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Period: 1920s
Vintage Travel Elegance - Giant Oversize Silver Gelatin Print Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Vintage Travel Elegance
circa 1925
by H Armstrong Roberts Archive
Passengers Awaiting Boarding Beside Classic Propeller Aircraft circa 1925
Giant supersize silver gelatine print ...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Napier 6" by William A Atkins
Located in London, GB
"Napier 6" by William A Atkins
A Gloster Napier 6 Supermarine seaplane at Calshot, in preparation for the Schneider Trophy race.
Unframed
Paper Size: 20" x 24'' (inches)
Printed 2...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Vintage Travel Elegance - Giant Oversize Silver Gelatin Print Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Vintage Travel Elegance
circa 1925
by H Armstrong Roberts Archive
Passengers Awaiting Boarding Beside Classic Propeller Aircraft circa 1925
Giant supersize silver gelatine print ...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Works in The Champs Elysées Paris, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Press Agency ROL, Paris, August 1928. Construction works in the Champs Elysées, Paris.
Features:
Original silver gelatin prin...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lethal Losch (1929) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Happy Marilyn (1956) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)
6th April 1929:
Tilly Losch (1904 - 1974) dancing in an extravagant cost...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
El Capitan, Yosemite Valley
By Ansel Adams
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This vintage silver gelatin photograph, printed in the late 1920s on Kodak Vitava Athena paper, is signed in pencil beneath the image with a typeset title centered in the lower margi...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Street Musician in Lyon, France 1930, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photography. Street musicians, and singers in Lyon, France, circa 1930.
Street musicians playing accordion with singers in Lyon, Fra...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Post Queue" by Fox Photos
Located in London, GB
"Post Queue" by Fox Photos
December 1926: Schoolchildren posting letters in the playground of the Red Lion Street School.
Unframed
Paper Size: 20" x 24'' (...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
'Derby Spectator' Giant Oversize Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Derby Spectator
A spectator looking through binoculars at the Derby horse races, Epsom, Surrey, June 1923. (Photo by Hulton / Getty Archive)
Darkro...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Derby Spectator" by Topical Press Agency
Located in London, GB
"Derby Spectator" by Topical Press Agency
A spectator looking through binoculars at the Derby horse races, Epsom, Surrey, June 1923.
Unframed
Paper S...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
The Seine River at The Paris Decorative Art Exhibition 1925, B and W Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photography.
The International Decorative Arts Exhibition in Paris, in October 1925. By the river Seine, access to the Department Sto...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
View of a bridge in Lyon, France 1927 Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph. View of a bridge in Lyon, France, March 1927.
This view of the Pont de l'Université in Lyon, France, was taken from the ...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
2S Shell
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Weston created 2S after his return to America from two extended stays in Mexico between 1923 and 1927. Throughout 1927 he took twenty-six still life images of shells, including Nauti...
Category
1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Original Black and White Photograph of Johnny Weissmuller
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Black and White Photograph of Johnny Weissmuller
Black and white photograph 1932, depicting Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller (Hungary, 1904-1984) by George Hurrell (Ameri...
Category
Photorealist 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
'Rainy Embankment' London (Limited Edition) Oversize
Located in London, GB
A man standing alone on a rain-drenched pavement on the River Thames Embankment, London. August 1929.
(Photo By Fox Photos/ The Getty Images Photographic Archives London, England)
...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
'Derby Spectator' Limited Edition Oversize Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
Derby Spectator
A spectator looking through binoculars at the Derby horse races, Epsom, Surrey, June 1923. (Photo by Hulton / Getty Archive)
Silver gelatin fibre print
20 x 24" p...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Magnolia Blossom
Located in New York, NY
This supremely elegant photograph illustrates why Imogen Cunningham’s botanical pictures are a keystone of modernist photography. In the 1920s, Cunnin...
Category
1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Clara Bow Posed with Dog
Located in Austin, TX
"Black and white studio capture of classic film actress Clara Bow posed smikling with a dog, circa 1927.
Clara Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film...
Category
Contemporary 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Seine and Barges near Paris, 1926, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photography. View of Charenton le Pont, east suburb of Paris, France, June 1926.
This original photography shows a view of the canal...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Chelsea FC Stamford Bridge (1920) - Giant Oversize Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Stamford Bridge (1920)
Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Alfred Hind Robinson/Getty Images Archive)
Stamford Bridge, Chelsea Foo...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Rainy Embankment (1929) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Fair Fun (1938) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
August 1929: A man standing alone on a rain-drenched pavement on the River Thames Embankment, London...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
"Rainy Embankment" by Fox Photos
Located in London, GB
"Rainy Embankment" by Fox Photos
August 1929: A man standing alone on a rain-drenched pavement on the River Thames Embankment, London.
Unframed
Paper Size:...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
The Eiffel Tower (1929) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
The Eiffel Tower (1929) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Alamy)
Eiffel Tower built in 1889 seen from Trocadero wrought iron doors Paris France,
circa 1929.
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Size: 40x30''
Printed Later
Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
NOTE OTHER SIZES OF THIS IMAGE AVAILABLE
10 x 12''
12 x 16''
16 x 20''
20 x 24''
20 x 30''
30 x 40''
FRAMING AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
About the Artist:
H. Armstrong ROBERTS (1883-1947) is an artist born in 1883 The oldest auction result ever registered on the website for an artwork by this artist is a photography sold in 2012.
ACTORS ON SET, Bette Davis, Ladies Fashion...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
2S Shell
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Weston created 2S after his return to America from two extended stays in Mexico between 1923 and 1927. Throughout 1927 he took twenty-six still life images of shells, including Nauti...
Category
1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Jean Cocteau" by Keystone-France
Located in London, GB
"Jean Cocteau" by Keystone-France
Portrait in the 1920s or 1930s of the writer Jean Cocteau in a decor that relates to his passion for Greek tragedy. Co...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Lethal Losch" by Sasha
Located in London, GB
"Lethal Losch" by Sasha
6th April 1929: Tilly Losch (1904 - 1974) dancing in an extravagant costume, in a scene from the show `Wake Up And Dream'.
Unframe...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Clara Bow: The Roaring 20s' "It Girl"
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning black and white promotional portrait of Clara Bow gazing into the camera.
Clara Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and ...
Category
Contemporary 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
A view in Lyon, France 1927, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photography. The Town Hall street in Lyon, France, March 1927.
A view of the town hall street in Lyon, France, dated March 13th, 192...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
On the Beach near Paris, 1920s - Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Press Agency ROL, Paris 1929. Summer on the beach near Paris.
Features:
Original silver gelatin print photography unframed.
P...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Stamford Bridge (1920) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Stamford Bridge (1920)
Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Alfred Hind Robinson/Getty Images Archive)
Stamford Bridge, Chelsea Football...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
'Derby Spectator' Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
Derby Spectator
A spectator looking through binoculars at the Derby horse races, Epsom, Surrey, June 1923. (Photo by Hulton / Getty Archive)
Silver gelatin fibre print
16 x 20" p...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
W.C. Fields Eating a Pizza
Located in Austin, TX
This candid black and white capture features W.C. Fields eating a pizza.
W.C. Fields was an American comedian, actor, juggler, and writer. Fields' comic persona was a misanthropic a...
Category
Contemporary 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Mohammad Ali Alabaster (1920) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
Mohammad Ali Alabaster (1920) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Alamy)
Architectural view of the Mohammad Ali Alabaster Mosque in the citadel, ...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Kearsarge Pinnacles, Southern Sierra
By Ansel Adams
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This vintage silver gelatin photograph, printed in the late 1920s on Kodak Vitava Athena paper, is signed in pencil beneath the image with a typeset title centered in the lower margi...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ted Higby at Skyline Rodeo, 1928
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes framing with UV plexiglas, free shipping and a 14 day return policy.
Ted Higby at Skyline Rodeo, 1928
15 x 12 inch gelatin silver print
Image Size: 14 x 8.5 inches
Frame size: 22.5 x 17.5 x 2 inches
Edition of 15
Lora Webb Nichols was born in 1883 and grew up in the small mining town of Encampment, Wyoming. At the age of 16 Lora received her first camera and from that moment and for the next few decades she produced work that is both stunning in its singular voice and revealing in the world it opens up for us.
At first Nichols photographed her family, friends, and the landscape around Encampment, but when the town experienced a copper mining boom Nichols expanded her scope to become a photographer for hire shooting portraits and industrial photographs. When the boom collapsed, Nichols took the risk of opening her own business in Encampment - The Rocky Mountain Studio - which opened in 1925. The studio ran for ten years, accumulating 24,000 negatives that illustrate the lives and environment of the people living in and around the town while creating a distinctive and surprising body of work. If one was to attempt an analogy – Nichols’ pictures fit somewhere between Lartigue and Lange - joyful and generous while objectively intimate. In particular what seems to distinguish Nichols’ work is the way she sees the world from a female perspective. As Vince Aletti...
Category
Other Art Style 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Armco Steel, Ohio, 1922 (1M)
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Titled with artist's reference number and signed in pencil by Cole Weston with Edward Weston's facsimile signature on back of mount. Printed later from the original negative by Cole ...
Category
1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sierra Junipers, Upper Merced Basin, Yosemite Valley
By Ansel Adams
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This silver gelatin print on Kodak Vitava Athena paper is signed in pencil beneath the image with typeset title on the front of the sheet. This print was made in 1927 for the Parmeli...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Paris, Decorative Art Exhibition 1925 The Ruhlmann Pavilion, B and W Photography
By Press Photo
Located in Atlanta, GA
An exceptional original silver gelatin black-and-white photograph from Press Agency, Paris, 1925, capturing a striking view of the International Decorative Arts Exhibition in October...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Paris, Decorative Art Exhibition 1925, Barge on the Seine, B and W Photography
By Press Photo
Located in Atlanta, GA
An exceptional original silver gelatin black-and-white photograph capturing the International Decorative Arts Exhibition in Paris, October 1925. Floating on the Seine River, the "Bel...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'Derby Spectator' Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
Derby Spectator
A spectator looking through binoculars at the Derby horse races, Epsom, Surrey, June 1923. (Photo by Hulton / Getty Archive)
Silver gelatin fibre print
12 x 16" p...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Macaroni, from Bauhaus I Portfolio
By Irene Bayer
Located in Denton, TX
Bauhaus I Portfolio
Ed. 33/70
Signed and dated in black ink on print margin.
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dolores Del Rio in Resurrection
Located in Austin, TX
Resurrection is a 1927 Hollywood adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1899 novel Resurrection. Filmmaker Edwin Carewe adapted the book to a feature-length silent production starring Dolores del Río and featuring an appearance by Ilya Tolstoy who co-wrote the script. In 1928, due to the public apathy towards silent films, a sound version was also prepared. The sound version included a newly filmed prologue in which the theme song "Russian Lullaby" was performed and sung. While the actual film had no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. In 1931, Edwin Carewe directed an all-talking remake of this film starred by Lupe Vélez...
Category
Contemporary 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
East Vidette
By Ansel Adams
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed (AE Adams), titled, printed on the front of print. Rare vintage parmelian print from 1927.
Category
1920s Black and White Photography
'Derby Spectator' Limited Edition Oversize Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
Derby Spectator
A spectator looking through binoculars at the Derby horse races, Epsom, Surrey, June 1923. (Photo by Hulton / Getty Archive)
Silver gelatin fibre print
30 x 40" p...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Banner Peak, Thousand Island Lake, Central Sierra
By Ansel Adams
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This vintage silver gelatin photograph, printed in the late 1920s on Kodak Vitava Athena paper, is signed in pencil beneath the image with a typeset title centered in the lower margi...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Two Callas
Located in New York, NY
This supremely elegant photograph illustrates why Imogen Cunningham’s botanical pictures are a keystone of modernist photography. In the 1920s, Cunnin...
Category
1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Nude, 62N ~ Dancer's Knees
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Titled with artist's reference number and signed in pencil by Cole Weston with Edward Weston's facsimile signature on back of mount. Printed later by Edward's son Cole Weston.
Category
1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Abode of Snow, from Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley
By Ansel Adams
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This vintage silver gelatin photograph, printed in the late 1920s on Kodak Vitava Athena paper, is signed in pencil beneath the image with a typeset title centered in the lower margi...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cloud and Mountain, Marion Lake, Southern Sierra
By Ansel Adams
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This vintage silver gelatin photograph, printed in the late 1920s on Kodak Vitava Athena paper, is signed in pencil beneath the image with a typeset title centered in the lower margi...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
San Francisco from Telegraph Hill
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This matte silver gelatin print bears the "Estate of William E. Dassonville" stamp on the back of the sheet.
Printed on Dassonville's proprietary "Charcoal Black" paper.
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Rolling Hills, California
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This matte silver gelatin print is signed in pencil and bears the "Estate of William E. Dassonville" stamp sheet verso. Accompanied by an SFMoMA exhibition receipt from 1977.
Pri...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Young Competitors (1925) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Young Competitors (1925) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by MacGregor/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
11th August 1925
Three young competitors arriving at the courts for th...
Category
Modern 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Woman With Flag, Mexico City
By Tina Modotti
Located in Carmel, CA
From a Portfolio printed by Mother Jones. Authorized copy. Stunning reproduction. Limited Edition. Certification of Authenticity.
Category
1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Pierce Arrow - Archival fine art print, Black white, Car dealer's shop window
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
An archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 g/m² paper of a photograph of a former car dealer's shop window of the brand Pierce Arrow cerca 1925 entitled ' Pierce A...
Category
Academic 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Place des Vosges in Paris, 1928, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photography. View from the Place des Vosges in Paris, November 1928.
Features:
Original Silver Gelatin Print Photography Unframed.
Press Photography.
Press Agency: Anonymous.
Photographer: Anonymous.
Title: Place des Vosges in Paris, November 1928.
Provenance: Private collection.
Image Size: 4.33 in high (11.6 cm) x 5.51 in wide (14.5 cm) - Archivally matted in a 17 x 13 mat.
We will ship the piece in a mat (17 x 13 in) that fits a standard-sized frame.
No ink stamp, no legend.
Note:
The Place des Vosges, originally the Place Royale, is the oldest planned square in Paris, France. It is located in the Marais district and straddles the dividing line between The 3rd and 4th arrondissements in Paris. It was a fashionable and expensive square to live in during the 17th and 18th Centuries and one of the main reasons for the chic nature of Le Marais among the Parisian nobility.
Originally known as the Place Royale, the Place des Vosges was built by Henri IV from 1605 to 1612. It is an authentic square (140 m × 140 m) and embodied one of the first European programs of royal city planning (Plaza Mayor in Madrid, begun in 1590, precedes it). It was built on the site of the Hôtel des Tournelles and its gardens: at a tournament at the Tournelles, a royal residence, Henri II was wounded and died. Catherine de Medici had the Gothic complex demolished, and she moved to the Louvre Palace.
The Place Royale, inaugurated in 1612 with a grand carousel to celebrate the engagement of Louis XIII and Anne of Austria...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Early 20th Century Photograph -- Sidewalk Club of the Motherlode
Located in Soquel, CA
"Sidewalk Club of the Motherlode" a Lithobrome photograh by Sigismund Blumann (American, 1872-1956). Signed "Sigismund Blumann" lower right. Titled "Sidewalk Club of the Motherlode" on verso. Image size, 11.25"H x 13.25"W. Between 1923 and 1932, his pictures were accepted at photographic salons in Amsterdam, Toronto, Rochester, Seattle, and Los Angeles. In 1927, a one-person exhibition of his bromoil prints traveled to camera clubs in Chicago, Akron, Cincinnati, and New York. In addition to bromoil, a process that yields pointillistic images, Blumann utilized such unusual processes as kallitype (Vandyke brown), lithobrome, and pastelograph (the latter two probably his own inventions) to create original photographs using chemical processes he invented.
Sigismund Blumann (1872–1956) (figure 1) was a prominent tastemaker in Californian photography during the 1920s and 1930s. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area for his entire career, he edited magazines, wrote books, and made creative photographs. From 1924 to 1933 Blumann edited Camera Craft, the leading West Coast photographic monthly. Subsequently he established his own periodical, Photo Art Monthly, which he published until 1940. In these two magazines — for over fifteen years — Blumann found a large audience of mainstream pictorial photographers. In addition, he wrote five instructional books on photography...
Category
Realist 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
1920s Silver Gelatin Print by Tina Modotti of Diego Rivera Mural
By Tina Modotti
Located in Chicago, IL
An original 1920s silver gelatin print by photographer Tina Modotti, showing a fresco in the Agricultural School-Chapingo, Mexico by artist Diego Rivera. Photo is stamped “Photographs-Tina Modotti Mexico, D.F.” on reverse. Photograph size: 6 7/8" x 9 5/8". Archivally matted to 16” x 20”
Tina Modotti was born in Udine, Italy in 1896 and by the age of 14 she was supporting her entire family by working in a local silk factory. Modotti’s father emigrated to San Francisco, sending for his family in 1913. Modotti was hired in the sewing room at the I. Magnin department store, but her great beauty attracted the attention of her superiors who then employed her to model the store’s fashions.
In 1915, Modotti attended San Francisco’s Pan-Pacific Exposition, where she got her first look at Modern art and photography. She also met her first husband at the Exposition, painter and poet Roubaix de l’Abrie Richey. At this time Modotti began acting in local Italian theatre and was discovered by a talent scout for the new silent film industry in Hollywood. She arrived in Los Angeles in 1918 and was cast in “The Tiger’s Coat” and “I Can Explain”. Through her Hollywood connections, Modotti met the married photographer Edward Weston, with whom she began an affair. Modotti was a favorite subject of Weston’s photographs, but moreover he taught her the art of photography. She actually ran Weston’s studio in exchange for photography lessons.
Due to the on-going affair between Modotti and Weston, Modotti’s husband moved to Mexico where he died of smallpox. This tragedy and the death of her father made Modotti dissatisfied with Hollywood. Modotti and Weston arrived in Mexico in 1923 at a time when the country was in the midst of a social, political and cultural revolution. She photographed the Mexican...
Category
Realist 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Benoit Fils - Archival fine art print, Black white, Montreal, Clydesdale truck
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
An archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 g/m² paper, a photography of a delivery of foodstuffs from a shop of seeds, flour and provisions in Montreal cerca 1920 ...
Category
Academic 1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
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