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Art Subject: Women
Megan Pheasant
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 1.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Chihuahuas" by Keystone
Located in London, GB
"Chihuahuas" by Keystone
A small dog's eye-view of two chihuahuas and their owners waiting for judges at Cruft's all-champion dog show.
Unframed
Paper Size: 20" x 24'' (inches)
Pri...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Silhouette VI
By Deana Nastic
Located in München, BY
Edition of 10
More sizes available on request.
Silhouette of a woman in black and white.
Artist Statement:
Art is the air that I breathe. I grew up in an artistic family, surround...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marilyn Monroe Being Interviewed Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Candid black and white capture of Marilyn Monroe being interviewed at The Continental Hilton Hotel Mexico city, 1962.
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One-of-a-kind original vintage press print from the Celebrity Vault archives. Own a piece of history and kick-start your collection with our one-of-a-kind pieces of your favorite celebrities.
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"The Marilyn Monroe community was shocked and stunned at the untimely passing of truly one of the greatest Monroe sculptors of all time, Kim Goodwin...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
The Italian Actress Agostina Belli - Bb/w Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Actress Agostina Belli during "Vanità", a TV show directed by Giorgio Capitani.
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
NYCB Dancer Gelsey Kirkland performing "Firebird", signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Gelsey Kirkland performing "Firebird", 1970. Signed on the print verso. Comes directly from the Jack Mitc...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dance
By Deana Nastic
Located in München, BY
Edition of 10
More sizes available on request.
Silhouette of a woman in black and white.
Artist Statement:
Art is the air that I breathe. I grew up in an artistic family, surround...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Silhouette I
By Deana Nastic
Located in München, BY
Edition of 10
More sizes available on request.
Silhouette of a woman in black and white.
Artist Statement:
Art is the air that I breathe. I grew up in an artistic family, surround...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bowie And Ronson On Stage - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Bowie And Ronson On Stage - Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
David Bowie and Mick Ronson Guitar Fellatio, 1972 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate.
Edition size...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
We are the Highway - 21st Century, Contemporary, Polaroid, Boyhood
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
We are the Highway ( It's only You and Me now ) - 2017, Edition 2/10 plus 2 Artist Proof, 50x50cm, Digital Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemühl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Spectral Device No. 3
Located in Sante Fe, NM
At nearly the same time that photography was invented, the practice of Spiritualism was being born in the "burned-over district" of New York. Central to its belief was the practice o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pottery, Shop, Street Photography, Black and White, Italy 1950s, 17.8 x 12.4 cm
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 1950.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photogr...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Am I Dreaming? - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Am I Dreaming? (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
20x20cm, Edition 2/10,
digital C-Print print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No. 9023.02,
No...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Silver Jacket, Paris 1997
By Robin Rice
Located in Hudson, NY
Robin Rice is a successful gallerist and photographer having spent the past 40 years living and working in New York City and Bridgehampton. While still the owner of the Robin Rice Ga...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Oaxaca, kitchen. Artist Self Portraits. Black and white Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Oaxaca (Cocina) by Paola Dávila
From the series places
Photograph printed analogically on 255 gr baryta fiber photographic paper. turned to selenium.
Image size: 18.3 cm H x 18.3 cm ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Gli Elegantoni, 1956 - Roma - Contemporary Black & White Photography
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork # 2 on 5 sold in perfect condition
Print called "Art 2014", format 42 x 60 cm. SERIES OF 5 PRINTS + 2 AP
On a cart in the street, the complicated choice of a tie, an essentia...
Category
1950s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Young Marilyn Monroe with Telescope Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white vintage image of a young Marilyn Monroe, before the blonde, smiling with a telescope.
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One-of-a-kind original vintage press print from the Celebrity Vault archives. Own a piece of history and kick-start your collection with our one-of-a-kind pieces of your favorite celebrities.
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"The Marilyn Monroe community was shocked and stunned at the untimely passing of truly one of the greatest Monroe sculptors of all time, Kim Goodwin...
Category
1940s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Vincent in the Air - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Figurative, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Edition of 10 - 20 x 20 cm
Digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on back and certificate.
Vincent in the Air - Shot 2019 on 600 film
This was taken midmorning in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Jeanloup Sieff - Intimode - Les Dessous de la mode
Located in Cologne, DE
From a Portfolio with 26 exclusive works of Jeanloup Sieff, limited to 200 copies.
The photograph of Jeanloup Sieff has been produced as Collotype under the direct commandment of the...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photogravure
Audrey Hepburn Breakfast at Tiffany's Feather Hat
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white portrait of Audrey Hepburn posed in a feather hat for her role in "Breakfast at Tiffany's".
Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic comedy film directed b...
Category
1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Film director Blake Edwards with his wife Julie Andrews, signed exhibition print
Located in Senoia, GA
Film director Blake Edwards with his wife Julie Andrews, 1986. This is a vintage gelatin silver print, selenium toned, made by hand by master photographe...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
France, Mythology Inspired Black and White Photography, Diane the Huntress
Located in New york, NY
A black and white photograph of a woman dressed in costume - goddess of the hunt, the moon, and nature - in mythology, Diana, the huntress a maiden with blond braids and a gold tiara. The mask on the back of the goddess invites us into the spirit world ... the subject photographed at a countryside masked ball in St Martin d'Ardeche, France.
Diana the Huntress, France, 1989 by Roberta Fineberg is a signed 14 x 11 gelatin silver print in an edition of 5.
Provenance: RF Archive
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Artist's Bio:
As a visual artist, Roberta Fineberg (RF) focuses on the themes of serendipity, inventiveness, and the development of ideas for her photography, video, installations, works on paper, and painting. Drawn to experimentation, she explores diverse mediums and concepts such as the ephemeral (Butterfly Series), stolen moments (documentary photography), play, timelessness, the enduring, and the significance of matter.
RF, living in New York City, began her career as an editorial photographer while studying in Paris. In France she contributed both photography and writing to publications, landing a column (photos and text) with The Saturday Review while exhibiting photographs in public spaces. Roberta Fineberg’s freelance photography appeared in Le Monde, Jeune Afrique, Paris Match, L’Officiel Femme, Ms, Weltwoche, Vanguardia, among others with images licensed through stock agencies. Photographs were selected for cover art at W.W. Norton, St. Martin’s Press, Harcourt, Bookspan, Simon & Schuster, etc. Print Regional Design Annual New York (2003) awarded her for book jacket photography for If Wishes Were Horses. In 1997 Macmillan published City Riders: A Story of Riding and Friendship her first book of black-and-white photographs and a story about three teenage girls in the 1990s who rode horses at the now-defunct Claremont Riding Academy and oldest stable in New York City.
In 2023, RF created an interactive installation, works on paper on the female body, in a public space. In July 2022, Fineberg’s Double Helix was included in a Sotheby’s auction in New York City and exhibited in the preview show Contemporary Discoveries. Selected exhibitions include Time Gallery New York (2022), Phyllis Harriman Gallery New York studio shows (2020, 2022), CADAF online art fair (2020), Gallery122 New York pop-up group...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Galope, Dos. Male Dancer's. Black and White Limited Edition Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Galope Dos, by Ricky Cohete
Archival Pigment Print
Small size: 20 in H x 30 in W.
Edition of 13 + 1AP
Unframed
2020
The artist uses a vivid contrast of color to add an extra dimensi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Echo - Contemporary, Figurative, Woman, Polaroid, 21st Century, Portrait
By Lisa Toboz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Echo' 2019, Edition 1/10 plus 2 Artist Proof, 20x24cm.
Art Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper, not mounted. Signature label and certificate.
Lisa Tob...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Cheetah Who Shops from the Getty Archive
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days.
"Cheetah Who Shops" is a stylish black-and-wh...
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White
Oromo Lady of Bati by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
The town of Bati is famous for the massive, bustling, weekly market that takes place on a hillside under a sea of umbrellas. Animals are still the measure of wealth for rural peopl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
David Bowie "Heroes To Come" Heroes Contact Sheet 1977 by Sukita
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning 16" x 20", signed limited edition contact sheet print of David Bowie, titled "Heroes To Come" by Masayoshi Sukita, taken from the 1977 photo session for David Bowie's Heroe...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Siren Song - Contemporary, Figurative, Woman, Polaroid, 21st Centur
By Lisa Toboz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Siren Song - 2021
Archival C-Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper, not mounted.
25x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Signature label and cert...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Untitled 20250 - lith silver gelatin print
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Casado - Untitled 20249, figurative black and white masked female nude. Reminiscent of old Hollywood siren and glamor.
2001 - Unique lith silver gelatin photographic print.
ima...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
BAOBABS OF SAMBA DIA, Senegal
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
*22x30" editions and 24x36" editions are platinum prints. Editions with a width of 60" or greater are archival pigment prints*
Baobabs are one of Africa’s natural wonders: they can ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Platinum
Stockings (1946) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Kurt Hutton
Located in London, GB
Stockings (1946) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Getty Images)
1946: Three pairs of stockinged legs. Original Publication: Picture Post.
Additional...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Untouchable Light
By Deana Nastic
Located in München, BY
Edition of 10
More sizes available on request.
Silhouette of a woman in black and white.
Artist Statement:
Art is the air that I breathe. I grew up in an artistic family, surround...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Florentine Fashion" by Kurt Hutton
By Kurt Hutton
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Fashion" by Kurt Hutton
The Third Italian High Fashion Show in Florence, Italy, 1952. Original Publication : Picture Post - 5685 - Paris has a Rival - pub. 1st March 195...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Woman, Street Photography, Black and White, Italy, 1950s, 17.9 x 12.7 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
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Silhouette Portrait
By Deana Nastic
Located in München, BY
Edition of 10
More sizes available on request.
Silhouette of a woman in black and white.
Artist Statement:
Art is the air that I breathe. I grew up in an artistic family, surround...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dancer III
By Deana Nastic
Located in München, BY
Edition of 10
More sizes available on request.
Silhouette of a woman in black and white.
Artist Statement:
Art is the air that I breathe. I grew up in an artistic family, surround...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Warhol Superstar Holly Woodlawn portrait for After Dark signed by Jack
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Andy Warhol Superstar Holly Woodlawn a sensation in Warhol's 'Trash' photographed in 1970, in a turkey feather cape. Signed by Jack Mitc...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Alek Wek, New York 1996
Located in München, BY
Total Edition of 15
signed and numbered
Also available in:
90 x 120 cm / 35.4 x 47.2 in
120 x 160 cm / 47.2 x 63 in
Portrait of Supermodel Alek Wek.
Thierry...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Dori Ghezzi - Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Dori Ghezzi is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Bodybuilding Ballerina
Located in Austin, TX
Awesome color capture of Arnold Schwarzenegger practicing his ballet movements in the studio, circa 1976.
Arnold Schwarzenegger born is an Austrian-American actor, producer, busines...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
ABT Dancer Lupe Serrano & Rudolph Nureyev Rehearsing for Television, Signed
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of American Ballet Theater ballerina Lupe Serrano and Rudolf Nureyev rehearsing at ABT for a television appearance, 1962. Signed by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity.
Jack Mitchell, (1925-2013) bulging photographic portfolio of actors, writers, painters, musicians and especially dancers describes a pictorial history of the arts in the late 20th century. Mr. Mitchell, who took hundreds of pictures for The New York Times, was both a portraitist and a capturer of complex motion. An expert in lighting, he worked mostly, though not entirely, in black and white, and he was known — by his subjects, by the magazine and newspaper editors he worked for, and by critics — as someone who could make a photograph reveal character.
Jack Mitchell was the official photographer for the American Ballet Theater, and he chronicled the work of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for more than thirty years. When he retired in 1995, he had fulfilled more than 5,000 assignments in black and white, and nearly a thousand in color. He photographed more than 160 covers for Dance magazine, and his photos have appeared in Time, Life, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Vogue and many other publications.
Mitchell’s photographs are in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, among others. The 2019 USPS Black Heritage postage stamp honoring American performer Gregory Hines was made from a Jack Mitchell photograph, and a Jack Mitchell photograph of Audre Lorde...
Category
1960s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
David Bowie Scary Monsters Smoking full large format contact sheet by Duffy
By Brian Duffy
Located in Austin, TX
Museum quality fine art, limited edition contact sheet print of a smoking David Bowie in the Scary Monsters Clown costume from the official Duffy Archive.
Taken from the original 19...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mom Getting her Hair Teased at Besame Beauty Salon
Located in New York, NY
Mom Getting her Hair Teased at Besame Beauty Salon
North Massapequa, NY
June 1979
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
Gelatin silver print
20 x 16 inches
(Edition of 5 + 2 ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Grace Jones with Cowboy hat, 21st Century, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Edition 25
Also available in 101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch, Edition 10
Black and white portrait of the singer and actress Grace Jones wearing a cowboy hat.
From personality portrait...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"James Dean And Ursula Andress" by Michael Ochs
Located in London, GB
"James Dean And Ursula Andress" by Michael Ochs Archive
LOS ANGELES - AUGUST 29: Movie star James Dean and Swiss born actress Ursula Andress attend the Thalian Ball on August 29 195...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Animal Friends" by Fox Photos
Located in London, GB
"Animal Friends" by Fox Photos
15th July 1931: Two women in bathing suits share a snack with a couple of sea lions during a display in Paris.
Unframed
Pape...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Don't Tell Mamma #12. Black and white nude photograph
By Koray Erkaya
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This is a series of black and white nude photographs that began with analog photography between 1992 and 2005, followed by a transition period to digital photography. Erkaya is curre...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
American Ballet Theatre dancer John Kriza performing, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of American Ballet Theatre dancer John Kriza performing 'Lady from the Sea', 1961. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes direct...
Category
1960s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Francisco and Mariette, From Ibiza Series, Diptych
By Mikael Kenta
Located in Miami Beach, FL
“People from Ibiza” Kenta first came to visit the magic island of Ibiza as a young man at the age of 18 and fell in love with the diversity of personalities and expressions of freedo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Sophia Loren, 21st Century, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Edition 25
Also available in 101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch, Edition 10
Black and white portrait of the Italian actress Sophia Loren waring sunglasses and sits in a director's chair.
...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
69YK #41 – Nobuyoshi Araki, Japanese Photography, Nude, Black and White, Art
Located in Zurich, CH
Nobuyoshi ARAKI (*1940, Japan)
69YK #41, 2009
Gelatin silver print
50.8 x 60 cm (20 x 23 5/8 in.)
Print only
Nobuyoshi Araki (Tokyo, 1940) is a Tokyo-based photographer. Araki completed his studies at Chiba University’s Department of Photography, Painting and Engineering with a focus on the study of film and photography. His photographic project Satchin earned him the prestigious Taiyo Award in 1964, shortly after he had joined the advertising agency Dentsu, where he worked until 1972. At Dentsu he met his wife Yoko, to whom he paid homage in Sentimental Journey, a photographic record of their honeymoon published in 1971. Eros and thanatos (sex and death) has been a central theme in Araki’s work; an abiding fascination with female genitalia and women’s bodies in Japanese bondage...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Dancer Fernando Bujones, studio portrait, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of dancer Fernando Bujones, who was the youngest principal male dancer in the American Ballet Theatre's his...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Courtney Love
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition silver gelatin print of Courtney Love by Kevin Cummins, taken in Zurich Switzerland, 1996. Edition 50
This print by Kevin Cummins...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Frank Zappa by Lynn Goldsmith
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of Frank Zappa taken in 1978 by Lynn Goldsmith
Signed limited edition #2/20 - signed, numbered and titled by Lynn Goldsmith
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Actress Debbie Reynolds 'What Becomes A Legend Most?' Blackglama session photo
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Debbie Reynolds photographed by Jack Mitchell for the "What Becomes A Legend Most?" Blackglama fur ad cam...
Category
1990s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Madonna
Located in New York, NY
From a portfolio of ten gelatin silver prints from original Meatyard negatives (1959-71)
Printed April 1974
Edition of 130
Credit stamp, verso
6.5 x 7 inches, image
15 x 12 inches, mount
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
“Madelyn Meatyard was an indulgent model. The role her husband usually chose for her was that of mother, posing with one or more of her three children. Here, he stations her before an arched window. The pious atmosphere created by this framing is contradicted by Madelyn’s everyday dress and by the dilapidated Venetian blinds behind her. Unlike a traditional religious icon, this Madonna gazes sternly into space, while her small child stands facing the maternal loins from which she sprang. Many photographers prior to Meatyard—such as Alfred Stieglitz, Edwards Weston and Harry Callahan—had produced series based on their beguiling wives.”
—Judith Keller, Ralph Eugene Meatyard (London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2002), pp. 86-87
An optician by trade, Ralph Eugene Meatyard was a self-described “dedicated amateur” photographer. He pursued his own vision to produce an exquisitely enigmatic, widely admired body of work. Meatyard began taking photographs in 1950, roaming the backwoods and towns in Kentucky, experimenting with framing, multiple exposures, and blurring to produce haunting, abstracted images of natural and manmade environments. In the late 1950s, he began incorporating monstrous, oversized latex masks...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
New Look (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Kurt Hutton
Located in London, GB
New Look (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Kurt Hutton/Getty Images)
A model wearing a black cocktail dress and a black velvet wide-brimmed hat, designed by Ronald Paterson...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Luigia "Gina" Lollobrigida, portrait. ca 1950s
Located in Cologne, DE
Luigia "Gina" Lollobrigida (4 July 1927 – 16 January 2023) was an Italian actress, model, photojournalist, artist and politician. She was one of the highest-profile European actresse...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
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