Mid-20th Century Photography

Barbara Morgan (American, 1900 - 1992). "Martha Graham: Ekstasis". Signed and Dated 1935 in pencil on lower right of mount. Inscribed, titled, and dated in ink on mount verso. G...

A black and white street photograph by Vivian Maier (American, 1926-2009). Entitled "Chicago, IL 1954", the print is a selenium-toned gelatin silver print...

Arthur Tress (American b. 1940) 'Hockey Player 1972' Gelatin silver print. Photo taken 1970. Image: 10 x 10 in / 25.5 x 25.5 cm. Full margins. Mat: 16 x...

Lovely French mirrored glass picture photo frame. Silver mirror beveled edges. The picture frame can be placed in a portrait or landscape position. Back and easel in mat black paper....

Arthur Tress (American b. 1940) 'The Voyage' Gelatin silver print. Image: 15.75 x 15.75 in / 40 x 40 cm. Mat: 23 x 24.5 in / 50 x 62.5 cm. Full Margins. Signed, titled and numbered by the artist recto under image. This is a work by Arthur Tress not often seen. It is one of a large group of his images which features male nudes in various surrealist situations. Arthur Tress: Born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 24, 1940, Arthur Tress began his first camera work as a teenager in the surreal neighborhood of Coney Island where he spent hours exploring the decaying amusement parks. Later, during five years of world travel, mostly in Asia and Africa, he developed an interest in ethnographical photography that eventually led him to his first professional assignment as a U.S. Government photographer recording the endangered folk cultures of Appalachia. Seeing the destructive results of corporate resource extraction, Tress began to use his camera to raise environmental awareness about the economic and human costs of pollution. Focusing on New York City, he began to photograph the neglected fringes of the urban waterfront with a straight documentary approach. This gradually evolved into a more personal mode of “magic realism” combining improvised elements of actual life with stage fantasy that became his hallmark style of directorial fabrication. In the late 1960s Tress was inspired to do a series Based Upon children’s dreams that combined his interests in ritual ceremony, Jungian archetypes, and social allegory. Later bodies of work dealing with the hidden dramas of adult relationships and the reenactments of male homosexual desire evolved from this primarily theatrical approach. Beginning in the early 1980s, Tress began shooting in color, creating room-sized painted sculptural installations out of found medical equipment in an abandoned hospital on New York’s Welfare Island. This led to a smaller scale exploration of narrative still life within a children’s toy theater...

Signed and framed photo by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Oak wooden frame. Tittle: "le rideau de fer" Provisional wall made out from metal barrels at Rue Visconti, Paris, June 27th,...

Lovely Italian design picture photo frame. Square shape with sterling silver framing compliment with thick slabs of green moss agate stone. Sterling silver easel at the back. Stamped...

In The Art of the Chopper, Tom Zimberoff focuses his photographic talent on the ultra exotic, ultra sexy, custom motorcycles built by today's hottest builders,-people like Billy Lane and Dave Perowitz. These remarkable machines turn to rolling sculptures when seen through Zimberoff's eye, an eye honed during his decades of work as a rock 'n roll photographer, touring with The Jackson-5, Stevie Wonder, The Rolling Stones, and Stephen Stills among others, and later in his photojournalism career, working for Time and other magazines. His photographs have appeared on the covers of Time, Fortune, Money, People, and numerous other magazines. Large oversized coffee table...

Fashion in black and white by the photographer Robert Jean Chapuis, Paris, unsigned, circa 1960.

Fashion in black and white by the photographer Robert Jean Chapuis, Paris, signed, circa 1960.

Fashion in black and white by the photographer Robert Jean Chapuis, Paris, signed, circa 1960.

Artist: Hans Namuth (1915-1990) Title: Jackson Pollock at Work, 1950 (Printed in 1989) Medium: Silver gelatin print. Edition: 4/50 Titled, editioned, s...