Modern Figurative Photography
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Lady's Painting - Vintage Photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lady's Painting is a vintage photo, realized in the early-20th Century
Good conditions and aged
It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including historical moments, places...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$63 Sale Price
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Baths of Caracalla - Vintage photo by Ludovico Tuminello - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Baths of Caracalla is a vintage print in salt silver realized by Ludovico Tuminello in the early 20th Century.
Titled on the lower.
Good conditions with some foxing and folding
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Ancient View of Kobe - Vintage Photo -1890s
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient View of Kobe is an original vintage albumen print on single cardboard realized in the 1890s.
Hand-written ink caption in Italian at the bottom of the print. Good conditions ...
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19th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$315 Sale Price
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Portrait of Miranda Martino - Golden Age of Italian Cinema - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Miranda Martino - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 20th Century.
Fair conditions with oxidation.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Mausoleo di Augusto - Disappeared Rome - b/w Photograph - 1935
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photo of the Mausoleum of August. In the centuries, the Mausoleum has undertaken numerous changes, starting from 1800, when it was transformed in a theatre. W...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$108 Sale Price
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Neil Young in Concert - Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Neil Young's Concert is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
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20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$90 Sale Price
25% Off
Walter Matthau - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Walter Matthau - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Standing Man - Vintage Photo - Mid- 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Standing Man- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the mid- 20th century.
Good conditions.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
"Fontana del Moro, Piazza Navona", Rome - Vintage Photo - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Fontana del Moro, Piazza Navona", Rome is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album i...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$126 Sale Price
25% Off
Abolhassa Banisadr - Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Abolhassa Banisadr - Historical Photo is a vintage photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
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20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$54 Sale Price
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Fausto Leali and Anna Oxa - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Fausto Leali is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the music, cinema, and art of Italy with celebrities of the ...
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1980s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$126 Sale Price
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Rome Historical Photo - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Rome Historical photo in black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1930s. It belongs to historical album including photo of historical events and places, all meticulously captur...
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1930s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$90 Sale Price
25% Off
Virna Lisi - Golden Age of Italian Cinema - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Virna Lisi - Golden Period of Italian Cinema is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the mid-20th Century.
Good conditions.
Virna Lisi Born on November 8, 1936, she beg...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$135 Sale Price
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Capitoline Hill - Disappeared Rome - b/w Photograph - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photo of the Capitoline Hill in Rome. In particular, the picture was taken because a centuries-old pine has fallen on the big staircase. On the back the beaut...
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1930s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$90 Sale Price
25% Off
Carmine Church - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Carmine Church is a black and white photograph realized in the early 20th century by Alinari.
Location, Brescia Italy.
Titled in the Italian language on the lower.
Alinari archive...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Leonard Bernstein - Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Leonard Bernstein is a photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$126 Sale Price
25% Off
Amedeo Nazzari - Photo - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Amedeo Nazzari is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$90 Sale Price
25% Off
The Dukes of Windsor - 1936
Located in Roma, IT
The Dukes of Windsor- Royal family is a black and white vintage photo, realized by Herbert Kudford in 1936. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical mo...
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1930s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$144 Sale Price
25% Off
Painting of House - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Painting of House- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the mid-20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Roman Arch - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Arch- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the early 20th century.
Good conditions
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - China - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - China is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1970s.
It belongs to a historical album including historical moments, royal families, and political eve...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$72 Sale Price
25% Off
Church of St. Chiara Naples - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Church of St. Chiara Naples - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century realized by Alinari.
Good conditions, aged with foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Vintage Photo of Painting by Telemaco Signorini - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of Painting by Telemaco Signoriniis a vintage silver salt photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
Some foxing, otherwise good conditions and aged
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Sonia Braga - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Sonia Braga is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$144 Sale Price
25% Off
Joan Baez - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Joan Baez is an original black and white photo realized by Andrea Muti.
The photo shows Baez interpreting Sting's composition dedicated to the women victims of the Chilean regime.
...
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1980s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$117 Sale Price
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Queen Elena of Italy- Vintage Photograph by Carlo Ferrari - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elena of Italy is a vintage photo realized by Carlo Ferrari (Verona, 1813 - 1871), depicting one of his works.
In fact this is a photograph of a work realized by the same Carl...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Portrait of Miranda Martino - Golden Age of Italian Cinema - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Miranda Martino - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the mid-20th Century.
Good conditions but with oxidation.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Punto Arenas - Vintage Photograph - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Punto Arenas - Vintage Photograph is a Silver salt print realized in the late 19th Century.
Five photographs, applied on a Passepartout:
Good condition an...
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Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$315 Sale Price
25% Off
Fioretta Mari - 1983
Located in Roma, IT
Fioretta Mari is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1983.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$81 Sale Price
25% Off
Jean-Paul Belmondo - Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Jean-Paul Belmondo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$144 Sale Price
25% Off
Byzantine Sculpture - Vintage B/w Photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Byzantine sculpture is a b/w photographic print on paper, realized by the italian photographer Osvaldo Bohm in Venice in the early 20th Century.
The artwork represents a byzantine s...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$135 Sale Price
25% Off
Palazzo Rufolo, Ravello - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Palazzo Rufolo, Ravello- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century realized by Alinari.
Good conditions, aged with foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Amalfi Cathedral - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Amalfi Cathedral - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century realized by Alinari.
Good conditions, aged with foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Baptism Antique Gallery of Florence - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Baptism Antique Gallery of Florence - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century
Good conditions, aged with foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
John Gregory Dunne - Playbill - Vintage Photograph by Charles Bush - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
John Gregory Dunne, Playbill- Vintage Photo is a black-and-white photograph that was realized by Charles Bush in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Gianni Morandi Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$135 Sale Price
25% Off
Gianni Morandi, Catherine Stark and Milly Carlucci - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi, Catherine Stark and Milly Carlucci - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$180 Sale Price
25% Off
Queen Elizabeth Wears Mineral's Helmet - Vintage Photograph 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elizabeth wears mineral's helmet is a vintage photograph, an original black and white photograph realized by Associated Press News photo.
The description of the image on the le...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$225 Sale Price
25% Off
Sugar Cane Farmer - American Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sugar Cane Farmer- American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th Century in a series of American...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$180 Sale Price
25% Off
Harry Belafonte - Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Harry Belafonte is a photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$108 Sale Price
25% Off
Joan Baez - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Joan Baez - Vintage Photograph is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$180 Sale Price
25% Off
Rider - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Rider - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century.
Information on the rear in Italian
Good conditions, aged with foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Anna Magnani - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Anna Magnani is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$162 Sale Price
25% Off
Fred Bongusto - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Fred Bongusto- Vintage Photograph is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Alfredo Antonio Carlo Buongusto (6 April 1935 – 8 November 2019), ...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$126 Sale Price
25% Off
Anna Magnani - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Anna Magnani - Vintage Photo is a vintage b/w photographic print on single-coated paper, realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Good conditions.
Anna Magnan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$162 Sale Price
25% Off
The Mountain Valley - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
The Mountain Valley is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1960s.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments, ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
River in Sudan - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
River in Sudan is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$144 Sale Price
25% Off
Column - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Column - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century.
Information on the rear in Italian
Good conditions, aged.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Photo of Painting by Vincenzo Cabianca - Vintage photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Photo of Painting by Vincenzo Cabianca is a vintage photo, realized in the early 20th Century.
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Antique Gallery of Florence - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Antique Gallery of Florence - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century.
With Information on the lower in Italian.
Good conditions, aged with foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Ferrara Cathedral - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Ferrara Cathedral- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the early 20th century.
Good conditions with foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Inauguration of the Science Palace in Rome - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Inauguration of the Science Palace in Rome is a vintage photograph in black and white realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
The Grand Coulee Dam - American Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Grand Coulee Dam - American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the Mid-20th Century in a series on American life in the 20th Cent...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$180 Sale Price
25% Off
Portrait of Charlton Heston - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
The American Actor Charlton Heston in the 1960s.
Vintage b/w photo.
Good condition.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$153 Sale Price
25% Off
Antonello Venditti and Lucio Dalla At Concert - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Antonello Venditti and Lucio Dalla At Concert in Palazzo Sport Rome is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
In the Photo: Antonello Venditti, Gino Paoli, Robe...
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1980s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$162 Sale Price
25% Off
Gianni Morandi and Claudie Lange - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi and Claudie Lange - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$135 Sale Price
25% Off
Gianni Morandi and his Ex-Manager Lionetti - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi and his Ex-Manager Lionetti - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$135 Sale Price
25% Off
Portrait of Miranda Martino - Golden Age of Italian Cinema - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Miranda Martino - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 20th Century.
Fair conditions with oxidation.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Ancient Views of Aden - Vintage Photographs - 1880s/90s
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient views of Aden is a set of seven original vintage albumen prints on single cardboard: 34 x 26 cm.
Two Images 15 x 21, on the front and on the rear other five photographs..
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Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$270 Sale Price
25% Off
Theatrical Scene - Albumen Photo by Alkis Matheos - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Theatrical Scene is an original photograph artwork applied on greenish cardboard Passepartout realized by the Greek-French artist Alkis Matheos.
Passepartout: 43 x 32.5 cm
With the...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
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