1980s Photography

Giacomo and Stefania Mantegazza welcome guests arriving by boat at their villa, La Casinella, on Lake Como, 1983. Brilliant green trees contrast with the vivid orange, reds and turquoise of the architecture. Four boats can are afloat on the deep blue of the lake. Slim Aarons Giacomo Montegazza, Villa La Casinella, Lake Como Slim Aarons Estate Edition Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate. Chromogenic Lambda print from the original transparency Printed Later Certificate of Authenticity included Collector will get the next number in the edition Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. 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. Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * 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 * Now in his 70s, Giacomo Mantegazza...

Miranda, Limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 5 This image was captured on film. The negative was scanned creating a digital file which was then printed on Hahnem...

Artist: Josephine Sacabo, American Title: Storm Light Year: 1985 Medium: Photograph, signed l.r. Size: 18 x 13 in. (45.72 x 33.02 cm)

Bette Midler Film Set Backstage Baby Daughter Vintage b&w Print Contemporary Roddy McDowall (British-American, 1928-1998)m "Bette Midler & Daughter Sop...

Grass, blue abstract photography from the Richard Heeps series Ordinary Places, photographing Britain on the brink of change. It was Richard's first colour collection and was shot be...

Albert WATSON (*1942, Scotland) Sebastian Cardin in Issey Miyake, New York City, 1989 Archival pigment print 76 x 61 cm (29 7/8 x 24 in.) Edition of 25, plus 2 AP Print only Signed...

Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin Clock, 1987-94 Aluminum sculpture, mixed media and c-print photograph construction, c-print, felt tip marker 13 h × 13 w × 4 d in (30 × 30 × 6 cm) Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin were founding members of the underground conceptual movement Samizdat in the Soviet Union, described in their book Russian Samizdat Art. Based on a play of paradoxes, their work is rich with philosophic and mythological implications, reflected in their writing as well. Their book Concepts was published in Russia in 2012. The work by Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin is emphatically contemporary. The artist couple were part of the Moscow Conceptualists, their performance Costumes, from 1977, deepened their ongoing work with linguistic semiotic systems and their own bodies. Considering the context in which Gerlovina and Gerlovin made their work—that of political restrictions on public life, of unfreedom, and censorship—their collaborative togetherness must also be read as a space of possibility for political community and resistance. Rimma Gerlovina’s hair is featured prominently in the art of the Gerlovins as a constructing element of the body. Used for the linear drawings her braids transmit transpersonal waves reminiscent of an aura of live filaments. Long loose hairs function as threads of life; streaming in abundance, they allude to Aphrodisiac vitality and Samsonian strength. On the other hand, they are the haircloth worn during mourning and penitence. In New York they continued to make sculptural objects, and their photographic projects grew into an extended series called Photoglyphs. In their photographs, they use their own faces to explore the nature of thought and what lies beyond it. Since coming to the United States in 1980, they had many exhibitions in galleries and museums including the Art Institute of Chicago. The New Orleans Museum of Art launched a retrospective of their photography, which traveled to fifteen cities. Group exhibitions include the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C., Bonn Kunsthalle, Germany, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and others. Samizdat or “self-published” began in the Soviet Union, and Samizdat art consists mainly of books and magazines published and distributed by the artists who made them. Samizdat art has sources in the innovative books and magazines turned out by the early 20th century Russian avant-garde—artists and writers like Olga Rozanova, Vladimir Mayakovsky, El Lissitzky, and Alexander Rodchenko. Artists as varied as Alexander Archipenko, Leon Bakst, Marc Chagall, Naum Gabo, Alexandra Exter...

Fritz monshouwer Mother and child Silver print signed and dated in the margin below the image 39 x 29 cms Bibliography: M.Rebbuzini Mirrors of the magic muse Book style editions. Mo...

Signed, numbered and dated on front of the mount. Signed, dated, numbered and titled with artist's copyright stamp on back of the mount.

An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘ Morgane 2 ‘ who was captured on film i...

Italian fashion designer and daughter of Emilio Pucci, Laudomia Pucci, Florence, Italy, 1983. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped ...

Afghan Girl with Hands on Face by Steve McCurry presents a powerful portrait. A young girl with piercing green eyes stares off in the distance. She wears a red scarf around her head ...

Boys - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 10 This image was captured on film in 1984. The negative was scanned creating a digital file which was the...

Mother and daughter on their balcony in Beruit by Steve McCurry depicts a woman and child sitting outside. The woman looks down, concentrating on peeling her potatoes, while the girl...

Combined Edition 25 Also available in 50 x 60 cm/ 20 x 24 inch and as combined Edition 10 in 76 x 101 cm / 30 x 40 inch 101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch Portrait of American comedian, ac...

Hand signed and titled in ink by the artist from edition of 50 (plus proofs). Color Photo printed at CVI Lab by master printer Guy Stricherz. Published by Prestige Art Ltd. From the ...

June 1983: Dress designer Gianni Versace (1946 - 1997) and Lalla Spagnol on a motor launch in front of his 17th century villa on Lake Como. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate ...

Sheila Metzner’s unique photographic style has positioned her as a contemporary master in the worlds of fine art, fashion, portraiture, still life and landscape photography. Looking at Metzner’s photographs is a captivating experience. Innocent, sensual, and sexual, each photo, regardless of subject, exhibits and elicits deep emotion. It is nearly impossible to just glance at Metzner’s photos; they beg to be studied. She says, “Photography in its most basic form is magic…This image, caught in my trap, my box of darkness, can live. It is eternal, immortal. The child in the image will not age as the living child will.” Sheila Schwartz was born in 1939 to an orthodox Jewish family in a poor section of Brooklyn. While attending the School of Industrial Art in Manhattan (now the High School of Art and Design), she was awarded the Mayor Robert F. Wagner scholarship to the college of her choice. She chose Pratt Institute, where she majored in visual communication. Her fondness for painting and sculpture also led her to study with abstract artists Jack Tworkov and James Brooks. After graduating in 1961, Sheila worked as an assistant to Lou Dorfsman at CBS Network Advertising. Five years later, she was hired by the Doyle Dane Bernbach advertising agency as its first female art director, and in 1968 she met and married director, creative director, and painter Jeffrey Metzner. While pregnant with their first child, she was riding in a cab with her mentor and friend, photographer Aaron Rose, discussing whether or not to give up her career in advertising. “He said, ‘You should be a photographer. You live like an artist. You have a good eye, you’d be good at it.’ ” Metzner started taking pictures, amassing them slowly over the next 13 years, while raising her and Jeffrey’s five children—Raven, Bega, Ruby, Stella and Louie. Jeffrey’s two daughters from a previous marriage, Evyan and Alison, were also a regular part of the family. “When they were really small, I’d be with them during the day, photographing and printing at night. At eight or nine in the evening, when they were all asleep, I’d take a shower to wake up and put on high heels and lipstick, which I wore then, to give me the feeling of being ready to work.” She continues, “My children never interfered. When I couldn’t travel because of them, I would find a place in upstate New York and call it Antarctica or Egypt. I found microcosms.” Nine years later, Metzner had accumulated a box of 22 pictures. One of them, a black-and-white photograph titled “Evyan, Kinderhook Creek,” caught the eye of John Szarkowski at the Museum of Modern Art, which he included in his famous and controversial exhibition “Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960.” The New York Times art critic Hilton Kramer loved the picture and soon it became the dark-horse hit of the exhibition. Later that year, Metzner’s first solo show at the Daniel Wolf Gallery in New York drew record crowds. Metzner was now ready to work in color, but not just conventional color. Of her subjects, she once said, “If I use a rose, I want it to be the essential rose—the rose Beauty brought to her father from the Beast’s garden.” Now she aspired to an essential kind of color. “I wanted something that would last. I was looking for Fresson even though I didn’t know they existed.” The Fresson family works outside of Paris and specializes in a labor-intensive four-color “process de charbon” method, which they invented in 1895. Some prints can go up to seven colors, and are pigment prints, the only true archival color print. Metzner is one of just ten American photographers with whom they are willing to work. Fresson prints are the perfect complement to Metzner’s style—soft, sensuous, and grainy, the prints resemble paintings, with a finish which Metzner describes as “a glaze on fine porcelain. The moment I saw the neutral gray,” she adds, “I knew it was perfect.” In 1980 Metzner showed her Fresson color prints at her second solo exhibition at the Daniel Wolf Gallery. This show led to commissioned editorial work for such magazines as Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Rolling Stone. She secured an exclusive contract with Vogue for the next eight years. Metzner considers her portrait of actress Jeanne Moreau for Vanity Fair a turning point in her career. “It gave me a chance to show my work to a broader audience. I wasn’t just producing photographs for the art world.” Of Sheila’s foray into fashion, critic Carol Squiers says, “At a time when fashion photography was caught between sterility and the snapshot, Metzner created a sumptuous vision that stimulated the entire field.” Metzner also started doing commercial photography around this time. Her first client was Valentino, soon to be followed by Bloomingdale’s, Perry Ellis, Revlon, Shiseido, Saks Fifth Avenue, Paloma Picasso, Victoria’s Secret, Levi’s, Ralph Lauren, and fragrances for Chloe and Fendi (the Fendi campaign won a Fragrance Foundation Recognition Award). Her work also appeared on John Mellencamp...

Meridian Club 1981 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition The pool at the Meridian Club, owned by Ginny and Bill Cowles, on the Turks and Caicos Islands, March 1981. u...

Il Pellicano Hotel 1980 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Holidaymakers relax beside the swimming pool of Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980....

Holiday In Mustique 1982 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Pierre Vincent Marais and his wife Isabelle holiday with friends at Gelliceaux House, their home on the ...

Drinks At Gstaad 1984 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Models from Parisian jeweller M. Gerard enjoying drinks on the terrace of The Palace Hotel in Gstaad, Switz...

The Meridian Club 1981 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition The pool at the Meridian Club, owned by Ginny and Bill Cowles, on the Turks and Caicos Islands, March 1981...

Beach Near Portinatx 1989 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Holidaymakers seen through the trees, at a beach near Portinatx, Ibiza, Spain, 1989. unframed c type ...

Haiti Holiday 1981 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A woman wearing a translucent white blouse and holding a cocktail stands in a swimming pool in Haiti, February...

Cavallo Coast A fleet of yachts at anchor off the sunny Mediterranean island of Cavallo, Corsica, 1984. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Phot...

Cortina d’Ampezzo 1982 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Isa Genolini and Maria Antonia in the main street of Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, March 1982 unframed c type...

Il Canille 1980 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Sunbathers lounge on the white-painted terrace of Il Canille, built into the rocks of Pizzolungo overlooking the ...

Conca dei Marini 1984 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A busy bay in Conca dei Marini, on the Amalfi coast in Italy, August 1984 unframed c type print printed 20...

Cotton Bay The Campbells’ pool at Cotton Bay, on Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas, November 1982. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim ...

Cavallo Holidaymakers’ yachts find a quiet haven off the Mediterranean island of Cavallo, Corsica, 1984. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Pho...

Cortina d’Ampezzo 1988 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition snowboarding in Cortina d’Ampezzo, March 1988. unframed c type print printed 2023 16×20 inches - paper si...

Casa De Camp 1985 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Part of Yvette Bluhdorn’s house in Casa de Campo, Dominican Republic, February 1985 unframed c type print prin...

The Lure Of Lamu 1987 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition The resort of Kiwayu Mlango wa Chanu in the Lamu Archipelago of Kenya, February 1987. The resort is run by ...

Culinary Heights 1987 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Courchevel restaurant chefs Jean Jacob (left) of ‘Le Bateau Ivre’, Michel Rochedy (centre) of ‘Le Chabichou...

Plantation Cocoyer People relaxing in the bar at Plantation Cocoyer, Cocoyer Beach, Haiti, February 1981. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo...

Island Paradise August 1984: Topless swimmers on a rocky promontory of the Mediterranean island of Cavallo, Corsica. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to...

Mazatlan Mansion 1984 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Eldorado, the Redo family villa in Mazatlan, Mexico, January 1984. unframed c type print printed 2023 16 ...

My Toy 1982 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition April 1982: Member of the ‘Jolly Club’, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Prince Di Montenevoso at Vallelonga with his red Lola ra...

Annevoie Jean and Christiane de Montpellier d’Annevoie float across the moat of their home, Annevoie, Belgium, 1980. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to ...

Palm Beach Pagoda 1985 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Cynthia Eichler (sitting) with Vicky Schaft Bruder (centre) and Cathy Tan...

Portofino The most exclusive fishing village in Italy, Portofino, on Italy’s Ligurian coast, 1985. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection ...

Pellicano Pool 1980 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Holidaymakers relax beside the swimming pool of Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980. un...

Abaco Islander 1986 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Author Chester Thompson at work in his coconut grove on the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas, March 1986. His anc...

Squaw Valley Snow 1961 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Snow covers the deserted cafe in Squaw Valley, California, January 1961. unframed c type print printed ...

Saint Kitts and Nevis 1984 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Horseback riding at the Rawlins Plantation inn, Saint Kitts and Nevis, West Indies, March 1984. unfra...

Santa And Serena Antonelli 1983 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Santa and Serena Antonelli and a guest dining al fresco on the terrace of their home above Via Gi...

Swimming Pool On The Beach 1981 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition The pool at the Meridian Club, owned by Ginny and Bill Cowles, on the Turks and Caicos islands, M...

Cavallo Coast 1984 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition August 1984: A fleet of yachts at anchor off the sunny Mediterranean island of Cavallo, Corsica. unframed c t...

Drinks At Gstaad 1984 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Models from Parisian jeweller M. Gerard enjoying drinks on the terrace of The Palace Hotel in Gstaad, Switz...

Il Pellicano Pool 1986 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition The seaside pool at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Italy, September 1986. unframed c type print ...

Pool On Amalfi Coast 1984 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A view of the seaside pool at the Hotel St. Caterina, Amalfi, Italy, September 1984 unframed c type pr...

Donna Fabrizia Lanza di Mazzarino at the Villa Tasca, Sicily, Italy, 1984. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons ...

Rachael - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 5 This image was captured on film in 1983. The negative was scanned creating a digital file which was then...

'Cortina D'Ampezzo' by Slim Aarons Isa Genolini and Maria Antonia in the main street of Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, March 1982. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with ...

Immerse yourself in the tranquil luxury of Lake Como with this exquisite Slim Aarons photograph featuring Italian mountain climber and explorer Guido Monzino (1928-1988), captured at his Villa del Balbianello...

Norman Parkinson Jerry Hall , 1976 C print 16 x 12 inches each Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso American model Jerry Hall wearing a swimsuit by Martil and lipstick...

Slim Aarons All Aboard 1975 C-print Edition of 150 Friends board a riva boat in Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1975. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Image...

Donald Trump, Businessman 1985 Archival pigment print 48 x 48 inches, edition of 10, $12,000 36 x 36 inches, edition of 15, $7,000 24 x 24 inches, edition of 25, $5,000 14 x 14 inch...

Printed by the artist. Signed and dated in pencil. Dry mounted onto board 16x20"