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Period: 1950s
Norman Parkinson Limited Estate Print Anne Gunning for Vogue
Located in London, GB
Anne Gunning for Vogue Estate Print
by Norman Parkinson
Fashion model Anne Gunning in a pink mohair coat outside the City Palace with an elephant, Jaipur, India, photographed for V...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jacques Tati and Alain Becourt - Photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson - 1958
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage b/w photograph realized by Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1958.
Copyright: Magnum Photos and Agenzia Contrasto.
Excellent condition.
Category
Contemporary 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
New York City, Black and White Street Photography, Wall Street 1950s
Located in New york, NY
Wall Street, 1955-56 is a 19" x 13" limited edition print (9/9 available) by American photographer Leonard Freed. The work is signed verso (back of photo) by Brigitte Freed (wife of ...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigme...
Cafe Culture by Bert Hardy Limited Edition Giant Oversize Silver Gelatin Print
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Cafe Culture" by Bert Hardy
A waiter serving clients on the terrace of a cafe on the Champs-Elysees, Paris, June 1951.
Original publication: Picture Po...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White
Black
White Monochrome of a Female Nude by Contemporary American Photographer
Located in Preston, GB
Black & White Monochrome Photograph of a Female Nude by Contemporary by legendary American Photographer, Larry Colwell (1911-1972).
Photo Size 9.5 x 6 inches - Signed on the rear
Unmounted & Unframed
Larry Colwell
American, 1911-1972
Born 1911, Detroit, Michigan
Died 1972, New Canaan...
Category
Photorealist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Ink, Printer s Ink, Photographic Paper, Monoprint
Esther Williams, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features American swimmer and actress Esther Williams (1921 - 2013) lounging on a trampoline.
This ...
Category
Realist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Breakfast At Tiffanys
Huge Oversize Limited Edition silver gelatin print
Located in London, GB
'Breakfast At Tiffanys' Huge Oversize Limited Edition silver gelatin print
Belgian-born actor Audrey Hepburn (1929 – 1993), during a shoot for the promotion of her film BREAKFAST...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Emilio Lussu - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Emilio Lussu is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
Contemporary 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Fan Mail, Beverly Hills, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962), wearing a red negligee trimmed with black lace, sorts out h...
Category
Realist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Tennis In The Bahamas Slim Aarons Limited Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tennis In The Bahamas
1957
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Two women stand talking to a man on the edge of a tennis court in the Bahamas, circa 1957. Behind the ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Murray Garrett
Frank Sinatra
Archival Photograph by Getty, 12x16
Located in San Rafael, CA
American singer and actor Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998) gestures with his hands while singing into a microphone during a recording session in a studio at Capitol Records, early 1950s. ...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Seaplane At Palm Beach 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Seaplane At Palm Beach 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Patsy Pulitzer (nee Patsy Bartlett) leaning against a seaplane belonging to the Everglades Flying Service, at Palm Beach, Fl...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
American Girl in Italy, Florence - Woman walking down street, city scene, men
By Ruth Orkin
Located in Denton, TX
American Girl in Italy by Ruth Orkin is a black and white gelatin silver print depicting a distressed woman walking down a street, past a group of men looking at her.
11 x 14 in.
Ge...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons
Sports Car Couple
(Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1955: John Bryant with his AC sports car in Kinnerton Place, London SW1, Printed Later. His passenger is Margaret McAulay.
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 x 20 inches
$3000
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Undercurrent Projects is pleased to offer this vibrant photograph, printed by the Slim Aarons estate. It is part of the estate's only official limited run, of 150. Estate stamp embossed on recto, hand numbered in ink on recto, with certificate of authenticity from the estate (not a secondary gallery licensing from the estate).
Increasingly heralded for his influence, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) made a career out of photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." Aarons is known for his iconic images of Hollywood glamour and luxurious people, places and lifestyles.
Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Getty Images Gallery, London. Photographs are printed utilizing the original transparency held at the archive source.
Aarons began his career as a combat photographer in World War II. Though he earned a Purple Heart for his service, he declared that combat had taught him that the only beach worth landing on was decorated with beautiful people enjoying themselves in the sun.
Slim Aarons is noted for his documentation of the Beautiful People over 50 years, encompassing high society, celebrity, aristocracy, and the jet set. He was born and raised in New York City and New Jersey and later New Hampshire. He took up photography as a teenager. At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and was later appointed official photographer at the United States Military Academy at West Point. During World War II he served as an army combat photographer for Yank magazine in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. After the war he became a freelance photojournalist, first based in Hollywood, then Rome, then New York. His photographs appeared in many magazines, including Life, Holiday, Town & Country, Look, Venture, and Travel & Leisure. His first book A Wonderful Time (1974) is considered a classic.
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons *
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Internal: Slim Aarons Vintage Sport, Vintage Car photography, Sports Car Photography
Category
Realist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Original Marilyn Monroe Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Marilyn Monroe Photograph
Original photograph of Marilyn Monroe posing in her dressing room on the film of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" by photographer Milton Gold (American,...
Category
Photorealist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Alice Topping 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Alice Topping 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Socialite Alice Topping by a swimming pool in Palm Beach, Florida, 1959.
30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Co...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Audrey Hepburn
Limited Edition silver gelatin print
Located in London, GB
'Audrey Hepburn' Limited Edition silver gelatin print
1958
A gorgeous candid and delicate shot of the fashion and style movie icon Audrey Hepburn, film actress (1929-1993) during a ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Kings Of Hollywood Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Kings Of Hollywood 1957
Clark Gable (1901 – 1960), Van Heflin (1910 – 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 – 1961) and James Stewart (1908 – 1997) enjoying a joke at a New Year’s party held at...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Paris Ostrich from the Paris In Color Series 1956-61 by Peter Cornelius
Located in London, GB
Paris Ostrich from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61
By Peter Cornelius
60 x 40 inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size
Printed 2022
Archival pigment print
Framing and size options avai...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Vuccino And Rava 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Vuccino And Rava 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Carla Vuccino, wearing a swimming cap, and a sunbathing Marina Rava, both wearing bikinis as they sit on the rear of a boat, on th...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cafe Culture by Bert Hardy Limited Edition Giant Oversize Silver Gelatin Print
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Cafe Culture" by Bert Hardy
A waiter serving clients on the terrace of a cafe on the Champs-Elysees, Paris, June 1951.
Original publication: Picture Post - 5343 - Sunday Morning I...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White
Slim Aarons The Carlton Hotel Limited Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Carlton Hotel (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo By Slim Aarons/Getty Images Archive)
A Cadillac with Florida plates parked outside the Carlto...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Party at Romanoff’s Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Party at Romanoff’s
A party at Romanoff’s in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, 1959.
Gorgeous print measuring a 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper siz...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
CZ’s House 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
CZ’s House 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Mrs F C Winston Guest (1920 – 2003) (aka Cee Zee Guest) reclines on a garden chair in front of the Grecian temple pool on her ocean-fron...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Luxury Dining
Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Limited Edition Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Luxury Dining (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Diners in a grand ballroom during a fashion show, circ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Paris Ostrich from the Paris In Color Series 1956-61 by Peter Cornelius
Located in London, GB
Paris Ostrich from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61
By Peter Cornelius
60 x 40 inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size
Printed 2022
Archival pigment print
Framing and size options avai...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
C. Z. Guest With Her Great Dane 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
C. Z. Guest With Her Great Dane 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
American socialite C.Z. Guest (Mrs Winston F.C. Guest) (1920 – 2003) with a large Great Dane dog, at her Grecian te...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
New Look (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Kurt Hutton
Located in London, GB
New Look (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Kurt Hutton/Getty Images)
A model wearing a black cocktail dress and a black velvet wide-brimmed hat, designed by Ronald Paterson...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons
Sundowners, Cannes
Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Two bikini-clad holidaymakers enjoy a glass of wine outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958.
Sundowners
1958; Printed Later
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered upon sale out of...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Self Portrait on Holiday in Athens, Greece
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Legendary photographer Slim Aarons relaxes in a self portrait shot in Athens, near the Acropolis.
Slim Aarons said, "I love a solo holiday. It tends to refresh the part of oneself that is most depleted by modern life — patience.
"Let me dispel a few myths. You will be lonely. No: you won’t. My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependency on someone to distract your attention.
"I’ve had solo pints of Guinness in the pubs of County Kerry and County Cork. I’ve walked across the sage- and juniper-scented maquis of Corsica on a spring day, where you can still find the world of Napoleon’s childhood. More than once I went to the Isle of Iona in the Scottish Hebrides...
Category
Realist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Fan Mail, Beverly Hills, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962), wearing a red negligee trimmed with black lace, sorts out h...
Category
Realist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
New York City, USA, Limited Edition Signed Iconic Street Photography 1950s
Located in New york, NY
New York City, USA, 1954 is a 13" x 9" archival pigment print (baryta) in a limited edition of 5. Signed verso (back of photo) by Brigitte Freed (wife of the photographer), with Leon...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigme...
New York City by Night, circa 1950, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography Framed
Located in Atlanta, GA
This captivating, one-of-a-kind silver gelatin photograph print showcases a timeless black-and-white view of New York City as it appeared under the nocturnal sky circa 1950. Framed w...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Make Up Mirror Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Thurston Hopkins – Signed Lifetime Print
Limited Edition 33/50
Fibre Print
Date printed: 2011
Signed & Editioned by Photographer, ink recto (front)
Paper size 20 x 24 inches / 51 x...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Having A Topping Time
1959 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Having A Topping Time' 1959 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Socialite Alice Topping relaxing at a poolside in Palm Beach.
20x20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size
Estate Stamp...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Director And Star, Orson Welles on set of Othello
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1952: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985) in Venice during a break from filming 'Othello' which he directed and starred in.
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications ph...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor
Rock Hudson
Located in London, GB
'James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor & Rock Hudson'
From left -James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson, on the set of 'Giant,' 1956.
(Photo: The Everett Co...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
"Earle and Carolyn Brown at the Stevenson
s in Brewster" Cy Twombly
By Cy Twombly
Located in New York, NY
Cy Twombly
Earle and Carolyn Brown at the Stevenson's in Brewster, 1955
Identified and inscribed on the reverse by the sitter Carolyn Brown
Photograph on paper
8 x 8 inches
Provenance
Gift of the artist
Estate of Carolyn Brown, New York 2025.
Cy Twombly gained fame for his art that combined cultural, historical, and poetic elements—particularly those from classical antiquity—with abstract shapes and his distinctive script. Born Edwin Parker Twombly, Jr. on April 25, 1928, in Lexington, Virginia, he began his artistic journey under the guidance of Pierre Daura and Marion Junkin at Washington and Lee University. This initial training was complemented by his formative experiences at the Arts Students League of New York and Black Mountain College, where he established enduring friendships with influential figures like Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, and Merce Cunningham.
A pivotal moment for Twombly was his 1952 trip to Italy and North Africa with Rauschenberg, funded by a grant from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. This journey allowed Twombly to engage deeply with the rich cultural history that would inform his future artistic endeavors, leading to the creation of significant early pieces.
Twombly made his way back to Italy in 1957 and 1958, during which he presented his first solo exhibition in Italy at Galleria La Tartaruga, owned by Plinio De Martiis. In 1959, he married Luisa Tatiana...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Audrey Hepburn - Photograph by Dennis Stock - 1950
By Dennis Stock
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage b/w photograph realized by Dennis Stock in 1950.
Copyright: Magnum Photos and Agenzia Contrasto.
Excellent condition.
Category
Contemporary 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
C. Z. Guest 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
C. Z. Guest 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
American socialite Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest (aka C. Z. Guest, 1920 – 2003) with a Great Dane at her ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Christmas Traffic 1953 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Christmas Traffic 1953 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Red and white automobile lights on Park Avenue, New York at Christmas time. The rear and headlights at nighttime give the appeara...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Last Bus In London by Bert Hardy - Limited Edition silver gelatine print
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
Last Bus In London by Bert Hardy
Limited Edition silver gelatine print
A couple saying goodbye on a bus in Shaftesbury Avenue in London, July 1953 .
Original Publication: Picture Post - 6576 - Known Your Piccadilly - pub. 4th July 1953
(Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Archive London England)
Paper size 12x16 inches / 31 x 41 cm
Produced utilising the original negative
Numbered and stamped by the Getty Archive London
Limited edition to 300 only
Silver gelatine fibre based baryta paper print
Certificate of authenticity included
printed 2024
Ships securely from London.
Other sizes and Framing available on request.
Bert Hardy
Bert Hardy
Albert William Thomas Hardy (19 May 1913 – 3 July 1995) was an English documentary and press photographer known for his work published in the Picture Post magazine between 1941 and 1957.
Life and work
Born in Blackfriars, Bert Hardy rose from humble working class origins in Southwark, London. The eldest of seven children, he left school at age 14 to work for a chemist who also processed photos. His first big sale came in 1936 when he photographed King George V and Queen Mary in a passing carriage during the Silver Jubilee celebrations, and sold 200 small prints of his best view of the King. His first assignment, at age 23, was to photograph Hungarian actor Sakall at the Mayfair Hotel. Hardy freelanced for The Bicycle magazine, and bought his first small-format 35 mm Leica. He signed on with the General Photographic Agency as a Leica photographer, later founding his own freelance firm, Criterion.
General Photographic Agency
General Photographic Agency a Fleet Street, London agency, sold photos at least between 1880-1950.
Picture Post and World War II
In 1941, Hardy was recruited by the then editor Tom Hopkinson of the leading picture publication of the 1930s to the 1950s, Picture Post. Founded in 1938 and funded by publisher Edward Hulton, the magazine's first editor was Hungarian émigré Stefan Lorant (1901–97) assisted by Hopkinson, who took over as editor from 1940. The picture-centric, left-leaning and reasonably-priced publication was highly successful and circulation soon rose to over a million. Hardy's photographer colleagues included Felix H. Man (aka Hans Baumann...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jim (Demetrios) Dardanis
Located in New York, NY
Vintage silver print
Western Photography Guild studio stamp in purple ink, verso
Numbered "14-5" in purple ink, verso
Also titled and inscribed in...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White
Palm Beach Idyll , Estate Edition, Christmas Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This classic Slim Aarons photograph depicts a couple basking under the sun at the renowned Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955. The woman in the forefront sports a vintage orange swimsui...
Category
American Realist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Chateaux, Mme. Rigaud with Springer Spaniels, 1957
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Mme. Rigaud with Spaniel France, 1957 -- Mme. Mario Rigaud, one of France's best markswomen, sits outside her 18th century home, Chateau de Marcheval, near Orleans, France. The English Springer Spaniel...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Giclée
Jackie Swings Caroline, 1959
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Jackie Swings Caroline -- Jackie swings Caroline in the shallows at Hyannis Port in 1959. Image size is 10" x 15" (for 11" x 17" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order i...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Giclée
Capri Holiday 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Capri Holiday 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Swimmers off the Italian island of Capri, 1958.
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
CZ’s Dogs 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
CZ’s Dogs 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Mrs F C Winston Guest (1920 – 2003) (aka Cee Zee Guest) with her dogs in front of the Grecian temple pool on her ocean-front estate, Vill...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Paris Colour Scene from the Paris In Color Series 1956-61 by Peter Cornelius
Located in London, GB
Paris Colour Scene from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61
By Peter Cornelius
40 x 60 inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size
Printed 2023
Archival pigment print
Framing and size options available - Please enquire
About:
Peter Cornelius (1913–1970) was a German photographer and photojournalist. The goal he set himself was to capture: “the right colours at the right moment”. He was never concerned with a pure, apparently “right” picture of “reality”.
After World War II, he began his career with reportage, landscape and sailing photography...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Campbell Falls Picnic, Massachusetts, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a family enjoying a picnic on the bank of the Whiting River near Campbell Falls, Massachu...
Category
Realist 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Cheeky Briefs by Kurt Hutton
By Kurt Hutton
Located in London, GB
Cheeky Briefs by Kurt Hutton
A badly sun-burned holidaymaker admires his friend's leopard-print briefs, while standing at the bar of a holiday camp on C...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White
Slim Aarons
C.Z. Guest With Her Great Dane
1955 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'C.Z. Guest With Her Great Dane' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
The swimming pool and jetty at the Villa d'Este Hotel, Lake Como, Italy, June 1983.
40 x 30" inches ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lake Tahoe Trip 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lake Tahoe Trip 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Young women canoeing on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, 1959.
30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection E...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Checkered Flag
1963 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Checkered Flag'
The checkered flag signals the end of the race during the 1963 Nassau Speed Week.
30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size
Est...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pink Hawaiian Scenes 1957 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Hawaiian Scenes
1957
A couple aboard a yacht in Hawaii, USA, 1957
by Toni Frissell
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Archival pigment print
unframed
(framing available ...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Street Scene In Montmartre from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61 Giant size
Located in London, GB
'Street Scene In Montmartre'
from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61
By Peter Cornelius
Crowds on the street, Rue Norvins, Montmartre, Paris. From the series Paris in Colour, 1956–...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Jean Serpieri 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Jean Serpieri 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Madame Jean Serpieri sits in the ballroom of the Tour La Reine near Athens, wearing a gown that belonged to the wife of Otto, the fir...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons,
La Canzone Del Mare
Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
La Canzone del Mare in Capri, Italy, July 1958.
Slim Aarons
La Canzone del Mare
1958 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authent...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Paris Ostrich from the Paris In Color Series 1956-61 by Peter Cornelius
Located in London, GB
Paris Ostrich from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61
By Peter Cornelius
60 x 40 inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size
Printed 2022
Archival pigment print
Framing and size options avai...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Alice Wesselhoeft Saltonstall 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Alice Wesselhoeft Saltonstall 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Alice Wesselhoeft Saltonstall, wife of senator Leverett Saltonstall in Palm Beach, USA, circa 1958
12 x 12" inches /...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
