American Photography

A rare and important early work by the iconic American artist/photographer Ann Stautberg (United States, b.1949) Van, Dallas, 1979 Signed, titled, and dated in pencil, lower margin ...

Original US photographic production still still from the 1970 music documentary Woodstoc. Directed by Michael Wadleigh, the concert was Oscar-winning documentary that brilliantly captures the three day's of rock and and a celebration of peace and love that became a high point in the 1960,s. The concert featured a host of great singers including Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Crosby...

Silver gelatin large format print by the New Orleans photographer Joseph Woodson “Pops” Whitesell. Entitled “Hoosier Pioneers” it depicts the matriarchs of his Indiana heritage, ca. ...

Original photographic production still for Russ Meyer's 1966 film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, starring Tura Satana. This piece is framed in a Sapele wood frame with acid free card...

Rarities in American cut-glass. Index, black & white and color photographs. Book in very nice condition, head and tail of spine lightly bumped, light bump on top edge cover, light foxing inside front and rear covers, light insect depredation on open edges. Dust jacket has light foxing, chips and tiny tears to edges, rubs on back cover. First edition copy inscribed by author on first page, "Enjoy the Fine (five?) xxxxx (can't read it) pictured in the book. Herb Wiener." An exhibit of over 475 of the rarest pieces of cut glass ever to be manufactured in the United States. Wiener, Herb; Freda Lipkowitz Published by The Collectors House...

Shelby Lee Adams (American, b. 1950). The Napier brothers with Puppies Silver gelatin print, 25/25. Signed in pencil lower left, titled and dated 1993. Dimensions: 16" x 20" paper si...

Antique Hand Colored Photograph of Nantucket Street Scene by Marshall Gardiner (1884-1942), circa 1910, a period hand tinted photograph entitled "Nantucket Shearing Cart and Quakers" showing classic grey shingled houses on a cobblestone paved street, with a couple in horse drawn cart riding away from the viewer, and four women on doorstep and sidewalk, all dressed in period Quaker attire. It is interesting to note that the couple in cart are seated on antique Nantucket Bow Back Windsor chairs. The photograph was titled and hand signed in pencil across the bottom of the old acid foxed mat; the photograph is now mounted in new archival acid free matting, and a photocopy of the original pencil inscription has been preserved on the reverse. The photograph itself remains in excellent condition. H. Marshall Gardiner (1884-1942) was born on September 18, 1884 in Windsor, Ontario, and immigrated to the United States circa 1890, where his father W.H. Gardiner opened two photographic studios, one in Detroit during the winter months and a second at Mackinac Island during the more tourist-oriented summer months. Recognizing the potential of Florida's rapidly growing tourist trade, around 1894-95 he moved with his family from Detroit to Daytona, Florida which proved much more accommodating to the family's photographic business during the colder winter months. Marshall learned many of his photographic techniques from his father prior to going out on his own at a relatively early age. Whereas his father generally used wet collodian negatives, technology had advanced to where he was able to use gelatin dry plates in his earlier years, and later the less expensive and much more convenient roll film. Another very important lesson learned from his father was strategy of setting up shop in a tourist resort. Early in his career he traveled to Bermuda where he shot a series of beautiful Bermuda scenes that he hand-colored and successfully sold over a number of years to the local tourist trade. Around 1910, at the age of around 24, he first traveled to the island of Nantucket. The year-round population of Nantucket was then just over 2500, not nearly enough to sustain a photographic business for the entire year, so he opened a joint Photography and Art Supplies Store. Working as Nantucket's exclusive agent for Eastman Kodak, his business expanded to include the island's only photo-finishing service. However, with such a small year-round population, even the addition of a Gift Shop to compliment the hand-painted photographs, general portrait...

Original photography by Ernst Haas. Dye Transfer. Rare, he did a series of "Scratch" photographs around 1979 in Aspen Colorado. The images were taken at what is believed to be a car ...

Vintage Lake Tahoe Area Photograph, dated 1931, of a large group of 9 or 10 people sledding in a beautiful double horse drawn luxury sleigh, during a win...

Ray Metzker Original Photo with Picket Fence. Image area is 10.5 wide and 7" tall. Metzker often photographed fences. Signed on back.

Original American photographic production still from the classic 1967 comedy directed by Mel Brooks and starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. Max Bialystock is launching himself into...

A portfolio of 17 mounted architectural industrial Mid Century photographs by Joseph W. Molitor ( 1935- 1985 ) . Molitor who was a peer of leading 20th Century photographers such as Balthazar Korab , Ezra Stoller , Hedrich Blessing...

Gemini V est la troisième mission habitée du programme Gemini et la neuvième mission spatiale habitée américaine. L'objectif d'un vol d'une durée record de près...

Walter Wagner. Photography of Madeline Carroll in the film "Blockade", 1938 Drama directed by William Dieterle, United States, 1938. Condition Assembled as an album with a taped ma...

A photographic art print titled "Poe, the Half Blind Raven" by Peter Samuels. Signed, titled, and dated 2015 with an annotation of 3/100 along the bottom...

This evocative photograph is part of a series created by artist Sze Tsung Nicolas Leong that explore China’s complicated relationship with its ancient past and anticipated future. In this 2004 photograph, 100-year-old buildings line a vacant street in the old walled city...

Original US photographic production still for the 1953 film From Here to Eternity. This still is from the Re-release of the film in 1958. The film Starred Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah...

This listing is for the unframed photograph. Edition of 10. Signed. Location, Los Angeles, CA David William Baum is a fashion, still life, and fin...

Fifty Years of Pep: A Storied Past. A Promising Future. Hardcover – January 1, 2015 by Andrew Postman (Author), Indra K. Nooyi (Foreword) "This book contains the story of our first...

Vintage Lake Tahoe Area Photograph, circa 1930's, of a large group of people, (adults standing; children on horseback) in and around the popular "Inspirat...

Photograph by Bruce Weber, Karl Lagerfeld advertisement, 1985. Original silver gelatin print from Lagerfeld’s studio ex-collection Eric Wright – Lagerfeld’s right hand man in the 198...

Original photographic production still from James Bond's Goldfinger 1964. This was the 3rd James Bond film and the 3rd time Sean Connery played 007. This piece is conservation fram...

"Bird In a Tree", abstract expressionist photo collage print by Swedish artist Peter Astrom. Signed Astrom at bottom right margin, and New York 2010 botto...

Original US studio production photo for the 1956 Classic comedy, musical starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong The film was remake of the 1940 The Philade...

Andrew Moore "Olds in the Sheep Barn, Sioux County, Nebraska, 2014" Photograph by Andrew Moore Titled "Olds in the Sheep Barn, Sioux County, Nebraska, 2014" Framed behind glass both sides Signed in 2015 by Andrew Moore and Titled on reverse ED 9/20 Unpublished photograph The Measurements of the whole photo is 39 cm x 49, and the picture is 27 cm x 45 cm The depth is 3 cm The weight is approx. 2400 gram Andrew Lambdin Moore (26 March 1957, Old Greenwich, CT) is an American photographer and filmmaker known for large format color photographs of Detroit, Cuba, Russia, the American High Plains, and New York’s Times Square theaters. Moore’s photographs...

Original photographic production still for Quentin Tarantino's cult classic Reservoir Dogs. This 1992 film starred Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen and Chris Penn. This piece...

Original photography by Ernst Haas. Dye Transfer. "Can of Paint" done in 1981 from a photograph taken in Japan. Signed by Ernst Haas to the mounting. Not a later reprint, this is an ...

Original US large colour still for Ridley Scott's 1980s sci-fi film has become a true cult classic. Thirty-five years on a sequel (Blade Runner 2049) was ...

Original US black and white photographic production still for How to Marry a Millionaire 1953. The stills were sent out to newspapers to advertise the film in 1953. This film was di...

Original US photographic production still from the film A Fistful of Dollars 1964. This film was directed by Sergio Leone, and starred Clint Eastwood in the first of his Dollars tril...

This is a very rear original US film poster for The Candidate 1972. This special style poster was designed to look like a campaign poster. The film starred Robert Redford and was dir...

An engaging black-and-white abstract human skull art photograph. Oddly alluring and beautiful. The photo is custom-matted and framed using UV-protected g...

Original photographic production still for the 1955 Film Noir The Night of the Hunter. The film starred Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and was directed by Charles Lamont. Mitchum gi...

Original double weight photographic production still used by the studio to advertise the film. these stills were sent out by advertising agencies to news papers. This film stared Err...

Although Fritz Henle was born in Germany and worked in America for years, he was truly an international figure, living and working in the Caribbean, Asia, Mexico and Europe over several decades. He was called "the last of the great classic photographers" by Helmut Gernsheim, the great photography historian, and because he often used the 2.25" square format film for the Rolleiflex camera...

Walter Wagner. Photography of Madeline Carroll in the film "Blockade", 1938 Drama directed by William Dieterle, United States, 1938. Condition Assembled as an album with a taped ma...

Henry Waxman Black And White Photography of Madeleine Carroll Photography in Black And White With registered trademark of the photographer In original condition with minor wear c...

Walter Wagner. Photography of Madeline Carroll in the film "Blockade", 1938 Drama directed by William Dieterle, United States, 1938. Condition Assembled as an album with a taped ma...

A very rare vintage Elizabeth Taylor signed photograph with Actor Peter Lawford, circa 1952. The photo was taken when Lawford came to visit Taylor on the set of her movie "Ivanhoe" i...

Presented is a fine photogravure portrait of Bear’s Teeth of the Arikara tribe by Edward Curtis. The image is Plate 154 from Supplementary Portfolio 5 of Edward Curtis' epic project The North American Indian. The caption, written by Curtis, for this image is as follows: “A member of the Night order of the medicine fraternity.” This photogravure was published in 1908 and was printed by John Andrew & Son, in Boston. Edward S. Curtis created one of the most enduring and iconic visual records in the history of the photographic medium. He was an award-winning artist, a consummate craftsman, a visionary, an intrepid entrepreneur, and was highly regarded as a respected ethnographer and publisher. Curtis began photographing Native Americans in the mid-1890s and selling these images in his successful downtown Seattle studio. One of his earliest models was Princess Angeline, the aged daughter of chief Sealth, the Suquamish Indian after whom Seattle is named. At the National Photographic Convention of 1899 Curtis was awarded the grand prize for three of his soft-focused, sepia-toned images of Puget Sound Native Americans: Evening on the Sound, The Clam Digger, and The Mussel Gatherer. Curtis spent the summer of 1900 with George Bird Grinnell observing the Sun Dance at an encampment of Blood, Blackfeet, and Algonquin in Montana. This was a pivotal experience for Curtis, confirming his desire to study and photograph the Native tribes of North America. A trip to visit the Hopi reservation in Arizona a few months later further fueled his enthusiasm. Curtis envisioned a plan to create a massive scholarly and artistic work that would document the tribes west of the Mississippi, their ceremonies, beliefs, daily life, and landscapes. In 1906, Curtis approached railroad tycoon J.P. Morgan to request financial assistance for his project. Morgan agreed to pay him a total of $75,000, or $15,000 a year for five years. Morgan and Curtis decided that Curtis' masterwork, The North American Indian, would be a set of 20 volumes of ethnographic text illustrated with high quality photoengravings taken from his glass plate negatives. Each of these volumes would be accompanied by a portfolio of large size images, all sumptuously bound in Moroccan leather. The papers used for printing would also be of the best quality: a Dutch etching stock by Van Gelder, a Japanese vellum, and for the most discerning subscribers, a translucent Japanese tissue paper. To fund publication, Curtis would sell subscriptions at approximately $3,000 per set, with a total of 500 sets to be published. An ambitious and extensive project, Curtis spent much of his life documenting as many Native tribes as possible. The importance and the urgency of the task was clear to him, as he wrote in the introduction to his first volume of The North American Indians in 1907, "The information that is to be gathered ... respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of mankind, must be collected at once or the opportunity will be lost." In 1930, some 24 years after his initial request for funding, the last two volumes, Vol. 19 and Vol. 20, were published and The North American Indian project was finally completed. Curtis took over 40,000 photographs and made over 10,000 wax...

Original silver gelatin semi-gloss double-weight photograph that was taken by Philippe Halsman during production of Woody Allen's Broadway play Play It Again, Sam, featuring Allen an...

Francesco Scavullo, Joe Dallesandro with a small child, 19.25 x 13.25 in Rare photo from Scavullo’s New York studio. 1968. Large scale photo mounted on board. Exceedingly rare image ...

Original US photographic production still from the film A Fistful of Dollars 1964. This film was directed by Sergio Leone, and starred Clint Eastwood in the first of his Dollars tril...

"Breakfast By The Pool In Miami", abstract expressionist photo collage print by Swedish artist Peter Astrom. Signed Astrom at bottom right margin, and New...

Original US studio production photo for the 1956 Classic comedy, musical starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong The film was remake of the 1940 The Philade...

Original American black and white photographic studio production still from the classic 1960 Science Fiction film. This studio still shows a great image of Robert Taylor with the Mo...

Original early pictorialist sepia tone gelatin silver print photograph of a theatrically posed partially clad muscular male nude by Rochester NY photographer Ned Hungerford. Circa 19...

Walter Wagner. Photography of Madeline Carroll in the film "Blockade", 1938 Drama directed by William Dieterle, United States, 1938. Condition Assembled as an album with a taped ma...

Duchess De Nemours Peony by Michael Zeppetello A photograph of a Duchess De Nemours Peony by Michael Zeppetello in a custom wood frame lacquered white with ...

From an important 25 plus year collection of Male Physique and Beefcake photography, iconic image of masculine male model holding metal chain.. Printed in the 1960s and are all signed by the studio on verso when Mr. Bruce Bellas aka Bruce of LA was alive. Beautifully, professionally framed. Double white mat and simple black frame. All original photos are 8 x 10. Framed 16.50" W x 19" H. Please see other listings for more photographs from this collection available for sale for the 1st time. These listing photographs are very hard to shoot under glass. They are sharp, clear photographs printed the old fashioned way, by hand in the late 50s and early 60s. BIO: Bruce Harry Bellas (July 7, 1909 – July 1974) was an American photographer. He was influential in his work with male physiques and nudes. Bellas was well known under the pseudonym Bruce of Los Angeles. History and influence Bruce Harry Bellas was born in Alliance, Nebraska on July 7, 1909. He worked as a chemistry teacher there until 1947, when he began photographing bodybuilders in Los Angeles, California, beginning with taking pictures of bodybuilding competitions. In 1956, Bellas launched his own magazine, The Male Figure. Among physique photographers, Bellas' work was noted for having a distinctly campy, tongue-in-cheek sensibility. Bellas also produced a number of early homoerotic 8 mm films with titles such as Cowboy Washup and Big Gun for Hire. Bellas was known to travel around the country, finding new models to photograph and also personally delivering nude photographs to customers, since they were liable to be seized by postal inspectors if sent through the mail. An extensive archive of Bellas' nude male physique...

ABOUT Comparison aerial photographs of San Francisco printed on glossy fine art paper. The first image is an aerial shot of the city taken in 1981 by an unknown photographer. It depicts the harbor and downtown all the way out to Ocean Beach and the Golden Gate Bridge. The second image is taken from the same vantage point. It is stamped, ‘Photograph of San Francisco is ruins from Lawrence Captive Airship 2000 feet above San Francisco Bay. Overlooking waterfront, sunset over Golden Gate.’ There is also a copyright stamp for George R Lawrence. Lawrence used an aerial kite to photograph San Francisco after the devastating 1906 earthquake. His photographs appeared in newspapers around the world and generated more than $15,000 for the photographer. CREATOR Unknown and George R. Lawrence and Co. DATE OF MANUFACTURE 1906 and 1981. MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES Photograph on glossy fine art paper. CONDITION Good. Wear consistent with age and use. DIMENSIONS Sheet: H 21.5 in. x W 23.5 in., Image: H 16 in. W 18.5 in. HISTORY George R. Lawrence (1868-1938) After working briefly at a Chicago wagon factory in 1889, George Lawrence opened a studio for the production of crayon enlargements — large photographs, usually portraits, that have been enhanced by pastels or charcoal. Crayon enlargements were popular wall decorations in the late 1800s. In 1893, Lawrence's studio partner left Chicago permanently. Lawrence inherited the equipment and learned to develop negatives from a local photographer's apprentice. He formed the Geo. R. Lawrence Company and quickly became an innovator in the field, using the slogan "The Hitherto Impossible in Photography is Our Specialty." Lawrence designed his own large-format cameras and specialized in aerial views. He began by using ladders...

”Summer Flowers”, abstract expressionist photo collage print by Swedish artist Peter Astrom. Signed Astrom at bottom right margin, and New York 2010 botto...

Original production still showing Robert De Niro on set with the director Michael Cimino.    

Framed Portrait Photography in Black and White of Madeline Carroll. Circa 1938 Photography by Walter Wagner Gelatin Silver print Actress: Madeline Carroll Film: 'Blockade' (1938) Di...

A rare original US lobby card number for the 1941 Film Noir The Maltese Falcon. The film Starred Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor and was was directed John Huston. The piece ...

From an important 25 plus year collection of male physique and beefcake, printed in the 1960s, signed by the studio when Mr. Bruce Bellas aka Bruce of LA...

From a photography collection are two items included in this listing, for the collector of photographic memorabelia. In it's original tapered brown leather carry case is a miniature ...

Vintage Black and White Photograph, Nantucket Harbor, circa 1935. James F. Barker (1871-1950) was an artist and photographer with generational history on Nantu...

Original US photographic production still from the film Irma La Douce, 1963. Starring Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon and directed by Billy Wilder. This prod...

Fallingwater - a Frank Lloyd Wright Country House. Vintage 1986 1st Edition Modernism Architecture Large Hardcover Book. DIMENSIONS: 9.75"W × 13.25"D × 1.25"H Fallingwater - A Fra...