Contemporary Figurative Photography
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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Style: Contemporary
Artist: Stefanie Schneider
Maiden Dance (Chicks and Chicks)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Maiden Dance' (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks)
Edition 5/10, 20x20cm, 2017
Based on a Polaroid
not mounted, Artist inventory 20216.05
The 'Chicks and Chicks' series is part...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Polaroid
Sunset (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sunset (Till Death do us Part)
90x112cm, Edition 1/5, 2005
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid.
Artist Inventory No. 9493.01.
Mounted on Aluminum with...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
Daisy in front of Trailer (Till Death do Us Part ) 48x47cm, + Soundtrack LP
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Daisy in front of Trailer (Till Death do Us Part) - 2005
Edition 4/5,
48 x 47 cm.
Analog C-Print, printed on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Artist inventory 9250.
Signature label and certificate.
Not mounted.
This Edition comes with the vinyl soundtrack of "Till Death Do Us Part" (directed by Stefanie Schneider), music by Daisy McCrackin.
Stefanie Schneider’s Till Death Do Us Part
or “There is Only the Desert for You.”
BY DREW HAMMOND
Stefanie Schneider’s Till Death to Us Part is a love narrative that comprises three elements:
1. A montage of still images shot and elaborated by means of her signature technique of using Polaroid formats with outdated and degraded film stock in natural light, with the resulting images rephotographed (by other means) enlarged and printed in such a way as to generate further distortions of the image.
2. Dated Super 8 film footage without a sound track and developed by the artist.
3. Recorded off-screen narration of texts written by the actors or photographic subjects, and selected by the artist.
At the outset, this method presupposes a tension between still and moving image; between the conventions about the juxtaposition of such images in a moving image presentation; and, and a further tension between the work’s juxtaposition of sound and image, and the conventional relationship between sound and image that occurs in the majority of films. But Till Death Do Us Part also conduces to an implied synthesis of still and moving image by the manner in which the artist edits or cuts the work.
First, she imposes a rigorous criterion of selection, whether to render a section as a still or moving image. The predominance of still images is neither an arbitrary residue of her background as a still photographer—in fact she has years of background in film projects; nor is it a capricious reaction against moving picture convention that demands more moving images than stills. Instead, the number of still images has a direct thematic relation to the fabric of the love story in the following sense. Stills, by definition, have a very different relationship to time than do moving images. The unedited moving shot occurs in real-time, and the edited moving shot, despite its artificial rendering of time, all too often affords the viewer an even greater illusion of experiencing reality as it unfolds. It is self-evident that moving images overtly mimic the temporal dynamic of reality.
Frozen in time—at least overtly—still photographic images pose a radical tension with real time. This tension is all the more heightened by their “real” content, by the recording aspect of their constitution. But precisely because they seem to suspend time, they more naturally evoke a sense of the past and of its inherent nostalgia. In this way, they are often more readily evocative of other states of experience of the real, if we properly include in the real our own experience of the past through memory, and its inherent emotions.
This attribute of stills is the real criterion of their selection in Til Death...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Homesteading (Heavenly Falls) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Homesteading (Heavenly Falls)
2016, 50x50cm, Edition 2/10,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory number: 19655.02
Not mounted
S...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
White Trash Beautiful I - 29 Palms, CA featuring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
White Trash Beautiful I (29 Palms, CA) featuring Radha Mitchell - 1999
128x125cm,
Edition 3/5.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based o...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Henry watching Athena Dance II - 21st Century, Contemporary, Ryan Gosling
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Henry watching Athena Dance (Stay) - 2006
With Ryan Gosling.
48x46cm, Edition 1/10.
Archival C-Print, printed on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, matte surface, based on a Polaroid.
...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Cherry Tree Blossoms (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, 21st Cetury, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Cherry Tree Blossoms' (Till Death do us Part), 2006, 50x50cm each, installed 50x110cm, Edition 1/10, digital C-Prints, based on 2 Polaroids, Certificate and Signature label, artist ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Polaroid
Daisy in front of Trailer (Till Death do Us Part) - Edition 4/5 - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Daisy in front of Trailer (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005
Edition 4 of 5,
125x123 cm.
Analog C-Print, printed on Fuji Cristal Archive Paper, hand-printed by the artist, based on an expired Polaroid.
Signature label and certificate.
Artist inventory 9250.04.
Not mounted.
Note: the addional images show the edition 3/5 mounted (sold).
Stefanie Schneider’s Till Death Do Us Part
or “There is Only the Desert for You.”
BY DREW HAMMOND
Stefanie Schneider’s Til Death...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid, Color, Archival Paper
Untitled - part 8 - Beachshoot starring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' by Stefanie Schneider
(Beachshoot), 2005, 30,7x30cm,
sold out Edition of 68, Artist Proof 3/5, 2005
Lambda Print, based on a Polaroid Original
Certificate and Signature ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Polaroid
Stefanie Schneider Minis - Max by the Pool (29 Palms, CA)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Minis
'Max by the Pool' (29 Palms, CA), 1999
signed and signature brand on verso
Lambda digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid
Polaroid sized open Editio...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Plexiglass, Lambda, Polaroid
Accident II - with Ewan McGregor and Ryan Gosling, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A piece of art from the movie 'Stay' by Stefanie Schneider
Stefanie created the art for both main actors Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling in the movie 'Stay' directed by Marc Forster. S...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Badwater - Memories of Green, quadriptych
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Badwater - Memories of Green, quadriptych (four pieces), Edition 10/10 , 2003, each 20x20cm, installed with gaps 45x45cm,
digital C-Prints, matte surface, based on an expired Polaro...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Polaroid
Untitled - part 8 - Beachshoot starring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' by Stefanie Schneider
(Beachshoot), 2005, 30,7x30cm,
sold out Edition of 68, Artist Proof 2/5, 2005
Lambda Print, based on a Polaroid Original
Certificate and Signature ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Photographic Paper, Polaroid
Badwater - Memories of Green, quadriptych
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Badwater - Memories of Green, quadriptych (four pieces), Edition 9/10 , 2003, each 20x20cm, installed with gaps 45x45cm,
digital C-Prints, matte surface, based on an expired Polaroi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Polaroid
Austen and Daisy in front of Trailer II (Till Death do us Part)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Austen and Daisy in front of Trailer' by Stefanie Schneider
Daisy and Austen in front of Trailer II (Till Death do Us part), 2005, 20 x 20 cm,
Edition 10/10, digital C-Print , based...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid
Traces of Tears (Cyndi Lauper) - record cover shoot
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Traces of Tears' (Cyndi Lauper) from the 'Bring Ya to the Brink' record Album, 2009, 24x20cm, Edition 3/5, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, not mounted, Certificate and signatur...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, C Print, Polaroid
Precious (Stage of Consciousness) - 20x24cm, starring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Precious (Stage of Consciousness), 2007, 20x24cm, Edition 9/10, digital C-Print, not mounted, artist Inventory Nr. 6322.16,
featuring Radha Mitchell
THE GREATER THE EMPTINESS THE G...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Polaroid
Untitled - Till Death do us Part, analog, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' (Till Death do us Part) 2009,
125x154cm, Edition 1/5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on a Polaroid, signed on verso, art...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
A Vision you can't Capture, Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Landscape Phot
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Vision you can't Capture (29 Palms, CA), 2007, 125x150 cm each, 3 pieces, installed 125x470cm, Edition 1/5, analog C-Print printed on Fuji Archive Paper, hand-printed by the artist...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Frenzy II (Sidewinder) - Analog, Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Frenzy II (Sidewinder)
2005, 125x156cm, Edition 2/5.
Analog C-Print, printed by the artist, based on an expired Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No 3049.0...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid
Contemporary figurative photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary figurative photography available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add figurative photography created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of green, yellow, orange, blue and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Tyler Shields, Brian Finke, Stefanie Schneider, and David Drebin. Frequently made by artists working with Polaroid, and Paper and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary figurative photography, so small editions measuring 3.04 inches across are also available. Prices for figurative photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $110 and tops out at $40,000, while the average work sells for $701.
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