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Style: American Modern
Patsy Pulitzer, Private Transport
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Patsy Pulitzer, Private Transport 1955 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Patsy Pulitzer rummag...
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1950s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Dance Study 1117
Located in Lawrence, NY
# 1 of 8 Signed, dated and numbered Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a fo...
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1990s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Harlem, New York City
Located in Dallas, TX
Unique Vintage gelatin silver print 10 x 8 in. Titled and artist stamp on verso. Born in Munkacs, Hungary, John Albok learned photography as a boy. He came to the U.S. in 1921 findi...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Dance Study 1073
Located in Lawrence, NY
# 1 of 8 Signed, dated and numbered Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a fo...
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2010s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Coney Island
Located in Dallas, TX
Unique Vintage gelatin silver print 7 1/4 x 6 1/8 in. Titled, dated, and artist stamp. Born in Munkacs, Hungary, John Albok learned photography as a boy. He came to the U.S. in 1921...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons 'Digging for Clams on Black Beach' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Digging for Clams on Black Beach (Slim Aarons Estate Edition), 1960 (printed later) Chromogenic Lambda print Mrs Hans Estin watches her children digging for clams at low...
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1960s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Lambda

Bathing Beauties
Located in Dallas, TX
Vintage gelatin silver print 9 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. Titled, dated and artist stamp on verso. Born in Munkacs, Hungary, John Albok learned photography as a boy. He came to the U.S. in 192...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Two Volkswagons
Located in East Hampton, NY
Black & White Photo of two rusted Volkswagon's sitting in a desert Comes unframed Also available in 20"x30" About the Artist: My intent is to create a mythic dreamscape that explo...
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1960s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Digging for Clams on Black Beach' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Digging for Clams on Black Beach (Slim Aarons Estate Edition), 1960 (printed later) Chromogenic Lambda print Mrs Hans Estin watches her children digging for clams at low...
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1960s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Lambda

Ice Man, 110th Street
Located in Dallas, TX
Unique Vintage gelatin silver print 10 x 8 in. Titled, dated, and artist stamp. Born in Munkacs, Hungary, John Albok learned photography as a boy. He came to the U.S. in 1921 findin...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Nude Study 1363
Located in Lawrence, NY
#1 of 8, signed, dated and numbered Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a fol...
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1990s American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Dance Study 4006
Located in Lawrence, NY
#1 of 8, signed, dated and numbered Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a fol...
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Early 2000s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Digging for Clams (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Digging for Clams on Black Beach (Slim Aarons Estate Edition), 1960 Chromogenic Lambda print Mrs Hans Estin watches her children digging...
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1960s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Lambda

Kings of Hollywood (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Kings of Hollywood (Slim Aarons Estate Edition), 1957 Film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (19...
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1950s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Seemore's Ice Cream
Located in East Hampton, NY
Seemore's Ice Cream Comes unframed About the Artist: My intent is to create a mythic dreamscape that explores the balance between the spiritual and the abstract. The artistic result...
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1960s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Tightrope
Located in Detroit, MI
Tightrope, Archival film photograph with frame, 2017 Raised in the American West, this region has resonated in mythical proportions within Antonia Stoyanovich...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Photographic Paper

Inga Lindgren and Poodles by Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries. Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days. Currency fluctuations may cause the price to change. This is a contemporary print from the Getty Archive using Slim Aarons negatives. Please contact the gallery for information about other print sizes. All prints feature a Slim Aarons blindstamp, and are accompanied by a Slim Aarons Certificate of Authentication issued by Getty. 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. "Inga Lindgren...
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20th Century American Modern Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper, Digital, Resin, Black and White

Hope Clark 1: Performance
Located in Lawrence, NY
#4 of 8, signed, dated and numbered Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a fol...
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1990s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

LIquid Light Study 1067
Located in Lawrence, NY
#1 of 8 Signed and numbered Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a following i...
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Early 2000s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Shannon Chain 14
Located in Lawrence, NY
#2 of 8 signed and dated, lr new print Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a ...
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1990s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Bedside View (Sunlight streams through window across body of young woman)
Located in New Orleans, LA
a sexy young girl lies in bed bathed in sunlight
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2010s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Digital Pigment

Eden Hartford by Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries. Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
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20th Century American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Digital, Resin, Black and White

Modelling for Saks Fifth Avenue by Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries. Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
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20th Century American Modern Black and White Photography

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Digital, Black and White, Photographic Paper

Touching
Located in Detroit, MI
Touching, Archival film photograph with frame, 2019 Raised in the American West, this region has resonated in mythical proportions within Antonia Stoyanovich...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Photographic Paper

Burlington Arcade by Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries. Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days. Currency fluctuations may cause the price to change. This is a contemporary print from the Getty Archive using Slim Aarons negatives. Please contact the gallery for information about other print sizes. All prints feature a Slim Aarons blindstamp, and are accompanied by a Slim Aarons Certificate of Authentication issued by Getty. 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. "Burlington Arcade...
Category

20th Century American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Digital, Resin, Black and White

Saks Fifth Avenue by Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries. Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category

20th Century American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Digital, Black and White

Saks Fashion Show by Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries. Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category

20th Century American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Digital, Black and White

Rowan
Located in Detroit, MI
Rowan, Archival film photograph with frame, 2018 Raised in the American West, this region has resonated in mythical proportions within Antonia Stoyanovich...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Photographic Paper

Friend of the Horse
Located in Detroit, MI
Friend of the Horse, Framed, Brown Wood, 2018 Raised in the American West, this region has resonated in mythical proportions within Antonia Stoyanovich...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Ink

Jean Patchett for Saks Fifth Avenue by Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries. Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category

20th Century American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Digital, Black and White

Sisters
Located in Detroit, MI
Sisters, Archival film photograph with frame, 2019 Raised in the American West, this region has resonated in mythical proportions within Antonia Stoyanovich’s own narrative and imag...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Photographic Paper

Untitled, (Cactus)
Located in Detroit, MI
Untitled, (Cactus), Archival film photograph with frame, 2019 Raised in the American West, this region has resonated in mythical proportions within Antonia Stoyanovich...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Photographic Paper

Palm Desert
Located in Detroit, MI
Palm Desert, Archival film photograph with frame, 2019 Raised in the American West, this region has resonated in mythical proportions within Antonia Stoyanovich...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Photographic Paper

Two Doves
Located in Detroit, MI
Two Doves, Archival film photograph with frame, 2019 Raised in the American West, this region has resonated in mythical proportions within Antonia Stoyanovi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Photographic Paper

Shapes of the NFL: Cameron Brown 13
Located in Lawrence, NY
#1 of 8 signed, numbered, dated Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a follow...
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2010s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Natalia Makarova " vintage photography. "Serge Lifar "
Located in CANNES, FR
"Natalia Makarova " is an gelatin print , silver bromide, numbered and signed photograph offered to " serge Lifar " by Max Waldman . Artist proof . Ser...
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1970s American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Kent, England
Located in Dallas, TX
Kent, England, 1968 Gelatin silver print Paper size: 20 x 24 in., Image size: 14 3/4 x 21 3/4 in. Signed in black ink on print margin by Elliott Erwitt Born to Russian parents in Pa...
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1960s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Print, Girls on a Beach Photo, Two Man Show
Located in Surfside, FL
Richard Lebowitz, b. 1937, American, (RISD Faculty 1964-1995, Photography; Professor Emeritus) Tom Young, b. 1951, American, (RISD MFA 1977, Photography) TIT...
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1980s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Dance Study 1066
Located in Lawrence, NY
#1 of 8 Signed and numbered Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a following i...
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2010s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Dance Study: Shannon Chain 16
Located in Lawrence, NY
#3 of 8 Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a following in the 1990s with two...
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Early 2000s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Dance Study: Balance
Located in Lawrence, NY
#2 of 8 Printed to order then signed and numbered Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first es...
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1990s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Vintage Silver Gelatin Print Photo Israel Museum Sculpture Jerusalem Photograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Susan Hacker -Israel Museum, Sculpture Garden, Jerusalem, Israel, 1979 Silver Gelatin black/white photograph, printed in 1983, hand signed, titled (Jerusalem) and noted. There is no edition size stated Location (Jerusalem), shoot date (1979) and photo print date (1983) and signature in pencil on the bottom back of the photograph. This is of the sculpture Woman skipping rope by Luciano Minguzzi located in the Isamu Noguchi designed sculpture garden at the Israel Museum Image size: 22 x 33 cm Paper size: 28 x 35.5 cm Susan Hacker (1949) is an American photographer and author. She developed and expanded the photography department at Webster University in St. Louis. Her work is in the possession of at least 25 major museums and libraries around the world. There are also many books and publications about her. Has always experimented with many photographic techniques. Hacker is recognized as an innovator of the modern photography art. Susan Hacker Stang (born Susan Hacker, October 19, 1949) is an American photographer, author, and educator. Stang served on the faculty of communications at Webster University in St. Louis from 1974 through 2015 and now holds the title Professor Emeritus. She helped found and build the respected photography program there, heading it for most of her tenure at the university. Her work has been collected by more than 25 major museums and libraries around the world and appears in half a dozen books and numerous magazines. Much of her photography involves the innovative use of alternative cameras, formats, techniques, and media, as evidenced by her two books Encountering Florence (featuring subtly surreal black and white prints of the Italian city using 8 x 10 Polaroid emulsion transfers) and Kodachrome – End of the Run: Photographs from the Final Batches (which chronicles a six-month university photography project in which students and staff would shoot more than 100 roles of rare Kodachrome film for processing on the last day of operations by the world's last remaining Kodachrome processing lab.) In 2016, she published a book of photographs, reAPPEARANCES, which is a sequence of fifty-two photographs made with a digital toy camera (the JOCO VX5). The volume purports to take the viewer on a visual journey through the uncanny coherence of the look of the world, according to Stang's introductory essay. Stang majored in photography at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she earned both a BFA (1971) and MFA (1974), and studied under photographers Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. In 1971 she moved to London where she worked as a photographer for the British fashion magazine NOVA (published 1965–1975). She joined the faculty of Webster University in St. Louis in 1974, where she helped found and build the photographic studies program in the School of Communications. In Jerusalem in 1979 she was Artist-In-Residence at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. In recent years, in addition to her work as head of the Webster University photography program and professor of communications, she has taught summer photography workshops in Florence, Italy, both at the Santa Reparata International School of Art (SRISA) and The Darkroom. She taught at Webster for 41 years and earned the Kemper Award for Excellence in Teaching. Stang's photography characteristically employs alternative cameras (such as the Olympus Pen-FT half-frame camera, the Kodak Brownie, and the Holga), or alternative formats (such as Polaroid emulsion transfers) and techniques. Her book of Polaroid emulsion transfers, Encountering Florence was published simultaneously in the U.S. and in Italy (under the title Firenze un Incontro) in 2007. Stang's use of the emulsion transfer process involves transferring the fragile, fabric-like emulsion layer of the photograph (bearing the image) to another surface, subtly transforming the original image in a variety of ways. The results were described in Photo Review as giving Stang's portraits of Florence's buildings, streets, statuary, and gardens "a delicate, draping quality ... reminiscent of the fabrics draped on the ancient statues within the images". An Italian reviewer observed that the photographic process presents "a city not previously seen and perhaps a little disquieting". The book's bi-lingual text in English and Italian was selected and edited by Stang and by Andrea Burzi and Susanna Sarti, both of Florence, to present accompanying word-portraits from authors in their own encounters with the city. A portfolio of Stang's work for the book is held by the Rare Books Collection of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Firenze. In 2010–11, Stang led the Webster University photography program in a six-month-long focus on the color reproduction qualities of Kodachrome film (long revered by professional and amateur photographer for its true, lush color rendition qualities) to mark the permanent discontinuing of the film's production by Kodak. The project ultimately turned into a book documenting the final demise of the medium, and the last day of Kodachrome production anywhere in the world (at Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kansas, on January 18, 2011). The last days of processing were covered by The New York Times, National Geographic, and network television. Edited by Stang and fellow photographer Bill Barrett, Kodachrome: End of the Run presents a selection of four-score Kodachrome images shot on more than 100 roles of the film by Webster University students, faculty, and staff over a five-month period and processed by Dwayne's in the final hours as the last processing chemicals ran out. The book includes essays by Stang, Time Magazine worldwide pictures editor Arnold Drapkin, and Dwayne's Photo vice president Grant...
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1970s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper

Dance Study 1213 (Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, Richard Witter)
Located in Lawrence, NY
#1 of edition of 8 edition size is 8 across all sizes Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first...
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2010s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Pascal LeRoy
Located in Lawrence, NY
#22 of 24 Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a following in the 1990s with t...
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1990s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Cocoon
Located in Lawrence, NY
#1 od 8 Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a following in the 1990s with two...
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Early 2000s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Luminous Forest, Yosemite National Park, California
Located in Dallas, TX
"I like to go back to a place. Seasons change. Light, which is theater, changes. Nature is tumultuous, and our contact with it makes life happen.” - David H. Gibson David H. Gibson ...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Vintage Silver Gelatin Magnum Press Photo Eve Arnold Marilyn Monroe Photograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Marilyn Monroe Vintage press photo. Photographer Eve Arnold for Magnum Photos. 1962 printed later. (I believe in the early 80's) Eve Arnold, OBE, Hon. ...
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1960s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Weegee "Distortion: Stripes"
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Innovative, provocative, inimitable - these are just a few of the words to describe America's boldest photographer. Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee (1899-1968) was a ground-breaking, successful (and notorious) photojournalist. His images shot on the streets of New York City are iconic and influential. In the 1930s he became the first New York City press photographer to obtain permission to install a police radio in his car. This allowed him to follow the city's first responders and to document their duties; responding to fire, crime, debauchery and of course, murder. By the early 1940s Weegee was experiencing fatigue with crime reportage. Ironically, this was also the point when he finally began experiencing professional validation and acclaim, to the point of being a minor celebrity. Notably in 1941 he was included in The MoMA's seminal "50 Photographs by 50 Photographers" (curated by Edward Steichen). The museum would also acquire five Weegee photographs...
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1940s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

'Route 66 Missouri: Former Antique Shop Sign, Phelps' photograph by T. Ferderbar
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In images such as this, the influence of Ansel Adams and the other members of the group f.64 is clearly evident. The group f.64 was intent on truth in the medium of photography, wanting to push the camera to see even more clearly than the human eye. To do this, they used the small aperture, marked by the f-stop 64, which allows the camera to have an expansive depth of field. In this image, the earthy and sensuous textures of the brick and stone walls stand in direct contrast to the clean lines and graphic finish of the Route 66 sign. Ferderbar's mastery of the camera as an instrument brings out these contrasts following the legacies of the earlier American masters. 10 x 8 inches, image 13.75 x 11.5 inches, sheet 16.13 x 13.88 inches, frame Signed lower right Framed to conservation standards using archival materials including 100 percent rag matting, Museum Glass to inhibit fading, and housed in a modern profile silver finish wood moulding. ARTIST STATEMENT: I wanted to become a photographer at the age of 12, when my sister Grace gave me a Kodak Box Brownie camera for Christmas. (I still have that camera.) Since our family was quite poor, I built my first enlarger with an oatmeal box, while that same box camera was used as its lens. In 1947, just after graduation from high school, I had the opportunity to travel to California by car and house trailer with my uncle, aunt and mother, and in the process to shoot my first pictures along Route 66. Then, after graduation from college, a stint in the army followed by photography school, I opened an advertising photography studio in 1954. For over four decades my staff and I earned numerous local, regional and national awards for our achievements in photography, including several "best of show" honors. In 1958 I studied with renowned landscape photographer Ansel Adams at his Yosemite National Park workshop. In 1980, while still operating my advertising photography studio, I began a serious photographic study of the decaying artifacts along our country's former Mother Road, Route 66. The former national highway route from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California was not a popular subject at the time, and so I filed away my transparencies, not knowing what I might ever do with them. However, as time passed Route 66 did become a topic of national interest, and upon my retirement in 1997, I once again returned to record the Mother Road's artifacts. A number of my Yosemite series photographs are included in the Ansel and Virginia Adams collection at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona at Tucson, and several of my Route 66 photographs and other subjects have been acquired by the Milwaukee Art Museum. At this time I am preparing a book of my photographic experiences along Route 66, from 1947 to the present. -Tom Ferderbar
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Early 2000s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Photographic Paper

Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Thomas Hoving John Lindsey Costume Party Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Thomas Hoving and John Lindsay at a benefit party 1/18/1967 Photographer is Fred McDarrah Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off-Broadway actors, troubadours, politicians, agitators and social protests. Fred captured Jack Kerouac frolicking with women at a New Year’s bash in 1958, Andy Warhol adjusting a movie-camera lens in his silver-covered factory, and Bob Dylan offering a salute of recognition outside Sheridan Square near the Voice’s old office. Not just a social chronicler, McDarrah was a great photo-journalist. For years, McDarrah was the Voice's only photographer and, for decades, he ran the Voice’s photo department, where he helped train dozens of young photographers, including James Hamilton, Sylvia Plachy, Robin Holland and Marc Asnin. His mailbox was simply marked "McPhoto." An exhibit of McDarrah’s photos of artists presented by the Steven Kasher Gallery in Chelsea was hailed by The New York Times as “a visual encyclopedia of the era’s cultural scene.” artists in their studios, (Alice Neel, Philip Guston, Stuart Davis, Robert Smithson, Jasper Johns, Franz Kline), actors (Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro on the set of “Taxi Driver”), musicians (Janis Joplin, Alice Cooper, Bob Dylan) and documentary images of early happenings and performances (Yayoi Kusama, Charlotte Moorman, Al Hansen, Jim Dine, Nam June Paik). The many images of Andy Warhol include the well-known one with his Brillo boxes at the Stable Gallery in 1964. Woody Allen, Diane Arbus, W. H. Auden, Francis Bacon, Joan Baez, Louise Bourgeois, David Bowie, Jimmy Breslin, William Burroughs, John Cage, Leo Castelli, Christo, Leonard Cohen, Merce Cunningham, William de Kooning, Jim Dine, Mark di Suvero, Marcel Duchamp, Bob Dylan, Federico Fellini, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Indiana, Mick Jagger, Jasper Johns, Kusama, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Nam June Paik, Elvis Presley, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Robert Rauschenberg, Lou Reed, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko, Ed Ruscha, Robert Smithson, Susan Sontag, Andy Warhol, and others. McDarrah’s prints have been collected in depth by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington. His work is in numerous public and private collections. Thomas Pearsall Field Hoving was an American museum executive and consultant and the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was born in New York City to Walter Hoving, the head of Tiffany & Company, and his wife, Mary Osgood Field, a descendant of Samuel Osgood. Hoving grew up surrounded by New York's upper social strata. As recounted in his memoir, Making the Mummies Dance, these early experiences would be invaluable in his later dealings with the Met's donors and trustees. He edited Connoisseur Magazine from 1981 to 1991; along with his memoirs of his time at the Met, he is also the author of books on a number of art-related subjects, including art forgeries, Grant Wood, Andrew Wyeth, Tutankhamun, and the 12th-century walrus ivory crucifix known as the Bury St. Edmunds Cross...
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1960s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Weegee "Sailor and Girl Kissing"
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Weegee (1899-1968) was equally fascinated and inspired by cinema and all of its tangents, from Hollywood movie stars to ordinary civilians going to the movies. While Weegee is typically associated with crime/disaster images, the broad theme of "entertainment" is a major component of his oeuvre. An interesting and provocative sub-genre of his cinema-related work are his images of couples (often heavy-petting) in movie theatres. Recent scholarship has established that many of Weegee's supposed clandestine images were actually staged or arranged with friends or co-operative strangers. Nevertheless, Weegee created these photographs in the dark with an array of clever techniques including infrared film, filtered flashbulb and triangular prism lens. Employed in shots such as this one, the prism lens would allow the artist to “see around corners,” useful at times when his subjects were in compromising locations. These images of kissing couples, Weegee wrote in 1959, were “his best seller, year in and year out.” "Sailor and GIrl at the Movies...
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1940s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Tipper Gore, Democratic Fundraiser 1992 Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Tipper Gore at Democratic Fund Raiser 10/1/1992 Photographer is Fred McDarrah Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, it's off-off-Broadway actors, troubadours, politicians, agitators and social protests. Fred captured Jack Kerouac frolicking with women at a New Year’s bash in 1958, Andy Warhol adjusting a movie-camera lens in his silver-covered factory, and Bob Dylan offering a salute of recognition outside Sheridan Square near the Voice’s old office. Not just a social chronicler, McDarrah was a great photo-journalist. For years, McDarrah was the Voice's only photographer and, for decades, he ran the Voice’s photo department, where he helped train dozens of young photographers, including James Hamilton, Sylvia Plachy, Robin Holland and Marc Asnin. His mailbox was simply marked "McPhoto." An exhibit of McDarrah’s photos of artists presented by the Steven Kasher Gallery in Chelsea was hailed by The New York Times as “a visual encyclopedia of the era’s cultural scene.” artists in their studios, (Alice Neel, Philip Guston, Stuart Davis, Robert Smithson, Jasper Johns, Franz Kline), actors (Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro on the set of “Taxi Driver”), musicians (Janis Joplin, Alice Cooper, Bob Dylan) and documentary images of early happenings and performances (Yayoi Kusama, Charlotte Moorman, Al Hansen, Jim Dine, Nam June Paik). The many images of Andy Warhol include the well-known one with his Brillo boxes at the Stable Gallery in 1964. Woody Allen, Diane Arbus, W. H. Auden, Francis Bacon, Joan Baez, Louise Bourgeois, David Bowie, Jimmy Breslin, William Burroughs, John Cage, Leo Castelli, Christo, Leonard Cohen, Merce Cunningham, William de Kooning, Jim Dine, Mark di Suvero, Marcel Duchamp, Bob Dylan, Federico Fellini, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Indiana, Mick Jagger, Jasper Johns, Kusama, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Nam June Paik, Elvis Presley, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Robert Rauschenberg, Lou Reed, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko, Ed Ruscha, Robert Smithson, Susan Sontag, Andy Warhol, and others. McDarrah’s prints have been collected in depth by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington. His work is in numerous public and private collections. Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Gore (née Aitcheson; born August 19, 1948) is an American social issues advocate who was the second lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. She is the estranged wife of Al Gore, the 45th vice president of the United States, from whom she separated in 2010. In 1985, Gore co-founded the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), which advocated for labeling of record covers of releases featuring profane language, especially in the heavy metal, punk and hip hop genres. Throughout her decades of public life, she has advocated for placing advisory labels on music (leading critics to call her a censor), mental health awareness, women's causes, children's causes, LGBT rights and reducing homelessness. Gore co-founded the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) with Susan Baker, wife of then–United States secretary of the treasury James Baker, because Gore heard her then 11-year-old daughter Karenna playing "Darling Nikki" by Prince. The group's goal was to increase parental and consumer awareness of music that contained explicit content through voluntary labeling albums with Parental Advisory stickers. According to an article by NPR, Gore went "before Congress to urge warning labels for records marketed to children. A number of individuals including Dee Snider of Twisted Sister, Jello Biafra...
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1990s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Vintage Signed Silver Gelatin Photograph Beat Poet Peter Orlovsky Beatnik Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
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...
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1960s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Safari Party at Romanoff's (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Safari Party at Romanoff's, 1950 Chromogenic Lambda print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. 1950: G...
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1950s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Lambda

Mission San Xavier Del Bac, Tucson Arizona
Located in San Francisco, CA
This Photograph titled "Mission San Xavier Del Bac, Tucson Arizona" is a gelatin silver print by noted American photographer Huntington Witherill, born ...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Weegee "A Trip to Mars"
Located in Toronto, Ontario
While many first associate Weegee (aka Arthur Fellig) with New York City crime scenes, perhaps a broader and more consistent theme is that of spectacle and/or urban entertainment. The origins of his nick-name and reputation date back to the 1930s when he became the first New York City press photographer to obtain permission to install a police radio in his car. Following the city's first responders and documenting their duties, Weegee had unprecedented access to New York’s fires, crimes, debaucheries and of course, murders. During the first decade of his career these unflinching urban tragedy or crime images paid Weegee's bills, but as he became more financially independent he was more inspired to pursue photographs on his own agenda. While his oeuvre is vast, Weegee was especially drawn to entertainment: nightlife, circuses, the theatre, showgirls, city thrills, the cinema etc. Some of Weegee's most dynamic and tender (and under-appreciated!) images are related to simply having fun (in a crowd). He was not confined to one neighbourhood or demographic. He captured action, faces and events from Coney Island to the Bowery and Greenwich Village, to Times Square and Harlem. In “A Trip To Mars,” Weegee depicts a multi-generational group crowding around a large telescope...
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1940s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Ice Form #3, Yosemite National Park
Located in San Francisco, CA
This Photograph titled "Ice Form #3, Yosemite National Park" is a gelatin silver print by noted American photographer Huntington Witherill, born...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Vintage Silver Gelatin Print Photo Mets Baseball Sports Photograph Americana
Located in Surfside, FL
Youth at mets Game waiting for Autograph on August 20th, 1970 Photographer is Fred McDarrah Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s pos...
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1970s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

American Modern black and white photography for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic American Modern black and white photography available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add black and white photography created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Destro, Fred McDarrah, Slim Aarons, and Howard Schatz. Frequently made by artists working with Silver Gelatin Print, and Pigment Print and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large American Modern black and white photography, so small editions measuring 3.5 inches across are also available. Prices for black and white photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $45 and tops out at $35,000, while the average work sells for $1,800.

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