![Amy Johnson [Pilot]. Ruth Hollick, Aust.](/pictures/thumb/CL181-142.JPG?v=1486091705)
c1930. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, rubbed, illegible inscription and photographer’s line in ink lower right, 30.3 x 20.6cm. Repaired tear to centre of image, slight foxing, surface loss, soiling. Photographer’s line reads “Copyright. Ruth Hollick, Photographer, Melbourne.” Amy Johnson (Brit., 1903-1941) was the first woman to fly solo from England..... More
![[Group Portraits Collection, Shanghai]](/pictures/thumb/CL173-24_1.JPG?v=1492651499)
c1920s-1930s. Collection of 23 silver gelatin photographs, including one affixed to letterpress programme autographed by sitters in pencil, some annotated and dated in ink on image, some with studio blind stamp or wet stamp to image or verso, 9.5 x 14.4cm to 22.8 x 27.9cm. Most with slight foxing or... More
c1930s. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, press print, titled, signed and annotated “4041: C” in ink with printed label attached verso, 10.3 x 10.1cm. Embossed, faded retouching to image. Label includes “Return to E.O. Hoppé. The Old House, South View Road, Crowborough, Sussex.”. More
c1930s. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled and annotated “2938: 4” in ink with photographer’s stamp and two cancelled Mauritius Verlag publishing stamps in German verso, 12 x 16.4cm. Minor embossing to image. Stamps include “Return to E.O. Hoppé, Horsmonden, Kent.”. More
c1930s. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled, signed and annotated in ink verso, 19.3 x 15.2cm. Minor embossing and scuffs to image, slight crinkles with cracking to corners. Annotations include “Return to E.O. Hoppé, Wildhern, Andover. 2941-[3]” and the cancelled address “Crowborough, Sussex.”. More
![[Man And Horses Ploughing A Field]. E O. Hoppé, Brit.](/pictures/thumb/CL172-87.JPG?v=1492650082)
c1930s. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, various stamps and publishing annotations verso, 15.2 x 20.6cm. Minor crinkles overall and wear to edges of image. Stamps include “Copyright E.O. Hoppé, London..” and several date stamps from 1975 to 1991. Annotations include “16577-A-II.”. More
c1930s. Vintage toned silver gelatin photograph, signed and titled in pencil in lower margin, 18.7 x 13.9cm. Minor retouching to image upper left, slight discolouration to margins. More
c1927/1931. Vintage photogravure, text including photographer’s name and title in plate above and below image, 13.6 x 9.8cm (image). Text includes “Sierra Club Bulletin, Vol. XVI. Plate 1. Photograph by Ansel Easton Adams. Elson Co. Inc., Belmont, Mass.” Also known as Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park..... More
![Napier Earthquake [Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand]. Arthur Bendigo Hurst, NZ.](/pictures/thumb/CL194-135_011.jpg?v=1543548389)
1931. Eleven vintage silver gelatin photographs, one dated “3.2.1931”, most images captioned and numbered with photographer’s line in negative lower left to right, 7.9 x 13.1cm (approx. each). Stains, minor paper remnants, chips or indentations. Captions read 1). Napier earthquake. Panorama after fire; 2). Napier earthquake. Havoc in Emerson St;... More
1933. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed in pencil on backing below image, titled in ink with photographer’s stamp, Czech Customs stamps, and printed Swiss and Hungarian exhibition labels, which include dates “1933” and “1935” on backing verso, 29.3 x 23.3cm. Minor silvering, laid down on original backing. Photographer’s stamp reads..... More
![Travels in Italy, Ostia [Rome], May/June. Alfred Eisenstaedt, German/Amer.](/pictures/thumb/CL191-89.JPG?v=1513996551)
1933. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, stamped caption in German with date, annotated “20” in pencil, copyright and photographer’s stamps verso, 23.5 x 17cm. Minor wear to edges. Stamps include “Private copy! Reproduction and use for advertising purposes forbidden” and “Copyright by Foto: Albert Eisenstaedt, Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Helmstedter Str. 31. Tel. H.G...... More
c1935. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled and signed in pencil in lower margin, 19 x 14.7cm. Minor silvering to image upper and lower centre. Myrdith Monogham became Mortensen’s second wife in 1933 and was one of his most frequent models. Ref: Pridemore, The Command to Look: The Nudes of William... More
c1935. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled in image upper right and centre left, signed in pencil in lower margin, 17.9 x 14.6cm. Stains to lower right corner of image and margin. Born in Utah, Mortensen began his photographic career taking portraits of Hollywood actors and film stills. He worked with... More
c1935/later printing. Silver gelatin photograph, titled in an unknown hand with numeric annotations in pencil verso, 24.5 x 17.8cm. Minor silvering, small chips to edges of margins. Variant image held by University of Illinois, noting the sculpture of Lincoln was by Leonard Volk (American, 1828-1895). In 1942 the Museum of... More
1937. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, photographer’s stamp, titled, signed and dated in pencil verso, 21.7 x 19.3cm. Minor silvering to image upper left. Stamp includes “Wolfgang Sievers Photographer, 52 Edward St, Sandringham, Tel: (03) 598 4602. Melb., Aust.” Held in AGNSW. This image was taken a year before Sievers left... More
![Promenade Des Anglais [Gambler]. Lisette Model, Amer.](/pictures/thumb/CL191-120.JPG?v=1513996378)
1937/later printing. Silver gelatin photograph, press print, annotated “Famous Gambler, Monte Carlo” and dated “1938” in an unknown hand in pencil verso, 24 x 19.2cm. Minor cracking and cockling to lower portion. Illustrated in Lisette Model, Aperture, New York, 1979, p10. Held in International Center for Photography, NY. More
![Harlem [Lady And Lamp]. Aaron Siskind, Amer.](/pictures/thumb/CL191-150.JPG?v=1513996406)
1940/later printing. Silver gelatin photograph, titled, dated “1940” and signed in pencil verso, 28.1 x 20.2cm. Minor crinkles to margins. In 1933 Aaron Siskind “joined the Film and Photo League in New York, a group of documentary photographers devoted to improving social conditions in contemporary society through their pictures. While... More
c1940s. Fifty-five (55) vintage silver gelatin photographs, some annotated or dated in pencil or ink or stamped “Internee, Camp Fayed Censor” verso, 8.1 x 10.7cm to 8.2 x 14.1cm. Minor handling creases, silvering or scuffing. Annotations in Italian include “Gruppo sportivo, Agosto 1944” and “Geneifa [POW Camp] – Febbraio 1944.”..... More
![[Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland, USA]. W. Eugene Smith, Amer.](/pictures/thumb/CL191-156.JPG?v=1513996410)
c1941. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, annotated “Baltimore, Life” in pencil in an unknown hand with photographer’s and “Photo-Library, Inc.” stamps verso, 26.8 x 31.5cm. Pinholes and creases to corners, minor stains to lower edge. Photographer’s stamp reads “Credit W. Eugene Smith, 105 West 72nd Street, New York City. Endicott 2-3259.”..... More
c1942. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled, annotated and negative number “I-CAL-352” in ink with photographer’s stamp on backing verso, 19.2 x 23.9cm. Retouched minor chips to edges of image, laid down on original backing. Stamp includes “Photograph by Ansel Adams for American Trust Company…Proof. Not to be used for reproduction..... More
1942/later printing. Silver gelatin photograph, press print, 22.9 x 18.1cm. Minor crinkles to upper centre. Cover illustration for Lisette Model, Aperture, New York, 1979. Held in International Center for Photography, NY. Known for the “frank humanism of her street photography” Austrian-born Lisette Model (Elise Amelie Felicie Stern) taught Diane Arbus... More
![[Cathedral Spire And Snow Covered Trees, Yosemite Valley]. Ansel Adams, American.](/pictures/thumb/CL191-42.JPG?v=1513996510)
c1943. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, photographer’s stamp verso, 16.5 x 10.2cm. Minor crease to upper right corner. Stamp reads “From Virginia and Ansel Adams, operating Best’s Studio, Inc., Yosemite National Park, California.” Best’s Studio in Yosemite Valley was established in 1902 by Harry and Anne Best, quickly becoming the social..... More
