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Period: 1940s
The Man With the Golden Arm, 1949, Nelson Algren as the Dealer, Silver Gelatin
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
In the novel "The Man with the Golden Arm" by Nelson Algren, the main character is a card shark. Here Art has taken a twist on that title by showing Algren as the dealer in one of A...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Leaf
Vivien Leigh
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original vintage photograph by Laszlo Willinger taken circa 1940. It depicts "Old Hollywood" actress, Vivien Leigh. This piece is hand signed by the photographer. Th...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Black and White Photo, F718 Pueblo of Taos NM
By H. Surer
Located in Agoura Hills, CA
Vintage photograph from the 1940s. Signed and title written by the photographer.
Mounted on 14 x 11 matboard.
Category
1940s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Weegee "Distortion: Stripes"
By Weegee
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Innovative, provocative, inimitable - these are just a few of the words to describe America's boldest photographer.
Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee (1899-1968) was a ground-b...
Category
American Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dance Marathon
Located in Brooklyn, NY
From a vintage photograph c.1940
This image can be printed to any custom size.
Category
Naturalistic 1940s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fashion in Color - American Vogue Cover, 15 May 1941
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Fashion in Colour - American Vogue Cover, 15 May 1941 by Horst P. Horst
Archival Pigment Print
Image size: 65.7 in. H x 50 in. W
Sheet size: 76 in. H x 59.4 in. W,
Edition 10/10
Un...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
NON-FICTION
Located in Portland, ME
Gwathmey, Robert. NON-FICTION. Color screenprint, 1941 (Williams, 5).
Signed "Gwathmey" in ink within the image, lower left. Edition size
not known. 16 7/8 x 13 1/2 inches, 427 x 34...
Category
1940s Photography
Materials
Screen
Stockings (1946) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Kurt Hutton
Located in London, GB
Stockings (1946) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Getty Images)
1946: Three pairs of stockinged legs. Original Publication: Picture Post.
Additional...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Lucky For Some 1949
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Lucky For Some
1949: Sicilian-born gangster Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano (1897 – 1962) walking down a street in his native Sicily, followed by local children m...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Children Playing Marbles, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
By Jack Delano
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on print verso.
Jack Delano, born Jacob Ovcharov, moved from his native Russian to New York in 1923, at the age of 9. He went on to study illustr...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Fashion in Color - American Vogue Cover, 15 May
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Fashion in Colour - American Vogue Cover, 15 May 1941 by Horst P. Horst
Archival Pigment Print
Image size: 53.1 in. H x 40.6 in. W
Sheet size: 63.4 in. H x 50 in. W
Edition 7/10
Un...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Rodeo (Cowgirl)
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 60
Signed and numbered in pencil on print verso.
Harold “Doc” Edgerton was born in 1903, in Fremont, Nebraska. During his summers as a teenager, he worked in his uncle’s ...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Log on Beach
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Original silver gelatin print signed on front of mount by the artist. Artist's label and stamp on back. Printed circa 1948. Currently matted archivally to 16 x 20 inches which will b...
Category
1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Trailer - Camp Children, Richmond, California
By Ansel Adams
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Ansel Adams (United States, b. 1902-1984)
Trailer - Camp Children, Richmond, California, c. 1944, printed 1977
Signed in pencil on mount recto; Titled & dated in ink with artist's co...
Category
1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marbles Championship, Central Park, New York (children playing)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A group of boys competing in a marble championship in Central Park, New York City, 1947
Slim Aarons
Marbles Championship
Lambda Print
4 sizes available
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
4...
Category
Realist 1940s Photography
Materials
Lambda
Kelp, Point Lobos, 1940 (China Cove, Point Lobos, 1940)
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Titled with artist's reference number and signed in pencil by Cole Weston with Edward Weston's facsimile signature on back of mount. Printed by Cole Weston from the original negative...
Category
1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
French poet, artist, and filmmaker Jean Cocteau with actress Ricki Soma
Located in New York, NY
French poet, artist, and filmmaker Jean Cocteau with actress Ricki Soma and dancer Leo Coleman
New York City, 1949/printed later
Estate stamp in black ink, verso
Archival pigment p...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Chicago 48
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Aaron Siskind (1903-1992) started his career as a documentary photographer and a member of the Photo League.
He and his colleagues were interested in photography as a tool to rec...
Category
1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Race Order" by Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Race Order" by Bert Hardy
Maserati racing cars in the pit during a road race at at St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, May 1947. Original publication: Picture Post - 4364 - Road Ra...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Heavyweight" by Felix Man
Located in London, GB
"Heavyweight" by Felix Man
Eighteen-year-old animal trainer Zabuna lying under one of her performing elephants. This stunt forms part of her act for the Chessington Circus, currentl...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
Fluid Patterns
By György Kepes
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed, dated and numbered.
Portfolio "Twelve Photographs", No. 13
György Kepes was a Hungarian artist born in 1906. He studied painting at Budapest’s Academy of Fine Arts. In 1937,...
Category
Bauhaus 1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Martin And Sinatra" by J Wilds
Located in London, GB
"Martin And Sinatra" by J Wilds
American singers and actors Dean Martin (1917 - 1995) (centre) and Frank Sinatra (right) arriving at London airport, their friend and famed Beverly H...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Dominion Monarch" by Harry Todd
Located in London, GB
"Dominion Monarch" by Harry Todd
The 26,263 ton Shaw Savill liner Dominion Monarch dwarfs the surrounding houses in Saville Road from her dry dock at the King George V docks in Lond...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Fill Her Up" by Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Fill Her Up" by Bert Hardy
24th May 1947: Pit staff filling up Louis Chiron's (1899 - 1979) Maserati. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4364 - Road Racing In Jersey - pub. 1947
...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Gorbals Boys" by Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Gorbals Boys" by Bert Hardy
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 p...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Dinner Jazz" by Slim Aarons
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
"Dinner Jazz" by Slim Aarons
1949: American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong (1898 - 1971) enjoys a plate of spaghetti in Rome.
Unframed
Paper Size: 40" x 40'' (inches)
Pr...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Backless Fashion" by Bill Brandt
By Bill Brandt
Located in London, GB
"Backless Fashion" by Bill Brandt
5th November 1949: Paris's latest fashion items place the accent on necklines, using roses, frills, and feathers to emphasize necks and bosoms. Thi...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Standing Proud" by Herbert Mason
Located in London, GB
"Standing Proud" by Herbert Mason
St Paul's cathedral standing above the surrounding burning buildings during the London blitz.
Unframed
Paper Size: 30" x 40'' (inches)
Printed 202...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Italian Party" by Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Italian Party" by Bert Hardy
September 1949: A party given by the mayor of Positano for Mercy Haystead (right), an 18-year old London student, on holiday in Italy as an official gu...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Cafe De Flore, Paris In 19" by Keystone-France
Located in London, GB
"Cafe De Flore, Paris In 1948" by Keystone-France
Cafe De Flore, Paris, France, 1948.
Unframed
Paper Size: 16" x 16'' (inches)
Printed 2022
Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Elizabeth Taylor At Home" by Earl Theisen
By Earl Theisen
Located in London, GB
"Elizabeth Taylor At Home" by Earl Theisen
LOS ANGELES - CIRCA 1947: Actress ElizabethTaylor helps at the dinner table at home circa 1947 in Los Angeles, California.
Unframed
Paper...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Ascari At Silverstone" by Express
Located in London, GB
"Ascari At Silverstone" by Express
25th August 1949: Italian motor racing driver Alberto Ascari (left) approaching Stowe Corner in a Ferrari during the Daily Express Motor Rally at ...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Juan Manuel Fangio" by Evening Standard
Located in London, GB
"Juan Manuel Fangio" by Evening Standard
Argentinian racing driver Juan Manuel Fangio in a Ferrari at Silverstone racetrack.
Unframed
Paper Size: 30" x 40'' (inches)
Printed 2022
...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Sundial Hat" by Gerry Cranham
Located in London, GB
"Sundial Hat" by Gerry Cranham
British dancer Rosemary Andree wearing a sunhat with a clock face design on a summer's day at the Roehampton Pool.
Unframed
Paper Size: 40"x 30'' (in...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Jazz Dancers" by Charles Hewitt
Located in London, GB
"Jazz Dancers" by Charles Hewitt
A series of images showing British jazz trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton playing while the wife of band member Mick Mulligan dances with a partner, 12th...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Jeannette Altwegg" by Chris Ware
By Chris Ware
Located in London, GB
"Jeannette Altwegg" by Chris Ware
February 1948: British figure skater Jeannette Altwegg at the Winter Olympics in St Moritz, Switzerland, the winner of the bronze medal that year, ...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Taylor In London" by Keystone Features
Located in London, GB
"Taylor In London" by Keystone Features
November 1948: The actress Elizabeth Taylor on Westminster Bridge in London.
Unframed
Paper Size: 16"x 12'' (inches)
Printed 2022
Silver Ge...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Dangerous Perch" by Fox Photos
Located in London, GB
"Dangerous Perch" by Fox Photos
Evacuee Barrie Peacop enjoys an ice cream as he sits on a mine washed up on the beach at Deal in Kent, 7th February 1940.
Unframed
Paper Size: 20"x ...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Rockefeller Center" by George Enell
Located in London, GB
"Rockefeller Center" by George Enell
circa 1945: The Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan, New York City. Designed by Raymond Hood, it was completed in May 1933.
Unframed
Paper ...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Thames Divers" by H F Davis
Located in London, GB
"Thames Divers" by H F Davis
Two divers jumping off the Embankment into the River Thames in London, near Westminster Bridge.
Unframed
Paper Size: 30" x 40'' (inches)
Printed 2022
...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
Vintage Black and White Photo, 0/11 Devils Tower NM Wyoming
By H. Surer
Located in Agoura Hills, CA
Vintage photograph from the 1940s. Signed and title written by the photographer.
Mounted on 14 x 11 matboard.
Category
1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
Saguaro Cactus, Sunrise, Arizona by Ansel Adams Vintage print
By Ansel Adams
Located in London, GB
Saguaro Cactus, Sunrise, Arizona 1946
by Ansel Adams
A cactus appears to tower over the rest of the landscape of Arizona.
Unframed
Matted
Overall size : 12 x 16" inches / 31 x 41 c...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
Slim Aarons 'Jazz Scooter'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Jazz Scooter
1949 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Lucille Brown takes control of the Vespa...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
25/10 View from Rockefeller-Center Building
By H. Surer
Located in Agoura Hills, CA
Vintage photograph from the 1940s. Signed and title written by the photographer.
Mounted on 14 x 11 matboard.
Category
1940s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
New York (laughing women)
By Helen Levitt
Located in New York, NY
11 x 13 7/8 inch gelatin silver print. Signed, titled, and dated on verso.
Provenance - from the James Agee Family Collection
Helen Levitt was a true master of the street, one whose ...
Category
1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (Martha's Vineyard) 1947
Located in Miami, FL
Great Price! Vintage print. 1947
pencil signed and dated verso
The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Original Gordon Abbott Photograph Silver Gelatin Print Framed Museum
Located in Buffalo, NY
A stunning original Gordon Abbott photograph depicting Central American in the 1940's. Signed on the mat and reverse.
Abbott was a twentieth century American photographer born in 1...
Category
1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'Backstage At La Scala' 1948 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print- Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Backstage At La Scala' 1948
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print- Oversize
A chorus girl reads a movie magazine in a dressing room at La Scala opera house, Milan, November 19...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Spirit of St. Louis at the Circus
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Photo by H.A. Atwell. Taken in c1940s.
This reproduction can be printed at any size.
Category
1940s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"High School Beach" - Venice Beach, California
By Max Yavno
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Photo by Max Yavno, taken 1949, printed c.1970s. Signed on recto.
Vintage silver gelatin print
Category
1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Eifeltower, Paris, 1955
By Erich Andres
Located in Nümbrecht, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1955.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photograph...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mushroom Watercolor - 1
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolors by Frederic Porchet
France, 1940
This image can be printed to any custom size.
Category
Naturalistic 1940s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mission San Xavier del Bac, Tuscon, Arizona
By Ansel Adams
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Original vintage gelatin silver photograph printed circa 1944 by Ansel Adams. Signed in pencil lower right on the front of the mount. Very good vintage condition: some silvering top ...
Category
1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Surreal Mid Century Female Nude Study by Bill Brandt Vintage print
By Bill Brandt
Located in London, GB
Surreal Mid Century Female Nude Study, circa 1940
by Bill Brandt
1950's Vintage Surreal Woman England Photo Gravure Plate BILL BRANDT. This sheet fed photogravure print was origina...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
Rita Hayworth
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original photograph shot by George Hurrell in 1941 and printed at a later date. This image depicts Rita Hayworth, an American actress and dancer. She achieved fame d...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Honeymoon Couple
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
Honeymoon couple Hilda and George Mulholland travel to the top of the Jungfrau mountain in Switzerland by cable-car, 1948
(Photo Bert Hardy)
A beautiful Limited Edition (ed size ...
Category
1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
[Sammy Fuchs and Ethel, queen of the Bowery, Sammy’s on the Bowery, New York]
By Weegee
Located in New York, NY
[Sammy Fuchs and Ethel, queen of the Bowery, Sammy’s on the Bowery, New York]
c. 1943/printed later
Estate stamp in black ink, verso
Archival pigment print
6 x 6 inches (15.24 x 1...
Category
1940s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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V&A Museum London 'HRH Princess Elizabeth' by Cecil Beaton
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
'HRH Princess Elizabeth' by Cecil Beaton (1904-80)
Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, in a Norman Hartnell gown, Buckingham Palace, England, 1945.
© Victoria and Albert Mu...
Category
1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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