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Color Photography For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1930s
Marilyn Monroe "The Seven Year Itch"
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
This beautiful color image features Marilyn Monroe in her starring role for 'Seven Year Itch'.
The Seven Year Itch is a 1955 American romantic comedy film based on a 1952 three-ac...
Category
1950s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
La Colonne from the Paris In Color Series 1956-61 by Peter Cornelius
Located in London, GB
La Colonne from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61
By Peter Cornelius
Oversize 30 x 20 inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size
Printed 2022
Archival pigment print
...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Mara Lane At The Sands - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Mara Lane At The Sands
Austrian actress Mara Lane lounging by the pool in a red and white striped bathing costume at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Palm Beach (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
The pool at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach,
Florida, USA, 1955.
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Size:...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Bermuda View (1957) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bermuda View (1957) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
View from the Bermudiana Hotel looking towards Paget, in the foreground the Royal Bermuda Yacht club,
1957.
...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Snorkelling In The Shallows (1969) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snorkeling In The Shallows (1959) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
A group of people snorkeling off a small boat in Malta, circa 1959.
Additional Informa...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
'Vuccino And Rava' SLIM AARONS ESTATE EDITION
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Vuccino And Rava' by Slim Aarons
Limited Edition Estate Print
limited to 150 only
numbered in ink & emboss stamped.
40 x 30 " inches paper size
Carla Vuccino, wearing a swimmi...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Marlon Brando as Johnny Strabler in "The Wild One"
By Homer van Pelt
Located in Austin, TX
Marlon Brando posed on a bike for the film "The Wild One".
The Wild One is a 1953 American film noir crime film directed by Laszlo Benedek and produced by Stanley Kramer. It is mo...
Category
1950s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
'Let's Dance' 1964 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Let's Dance'
Film stars Tony Curtis and his wife Janet Leigh enjoying a dance at a party held at James Mason's home in Beverly Hills, 1954.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 c...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Elizabeth Taylor on the Set of "Giant"
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Beautifully colorized image of actress Elizabeth Taylor on the set of the 1956 film "Giant".
Giant is a 1956 American epic Western drama film, about sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates. Directed by George Stevens from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from Edna Ferber...
Category
1950s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Alfred Hitchcock, Grace Kelly, and Oleg Cassini at the Premier of Rear Window
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Alfred Hitchcock, Grace Kelly, and Oleg Cassini at the premiere of "Rear Window" in 1954.
Rear Window is a 1954 American mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and writ...
Category
1950s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Estate Edition - Babe Paley
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Babe Paley
American socialite Babe Paley (1915 – 1978), the wife of CBS radio executive William S. Paley, beside the pool at Round Hill, their villa in Ja...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Harriet at Mougins' 1957 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Harriet at Mougins'
1957: Viscountess Harriet de Rosiere at Mougins, near Cannes in France.
20x20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
P...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, La Jolla, San Diego.
This is an estate stamp...
Category
1950s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Lake Tahoe Ladies
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lake Tahoe Ladies
A group of young women in their bathing suits on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, 1959.
40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Editi...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sunbathing In Venice, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman sunbatheing, wearing a novelty straw sun hat with built-in sunglasses, Venice.
Th...
Category
1950s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Teeing Off 1959 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Teeing Off
1959
A golfer prepares to tee off on a coastal course, 1959.
by Toni Frissell
48 x 72" inches / 121 x 182 cm paper size
Archival pigment print
unframed
(framing ava...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Maine Beach Party 1958 Toni Frissell Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Maine Beach Party
1958
A beach party during a yachting trip, Maine, USA, 1958.
by Toni Frissell
40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size
Archival pig...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Celebrity Cruise' Costa Smeralda (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Celebrity Cruise'
British comedian Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980) holidays with Princess Margaret (1930 - 2002, right) on the Aga Khan's yacht on the Costa Smeralda, circa 1955.
Go...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'NIce Pool' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American writer C.Z. Guest (Mrs F.C. Winston Guest, 1920 - 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of their Grecian temple pool on the ocean-front estate, V...
Category
1950s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Carlton Hotel Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Carlton Hotel' by Slim Aarons
The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958.
A couple dressed elegantly in all white tennis outfits with rackets in hand, wander past the...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bermuda View
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
View from the Bermudiana Hotel looking towards Paget, in the foreground the Royal Bermuda Yacht club, 1957. A Wonderful Time - Slim Aarons
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition o...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
'CZ's House' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'CZ's House' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
circa 1955: Mrs F C Winston Guest (1920 - 2003) (aka Cee Zee Guest) reclines on a garden chair in front of the Grecian te...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Palm Beach Idyll
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Idyl
A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA
Gorgeous print measuring 40 x 40" inches / ca 101 x 101 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection E...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Capri Bay' 1958 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Capri Bay'
1958: Faraglioni Rocks on the Italian island of Capri.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printed...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Snorkelling In Malta, Estate Edition, Aerial Seascape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s aerial landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features group of people snorkelling off a small boat in Malta.
This is an estate stamped ...
Category
1950s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
The Matterhorn 1959 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
The Matterhorn
1959
A view of the Matterhorn in winter, 1959.
by Toni Frissell
48 x 72" inches / 121 x 182 cm paper size
Archival pigment print
unframed
(framing available see...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Nice Pool, Villa Artemis, Palm Beach, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Step into the world of casual elegance and midcentury glamour with Slim Aarons' evocative photograph, "Nice Pool" This image offers a mesmerizing glimpse into the opulent life of Ame...
Category
1950s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons - Bermuda View - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
View from the Bermudiana Hotel looking towards Paget, in the foreground the Royal Bermuda Yacht club, 1957.
Gorgeous print measuring an large 30 x 30" inches / ca 76 x 76 cm’s
Es...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Tennis At Newport Casino'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Susanna Boylston Bolton
1965 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition 1 of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: A view from the umbrella boxes towards t...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Harvey Firestone, Jr.'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Harvey Firestone, Jr.
1950's (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition 1 of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Married couple Harvey Firestone, Jr. and...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sunbathing In Venice, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman sunbatheing, wearing a novelty straw sun hat with built-in sunglasses, Venice.
Th...
Category
1950s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
'Onassis In Office' 1956 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Onassis In Office' 1956 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis (1906 - 1975) in the office aboard his y...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Caribe Hilton Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
A woman reclining in a hammock hung between palm trees on the beach at the Caribe Hilton in San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 1956.
Gorgeous print measuring ...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Grey Dior Outside Paris Louvre Metro, 1957
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Grey Dior Outside Paris Louvre Metro, 1957 -- This image of a model wearing a gray Dior suit outside the Louvre Metro station was photographed by Mark Shaw in Paris in 1957 for LIFE magazine's September article "A Bright Young Look in Paris". Image size is 13.75" x 20" (for 17" x 22" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper. Each print is Estate stamped on the back and signed and numbered by David Shaw, and accompanied by a letter of authenticity. Lead time is four to six weeks, but we often receive them sooner. *Please note this image is available in several sizes. Prices increase as editions sell out.
Fashion photography of a model wearing a grey Dior dress outside by the metro entrance at the Louvre. The model is also wearing gloves and a hat. She is standing in profile and looks behind her. In front of her, she is holding a map. She is standing in front of the Louvre metro map.
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Slim Aarons - Mara Lane at the sand - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Glamorous, Austrian actress Mara Lane lounging and sunbathing by the pool in a striking red and white striped bathing costume at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954. (Photo by Slim Aarons)
Typically 'Slim Poolside...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Hollywood Christmas Swim, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, swimming in a pool festooned with floating baubles and a decorated Christmas tree, Hollywood, California, 1954. Two children play in the background.
Slim Aarons
Christmas Swim...
Category
1950s American Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
La Dolce Vita: Vuccino & Rava in Capri, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carla Vuccino, wearing a blue swimming cap, and a sunbathing Marina Rava in green. Both wear vintage bikinis as they sit on the rear of a boat, on the deep marine blue waters off the coast of the island of Capri, Italy, 1958.
Slim Aarons
La Dolce Vita: Vuccino & Rava
Capri, Italy
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Photograph is unframed
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons *
From a recent Vogue article on the photography of Slim Aarons: "The iconic Capri is always teeming with a variety of hotels, each more beautiful than the last. A stone's throw from the Villa Malaparte from Jean-Luc Godard's movie Contempt, the Faraglioni cliffs plunging into the turquoise of the Tyrrhenian Sea, and the colorful houses that climb the bay. The Hotel Punta Tragara was one of Slim Aarons' favorite spots in Italy."
# Vintage Capri, Vintage dolce vita, Vintage Slim Aarons, Vintage Poolside...
Category
1950s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Vogue Dive 1944 Toni Frissell Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Vogue Dive 1944
A Vogue fashion shoot featuring a model jumping on a diving board wearing a bright 1940's yellow floral bikini, Florida USA 1944
by Toni Frissell
30 x 20" inches...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Carlton Hotel Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Carlton Hotel' by Slim Aarons
The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958.
A couple dressed elegantly in all white tennis outfits with rackets in hand, wander past the...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Sundowners
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Sundowners
Two bikini-clad holidaymakers enjoy a glass of wine outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958
Gorgeous print measuring a HUGE 60 x 60" inches / ca 152 x 152 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printed in 2025
Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size)
Hand-numbered in ink on the front
Blind embossed Slim Aarons signature
Certificate of authenticity included
Unframed archival pigment print (Full framing service available – please enquire)
Worldwide shipping from London, England, issued by The Slim Aarons Estate...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'La Dolce Vita: Vuccino &Rava, Capri' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carla Vuccino, wearing a swimming cap, and a sunbathing Marina Rava, both wearing bikinis as they sit on the rear of a boat, on the waters off the coast of the island of Capri, Italy...
Category
1950s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Beauty Is All Embracing (first nude in colour)
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Beauty Is All Embracing (first nude in colour), 1951
C print
40 x 60 inches
Estate stamped and numbered on verso
Vogue Beauty Book, No. 5, 1951.
Norman Parkinson,...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Model Friend
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New York model, Jean Adams and friend share a drink on the beach at Acapulco, 1952
Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 30" inches / ca 76.2 x 76.2cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped Colle...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Poolside Reflections, Beverly Hills Hotel (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Poolside Reflections, Beverly Hills Hotel, 1957
Chromogenic Lambda print
Holiday makers relaxing by the pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Snorkelling In The Shallows
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snorkelling In The Shallows
A group of people snorkelling off a small boat in Malta, circa 1959.
Gorgeous print measuring 40 x 40" inches / ca 101.6 x 101.6 cm’s paper size.
Est...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons, Hello There, 1955 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1955: Film star Diana Dors (Diana Fluck) (1931 - 1984) in blonde bombshell pose on a satin covered bed
Slim Aarons
Hello There, 1955
Lambda Print
4 sizes ...
Category
1950s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Children Water Skiing 1956 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Children Water Skiing
1956
by Toni Frissell
12 x 16" inches / 30 x 41 cm paper size
Archival pigment print
unframed
(framing available see example...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Equestrian Entrance 1957 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Equestrian Entrance
Madame de la Haye-Jousselin on her horse at the gates to her chateau in Normandy.
Paper size 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'New England Skiing' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'New England Skiing' 1955
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Limited to 150 only
Two women recline on improvised sun-beds in Cranmore Mountain, New Hampshire, circa 1955 (Photo by...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons, Skiing in Stowe, Two Women
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiing in Stowe, Vermont
C print
30 x 30 inches
Two women in knitwear, leaning on ski sticks, while standing in the Stowe Mountain ski resort in Stowe, Vermont, 1962. Behind the two...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Tracks In The Snow 1955 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Tracks In The Snow
1955
A skier weaves their way downhill, shot for Sports Illustrated, Davos and Zermatt, Switzerland, 1955
by Toni Frissell
48 x 72" inches / 121 x 182 cm paper...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Tennis In The Bahamas - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tennis In The Bahamas
Two women stand talking to a man on the edge of a tennis court in the Bahamas, circa 1957. Behind the main group stand a second group of people talking.
Gorge...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Water Skiing 1956 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Water Skiing
1956
A waterskier contemplates the water, 1956.
by Toni Frissell
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Archival pigment print
unframed
(framing available see ...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Harriet at Mougins 1957
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Harriet At Mougins
Viscountess Harriet de Rosiere at Mougins, near Cannes in France.
Paper size 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by ...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Checkered Flag' 1963 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Checkered Flag'
The checkered flag signals the end of the race during the 1963 Nassau Speed Week.
40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size
Esta...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Swimming In The Bahamas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Swimming In The Bahamas
1959
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Brightly coloured swimmers in a pool in Nassau on the island of New Providence in the Bahamas, 1959....
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - South Africa Swimming Pool
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
A luxury house in South Africa with stairs leading to the swimming pool in the garden, 1958.
Gorgeous print measuring a large 30 x 30" inches / ca 76 x 76 cm's.
Estate Stamped Col...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Decorating with Color Photography
Color photography evokes emotion that can bring a viewer into the scene. It can transport one to faraway places or back into the past.
The first color photograph, taken in 1861, was more of an exercise in science than art. Photographer Thomas Sutton and physicist James Clerk Maxwell used three separate exposures of a tartan ribbon — filtered through red, green and blue — and composited them into a single image, resulting in the first multicolor representation of an object.
Before this innovation, photographs were often tinted by hand. By the 1890s, color photography processes were introduced based on that 1860s experiment. In the early 20th century, autochromes brought color photography to a commercial audience.
Now color photography is widely available, with these historic photographs documenting moments and scenes that are still vivid generations later. Photographers in the 20th and 21st centuries have offered new perspectives in the evolving field of modern color photography with gripping portraiture, snow-capped landscapes, stunning architecture and lots more.
In the voluminous collection of photography on 1stDibs, find vibrant full-color images by Slim Aarons, Helen Levitt, Gordon Parks, Stefanie Schneider, Steve McCurry and other artists. Bring visual interest to any corner of your home with color photography — introduce a salon-style gallery hang or another arrangement that best fits your space.
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