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
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
Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Dinner Jazz 1949
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dinner Jazz
American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong enjoys a plate of spaghetti in Rome.
Paper size 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'King of Jazz'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
King of Jazz
1949 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
1949: Photographers taking pictures of A...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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 Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Groom Kissing His Bride
By Diane Arbus
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is one of the most influential and daring photographers of the 20th century.
Arbus is best known for her unique form of documentary portraiture. She explored the uncanny, the marginalized, and the idiosyncratic characters who defied mid-century conformity. Her work has influenced some of the most renowned photographers of our time including Nan Goldin.
While her career launched in the fashion world, it was years after quitting commercial photography (circa 1956) that she found her voice as an artist. With camera in hand, she followed her fascination with the eccentric individuals and oddities of New York City. Ultimately rejecting her affluent, sheltered upbringing and the mainstream fashion industry to create her own definitions of beauty.
Arbus’ portraits were considered incredibly provocative for their bold representations of sexuality, chaos, and grit. She fully immersed herself within the queer and alternative communities she documented, engaged with a curious balance of mystery and homage.
Shot in 1966, "Groom Kissing His Bride" is a prime example of her uncanny ability to capture even the most traditional moments (a wedding) through a lens of surrealism.
Love and tension confront each other as the groom kisses the bride with an attacking passion. Her likeness disappears behind his embrace and their newlywed bodies merge together. This work also contains Arbus’ visual trademarks – a black and white palette, a square crop, and a hard flash that flattens the aesthetic wonderland of New York.
Today, Arbus' work is celebrated in many major museum collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Institute of Chicago, National Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo), and Centre Pompidou (Paris).
"Groom Kissing his Bride, NYC"
USA, 1966
Gelatin-silver print
Printed by Neil Selkirk
Stamped 'A Diane Arbus photograph...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century 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
Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Portrait of a Young Woman in Late 1960s Hippie Fashion
Located in Cologne, DE
A striking black-and-white studio portrait by Klaus Redenbacher captures the essence of late 1960s counterculture. The young woman, pictured in profile, wears a richly patterned head...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
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Crowley Vintage
Dali Skeleton
David Hockney A Bigger Book
Del Bourree Bach
Dennis Miller Bunker
Derek Gardner
Dolly Dingle Doll
Dorset Poster
Earl Of Coventry