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Period: 1950s
Elvis Presley Graceland
Located in Austin, TX
Retro 1957 photograph depicting music's new sensation Elvis Presley posing for a photo outside of his new Memphis, Tennessee home, Graceland. This early portrayal was captured on Apr...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
James Deann At A Car Rally - Oversize Limited Print
By Frank Worth
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...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lucky Luciano, Sicily, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Sicilian-born American gangster Charles 'Lucky' Luciano (1897 - 1962) walking with friends...
Category
American Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
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
Beverly Hills Party, Los Angeles, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1954 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features American actors Lauren Bacall and Judy Garland attending a house party in Beverly Hills.
This i...
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Queen Elizabeth - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elizabeth - Vintage Photo realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Swan Dive (1956) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
Swan Dive (1956) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Alamy)
1st March 1956.
A man swan diving from the high diving boar...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Elizabeth Taylor in Frills, Portrait with Bare Shoulder, 1956
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Taylor in Frills, Portrait with Bare Shoulder -- Mark Shaw photographed Elizabeth Taylor for the October 15, 1956 cover of LIFE ...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Giclée
Frank Sinatra Hands in Cement Hollywood Blvd
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Awesome black and white capture by celebrity photographer Frank Worth of Frank Sinatra posed smiling while pressing his hands into the cement of Hollywood Boulevard, circa 1955.
Fr...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Alan Ladd Playing with Dog in Pool
By Bert Six
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white candid capture of Hollywood actor Alan Ladd smiling while playing with his dog by the pool, circa 1953.
Alan Ladd was an American actor and film producer. Ladd found...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Natalie Wood: Star of the '60's
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Great color capture of Natalie Wood in her younger years posed smiling on a swing.
Natalie Wood was an American actress who began her career in film as a child and successfully tra...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Frames Of Frank (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Frames Of Frank (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Murray Garrett)
circa 1955:
Contact sheet of American actor and singer Frank Sinatra singing in front of a music stan...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Billy Wilder and Marilyn Monroe "The Seven Year Itch"
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
This beautiful color image features Marilyn Monroe in her starring role for "Seven Year Itch".
The Seven Year Itch is a 1955 American romantic comedy film based on a 1952 three-ac...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Elizabeth Taylor on the Set of "Giant"
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
This stunning black and white image features actress Elizabeth Taylor posed outdoors while behind the scenes of the film "Giant"1955.
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor known as DBE wa...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Williamsburg, New York City, USA, Jewish Diaspora Street Photography 1950s
Located in New york, NY
Capturing the Jewish diaspora and the Hasidic community in Brooklyn, New York in the 1950s, this is subject matter which American photographer Leonard Freed from Brooklyn widely cov...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigme...
Grace Kelly, Prince Rainier, and Their Children in the Snow
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white candid capture of Prince Rainer, Grace Kelly, and their children playing in the snow in Switzerland, circa 1959.
What's included:
- Limited Edition Archival Print
- ...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Marilyn Monroe Standing with Photographer
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white candid portrait of Marilyn Monroe standing with photographer for promotional shots from the film "How to Marry a Millionaire".
Marilyn Monroe was an American actres...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Elizabeth Taylor Flipping with James Dean
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
An image of James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor dancing behind the scenes of the 1950s film "Giant".
Giant is a 1956 American epic Western drama film directed by George Stevens from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from Edna Ferber...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, La Jolla, San Diego.
This is an estate stamp...
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Happy Marilyn (1956) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Happy Marilyn (1956) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)
American film star Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962) outside her home at Englefield Green.
A...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Woman, Street Photography, Black and White, Italy, 1950s, 17.9 x 12.7 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 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Water Scene, Black and White Photography, Seattle Tubing Society
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
Seattle Tubing Society, 1953 by Burt Glinn is one of the photographer's iconic 1950s shots - this one of people relaxing in inner tubes on a pond. The zeitgeist of madcap and fun, th...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Norman Parkinson 'Montgomery Clift in New York, 1952'
Located in New York, NY
American actor Montgomery Clift photographed in New York for British Vogue, November 1952.
Montgomery Clift in New York, 1952
Silver gelatin print
Estate stamped and numbered editio...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Norman Parkinson 'Fiona Campbell-Walter for Vogue, July 1951'
Located in New York, NY
Fiona Campbell-Walter (later Baroness Thyssen) on an English beach wearing an Estrava coat with a raffia hat from Eaton. British Vogue, July 1951
Fiona Campbell-Walter for Vogue, Ju...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marilyn Monroe and Sammy Davis Jr in "How to Marry a Millionaire"
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
This exuberant shot of Sammy Davis Jr. entertaining Marilyn Monroe was taken on the backlot of 20th Century Fox where Marilyn was filming How to Marry a Millionairecirca 1953.
The ...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Groucho Marx - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Groucho Marx is a black and white photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Audrey Hepburn in Grey Turtleneck Sweater, Looking Up, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn, c25_44 -- It seems that Audrey Hepburn was beautiful at any angle Mark Shaw could find. Out take from the photo essay for LIFE, December 1953. Image size is 13.75" x ...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Giclée
Brigitte Bardot in Braids Crossed Ankles, 1958
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Brigitte Bardot Braids Crossed Ankles, 1958 -- Brigitte Bardot was photographed by Mark Shaw in 1958. Mark, who often predicted who would become stars, thought one of these images of...
Category
Modern 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Giclée
Katharine Hepburn, Hollywood Actress 1950s, Black and White Portrait Photography
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
Burt Glinn photographed the 1950s Hollywood actress and star Katharine Hepburn during the filming of Tennessee William's "Suddenly Last Summer." The iconic Hepburn is captured joking...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Cary Grant and Kim Novak
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white candid portrait of Kim Novak and Cary Grant dancing at an event in 1956.
Cary Grant was an English-American actor known for his mid-Atlantic accent, debonair demean...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Twiggy Posed in Doorway
Located in Austin, TX
This mod portrait features Twiggy posed full-length in a doorway, smiling with arms extended.
Twiggy is an English model, actress, and singer widely known by the nickname Twiggy. Sh...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sal Mineo in Santa Monica
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white portrait of Rebel Without a Cause actor (alongside James Dean), Sal Mineo. Taken on Santa Monica beach by renowned photographer, Frank Worth in 1956.
This listing is...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Marilyn Monroe in the Sunshine
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Frank Worth was on the set of "How to Marry a Millionaire" when he took this classic shot of Marilyn Monroe leaning against a new Singer SM 1500C Roadster. A candid capture of Marily...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Seaplane At Palm Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Patsy Pulitzer (nee Patsy Bartlett) leaning against a seaplane belonging to the Everglades Flying Service, at Palm Beach, Florida.
Slim Aarons
Seaplane At Palm Beach...
Category
American Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
James Dean as Jett Rink in "Giant"
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
James Dean posed leaning with his hand on a fence post while filming a scene for "Giant", 1955.
Giant was the last of James Dean's three films as a leading actor, and earned him his second and last Academy Award nomination – he was killed in a car crash before the film was released. Nick Adams was called in to do some voice dubbing for Dean's role in "Giant". After his death in a car crash, Dean became the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and remains the only actor to have had two posthumous acting nominations. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him the 18th best male movie star of Golden Age Hollywood in AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Frank Sinatra and Lauren Bacall at Villa Capri
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Frank Sinatra and Lauren Bacall smiling while having a meal at a cafe, 1957.
Frank Sinatra was an American singer and actor. Nicknamed the "Chairman of the Board" and later called...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Marilyn Monroe Smiling for Paparazzi Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white candid capture of starlet Marilyn Monroe smiling for gathering paparazzi.
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Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Backgammon By The Pool, Palm Beach, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary-Beth Turner playing backgammon by a ...
Category
American Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
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
Marilyn Monroe at a Dinner Event
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white portrait of blonde bombshell actress Marilyn Monroe seated at a dinner event.
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comedic "...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Modelling For Saks Fifth Avenue, 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 young woman modelling for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot.
This is an estate stamped a...
Category
American Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Modelling For Saks Fifth Avenue, 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 young woman modelling for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot.
This is an estate stamped a...
Category
American Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Modelling For Saks Fifth Avenue, 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 young woman modelling for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot.
This is an estate stamped a...
Category
American Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Modelling For Saks Fifth Avenue, 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 young woman modelling for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot.
This is an estate stamped a...
Category
American Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Modelling For Saks Fifth Avenue, 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 young woman modelling for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot.
This is an estate stamped a...
Category
American Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Modelling For Saks Fifth Avenue, 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 young woman modelling for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot.
This is an estate stamped a...
Category
American Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Lido Life, Venice, 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 group of friends squeeze onto an inflatable raft at the Venice Lido, Venice, Italy.
This...
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Lido Life, Venice, 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 group of friends squeeze onto an inflatable raft at the Venice Lido, Venice, Italy.
This...
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Lido Life, Venice, 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 group of friends squeeze onto an inflatable raft at the Venice Lido, Venice, Italy.
This...
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Jim Kimberly, California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Jim Kimberly and Kim Wadsworth at the Beverly Hills Hotel, California.
This is an estate ...
Category
Realist 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Lucille Ball in Pearls
Located in Austin, TX
This stunning studio portrait features starlet Lucille Ball posed wearing a gorgeous pearl necklace set around her neck.
Lucille Ball was an American actress, comedian, model, ente...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Elvis Presley: The Wink
By Lloyd Dinkins
Located in Austin, TX
Vintage candid image of The King, Elvis Presley photographed early in his career in 1956 in Memphis Tennessee by Lloyd Dinkins.
Elvis Aaron Presley, also known simply as Elvis, was...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Marilyn Monroe in Deckchair
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
This unique colored portrait features actress Marilyn Monroe sitting with a huge smile in a deckchair. This image was captured by celebrity photographer Frank Worth in Los Angeles, 1...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Grace Kelly and Oleg Cassini at the Premiere of Rear Window
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white vintage photograph of Oleg Cassini and Grace Kelly at the premiere of Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" in 1954.
This listing is for a limited edition archival print...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
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
Alfred Hithcock with Dog
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white candid capture of famed director Alfred Hitchcock walking his dog.
Alfred Hitchcock was an English film director. He is widely regarded as one of the most influentia...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
James Dean Hunting in "Giant"
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white capture of star actor James Dean climbing on a Windmill in a coat with a shotgun, hunting for his role in "Giant".
Giant is a 1956 American epic Western drama film d...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Kirk Douglas and Dan Dailey
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white portrait of Kirk Douglas and Dan Dailey singing and playing instruments on couch, circa 1958.
Kirk Douglas was an American actor and filmmaker.Douglas developed int...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
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