Photographers from Royal Books, Inc.

N.p.: N.p., 1986. Vintage borderless color photograph of Patti Smith in 1977, taken by Lynn Goldsmith for the iconic "Easter" photoshoot, and struck circa 1986 for a showing of Goldsmith's work at The Rencontres d'Arles. Mimeo snipe in French affixed to the verso. Born in Detroit, Lynn Goldsmith has worked variously as a band manager, musician, film director,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Los Angeles: Michael Kohn Gallery, 2009. Vintage gatefold flyer for the 2009 exhibition, featuring posthumous work by Wallace Berman alongside contemporary work by Richard Prince. Conceived by writer and curator Kristine McKenna, and held at the Michael Kohn Gallery in in Los Angeles, January 15 through March 7, 2009. 8.5 x 5.5 to 17 x 5.5 inches. Near… Saber más sobre este artículo

New Orleans: Herman Leonard, 1990. Two vintage borderless oversize photographs of bebop and hard bop jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt, taken in New York in 1953 and struck by legendary jazz photographer Herman Leonard circa mid-1990s. One photograph titled and signed by Leonard along the bottom edge. The other photograph, used by Leonard in publications, bears two photographer labels on… Saber más sobre este artículo

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1930. Vintage publicity photograph of actress Norma Shearer, circa 1930s. Mimeo snipe on the verso. An early silent actress for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Shearer was one of the few actresses whose career survived both the transition to talkies at the end of the 1920s as well as the transition to Hayes Code-approved films in… Saber más sobre este artículo

N.p.: N.p., 1950. Collection of nine vintage oversize photographs taken at the Music Inn of Stockbridge, Massachusetts in the 1950s. Each photograph SIGNED by photographer Clemens Kalischer on the verso. Included are stunning photographs of Max Roach, Ornette Coleman, Mahalia Jackson, Count Basie, Gunther Schuller, Dave Brubeck, Chuck Israels, Mona Neves, and Ran Blake. Founded in 1950 by… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Vandamm Studio, 1930. Vintage portrait photograph of actor Otto Kruger by the photography team of Florence and Tommy Vandamm [Vandamm Studio], circa 1930. Photograph with a blind "Vandamm / New York" stamp on the bottom left of the recto, and a "Vandamm Studio" stamp on the verso, and a label on the verso announcing Kruger in the… Saber más sobre este artículo

N.p.: N.p., 1980. Archive of seven vintage jumbo oversize photographs taken by noted fashion photographer Ara Gallant, with Gallant's copyright stamps on the versos, circa 1970s - 1980s. Archive includes three photographs of Jack Nicholson, two black and white and one color, one black-and-white photograph of Angelica Huston, one color photograph of Ingrid Boulting, one black-and-white photograph of Veruschka… Saber más sobre este artículo

N.p.: N.p., 1924. Vintage double weight portrait photograph of character actor Tully Marshall, circa 1924. Insignia of photographer Roman Freulich from the negative at the bottom right corner of the recto. Prolific Polish-born Hollywood photographer Roman Freulich worked as a still photographer at Universal (where his brother Jack also worked) from the mid-1920s until 1944, when he… Saber más sobre este artículo

N.p.: N.p., 1928. Vintage borderless portrait photograph of Mary Craig Sinclair, wife of Upton Sinclair, circa 1928. Insignia of photographer William Henry Cunningham Odiorne from the negative at the bottom right corner of the recto. William Henry Cunningham "Cicero" Odiorne was a fashion and portrait photographer who frequented artistic and literary circles in both New Orleans and… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Antony Roger, 1930. Two photographs of Freda Falconer by photographer Antony Roger [Antony Beauchamp] [Antony Roger Beauchamp Entwistle], both signed by the photographer in the lower margin in manuscript graphite and red pencil, each with Roger's photography stamp on the verso, circa 1930s. Antony Roger Beauchamp Entwistle was a British photographer and a noted portraitist of Hollywood's… Saber más sobre este artículo

Baltimore: N.p., 1934. Vintage black and white photograph of the 1934 graduating class of George Washington Carver Vocational-Technical High School in Baltimore, MD. With a credit for photographer Paul Henderson at the bottom center of the photograph. The school was the first African American vocational-technical public high school in the state of Maryland, established in 1925. … Saber más sobre este artículo

Baltimore: N.p., 1940. Vintage black and white photograph of a group of Sunday school students and teachers posing in front of Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church at 1210 West Lanvale Street in Baltimore. Blind stamp of photographer Paul Henderson to the bottom right corner. Circa 1940s. Built by free Black Baltimorean Truman Pratt and his congregation over the course… Saber más sobre este artículo

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1930. Vintage borderless double weight matte-finish photograph of actress Marlene Dietrich. With the stamp of Paramount Pictures on the verso, noting the name of photographer Eugene Robert Richee. Dietrich gained immediate international stardom and a contract with Paramount on the strength of her performance as the temptress Lola in Josef von Sternberg's classic… Saber más sobre este artículo

N.p.: John Margolies, 1991. Archive of ten vintage oversize photographs of drive-in theaters across America, taken variously between 1977 and 1982. Three photographs struck in 1981 and seven photographs struck in 1991. All photographs signed by the photographer on the verso, identifying name, date, and location. States represented in the archive are Texas, Virginia, Ohio, California, Washington,… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Fred Plaut, 1955. Three vintage borderless double weight photographs of author Truman Capote and Colombia Records vice president Goddard Lieberson, taken by Columbia Records recording engineer and photographer Fred Plaut, with Plaut's photographer stamp on the versos, circa 1953-1955. In 1953 Capote made his first spoken word recording for the 1953 "Columbia Literary Series," a twelve… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Pictorial Press, 1956. Vintage borderless reference photograph of photographer Cecil Beaton standing over Marilyn Monroe, arranging a long-stemmed rose next to her face. Printed labels of Pictorial Press affixed to the verso. Beaton photographed Monroe at his suite at the Ambassador Hotel in New York in February 1956. The actress purportedly showed up nearly 90 minutes… Saber más sobre este artículo

N.p.: N.p., 1954. Original photograph of Bettie Page, nude on the beach, shot in 1954. Stamp of photographer Bunny Yeager on the verso. Bunny Yeager was one of the first pinup photographers to work outdoors, in natural light, and subsequently became one of the most successful and prolific pinup photographers of the 1950s and 1960s. Yeager photographed a… Saber más sobre este artículo

Manchester: Factory Records, 1988. First Edition. FAC 235. First Edition. Issued privately by The Hacienda Club in Manchester to friends of the establishment, as their 1988 Christmas gift. Flip-book (or "manual video") illustrated by avant-garde filmmaker and conceptualist Robert Breer and photographer Wiliam Wegman, bound such that the book slants to the left to enable easy flipping. The brightly… Saber más sobre este artículo

N.p.: N.p., 1991. Collection of nine vintage photographs of drive-in theaters in the Charlotte, North Carolina area, 1978-1991. Two photographs with photographer "Steve Perille" and "Jul 10, 1978" stamps on the versos, one with a newspaper caption clipping affixed to the verso with an "Apr 14 1986" stamp. One with a "Charlotte News Photo by Elmer Horton / Apri… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: LIFE Magazine, 1968. Vintage double-weight photograph of crowds along the campaign route waving to Robert Kennedy in June 1968. Kennedy would be assassinated on June 5, 1968 during his address to his supporters at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, after his win had been announced in the California primary on June 4. Photographer Bill… Saber más sobre este artículo