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Modern Portrait Photography

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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
David Gilmour - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print
Located in London, GB
David Gilmour - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print David Gilmour, singer and guitarist of Pink Floyd, poses with his iconic black Fender Strat. Album...
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2010s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

Erykah Badu - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Erykah Badu - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print American singer-songwriter Erykah Badu, the Queen of Neo-Soul, photographed for the cover of Musik Mag...
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1990s Modern Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment, Black and White

Daniel Bruhl - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Daniel Bruhl - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print German-Spanish actor Daniel Bruhl (Rush, Goodbye Lenin, Inglorious Basterds) photographed in London...
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Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

Sean Penn - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print (2001)
Located in London, GB
Sean Penn - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print Studio Magazine May 15, 2001 Cannes, France (photo Kevin Westenberg) NB All prints are signed and n...
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Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

Ray Winstone - signed Limited Edition print (2000)
Located in London, GB
Ray Winstone - signed Limited Edition print Press Shoot JULY 6 2000 London (photo Kevin Westenberg) NB All prints are signed and numbered by the artist. Unframed Signed and...
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Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

Jarvis Cocker In Paris 1996 - signed Limited Edition print
Located in London, GB
JARVIS COCKER PARIS OLYMPIA (photo Kevin Westenberg) NB All prints are signed and numbered by the artist. unframed signed and numbered by the arti...
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1990s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

Patricia Arquette - signed Limited Edition Oversize print (2001)
Located in London, GB
Patricia Arquette - Signed Limited Edition Oversize print Studio Magazine May 18 2001 Cannes France (photo Kevin Westenberg) Unframed Signed and numbered by the artist. Limited to an edition of 3 Printed 2020 This Size 24x30''/ 60x76 cm Signed and numbered edition of 25 About the Image: Patricia Arquette is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Arquette made her feature film debut as Kristen Parker in A Nightmare on Elm...
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Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Laura And Naomi - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print (2001)
Located in London, GB
Michael Stipe - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print Studio Magazine May 16, 2001 Cannes, France. (photo Kevin Westenberg) NB All prints are signed and numbered by the artist. Unframed Signed and numbered by the artist. Edition limited to 10 only this size Printed 2020 This size image: 30 x 40" / 76 x 101 cm About the image: Laura Elena, Countess von Bismarck-Schönhausen, commonly known as Laura Harring, is a Mexican-American actress. In 1985, Harring became the first Hispanic woman crowned Miss USA. She later began her acting career in television and film. Naomi Ellen Watts is a British actress and film producer. She made her film debut in the Australian drama For Love Alone and then appeared in the Australian television series Hey Dad..!, Brides of Christ, Home and Away, and the film Flirting. OTHER SIZES AVAILABLE : Size 1. 16 x 20" Signed and numbered edition of 25. cost $ 2,500 Size 2. 20 x 24" Signed and numbered edition of 25. cost $ 2,950 Size 3. 24 x 30" Signed and numbered edition of 25. cost $ 3,375 Size 4. 30 x 40" Signed and numbered edition of 10 (+2 a/p). cost $ 5,605 Size 5. 40 x 60" Signed and numbered edition of 3 (1 a/p). cost $ 18,500 About the artist : Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and movie stars for over 25 years. His technique of lighting, colour and composition has helped to produce his own unique visual style. Shortly after receiving an Architecture degree he moved to London where he’s been based since 1983. Westenberg is self-taught and learned his trade working for the UK inkies “New Musical Express” and “Melody Maker” mainly throughout the late 80’s and 90’s documenting amongst others all the UK ‘Britpop’ bands. The breakthrough came in 1993-1994 with the release of Sting’s Ten Summoner’s Tales and Mary J Blige’s Share My World. These two album covers changed the perception of the work worldwide and thus began a run of 20 years of commissions and choice opportunities. For the last 25 years, his musical heritage includes portraits of Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Coldplay, White Stripes, Jane's Addiction, Sting, Bjork, Nirvana, Jeff Buckley, Luther Vandross, Nine Inch Nails, Stone Roses, The Pixies, Paul Weller, Rufus Wainwright, Michael Stipe, U2, Mary J. Blige, R.E.M., Black Sabbath, Massive Attack, BB King, The Rolling Stones, PJ Harvey, Marilyn Manson, Pete Doherty, Oasis, Soundgarden, Jake Bugg, and Bon Jovi among many others. Also included are 100’s of albums, singles, magazine & book covers from around the world. He’s also been chosen as official photographer for the LIVE 8 Hyde Park event in 2005 and for Led Zeppelin reunion concert at the 02 Arena, London. The work & interest also include a wide range of artists portraits beyond the music world. David Lynch, Paul Auster, The Coen Brothers, Rupert Friend, Sir Tom Stoppard, Orla Kiely...
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Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

Nick Cave - signed Limited Edition Oversize print (2008)
Located in London, GB
Nick Cave - Signed Limited Edition Oversize print Mojo Magazine Cover December 8, 2008 Brighton (photo Kevin Westenberg) Unframed Signed and numbered by the artist. Limited to an edition of 3 Printed 2020 This Size 24x30''/ 60x76 cm Signed and numbered edition of 25 About the Image: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds...
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Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Jack White - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Jack White - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print American musician Jack White, half of the duo The White Stripes, photographed for the cover of Mojo Magazine in 2014, coinciding w...
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1990s Modern Portrait Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Mary J Blige - Signed Limited Edition Print (2004)
Located in London, GB
Dido - Signed Limited Edition Print Band Tour Program May 19 2004 Seattle (photo Kevin Westenberg) NB All prints are signed and numbered by the artist. Unframed Signed and numbered by the artist. Edition limited to 25 only this size Printed 2020 This size image: 20 x 24" / 51 x 61 cm About this Image: Mary Jane Blige is an American singer-songwriter, actress, and philanthropist. Her career began in 1991 when she was signed to Uptown Records. She went on to release 13 studio albums, eight of which have achieved multi-platinum worldwide sales OTHER SIZES AVAILABLE : Size 1. 16 x 20" Signed and numbered edition of 25. cost $ 2,500 Size 2. 20 x 24" Signed and numbered edition of 25. cost $ 2,950 Size 3. 24 x 30" Signed and numbered edition of 25. cost $ 3,375 Size 4. 30 x 40" Signed and numbered edition of 10 (+2 a/p). cost $ 5,605 Size 5. 40 x 60" Signed and numbered edition of 3 (1 a/p). cost $ 18,500 About the artist : Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and movie stars for over 25 years. His technique of lighting, colour and composition has helped to produce his own unique visual style. Shortly after receiving an Architecture degree he moved to London where he’s been based since 1983. Westenberg is self-taught and learned his trade working for the UK inkies “New Musical Express” and “Melody Maker” mainly throughout the late 80’s and 90’s documenting amongst others all the UK ‘Britpop’ bands. The breakthrough came in 1993-1994 with the release of Sting’s Ten Summoner’s Tales and Mary J Blige...
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Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

Gary Barlow - Giant Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Gary Barlow - Giant Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print British singer Gary Barlow OBE, lead singer of Take That and writer of 14 No. 1 singles on the ...
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2010s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

Ethan Hawke - Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Ethan Hawke - Signed Limited Edition Print American actor Ethan Hawke photographed in Cannes, France for Studio Magazine, May 2001 (photo Kevin Westenber...
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Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

Ian McCulloch Echo & the Bunnymen - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Ian McCulloch - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print Ian McCulloch, frontman of Echo & the Bunnymen, photographed in Paris for the band's eighth studio album, What Are You Going to...
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2010s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

Kelis - signed Limited Edition print (2000)
Located in London, GB
Madonna - signed Limited Edition print NME Cover Shoot February 11, 2000 New York (photo Kevin Westenberg) NB All prints are signed and numbered by the artist. Unframed ...
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Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

Erykah Badu - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Erykah Badu - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print American singer-songwriter Erykah Badu, the Queen of Neo-Soul, photographed for the cover of Musik Mag...
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1990s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

Blur - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Blur - Giant Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print Britpop band Blur, London, 1995 From left: Graham Coxon, Damon Albarn, Alex James, Dave Rowntree Pho...
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Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

Star Wars, Sience Fiction Filmstill, 1977
Located in Cologne, DE
The original Star Wars trilogy, formerly marketed as the Star Wars Trilogy (and colloquially referred to as the 'original trilogy'), is the first set of three films produced in the S...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White

Jerry Hall Dive (Diptych)
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson Jerry Hall , 1976 C print 60 x 40 inches each Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso American model Jerry Hall wearing a swimsuit by Martil and lipstick...
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1980s Modern Portrait Photography

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C Print

President Joe Biden
Located in New York, NY
President Joe Biden 1984 Archival pigment print image size: 24 x 24 inches Signed and numbered edition of 25 William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, k...
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1980s Modern Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Frank Zappa on the Gibson SG, Digital Pigment Print 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
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1980s Modern Portrait Photography

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Digital Pigment

Portrait of BB KING - signed Limited Edition Oversize print
Located in London, GB
Portrait of BB KING - signed Limited Edition Oversize print BB KING JUN 12 2008 VICKSBURG MISSISSIPPI ALBUM COVER SHOOT. Exquisite print of the Rhythm & Blues legend that is BB King. unframed signed and numbered by the artist. limited to 10 only this size. About the artist : Kevin Westenberg is famed - for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and movie stars for over 25 years. His technique of lighting, colour and composition has helped to produce his own unique visual style. Shortly after receiving an Architecture degree he moved to London where he’s been based since 1983. Westenberg is self-taught and learned his trade working for the UK inkies “New Musical Express” and “Melody Maker” mainly throughout the late 80’s and 90’s documenting amongst others all the UK ‘Britpop’ bands. The breakthrough came in 1993-1994 with the release of Sting’s Ten Summoner’s Tales and Mary J Blige’s Share My World. These two album covers changed the perception of the work worldwide and thus began a run of 20 years of commissions and choice opportunities. For the last 25 years, his musical heritage includes portraits of Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Coldplay, White Stripes, Jane's Addiction, Sting, Bjork, Nirvana, Jeff Buckley, Luther Vandross, Nine Inch Nails, Stone Roses, The Pixies, Paul Weller, Rufus Wainwright, Michael Stipe, U2, Mary J. Blige, R.E.M., Black Sabbath, Massive Attack, BB King, The Rolling Stones, PJ Harvey, Marilyn Manson, Pete Doherty, Oasis, Soundgarden, Jake Bugg, and Bon Jovi among many others. Also included are 100’s of albums, singles, magazine & book covers from around the world. He’s also been chosen as official photographer for the LIVE 8 Hyde Park event in 2005 and for Led Zeppelin reunion concert at the 02 Arena, London. The work & interest also include a wide range of artists portraits beyond the music world. David Lynch, Paul Auster, The Coen Brothers, Rupert Friend, Sir Tom Stoppard, Orla Kiely...
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Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

'Doris Day Applies Lipstick' (Silver Gelatin Print)
Located in London, GB
'Doris Day Applies Lipstick' 1959 Doris Day In 'Pillow Talk,' 1959. The iconic singer and actress starred in the 1959 romantic comedy film directed by Mic...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Picasso Preside la Corrida - Frejus, 1962
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lucien Clergue, French (1934 - 2014) Title: Picasso Preside la Corrida - Frejus, 1962 Year: 1962 (printed 1992) Medium: Gelatin Silver Print, Sig...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Star Wars, Luke Skywalker, Sience Fiction Filmstill, 1977
Located in Cologne, DE
The original Star Wars trilogy, formerly marketed as the Star Wars Trilogy (and colloquially referred to as the 'original trilogy'), is the first set of three films produced in the S...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White

Star Wars, Darth Vader and Leia, Sience Fiction Filmstill, 1977
Located in Cologne, DE
The original Star Wars trilogy, formerly marketed as the Star Wars Trilogy (and colloquially referred to as the 'original trilogy'), is the first set of three films produced in the S...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White

Frank Zappa in Slinkypants, Concert Photograph 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
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1980s Modern Portrait Photography

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Digital Pigment

Laszlo Willinger, "Hedy Lamarr", original photograph
Located in Chatsworth, CA
An original vintage photograph, shot by Laszlo Willinger in the 1940's. It depicts Austrian-born American film actress, Hedy Lamarr. Lamarr was known for...
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1940s Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper

Tom Kelley : Stella Stevens Suntan
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley Ann St. Marie c. 1950's C print 22 x 28 inches Edition of 45 Photographs are printed on Archival Hahnemühle paper (luster) estate signed and numbered in the border Captio...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

George Hurrell, "Robert Taylor", original photograph from original negative
Located in Chatsworth, CA
An original photograph from the original negative shot by George Hurrell in 1936 and printed at a later date. It depicts the late iconic actor, Robert Taylor...
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1930s Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper

Ted Allan, "Jean Harlow and Robert Taylor", original photograph
Located in Chatsworth, CA
An original photograph shot by Ted Allan in 1936, and printed from the original negative at a later date. It depicts "Old Hollywood" actors, Jean Harlow and Robert Taylor...
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1930s Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Film

Antonio Lopez Draws Jerry Hall
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson Antonio Lopez draws Jerry Hall 1975 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso Caption: Antonio Lopez draws model Jerry Hall as she poses with a lif...
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1980s Modern Portrait Photography

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C Print

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

Laszlo Willinger, "Olivia de Havilland (Gone with the Wind), orig. photo, signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original photograph from the original negative, shot by Laszlo Willinger circa 1939. It depicts one of the leading movie stars from Hollywood's Golden Age, Olivia de Havilland...
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1930s Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper

Jimi Hendrix, The Fillmore East First Show 12/31/69, Digital Print 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...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Digital Pigment

Madame Jean Serpieri (Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Madame Jean Serpieri sits in the ballroom of the Tour La Reine near Athens, wearing a gown which belonged to the wife of Otto, the first king of m...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Jimi Hendrix, The Fillmore East First Show 12/31/69, Photograph 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
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Digital Pigment

"Picasso with Tam", Photograph by Richard Ham 1945
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Richard Ham, American (1920 - ) Title: Picasso in Paris Studio - Picasso with Tam (Feb 7th, 1945) Year: 1945, Printed in 2009 Medium:Gelatin Silver Print on Fiber Paper, sign...
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1940s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Twelve Madonnas, Pop Art Digital Print 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
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1980s Modern Portrait Photography

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Digital Pigment

Frida and Diego with Hat - Limited Edition Black and White Photograph, Portrait
Located in Denton, TX
Frida and Diego with Hat is a limited edition black and white portrait of Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Diego sits on a chair, holding a hat while Frida stands behin...
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20th Century Modern Portrait Photography

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Platinum

Norman Parkinson 'HRH Princess Anne, The Princess Royal'
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson Her Royal Highness Princess Anne, The Princess Royal 1969 C print 40 x 30 inches Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso Her Royal Highness Princess Ann...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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C Print

Sell your soul - Mephisto performing in Faust
Located in Cologne, DE
Sell your soul! Exclusive set photography of the film version of Goethe's Faust, Gustaf Gründgens as Mephisto, 1960. Gustaf Gründgens had already played Mephisto more than 600 time...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper

Sell your soul - Mephisto performing in Faust
Located in Cologne, DE
Sell your soul! Exclusive set photography of the film version of Goethe's Faust, Gustaf Gründgens as Mephisto, 1960. Gustaf Gründgens had already played Mephisto more than 600 time...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper

Sell your soul - Mephisto performing in Faust
Located in Cologne, DE
Sell your soul! Exclusive set photography of the film version of Goethe's Faust, Gustaf Gründgens as Mephisto, 1960. Gustaf Gründgens had already played Mephisto more than 600 time...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper

Mexico, Man, Handcraft, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 24, 2 x 24 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, an...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Guatemala, Village, People, Black and White Photography, ca. 1960s, 24, 2 x 24 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, an...
Category

1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Guatemala, Market, Black and White Photography, ca. 1960s, 24 x 24 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...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Vintage Signed Silver Gelatin Photograph Portrait Print of Anthony Haden Guest
Located in Surfside, FL
Gerard Joseph Malanga (born March 20, 1943) is an American poet, photographer, filmmaker, curator and archivist. Malanga was born in the Bronx in 1943, the only child of Italian immigrant parents. In 1959, at the beginning of his senior year at the School of Industrial Art in Manhattan, Malanga became a regular on Alan Freed's The Big Beat, televised on Channel 5 (WNEW) in New York City. He graduated from high school with a major in Advertising Design (1960). He was introduced to poetry by his senior class English teacher, poet Daisy Aldan, who had a profound influence on his life and work from then on. He enrolled at the University of Cincinnati's College of Art & Design (1960), and was mentored by the poet, Richard Eberhart who was the university's resident poet for 1961. He dropped out at the end of the Spring semester. In the fall of 1961, Malanga was admitted to Wagner College in Staten Island on a fellowship anonymously donated for the express purpose of advancing his creative abilities as a poet and artist. At Wagner he befriended one of his English professors, Willard Maas, and his wife Marie Menken...
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1990s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Guatemala, Landscape, Black and White Photography, ca. 1960s, 24, 1 x 24 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, an...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Guatemala, Man, Black and White Photography, ca. 1960s, 25, 3 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, an...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Guatemala, Market, People, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 23, 1 x 17, 1 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, an...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Florence One, Italy, 2023
Located in Hudson, NY
The Robin Rice Gallery announces the new exhibition VISITOR by photographer Bill Phelps. Through light and shadow, a gaze, a mindset, Bill Phelps fourth solo show at the Robin Rice ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Venezuela, Oil, Lake, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 23, 4 x 29, 5 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, an...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Venezuela, Mountain, Landscape, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 24 x 24.1 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, an...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Hong Kong, Boy, Food, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 29, 8 x 23, 9 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, an...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Hong Kong, Ships, Haven, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 24 x 24, 1 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, an...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Hong Kong, Haven, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 23, 9 x 24, 1 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, an...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Terry O'Neill 'Raquel Welch and Ringo Starr'
Located in New York, NY
Raquel Welch and Ringo Starr, 1969 silver gelatin print 40 x 30 inches edition of 50 Estate signature stamped edition of 50 with certificate of authenticity American actress Raquel...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Robert Montgomery
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original photograph from the original negative, shot by Laszlo Willinger c. 1940's and printed in the 1980's. It depicts the late American actor, producer, and director Robert...
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1940s Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper

Tom Kelley 'Amanda Chabot Under Hot Lights'
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley Amanda Chabot c. 1960's C print 28 x 22 inches Edition of 45 Photographs are printed on Archival Hahnemühle paper (luster) estate signed and numbered in the border Capti...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

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