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Unidentified photographer / artist, 1955, Book spine for Helmut and Alison Gernsheim "the history of photography 1685-1914" (Oxford University Press, 1955), Book spine, Carl Mautz Vintage Photographs, LL/35174
Kodak (artwork and design) Gary Dineen (photograph), 1955, It's snapshot time - Get Kodak film here (USA Full-size Kodak Girl), Advertising cut-out, Gary Dineen / East Edge Gallery, LL/121706
Paul Fréderic Alphonse Julien (1901-2001), 1955, Ethiopia, Kodachrome slide, Nederlands Fotomuseum, LL/91957
Paul Fréderic Alphonse Julien (1901-2001), 1955, Ethiopia, Kodachrome slide, Nederlands Fotomuseum, LL/91958
Paul Fréderic Alphonse Julien (1901-2001), 1955, [Loading pack animals, south western Ethiopia], Black and white negative, Nederlands Fotomuseum, LL/94103
Slim Aarons, 1955, Mrs F C Winston Guest (aka Cee Zee Guest) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of their Grecian temple pool on the ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, Palm Beach, Staley+Wise Gallery, LL/5665
Unidentified photographer, 1955, African American boy in prison, State Training and Agricultural School for Colored Boys
Pikeville, Tennessee, Gelatin silver print, La Bonne Vivante, LL/34247
Unidentified photographer, 1955, African American boy in prison, State Training and Agricultural School for Colored Boys
Pikeville, Tennessee, Gelatin silver print, La Bonne Vivante, LL/34248
Unidentified photographer, 1955, Retouching a photograph, Photograph, FOTO:Fortepan, LL/83105
Unidentified photographer, 1955, A child, Colour photograph, FOTO:Fortepan, LL/83106
Unidentified photographer, 1955, A cobbled street [Hungary], Photograph, FOTO:Fortepan, LL/83107
Unidentified photographer, 1955, Outside the Károly (Council) Circuit 21, the branch of the Hungarian Photo State Enterprise, Budapest, Hungary, Photograph, FOTO:Fortepan, LL/83109
Unidentified photographer, 1955, Western Railway Station from Ferdinand (Élmunkás) Bridge, Budapest, Hungary, Photograph, FOTO:Fortepan, LL/83110
Allen Ginsberg, 1955 (taken) 1989 (print), Bob Donlin, Neal Cassady, myself, painter Robert LaVigne and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti in front of his City Lights Bookshop, Broadway and Columbus, North Beach, San Francisco, Gelatin silver print, Swann Galleries - New York, LL/74136
Chim, 1955 (taken) 2007 (publication), Bernhard Berenson, American art collector of Lithuanian origin, looking at Pauline Borghese by Antonio Canova, Borghese Gallery, Rome, Italy; 1955, [Magnum Founders], Platinum print, bound into a book, Verso Limited Editions, LL/28608
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1955, Book cover for Helmut and Alison Gernsheim "the history of photography 1685-1914" (Oxford University Press, 1955), Book cover, back, Carl Mautz Vintage Photographs, LL/35176
Unidentified photographer / artist, 1955, Book cover for Helmut and Alison Gernsheim "the history of photography 1685-1914" (Oxford University Press, 1955), Book cover, front, Carl Mautz Vintage Photographs, LL/35175
1955, Book cover for Bertolt Brecht, 1955, Kriegsfibel, (Berlin: Eulenspiegel Verlag - Verlag für Satire and Humor), Book cover, Internet - Original source ill-defined, LL/64514
Andreas Feininger, 1955, Book cover for Andreas Feininger "Changing America. The Land As It Was And How Man Has Changed It." (New York: Crown Publishers, 1955), Book cover, Ader Nordmann, LL/43377
Carl Strüwe, 1955, Book cover for Carl Strüwe, "Formen des Mikrokosmos. Gestalt und Gestaltung einer Bilderwelt" (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1955), Book cover, Soler y LLach, LL/48059
George Rodger, 1955, Book cover for "Le Village des-Noubas" by (Ed. Delpire, Paris), Book cover, Source requested, LL/6794
Gilbert Champenois (b. 1928), 1955, Book cover for Otto Steinert, 1955, Subjektive Fotografie 2, (Munich), Book cover, Bassenge Photography Auctions, LL/70671
Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1955, Book cover for Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1955, The People of Moscow, (London: Thames and Hudson), Book cover, Ader Nordmann, LL/55840
Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1955, Book cover for Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1955, The people of Moscow as seen and photographed by Henri Cartier-Bresson, (New York: Simon and Schuster), Book cover, Ader Nordmann, LL/55842
Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1955, Book cover for Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1955, Moscou, vu par Henri Cartier-Bresson, (Robert Delpire éditeur, Collection Neuf), Book cover, Ader Nordmann, LL/55838
Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1955, Book cover for Henri Cartier-Bresson, Moscou, vu par Henri Cartier-Bresson, (Robert Delpire éditeur, Collection Neuf, 1955), Book cover, Ader Nordmann, LL/51786
Izis, 1955, Book cover for Izis, Israël, (Éditions Clairefontaine, 1955), Book cover, Ader Nordmann, LL/51789
Jean-Pierre Sudre, 1955, Book cover for Jean-Pierre Sudre, 1955, Philips: Au service de l'économie française, (Pas: S. A. Philips - Draeger Frères Imprimeur), Book cover, Ader Nordmann, LL/53701
Robert Doisneau, 1955, Book cover for "Robert Doisneau: Paris und die Pariser" (Hamburg: Christian Wegner Verlag, 1955), Book cover, Private collection, LL/16555
Robert Doisneau, 1955, Book cover for Robert Doisneau, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, (Lausanne: Clairefontaine, 1955), Book cover, Ader Nordmann, LL/51801
Robert Doisneau, 1955, Book cover for Robert Doisneau, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, (Lausanne: La Guilde du Livre, 1955), Book cover, Ader Nordmann, LL/51800
Roy DeCarava, 1955, Book cover for Roy DeCarava "The Sweet Flypaper of Life" Story by Langston Hughes. (New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1955), Book cover, Swann Galleries - New York, LL/28618