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Historical Photo- Abderrahmane Fares - Vintage Photo - mid-20th century

mid-20th century

Historical Photo  - Saad Dahlab is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical album including historica...

Historical Photo  -Ferrhat Ahass is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical album including historic...

Historical Photo  - Fouchet Fares, Algeria is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical album includin...

Historical Photo  - Saad Dahlab is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical album including historica...

This is a unique original collage, decoupage style of Jiri Kolar, This is an exceptional artwork which was part of a collaboration between Hyman Bloom and fellow artist and his very ...

Original photography of Christian Dotremont by unknown photographer, circa 1970. In original good condition. Christian Dotremont (1922-1979) was a Belgian painter and poet. He was a founding member of the Revolutionary...

Theodor Heuss (1884-1963) Back Information: BRD Photographer: Rolf Gillhausen (May 31, 1922 in Cologne, died February 22, 2004 in Hamburg) was a German reportage photographer and jo...

Lotte Jacobi Chaim Weizmann Photograph Year: 1948 Size: 8.75x7.25in Annotated by hand on verso in pencil Ref.: 924802-1353 Lotte Jacobi (August 17, 1896 – May 6, 1990) was a leading American portrait photographer and photojournalist, known for her high-contrast black-and-white portrait photography, characterized by intimate, sometimes dramatic, sometimes idiosyncratic and often definitive humanist depictions of both ordinary people in the United States and Europe and some of the most important artists, thinkers and activists of the 20th century. Jacobi's photographic style stressed informality, and sought to delve deeper into the traits of her subjects than traditional portraiture. She made a point of photographing subjects in their own environments, and talking to them while she worked. She explained the reasoning behind her approach this way: "I just try and get people to talk, to relax, to be themselves. I don't like a passive, bored subject. I do portraits because I like people, and I want to bring out their personalities. Many photographers today, I think, are bringing out the worst part of people. I try and bring out the best." Jacobi is perhaps best known for her "portrait of Albert Einstein (Princeton, 1938), whom she photographed candidly, seated at his desk, dishevelled and dressed in a leather jacket, a work that was refused by Life magazine for its simplicity." Other personality-driven portraits include "Eleanor Roosevelt sitting back, gesturing, and obviously speaking in midsentence; Marc Chagall depicted as a jovial family man; Thomas Mann appearing as thoughtful as his work; and more candid, gentle portraits of Einstein." Other celebrated subjects included poets W. H. Auden, Robert Frost...