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Period: 1950s
Italy in 1956 - Portofino. Vintage Colour Photograph Print.
Located in Cologne, DE
A moment in time
In 2021, a gallery from Brussels contacted us. There, a photographic collection had been kept in tin boxes for decades, consisting of 6x6 glass slides in color.
Th...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Color
Italy in 1956 - Piazza della Signoria, Florence
Located in Cologne, DE
This is a historical photograph of Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy, taken in the 1950s. The image captures a lively city scene with numerous vintage cars parked around the s...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Color
'Fan Mail' Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Fan Mail' 1955
Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962), wearing a red negligee trimmed with black lace, sorts out her fan mail shortly after her film ‘The Asphalt Jungle’ had been released. ...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
J. Gordon Douglas (1970) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
J. Gordon Douglas (1970) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Mr. and Mrs. J Gordon Douglas in the formal gardens of their residence, Santa Barbara,
California,...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
The Marlboroughs Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Marlboroughs
1957: John Albert Edward Spencer Churchill, the 10th Duke of Marlborough (1897 – 1972) and his wife Mary relax on a bench in the grounds of Blenheim Palace, the fam...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Dolores Del Rio (1952) - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dolores Del Rio (1952) - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Mexican film star Dolores Del Rio (1905 – 1983) swimming in Acapulco,
Mexi...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Westin Excelsior (1957) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Westin Excelsior (1957) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice,
1957.
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Size: 16x...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Outdoor Dining (1956) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Outdoor Dining (1956) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Diners at an outdoor restaurant,
San Diego, California, October 1956.
Additional Information:
Unfram...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Lech Ice Bar (1960) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lech Ice Bar (1960) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
The Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960. The mountain in the background is the Omershor...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Joan Collins Relaxes (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Joan Collins Relaxes (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Film star Joan Collins relaxes with her pink poodle on her pink b...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Julie London (1957) - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Julie London (1957) - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Singer Julie London enjoying breakfast in bed at the Beverly Hills Hotel,
circa ...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Marsha Gayle (1957) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marsha Gayle (1957) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Marsha Gayle of Paris enjoys a deserted beach near Calabash Bay, Andros,
Bah...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Jayne Mansfield at the Roulette Wheel
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Beautifully captured by Frank Worth, this black and white portrait features actress and sex symbol Jayne Mansfield in Las Vegas, watching a game of roulette.
Jayne Mansfield was a...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Hawaiian Scenes 1957 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Hawaiian Scenes
1957
Surfers riding waves, Hawaii, 1957
by Toni Frissell
20 x 24" inches / 51 x 60 cm paper size
Archival pigment print
unframed
(framing available see example...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Elvis Presley Rocking Out on Stage
By Charles Trainor
Located in Austin, TX
A vintage 1957 image, artistically recolored, depicting music's new sensation Elvis Presley performing on stage.
Elvis Aaron Presley, also known simply as Elvis, was an American si...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'The Beverly Hills Hotel Sign' - Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Beverly Hills Hotel
1957
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
The sign on the side of the Beverly Hills Hotel on...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Audrey Hepburn "Roman Holiday"
By Bud Fraker
Located in Austin, TX
"Audrey Hepburn in a classic headshot from the 1953 film "Roman Holiday"
Film and fashion icon Audrey Hepburn was a British actress, active during Hollywood's Golden Age. She was ...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Hotel Sports Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Sports
Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958.
30x20” / 76x51 cm - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aaron...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sunbathing In Burgenstock, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Lilian Hanson sunbathing by a pool at the Bürgenstock Resort Lake Lucerne in Canton Nidwald...
Category
Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Greece in 1957 - Athens
Located in Cologne, DE
A moment in time
In 2021, a gallery from Brussels contacted us. There, a photographic collection had been kept in tin boxes for decades, consisting of 6x6 glass slides in color.
Th...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Color
Mittersill Castle, Austria, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a glider resting on the ground by Mittersill Castle, Austria.
This is an estate stamped ...
Category
Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Capture of Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis candid and laughing.
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, and model. Famous for playing comedic "blonde bombshell" characters,...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Capote At Home' 1958 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Capote At Home'
Author Truman Capote (1924 – 1984) relaxes with a book and a cigarette in his cluttered apartment, Brooklyn Heights, New York. 1958.
30x30" inches / 76 x 76 cm p...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Nice Pool 1955 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Nice Pool 1955
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...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Truman Capote at Home' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Author Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) relaxes with a book and a cigarette in his cluttered apartment, Brooklyn Heights, New York.
Truman Capote at Home
1960's
C print
Estate signature ...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Marietine Birnie, Malta, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
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.
This is an estat...
Category
American Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Marietine Birnie, Malta, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
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.
This is an estat...
Category
American Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Snorkelling In The Shallows, Malta, Estate Edition, Aerial Waterscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s aerial landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of people snorkelling off a small boat in Malta.
This is an estate stampe...
Category
Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Snorkelling In The Shallows, Malta, Estate Edition, Aerial Waterscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s aerial landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of people snorkelling off a small boat in Malta.
This is an estate stampe...
Category
Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Snorkelling In Malta, Estate Edition, Aerial Waterscape 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
Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Snorkelling In Malta, Estate Edition, Aerial Waterscape 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
Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons - John Rawlings 1950 - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
John Rawlings
1950, Fashion photographer John Rawlings (1912 - 1970) on the beach at Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Paper size 50 x 50 / 127 x 127 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Carlton Hotel 1958
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Carlton Hotel
The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958.
40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Mara Lane at the Sands' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Austrian actress Mara Lane lounging by the pool in a red and white striped bathing costume at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldw...
Category
Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Stamped Edition - Mara Lane Las Vegas
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Austrian actress Mara Lane posing by the pool at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, in a red and white striped bathing costume, 1954.
40 x 40" inches / 101 ...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
A Day In The Mountains 1955 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
A Day In The Mountains
1955
A group of stylish skiers in Klosters, Switzerland, 1955.
by Toni Frissell
40x30 inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Archival pigment print
unframed
(fr...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
People on a street in the old city of Cairo, Egypt 1955
Located in Cologne, DE
A moment in time
In 2021, a gallery from Brussels contacted us. There, a photographic collection had been kept in tin boxes for decades, consisting of 6x6 glass slides in color.
Th...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Color
'Nice Pool' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Nice Pool' by Slim Aarons
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 ...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Frank Sinatra Standing with Tbird
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
This beautifully restored color image features legendary actor, singer, and musician Frank Sinatra leaning on a classic T-Bird.
Francis Albert Sinatra was an American singer, acto...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Skiing Beauty 1969 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Skiing Beauty Suzy Chaffee 1969
by Toni Frissell
Suzy Chaffee at Vail, Colorado in one of her own designed ski suits.
Suzanne Stevia Chaffee (born November 29, 1946) is a former ...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Grace Kelly: Classic Portrait of Elegance
By Bud Fraker
Located in Austin, TX
This elegant full-length studio portrait features the "Princess of Grace", Grace Kelly. This image captures the star in a tulle skirt, sitting on steps inside of a photo studio.
G...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Street Cafés In Capri 1959 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Street Cafés In Capri
1959
Street Cafés in Capri, Italy, 1959.
by Toni Frissell
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Archival pigment print
unframed
(framing available see...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Family Snapper 1959 - Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Family Snapper 1959, Slim Aarons
Babe Paley (Mrs William Paley) by the pool. Her husband, William Paley is snapping the photographer at their cottage, Round Hill, Jamaica.
40 x 40”...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Hotel Sports - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Sports
Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Sli...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Hotel Excelsior, Rome, 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 holding her skis in North Conway, New Hampshire.
This is an estate stamped and han...
Category
Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Mamie Van Doren and Richard Long Getting Gas
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Vintage capture of Mamie Van Doren and Richard Long getting gas in a classic car.
Mamie Van Doren is an American actressmodelsingerand sex symbol. She is perhaps best remembered fo...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Satin Seduction' Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Satin Seduction'
1955: Film star Diana Dors (Diana Fluck) (1931 – 1984) in blonde bombshell pose on a satin-covered bed.
60 x 60" inches / 152 x 152 cm paper size
Estate Stam...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Carlton Hotel' OVERSIZE Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Carlton Hotel'
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 entrance to t...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Time For A Guinness'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Caption: April 1959: Gloria Guinness enjoying a swim in her pool at Manalapan, Palm Beach, Florida.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticit...
Category
Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Mittersill Castle, Austria, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a glider resting on the ground by Mittersill Castle, Austria.
This is an estate stamped ...
Category
Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Golf In Hong Kong 1959 Toni Frissell Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Golf In Hong Kong
1959
A group play golf on a coastl golf course, Hong Kong, 1959.
by Toni Frissell
Large oversize 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size
Archival pigment pr...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Dance Class' 1959 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Dance Class'
Premium Rates Apply. June 1959: Children at Mrs William de Rham's Dancing Class held at the River Club, New York. L to r, Arturo Ramos Jnr, Constance Rogers, Stephen C...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
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
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Skiers At Gstaad
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiers at Gstaad, Switzerland, March 1969.
Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 40" inches / ca 76.2 x 101.6 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim A...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Bermudian Hostess - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bermudan Hostess
Polly Trott Hornburg in front of her father’s typical Bermudian house. She is wearing her own design of Thaibok slacks and shirt for a ride in an open carriage, cir...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
' Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II ' (SLIM AARONS Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II'
View looking down the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Italy, 1960. Opened in 1890, the covered arcade is on the northern side of the Piazza ...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
North Conway Sleigh, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
North Conway Sleigh, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
This mid-1955s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an...
Category
American Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
'Tennis In The Bahamas' Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
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.
Pap...
Category
Modern 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sunbathing In Burgenstock, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Lilian Hanson sunbathing by a pool at the Bürgenstock Resort Lake Lucerne in Canton Nidwald...
Category
Realist 1950s Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
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