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Decisive Moment
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Frank Chiodo is a contemporary painter whose dynamic work centers on organic abstraction. Through the interplay of color and gesture on the canvas, he creates a compelling dialogue t...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Past the decisive Moment (triptych) analog C-Print, 128x401 cm installed
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Past the decisive Moment - Stranger than Paradise (triptych) - 2006
3x128x125cm, 120x401cm
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
H 50.4 in W 157.88 in D 0.04 in
Cowboy on Horseback in the Rain
By Bob Kuhn
Located in Miami, FL
Oil on Board painting for American Weekly Magazine November 15, 1953. The decisive moment of a
Category
1950s American Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mardi Gras, Tarascon, Bouches-Du-Rhone, 1960 - Henri Cartier-Bresson
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in London, GB
twentieth-century, was one of the co-founders of Magnum Photos in 1947 and champion of the “decisive moment
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Rue De Bassano, 8th Arrondissement, Paris, 1953 - Henri Cartier-Bresson
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in London, GB
1947 and champion of the “decisive moment”. He brought a new aesthetic and practice to photography
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
District of Menilmontant, 20th arrondissement, Paris, 1969
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in London, GB
Photos in 1947 and champion of the “decisive moment”. He brought a new aesthetic and practice to
Category
Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cosmonauts, Leningrad Avenue, Moscow, 1972 - Henri Cartier-Bresson
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in London, GB
Photos in 1947 and champion of the “decisive moment”. He brought a new aesthetic and practice to
Category
1970s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Seville, 1933 - Henri Cartier-Bresson (Black and White Photography)
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in London, GB
Photos in 1947 and champion of the “decisive moment”. He brought a new aesthetic and practice to
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Pro Fidel Castro Demonstration, New York, 1960 - Henri Cartier-Bresson
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in London, GB
1947 and champion of the “decisive moment”. He brought a new aesthetic and practice to photography
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
On the Place Du Tertre, Montmartre, Paris, 1952 - Henri Cartier-Bresson
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in London, GB
Photos in 1947 and champion of the “decisive moment”. He brought a new aesthetic and practice to
Category
1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Saul Steinberg, Vermont, 1947 - Henri Cartier-Bresson (Black and White)
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in London, GB
Photos in 1947 and champion of the “decisive moment”. He brought a new aesthetic and practice to
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Saturday in the Synagogue, Leningrad, 1973 - Henri Cartier-Bresson
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in London, GB
Photos in 1947 and champion of the “decisive moment”. He brought a new aesthetic and practice to
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Paris, 1968 - Henri Cartier-Bresson (Black and White Photography)
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in London, GB
Photos in 1947 and champion of the “decisive moment”. He brought a new aesthetic and practice to
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Joinville-Le-Pont, 1938 - Henri Cartier-Bresson (Black and White Photography)
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in London, GB
co-founders of Magnum Photos in 1947 and champion of the “decisive moment”. He brought a new
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Canteen for Workers Building the Hotel Metropol, Moscow, 1954
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in London, GB
Photos in 1947 and champion of the “decisive moment”. He brought a new aesthetic and practice to
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Paris, 1932 - Henri Cartier-Bresson (Black and White Photography)
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in London, GB
Photos in 1947 and champion of the “decisive moment”. He brought a new aesthetic and practice to
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lilya Brik, Moscow, 1954 - Henri Cartier-Bresson (Black and White Photography)
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in London, GB
co-founders of Magnum Photos in 1947 and champion of the “decisive moment”. He brought a new
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
French Art Dealer Pierre Colle, Paris, 1932 - Henri Cartier-Bresson
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in London, GB
Photos in 1947 and champion of the “decisive moment”. He brought a new aesthetic and practice to
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
La Defense, Paris, France, 1972 - Henri Cartier-Bresson (Black and White)
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in London, GB
Photos in 1947 and champion of the “decisive moment”. He brought a new aesthetic and practice to
Category
1970s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bastille Day Party, Paris, circa 1952 - Henri Cartier-Bresson
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in London, GB
Photos in 1947 and champion of the “decisive moment”. He brought a new aesthetic and practice to
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Hyde Park, London - Henri Cartier-Bresson (Black and White Photography)
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in London, GB
co-founders of Magnum Photos in 1947 and champion of the “decisive moment”. He brought a new
Category
Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Roman Amphitheater, Valencia, Spain
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in New York, NY
. His photographs may be summed up through a phrase of his own: “the decisive moment,” the magical
Category
1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Furniture, from The Papercut Portfolio
By Ai Weiwei
Located in London, GB
in large-format, colored fine-art paper, the sheet represents a decisive moment within the artist’s
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper
Faerie
By Zoë Zimmerman
Located in Sante Fe, NM
and utilizing antique and obsolete photographic processes, I also began to reject the ‘decisive moment
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Other Medium
Biologique
By Zoë Zimmerman
Located in Sante Fe, NM
and utilizing antique and obsolete photographic processes, I also began to reject the ‘decisive moment
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Other Medium
Eclipse
By Zoë Zimmerman
Located in Sante Fe, NM
and utilizing antique and obsolete photographic processes, I also began to reject the ‘decisive moment
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Other Medium
Her Mother's Garden
By Zoë Zimmerman
Located in Sante Fe, NM
and utilizing antique and obsolete photographic processes, I also began to reject the ‘decisive moment
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Other Medium
Cute Dog Running in the Rain by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
decisive moment in a perfect composition of red and blue triangles. Funk is an abstractionist while
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Ballantine Beer Ad. Mid-Century American Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
covers her giggling face reacting to a funny comment.
The decisive moment is preserved.
Sounds like a
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
New York Walk Manhattan photograph 1984 (1980s New York street photography)
By Fernando Natalici
Located in NEW YORK, NY
-by rendered timeless by the snap of the camera. A window into a street photographer's decisive
Category
1980s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Williamsburg Bridge Photograph Brooklyn 1973
By Fernando Natalici
Located in NEW YORK, NY
landmark rendered timeless by the snap of the camera. A window into a street photographer's decisive
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Inkjet
The Girl In Union Square New York 1984 (Manhattan photograph)
By Fernando Natalici
Located in NEW YORK, NY
decisive moment. A window into, not only the New York of 'then', but the beauty & chaos of everyday city
Category
1980s Street Art Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Chelsea Manhattan Photograph, 'Chelsea Reflections'
By Fernando Natalici
Located in NEW YORK, NY
timeless by way of the photographer's decisive moment...
11 x 14 inches
Silver Gelatin print on heavy
Category
1970s Pop Art Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
H 11 in W 14 in D 0.01 in
New York Union Square photograph 1984 (Manhattan photograph)
By Fernando Natalici
Located in NEW YORK, NY
camera. A window into a street photographer's decisive moment. A window into, not only the New York of
Category
1980s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
New York Union Square photograph 1984 (Manhattan photograph)
By Fernando Natalici
Located in NEW YORK, NY
camera. A window into a street photographer's decisive moment. A window into, not only the New York of
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Inkjet
"NY Time, 46th Street." from the photographic series "My City Recently Removed"
By Sean Hemmerle
Located in New York, NY
have been photographed, caught, in the "decisive moment" crossing a sign, and obscuring it. Not only
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Pigment
Diver, Dortmund, Germany, Black and White Documentary Photography 1960s
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Freed's mastery as a photographer, his ability to translate the 'decisive moment', with diver as subject
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Die Unterhändler_in (White Flag)
By Sebastian Maas
Located in München, BY
phenomenon of esthetic intuition, is a decisive moment in the new works of Sebastian Maas. In addition to
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Street Walkers - New York Street Photography Abstraction
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
perfect harmony. The notion of capturing the " The Decisive Moment " still exists but as defined by Funk
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Manhattan photograph 'New York Walk' 1984 (1980s New York street photography)
By Fernando Natalici
Located in NEW YORK, NY
passer-by rendered timeless by the snap of the camera. A window into a street photographer's decisive
Category
1980s Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
I Am Pure Alpha
By David Yarrow
Located in Chicago, IL
objective is portraiture rather than storytelling or decisive moment photography.
Intuitively a portrait of
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
2 1/4 Eggleston (Limited Edition Monograph Hand signed by William Eggleston)
By William Eggleston
Located in New York, NY
began taking pictures in the early 1960s after reading Henri Cartier-Bresson's The Decisive Moment
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset
H 11.75 in W 11.75 in D 1 in
No Wings to Fly
By Javier Calleja
Located in Palo Alto, CA
is presented in a standing posture with straight feet and bent at the waist, frozen in the decisive
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Vivien in White Coat, 2021
By Alex Katz
Located in Palo Alto, CA
work, and the tenderness that Katz brings out in this decisive moment between artist and family
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Screen
"Boxcar CSXT 994 371" Contemporary Freight Train photograph, do not hump text
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
intersect. He has chosen the “decisive moment” to capture these speeding boxcars photographically. There is
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Game (bob cat, female tennis player, ball, vintage, animal, surrealist painting
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
the poised figure of a female tennis player, captured in the decisive moment before her swing. Her
Category
2010s Surrealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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H 15.75 in W 15.75 in D 0.99 in
"Susan - Waiting '78" - Figurative Black & White Photograph, 4/25
By Graham Nash
Located in Soquel, CA
, "everyday, ordinary surrealism - the decisive moment." There is indeed a hyper-present, unvarnished
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper
H 22.25 in W 24.5 in D 0.1 in
Primeval
By David Yarrow
Located in Chicago, IL
decisive moment images – I prefer serenity over intensity and a preconception based on action is difficult
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Jackson Backwards", Black & White Photograph Portrait w Sunglasses, 13/25
By Graham Nash
Located in Soquel, CA
- the decisive moment." There is indeed a hyper-present, unvarnished integrity to his images - as with
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Paper
H 24.33 in W 22.25 in D 0.1 in
The Observer, Portrait of Jackson Nash by Graham Nash
By Graham Nash
Located in Soquel, CA
- the decisive moment." There is indeed a hyper-present, unvarnished integrity to his images - as with
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Laid Paper, Archival Ink
"Japanese Poster", Modern Pop Art Black & White Limited Edition Photograph 12/25
By Graham Nash
Located in Soquel, CA
to capture through his lens is, "everyday, ordinary surrealism - the decisive moment." There is
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Laid Paper
H 22.25 in W 24.5 in D 0.1 in
The Observer, Jackson Nash Portrait by Graham Nash
By Graham Nash
Located in Soquel, CA
he aims to capture through his lens is, "everyday, ordinary surrealism - the decisive moment." There
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Laid Paper, Archival Ink
Susan Carrying Willie - Figurative Black & White Photograph, 12/25
By Graham Nash
Located in Soquel, CA
- the decisive moment." There is indeed a hyper-present, unvarnished integrity to his images - as with
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Archival Ink
H 22.25 in W 24.5 in D 0.1 in
Passing Freight -Contemporary color photograph "BKTY 15325" freight train series
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
. He has chosen the “decisive moment” to capture these speeding boxcars photographically. There is an
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Passing Freight -Contemporary color photograph "RBOX 33863" freight train series
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
capture unique images where they intersect. He has chosen the “decisive moment” to capture these speeding
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Urban Journey 75674, Fine Art Photography, Mounted in Plexiglass
By John Duckworth
Located in Armonk, NY
deemed “the decisive moment”- the moment when cinematic narrative emerges from the chaos. Rather than
Category
2010s Abstract Landscape Photography
Materials
Plexiglass
Urban Journey 75674, Fine Art Photography, Framed in Plexiglass
By John Duckworth
Located in Armonk, NY
deemed “the decisive moment”- the moment when cinematic narrative emerges from the chaos. Rather than
Category
2010s Abstract Landscape Photography
Materials
Plexiglass
"IC 9977138" Contemporary Color Photograph, railroad freight train with mountain
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
intersect. He has chosen the “decisive moment” to capture these speeding boxcars photographically. There is
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Urban Journey 75674, Fine Art Photography, Framed in Plexiglass
By John Duckworth
Located in Armonk, NY
deemed “the decisive moment”- the moment when cinematic narrative emerges from the chaos. Rather than
Category
2010s Abstract Landscape Photography
Materials
Plexiglass
Freight Train Contemporary Photograph, "Undercutter" 20"x60" C-Print
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
intersect. He has chosen the “decisive moment” to capture these speeding boxcars photographically. There is
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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