Modern Black and White Photography
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Period: 1940s
Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Lithograph
Stieglitz, Hands, Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Lithograph
Stieglitz, O'Keeffe Hands w/Thimble, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Lithograph
Stieglitz, Mountains and Sky, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Lithograph
Stieglitz, The Terminal, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Lithograph
Stieglitz, New York Series, Spring, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Lithograph
Stieglitz, Venetian Boy, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Lithograph
Stieglitz, Poplars, Lake George, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Lithograph
Stieglitz, The Steerage, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Lithograph
Stieglitz, Spring Showers, New York, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Lithograph
Stieglitz, Equivalent, Series 107, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Lithograph
Stieglitz, Sky, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Lithograph
Stieglitz, Sunlight and Shadows, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Lithograph
Stieglitz, Equivalent 27C, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Lithograph
Stieglitz, Evening from the Shelton, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Lithograph
Stieglitz, John Marin, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Lithograph
Stieglitz, Night, New York, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Lithograph
Stieglitz, Barn, Lake George, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Lithograph
Montego Bay Fisherman 1940s Toni Frissell Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Montego Bay Fishermen 1940s Toni Frissell Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Fishermen at work on a beach in Montego Bay Jamaica circa 1940.
by Toni Frissell
30 x 30" inches / 76 x...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Casablanca - Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart Original 1942 Print
Located in London, GB
Casablanca - Original 1942 photograph
Vintage 1942 Casablanca Lobby Card:
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether o...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Photographic Paper
Montego Bay Fishermen 1940s Toni Frissell Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Montego Bay Fishermen 1940s Toni Frissell Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Fishermen at work on a beach in Montego Bay Jamaica circa 1940.
by Toni Frissell
40 x 40" inches / 101 ...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Rodeo (Cowgirl)
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 60
Signed and numbered in pencil on print verso.
Harold “Doc” Edgerton was born in 1903, in Fremont, Nebraska. During his summers as a teenager, he worked in his uncle’s ...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Bert Hardy Gorbals Boys 1948 - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
Gorbals Boys (1948) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Bert Hardy/Getty Images Archive London)
Possibly Bert Hardy's most famous image.
Two boys in the Gorbals area of Glasgow.
The Gorbals tenements were built quickly and cheaply in the 1840s, providing housing for Glasgow's burgeoning population of industrial workers.
Conditions were appalling; overcrowding was standard and sewage and water facilities inadequate.
The tenements housed about 40,000 people with up to eight family members sharing a single room,
30 residents sharing a toilet and 40 sharing a tap.
By the time this photograph was taken 850 tenements had been demolished since 1920.
Redevelopment of the area began in the late 1950s and the tenements were replaced with a modern tower block complex in the sixties. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4499 - The Forgotten Gorbals - pub. 1948
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Size: 20 x 16'' inches / 51 x 41 cm
Printed 2024
Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Limited edition issued and stamped on front by the Getty Archive London
Edition size 300 only
NOTE OTHER SIZES OF THIS IMAGE AVAILABLE
10 x 8''
10 x 12''
12 x 16''
16 x 20''
20 x 24''
FRAMING AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
Bert Hardy Albert William Thomas Hardy (19 May 1913 – 3 July 1995)
was an English documentary and press photographer
known for his work published in the Picture Post magazine between 1941 and 1957.
Life and work Born in Blackfriars, Bert Hardy rose from humble working class origins in Southwark, London.
The eldest of seven children, he left school at age 14 to work for a chemist who also processed photos.
His first big sale came in 1936 when he photographed King George V and Queen Mary in a passing carriage during the Silver Jubilee celebrations, and sold 200 small prints of his best view of the King.
His first assignment, at age 23, was to photograph Hungarian actor Sakall at the Mayfair Hotel.
Hardy freelanced for The Bicycle magazine, and bought his first small-format 35 mm Leica.
He signed on with the General Photographic Agency as a Leica photographer,
later founding his own freelance firm, Criterion.
General Photographic Agency General Photographic Agency a Fleet Street, London agency, sold photos at least between 1880-1950.
Picture Post and World War II In 1941,
Hardy was recruited by the then editor Tom Hopkinson of the leading picture publication of the 1930s to the 1950s, Picture Post.
Founded in 1938 and funded by publisher Edward Hulton, the magazine's first editor was Hungarian émigré Stefan Lorant (1901–97) assisted by Hopkinson, who took over as editor from 1940. The picture-centric, left-leaning and reasonably-priced publication was highly successful and circulation soon rose to over a million.
Hardy's photographer colleagues included Felix H. Man (aka Hans Baumann...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Black and White, 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.
Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre based print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estat...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Queen Elisabeth and Princess Margaret - Royal family - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elisabeth and Princess Margaret Rose - Royal family is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1940s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of hist...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Photographic Paper
"Dinner Jazz" by Slim Aarons
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
"Dinner Jazz" by Slim Aarons
1949: American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong (1898 - 1971) enjoys a plate of spaghetti in Rome.
Unframed
Paper S...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Black and White
Hudson River, New York Navy Day 1945, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography Framed
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Associated Press Photo. The Hudson River in New York during Navy Day in October 1945.
Features:
Original Silver Gelatin Print...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
USS Roosevelt, New York Navy Day 1945, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography Framed
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Associated Press Photo. The USS Roosevelt aircraft carriers on the Hudson River, New York, during Navy Day...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Backstage At La Scala Essentials Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Backstage At La Scala
1948
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A chorus girl reads a movie magazine in a dressing room at La Scala opera house, Milan, November 1948...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Dinner Jazz Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dinner Jazz
1949
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
1949: American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong (1898 – 1971) enjoys a plate of spaghetti in Rome.
...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Norma Shoulders, Henrietta, OK by John Stryker, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
By John Stryker
Located in Dallas, TX
Norma Shoulders, Henrietta, OK by John Stryker is a 10 x 8 inch vintage silver gelatin print. This photograph is signed in ink on print recto, and titled in pencil on print verso.
John Stryker was born in Rockford, Illinois, September 1, 1883. He is most remembered for his body of photographs he took of the "Olympic of Western sport"*- the Rodeo. During his lifetime he crossed America, working rodeos as an announcer, a producer, promoter and sometimes a rider. He invented the chute that the animals come out of and he developed new ways of photographing action during an event.
Dramatic shots were taken from the ground, propping his camera on the toe of his right boot right next to a bucking bronco.
Some historians believe that John Stryker was directly responsible for the growth and sophistication of the sport.
His negatives are in the collection of the University of Texas at Permian Basin, Odessa. His photographs have been exhibited during his lifetime at the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming, and the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas. His photographs have been published widely including Life, Look, The Cattleman, The Western Horseman, and The Quarter Horse Journal. In 1977, The Rodeo of John Addison Stryker...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Mary Illen, Ft. Worth, TX by John Stryker, Silver Gelatin Print, Photography
By John Stryker
Located in Dallas, TX
Mary Illen Ft. Worth, TX by John Stryker is a 10 x 8 inch silver gelatin print. This photograph is signed in ink on print recto and titled in pencil on print verso.
This photograph features a cowgirl riding a light colored horse, resting at a river. The horse reaches down to the water for a drink, while the woman looks down lovingly at the horse.
John Stryker was born in Rockford, Illinois, September 1, 1883. He is most remembered for his body of photographs he took of the "Olympic of Western sport"*- the Rodeo. During his lifetime he crossed America, working rodeos as an announcer, a producer, promoter and sometimes a rider. He invented the chute that the animals come out of and he developed new ways of photographing action during an event.
Dramatic shots were taken from the ground, propping his camera on the toe of his right boot right next to a bucking bronco.
Some historians believe that John Stryker was directly responsible for the growth and sophistication of the sport.
His negatives are in the collection of the University of Texas at Permian Basin, Odessa. His photographs have been exhibited during his lifetime at the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming, and the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas. His photographs have been published widely including Life, Look, The Cattleman, The Western Horseman, and The Quarter Horse Journal. In 1977, The Rodeo of John Addison Stryker...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Jazz Scooter'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Jazz Scooter
1949 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Lucille Brown takes control of the Vespa...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Style 'Burlington Arcade'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Burlington Arcade
1955 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Shops in Burlington Arcade, which r...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Jazz Scooter'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Jazz Scooter
1949 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Lucille Brown takes control of the Vespa...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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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...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Style 'Florence Pritchett Smith'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Burlington Arcade
1955 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Model turned fashion editor turned ...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
The King Of Jazz Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The King Of Jazz
1949
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
1949: Photographers taking pictures of American jazz trumpeter and singer, Louis Armstrong (1901 – 1971) as...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
1947 Philippe Halsman photograph of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, Hollywood
Located in Larchmont, NY
Philippe Halsman (Latvia born American, 1906 - 1979)
Title: Yehudi Menuhin, Hollywood
Date Of Negative: 1947
Sight size: 12 x 10 in.
Framed: 19 3/4 x 17 3/4 in.
Artist stamp verso
In...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Black and White
Antonio Kahlo, "Portrait of Frida, " silver gelatin, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original silver gelatin print of Frida Kahlo taken by Antonio Kahlo circa 1940. It is hand signed in pencil on verso by Antonio who was ...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
V&A Museum London 'HRH Princess Elizabeth' by Cecil Beaton
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
'HRH Princess Elizabeth' by Cecil Beaton (1904-80)
Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, in a Norman Hartnell gown, Buckingham Palace, Engla...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'The 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...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Lucky For Some 1949
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Lucky For Some
1949: Sicilian-born gangster Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano (1897 – 1962) walking down a street in his native Sicily, followed by local children mimicking his posture. Whilst in prison between 1936 and 1946, he founded the Crime Syndicate of Mafia families and reorganised crime in America.
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
silver gelatin print
paper size 16 x 16" inches / 40 x 40 cm
unframed
printed later
edition size 150 only
certificate of authenticity supplied
numbered in ink & blind embossed stamped Slim Aarons signature on front
Authorised and issued by the Slim Aarons Archive & Estate c/o The Getty Archive London England and produced utilizing the original transparency.
b/w black and white 1940 40s fashion...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Candidate for U.S. Vice Presidency - Vintage Photograph - 1944
Located in Roma, IT
Candidate for U.S. Vice Presidency Acknowledges Ovation is a black and white photo realized in 1944.
In acknowledgement of the ovation accorded senator Harry S. Truman by cheering delegates a the Democratic Party...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Photographic Paper
Vintage Contact Sheet Jaffa, Tel Aviv circa 1940s
Located in Surfside, FL
A rare British Mandate Palestine, early state of Israel era, Black and White photography contact sheet. these were from a photo collection that included Robert Capa and other Magnum photographers. I do not know who this is by. It has VW written on the back and each one has a Volkswagen Beatle car on it. it might be early advertising memorabilia...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Photographic Paper
V&A Museum London 'HRH Princess Elizabeth' by Cecil Beaton
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
'HRH Princess Elizabeth' by Cecil Beaton (1904-80)
Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, in a Norman Hartnell gown, Buckingham Palace, Engla...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'The 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
1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cecil Beaton - Ruth Ford
By Cecil Beaton
Located in Cologne, DE
Sir Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) is considered one of the most important society photographers of the 20th century. His brilliant portraits of world-famous personalities from the worlds ...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
"Jazz Dancers" by Charles Hewitt
Located in London, GB
"Jazz Dancers" by Charles Hewitt
A series of images showing British jazz trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton playing while the wife of band member Mick Mullig...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Black and White
Slim Aarons 'Jazz Scooter'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Jazz Scooter
1949 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Lucille Brown takes control of the Vespa...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
New York City (broken mirror)
By Helen Levitt
Located in New York, NY
14 x 10 inch gelatin silver print, initialed "H.L." on verso.
From the James Agee Family Collection.
Helen Levitt was a true master of the street, one whose poetic vision, humor, an...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Cricketers on the Pitch'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Cricketers on the pitch, Belfast
1962 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Cricketers on the pi...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Weegee "Distortion: Stripes"
By Weegee
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 Modern Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Louis Armstrong 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.
Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre based print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estat...
Category
1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
"Cafe De Flore, Paris In 19" by Keystone-France
Located in London, GB
"Cafe De Flore, Paris In 1948" by Keystone-France
Cafe De Flore, Paris, France, 1948.
Unframed
Paper Size: 16" x 16'' (inches)
Printed 2022
Silver Gel...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
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.
Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre based print
Print...
Category
1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
"Martin And Sinatra" by J Wilds
Located in London, GB
"Martin And Sinatra" by J Wilds
American singers and actors Dean Martin (1917 - 1995) (centre) and Frank Sinatra (right) arriving at London airport, their friend and famed Beverly H...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Black and White
"Heavyweight" by Felix Man
Located in London, GB
"Heavyweight" by Felix Man
Eighteen-year-old animal trainer Zabuna lying under one of her performing elephants. This stunt forms part of her act for the Chessington Circus, currentl...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
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Black and White
Modern black and white photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic 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, blue, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Mark Shaw, Slim Aarons, Kevin Westenberg, and Terry O'Neill. Frequently made by artists working with Silver Gelatin Print, and Digital 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 Modern black and white photography, so small editions measuring 0.63 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 $22 and tops out at $152,896, while the average work sells for $1,500.