Abstract Color Photography
ABSTRACT STYLE
Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.
Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.
Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.
Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.
Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.
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Style: Abstract
Arcana 15. Abstract color photograph
By Monika Bravo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Arcana 15, 2023 by Monika Bravo
From The Series Arcana
Archival digital print
Size: 19 in. H x 13 in. W
"Arcana" stems as a series of unique studies for an upcoming commissioned glass...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital
Alice - photograph of an underwater reflection - archival print 16 x 23"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
“Alice” is a part of Alex Sher’s popular series Reflections - underwater photographs that could be almost mistaken for abstract paintings as they bring up recollections of masterpiec...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Arcana 17. Abstract color photograph
By Monika Bravo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Arcana 17, 2023 by Monika Bravo
From The Series Arcana
Archival digital print
Size: 36 in. H x 24 in. W
"Arcana" stems as a series of unique studies for an upcoming commissioned glass...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Impression Photography Limited Signed
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Photography, limited to 5, signed by the author. Impression from a traveling journey, hope you like it.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Flowing 1 - Signed limited edition abstract pigment print, Large contemporary
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Flowing 1 - Large scale photograph by Michael Banks -Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo RAG Baryta 315 gsm )
Limited Editions of 5 , signed + numbered...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Di...
Tiger III : nature photography
Located in New York, NY
Roslyn Meyer’s lens plays on the surface of soft undulating ripples; reflecting sky, flora and fauna, as well as the man-made world. These abstract images...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tiger IV : nature photography
Located in New York, NY
Roslyn Meyer’s lens plays on the surface of soft undulating ripples; reflecting sky, flora and fauna, as well as the man-made world. These abstract images...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Space Field, Digital Iris Print Muse X Large Photograph on Heavy Paper
Located in Surfside, FL
These are from the 1990s printed at Muse X and never framed. they are unsigned and unnumbered but from a very small edition. they are quite beautiful.
Victor Raphael was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1950. He studied art and theater at California State University Northridge and graduated from UCLA. He has exhibited throughout the nation and abroad. In 1996, his work was among the 50 best examples of Polaroid photography included in Polaroid 50: Art and Technology, an international touring exhibition commemorating the company’s 50th anniversary. He works in a wide range of media spanning painting, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, and digital technology. He creates complex and beautiful images that expand conventional views of time and space. For the past three decades, Raphael has produced a unique body of work by merging traditional media such as painting, photography and printmaking with modern electronic media, including video, digital printing and interactive technologies. In addition to his central themes of the exploration of the cosmos and aspects of travel–through space or time–and their visual records, the artist has developed an important body of paintings, in which water, for instance, and its protean and timeless qualities, form an important part. His photography process of digitally manipulating NASA photographs of planets and other natural celestial phenomena into Polaroid prints, and next altering them by hand with metallic paints and gold and metal leaf.
Education: University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., 1973, Magna Cum Laude
California State University, Northridge, 1968-1970
SELECTED ONE AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, From Lead Into Gold
Oregon Jewish Museum, The Heavens Spread Out Like A Prayer Shawl
Skirball Cultural Center, Illuminated Reflections: A Bill Aron and Victor Raphael Collaboration.
Cypress College, Victor Raphael & Clayton Spada Collaboration: From Zero to Infinity
Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, Jean-Pierre Hebert & Victor Raphael: Illuminated Collaboration
Cypress College, Paris Polaroids: Art In The City Of Lights
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Victor Raphael: Envisioning Space
(20-year survey with catalogue)
Santa Monica College, Space Fields, Abstractions and Jackson Pollock 1980-1991 (catalogue)
Richard Green Gallery...
Category
1990s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Space Field, Digital Iris Print Muse X Large Photograph on Heavy Paper
Located in Surfside, FL
These are from the 1990s printed at Muse X and never framed. they are unsigned and unnumbered but from a very small edition. they are quite beautiful.
Victor Raphael was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1950. He studied art and theater at California State University Northridge and graduated from UCLA. He has exhibited throughout the nation and abroad. In 1996, his work was among the 50 best examples of Polaroid photography included in Polaroid 50: Art and Technology, an international touring exhibition commemorating the company’s 50th anniversary. He works in a wide range of media spanning painting, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, and digital technology. He creates complex and beautiful images that expand conventional views of time and space. For the past three decades, Raphael has produced a unique body of work by merging traditional media such as painting, photography and printmaking with modern electronic media, including video, digital printing and interactive technologies. In addition to his central themes of the exploration of the cosmos and aspects of travel–through space or time–and their visual records, the artist has developed an important body of paintings, in which water, for instance, and its protean and timeless qualities, form an important part. His photography process of digitally manipulating NASA photographs of planets and other natural celestial phenomena into Polaroid prints, and next altering them by hand with metallic paints and gold and metal leaf.
Education: University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., 1973, Magna Cum Laude
California State University, Northridge, 1968-1970
SELECTED ONE AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, From Lead Into Gold
Oregon Jewish Museum, The Heavens Spread Out Like A Prayer Shawl
Skirball Cultural Center, Illuminated Reflections: A Bill Aron and Victor Raphael Collaboration.
Cypress College, Victor Raphael & Clayton Spada Collaboration: From Zero to Infinity
Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, Jean-Pierre Hebert & Victor Raphael: Illuminated Collaboration
Cypress College, Paris Polaroids: Art In The City Of Lights
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Victor Raphael: Envisioning Space
(20-year survey with catalogue)
Santa Monica College, Space Fields, Abstractions and Jackson Pollock 1980-1991 (catalogue)
Richard Green Gallery...
Category
1990s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Space Field, Digital Iris Print Muse X Large Photograph on Heavy Paper
Located in Surfside, FL
These are from the 1990s printed at Muse X and never framed. they are unsigned and unnumbered but from a very small edition. they are quite beautiful.
Victor Raphael was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1950. He studied art and theater at California State University Northridge and graduated from UCLA. He has exhibited throughout the nation and abroad. In 1996, his work was among the 50 best examples of Polaroid photography included in Polaroid 50: Art and Technology, an international touring exhibition commemorating the company’s 50th anniversary. He works in a wide range of media spanning painting, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, and digital technology. He creates complex and beautiful images that expand conventional views of time and space. For the past three decades, Raphael has produced a unique body of work by merging traditional media such as painting, photography and printmaking with modern electronic media, including video, digital printing and interactive technologies. In addition to his central themes of the exploration of the cosmos and aspects of travel–through space or time–and their visual records, the artist has developed an important body of paintings, in which water, for instance, and its protean and timeless qualities, form an important part. His photography process of digitally manipulating NASA photographs of planets and other natural celestial phenomena into Polaroid prints, and next altering them by hand with metallic paints and gold and metal leaf.
Education: University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., 1973, Magna Cum Laude
California State University, Northridge, 1968-1970
SELECTED ONE AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, From Lead Into Gold
Oregon Jewish Museum, The Heavens Spread Out Like A Prayer Shawl
Skirball Cultural Center, Illuminated Reflections: A Bill Aron and Victor Raphael Collaboration.
Cypress College, Victor Raphael & Clayton Spada Collaboration: From Zero to Infinity
Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, Jean-Pierre Hebert & Victor Raphael: Illuminated Collaboration
Cypress College, Paris Polaroids: Art In The City Of Lights
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Victor Raphael: Envisioning Space
(20-year survey with catalogue)
Santa Monica College, Space Fields, Abstractions and Jackson Pollock 1980-1991 (catalogue)
Richard Green Gallery...
Category
1990s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Space Field, Digital Iris Print Muse X Large Photograph on Heavy Paper
Located in Surfside, FL
These are from the 1990s printed at Muse X and never framed. they are unsigned and unnumbered but from a very small edition. they are quite beautiful.
Victor Raphael was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1950. He studied art and theater at California State University Northridge and graduated from UCLA. He has exhibited throughout the nation and abroad. In 1996, his work was among the 50 best examples of Polaroid photography included in Polaroid 50: Art and Technology, an international touring exhibition commemorating the company’s 50th anniversary. He works in a wide range of media spanning painting, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, and digital technology. He creates complex and beautiful images that expand conventional views of time and space. For the past three decades, Raphael has produced a unique body of work by merging traditional media such as painting, photography and printmaking with modern electronic media, including video, digital printing and interactive technologies. In addition to his central themes of the exploration of the cosmos and aspects of travel–through space or time–and their visual records, the artist has developed an important body of paintings, in which water, for instance, and its protean and timeless qualities, form an important part. His photography process of digitally manipulating NASA photographs of planets and other natural celestial phenomena into Polaroid prints, and next altering them by hand with metallic paints and gold and metal leaf.
Education: University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., 1973, Magna Cum Laude
California State University, Northridge, 1968-1970
SELECTED ONE AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, From Lead Into Gold
Oregon Jewish Museum, The Heavens Spread Out Like A Prayer Shawl
Skirball Cultural Center, Illuminated Reflections: A Bill Aron and Victor Raphael Collaboration.
Cypress College, Victor Raphael & Clayton Spada Collaboration: From Zero to Infinity
Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, Jean-Pierre Hebert & Victor Raphael: Illuminated Collaboration
Cypress College, Paris Polaroids: Art In The City Of Lights
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Victor Raphael: Envisioning Space
(20-year survey with catalogue)
Santa Monica College, Space Fields, Abstractions and Jackson Pollock 1980-1991 (catalogue)
Richard Green Gallery...
Category
1990s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Tulips. 2004, photography, 44x29 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Tulips. 2004, photography, ice/sun/water, 44x29 cm
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Eden. 2004, photography, 44x29 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Eden. 2004, photography, ice/sun/water, 44x29 cm
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Spring. 2004, photography, 44x29 сm
Located in Riga, LV
Spring. 2004, photography, 44x29 сm
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Willowherb. 2004, photography, 81x51 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Willowherb. 2004, photography, ice/sun/water, 81x51 cm
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Space Field, Digital Iris Print Muse X Large Photograph on Heavy Paper
Located in Surfside, FL
These are from the 1990s printed at Muse X and never framed. they are unsigned and unnumbered but from a very small edition. they are quite beautiful.
Victor Raphael was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1950. He studied art and theater at California State University Northridge and graduated from UCLA. He has exhibited throughout the nation and abroad. In 1996, his work was among the 50 best examples of Polaroid photography included in Polaroid 50: Art and Technology, an international touring exhibition commemorating the company’s 50th anniversary. He works in a wide range of media spanning painting, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, and digital technology. He creates complex and beautiful images that expand conventional views of time and space. For the past three decades, Raphael has produced a unique body of work by merging traditional media such as painting, photography and printmaking with modern electronic media, including video, digital printing and interactive technologies. In addition to his central themes of the exploration of the cosmos and aspects of travel–through space or time–and their visual records, the artist has developed an important body of paintings, in which water, for instance, and its protean and timeless qualities, form an important part. His photography process of digitally manipulating NASA photographs of planets and other natural celestial phenomena into Polaroid prints, and next altering them by hand with metallic paints and gold and metal leaf.
Education: University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., 1973, Magna Cum Laude
California State University, Northridge, 1968-1970
SELECTED ONE AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, From Lead Into Gold
Oregon Jewish Museum, The Heavens Spread Out Like A Prayer Shawl
Skirball Cultural Center, Illuminated Reflections: A Bill Aron and Victor Raphael Collaboration.
Cypress College, Victor Raphael & Clayton Spada Collaboration: From Zero to Infinity
Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, Jean-Pierre Hebert & Victor Raphael: Illuminated Collaboration
Cypress College, Paris Polaroids: Art In The City Of Lights
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Victor Raphael: Envisioning Space
(20-year survey with catalogue)
Santa Monica College, Space Fields, Abstractions and Jackson Pollock 1980-1991 (catalogue)
Richard Green Gallery...
Category
1990s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Psalm. 2005, photography, 44 x 54, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Psalm. 2005, photography (ice/sun/water), 44x54,5 cm
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The search - Signed limited edition still life pigment print, Contemporary
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
The search - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, Edition of 3
Signed + numbered by artist with certificate of authenticity , unframed
This is an Archival Pigment print on...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pig...
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract#10 (panorama)
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has been drawn to themes of urban destruction and reconstruction and to landscapes evidencing trauma. These concerns merged in his ambitious series W.T.C: Concrete Abstract, which explores the impact of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. For more than a decade, Kremer made periodic visits to Ground Zero, focusing his camera on the efforts towards recovery, repair, and renewal. As a collection, Concrete Abstract conveys the gradual progression from tragedy towards healing.
Each large-scale archival pigment print in the series is composed from as many as sixty to 100 overlapping images, resulting in a subtle collage that invites closer inspection while also reading as a unified whole.
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract series was shown in the following venues:
9.11 Memorial Museum New York
Museum of the City of New York
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Brooklyn Academy of Music
Photolux Festival. Lucca, Italy
FMoPa. Tampa, USA
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Robert Koch Gallery...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract#11
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has been drawn to themes of urban destruction and reconstruction and to landscapes evidencing trauma. These concerns merged in his ambitious series W.T.C: Concrete Abstract, which explores the impact of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. For more than a decade, Kremer made periodic visits to Ground Zero, focusing his camera on the efforts towards recovery, repair, and renewal. As a collection, Concrete Abstract conveys the gradual progression from tragedy towards healing.
Each large-scale archival pigment print in the series is composed from as many as sixty to 100 overlapping images, resulting in a subtle collage that invites closer inspection while also reading as a unified whole.
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract series was shown in the following venues:
9.11 Memorial Museum New York
Museum of the City of New York
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Brooklyn Academy of Music
Photolux Festival. Lucca, Italy
FMoPa. Tampa, USA
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Robert Koch Gallery...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract#14
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has been drawn to themes of urban destruction and reconstruction and to landscapes evidencing trauma. These concerns merged in his ambitious series W.T.C: Concrete Abstract, which explores the impact of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. For more than a decade, Kremer made periodic visits to Ground Zero, focusing his camera on the efforts towards recovery, repair, and renewal. As a collection, Concrete Abstract conveys the gradual progression from tragedy towards healing.
Each large-scale archival pigment print in the series is composed from as many as sixty to 100 overlapping images, resulting in a subtle collage that invites closer inspection while also reading as a unified whole.
9/11 Memorial & Museum W.T.C: Concrete Abstract series was shown in the following venues:
9.11 Memorial Museum New York
Museum of the City of New York
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Brooklyn Academy of Music
Photolux Festival. Lucca, Italy
FMoPa. Tampa, USA
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Robert Koch Gallery...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract#12
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has been drawn to themes of urban destruction and reconstruction and to landscapes evidencing trauma. These concerns merged in his ambitious series W.T.C: Concrete Abstract, which explores the impact of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. For more than a decade, Kremer made periodic visits to Ground Zero, focusing his camera on the efforts towards recovery, repair, and renewal. As a collection, Concrete Abstract conveys the gradual progression from tragedy towards healing.
Each large-scale archival pigment print in the series is composed from as many as sixty to 100 overlapping images, resulting in a subtle collage that invites closer inspection while also reading as a unified whole.
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract series was shown in the following venues:
9.11 Memorial Museum New York
Museum of the City of New York
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Brooklyn Academy of Music
Photolux Festival. Lucca, Italy
FMoPa. Tampa, USA
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Robert Koch Gallery...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract#13
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has been drawn to themes of urban destruction and reconstruction and to landscapes evidencing trauma. These concerns merged in his ambitious series W.T.C: Concrete Abstract, which explores the impact of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. For more than a decade, Kremer made periodic visits to Ground Zero, focusing his camera on the efforts towards recovery, repair, and renewal. As a collection, Concrete Abstract conveys the gradual progression from tragedy towards healing.
Each large-scale archival pigment print in the series is composed from as many as sixty to 100 overlapping images, resulting in a subtle collage that invites closer inspection while also reading as a unified whole.
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract series was shown in the following venues:
9.11 Memorial Museum New York
Museum of the City of New York
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Brooklyn Academy of Music
Photolux Festival. Lucca, Italy
FMoPa. Tampa, USA
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Robert Koch Gallery...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Vintage Large Format Abstract Unique Color Photo Polaroid Photograph Ellen Carey
By Ellen Carey
Located in Surfside, FL
Untitled, Unique photograph. Center panel from larger scale installation. Shot in the 20X24 format. (this measures about 20X20 inches)
Ellen Carey, American artist and photographer.
Ellen Carey resides in Hartford, Connecticut, and teaches at the Hartford Art School. She holds a B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri, and an M.F.A. from State University of New York at Buffalo. Her photographs have been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums, including the International Center for Photography, New York and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has received many grants from her home state of Connecticut as well as the Massachusetts Council of the Arts, New Works Grant, New York State Federation for Artists Grant; and a National Endowment for the Arts Award. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; the Baltimore Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum of Arts; Chase Manhattan Bank; Coca Cola Corporation; Fogg Art Museum; George Eastman House; International Center for Photography; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others.
Abstract photography, sometimes called non-objective, experimental, conceptual or concrete photography, is a means of depicting a visual image that does not have an immediate association with the object world and that has been created through the use of photographic equipment, processes or materials. Some photographers pushed the boundaries of conventional imagery by incorporating the visions of surrealism or futurism into their work. Man Ray, Maurice Tabard, André Kertész, Curtis Moffat and Filippo Masoero were some of the best known artists who produced startling imagery that questioned both reality and perspective.
Both during and after World War II photographers such as Minor White, Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith and Lotte Jacobi explored compositions of found objects in ways that demonstrated even our natural world has elements of abstraction embedded in it. Beginning in the late 1970s photographers stretched the limits of both scale and surface in what was then traditional photographic media that had to be developed in a darkroom. Inspired by the work of Moholy-Nagy, Susan Rankaitis first began embedding found images from scientific textbooks into large-scale photograms. By the 1990s a new wave of photographers were exploring the possibilities of using computers to create new ways of creating photographs. Photographers such as Thomas Ruff, Barbara Kasten, Tom Friedman, and Carel Balth were creating works that combined photography, sculpture, printmaking and computer-generated images.
Any boundaries that remained between pure artists and pure photographers were eliminated by individuals who worked exclusively in photography but produced only computer-generated images. Among the most well-known of the early 21st century generation were Gaston Bertin...
Category
1980s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Polaroid
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract#9
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Israel-born photographer Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has been drawn to themes of urban destruction and reconstruction and to landscapes evidencing trauma. These concerns merged in his ambitious series W.T.C: Concrete Abstract, which explores the impact of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. For more than a decade, Kremer made periodic visits to Ground Zero, focusing his camera on the efforts towards recovery, repair, and renewal. As a collection, Concrete Abstract conveys the gradual progression from tragedy towards healing.
Each large-scale archival pigment print in the series is composed from as many as sixty to 100 overlapping images, resulting in a subtle collage that invites closer inspection while also reading as a unified whole.
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract series was shown in the following venues:
9.11 Memorial Museum New York
Museum of the City of New York
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Brooklyn Academy of Music
Photolux Festival. Lucca, Italy
FMoPa. Tampa, USA
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Robert Koch Gallery...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract #6
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract #6 is at the collection of Israel Museum Jerusalem.
Israel-born photographer Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the Sc...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract #5
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Israel-born photographer Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has been drawn to themes of urban destruction and reconstruction and to landscapes evidencing trauma. These concerns merged in his ambitious series W.T.C: Concrete Abstract, which explores the impact of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. For more than a decade, Kremer made periodic visits to Ground Zero, focusing his camera on the efforts towards recovery, repair, and renewal. As a collection, Concrete Abstract conveys the gradual progression from tragedy towards healing.
Each large-scale archival pigment print in the series is composed from as many as sixty to 100 overlapping images, resulting in a subtle collage that invites closer inspection while also reading as a unified whole.
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract series was shown in the following venues:
9.11 Memorial Museum New York
Museum of the City of New York
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Brooklyn Academy of Music
Photolux Festival. Lucca, Italy
FMoPa. Tampa, USA
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Robert Koch Gallery...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract #8 (Triptych)
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Israel-born photographer Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has been drawn to themes of urban destruction and reconstruction and to landscapes evidencing trauma. These concerns merged in his ambitious series W.T.C: Concrete Abstract, which explores the impact of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. For more than a decade, Kremer made periodic visits to Ground Zero, focusing his camera on the efforts towards recovery, repair, and renewal. As a collection, Concrete Abstract conveys the gradual progression from tragedy towards healing.
Each large-scale archival pigment print in the series is composed from as many as sixty to 100 overlapping images, resulting in a subtle collage that invites closer inspection while also reading as a unified whole.
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract series was shown in the following venues:
9.11 Memorial Museum New York
Museum of the City of New York
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Brooklyn Academy of Music
Photolux Festival. Lucca, Italy
FMoPa. Tampa, USA
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Robert Koch Gallery...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract #7
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Israel-born photographer Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has been drawn to themes of urban destruction and reconstruction and to landscapes evidencing trauma. These concerns merged in his ambitious series W.T.C: Concrete Abstract, which explores the impact of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. For more than a decade, Kremer made periodic visits to Ground Zero, focusing his camera on the efforts towards recovery, repair, and renewal. As a collection, Concrete Abstract conveys the gradual progression from tragedy towards healing.
Each large-scale archival pigment print in the series is composed from as many as sixty to 100 overlapping images, resulting in a subtle collage that invites closer inspection while also reading as a unified whole.
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract series was shown in the following venues:
9.11 Memorial Museum New York
Museum of the City of New York
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Brooklyn Academy of Music
Photolux Festival. Lucca, Italy
FMoPa. Tampa, USA
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Robert Koch Gallery...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Water's Edge
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Edition 2/15
Archival pigment print
“Water’s Edge” a collection of photos by Marian Crostic defines the power of the ocean
and the land which borders it. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Chris Pine - Seen leaving his gym after a workout in Los Angeles, 10/8/20
Located in Atlanta, GA
This largescale work features hues of blue, green, purple and yellow.
This photograph is an archival inkjet print, mounted to Sintra and face mounted to polished acrylic, edition 1 ...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract #4
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Israel-born photographer Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has bee...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract #2
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Israel-born photographer Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has bee...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Poipu
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Edition 6/15
Archival pigment print
“Water’s Edge” a collection of photos by Marian Crostic defines the power of the ocean
and the land which borders it. Having spent much of her l...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
W.T.C: Concrete Abstract #3
By Shai Kremer
Located in New York, NY
Israel-born photographer Shai Kremer lives and works in New York. He completed his MFA studies at the School of Visual Arts (S.V.A) in Manhattan.
For many years, Kremer's eye has bee...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mandala 8A, From the Mandalas series. Color Photographs
By Emma Anna
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Mandala 8A by Emma Anna
From The Mandalas Series
Archival pigment print on Photo Rag 308gsm
Image size: 19.5 H x 19.5 W inches
Sheet size: 22 H x 22 W inches
Frame size: 24.5 H x 24...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Emily Ratajkowski & Sebastian Bear-McClard - walking Colombo in NYC 3/7/21
Located in Atlanta, GA
This work features hues of blue, green, purple and yellow.
This photograph is an archival inkjet print, mounted to Sintra and face mounted to polished acrylic, edition 1 of 1. Frame...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Window - Polaroid colour photography of window in London, Limited edition of 20
Located in London, GB
'Window'
Detail of Christ Church by architect John Peter Darvall.
2023
Printed on 30 x 30cm Hahnemühle Photo Rag fine art paper.
Photograph is signed front and back and comes wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Film, Photographic Film, Color, Giclée, Polaroid
1/THE MAGICIAN, From The Tarot of The Golden Scissors Series
By Emma Anna
Located in Miami Beach, FL
1/THE MAGICIAN, 2014 by Emma Anna
From The Tarot of The Golden Scissors Series
Archival pigment print on Photo Rag 308gsm
Image size: 15 H x 10.5 W inches
Sheet size: 16.5 H x 12 W i...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Anya Taylor-Joy - Out in Los Angeles - 2/26/21 - abstract photography, celebrity
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece features hues of red, pink and and blue.
This photograph is an archival inkjet print, mounted to Sintra and face mounted to polished acrylic, edition 1 of 1. Framed in a ...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jelly Fish - Contemporary, Expired, Polaroid, Photograph, Abstract, Ryan Gosling
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Henry and the Jelly Fish'(Stay) with Ryan Gosling - 2006
48x46cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and certificate.
Ar...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Blue 1 - Signed limited edition abstract pigment print, Large Contemporary
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Blue 1 - Limited Editions of 5 , signed + numbered by artist, with certificate of authenticity
Large scale photograph by Michael Banks - Archival Pigment print on fiber based pap...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Di...
Interior - Signed limited edition still life pigment print, Contemporary, Brown
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Interior - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, Edition of 3
Signed + numbered by artist with certificate of authenticity , unframed
This is an Archival Pigment print on f...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pig...
The Sun, Golden Colors, Warm Tones Diptych, Space Age, Abstract Geometry Hue
Located in Barcelona, ES
Cyd Fontaine (Lausanne, 1992) is a contemporary artist renowned for her captivating use of dreamy atmospheric gradients, which has helped her carve a distinctive niche in the world o...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital, G...
Window No.2 - Polaroid colour photography of window, Limited edition of 20
Located in London, GB
'Window no.2'
Detail of Christ Church by architect John Peter Darvall.
2023
Printed on 30 x 30cm Hahnemühle Photo Rag fine art paper.
Photograph is signed front and back and com...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Film, Photographic Film, Color, Giclée, Polaroid
Kate Beckinsale departing Demi Lovato’s birthday party, West Hollywood, CA
Located in Atlanta, GA
This work features hues of blue, orange, purple and yellow.
This photograph is an archival inkjet print, mounted to Sintra and face mounted to polished acrylic, edition 1 of 1. Fram...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Window - Polaroid colour photography of window in London, Limited edition of 20
Located in London, GB
'Window'
Detail of Christ Church by architect John Peter Darvall.
2023
Printed on 30 x 30cm Hahnemühle Photo Rag fine art paper.
Photograph is signed front and back and comes wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Polaroid, Giclée, Color, Film
Amber Heard takes a break from isolation to walk Birdie with Bianca Butti in LA
Located in Atlanta, GA
This work features hues of pink, purple, green and yellow.
This photograph is an archival inkjet print, mounted to Sintra and face mounted to polished acrylic, edition 1 of 1. Frame...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Amanda Seyfried at a Fedex in Kinko's in West Hollywood 1/2/20 - abstract
Located in Atlanta, GA
This work features hues of pink, purple, green and yellow.
This photograph is an archival inkjet print, mounted to Sintra and face mounted to polished acrylic, edition 1 of 1. Frame...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Abby Champion & Patrick Schwarzenegger - Out for lunch at Kreation, 10/29/20 III
Located in Atlanta, GA
This work features hues of pink, purple, green and yellow.
This photograph is an archival inkjet print, mounted to Sintra and face mounted to polished acrylic, edition 1 of 1. Frame...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lychen (Nr. 2/1) - Contemporary Abstract Photography
Located in Wien, Wien
Regina Hügli
Lychen (Nr. 2/1)
2023
Photogram, framed behind glas
52 x 42 cm (30 x 24 cm)
Unique
For quite some time now, the photo artist Regina Hügli has occupied herself with wate...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photogram
Lychen (Nr. 1/1) - Contemporary Abstract Photography
Located in Wien, Wien
Regina Hügli
Lychen (Nr. 1/1)
2023
Photogram, framed behind glas
52 x 42 cm (40 x 30 cm)
Unique
For quite some time now, the photo artist Regina Hügli has occupied herself with wate...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photogram
Lychen (Nr. 3/1) - Contemporary Abstract Photography
Located in Wien, Wien
Regina Hügli
Lychen (Nr. 3/1)
2023
Photogram, framed behind glas
52 x 42 cm (24 x 17 cm)
Unique
For quite some time now, the photo artist Regina Hügli has occupied herself with wate...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photogram
Lychen (Nr. 4/1) - Contemporary Abstract Photography
Located in Wien, Wien
Regina Hügli
Lychen (Nr. 4/1)
2023
Photogram, framed behind glas
42 x 52 cm (30 x 40 cm)
Unique
For quite some time now, the photo artist Regina Hügli has occupied herself with wate...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photogram
Lychen (Nr. 5/1) - Contemporary Abstract Photography
Located in Wien, Wien
Regina Hügli
Lychen (Nr. 5/1)
2023
Photogram, framed behind glas
32 x 26 cm (24 x 17 cm)
Unique
For quite some time now, the photo artist Regina Hügli has occupied herself with wate...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Photogram
Future city 1-Signed limited edition abstract print, Large format contemporary
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
' Future city 1 ' - Limited edition pigment print - Limited Editions of 5
Signed + numbered by artist, with certificate of authenticity
This is an Archival Pigment print on fibe...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
All American Favorites: Husky Dogs and Clint Eastwood in Times Square
Located in Miami, FL
Assisted by the right angle and right light, Street Photographer Mitchell Funk designs an image of Times Square Billboards that is as abstract as it is representational. Two huskies ...
Category
2010s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Ultramarine hills - abstract blue desert dunes, Limited edition 10 of 20
Located in London, GB
'Ultramarine hills' Ultramarine hills was photographed in Iran, 2016 with a combination of the special ultramarine colour filter. The idea of colour combination together with Iranian...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Abstract color photography for sale on 1stDibs.
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