Jack Mitchell Photography

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of artist Josef Levi with his work, 1970. Signed on the print verso by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with ...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Italian-American tenor/actor Sergio Franchi photographed for a feature article, 1973. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives wi...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of dancer/choreographer Louis Falco in a costume designed and constructed by artist Robert Indiana for the starring role in 'Timewright', 1...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Fernando Bujones, 1968. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print recto. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchel...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of dancer/choreographer Blondell Cummings. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with ...

8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams photographed January 20, 1966. This is a print tha...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Carmen de Lavallade performing with Glen Tetley Dance Company, 1969. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the p...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes dir...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Paul Taylor rehearsing a new dance in his studio, 1962. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Tony award-winning playwright Terrence McNally photographed nude in Mitchell's studio for 'After Dark' m...

Jack Mitchell vintage mid-20th Century photograph of modern dancer Louis Falco in his most iconic pose in 1972. Copyright stamped and dated 1972 and personally signed by Jack Mitchel...

This photograph of famed operatic soprano Leontyne Price was taken in 1980 during an album cover session. One of Mitchell's most beautiful color photogr...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of composer and musician Ravi Shankar, performing at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in 1976. Signed by Ja...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of British pop artist and his wife Galina pose for wedding photos in Jack Mitchell's studio, 1969. The quintes...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph, of Academy Award-winning actor Christopher Waken in 1973. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchel...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Itallian film director Bernardo Bertolucci, 1979. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a cer...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of dancer and choreographer Blondell Cummings performing in 1991. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes directly from the Jack...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of modern dancer/choreographer Bill Cratty photographed in 1981. Signed in pencil on the reverse by Jack Mitchell and numbered 2/25. Comes ...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Andy Warhol on stage with the cast of his play "Pork" at La Mama Experimental Theater Club, 1971. Signed by Jack ...

8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph of dancer/choreographer José Limón, with Pauline Koner, Lucas Hoving, and Betty Jones performing his most famous ...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Jose Limon, Pauline Koner, Lucas Hoving, Betty Jones performing his ballet "Moor's Pavane" at Jacob's Pillow, 1951. Signed by Jack Mitch...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Dancer/Choreographer Paul Taylor "and his dancers performing 'Private Domain' in 1969. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes...

Warhol Superstar 'Trash' star, and model Jane Forth, 'After Dark' nude cover shot for the April 1970 issue, photographed in 1970. This is a vintage gelatin silver print, selenium ton...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. This photograph was from a se...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Adult film star Cal Culver (AKA Casey Donovan) photographed in 1972 for 'After Dark' magazine. Signed by Ja...

8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph of artist Robert Indiana posing in his studio with his famous LOVE sculpture, 1969.. This is a print tha...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. This photograph was from a se...

8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Broadway stage and Hollywood film actress Gloria Swanson photographed at her home in New York City in 1965. This is a print that was publ...

11 x 14" Chromogenic silver halide color print (Kodak Professional Paper) The principal cast of "Guys and Dolls" Musical Revival on Broadway in 1992. Comes directly from the Jack Mit...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of musician/singer David Byrne, founding member and principal songwriter of the American New Wave b...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Artist/Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet, with friends Jason McCoy and Ron Caran, 1971, nude, with psychedelic multiple exposure effect, pho...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein and his wife Dorothy in his New York studio in 1968. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes direc...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of dancer Carmen De Lavallade, 1961. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate o...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of actor, choreographer, director, costume designer, and dancer Geoffrey Holder, 1964. Comes directly from ...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. This photograph was from a se...

8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph of dancer, choreographer Lar Lubovitch photographed in 1964. This is a print that was published by a newspaper ...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Martha Graham dancer Ethel Winter performing "Frontier" in 1964. Signed on the print verso by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jac...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Adult film star Cal Culver (AKA Casey Donovan) photographed in 1972 for the cover of 'After Dark' magazine....

11 x 14" Chromogenic silver halide color print (Kodak Professional Paper) Argentine ballet dancer Julio Bocca photographed in 1991. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives wit...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of composer David Del Tredici, photographed nude - an extremely unusual multiple exposure with his music, in 1973. Signed by Jack Mitchell ...

Warhol superstar Joe Dallesandro photographed nude for After Dark magazine, 1970, shortly after starring in Andy Warhol's 'Trash'. Vintage 11 x 14 inch silver gelatin exhibition phot...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Argentinian dancers Julio Bocca and Eleonora Cassano photographed nude for the December 1993 issue of Pl...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of famed American Ballet Theatre dancer Royes Fernandez, considered to be America's first premier ba...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of twin brothers Jay and Jed Johnson photographed for 'After Dark' magazine on June 8, 1970. Signed by J...

Jack Mitchell (September 13, 1925 – November 7, 2013) was an American photographer. He photographed American artists, dancers, film and theatre performers, musicians and writers.[1] His portraiture, lighting skill, and ability to capture dancers in what he termed "moving stills" made him one of the most important dance photographers of the 20th century. He photographed the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for three decades, producing a body of work that includes over ten thousand images. He was the official photographer of the American Ballet Theatre for a decade and also photographed dancers for other top ballet companies in the US and Canada. His work appeared in major newspapers and on the cover of major magazines, including over 160 covers of Dance Magazine. Arts Magazine called him the first photographer to treat creative individuals as characters outside of their works. Smithsonian called him the benchmark by which other dance photographers assessed their own work. Early life Mitchell was born in Key West in 1925, and he was raised there and in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, where his family moved in 1931.[2][3] His father worked for the railroad.[2] He became interested in photography, and when he was twelve his parents bought him a Kodak Baby Brownie for $54.[2][3][4] Career By age 15 he had met Florida's licensing standards to obtain a press pass, by age 16 he was working as a commercial photographer,[1][5] and his first published photograph was of Veronica Lake, who was visiting Florida while on a war bonds tour.[2] Mitchell was an Army photographer during World War II, working in Italy.[2] In 1946, after returning home from the army, he set up his first studio in New Smyrna Beach.[1] In 1949, when he was 24, at the invitation of Ted Shawn, he visited Jacob's Pillow Dance and became interested in dance photography, which became a specialty.[2][5] He moved his studio to New York City in 1950.[6] He was the American Ballet Theatre's official photographer.[2] Starting in the 1961 he spent decades photographing the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, producing over 10,000 images of the company;[2][5] Ailey's biographer Jennifer Dunning credited Mitchell's work for "help[ing] to sell the company early on".[5] Mitchell also photographed dancers of the Boston Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Pennsylvania Ballet, Houston Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet.[6] Mitchell shot over 160 covers for Dance Magazine;[2] his 168th cover was published in July 2003.[4] His term for what he was attempting to capture with dance photography was "moving stills."[5] He was known as a lighting expert.[2][5] Mitchell also photographed other artists, entertainers, musicians, and writers, including John Lennon and Yoko Ono just a month before Lennon was murdered.[2] Other subjects included Leonard Bernstein, David Byrne, Truman Capote, Anthony Quinn, Jack Nicholson, Patti LuPone, Keith Haring, Neil Simon, Angela Lansbury, Twyla Tharp, Ned Rorem, Leontyne Price, Alfred Hitchcock, Spalding Gray, Ann Reinking, Andy Warhol, and Natalie Wood.[2] He spent a decade photographing Gloria Swanson.[5] His work appeared in The New York Times, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Life, Newsweek, People, Rolling Stone, Time, Vanity Fair and Vogue, among others.[2][4][6] Mitchell was the subject of a 2006 documentary, My Life is Black and White, directed by Craig Highberger.[2] His books include Icons & Idols (1998), for which Edward Albee wrote the foreword,[2][4] and a book of his Alvin Ailey photography...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Conductor, Pianist & Composer Michael Tilson Thomas, and his partner/manager (now husband) Joshua Mark R...

Professional bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger posing at the top of his form in October 1976 for a cover and feature article in After Dark magazine. One of Mitchell's most beautiful ...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of author Christopher Isherwood and his partner, artist Don Bachardy, 1974. Comes directly from the J...

11 x 14" Chromogenic silver halide color print (Kodak Professional Paper) of composer John Corigliano, 1991. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of auth...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of dancer Edmond La Fosse, 1975. Signed on the verso by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archiv...

13 x 19" lifetime vintage color photograph of Warhol Superstar Jane Forth nude, this is the only copy of this color photograph ever signed by Jack Mitchell....

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of silver screen superstar Gloria Swanson in her Rolls Royce during a Manhattan shopping trip on Fifth Avenue in 1960. Comes directly from ...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of painter Lowell Nesbitt in his Manhattan studio with his paintings, 1969. Signed on the print verso by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Modernist Realism Painter Philip Pearlstein in his Manhattan studio with recent work, 1971. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. ...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Adagio dancers Luis Villanueve and Zinaida Yeviko, 1975, signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes directly from the Jack Mitch...

Jack Mitchell, American Photographer (1925-2013). Joe Dallesandro, ca. 1973. 11 x 14 inches; 12 x 15 inches framed. Period print from artist's studio. The image was intended for ...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of musician/singer David Byrne, founding member and principal songwriter of the American New Wave band 'Talking Heads', with dancer and music video choreographer Toni Basil...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of John Lennon and Yoko Ono photographed November 2, 1980, the last comprehensive photo session of...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of dancer and choreographer Molissa Fenley performing 'State of Darkness' topless at the Kitchen performance ...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Paul Morrissey, director of Andy Warhol's ‘Trash’, photographed for Vogue magazine on September 21, 1970. ...