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Figurative Photography For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1910s
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New York for Go Magazine - Couple running in the City, Fine Art Photography 1960
Located in Vienna, AT
A couple holding hands and running in New York photographed by Norman Parkinson in 1960 for Go Magazine. All prints are limited edition. Available in multiple sizes. High-end framin...
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1950s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

California Surfer
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley Surfer c. 1950's C print 24 x 20 inches Caption: Surfer holding surfboard on beach. Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more than four decades: first started as an app...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

Friends with surfboards in Ford Mustangs
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley Friends with surfboards in car on beach c. 1950's C print 24 x 20 inches Caption: Friends with surfboards in car on beach Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more than...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

Garden Telephone
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley Garden Telephone c. 1960's C print 60 x 40 inches Caption: Young woman sitting in garden using telephone Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more than four decades: fi...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

Woman Sitting by the Sea
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley Woman Sitting by the Sea c. 1950's C print 60 x 40 inches Caption: Young woman sitting on rock beside sea, smiling, portrait Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

Young Woman in Swimming Pool
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley Woman Sitting by the Sea c. 1950's C print 24 x 20 inches Caption: Young woman in swimming pool, portrait Tom Kelley’s interesting ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

California Surfer
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley Surfer c. 1950's C print 40 x 30 inches Caption: Surfer holding surfboard on beach. Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more than four decades: first started as an app...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

Friends with surfboards in Ford Mustangs
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley Friends with surfboards in car on beach c. 1950's C print 16 x 20 inches Caption: Friends with surfboards in car on beach Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more than...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

Diving Board Balance
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley Diving Board Balance c. 1950's C print 24 x 20 inches Caption: Woman touching water with foot Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more than four decades: first starte...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

Young Woman in Swimming Pool
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley Woman Sitting by the Sea c. 1950's C print 24 x 20 inches Caption: Young woman in swimming pool, portrait Tom Kelley’s interesting ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

C Print

Woman Sitting by the Sea
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley Woman Sitting by the Sea c. 1950's C print 60 x 40 inches Caption: Young woman sitting on rock beside sea, smiling, portrait Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

C Print

Friends with surfboards in Ford Mustangs
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley Friends with surfboards in car on beach c. 1950's C print 16 x 20 inches Caption: Friends with surfboards in car on beach Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more than...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

C Print

Friends with surfboards in Ford Mustangs
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley Friends with surfboards in car on beach c. 1950's C print 16 x 20 inches Caption: Friends with surfboards in car on beach Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more than...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

C Print

Tom Kelley 'Woman with Umbrella'
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley Woman With Umbrella c. 1950's C print 38 x 32 inches Caption: Woman in bikini sitting on beach holding umbrella, smiling, portrait. Tom Kelley’s interesting career spa...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

C Print

Friends with surfboards in Ford Mustangs
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley Friends with surfboards in car on beach c. 1950's C print 24 x 20 inches Caption: Friends with surfboards in car on beach Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more than...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

C Print

Tom Kelley 'Woman with Umbrella'
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley Woman With Umbrella c. 1950's C print 38 x 32 inches Caption: Woman in bikini sitting on beach holding umbrella, smiling, portrait. Tom Kelley’s interesting career spa...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

C Print

A.J. Ynocencio
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print George Platt Lynes studio stamp in black ink, verso Also titled in pencil, verso Formerly in the collection of Monroe Wheeler. This is one of Lynes' last works, which he printed from a paper negative. This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. George Platt Lynes (1907-1955) was a renowned American fashion and commercial photographer who enjoyed the prime of his career during the 1930s and 1940s. Although he was very sought after by major fashion publications for his beautiful images and stunning compositions, his real passion was the male nude, which he photographed extensively in the privacy of his studio. His connections with New York City’s cultural influencers granted him access to beautiful models, dancers, and actors whom he photographed without leaving behind his friends, lovers, and even studio assistants. Due to the revolutionary and sexually charged aspects of his work, many of his photographs remained unknown and unpublished for years, some of them coming to the light only after they were left to Dr. Alfred Kinsey’s Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction after the artist’s death in 1955. Platt Lynes is recognized today as a master of 20th-century photography, and remains as one of the most important influencers of male portraiture...
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1950s Other Art Style Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Glenn Bishop
Located in New York, NY
This vintage gelatin silver print is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
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1950s Other Art Style Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Wall Street
Located in New York, NY
From creator of poetic images to compelling storyteller, Jerry Schatzberg has, over the past three decades, excelled in both the realms of photography and filmmaking. Published in Vo...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Natalie, Hammamet
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer. Louise Dahl-Wolfe was born in California. After her first photograph published appeared in Vanity Fair in 1933, she moved to New York and opened her photography studio. Her early documentary portraits of rural America gave way to an established career as a staff fashion photographer for Harper’s Bazaar. Dahl-Wolfe was at the forefront of early color fashion photography...
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1950s Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Gold Scales, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Located in New York, NY
Ormond Gigli Gold Scales, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 1959 Archival pigment print Signed and numbered edition of 10 Ormond Gigli (American, b.1925), famous in the 1950s for his photographs of theater, celebrities, dance, and exotic people and places, was born in New York City. His photographs were featured in prominent magazines, such as LIFE, Time, Paris Match, Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, and many others. He has created portraits of Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, John F. Kennedy, Halston, Gina Lollobrigida, Diana Vreeland, Giancarlo Giannini...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

C Print

Barbara, Paris
Located in New York, NY
William Klein Barbara, Paris, 1956 gelatin silver print 30 x 40" ed. of 30
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

The Spotted Furs, Furred: Barbara Mullen in a coat by Traina-Norell, New York
Located in New York, NY
Lillian Bassman The Spotted Furs, Furred: Barbara Mullen in a coat by Traina-Norell, New York. Harper's Bazaar, 1954 Gelatin Silver Print image, 17 x 22...
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1950s American Realist Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Kings of Hollywood
Located in New York, NY
Kings of Hollywood, 1957: Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper, and James Stewart at Romanoff’s in Beverly Hills. Staley-Wise Gallery offers photog...
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1950s Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

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Life becomes art in figurative photography. Shared moments are captured and history is recorded in images of people and their lives.

Figurative photography is often used to describe a kind of photography in which people are the subject. Early black and white photography of people can be a glimpse into a past century — witness the celebrated work of photographers such as Ansel Adams or lesser-known artists like Berenice Abbott, for example. The cultural and social standards of the time are captured in these figurative photographs.

Mid-century photos might show the life and fashions of the day, sometimes with the shared thread of humanity, joy and love. Indeed, figurative photographs can be a source of inspiration and wonder, speaking of common life experiences and beauty. Vintage photos of celebrities and iconic actors can be valuable keepsakes as snapshots of a bygone era.

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