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Period: Mid-20th Century
James Dean and Ursula Andress at Oscar Dinner
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Great candid capture by celebrity photographer Frank Worth of Hollywood stars Ursula Andress and James Dean at the Oscars dinner.
James Dean was an American actor. He is remembere...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Janis Joplin Drinking Backstage
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white portrait of musician and singer Janis Joplin smiling and holding up a glass backstage.
Janis Joplin was an American singer and songwriter. One of the most iconic and...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Hugh Hefner, Black and White Photograph of Playboy Magazine Founder and Editor
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
By American photographer Burt Glinn a black-and-white 14" x 11" photograph on fiber paper (gelatin silver print) of Editor-in-chief Hugh Hefner who wrote for the magazine he founded,...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Raquel Welch Reclining on Sailboat
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white action shot of Raquel Welch posed reclining on a sailboat in a white bikini.
Raquel Welch was an American actress. Welch first gained attention for her role in Fanta...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Marilyn Monroe with Tommy Retting Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
River of No Return is a 1954 American Western musical film directed by Otto Preminger and starring Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe. The screenplay by Frank Fenton is based on a sto...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
James Dean Behind Fence in "Giant"
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
James Dean posed sated behind a barbed wire fence for his role in the film 'Giant', 1955.
James Byron Dean was an American actor remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusio...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Fred Astaire - Vintage Photo - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo, realized in 1868.
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ginger Baker 1968
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Barrie Wentzell
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jayne Mansfield: Modern Pinup
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
This beautiful modern pinup features the lovely Jayne Mansfield posed on barstools with modern art on the walls.
Jayne Mansfield was an American film, theater, and television actre...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
'Snowmass Picnic' Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snowmass Picnic (1967) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
A stand-up fondue picnic for fashionable skiers at Snowmass-at-Aspen, Colorado which has more than fifty mile...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, C Print
The Rolling Stones "Smokey Stones On Grass" London 1968
Located in Austin, TX
“Swarkestone Contact Sheet” by Michael Joesph from the famous photo shoot of The Rolling Stones for their Beggars Banquet album at Sarum Chase mansion, Hampstead, London, 1968. Featu...
Category
Photorealist Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
The Royal Family Visits the Vatican - Vintage Photograph - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Royal Visit to the Vatican is a black and white vintage photo, realized in April 1959.
The photo depicts an official moment of the English Crown. The Queen Mother Elizabeth, the Pr...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Elizabeth Taylor in Window Light
Located in Austin, TX
This black and white portrait features actress Elizabeth Taylor in full costume, posed elegantly in window light.
Elizabeth Taylor was a British-American actress, businesswoman, and...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Acrobats - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Acrobats is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1950s.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments, places, f...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Union Jack Trunks (1969) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Michael Webb
Located in London, GB
Union Jack Trunks (1969) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Michael Webb/Getty Images)
Two models in Union Jack swimwear posing in Trafalgar Square to promote tourism to Gibral...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Vintage Portrait of Anna Magnani - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Portrait of Anna Magnani is a vintage b/w photographic print on single-coated paper, realized in the 1960s
Good conditions.
Anna Magn...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Twiggy – at David Steen’s Home, Surrey, 1967 Limited Estate Print
By David Steen
Located in London, GB
Twiggy – at David Steen’s Home, Surrey,
Lesley Lawson (born 19 September 1949) is an English model, actress, and singer widely known by the nickname Twiggy. She was a British cultu...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
New York City, Harlem, 1960s, Photograph of African-American Body Builder
Located in New york, NY
The image of a body builder from the 1960s captures African-American life in Harlem in the 1960s. Mr. Harlem, 1963 by Leonard Freed, is from the photographer's book Black in White Am...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Charlotte Rampling (1966)
Located in London, GB
Charlotte Rampling (1966)
(Photo By Phillip Harrington)
7th September 1966
Charlotte Rampling and Joanna Pettit, gambling at The Pair of Shoes, a...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Sherwood Forrester (Above) and Jerry Stevens (Below)
Located in New York, NY
Vintage silver print
Western Photography Guild studio stamp in purple ink, verso
Stamped "Wrestling Poses" and numbered "Series 37 No. 5" in purpl...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Mussolini in Libya - Vintage Photo - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
Mussolini in Libya is a b/w photographic print on glazed paper. Stamp of agency Trampus, Paris and cliché applied on the back, realized on 20 Mars of 1937.
Very good general conditi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Paul Newman and Robert Redford, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Lawrence Schiller. “Paul Newman and Robert Redford, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” is a vintage silver gelatin photograph in black and white by American artist L...
Category
Post-War Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Light and Shadow, Gina Lollobrigida
By Armando Pietrangeli
Located in Austin, TX
The beautiful Gina Lollobrigida is captured here dramatically in this striking 1960's photograph by noted Italian fashion photographer, Armando Pietrangeli.
Gina Lollobrigida is an...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
King Bhumibol And Queen Sirikit Of Thailand - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
King Bhumibol And Queen Sirikit Of Thailand Vintage Photo is a black-and-white photograph, representing a photo of Official Travel In France, realized in...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Frank Sinatra in Portland
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning capture of the famous jazz singer and musician Frank Sinatra while in Portland, 1957. This portrait features the star sitting on a bench on a dock, leaning back.
Frank Sina...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Marilyn Monroe as Roberta in Love Nest Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Love Nest is a 1951 American comedy-drama film directed by Joseph Newman, and starring June Haver, William Lundigan, Frank Fay and Marilyn Monroe.
The post-World War II comedy featu...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Hippiemobile (1968) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Brian Duffy
Located in London, GB
Throbbing Gristle In Culver City (1981) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Brian Duff/Daily Express/Express/Getty Images)
circa 1968:
Young m...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Bond Girls (1968) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Larry Ellis
Located in London, GB
Bond Girls (1968) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Alfred Hind Robinson/Getty Images Archive)
Australian actor George Lazenby poses with several of his female co-stars whilst filming the new James Bond film 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' in the Swiss Alps, 22nd October 1968. From left to right, the actresses are (at the back) Helena Ronee, Zaheera, Catherina von Schell, (sitting) Anouska Hempel...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Guatemala, Cathedral, Black and White Photography, ca. 1960s 24 x 24, 2 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, and the USSR in the 1960s.In the invitation to an exhibition of her works in 2003, one reads:
"Hanna Seidel, observing the world through her camera lens, could capture everyday situtations in a unique manner."A touring exhibition containing 100 selected photographs entitled "From Rio Grande to Cape Horn" was organised by the Commerzbank and Lufthansa in 1965 and had its opening in the Cologne branch of the bank, Unter Sachsenhausen. At the time, the press described the works as being of "enchanting beauty and dignity."The exhibition of 1965 was curated by Hanna Seidel. Vintageprints offered for collectors come from this selection, each work is unique and exists only once, created as a unique print for the exhibition.
Title: Guatemala, Cathedral, Black and White Photography, ca. 1960s 24 x 24,2 cm
Keywords: Hanna Seidel, Landscape, church...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
'Skiing Starters' Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing - 'Skiing Starters' (1955) - Limited Edition Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo By Slim Aarons/Getty Images Archive)
A young skier prefers to ca...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Photo of Temple of S.Croce - Florence - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Photo of Temple of S.Croce - Florence is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Good conditions.
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Marietine Birnie, Malta, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Marietine Birnie snorkeling at the Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comina), Malta.
This is an estat...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Marietine Birnie, Malta, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Marietine Birnie snorkeling at the Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comina), Malta.
This is an estat...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Portrait of Sean Connery with Hand Signature - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Sean Connery is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1990s.
Hand signed by the author.
Good conditions.
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
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 Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Sophia Loren - Oversize Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
Sophia Loren - Oversize Silver Gelatin Print
Absolutely Exquisite HUGE 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size silver gelatin print.
Unframed.
Produced on authentic silver gelat...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Italian Actress Lauretta Masiero - Vintage photo - 1966
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
MICHAEL CAINE PORTRAIT 1964 - signed
By Brian Duffy
Located in London, GB
MICHAEL CAINE PORTRAIT 1964
MICHAEL CAINE – 1964
signed limited edition of 15 only.
silver gelatin
This Michael Caine Portrait by Duffy was taken in 1964, the same year that the f...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Norman Parkinson 'Twiggy, British Vogue, 1967'
Located in New York, NY
Twiggy, British Vogue, 1967.
Twiggy, British Vogue, 1967
Silver gelatin print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
with certificate of authenticity
Norman Parkinson (...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Playful Elizabeth Taylor
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
This black and white action shot features the beautiful Elizabeth Taylor spinning on a grass lawn smiling as her skirt lifts in the air.
Elizabeth Taylor was an English-American ac...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
The Rolling Stones "Swarkestone Contact Sheet" Beggars Banquet
Located in Austin, TX
“Swarkestone Contact Sheet” by Michael Joesph from the famous photo shoot of The Rolling Stones for their Beggars Banquet album at Sarum Chase mansion, Hampstead, London, 1968. Featu...
Category
Photorealist Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Kaiser Deluxe (1949)
Located in London, GB
Kaiser Deluxe (1956)
(Photo By Phillip Harrington)
1949
Kaiser Deluxe automobile.
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Size: 16x20''
Printed Later
About the Image:
Kaiser Permanente is an American integrated managed care consortium, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield.
NOTE OTHER SIZES OF THIS IMAGE AVAILABLE
10 x 12''
12 x 16''
16 x 20''
20 x 24''
20 x 30''
30 x 40''
FRAMING AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
About the Artist:
Phillip A. Harrington was born in 1920 and grew up in Holland, Michigan. He developed an interest in photography at an early age, joining the high school camera club at 16. At the age of 19, Harrington moved to New York City to study at the Clarence. H. White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Frida Kahlo in Coyoacán, Mexico. Black and white Portrait photograph
By Leo Matiz
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Matiz managed to create intimate portraits, in which Frida seemed happy to surrender to her lens. The result was dynamic portraits of Khalo, a wonderful example of both the photograp...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Digital Pigment
Ron Brouillette, Mulholland Drive
By Mel Roberts
Located in New York, NY
Ron Brouillette, Mulholland Drive
1966/2001
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, recto
Cibachrome print (Edition of 50)
24 x 20 inches, sheet
18 x ...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Rue Mouffetard, Paris. Triptych. Portraits. Black and White. Photographs
By Uwe Ommer
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Rue Mouffetard Triptych by Uwe Ommer
Overall size: 17.71 in. H x 39.37 in. W
Edition 6 ex + 5AP
Unframed
Printed later
1964, Uwe Ommer, a young 20-year-old photographer who recen...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Angela Lansbury as "Mame" on Broadway, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Angela Lansbury in full costume and makeup as "Mame" on Broadway, 1966. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the pr...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Stefania Sandrelli In Pose- Photo - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
In Pose is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1990s.
Good conditions.
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Visiting Disneyland Anaheim 1962
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
This black-and-white photograph offers a stunning view of Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle, taken during the 1960s. The castle is perched atop a rocky outcrop, towering over the s...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Norman Parkinson 'Paris Drama, Jean Patchett wearing Balenciaga, Vogue 1950'
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson captures Paris Drama, Jean Patchett wearing Balenciaga, Vogue Magazine, 1950
Jean Patchett wearing Balenciaga, Vogue, 1950
C print
Estate stamped and numbered editi...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
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 Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Zion National Park, 1968
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
This black-and-white photograph captures a stunning view from the Observation Point in Zion National Park, Utah, taken in 1968. The image showcases the d...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Checkered Flag - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Checkered Flag
The checkered flag signals the end of the race during the 1963 Nassau Speed Week.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size
Estate S...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
National Museum of Rome-Faun - Vintage Photograph - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
National Museum of Rome-Faun is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
It belongs to a historical album including historical moments, royal families, an...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
General of the French Army Algeria- Historical Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
General of the French Army Algeria is a black and white vintage photograph realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical events and p...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Capture of Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis candid and laughing.
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, and model. Famous for playing comedic "blonde bombshell" characters, ...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Abstract Minimalist painter Charles Hinman, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Abstract Minimalist painter Charles Hinman posing with his recent work in 1967. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes direct...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable, and Marilyn Monroe: "How to Marry a Millionaire"
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Lauren BacallBetty Grable & Marilyn Monroe behind the scenes of "How to Marry a Millionaire".
How to Marry a Millionaire is a 1953 American romantic comedy film directed by Jean Ne...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Jack Lemmon and Felicia Farr - Vintage Photograph - 1962
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The American actor Jack Lemmon and his wife Felicia Farr.
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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