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Figurative Photography For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1910s
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Lido Life, Venice, 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 group of friends squeeze onto an inflatable raft at the Venice Lido, Venice, Italy.
This...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Swimmer And Sunbather' 1959 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Swimmer And Sunbather'
An underwater swimmer and a sunbather at the Cal Neva Lodge on the shore of Lake Tahoe, 1959. The Cal Neva resort and casino straddles the border between Ne...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Marilyn Getting Ready To Go Out' (Limited Edition)
Located in London, GB
'Marilyn Getting Ready To Go Out' by Ed Feingersh
Actress Marilyn Monroe prepares to go out to the play ‘Cat On A Hot Tin Roof’ by applying make-up and pe...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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
Slim Aarons 'Spectators At Lord’s' Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Spectators At Lord’s' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Spectators at a cricket match between the public schools of Eton and Harrow at Lord’s Cricket Ground, London, 1955.
P...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
'Christmas Swim' 1954 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Christmas Swim' 1954 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, swimming in a pool festooned with ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Marina Piccola 1954 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marina Piccola, 1954
Canzone del Mare at the Marina Piccola, Capri, Italy, 1954.
30x20” / 76x51 cm - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Nancy Talbert And Lefty Flynn'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Nancy Talbert And Lefty Flynn
1953 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition 1 of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Nancy Talbert, with former America...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
'Riviera Crowd' 1957 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Riviera Crowd'
Holidaymakers enjoying lunch by a pool on the French Riviera, 1957.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Sl...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Windsors In Portofino, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1950s figurative photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Duke and Duchess of Windsor walking their dog in Portofino in 1951.
This is an est...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Print - New England Skiing 1955 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in New Hampshire, 1955.
Slim Aarons print
Printed Later 2024
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Produced utilising the only or...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Pink Zone- Piccadilly Circus - Photo - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Pink Zone- Piccadilly Circus is a black and white vintage photo, realized in december 1959 by the Agency Keystone.
Good conditions and aged.
The photo depicts the Piccadilly Circus...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
'An Anxious Wait' 1951 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'An Anxious Wait' 1951 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Premium Rates Apply. 2nd April 1951: American actress, Gloria Swanson, anxiously awaits the results of the Best Actress award at a cafe on West 52nd Street, New York. On her left is her fellow nominee and the eventual winner, Judy...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White
'Lady Hamilton' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Lady Hamilton' 1955
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print
Lady Hamilton rests in the shade of a tree, in the company of a Kenyan tribe.
(Photo b...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Campbell Falls Picnic, Massachusetts, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a family enjoying a picnic on the bank of the Whiting River near Campbell Falls, Massachu...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Chanel Red Velvet Dinner Dress in Cour de Rohan, 1955
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Courtyard Chanel Red Velvet Dinner Dress, Cour de Rohan, 1955 -- A velvet dinner dress by Chanel, is photographed in the vine hung Paris courtyard, C...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Giclée
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Staying At The Carlton
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Staying At The Carlton
A guest relaxes at the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, July 1958.
Gorgeous print measuring 72 x 48" inches / ca 182 x 122 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped C...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II 1960 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
' Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II ' 1960
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped
View looking down the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Italy, 1960. Opened in 1890, the cov...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Self Portrait on Holiday in Athens, Greece (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
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
Slim Aarons, Tennis in the Bahamas ( Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Tennis in the Bahamas, 1957
Chromogenic lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Two women stand talking t...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Queen Elizabeth and French President De Gaulle - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elizabeth and French president- Vintage press print realized in the 1950s.
Salute to Britain
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Queen Elizabeth - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elizabeth - Vintage Photo realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Queen Elizabeth and Edinburg Duce - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elizabeth and Edinburg Duce - Vintage press print realized in the 1950s by Edward Blackbrow
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip Wave from Top of Aircraft-Vintage Photo- 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip Wave from Top of Aircraft - Vintage press print realized in the 1950s.
Royal Family back from Mille Tour of Canada, London.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
'C.Z. Guest With Her Great Dane' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'C.Z. Guest With Her Great Dane' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
The swimming pool and jetty at the Villa d'Este Hotel, Lake Como, Italy, June 1983.
Produced from t...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color
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
Emilio Lussu - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Emilio Lussu is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
'Dali's Party, ' Estate Edition, ft Surrealist Salvador Dali in New York
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 Surrealist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
'Luxury Dining' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Luxury Dining'
Diners in a grand ballroom during a fashion show, circa 1955.
30x30 inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aar...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Windsors In Portofino, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1950s figurative photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Duke and Duchess of Windsor walking their dog in Portofino in 1951.
This is an est...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
The Temple of Dawn II, Bangkok, Thailand
Located in New York, NY
The Temple of Dawn II, Bangkok, Thailand
1957
Archival pigment print
Estate stamped, signed and numbered by Andrea Derujinsky with certificate of authenticity
The entire Gleb Derujinsky Collection available exclusively at IFAC Arts on 1stdibs.
Groundbreaking fashion photographer Gleb Derujinsky invigorated the fashion industry with his glamorous, exotic, and often unconventional photographs. Gleb Derujinsky's career as a fashion photographer took hold in the golden age of European haute couture, when Balenciaga and Pierre Balmain were at the top of their game and Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld were designing their first runway shows. Although air travel was still reserved for the happy few, Derujinsky convinced his editors Carmel Snow and Diana Vreeland to send him around the world to photograph beautiful models like Carmen Dell Orefice and his future wife, Ruth Neumann draped in expensive gowns juxtaposed against rough desert dunes or a glittering ocean at sunset. His ideas were revolutionary and they gave rise to the mystique and glamour that is now pervasive in fashion. Derujinsky was the quintessential Renaissance man photographer, award-winning cinematographer and commercial director, inventor, WWII veteran, world traveler, jewelry designer, musician, ski instructor, Ferrari America race-car driver, and champion glider pilot. His passion for photography started at the tender age of six, by ten, he had built a photo enlarger, and as a teenager, he became the youngest member of the Camera Club of New York. His photographs appeared in major lifestyle magazines and extensively in Harper's Bazaar from 1950 to 1970
Derujinsky’s best fashion photographs are typified by the frisson between high fashion in the 1950s and 1960s with the dynamism of locations and urban scenarios." Louis Vuitton Fashion Photography...
Category
1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Doris Day - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Doris Day is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
NEW Slim Aarons 'Three Sisters' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Shoppers on the pavement outside a Three Sisters boutique in Florida, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons
Three Sisters
1955
Fiber Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 1...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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.
Oversize
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Archival ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
River Club Unveiling Event (Thomas Hart Benton Plate #31)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Michael Mardikes
River Club Unveiling Event (Thomas Hart Benton Plate #31)
Year: 1956, 2021
Pigment Ink on Archival Paper Photograph
Image Size: 13.5x19 in
Paper Size: 17x22 in
Editi...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Nude - Guzzi Beppe - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude- Guzzi Beppe is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1954.
Good conditions, with some decoloration spots and aged margins.
It belongs to a historical album includ...
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
'Spectators At Lord’s' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Spectators At Lord’s' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Spectators at a cricket match between the public schools of Eton and Harrow at Lord’s Cricket Ground, London, 1955.
...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
NEW Slim Aarons 'Flo Smith And Friends' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American fashion editor Florence 'Flo' Pritchett Smith (left) and Dolly O'Brien (centre) with a friend in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons
Flo Smith And Friends
1955
Fi...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
NEW Slim Aarons 'Golf Spectators' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A man wearing a bathrobe stands among the spectators at the Seminole Golf Club, Florida, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons
Golf Spectators
1955
Fiber Print
Estate signature stamped and hand ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Norman Parkinson 'Golfing at Le Toque'
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Golfing at Le Toque
1939 printed later
Silver gelatin print
40 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and numbered on verso
A woman in a white suit hitting a golf ball in a sa...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Old Days - A Woman with her Seven Children and two Stewardesses... - 1956
Located in Roma, IT
Old Days - A Woman with her Seven Children and two Stewardesses posing near the Steps of a Lai plane is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1956.
Good conditions.
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Jamaica Relaxation 1965 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Jamaica Relaxation
1965
A group of friends sit on a sandy beach in front of a Jamaican house.
by Toni Frissell
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Archival pigment print
unfr...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Old Days - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Old Days is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Landscape in Luzern - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape in Luzern is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ann Baxter and Richard Todd - Vintage Photo - 1957
Located in Roma, IT
A Scene on the Set of "Don Giovanni" by Joseph Losey is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1979.
Good conditions.
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
'Dining In The Bahamas' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Dining In The Bahamas'
A waiter carrying a tray of food walks past a woman walking away from a swimming pool which is surrounded by tables, each with a parasol to shade the diners...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Silver Skier 1969 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Silver Skier Suzy Chaffee 1969
by Toni Frissell
Suzy Chaffee at Vail, Colorado in her trademark skintight silver ski suit.
Suzanne Stevia Chaffee (born November 29, 1946) is a fo...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hellenistic Columns and Tourist - The Old Days - The Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Hellenistic Columns and Tourist - The Old Days is a black and white vintage photo, silver salt print, realized in the Early 20th Century.
It belongs to ...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Omiccioli and Villoresi at Vetrina di Chiurazzi - Vintage Photo - 1953
Located in Roma, IT
Omiccioli and Villoresi in Vetrina di Chiurazzi is a vintage leaflet, realized in 1953.
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
'Equestrian Entrance' 1957 Slim Aarons 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.
30x30 inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edi...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
The Boat Race at Hammersmith, 1912, original vintage albumen print
Located in London, GB
Messrs Stearn
The 69th Boat Race at Hammersmith, 1912
Albumen print
16 x 21 cm
This photograph depicts Oxford and Cambridge neck and neck at Hammersmith in the 1912 Oxford-Cambridg...
Category
1910s Photorealist Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Actor Cary Grant - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The American Actor Cary Grant is an original black and white photograph realized in the 1950s.
Portrait of the American actor with his third wife Betsy Drake.
Slightly blurry.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons 'Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II' 1960 Limited Edition Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II' 1960
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 Pia...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Old Days - Historical Photo - 1915
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1915.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and political eve...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days - Historical Photo - The Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families,...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sports Car Couple 1955 Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sports Car Couple
John Bryant with his AC sports car in Kinnerton Place, London SW1. His passenger is Margaret McAulay. Circa 1955.
Paper size 50 ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Jawaharlal Nehru - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Jawaharlal Nehru- Vintage Photo is a historical photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Jawaharlal Nehru in Rome - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Jawaharlal Nehru in Rome- Vintage Photo is a historical photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Find Figurative Photography for Your Home or Office
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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