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Color Photography For Sale
Period: 1970s
Period: 1920s
Norman Parkinson 'Apollonia van Ravenstein in Barbados. Vogue, July 1973'
Located in New York, NY
Apollonia van Ravenstein at the Crane Beach Hotel in Barbados wearing a Jane Cattlin swimsuit with a Charles Batten hat, chiffon scarf from Liberty and Saint Laurent Rive Gauche sand...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Slim Aarons 'Palm Springs Party' Midcentury Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
A poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, in Palm Springs, January 1970. Featured in the group are: industrial designer Raymond Loewy (1893 - 1986, centre, standing), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, and Helen Dzo Dzo (second from right). Palm Springs Party...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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C Print

Slim Aarons 'Sunbathing In Burgenstock'
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Sunbathing In Burgenstock 1955 C print estate edition of 150 Lilian Hanson, sunbathing by a pool at the Brgenstock Resort in Can...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

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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

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Lambda

Polaroid of Linda Blair
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Linda Blair starred in the 1973 horror film The Exorcist, one of the highest-grossing films of all time, when she was fifteen years old, and was nominated ...
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1970s Pop Art Color Photography

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Polaroid

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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Lambda

Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: Williamsburg
Located in Miami, FL
In 1974, wherever you looked, you could see the Chrysler Building. In this image, from Williamsburg, the distinctive Art Deco spire of the Chrysler Building peeks its head out above ...
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1970s Surrealist Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Old New York, Brooklyn Heights Promenade with Brooklyn Queens Expressway
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. A unique view of The Brooklyn Heights Promenade is shot with magical golden late afternoon light shot in 197...
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1970s American Impressionist Color Photography

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Inkjet

Poolside Party, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, January 1970. The house was designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann 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, a history of glamour that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Increasingly known for his influence, Aarons's casually glamorous jetset aesthetic can be seen today in fashion, art, and celebrity photography. Recent articles credit his work with inspiring the casually flawless style of top Instagram influencers, full of sunshine and escapism. Reference: "Dive in: how Slim Aarons art directed the poolside summer. French brand Maje are the latest label to take inspiration from Slim Aarons’ pictures of the jetset on holiday." Slim Aarons Poolside Party...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

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Lambda

Eden Rock Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Eden Rock 1973 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition The mansion of Remy de Haenen on a peninsula in the bay of St. Jean at Eden Rock on the Caribbean island of St Bar...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Freddie Mercury, Queen#2, Rock Photography by Jeffrey Mayer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jeffrey Mayer captures one of the best front men in history, Freddie Mercury of Queen. Freddie sure knew how to put on a show... Starting his 50+ year career in the summer of 1966, ...
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1970s Performance Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Eden-Roc Pool Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Eden-Roc Pool 1976 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Guests round the swimming pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. 24" x 20" paper size Photo by Sl...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Underwater Drink (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Underwater Drink, 1972 Chromogenic lambda print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. A woman drinking from a...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Lambda

Palm Spring Riders Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Palm Spring Riders 1970 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A group of riders among Washingtonia palms in Andreas Canyon, Palm Springs, s...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Natale Rusconi' 1978 Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Natale Rusconi' Natale Rusconi riding a Hotel Cipriani motor launch with the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore on San Giorgio Maggiore island beyond, in Venice, Italy, in September 19...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Norman Parkinson 'Jerry Hall in Jamaica, 1975'
Located in New York, NY
Jerry Hall at Montego Bay, Jamaica wearing Juvena makeup with fashion by Walter Albini and Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, 1975 Jerry Hall in Jamaica, 1975 C print Estate stamped and num...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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C Print

Harvey Edwards, Ballet Slippers, Hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Harvey Edwards Ballet Slippers 1979 Hand signed by the artist Silver dye bleach print (Cibachrome) Numbered 105/299 *unframed*
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1970s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Old Las Vegas, Fremont Street Neon Signs, Abstract Photography
Located in Miami, FL
This is the greatest and most iconic picture and vintage Las Vegas even done. This classic view of downtown neon signs of Las Vegas before the wrecking ball demolished one of Americ...
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1970s American Impressionist Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

The Jam 1977 Hand Signed And Framed
Located in London, GB
The Jam 1977 by Martyn Goddard hand signed and numbered by the photographer. 7/25 20 x 16″ inches / 51 x 41 cm paper size Overall framed size 26 x 22″ inches / 66 x 56 cm Image...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Cafe In Monte Carlo Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Cafe In Monte Carlo 1975 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Diners on a cafe terrace in Monte Carlo, Monaco, August 1975 unframed c type print printed 2023 20 x 24...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Jimmy Page #2 by Jeffrey Mayer, Classic Rock Photography Print
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Shot at the the Forum in Inglewood California in 1972 during the tour supporting the Zeppelin’s untitled fourth studio album commonly called Led Zeppelin IV. This image was chosen by...
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1970s Performance Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc 1976 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc 1976 Guests by the pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size. Estate Stamped Collection Editi...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

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

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Archival Pigment

Old Freemont Street Neon, Las Vegas
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $1000. This is the quintessential image of a bygone era. Old Las Vegas is captured with glowing neon signs set against a dramatic desert sunset. Signed and ...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Skiing In Gstaad Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Skiing In Gstaad 1977 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Christine Camerana, Caroline Stoop, and Christine Semenenko Warrender prepare for a day on the slopes in Gs...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Ballet Bodybuilder
By Michael Norcia
Located in Austin, TX
Actor and bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger Practicing ballet with a trainer, circa 1976. Arnold Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American actor, producer, businessman, retired bodyb...
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1970s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment

Color Polaroid ‘Sex Parts and Torsos’ by Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work is unique. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso. Work comes with a Certifica...
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1970s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Polaroid

Red Brick Factory Long Island City with Empire State Building in Manhattan
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk's photograph of a Red Brick Factory in Long Island City is as much about color-field theory as it is a document of a brightly painted factory facade. Additionally, Fun...
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1970s Color-Field Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Las Vegas Neon Signs Fremont Street, Abstract Photography
Located in Miami, FL
An abstract view of the classic Las Vegas Neon signs on Fremont Street at sunset. Bold reds, pinks, and blues work with the dramatic Nevada sunset. Th...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Lillian Crawford Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Lillian Crawford 1970 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Lillian Crawford, the wife of actor Lee Kinsolving, in Palm Beach, May 1970. unframed c type print printed...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Blackland House 1970 Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Blackland House circa 1970 by Christopher Simon Sykes Osborne the dog sits in the window of Blackland House in Wiltshire, circa 1970 (Photo by Christopher Simon Sykes) This beauti...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

C Print, Color

Saint-Tropez Swimmer Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Saint-Tropez Swimmer 1971 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A topless swimmer in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1971. unframed c type print printed ...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Roquebrune-Cap-Martin 1970 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin A view from a hillside in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, southeastern France, looking toward Monaco, August 1970. 40x30” / 76x101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Col...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Boca Raton Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Boca Raton 1978 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A swimming pool in Boca Raton, Florida, USA, circa 1978. unframed c type print printed 2023 20 x 20" - paper si...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Bob Colacello
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Bob Colacello is a writer and a regular contributor to Vanity Fair Magazine. The former editor of Interview Magazine, Colacello was first approached by A...
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1970s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Polaroid

Poolside Drinks Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Poolside Drinks 1975 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Guests around the pool at Dorothy Laughlin’s Santa Barbara home. unframed c type print printed 2023 16×20 i...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Bianca Jagger's Birthday Party at Studio 54
By Eric Kroll
Located in Austin, TX
Circa 1970's in New York: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Bianca Jagger, and Mick Jagger at Studio 54 for Bianca's birthday party. Bianca Jagger is a former Nicaraguan actress who was married...
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1970s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment

Britt Ekland asMary Goodnight James Bond Limited Estate Print
Located in London, GB
Britt Ekland – Mary Goodnight, the Man With the Golden Gun, Bangkok, 1974 Britt Ekland (born Britt-Marie Eklund; 6 October 1942) is a Swedish actress and singer. She appeared in n...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

'Hotel Il San Pietro' Slim Aarons ESTATE ptrint
Located in London, GB
'Hotel Il San Pietro' by Slim Aarons Guests at the Hotel Il San Pietro in Positano, Italy, August 1979. In his words, he photographed 'beautiful peopl...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Futuristic Vision: Sci Fi Outer Space Cosmos Celestial Abstraction
Located in Miami, FL
Decades before Photoshop and digital photography enabled the user to manipulate a photograph easily - Mitchell Funk created some of the most original, mind-bending, and technically brilliant images in analog. This work, "Futuristic Vision: Sci-Fi Outer Space," is a composite of two inverted Transamerica Buildings on a 35mm piece of film. It was done in 1978, and that is six years after the completion of the futuristic Transamerica Pyramid Building...
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1970s Futurist Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Path in Central Park. Negative Color
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of more the 10 different styles of Color Photography. This very early experimentation with negative color combined with colored filters yields a romantica...
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1970s Surrealist Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Graffiti Art Photograph Silkscreen Print Truck New York City 1970s Pop Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Photographic Subject: Cityscape Medium: Silkscreen of Photograph Surface: Paper Country: United States Dimensions: 21.5" x 28" Street Art, Urban Jon Naar is a British-Americ...
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1970s Street Art Color Photography

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Screen

Rocky Horror - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
Located in London, GB
Rocky Horror - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print Little Nell, Patricia Quinn, Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, 1974. (photo Mick Roc...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Lyford Cay Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Lyford Cay 1974 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Lord and Lady Martonmere in the garden of the Villa El Mirador, their Lyford Cay home, ...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc 1976 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc 1976 Guests by the pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size. Estate Stamped Collection Edit...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Signs and Shapes Primary Colors , Modern Photography Cover by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Modern Photography Cover , August 1978 ( Editors flipped the image. The correct way is yellow arrows on bottom Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso Edition 3 of 15, Unf...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc 1976 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Guests standing by a white Rolls-Royce convertible courtesy car at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, Antibes,...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Pebble Beach' 1976 Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Pebble Beach' Riders from the Pebble Beach Equestrian Center wend their way through the Californian sand dunes and pampas grass, November 1976. 20x20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper s...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Old Freemont Street Neon, Las Vegas
Located in Miami, FL
This is the quintessential image of a bygone era. Old Las Vegas is captured with glowing neon signs set against a dramatic desert sunset. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Futuro - iconic midcentury futuristic architectural design in icy wilderness
Located in San Francisco, CA
Iconic futuristic architectural design of midcentury prefab "Futuro" in Great Tetons Yellowstone landscape, designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen...
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1970s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée

Poolside Scenery, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Nelda Linsk (left, in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk with guests by the pool at the Li...
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1970s Realist Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Skiing Holiday - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Skiing Holiday American political novelist William F Buckley Jnr takes a break from skiing near Gstaad with Canadian-born economist John Kenneth Galbra...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc' 1978 Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc' Guests around the swimming pool at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, in Antibes on the French Riviera, August 1978. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size E...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Desert House Party' 1970 Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Desert House Party' A poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, in Palm Springs, January 1970. Featured in the group are: industrial desig...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Garden Party' 1970 Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Garden Party' 1970: An elegant garden party in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Slim Aarons) 20x20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by ...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Pool At Las Brisas' 1972 Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Pool At Las Brisas' Guests in the pool at the Las Brisas Hotel, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition t...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Jamaican Jewel
Located in London, GB
Jamaican Jewel The swimming pool at the Jamaican home of Philadelphia jeweller Douglas Cooper, March 1970. Paper size 30 x 40" inches / 30 x 40 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edit...
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Manhattan Bridge, Empire State Building, Landscape Photography
Located in Miami, FL
A golden Empire State Building sits comfortably inside the center arch of the Manhattan bridge as if that space was designed for it. Precise composition combined with magical late...
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1970s Impressionist Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, 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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