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Period: Mid-20th Century
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 Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Harbour Island, Bahamas, 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 couple relaxing at the beach on Harbour Island, Bahamas.
This is an estate stamped and...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
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 Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Bahamas 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Bahamas 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Swimming pool, seen through the fronds of a palm tree, with two people swimming and a group of people sitting at tables at the poolside...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Churchill In Richmond Park by Terry Fincher
Located in London, GB
"Churchill In Richmond Park" by Terry Fincher
British wartime prime minister Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) feeds the deer in Richmond Park, accompanied by his private secretary An...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White
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 Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes 1969
A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tows a waterskier, in the sea off the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Rivi...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
New York City, Office Party, Black and White Dance Party Photograph 1960s
Located in New york, NY
Office Party by Leonard Freed is a 13" x 19" limited-edition photograph. The print 4/5 is signed verso (back of photo) by Brigitte Freed (wife of the phot...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigme...
Kurt Hutton Fair Fun 1938 Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Kurt Hutton
Located in London, GB
Fair Fun (1938) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Kurt Hutton/Getty Images)
Two young women enjoying themselves on the 'Caterpillar' ride at Southend Fair, Essex, October 1938...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
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 Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Lunch Time (1955) - Giant Oversize Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
Lunch Time (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo by Michael Webb/Getty Images)
Five British models eating lunch in their swi...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
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 Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
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 Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
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 Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes 1969
A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tows a waterskier, in the sea off the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Rivi...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc - Riva Boats - Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc' by Slim Aarons
ESTATE EDITION -
numbered and emboss stamped on front. (edition size 150 only)
Waterskiing from the Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d'Antibes, ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
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 Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Jackie K' 1968 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Jackie K'
Premium Rates Apply. Jacqueline Kennedy (Jackie Onassis) (1929 - 1994) wife of Senator Jack Kennedy at an 'April in Paris' ball.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
George Platt Lynes Vintage 1949 Photograph #11 of dancer Francisco Moncion
Located in Glenford, NY
George Platt Lynes Photograph #11 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 #11 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
Post-War Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Pigeons Photography Black and White, Photographic-paper, Signed
By Karol Kallay
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Signed, Karol Kállay, black&white photography, done in Bratislava, probably in the 50ies/60ies.
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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 Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Tennis Guests later Jackie Kennedy Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tennis Guests 1953
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Michael Canfield and Jacqueline Bouvier (later Kennedy and then Onassis) at Newport Casino for Tennis Week, 1953. Original Publicati...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Vintage silver print
Western Photography Guild studio stamp in purple ink, verso
Numbered "N14-4" in purple ink, verso
Also inscribed in pencil, v...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White
Slim Aarons 'Bahamas Signpost''
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A signpost in Nassau points the way to Rum Cay, Andros, Abaco, Grand Bahama, Bimini, Eleuthera, Exuma and the Current, May 1964. (Photo by Slim Aarons...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
On the Sugarbush Slopes 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
On the Sugarbush Slopes 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
A group of people sit relaxing in a chalet on the slopes of the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort, one of the largest ski resor...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Beauty and the Beast'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a tiger skin rug in the trophy room at socialite Laddie Sanford's home in Palm Beach, Florida, 1959.
Slim Aarons
Beauty and the Beast
19...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
"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 Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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 Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
'Lounging In Verbier' ( Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Lounging In Verbier'
Holidaymakers in sun loungers on the slopes at Verbier, Switzerland, February 1964.
Gorgeous print measuring an extra large 60 x 40" inches / ca 152 x 101 cm...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Car Crash at Woodhead - Vintage Photograph - 1962
Located in Roma, IT
Car crash at Woodhead is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1962.
The photo depicts a car that falls into a ravine at Woodhead, Cheshire. Mr. John Henry Jones, Labour Memb...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
New York City, Harlem, Children, Black and White Limited Edition Photography
Located in New york, NY
Children, Harlem, New York, USA 1963 by Leonard Freed is a 19" x 13" signed and numbered archival pigment print in an edition of 10. Signed by the estate, Freed's widow Brigitte Freed, on back of photograph. Available: 7/10. Provenance: Freed archive.
Provenance: Freed Estate
***
Artist’s Bio:
Leonard Freed (1929-2006) was an American photographer from Brooklyn, New York. His "Black in White America" series made him known as a documentarian. Freed worked as a freelance photographer from 1961 onwards and as a Magnum photographer Freed traveled widely abroad and, in the US, photographing African Americans (1964-65), events in Israel (1967-68, 1973), and the New York City police department...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Digital, Digital Pigmen...
NEW: Slim Aarons 'Safari Party at Romanoff's' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests at a fancy dress party held at the Romanoff Restaurant in Hollywood, Los Angeles in 1950.
Slim Aarons
Safari Party at Romanoff's, 1950
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stampe...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Gorbals Boys (1948) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
Gorbals Boys (1948) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Bert Hardy/Getty Images Archive London)
Possibly Bert Hardy's most famous image.
Two boys in the Gorbals area of Glasgow.
The Gorbals tenements were built quickly and cheaply in the 1840s, providing housing for Glasgow's burgeoning population of industrial workers.
Conditions were appalling; overcrowding was standard and sewage and water facilities inadequate.
The tenements housed about 40,000 people with up to eight family members sharing a single room,
30 residents sharing a toilet and 40 sharing a tap.
By the time this photograph was taken 850 tenements had been demolished since 1920.
Redevelopment of the area began in the late 1950s and the tenements were replaced with a modern tower block complex in the sixties. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4499 - The Forgotten Gorbals - pub. 1948
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Size: 20 x 16'' inches / 51 x 41 cm
Printed 2024
Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Limited edition issued and stamped on front by the Getty Archive London
Edition size 300 only
NOTE OTHER SIZES OF THIS IMAGE AVAILABLE
10 x 8''
10 x 12''
12 x 16''
16 x 20''
20 x 24''
FRAMING AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
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 Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
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 Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Old Days - Camping - Vintage Photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old Days - Camping is a vintage photograph realized in the Mid 20th Century.
The photo belongs to Albumen of historical painting, photographs, meticulously captured.
Good conditio...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Horses - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Horses - Vintage Photograph is a black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Mainbocher Corset. Paris. Printed later
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This captivating black-and-white photograph, titled Mainbocher Corset by Horst P. Horst, masterfully blends elegance and geometry. The composition features a woman seen from behind, ...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Adriatic Riviera
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Adriatic Riviera
Men and women - wearing red, white and blue striped tops - relaxing on a small boat, with a red and white mast, and small flags of Germany, USA, Great Britain and I...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ormond Gigli 'Girls in the Windows'
By Ormond Gigli
Located in New York, NY
Ormond Gigli
Girls in the Window, 1960 (printed later)
Color coupler print
44 x 44 inches
Signed, dated and numbered edition 22/45
Ormond Gigli: The Visionary Behind the "Girls in...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
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 Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Surf Wagon, St. Petersburg Beach, FL - Black and White Photograph, Documentary
Located in Denton, TX
Surf Wagon, St. Petersburg Beach by Al Satterwhite is a black and white photograph featuring a group of teenagers sitting on top of a car filled with surfboards.
Archival Pigment P...
Category
Post-Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
New York City, Documentary Photography on Businessmen 1950s, Wall Street
Located in New york, NY
Wall Street, 1955-56 is a 19" x 13" limited edition print (8 of Ed 9) by photographer Leonard Freed. The work is signed verso (back of photo) by Brigitte Freed (wife of the photograp...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Digital, Digital Pigmen...
The American Actress and Singer Abbe Lane - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The American Actress and Singer Abbe Lane during the tv program "The joyous".
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
'Commissionaire’s Dog' (Limited Edition)
By Kurt Hutton
Located in London, GB
'Commissionaire’s Dog' by Kurt Hutton
A hotel commissionaire talking to a small dachshund dog in Piccadilly Circus, London, 1938.
A beautiful imag...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
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 Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Ink, Printer's Ink, Photographic Paper, Monoprint
Slim Aarons 'Caleta Beach, Acapulco' 1968 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Caleta Beach, Acapulco'
A couple walk on Caleta Beach holding hands, Acapulco, Mexico, 1968.
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Suk - Vintage Photograph - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Suk is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid-20th Century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments, pla...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes 1969
A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tows a waterskier, in the sea off the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Rivi...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Kings of Hollywood'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) enjoy a joke at a New Year's cocktail party ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bob Dylan in NYC
By Don Hunstein
Located in New York, NY
Don Hunstein image is the photo used for the actual color cover of “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” album. This iconic image shows Bob & his girlfriend Suze Rotolo walking down a cold an...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Actors Amedeo Nazzari and Irene Genna - Vintage b/w Photograph - Late 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
The Italian Actor Amedeo Nazzari and his wife Irene Genna.
Vintage Photo.
Good condition.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
George Platt Lynes Vintage 1949 Photograph #9 of dancer Francisco Moncion
Located in Glenford, NY
George Platt Lynes Photograph #9 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 #9 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
Post-War Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn with Harp. Paris, Silver Gelatin print. Printed later.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This artwork presents a mesmerizing interplay between the human form and musical elegance. Lisa Fonssagrives is seated, gracefully woven into the strings of a grand harp. The black-a...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
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
Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Flooded Mall (1934) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Flooded Mall (1934) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by H. F. Davis/Getty Images)
A man crossing a stretch of floodwater with the help of two chairs after a storm caused floodi...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
$880 Sale Price
20% Off
"Group Image" George Avakian, Group Photo of Artists, Artist Portrait, Fluxus
Located in New York, NY
George Avakian
Group Image of Merce Cunningham,
John Cage, M.C. Richards,
Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg
1958
Signed and dedicated on verso
Silver Gelatin Print
10 1/2 x 10 ...
Category
Academic Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Blue Boy
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print
Signed, dated, and numbered, verso
15 x 15 inches, image
(Edition of 25)
22 x 22 inches, image
(Edition of 15)
31 x 31 inches, image
(Edition of 15)
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
A stylistic precursor of such artists as Pierre et Gilles and David LaChapelle, James Bidgood revolutionized gay male...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Faithfull To Jagger - Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger 1967
Located in London, GB
Faithfull To Jagger - Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger 1967
Actress Marianne Faithfull backstage with her boyfriend Mick Jagger after her first night performance as Irina in Cheko...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Holidaymakers in Bermuda, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features holidaymakers relaxing on a beach in Bermuda.
This is an estate stamped and hand numbere...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Alfred Hitchcock - Pop Art, Photograph in Pink and Blue from the 1960s
Located in New York, NY
Limited edition of 10. Printed on Hahnemuhle German Etching 310g Archival Paper. Dated and signed with the certificate of authenticity.
This photograph portraying American movie director Alfred Hitchcock was created by Enzo Ragazzini in the early 60s, making him a pioneer of Por-Art and a precursor of the photographic creations done through color separation and solarization, like Andy Warhol’s Marylin...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Giclée
