1950s Black and White Photography

Ski Instructors Only (1955) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked ‘Ski Instructors Only’ New Hampshire, 1955. Additional ...

One of Callahan's most famous images. Signature in pencil on recto. Printed 1970's.

The Temple of Dawn II, Bangkok, Thailand 1957 Archival pigment print Edition of 5 Estate stamped, signed and numbered by Andrea Derujinsky with certificate of authenticity The entir...

Available Sizes: 24" x 20" $3,000.00 Edition of 15 30" x 24" $4,000.00 Edition of 20 45" x 45" $8,500.00 Edition of 7 Printing is done on Exhibition Photo Baryta 310gsm paper. ...

New England Skiing 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in New Hampshire, 1955 48 x 72" inches / 122 x 183 cm paper size Estate Stamped Colle...

Audrey Hepburn, 1953 - Bob Willoughby (Portrait Photography) Archival pigment print Printed on 20 x 24 inch paper From an edition of 25 Also available in alternative sizes Bob W...

'Patsy Pulitzer' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition 1955: Patsy Pulitzer (nee Patsy Bartlett) relaxing by a pool in Palm Beach, Florida. Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre base...

One of the famous members of the Humanist photography in France. Signed lower right by the artist. Stamp of the artist's studio on the back.

'Cannon Drive' 1952 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition 1952: Cars driving along Cannon Drive, Beverly Hills, California. Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre based print Printed Later...

Frank Sinatra, 1959 - Bob Willoughby (Portrait Photography) Archival pigment print Printed on 20 x 24 inch paper From an edition of 25 Also available in alternative sizes Bob Wi...

Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked 'Ski Instructors Only' in New Hampshire, 1955. New England Skiing Black and White Photography Slim Aa...

Robert Doisneau 1912-1994 Les enfants de la place Herbet, 1957 Signed in ink on recto; titled and dated in pencil on verso Gelatin Silver Print Image 11" x 9-1/2", Paper 16" x 12", M...

New England Skiing Essentials (1955) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) A couple prepare for a day’s skiing in New Hampshire, 1955. Additional Information: Unframe...

Dinner Jazz 1949 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Diners in a grand ballroom during a fashion show, circa 1955. 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edit...

Signed in ink on recto; signed, titled dated in pencil on verso Image 13-3/4" x 9-1/4", Paper 16" x 12", Matted 20" x 16"

Signed in ink on recto; Signed, titled and dated in pencil on verso Image: 7-3/4 x 12"; Paper: 10-3/4 x 13-3/4"; Mat 16 x 20"

World Series Parade, New York City, 1954 by Leonard Freed, is an 11" x 14" gelatin silver later ("lifetime") print, signed on verso (back of print) by the photographer and stamped (magnum). The photograph was handprinted by Leonard Freed. Parade by Freed captures the joy of two majorettes en route in the streets of the city for the celebration of the New York Giants...

The inimitable and notorious photographer known as Weegee, (aka. Arthur Fellig) exposed the scope of New York’s nightlife; whether it was celebrating high-culture or low-life revelle...

The black-and-white photograph features a captivating view of the Ponte dei Sospiri (Bridge of Sighs) in Venice, taken in 1954 by Erich Andres. Framed by the narrow canals, the bridg...

New England Skiing 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Two female skiers outside the Carroll Reed Ski Service Shop and Check Room in New Hampshire, 1955 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 102 cm...

'Pulitzer On The Beach' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Patsy Pulitzer (nee Patsy Bartlett) at Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955. (Photo by Slim Aarons) Slim Aarons silver gel...

Signed and dated in ink on recto; Signed, titled and dated in pencil on verso Image: 8 x 12-1/2"; Paper 10-3/4" x 13-3/4"; Mat 16 x 20"

René GROEBLI (*1927, Switzerland) 531, 1952 Vintage silver gelatin print on Baryta paper Sheet 19.5 x 28.2 cm (7 5/8 x 11 1/8 in.) Unique Framed Signed an...

René GROEBLI (*1927, Switzerland) 1247, 1956 Vintage silver gelatin print on Baryta paper Sheet 19.7 x 21.2 cm (7 3/4 x 8 3/8 in.) Unique Framed Signed an...

Cy Twombly (1928-2011) Virginia/ New York / Italy Image Size: 16 x 11 Visible inside matboard is 12 x 11 Frame Size: 21.5 x 19 Medium: Photograph Edition 1/12 Signed with the edition number "Black and White" 1954 This is an original. The same photo in the Twombly book is a dry point on cardboard but is unsigned by hand. Cy Twombly (1928-2011) Following is the obituary of the artist by Randy Kennedy, The New York Times, July 5, 2011 Cy Twombly, whose spare, childlike scribbles and poetic engagement with antiquity left him stubbornly out of step with the movements of postwar American art even as he became one of the era's most important painters, died on Tuesday in Rome. He was 83. His death was announced by the Gagosian Gallery, which represents his work. Mr. Twombly had battled cancer for several years. In a career that slyly subverted Abstract Expressionism, toyed briefly with Minimalism, seemed barely to acknowledge Pop art and anticipated some of the concerns of Conceptualism, Mr. Twombly was a divisive artist almost from the start. The curator Kirk Varnedoe, on the occasion of a 1994 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, wrote that his work was "influential among artists, discomfiting to many critics and truculently difficult not just for a broad public, but for sophisticated initiates of postwar art as well." The critic Robert Hughes called him "the Third Man, a shadowy figure, beside that vivid duumvirate of his friends Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg." Mr. Twombly's decision to settle permanently in southern Italy in 1957 as the art world shifted decisively in the other direction, from Europe to New York, was only the most symbolic of his idiosyncrasies. He avoided publicity throughout his life and mostly ignored his critics, who questioned constantly whether his work deserved a place at the forefront of 20th century abstraction, though he lived long enough to see it arrive there. It didn't help that his paintings, because of their surface complexity and whirlwinds of tiny detail — scratches, erasures, drips, penciled fragments of Italian and classical verse amid scrawled phalluses and buttocks — lost much of their power in reproduction. But Mr. Twombly, a tall, rangy Virginian who once practiced drawing in the dark to make his lines less purposeful, steadfastly followed his own program and looked to his own muses — often literary ones, like Catullus, Rumi, Pound and Rilke. He seemed to welcome the privacy that came with unpopularity. "I had my freedom and that was nice," he said in a rare interview, with Nicholas Serota, the director of the Tate, before a 2008 survey of his career at the Tate Modern. The critical low point probably came after a widely panned 1964 exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York. The artist and writer Donald Judd, who was hostile toward painting in general, was especially damning, calling the show a fiasco. "There are a few drips and splatters and an occasional pencil line," he wrote in a review. "There isn't anything to these paintings." But by the 1980s, with the rise of neo-Expressionism, a generation of younger artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat found inspiration in Mr. Twombly's skittery bathroom-graffiti scrawl. Coupled with rising interest in European artists whose work shared unexpected ground with Twombly's, like Joseph Beuys, the newfound attention brought him a kind of critical favor he had never enjoyed before. And by the next decade, he was highly sought after not only by European museums and collectors, who had discovered his work early on, but also by those back in his homeland who had not known what to make of him two decades before. In 1989, the Philadelphia Museum of Art opened permanent rooms dedicated to his monumental 10-painting cycle, Fifty Days at Iliam, based on Alexander Pope's translation of The Iliad. (Mr. Twombly said that he purposely misspelled Ilium, a Latin name for Troy, with an "a," to refer to Achilles.) That same year, Mr. Twombly's work passed the million dollar mark at auction. In 1995, the Menil Collection in Houston opened a new gallery dedicated to his work, designed by Renzo Piano after a plan by Mr. Twombly himself. Despite this growing acceptance, Mr. Varnedoe still felt it necessary to include an essay in the Modern's newsletter at the time of the retrospective, titled "Your Kid Could Not Do This, and Other Reflections on Cy Twombly." In the only written statement Mr. Twombly ever made about his work, a short essay in an Italian art journal in 1957, he tried to make clear that his intentions were not subversive but elementally human. Each line he made, he said, was "the actual experience" of making the line, adding: "It does not illustrate. It is the sensation of its own realization." Years later, he described this more plainly. "It's more like I'm having an experience than making a picture," he said. The process stood in stark contrast to the detached, effete image that often clung to Mr. Twombly. After completing a work, in a kind of ecstatic state, it was as if the painting existed but he himself barely did anymore: "I usually have to go to bed for a couple of days," he said. Edwin Parker Twombly Jr., was born in Lexington, Va., on April 25, 1928, to parents who had moved to the South from New England. His father, a talented athlete who pitched a summer for the Chicago White Sox and went on to become a revered college swimming coach, was nicknamed Cy, after Cy Young, the Hall of Fame pitcher. The younger Mr. Twombly (pronounced TWAHM-blee) inherited the name, though he was much more bookish than athletic as a child, with stooped shoulders and a high ponderous forehead. He read avidly and, discovering his calling early, he worked from art kits he ordered from the Sears Roebuck catalog. As a teenager, he studied with the Spanish painter Pierre Daura, who had left Europe after the Spanish Civil War and settled in Lexington. Daura's wife, Louise Blair, studied cave paintings and may have sparked Mr. Twombly's early interest in Paleolithic art. In 1947 he attended the Boston Museum School, where German Expressionism was the rage, but Mr. Twombly gravitated to his own interests, like Dada and Kurt Schwitters and particularly to Jean Dubuffet and Alberto Giacometti, two important early influences. He moved back to Lexington in 1949 and studied art at Washington and Lee University, where his talent impressed teachers. By 1950, he was in New York, the recipient of a scholarship to the Art Students League. Later in his life, he cited visiting Willem de Kooning's studio and seeing an Arshile Gorky retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art as important moments in his young painting life. But he also came to New York at the heyday of the New York School and was exposed to the work of almost all its giants in the city's galleries. He turned down an offer for a solo show of his paintings at the Art Students League in 1950, saying that he felt it was too early for him. He met Rauschenberg, a fellow student at the league, during his second semester, and Rauschenberg later persuaded Mr. Twombly to enroll at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, which had become a crucible for the American avant-garde, with John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Ray Johnson, Dorothea Rockburne and John Chamberlain among its faculty and students. Mr. Twombly, who studied with Ben Shahn, stayed at the college only briefly and was a bit of an outsider even then. As he told Mr. Serota: "I was always doing my own thing. I always wondered why there are books with photographs of all the artists of that period and I was only in one! I thought: 'Where was I?' " In the summer of 1952, after receiving a grant from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Mr. Twombly traveled to Europe for the first time and met up with Rauschenberg. The two wandered through Italy, North Africa and Spain, an experience that later yielded some of the first paintings to be considered a part of Mr. Twombly's mature work. "Tiznit," made with white enamel house paint and pencil and crayon, with gouges and scratches in the surface, was named for a town in Morocco that he had visited, and the painting's primitivist shapes were inspired by tribal pieces he saw at the ethnographic museum in Rome, as well as by artists like Dubuffet, de Kooning and Franz Kline. The painting, along with another based on tribal motifs, was exhibited in 1953 at Eleanor Ward's Stable Gallery on West 58th Street along with monochromatic paintings by Rauschenberg. The show was generally savaged. (Early this year, the Museum of Modern Art acquired "Tiznit," along with another early work, which Mr. Twombly had kept in his personal collection.) Mr. Twombly was drafted and spent more than a year in the Army, where he was assigned to cryptography work in Washington. On weekends and leaves, he continued to paint and draw, sometimes at night with the lights out to try to lose techniques he had learned in art classes and to express himself more instinctively. After receiving a medical discharge and teaching for a time in Virginia, Mr. Twombly returned to New York and worked in a studio on William Street, near both Rauschenberg and Johns, who helped choose titles for his paintings during this period. Mr. Twombly tried without success for several months to get a grant to go back to Europe and in 1957, with Ward's help, he spent several months in Italy, where he met Tatiana Franchetti...

Signed in ink on recto; titled and dated in pencil on verso Gelatin Silver Print Paper Size: 16 x 12 inches; Image Size: 11 3/4 x 9 12

Hildegard Knef – Film Still – Es geschehen noch Wunder, 1951 Vintage Print Photographer: Likely Richard Wesel Size: 15.2 x 19.3 cm Type: Original Vintage Silver Gelatin Print In thi...

Kennedy Holiday (1959) (Photo By Phillip Harrington) 21 August 1959. John F. Kennedy sailing on the Victura with Jackie and friends Additional ...

Artworks sold in perfect condition : Set # 2 composed of 5 Gallery Print 30x40 cm This is an exceptional offer that we are presenting today. For almost four years, here on 1stdibs, a...

This is all about the work of George Douglas, a brilliant photographer of the mid 20th Century. In the 1940s, 50s and 60s he worked for leading magazines of the day, both in Britain...

The Young Callas is a beautiful black-white photographic portrait of the nascent opera star realized by an unknown artist around the 1950-51. On the verso the black ink stamp on the...

Available Sizes: 24" x 20" $5,000.00 Edition of 15 30" x 24" $6,000.00 Edition of 20 45" x 45" $10,000.00 Edition of 7 Printing is done on Exhibition Photo Baryta 310gsm paper. ...

Signed by Jesse Alexander in black ink on print margin Gelatin silver print Pape size: 16 x 20 in. Image size: 11 1/2 x 17 in. Jesse Alexander is considered one of the greatest race car photographers in history. His images of vintage...

Kennedy And Friends (1953) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Senator John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963), Shirley Rogan Ellis and Betty LoSavio at Montego Bay Airport, Jama...

Waiting for Fidel Castro, 1959 by American photographer Burt Glinn is a series of (2) photos, each photo is 9.5" x 12” - they are gelatin silver RC press prints, authenticated by the...

This silver gelatin print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount with BMFA 11 stamp, title and date in ink on the back of the mount. An inventory number in pencil on the back ...

No Edition Signed in ink on print margin by Jesse Alexander Gelatin silver print, 11 x 16 1/2 in. Jesse Alexander was considered one of the greatest race car photographers in history. His images of vintage automobiles and the people who gave them life; captured from the European race circuit during the 1950’s and 60’s are collected and exhibited by museums and galleries throughout the world. Jesse Alexander was involved in photography and especially motorsports photography since the early 1950s when he covered the original Mexican Road Race. He then spent many years in Europe covering Formula One...

Montego Bikini 1946 Extra Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition by Toni Frissell Fashion model Natahli (Natalie) Nickerson Paine wearing a bikini, lying on a platform near wate...

Image size is 15 x 19.5 inches. Printed in 1999. Larry Burrows Collection and copyright stamps on verso. Larry Burrows career as a LIFE Magazine photographer culminated in his renow...

"Queen Of Soho" by Thurston Hopkins Model Andria Loran (right) greets a friend, 21st July 1956. Loran works in Soho, London as a model and has been voted 'Que...

Need For Speed (1954) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Joseph McKeown/Picture Post/Getty Images) 17th July 1954: Argentinian racer Juan Manuel Fangio (1911 - 1995) chalks up ...

René GROEBLI (*1927, Switzerland) 1248, 1956 Vintage silver gelatin print on Baryta paper Image 17 x 20.2 cm (6 3/4 x 8 in.) Unique Framed Signed and date...

White Stoops, West 88th Street, NYC by Ruth Orkin is a black and white gelatin silver print of cars parked along the street, with a layer of snow covering the scene. Gelatin Silver ...

"Joan Crawford" by Thurston Hopkins American actress Joan Crawford (1906 - 1977) asks her assistant to bite off a loose thread from her dress at the Dorchester Hotel...

Available Sizes: 20" x 24" $6,000.00 Edition of 15 24" x 30" $7,000.00 Edition of 20 45" x 45" $11,000.00 Edition of 7 Printing is done on Exhibition Photo Baryta 310gsm paper. ...

Available Sizes: 21" x 21" $5,000.00 Edition of 15 25" x 25" $6,000.00 Edition of 20 45" x 45" $10,000.00 Edition of 7 Printing is done on Exhibition Photo Baryta 310gsm pape...

Available Sizes: 19" x 23" $5,000.00 Edition of 15 22" x 27" $6,000.00 Edition of 20 45" x 45" $10,000.00 Edition of 7 Printing is done on Exhibition Photo Baryta 310gsm paper....

New England Skiing 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked ‘Ski Instructors Only’ in New Hampshire, 1955. 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm pape...

Elvis Presley on his Harley Davidson motorcycle at home in 1956. (Photo Phillip Harrington) Estate Stamped limited edition print 5 of 75 Large Oversize 30x20" inches / 76 x 51 c...

'New England Skiing' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in New Hampshire, 1955. Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre based print Printed ...

Edition of 25 Larry, as he was known throughout the industry, was an award-winning photojournalist, who covered the political, social, and artistic events of his time for top publications such as Look, Life, The New York Times, Newsweek, The Saturday Evening Post, Vogue, Collier’s, and Parade Magazine. Fried became interested in photography while serving as a platoon sergeant with the First Infantry Division during World War II. He made a pinhole camera with a matchbox, and would shoot through the tank turret. Fried photographed the battle action and was surprised to learn they were sold to a wire service. His first published pictures were in Stars and Stripes. Influenced by wartime imagery, he returned to the States and went to the University of Miami on the GI Bill while working as a theatrical director and photographer.
 He returned to his native New York City where he immersed himself in the theatrical world, shooting for PIX, Inc, the legendary photo-rep agency with friends such as George Karger...

New England Skiing 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked ‘Ski Instructors Only’ in New Hampshire, 1955. 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm pape...

"Marilyn In Lace" by Darlene Hammond 1953: American actor Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962) smiling as she sits at the home of director Jean Negulesco, after the premiere of his film, 'How to Marry a Millionaire,' in which she starred. Monroe is wearing a lace evening gown and a white fur stole...

New England Skiing 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Two female skiers outside the Carroll Reed Ski Service Shop and Check Room in New Hampshire, 1955 20 x 30" inches / 51 x 76 cm ...

An Anxious Wait 1951 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped American actress, Gloria Swanson, anxiously awaits the results of the Best Actress award at a cafe on West 52nd Street, New York. O...

Montego Bay Fisherman 1948 Extra Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition by Toni Frissell Local fisherman bring in their nets on the beach in Montego Bay. 1948 Large 40 x 40"...

Listing includes framing with UV Plexi ($900 value), free shipping, and a 14-day return policy. Seydou Keïta Untitled Portrait, 1952 - 1955 (02158) 23...

Kings Of Hollywood 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Print Enjoying a joke at a New Year’s party held at Romanoff’s in Beverly Hills, 31st December 1957. 20 x 24" inches / 51 x 61 cm paper...

Available Sizes: 24" x 24" $3,000.00 Edition of 15 30" x 30" $4,000.00 Edition of 20 45" x 45" $8,500.00 Edition of 7 Printing is done on Exhibition Photo Baryta 310gsm paper. ...

A 16 x 20 inch gelatin silver print, with image size of 12 x 17.75 inches. Printed in 2004. "Larry Burrows Collection" and copyright stamps on verso. Larry Burrows career as a LIFE ...