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Period: 1940s
Portrait of Mrs Gilles - Photograph by Renzo Cinti - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Mrs Gilles is a Photograph realized by Renzo Cinti in the 1940s.
Good condition included a cream-colored carboard passpartout (32x23 cm).
Hand-signed by the artist on t...
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Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Portrait of Mrs Gilles - Photograph by Renzo Cinti - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Mrs Gilles is a Photograph realized by Renzo Cinti in the 1940s.
Good condition included a cream-colored carboard passpartout (32x23 cm).
Hand-signed by the artist on t...
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Laszlo Willinger, "Crochet Top", original photograph from original negative
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original vintage photograph, from the original negative, shot by Laszlo Willinger in 1949. It depicts a young Marilyn Monroe wearing a crochet top. Hand signed by ...
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Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Bill Carroll/George Barris, "First and Last Diptych, " original photographs
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is comprised of two original photographs, from the original negatives, by George Barris and Bill Carroll, framed side by side. These photographs represent the first and l...
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Photorealist 1940s Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
William Carroll, "Norma Jeane #27, " original photograph, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original photograph from the original negative, shot by Bill Carroll in 1945 and printed at a later date. It depicts a young Marilyn Monroe (then known as Norma Jean...
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1940s Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Chaim Weizmann
By Lotte Jacobi
Located in Kansas City, MO
Lotte Jacobi
Chaim Weizmann
Photograph
Year: 1948
Size: 11.5x9.5in
Annotated by hand on verso in pencil
Ref.: 924802-1354
Lotte Jacobi (August 17, 1896 – May 6, 1990) was a leading American portrait photographer and photojournalist, known for her high-contrast black-and-white portrait photography, characterized by intimate, sometimes dramatic, sometimes idiosyncratic and often definitive humanist depictions of both ordinary people in the United States and Europe and some of the most important artists, thinkers and activists of the 20th century.
Jacobi's photographic style stressed informality, and sought to delve deeper into the traits of her subjects than traditional portraiture. She made a point of photographing subjects in their own environments, and talking to them while she worked. She explained the reasoning behind her approach this way:
"I just try and get people to talk, to relax, to be themselves. I don't like a passive, bored subject. I do portraits because I like people, and I want to bring out their personalities. Many photographers today, I think, are bringing out the worst part of people. I try and bring out the best."
Jacobi is perhaps best known for her "portrait of Albert Einstein (Princeton, 1938), whom she photographed candidly, seated at his desk, dishevelled and dressed in a leather jacket, a work that was refused by Life magazine for its simplicity." Other personality-driven portraits include "Eleanor Roosevelt sitting back, gesturing, and obviously speaking in midsentence; Marc Chagall depicted as a jovial family man; Thomas Mann appearing as thoughtful as his work; and more candid, gentle portraits of Einstein." Other celebrated subjects included poets W. H. Auden, Robert Frost...
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Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Laszlo Willinger, "Hedy Lamarr", original photograph
Located in Chatsworth, CA
An original vintage photograph, shot by Laszlo Willinger in the 1940's. It depicts Austrian-born American film actress, Hedy Lamarr. Lamarr was known for...
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Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Laszlo Willinger, Greer Garson, photograph
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original vintage photograph, shot by Laszlo Willinger in the 1940's. It depicts English actress Greer Garson, a major star at Metro-Goldw...
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Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
THE MOTHER OF US ALL
Located in Portland, ME
Thomson, Virgil (American, 1896-1989. THE MOTHER OF US ALL. Music Press, NY, 1947. Quarto, cloth, 157pp. The limited edition of 55 copies on special paper, signed on the colophon pag...
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1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Laszlo Willinger, "Sonja Henie", original photograph from original negative
Located in Chatsworth, CA
An original vintage photograph from the original negative, shot by Laszlo Willinger in 1943. It depicts Norwegian figure skater and film star, Sonja Henie...
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Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Children Playing Marbles, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
By Jack Delano
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on print verso.
Jack Delano, born Jacob Ovcharov, moved from his native Russian to New York in 1923, at the age of 9. He went on to study illustr...
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Laszlo Willinger, "Katharine Hepburn, " orig. photograph from orig.negative
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original photograph from the original negative taken by Laszlo Willinger circa 1940 and printed in 1989. It depicts the iconic actress Katharine Hepburn during the p...
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Photorealist 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Mrs Gilles - Photograph realized by Renzo Cinti - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Mrs Gilles is a Photograph realized by Renzo Cinti in 1940s.
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Mrs Gilles - Photograph Realized by Renzo Cinti - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Mrs Gilles is a Photograph realized by Renzo Cinti in 1940s.
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bill Carroll , Norma Jeane #15 (Marilyn Monroe), hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original photograph printed from the original camera negative, shot by Bill Carroll in 1945, and printed in 2010. This image depicts a young Norma Jeane at the begin...
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Other Art Style 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
William Carroll, "Norma Jeane #26, " original photograph, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original photograph from the original negative, shot by Bill Carroll in 1945 and printed at a later date. It depicts a young Marilyn Monroe (then known as Norma Jea...
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Norma Jeane #13
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original photograph printed from the original camera negative, shot by Bill Carroll in 1945, and printed in 2010. This image depicts a young Norma Jeane at the begin...
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Other Art Style 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Laszlo Willinger, "Mary Martin", original photograph from original negative
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original vintage photograph printed from the original negative, shot by Laszlo Willinger c. 1940's. It depicts the late movie and Broadway star, Mary Martin...
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Robert Montgomery
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original photograph from the original negative, shot by Laszlo Willinger c. 1940's and printed in the 1980's. It depicts the late American actor, producer, and director Robert...
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
William Carroll, "Norma Jeane #17", original photograph
Located in Chatsworth, CA
An original photograph printed from the original camera negative, shot by Bill Carroll in 1945, and printed in 2010. This image depicts a young Norma Jeane at the beginning of her ca...
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Other Art Style 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
Horse Auction Couple - Brooklyn
By Morris Engel
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on print verso.
Signed in ink on print margin
Category
Contemporary 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Pine Camp Military area near Watertown, NY, August by Jack Delano, 1941
By Jack Delano
Located in Denton, TX
The Pine Camp Military area near Watertown, NY, August by Jack Delano is a 13.38 x 17.75 inch silver gelatin print. This photograph features a group of children and adults surroundin...
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
King George 6th and Mother Queen - Vintage Photograph - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
King George 6th and Mother Queen is a photograph realized in the 1940s.
Good conditions.
The artwork is realized in a well-balanced composition.
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Mother Queen - Vintage Photograph - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Mother Queen is a photograph realized in the 1940s.
Good conditions.
The artwork is realized in a well-balanced composition.
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
War Cemetary - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
War Cemetery is a photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
War Cemetary - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
War Cemetary is a photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Big Shot Film - Humphrey Bogart and Irene Manning- Vintage Photo - 1942
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage b/w Photo.
A scene from the film "The Big Shot" with Humphrey Bogart and Irene Manning.
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Women at Work - Vintage Photograph About Women Rights - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Women at Work - Vintage Photograph About Women Rights is an original black and white photograph realized in 1940 by an anonymous photographer.
With the ...
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Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Marx Brothers
By Yousuf Karsh
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Karsh is a master 20th Century photographer. Karsh is known for his portraits of authors, scientists, artists, statesmen, musicians, and other dis...
Category
1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The American Actor Alan Ladd - Original Vintage Photograph - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The American Actor Alan Ladd.
Fair conditions, with some Damage.
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1940s Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
WENDELL WILLKIE STEPPING OUT OF A CAR
By Ben Greenhaus
Located in Portland, ME
Greenhaus, Ben (American, 1908-1951). WENDELL WILLKIE STEPPING OUT OF A CAR. Mounted gelatin silver photograph of Willkie, presumably during the campaign of 1940. c. 12 x 10 inches. ...
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1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marilyn in Jean (1945)
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Nice picture of Marilyn, while she was still called Norma Jean Baker.
By André de Dienes, the photographer who will reveal it in Hollywood.
Photo taken in 1945, Marilyn being barely...
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1940s Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
September Affair, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a crowd gathering to watch the actors Joan Fontaine and Joseph Cotten on the set of Willia...
Category
Realist 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
September Affair, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a crowd gathering to watch the actors Joan Fontaine and Joseph Cotten on the set of Willia...
Category
Realist 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
September Affair, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a crowd gathering to watch the actors Joan Fontaine and Joseph Cotten on the set of Willia...
Category
Realist 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Naumburg Bandshell, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s urban photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features couples dance to a live band performing at the Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park, New York Cit...
Category
Realist 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Naumburg Bandshell, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s urban photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features couples dance to a live band performing at the Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park, New York Cit...
Category
Realist 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Mother Brown by Clarence John Laughlin, 1945, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Denton, TX
Mother Brown by Clarence John Laughlin is a portrait of a nun leaning against a building outside. She is standing under an arch in the architecture, with her hands crossed while bein...
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Aristocrat (In Front of John Albok's Store)
By John Albok
Located in Denton, TX
Vintage gelatin silver print
Titled, dated and Estate stamp.
Born in Munkacs, Hungary, John Albok learned photography as a boy. He came to the U.S. in 1921 finding work almost immed...
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Four Kings of Hollywood, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A series of four shots of film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) enjoying a joke at...
Category
American Realist 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
September Affair, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features actress Joan Fontaine (1917 - 2003) and co-star Joseph Cotten (1905 - 1994) receive direction from William Dieterle (1893 - 1972), while filming, 'September Affair...
Category
American Realist 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
September Affair, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features actress Joan Fontaine (1917 - 2003) and co-star Joseph Cotten (1905 - 1994) receive direction from William Dieterle (1893 - 1972), while filming, 'September Affair...
Category
American Realist 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
September Affair, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features actress Joan Fontaine (1917 - 2003) and co-star Joseph Cotten (1905 - 1994) receive direction from William Dieterle (1893 - 1972), while filming, 'September Affair...
Category
American Realist 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
The King of Jazz, Louis Armstrong in 1940s Rome, Black and White Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1949: Photographers taking pictures of American jazz trumpeter and singer, Louis Armstrong (1901 - 1971) as he plays his trumpet in the Colosseum, Rome.
Slim Aarons
The King of Jazz...
Category
American Realist 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Black and White, Digital
Norma Shoulders, Henrietta, OK by John Stryker, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
By John Stryker
Located in Denton, TX
Norma Shoulders, Henrietta, OK by John Stryker is a 10 x 8 inch vintage silver gelatin print. This photograph is signed in ink on print recto, and titled in pencil on print verso.
John Stryker was born in Rockford, Illinois, September 1, 1883. He is most remembered for his body of photographs he took of the "Olympic of Western sport"*- the Rodeo. During his lifetime he crossed America, working rodeos as an announcer, a producer, promoter and sometimes a rider. He invented the chute that the animals come out of and he developed new ways of photographing action during an event.
Dramatic shots were taken from the ground, propping his camera on the toe of his right boot right next to a bucking bronco.
Some historians believe that John Stryker was directly responsible for the growth and sophistication of the sport.
His negatives are in the collection of the University of Texas at Permian Basin, Odessa. His photographs have been exhibited during his lifetime at the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming, and the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas. His photographs have been published widely including Life, Look, The Cattleman, The Western Horseman, and The Quarter Horse Journal. In 1977, The Rodeo of John Addison Stryker...
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (Russian Peasant Woman in Church)
By Robert Capa
Located in Denton, TX
"Cappa-Russia" in pencil on print verso.
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Junio Eskew, Houston Fat Stock Show
By John Stryker
Located in Denton, TX
Signed and titled.
Vintage gelatin silver print
Johm Stryker was born in Rockford, Illinois, September 1, 1883. He is most remembered for his body of photographs he took of the "Olympic of Western sport"*- the Rodeo. During his lifetime he crossed America, working rodeos as an announcer, a producer, promoter and sometimes a rider. He invented the chute that the animals come out of and he developed new ways of photographing action during an event.
Dramatic shots were taken from the ground, propping his camera on the toe of his right boot right next to a bucking bronco.
Some historians believe that John Stryker was directly responsible for the growth and sophistication of the sport.
His negatives are in the collection of the University of Texas at Permian Basin, Odessa. His photographs have been exhibited during his lifetime at the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming, and the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas. His photographs have been published widely including Life, Look, The Cattleman, The Western Horseman, and The Quarter Horse Journal. In 1977, The Rodeo of John Addison Stryker...
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (Woman in front of Wall of Hairstyles)
By Jack Delano
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 25
Gelatin silver print
Paper size: 14 x 11 in., Image size: 12 1/4 x 9 1/8 in.
Signed and numbered in pencil on print margin by Jack Delano
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mr. Everett Colborn of Dublin, Texas (mounted) and Flight Officer Gene Autry
By John Stryker
Located in Denton, TX
Signed and titled.
Vintage gelatin silver prints.
Johm Stryker was born in Rockford, Illinois, September 1, 1883. He is most remembered for his body of photographs he took of the "Olympic of Western sport"*- the Rodeo. During his lifetime he crossed America, working rodeos as an announcer, a producer, promoter and sometimes a rider. He invented the chute that the animals come out of and he developed new ways of photographing action during an event.
Dramatic shots were taken from the ground, propping his camera on the toe of his right boot right next to a bucking bronco.
Some historians believe that John Stryker was directly responsible for the growth and sophistication of the sport.
His negatives are in the collection of the University of Texas at Permian Basin, Odessa. His photographs have been exhibited during his lifetime at the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming, and the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas. His photographs have been published widely including Life, Look, The Cattleman, The Western Horseman, and The Quarter Horse Journal. In 1977, The Rodeo of John Addison Stryker...
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Portrait of Edward Weston
By Beaumont Newhall
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 125
Signed and dated in pencil on verso.
Photograph is from The New Mexico Portfolio published in 1976 by the Center of the Eye P...
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
New York (three kids with masks)
By Helen Levitt
Located in New York, NY
8 1/8 x 11 inch gelatin silver print, printed later. Titled and dated by the artist on verso as "N.Y. circa 1942."
Helen Levitt was a true master of the street, one whose poetic vis...
Category
1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Norma Jeane #11
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original photograph printed from the original camera negative, shot by Bill Carroll in 1945, and printed in 2010. This image depicts a young Norma Jeane at the begin...
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Other Art Style 1940s Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Norma Jeane #22
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original photograph printed from the original camera negative, shot by Bill Carroll in 1945, and printed in 2010. This image depicts a young Norma Jeane at the begin...
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Other Art Style 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Norma Jeane #23
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original photograph printed from the original camera negative, shot by Bill Carroll in 1945, and printed in 2010. This image depicts a young Norma Jeane at the begin...
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Other Art Style 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Laszlo Willinger, Lana Turner, original vintage photograph, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original vintage photograph from the original negative, shot by Laszlo Willinger in 1942, and printed at a later date. This photograph depicts American actress and pin-up model, Lana Turner...
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
William Carroll, "Norma Jeane #21", original photograph
Located in Chatsworth, CA
An original photograph printed from the original camera negative, shot by Bill Carroll in 1945, and printed in 2010. This image depicts a young Norma Jeane at the beginning of her ca...
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Other Art Style 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
American Farmer and his Wife, Connecticut
By Jack Delano
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on print verso.
Category
Modern 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ted Williams - Sarah Vaughan Chicago, IL, Photography 1948, Printed After
By Ted Williams
Located in Greenwich, CT
Estate-stamped, gelatin-print silver
A portrait of American jazz singer and Grammy Award winner, Sarah Vaughan in her dressing room at the Chicago theatre, IL, 1948.
Available size...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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