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Period: 1950s
Slim Aarons, 'La Canzone Del Mare' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
La Canzone del Mare in Capri, Italy, July 1958.
Slim Aarons
La Canzone del Mare
1958 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authent...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Jacques Tati and Alain Becourt - Photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson - 1958
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage b/w photograph realized by Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1958.
Copyright: Magnum Photos and Agenzia Contrasto.
Excellent condition.
Category
Contemporary 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Fan Mail, Beverly Hills, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962), wearing a red negligee trimmed with black lace, sorts out h...
Category
Realist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Esther Williams, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features American swimmer and actress Esther Williams (1921 - 2013) lounging on a trampoline.
This ...
Category
Realist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
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 Post - 5343 - Sunday Morning I...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White
Slim Aarons 'Having A Topping Time' 1959 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Having A Topping Time' 1959 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Socialite Alice Topping relaxing at a poolside in Palm Beach.
20x20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size
Estate Stamp...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Kings Of Hollywood Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Kings Of Hollywood 1957
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...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
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
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White
Five Debutantes (1951) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Five Debutantes (1951) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Five members of the Debutante Cotillion rehearse for the Christmas Ball at the Waldorf Astoria Hot...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Black and White
Black & White Monochrome of a Female Nude by Contemporary American Photographer
Located in Preston, GB
Black & White Monochrome Photograph of a Female Nude by Contemporary by legendary American Photographer, Larry Colwell (1911-1972).
Photo Size 9.5 x 6 inches - Signed on the rear
Unmounted & Unframed
Larry Colwell
American, 1911-1972
Born 1911, Detroit, Michigan
Died 1972, New Canaan...
Category
Photorealist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Ink, Printer's Ink, Photographic Paper, Monoprint
Vuccino And Rava 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Vuccino And Rava 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Carla Vuccino, wearing a swimming cap, and a sunbathing Marina Rava, both wearing bikinis as they sit on the rear of a boat, on th...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
New York City by Night, circa 1950, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography Framed
Located in Atlanta, GA
This captivating, one-of-a-kind silver gelatin photograph print showcases a timeless black-and-white view of New York City as it appeared under the nocturnal sky circa 1950. Framed w...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Murray Garrett 'Frank Sinatra' Archival Photograph by Getty Image Gallery
Located in San Rafael, CA
American singer and actor Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998) gestures with his hands while singing into a microphone during a recording session in a studio at Capitol Records, early 1950s. ...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Slim Aarons The Carlton Hotel Limited Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Carlton Hotel (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo By Slim Aarons/Getty Images Archive)
A Cadillac with Florida plates parked outside the Carlto...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
American Girl in Italy, Florence - Woman walking down street, city scene, men
By Ruth Orkin
Located in Denton, TX
American Girl in Italy by Ruth Orkin is a black and white gelatin silver print depicting a distressed woman walking down a street, past a group of men looking at her.
11 x 14 in.
Ge...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'Breakfast At Tiffanys' Huge Oversize Limited Edition silver gelatin print
Located in London, GB
'Breakfast At Tiffanys' Huge Oversize Limited Edition silver gelatin print
Belgian-born actor Audrey Hepburn (1929 – 1993), during a shoot for the promotion of her film BREAKFAST...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
New York City, USA, Limited Edition Signed Iconic Street Photography 1950s
Located in New york, NY
New York City, USA, 1954 is a 13" x 9" archival pigment print (baryta) in a limited edition of 5. Signed verso (back of photo) by Brigitte Freed (wife of the photographer), with Leon...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Digital, Digital Pigmen...
$1,920 Sale Price
20% Off
Original Marilyn Monroe Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Marilyn Monroe Photograph
Original photograph of Marilyn Monroe posing in her dressing room on the film of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" by photographer Milton Gold (American,...
Category
Photorealist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
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.
30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size
Est...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tennis In The Bahamas Slim Aarons Limited Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tennis In The Bahamas
1957
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Two women stand talking to a man on the edge of a tennis court in the Bahamas, circa 1957. Behind the ...
Category
Modern 1950s 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
American Realist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Christmas Traffic 1953 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Christmas Traffic 1953 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Red and white automobile lights on Park Avenue, New York at Christmas time. The rear and headlights at nighttime give the appeara...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Couple At Party (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Couple At Party (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Thurston Hopkins/Getty Images)
A debutante at a 'Coming-Out Ball' for British actress Anna Massey in Highgate, north L...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Cannes Cannes Girls, France, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features two bikini-clad holidaymakers posing outside the Carlton Hotel in Cannes, in the south of ...
Category
Realist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Norman Parkinson Limited Estate Print Anne Gunning for Vogue
Located in London, GB
Anne Gunning for Vogue Estate Print
by Norman Parkinson
Fashion model Anne Gunning in a pink mohair coat outside the City Palace with an elephant, Jaipur, India, photographed for V...
Category
Modern 1950s 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
Realist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Sundowners, Cannes' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Two bikini-clad holidaymakers enjoy a glass of wine outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958.
Sundowners
1958; Printed Later
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered upon sale out of...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Sports Car Couple' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1955: John Bryant with his AC sports car in Kinnerton Place, London SW1, Printed Later. His passenger is Margaret McAulay.
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 x 20 inches
$3000
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Undercurrent Projects is pleased to offer this vibrant photograph, printed by the Slim Aarons estate. It is part of the estate's only official limited run, of 150. Estate stamp embossed on recto, hand numbered in ink on recto, with certificate of authenticity from the estate (not a secondary gallery licensing from the estate).
Increasingly heralded for his influence, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) made a career out of photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." Aarons is known for his iconic images of Hollywood glamour and luxurious people, places and lifestyles.
Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Getty Images Gallery, London. Photographs are printed utilizing the original transparency held at the archive source.
Aarons began his career as a combat photographer in World War II. Though he earned a Purple Heart for his service, he declared that combat had taught him that the only beach worth landing on was decorated with beautiful people enjoying themselves in the sun.
Slim Aarons is noted for his documentation of the Beautiful People over 50 years, encompassing high society, celebrity, aristocracy, and the jet set. He was born and raised in New York City and New Jersey and later New Hampshire. He took up photography as a teenager. At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and was later appointed official photographer at the United States Military Academy at West Point. During World War II he served as an army combat photographer for Yank magazine in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. After the war he became a freelance photojournalist, first based in Hollywood, then Rome, then New York. His photographs appeared in many magazines, including Life, Holiday, Town & Country, Look, Venture, and Travel & Leisure. His first book A Wonderful Time (1974) is considered a classic.
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons *
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Internal: Slim Aarons Vintage Sport, Vintage Car photography, Sports Car Photography
Category
Realist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Alice Wesselhoeft Saltonstall 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Alice Wesselhoeft Saltonstall 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Alice Wesselhoeft Saltonstall, wife of senator Leverett Saltonstall in Palm Beach, USA, circa 1958
12 x 12" inches /...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vuccino And Rava 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Vuccino And Rava 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Carla Vuccino, wearing a swimming cap, and a sunbathing Marina Rava, both wearing bikinis as they sit on the rear of a boat, on th...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Stunning Elizabeth Taylor' (Limited Edition Oversize silver gelatine print)
Located in London, GB
'Stunning Elizabeth Taylor'
Portrait of the actress Elizabeth Taylor, 1953.
As the title suggests; a simply stunning close up image of the iconic movie star, fixing the camera with...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jean Serpieri 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Jean Serpieri 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Madame Jean Serpieri sits in the ballroom of the Tour La Reine near Athens, wearing a gown that belonged to the wife of Otto, the fir...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Avenue Simon Bolivar - Willy Ronis, 20th Century, French Humanist Photography
By Willy Ronis
Located in Paris, FR
One of the famous members of the Humanist photography in France.
Signed lower right by the artist.
Stamp of the artist's studio on the back.
Category
Contemporary 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Paris Colour Scene from the Paris In Color Series 1956-61 by Peter Cornelius
Located in London, GB
Paris Colour Scene from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61
By Peter Cornelius
40 x 60 inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size
Printed 2023
Archival pigment print
Framing and size options available - Please enquire
About:
Peter Cornelius (1913–1970) was a German photographer and photojournalist. The goal he set himself was to capture: “the right colours at the right moment”. He was never concerned with a pure, apparently “right” picture of “reality”.
After World War II, he began his career with reportage, landscape and sailing photography...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, 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
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Paris Ostrich from the Paris In Color Series 1956-61 by Peter Cornelius
Located in London, GB
Paris Ostrich from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61
By Peter Cornelius
60 x 40 inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size
Printed 2022
Archival pigment print
Framing and size options avai...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Pink Hawaiian Scenes 1957 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Hawaiian Scenes
1957
A couple aboard a yacht in Hawaii, USA, 1957
by Toni Frissell
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Archival pigment print
unframed
(framing available ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cheeky Briefs by Kurt Hutton
By Kurt Hutton
Located in London, GB
Cheeky Briefs by Kurt Hutton
A badly sun-burned holidaymaker admires his friend's leopard-print briefs, while standing at the bar of a holiday camp on C...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White
Italian Hats by Hulton Archive
Located in London, GB
"Italian Hats" by Hulton Archive
Models wearing a collection of Italian designed hats for winter 1956/7 and spring 1957, at the fifth Men's Fashion Festival, San Remo, Italy.
Unfra...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
CZ’s House 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
CZ’s House 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
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-fron...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marilyn Monroe, Glass Balanced on Left Knee
Located in Fairlawn, OH
From: The Black Sitting, 1956
Original silver print photograph taken the the photographers studio in New York in 1956.
Hand signed in ink within the photographers stamp verso.
Pri...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Capri Holiday 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Capri Holiday 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Swimmers off the Italian island of Capri, 1958.
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Director And Star, Orson Welles on set of Othello
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1952: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985) in Venice during a break from filming 'Othello' which he directed and starred in.
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications ph...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Last Bus In London by Bert Hardy - Limited Edition silver gelatine print
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
Last Bus In London by Bert Hardy
Limited Edition silver gelatine print
A couple saying goodbye on a bus in Shaftesbury Avenue in London, July 1953 .
Original Publication: Picture Post - 6576 - Known Your Piccadilly - pub. 4th July 1953
(Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Archive London England)
Paper size 12x16 inches / 31 x 41 cm
Produced utilising the original negative
Numbered and stamped by the Getty Archive London
Limited edition to 300 only
Silver gelatine fibre based baryta paper print
Certificate of authenticity included
printed 2024
Ships securely from London.
Other sizes and Framing available on request.
Bert Hardy
Bert Hardy
Albert William Thomas Hardy (19 May 1913 – 3 July 1995) was an English documentary and press photographer known for his work published in the Picture Post magazine between 1941 and 1957.
Life and work
Born in Blackfriars, Bert Hardy rose from humble working class origins in Southwark, London. The eldest of seven children, he left school at age 14 to work for a chemist who also processed photos. His first big sale came in 1936 when he photographed King George V and Queen Mary in a passing carriage during the Silver Jubilee celebrations, and sold 200 small prints of his best view of the King. His first assignment, at age 23, was to photograph Hungarian actor Sakall at the Mayfair Hotel. Hardy freelanced for The Bicycle magazine, and bought his first small-format 35 mm Leica. He signed on with the General Photographic Agency as a Leica photographer, later founding his own freelance firm, Criterion.
General Photographic Agency
General Photographic Agency a Fleet Street, London agency, sold photos at least between 1880-1950.
Picture Post and World War II
In 1941, Hardy was recruited by the then editor Tom Hopkinson of the leading picture publication of the 1930s to the 1950s, Picture Post. Founded in 1938 and funded by publisher Edward Hulton, the magazine's first editor was Hungarian émigré Stefan Lorant (1901–97) assisted by Hopkinson, who took over as editor from 1940. The picture-centric, left-leaning and reasonably-priced publication was highly successful and circulation soon rose to over a million. Hardy's photographer colleagues included Felix H. Man (aka Hans Baumann...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Curling At St. Moritz 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Curling At St. Moritz 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Curlers on a rink, or curling sheet, in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
20 x 16" inches / 51 x 41 cm paper size
Estate...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Earle and Carolyn Brown at the Stevenson's in Brewster" Cy Twombly
By Cy Twombly
Located in New York, NY
Cy Twombly
Earle and Carolyn Brown at the Stevenson's in Brewster, 1955
Identified and inscribed on the reverse by the sitter Carolyn Brown
Photograph on paper
8 x 8 inches
Provenance
Gift of the artist
Estate of Carolyn Brown, New York 2025.
Cy Twombly gained fame for his art that combined cultural, historical, and poetic elements—particularly those from classical antiquity—with abstract shapes and his distinctive script. Born Edwin Parker Twombly, Jr. on April 25, 1928, in Lexington, Virginia, he began his artistic journey under the guidance of Pierre Daura and Marion Junkin at Washington and Lee University. This initial training was complemented by his formative experiences at the Arts Students League of New York and Black Mountain College, where he established enduring friendships with influential figures like Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, and Merce Cunningham.
A pivotal moment for Twombly was his 1952 trip to Italy and North Africa with Rauschenberg, funded by a grant from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. This journey allowed Twombly to engage deeply with the rich cultural history that would inform his future artistic endeavors, leading to the creation of significant early pieces.
Twombly made his way back to Italy in 1957 and 1958, during which he presented his first solo exhibition in Italy at Galleria La Tartaruga, owned by Plinio De Martiis. In 1959, he married Luisa Tatiana...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Make Up Mirror Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Thurston Hopkins – Signed Lifetime Print
Limited Edition 33/50
Fibre Print
Date printed: 2011
Signed & Editioned by Photographer, ink recto (front)
Paper size 20 x 24 inches / 51 x...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
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
Other Art Style 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White
Ernest Hemingway - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Hemingway - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
Contemporary 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Charlie Chaplin on the set of "Limelight" - Photograph by Eugene Smith - 1958
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage b/w photograph realized by Eugene Smith in 1958.
Copyright: Magnum Photos and Agenzia Contrasto.
Excellent condition.
Category
Contemporary 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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
Post-War 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
New Look (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Kurt Hutton
Located in London, GB
New Look (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Kurt Hutton/Getty Images)
A model wearing a black cocktail dress and a black velvet wide-brimmed hat, designed by Ronald Paterson...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
'James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor & Rock Hudson'
Located in London, GB
'James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor & Rock Hudson'
From left -James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson, on the set of 'Giant,' 1956.
(Photo: The Everett Co...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Man Ray
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Man Ray
American surrealist artist and photographer Man Ray (1890 – 1976) with some examples of his work at his Left Bank studio in Paris, April 1956
Gorgeous print measuring 40 x ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Luxury Dining' Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Limited Edition Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Luxury Dining (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Diners in a grand ballroom during a fashion show, circ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Mara Lane At The Sands - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Mara Lane At The Sands
Austrian actress Mara Lane lounging by the pool in a red and white striped bathing costume at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'James Dean Liz Taylor Round Up' Limited Edition silver gelatin print
Located in London, GB
''James Dean Liz Taylor Round Up' 1956 GALERIE Limited Edition silver gelatin print
A gorgeous candid shot of the movie and style icons James Dean with Elizabeth Taylor on the set ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'Lake Tahoe Trip' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Lake Tahoe Trip'
Young women canoeing on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, 1959.
A fabulous scene picturing four young woman canoeing and pedalling on...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Marlon Brando & Vivien Leigh Smoking On-Set'
Located in London, GB
'Marlon Brando & Vivien Leigh Smoking On-Set'
Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh smoking cigarettes on the set of 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' 1951....
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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
American Realist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Oil, Photographic Paper
$440 Sale Price
20% Off