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Figurative Photography For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1910s
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Mid Century Portrait of a Ballerina - Hand Painted Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming hand painted photograph, portrait of a young ballerina as Tinker Bell by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Circa 1957.
Signed "Studio d'Art Los Altos...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Oil, Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons 'Equestrian Entrance' 1957 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Equestrian Entrance'
1957 Madame de la Haye-Jousselin on her horse at the gates to her chateau in Normandy.
Paper size 30 x 30 inches / 76 x 76 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Ed...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative 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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Backgammon on the beach at Biarritz, France
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Backgammon on the beach at Biarritz, France, 1960
Chromogenic print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Backgammon...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pulitzer On The Beach - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pulitzer On The Beach
Patsy Pulitzer at Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre based print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Produced utilisi...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Cannes Watersports, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Step back in time to the sunlit shores of the French Riviera with Slim Aarons' Cannes Watersports. This exquisite photograph captures the quintessential spirit of the 1950s holiday g...
Category
1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
'Party at Romanoff’s' SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Party at Romanoff’s' SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print
Giant Estate Stamped Limited Edition Print
by Slim Aarons
A party at Romanoff’s in Beverly Hills,...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Audrey Hepburn in Car Writing, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn in Car, Writing, audrey_06 -- Photographed for LIFE's December 1953 issue. Audrey Hepburn is "doing homework" on her way to the studio. Image size is 13.75" x 20" (for...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Giclée
George Platt Lynes Vintage 1949 Photograph #5 of dancer Francisco Moncion
Located in Glenford, NY
George Platt Lynes Photograph #5 of dancer Francisco Moncion 1949.
George Platt Lynes rare original vintage 1949 gelatin silver photograph of dancer Francisco Moncion. Stamped on verso - GEORGE PLATT LYNES. Photo is 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches, glossy finish in excellent condition.
This photograph is Photograph #5 (similar to #4 but the head is tilted to the subject's right) from this rare collection of 12 different poses in the series taken in Platt Lynes's NYC studio in 1949. The cloud backdrop is recognizable in other Platt Lynes photographs. Moncion was a personal friend of Platt Lynes and this photograph is from Moncion personal photographic collection.
George Platt Lynes (1907–1955), was a gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s through the early 1950s. From age eighteen, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate community in Paris when he became acquainted with the salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. He began photographing authors like Stein, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, and Colette and soon established himself as one of the premier fashion photographers in the Condé Nast stable, documenting the ballet companies of George Balanchine/Lincoln Kirstein, and pursuing a private obsession with seductive images of young male nudes rarely published in his lifetime. Platt Lynes photographs are in the collections of every major art museum and university archive including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Yale Art Museum, and the Smithsonian.
Francisco Moncion (July 6, 1918 – April 1, 1995) was a charter member of the New York City Ballet. Over the course of his forty year career, choreographers George Balanchine, and Jerome Robbins in the New York City Ballet created 22 major roles for Moncion including the Dark Angel in Orpheus, Death in La Valse, Prince Ivan in Firebird, and the Boy in Afternoon of a Faun. He was also a choreographer and a talented painter who exhibited alongside Miro, Picasso and Carrado Cagli. Moncion was a popular model for many famed mid-century (late 1930s, 1940s - 1950s) figure photographers including Platt Lynes, Carl van Vechten, Maurice Seymour...
Category
1950s Post-War Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Paris Market Shoppers 1956-61 by Peter Cornelius Giant size
Located in London, GB
Paris Market Shoppers from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61
By Peter Cornelius
Giant Oversize 60 x 40 inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size
Printed 2022
Arc...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Beauty and the Beast' Midcentury Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Beauty and the Beast
1959 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
'Nice Pool' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate 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 oc...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Kings Of Hollywood Slim Aarons Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Kings Of Hollywood 1957
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Clark Gable (1901 – 1960), Van Heflin (1910 – 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 – 1961) and James Stewart (1908 – 1997)
enjoying...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Distinguished Palm Beach Golfers 1959 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Distinguished Palm Beach Golfers 1959
Alfred Vanderbilt (background second from right), Sam Snead (golf cart driver) & George Plimpton (centre) playing Golf in Palm Beach.
Samuel J...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Self Portrait on Holiday in Athens, Greece
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Legendary photographer Slim Aarons relaxes in a self portrait shot in Athens, near the Acropolis.
Slim Aarons said, "I love a solo holiday. It tends to refresh the part of oneself that is most depleted by modern life — patience.
"Let me dispel a few myths. You will be lonely. No: you won’t. My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependency on someone to distract your attention.
"I’ve had solo pints of Guinness in the pubs of County Kerry and County Cork. I’ve walked across the sage- and juniper-scented maquis of Corsica on a spring day, where you can still find the world of Napoleon’s childhood. More than once I went to the Isle of Iona in the Scottish Hebrides...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
'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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Jim (Demetrios) Dardanis
Located in New York, NY
Vintage silver print
Western Photography Guild studio stamp in purple ink, verso
Numbered "14-5" in purple ink, verso
Also titled and inscribed in...
Category
1950s Other Art Style Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White
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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Dali's Party' 1959 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Dali's Party'
circa 1959: Surrealist painter Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) with a red-haired woman at a ball in New York.
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stampe...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative 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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
War in Algeria - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Politician - Vintage Photo is a historical photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
War in Algeria - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Politician - Vintage Photo is a historical photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Distinguished Palm Beach Golfers 1959 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Distinguished Palm Beach Golfers 1959
Alfred Vanderbilt (background second from right), Sam Snead (golf cart driver) & George Plimpton (centre) playing Golf in Palm Beach.
Samuel J...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pool at Lake Tahoe (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Bathers by a pool on the shore of Lake Tahoe, California, 1959.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (191...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
'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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Edition - Liz Pringle Refreshments in Jamaica
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Fashion model Liz Pringle drinking from a coconut at the Round Hill resort, Montego Bay, Jamaica, 1953.
photo by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre based print
Printed...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
George Platt Lynes Vintage 1949 Photograph #6 of dancer Francisco Moncion
Located in Glenford, NY
George Platt Lynes Photograph #6 of dancer Francisco Moncion 1949.
George Platt Lynes rare original vintage 1949 gelatin silver photograph of dancer Francisco Moncion. Stamped on verso - GEORGE PLATT LYNES. Photo is 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches, glossy finish in excellent condition.
This photograph is #6 from a collection of 12 different poses in this series taken in Platt Lynes's NYC studio in 1949 (as per the NY Public Library archives). The cloud backdrop is recognizable in other Platt Lynes photographs. Moncion was a personal friend of Platt Lynes and this photograph is from Moncion's personal photographic collection.
George Platt Lynes (1907–1955), was a gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s through the early 1950s. From age eighteen, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate community in Paris when he became acquainted with the salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. He began photographing authors like Stein, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, and Colette and soon established himself as one of the premier fashion photographers in the Condé Nast stable, documenting the ballet companies of George Balanchine/Lincoln Kirstein, and pursuing a private obsession with seductive images of young male nudes rarely published in his lifetime. Platt Lynes photographs are in the collections of every major art museum and university archive including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Yale Art Museum, and the Smithsonian.
Francisco Moncion (July 6, 1918 – April 1, 1995) was a charter member of the New York City Ballet. Over the course of his forty year career, choreographers George Balanchine, and Jerome Robbins in the New York City Ballet created 22 major roles for Moncion including the Dark Angel in Orpheus, Death in La Valse, Prince Ivan in Firebird, and the Boy in Afternoon of a Faun. He was also a choreographer and a talented painter who exhibited alongside Miro, Picasso and Carrado Cagli. Moncion was a popular model for many famed mid-century (late 1930s, 1940s - 1950s) figure photographers including Platt Lynes, Carl van Vechten, Maurice Seymour...
Category
1950s Post-War Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Florence Pritchett Smith, Venice, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1950 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features model turned fashion editor turned society hostess, Florence Pritchett Smith, covers her sleevel...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Mel Fellini
Located in London, GB
Silver gelatin print, studio stamp (verso), 20cm x 23cm, (45cm x 46cm framed). The photographed behind museum quality, UV and non-reflective glass.
A titan of American 20th century photography, Platt Lynes took his first photographs as a young artist living in New York and Paris in the 1920s. He maintained an interest in the male figure throughout his career and was part of a close-knit group of artists, including Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Margaret French...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'CZ's House' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'CZ's House'
circa 1955: Mrs F C Winston Guest (1920 - 2003) (aka Cee Zee Guest) reclines on a garden chair in front of the Grecian temple pool on her ocean-front estate, Villa Art...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, 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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
NEW: Slim Aarons 'Dixieland Jam in Rome' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
An impromptu concert in Rome with American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong (1901 - 1971), Earl 'Fatha' Hines (1905 - 1983) on piano and Jack Teagarden (1905 - 1964) on trom...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Salvador Dali's Party, Estate Edition Photograph [Surrealist Dinner, Green+Red]
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1959: Surrealist painter Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) with a red-haired woman in a green dress at a vintage ball in New York. The artist is captured with his characteristic walking st...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
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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 Figurative 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 Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Beverly Hills Pool Party - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beverly Hills Pool Party
A party by James Pendleton’s pool in Beverly Hills, California, 1952. Pendleton’s house was later bought by Hollywood director Robert Evans...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Palm Beach Idyll, Florida, 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 couple sunbathing by the sea at Palm Beach, Florida.
This is an estate stamped and hand ...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Edition - Saks Fifth Avenue
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
A young woman modelling an outfit for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot, circa 1955.
30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sculpture - Vintage B/W photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The sculpture is a b/w photographic print on Cardboard.
The artwork represents a sculpture.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
'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 Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
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 Figurative 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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Giclée
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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, 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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Tennis In The Bahamas Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Tennis In The Bahamas'
Two fashionably dressed women in tennis outfits, stand talking to a man on the edge of a tennis court in the Bahamas, with tennis rackets leaning up against...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Audrey Hepburn In Pink Rome 1955 Limited Estate Print
Located in London, GB
Belgian-born British actress Audrey Hepburn photographed wearing a Givenchy afternoon cocktail dress
from the Spring/Summer 1955 collection...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Cafe Culture by Bert Hardy Limited Edition Giant Oversize Silver Gelatin Print
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Cafe Culture" by Bert Hardy
A waiter serving clients on the terrace of a cafe on the Champs-Elysees, Paris, June 1951.
Original publication: Picture Po...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White
Slim Aarons 'Soho Waiters Race'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Soho Waiters Race, 1955, Printed Later
Waiters carrying half bottles of champagne set off on the annual waiters' race from Soho Square to Greek Street, i...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
SS Queen Of Bermuda, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Maritime Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s maritime photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the British ocean liner 'SS Queen of Bermuda' in Hamilton Harbour, Bermuda.
This is an es...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Christmas Swim' - Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Christmas Swim
1954 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Palm Beach Idyll, Estate Edition, Christmas Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This classic Slim Aarons photograph depicts a couple basking under the sun at the renowned Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955. The woman in the forefront sports a vintage orange swimsuit and a chic straw sunhat adorned with a vibrant red ribbon.
Dominating the scene is a tropical holiday tree and candy cane themed umbrella, situated between two palm trees, further accentuated by a tray filled with neatly wrapped holiday gifts. The creative interplay between the inverted triangle of the chair and the conventional triangle of the umbrella culminates in a balanced yet dynamic composition.
With the midcentury tropical beach setting and warm orange color palette, this festive Slim Aarons photograph transcends seasons, making it a timeless piece to appreciate year-round.
Slim Aarons
Palm Beach Idyll...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Kings Of Hollywood Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Kings Of Hollywood
Clark Gable (1901 – 1960), Van Heflin (1910 – 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 – 1961) and James Stewart (1908 – 1997) enjoying a joke at a New Year’s party held at Roma...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
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