Phillip Townsend Art

This vintage silver gelatin print is signed in pencil on the mount beneath the image. Printed in 1948 in an edition of 75 numbered copies. This print is from presentation set #33. Po...

Fair Fun (1938) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Getty Images) Two young women enjoying themselves on the 'Caterpillar' ride at Southend Fair, Essex, October 1938...

New Look (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Getty Images) A model wearing a black cocktail dress and a black velvet wide-brimmed hat, designed by Ronald Paterson...

Signed, dated and print date in pencil on print verso. Ralph Steiner was an American photographer and filmmaker born 1899 in Cleveland Ohio. He studied photography at the highly ren...

"Marilyn Monroe, 1962" Photography 16 x 24 in Edition 57/75 by Lawrence Schiller Silver Gelatin print Edition 57/75 Signed and numbered by the artist Printed later On Wednesday, May 23, 1962, Marilyn Monroe stepped onto the set of Something’s Got to Give to film what would become one of the most iconic and talked-about moments of her career: the now-legendary nude swimming pool scene. This extraordinary day—captured in a series of rare photographs by renowned photographer Lawrence Schiller—has since become a cornerstone of Hollywood history. Key moments that make this session truly historic: A Bold Cinematic First: Monroe spent nearly four hours in the pool on the 20th Century Fox lot, filming a sequence in which her character, Ellen Arden, appears to swim nude...

Chick's Candy Store, Pitt St. N.Y. by Walter Rosenblum is a black and white photograph depicting a group of people gathered in front of a store on a New York City street. Gelatin Si...

This print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount and stamped on the back of the mount. Despite Morley Baer’s adherence to the West Coast landscape tradition, his interests i...

Edition of 50 Signed and numbered.

Gorgeous Joan (1931) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Alamy) A woman in white two-piece bathing suit water skiing cir...

"Marilyn Monroe, 1962" Photography 16 x 24 in Edition 40/75 by Lawrence Schiller Silver Gelatin print Edition 40/75 Signed and numbered by the artist Printed later On Wednesday, May 23, 1962, Marilyn Monroe stepped onto the set of Something’s Got to Give to film what would become one of the most iconic and talked-about moments of her career: the now-legendary nude swimming pool scene. This extraordinary day—captured in a series of rare photographs by renowned photographer Lawrence Schiller—has since become a cornerstone of Hollywood history. Key moments that make this session truly historic: A Bold Cinematic First: Monroe spent nearly four hours in the pool on the 20th Century Fox lot, filming a sequence in which her character, Ellen Arden, appears to swim nude...

Dasha & Mari - Models In Hats - limited edition 20x20" inches oversize C print - numbered and stamped limited to 100 only. Sumptuous, sensual with erotic undertones, this is a beaut...

Last Bus In London by Bert Hardy Limited Edition silver gelatine print A couple saying goodbye on a bus in Shaftesbury Avenue in London, July 1953 . Original Publication: Picture Post - 6576 - Known Your Piccadilly - pub. 4th July 1953 (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Archive London England) Paper size 12x16 inches / 31 x 41 cm Produced utilising the original negative Numbered and stamped by the Getty Archive London Limited edition to 300 only Silver gelatine fibre based baryta paper print Certificate of authenticity included printed 2024 Ships securely from London. Other sizes and Framing available on request. Bert Hardy Bert Hardy Albert William Thomas Hardy (19 May 1913 – 3 July 1995) was an English documentary and press photographer known for his work published in the Picture Post magazine between 1941 and 1957. Life and work Born in Blackfriars, Bert Hardy rose from humble working class origins in Southwark, London. The eldest of seven children, he left school at age 14 to work for a chemist who also processed photos. His first big sale came in 1936 when he photographed King George V and Queen Mary in a passing carriage during the Silver Jubilee celebrations, and sold 200 small prints of his best view of the King. His first assignment, at age 23, was to photograph Hungarian actor Sakall at the Mayfair Hotel. Hardy freelanced for The Bicycle magazine, and bought his first small-format 35 mm Leica. He signed on with the General Photographic Agency as a Leica photographer, later founding his own freelance firm, Criterion. General Photographic Agency General Photographic Agency a Fleet Street, London agency, sold photos at least between 1880-1950. Picture Post and World War II In 1941, Hardy was recruited by the then editor Tom Hopkinson of the leading picture publication of the 1930s to the 1950s, Picture Post. Founded in 1938 and funded by publisher Edward Hulton, the magazine's first editor was Hungarian émigré Stefan Lorant (1901–97) assisted by Hopkinson, who took over as editor from 1940. The picture-centric, left-leaning and reasonably-priced publication was highly successful and circulation soon rose to over a million. Hardy's photographer colleagues included Felix H. Man (aka Hans Baumann...