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Style: American Modern
Man and Woman
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print
Signed in pencil, verso
12.25 x 10 inches, sheet
6.25 x 6.25 inches, image
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Throughout his care...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Donna Fabrizia Lanza, 1984 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced t...
Category
20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
Madonna
Located in New York, NY
From a portfolio of ten gelatin silver prints from original Meatyard negatives (1959-71)
Printed April 1974
Edition of 130
Credit stamp, verso
6.5 x 7 inches, image
15 x 12 inches, mount
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
“Madelyn Meatyard was an indulgent model. The role her husband usually chose for her was that of mother, posing with one or more of her three children. Here, he stations her before an arched window. The pious atmosphere created by this framing is contradicted by Madelyn’s everyday dress and by the dilapidated Venetian blinds behind her. Unlike a traditional religious icon, this Madonna gazes sternly into space, while her small child stands facing the maternal loins from which she sprang. Many photographers prior to Meatyard—such as Alfred Stieglitz, Edwards Weston and Harry Callahan—had produced series based on their beguiling wives.”
—Judith Keller, Ralph Eugene Meatyard (London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2002), pp. 86-87
An optician by trade, Ralph Eugene Meatyard was a self-described “dedicated amateur” photographer. He pursued his own vision to produce an exquisitely enigmatic, widely admired body of work. Meatyard began taking photographs in 1950, roaming the backwoods and towns in Kentucky, experimenting with framing, multiple exposures, and blurring to produce haunting, abstracted images of natural and manmade environments. In the late 1950s, he began incorporating monstrous, oversized latex masks...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Terry O'Neill 'Alice Cooper and Family, Los Angeles'
Located in New York, NY
Alice Cooper, Los Angeles, 1974, Printed Later
Silver gelatin print
40 x 40 inches
estate stamped and numbered edition of 50
with certificate of authenticity
Terry O'Neill, Alice ...
Category
1970s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Rare Vintage Silver Gelatin and Polaroid Photograph Prints Ansel Adams Portrait
By Ansel Adams
Located in Surfside, FL
Rare Vintage Silver Gelatin and Polaroid Photograph Prints in Polaroid Photo Album.
These measure 10 x 8 4.25 x 3.25. it is a folder titled on it Custom Print by Polaroid the album i...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Terry O'Neill 'Alice Cooper and Family, Los Angeles'
Located in New York, NY
Alice Cooper, Los Angeles, 1974, Printed Later
Silver gelatin print
40 x 40 inches
estate stamped and numbered edition of 50
with certificate of authenticity
Terry O'Neill, Alice ...
Category
1970s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Frank Zappa in Slinkypants, Concert Photograph by Alan Herr
By Alan Herr
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alan Herr, American (1954 - )
Title: Zappa in Slinkypants
Medium: Digital Print Photograph, Signed in Permanent Marker
Size: 13.5 x 13 inches
Category
1980s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Tibor de Nagy Portrait Photo NYC Gallery
Located in Surfside, FL
Tibor De Nagy - October 11 1960
Photographer is Fred McDarrah
Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off-Broadway actors, troubadours, politicians, agitators and social protests.
Fred captured Jack Kerouac frolicking with women at a New Year’s bash in 1958, Andy Warhol adjusting a movie-camera lens in his silver-covered factory, and Bob Dylan offering a salute of recognition outside Sheridan Square near the Voice’s old office.
Not just a social chronicler, McDarrah was a great photo-journalist.
For years, McDarrah was the Voice's only photographer and, for decades, he ran the Voice’s photo department, where he helped train dozens of young photographers, including James Hamilton, Sylvia Plachy, Robin Holland...
Category
1960s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Lawrence Lipton Photo Beatnik Beat Writer
Located in Surfside, FL
Lawrence Lipton May 17 1965
photographer Fred McDarrah
Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmod...
Category
1960s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jean Patchett for Saks Fifth Avenue - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced t...
Category
20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Digital, Black and White, Photographic Paper
CZ Guest, Palm Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Mrs F C Winston Guest (1920 - 2003) (aka Cee Zee Guest) stands in front of the Grecian temple pool on her ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, Palm Beach, Florida, 1955.
Estate stam...
Category
1950s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Frank Zappa Conducting, Digital Pigment Print by Alan Herr
By Alan Herr
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alan Herr, American (1954 - )
Title: Zappa 1
Medium: Digital Print Photograph, Signed in Permanent Marker
Edition: AP
Size: 13.5 x 13 inches
Category
1980s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Vintage Silver Gelatin Print Photograph Gary Cooper, His Last Photo, Signed
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a vintage black and white photograph (shot in 1961 and printed in 1975) of famed actor Gary Cooper by internationally renowned PhotographerSherman Weisburd. This Vintage photograph was developed from the original negative and is the last portrait photo taken before his death. This photo was selected as a possible cover for Good Housekeeping Magazine. It is hand signed in marker, lower right by Sherman Weisburd.
Sherman Weisburd, known for his album cover photos of the 1960s and '70s and advertising work of the early '70s. Photographer for Playboy Magazine, TV Guide (Sonny & Cher), and Viva Magazine. Grammy nominated for his photo of Charles Aznavour, He shot Arlo Guthrie for the cover of Alice's Restaurant, Betty Ford for Ingenue magazine, Marilyn Monroe for Modern Screen magazine. He also shot Ashford & Simpson and was a cinematographer for Universal and Paramount pictures.
Gary Cooper was an Oscar winning American actor. A major movie star from the end of the silent film era through to the end of the golden age of Classical Hollywood. Throughout his career, he sustained a screen persona that represented the ideal American hero. In the early 1930s, he expanded his heroic image to include more cautious characters in adventure films and dramas such as A Farewell to Arms (1932) and The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935). During the height of his career, Cooper portrayed a new type of hero—a champion of the common man—in films such as Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Meet John Doe (1941), Sergeant York (1941), The Pride of the Yankees (1942), and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943). In the postwar years, he portrayed more mature characters at odds with the world in films such as The Fountainhead (1949) and High Noon (1952). In his final films, Cooper played non-violent characters searching for redemption in films such as Friendly Persuasion (1956) and Man of the West (1958).
Cooper had a series of romantic relationships with leading actresses, beginning in 1927 with Clara Bow, who advanced his career by helping him get one of his first leading roles in Children of Divorce In 1929, while filming The Wolf Song, Cooper began an intense affair with Lupe Vélez...
Category
1960s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jimi Hendrix, The Fillmore East First Show 12/31/69, Digital Print by Alan Herr
By Alan Herr
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alan Herr, American (1954 - )
Title: Jimi Hendrix, The Fillmore East First Show 12/31/69
Medium: Digital Print Photograph, Signed and Numbered in Permanent Marker
Edition: AP...
Category
1970s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Stevie Wonder, Framed Color Photograph by Lynn Goldsmith
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lynn Goldsmith
Title: Stevie Wonder
Year: 1976
Medium: Color Photograph, signed, numbered, and dated in pen
Edition:...
Category
1970s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Jimi Hendrix, The Fillmore East First Show 12/31/69, Photograph by Alan Herr
By Alan Herr
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alan Herr, American (1954 - 2010)
Title: Hendrix in Concert
Medium: Digital Print Photograph, Signed and numbered in Marker
Edition: AP
Size: 19 x 13 inches
Category
1970s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Jimi Hendrix, The Fillmore East First Show 12/31/69
By Alan Herr
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alan Herr, American (1954 - 2010)
Title: Hendrix 2
Medium: Digital Print Photograph, Signed and Numbered in Permanent Marker
Edition: AP
Size: 19 x 13 inches
Category
1970s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Limited Edition Abstract Photograph In Frame; Teef Shinin
Located in New York, NY
Being a multiple-disciplinary visual artist has been
his driving force to challenge everything that told
him that a black boy from West Baltimore, MD had
no place in the world. Patri...
Category
2010s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Luster, Photographic Paper
Terry O'Neill 'Alice Cooper and Family, Los Angeles'
Located in New York, NY
Alice Cooper, Los Angeles, 1974, Printed Later
Silver gelatin print
30 x 30 inches
estate stamped and numbered edition of 50
with certificate of authenticity
Terry O'Neill, Alice ...
Category
1970s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bathing Beauties
By John Albok
Located in Denton, TX
Vintage gelatin silver print
9 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.
Titled, dated and artist stamp on verso.
Born in Munkacs, Hungary, John Albok learned photography as a boy. He came to the U.S. in 192...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Hugo (Portrait of a Cat)
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Taking inspiration from Robert Mapplethorpe, Max Grant's Hugo depicts a loving portrait of a black cat.
Hugo, a regal black cat, takes center stage against...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Harlem, New York City
By John Albok
Located in Denton, TX
Unique
Vintage gelatin silver print
10 x 8 in.
Titled and artist stamp on verso.
Born in Munkacs, Hungary, John Albok learned photography as a boy. He came to the U.S. in 1921 findi...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Tania Mallet in the Bahamas (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1961: Actress Tania Mallet relaxes on a red-curtained four poster in Eleuthera, in the Bahamas. She is best known for her role as the unfortunate Tilly Masterson in the Bond film 'Go...
Category
1960s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Sunbathing In Burgenstock
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Sunbathing In Burgenstock, 1955
C print
30 x 40 inches
Lilian Hanson, sunbathing by a pool at the Burgenstock Resort in Canton Nidwalden, Sw...
Category
1950s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Patsy Pulitzer, Seaplane At Palm Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Patsy Pulitzer, Seaplane At Palm Beach
Chromogenic print, 1955
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity...
Category
1950s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons, Sunbathing In Burgenstock
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Sunbathing In Burgenstock, 1955
C print
20 x 30 inches
Lilian Hanson, sunbathing by a pool at the Burgenstock Resort in Canton Nidwalden, Sw...
Category
1950s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Steve Mass, the owner of the Mudd Club
Located in New York, NY
Steve Mass, the owner of the Mudd Club
Archival pigment print
image size: 36 x 36 inches
Signed and numbered
edition of 15
William Coupon is an...
Category
1970s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Harlem (Girl with Dog in Baby Carriage) by John Albok, 1934
By John Albok
Located in Denton, TX
Harlem (Girl with Dog in Baby Carriage) by John Albok presents a young girl in a dress pushing a baby carriage down the street. A small dog sits in the carriage, looking over it's sh...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Black Hippie Red Sombrero n' Flute Central Park Music Festival 60's Celebration
Located in Miami, FL
A black hippie enthroned in a majestic red sombrero is captured playing a flute at a Central Park music festival in 1969. This was the same year the youth "counterculture" celebrat...
Category
1960s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Twelve Madonnas, Pop Art Digital Print by Alan Herr
By Alan Herr
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alan Herr, American (1954 - )
Title: Madonna
Medium: Digital Print Photograph, Signed in Marker
Size: 19 x 13 inches
Category
1980s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Coney Island
By John Albok
Located in Denton, TX
Unique
Vintage gelatin silver print
7 1/4 x 6 1/8 in.
Titled, dated, and artist stamp.
Born in Munkacs, Hungary, John Albok learned photography as a boy. He came to the U.S. in 1921...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ice Man, 110th Street
By John Albok
Located in Denton, TX
Unique
Vintage gelatin silver print
10 x 8 in.
Titled, dated, and artist stamp.
Born in Munkacs, Hungary, John Albok learned photography as a boy. He came to the U.S. in 1921 findin...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Rare Original 1960's Photo of John F. Kennedy Speaking on the Front Lawn
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Rare Original Photo of JFK Speaking on the Front Lawn
16.5 x 12.5” framed
Circa 1960's
Photographer Unknown
This photograph comes framed in a white frame with a white matte under...
Category
1960s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Three Young Men
By Danny Lyon
Located in New York, NY
Chicago, 1963 / Printed 2009
Gelatin silver print (Edition of 100 + 5 APs)
Signed and numbered by the artist
11 x 14 inches, sheet size
9 x 9 inches, image size
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
In 1963, Danny Lyon spent time in a poor white area of Chicago called Uptown. Nicknamed ‘hillbilly heaven’, it was a very tough and deprived neighborhood. With a borrowed Rolleiflex...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Excuse Me
By Helen Graham
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist : Helen Graham
Title : Excuse Me
Materials : Archival Pigment Print
Date : 2019
Unframed
Photography has always been a way for Helen Graham to express her emotions in a sil...
Category
2010s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Debra
By Helen Graham
Located in Kansas City, MO
Title : Debra
Materials : Archival Pigment Print
Date : 2019
Unframed
Photography has always been a way for Helen Graham to express her emotions in a silent way. Through her photos she intends on stirring your imagination and touch your heart. Helen Graham also will show you things that sometimes in our busy world we miss seeing. She intensely focuses on capturing a specific moment while never losing her natural sense for composition.
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Category
2010s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Central Park (people sitting with pigeons)
By John Albok
Located in Denton, TX
Titled, dated and artist stamp on verso.
Vintage gelatin silver print
Born in Munkacs, Hungary, John Albok learned photography as a boy. He came to the U.S. in 1921 finding work alm...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Inside Kathy's Apartment
By Danny Lyon
Located in New York, NY
Chicago, 1963 / Printed 2009
Gelatin silver print (Edition of 100 + 5 APs)
Signed and numbered by the artist
11 x 14 inches, sheet size
7.75 x 11.75 inches, image size
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
In 1963, Danny Lyon spent time in a poor white area of Chicago called Uptown. Nicknamed ‘hillbilly heaven’, it was a very tough and deprived neighborhood. With a borrowed Rolleiflex camera...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Stand Back
By Helen Graham
Located in Kansas City, MO
Helen Graham
"Stand Back", 2018
Inkjet Print on Museo Silver Rag
Year: 2019
Dimensions: 12" x 20" inches
Unframed
Photography has always been a way for H...
Category
2010s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
“Untitled” (from Body Series)
By David Pugh
Located in Kansas City, MO
David Pugh
“Untitled” (from Body Series), 2018
Year: 2019
Archival Inkjet Print on Museo Silver Rag
Dimensions: 20 x 15 inches
Unframed
David Pugh’s photographic work tends to pull ...
Category
2010s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Romance of Ambrose Bierce #3 [Romance (N.) from Ambrose Bierce #3]
Located in New York, NY
From a portfolio of ten gelatin silver prints from original Meatyard negatives (1959-71)
Printed April 1974
Edition of 130
Credit stamp, verso
7 x 7.5 inches, image
15 x 12 inches, mount
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
“Meatyard took his definition of romance from The Devil’s Dictionary (1911) compiled by American writer Ambrose Bierce from the satirical pieces he published weekly in the late nineteenth century. The American grotesque of Bierce’s tall tales is here combined with Meatyard’s Surrealist inclinations and the European, particularly French, interest in primitive masks, perhaps with the intention of creating a parody of high art. Rather than sports fans, the stadium benches...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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Two Years, Burglary
By Danny Lyon
Located in New York, NY
Huntsville, Texas, 1968 / Printed 2011
Ferguson is a prison for young men, ages 17-21.
Gelatin silver print
Signed and dated in pencil, verso
11 x 14 inches, sheet
This photograp...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Six-Wing Cell Block
By Danny Lyon
Located in New York, NY
Huntsville, Texas, 1968 / Printed 2011
The Ramsey prison farm is set on 16,000 acres of Brazos River bottomland about 30 miles south of Houston and is populated by 1400 men. The pri...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ann Schaufuss, 'The-Gatsby-Look'
By Ormond Gigli
Located in New York, NY
Ann Schaufuss, 'The-Gatsby-Look', 1973
C Print
22 x 22 inches
Ormond Gigli (American, b.1925), famous in the 1950s for his photographs of theater, celebrities, dance, and exotic people and places, was born in New York City. His photographs were featured in prominent magazines, such as LIFE, Time, Paris Match, Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, and many others. He has created portraits of Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, John F. Kennedy, Halston, Gina Lollobrigida, Diana Vreeland, Giancarlo Giannini...
Category
1970s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Age of Innocence (Depression in Harlem - Brother and Sister)
By John Albok
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, titled and dated.
Vintage gelatin silver print
Born in Munkacs, Hungary, John Albok learned photography as a boy. He came to the U.S. in 1921 finding work almost immediat...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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