Modern Figurative Photography
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Leonard Bernstein - Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Leonard Bernstein is a photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Flooded Mall London
Located in London, GB
A man crossing a stretch of floodwater with the help of two chairs after a storm caused flooding in the Mall, London.
(Photo by H. F. Davis/Getty Images Archive London England)
Pa...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Old Days Photo - Herds- Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days Photo - Herds in Grosseto (Maremma, Tuscany)- Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days Photo - Herds is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days Photo - Herds- Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days - Herds in the Maremma (Tuscany) - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Herds in the Maremma (Tuscany) is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, a...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Charles Aznavour - Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Charles Aznavour is a photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Leonard Bernstein - Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Leonard Bernstein is a photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Otto e Barnelli - Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Otto e Barnelli is a photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Charles Aznavour - Photo- 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Charles Aznavour is a photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Charles Aznavour - Photo- 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Charles Aznavour is a photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Charles Aznavour- Photo- 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Charles Aznavour is a photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Leonard Bernstein and Giulio Andreotti - Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Leonard Bernstein and Giulio Andreotti is a photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Leonard Bernstein - Photo- 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Leonard Bernstein is a photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Herbert von Karajan and Pope Wojtyla - Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Ceremony is a photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Elizabeth Taylor – Elstree Studios, England, 1963 Limited Estate Print
By David Steen
Located in London, GB
Elizabeth Taylor – Elstree Studios, England,
1963
Elizabeth Taylor’s jewellery collection was renowned as one of the greatest ever assembled...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dudley Moore & Peter Cook – London, 1972 Limited Estate Print
By David Steen
Located in London, GB
Dudley Moore & Peter Cook – London,
1972
“This was meant to be a fashion shoot of the two comedians wearing clothes selected by a magazine’s fashion editor. Needless to say we were ready and waiting and the stylist informed me that the clothes hadn’t turned up. I went into the dressing room to break the news to Pete and Dud, but they were already in a state of undress. ‘Where do you want us?’ they said.”
Limited Edition David Steen Estate Print
Limited Edition: All prints are limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold
Paper size - 24 x 18 " / 61 x 46 cm
Limited to 48 only this size
All prints are bespoke and printed to order
stamped and numbered by the Estate
Copyright: © David Steen / The David Steen Archive
David Steen’s introduction to photography was as a 15-year-old school leaver joining Picture Post where he had the good luck to be taken under the wing of the legendary Bert Hardy as an assistant. It was the ultimate training ground in photojournalism, and the launch pad for his career.
David’s reunion with Picture Post after doing his National Service (as special photographer based in Eygpt, covering the major trouble zones) was short-lived. The magazine was losing ground and closed. He moved to Fleet Street, first to a bright new Mirror title, Woman’s Sunday Mirror, where incidentally he picked up First Prize in Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Best Pictures of the Year Award for his sequence of ‘Birth of a Baby’, the progress of a young woman delivering her own baby under hypnosis.
He was 21, the youngest ever to be awarded this prize. There followed time as a staff photographer with The Daily Mail; Fleet Street was the hub of the world. Then on to freelancing…Queen magazine, Nova, the Sunday Times Magazine, international magazines around the world, over the years covering projects as diverse as riots in Harlem to a film set in Acapulco, a battered wives’ refuge to the Queen and family at Sandringham: the hopeless, the homeless, the glitterati. Trained on the maxim ‘every picture tells a story’ he has focused on film stars, actors, criminals, politicians, prime ministers and countless men, women and children going about their everyday lives.
David Steen believes himself to be lucky. He thinks lucky; luck is being in the right place at the right time, having the luck to have a loving family and enduring friends and winning a three-year battle against cancer.
Asked by aspiring photographers for his best advice, his stock reply is: ‘Get up early.’
David Steen † 1936 – 2015
Tags: dudley moore, actor, pianist, arthur, bedazzled, 10, ten, bo derek...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pool At Las Brisas
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pool At Las Brisas
Guests in the pool at the Las Brisas Hotel, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972.
Photo by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Chromogenic C print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons E...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, C Print
Pete Townshend – Smoking Joint, Twickenham, London, 1977 Limited Estate Print
By David Steen
Located in London, GB
Pete Townshend – Smoking Joint, Twickenham, London,
1977
Guitarist and songwriter with British rock band The Who. Townshend’s trademark windmill action and smashing of guitar on s...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes 1969
A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tows a waterskiier, in the sea off the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riv...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, C Print
Twiggy In Pink Tights On Swing 1967 Limited Estate Print
By David Steen
Located in London, GB
Twiggy – at David Steen’s Home, Surrey
Lesley Lawson (born 19 September 1949) is an English model, actress, and singer widely known by the nickname Twiggy. She was a British cultura...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, C Print
The Old Days - Cows in the Maremma - Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Cows in the Maremma is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal familie...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
O.J. Simpson With Gun – Antigua, 1978 Limited Estate Print
By David Steen
Located in London, GB
O.j. Simpson With Gun – Antigua
1978
Limited Edition David Steen Estate Print
Limited Edition: All prints are limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold
Paper size 54 x 38 inches / 137 x 97 cm
Limited to 10 only this size
All prints are bespoke and printed to order
stamped and numbered by the Estate
Copyright: © David Steen / The David Steen Archive
David Steen’s introduction to photography was as a 15-year-old school leaver joining Picture Post where he had the good luck to be taken under the wing of the legendary Bert Hardy as an assistant. It was the ultimate training ground in photojournalism, and the launch pad for his career.
David’s reunion with Picture Post after doing his National Service (as special photographer based in Eygpt, covering the major trouble zones) was short-lived. The magazine was losing ground and closed. He moved to Fleet Street, first to a bright new Mirror title, Woman’s Sunday Mirror, where incidentally he picked up First Prize in Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Best Pictures of the Year Award for his sequence of ‘Birth of a Baby’, the progress of a young woman delivering her own baby under hypnosis. He was 21, the youngest ever to be awarded this prize. There followed time as a staff photographer with The Daily Mail; Fleet Street was the hub of the world. Then on to freelancing…Queen magazine, Nova, the Sunday Times Magazine, international magazines around the world, over the years covering projects as diverse as riots in Harlem to a film set in Acapulco, a battered wives’ refuge to the Queen and family at Sandringham: the hopeless, the homeless, the glitterati. Trained on the maxim ‘every picture tells a story’ he has focused on film stars, actors, criminals, politicians, prime ministers and countless men, women and children going about their everyday lives.
David Steen believes himself to be lucky. He thinks lucky; luck is being in the right place at the right time, having the luck to have a loving family and enduring friends and winning a three-year battle against cancer.
Asked by aspiring photographers for his best advice, his stock reply is: ‘Get up early.’
David Steen † 1936 – 2015
Orenthal James Simpson (born July 9, 1947), more commonly known as O. J. Simpson, is an American former football running back, actor, and broadcaster. He played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons, primarily with the Buffalo Bills, and is regarded as one of the greatest running backs of all time. Once a popular figure with the American public, Simpson's professional success was overshadowed by his trial and controversial acquittal for the murders of his former wife Nicole Brown...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, C Print
Joan Collins – The Stud, Limousine, London, 1978 Limited Estate Print
By David Steen
Located in London, GB
Joan Collins – the Stud, Limousine, London,
1978
Limited Edition David Steen Estate Print
Limited Edition: All prints are limited editions, no further prints are produced once s...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Italian Actress and Singer Loretta Goggi - Photo- 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Showgirl Loretta Goggi during "Happy Circus". Rome, 24.11.1981.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons Official Estate Edition - Barbados Bliss
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Barbados Bliss by Slim Aarons
Ava Marshall relaxes with a book amongst the bougainvillea in Barbados, April 1976.
Another typically 'Slim' photograph, ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
National Danish Gymnastics Team: Earth #16
Located in London, GB
Toned silver gelatin print (printed 2003), , signed, dated and numbered (verso), edition '8/25', 33cm x 22cm (image size), (49cm x 37cm framed). (N.B. although this is an edition of ...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Louis Armstrong and Chet Baker - Historical Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Louis Armstrong and Chet Baker is a photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days - Men in Field - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Men in Field is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and po...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi - Historical Photo -1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi on the set of a movie.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress Enrica Bonaccorti and Heather Parisi - Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress, television and radio presenter Enrica Bonaccorti with the American television presenter and dancer Heather Parisi.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days - Woman with Donkey - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Woman with Donkey is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families,...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress Enrica Bonaccorti - Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian actress, television and radio presenter Enrica Bonaccorti in "Pronto, chi gioca?", 1986.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins – Windmill Street Soho London 1972Limited Estate Print
By David Steen
Located in London, GB
Alex ‘hurricane’ Higgins – Windmill Street Soho London
1972
David Steen recalls: “When I was about 13 or 14 I used to go to a snooker hall in the basement of the boxing gym owned b...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi - Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi in Rome (Via Frattina).
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sophia Loren – Antigua, February, 1979 Limited Estate Print
By David Steen
Located in London, GB
Sophia Loren – Antigua, February,
1979
In 1979, I was asked if I would go to Antigua to photograph Sophia Loren, well, this was magic, what a privilege. She had seen my work and ha...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Rod Stewart – Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, 1976 Limited Estate Print
By David Steen
Located in London, GB
Rod Stewart – Beverly Hills, Los Angeles,
1976
Born in London in 1945, rock musician Rod Stewart always dreamt of being a professional football player, until he began touring with ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi - Photo- 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Oliver Reed – Broome Hall, England, 1975 Limited Estate Print
By David Steen
Located in London, GB
Oliver Reed – Broome Hall, England,
1975
The legendary British actor and hell-raiser began his film career in the late 1950s. In 1968 he played the role of Bill Sikes in the aware...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Italian Actress and Singer Loretta Goggi - Photo- 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian singer and actress Loretta Goggi with Antonio Fattorini
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress and Singer Loretta Goggi - Photo- 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian singer and actress Loretta Goggi with Antonio Fattorini
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress and Singer Loretta Goggi - Photo- 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian actress and singer Loretta Goggi with Daniele Formica.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall - Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall is a photograph realized in 1980s.
Very good condition.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
National Danish Gymnastics Team: Sky #18
Located in London, GB
Silver gelatin print (printed 2004), signed, dated and numbered (verso), edition '15/25', 34cm x 23cm (image size), (50cm x 38cm framed). (N.B. although this is an edition of 25, onl...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Italian Actress Enrica Bonaccorti - Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian actress, television and radio presenter Enrica Bonaccorti in "OK Bimbi".
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days - A Greek Soldier in Traditional Costume - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - A Greek Soldier in traditional costume is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the late 19th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical mom...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days - Historical Photo - 1913
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1913.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi- Historical Photo -1965
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi with Paolo Ferrari. 14/2/1965.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Leonard Bernstein and Italian President Sandro Pertini- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Leonard Bernstein and President Sandro Pertini is a photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Charles Aznavour - Photo- 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Charles Aznavour is a photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Leonard Bernstein - Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Leonard Bernstein is a photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Beatles 1964 Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
The Beatles perform “I Want To Hold Your Hand”, 1964.
Photo by Globe Archives
Paper size 40 x 40" / 101 x 101cm
Unframed
Archival Pigment Print
Certificate of authenticity provided...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Old Days - Historical Photo - The Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and ...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress Enrica Bonaccorti with Heather Parisi - Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress, television and radio presenter Enrica Bonaccorti with the American television presenter and dancer Heather Parisi.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Cliff Richard – Signing Autographs, on Tour, April, 1964 Limited Estate Print
By David Steen
Located in London, GB
Cliff Richard – Signing Autographs, on Tour, April,
1964
Born in India in 1940, Cliff Richard is the only singer in history to have UK Number One hits in five decades (from 1950s-...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Italian Actress and Singer Loretta Goggi - Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian actress and singer Loretta Goggi in a scene from "Canzonissime" by Gianni Brezza.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Rod Stewart – Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, 1976 Limited Estate Print
By David Steen
Located in London, GB
Rod Stewart – Beverly Hills, Los Angeles,
1976
David Steen recalls: “Filming for Roger’s first Bond movie, Live and Let Die began in New Orleans and moved on to Ocho Rios, Jamaica....
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Harry Belafonte - Photo- 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Harry Belafonte is a photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions except for a fold in the center.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Modern figurative photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Modern 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 blue, purple, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Slim Aarons, Mark Shaw, Alain Le Garsmeur, and Terry O'Neill. Frequently made by artists working with Digital Print, 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 Modern figurative photography, so small editions measuring 0.79 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 $22 and tops out at $115,000, while the average work sells for $1,800.
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