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Period: Early 20th Century
Sailing Boats; From the journal Camera Work
Sailing Boats; From the journal Camera Work

Sailing Boats; From the journal Camera Work

By Heinrich Kuhn

Located in Middletown, NY

New York: Alfred Stieglitz, 1911. Halftone engraving from a gum bichromate print; 8 x 5 5/8 inches (203 x 142 mm), tipped onto a mounting sheet 8 x 11 3/4 in. 2 mm tear on lower rig...

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Modern Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Engraving, Photogravure

1920s Photo of the Seawell Cushion Wheel Co. Baseball Team of Detroit
1920s Photo of the Seawell Cushion Wheel Co. Baseball Team of Detroit

1920s Photo of the Seawell Cushion Wheel Co. Baseball Team of Detroit

Located in San Francisco, CA

A 1920s Detroit-based company baseball team gathered for this photo. The Sewell Cushion Wheel Company’s players wear uniform shirts bearing the timeless term “All Cush,” (frankly, wo...

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Photorealist Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Venice; From the journal Camera Work
Venice; From the journal Camera Work

Venice; From the journal Camera Work

By Heinrich Kuhn

Located in Middletown, NY

New York: Alfred Stieglitz, 1911. Halftone engraving from a gum bichromate print, 5 9/16 x 7 11/16 inches (148 x 196 mm), tipped onto a mounting sheet 8 x 11 3/4 inches. A muted an...

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Modern Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Engraving, Photogravure

The War Memorial in Blagny France 1926 Silver Gelatin Black, White Photography
The War Memorial in Blagny France 1926 Silver Gelatin Black, White Photography

The War Memorial in Blagny France 1926 Silver Gelatin Black, White Photography

By Press Photo

Located in Atlanta, GA

A unique original silver gelatin black and white photography. Blagny, France, the War Memorial, April 6, 1926. This photograph shows an automobile and a man in front of the War Memo...

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Art Deco Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

1928 Margaret Bourke-White Precisionist Otis Steel Co Industrial Photo Print
1928 Margaret Bourke-White Precisionist Otis Steel Co Industrial Photo Print

1928 Margaret Bourke-White Precisionist Otis Steel Co Industrial Photo Print

By Margaret Bourke-White

Located in Camden, ME

This commanding industrial photograph dates from 1928, a pivotal year in the early career of Margaret Bourke-White, and belongs to the definitive body of work that established her as...

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American Modern Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver

Antique Gelatin Silver Print Photograph of 13th Calvary Soldier
Antique Gelatin Silver Print Photograph of 13th Calvary Soldier

Antique Gelatin Silver Print Photograph of 13th Calvary Soldier

Located in Soquel, CA

Antique Gelatin Silver Print Photograph of 13th Calvary Soldier - 1913. This photograph shows a member of the 13th Calvary Regiment, Company H of the United States Army, sitting ato...

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American Realist Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Allegorical Ceiling - Vintage Photograph by Tiepolo - Early 20th Century

Allegorical Ceiling - Vintage Photograph by Tiepolo - Early 20th Century

Located in Roma, IT

Allegorical ceiling by Tiepolo is an original vintage photograph realized in "Villa Nazionale Venezia" in Venice by Naya photograph agency. With the description on the lower. Good ...

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Modern Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

The Champs Elysées Paris under Construction, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography
The Champs Elysées Paris under Construction, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography

The Champs Elysées Paris under Construction, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography

By Press Agency ROL

Located in Atlanta, GA

An original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Press Agency ROL, Paris, August 1928. The iconic Champs-Élysées in Paris is under construction. Features: Original silver gel...

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Modern Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Ted Higby at Skyline Rodeo, 1928
Ted Higby at Skyline Rodeo, 1928

Ted Higby at Skyline Rodeo, 1928

By Lora Webb Nichols

Located in New York, NY

Listing includes framing with UV plexiglas, free shipping and a 14 day return policy. Ted Higby at Skyline Rodeo, 1928 15 x 12 inch gelatin silver print Image Size: 14 x 8.5 inches Frame size: 22.5 x 17.5 x 2 inches Edition of 15 Lora Webb Nichols was born in 1883 and grew up in the small mining town of Encampment, Wyoming. At the age of 16 Lora received her first camera and from that moment and for the next few decades she produced work that is both stunning in its singular voice and revealing in the world it opens up for us. At first Nichols photographed her family, friends, and the landscape around Encampment, but when the town experienced a copper mining boom Nichols expanded her scope to become a photographer for hire shooting portraits and industrial photographs. When the boom collapsed, Nichols took the risk of opening her own business in Encampment - The Rocky Mountain Studio - which opened in 1925. The studio ran for ten years, accumulating 24,000 negatives that illustrate the lives and environment of the people living in and around the town while creating a distinctive and surprising body of work. If one was to attempt an analogy – Nichols’ pictures fit somewhere between Lartigue and Lange - joyful and generous while objectively intimate. In particular what seems to distinguish Nichols’ work is the way she sees the world from a female perspective. As Vince Aletti...

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Other Art Style Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

"Helpful Dog" by General Photographic Agency

"Helpful Dog" by General Photographic Agency

Located in London, GB

"Helpful Dog" by General Photographic Agency Teddy the Dog holds onto child actor Jackie Lucas (1919 - 1983) by the tail of his golfing jacket as he tries to play a ball, which is floating in a river. A publicity still for the unreleased Mack Sennett comedy short, 'Rough and Ready', directed by William Campbell...

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Modern Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White

The Church of St. Anastasia in Verona - B/W Photograph - Early 20th Century

The Church of St. Anastasia in Verona - B/W Photograph - Early 20th Century

Located in Roma, IT

The Church of St. Anastasia in Verona is an original photograph taken in Verona, Italy, realized by an Anonymous photographer. Titled on the lower, with the description. Very Good c...

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Modern Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Subway Construction in Paris, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography, 1928
Subway Construction in Paris, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography, 1928

Subway Construction in Paris, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography, 1928

Located in Atlanta, GA

A unique, original silver gelatin black and white photograph. The subway construction in Place de la Bastille, Paris, November 1928. Features: Original Silver Gelatin Print Photograp...

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Art Deco Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

The Eiffel Tower (1929) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized

The Eiffel Tower (1929) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized

By H. Armstrong Roberts

Located in London, GB

The Eiffel Tower (1929) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Alamy) Eiffel Tower built in 1889 seen from Trocadero wrought iron doors Paris France, circa 1929. Additional Information: Unframed Paper Size: 40x30'' Printed Later Silver Gelatin Fibre Print 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: H. Armstrong ROBERTS (1883-1947) is an artist born in 1883 The oldest auction result ever registered on the website for an artwork by this artist is a photography sold in 2012. ACTORS ON SET, Bette Davis, Ladies Fashion...

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Modern Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

St. Sebastian and St. Rocco Ghirlandaio - Vintage Photo Detail  - Early 1900

St. Sebastian and St. Rocco Ghirlandaio - Vintage Photo Detail - Early 1900

Located in Roma, IT

St. Sebastian and St. Rocco Ghirlandaio is an original vintage photograph taken in Civic museum in Pisa, Italy, and realized by an Anonymous photographer in the early 20th Century. T...

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Modern Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Edward Steichen – Fred Astaire, 1927 –
Edward Steichen – Fred Astaire, 1927 –

Edward Steichen – Fred Astaire, 1927 –

By Edward Steichen

Located in Cologne, DE

Edward Steichen – Fred Astaire, 1927 – This iconic portrait of legendary entertainer Fred Astaire was taken in 1927 by Edward Steichen, one of the most influential photographers of ...

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Modern Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

"Post Queue" by  Fox Photos

"Post Queue" by Fox Photos

Located in London, GB

"Post Queue" by Fox Photos December 1926: Schoolchildren posting letters in the playground of the Red Lion Street School. Unframed Paper Size: 20" x 24'' (...

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Modern Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White

Harbour of Hamburg; From the journal Camera Work
Harbour of Hamburg; From the journal Camera Work

Harbour of Hamburg; From the journal Camera Work

By Heinrich Kuhn

Located in Middletown, NY

New York: Alfred Stieglitz, 1911. Halftone engraving from a gum bichromate print, 4 11/16 × 8 9/16 inches (119 × 218 mm), tipped onto a mounting sheet 8 x 11 3/4 inches. Signature o...

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Modern Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Engraving, Photogravure

Three Pears and an Apple, France

Three Pears and an Apple, France

By Edward Steichen

Located in New York, NY

Three Pears and an Apple, France, c. 1921: The Early Years 1900-1927, 1981 photogravure on BFK Rives Paper image size: 13 x 10 inches paper size: 20 x 15 1/4 inches Edition of 500

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Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Photogravure

Equivalents
Equivalents

Alfred StieglitzEquivalents, c. 1927

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Equivalents

By Alfred Stieglitz

Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA

Alfred Stieglitz made the Equivalents cloud studies between 1925 and 1934. They are often recognized as the first photographs free of literal subject matter and considered some of th...

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Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Place de la Bastille Paris, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography, 1928
Place de la Bastille Paris, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography, 1928

Place de la Bastille Paris, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography, 1928

Located in Atlanta, GA

A unique, original silver gelatin black and white photograph. Paris, La Place De La Bastille, November 1928. Features: Original Silver Gelatin Print Photography. Press Photography. P...

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Art Deco Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Shells

Shells

By Imogen Cunningham

Located in Carmel, CA

Rondal Partridge Silver Gelatin Estate Print Embossed Imogen Cunningham signature on mat, labeled on verso. Dry mounted outer dimensions 16x20"

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Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

A Vintage 1920s Gelatin Silver Print by Tina Modotti of a Mural byDiego Rivera
A Vintage 1920s Gelatin Silver Print by Tina Modotti of a Mural byDiego Rivera

A Vintage 1920s Gelatin Silver Print by Tina Modotti of a Mural byDiego Rivera

By Tina Modotti

Located in Chicago, IL

A vintage, 1920s gelatin silver print by Tina Modotti of a mural fresco by Diego Rivera (from the Agricultural School in Chapingo, Mexico). Stamped “Photographs-Tina Modotti Mexico,...

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Modern Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin, Paper

"Young Competitors" by MacGregor

"Young Competitors" by MacGregor

Located in London, GB

"Young Competitors" by MacGregor 11th August 1925: Three young competitors arriving at the courts for the Open Junior Lawn Tennis Tournament at Brockenhurst, Hampshire.. Unframed P...

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Modern Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White

Street Musician in Lyon, France, 1930 Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Street Musician in Lyon, France, 1930 Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography

Street Musician in Lyon, France, 1930 Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography

By Press Photo

Located in Atlanta, GA

A unique, original silver gelatin black and white photograph. Street musicians and singers in Lyon, France, circa 1930. Street musicians playing accordion with singers in Lyon, Fran...

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Art Deco Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

The Abode of Snow

The Abode of Snow

By Ansel Adams

Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA

Signed with printed title on the front of the print. Very early parmelian print by Ansel Adams.

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Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Pigeons feeding in Lyon France, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography, 1927
Pigeons feeding in Lyon France, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography, 1927

Pigeons feeding in Lyon France, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography, 1927

Located in Atlanta, GA

A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph, Place des Renaux in Lyon, France, March 1927. The photograph is a view of Place des Renaux in Lyon, France, with a woman...

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Art Deco Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

'Derby Spectator' Limited Edition Oversize Silver Gelatin Print

'Derby Spectator' Limited Edition Oversize Silver Gelatin Print

Located in London, GB

Derby Spectator A spectator looking through binoculars at the Derby horse races, Epsom, Surrey, June 1923. (Photo by Hulton / Getty Archive) Silver gelatin fibre print 20 x 24" p...

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Modern Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

"Edward Ray" by Kirby

"Edward Ray" by Kirby

Located in London, GB

"Edward Ray" by Kirby 26th June 1925: British golfer Edward Ray in action during the 1925 British Open at Prestwick. Prestwick golf course was founded ...

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Modern Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White

1S Shell
1S Shell

1S Shell

By Edward Weston

Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA

The most iconic of the Weston shells, throughout 1927 he took twenty-six still life images of shells, including Nautilus 1927 (Museum of Modern Art, New York). His interest in nautil...

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Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Tuileries Garden in Paris under the Snow 1926 Silver Gelatin B and W Photography
Tuileries Garden in Paris under the Snow 1926 Silver Gelatin B and W Photography

Tuileries Garden in Paris under the Snow 1926 Silver Gelatin B and W Photography

Located in Atlanta, GA

A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph. The Tuileries Garden in Paris under the snow, France, 26th of January 1926. The Parisians braved the cold at the end of ...

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Art Deco Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Paris, The Parc Monceau Public Garden, 1926 Silver Gelatin B and W Photography
Paris, The Parc Monceau Public Garden, 1926 Silver Gelatin B and W Photography

Paris, The Parc Monceau Public Garden, 1926 Silver Gelatin B and W Photography

By Press Photo

Located in Atlanta, GA

A unique, original silver gelatin black and white photograph. Paris, The Parc Monceau public garden, 20th June 1926. Features: Original Silver Gelatin Print Photography Unframed. Pre...

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Art Deco Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Joy Riders by John Albok, 1938, Silver Gelatin Print, Photography
Joy Riders by John Albok, 1938, Silver Gelatin Print, Photography

Joy Riders by John Albok, 1938, Silver Gelatin Print, Photography

By John Albok

Located in Denton, TX

Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on mount margin. Vintage gelatin silver print Born in Munkacs, Hungary, John Albok learned photography as a boy. He came to the U.S. in 1921 find...

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Modern Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Rainy Embankment (1929) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print

Rainy Embankment (1929) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print

Located in London, GB

Fair Fun (1938) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images) August 1929: A man standing alone on a rain-drenched pavement on the River Thames Embankment, London...

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Modern Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Edward Weston & Margrethe 4

Edward Weston & Margrethe 4

By Imogen Cunningham

Located in Carmel, CA

Rondal Partridge Silver Gelatin Estate Print Embossed Imogen Cunningham signature on mat, labeled on verso. Dry mounted outer dimensions 16x20"

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Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Lizzie Nichols and Perkins, 1913
Lizzie Nichols and Perkins, 1913

Lizzie Nichols and Perkins, 1913

By Lora Webb Nichols

Located in New York, NY

Listing includes framing with UV plexiglas, free shipping and a 14 day return policy. Lizzie Nichols and Perkins, 1913 15 x 15 inch gelatin silver print Image Size: 10.75 x 11 inches Frame size: 18 x 18 x 2 inches Edition of 15 Lora Webb Nichols was born in 1883 and grew up in the small mining town of Encampment, Wyoming. At the age of 16 Lora received her first camera and from that moment and for the next few decades she produced work that is both stunning in its singular voice and revealing in the world it opens up for us. At first Nichols photographed her family, friends, and the landscape around Encampment, but when the town experienced a copper mining boom Nichols expanded her scope to become a photographer for hire shooting portraits and industrial photographs. When the boom collapsed, Nichols took the risk of opening her own business in Encampment - The Rocky Mountain Studio - which opened in 1925. The studio ran for ten years, accumulating 24,000 negatives that illustrate the lives and environment of the people living in and around the town while creating a distinctive and surprising body of work. If one was to attempt an analogy – Nichols’ pictures fit somewhere between Lartigue and Lange - joyful and generous while objectively intimate. In particular what seems to distinguish Nichols’ work is the way she sees the world from a female perspective. As Vince Aletti...

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Other Art Style Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

East Vidette

East Vidette

By Ansel Adams

Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA

Signed (AE Adams), titled, printed on the front of print. Rare vintage parmelian print from 1927.

Category

Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Stairs at Montmartre, Paris, 1926

Stairs at Montmartre, Paris, 1926

By Andre Kertesz

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Signed in pencil on recto Gelatin silver print Image/Paper: 3" x 3-3/4", Mount: 12" x 9", Mat 20" x 16"

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Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Rare Silver Gelatin Photograph "Jewish Deli, Poland" c.1930
Rare Silver Gelatin Photograph "Jewish Deli, Poland" c.1930

Rare Silver Gelatin Photograph "Jewish Deli, Poland" c.1930

Located in San Francisco, CA

Silver Gelatin Photograph "Jewish Deli, Poland" c.1930 Rare photograph of a group of men standing in the doorway of a Jewish Deli in Poland in the 1930s....

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Photorealist Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Film

1920s Gelatin Silver Print by Tina Modotti of a Mural Fresco by Diego Rivera
1920s Gelatin Silver Print by Tina Modotti of a Mural Fresco by Diego Rivera

1920s Gelatin Silver Print by Tina Modotti of a Mural Fresco by Diego Rivera

By Tina Modotti

Located in Chicago, IL

An original 1920s silver gelatin print by famed photographer Tina Modotti, showing a mural fresco in the Secretariat of Education in Mexico City by artist Diego Rivera. Photo is sta...

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Modern Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin, Paper

2S Shell
2S Shell

2S Shell

By Edward Weston

Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA

Weston created 2S after his return to America from two extended stays in Mexico between 1923 and 1927. Throughout 1927 he took twenty-six still life images of shells, including Nauti...

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Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

1920's Gelatin Silver Print by Tina Modotti of a Mural Fresco by Diego Rivera
1920's Gelatin Silver Print by Tina Modotti of a Mural Fresco by Diego Rivera

1920's Gelatin Silver Print by Tina Modotti of a Mural Fresco by Diego Rivera

By Tina Modotti

Located in Chicago, IL

Original, vintage gelatin silver print by famed photographer Tina Modotti of a mural fresco by Diego Rivera. "Negative Side of the Church" from the fresco in the Preparatory School ...

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Modern Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin, Paper

Rome - Early 20th Century

Rome - Early 20th Century

Located in Roma, IT

Rome in the Early 20th Century is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1930s. It belongs to historical album including photo of historical events and places, all meticulo...

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Contemporary Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Mary Pickford Douglas Fairbanks at Walpi First Mesa Hopi Village 1920 Photograph
Mary Pickford Douglas Fairbanks at Walpi First Mesa Hopi Village 1920 Photograph

Mary Pickford Douglas Fairbanks at Walpi First Mesa Hopi Village 1920 Photograph

Located in Soquel, CA

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks at Walpi First Mesa Hopi Village 1920 Photograph Original Sepia toned Silver gelatin photographic print by Charles Roshe (British, 1885-1974). Provenance: Mary Pickford, Elizabeth (Bess) Huggins. Image 10.75"H x 13.75"W He was Mary Pickford's favorite cinematographer and a personal friend, shooting all of the films in which she starred from 1918 to 1927, before they had a falling out during production of Coquette (1929). He was the first cinematographer to receive an Academy Award, along with Karl Struss, for Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), and won again for The Yearling (1946), with Leonard Smith and Arthur Arling. He was also nominated four times. Walpi, pueblo (village), Navajo county, northeastern Arizona, U.S., on the edge of a high mesa in the Hopi Indian Reservation. It comprises a group of angular stone houses of two to three stories crowded on a narrow tip of the steep-walled mesa at an elevation of 6,225 feet (1,897 metres). The original pueblo (founded c. 1700) was on a lower part of the mesa, but following the Pueblo Rebellion, the inhabitants moved to the top as a defensive measure against Spanish retaliation. Walpi is known for an antelope ceremony and for snake dances, held during odd years in August and generally closed to non-Hopi spectators. Shitchumovi (Sichomivi) pueblo is adjacent and Hano is nearby. Pickford was the first Canadian to win an Oscar. She was also the second to win best actress and the first for a role in a film with sound. She was one of the founding members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 1919 Pickford took the lead in organizing the United Artists Corporation with Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks. In 1920, after the dissolution of her first marriage (1911–19) to actor Owen Moore, she married Fairbanks (divorced 1936). Pickford’s popularity continued unabated in Pollyanna (1920), Little Lord...

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Realist Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Mary and Maude Platt, 1912
Mary and Maude Platt, 1912

Mary and Maude Platt, 1912

By Lora Webb Nichols

Located in New York, NY

Listing includes framing with UV plexiglas, free shipping and a 14 day return policy. Lora Webb Nichols Mary and Maude Platt, 1912 15 x 15 inch gelatin silver print Image Size: 10.75 x 11 inches frame size 18 x 18 x 2 inches Edition of 15 Lora Webb Nichols was born in 1883 and grew up in the small mining town of Encampment, Wyoming. At the age of 16 Lora received her first camera and from that moment and for the next few decades she produced work that is both stunning in its singular voice and revealing in the world it opens up for us. At first Nichols photographed her family, friends, and the landscape around Encampment, but when the town experienced a copper mining boom Nichols expanded her scope to become a photographer for hire shooting portraits and industrial photographs. When the boom collapsed, Nichols took the risk of opening her own business in Encampment - The Rocky Mountain Studio - which opened in 1925. The studio ran for ten years, accumulating 24,000 negatives that illustrate the lives and environment of the people living in and around the town while creating a distinctive and surprising body of work. If one was to attempt an analogy – Nichols’ pictures fit somewhere between Lartigue and Lange - joyful and generous while objectively intimate. In particular what seems to distinguish Nichols’ work is the way she sees the world from a female perspective. As Vince Aletti...

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Other Art Style Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Woman With Flag, Mexico City
Woman With Flag, Mexico City

Woman With Flag, Mexico City

By Tina Modotti

Located in Carmel, CA

From a Portfolio printed by Mother Jones. Authorized copy. Stunning reproduction. Limited Edition. Certification of Authenticity. Embossed with stamp stating from the original negat...

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Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Platinum

2S Shell
2S Shell

2S Shell

By Edward Weston

Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA

Weston created 2S after his return to America from two extended stays in Mexico between 1923 and 1927. Throughout 1927 he took twenty-six still life images of shells, including Nauti...

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Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Early 20th Century Photograph -- Sidewalk Club of the Motherlode
Early 20th Century Photograph -- Sidewalk Club of the Motherlode

Early 20th Century Photograph -- Sidewalk Club of the Motherlode

By Sigismund Blumann

Located in Soquel, CA

"Sidewalk Club of the Motherlode" a Lithobrome photograh by Sigismund Blumann (American, 1872-1956). Signed "Sigismund Blumann" lower right. Titled "Sidewalk Club of the Motherlode" on verso. Image size, 11.25"H x 13.25"W. Between 1923 and 1932, his pictures were accepted at photographic salons in Amsterdam, Toronto, Rochester, Seattle, and Los Angeles. In 1927, a one-person exhibition of his bromoil prints traveled to camera clubs in Chicago, Akron, Cincinnati, and New York. In addition to bromoil, a process that yields pointillistic images, Blumann utilized such unusual processes as kallitype (Vandyke brown), lithobrome, and pastelograph (the latter two probably his own inventions) to create original photographs using chemical processes he invented. Sigismund Blumann (1872–1956) (figure 1) was a prominent tastemaker in Californian photography during the 1920s and 1930s. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area for his entire career, he edited magazines, wrote books, and made creative photographs. From 1924 to 1933 Blumann edited Camera Craft, the leading West Coast photographic monthly. Subsequently he established his own periodical, Photo Art Monthly, which he published until 1940. In these two magazines — for over fifteen years — Blumann found a large audience of mainstream pictorial photographers. In addition, he wrote five instructional books on photography...

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Realist Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Lyell Fork Meadows

Lyell Fork Meadows

By Ansel Adams

Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA

Signed on the front of the print. Printed circa 1927.

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Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Vintage Black and White Photo of Early 20th Century Rome

Vintage Black and White Photo of Early 20th Century Rome

Located in Roma, IT

Rome in the Early 20th Century is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1930s. It belongs to historical album including photo of historical events and places, all meticulo...

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Contemporary Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Vintage Large Albumen Photo Jerusalem Photograph American Colony Mt Zion Trees
Vintage Large Albumen Photo Jerusalem Photograph American Colony Mt Zion Trees

Vintage Large Albumen Photo Jerusalem Photograph American Colony Mt Zion Trees

By American Colony Jerusalem

Located in Surfside, FL

The mat measures 21 X 16 the images are around 12 X 9 inches. They bear the blindstamp of the American Colony Jerusalem. I am not sure if these are hand colored but they are from th...

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Academic Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Detail of St Mark's Cathedral - B/W photographic - Early 20th Century

Detail of St Mark's Cathedral - B/W photographic - Early 20th Century

Located in Roma, IT

Horses Vintage Photo Detail of St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice is a b/w photographic print on Cardboard. The artwork represents The culture of horses. The stamp Osvaldo Bohm on the...

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Modern Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

The Cathedral of Lucca - Original Photograph - Early 20th Century

The Cathedral of Lucca - Original Photograph - Early 20th Century

Located in Roma, IT

The Cathedral of Lucca is an original photograph taken in Lucca cathedral, realized by an Anonymous photographer. Titled on the lower with the description in Italian" Altare di S. Re...

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Modern Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

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David Yarrow Tells Us the Tales behind His Wild, Wild Photography

To capture many of the cinematic images in his new show, the famed photographer traveled to the still-rugged parts of Alaska and the Rocky Mountains, shooting supermodels and carnivores alike.

Lori Grinker’s Artful Photographs of a Young Mike Tyson Are a Knockout!

The New York photographer tells us how an encounter with the then-13-year-old boxer led to a decade-long project that saw them both go pro.