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Memphis Slim & Friend, Chicago, 1960

Memphis Slim & Friend, Chicago, 1960

By William Claxton

Located in Santa Monica, CA

William Claxton 1927-2008 Memphis Slim & Friend, Chicago, 1960, printed 1992 Signed, titled, dated, & numbered in pencil with artist's copyright stamp on verso Gelatin Silver Print 1...

Category

1960s Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Eleanor and Barbara, Chicago

Eleanor and Barbara, Chicago

By Harry Callahan

Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA

Signed and numbered on the back of print. Signed in margin lower right front. Signed and inscribed on mat backing board. Image Size: 7 5/8 x 9 1/4 inches; Paper Mount Size: 8 x 10 in...

Category

Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Transparent City #32 – Michael Wolf, Chicago, USA, City, Rooftops, Skyscraper
Transparent City #32 – Michael Wolf, Chicago, USA, City, Rooftops, Skyscraper

Transparent City #32 – Michael Wolf, Chicago, USA, City, Rooftops, Skyscraper

By Michael Wolf

Located in Zurich, CH

His work is held in many permanent collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art in California, the Museum of Cont...

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Transparent City #25 – Michael Wolf, Chicago, USA, City, Rooftops, Skyscraper
Transparent City #25 – Michael Wolf, Chicago, USA, City, Rooftops, Skyscraper

Transparent City #25 – Michael Wolf, Chicago, USA, City, Rooftops, Skyscraper

By Michael Wolf

Located in Zurich, CH

His work is held in many permanent collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art in California, the Museum of Cont...

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Transparent City #11 – Michael Wolf, Chicago, USA, City, Rooftops, Skyscraper
Transparent City #11 – Michael Wolf, Chicago, USA, City, Rooftops, Skyscraper

Transparent City #11 – Michael Wolf, Chicago, USA, City, Rooftops, Skyscraper

By Michael Wolf

Located in Zurich, CH

His work is held in many permanent collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art in California, the Museum of Cont...

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Transparent City #62 – Michael Wolf, Chicago, USA, City, Rooftops, Skyscraper
Transparent City #62 – Michael Wolf, Chicago, USA, City, Rooftops, Skyscraper

Transparent City #62 – Michael Wolf, Chicago, USA, City, Rooftops, Skyscraper

By Michael Wolf

Located in Zurich, CH

His work is held in many permanent collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art in California, the Museum of Cont...

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Chicago Bear by David Yarrow

Chicago Bear by David Yarrow

By David Yarrow

Located in Chicago, IL

Chicago Bear The City of Chicago - 2019 Sizes: Standard Size Image Size: 37" x 41" Framed Size: 52" x 56" Large Size Image Size: 56" x 63.5" Framed Size: 71" x 78.5" Artist State...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

70s Nightclubs of Chicago South Side - Black woman striptease dancer, Framed
70s Nightclubs of Chicago South Side - Black woman striptease dancer, Framed

70s Nightclubs of Chicago South Side - Black woman striptease dancer, Framed

Located in London, GB

His photographs are in major collections including the Smithsonian, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago History Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, Madison Museum of Contemporary...

Category

1970s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

Glass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Silv...

Terracotta 10 Silver Gelatin Print The Art Institute of Chicago
Terracotta 10 Silver Gelatin Print The Art Institute of Chicago

Terracotta 10 Silver Gelatin Print The Art Institute of Chicago

By Aaron Siskind

Located in Miami, FL

Signed and dated verso 1961 Matted with archival board. Not framed The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Richard L. Menschel

Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

The Last Supper in Chicago
The Last Supper in Chicago

The Last Supper in Chicago

By David Yarrow

Located in Chicago, IL

The Last Supper in Chicago Chicago, USA - 2022 Archival Pigment Print on 315gsm Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta Paper Each is signed, dated and numbered on the front. Edition Size: 50...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

The Last Supper in Chicago
The Last Supper in Chicago

The Last Supper in Chicago

By David Yarrow

Located in Chicago, IL

The Last Supper in Chicago Chicago, USA - 2022 Archival Pigment Print on 315gsm Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta Paper Each is signed, dated and numbered on the front. Edition Size: 20...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

The Last Supper in Chicago
The Last Supper in Chicago

The Last Supper in Chicago

By David Yarrow

Located in Chicago, IL

The Last Supper in Chicago Chicago, USA - 2022 Archival Pigment Print on 315gsm Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta Paper Each is signed, dated and numbered on the front. Edition Size: 20...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Muhammad Ali, Chicago, USA, 1966
Muhammad Ali, Chicago, USA, 1966

Muhammad Ali, Chicago, USA, 1966

By Thomas Hoepker

Located in Toronto, ON

4" x 5" Unframed Closed Edition Photograph MAGNUM Photography Hand Signed by Thomas Hoepker

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, C Print, Digital

Love On The Bus, Chicago

Love On The Bus, Chicago

By John Simmons

Located in Santa Monica, CA

John Simmons Love On The Bus, Chicago, 1967 Signed, titled and dated in pencil on verso Gelatin Silver Print Image:12 7/8"x 8 3/4", Paper 14"x11", Matted 20"x16"

Category

20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

American Contemporary Photo by M.K. Yamaoka - Geometric Buildings, Chicago

American Contemporary Photo by M.K. Yamaoka - Geometric Buildings, Chicago

Located in Paris, IDF

Digital Photograph, ed. 3 of 9 HP Premium Satin Photo Paper with archival inks Born in Japan in 1940 and educated at The Art Center College of Design in California, Michael K. Yamao...

Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Ink, Photographic Paper, Digital

Oprah Winfrey on AM Chicago, 1985 - Color Photograph, Matted and Framed
Oprah Winfrey on AM Chicago, 1985 - Color Photograph, Matted and Framed

Oprah Winfrey on AM Chicago, 1985 - Color Photograph, Matted and Framed

By Richard Shay

Located in Chicago, IL

An intensity and empathy that will become her trademark, is so apparent on Oprah's face as she interviews a guest on her first talk show - AM Chicago. Oprah began her storied career...

Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Man in makeup - 70s Nightclubs of Chicago South Side -Framed Vintage Photograph
Man in makeup - 70s Nightclubs of Chicago South Side -Framed Vintage Photograph

Man in makeup - 70s Nightclubs of Chicago South Side -Framed Vintage Photograph

By Michael Abramson

Located in London, GB

His photographs are in major collections including the Smithsonian, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago History Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, Madison Museum of Contemporary...

Category

1970s Performance Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin, B...

The Nixons on LaSalle Street, Chicago, 1968, Color Photograph, Signed on Back
The Nixons on LaSalle Street, Chicago, 1968, Color Photograph, Signed on Back

The Nixons on LaSalle Street, Chicago, 1968, Color Photograph, Signed on Back

By Art Shay

Located in Chicago, IL

Thomas Dyja, author of The Third Coast “Chicago’s Art Shay in many ways is to American photography what Nelson Algren was to American writing: that rare and absolutely necessary ci...

Category

1960s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Chicago 41 ̊ 52’ 57” N 2015-09-17 LST 0:05
Chicago 41 ̊ 52’ 57” N 2015-09-17 LST 0:05

Chicago 41 ̊ 52’ 57” N 2015-09-17 LST 0:05

By Thierry Cohen

Located in New York, NY

Chicago from Thierry Cohen's "Darkened Cities" series. 26 x 40 inch archival pigment print Edition of 5 Also available: 39 x 60 inch archival pigment print.

Category

2010s Landscape Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color

American Contemporary Photo by M.K. Yamaoka - Chicago, Old and New

American Contemporary Photo by M.K. Yamaoka - Chicago, Old and New

Located in Paris, IDF

Digital Photograph,l ed. 3 of 9 HP Premium Satin Photo Paper with archival inks Born in Japan in 1940 and educated at The Art Center College of Design in California, Michael K. Yama...

Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Digital, Archival Ink

Aaron Siskind Signed Silver Gelatin Print Chicago 1952
Aaron Siskind Signed Silver Gelatin Print Chicago 1952

Aaron Siskind Signed Silver Gelatin Print Chicago 1952

By Aaron Siskind

Located in Bridgeport, CT

Originally a documentary photographer, Aaron Siskind turned away from representation and towards abstraction in the 1940s, using his camera to capture the graphic patterns, shapes, a...

Category

Mid-20th Century American Photography

Materials

Steel

Man With A Pistol, Chicago, 1965

Man With A Pistol, Chicago, 1965

By John Simmons

Located in Santa Monica, CA

John Simmons Man With A Pistol, Chicago, 1965 Signed, titled and dated in pencil on verso Gelatin Silver Print Image: 8 3/4"x12 7/8", Paper 11"x14", Matted 16"x20"

Category

20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Oprah Winfrey on AM Chicago - Informal Portrait of the Talk Show Host, Framed
Oprah Winfrey on AM Chicago - Informal Portrait of the Talk Show Host, Framed

Oprah Winfrey on AM Chicago - Informal Portrait of the Talk Show Host, Framed

By Richard Shay

Located in Chicago, IL

Richard Shay met Oprah in the very early days of both of their careers. Here, he captures the then fairly unknown talk show host in an informal portrait. It is a pose much of the w...

Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Jessica on Rookery Stairs, Chicago, Illinois

Jessica on Rookery Stairs, Chicago, Illinois

By Rodney Smith

Located in New York, NY

Estate embossed and editioned on the recto and accompanied by an estate signed Certificate of Authenticity

Category

1990s Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Man's Work, 1960: Hugh Hefner and Bunnies at the Playboy Key Club, Chicago

Man's Work, 1960: Hugh Hefner and Bunnies at the Playboy Key Club, Chicago

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

Man's Work, 1960: Hugh Hefner and Bunnies at the Playboy Key Club, Chicago Staley-Wise Gallery offers photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Ima...

Category

1960s Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Richard Haas Photographs, Proposal: 720 North Michigan Avenue Chicago 1977
Richard Haas Photographs, Proposal: 720 North Michigan Avenue Chicago 1977

Richard Haas Photographs, Proposal: 720 North Michigan Avenue Chicago 1977

By Richard Haas

Located in Atlanta, GA

Proposal: 720 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, by Richard Haas, American, 1977. Gelatin silver print photographs framed under glass. Signed lower right.

Category

Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Photography

Materials

Glass, Wood, Paper

House Labels in Yellow IV (Chicago, Classic, O.G., Dance, Club, Iconic, 30% OFF)
House Labels in Yellow IV (Chicago, Classic, O.G., Dance, Club, Iconic, 30% OFF)

House Labels in Yellow IV (Chicago, Classic, O.G., Dance, Club, Iconic, 30% OFF)

By Lord Fauntleroy

Located in Kansas City, MO

Lord Fauntleroy House Labels in Yellow 241206-04 High Gloss Metal Print with Float Mount Hanger Year: 2024 Size: 12 inches diameter Signed: On Label Edition: 7 COA provided Lord Fau...

Category

2010s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Metal

House Labels in Yellow II (Chicago, Classic, O.G., Dance, Club, Iconic, 30% OFF)
House Labels in Yellow II (Chicago, Classic, O.G., Dance, Club, Iconic, 30% OFF)

House Labels in Yellow II (Chicago, Classic, O.G., Dance, Club, Iconic, 30% OFF)

By Lord Fauntleroy

Located in Kansas City, MO

Lord Fauntleroy House Labels in Yellow 241206-02 High Gloss Metal Print with Float Mount Hanger Year: 2024 Size: 12 inches diameter Signed: On Label Edition: 7 COA provided Lord Fau...

Category

2010s Street Art Figurative Photography

Materials

Metal

Untitled (couple dancing by jukebox), Chicago, 1962

Untitled (couple dancing by jukebox), Chicago, 1962

By Bruce Davidson

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Untitled (couple dancing by jukebox), Chicago, 1962 Signed in pencil on verso Gelatin silver print Image: 12-1/2" x 18-3/4", Paper: 16" x 20", Matted: 20" x 24"

Category

1960s Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Juliet with One Peacock Feather Eye, Chicago

Juliet with One Peacock Feather Eye, Chicago

By György Kepes

Located in Denton, TX

Signed, dated and numbered. Portfolio Twelve Photographs, No. 13 György Kepes was a Hungarian artist born in 1906. He studied painting at the Budapest’s Academy of Fine Arts. In 193...

Category

1930s Bauhaus Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Observant Father, 1949, Chicago, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
Observant Father, 1949, Chicago, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print

Observant Father, 1949, Chicago, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print

By Art Shay

Located in Chicago, IL

Street photography was Art's true passion. He never went anywhere without his camera so he could capture moments like this one - a priest on a Chicago street "observing" one of his ...

Category

1940s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Contemporary Photography "Situ-Acciones III" by Dionisio González, 2001
Contemporary Photography "Situ-Acciones III" by Dionisio González, 2001

Contemporary Photography "Situ-Acciones III" by Dionisio González, 2001

Located in Madrid, MD

His work can be found in different Museums and Collections like the MNCARS of Madrid, the ING’s Art Collection of Amsterdam, the Museum of Contemporary Photography of Chicago, the Ce...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Mock Duel Between Nelson Algren and Marcel Marceau, Chicago, 1958
Mock Duel Between Nelson Algren and Marcel Marceau, Chicago, 1958

Mock Duel Between Nelson Algren and Marcel Marceau, Chicago, 1958

By Art Shay

Located in Chicago, IL

Thomas Dyja, author of The Third Coast “Chicago’s Art Shay in many ways is to American photography what Nelson Algren was to American writing: that rare and absolutely necessary ci...

Category

1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Marilyn Monroe In The Washroom of the Chicago Airport, 1955

Marilyn Monroe In The Washroom of the Chicago Airport, 1955

By Eve Arnold

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Eve Arnold Marilyn Monroe In The Washroom of the Chicago Airport, 1955 Titled, dated, numbered in pencil on Verso. Estate stamp on verso. Archival Pigment Print Image: 15 x 22", Pape...

Category

1950s Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Afternoon Game at table 2, Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1948

Afternoon Game at table 2, Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1948

Located in Toronto, ON

4" x 5" Unframed Closed Edition Photograph MAGNUM Photography Hand Signed by Wayne F. Miller

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, C Print, Digital

Contemporary Photography "Situ-Acciones II" by Dionisio González, 2001
Contemporary Photography "Situ-Acciones II" by Dionisio González, 2001

Contemporary Photography "Situ-Acciones II" by Dionisio González, 2001

Located in Madrid, MD

His work can be found in different Museums and Collections like the MNCARS of Madrid, the ING’s Art Collection of Amsterdam, the Museum of Contemporary Photography of Chicago, the Ce...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Fruity by Patty Carroll, 2023, Archival Pigment Print, Photography

Fruity by Patty Carroll, 2023, Archival Pigment Print, Photography

By Patty Carroll

Located in Denton, TX

Carroll’s photography has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, The Art Institute in Chicago, White Box Museum in Beijing, and The Photographers Associ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Puzzled by Patty Carroll, 2022, Archival Pigment Print, Photography

Puzzled by Patty Carroll, 2022, Archival Pigment Print, Photography

By Patty Carroll

Located in Denton, TX

Carroll’s photography has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, The Art Institute in Chicago, White Box Museum in Beijing, and The Photographers Associ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Cowgirl by Patty Carroll, 2020, Archival Pigment Print, Photography
Cowgirl by Patty Carroll, 2020, Archival Pigment Print, Photography

Cowgirl by Patty Carroll, 2020, Archival Pigment Print, Photography

By Patty Carroll

Located in Denton, TX

Carroll’s photography has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, The Art Institute in Chicago, White Box Museum in Beijing, and The Photographers Associ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Dancing crowd 70s Nightclubs of Chicago, Framed Vintage Silver Print
Dancing crowd 70s Nightclubs of Chicago, Framed Vintage Silver Print

Dancing crowd 70s Nightclubs of Chicago, Framed Vintage Silver Print

By Michael Abramson

Located in London, GB

His photographs are in major collections including the Smithsonian, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago History Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, Madison Museum of Contemporary...

Category

1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin, B...

Vintage Gelatin Silver Print: 1970s Chicago Nightclub Scene - Dancer, Framed
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print: 1970s Chicago Nightclub Scene - Dancer, Framed

Vintage Gelatin Silver Print: 1970s Chicago Nightclub Scene - Dancer, Framed

By Michael Abramson

Located in London, GB

His photographs are in major collections including the Smithsonian, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago History Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, Madison Museum of Contemporary...

Category

1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin, B...

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The first permanent image created by a camera — which materialized during the 1820s — is attributed to Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. The French inventor was on to something for sure. Kodak introduced roll film in the 1880s, allowing photography to become more democratic, although cameras wouldn’t be universally accessible until several decades later. 

Digital photographic techniques, software, smartphone cameras and social-networking platforms such as Instagram have made it even easier in the modern era for budding photographers to capture the world around them as well as disseminate their images far and wide. 

What might leading figures of visual art such as Andy Warhol have done with these tools at their disposal?

Today, when we aren’t looking at the digital photos that inundate us on our phones, we look to the past to celebrate the photographers who have broken rules as well as records — provocative and prolific artists like Horst P. Horst, Lillian Bassman and Helmut Newton, who altered the face of fashion and portrait photography; visionary documentary photographers such as Gordon Parks, whose best-known work was guided by social justice; and pioneers of street photography such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, who shot for revolutionary travel magazines like Holiday with the likes of globetrotting society lensman Slim Aarons.

Find photographers you may not know in Introspective and The Study — where you’ll read about Berenice Abbott, who positioned herself atop skyscrapers for the perfect shot, or “conceptual artist-adventurer” Charles Lindsay, whose work combines scientific rigor with artistic expression, or Massimo Listri, known for his epic interiors of opulent Old World libraries. Photographer Jeannette Montgomery Barron was given a Kodak camera as a child. Later, she shot on Polaroid film before buying her first 35mm camera in her teens. Barron's stunning portraits of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Warhol and other artists chronicle a crucial chapter of New York’s cultural history.

Throughout the past two centuries, photographers have used their medium to create expressive work that has resonated for generations. Shop a voluminous collection of this powerful fine photography on 1stDibs. Search by photographer to find the perfect piece for your living room wall, or spend some time with the work organized under various categories, such as landscape photography, nude photography and more.