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"Abramson comes much closer to recording the sound of these clubs than we would have any right to expect from a photographer." - Nick Hornby (London, 2009), Light On the South Side, ...

January 11, 1967: Top British pop group the Rolling Stones taking a stroll through London's Green Park, from left to right, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Brian Jones (1942 ...

Gelatin silver print Stamped and numbered, verso 14 x 11 inches, sheet (Edition of 15) 20 x 16 inches, sheet (Edition of 10) 24 x 20 inches, sheet (Edition of 10) From the series...

American photographer Burt Glinn's Stripper, Crazy Horse Saloon, Paris, 1956, is a 16" x 20" gelatin silver print, signed and authenticated by the Glinn estate. This photo offers an ...

A camera is a window through which a photographer interacts with the world, and it's up to the operator to decide whether his camera will be a barrier or a mirror between he and his subjects. In the 1970s, Michael Abramson chose the latter path when he brought his camera to Pepper's Hideout on Chicago's South Side. Following in the footsteps of his acknowledged influence Gyula Halász, a Hungarian photographer better known as Brassaï who became the pre-eminent chronicler of the Paris nightlife he loved so much, Abramson initiated himself into the nightlife of Chicago's predominantly black neighbourhoods. He was very much a part of the scene he documented on film, drinking, laughing, and dancing with his subjects into small hours and becoming as much a part of the atmosphere as the locals who frequented the same nightspots he did. - Joe Tangari (Numero Group, 2009) This series won Abramson a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1978 and launched his career as a photojournalist. Eventually the project resulted in a hardbound book, Light: On the South Side, including the Grammy and Mojo nominated album, featuring Chicago blues...

TECHNICAL INFORMATION Schiller, Lawrence Marilyn Monroe Birthday Cake 1962 / 2007 Silver Gelatin Print 30 x 40 in. Edition of 75 Signed & numbered ...

January 11, 1967: Top British pop group the Rolling Stones taking a stroll through London's Green Park, they are, from left to right, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Brian Jo...

Office Party, New York City, 1966 by Leonard Freed is a gelatin silver later print, 16 x 20, signed verso (on back) by the photographer. Freed enjoyed sto...

This is a gelatin silver lifetime print, 16" x 20", signed (verso) by the photographer, School Bus, New York City, 1954. The black-and-white photograph cap...

The photograph captures and translates the American South of the 1960s. Southern State, 1964 by Leonard Freed, is an 11” x 14” gelatin silver photograph from the photographer's Black...



"Chains of love" is in a series of portraits by Jan Saudek, depicting two figures – either male or female chained together. In this work, the two models...

City Prison, 1965 by American photographer Leonard Freed is a vintage gelatin silver, signed verso (back of photo) by the photographer. It is an iconic image from the photographer's ...