Contemporary Portrait Photography
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
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Period: 1960s
The Italian Actress Elsa Martinelli - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Elsa Martinelli during the filming of a movie.
Lightly damaged.
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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The Italian Actress Elsa Martinelli with Willy Rizzo - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
The Italian Actress Elsa Martinelli with Willy Rizzo is an original black and white photograph realized in 1965 ca.
In good conditions.
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
The British Actor Stewart Granger - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
The British Actor Stewart Granger is a black and white photograph realized in 1962
Vintage Photo. depicting The British Actor Stewart Granger.
Dated...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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The Italian Actress Nicoletta Machiavelli - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Nicoletta Machiavelli during the audition for a film by Luigi Zampa
by Associated Press Photo
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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The British Actor Stewart Granger - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The British Actor Stewart Granger.
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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The American Actor John Wayne - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo. John Wayne with some friends at a party in the 1960s.
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Portrait of Antonella Lualdi- Vintage Photo -1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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The Italian Actress Elsa Martinelli - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Elsa Martinelli posing with hat.
Photo by Pais & Sartarelli.
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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The Italian Actress Nicoletta Machiavelli - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Nicoletta Machiavelli in a photograph by Ansa.
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Cassius Clay vs. Floyd Patterson
Located in Austin, TX
Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) was an American professional boxer, activist, and philanthropist. He is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of th...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Portrait of Abbe Lane - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The American Actress and Singer Abbe Lane in a photograph by the National Agency Associated Press.
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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The American Actress and Singer Abbe Lane - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The American Actress and Singer Abbe Lane during the tv program "The joyous".
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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The Italian Actress Franca Marzi with her daughter - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Franca Marzi with her daughter in a photograph by Roma's Press Photo.
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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The Italian Actress Elsa Martinelli with Scotti Mancinellii-Vintage Photo-1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Elsa Martinelli with her husband and their first child.
Photograph by Elio Sorci Photoreportage
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Portrait of Abbe Lane - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The American Actress and Singer Abbe Lane in a photograph by National Agency Associated Press.
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Xavier Cugat and Abbe Lane at the airport - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Xavier Cugat and Abbe Lane leaving the plane.
By Associated Press Photo
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Portrait of Antonella Lualdi- Vintage Photo -1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi in a vintage dress.
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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John Wayne - Vintage Photo - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage b/w photo of John Wayne, realized in the late 1960s.
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Led Zeppelin Outside the Chateau Marmont
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white capture of the band Led Zeppelin during their infamous visit to Chateau Marmont, circa 1969.
This listing is for a limited edition archival print.
What's included:
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Led Zeppelin at Chateau Marmont
Located in Austin, TX
Incredible 1969 photograph of one of the world's greatest rock bands, Led Zeppelin. This photograph was taken by Jay Thompson during a memorable photo shoot at LA's Chateau Marmont. ...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
John Wayne in Saigon - Vintage Photo - 1966
Located in Roma, IT
John Wayne during his stay of a month in Vietnam.
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Sammy Davis Jr. Mister Show Business
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Awesome black and white action shot of Sammy Davis Jr. in mid-jump.
Sammy Davis Jr. was an American singer, dancer, actor, vaudevillian, and comedian sometimes called "the greatest ...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Steve McQueen: A Windowlight Portrait
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning capture by Larry Barbier Jr. of actor Steve McQueen at home.
Steve McQueen nicknamed the "King of Cool", was an American actor. His antihero persona, emphasized during the height of the counterculture of the 1960s, made him a top box-office draw during the 1960s and 1970s. McQueen received an Academy Award nomination for his role in The Sand Pebbles. His other popular films include The Cincinnati Kid, Love With the Proper Stranger, The Thomas Crown Affair, Le Mans, Bullitt, The Getaway, and Papillon, as well as the all-star ensemble films The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, and The Towering...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Fred Astaire - Vintage Photo - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo, realized in 1868.
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Lilith (Film) - Vintage Photo - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Warren Beatty and Joan Seberg in a scene from "Lilith", a film by Robert Rossen.
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Portrait of John Wayne - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The American Actor John Wayne in 1965 ca.
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
John Wayne In Harm's Way (Film) - Vintage Photo - 1965
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage b/w photo realized on the set of "In Harm' Way", in 1965.
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
The American Actor John Wayne - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The American Actor John Wayne in 1960s.
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Batman and Robin, Batman TV Series- Vintage Photo -1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Batman and Robin on the set of the famous TV series of the 60s.
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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John Wayne on the Set of The Sons of Katie Elder- Vintage Photo - 1965
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
John Wayne in a scene from the movie "The Sons of Katie Elder" (1965).
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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John Wayne on the set of "The Alamo" - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The American Actor John Wayne in a scene from the 1960 Film "The Alamo".
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Vintage Portait of M. Vitti and C. Cardinale - Vintage B/W photo by ANSA - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Portait of Monica Vitti and Claudia Cardinale is a vintage b/w photograph realized by Agenzia ANSA. Good condition.
Monica Vitti is born in Rome on November 3, 1931. Admitted in 1950 to the Academy of Dramatic Art (where she will return in 1986 as a teacher), and graduated in 1953, she immediately tackles the scenes in L'avaro di Molière (1954), The island of the parrots of S. Tofano (1954), They founded a city of C. Meano (1954), Mother Courage and her children of B. Brecht (1954). Between 1956 and 1959 she also participated in television broadcasts and acted in numerous adaptations of famous theatrical texts. She made her film debut playing secondary parts in Laugh, Laugh, Laugh! by E. Anton, 1955; A mink coat by G. Pellegrini, 1956; Le dritte di M. Amendola, 1958. Dubbing actress of Il scido di M. Antonioni (1957), she meets the director who, after having directed her to the theater in I am a camera by J. Van Druten (1957) and in Secret Scandals by Antonioni and E. Bartolini (1957), he calls her as the protagonist in L'avventura (1960), a film with which V. is a leading actress. Always led by Antonioni, from now on she will play suffering characters who embody a profound crisis of feelings. Apart from a brief television parenthesis (a transposition of the short story The White Nights by F. Dostoevskij, directed by V. Cottafavi), La notte (1961), L'eclisse (1962) and Deserto rosso (1963) belong to a happy partnership with Antonioni (who will be revived episodically for the production of The Mystery of Oberwald [1980], a courageous experiment of intertwining cinema and electronic techniques, propitiated by the exhumation of a play by J. Cocteau, L'aigle à deux têtes). In the second half of the Sixties, however, the producers showed that they preferred her as an actress endowed with caricatural flair, fine humor, vitalistic exuberance, communicative immediacy; and audiences pay her a growing success, not always corresponding to the quality of her filmography or the variety of her interpretations, among which are the very convincing ones in Modesty Blaise...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Elsa Martinelli - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Elsa Martinelli is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Good conditions.
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Autopoloroid
Located in Dallas, TX
Ed. 63/100
Poloroid, 3 3/4 X 2 7/8 In.
Signed and numbered by Lucas Samaras on print margin.
Published by the Whitney Museum of American Art
From book, "Samaras Album"
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Brian Jones at Olympic Studios, London, England
By Eddie Kramer
Located in New York, NY
16x20 Archival Pigment Print
Limited Edition
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment
Paul McCartney and Jane Asher in 1968 - Vintage Photograph
Located in Roma, IT
Paul McCartney and Jane Asher in 1968 is a vintage photographic press print on single coated paper.
Ink press stamp from “SUN” and hand-writtwn notes on bac...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Queen Elizabeth and Philip with Charles and Ann - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Queen and Duke with Charles and Princess Ann is an original photograph realized by an anonymous photographer.
With the copyright stamp of Associated Pres...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Alvin Lee - Vintage Photograph - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Photo B / N. Alvin Lee He was nicknamed "Captain speed fingers" for the speed of execution of his solos, like that of I'm Going Home with which he inflamed W...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Prince Charles with Baby Prince Andrew - Vintage Photograph - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Prince Charles with baby Prince Andrew - vintage photograph is an original black and white photograph realized by Associated Press Newsphoto.
With the stamp of "copyright" on the rear and the attached paper of the description in Italian.
Good conditions.
Prince Charles Watching baby brother...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Portrait of Ringo Starr and Ewa Aulin - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Ringo Starr and Ewa Aulin is a vintage photographic print on baryta paper from 1968 circa.
Very high quality print, hand-written notes on back.
Dim: cm 20,5 x 26,5
Exc...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Joséphine Baker with ad Henri Varna - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
B / W photo by J.B. after his show at the Musical Hall Olympia in Paris.
Shot together with Theater Director Henri Varna.
"Associated Press" stamp.
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1968 - Vintage Photograph
Located in Roma, IT
John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1968 is a vintage photographic press print on single coated paper.
Ink press stamp of “SUN” agency and hand-written notes on bac...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Surfing Florida Style by Al Satterwhite, 1969, Archival Pigment Print
Located in Dallas, TX
Surfing Florida Style by Al Satterwhite depicts a young man surfing on the water. He holds a rope attached to a car, which tows him through the water a...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment
Technology in 1960s - Vintage B/W photo
Located in Roma, IT
Technology in 1960s - Vintage Photograph is a vintage photograph realized by an Anonymous photographer.
With script on the rear.
Good conditions.
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Vintage Portrait of Monica Vitti along with Tony Curtis-Vintage B/W photo -1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Portrait of Monica Vitti along with Tony Curtis is a vintage b/w photograph realized by Agenzia ANSA in 1960s. Good condition.
Monica Vitti is born in Rome on November 3, 19...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Scene From the Movie "The Devil's Eye" - Vintage Photography - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
A scene from the movie "The Devil's Eye" by Ingmar Bergman, 1960.
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Vintage Portrait of Monica Vitti - Vintage B/W photo by ANSA - 1960s
By ANSA
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Portrait of Monica Vitti is a vintage black and white photo realized in the 1960s by Agenzia ANSA.
Monica Vitti is born in Rome on November 3, 1931. Admitted in 1950 to the ...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Fraschetti Gets off his Car - Vintage B/W photo-1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Fraschetti gets off his car is an original photograph realized by an Anonymous photographer.
With the description typing script on the rear and stamp
Good conditions.
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Woman on Bus, Washington Protest, African-American Civil Rights Photography
Located in New york, NY
Woman on Bus, from the March on Washington, 1963 (printed later) by Leonard Freed, is a 11" x 14" gelatin silver print, signed and stamped on verso (back of photo) by the estate, Brigitte Freed (wife of the photographer). The photo is from Leonard Freed's series This Is the Day: The March on Washington and is on p. 81 of the book (Getty Museum, 2013).
American photographer Leonard Freed enjoyed documentary storytelling and was a "concerned photographer" whose work demonstrated humanitarian concerns.
Provenance: Freed archive.
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Artist’s Bio:
Leonard Freed (1929-2006) was an American photographer from Brooklyn, New York. His "Black in White America" series made him known as a documentarian, a social documentary photographer. Freed worked as a freelance photographer from 1961 onwards and as a Magnum photographer Freed traveled widely abroad and, in the US, photographing African Americans (1964-65), events in Israel (1967-68, 1973), and the New York City police department (1972-79). Freed's coverage of the American civil rights...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Bob Johnson (co-driver Dan Gurney) Shelby Cobra FIA 289/ Daytona
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 25
Signed, titled, dated, print date, and numbered.
AVAILABLE SIZES:
11 x 14 in., Edition of 25
16 x 20 in., Edition of 25
24 x 36 in., Edition of 25
36 x 54 in., Edition...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment
Autographed Portrait of Elisabeth Müller - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed portrait of Elisabeth Müller is a b/w photographic portrait of the Swiss-born actress, Elisabeth Müller (18 July 1926 – 11 December 20...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper, Paper
Autographed Portrait of Marianne Koch Memorabilia - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Marianne Koch is a b/w photographic portrait of the German actress with the additional value of a black ink autograph on the lower margin.
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...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper, Paper
Mr. Harlem, Photograph of African American Life New York City 1960s
Located in New york, NY
The image capturing African-American life in Harlem in the 1960s, Mr. Harlem, 1963 by Leonard Freed, is a 14” x 11” black-and-white photograph from the photographer's book Black in W...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin
Autographed Portrait of Peter Kraus - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed Portrait of Peter Kraus is a b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the German-Austrian singer and actor, Peter Kraus (Munich,1939), born Peter Siegfried K...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper, Paper
Surfer Kids loading surf boards
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 25
Signed and numbered in black ink on print margin.
Signed, titled, dated, print date and misc. notations in pencil on print verso
AVAILABLE SIZES:
11 x 14 in., Edition ...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment
The Autograph by Gus Backus - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
The Autograph Portrait by Gus Backus is on this b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the American singer and actor, Donald Edgar "Gus" Backus (Long Island, NY, 1937 ...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper, Paper
Autographed Portrait of Marianne Hold - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Marianne Hold's Memorabilia is an autographed color postcard, representing her photographic portrait, with the additional value of the black marker autograph of the German actress.
...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Paper
Autographed Portrait of Freddy - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
This Autographed Portrait of Freddy is a b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the Austrian show-men, actor and singer, Freddy Quinn, carrying his black dog. Around t...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper, Paper
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