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Period: 1950s
Iconics by Fabrizio La Torre - Set # 1 - New York - 1956 - Vintage Photographs
Located in Brussels, BE
Artworks sold in perfect condition : Set # 1 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...
Category
Photorealist 1950s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
C. Z. Guest
Palm Beach SLIM AARONS ESTATE EDITION
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'C. Z. Guest'
American socialite Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest (aka C. Z. Guest, 1920 - 2003) with a Great Dane at her ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, in Palm Beach, Florida, 1955.
...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dali is painting medusas head on Galas forehead
Located in Cologne, DE
An amazing item, with numerous stamps and notes on the back showing its active life as a press photo. The quality is fair due to decades in use. But it is absolutly unique.
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Palm Beach Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Oz Tennis Stars
1956
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Australian tennis players Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall at the Newport Tennis week i...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Audrey Hepburn" by Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Audrey Hepburn" by Bert Hardy
1st May 1950: Belgian born actress Audrey Hepburn (1929 - 1993) leaning on an ornate urn in Kew Gardens. Original Publicatio...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Black and White
Perso nell
immensità - New York, 1955 - Full Framed Black
White Photography
Located in Brussels, BE
Perso nell'immensità, 1955. Men and hats, in the streets of New York.
Work sold in perfect condition, print on baryta paper 310 grs pigment inks of museum quality, limited edition of...
Category
Photorealist 1950s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fratello e Sorella - Thailand 1961 - Full Framed Black
White Fine Art Print
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork # 1 on 5 sold in limited edition in perfect condition
This is a Minimalist framing & presentation of the artwork :
The Fine Art print on Baryta paper is mounted on a 2mm dib...
Category
Photorealist 1950s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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 22" x 32" (for 24" x 36" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order i...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Giclée
"A Cheeky Little Wine" by Thurston Hopkins
Located in London, GB
"A Cheeky Little Wine" by Thurston Hopkins
16th August 1952: A workman savours a glass of red wine in a Paris bistro. Original Publication: Picture Post ...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Crowning Glory" by Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Crowning Glory" by Bert Hardy
Premium Rates Apply. An elegant Parisian spends the morning in a Champs Elysees cafe. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5343 - Sunday Morning In Th...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Black and White
Marilyn Monroe, unique print of 1988 from original negative
Located in Cologne, DE
Ed Feingersh photographed Marilyn Monroe for Redbook magazine in March 1955 for a story which would follow Monroe through her daily routine, the photography to be candid and shot wit...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Guggenheim Museum" by Keystone
Located in London, GB
"Guggenheim Museum" by Keystone
A night time view of The Guggenheim Museum, New York, circa 1959, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Unframed
Paper Size: 20" x 24'' (inches)
Printed 2...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Black and White
CZ Guest With Her Great Dane Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
CZ Guest With Her Great Dane
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
American socialite C.Z. Guest (Mrs Winston F.C. Guest) (1920 – 2003) with a large Great Dane do...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
C. Z. Guest
Palm Beach SLIM AARONS ESTATE EDITION
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'C. Z. Guest'
American socialite Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest (aka C. Z. Guest, 1920 - 2003) with a Great Dane at her ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, in Palm Beach, Florida, 1955.
...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
On Broadway, New York City (1955) - Large size Black
White Fine Art Print
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork # 1 on 5 sold in limited edition in perfect condition
This photo was made in 1955, the negative was digitized during the artist's lifetime and the technical parameters (framing, contrast, light, etc.) was approved by him. This is a very high quality fine art prints on 310 gr/m² Fine Art paper with museum quality pigment inks.
“ On Broadway, near Trinity Church”, New York December 1955. A rainy Sunday morning, a solitary pedestrian seems to be falling over on the slippery surface. As is always the case with Fabrizio La Torre’s photographs, quite apart from the artistic merit, this picture invites us to speculate what is the story behind it: why this deserted avenue at 11:10 on that particular morning, what was the man in the rain doing, why is that car defiantly parked right underneath a no parking sign...
Category
Photorealist 1950s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$2,174 Sale Price
20% Off
"Marilyn Getting Ready To Go Out" by Ed Feingersh
By Ed Feingersh
Located in London, GB
"Marilyn Getting Ready To Go Out" by Ed Feingersh
Actress Marilyn Monroe gets ready to go see the play "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" playfully applying her make up and Chanel No. 5 Perfum...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Black and White
Paris, Seine, Fisher in the morning, 1955
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1955.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photograph...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Rainy Time Square (1953) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
Rainy Time Square (1953) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Alamy)
Two silhouetted women at bus stop under umbrellas in Time Square,
Manhattan,...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Iconics by Fabrizio La Torre - Set # 2 - Roma - 1956 - Vintage Photographs
Located in Brussels, BE
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...
Category
Photorealist 1950s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Pigment
Marilyn On The Roof (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Ed Feingersh
Located in London, GB
Marilyn On The Roof (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Ed Feingersh/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
American actress Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962) leans over the bal...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Purezza, Miyajima - Japan 1960 - Large size Black
White Fine Art Print
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork # 1 on 5 sold in limited edition in perfect condition
Purezza, Miyajima - Japan 1960
This photo was made in 1960, the negative was digitized dur...
Category
Photorealist 1950s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$2,174 Sale Price
20% Off
"Personality Girl" by Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Personality Girl" by Bert Hardy
19th June 1954: Jocelyn Wardrop-Moore skiing in Glencoe, Scotland who has been nominated as one of six Picture Post 'Personality Girls'. She plays principal clarinet in the Royal Academy of Music...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Black and White
Italian Hats by Hulton Archive
Located in London, GB
"Italian Hats" by Hulton Archive
Models wearing a collection of Italian designed hats for winter 1956/7 and spring 1957, at the fifth Men's Fashion Festival, San Remo, Italy.
Unfra...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Henley Regatta Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Henley Regatta
Free mooring at the Angel Hotel at Henley-on-Thames on the River Thames, during the Henley Regatta, 1955.
20 x 24" - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
"Cary Grant And Grace Kelly In
To Catch A Thief" by Paramount
By Paramount Pictures
Located in London, GB
"Cary Grant And Grace Kelly In 'To Catch A Thief" by Paramount
Cary Grant and Grace Kelly publicity portrait for the film 'To Catch A Thief', 1955.
Unframed
Paper Size: 16"x 12'' (...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Black and White
Neck Study, Nude Portrait
Located in Carmel, CA
Gelatin silver print, printed later
signed in pencil, stamped photographer's copyright credit, stamped title and date, and stamped 'Printed for the/Center for Photographer Art/Collec...
Category
1950s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Italy in 1956 - Piazza della Signoria, Florence
Located in Cologne, DE
This is a historical photograph of Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy, taken in the 1950s. The image captures a lively city scene with numerous vintage cars parked around the s...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Color
Paris 1952 , Arc de Triomphe
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
This is a black-and-white photograph of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France, taken in 1952. The image shows the monumental arch, a symbol of French national pride and history, locat...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lunch Time
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
Five British models eating lunch in their swimwear on a yacht on the Cote d’Azur. Original Publication: Picture Post – 7850 – The Secret Of Five Girls On A Yacht – pub. 1955
(Photo ...
Category
1950s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Marilyn In Grand Central Station" by Ed Feingersh
By Ed Feingersh
Located in London, GB
"Marilyn In Grand Central Station" by Ed Feingersh
Actress Marilyn Monroe takes the subway in Grand Central Station on March 24, 1955 in New York City, New York.
Unframed
Paper Si...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Black and White
Backgammon By The Pool Essentials Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Backgammon By The Pool
1959
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary-Beth Turner playing backgammon by a swimming po...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Carlton Hotel Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Carlton Hotel' by Slim Aarons
The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958.
A couple dressed elegantly in all white tennis outfits with rackets in hand, wander past the...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marilyn Monroe, 4 Days in New York, 1955
Located in Cologne, DE
Ed Feingersh photographed Marilyn Monroe for Redbook magazine in March 1955 for a story which would follow Monroe through her daily routine, the photography to be candid and shot wit...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$2,468 Sale Price
20% Off
Lake Tahoe Ladies Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lake Tahoe Ladies
1959
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A group of young women in their bathing suits on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, 1959.
unframed
c type pri...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dean Rounds Up Taylor (1956) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Dean Rounds Up Taylor (1956) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo Cineclassico/Alamy Archives)
GIANT Elizabeth Taylor Rock Hudson James Dean 1956.
Directed by George Stevens...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Gondolier at the Rialto Bridge, Venice, 1950s
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
This black-and-white photograph captures a gondolier working along the Grand Canal in Venice, with the famous Rialto Bridge in the background. The gondolier, dressed in traditional a...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Black and White
Venetian Afternoon, 1950s
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
This black-and-white photograph beautifully captures the essence of Venice’s Grand Canal in the 1950s. The image shows a row of gondolas gently floating on the canal, with their dist...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Black and White
Marilyn Monroe, unique print of 1988 from original negative
Located in Cologne, DE
Ed Feingersh photographed Marilyn Monroe for Redbook magazine in March 1955 for a story which would follow Monroe through her daily routine, the photography to be candid and shot wit...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
James Dean (1955) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Roy Schatt
Located in London, GB
James Dean (1955) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(photo via A.F. Archive/Alamy Archives)
1955
James Dean (1931 - 1955)
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Size: 16x20''
Printed...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons
Christmas Swim
- Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Christmas Swim
1954 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, ...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
C Print
"Paris Still Life" from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61 by Peter Cornelius
Located in London, GB
Paris Still Life from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61
By Peter Cornelius
large oversize 30 x 30 inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size
Printed 2022
Archival pigment print
Framing and s...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Hotel Sports - Limited Edition Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Sports
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print (edition size 150 only).
1958: Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes.
France
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
6...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Marilyn Getting Ready To Go Out
(Limited Edition)
Located in London, GB
'Marilyn Getting Ready To Go Out' by Ed Feingersh
Actress Marilyn Monroe prepares to go out to the play ‘Cat On A Hot Tin Roof’ by applying make-up and pe...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Hepburn At Paris" by Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Hepburn At Paris" by Bert Hardy
Belgian-born US actress Audrey Hepburn (1929 - 1993) in a street at Paris during the filming of 'Funny Face' Original Publication: Picture Post - 85...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Bergman
s Picture" by Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Bergman's Picture" by Bert Hardy
30th May 1953: Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman (1915 - 1982) takes a photograph in a break from filming 'Visit To Italy', in Naples. Original Public...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Terry Thomas" by Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Terry Thomas" by Bert Hardy
25th September 1954: English actor-comedian Terry Thomas (1911 - 1990), real name Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens, demonstrates ho...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Black and White
Queen Elizabeth - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elizabeth - Vintage Photo realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Marilyn Monroe, Black and White photography print, from original 1988 negative
Located in Cologne, DE
Ed Feingersh photographed Marilyn Monroe for Redbook magazine in March 1955 for a story which would follow Monroe through her daily routine, the photography to be candid and shot without flash in available light.
The photographs he made of her during the week March 24–30, 1955 as she prepares for two appearances; opening night of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Morosco Theatre and being fitted with a burlesque corset for her ride on a pink elephant at a charity event at Madison Square Garden. (from Wikipedia)
This is a unique silver gelatine print, made in 1988 from the original negative.
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
L
Attesa, 1962 (The wait) - Roma - Large size Black
White Fine Art Print
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork # 1 on 5 sold in limited edition in perfect condition
She was there, leaning against a wall, she seemed to be waiting," says the photographer. I did not understand what she could expect, since few vehicles could have passed through this narrow passage. So I leaned against the wall almost in front of her, I also waited and this ray of sunshine came to play in the hanging linen...
Category
Photorealist 1950s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ruins of ancient Olympia at the Dionysos Theatre, Greece, 1950s
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Tourist tour of the ruins of ancient Olympia, specifically at the Dionysos Theatre, Greece, 1950s. This historical black and white photograph captures visitors exploring the ancient ...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Color
Verticalità, New York (1955) - Large size Black
White Fine Art Print
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork # 1 on 5 sold in limited edition in perfect condition
This photo was made in 1955, the negative was digitized during the artist's lifetime and the technical parameters (fram...
Category
Photorealist 1950s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$2,174 Sale Price
20% Off
Funny Face (1957) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
Gorgeous Joan (1931) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(photo Glasshouse Images / Alamy Archives )
1957,
Audrey Hepburn, Funny Face, directed by Stanley Donen.
Additional In...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Marilyn Takes It To The Streets
By Ed Feingersh
Located in London, GB
Movie star Marilyn Monroe is seen in a candid moment on the street in March 1955 in New York City, New York.
(Photo by Ed Feingersh)
A beautiful Limited Edition (ed size 300) s...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ava (1950) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Ava (1950) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(photo by Pictorial Press / Alamy Archives)
1950,
Portrait of the actress Ava Gardner circa.
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Size: 1...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Venice - Piazzetta San Marco with Gondolas, Italy, 1950s, 16, 5 x 22, 6 cm
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 1950.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photogr...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Rita Aarons, Hawaii, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1955s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, during the filming of 'Mister Roberts' in Ha...
Category
Realist 1950s Photography
Materials
Lambda
Holiday Hair Check, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s urban portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Faith Gibbons checks her hair in the mirror of a motor scooter, Bermuda. She is wear...
Category
American Realist 1950s Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
The St. Regis, New York, Estate Edition, Event Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s event photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an aerial view of diners at the St. Regis, New York.
This is an estate stamped and hand numbe...
Category
Realist 1950s Photography
Materials
Lambda
Chiacchiere in piazza, 1956 - Roma - Contemporary Black
White Photography
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork # 2 on 5 sold in perfect condition
Print called "Art 2014", format 42 x 60 cm. SERIES OF 5 PRINTS + 2 AP
In Piazza Mattei, in the heart of Rome, the Turtle Fountain (1582) ow...
Category
Photorealist 1950s Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$1,566 Sale Price
20% Off
"Fred Astaire" by Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Fred Astaire" by Bert Hardy
7th July 1956: Actor and dancer Fred Astaire (1899-1987) poses in front of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, where h...
Category
Modern 1950s Photography
Materials
Black and White
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