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Modern Figurative Photography

MODERN STYLE

The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Style: Modern
The Italian Actress and Singer Loretta Goggi - Photo- 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo. The Italian Showgirl Loretta Goggi during "Happy Circus". Rome, 24.11.1981.
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1980s Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Fred Bongusto - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Fred Bongusto- Vintage Photograph is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s. Good conditions. Alfredo Antonio Carlo Buongusto (6 April 1935 – 8 November 2019), ...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Meeting between Bettino Craxi and Felipe Gonzalez- Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Meeting between Bettino Craxi and Felipe Gonzalez is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s. Good conditions.
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20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Portrait of Anna Magnani - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Portrait of Anna Magnani is a vintage b/w photographic print on single-coated paper, realized in 1950s. Good conditions. Anna Magnani was born in Rome, Italy (not in Egypt...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Saddle, Whip, Nude - Signed limited edition fine art print, Contemporary, Model
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Saddle, Whip, Nude. - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, Edition of 5 This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm ,...
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2010s Modern Figurative Photography

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Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Phot...

' India Blue ' Limited Edition, Signed Oversize Archival Pigment print
Located in London, GB
' India Blue ' Limited Edition, Signed Oversize Archival Pigment print Huge and exquisite, intensely vivid Archival Pigment print - signed and numbered by photographer on front - th...
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2010s Modern Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

'Evening Dress' Limited Edition silver gelatin V&A Portfolio
Located in London, GB
'Evening Dress' Limited Edition V&A Portfolio silver gelatin fibre print. Jean Shrimpton modelling a dress, John French (1907-66), England, 1961 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Dance Study 1606
Located in Lawrence, NY
#1 of 8, signed, numbered, dated Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a follo...
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2010s Modern Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Apres Ski' 1963 Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Apres Ski' 1963 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print A group of women reclining on the snow in Gstaad with rugs covering their knees, 1963. Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x ...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print, Color

Sports Car Couple (Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
1955: John Bryant with his AC sports car in Kinnerton Place, London SW1. His passenger is Margaret McAulay Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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Lambda

'Evening Elegance' V&A Portfolio Fashion Photography Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
'Evening Elegance' V&A Portfolio Limited Edition print A model wearing a fur stole, John French (1907-66), London, 1955 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Fashion Photograp...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

'Jean Shrimpton In Evening Dress' Limited Edition silver gelatin V&A Portfolio
Located in London, GB
'Jean Shrimpton In Evening Dress' Limited Edition V&A Portfolio silver gelatin fibre print. Jean Shrimpton modelling a dress, John French (1907-66), England, 1961 © Victoria and Alb...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

V&A - John French - Soft Helmets - Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
V&A - John French - Soft Helmets - Limited Edition Pattie Boyd and Celia Hammond modelling feathered capsule hats, John French (1907-66), London, 1960s © Victoria and Albert Museum,...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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Black and White

Dalai Lama and Simon Wiesenthal - Vintage b/w Photograph - Early 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
This Vintage Photo shows the Dalai Lama and the Austrian Writer Simon Wiesenthal. Vienna, 14-06-1993 (Ansa). Good condition.
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1990s Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

'C. Z. Guest' Palm Beach SLIM AARONS ESTATE EDITION
Located in London, GB
'C. Z. Guest' by Slim Aarons 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, Fl...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

Diver #3 edition of 25
By RJ Muna
Located in Hudson, NY
The 8" x 10" editioned print . The image sits on that paper size estimated at 6" x 9" leaving a white border to mat over when framing. Olympics , Figurative, Sepia tone, athlete
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2010s Modern Figurative Photography

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Archival Paper

'Lake Tahoe Couple' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Lake Tahoe Couple' Slim Aarons Estate Edition A couple relax at a swimming pool in the summer sunshine near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959. The line on the bottom of the pool marks t...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

'Lech Ice Bar' Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Lech Ice Bar 1960 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Caption: A bartender mi...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

Baths of Caracalla - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Baths of Caracalla is a vintage black and white photograph realized by an Ludovico Tuminello. Good conditions except for some foxing.
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Palazzo dei Cesari - Vintage Photo by Ludovico Tuminello - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Palazzo dei Cesari is a vintage print in salt silver realized by Ludovico Tuminello in the early 20th Century. Titled on the lower. Good conditions except for some foxing.
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Chinese City by Night - Photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Chinese city by night is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historica...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Chinese District - Photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Chinese District  is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical mo...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Industrial City - Photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Industrial city  is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical mom...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

The Mosque of Muhammad Ali - Photo by C. Zachary - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Mosque of Muhammad Ali  is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century by the photographer C. Zachary. Good conditions and aged. The photo depicts the Mosque ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Cidade do Interior do Brasil - Photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cidade do interior do Brasil is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century. Good conditions and aged. The photo depicts Diamantina, a Brazilian municipality in t...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Taormina - Photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Taormina is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century. Good conditions and aged. The photo depicts the beautiful city of Taormina, one of the most beautiful and...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Portrait of Carlo Ferrari - Photo - Early-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Carlo Ferrari is a vintage photo, realized in the Early-20th century. Good conditions. It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including historical moments, plac...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Tennis In The Bahamas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
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 ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Soho Waiters Race'
Located in New York, NY
Soho Waiters Race 1955 Silver gelatin fiber print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Caption: Waiters carrying half b...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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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...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Hotel Sports - Limited Edition Estate Print
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...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print, Color

Slim Aarons 'Soho Waiters Race'
Located in New York, NY
Soho Waiters Race 1955 Silver gelatin fiber print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Caption: Waiters carrying half b...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons 'Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes' Mid-century Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc 1976 C-Print Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate CAPTION: Guests by the pool...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

Slim Aarons 'Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes' Mid-century Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc 1976 C-Print Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate CAPTION: Guests by the pool...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

Slim Aarons 'Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes' Mid-century Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc 1976 C-Print Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate CAPTION: Guests by the pool...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

Slim Aarons 'Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes' Mid-century Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc 1976 C-Print Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate CAPTION: Guests by the pool...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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Lambda

Early Portrait of Benito Mussolini - Vintage Photograph - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Early Portrait of Benito Mussolini is a black and white vintage photo realized by Agence Trampus in the 1920s. Good condition.
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1920s Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

'Soft Helmets' V&A Portfolio Limited Edition print
Located in London, GB
'Soft Helmets' V&A Portfolio Limited Edition print Pattie Boyd and Celia Hammond modelling feathered capsule hats, John French (1907-66), London, 1960s © Victoria and Albert M...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons 'Cannes Watersports at the Carlton' Mid-century Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Cannes Watersports at the Carlton 1958 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. CAPTION: Holidaymakers waterskiing ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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Lambda

Mussolini Passes in Zapatiè - Vintage Photograph - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
Mussolini Passes in Zapatiè is a black and white vintage photo realized in 1937. Good condition.
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1930s Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Mussolini in a Meeting - Vintage Photograph - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Mussolini in a meeting is a black and white vintage photo realized by Agence Trampus in the1930s. Good condition.
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1930s Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

1967 'Porto Ercole' (Estate Stamped Edition)
Located in London, GB
'Porto Ercole' by Slim Aarons The waterfront at Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1967. A group of young and stylish girls dressed in capri pants and colourful shirts sit atop vespas an...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

Lady's Painting - Vintage Photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lady's Painting is a vintage photo, realized in the early-20th Century  Good conditions and aged It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including historical moments, places...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

'Lounging In Verbier' (Estate Stamped Edition)
Located in London, GB
'Lounging In Verbier' by Slim Aarons Holidaymakers in sun loungers on the slopes at Verbier, Switzerland, February 1964. This photograph epitomises the Travel, Lifestyle and Glamou...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Tipper Gore, Democratic Fundraiser 1992 Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Tipper Gore at Democratic Fund Raiser 10/1/1992 Photographer is Fred McDarrah Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, it's off-off-Broadway actors, troubadours, politicians, agitators and social protests. Fred captured Jack Kerouac frolicking with women at a New Year’s bash in 1958, Andy Warhol adjusting a movie-camera lens in his silver-covered factory, and Bob Dylan offering a salute of recognition outside Sheridan Square near the Voice’s old office. Not just a social chronicler, McDarrah was a great photo-journalist. For years, McDarrah was the Voice's only photographer and, for decades, he ran the Voice’s photo department, where he helped train dozens of young photographers, including James Hamilton, Sylvia Plachy, Robin Holland and Marc Asnin. His mailbox was simply marked "McPhoto." An exhibit of McDarrah’s photos of artists presented by the Steven Kasher Gallery in Chelsea was hailed by The New York Times as “a visual encyclopedia of the era’s cultural scene.” artists in their studios, (Alice Neel, Philip Guston, Stuart Davis, Robert Smithson, Jasper Johns, Franz Kline), actors (Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro on the set of “Taxi Driver”), musicians (Janis Joplin, Alice Cooper, Bob Dylan) and documentary images of early happenings and performances (Yayoi Kusama, Charlotte Moorman, Al Hansen, Jim Dine, Nam June Paik). The many images of Andy Warhol include the well-known one with his Brillo boxes at the Stable Gallery in 1964. Woody Allen, Diane Arbus, W. H. Auden, Francis Bacon, Joan Baez, Louise Bourgeois, David Bowie, Jimmy Breslin, William Burroughs, John Cage, Leo Castelli, Christo, Leonard Cohen, Merce Cunningham, William de Kooning, Jim Dine, Mark di Suvero, Marcel Duchamp, Bob Dylan, Federico Fellini, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Indiana, Mick Jagger, Jasper Johns, Kusama, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Nam June Paik, Elvis Presley, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Robert Rauschenberg, Lou Reed, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko, Ed Ruscha, Robert Smithson, Susan Sontag, Andy Warhol, and others. McDarrah’s prints have been collected in depth by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington. His work is in numerous public and private collections. Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Gore (née Aitcheson; born August 19, 1948) is an American social issues advocate who was the second lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. She is the estranged wife of Al Gore, the 45th vice president of the United States, from whom she separated in 2010. In 1985, Gore co-founded the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), which advocated for labeling of record covers of releases featuring profane language, especially in the heavy metal, punk and hip hop genres. Throughout her decades of public life, she has advocated for placing advisory labels on music (leading critics to call her a censor), mental health awareness, women's causes, children's causes, LGBT rights and reducing homelessness. Gore co-founded the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) with Susan Baker...
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1990s Modern Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Vintage Signed Silver Gelatin Photograph Beat Poet Peter Orlovsky Beatnik Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Peter Orlovsky reads poem disrobed at Judson Memorial Church. Behind him is Allen Ginsberg - December 6th, 1964. (by Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village, New York City.) Phot...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Baths of Caracalla - Vintage photo by Ludovico Tuminello - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Baths of Caracalla is a vintage print in salt silver realized by Ludovico Tuminello in the early 20th Century. Titled on the lower. Good conditions with some foxing and folding 
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20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Slim Aarons 'Sundowners, Cannes' Mid-century Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Sundowners 1958 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. CAPTION: Two bikini-clad holidaymakers enjoy a glass of wi...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Vila Vera' Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Vila Vera' 1968 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition The bar at the Villa Vera Hotel Spa and Racquet Club in Acapulco, January 1968. Slim Aarons Chromogenic C print Printed Later ...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

Slim Aarons 'Klosters' Mid-century Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Klosters 1963 C-Print Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Skiers pass by the Hotel Chesa Grischuna in Klos...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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Lambda

Seine Scene from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61 by Peter Cornelius
Located in London, GB
Seine Scene from the Paris In Colour Series 1956-61 By Peter Cornelius 30 x 40 inches/ 76 x 101 cm paper size Printed 2022 Archival pigment print Framing and size options availabl...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Vintage Silver Gelatin Print Photo Mets Baseball Sports Photograph Americana
Located in Surfside, FL
Youth at mets Game waiting for Autograph on August 20th, 1970 Photographer is Fred McDarrah Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s pos...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons 'Top Up?, Cannes' Mid-century Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Top Up? 1958 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. CAPTION: 1958: Swimsuited revellers enjoy a glass of wine out...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Nice Pool' - Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Nice Pool' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print 1955. American writer C.Z. Guest (Mrs. F.C. Winston Guest, 1920 – 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

Slim Aarons 'The Carlton Hotel' Mid-century Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Carlton Hotel 1958 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. CAPTION: The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, Fra...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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Lambda

Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Guggenheim Museum Architecture Photo Alloway
Located in Surfside, FL
Lawrence Alloway Museum Director Jan 28 1964 Photographer - Fred McDarrah Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off-Broadway actors, troubadours, politicians, agitators and social protests. Fred captured Jack Kerouac frolicking with women at a New Year’s bash in 1958, Andy Warhol adjusting a movie-camera lens in his silver-covered factory, and Bob Dylan offering a salute of recognition outside Sheridan Square near the Voice’s old office. Not just a social chronicler, McDarrah was a great photo-journalist. For years, McDarrah was the Voice's only photographer and, for decades, he ran the Voice’s photo department, where he helped train dozens of young photographers, including James Hamilton, Sylvia Plachy, Robin Holland and Marc Asnin. His mailbox was simply marked "McPhoto." An exhibit of McDarrah’s photos of artists presented by the Steven Kasher Gallery in Chelsea was hailed by The New York Times as “a visual encyclopedia of the era’s cultural scene.” artists in their studios, (Alice Neel, Philip Guston, Stuart Davis, Robert Smithson, Jasper Johns, Franz Kline), actors (Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro on the set of “Taxi Driver”), musicians (Janis Joplin, Alice Cooper, Bob Dylan) and documentary images of early happenings and performances (Yayoi Kusama, Charlotte Moorman, Al Hansen, Jim Dine, Nam June Paik). The many images of Andy Warhol include the well-known one with his Brillo boxes at the Stable Gallery in 1964. Woody Allen, Diane Arbus, W. H. Auden, Francis Bacon, Joan Baez, Louise Bourgeois, David Bowie, Jimmy Breslin, William Burroughs, John Cage, Leo Castelli, Christo, Leonard Cohen, Merce Cunningham, William de Kooning, Jim Dine, Mark di Suvero, Marcel Duchamp, Bob Dylan, Federico Fellini, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Indiana, Mick Jagger, Jasper Johns, Kusama, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Nam June Paik, Elvis Presley, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Robert Rauschenberg, Lou Reed, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko, Ed Ruscha, Robert Smithson, Susan Sontag, Andy Warhol, and others. McDarrah’s prints have been collected in depth by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington. His work is in numerous public and private collections. Lawrence Reginald Alloway was an English art critic and curator who worked in the United States from 1961. In the 1950s, he was a leading member of the Independent Group in the UK and in the 1960s was an influential writer and curator in the US. He first used the term "mass popular art" in the mid-1950s and used the term "Pop Art" in the 1960s to indicate that art has a basis in the popular culture of its day and takes from it a faith in the power of images. Alloway started writing reviews for the British periodical ArtReview, then styled Art News and Review in 1949 and for the American periodical Art News in 1953. In Nine Abstract Artists (1954) he promoted the Constructivist artists that emerged in Britain after the Second World War: Robert Adams, Terry Frost, Adrian Heath, Anthony Hill, Roger Hilton, Kenneth Martin, Mary Martin, Victor Pasmore, and William Scott. In 1961, through his contacts with the American painter Barnett Newman, Alloway was offered a lecturer position at Bennington College in Vermont. He and his wife, the realist painter Sylvia Sleigh...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Vintage Signed Silver Gelatin Photograph Paul Georges Studio Painting Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Paul Georges poses with self portrait with wife - January 6th 1967 Photographer is Fred McDarrah Paul Georges with Painting Jan 6, 1967 Photographer is Fred McDarrah Over a 50-ye...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Vintage Silver Gelatin Signed Photograph Edward Steichen, MoMA Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Edward Steichen, John Durniak, Monroe Wheeler and Edward D. Museum of modern art on Feb 10, 1962 Photographer Fred McDarrah Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off-Broadway actors, troubadours, politicians, agitators and social protests. Fred captured Jack Kerouac frolicking with women at a New Year’s bash in 1958, Andy Warhol adjusting a movie-camera lens in his silver-covered factory, and Bob Dylan offering a salute of recognition outside Sheridan Square near the Voice’s old office. Not just a social chronicler, McDarrah was a great photo-journalist. For years, McDarrah was the Voice's only photographer and, for decades, he ran the Voice’s photo department, where he helped train dozens of young photographers, including James Hamilton, Sylvia Plachy, Robin Holland and Marc Asnin. His mailbox was simply marked "McPhoto." An exhibit of McDarrah’s photos of artists presented by the Steven Kasher Gallery in Chelsea was hailed by The New York Times as “a visual encyclopedia of the era’s cultural scene.” artists in their studios, (Alice Neel, Philip Guston, Stuart Davis, Robert Smithson, Jasper Johns, Franz Kline), actors (Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro on the set of “Taxi Driver”), musicians (Janis Joplin, Alice Cooper, Bob Dylan) and documentary images of early happenings and performances (Yayoi Kusama, Charlotte Moorman, Al Hansen, Jim Dine, Nam June Paik). The many images of Andy Warhol include the well-known one with his Brillo boxes at the Stable Gallery in 1964. Woody Allen, Diane Arbus, W. H. Auden, Francis Bacon, Joan Baez, Louise Bourgeois, David Bowie, Jimmy Breslin, William Burroughs, John Cage, Leo Castelli, Christo, Leonard Cohen, Merce Cunningham, William de Kooning, Jim Dine, Mark di Suvero, Marcel Duchamp, Bob Dylan, Federico Fellini, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Indiana, Mick Jagger, Jasper Johns, Kusama, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Nam June Paik, Elvis Presley, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Robert Rauschenberg, Lou Reed, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko, Ed Ruscha, Robert Smithson, Susan Sontag, Andy Warhol, and others. McDarrah’s prints have been collected in depth by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington. His work is in numerous public and private collections. Edward Jean Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973) was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator. Steichen's were the photographs that most frequently appeared in Alfred Stieglitz's groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its publication from 1903 to 1917. Together Stieglitz and Steichen opened the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, which eventually became known as '291', after its address. Steichen laid claim to his photos of gowns for the magazine Art et Décoration in 1911 being the first modern fashion photographs ever published. From 1923 to 1938, Steichen was a photographer for the Condé Nast magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair while also working for many advertising agencies including J. Walter Thompson. During these years, Steichen was regarded as the best known and highest paid photographer in the world. In 1944, he directed the war documentary The Fighting Lady, which won the 1945 Academy Award for Best Documentary. From 1947 to 1961, Steichen served as Director of the Department of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art. While at MoMA, he curated and assembled exhibits including The Family of Man, which was seen by nine million people. In 1904, Steichen began experimenting with color photography. He was one of the earliest in the United States to use the Autochrome Lumière process. In 1905, Stieglitz and Steichen created the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, which eventually became known as 291 after its address. It presented some of the first American exhibitions of Henri Matisse, Auguste Rodin, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, and Constantin Brâncuși. He worked with Robert Frank even before his The Americans was published, exhibited the early work of Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind, and purchased two Rauschenberg prints...
Category

1960s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

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