1950s | MONOVISIONS - Black & White Photography Magazine

1940s

Vintage: General Motors streetcar conspiracy

2 January 2022 0

Between 1938 and 1950, National City Lines and its subsidiaries, American City Lines and Pacific City Lines—with investment from GM, Firestone Tire, Standard Oil of California (through a subsidiary), Federal Engineering, Phillips Petroleum, and Mack Trucks—gained control of additional transit…

1940s

Vinatge: Portraits of Gloria Grahame (1940s-1950s)

14 December 2019 0

Gloria Grahame (1923 – 1981), known professionally as Gloria Grahame, was an American stage, film, and television actress and singer. She began her acting career in theatre and in 1944 made her first film for MGM. Despite a featured role…

1950s

Vintage: El Helicoide Construction (1950s)

8 December 2019 0

El Helicoide is built on a hill in Roca Tarpeya between the parishes of San Pedro and San Agustín, in the extension of the avenues Armed Forces, President Medina Angarita, and Nueva Granada. It has the shape of a three-sided…

1950s

Vintage: Marlon Brando as Mark Antony in ‘Julius Caesar’ (1953)

14 October 2019 0

Marlon Brando’s casting was met with some skepticism when it was announced, as he had acquired the nickname of “The Mumbler” following his performance in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz even considered Paul Scofield for the…

1950s

Vintage: Portraits of Zsa Zsa Gabor (1950s)

18 December 2017 0

Zsa Zsa Gabor died exactly 1 year ago at the age of 99 of cardiac arrest at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, on December 18, 2016. Gabor began her stage career in Vienna and was crowned Miss Hungary in 1936.…

1950s

Vintage: Queen Elizabeth II in Chicago (1959)

14 January 2017 0

The queen and her husband, Prince Philip, were on a 15,000-mile, 45-day tour along the seaway visiting all Canadian provinces, four of the Great Lakes and making a 14-hour stop in Chicago. This was their only American stop and was…

1950s

Vintage: City Life in Poland (1959) by Gerald Howson

16 October 2016 0

In 1959, Gerald Howson was sent to Poland by The Queen magazine. He was supposed to come back to England with photographs depicting the Cold War reality. This inconspicuous Englishman who did not speak any Polish packed two Leica cameras…

1950s

Vintage: Portraits of Paris Transsexuals by Christer Strömholm (1950s)

20 February 2016 0

Christer Strömholm (1918 – 2002) was a Swedish photographer and educator. He is known for his intimate black and white street photography portrait series. In the late 1950s and early 60s, he lived in Paris intermittently and it was there…

1950s

Behind the Scenes: Forbidden Planet (1956)

5 February 2016 0

Forbidden Planet (aka Fatal Planet) is a 1956 American science fiction film from MGM. Starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly, and Robby the Robot. Forbidden Planet is the first science fiction film in which humans…

1940s

Vintage: Classic Polish Films (1940s and 50s)

10 December 2015 0

After the horrors of the Nazi occupation and repressive postwar Soviet domination, Polish cinema suddenly took off in the mid-50s to become a major international force. Initially, it was Andrzej Wajda’s trilogy (1954-58) on wartime resistance that attracted attention. That…

1950s

Neofuturistic architecture of Eero Saarinen (1950s and 60s)

22 June 2015 0

Eero Saarinen was a Finnish American architect and industrial designer of the 20th century famous for shaping his neofuturistic style according to the demands of the project: simple, sweeping, arching structural curves or machine-like rationalism. Photographer Balthazar Korab worked for…

1950s

Street Scenes of Madrid and Barcelona in the 1950’s

19 February 2015 0

In 1948, Francesc Català-Roca began working independently as a photojournalist for magazines such as “Destino” and “Revista.” His work dealt with a variety of themes, from landscapes to cityscapes, from artistic documentation to ethnography. He is considered as one of…

1950s

Bohemian Life in Paris in 1950

4 February 2015 0

Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken was part of the scene in Paris at the time, and in 1956, he published a ground-breaking photobook called Love on the Left Bank. His gritty, sexy, black-and-white photos of bohemian life in Paris…

Recent Posts
- News
  Eric James Guillemain: Backstage Dreams: The Secret Door to Sets
  27 May 2025
  The first monograph by Eric James Guillemain, Backstage Dreams presents 200 works spanning 15 years of the photographer’s career. This…
- News
  The World of Sebastião Salgado
  20 May 2025
- 1800s
  Vintage: Historic B&W Photos of Victorian-era Isle of Wight, England
  11 May 2025
SPOTLIGHT
- Landscapes
  Biography: Pictorial photographer Leonard Misonne
  4 December 2015 0
  Leonard Misonne (1870 – 1943) was a Belgian photographer. Misonne was a master pictorialist photographer, whose atmospheric landscapes and street…
INFORMATION

Recent Posts

SPOTLIGHT

INFORMATION