Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
American, 1925-2013
Over his four-decade career, photographer Jack Mitchell chronicled the changing cultural landscape of mid- to late-20th-century America by capturing the greatest influencers and innovators in the performing and visual arts.
Mitchell, a master of lighting patterns in photography who had his first portrait published at the age of 15, organized more than 5,400 photographic sessions in his lifetime involving a list of sitters that is as astounding as it is long. A veritable roll call of heroes and idols, his studio guests include painters, dancers, actors, comedians, singers, composers, directors, writers, impresarios and anyone else who helped shape the zeitgeist.
During World War II, when he was only 16 years old, Mitchell photographed Veronica Lake for a Daytona newspaper. It was his first celebrity gig, but that didn’t stop the audacious wunderkind from asking the actress to sweep back her signature “peekaboo” locks so he could get her full face in the frame. Lake, who was in Florida to help the war effort and at the peak of her career, politely obliged, and the two later became lifelong friends.
Mitchell, who was openly gay (his long-term partner and manager, Robert Plavik, died in 2009), also struck up a close relationship with Gloria Swanson. From 1960 to 1970, he served as her personal paparazzo, snapping a variety of “candid” shots of the aging but eternally glamorous actress as if she were a pre-mobile/pre-social-media reality star.
The diverse publications in which Mitchell’s work has appeared — in addition to the New York Times, there’s Rolling Stone, Dance Magazine, People, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Time, Harper’s Bazaar and Newsweek — testify to the power of his arresting visual language and its ability to transcend themes and disciplines.
Mitchell also famously shot a series of intimate portraits of John Lennon and Yoko Ono in November 1980, just one month before the Beatles singer was assassinated. A picture from this session became the cover of People’s memorial issue, one of the magazine’s best-selling editions to date.
The showbiz gloss should not distract from Mitchell’s meticulous approach to photography. He insisted on producing his own prints in order to achieve what he deemed museum-quality patina and definition.
“Jack shot many rolls of black-and-white film, and always some color transparencies, of every famous person he photographed,” says Craig Highberger, a friend of the late photographer and the executive director of the Jack Mitchell Archives.
In the world of dance, the field for which Mitchell is best known, his striking and incisive shots of legendary performers and choreographers reflect the visceral energy that these luminaries introduced to the discipline in the 1960s and ’70s, widely considered the Golden Age of American dance theater.
“Jack’s photographs of dancers during his lifetime are a historic chronicle of an amazing period in dance history. He was Alvin Ailey’s dance company photographer from 1961 to 1994,” says Highberger, noting that Mitchell’s collection of 10,000 black-and-white Ailey prints now belongs to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Mitchell’s dance images are at once ethereal and powerfully dynamic. Not only do they evoke movement through elegant poses and disciplined muscular tension, but they also convey an intimate energy radiating directly from his subjects, as if he had magically unlocked a reflective mood or a character trait, without contrivance.
The collection of authentic Jack Mitchell photography on 1stDibs includes his black and white photography, color photography, nude photography and more.
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Artist: Jack Mitchell
Adult film star Cal Culver (AKA Casey Donovan) 'After Dark' Nude, Signed
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Adult film star Cal Culver (AKA Casey Donovan) 'After Dark' magazine nude study, photographed in 1972. This is a vintage gelatin silver print, selenium...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Nude portrait study of unidentified male model
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Unidentified male model, photographed nude, 1971. This is a vintage silver gelatin photograph made by hand by master photographer Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Warhol Superstar Jackie Curtis signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Warhol Superstar Jackie Curtis photographed May 21, 1970. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the verso. Comes dire...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Warhol superstar Ultra Violet & friends nude for 'After Dark' magazine
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Warhol superstar Ultra Violet, art dealer Jason McCoy and art historian Ron Caran photographed nude for 'After Dark' magazine in 1971. This is a vintage gelatin silver print, made b...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Marcus and Debbie Williamson photographed nude for 'After Dark' magazine
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Husband and wife Marcus and Debbie Williamson photographed nude for 'After Dark' magazine in 1973. This is a vintage gelatin silver print, made by hand by master photographer Jack Mi...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Husband and wife nude models, Marcus and Debbie Williamson nude for After Dark
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Husband and wife nude models, Marcus and Debbie Williamson photographed for After Dark magazine, 1973. Vintage silver gelatin exhibition photograph made by Jack Mitchell.
American p...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Harkness Ballet dancers Zane Wilson & Linda Bogsrud nude for After Dark magazine
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Harkness Ballet dancers Zane Wilson and Linda Bogsrud photographed nude for After Dark magazine, 1972....
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Nude portrait study of young model Michael Findlay
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Model Michael Findlay, nude portrait study, 1970. This is a vintage silver gelatin photograph made by hand by master photographer Jack Mitchell. Comes ...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Adult film star Cal Culver (AKA Casey Donovan) 'After Dark' Nude, Signed
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Adult film star Cal Culver (AKA Casey Donovan) 'After Dark' magazine nude study, photographed in 1972. This is a vintage gelatin silver print, selenium t...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Nude portrait study of Harkness Ballet dancer Zane Wilson
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Harkness Ballet dancer nude portrait study, 1972. This is a vintage silver gelatin photograph made by hand by master photographer Jack Mitchell. Comes ...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Artist/Sculptor Olaf Gravesen with his work, Signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Artist Olaf Gravesen photographed with one of his nail head sculptures, 1974. Signed on the verso by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from ...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Dancer Steven-Jan Hoff photographed nude for After Dark magazine
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Dancer Steven-Jan Hoff photographed nude for After Dark magazine, 1972. Vintage silver gelatin exhibition photograph made by Jack Mitchell.
American photographer Jack Mitchell (192...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Actor Robert La Tourneaux, 'Cowboy' from 'Boys in the Band' nude for After Dark
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Actor Robert La Tourneaux, "Cowboy" from "Boys in the Band" on Broadway, and in the motion picture, photographed nude in 1970 for After Dark magazi...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
After Dark male model Mikel Peters, nude, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
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 session for After Dark magazine and was selected and signed by Jack Mitchell as one of his favorites. Jack’s artist statement on his work for the magazine:
“After Dark was a magazine of entertainment, theater and the arts. It was a popular magazine, with a gay slant, enjoyed by many gay men, and some broad minded women and men. As well as (I learned years later) many closeted male youngsters. The magazine was ahead of its time, as advertisers were reluctant to place ads in an essentially gay magazine...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Warhol Superstar Joe Dallesandro, iconic portrait for After Dark, signed by Jack
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Warhol superstar Joe Dallesandro the iconic portrait taken during the photo session for After Dark magazine, 1970, shortly after starring in Andy Warhol'...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
16 x 20" Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet & Friends nude, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
16 x 20" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet with friends Jason McCoy and Ron Caran, multiple exposure nude for After Dark magazine, 1971. It is signed...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Warhol Superstars Candy Darling & Dorian Gray nude, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Warhol Superstars Candy Darling and Dorian Gray (nude) for 'After Dark' magazine, 1971 Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes...
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1960s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein standing against mirror with new work in background
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph of artist Roy Lichtenstein posing in his studio with new work in the background, extremely unusual image standing next to a mirror. This is ...
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1960s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Male model 'Brahm' multiple exposure for After Dark, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
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...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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American Composer David Del Tredici, multiple exposure nude with his music.
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
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 ...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Dancers Tim Michaels, Jerry Evans, Jeff Hornaday, Larry Cole, signed by Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
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...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Adult film star Cal Culver (AKA Casey Donovan), signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
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...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Nude male model multiple exposure with plant leaves
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Unidentified male model, multiple exposure with plant leaves, 1971. This is a vintage silver gelatin photograph made by hand by master photographer Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Male Model Brian Destazio, Dot Pattern Projection Nude, Signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
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 session for After Dark magazine and was selected and signed by Jack Mitchell as one of his favorites. Jack’s artist statement on his work for the magazine:
“After Dark was a magazine of entertainment, theater and the arts. It was a popular magazine, with a gay slant, enjoyed by many gay men, and some broad minded women and men. As well as (I learned years later) many closeted male youngsters. The magazine was ahead of its time, as advertisers were reluctant to place ads in an essentially gay magazine at that time. Today they swarm like bees to place their own hot ads in gay publications.
I had been photographing on assignment for Dance Magazine well before After Dark was created. Being a friend of William (Bill) Como, the Editor, and being gay, I was called into service, for the life of the publication, to photograph many of the handsome young men and women, who were featured in After Dark.
Needless to say, this was enjoyable work for me, Because, mixed in with the hot-looking young guys and gals sent to my studio were some famed performers like Debbie Reynolds, Giancarlo Giannini, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Natalie Wood, Placido Domingo, Sergio Franco...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Male model Gary Cook, multiple exposure nude, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
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...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Joffrey Ballet dancer Christian Holder nude, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Joffrey Ballet dancer Christian Holder photographed nude, 1970. Signed on the verso by Jack Mitchell. Come...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Warhol Superstar Joe Dallesandro, iconic nude for After Dark, signed by Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Warhol superstar Joe Dallesandro the iconic nude portrait taken during the photo session for After Dark magazine, 1970, shortly after starring in Andy Warhol's 'Trash'. Vintage 11 x ...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Male model Brian Destazio, nude, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
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...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Nude male model multiple exposure with plant leaves, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Unidentified male model, multiple exposure with plant leaves, 1971. Mounted on archival board and signed in pencil. This is a vintage silver gelatin photograph made by hand by master...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Multiple exposure nude portrait study of male model Brahm
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Male model Brahm multiple-exposure nude portrait study, 1970. This is a vintage silver gelatin photograph made by hand by master photographer Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the J...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Dancer Derek Rencher, nude, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
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...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Dancer & Choreographer Louis Falco nude figure study
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph of dancer and choreographer Louis Falco nude figure study, 1966. This is a print that was published by a newspaper or magazine which they us...
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1960s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Robert Kovak and Chris Komar performing Merce Cunningham's 'Summerspace'
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Merce Cunningham dancers Robert Kovak and Chris Komar performing 'Summerspace', costumes and set design by Robert Rauschenberg, 1975 2/1...
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1960s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Harkness Ballet principal dancer Dale Talley, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
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...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Dancer Brian Poer, nude, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
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...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Male Nude from Numbered Nudes Series, multiple exposure signed exhibition print
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
5203 4 41 1995 1/20. This is a vintage gelatin silver print, selenium toned, made by hand by master photographer Jack Mitchell and signed both on the recto and verso. Chosen by the ...
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1990s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Warhol Superstar Twins Jay and Jed Johnson photographed for After Dark Magazine
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of twin brothers Jay and Jed Johnson photographed for 'After Dark' magazine on June 8, 1970. Comes dire...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Ballerina Silhouette, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph, Ballerina Silhouette, 1971. It is signed on the print verso in pencil by Jack Mitchell. This is a print that was published by a newspaper o...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Choreographer & Martha Graham dancer Tim Wengerd, nude, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
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...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Warhol Superstars Joe Dallesandro & Sylvia Miles in 'Heat' nude for 'After Dark'
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Warhol superstars Joe Dallesandro and Sylvia Miles nude in Andy Warhol’s ‘Heat’, 1971, for After Dark magazine. This is an 8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph that was publishe...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Trisha Brown and Lance Grier performing 'Set and Reset', signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Trisha Brown and Lance Grier performing 'Set and Reset', 1987. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. C...
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1980s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Rudolf Nureyev photographed playing the piano during a rehearsal break
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Rudolf Nureyev photographed playing the piano during a rehearsal break in 1962. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a c...
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1960s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Harkness Ballet principal dancers Roderick Drew & Richard Wolf performing
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Harkness Ballet principal dancers Roderick Drew and Richard Wolf performing, 1966. Comes directly from the ...
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1960s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Bejart Ballet dancer Jorge Donn, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Bejart Ballet dancer Jorge Donn, 1979. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes directly from the Jac...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
After Dark male model Mikel Peters, nude, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
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...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Tony & Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, signed by Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, 1983. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes directly from the Jac...
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1980s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Young Actress Meryl Streep 16x20" Exhibition Print, Signed
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
16 x 20" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Actress Meryl Streep photographed January 7, 1979 just before the release of her first film ‘The Deer Hunter...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
American Ballet Theatre backstage rehearsal in silhouette
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of American Ballet Theatre backstage rehearsal in silhouette in 1966. Comes directly from the Jack ...
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1960s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Male Nude from Numbered Nudes Series, multiple exposure signed exhibition print
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
4625 2 10 1986 1/20. This is a vintage gelatin silver print, selenium toned, made by hand by master photographer Jack Mitchell and signed both on the recto and verso. Chosen by the p...
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1980s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Dancer Christopher Aponte, nude, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
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 session for After Dark magazine and was selected and signed by Jack Mitchell as one of his favorites. Jack’s artist statement on his work for the magazine:
“After Dark was a magazine of entertainment, theater and the arts. It was a popular magazine, with a gay slant, enjoyed by many gay men, and some broad minded women and men. As well as (I learned years later) many closeted male youngsters. The magazine was ahead of its time, as advertisers were reluctant to place ads in an essentially gay magazine...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Harkness Ballet Dancer Zane Wilson, photographed nude for After Dark magazine
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Harkness Ballet Principal Dancer Zane Wilson, nude, 1972. Vintage silver gelatin exhibition photograph made by Jack Mitchell.
American photograp...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Warhol Superstar Jane Forth & Michael Findlay nude for 'After Dark' magazine
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin exhibition photograph of Warhol Superstar and Vogue model Jane Forth & Michael Findlay nude for 'After Dark' magazine, ...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
American Ballet Theatre dancer Stephan Jan-Hoff photographed Nude signed
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of American Ballet Theatre dancer Stephan Jan-Hoff photographed nude, 1967. Signed on the verso by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the J...
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1960s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Yann Le Gac
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
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...
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1970s Surrealist Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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'Sea Duet' Ballet for Still Photography, Signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of 'Sea Duet', a ballet for still photography created by Mitchell to celebrate his love of dance, 1983. Si...
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1980s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Dancers Silhouette, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph, Dancers Silhouette, 1971. It is signed on the print verso in pencil by Jack Mitchell. This is a print that was published by a newspaper or ...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Olympic Gold Medal British figure skater John Curry, signed by Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
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 s...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Dancer and choreographer John Clifford, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
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...
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1970s Pop Art Jack Mitchell Black and White Photography
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Jack Mitchell black and white photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Jack Mitchell black and white photography available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Jack Mitchell in silver gelatin print, archival pigment print, pigment print and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the Pop Art style. Not every interior allows for large Jack Mitchell black and white photography, so small editions measuring 8 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Andy Warhol, Nicholas Taylor, and Leni Sinclair. Jack Mitchell black and white photography prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $400 and tops out at $2,275, while the average work can sell for $1,250.