1940s Photography
to
52
394
149
30
32
10
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
14
502
35,226
54,054
19
67
298
963
635
5,841
7,367
6,239
4,836
3,377
10
280
48
23
4
3
2
1
1
331
188
96
473
251
188
168
148
123
80
54
52
50
42
41
37
37
36
35
33
32
31
29
331
141
137
60
34
117
36
26
24
18
33
168
439
185
Period: 1940s
Kaufmann House, Palm Springs
Located in New York, NY
Kaufmann House, Palm Springs
Architect: Richard Neutra
Kodak digital color print
Print size: 20" x 24" (50.80 x 60.96)
Image size: 15" x 20" (39.10 x ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
C Print
Frida Kahlo en la casa azul, Coyoacán, Mexico. Platinum edition. B&W Portrait
By Leo Matiz
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Matiz managed to create intimate portraits, in which Frida seemed happy to surrender to her lens. The result was dynamic portraits of Khalo, a wonderful example of both the photograp...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Black and White
The King Of Jazz Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The King Of Jazz
1949
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
1949: Photographers taking pictures of American jazz trumpeter and singer, Louis Armstrong (1901 – 1971) as...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Frida Kahlo in Xochimilco, Mexico. Black and white Portrait photograph
By Leo Matiz
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Matiz managed to create intimate portraits, in which Frida seemed happy to surrender to her lens. The result was dynamic portraits of Khalo, a wonderful example of both the photograp...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White, Digital Pigment
Techos, Mexico, Architectural landscape black and white Vintage Photograph.
By Leo Matiz
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Black and white photographs that reveal the various facets and aesthetic searches of the legendary Colombian photographer, recognized as the creator of memorable realistic, abstract ...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Backstage At La Scala Essentials Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Backstage At La Scala
1948
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A chorus girl reads a movie magazine in a dressing room at La Scala opera house, Milan, November 1948...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jerry, Provincetown
Located in London, GB
Silver print, titled (verso) by Paul Cadmus, 11cm x 13cm, (33cm x 38cm framed). the work is framed behind museum quality non-reflective UV glass.
In 1937, the painters, Paul Cadmus...
Category
Post-War 1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Young Velvets Vogue 1949 Limited Edition Estate Print
Located in London, GB
Young Velvets, Young Prices photoshoot, 1949
Limited Edition Print
by Norman Parkinson
Three velvet-capped women huddle in gossip as another looks on during an October 1949 Vogue ...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
C Print
George Karger
Fred Astaire
Archival Photograph by Getty, 20x20
Located in San Rafael, CA
Dancer, actor and singer Fred Astaire (1899 - 1987) performs for the camera during a photo session, circa 1940, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by George Karger/Michael Ochs Archi...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
George Karger
Fred Astaire
Archival Photograph by Getty, 16x16
Located in San Rafael, CA
Dancer, actor and singer Fred Astaire (1899 - 1987) performs for the camera during a photo session, circa 1940, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by George Karger/Michael Ochs Archi...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Heavyweight" by Felix Man
Located in London, GB
"Heavyweight" by Felix Man
Eighteen-year-old animal trainer Zabuna lying under one of her performing elephants. This stunt forms part of her act for the Chessington Circus, currentl...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
The King of Jazz: Louis Armstrong in Rome (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lucille Brown takes control of the Vespa scooter as her husband Louis Armstrong (1898 - 1971) displays his musical appreciation of the ancient Colosseum in Rome.
Slim Aarons
The Ki...
Category
American Realist 1940s Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Black and White, Digital
"Standing Proud" by Herbert Mason
Located in London, GB
"Standing Proud" by Herbert Mason
St Paul's cathedral standing above the surrounding burning buildings during the London blitz.
Unframed
Paper Size: 30"...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
Ascari At Silverstone (1949) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Ascari At Silverstone (1949) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Express/Express/Getty Images)
25th August 1949: Italian motor racing driver Alberto Ascari (left) approaching St...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Dinner Jazz (1949) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dinner Jazz (1949) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images)
Premium Rates Apply. 1949: American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Arm...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
"Rockefeller Center" by George Enell
Located in London, GB
"Rockefeller Center" by George Enell
circa 1945: The Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan, New York City. Designed by Raymond Hood, it was completed in May 1933.
Unframed
Paper ...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
Handball In Central Park (1948) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Handball In Central Park (1948) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
A group of young men playing handball at a court in the 95th Street playground,
Central ...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
"Fill Her Up" by Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Fill Her Up" by Bert Hardy
24th May 1947: Pit staff filling up Louis Chiron's (1899 - 1979) Maserati. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4364 - Road Racing In Jersey - pub. 1947
...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
PHOTOGRAM
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ROI PARTRIDGE (1888-1964)
PHOTOGRAM c 1940
Gelatin Silver Print c. 1940 9 ½ x 7 ¾ signed & titled. Mounted on card. Partridge was a well known California etcher. He was married...
Category
Abstract 1940s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$2,600 Sale Price
20% Off
"Walt Disney
s Pinocchio" Lobby Card, USA 1940
Located in Cologne, DE
Walt Disney's Pinocchio, USA 1940, Animation, Lobby Card, The lobby cards would have been displayed inside the cinemas at the time of the film's release.
Pinocchio is a 1940 Americ...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Color
Eva Gabor, Estate Edition Photograph, Midcentury Classic Hollywood, Vintage Pink
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
TV and film actress Eva Gabor takes a coffee in an unfinished bedroom in Bay Roc Hotel, Montego, Jamaica, 1950. In this classic image of vintage mid-century ...
Category
American Realist 1940s Photography
Materials
Lambda
Kaiser Deluxe (1949)
Located in London, GB
Kaiser Deluxe (1956)
(Photo By Phillip Harrington)
1949
Kaiser Deluxe automobile.
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Size: 16x20''
Printed Later
About the Image:
Kaiser Permanente is an American integrated managed care consortium, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield.
NOTE OTHER SIZES OF THIS IMAGE AVAILABLE
10 x 12''
12 x 16''
16 x 20''
20 x 24''
20 x 30''
30 x 40''
FRAMING AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
About the Artist:
Phillip A. Harrington was born in 1920 and grew up in Holland, Michigan. He developed an interest in photography at an early age, joining the high school camera club at 16. At the age of 19, Harrington moved to New York City to study at the Clarence. H. White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Dangerous Perch (1940) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Dangerous Perch (1940) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Archive London)
Evacuee Barrie Peacop enjoys an ice cream as he sits on a mine ...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Paris, Les Halles Market, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography, circa 1940
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) by 4.33 in wide (11.6 cm) - Archivally matted in a 17 in by 13 in mat.
A typed caption at the back reads "Paris 1er ardt, Les Halles...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Rockefeller Center (1945) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Rockefeller Center (1945) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by George Enell/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
circa 1945:
The Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan, New York City. ...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
"Merton of the Movies" Lobby Card, USA 1948
Located in Cologne, DE
Merton of the Movies, USA 1948, Director: Robert Alton, Cast: Gloria Grahame, Red Skelton. The lobby cards would have been displayed inside the cinemas ...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Color
George Platt Lynes Vintage 1949 Photograph #10 of dancer Francisco Moncion
Located in Glenford, NY
George Platt Lynes Photograph #10 of dancer Francisco Moncion 1949.
George Platt Lynes rare original vintage 1949 gelatin silver photograph of dancer Francisco Moncion. Stamped on verso - GEORGE PLATT LYNES. Photo is 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches, glossy finish in excellent condition.
This photograph is #10 from a collection of 12 different poses in this series taken in Platt Lynes's NYC studio in 1949 (as per the NY Public Library archives). The cloud backdrop is recognizable in other Platt Lynes photographs. Moncion was a personal friend of Platt Lynes and this photograph is from Moncion's personal photographic collection.
George Platt Lynes (1907–1955), was a gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s through the early 1950s. From age eighteen, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate community in Paris when he became acquainted with the salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. He began photographing authors like Stein, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, and Colette and soon established himself as one of the premier fashion photographers in the Condé Nast stable, documenting the ballet companies of George Balanchine/Lincoln Kirstein, and pursuing a private obsession with seductive images of young male nudes rarely published in his lifetime. Platt Lynes photographs are in the collections of every major art museum and university archive including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Yale Art Museum, and the Smithsonian.
Francisco Moncion (July 6, 1918 – April 1, 1995) was a charter member of the New York City Ballet. Over the course of his forty year career, choreographers George Balanchine, and Jerome Robbins in the New York City Ballet created 22 major roles for Moncion including the Dark Angel in Orpheus, Death in La Valse, Prince Ivan in Firebird, and the Boy in Afternoon of a Faun. He was also a choreographer and a talented painter who exhibited alongside Miro, Picasso and Carrado Cagli. Moncion was a popular model for many famed mid-century (late 1930s, 1940s - 1950s) figure photographers including Platt Lynes, Carl van Vechten, Maurice Seymour...
Category
Post-War 1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Model Boat Sailing, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s urban portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of young boys sailing model boats at Harlem Meer, Central Park, New York Cit...
Category
American Realist 1940s Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Dinner Jazz
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dinner Jazz
American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong enjoys a plate of spaghetti in Rome.
Paper size 48 x 48" inches / 121 x 121 cm
Estate ...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
"Humoresque", Lobby Card, USA 1946
Located in Cologne, DE
Original black-and-white lobby card for the film "Humoresque" (1946) featuring John Garfield. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a scene with John Garfield performing as ...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Color
"Pride and Prejudice", Lobby Card, USA 1940
Located in Cologne, DE
Original black-and-white lobby card for the film "Pride and Prejudice" (1940) featuring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures an elegant a...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Color
"Humoresque", Lobby Card, USA 1946
Located in Cologne, DE
Original black-and-white lobby card for the film "Humoresque" (1946) featuring Joan Crawford, John Garfield, and J. Carrol Naish. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a pro...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Color
"Humoresque", Lobby Card, USA 1946
Located in Cologne, DE
Original black-and-white lobby card for the film "Humoresque" (1946) featuring Joan Crawford and John Garfield. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a poignant moment betwe...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Color
Paul Lukas "Watch On The Rhine" - 1943 Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull
Located in Soquel, CA
Paul Lukas "Watch On The Rhine" - 1943 Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull
A 1943 black and white portrait photograph of actor Paul Lukas (Hungarian, 1894-1971) by Clarence Sincla...
Category
American Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
"Merton of the Movies", Lobby Card, USA 1948
Located in Cologne, DE
Merton of the Movies, USA 1948, Director: Robert Alton, Cast: Red Skelton, Charles D. Brown, Virginia O'Brien. The lobby cards would have been displayed inside the cinemas at the tim...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Color
Portrait of Ernest Hemingway - Vintage Photograph - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Ernest Hemingway is a black and white photograph realized in the 1940s.
Good conditions.
Category
Contemporary 1940s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Jane Russell and Gloria Green - Original b/w Photograph - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Jane Russell and Gloria Green is an original b/w photograph about Hollywod '40 realized by De Wan Studios.
Good condition, mounted on a white cardboard p...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage print Wolfgang Roth playing musical instrument, Mandolin
Located in Surfside, FL
Vintage Silver Gelatin print. (possibly from Vogue Magazine).
This appears to be Wolfgang Roth and cast of possibly The Littlest Circus. Performers have horse heads. The photo is st...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Grasses, Detroit
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed by the artist.
SIgned in pencil.
Print date 1988
Very sought after Callahan.
Category
1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Chaim Weizmann
By Lotte Jacobi
Located in Kansas City, MO
Lotte Jacobi
Chaim Weizmann
Photograph
Year: 1948
Size: 8.75x7.25in
Annotated by hand on verso in pencil
Ref.: 924802-1353
Lotte Jacobi (August 17, 1896 – May 6, 1990) was a leading American portrait photographer and photojournalist, known for her high-contrast black-and-white portrait photography, characterized by intimate, sometimes dramatic, sometimes idiosyncratic and often definitive humanist depictions of both ordinary people in the United States and Europe and some of the most important artists, thinkers and activists of the 20th century.
Jacobi's photographic style stressed informality, and sought to delve deeper into the traits of her subjects than traditional portraiture. She made a point of photographing subjects in their own environments, and talking to them while she worked. She explained the reasoning behind her approach this way:
"I just try and get people to talk, to relax, to be themselves. I don't like a passive, bored subject. I do portraits because I like people, and I want to bring out their personalities. Many photographers today, I think, are bringing out the worst part of people. I try and bring out the best."
Jacobi is perhaps best known for her "portrait of Albert Einstein (Princeton, 1938), whom she photographed candidly, seated at his desk, dishevelled and dressed in a leather jacket, a work that was refused by Life magazine for its simplicity." Other personality-driven portraits include "Eleanor Roosevelt sitting back, gesturing, and obviously speaking in midsentence; Marc Chagall depicted as a jovial family man; Thomas Mann appearing as thoughtful as his work; and more candid, gentle portraits of Einstein." Other celebrated subjects included poets W. H. Auden, Robert Frost...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$966 Sale Price
35% Off
Chaim Weizmann
By Lotte Jacobi
Located in Kansas City, MO
Lotte Jacobi
Chaim Weizmann
Photograph
Year: 1948
Size: 13.9x10.8in
Signed in the print
Lotte Jacobi Copyright Annotation lower left, recto
Ref.: 924802-1355
Lotte Jacobi (August 17, 1896 – May 6, 1990) was a leading American portrait photographer and photojournalist, known for her high-contrast black-and-white portrait photography, characterized by intimate, sometimes dramatic, sometimes idiosyncratic and often definitive humanist depictions of both ordinary people in the United States and Europe and some of the most important artists, thinkers and activists of the 20th century.
Jacobi's photographic style stressed informality, and sought to delve deeper into the traits of her subjects than traditional portraiture. She made a point of photographing subjects in their own environments, and talking to them while she worked. She explained the reasoning behind her approach this way:
"I just try and get people to talk, to relax, to be themselves. I don't like a passive, bored subject. I do portraits because I like people, and I want to bring out their personalities. Many photographers today, I think, are bringing out the worst part of people. I try and bring out the best."
Jacobi is perhaps best known for her "portrait of Albert Einstein (Princeton, 1938), whom she photographed candidly, seated at his desk, dishevelled and dressed in a leather jacket, a work that was refused by Life magazine for its simplicity." Other personality-driven portraits include "Eleanor Roosevelt sitting back, gesturing, and obviously speaking in midsentence; Marc Chagall depicted as a jovial family man; Thomas Mann appearing as thoughtful as his work; and more candid, gentle portraits of Einstein." Other celebrated subjects included poets W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, and May Sarton; philosopher Martin Buber; writer J.D. Salinger; writer and activist W. E. B. Du Bois; scientist Max Planck; artist Käthe Kollwitz; the actress and singer Lotte Lenya; the singer and activist Paul Robeson...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$977 Sale Price
34% Off
Bette Davis - George Hurrell Hollywood Photograph Vintage 1940
Located in Glenford, NY
Bette Davis iconic portrait by famed Hollywood art photographer George Hurrell from 1940. It is stamped on the verso with authentic Hurrell identification.
This is a original mint ...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Chaim Weizmann
By Lotte Jacobi
Located in Kansas City, MO
Lotte Jacobi
Chaim Weizmann
Photograph
Year: 1948
Size: 11.5x9.5in
Annotated by hand on verso in pencil
Ref.: 924802-1354
Lotte Jacobi (August 17, 1896 – May 6, 1990) was a leading American portrait photographer and photojournalist, known for her high-contrast black-and-white portrait photography, characterized by intimate, sometimes dramatic, sometimes idiosyncratic and often definitive humanist depictions of both ordinary people in the United States and Europe and some of the most important artists, thinkers and activists of the 20th century.
Jacobi's photographic style stressed informality, and sought to delve deeper into the traits of her subjects than traditional portraiture. She made a point of photographing subjects in their own environments, and talking to them while she worked. She explained the reasoning behind her approach this way:
"I just try and get people to talk, to relax, to be themselves. I don't like a passive, bored subject. I do portraits because I like people, and I want to bring out their personalities. Many photographers today, I think, are bringing out the worst part of people. I try and bring out the best."
Jacobi is perhaps best known for her "portrait of Albert Einstein (Princeton, 1938), whom she photographed candidly, seated at his desk, dishevelled and dressed in a leather jacket, a work that was refused by Life magazine for its simplicity." Other personality-driven portraits include "Eleanor Roosevelt sitting back, gesturing, and obviously speaking in midsentence; Marc Chagall depicted as a jovial family man; Thomas Mann appearing as thoughtful as his work; and more candid, gentle portraits of Einstein." Other celebrated subjects included poets W. H. Auden, Robert Frost...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$1,222 Sale Price
32% Off
Goodbye
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
Tearful wives waving goodbye as a troop train pulls out of a station. Original Publication: Picture Post – 1133 – Wartime Terminus – pub. 1942
(Photo Be...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
George Platt Lynes Vintage 1949 Photograph #7 of dancer Francisco Moncion
Located in Glenford, NY
George Platt Lynes Photograph #7 of dancer Francisco Moncion 1949.
George Platt Lynes rare original vintage 1949 gelatin silver photograph of dancer Francisco Moncion. Stamped on verso - GEORGE PLATT LYNES. Photo is 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches, glossy finish in excellent condition.
This photograph is #7 from a collection of 12 different poses in this series taken in Platt Lynes's NYC studio in 1949 (as per the NY Public Library archives). The cloud backdrop is recognizable in other Platt Lynes photographs. Moncion was a personal friend of Platt Lynes and this photograph is from Moncion's personal photographic collection.
George Platt Lynes (1907–1955), was a gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s through the early 1950s. From age eighteen, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate community in Paris when he became acquainted with the salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. He began photographing authors like Stein, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, and Colette and soon established himself as one of the premier fashion photographers in the Condé Nast stable, documenting the ballet companies of George Balanchine/Lincoln Kirstein, and pursuing a private obsession with seductive images of young male nudes rarely published in his lifetime. Platt Lynes photographs are in the collections of every major art museum and university archive including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Yale Art Museum, and the Smithsonian.
Francisco Moncion (July 6, 1918 – April 1, 1995) was a charter member of the New York City Ballet. Over the course of his forty year career, choreographers George Balanchine, and Jerome Robbins in the New York City Ballet created 22 major roles for Moncion including the Dark Angel in Orpheus, Death in La Valse, Prince Ivan in Firebird, and the Boy in Afternoon of a Faun. He was also a choreographer and a talented painter who exhibited alongside Miro, Picasso and Carrado Cagli. Moncion was a popular model for many famed mid-century (late 1930s, 1940s - 1950s) figure photographers including Platt Lynes, Carl van Vechten, Maurice Seymour...
Category
Post-War 1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marilyn
s Wedding/The bridal Couple, June 19th 1942, 29, 8 x 20 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Norma Jeane Mortenson or better known as Marilyn Monroe – iconic, beautiful and maybe the most known Hollywood Stars of the 20th century. Born and raised in Los Angeles, USA, she spent most of her childhood in foster homes and orphanage. She got married with only 16 years old and while working for a factory during WW II, she met a photographer from the First Motion Picture Unit and started a succesful modeling career. The rest of her life is history: In the 50s she was one of the most marketable actresses, had held leading roles in various movies and was known for her immense sex appeal. As a highly intelligent woman, she knew how to build a career, while, in her private life she struggled with addiction and mood disorder. At the age of 36 she died from an overdose of barbiturates at her Los Angeles home.
With her breathy voice and hourglass figure, she is until today one of Hollywood's most famous actresses.
Description: Marilyn's Wedding/The bridal Couple, June 19...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Black and White
George Platt Lynes Vintage 1949 Photograph #12 of dancer Francisco Moncion
Located in Glenford, NY
George Platt Lynes Photograph #12 of dancer Francisco Moncion 1949.
George Platt Lynes rare original vintage 1949 gelatin silver portrait photograph of dancer Francisco Moncion. Stamped on verso - GEORGE PLATT LYNES. Photo is 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches, glossy finish in excellent condition.
This photograph is #12 from a collection of 12 different poses in this series taken in Platt Lynes's NYC studio in 1949 (as per the NY Public Library archives). The cloud backdrop is recognizable in other Platt Lynes photographs. Moncion was a personal friend of Platt Lynes and this photograph is from Moncion's personal photographic collection.
George Platt Lynes (1907–1955), was a gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s through the early 1950s. From age eighteen, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate community in Paris when he became acquainted with the salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. He began photographing authors like Stein, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, and Colette and soon established himself as one of the premier fashion photographers in the Condé Nast stable, documenting the ballet companies of George Balanchine/Lincoln Kirstein, and pursuing a private obsession with seductive images of young male nudes rarely published in his lifetime. Platt Lynes photographs are in the collections of every major art museum and university archive including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Yale Art Museum, and the Smithsonian.
Francisco Moncion (July 6, 1918 – April 1, 1995) was a charter member of the New York City Ballet. Over the course of his forty year career, choreographers George Balanchine, and Jerome Robbins in the New York City Ballet created 22 major roles for Moncion including the Dark Angel in Orpheus, Death in La Valse, Prince Ivan in Firebird, and the Boy in Afternoon of a Faun. He was also a choreographer and a talented painter who exhibited alongside Miro, Picasso and Carrado Cagli. Moncion was a popular model for many famed mid-century (late 1930s, 1940s - 1950s) figure photographers including Platt Lynes, Carl van Vechten, Maurice Seymour...
Category
Post-War 1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dixieland In Rome, 1948 (Unseen)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
An impromptu concert in Rome with American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong (standing behind piano), Earl 'Fatha' Hines on piano and Jack Teagarden on trombone playing with ...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
In the County Jail, Greene County, GA - Man Dancing, Music, Band, Jail
By Jack Delano
Located in Denton, TX
In the County Jail, Greene County, GA by Jack Delano is a black and white gelatin silver print of men playing music and dancing inside of a jail.
Gelatin Silver Print
Image size: 9 ...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sun In Rock
By Minor White
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
The print is signed and dated in pencil on the front of the mount; titled, dated, stamped and labelled on the back of the mount.
This rare vintage enlargement comes from the Museum...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$20,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Sunlight on Water
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This silver gelatin contact print with margins (4 x 4 7/8 in) is signed in ink and numbered '7' in pencil on the front of the mount. Credited, titled and dated on gallery label affix...
Category
Abstract 1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Kasimir Korybut, Jamaica, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970 landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Kasimir Korybut and Michelle Vaughan begin a raft ride up the White River in Ocho Rios, J...
Category
American Realist 1940s Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Snowy Roofs - Vintage Photograph - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Snowy Roofs is a color vintage photo, realized in 1940s.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including ...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Kasimir Korybut, Jamaica, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970 landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Kasimir Korybut and Michelle Vaughan begin a raft ride up the White River in Ocho Rios, J...
Category
American Realist 1940s Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Sutton Place, New York
By Brett Weston
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed and dated on the front of the mount. Printed later in the artist's career.
Category
1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marbles Championship, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of boys competing in a marble championship in Central Park, New York City.
This i...
Category
Realist 1940s Photography
Materials
Lambda
Junio Eskew, Houston Fat Stock Show
By John Stryker
Located in Denton, TX
Signed and titled.
Vintage gelatin silver print
Johm 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
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,050 Sale Price
47% Off
Push Start
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
English racing driver Reg Parnell (1911 – 1964) is given a push start in his Maserati during a road race in St Helier, Jersey, May 1947. Parnell went on...
Category
1940s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Model Boat Sailing, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s urban portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of young boys sailing model boats at Harlem Meer, Central Park, New York Cit...
Category
American Realist 1940s Photography
Materials
Lambda
Lord Beaverbrook - Vintage Photograph - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Lord Beaverbrook is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1940s.
The photo depicts an elegnant portrait of William Max Aitken, Baron of Beaverbrook, Minister of State.
Good...
Category
Modern 1940s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Read More
An Enthusiast’s Guide to Buying Fine-Art Photography Prints
Curious about how to acquire fantastic photos? Here’s everything you need to know.
Welcome to the Surreal and Sensual World of Mona Kuhn
The photographer made her name shooting luminous nudes. Her latest works reframe what an image can hold.
This Twiggy and David Bowie Photo Has an Unusual Backstory
The photo shoot for an ill-fated British 'Vogue' cover brought the two British icons together.
Marianne Faithfull in Photos
The late ’60s it girl was beloved for her personal style as well as her artistic talents.
This Week-Old Calf Named Bug Is One of Randal Ford’s Most Adorable Models
In a recent collection of animal portraits, he brings fashion photography to the farm.
Elton John Is a Fan of this Richard Caldicott Tupperware Photo
Using a creative analog process, the British artist transformed the plastic containers into gleaming, minimalist abstractions and developed an illustrious fan base along the way.
Some of the Best Beatles Photos Were Taken by Paul McCartney
A trove of recently unearthed personal photos adds another dimension to the abundance of press images of the Fab Four.
Photographer to Know: Rinko Kawauchi
From toddlers playing to fires blazing, the Japanese lenswoman poetically captures fleeting dramas on planet Earth.