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Sale Items
Self-Portrait - Mounted, Contemporary, Polaroid, Color, Portrait
By Leanne Surfleet
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Self-Portrait, 2012, Edition 1/10. 25x25cm.
Digital C-Print based on an Impossible Project SX-70. Mounted.
The additional photos show this piece mounted at the Bombay Beach Biennale ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$379 Sale Price
20% Off
Dog Owner and Dog
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nick Vedros
Dog Owner and Dog
Archival Pigment Print on Epson Legacy Platine 100% Cotton Fibre, 314 gsm, Acid and Lignin free
Year: 1980s
Size: 13.2x12in
Edition: 15
Signed, dated a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
$790 Sale Price
34% Off
Abstract Minimalist painter Charles Hinman, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Abstract Minimalist painter Charles Hinman posing with his recent work in 1967. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes direct...
Category
1960s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,500 Sale Price
25% Off
Singer/songwriter David Byrne
dancer/choreographer Toni Basil, signed by Jack
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of musician/singer David Byrne, founding member and principal songwriter of the American New Wave band 'Talking Heads', with dancer and music video choreographer Toni Basil...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
The Italian Actress Ornella Muti - Vintage Photograph - Early 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Ornella Muti during the Venice Film Festival.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$85 Sale Price
40% Off
David Parsons in Paul Taylor
s
Arden Court
, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of David Parsons in Paul Taylor's "Arden Court", 1984. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes direc...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$937 Sale Price
37% Off
16 x 20" professional bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
16 x 20" vintage silver gelatin photograph of professional bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger (and future film star and Governor of California) posing at the top of his form in Octobe...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
NIGHTMARE Signed Photograph, Surreal Self-Portrait, Mexican Folklore, Skeleton
By Nia Mora
Located in Union City, NJ
NIGHTMARE by the photographer Nia Mora is a very unique self portrait color photograph exhibiting lush deep tones of intense red and jet-black, with haunting surrealist imagery of three figures positioned on a bed in a red walled room: one wearing a skeleton mask robed in black velvet, two with ghostly white faces all portraying the artist's self portrait as three entities of a nightmare.
Photo Print size - 24 x 24 inches, unframed, excellent condition, signed in black ink on reverse by photographer Nia Mora
Edition of 10
Year produced - 2007
Nia Mora, an American photographer, artist and chef, focuses her commercial work towards her passions of food, wine, and travel. Originally from Detroit, Michigan, her father is the jazz percussionist Francisco Mora...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color
Composer Benjamin Britten
tenor Peter Pears, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of composer Benjamin Britten and tenor Peter Pears - 1969. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print recto. Come...
Category
1960s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Last Man Standing by James Sparshatt. Framed Silver Gelatin Photographic Print
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
Last Man Standing
Creating his own dancefloor. As much a part of the show as he is the audience.
The Carnaval of Olinda, on the north east coast of Braz...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Warhol Superstar Jackie Curtis
Women in Revolt
signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Andy Warhol transvestite Superstar Jackie Curtis photographed in 1970, the year began filming "Women in Revolt". Signed by Jack Mitchell...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,500 Sale Price
25% Off
Stage and Film Actress Ruth Gordon
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of stage and film actress Ruth Gordon. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of auth...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,125 Sale Price
25% Off
Greta Garbo in Susan Lenox (Her Fall And Rise) - Photograph by Clarence Sinclair
By Clarence Sinclair Bull
Located in Soquel, CA
Greta Garbo in Susan Lenox (Her Fall And Rise) - Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull
A black and white photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull (American, 1896-1979), matte finish, double-weight paper, depicting a 1931 shot of Swedish/American actress Greta Garbo (Swedish, 1905-1990) on the set of the film Susan Lenox (Her Fall And Rise) directed by Robert Z. Leonard. Greta Garbo poses in a hat, her hand resting on her face, while gazing into the camera. Printed decades later from the original negative, penciled in the lower left corner "A.P.," Estate stamped and blind embossed in the lower right corner "Clarence Sinclair Bull," further blind embossed in same corner "The Kobal / Collection," on verso with the photographer's black ink credit stamp and with "Edward Weston" black ink credit stamps dated "1981" and "1992," originally from the John Kobal Collection.
Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American actress. Regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time, she was known for her melancholic, somber persona, her film portrayals of tragic characters, and her subtle and understated performances. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on its list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema.
Clarence Sinclair Bull was born in Sun River, Montana, in 1896. His career began when Samuel Goldwyn hired him in 1920 to photograph publicity stills of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio's stars. He is most famous for his photographs of Greta Garbo, taken between 1926 and 1941. Bull's first portrait of Garbo was a costume study for the silent romantic drama film Flesh and the Devil in September 1926.
Bull was able to study with the great Western painter...
Category
1930s Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
The Rolling Stones "Stones Playing Cricket" London 1968
By Michael Joseph
Located in Austin, TX
“From the famous photo shoot of The Rolling Stones for their Beggars Banquet album at Sarum Chase mansion, Hampstead, London, 1968. Featuring Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones...
Category
1960s Photorealist Color Photography
Materials
C Print
$2,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Artist Ellsworth Kelly in his New York studio, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of artist Ellsworth Kelly in his New York studio, 1967, 7/25. Signed by Jack Mitchell lower right, and in pencil on the reverse.. Comes dir...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,875 Sale Price
25% Off
Angela Lansbury as "Mame" on Broadway, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Angela Lansbury in full costume and makeup as "Mame" on Broadway, 1966. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the pr...
Category
1960s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,350 Sale Price
25% Off
Mukuru by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
The small settlement of Otjitando in Namibia’s Kaokoland doesn’t seem far off the main gravel road on the map. In reality it is a hellish journey that requires regular running in fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Debbie Harry photograph East Village 1977 (The Foreigner)
By Fernando Natalici
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Cooler than cool... Debbie Harry, New York, 1977, photographed on the set of "The Foreigner" by celebrated New York underground photographer Fernando Natalici.
The Foreigner (direct...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital
BEYONCE, DANGEROUSLY IN LOVE back cover image by Markus Klinko
By Markus Klinko
Located in Austin, TX
Museum quality fine art print of Beyonce by photographer Markus Klinko. Shot in 2003 for the back cover of the album, Dangerously In Love
This print is available in the following s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
$3,520 Sale Price
20% Off
Rendille mother and child by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" photo with Acrylic Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Like the Maasai, Rendille women and their children keep their hair very short. This mother, however, leaves a tuft of hair remaining on the front of her child which has been bleached...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Artist, dancer, choreographer
actor Geoffrey Holder, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of actor, choreographer, director, costume designer, and dancer Geoffrey Holder, 1964. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes di...
Category
1960s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,500 Sale Price
25% Off
Silent Dreams by James Sparshatt. 54x66cm Framed Silver Gelatin Photograph Print
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
A moment of calm amongst busy patterns and fabrics. Resting before it all comes to life.
The Carnaval of Olinda, on the north east coast of Brazil, is a week of high energy and exub...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ducati Girl
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nick Vedros
Ducati Girl
Archival Pigment Print on Epson Legacy Platine 100% Cotton Fibre, 314 gsm, Acid and Lignin free
Year: 2012
Size: 16x10in
Edition: 15
Signed, dated and number...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
$790 Sale Price
34% Off
Konbaki by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2008
Located in Coltishall, GB
Konbaki – a portrait from a Fula woman from Niger in Africa.
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
$710 Sale Price
20% Off
American classical violinist Eugene Fodor, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of American classical violinist Eugene Fodor, photographed for After Dark magazine in 1975. Mitchell dry mounted this photograph on archiva...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Inchoy by John Kenny. Photographic Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
The steady gaze of Inchoy and child.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to captur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
$1,475 Sale Price
20% Off
Acuan - Stunning portrait photograph from Kenya, Africa, by John Kenny.
By John Kenny 1
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of Acuan, a Turkana man from northern Kenya in 2019.
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with na...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Lopayok by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount, 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Turkana warrior
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a remarkabl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
$3,825 Sale Price
20% Off
Karepo Nawa by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met this young Himba girl near to a place called Etengwa in the far north of Namibia. We trekked a few kilometres in the midday heat, over a rocky hill to a small village within wh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
$710 Sale Price
20% Off
Dolly Parton 1977 portrait by Allan Tannenbaum
By Allan Tannenbaum
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition 20x24" print of Dolly Parton taken in New York City in 1977 by Allan Tannenbaum.
Edition number 5/25
This Dolly Parton print is also available in the follow...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$2,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Bent Sound - underwater portrait of Njomza Vitia - archival pigment print 43x62"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
"Bent Sound" - An ethereal underwater fine art photograph that captures the intersection of music and movement through a portrait of singer Njomza Vitia. This submerged portrait tran...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$1,540 Sale Price
30% Off
Broadway star Ethel Merman
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Broadway star Ethel Merman photographed April 29, 1982. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,350 Sale Price
25% Off
Himba Child l by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
In the far north of Namibia as you head towards the border with Angola at Epupa Falls, barely visible tracks radiate off the main dirt road into bush and disappear across sandy, dry ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
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
1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$966 Sale Price
35% Off
Warhol Superstar Jackie Curtis signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Warhol Superstar Jackie Curtis photographed May 21, 1970. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the verso. Comes dire...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,875 Sale Price
25% Off
The Italian Actress Laura Belli - B/w Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian actress Laura Belli in a scene from "Gamma", by Salvatore Nocita.
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$71 Sale Price
25% Off
Turn of the Century Photograph -- The Poet
s Son Billie, 1898
By Arnold Genthe
Located in Soquel, CA
Late 19th century portrait of a young boy by Arnold Genthe (German/American, 19th-20th C), 1898. Signed "Arnold Genthe" lower left. "Billie, 11 mo." on v...
Category
1890s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
$440 Sale Price
20% Off
Cara
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nick Vedros
Cara
Archival Pigment Print on Epson Legacy Platine 100% Cotton Fibre, 314 gsm, Acid and Lignin free
Year: 2000s
Size: 14x10in
Edition: 12
Signed, dated and numbered by ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
$790 Sale Price
34% Off
Lemoroko by John Kenny, C-type Print with Acrylic Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met Lemoroko, a Rendille moran (warrior), in the southern reaches of the Rendille homeland, on the boundary of the neighbouring Samburu District. He had a striking, chiselled appea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
$868 Sale Price
20% Off
Ronald Reagan
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nick Vedros
Ronald Reagan
Archival Pigment Print on Epson Legacy Platine 100% Cotton Fibre, 314 gsm, Acid and Lignin free
Year: 1976
Size: 13x10in
Editi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
$790 Sale Price
34% Off
Rudolf Nureyev photographed at Monique van Vooren
s apartment
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph ofRudolf Nureyev photographed at Monique van Vooren's apartment in 1970. This is a print that was published by Af...
Category
1960s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$375 Sale Price
25% Off
American Grit George Brett
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nick Vedros
American Grit George Brett
Archival Pigment Print on Epson Legacy Platine 100% Cotton Fibre, 314 gsm, Acid and Lignin free
Year: 1983
Size: 1...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
$790 Sale Price
34% Off
Dagoberto by James Sparshatt - Framed Palladium Platinum Print Photograph
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
Dagoberto began playing his guitar in the Casa de la Trova in Holguin, Cuba, in 1944. Sixty years later in 2004 I had the pleasure to sit with him in the same bar on a day to celebra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
$3,224 Sale Price
20% Off
Homeless
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nick Vedros
Homeless
Archival Pigment Print on Epson Legacy Platine 100% Cotton Fibre, 314 gsm, Acid and Lignin free
Year: 1990s
Size: 10x13in
Edition: 12
Signed, dated and numbered...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
$790 Sale Price
34% Off
Madina - Photograph by John Kenny, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
By John Kenny 1
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of Madina, a Gabbra woman from northern Kenya in 2019.
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled Portrait I (Black and White, Photography, Portrait, Model, New York)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joe Kelly
Untitled Portrait I
Black and White Photograph
Year: circa late 70s
Image Size: 7x5.5in
Sheet Size: 10x8in
Unsigned
Ref.: 924802-1710
Tags: B&W, Black and White, Photogra...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Te Veo by James Sparshatt - Silver Gelatin Print with Wooden Frame, 2005
By James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
Te veo… I see you. Matanzas 2005.
The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They have a strength ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Wood
DITA VON TEESE, THE RIDE by Markus Klinko
By Markus Klinko
Located in Austin, TX
Museum quality fine art print of Dita Von Teese by photographer Markus Klinko in 2013 in Los Angeles.
This print is available in the following sizes, signed and numbered by Markus K...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
$3,520 Sale Price
20% Off
Towner (Portrait)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nick Vedros
Towner (Portrait)
Archival Pigment Print on Epson Legacy Platine 100% Cotton Fibre, 314 gsm, Acid and Lignin free
Year: 2000s
Size: 10x10in
Edition: 15
Signed, dated and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
$790 Sale Price
34% Off
Dancing Dog
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nick Vedros
Dancing Dog
Archival Pigment Print Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta 325 gsm
Year: 1990s
Size: 10x12in
Edition: 10
Signed, dated and numbered by hand ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
$790 Sale Price
39% Off
Sponge
By Melissa Meier
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic mounted photograph.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Color
$3,360 Sale Price
20% Off
Gnome Journey
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nick Vedros
Gnome Journey
Archival Pigment Print Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta 325 gsm
Year: 2000s
Size: 11x17in
Edition: 12
Signed, dated and numbered by han...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
$790 Sale Price
39% Off
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
1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$1,222 Sale Price
32% 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
1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$977 Sale Price
34% Off
16 x 20" Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams signed by Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
16 x 20" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams, photographed in 1966, numbered 5/12. It is signed by Jack Mitchell in pencil on th...
Category
1960s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dunce Gnome
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nick Vedros
Dunce Gnome
Archival Pigment Print Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta 325 gsm
Year: 2000s
Size: 14x11in
Edition: 12
Signed, dated and numbered by hand on label
Stamped
COA provide...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
$790 Sale Price
39% Off
Behind Smoke (Thomas Hart Benton Plate #29)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Michael Mardikes
Behind Smoke (Thomas Hart Benton Plate #29)
Year: 1956, 2021
Archival Pigment Print on Premium Rag
Image Size: 13.5x19 in
Paper Size: 17x22 in
Edition: 7
Monogrammed...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$2,989 Sale Price
56% Off
Hippie For Peace
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nick Vedros
Hippie For Peace
Archival Pigment Print on Epson Legacy Platine 100% Cotton Fibre, 314 gsm, Acid and Lignin free
Year: 2000s
Size: 8x12in
Edition: 15
Signed, dated and n...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
$790 Sale Price
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Mother Daughter
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nick Vedros
Mother Daughter
Archival Pigment Print on Epson Legacy Platine 100% Cotton Fibre, 314 gsm, Acid and Lignin free
Year: 1987
Size: 14x12in
E...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
$790 Sale Price
34% Off
Road Gnome
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nick Vedros
Road Gnome
Archival Pigment Print Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta 325 gsm
Year: 2000s
Size: 11x17in
Edition: 12
Signed, dated and numbered by hand on label
Stamped
COA provided...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
$790 Sale Price
39% Off
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