Tony Argento

"Holy Man" Ubud, Bali Indonesia Black and White Figurative Photograph

2000

'Shoulder’ Printed on Hahnemühle photo rag Baryta 308 Gsm fine art paper, these limited edition photographs are designed to withstand the test of time, preserving the beauty and emo...

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks at Walpi First Mesa Hopi Village 1920 Photograph Original Sepia toned Silver gelatin photographic print by Charles Roshe (British, 1885-1974). Provenance: Mary Pickford, Elizabeth (Bess) Huggins. Image 10.75"H x 13.75"W He was Mary Pickford's favorite cinematographer and a personal friend, shooting all of the films in which she starred from 1918 to 1927, before they had a falling out during production of Coquette (1929). He was the first cinematographer to receive an Academy Award, along with Karl Struss, for Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), and won again for The Yearling (1946), with Leonard Smith and Arthur Arling. He was also nominated four times. Walpi, pueblo (village), Navajo county, northeastern Arizona, U.S., on the edge of a high mesa in the Hopi Indian Reservation. It comprises a group of angular stone houses of two to three stories crowded on a narrow tip of the steep-walled mesa at an elevation of 6,225 feet (1,897 metres). The original pueblo (founded c. 1700) was on a lower part of the mesa, but following the Pueblo Rebellion, the inhabitants moved to the top as a defensive measure against Spanish retaliation. Walpi is known for an antelope ceremony and for snake dances, held during odd years in August and generally closed to non-Hopi spectators. Shitchumovi (Sichomivi) pueblo is adjacent and Hano is nearby. Pickford was the first Canadian to win an Oscar. She was also the second to win best actress and the first for a role in a film with sound. She was one of the founding members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 1919 Pickford took the lead in organizing the United Artists Corporation with Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks. In 1920, after the dissolution of her first marriage (1911–19) to actor Owen Moore, she married Fairbanks (divorced 1936). Pickford’s popularity continued unabated in Pollyanna (1920), Little Lord...

Reprint of a vintage photograph titled "Monsieur (Louis) and Madame Paulhan of France ready to fly a Farman model lll in Los Angeles - 1910 from an original photograph by an unknown ...

"Moon Birth 3" Black & White Photography 31" x 31" in Ed. 1/7 by Olha Stepanian Printed on Epson Professional Paper Signed and numbered by the artist Comes with COA issued by the ar...

Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 152. Jumping; running; straight high jump (shoes). 14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887 Image size 6 1/4 x 18 1/8 inches Muybr...

Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 644. Jumping a hurdle; saddle; clearing and landing; knocking over hurdle; rider, 105, gray mare Pandora. 14 x 20 ...

Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 461. "Child, lifting a doll, turning, and walking off." 14 x 20 inch original collotype print from 1887 (image siz...

Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 297. Lawn tennis; serving. 14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887 Image size 8 7/8 x 12 7/8 inches Muybridge copyright imprint be...

Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 715. Dogs; three, tugging at a towel, Ike, Maggie, etc. 14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887 Image size 6.5 x 17.25 inches. Muy...

Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 564. Hauling; broken leg chain; dark-gray Belgian horse Dusel. 14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887 Image size 9.5 x 12.25 inch...