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Item Ships From: USA
Period: 1940s
Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine
By Ansel Adams
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine" is a photography by famed and landmark photographer Ansel Adams. The photograph is signed on verso with artist's stamp, "Photograph by Ansel Adams Winter...
Category
1940s USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Upper Yosemite Falls, Spring, Yosemite National Park, California
By Ansel Adams
Located in Carmel, CA
Your chance to own an original Ansel Adams photograph. Signed in pen. Special Edition print printed by someone else. Authorized by the Ansel Adams gallery accompanied with Certificat...
Category
1940s USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cross-section, Shell Still Life
By Ruth Bernhard
Located in Carmel, CA
Mint Condition. Printed later. Framed in gun metal grey.
Signed on mount lower right below image. Signed in graphite, verso.
Cross-section 1943 / Ruth Bernhard.
Category
1940s USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
By Alfred Stieglitz
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
Category
1940s Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Stieglitz, Hands, Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
By Alfred Stieglitz
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
Category
1940s Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Stieglitz, O'Keeffe Hands w/Thimble, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
By Alfred Stieglitz
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
Category
1940s Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Stieglitz, Mountains and Sky, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
By Alfred Stieglitz
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
Category
1940s Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Stieglitz, The Terminal, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
By Alfred Stieglitz
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
Category
1940s Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Stieglitz, The Steerage, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
By Alfred Stieglitz
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
Category
1940s Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Stieglitz, New York Series, Spring, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
By Alfred Stieglitz
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
Category
1940s Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Stieglitz, Spring Showers, New York, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
By Alfred Stieglitz
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
Category
1940s Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Stieglitz, Venetian Boy, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
By Alfred Stieglitz
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
Category
1940s Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Stieglitz, Poplars, Lake George, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
By Alfred Stieglitz
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
Category
1940s Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Stieglitz, Sunlight and Shadows, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
By Alfred Stieglitz
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
Category
1940s Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Stieglitz, Sky, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
By Alfred Stieglitz
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
Category
1940s Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Stieglitz, Equivalent, Series 107, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
By Alfred Stieglitz
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
Category
1940s Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Stieglitz, Equivalent 27C, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
By Alfred Stieglitz
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
Category
1940s Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Stieglitz, Evening from the Shelton, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
By Alfred Stieglitz
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
Category
1940s Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Stieglitz, John Marin, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
By Alfred Stieglitz
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
Category
1940s Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Stieglitz, Night, New York, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
By Alfred Stieglitz
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
Category
1940s Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Stieglitz, Barn, Lake George, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (after)
By Alfred Stieglitz
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Halftone photographic print on gloss photographic paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Alfred Stieglitz Memorial ...
Category
1940s Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Paris, Demonstration on Blvd St Germain, 1947 Silver Gelatin B and W Photography
By Associated Press
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Associated Press, Paris. June 1947, a demonstration on Boulevard Saint Germain, Paris.
Features:
Original silver gelatin prin...
Category
1940s Art Deco USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
China Cove, Point Lobos Carmel California
By Edward Weston
Located in Carmel, CA
Gelatin silver print on paper, a later printing by Cole Weston
With the Edward Weston stamp verso, signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil by Cole Weston verso: PL40-K-4
Comes ...
Category
1940s USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Martha Graham & Erick Hawkins at Bennington College
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Martha Graham and Erick Hawkins at Bennington College, 1940. Hand-colored period archival print. Unsigned. Some very minor soiling where matting window met print surface as is eviden...
Category
1940s Realist USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Paris, Les Halles Market, circa 1940, Silver Gelatin Black - White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Keystone View and Co.
View of The Halles Market in Paris, circa 1940.
Features:
Original silver gelatin print photography unframed.
Press photography.
Press agency: KEYSTONE VIEW CO, Paris.
Photographer: Anonymous.
Title: Paris, The Halles, circa 1940.
Provenance: Private collection.
Image Size: 3.15 in high (8.1 cm) x 4.33 in wide (11.6 cm) - Archivally matted in a 17 in x 13 in mat.
A typed caption at the back reads "Paris 1er ardt, Les Halles...
Category
1940s Art Deco USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The River Seine and the Eiffel Towel, Paris, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin black and white photograph. Paris, the River Seine, and the Eiffel Tower, circa 1940.
Features:
Original silver gelatin print photography unframed.
Press p...
Category
1940s Art Deco USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Albert Einstein
By Yousuf Karsh
Located in Carmel, CA
Signed in ink with early markings Ottawa.
Vintage Photograph.
An amazing example of one of the greatest portrait photographers of our generation.
Great condition.
Category
1940s USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Hudson River, New York Navy Day 1945, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography Framed
By Associated Press
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Associated Press Photo. The Hudson River in New York during Navy Day in October 1945.
Features:
Original Silver Gelatin Print...
Category
1940s Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Devils Silde, San Mateo California
By Minor White
Located in Carmel, CA
Framed in Rounded Wood. High Quality Muesum Glass.
Photograph in major museums and galleries around the world.
Own part of history!
Category
1940s USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marlene Dietrich: Stunning Glamour
By A.L. Whitey Schafer
Located in Austin, TX
Lovely glamour portrait of the impeccable Marlene Dietrich in an elegant sequined dress.
Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer, who remained popular throughout ...
Category
1940s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
USS Roosevelt, New York Navy Day 1945, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography Framed
By Associated Press
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Associated Press Photo. The USS Roosevelt aircraft carriers on the Hudson River, New York, during Navy Day...
Category
1940s Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marlene Dietrich in Feathers
By A.L. Whitey Schafer
Located in Austin, TX
This elegant portrait features the elegant Hollywood legend, Marlene Dietrich, posed in a tall feathered hat.
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich was a German-American actress and s...
Category
1940s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Norma Shoulders, Henrietta, OK by John Stryker, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
By John Stryker
Located in Dallas, TX
Norma Shoulders, Henrietta, OK by John Stryker is a 10 x 8 inch vintage silver gelatin print. This photograph is signed in ink on print recto, and titled in pencil on print verso.
John Stryker was born in Rockford, Illinois, September 1, 1883. He is most remembered for his body of photographs he took of the "Olympic of Western sport"*- the Rodeo. During his lifetime he crossed America, working rodeos as an announcer, a producer, promoter and sometimes a rider. He invented the chute that the animals come out of and he developed new ways of photographing action during an event.
Dramatic shots were taken from the ground, propping his camera on the toe of his right boot right next to a bucking bronco.
Some historians believe that John Stryker was directly responsible for the growth and sophistication of the sport.
His negatives are in the collection of the University of Texas at Permian Basin, Odessa. His photographs have been exhibited during his lifetime at the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming, and the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas. His photographs have been published widely including Life, Look, The Cattleman, The Western Horseman, and The Quarter Horse Journal. In 1977, The Rodeo of John Addison Stryker...
Category
1940s Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood's Glamour Icon
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
This black and white pinup style portrait features blonde actress and film icon Marilyn Monroe. Captured by celebrity photographer Frank Worth this sexy image features the actress se...
Category
1940s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Digital
Marilyn Monroe Poolside Glamour
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
This captivating pinup features actress Marilyn Monroe standing poolside in a bathing suit and heels.
Marilyn Monroe was one of the most popular sex symbols in the early 1950s and ...
Category
1940s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Fred Astaire Dancing in the Studio
By Ernest Bachrach
Located in Austin, TX
Fred Astaire was an American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer, and television presenter. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential dancers in the history of film and t...
Category
1940s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Elizabeth Taylor Classical Elegance
By Clarence Sinclair Bull
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning elegant studio portrait of Elizabeth Taylor, 1957.
Elizabeth Taylor was an English-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian. She began her career as a child actre...
Category
1940s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Greta Garbo "Two Faced Woman"
By Clarence Sinclair Bull
Located in Austin, TX
This stunning black and white silhouette features Greta Grabo in a publicity still for her role in "Two-Faced Woman".
Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American film actress during the 192...
Category
1940s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Citizen Kane Iconic Scene
By Alexander Kahle
Located in Austin, TX
Iconic scene from the influential film "Citizen Kane"..Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film produced by, directed by, and starring Orson Welles. He also co-wrote the screenplay...
Category
1940s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Orson Welles Filming Citizen Kane
By Alexander Kahle
Located in Austin, TX
This rare image was taken behind the scenes of the cast working on a scene in the 1941 film "Citizen Kane".
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film by Orson Welles, its producer...
Category
1940s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Orson Welles Filming Citizen Kane
By Alexander Kahle
Located in Austin, TX
This rare image was taken behind the scenes of the cast working on a scene in the 1941 film "Citizen Kane".
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film by Orson Welles, its producer...
Category
1940s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Marilyn Monroe and Mickey Rooney
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Marilyn Monroe & Mickey Rooney
This listing is for a limited edition archival print.
What's included:
- Limited Edition Archival Print
- Numbered Certificate of Authenticity
Size...
Category
1940s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Elizabeth Taylor Washing Face
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
A great candid capture of legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor at home washing her face in the bathroom.
Elizabeth Taylor was an English-American actress, businesswoman, and humanita...
Category
1940s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Frank Sinatra "The House I Live In"
By Gaston Longet
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning portrait of a 30-year-old Frank Sinatra on the set of the 1945 film Step Lively.
Step Lively is a 1944 American musical film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Frank Sina...
Category
1940s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Digital
Lucille Ball on Silk
By Ernest Bachrach
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning black and white capture of Lucille Ball lying on silk, looking seductively and elegantly to the camera.
Lucille Ball, in full Lucille Desire Ball, radio and motion-pictur...
Category
1940s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Digital
Ingrid Bergman in the Studio
By Ernest Bachrach
Located in Austin, TX
Lovely studio capture of Ingrid Bergman posed in the studio.
Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films and won three Academy Awar...
Category
1940s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Ingrid Bergman with Fan
By Ernest Bachrach
Located in Austin, TX
Glamorous capture of actress Ingrid Bergman posed in the studio with a fan.
Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films and won thr...
Category
1940s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Playful Elizabeth Taylor
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
This black and white action shot features the beautiful Elizabeth Taylor spinning on a grass lawn smiling as her skirt lifts in the air.
Elizabeth Taylo...
Category
1940s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Lucille Ball: A Portrait of Elegance
By Ernest Bachrach
Located in Austin, TX
This elegant black-and-white image features actress Lucille Ball in a full-length gown, looking upward and leaning on a side table.
Lucille Ball was an American actress, comedienn...
Category
1940s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Orson Welles in the Studio
By Ernest Bachrach
Located in Austin, TX
This black and white capture features Orson Welles posed seated on a chair in the studio.
Orson Welles was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, ...
Category
1940s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Digital
Mary Illen, Ft. Worth, TX by John Stryker, Silver Gelatin Print, Photography
By John Stryker
Located in Dallas, TX
Mary Illen Ft. Worth, TX by John Stryker is a 10 x 8 inch silver gelatin print. This photograph is signed in ink on print recto and titled in pencil on print verso.
This photograph features a cowgirl riding a light colored horse, resting at a river. The horse reaches down to the water for a drink, while the woman looks down lovingly at the horse.
John Stryker was born in Rockford, Illinois, September 1, 1883. He is most remembered for his body of photographs he took of the "Olympic of Western sport"*- the Rodeo. During his lifetime he crossed America, working rodeos as an announcer, a producer, promoter and sometimes a rider. He invented the chute that the animals come out of and he developed new ways of photographing action during an event.
Dramatic shots were taken from the ground, propping his camera on the toe of his right boot right next to a bucking bronco.
Some historians believe that John Stryker was directly responsible for the growth and sophistication of the sport.
His negatives are in the collection of the University of Texas at Permian Basin, Odessa. His photographs have been exhibited during his lifetime at the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming, and the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas. His photographs have been published widely including Life, Look, The Cattleman, The Western Horseman, and The Quarter Horse Journal. In 1977, The Rodeo of John Addison Stryker...
Category
1940s Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Jazz Scooter'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Jazz Scooter
1949 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Lucille Brown takes control of the Vespa...
Category
1940s Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
VW Volkswagen Bug Car Assembly Factory Line
Located in Carmel, CA
Printed on Rag Paper
Archival
Image size 5.5 x 7.75"
Mat 9.75 x 13
Category
1940s USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Virginia, Thanksgiving Turkey Diner Vintage Silver Gelatin Print FSA WPA
By Marion Post Wolcott
Located in Surfside, FL
Photo is 9X13.5 (image size), 16X20 is the mat. Mounted to original mat. Vintage photograph.
Marion Post (June 7, 1910 – November 24, 1990), later Marion Post Wolcott, was a noted American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression documenting poverty and deprivation.
Marion Post was born in New Jersey on June 7, 1910. Her parents split up and she was sent to boarding school, spending time at home with her mother in Greenwich Village when not at school. Here she met many artists and musicians and became interested in dance. She studied at The New School.
Post trained as a teacher, and went to work in a small town in Massachusetts. Here she saw the reality of the Depression and the problems of the poor. When the school closed she went to Europe to study with her sister Helen. Helen was studying with Trude Fleischmann, a Viennese photographer. Marion Post showed Fleischmann some of her photographs and was told to stick to photography.
Marion Post Wolcott with Rolleiflex and Speed Graphic in hand in Montgomery County, Maryland. While in Vienna she saw some of the Nazi attacks on the Jewish population and was horrified. Soon she and her sister had to return to America for safety. She went back to teaching but also continued her photography and became involved in the anti-fascist movement. At the New York Photo League she met Ralph Steiner and Paul Strand who encouraged her. When she found that the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin kept sending her to do "ladies' stories," Ralph Steiner took her portfolio to show Roy Stryker, head of the Farm Security Administration, and Paul Strand wrote a letter of recommendation. Stryker was impressed by her work and hired her immediately.
Post's photographs for the FSA often explore the political aspects of poverty and deprivation. They also often find humour in the situations she encountered.
In 1941 she met Leon Oliver Wolcott, deputy director of war relations for the U. S. Department of Agriculture under Franklin Roosevelt. They married, and she continued her assignments for the FSA, but resigned shortly thereafter in February 1942. She found it difficult to fit in her photography around raising a family and a great deal of traveling and living overseas.
In the 1970s, a renewed interest in Wolcott's images among scholars rekindled her own interest in photography. In 1978, Wolcott mounted her first solo exhibition in California, and by the 1980s the Smithsonian and the Metropolitan Museum of Art began to collect her photographs. The first monograph on her work was published in 1983. She was an advocate for women's rights; in 1986, Wolcott said: "Women have come a long way, but not far enough. . . . Speak with your images from your heart and soul" (Women in Photography Conference, Syracuse, N.Y.)
She and other FSA WPA photographers, including Esther Bubley...
Category
1940s American Realist USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Winchester Virginia February 1940 Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
By Arthur Rothstein
Located in Surfside, FL
photo is 9X13.5 (image size), 16X20 is the mat. Mounted to original mat. Vintage photograph.
Main Street, Winchester, Virginia. February, 1940.
Arthur Rothstein ( 1915 – 1985) was an American photographer. Rothstein is recognized as one of America’s premier photojournalists. During a career that spanned five decades, he provoked, entertained and informed the American people. His photographs ranged from a hometown baseball game to the drama of war, from struggling rural farmers to US Presidents. Rothstein was born in Manhattan, New York City, and he grew up in the Bronx. He was a graduate of Columbia University, where he was a founder of the University Camera Club and photography editor of the Columbian. Following his graduation from Columbia during the Great Depression, Rothstein was invited to Washington DC by one of his professors at Columbia, Roy Stryker. Rothstein had been Stryker's student at Columbia University in the early 1930s.
Stryker hired Rothstein to set up the darkroom for Stryker's Photo Unit of the Historical Section of the Resettlement Administration (RA).
Perhaps Rothstein's most famous photo...
Category
1940s American Realist USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Peter Lorre, Actor in The Maltese Falcon & Casablanca. Smoking Portrait
By Yousuf Karsh
Located in Carmel, CA
After a successful acting career in Europe, Peter Lorre came to the United States and starred in such classic films as “The Maltese Falcon”, “Arsenic and Old Lace”, and “Casablanca”....
Category
1940s USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Four Kings of Hollywood, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A series of four shots of film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) enjoying a joke at...
Category
1940s American Realist USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Four Kings of Hollywood, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A series of four shots of film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) enjoying a joke at...
Category
1940s American Realist USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
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