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Period: Mid-20th Century
"Picasso Sitting", Photograph by Richard Ham 1945
By Richard Ham
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Richard Ham, American (1920 - )
Title: Picasso in Paris Studio - Picasso Sitting
Year: 1945, Printed in 2009
Medium: Gelatin Silver Print, signed and numbered in ink
Edition...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Alberto Giacometti in his studio in Paris 1963
Located in Cologne, DE
The photographer Wolfgang Kühn photographed Alberto Giacometti in November 1963 in his studio in Paris in the 14th arrondissement at the address rue Hippolyte-Maindron. The appointment was arranged by the gallery owner Aimé Maeght. 17 photographs were made. In 1990 copies of them were deposited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In 2010, the Center of International Sculpture of the Wilhelm...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Black and White
Terry O'Neill 'Paul McCartney at Ringo Starr’s Wedding'
Located in New York, NY
Paul McCartney at Ringo Starr’s Wedding, 1961
Silver gelatin print
40 x 30 inches
Estate signature stamped numbered edition of 50
Paul McCartney plays the piano at the Ringo Starr’s...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mick Jagger On Stage at Altamont, December
Located in Los Angeles, CA
24 x 20 in (60.9 x 50.8 cm)
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of 50
Price does not include tax.
Category
Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Stanley Twardowicz Venice Italy Gondola Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Black & white vintage photo of Venice Italy in 1952 by American Abstract Expressionism artist Stanley Twardowicz (1917-2008).
It depicts a reflection...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Anthony Perkins, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Memphis, TN
Anthony Perkins was the son of the distinguished Broadway actor Osgood Perkins. He won an Academy Award nomination in just his second film, Friendly Persuasion (1956). In 1960, he appeared as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Psycho, and from then on, Perkins was strongly identified with that one role. When photographed by Jack Robinson on May 21, 1968, Perkins had just made Pretty Poison playing a mentally disturbed man opposite Tuesday Weld. He was married to the photographer Berry Berenson...
Category
Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Billie Holiday Singing
Located in Austin, TX
This capture features Billie Holiday at Downbeat, New York, N.Y., circa June 1946
Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed "L...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Hats on the Beach, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Memphis, TN
"Hats on the Beach." This fashion photograph features two models playing checkers on the beach in coordinating swimsuits and monochrome hats. Robinson was a fr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Ted Williams 'John Coltrane playing the saxophone'
By Ted Williams
Located in New York, NY
Ted Williams
John Coltrane playing the saxophone
1960 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
30 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition 25
with certificate of authenticity
Ca...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Skiing In Vail, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A group of skiers stand in line waiting for the ski lift in Vail, Colorado, USA, 1964.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the ...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Lambda
Holiday Hair Check, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s urban portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Faith Gibbons checks her hair in the mirror of a motor scooter, Bermuda. She is wear...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Verbier Skier (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A blonde skier on the slopes at Verbier, February 1964.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) w...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Lambda
Person, Canyon, Utah, Black and White Photography, USA, 1960s, 16, 6 x 23, 4 cm
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 1950.
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 photogr...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Verbier Skiers, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Verbier Skiers, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
This mid-1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at Verbier....
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Lambda
Laszlo Willinger, "Katharine Hepburn", signed photograph
Located in Chatsworth, CA
A vintage photograph from the original negative, shot by Laszlo Willinger in 1940. It depicts American actress, Katharine Hepburn. Hepburn, a leadin...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Paris - Montmartre - Pigalle - Moulin Rouge
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Vintage Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 1950.
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...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Family Snapper (Babe Paley)'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Family Snapper, 1959
Premium Collection
Estate Stamped Edition to 150
Babe Paley (Mrs William Paley) by the pool. Her husband, William Paley is snapping the photographer at their cottage, Round Hill...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Lambda
Untitled from The RFK Funeral Train
By Paul Fusco
Located in New York, NY
Signed and edition photograph by Paul Fusco titled "Untitled from the RFK Funeral Train". Shot in 1968 and printed in 2008 - 2021 on fujiflex paper. The ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Color
Eiffel Tower, Street Photography, Black and White, France 1950s, 17, 7 x 13 cm
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 1950.
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 photogr...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Terry O'Neill 'The Beatles'
Located in New York, NY
Terry O'Neill
The Beatles, Backyard of Abbey Road Studios
1963 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
signed and numbered edition 47 of 50
with certificate of authenticity
Terry O'Nei...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
On the Sugarbush Slopes, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stockbroker A Albert Sack Jr playing backgammon with Betsy Pickering on a polar bear rug at his chalet at the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort in in Warren...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Lambda
Apres Ski, Squaw Valley (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A party of skiers adjourn for drinks at the bar on top of peak KT-22, Squaw Valley, California, 1961. Second from right is American lawyer and businessman Alexander Cochrane Cushing ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Lambda
Moth and Stump, Interglacial Forest, Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska
By Ansel Adams
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This vintage silver gelatin print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount, with image number "6" in the lower left corner. Portfolio Two stamp with print #6 and set #A in red c...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Verbier Skier, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Verbier Skier, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
This mid-1960s winter portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a b...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Lambda
Swimming In The Bahamas
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Brightly coloured swimmers in a pool in Nassau on the island of New Providence in the Bahamas, 1959.
40 x 60 inches
$3950
30 x 40 inches
$3350
20 x 30 inches
$3000
10 x 12 inches...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Lambda
George Hurrell, "James Cagney", original photograph from original negative
Located in Chatsworth, CA
An original black and white photograph from the original negative by George Hurrell, shot in 1938 and printed in 1979. This image depicts "Old Hollywood" actor, James Cagney...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Snorkelling In Malta, Estate Edition, Aerial Waterscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s aerial landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features group of people snorkelling off a small boat in Malta.
This is an estate stamped ...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Lambda
Untitled (Two Wrestlers), black and white 1960s male physique photography, queer
By Bob Mizer
Located in New York, NY
This black and white photograph by Bob Mizer is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
1964
Dated and numbered, verso
Vintage silver print
4.5 x 3.5 inches (11.4 x 8.9 cm), image
5 x...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Designer's Homes, Nico Stands with Dachshunds, Wears Dior, 1960
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Designers' Homes Nico Stands with Dachshunds, 1960 -- Nico, (born Christa Paffgen) was a popular fashion model and later lead singer of the The Velvet Underground. She was photograph...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Giclée
Slim Aarons 'Leisure In Antibes'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Leisure In Antibes
1969 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tows a ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
C Print
Chalet Costi, Zermatt, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Chalet Costi, Zermatt, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers outside the Ch...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Lambda
Elizabeth Taylor with Sunglasses for Giant - Oversize Limited Print
By Frank Worth
Located in London, GB
Elizabeth Taylor with Sunglasses for "Giant" 1955
by Frank Worth
This iconic and elegant portrait captured by celebrity photographer Frank Worth features actress Elizabeth Taylor o...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Historical Photo - Coruet Palace - Vintage photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Coruet Palace is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical album including histori...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bahamas Signpost, Estate Edition (Nassau, Rum Cay, Andros, Abaco, Bimini, Exuma)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A signpost in Nassau points the way to Rum Cay, Andros, Abaco, Grand Bahama, Bimini, Eleuthera, Exuma and the Current, May 1964.
Slim Aarons
Bahamas Signpost
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Printed Later
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
20 x 16 inches
$2500
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
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).
Internal: Rum Cay, Andros, Abaco, Grand Bahama, Bimini, Eleuthera, Exuma and the Current, vintage Bahamas...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Lambda
Ski Slope In St. Moritz, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers (bottom) on a slope in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
Co...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Lambda
Sun, shadows, buildings Koenigsplatz square Munich, Germany 1937, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been miss...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Black and White
Women entering spa resort at Cannstatt, Stuttgart Germany 1935, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Black and White
Pool At Carvoeiro, Estate Edition (the Algarve, Portugal)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' Pool at Carvoeiro, a newly available Estate Edition photograph, is a graphic image of holidaymakers round a pool in Carvoeiro, Portugal, July 1970.
Visual Description: Red, green and blue umbrellas around a turquoise pool, ringed by the white arced beach of Carvoeiro, Portugal.
Slim Aarons
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Printed Later
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
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).
Internal: vintage '70s portugal, vintage poolside, vintage swim...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Lambda
Old days Photo - The Tree - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old days Photo - The Tree is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including h...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
New England Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked 'Ski Instructors Only' in New Hampshire, 1955.
New England Skiing
Black and White Photography
Slim Aa...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Old days Photo - Mountain and Lake - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old days Photo - Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including h...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Audrey Hepburn in Givenchy dress at 'Villa Rolli"
Located in New York, NY
Ed. of 21, estate-stamped, posthumous print. Includes black frame.
Norman Parkinson was the preeminent fashion photographer in Great Britain from the late 1930s until his death in 1...
Category
Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
C Print
House "Malkasten" of artists society Duesseldorf, Germany 1937 Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Black and White
Old bridge over river Neckar at Heidelberg, Germany 1938, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Black and White
Bermuda Beach, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman running towards the ocean on a beach in Bermuda, 1957. The bather wears a vintage coral red swimsuit, which provides a pop of color against the sun-dappled turquoise waves. F...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Lambda
Lech Ice Bar, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A bartender mixes a drink for a customer at the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and sta...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons At The Von Pantzs
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Poolside At The Von Pantzs, 1967
Chromogenic Lambda Print
30 x 40 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity.
Bathers by th...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
C Print
El Venero 1967 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
El Venero 1967
El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Skiing Waitress, Vermont, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Ski 'bum' Alice Clement, a waitress and dishwasher at Stowe, Vermont when not on the slope...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Lambda
Ice Bar in Lech, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Customers at the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
C...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Lambda
Andy Warhol superstars Joe Dallesandro and Sylvia Miles in 'Heat'
Located in Senoia, GA
8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph of superstars Joe Dallesandro and Sylvia Miles in Andy Warhol's 'Heat', 1971 This is a print that was published ...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Penthouse Pool, Athens (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Penthouse Pool, 1961
Archival pigment print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Young women by the Canellopoulos pentho...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
C Print
Chalet Costi, Zermatt, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Chalet Costi, Zermatt, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers outside the Ch...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Zermatt Skiing' - Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Culinary Heights
1987 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Courchevel restaurant chefs Jean Jacob (left) of 'Le Bate...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons, Snowmass Village (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Snowmass Village, 1972
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Women in colourful hats at an apres ski party in Snowmass Village, in Pitkin County, Colorado, in March 1968.
...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Lambda
Untitled (East Side Series)
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original silver gelatin print from the 1960's by American social documentary photographer Milton Rogovin.
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Signed 1963 ROBERT INDIANA print (Robert Indiana prints)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Robert Indiana ERR 1963:
A rare, sought-after early Robert Indiana print defined by surreal, experimental cinematic-like energy. Hand-signed by Indiana on the lower right.
Medium: Photoengraving and etching on Rives BFK.
Dimensions: 4 1/2x6 inches (including margins).
Very good overall vintage condition.
Signed, dated and inscribed "Artist's Proof 'E'" and "CHI" in pencil, lower margin.
Rare Trial proof, aside from the main edition of 60.
Printed by the artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Further background:
According to Susan Sheehan, Indiana printed only six progressive trial proofs at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he learned printmaking from 1949 to 1952, under the supervision of Vera Berdich (inscribed "CHI"). Additionally 13 trial proofs were printed at the Pratt Graphic Art Center, New York (these inscribed "NYC"). The regular edition was printed by Atelier Georges Lablanc, Paris and published by Galleria Schwarz, Milan to be included in International Anthology of Contemporary Engraving: The International Avant-Garde: America Discovered, Volume 5. The plate used for this print was originally given to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago by the R.R. Donnelly Company, printers of Life magazine. Indiana discovered the plate while visiting Berdich at the school and decided to use it in his contribution to the Avant-garde portfolio. Sheehan 29.
Robert Indiana 1991:
"When I went back to the Art Institute of Chicago at that particular time - I think I was judging a show - I learned that Vera Berdich (Indiana's former teacher) was still there and the idea occurred to me, wouldn't it be fun to do a visiting artist etching, and she concurred. There on the floor was a box of copper plates and the images had been defaced on each one. These copper plates had been donated by the R.R. Donnelly Company, which put out Life magazine. I used to work for Donnelly. My only commercial art job was with them doing the little drawing that appear in the Yellow Pages, like lawnmowers and vacuum cleaners and things like that. Anyway, the idea being that the student was supposed to turn the plate over to use the back side and forget about the image on the front. But I found this image of this actress sitting on her bed with her ironing board and decided it was only very lightly defaced, so I asked if I could use it. And the word "Err" was actually added in New York; it was not in the first proofs in Chicago. Two weeks later, I was thumbing through LIFE magazine and there was this actress in the same page..."
About the artist:
Robert Indiana is best known for his iconic “LOVE” image, which has appeared across media including sculptures, prints, and paintings and epitomizes the artist’s graphic, predominantly text-based Pop art practice. Throughout his career, Indiana reimagined the aesthetics of American advertisements...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Black and White, Engraving, Etching, Photogravure, Lithograph, Screen
Swimmer and Sunbather (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
An underwater swimmer and a sunbather at Lake Tahoe, 1959. The line on the bottom of the pool marks the state line between Nevada and California.
Estate stamped and hand numbered ed...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Photography
Materials
Lambda
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