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Period: Mid-20th Century
Union Jack Trunks (1969) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Michael Webb
Located in London, GB
Union Jack Trunks (1969) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Michael Webb/Getty Images)
Two models in Union Jack swimwear posing in Trafalgar Square to promote tourism to Gibral...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Princess Audrey (1953)
Located in London, GB
Princess Audrey (1953)
(Photo By Phillip Harrington)
Audrey Hepburn preparing for a scene in the 1953 film “Roman Holiday” by William Wyler.
Assisting Hepburn is dresser Sally G...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Andreas Feininger Monumental B&W Photograph, 1951
Located in Washington, DC
Large and wonderful B & W photograph by American photographer Andreas Feininger (1906-1999). Photograph is of a gorilla rib cage. Printed in 1951, it measures 8ft. 10 in. x 10ft. Photograph is attached to linen and can be rolled for easy storage and shipping.
Feininger was born in Paris, France, the eldest son of Julia Berg, a German Jew, and the American painter and art educator Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956). His paternal grandparents were the German violinist Karl Feininger (1844–1922) and the American singer Elizabeth Feininger, (née Lutz), who was also of German descent. His younger brother was the painter and photographer T. Lux Feininger (1910–2011)
In 1908 the Feininger family moved to Berlin, and in 1919 to Weimar, where Lyonel Feininger took up the post of Master of the Printing Workshop at the newly formed Bauhaus art school.[2]
Andreas left school at 16, in 1922, to study at the Bauhaus; he graduated as a cabinetmaker in April 1925. Afterwards he studied architecture, initially at the Staatliche Bauschule Weimar (State Architectural College, Weimar) and later at the Staatliche Bauschule Zerbst. (Zerbst is a city in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, about 20 km from Dessau, where the Bauhaus moved to in 1926.) The Feininger family moved to Dessau with the Bauhaus. In addition to continuing his architectural studies in Zerbst, Andreas developed an interest in photography and was given guidance by neighbour and Bauhaus teacher László Moholy-Nagy.
In 1936, he gave up architecture and moved to Sweden, where he focused on photography. In advance of World War II, in 1939, Feininger immigrated to the U.S. where he established himself as a freelance photographer. In 1943 he joined the staff of Life magazine, an association that lasted until 1962.
Feininger became famous for his photographs of New York...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Linen, Photographic Paper
Elizabeth Taylor - Photograph and Vintage Large Format Negative
Located in Austin, TX
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Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
River Club Unveiling Event (Thomas Hart Benton Plate #31)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Michael Mardikes
River Club Unveiling Event (Thomas Hart Benton Plate #31)
Year: 1956, 2021
Pigment Ink on Archival Paper Photograph
Image Size: 13.5x19 in
Paper Size: 17x22 in
Editi...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$2,989 Sale Price
56% Off
MICHAEL CAINE PORTRAIT 1964 - signed
By Brian Duffy
Located in London, GB
MICHAEL CAINE PORTRAIT 1964
MICHAEL CAINE – 1964
signed limited edition of 15 only.
silver gelatin
This Michael Caine Portrait by Duffy was taken in 1964, the same year that the film Zulu was released which was his first major film role and remains one of Michael’s best-known films. An image from this session was published in The Sunday Times Magazine on the 24th May 1964. Caine, pictured here at age 31, had just been awarded the lead in the 1965 hit movie The Ipcress File...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cable Car Ride in San Francisco, 1960s
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
This black-and-white photograph captures the classic charm of San Francisco’s iconic cable cars. Taken in the 1960s, the image shows a boy hanging from the side of the cable car as i...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
'Funny Face' Oversize Limited Edition silver gelatin print
Located in London, GB
'Funny Face' Oversize Limited Edition silver gelatin print
Belgian-born actor Audrey Hepburn (1929 – 1993), Audrey Hepburn – Funny Face – ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'Montgomery Clift The Misfits' Oversize Limited Edition silver gelatin print
Located in London, GB
'Montgomery Clift' Oversize Limited Edition silver gelatin print
A gorgeously insightful portrait of the first rebel of Hollywood and greatly respe...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Seaplane At Palm Beach 1955
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Seaplane At Palm Beach
Patsy Pulitzer (nee Patsy Bartlett) leaning against a seaplane belonging to the Everglades Flying Service, at Palm Beach...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Haywood Magee, Louis Armstrong on Stage Limited Edition Photographic Print 30x40
Located in San Rafael, CA
American jazz trumpeter and bandleader Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong (1900 - 1971), shouts after clarinettist Edmund Hall's solo, on stage during the band's British tour, May 19, 1956. An unidentified bassist stands in the foreground. (Photo by Haywood Magee...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Polygon, Caracas, Venezuela, Architectural landscape black and white Photograph
By Leo Matiz
Located in Miami Beach, FL
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 ...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Mick in Fur Hood
By David Bailey
Located in London, GB
David Bailey
Mick in Fur Hood, 1964
Platinum Palladium print on paper
Signed by the artist, on verso
Image: 49.5 x 49.5 cm
Sheet: 59.7 x 68.6 cm
Edition of 25 + 1 AP
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
"Gerde's Folk City" by John Kobal Foundation
Located in London, GB
"Gerde's Folk City" by John Kobal Foundation
Gerde's Folk City.
Unframed
Paper Size: 20" x 24'' (inches)
Printed 2022
Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
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
Historical Photo - Viva Fidel - 1956
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Viva Fidel is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1956. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical moment and political e...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Tom Kelley : Gal in Baggie Surfer Suit
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Ann St. Marie c. 1950's
C print
38 x 30 inches
Edition of 45
Photographs are printed on Archival Hahnemühle paper (luster)
estate signed and numbered in the border
Captio...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Frida Kahlo in Coyoacán, Mexico. Black and white Portrait photograph
By Leo Matiz
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Matiz managed to create intimate portraits, in which Frida seemed happy to surrender to her lens. The result was dynamic portraits of Khalo, a wonderful example of both the photograp...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Digital Pigment
The Young Callas - Vintage Original Photograph of Maria Callas - End of 1950-51
By Maria Callas
Located in Roma, IT
The Young Callas is a beautiful black-white photographic portrait of the nascent opera star realized by an unknown artist around the 1950-51.
On the verso the black ink stamp on the...
Category
Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Jean Patchett For Saks Fifth Avenue, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features American model Jean Patchett wearing an outfit by Saks Fifth Avenue, circa 1955. Patchett w...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Fiat Topolino on the Via Appia Antica near Rome in the 1950s
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
A nostalgic journey to Rome, Italy, in the 1950s, featuring a Fiat Topolino driving along the historic Via Appia Antica near Rome. The photograph, taken in 1954 by Erich Andres, capt...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Color
L’Addio, New York, December 1955 - Contemporary Black & White Photography
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork #1 / 5 sold in perfect condition printed on baryta heavyweight paper & framed (black metal border)
From the collection called "Art 2014", format 30x42 cm. SERIES OF 5 PRINTS + 2 AP
Artwork printed later on fine art papers later (2014) from black & white negatives processed in 1962
“L’Addio”, the farewell, New York, December 1955. At the stern of an Italian liner carrying him back to Genoa the photographer could not pass up the opportunity to capture this sweetly simple moment where an Italian couple say goodbye to the American metropolis by waving a white handkerchief...
Category
Photorealist Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$1,321 Sale Price
20% Off
Ascari At Silverstone (1949) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Ascari At Silverstone (1949) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Express/Express/Getty Images)
25th August 1949: Italian motor racing driver Alberto Ascari (left) approaching St...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
View of Lower Manhattan from Brooklyn, New York 1967.
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
New York City, New York, 1960s, black and white view of the Lower Manhattan skyline as seen from the water. The photograph captures the dense array of skyscrapers, showcasing the arc...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Ella Fitzgerald with band, unknown Date
Located in Cologne, DE
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella". She was noted ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Parcheggio condiviso, New York (1955) - Large size Black & White Fine Art Print
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork # 1 on 5 sold in limited edition in perfect condition
This photo was made in 1955, the negative was digitized during the artist's lifetime and the technical parameters (fram...
Category
Photorealist Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Toddlers' excursion in a handcart, postwar 1950s.
Located in Cologne, DE
Toddlers' excursion in a handcart, postwar 1950s.
Keywords: children; kid; kids; child; cart; strolling; trip; postwar period; 1950s; women; Kindergarten; pram
Photographer: Rolf G...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Bluebird Press Photos" by Central Press
Located in London, GB
"Bluebird Press Photos" by Central Press
9th January 1935: Cameramen filming British racing driver Malcolm Campbell as he poses with a new Bluebird whic...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Marilyn Posing at Studio "Legs Up", ca. 1950, 15, 8 21, 5 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Norma Jeane Mortenson or better known as Marilyn Monroe – iconic, beautiful and maybe the most known Hollywood Stars of the 20th century. Born and raised in Los Angeles, USA, she spe...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Dancer Eliot Feld in costume performing ‘Fancy Free’, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of dancer Eliot Feld in costume performing ‘Fancy Free’, 1965. It is signed by Jack Mitchell on the print recto. Comes directly from the J...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Cologne, 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
Dinner Jazz (1949) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dinner Jazz (1949) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images)
Premium Rates Apply. 1949: American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Arm...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Leonard Bernstein, ca. 1950s
Located in Cologne, DE
Leonard Bernstein, August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990 was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most importa...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Mojave Desert, California, Black and White, USA 1960s, 16.0 x 23, 7 cm
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 1960.
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
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Led Zeppelin Sitting at a Kitchen Table
By Jay Thompson
Located in Austin, TX
Candid black and white capture of members of Led Zeppelin sitting at a kitchen table, circa 1969.
Led Zeppelin was an English rock band formed in London in 1968. The group consiste...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Le Tre Vespe, Roma 1962 - Framed Edition Contemporary Black & White Photography
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork #1 / 5 sold in perfect condition printed on baryta heavyweight paper & framed (black metal border)
From the collection called "Art 2014", format 30x42 cm. SERIES OF 5 PRINTS...
Category
Photorealist Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Athens - Acropolis, Temple of Zeus
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 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 photogr...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$499 Sale Price
30% Off
Ravishing Rampling (1966) Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
Ravishing Rampling (1966)
(Photo By Phillip Harrington)
'60s icon Charlotte Rampling at The Pair of Shoes, a casino in London, 7th September 1966.
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Size: 16x20''
Printed Later from Archive Source
Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Edition of 100
NOTE OTHER SIZES OF THIS IMAGE AVAILABLE
10 x 12''
12 x 16''
16 x 20''
20 x 24''
20 x 30''
FRAMING AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
About the Artist:
Phillip A. Harrington was born in 1920 and grew up in Holland, Michigan. He developed an interest in photography at an early age, joining the high school camera club at 16. At the age of 19, Harrington moved to New York City to study at the Clarence. H. White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
View from belfry of Stuttgart city hall, Stuttgart 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
New York City Ballet principal dancer Patricia McBride, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of New York City Ballet principal dancer Patricia McBride, 1976. Signed on the print recto by Jack Mitchell...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Gita in famiglia, 1961 - Contemporary Photorealist Black & White Photography
Located in Brussels, BE
Created during the year 1961 & printed later for the collection "Art 2014", format 42 x 60 cm. SERIES OF 5 PRINTS + 2 AP
Artwork sold in perfect condition
During the 15 year period i...
Category
Photorealist Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cows, Farm, Texas, Black and White Photography, USA, 1960, 18, 2 x 23, 5 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
Newport Tennis Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Newport Tennis 1953
Members of 'old Newport' watching the action on court at Newport Tennis Week, Rhode Island, USA, 1953.
Large oversize 30 x 30 inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size
...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Venice, Gondolas, Black and White, Italy 1950s, 12, 8 x 17, 9 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
Marilyn Monroe in Lingerie - 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
Boy with Mirror (Thomas Hart Benton Plate #26)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Michael Mardikes
Boy with Mirror (Thomas Hart Benton Plate #26)
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.: 924802-909
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...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$2,989 Sale Price
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Prince Rainier and Prince Albert Sledding
Located in Austin, TX
Candid capture of Prince Rainer and Prince Albert sledding, circa 1959.
Cadet of a reigning German dynasty, Prince Rainer was the head of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry b...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Erich Andres, Vintage, Rouen, 1941, 17, 5 x 12, 4 cm
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1941.
This photograph, taken in 1941 in Rouen, France, depicts a foggy street scene during World War II. The street is lined with traditional h...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
The Thinkers by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
The Thinkers
by Arthur Steel
The Thinkers – The National Gallery London circa 1968. A female art lover admires’The Thinker’, a famous bronze...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Fill Her Up" by Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Fill Her Up" by Bert Hardy
24th May 1947: Pit staff filling up Louis Chiron's (1899 - 1979) Maserati. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4364 - Road Racing In Jersey - pub. 1947
...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Sophia Loren - 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...
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
John F. Kennedy Election campaign 1960
Located in Cologne, DE
Born in Cologne in 1922, died in Hamburg in 2004.
Apprenticeship as a machinist from 1937, then studied engineering (not completed due to the war). Served in the war and imprisoned....
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Erich Andres, Vintage, Miners, Germany, 1950, 17, 5 x 12, 5 cm
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1950
This black-and-white photograph from 1950 shows three young men working in what appears to be a mine. The boys are gathered around a larg...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Pacific Diver" by Evans
Located in London, GB
"Pacific Diver" by Evans
circa 1950: Swimmer diving into rough water lashing against rocky cliffs at Acapulco, the Riviera of Mexico.
Unframed
Paper Size: ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Bert Hardy 'Mercedes Racer' Limited Edition Photograph by Getty, 20x24
Located in San Rafael, CA
Argentinian race car driver Juan Fangio (1911 - 1995) in his Mercedes at Le Mans, June 1955. The race saw the death of Mercedes team mate Pierre Levegh and 80 spectators. Original Pu...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, 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
Ecuador, Woman, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 21, 4 x 17, 3 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
Artist Red Grooms, signed By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of artist Red Grooms in his studio in 1968. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,500 Sale Price
50% Off
Ecuador, Indigenous Woman, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 21, 4 x 29 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
Elvis Presley With Rolls Royce at His Graceland Mansion
Located in Austin, TX
1960's image of Elvis Presley, the King of Rock n' Roll at his castle in Graceland posing with his beautiful Rolls Royce. The photo is a later-generation example and is a re-strike t...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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