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Color Photography For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: 1940s
Lunch At Bali-li Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Lunch At Bali-li 1960 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Mr and Mrs Amos Morrill and Mrs Ogden P. Starr having lunch at ‘Bali-li’ at the Mill Reef...
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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Skiers in St Moritz Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Skiers in St Moritz 1963 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Skiers in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963. unframed c type print printed 2023 24 x 20" - paper size...
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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Penthouse Pool Official Limited Estate Edition Supersize
Located in London, GB
'Penthouse Pool' Young women by the Canellopoulos penthouse pool, Athens, July 1961. Paper size 48 x 48 inches / 122 x 122 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo ...
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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Young Velvets Vogue 1949 Limited Edition Estate Print
Located in London, GB
Young Velvets, Young Prices photoshoot, 1949 Limited Edition Print by Norman Parkinson Three velvet-capped women huddle in gossip as another looks on during an October 1949 Vogue ...
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1940s Modern Color Photography

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C Print

Christmas Traffic (1953) Limited Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Christmas Traffic (1953) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo by Slim Aarons) Red and white automobile lights on Park Avenue, New York at Christmas time. The rear and headlights at nigh...
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1950s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color

White Trash Beautiful II from the 29 Palms, CA series
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
White Trash Beautiful I (29 Palms, CA), 1999 38x36cm, Edition of 30. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #794. Not mount...
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1990s Contemporary Color Photography

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C Print, Color, Polaroid, Photographic Film, Archival Paper

Merle Oberon Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Merle Oberon 1958 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Indian-born actress Merle Oberon (1911 – 1979) with her husband, Italian industrialist Bruno Pagliai, in the g...
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1950s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

The Hotel Excelsior, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman holding her skis in North Conway, New Hampshire. This is an estate stamped and han...
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1950s Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

The Rolling Stones "Stones Playing Cricket" London 1968
Located in Austin, TX
“From the famous photo shoot of The Rolling Stones for their Beggars Banquet album at Sarum Chase mansion, Hampstead, London, 1968. Featuring Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones...
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1960s Photorealist Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Farm, Winter Landscape, Large Panoramic Vintage Color Photograph Signed Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Maplewood Township Homestead, Winter, 1993 Fabulous American landscape photography of a rural landscape scene. from small hand signed edition of 20 Large Format Chromogenic print on Kodak Professional Paper The sheets are approximately 30 X 56 inches the images are around 16 X 48.25 inches Some of them are cut a bit irregularly, they should all mat out fine for framing. These are vintage large-format architectural chromogenic print photographs hand signed and dated and hand numbered from the edition of 20 in the lower margin. The collection depicts attractive examples of Mackenzie's wide-lens studies of architecture, such as barns and abandoned houses, set into richly colored landscapes. Maxwell MacKenzie is an award-winning professional and fine-art photographer based in Washington, DC and Minnesota. Over the past thirty-five years, his photographic assignments have taken him to 20 states and a dozen foreign countries, including Austria, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Brazil, Brussels, England, France, Greece, Morocco, Norway, Sweden, and Wales. Three books of Mackenzie's fine-art photographs have been published: Abandonings, (1995), color panoramic photographs of his native Otter Tail County, MN, which was awarded the Silver Medal Award for Excellence from Photo District News; American Ruins, Ghosts on the Landscape, (2001) black & white panoramics made in Montana, Idaho, Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas; and Markings, (2007), color abstract aerials made from his self-piloted, powered-parachute, a 300 pound, ultra-light aircraft. MacKenzie’s work is included in the permanent collection of The Phillips Collection as well as hundreds of private and corporate collections, including Exxon, Citibank, Deloitte & Touche, Dow Jones, Fannie Mae, The New York Hospital, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, the Union Bank of Switzerland, Phillip Morris, and the Washington Post. His fine-art photographs of the American West are also included in numerous American Embassy collections including Bogota, Lima, Lagos, and Moscow. His work has been exhibited in dozens of museums and galleries all over the country, including solo shows at The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach; The American Institute of Architects, DC; The Nordic Heritage Museum, in Seattle, WA; The Piedmont Arts Association, Martinsville, VA; the Julie Saul Gallery in NYC, the DNJ Gallery in LA; The Gallatin River Gallery...
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1990s American Realist Color Photography

Materials

Color

Skiers In Gstaad Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Skiers In Gstaad 1961 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Skiers at Gstaad, Switzerland, March 1961 unframed c type print printed 2023 24 x 20" - paper size Limi...
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1960s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Sea Drive Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Sea Drive 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Film producer Kevin McClory takes his wife Bobo Sigrist and their family for a drive in an ‘Amphicar’ across the harbour at Nassau....
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1960s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Skylark (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Skylark (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997 43x59cm, Edition 5/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature La...
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1990s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Poolside Poodle Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Poolside Poodle 1970 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Josep...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Skiers in Lech Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Skiers in Lech 1979 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Skiers line up for a hike to ski resort Zurs from Lech, Austria, February 1979. unframed c type print printe...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Classic Comedian and Film Stars of the 30s
Located in Austin, TX
This artistically recolored group portrait features some of the greatest stars of the 1920s and 30s all standing together and chatting. From left to right: Bela Lugosi...
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1930s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment

Apres Ski Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Apres Ski 1963 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A group of women reclining on the snow in Gstaad with rugs covering their knees, 1963 unframed c type print print...
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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'George Hamilton' Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'George Hamilton' American actor George Hamilton holidays in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1977. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collect...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

'Home Waters' 1983 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Home Waters' June 1983: Dress designer Gianni Versace (1946 - 1997) and Lalla Spagnol on a motor launch in front of his 17th century villa on Lake Como. Paper Size 24x20 inches...
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1980s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Sunbathing On Capri 1980 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Sunbathing On Capri Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers – along with Elisabetta Catalano, Charlotte Ticken and Pamela Grupas – on the island of Capri, Italy, in August 1980...
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1980s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Argentinian Dancer Julio Bocca, Color 17 x 22" Exhibition Photograph
Located in Senoia, GA
Argentinian dancer Julio Bocca, one of the most important ballet dancers of the later part of the 20th century, photographed in 1991. One of Mitchell's mo...
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1990s Pop Art Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Freddie Mercury of Queen, last performance Wembley Stadium 1986 by Denis O'Regan
Located in Austin, TX
Fine art 20x24" print of Freddie Mercury of Queen on stage at Wembley Stadium, London, 1986, taken by acclaimed photographer, Denis O'Regan. This was Fred...
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1980s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Jim Kimberly, California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Jim Kimberly and Kim Wadsworth at the Beverly Hills Hotel, California. This is an estate ...
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1950s Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

USA Trianon Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
USA Trianon 1960 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A group of young women enjoying the sunshine in the grounds of the former George Newhall estate in San Francisco...
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1960s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Abaco Islander - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Abaco Islander Author Chester Thompson at work in his coconut grove on the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas, March 1986. His ancester Wyannie Malone settled on the islands in 1783, foun...
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1980s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Large Format Polaroid Photograph Still Life Color Photo Dye Print Betty Hahn Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Betty Hahn Title: Belladonna Date: 1980 Original Polaroid Large Format Print (Photo-Internal dye diffusion transfer) Location: Cambridge Massachusetts United States Dimensions: Image: 27 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (69.9 x 52.1 cm), Paper: 29 1/4 x 21 1/2 in. (74.3 x 54.6 cm) This depicts a still life of a flower with an old botanical drawing print plate. From "Five Still Lifes" New York: Paradox Editions, Ltd., 1980. 5 original Polaroid color prints. Each hand signed, titled, dated and numbered 37/40 in ink in the margin. Each approximately 24 x 20in (image size). Each is on original as there are no negatives in this process. The photographers included: Robert Cumming, Robert Fichter, Betty Hahn, Victor Schrager and William Wegman. The photos were produced in the Polaroid Corporation’s 20×24 studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This is an internal Dye Diffusion print (large format) Polaroid print. These are exceedingly rare now. This format was used by many of the leading photographers of the second half of the 20th century, among them Peter Beard, Chuck Close, David Levinthal, Robert Frank, David Hockney, Lucas Samaras, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe and, perhaps most significantly, Ansel Adams More recently Ellen Carey has created large abstract masterpieces using this format. Betty Hahn (born 1940) is an American photographer known for working in alternative and early photographic processes. She completed both her BFA (1963) and MFA (1966) at Indiana University. Initially, Hahn worked in other two-dimensional art mediums before focusing on photography in graduate school. She is well-recognized due to her experimentation with experimental photographic methods which incorporate different forms of media. By transcending traditional concepts of photography, Hahn challenges the viewer not only to assess the content of the image, but also to contemplate the photographic object itself. Betty Hahn was born on October 11, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois where she also grew up. At the age of ten, Hahn was given her first camera by an aunt. Hahn later on went to graduate from Scecina Memorial Catholic High School. Soon after, she enrolled at Indiana University with a full scholarship where she furthered her studies in Fine Arts, receiving both her BFA (1963) and her MFA (1966). Throughout her undergraduate years, she concentrated in drawing and painting; however, as she entered graduate study, she worked in photography. During this important developmental period, Hahn studied under one of the most well-known photography teachers of the time, Henry Holmes Smith, who encouraged Hahn's work in alternative processes. Once she graduated, Hahn moved to Rochester where she taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology until 1975. Hahn then relocated to Albuquerque where she was professor at University of New Mexico until her retirement in 1997. Hahn is best known for her explorations of alternative processes in photography, using both older methods of darkroom developing such as gum-bichromate and cyanotypes, with other art mediums, including hand-painting and even embroidery. She is noted as one of the first photographers to successfully integrate such a variety of art mediums. Hahn encourages the viewer to think more deeply through not only the use of different physical processes in her artwork, but also through the multiplicity of meanings in her photographs. In most of her work, Hahn integrates humor and irony as she explores the meanings generated by formal combinations. Some of her prints include the sprocket holes of the 35mm negative, which allude to its 35mm film origins: but by hand coloring with bright paints, she draws attention to the mixture of craft with industrial mediums. Once she started experimenting with the gum-bichromate process, Hahn started stitching into her photographs. Printing onto canvas and other fabrics allowed her to use thread to highlight certain aspects of the photograph. In combining her photographs with conventional practices, Hahn successfully intertwines formal and conceptual aspects. Not only does she speak to the mundane tasks of everyday life, but also about routine and normativity. In highlighting the ordinary in her work, Hahn elevates and revives that which has been lost in the practice of daily life. Embroidery references femininity, as Hahn underlines the feminist issue of the anonymity of women's handicraft. Her embroidery often emphasized flowers with its three-dimensionality, furthering the idea of femininity; she later on pursued this as a symbol and incorporated it in several of her other series. In her work, Hahn delivers a powerful feminist message in regards to women and embroidery. It is quite evident through time that women's labor is needlework, and that their labor is frequently undervalued as craft both when dissimilar and alike to men's work. In a time period where men overshadowed women in the traditional art, such as painting and sculpture, women oftentimes reverted to other mediums like textiles. It has been suggested that women's work, especially in embroidery, is of little value in the art field since it is considered a craft. Since "arts and crafts" are more often than not paired together, it is obvious they are in the same category; however, there is a clear distinction. For 300 years, women have been taught needlework through practice and tradition, and in inadvertently, promoted obedience and household effeminate behavior. As a result, instead of regarding stitching as an art, many viewed it as a thoughtless skill, lacking originality. On the contrary, however, it is far more than evident that the hand of woman is more than a mindless and conforming thing, it is one of sensitivity, thought, patience, perseverance, and strength. By incorporating embroidery and stitching, Betty Hahn pushes the audience to acknowledge the work of women not as craft or tradition, but as meticulous, creative and unique. Exhibitions The Division of Photographic History at the Smithsonian Institution exhibited Hahn's work in a group exhibit in the 1960s as a part of a developing series of displaying the works of women photographers. Afterwards her work was featured in multiple thematic exhibitions at the Smithsonian. Hahn's first solo show exhibiting her work was in 1973 at the Witkin Gallery in New York City. Thereafter, she received several grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1974, 1978, and 1983 to continue her work in explorative photography. Hahn's art has been exhibited throughout the country and worldwide featured in museums highlighting historical processes in Baltimore, Maryland (1972) and nature photography exhibitions in Osaka, Japan (1990). Her work has been displayed at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and Art History (2017), Phoenix Art Museum (2015), and the George Eastman House (2012, 2016). Hahn's work is held in private collectors, galleries, and in permanent museum collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Center for Creative Photography and the Museum of Modern Art. Exhibitions 1996 – George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and film, Rochester, New York 1997 – A History of Women Photographers, Akron Art Museum 1997 – Eye of the Beholder, Photographs of the Avon Collection, International Center of Photography, Midtown, New York City 1998 – Passing Shots: A Travel Series, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1998 – The City Series, Taos, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA 1999 – Photography Or Maybe Not, a Betty Hahn traveling retrospective, Mikhailovsky Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia 2000 – 20/20 Twentieth Century Photographic Acquisitions by 20 leading patrons, Museum of New Mexico, Museum of Fine Arts 2000 – Photography Or Maybe Not, a Betty Hahn traveling retrospective, Santa Fe de Granada, Spain 2001 – In the Eyes of the Beholder: Ten Photographers View Albuquerque, The University of New Mexico Hospital, Albuquerque, NM 2002 – Sun Works Contemporary Alternative Photography, The Art Institute of Boston 2002 – Flowers from the Permanent Collection, The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico 2004 – 30th Anniversary Permanent Collection Exhibition, New Mexico State, University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico 2005 – New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico 2005 – Ace in the Hole, the legacy of Peter Walch, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 2006 – The collectible moment, Norton Simon museum, Pasadena, California 2006 – The Social Lens, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia 2007 – Seeing Ourselves: Masterpieces of American Photography, A Traveling 2007 – Exhibition, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York 2008 – Flower Power: a Subversive Botanical, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM 2008 – Bernalillo County Arts Board Gallery, One Civic Plaza NW, Albuquerque, NM 2008 – Giving Shelter 516 Arts Albuquerque, NM (A Sister Exhibition to the Cradle Project) 2008 – Betty Hahn, Joyce Neimanas, and Judith Golden, Harwood Art Center Albuquerque, NM 2009 – Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe, Palace of the Governors, The New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, 2009 – Altered Land: Photography in the 1970s, Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 2010 – Sole Mates Cowboy Boots & Art, New Mexico Museum of Art 2010 – Rock Scissors Paper, Anderson Contemporary Arts, Albuquerque, NM 2010 – Recollection 2010, Works from the Colorado Photographic Arts Center, The Central Library, Vida Ellison Gallery, 2012 – 60 From the 60's (an exhibit of influential photos from the 1960s) George Eastman House, Rochester, New York 2012 – Albuquerque Now-Fall and Albuquerque Now-Winter, The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, 2013 – It's About Time: 14,000 Years of Art in New Mexico, The New Mexico Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM 2014 – Alternative Lineage – Honoring Betty Hahn; 5 Decades of Mentoring 2014 – Alternative Photographic Processes, Center for Photographic Art Carmel, California 2014 – Alternative Lineage, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 2014 – Transformational Imagemaking, Handmade Photography Since 1960 2014 – An Exhibition Curated by Robert Hirsch, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY 2014 – Museum Project, dnj Gallery, Santa Monica, California 2014 – American Heritage Center and Art Museum, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 2014 – Hubbard Museum of the American West, Ruidoso, New Mexico 2015 - One-Of-A-Kind, unique photographic objects from the Center of Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 2015 – Unconfined – Empowering Women Through Art, African American Performing Arts Center, New Mexico Expo, 2015 – Visualizing Albuquerque: Art of Central New Mexico, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM 2015 – Healing ... For the Time Being, A mixed media exhibition in conjunction with On the Map: Albuquerque Art and Design, Jonathan Abrams MD 2015 – The AIPAD Photography Show, Represented by Joseph Bellows Gallery, New York, New York 2016 – Transformational Imagemaking, traveling exhibition March-16- April 16; Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa. 2016 – Fall-Rochester Institute of Technology, Bevier Gallery, Rochester, NY 2016 – 60 from the 60's: Selections from the George Eastman Museum, At the Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York (The featured artists included were Harry Callahan, Benedict J. Fernandez, Hollis Frampton...
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1980s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Color, Polaroid

Mindscreen 03 - Contemporary, analog, vintage print, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Mindscreen 03 - 1999 Edition 1/5. 126x126cm including the white frame. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid. Signed on the back with Certificate. Artis...
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1990s Contemporary Color Photography

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Metal

"Monument Valley" #2 - Desert Landscape Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Desert landscape photograph of Monument Valley by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Signed "CJB" in the lower right corner. Dated "April '84" in the lower left corner. Moun...
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1980s Contemporary Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Poolside Secrets Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Poolside Secrets 1961 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Flo Smith (left) and Lily Pulitzer at a pool party, Palm Beach, Florida, April 1961. unframed c type prin...
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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

'Catherine Wilke' 1980 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Catherine Wilke' Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers - along with Elisabetta Catalano, Charlotte Ticken and Pamela Grupas - at the Hotel Punta Tragara on the island of Ca...
Category

1980s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Farm, Winter Landscape, Large Panoramic Vintage Color Photograph Signed Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Maplewood Township Homestead, Winter, 1993 Fabulous American landscape photography of a rural landscape scene. from small hand signed edition of 20 Large Format Chromogenic print on Kodak Professional Paper The sheets are approximately 30 X 56 inches the images are around 16 X 48.25 inches Some of them are cut a bit irregularly, they should all mat out fine for framing. These are vintage large-format architectural chromogenic print photographs hand signed and dated and hand numbered from the edition of 20 in the lower margin. The collection depicts attractive examples of Mackenzie's wide-lens studies of architecture, such as barns and abandoned houses, set into richly colored landscapes. Maxwell MacKenzie is an award-winning professional and fine-art photographer based in Washington, DC and Minnesota. Over the past thirty-five years, his photographic assignments have taken him to 20 states and a dozen foreign countries, including Austria, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Brazil, Brussels, England, France, Greece, Morocco, Norway, Sweden, and Wales. Three books of Mackenzie's fine-art photographs have been published: Abandonings, (1995), color panoramic photographs of his native Otter Tail County, MN, which was awarded the Silver Medal Award for Excellence from Photo District News; American Ruins, Ghosts on the Landscape, (2001) black & white panoramics made in Montana, Idaho, Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas; and Markings, (2007), color abstract aerials made from his self-piloted, powered-parachute, a 300 pound, ultra-light aircraft. MacKenzie’s work is included in the permanent collection of The Phillips Collection as well as hundreds of private and corporate collections, including Exxon, Citibank, Deloitte & Touche, Dow Jones, Fannie Mae, The New York Hospital, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, the Union Bank of Switzerland, Phillip Morris, and the Washington Post. His fine-art photographs of the American West are also included in numerous American Embassy collections including Bogota, Lima, Lagos, and Moscow. His work has been exhibited in dozens of museums and galleries all over the country, including solo shows at The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach; The American Institute of Architects, DC; The Nordic Heritage Museum, in Seattle, WA; The Piedmont Arts Association, Martinsville, VA; the Julie Saul Gallery in NYC, the DNJ Gallery in LA; The Gallatin River Gallery...
Category

1990s American Realist Color Photography

Materials

Color

Hugh Hefner Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Hugh Hefner 1961 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition American publisher Hugh Hefner, founder of ‘Playboy’ magazine, surrounded by erotica at the Playboy Club in Chic...
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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Killer Joe Piro Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Killer Joe Piro 1964 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition American dance instructor ‘Killer’ Joe Piro (1921 – 1989) dances past the park in New York, July 1964 unfra...
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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

'Skiing At Courchevel' 1963 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
'Skiing At Courchevel' 1963 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print The ski resort of Courchevel, in the French Alps, 1979. Produced from the original transparency Certif...
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1960s Modern Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Marietine Birnie, Blue Lagoon, Malta, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Marietine Birnie snorkeling at the Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comina), Malta, July 1959. This ...
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1950s American Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Marietine Birnie, Blue Lagoon, Malta, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Marietine Birnie snorkeling at the Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comina), Malta, July 1959. This ...
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1950s American Realist Color Photography

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Lambda

Coming Ashore Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Coming Ashore 1973 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A Magnum motorboat belonging to Count Filippo Theodoli arrives at the private jetty of the Il Pellicano Hotel ...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Alice In Acapulco, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Alice Topping and Minnie Cushing (left) relaxing with friends in Acapulco, Mexico. This is...
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1960s Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Sunbathing In Capri Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Sunbathing In Capri 1974 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Sunbathers by a swimming pool in Capri, Italy, August 1974. unframed c type print printed 2023 20 × 16 ...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Kate Bush Lionheart album cover
Located in Austin, TX
Portrait of singer and dancer, Kate Bush by acclaimed photographer, Gered Mankowitz, taken in his London studio in 1978 for the cover of her album, Lionheart. Gered recalls, "The cover series of portraits that I shot for Lionheart in August 1978. I art directed the album cover and my assistant at the time, Richard Grey...
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Late 20th Century Photorealist Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Sailing In The Bahamas, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a crew member tending to the rigging on a yacht in Lyford Cay, Bahamas. This is an estate...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Sailing In The Bahamas, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a crew member tending to the rigging on a yacht in Lyford Cay, Bahamas. This is an estate...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Sailing In The Bahamas, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a crew member tending to the rigging on a yacht in Lyford Cay, Bahamas. This is an estate...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Marsha Gayle, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Marsha Gayle (in red stripes) and a friend relax on a deserted beach near Calabash Bay, An...
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1950s Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

David Bowie Aladdin Sane Eyes Open, limited edition by Duffy
Located in Austin, TX
Museum quality fine art print of an alternative shot from the cover shoot for Aladdin Sane by David Bowie from the official Duffy Archive. This official Duffy Archive print is avail...
Category

Late 20th Century Conceptual Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

J. Gordon Douglas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
J. Gordon Douglas 1970 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Mr. and Mrs. J Gordon Douglas in the formal gardens of their residence, Santa Barbara, California, USA, ci...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Beach Backgammon Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Beach Backgammon 1957 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Backgammon on the beach at the Hotel Excelsior on the Venice Lido, Italy, 1957. unframed c type print ...
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1950s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Skiing in Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features (from left to right) Christine Camerana, Caroline Stoop, and Christine Semenenko Warrender...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Skiing in Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features (from left to right) Christine Camerana, Caroline Stoop, and Christine Semenenko Warrender...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

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Slim Aarons 'Palm Beach Idyll' 1955 Official Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Palm Beach Idyll' A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA Paper size 48 x 48 inches / 122 x 122 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Sli...
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1950s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Sailing In Lyford Cay, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a crew member tending to the rigging on a yacht in Lyford Cay, Bahamas. This is an estate...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

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Sailing In Lyford Cay, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a crew member tending to the rigging on a yacht in Lyford Cay, Bahamas. This is an estate...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

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Sailing In Lyford Cay, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a crew member tending to the rigging on a yacht in Lyford Cay, Bahamas. This is an estate...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

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Laguna Beach Surfers, California, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a surfer in the sea at Laguna Beach, California. This is an estate stamped and hand numb...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

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Laguna Beach Surfers, California, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a surfer in the sea at Laguna Beach, California. This is an estate stamped and hand numb...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

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Harbour Isle Beach Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Harbour Isle Beach 1973 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Holidaymakers on the beach at Harbour Isle in the Bahamas, March 1973. unframed c type print printed 202...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Queen arriving at Knebworth by helicopter 1986 by Denis O'Regan
Located in Austin, TX
Fine art 20x24" print of rock band Queen, Freddie Mercury, Brian May, John Deacon and Roger Taylor, arriving by helicopter to Knebworth Park in the UK. Taken by acclaimed photographe...
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1980s Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Dolly Parton portrait by Ed Caraeff
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of Dolly Parton, taken in Los Angeles, September 24th This stunning print is also available in the following sizes with a limited edition of 50. 20" x 24" 30" x 40" 40" x 60" Ed Caraeff is a photographer and art director. He has worked with, photographed, designed or art directed hundreds of album covers. His photography archive includes Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Iggy Pop and The Stooges...
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Late 20th Century Photorealist Color Photography

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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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