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Period: 1950s
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Norman Parkinson 'Beauty Basics'
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Beauty Basics
1950
Silver gelatin print
60 x 40 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
British ballerina Mary Drage, member of the Royal Ballet,...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Autographed Portrait of Marianne Koch- Vintage b/w Postcard - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
This black ink Autograph by Marianne Koch is reported on this b/w postcard reproducing a beautiful photographic portrait of the German actress. Photo realized around 1960s.
This postcard is in excellent condition.
Marianne Koch (Munich,1931)
German actress of the 1950s and 1960s, best-known for her appearances in Spaghetti Westerns and adventure films of the 1960s. She appeared in more than 65 films, Koch had numerous leading roles in the German cinema of the middle century...
Category
1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
The Hotel Excelsior, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman holding her skis in North Conway, New Hampshire.
This is an estate stamped and han...
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Autographed Portrait of Ernst Deutsch - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed Portrait of Ernst Deutsch is a b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the Austrian-German film actor, Ernst Deutsch (1890 – 1969).Around the 1960's.
Photo: Jose Buhs, Berlin.
With the additional value of his blue ink autograph on the lower margin at the center, this autographed postcard is in perfect condition and absolutely to collect for the German cinema connaisseurs!
Ernst Deutsch, also known as Ernest Dorian (Prague, 1890 – Berlin, 1969)
The Jewish Austrian actor, Ernst Deutsch was protagonist in 1916 in the world première of Walter Hasenclever's Expressionist play The Son in Dresden was praised.Deutsch also played the antihero Famulus in Paul Wegener...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
M. Mastroianni and J. Sassard - Vintage Photography - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni and Jacqueline Sassard in a scene from the movie "Tutti innamorati" by Giuseppe Orlandini.
Lightly damaged.
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Jean-Pierre Aumont - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Jean-Pierre Aumont - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Fred Buscaglione by Giancolombo - Vintage b/w Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Fred Buscaglione by Giancolombo is a vintage photographic print on single-coated paper
Photograph by famous Gian Battista Colombo (Giancolombo), realized in the late '50s.
Artist's ink stamp, original clichè and pen note on the back.
Slight folds on front and a spot on the higher edge that do not compromize image beauty.
Dim: cm 27 x 21
In the picture a beautiful and characteristic portrait of the famous musician...
Category
1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Greeting of Duke of Edinburgh - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Greeting of Duke of Edinburgh - vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized by Associated Press photo.
With the stamp of ...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Autograph portrait of Inge Egger - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed Portrait of Inge Egger is a b/w postcard reproducing the portrait of the Austrian stage, television and film actoress, Inge Egger (Linz, Austria, 1923 – Berlin, Germany, ...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Film Still from Lassie
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white film still from the film "Lassie".
Lassie is an American television series that follows the adventures of a female Rough Collie dog named Lassie and her companions, ...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Autographed Portrait of young Charlton Heston - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed Portrait of young Charlton Heston is a b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the famous American actor, Charlton Heston (Wilmette 1923 – Beverly Hills, 20...
Category
1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Autographed Portrait of Tony Curtis - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed portrait of Tony Curtis is a b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the Famous American film and television actor, Tony Curtis (...
Category
1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Autographed Portrait of Lonny Kellner - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Lonny Kellner's Memorabilia is a b/w photographic portrait of the beautiful and talented German actress and singer, Lonny Kellner (Reimscheid, 8 March 1930 – Hamburg, 22 January 2003...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Autographed Portrait of Ruth Leuwerik - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed Portrait of Ruth Leüwerik is a b/w postcard reproducing a beautiful photographic portrait of the German actress, Ruth Leuwerik, with the a...
Category
1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Autographed Postcard by Gerhard Riedmann - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
This is a Autographed Postcard Signed by Gerhard Riedmann.
A beautiful b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the Austrian film actor, Gerhard Riedmann (Vienna, 1925 ...
Category
1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Autographed Portrait of Eva Probst - Original b/w Postcard - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed Portrait of Eva Probst is a beautiful b/w photographic portrait of the German actress, with the added value of a blue ink autograph on the lower margin at the center.
Po...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Autographed Portrait of Agnes Fink - Original b/w Postcard Portrait - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Agnes Fink's Memorabilia is a b/w photographic portrait of the German actress, with the additional value of her black ink autograph on the lower margin.
Around the 1950s.
Excellent condition, collect this item only for lovers of the German cinema!
Agnes Fink (Frankfurt am Main, 1919 - Munich, 1994)
The German naturalized Swiss actress, Agnes Fink was active in the theater, film and - above all - television. In her forty-year career, she participated in about fifty productions, including cinema and television. Her leading roles include, among others, those in the TV films Maria Stuart...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Autograph Portrait of Gus Backus - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed Portrait of Gus Backus is a b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the American singer and actor, Donald Edgar "Gus" Backus (Long Island, NY, 1937 – Germer...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Autograph Portrait of Doris Kirchner - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Doris Kirchner's Memorabilia is a b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the Austrian stage, film and television actress, Doris Kirchner (born in Grosz, Austria, 3 May...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Autographed Portrait of Oskar Sima - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1956
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed Portrait of Oskar Sima a is a b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the Austrian actor during the filming of "Rosemarie kommt aus Wildwest" (1956).
With ...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Autographed Portrait of Mady Rahl - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed portrait of Mady Rahl is a b/w photographic portrait of the German actress, with the added value of a blue ink autograph on the lower margin.
Around 1950s.
Postcard in ...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Autograph Portrait of Margit Nünke - Original b/w Postcard - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Autograph Portrait of Margit Nünke is a beautiful b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of Margit Nünke (Stettin,1930– Munich 2015), the German beauty pageant winner (19...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Autographed portrait of Eva Schreiber - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1958
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed Portrait of Eva Schreiber is a b/w photographic portrait of the German actress, with the additional value of a red ink autograph on the lower margin.
Postcard represent...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Autographed Portrait of Martin Benrath - Vintage b/w Postcard -1959
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed Portrait of Martin Benrath is a b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the German actor Martin Benrath (Berlin, 1926 – Bavaria, 2000), during the filming o...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Autographed Portrait of Gerlinde Locker - Original b/w Postcard - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Gerlinde Locker's Memorabilia is a beautiful b/w postcard, reproducing a photographic portrait of Gerlinde Locker (born April 28, 1938 in Linz, Austria) , the Austrian actress, activ...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Elvis Presley in Jailhouse Rock - Vintage b/w Photo - 1957
Located in Roma, IT
Elvis Presley in Jailhouse Rock is a vintage photographic print on single-coated paper.
Photograph is an official picture from the set of 1957 MGM's fi...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Capucine (Slim Aarons estate edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Capucine, 1957
Fiber print
30 x 20 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Hotel Sports 1958 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Sports
Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes.
Slim Aarons Chromogenic C print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Produced utilising the o...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Milton Greene, "05" from The Pekingese Dog Sitting
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is a pigment print from the original negative, shot by Milton Greene in 1955. This photograph of Marilyn Monroe is from a photoshoot which became known as "The Pekingese D...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Capucine 1957
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Capucine
French actress Capucine, (Germaine Lefebvre) (1933 – 1990) fanning herself at a New Years Eve party held at Romanoffs in Beverly Hills.
(Photo b...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons, Esther Williams, Poolside (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swimmer and movie star Esther Williams by the pool in Florida, 1955.
Slim Aarons
Esther Williams
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
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.
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: Slim Aarons, Esther Williams, midcentury modern, Vintage Esther Williams, Vintage Poolside Series, Vintage Movie Stars, Vintage Swimmers...
Category
American Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Prado Visitors, Madrid, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features visitors at the The Prado Museum (Museo Nacional del Prado) viewing Diego Velázquez's maste...
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
The St. Regis, New York, Estate Edition, Event Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s event photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an aerial view of diners at the St. Regis, New York.
This is an estate stamped and hand numbe...
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
The St. Regis, New York, Estate Edition, Event Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s event photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an aerial view of diners at the St. Regis, New York.
This is an estate stamped and hand numbe...
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
The Hotel Excelsior, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman holding her skis in North Conway, New Hampshire.
This is an estate stamped and han...
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
The St. Regis, New York, Estate Edition, Event Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s event photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an aerial view of diners at the St. Regis, New York.
This is an estate stamped and hand numbe...
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
The St. Regis, New York, Estate Edition, Event Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s event photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an aerial view of diners at the St. Regis, New York.
This is an estate stamped and hand numbe...
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Prado Visitors, Madrid, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features visitors at the The Prado Museum (Museo Nacional del Prado) viewing Diego Velázquez's maste...
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Junior Skier 1955 New England Skiing - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Junior Skier (New England Skiing) - Oversize
A freckled member of the Junior Skiing Program in North Conway, New Hampshire, 1955.
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Parrot Jungle, Miami, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1955 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a family day out at the Parrot Jungle amusement park near Miami.
This is an estate stamped and...
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Sammy Davis Jr. Singing Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white capture of Rat Pack member and legendary jazz singer Sammy Davis Jr. singing at a nightclub.
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One-of-a-kind original vintage press print from the Celebrity Vault a...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Marilyn Monroe in We're Not Married Screen Test Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white capture of actress Marilyn Monroe posed in a screen test for her role as Anabell in "We're Not Married", circa 1952.
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One-of-a-kind original vintage press print f...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Young Marilyn Vintage Press Print
By Frank Powolny
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white capture of a young Marilyn Monroe posed in a ruffled dress circa 1951.
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One-of-a-kind original vintage press print from the Celebrity Vault archives. Own a piece o...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Marilyn Monroe 1953
Located in CANNES, FR
Ektachrome vintage . 1953 . 20x15cm
Marilyn Monroe .
Category
1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
North Conway, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman holding her skis in North Conway, New Hampshire.
This is an estate stamped and han...
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Hotel Sports 1958 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Hotel Sports - Oversize
Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes.
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Chromogenic print
paper size 30 x 20"...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Norman Parkinson 'Audrey Hepburn with Flowers'
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Audrey Hepburn with Flowers
1955
40 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and numbered on verso
Norman Parkinson, born in 1913 and passing in 1990, was an icon in the realm ...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
In the Blazing Sun at George Airfield
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
In the Blazing Sun at George Airfield
1951
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
British fashion model Wenda Parkinson wearing a grey gabardine...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Hotel Sports 1958 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Hotel Sports - Oversize
Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes.
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Chromogenic print
paper size 30 x 20"...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Marilyn Monroe Speaking in Microphone Outdoors Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white capture of actress Marilyn Monroe smiling and speaking into a microphone at an outdoors event.
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One-of-a-kind original vintage press print from the Celebrity Vault...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Norman Parkinson 'Audrey Hepburn with Flowers'
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Audrey Hepburn with Flowers
1955
60 x 40 inches
Estate stamped and numbered on verso
Norman Parkinson, born in 1913 and passing in 1990, was an icon in the realm o...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Prado Visitors, Madrid, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features visitors at the The Prado Museum (Museo Nacional del Prado) viewing Diego Velázquez's maste...
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Dubonnet Dinner, French Riviera, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a formal dinner organised by Dubonnet on the French Riviera.
This is an estate stamped a...
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Marilyn Monroe Screen Test for "We're Not Married" Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white film still of Marilyn Monroe posed in a screen test for her role as Annabel in "We're Not Married".
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One-of-a-kind original vintage press print from the Celebrity ...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Audrey Hepburn Portrait on Set of Sabrina, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn, c19_27 -- Audrey Hepburn, ready in make-up and costume to play the title role in Paramount's Sabrina Fair. This shot is an out take from the photo essay in the December 7, 1953 issue of LIFE. Image size is 13.75" x 20" (for 17" x 22" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper. Each print is Estate stamped on the back and signed and numbered by David Shaw...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Giclée
Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer: Looking Down
Located in Austin, TX
Audrey Hepburn and Husband Mel Ferrer Looking Down a Spiral Staircase, circa 1956.
Hepburn had a successful career in Hollywood and was recognised as a film and fashion icon, she wa...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Zao Wou Ki Portrait with Nude Painting, Circa 1950
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Zao Wou Ki Portrait with Nude Painting, circa 1950 -- A rare portrait of Zao Wou Ki taken by Mark Shaw for Art News circa 1950. Image size is 13.75" x 20" (for 17" x 22" paper size)....
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Giclée
Coco Chanel Shrugs, 1957
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Coco Chanel Shrugs, 1957 -- Photographed for Life in 1957, Coco Chanel is seen "in her 30 million franc ($85,000) necklace and two year old suit…" Mark Sh...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Giclée
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