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Modern Portrait Photography

MODERN STYLE

The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Style: Modern
Slim Aarons - Joan Collins Relaxes - Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Joan Collins Relaxes - Estate Stamped Film star Joan Collins relaxes with her pink poodle on her pink bed. (Photo by Slim Aarons) ...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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C Print

Federico Fellini, Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni - Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo. Federico Fellini, Giulietta Masina, Marcello Mastroianni. Picture taken at the Leonardo Da Vinci's airport before the actors left Rome to present "8 e 1/2" in New York.
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper

" Hello. I'm a Pigeon" - Golden Facade with Red Eye Pigeon in Manhattan
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk displays an unparalleled ability to translate a drab street scene into a dimensional and compelling image. A Red Eye Pigeon is captured against a facade illuminated wi...
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2010s Modern Portrait Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Rolling Stones [Avebury Hill]
Located in London, GB
David Bailey Rolling Stones [Avebury Hill], 1968 Archival Inkjet on paper Signed by the artist, on verso Image: 50.8 x 74.92 cm Sheet: 58.4 x 82.53 cm Edition of 10
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Pigment

Captain Oates (1910-13)
Located in London, GB
Captain Oates (1910-13) (photo by Herbert Ponting) Scott’s Last Expedition, the ‘Terra Nova’ at the Icefoot Ross Island British Antarctic Expedition South Pole Herbert George Pon...
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1910s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

Terry O'Neill 'Elton John, Closet'
Located in New York, NY
Elton John at Home, 1972 Silver Gelatin Print 20 x 16 inches Estate signature stamped and numbered Edition of 50 with certificate of authenticity English pop singer Elton John, wearing a vest top and satin shorts...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Skating Waiter - 20th Century, Photography, Skiing, Winter, Sports
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days. A gorgeous black and white fibre print, available in other sizes. Taken from...
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20th Century Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, Black and White

William S. Burroughs
Located in Kansas City, MO
Robert Mapplethorpe William S. Burroughs Photograph Year: 1982 Size: 9.8 × 7.8 inches Edition C.L.A.G Carl Laszlo, Basel Gallery COA provided Robert Mapplethorpe was born November...
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1980s Modern Portrait Photography

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C Print

Terry O'Neill 'Brigitte Bardot, Les Petroleuses' (signed)
Located in New York, NY
Brigitte Bardot, Les Petroleuses 1971 Silver gelatin print edition of 50 24 x 20 inches Signed and numbered edition of 50 rare Brigitte Bardot on the set of the film ‘Les Petroleu...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Terry O'Neill 'Brigitte Bardot, Les Petroleuses' (signed)
Located in New York, NY
Brigitte Bardot, Les Petroleuses 1971 Silver gelatin print edition of 50 24 x 20 inches Signed and numbered edition of 50 rare cosigned also available in 24 x 34 inches for $20,00...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Terry O'Neill, Brigitte Bardot, Les Novices (signed)
Located in New York, NY
Brigitte Bardot with dog, on set of Les Novices (Co-signed) Silver Gelatin Print Edition of 50 16 x 20 inches Signed and numbered edition of 50 (rare) French actress Brigitte Bard...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Terry O'Neill 'Brigitte Bardot Hands On Hips' (signed)
Located in New York, NY
Brigitte Bardot, Hands on Hips, 1971 Silver gelatin print edition of 50 24 x 20 inches Signed and numbered edition of 50 rare cosigned also available in 24 x 34 inches for $20,000...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Terry O'Neill 'The Beatles at Wembley' (signed)
Located in New York, NY
The Beatles silver gelatin print 16 x 20 inches edition of 50 Signed and numbered edition of 50 with certificate of authenticity Paul McCartney and John Lennon rehearse for a TV spe...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Terry O'Neill 'The Beatles at Skala Theatre' (signed)
Located in New York, NY
The Beatles silver gelatin print 16 x 20 inches edition of 50 Signed and numbered edition of 50 with certificate of authenticity The first major group portrait of the Beatles, taken...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Terry O'Neill 'The Beatles' (signed)
Located in New York, NY
The Beatles silver gelatin print 12 x 16 inches edition of 50 Signed and numbered edition of 50 with certificate of authenticity The first major group portrait of the Beatles, taken...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Terry O'Neill, Amy Winehouse (signed)
Located in New York, NY
Amy Winehouse, 2008 Silver Gelatin Print 16 x 12 inches Signed and numbered edition of 50 with certificate of authenticity from the Terry O'Neill estate Terry O’Neill’s (1938-2019) ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Terry O'Neill 'Audrey Hepburn in the Pool' (Signed)
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn in the Pool, 1966 C-print 16 x 20 inches signed and numbered edition of 50 rare Actress Audrey Hepburn, swimming in the South of France during the filming of 'Two For...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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C Print

Terry O'Neill 'Audrey Hepburn Dove 2' (signed)
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn Dove 2, 1967 (Printed Later) Silver gelatin print 20 x 16 inches Signed and numbered edition of 50 with certificate of authenticity On the set of ‘Two for the Road’,...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Audrey Hepburn and William Wyler
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn and William Wyler 1966 silver gelatin print 12 x 16 inches edition of 50 Signed and numbered edition of 50 with certificate of authenticity Audrey Hepburn and William...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Revolver
Located in New York, NY
Revolver by Abi Polinsky Print on Hahnemüle Photo Rag paper, mounted on foam board. 2023 Framed. W 19.25" x H 23.5" Please contact us for shipping quotes and customization optio...
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2010s Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper

We Know Our Place (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
Located in London, GB
We Know Our Place (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant (Photo by Slim Aarons) A Dalmatian dog lies at the feet of Mr and Mrs John M Seabrook as they pose...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Man Ray, Juliet - 1932/1991, Silver Gelatin Print, Dada, Surrealist, Modern Art
Located in Hamburg, DE
Man Ray (1890-1976) Juliet, 1945/1991 Medium: Silver Gelatin Print (posthumous print) Dimensions: 30.5 x 24 cm Stamped: "Copie d'une épreuve originale - ADAGP Man Ray Trust" Conditio...
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20th Century Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Terry O'Neill, Faye Dunaway Oscar Outtake
Located in New York, NY
Faye Dunaway Oscar Outtake (Stare) Los Angeles, 1977 C-print 30 x 30 inches estate stamped and numbered edition of 50 Terry O'Neill (born 1938-2019London, UK) is an English photog...
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1990s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Faye Dunaway at the Beverly Hills Hotel (Oscar Ennui), Printed Later
Located in New York, NY
Faye Dunaway at the Beverly Hills Hotel, 1977 C-print Printed Later 72 x 72 inches Estate signature stamped and numbered edition of 50 Last remaining classic Oscar Faye remaining. ...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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C Print

Ted Allan , "Groucho Marx, " photolithograph, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is a photolithograph from the original negative by Ted Allan, originally shot in 1935 and printed at a later date. It depicts Julius Henry Marx, known professionally as G...
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1930s Modern Portrait Photography

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Lithograph

Sea Drive, Slim Aarons - 20th Century, Photography, Landscape, Portrait, Boats
Located in Brighton, GB
Currency fluctuations may cause the price to change. Prices listed include VAT. This is a contemporary print from the Getty Archive using Slim Aarons negatives. Please contact the ...
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20th Century Modern Portrait Photography

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C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Paola Mussetti in Sardinia'
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Paola Mussetti, 1982 Fiber print Paola Mussetti, a science student from Turin, poses in a bikini in Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, Italy, in August 1982. (Photo by Slim Aarons...
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1980s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons 'New York Debs'
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons New York Debs 1958 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Leading New York debutante...
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1980s Modern Portrait Photography

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C Print

Slim Aarons 'Mary McFadden'
Located in New York, NY
A couple at a swimming pool near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959. The line on the bottom of the pool marks the state line between Nevada and California. Estate stamped and hand numbere...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Norina Pisciotto'
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Paola Mussetti, 1982 C print Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Norina Pisciotto poses at the v...
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1980s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Terry O'Neill 'Brigitte Bardot Hands On Hips'
Located in New York, NY
Brigitte Bardot, Hands on Hips, 1971 Silver gelatin print edition of 50 40 x 30 inches Estate stamped and numbered edition of 50 cosigned also available in 24 x 34 inches for $20,...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Terry O'Neill 'Brigitte Bardot'
Located in New York, NY
Brigitte Bardot, 1970 silver gelatin print 20 x 24 inches edition of 50 estate signature stamped edition of 50 French actress Brigitte Bardot with her hair pinned up, circa 1970 Te...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Terry O'Neill 'Audrey Hepburn Dove' (Colorized)
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn Dove (colorized) 1967 (printed later) C-Type Print 40 x30 inches Posthumous Edition of 50: digitally signed and numbered on the front, estate-stamped on reverse. The...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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C Print

Shaken not Stirred, 1968 - 20th Century, Photography, Roger Moore, James Bond
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times expected between 15-20 days. A gorgeous black and white fibre print, available in other sizes. Taken from the world’s largest photographic archive, (Hulton Archive and Getty Images), the Getty Images Gallery collection features an extraordinary time capsule of the last century – social and political images that both made the news, as well as images from behind the headlines, which show the human race at work and play. This stunning collection of photographs...
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20th Century Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, Black and White

The Who Pete Townshend 1979 - signed limited edition
Located in London, GB
Pete Townshend of the Who Madison Square Garden New York 1979 Large Oversize limited edition (ed size 15 only this size) and signed silver gelatin print. paper size 40x30" inches / 101 x 76 cm Certificate of authenticity supplied. About Michael Putland the photographer : Born in 1947, Michael grew up in Harrow where he took his first pictures at the age of nine before leaving school at sixteen to work as an assistant to various photographers including Time-Life photographer, Walter Curtain and the legendary motor racing photographer, Louis Klemantaski. In 1969 he set up his own studio and by 1971, he was the official photographer for the British music magazine Disc & Music Echo. His first assignment for them that year was to photograph Mick Jagger in London. From the editorial work for Disc and Music Echo, Sounds and later Smash Hits & Q magazine amongst others, to the 1973 tour with The Rolling Stones that led to a long-standing relationship working with the band, Michael has shot prodigiously including for major record labels including CBS, Warner, Elektra, Polydor, Columbia Records and EMI. Relocating to New York in 1977, it was here that Michael founded the photo agency, Retna. It has been said that Michael photographed everyone from Abba to Zappa … when looking at his archive this is actually true. Now living in East Sussex, recent 2016 exhibitions include “Off The Record” at The Lucy Bell Gallery in Hastings showing images both on and off stage including previously unseen contact sheets; whilst Ono Arte in Bologna, Italy is hosting a David Bowie show. Autumn 2014 saw Michael’s 50 year retrospective at the Getty Gallery in London: “A life in Music, 50 Years On The Road”. Snap Gallery in London’s Piccadilly Arcade regularly have a selection of Michael’s work on show. Michael continues to shoot the artists he most admires – likely to be jazz, classical and world musicians, who have always provided an alternative narrative to his rock music portfolio. “It has been a fantastic ride through an incredible period of music history, which combined my two great loves … music and photography. Little did I appreciate, when my Uncle Alan encouraged my photography back in the 1950s, that this would lead me to photographing nearly all of my heroes … and thrilled to be still finding new ones. A great never ending journey.” Michael Putland About The Who : Few rock & roll bands were riddled with as many contradictions as the Who. All four members had wildly different personalities, as their notorious live performances demonstrated: Keith Moon fell over his drum kit while Pete Townshend leaped into the air with his guitar, spinning his right hand in exaggerated windmills. Vocalist Roger Daltrey prowled the stage as bassist John...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Monocled Miss (Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Renata Boeck enjoying breakfast in bed at the Regency Hotel in New York, 1964. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. S...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Audrey Hepburn in the Pool (signed)
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn in the Pool, 1966 C-print 16 x 20 inches signed and numbered edition of 50 with certificate of authenticity from the O'Neill ...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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C Print

Norman Parkinson 'Audrey Hepburn with Flowers'
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson Audrey Hepburn with Flowers 1955 40 x 60 inches Estate stamped and numbered on verso Norman Parkinson (1913-1990) was the Twentieth Century’s most celebrated fash...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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C Print

Terry O'Neill 'Audrey Hepburn Dove' (Colorized)
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn Dove (colorized) 1967 (printed later) C-Type Print 40 x30 inches Posthumous Edition of 50: digitally signed and numbered on the front, estate-stamped on reverse. The...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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C Print

Norman Parkinson 'Audrey Hepburn, Vogue''
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson The New Look, London, 1949 Silver gelatin print 48 x 48 inches Estate stamped and numbered on verso “The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin’s...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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C Print

Audrey Hepburn Relaxing, St Tropez
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn Relaxing, 1966, Printed Later Silver gelatin print Edition of 50 estate signature stamped with certificate of authenticity Audrey Hepburn relaxing on the beach in St....
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Paul Newman and Lee Marvin
Located in New York, NY
Paul Newman and Lee Marvin, 1972 Silver gelatin print Signed and numbered edition of 50 40 x 30 inches Actors Paul Newman and Lee Marvin wearing cowboy ha...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Terry O'Neill, Amy Winehouse (signed)
Located in New York, NY
Amy Winehouse, 2008 Silver Gelatin Print 30 x 20 inches Signed and numbered edition of 50 with certificate of authenticity from the Terry O'Neill estate Terry O’Neill’s (1938-2019) ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons 'Cecily Godfrey in Hong Kong'
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Cecily Godfrey, Hong Kong 1979 (printed later) Lambda C-print Estate Edition of 150 Cecily Godfrey relaxes by the pool at her home in Hong Kong, 1979. Her husband Gerald...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Terry O'Neill 'Raquel Welch in ‘Myra Breckinridge’'
Located in New York, NY
Raquel Welch in ‘Myra Breckinridge’ C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 50 American actress Raquel Welch wearing a stars and stripes suit in ‘Myra Breckinridge’, a 1970 A...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons, Apres Ski, Gstaad (Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Apres Ski 1963 (printed later) Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate edition of 150 A group of women reclining on the snow in Gstaad with rugs covering their knees, 1963. Estate stamped ...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Terry O'Neill, Raquel Welch Relaxes at Home
Located in New York, NY
Raquel Welch Relaxes at Home, 1970 Silver Gelatin Print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 50 American actress Raquel Welch relaxes at her home in Beverly Hills, 1970s. Terry O...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons, Leisure Time In Acapulco (Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Leisure Time In Acapulco, 1978 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate edition of 150 A woman in a sunhat enjoys a drink in a swimming pool, Acapulco, Mexico, January 1978. Estate stamped ...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Terry O'Neill, Sean Connery as Bond (Sheriff)
Located in New York, NY
Terry O'Neill Sean Connery as Bond 1971 (printed later) silver gelatin print 72 x 48 inches Estate signature stamped and numbered edition of 50 with certificate of authenticity Scot...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Vintage Silver Gelatin Portrait Photograph Horst Black & White Photo Koo Stark
Located in Surfside, FL
Koo Stark Black and white silver gelatin portrait photograph of photographer Horst P. Horst, official 80th birthday image. Frame: 17 1/4 x 23 1/4 inches Sight: 10 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches Condition: Good. Kathleen Norris Stark (born April 26, 1956), better known as Koo Stark, is an American photographer and actress, known for her relationship with Prince Andrew. She is a patron of the Julia Margaret Cameron Trust, which runs the museum of the Victorian pioneer photographer. Early life and education Stark was born in New York. Her parents were Wilbur Stark, a writer and producer, and Kathi Norris, a writer and television presenter in New York City. She is the youngest of three children, the others being Pamela and Brad. At the time of her birth, the family was living in the city's Manhattan borough.[1] Her grandfather, Edwin Earl Norris, was a cabinetmaker and musician, playing the French horn and the viola in the Newark Symphony Orchestra. Her mother's family were Presbyterians.[2][3] After a divorce in the 1960s, her mother remarried.[4] Koo Stark attended the Hewitt School in New York and the Glendower Preparatory School in Kensington, London. After training at a stage school, she began her film acting career. (she acted in the original Star Wars!) Stark also began to work as a fashion model, particularly for Norman Parkinson. In February 1981, she was at the National Theatre as an understudy in the Edward Albee play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Stark has worked as a photographer since the 1980s, and may have been the first person to turn the tables on the pursuing paparazzi by taking photos of them. Prince Andrew has told how in 1983 a photographic printer, Gene Nocon, invited Stark to take photographs of people taking photos of her, for his exhibition, Personal Points of View, planned for October. She persuaded Nocon to include Andrew's work as well. Her early photographs led to a book deal, for which she took lessons from Norman Parkinson. She travelled to Tobago, where he lived, and he became her mentor. Her book Contrasts (1985) included about a hundred of her photographs. She went on to study the work of leading photographers, including Angus McBean, whom she met and photographed, developing her interests in photography to include reportage, portraits, landscapes, still life, and other work. The book Contrasts was launched at Hamiltons Gallery, London, in September 1985, at an exhibition of the same name. In 1994, the Gallery Bar at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane hosted an exhibition called 'The Stark Image', forty photographs by Stark, including several previously unpublished. In 1998, her work was featured at the Como Lario in Holbein Place, Belgravia. In July 2001 she had an exhibition called 'Stark Images" at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, duplicated from June to July 2001 at Dimbola Lodge on the Isle of Wight. A solo exhibition of portraits was at the Winter Gardens, Ventnor, from September to October 2010,[29] and another at Dimbola Lodge from February to April, 2011. On 22 April 1987, a charity auction at Christie's, St James's, for the Campaign to Protect Rural England, featured signed work by David Bailey, Patrick Lichfield, Don McCullin, Terence Donovan, Fay Godwin, Heather Angel, Clive Arrowsmith, Linda McCartney, Koo Stark, and fifteen others, Views by Stark, including some of Kirby Muxloe Castle, were in G. H. Davies's England's Glory (1987), a CPRE book launched at the same time. Pictures by Stark have appeared in Country Life and other magazines. Several of her portraits are in the National Portrait Gallery, and work is also in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, both in London. A Leica user, Stark has said her camera transcends mere function and is a personal friend. A solo exhibition hosted by the Leica gallery in Mayfair in May 2017 was entitled Kintsugi, a Japanese word for a way of renovating things that have been broken. Stark explained the title: "Kintsugi is a way of learning to see individual beauty, and to appreciate the value of experience and honesty. It is the antithesis of digital, airbrushed, Photoshop-homogenised 'beauty'." In August the exhibition was repeated in Manchester, to mark the opening of a new Leica store there. Stark has been a practising Buddhist since meeting the Dalai Lama. She continues to live in London and is a member of the Chelsea Arts Club. She is a Patron of the Julia Margaret Cameron Trust, at Dimbola Lodge on the Isle of Wight, home of the Victorian pioneer photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. Stark met Prince Andrew in February 1981, and they were close for some two years, before and after his active service in the Falklands War. Tina Brown has claimed that this was Andrew's only serious love affair. In October 1982 they took a holiday together on the island of Mustique. According to Lady Colin Campbell, Andrew was in love, and the Queen was "much taken with the elegant, intelligent, and discreet Koo". However, in 1983, after 18 months of dating, they split up under pressure from the Queen. In 1997, Prince Andrew became the godfather of Stark's daughter, and in 2015, when the Prince was accused by Virginia Roberts over the Jeffrey Epstein connection, Stark came to his defence, stating that he was a good man and she could help to rebut the claims. Photographic exhibitions 'Contrasts', Hamiltons Gallery, Carlos Place, London, September 1985 'The Stark Image', Gallery Bar at Grosvenor House Hotel, London, 1994 'Stark Images', Dimbola Lodge, Isle of Wight, June to July 2001 'Stark Images', Fruitmarket Gallery, Market Street, Edinburgh, July 2001 'Portraits by Koo Stark', Winter Gardens, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, September to October 2010 'Koo Stark: Contrasts', Dimbola Lodge, Isle of Wight, February to April, 2011 'Kintsugi', Leica gallery, Bruton Place, Mayfair, May 2017 'Kintsugi', Leica store, Police Street, Manchester, August 2017 'Kintsugi Portraits', San Lorenzo, Beauchamp Place, London SW3, November 2017 Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann (1906 – 1999), who chose to be known as Horst P. Horst, was a German-American fashion and Fine Art photographer. The younger of two sons, Horst was born in Weißenfels-an-der-Saale, Germany, to Klara (Schönbrodt) and Max Bohrmann. His father was a successful merchant. In his teens, he met dancer Evan Weidemann at the home of his aunt, and this aroused his interest in avant-garde art. In the late 1920s, Horst studied at Hamburg Kunstgewerbeschule, leaving there in 1930 to go to Paris to study under the architect Le Corbusier. While in Paris, he befriended many people in the art community and attended many galleries. In 1930 he met Vogue photographer Baron George Hoyningen-Huene, a half-Baltic, half-American nobleman, and became his photographic assistant, occasional model, and lover. He traveled to England with him that winter. While there, they visited photographer Cecil Beaton, who was working for the British edition of Vogue. In 1931, Horst began his association with Vogue, publishing his first photograph in the French edition of Vogue in December of that year. It was a full-page advertisement showing a model in black velvet holding a Klytia scent bottle. His first exhibition took place at La Plume d'Or in Paris in 1932. It was reviewed by Janet Flanner in The New Yorker, and this review, which appeared after the exhibition ended, made Horst instantly prominent. Horst made a portrait of Bette Davis the same year, the first in a series of public figures he would photograph during his career. Within two years, he had photographed Noël Coward, Yvonne Printemps, Lisa Fonssagrives, Count Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Duke Fulco di Verdura, Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, Princess Natalia Pavlovna Paley, Daisy Fellowes, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Cole Porter, Elsa Schiaparelli, and others like Eve Curie. Horst rented an apartment in New York City in 1937, and while residing there met Coco Chanel, whom Horst called "the queen of the whole thing". He would photograph her fashions for three decades. He met Valentine Lawford, British diplomat in 1938, and they lived together until Lawford's death in 1991. Horst adopted a son, Richard J. Horst, whom they raised together. In 1941, Horst applied for United States citizenship. In 1942, he passed an Army physical, and joined the Army on July 2, 1943. On October 21, he received his United States citizenship as Horst P. Horst. He became an Army photographer, with much of his work printed in the forces' magazine Belvoir Castle. In 1945, he photographed United States President Harry S. Truman, with whom he became friends, and he photographed every First Lady in the post-war period at the invitation of the White House. In 1947, Horst moved into his house in Oyster Bay, New York. He designed the white stucco-clad building himself, the design inspired by the houses that he had seen in Tunisia during his relationship with Hoyningen-Huene. Horst is best known for his photographs of women and fashion, but is also recognized for his photographs of interior architecture, still lifes, especially ones including plants, and environmental portraits. One of the great iconic photos of the Twentieth-Century is "The Mainbocher Corset" with its erotically charged mystery, captured by Horst in Vogue’s Paris studio in 1939. Designers like Donna Karan continue to use the timeless beauty of "The Mainbocher Corset" as an inspiration for their outerwear collections today. His work frequently reflects his interest in surrealist style and surrealism and his regard of the ancient Greek ideal of physical beauty. Horst P Horst signed color photograph in color. Horst is listed as one of the best photographers ever along with Diane Arbus, Ansel Adams, and Robert Mapplethorpe His method of work typically entailed careful preparation for the shoot, with the lighting and studio props (of which he used many) arranged in advance. His instructions to models are remembered as being brief and to the point. His published work uses lighting to pick out the subject; he frequently used four spotlights, often one of them pointing down from the ceiling. Only rarely do his photos include shadows falling on the background of the set. Horst rarely, if ever, used filters. While most of his work is in black & white, much of his color photography includes largely monochromatic settings to set off a colorful fashion. Horst's color photography did include documentation of society interior design, well noted in the volume Horst Interiors. He photographed a number of interiors designed by Robert Denning and Vincent Fourcade of Denning & Fourcade and often visited their homes in Manhattan and Long Island. After making the photograph, Horst generally left it up to others to develop, print, crop, and edit his work. One of his most famous portraits is of Marlene Dietrich, taken in 1942. She protested the lighting that he had selected and arranged, but he used it anyway. Dietrich liked the results and subsequently used a photo from the session in her own publicity. In the 1960s, encouraged by Vogue editor Diana Vreeland, Horst began a series of photos illustrating the lifestyle of international high society which included people like: Consuelo Vanderbilt, Marella Agnelli, Gloria Guinness, Baroness Pauline de Rothschild and Baron Philippe de Rothschild, Helen of Greece and Denmark, Baroness Geoffroy de Waldner, Princess Tatiana of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Lee Radziwill, Duke of Windsor and Duchess of Windsor, Peregrine Eliot, 10th Earl of St Germans and Lady Jacquetta Eliot, Countess of St Germans, Antenor Patiño, Oscar de la Renta and Françoise de Langlade, Desmond Guinness and Princess Henriette Marie-Gabrielle von Urach, Andy Warhol, Nancy Lancaster...
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1980s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Terry O'Neill 'Sean Connery on the Moon'
Located in New York, NY
Sean Connery on the Moon, 1971 Silver Gelatin Print Estate signature stamped and numbered edition of 50 with certificate of authenticity Re-creating astronaut Alan Shepard’s famed g...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Terry O'Neill, Brigitte Bardot, Les Novices
Located in New York, NY
Brigitte Bardot with dog, on set of Les Novices (Co-signed) Silver Gelatin Print Edition of 50 24 x 20 inches Cosigned by Terry O'Neill and Brigitte Bardot French actress Brigitte...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons Style 'Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell'
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell 1960 (printed later) Silver gelatin print estate signature stamped edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity Model Gr...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Terry O'Neill 'Elton John, Closet'
Located in New York, NY
Elton John at Home, 1972 Silver Gelatin Print 40 x 40 inches Estate signature stamped and numbered Edition of 50 with certificate of authenticity English pop singer Elton John, wearing a vest top and satin shorts, at home in London, 1975, with part of his wardrobe, notably a large collection of platform shoes. Perched on his shoulder is a soft toy...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Terry O'Neill 'Audrey Hepburn Dove' (Colorized)
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn Dove (colorized) 1967 (printed later) C-Type Print 40 x30 inches Posthumous Edition of 50: digitally signed and numbered on the front, estate-stamped on reverse. The...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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C Print

Rebecca, Tiffany Vase, Large Scale Sheila Metzner Photograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Sheila Metzner’s unique photographic style has positioned her as a contemporary master in the worlds of fine art, fashion, portraiture, still life and landscape photography. Looking at Metzner’s photographs is a captivating experience. Innocent, sensual, and sexual, each photo, regardless of subject, exhibits and elicits deep emotion. It is nearly impossible to just glance at Metzner’s photos; they beg to be studied. She says, “Photography in its most basic form is magic…This image, caught in my trap, my box of darkness, can live. It is eternal, immortal. The child in the image will not age as the living child will.” Sheila Schwartz was born in 1939 to an orthodox Jewish family in a poor section of Brooklyn. While attending the School of Industrial Art in Manhattan (now the High School of Art and Design), she was awarded the Mayor Robert F. Wagner scholarship to the college of her choice. She chose Pratt Institute, where she majored in visual communication. Her fondness for painting and sculpture also led her to study with abstract artists Jack Tworkov and James Brooks. After graduating in 1961, Sheila worked as an assistant to Lou Dorfsman at CBS Network Advertising. Five years later, she was hired by the Doyle Dane Bernbach advertising agency as its first female art director, and in 1968 she met and married director, creative director, and painter Jeffrey Metzner. While pregnant with their first child, she was riding in a cab with her mentor and friend, photographer Aaron Rose, discussing whether or not to give up her career in advertising. “He said, ‘You should be a photographer. You live like an artist. You have a good eye, you’d be good at it.’ ” Metzner started taking pictures, amassing them slowly over the next 13 years, while raising her and Jeffrey’s five children—Raven, Bega, Ruby, Stella and Louie. Jeffrey’s two daughters from a previous marriage, Evyan and Alison, were also a regular part of the family. “When they were really small, I’d be with them during the day, photographing and printing at night. At eight or nine in the evening, when they were all asleep, I’d take a shower to wake up and put on high heels and lipstick, which I wore then, to give me the feeling of being ready to work.” She continues, “My children never interfered. When I couldn’t travel because of them, I would find a place in upstate New York and call it Antarctica or Egypt. I found microcosms.” Nine years later, Metzner had accumulated a box of 22 pictures. One of them, a black-and-white photograph titled “Evyan, Kinderhook Creek,” caught the eye of John Szarkowski at the Museum of Modern Art, which he included in his famous and controversial exhibition “Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960.” The New York Times art critic Hilton Kramer loved the picture and soon it became the dark-horse hit of the exhibition. Later that year, Metzner’s first solo show at the Daniel Wolf Gallery in New York drew record crowds. Metzner was now ready to work in color, but not just conventional color. Of her subjects, she once said, “If I use a rose, I want it to be the essential rose—the rose Beauty brought to her father from the Beast’s garden.” Now she aspired to an essential kind of color. “I wanted something that would last. I was looking for Fresson even though I didn’t know they existed.” The Fresson family works outside of Paris and specializes in a labor-intensive four-color “process de charbon” method, which they invented in 1895. Some prints can go up to seven colors, and are pigment prints, the only true archival color print. Metzner is one of just ten American photographers with whom they are willing to work. Fresson prints are the perfect complement to Metzner’s style—soft, sensuous, and grainy, the prints resemble paintings, with a finish which Metzner describes as “a glaze on fine porcelain. The moment I saw the neutral gray,” she adds, “I knew it was perfect.” In 1980 Metzner showed her Fresson color prints at her second solo exhibition at the Daniel Wolf Gallery. This show led to commissioned editorial work for such magazines as Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Rolling Stone. She secured an exclusive contract with Vogue for the next eight years. Metzner considers her portrait of actress Jeanne Moreau for Vanity Fair a turning point in her career. “It gave me a chance to show my work to a broader audience. I wasn’t just producing photographs for the art world.” Of Sheila’s foray into fashion, critic Carol Squiers says, “At a time when fashion photography was caught between sterility and the snapshot, Metzner created a sumptuous vision that stimulated the entire field.” Metzner also started doing commercial photography around this time. Her first client was Valentino, soon to be followed by Bloomingdale’s, Perry Ellis, Revlon, Shiseido, Saks Fifth Avenue, Paloma Picasso, Victoria’s Secret, Levi’s, Ralph Lauren, and fragrances for Chloe and Fendi (the Fendi campaign won a Fragrance Foundation Recognition Award). Her work also appeared on John Mellencamp...
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1980s Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print

Slim Aarons 'Donna Stefanella' (Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Donna Stefanella 1984 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Donna Stefanella Vanni ...
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1980s Modern Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Prosperity on the Corner
Located in Dallas, TX
Vintage Silver Gelatin Print. Title, date and signature on mat margin 1980 stamp in black ink twice on mount verso
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1930s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

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