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Period: 20th Century
Hank Aaron, Atlanta, Georgia
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 25 Signed and numbered. AVAILABLE SIZES: 11 x 14 in., Edition of 25 16 x 20 in., Edition of 25 24 x 36 in., Edition of 25 36 x 54 in., Edition of 25
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Modern 20th Century Photography

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Archival Pigment

Donna Fabrizia Lanza, 1984 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection. Please bear in mind that all prints are produced t...
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American Modern 20th Century Photography

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C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital

Villa Nirvana, 1972 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection. Please bear in mind that all prints are produced t...
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American Modern 20th Century Photography

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Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital

Titter, Scantily Clad Woman Viewing Titter Magazine, 1950 Vintage Photograph
Located in Chicago, IL
“Art Shay’s photography shakes you up, sets you down gently, pats you on the head and then kicks you in the ass.” Roger Ebert “[Shay’s work] ranks with some of the greats of the 20...
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Contemporary 20th Century Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Aventure d'une libertine III. From The Secret Album Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Aventure d'une libertine III, Paris, 2015 From The Secret Album Series Edition 6/6 ex. 5 AP. Unframed The Secret Album Series This series is born from a personal experience. The mo...
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Modern 20th Century Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Dancer Brian Poer, nude, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. This photograph was from a se...
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Pop Art 20th Century Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Young Lad ( haunting portrait of young boy on a crowded London street)
By Richard Sadler
Located in New Orleans, LA
Richard Sadler's "Young Boy" is a haunting portrait of a very serious young British lad amidst a crowd of other people. He is dressed very formally in hat, coat and tie. He clutche...
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Contemporary 20th Century Photography

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

Male Nude from Numbered Nudes Series, multiple exposure signed exhibition print
Located in Senoia, GA
5203 4 41 1995 1/20. This is a vintage gelatin silver print, selenium toned, made by hand by master photographer Jack Mitchell and signed both on the recto and verso. Chosen by the ...
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Pop Art 20th Century Photography

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Silver Gelatin

James Deann At A Car Rally - Oversize Limited Print
Located in London, GB
James Dean At A Car Rally 1955 (colorised) by Frank Worth paper size 40 x 60 inches / 101 x 152 cm edition of 6 only in this size Archival pigment print unframed Note other si...
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Modern 20th Century Photography

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Archival Pigment

Leonore Ander: Paquetá Island in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1989
Located in Cologne, DE
The image shows a cyclist on a wooden pier extending over the calm waters of Guanabara Bay. The cyclist, shirtless and with his back turned to the viewer, seems to be gazing into the...
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Modern 20th Century Photography

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Color

Alice in Acapulco - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection. Please bear in mind that all prints are produced t...
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American Modern 20th Century Photography

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C Print

Beaton, Marlon Brando, Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1981. Published and pri...
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Modern 20th Century Photography

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Lithograph

Sarah- Signed limited edition nude print, Black white, Oversize, Contemporary
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Sarah - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, Photographed in Brighton, England in 1989 Edition of 5 - Available : 4 This image was captured on film. The negative was sc...
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Contemporary 20th Century Photography

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Archival Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Pi...

New York Python, Coney Island, Brooklyn, Year of the Snake Photograph
Located in New york, NY
New York Python, Coney Island, 1991 by Roberta Fineberg is a 14” x 11” gelatin silver print - offered in 2025 to celebrate the Year of the Snake…. In the words of the artist: "I sho...
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Contemporary 20th Century Photography

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

BRUCE BELLAS Vintage 1950s Photo of Male Physique Model James Pappa
Located in Glenford, NY
BRUCE OF L.A. - classic 1950s gelatin silver photograph of physique model JAMES PAPPA by celebrated 20th Century photographer BRUCE BELLAS also known as Bruce of Los Angeles. This is an original photograph from the beefcake "posing strap" era when nude photography was illegal. 'Bruce Los Angeles...
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Post-War 20th Century Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Costa Llobero Garden, Barcelona by Joan Fontcuberta, 1985, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Denton, TX
Costa Llobero Garden, Barcelona by Joan Fontcuberta is a 15 x 14 3.4 inch gelatin silver print and is edition 22/100. This photograph features wilted yucca plants in a garden. This p...
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Contemporary 20th Century Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Beautiful Legs - Getty Archive, 20th Century Photography, Beauty Competition
Located in Brighton, GB
Taken from the world’s largest photographic archive, (Hulton Archive and Getty Images), the Getty Images Gallery collection features an extraordinary time capsule of the last century...
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Modern 20th Century Photography

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Photographic Paper, Black and White

Couple in MG, Florence, Italy
Located in Denton, TX
No Edition Blind stamp on print margin. Signed by Estate, titled, dated and copyright date in pencil on artist stamp. Paper size: 16 x 20 in. Ruth Orkin (1921 - 1985) was an America...
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Modern 20th Century Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Raquel Welch 1966 LIFETIME silver gelatin b/w photograph
Located in Norwich, GB
Terry O’Neill CBE is one of the world’s most collected photographers, with work hanging in national art galleries and private collections worldwide. From presidents to pop stars, he ...
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Contemporary 20th Century Photography

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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Beaton, Marlene Dietrich, Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1981. Published and pri...
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Modern 20th Century Photography

Materials

Lithograph

Michael Ochs 'Brigitte Bardot' Limited Edition Photograph, 16 x 12
Located in San Rafael, CA
Brigitte Bardot with cigarette in hand by photographer Michael Ochs, originally taken in 1962. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) As an authorized Getty Images Gallery...
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Modern 20th Century Photography

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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Rich Thomson
Located in New York, NY
Rich Thomson c. 1959-1981 Signature stamp in black ink, verso Vintage silver print 7 x 5 inches $800 This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
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Contemporary 20th Century Photography

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Silver Gelatin

'Fan Mail' Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
'Fan Mail' 1955 Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962), wearing a red negligee trimmed with black lace, sorts out her fan mail shortly after her film ‘The Asphalt Jungle’ had been released. ...
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Modern 20th Century Photography

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Archival Pigment

Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood's Glamour Icon
Located in London, GB
Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood's Glamour Icon by Frank Worth / Globe Photos paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm edition of 24 only in this size Archival pigment print unframed (fr...
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Modern 20th Century Photography

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Archival Pigment

L'Ange Heurebise - Book by Jean Cocteau and Man Ray - 1925
Located in Roma, IT
L'Ange Heurebise is an original rare Surrealist work realized in France in 1925, written by Jean Cocteau with an original rayogram realized by Man Ray. Limited edition of 350 numbe...
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Contemporary 20th Century Photography

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Paper

Slim Aarons 'El Venero
Located in New York, NY
Dining Al Fresco in Capri 1980 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Caption: Italian artist and actress Domiziana Gio...
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Modern 20th Century Photography

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C Print

Julian Assange
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Julian Assange 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Not mounted.
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Contemporary 20th Century Photography

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Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color

DON WHITMAN WESTERN PHOTOGRAPHY GUILD VINTAGE 1949 - Physique Model ED FURY
Located in Glenford, NY
Original vintage 1949 photograph by DON WHITMAN - Western Photography Guild - of popular celebrity Physique Model ED FURY. This is an early original gelatin silver print from the for...
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Post-War 20th Century Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Emilio Lussu - Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Emilio Lussu is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s. Good conditions.
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Modern 20th Century Photography

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Photographic Paper

On the Slopes of Sugarbush, 1960 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection. Please bear in mind that all prints are produced t...
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American Modern 20th Century Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital

Pool at Lake Tahoe - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection. Please bear in mind that all prints are produced t...
Category

American Modern 20th Century Photography

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Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital

Los aretes que le faltan a la Luna...
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, titled and dated by Mario Algaze Gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 in. Mario Algaze was a contemporary Cuban-American photographer whose work celebrated the culture of Latin Ame...
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Contemporary 20th Century Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Warhol Superstar Twins Jay and Jed Johnson photographed for After Dark Magazine
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of twin brothers Jay and Jed Johnson photographed for 'After Dark' magazine on June 8, 1970. Comes dire...
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Pop Art 20th Century Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Nude in Landscape
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel ...
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Contemporary 20th Century Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Skiing In Vermont, USA, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features people ice skating at the Palace Hotel, St. Moritz, Switzerland, 1963. This is a...
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American Realist 20th Century Photography

Materials

Lambda

My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Autumn
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Autumn - 2001, 20x29cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid Slide. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. LIFE’S A DREAM (The Personal World of Stefanie Schneider) by Mark Gisbourne Projection is a form of apparition that is characteristic of our human nature, for what we imagine almost invariably transcends the reality of what we live. And, an apparition, as the word suggests, is quite literally ‘an appearing’, for what we appear to imagine is largely shaped by the imagination of its appearance. If this sounds tautological then so be it. But the work of Stefanie Schneider is almost invariably about chance and apparition. And, it is through the means of photography, the most apparitional of image-based media, that her pictorial narratives or photo-novels are generated. Indeed, traditional photography (as distinct from new digital technology) is literally an ‘awaiting’ for an appearance to take place, in line with the imagined image as executed in the camera and later developed in the dark room. The fact that Schneider uses out-of-date Polaroid film stock to take her pictures only intensifies the sense of their apparitional contents when they are realised. The stability comes only at such time when the images are re-shot and developed in the studio, and thereby fixed or arrested temporarily in space and time. The unpredictable and at times unstable film she adopts for her works also creates a sense of chance within the outcome that can be imagined or potentially envisaged by the artist Schneider. But this chance manifestation is a loosely controlled, or, better called existential sense of chance, which becomes pre-disposed by the immediate circumstances of her life and the project she is undertaking at the time. Hence the choices she makes are largely open-ended choices, driven by a personal nature and disposition allowing for a second appearing of things whose eventual outcome remains undefined. And, it is the alliance of the chance-directed material apparition of Polaroid film, in turn explicitly allied to the experiences of her personal life circumstances, that provokes the potential to create Stefanie Schneider’s open-ended narratives. Therefore they are stories based on a degenerate set of conditions that are both material and human, with an inherent pessimism and a feeling for the sense of sublime ridicule being seemingly exposed. This in turn echoes and doubles the meaning of the verb ‘to expose’. To expose being embedded in the technical photographic process, just as much as it is in the narrative contents of Schneider’s photo-novel exposés. The former being the unstable point of departure, and the latter being the uncertain ends or meanings that are generated through the photographs doubled exposure. The large number of speculative theories of apparition, literally read as that which appears, and/or creative visions in filmmaking and photography are self-evident, and need not detain us here. But from the earliest inception of photography artists have been concerned with manipulated and/or chance effects, be they directed towards deceiving the viewer, or the alchemical investigations pursued by someone like Sigmar Polke. None of these are the real concern of the artist-photographer Stefanie Schneider, however, but rather she is more interested with what the chance-directed appearances in her photographs portend. For Schneider’s works are concerned with the opaque and porous contents of human relations and events, the material means are largely the mechanism to achieving and exposing the ‘ridiculous sublime’ that has come increasingly to dominate the contemporary affect(s) of our world. The uncertain conditions of today’s struggles as people attempt to relate to each other - and to themselves - are made manifest throughout her work. And, that she does this against the backdrop of the so-called ‘American Dream’, of a purportedly advanced culture that is Modern America, makes them all the more incisive and critical as acts of photographic exposure. From her earliest works of the late nineties one might be inclined to see her photographs as if they were a concerted attempt at an investigative or analytic serialisation, or, better still, a psychoanalytic dissection of the different and particular genres of American subculture. But this is to miss the point for the series though they have dates and subsequent publications remain in a certain sense unfinished. Schneider’s work has little or nothing to do with reportage as such, but with recording human culture in a state of fragmentation and slippage. And, if a photographer like Diane Arbus dealt specifically with the anomalous and peculiar that made up American suburban life, the work of Schneider touches upon the alienation of the commonplace. That is to say how the banal stereotypes of Western Americana have been emptied out, and claims as to any inherent meaning they formerly possessed has become strangely displaced. Her photographs constantly fathom the familiar, often closely connected to traditional American film genre, and make it completely unfamiliar. Of course Freud would have called this simply the unheimlich or uncanny. But here again Schneider almost never plays the role of the psychologist, or, for that matter, seeks to impart any specific meanings to the photographic contents of her images. The works possess an edited behavioural narrative (she has made choices), but there is never a sense of there being a clearly defined story. Indeed, the uncertainty of my reading here presented, acts as a caveat to the very condition that Schneider’s photographs provoke. Invariably the settings of her pictorial narratives are the South West of the United States, most often the desert and its periphery in Southern California. The desert is a not easily identifiable space, with the suburban boundaries where habitation meets the desert even more so. There are certain sub-themes common to Schneider’s work, not least that of journeying, on the road, a feeling of wandering and itinerancy, or simply aimlessness. Alongside this subsidiary structural characters continually appear, the gas station, the automobile, the motel, the highway, the revolver, logos and signage, the wasteland, the isolated train track and the trailer. If these form a loosely defined structure into which human characters and events are cast, then Schneider always remains the fulcrum and mechanism of their exposure. Sometimes using actresses, friends, her sister, colleagues or lovers, Schneider stands by to watch the chance events as they unfold. And, this is even the case when she is a participant in front of camera of her photo-novels. It is the ability to wait and throw things open to chance and to unpredictable circumstances, that marks the development of her work over the last eight years. It is the means by which random occurrences take on such a telling sense of pregnancy in her work. However, in terms of analogy the closest proximity to Schneider’s photographic work is that of film. For many of her titles derive directly from film, in photographic series like OK Corral (1999), Vegas (1999), Westworld (1999), Memorial Day (2001), Primary Colours (2001), Suburbia (2004), The Last Picture Show (2005), and in other examples. Her works also include particular images that are titled Zabriskie Point, a photograph of her sister in an orange wig. Indeed the tentative title for the present publication Stranger Than Paradise is taken from Jim Jarmusch’s film of the same title in 1984. Yet it would be dangerous to take this comparison too far, since her series 29 Palms (1999) presages the later title of a film that appeared only in 2002. What I am trying to say here is that film forms the nexus of American culture, and it is not so much that Schneider’s photographs make specific references to these films (though in some instances they do), but that in referencing them she accesses the same American culture that is being emptied out and scrutinised by her photo-novels. In short her pictorial narratives might be said to strip films of the stereotypical Hollywood tropes that many of them possess. Indeed, the films that have most inspired her are those that similarly deconstruct the same sentimental and increasingly tawdry ‘American Dream’ peddled by Hollywood. These include films like David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990) The Lost Highway (1997), John Dahl’s The Last Seduction (1994) or films like Ridley Scott’s Thelma and Louise with all its girl-power Bonny and Clyde-type clichés. But they serve no more than as a backdrop, a type of generic tableau from which Schneider might take human and abstracted elements, for as commercial films they are not the product of mere chance and random occurrence. Notwithstanding this observation, it is also clear that the gender deconstructions that the characters in these films so often portray, namely the active role of women possessed of a free and autonomous sexuality (even victim turned vamp), frequently find resonances within the behavioural events taking place in Schneider’s photographs and DVD sequences; the same sense of sexual autonomy that Stefanie Schneider possesses and is personally committed to. In the series 29 Palms (first begun in 1999) the two women characters Radha and Max act out a scenario that is both infantile and adolescent. Wearing brightly coloured fake wigs of yellow and orange, a parody of the blonde and the redhead, they are seemingly trailer park white trash possessing a sentimental and kitsch taste in clothes totally inappropriate to the locality. The fact that Schneider makes no judgment about this is an interesting adjunct. Indeed, the photographic projection of the images is such that the girls incline themselves to believe that they are both beautiful and desirous. However, unlike the predatory role of women in say Richard Prince’s photographs, which are simply a projection of a male fantasy onto women, Radha and Max are self-contained in their vacuous if empty trailer and motel world of the swimming pool, nail polish, and childish water pistols. Within the photographic sequence Schneider includes herself, and acts as a punctum of disruption. Why is she standing in front of an Officers’ Wives Club? Why is Schneider not similarly attired? Is there a proximity to an army camp, are these would-be Lolita(s) Rahda and Max wives or American marine groupies, and where is the centre and focus of their identity? It is the ambiguity of personal involvement that is set up by Schneider which deliberately makes problematic any clear sense of narrative construction. The strangely virulent colours of the bleached-out girls stand in marked contrast to Schneider’s own anodyne sense of self-image. Is she identifying with the contents or directing the scenario? With this series, perhaps, more than any other, Schneider creates a feeling of a world that has some degree of symbolic order. For example the girls stand or squat by a dirt road, posing the question as to their sexual and personal status. Following the 29 Palms series, Schneider will trust herself increasingly by diminishing the sense of a staged environment. The events to come will tell you both everything and nothing, reveal and obfuscate, point towards and simultaneously away from any clearly definable meaning. If for example we compare 29 Palms to say Hitchhiker (2005), and where the sexual contents are made overtly explicit, we do not find the same sense of simulated identity. It is the itinerant coming together of two characters Daisy and Austen, who meet on the road and subsequently share a trailer together. Presented in a sequential DVD and still format, we become party to a would-be relationship of sorts. No information is given as to the background or social origins, or even any reasons as to why these two women should be attracted to each other. Is it acted out? Are they real life experiences? They are women who are sexually free in expressing themselves. But while the initial engagement with the subject is orchestrated by Schneider, and the edited outcome determined by the artist, beyond that we have little information with which to construct a story. The events are commonplace, edgy and uncertain, but the viewer is left to decide as to what they might mean as a narrative. The disaggregated emotions of the work are made evident, the game or role playing, the transitory fantasies palpable, and yet at the same time everything is insubstantial and might fall apart at any moment. The characters relate but they do not present a relationship in any meaningful sense. Or, if they do, it is one driven the coincidental juxtaposition of random emotions. Should there be an intended syntax it is one that has been stripped of the power to grammatically structure what is being experienced. And, this seems to be the central point of the work, the emptying out not only of a particular American way of life, but the suggestion that the grounds upon which it was once predicated are no longer possible. The photo-novel Hitchhiker is porous and the culture of the seventies which it might be said to homage is no longer sustainable. Not without coincidence, perhaps, the decade that was the last ubiquitous age of Polaroid film. In the numerous photographic series, some twenty or so, that occur between 29 Palms and Hitchhiker, Schneider has immersed herself and scrutinised many aspects of suburban, peripheral, and scrubland America. Her characters, including herself, are never at the centre of cultural affairs. Such eccentricities as they might possess are all derived from what could be called their adjacent status to the dominant culture of America. In fact her works are often sated with references to the sentimental sub-strata that underpin so much of American daily life. It is the same whether it is flower gardens and household accoutrements of her photo-series Suburbia (2004), or the transitional and environmental conditions depicted in The Last Picture Show (2005). The artist’s use of sentimental song titles, often adapted to accompany individual images within a series by Schneider, show her awareness of America’s close relationship between popular film and music. For example the song ‘Leaving on a Jet Plane’, becomes Leaving in a Jet Plane as part of The Last Picture Show series, while the literalism of the plane in the sky is shown in one element of this diptych, but juxtaposed to a blonde-wigged figure first seen in 29 Palms. This indicates that every potential narrative element is open to continual reallocation in what amounts to a story without end. And, the interchangeable nature of the images, like a dream, is the state of both a pictorial and affective flux that is the underlying theme pervading Schneider’s photo-narratives. For dream is a site of yearning or longing, either to be with or without, a human pursuit of a restless but uncertain alternative to our daily reality. The scenarios that Schneider sets up nonetheless have to be initiated by the artist. And, this might be best understood by looking at her three recent DVD sequenced photo-novels, Reneé’s Dream and Sidewinder (2005). We have already considered the other called Hitchhiker. In the case of Sidewinder the scenario was created by internet where she met J.D. Rudometkin, an ex-theologian, who agreed to her idea to live with her for five weeks in the scrubland dessert environment of Southern California. The dynamics and unfolding of their relationship, both sexually and emotionally, became the primary subject matter of this series of photographs. The relative isolation and their close proximity, the interactive tensions, conflicts and submissions, are thus recorded to reveal the day-to-day evolution of their relationship. That a time limit was set on this relation-based experiment was not the least important aspect of the project. The text and music accompanying the DVD were written by the American Rudometkin, who speaks poetically of “Torn Stevie. Scars from the weapon to her toes an accidental act of God her father said. On Vaness at California.” The mix of hip reverie and fantasy-based language of his text, echoes the chaotic unfolding of their daily life in this period, and is evident in the almost sun-bleached Polaroid images like Whisky Dance, where the two abandon themselves to the frenetic circumstances of the moment. Thus Sidewinder, a euphemism for both a missile and a rattlesnake, hints at the libidinal and emotional dangers that were risked by Schneider and Rudometkin. Perhaps, more than any other of her photo-novels it was the most spontaneous and immediate, since Schneider’s direct participation mitigated against and narrowed down the space between her life and the art work. The explicit and open character of their relationship at this time (though they have remained friends), opens up the question as the biographical role Schneider plays in all her work. She both makes and directs the work while simultaneously dwelling within the artistic processes as they unfold. Hence she is both author and character, conceiving the frame within which things will take place, and yet subject to the same unpredictable outcomes that emerge in the process. In Reneé’s Dream, issues of role reversal take place as the cowgirl on her horse undermines the male stereotype of Richard Prince’s ‘Marlboro Country’. This photo-work along with several others by Schneider, continue to undermine the focus of the male gaze, for her women are increasingly autonomous and subversive. They challenge the male role of sexual predator, often taking the lead and undermining masculine role play, trading on male fears that their desires can be so easily attained. That she does this by working through archetypal male conventions of American culture, is not the least of the accomplishments in her work. What we are confronted with frequently is of an idyll turned sour, the filmic clichés that Hollywood and American television dramas have promoted for fifty years. The citing of this in the Romantic West, where so many of the male clichés were generated, only adds to the diminishing sense of substance once attributed to these iconic American fabrications. And, that she is able to do this through photographic images rather than film, undercuts the dominance espoused by time-based film. Film feigns to be seamless though we know it is not. Film operates with a story board and setting in which scenes are elaborately arranged and pre-planned. Schneider has thus been able to generate a genre of fragmentary events, the assemblage of a story without a storyboard. But these post-narratological stories require another component, and that component is the viewer who must bring their own interpretation as to what is taking place. If this can be considered the upside of her work, the downside is that she never positions herself by giving a personal opinion as to the events that are taking place in her photographs. But, perhaps, this is nothing more than her use of the operation of chance dictates. I began this essay by speaking about the apparitional contents of Stefanie Schneider’s pictorial narratives, and meant at that time the literal and chance-directed ‘appearing’ qualities of her photographs. Perhaps, at this moment we should also think of the metaphoric contents of the word apparition. There is certainly a spectre-like quality also, a ghostly uncertainty about many of the human experiences found in her subject matter. Is it that the subculture of the American Dream, or the way of life Schneider has chosen to record, has in turn become also the phantom of it former self? Are these empty and fragmented scenarios a mirror of what has become of contemporary America? There is certainly some affection for their contents on the part of the artist, but it is somehow tainted with pessimism and the impossibility of sustainable human relations, with the dissolute and commercial distractions of America today. Whether this is the way it is, or, at least, the way it is perceived by Schneider is hard to assess. There is a bleak lassitude about so many of her characters. But then again the artist has so inured herself into this context over a long protracted period that the boundaries between the events and happenings photographed, and the personal life of Stefanie Schneider, have become similarly opaque. Is it the diagnosis of a condition, or just a recording of a phenomenon? Only the viewer can decide this question. For the status of Schneider’s certain sense of uncertainty is, perhaps, the only truth we may ever know.

1 Kerry Brougher (ed.), Art and Film Since 1945: Hall of Mirrors, ex. cat., The Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, 1996) 2 Im Reich der Phantome: Fotographie des Unsichtbaren, ex. cat., Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach/Kunsthalle Krems/FotomuseumWinterthur, (Ostfildern-Ruit, 1997) 3 Photoworks: When Pictures Vanish – Sigmar Polke, Museum of Contemporary Art (Zürich-Berlin-New York, 1995) 4 Slavoj Žižek, The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch’s Lost Highway, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, Occasional Papers, no. 1, 2000. 5 Diane Arbus, eds. Doon Arbus, and Marvin Israel...
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Contemporary 20th Century Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Cologne Night (1965)
Located in London, GB
Cologne Night (1965) (Photo By Phillip Harrington) Hohe Strasse, in Cologne, at Night in 1965. Additional Information : Unframed Paper Size: 20x24'' Printed Later NOTE OTHER SIZES OF THIS IMAGE AVAILABLE 10 x 12'' 12 x 16'' 16 x 20'' 20 x 24'' FRAMING AVAILABLE ON REQUEST About the Artist: Phillip A. Harrington was born in 1920 and grew up in Holland, Michigan. He developed an interest in photography at an early age, joining the high school camera club at 16. At the age of 19, Harrington moved to New York City to study at the Clarence. H. White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin...
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Modern 20th Century Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Handball In Central Park (1948) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
Located in London, GB
Handball In Central Park (1948) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL (Photo By Slim Aarons) A group of young men playing handball at a court in the 95th Street playground, Central ...
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Modern 20th Century Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Kristine DeBell - Vintage Photo by Helmut Newton - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Kristine DeBell is a  vintage photo, realized by Helmut Newton in the 1970s. The artwork represent fashion model and actress in 1970s. 
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Contemporary 20th Century Photography

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Photographic Paper

Douglas Kirkland 'Brigitte Bardot, Mexico'
Located in New York, NY
Douglas Kirkland Brigitte Bardot, Mexico (Cards) 1965 Silver gelatin print Estate signature stamped and numbered edition of 24 French actress Brigitte Bardot photographed on set of ...
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Modern 20th Century Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Ruhr area, Essen, Germany 1952
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1947. 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...
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Modern 20th Century Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Motel (Night)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Antony Zega (1962-2019). Motel (Night), ca. 1985. Photographic print, 10 x 10 inches. Mounted to acid free matting board measuring 16 x 20 inches. Unsigned. Estate stamp on verso.
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20th Century Photography

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Photographic Paper

Portfolio of 12 celebrity portraits, 1981 LIMITED EDITION, numbered.
Located in Middletown, NY
Beaton, Cecil & Daniela Palazzoli (Editor) Cecil Beaton – Portfolio, 1981; Electa Editrice Portfolios - LIMITED EDITION Milano, Italy: Electa Editrice Publishers, 1981. Limited Edition Portfolio. This is no. 785 out of an edtion of 1000. A portfolio of twelve heliogravure plates with tissue guard-leaves and limitation leaflet with preface. Housed in portfolio and slipcover, portfolio: 16 1/4 x 12 1/2 in (415 x 317 mm); each print approximately 8 5/8 x 6 5/8 in (220 x 170 mm). Subjects include Gary Cooper, 1930s; Buster Keaton, 1931; Marlene Dietrich, 1935; John Wiessmuller, 1933; Greta Garbo, 1946; Marlon Brando, 1947; Audrey Hepburn, 1954; Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin in "High Society", 1956; Marilyn Monroe, 1952; Rudolf Nureyev, November, 1962; Edith Sitwell, 1962; and Pablo Picasso...
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Modern 20th Century Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Santorini
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel ...
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Contemporary 20th Century Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Sammy Davis Jr. Smoking
Located in Austin, TX
Incredible 1960 close up of The Rat Pack's Sammy Davis Jr. side portrait smoking a cigarette. One of the best images we have released in years. One of Sammy Davis, Jr.s enduring leg...
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Contemporary 20th Century Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Jayne Mansfield with Seagrams Dogs (Limited Edition of 10, No 3-5) - 40"x50"
Located in New York, NY
Shot by Barry Kramer (1921- 1984), one of the most prolific photographers of his time, captures the essence of 1950's Hollywood movie star, Jane Mansfield...
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Contemporary 20th Century Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Girl on Cyclone II
Located in Denton, TX
Edition 3/200 Signed, dated and numbered. Harold Feinstein was born in Coney Island, New York, in 1931. He began photographing in 1946 at the age of 15 and joined the Photo League ...
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Modern 20th Century Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Porto Ercole Beach - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection. Please bear in mind that all prints are produced t...
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American Modern 20th Century Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital

Karl Kling, Mercedes W196, Grand Prix of France, Reims, France
Located in Denton, TX
Karl Kling, Mercedes W196, Grand Prix of France, Reims, France, 1955 Gelatin silver print Paper size: 16 x 20 in., Image size: 11 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. Signed in black ink on print margin...
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Modern 20th Century Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Aventure d'une libertine XV. From The Secret Album Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Aventure d'une libertine XV, Paris, 2015 From The Secret Album Series Edition 6/6 ex. 5 AP. Unframed The Secret Album Series This series is born from a ...
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Modern 20th Century Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

The Rolling Stones, Los Angeles, 1965
Located in Los Angeles, CA
50 x 60 cm Digital C-Type Print Edition of 15 Price does not include tax.
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20th Century Photography

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C Print

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Untitled 1983 Signed, titled, dated, and inscribed “A/P” in blue ink, verso Gelatin silver print 16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm) This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
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Contemporary 20th Century Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Clara
Located in München, BY
Total Edition of 15 signed and numbered Also available in: 90 x 120 cm / 35.4 x 47.2 in 120 x 160 cm / 47.2 x 63 in Portrait of black woman in...
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Contemporary 20th Century Photography

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Black and White

Mountain Ridge (Stranger than Paradise) - Archival C-Print, 65x85cm
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Mountain Range (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 64x85cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 535. Signature labe...
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Contemporary 20th Century Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Beaton, Buster Keaton, Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1981. Published and pri...
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Modern 20th Century Photography

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Lithograph

Slim Aarons 'A Friendly Chat, Bahamas' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A man wearing diving equipment talks with a girl in a wicker chair on the beach, Bahamas, 1967, Printed Later Slim Aarons A Friendly Chat Bahamas Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer. 60 x 40 inches $3950 40 x 30 inches $3350 30 x 20 inches $3000 Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer. 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 * Internal: A man wearing diving equipment talks with a girl in a wicker chair on the beach, Bahamas, 1967. Vintage Diving, Vintage Sport, Vintage Slim Aarons, Vintage Bahamas...
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American Realist 20th Century Photography

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Lambda

Male Nude VI (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 20th Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Male Nude in Bathroom (29 Palms, CA), - 1999, Edition 1/10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, 20x20cm, digital C-Print, Not mounted, based on a Polaroid, Signature label and Certificate, Art...
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Contemporary 20th Century Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

BRUCE BELLAS Vintage 1950s Photo Set of Male Physique model ED FURY
Located in Glenford, NY
Bruce of L. A. - Set of 2 Vintage 1950s gelatin silver photographs by celebrated 20th Century photographer Bruce Bellas also known as Bruce of Los Angeles, of famed iconic physique model Ed Fury in the early 1950s. These are original photographs from the "posing strap" era when nude photography was illegal. 'Bruce Los Angeles...
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Post-War 20th Century Photography

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Silver Gelatin

La Santé, Jail House in Paris, 1930 - Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Agence Meurisse, Paris. La Santé, jailhouse in Paris, circa 1930. Features: Original silver gelatin print photography u...
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Art Deco 20th Century Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Sylvester Stallone
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work. Work comes with a Certificate of Authenticity issued by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (pictured). The work is stamped on the verso by the Es...
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Pop Art 20th Century Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Gstaad Town Centre, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the town centre at the ski resort of Gstaad, Switzerland. This is an estate stamped and...
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American Realist 20th Century Photography

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Lambda

Juan Manuel Fangio, Maserati 250F, Reims, France
Located in Denton, TX
No Edition Signed in ink on print margin by Jesse Alexander Gelatin silver print Paper size: 11 x 14 in. Image size: 7 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. "Fangio is exiting a slow corner and looks ov...
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Modern 20th Century Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Thomas Mann- Photo- 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Thomas Mann is an vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1940s. Good conditions.
Category

Modern 20th Century Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Colourful Crew, 1970 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Photograph
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection. Please bear in mind that all prints are produced t...
Category

American Modern 20th Century Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital

Sacha..-Signed limited edition fine art nude print, Black and white photo, Model
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘Sacha and Pearl ‘ who was captured on f...
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Contemporary 20th Century Photography

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Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...

Andy Warhol, Polaroid Photograph of Keith Haring and Juan Dubose, 1983
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Keith Haring is best known for his social activist art that was inspired by the streets of urban areas – especially New York City. Public art would become a signature of Haring’s as ...
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Pop Art 20th Century Photography

Materials

Polaroid

Ballerina Silhouette, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph, Ballerina Silhouette, 1971. It is signed on the print verso in pencil by Jack Mitchell. This is a print that was published by a newspaper o...
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Pop Art 20th Century Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

NEW: Slim Aarons 'Safari Party at Romanoff's' Midcentury Modern Photography
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...
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Modern 20th Century Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Queen Elizabeth II, signed photograph, by Dorothy Wilding
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Queen Elizabeth II, portrait photograph by Dorothy Wilding. Bromide photograph. 1953. Laid onto board. Signed by the Queen below the photograph, dated 1953. Dorothy Wilding was th...
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English School 20th Century Photography

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Photographic Paper

Vintage Photo SIlver Gelatin Photograph President Jimmy Carter by Fred Mcdarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
Born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, Jimmy Carter was 39th president of the United States (1977-81) and served as the nation's chief executive during a time of serious proble...
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American Modern 20th Century Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Warhol and Basquiat, Black and White Photographic Portrait of Famous Artists
Located in New york, NY
Warhol and Basquiat, 1982 by Christopher Makos is an 8 x 10in vintage gelatin silver print on fiber paper of downtown New York celebrity artists Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The photograph is stamped (black ink) on verso (photo back). Provenance: Private Collector *** Artist’s Bio: Christopher Makos (1948- ) is an American photographer and visual artist. He studied architecture in Paris and was an apprentice to Man Ray. Andy Warhol was Makos' good friend and frequent portrait subject. His photographs of Andy Warhol have been exhibited in galleries and museums, including the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao,Tate Modern in London, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, IVAM in Valencia (Spain), Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, among others. Makos’ pictures have appeared in publications, including Paris Match and the Wall Street Journal. The visual artist is the author of numerous books, such as Warhol/Makos In Context (2007), Andy Warhol China...
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Contemporary 20th Century Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

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...
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Contemporary 20th Century Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Rapture (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Rapture (29 Palms, CA) - 2022 48x46cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival Print, based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 218829. Signature label and Certificate...
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Contemporary 20th Century Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper

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