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Style: Post-War
Robert Kennedy, San Diego
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Lawrence Schiller. “Robert Kennedy, San Diego” is a figurative photograph, vintage silver gelatin photograph in black and white by American artist Lawrence Schiller. The artwork is signed on the verso. Lawrence Schiller only remembers the 60s in this way: Fast. As in: Blur. Which is, for those who lived through it, as accurate a description as one is likely to find about the decade that began with optimism and ended in chaos. It was ten years of turmoil and exploration. And through this turbulent and tumultuous decade, it often seemed that whenever a headline-making news event occurred, Lawrence Schiller was there. Schiller was not just lucky to be in the right place at the right time; he was prescient. He was there to cover the event, to add to it, to help us see it, to aid its meaning and its depth. "It was a time in which things happened awfully fast," Schiller says of the decade. "It was a wild, wild period; an uncontrolled period. I don’t think you had any sense of perspective in the 60s. You had to wait and look back at it, because it was a period in which things were happening that had no rhyme or reason to it. But by the end of the ‘60s I had covered so many stories, had so many magazine covers, I had somehow become part of that decade’s history. And I already had my eye on the future." When Lawrence Schiller got the assignment from the French magazine, Paris Match to photograph Marilyn Monroe on the 20th Century Fox set of Something’s Got to Give, he thought nothing of it. It wasn’t to be a private, studio shoot. He wasn’t going to set up lights, create backgrounds, or use a tripod. Just another assignment, he figured. Monroe by then was firmly established as a figment in the imagination of most young men. The orphan Norma Jean had recreated herself as the blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe. She’d appeared in twenty-nine films by the time Schiller photographed her in black and white and color in May, 1962. The world was unprepared for the moment when Marilyn jumped in the swimming pool in a flesh-colored bikini and came up out of the water au natural. She was all smiles and in her element: the sex goddess...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Photography

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Silver Gelatin

BRUCE BELLAS Vintage 1950s Photo of Male Physique Model BOB FORBES
Located in Glenford, NY
BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES - Classic mid 1950s gelatin silver photograph of popular physique model BOB FORBES by celebrated 20th Century photographer BRUCE BELLAS also known as Bruce of Lo...
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1950s Post-War Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Okra Scale
Located in Astoria, NY
William Eggleston (American, b. 1939), Okra Scale, Dye Transfer Print, circa 1980, signed, dated, and numbered edition "1 of 3" to verso, white wood frame. Image: 17.5" H x 11.75" W....
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1980s Post-War Photography

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Paper, Dye Transfer

George Platt Lynes Vintage 1949 Photograph #8 of dancer Francisco Moncion
Located in Glenford, NY
George Platt Lynes Photograph #8 of dancer Francisco Moncion 1949. George Platt Lynes rare original vintage 1949 gelatin silver photograph of dancer Francisco Moncion. Stamped on verso - GEORGE PLATT LYNES. Photo is 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches, glossy finish in excellent condition. This photograph is #8 from a collection of 12 different poses in this series taken in Platt Lynes's NYC studio in 1949 (as per the NY Public Library archives). The cloud backdrop is recognizable in other Platt Lynes photographs. Moncion was a personal friend of Platt Lynes and this photograph is from Moncion's personal photographic collection. George Platt Lynes (1907–1955), was a gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s through the early 1950s. From age eighteen, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate community in Paris when he became acquainted with the salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. He began photographing authors like Stein, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, and Colette and soon established himself as one of the premier fashion photographers in the Condé Nast stable, documenting the ballet companies of George Balanchine/Lincoln Kirstein, and pursuing a private obsession with seductive images of young male nudes rarely published in his lifetime. Platt Lynes photographs are in the collections of every major art museum and university archive including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Yale Art Museum, and the Smithsonian. Francisco Moncion (July 6, 1918 – April 1, 1995) was a charter member of the New York City Ballet. Over the course of his forty year career, choreographers George Balanchine, and Jerome Robbins in the New York City Ballet created 22 major roles for Moncion including the Dark Angel in Orpheus, Death in La Valse, Prince Ivan in Firebird, and the Boy in Afternoon of a Faun. He was also a choreographer and a talented painter who exhibited alongside Miro, Picasso and Carrado Cagli. Moncion was a popular model for many famed mid-century (late 1930s, 1940s - 1950s) figure photographers including Platt Lynes, Carl van Vechten, Maurice Seymour...
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1940s Post-War Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Paul Newman and Robert Redford, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Lawrence Schiller. “Paul Newman and Robert Redford, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” is a vintage silver gelatin photograph in black and white by American artist L...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Bandstand II, Eastbourne, UK - Black and White Vintage Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Bandstand II, captured on a visit to his grandparents in Eastbourne in 1985, this black and white photograph collection by Samuel Field is a beautiful reminder the British seaside of...
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1980s Post-War Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin

Bandstand III, Eastbourne, UK - Black and White Vintage Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
'Bandstand', captured on a visit to his grandparents at the British seaside in Eastbourne, this collection by Samuel Field is a beautiful reminder of days gone by. This artwork is a...
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1980s Post-War Photography

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Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin

End of the Day, Marilyn Monroe, "Something's Got to Give"
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A silver gelatin print by Post War artist Lawrence Schiller. "End of the Day, Marilyn Monroe, "Something's Got to Give"" is a black and white...
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1960s Post-War Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Marilyn 12, No. 29
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Lawrence Schiller. “Marilyn 12, No. 29” is a chromogenic print in color by American artist Lawrence Schiller. The artwork is unsigned and editioned 72/75. Lawrence Sc...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Photography

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Color

Marilyn Platinums #35
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Edition 72/75 Lawrence Schiller only remembers the 60s in this way: Fast. As in: Blur. Which is, for those who lived through it, as accurate a description as one is likely to find...
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1960s Post-War Photography

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Platinum

Bandstand, Eastbourne - Black & White Set of Three Framed Photographs
Located in Cambridge, GB
'Bandstand', set of three framed artworks, captured on a visit to his grandparents at the British seaside in Eastbourne, this collection by Samuel Field is a beautiful reminder of da...
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20th Century Post-War Photography

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Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin

Bandstand III, Eastbourne, UK - Black and White Vintage Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
'Bandstand', captured on a visit to his grandparents at the British seaside in Eastbourne, this collection by Samuel Field is a beautiful reminder of days gone by. This artwork is a...
Category

1980s Post-War Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin

Bandstand I, Eastbourne, UK - Black and White Vintage Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
'Bandstand', captured on a visit to his grandparents at the British seaside in Eastbourne, this collection by Samuel Field is a beautiful reminder of days gone by. This artwork is a...
Category

1980s Post-War Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin

Bandstand III, Eastbourne - Black and White Vintage Portrait Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Captured on a visit to Samuel Field's grandparents in Eastbourne, this collection is a beautiful reminder of days gone by. This artwork is a limited edition of 25, gloss photographi...
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1980s Post-War Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin

Bandstand II, Eastbourne - Black and White Vintage Portrait Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Captured on a visit to Samuel Field's grandparents in Eastbourne, this collection is a beautiful reminder of days gone by. This artwork is a limited edition of 25, gloss photographi...
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1980s Post-War Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin

Orpheus #14 - Gelatin Silver Photograph Balanchine Ballet Classical Male Nudes
Located in Glenford, NY
George Platt Lynes 1948 Photograph #14 of George Balanchine’s Ballet ‘Orpheus’. George Platt Lynes rare original vintage 1948 gelatin silver photograph (dated by the NY City Public Library) of nude dancers Francisco Moncion and Nicholas Magallanes in George Balanchine's iconic mid-20th Century ballet 'Orpheus'. Stamped on verso in dark blue ink at upper center, "GEORGE PLATT LYNES/145 EAST 52 STREET NEW YORK”. Photo shoot took place in NYC. Costumes and Set by ISAMU NAGUCHI. Photo is 7 5/8 x 9 1/4 inches, soft satin finish in excellent condition. This photograph is from Francisco Moncion's original collection given to him by George Platt Lyons. It is one of 14 different poses in the 'Orpheus' series. 8 different photographs are remaining for sale and are available on request. All are original Platt Lyons gelatin silver prints original to Moncion's collection and are stamped by the photographer. Photographs from this celebrated series are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), Museum of Modern Art (MOMA, NYC), the NYC Public Library, and many university art archives. George Platt Lynes (1907–1955), was a gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s through the early 1950...
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1940s Post-War Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, Jo Anne Pflug
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Lawrence Schiller. “Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, Jo Anne Pflug” is a vintage silver gelatin photograph in black and white by Ame...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Photography

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Silver Gelatin

FLOATING GREEN APPLES OVER NAPKIN
Located in New York, NY
hand colored photograph of green apples. Still-Life. framed in wood with gold leaf corners.
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1970s Post-War Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color Pencil

Jerry, Provincetown
Located in London, GB
Silver print, titled (verso) by Paul Cadmus, 11cm x 13cm, (33cm x 38cm framed). the work is framed behind museum quality non-reflective UV glass. In 1937, the painters, Paul Cadmus...
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1940s Post-War Photography

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Silver Gelatin

BC Electric/Sherwood
Located in Vancouver, CA
Fred Herzog BC Electric/Sherwood 1962 Archival pigment print Edition: 6/20 Framed with Tru Vu AR Glass: 30 x 48 in This is the largest format the picture is available in. Fre...
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1960s Post-War Photography

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

1246 – René Groebli, Black and White, Nude, Photography, Body, Woman, Erotic
Located in Zurich, CH
René GROEBLI (*1927, Switzerland) 1246, 1956 Vintage silver gelatin print on Baryta paper Sheet 23 x 19.5 cm (9 x 7 5/8 in.) Unique Framed Signed and date...
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1950s Post-War Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Elysium Cleaners
Located in Vancouver, CA
Fred Herzog Elysium Cleaners 1958 Archival pigment print Framed with Tru Vu AR Glass: 30 x 48 in Edition: 12/20 This is the largest format the picture is available in. Fred...
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1950s Post-War Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Paul Newman in the motion picture "Cool Hand Luke"
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Lawrence Schiller. “Paul Newman in the motion picture "Cool Hand Luke” is a figurative, silver gelatin photograph in black and white by ...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

531 – René Groebli, Black and White, Nude, Photography, Body, Woman, Erotic, Art
Located in Zurich, CH
René GROEBLI (*1927, Switzerland) 531, 1952 Vintage silver gelatin print on Baryta paper Sheet 19.5 x 28.2 cm (7 5/8 x 11 1/8 in.) Unique Framed Signed an...
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1950s Post-War Photography

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Silver Gelatin

521 – René Groebli, Black and White, Nude, Photography, Body, Woman, Erotic, Art
Located in Zurich, CH
René GROEBLI (*1927, Switzerland) 521, 1952 Vintage silver gelatin print on Baryta paper Image 27.6 x 19 cm (10 7/8 x 7 1/2 in.) Sheet 34 x 23 cm (13 3/8 x 9 in.) Unique Framed Signed and dated on verso This photograph is part of the MoMA permanent collection. René Groebli (born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1927) secured his place among the elite of Swiss post-war photographers with his 1949 portfolio MAGIE DER SCHIENE (RAIL MAGIC). In the early fifties Groebli worked as reporter for Life, Picture Post and other international magazines. During the following years he owned a studio for industrial and advertising photography. In 1957 the American Color Annual named him MASTER OF COLOR. In the early 80s Groebli stopped working for advertising and rediscovered for himself the possibilities of expression that black & white photography offers. In 1999 the Zurich Kunsthaus (Art Museum) showed a representative selection of his photographs from the years 1946 to 1996. With NUDES René Groebli gives us a work for sensuous pleasure that had grown over half a century. In the long history of sensual art photography one is hard pressed to find anyone comparable to the Swiss photo...
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1950s Post-War Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Barbra Streisand (fur hat)
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Lawrence Schiller. “Barbra Streisand (fur hat)” is a figurative photograph, vintage silver gelatin photograph in black and white by American artist Lawrence Schiller. The artwork is signed on the verso. Lawrence Schiller only remembers the 60s in this way: Fast. As in: Blur. Which is, for those who lived through it, as accurate a description as one is likely to find about the decade that began with optimism and ended in chaos. It was ten years of turmoil and exploration. And through this turbulent and tumultuous decade, it often seemed that whenever a headline-making news event occurred, Lawrence Schiller was there. Schiller was not just lucky to be in the right place at the right time; he was prescient. He was there to cover the event, to add to it, to help us see it, to aid its meaning and its depth. "It was a time in which things happened awfully fast," Schiller says of the decade. "It was a wild, wild period; an uncontrolled period. I don’t think you had any sense of perspective in the 60s. You had to wait and look back at it, because it was a period in which things were happening that had no rhyme or reason to it. But by the end of the ‘60s I had covered so many stories, had so many magazine covers, I had somehow become part of that decade’s history. And I already had my eye on the future." When Lawrence Schiller got the assignment from the French magazine, Paris Match to photograph Marilyn Monroe on the 20th Century Fox set of Something’s Got to Give, he thought nothing of it. It wasn’t to be a private, studio shoot. He wasn’t going to set up lights, create backgrounds, or use a tripod. Just another assignment, he figured. Monroe by then was firmly established as a figment in the imagination of most young men. The orphan Norma Jean had recreated herself as the blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe. She’d appeared in twenty-nine films by the time Schiller photographed her in black and white and color in May, 1962. The world was unprepared for the moment when Marilyn jumped in the swimming pool in a flesh-colored bikini and came up out of the water au natural. She was all smiles and in her element: the sex goddess...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

307 – René Groebli, Black and White, Street Photography, Art, Vintage Print
Located in Zurich, CH
René GROEBLI (*1927, Switzerland) 307, 1946 / 1952 Vintage silver gelatin print on Baryta paper Sheet 21.5 x 17 cm (8 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.) Unique Print only S...
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1940s Post-War Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Marilyn 12, No. 17
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Marilyn Monroe (splash), Something's Got To Give, May 23, 1962 Edition 6 of 15
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1960s Post-War Photography

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Platinum

1248 – René Groebli, Black and White, Nude, Photography, Body, Woman, Erotic
Located in Zurich, CH
René GROEBLI (*1927, Switzerland) 1248, 1956 Vintage silver gelatin print on Baryta paper Image 17 x 20.2 cm (6 3/4 x 8 in.) Unique Framed Signed and date...
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1950s Post-War Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

1247 – René Groebli, Black and White, Nude, Photography, Body, Woman, Erotic
Located in Zurich, CH
René GROEBLI (*1927, Switzerland) 1247, 1956 Vintage silver gelatin print on Baryta paper Sheet 19.7 x 21.2 cm (7 3/4 x 8 3/8 in.) Unique Framed Signed an...
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1950s Post-War Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Marilyn 12, No. 37, Black and White Photograph of Marilyn Monroe
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This is a black and white portrait of Marilyn Monroe with sparklers photographed by Lawrence Schiller in 1962. Edition 72/75 Lawrence Schiller only remembers the 60s in this way: Fa...
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1960s Post-War Photography

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Platinum

Barbra Streisand (photo session)
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Lawrence Schiller. “Barbra Streisand (photo session)” is a figurative photograph, vintage silver gelatin photograph in black and white by American artist Lawrence Sch...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Marilyn Monroe
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Lawrence Schiller. ""Marilyn Monroe"" is a nude, figurative vintage silver gelatin photograph in black and white by American Post-War artist Lawrence Schiller. Lawrence Schiller only remembers the 60s in this way: Fast. As in: Blur. Which is, for those who lived through it, as accurate a description as one is likely to find about the decade that began with optimism and ended in chaos. It was ten years of turmoil and exploration. And through this turbulent and tumultuous decade, it often seemed that whenever a headline-making news event occurred, Lawrence Schiller was there. Schiller was not just lucky to be in the right place at the right time; he was prescient. He was there to cover the event, to add to it, to help us see it, to aid its meaning and its depth. ""It was a time in which things happened awfully fast,"" Schiller says of the decade. ""It was a wild, wild period; an uncontrolled period. I don’t think you had any sense of perspective in the 60s. You had to wait and look back at it, because it was a period in which things were happening that had no rhyme or reason to it. But by the end of the ‘60s I had covered so many stories, had so many magazine covers, I had somehow become part of that decade’s history. And I already had my eye on the future."" When Lawrence Schiller got the assignment from the French magazine, Paris Match to photograph Marilyn Monroe on the 20th Century Fox set of Something’s Got to Give, he thought nothing of it. It wasn’t to be a private, studio shoot. He wasn’t going to set up lights, create backgrounds, or use a tripod. Just another assignment, he figured. Monroe by then was firmly established as a figment in the imagination of most young men. The orphan Norma Jean had recreated herself as the blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe. She’d appeared in twenty-nine films by the time Schiller photographed her in black and white and color in May, 1962. The world was unprepared for the moment when Marilyn jumped in the swimming pool in a flesh-colored bikini and came up out of the water au natural. She was all smiles and in her element: the sex goddess...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Barbra Streisand (in her hotel room)
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Lawrence Schiller. “Barbra Streisand (in her hotel room)” is a figurative photograph, vintage silver gelatin photograph in black and white by American artist Lawrence Schiller. The artwork is signed on the verso. Lawrence Schiller only remembers the 60s in this way: Fast. As in: Blur. Which is, for those who lived through it, as accurate a description as one is likely to find about the decade that began with optimism and ended in chaos. It was ten years of turmoil and exploration. And through this turbulent and tumultuous decade, it often seemed that whenever a headline-making news event occurred, Lawrence Schiller was there. Schiller was not just lucky to be in the right place at the right time; he was prescient. He was there to cover the event, to add to it, to help us see it, to aid its meaning and its depth. "It was a time in which things happened awfully fast," Schiller says of the decade. "It was a wild, wild period; an uncontrolled period. I don’t think you had any sense of perspective in the 60s. You had to wait and look back at it, because it was a period in which things were happening that had no rhyme or reason to it. But by the end of the ‘60s I had covered so many stories, had so many magazine covers, I had somehow become part of that decade’s history. And I already had my eye on the future." When Lawrence Schiller got the assignment from the French magazine, Paris Match to photograph Marilyn Monroe on the 20th Century Fox set of Something’s Got to Give, he thought nothing of it. It wasn’t to be a private, studio shoot. He wasn’t going to set up lights, create backgrounds, or use a tripod. Just another assignment, he figured. Monroe by then was firmly established as a figment in the imagination of most young men. The orphan Norma Jean had recreated herself as the blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe. She’d appeared in twenty-nine films by the time Schiller photographed her in black and white and color in May, 1962. The world was unprepared for the moment when Marilyn jumped in the swimming pool in a flesh-colored bikini and came up out of the water au natural. She was all smiles and in her element: the sex goddess...
Category

Mid-20th Century Post-War Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Paul Newman in the motion picture "Cool Hand Luke", black and white portrait
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This black and white portrait of actor Paul Newman was taken by Lawrence Schiller in 1967 on the set of the movie "Cool Hand Luke". A silver gelatin photograph by Post War artist Larry Schiller. This celebrity photograph...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Photography

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Silver Gelatin

"Let's Make Love", Marilyn Monroe
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A silver gelatin print by Post War artist Lawrence Schiller. ""Let's Make Love", Marilyn Monroe" is a black and white photograph of Marilyn Monroe...
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1960s Post-War Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Elderly Husband and Wife Group Street Portrait Against a Manhattan Red Wall
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk breaks with tradition and shoots street photography in color. Today in 2022, this does not seem like a big deal. But 50 years ago, in 1972, it was q...
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1970s Post-War Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Post-war photography for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Post-War photography available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add photography created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Samuel Field, Sigmar Polke, Lawrence Schiller, and René Groebli. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Silver Gelatin Print and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Post-War photography, so small editions measuring 8.23 inches across are also available. Prices for photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $193 and tops out at $35,000, while the average work sells for $2,325.

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