Original Photography by Robert Kent Sharpe, Metropolitan Museum

This is a singular original vintage photograph from Robert Kent Sharpe's (1930-2016) personal collection capturing a moment in time of an art observer admiring Andy Warhol's Soup Can...

This early original photography by the late Brian McKee (1977-2018) of a war-torn Castle in Northern Afghanistan. This is a chromogenic print mounted on aluminum - Series 1 of 5, from 2002. Provenance: This amazing piece was purchased at Art Basel (Switzerland) in 2002 from Galerie Ernst Hilger (Vienna). Paperwork to be provided at time of purchase. THIS ITEM IS LOCATED AND WILL SHIP FROM OUR MIAMI, FLORIDA SHOWROOM. Biography Brian McKee was born in 1977 in Excelsior Springs, Missouri and attended the Interlochen Arts Academy and Bard College. While at Bard College he studied photography with Stephen Shore, Larry Fink and Barbara Ess as well as writing under John Ashbery whose assistant he was for more than three years. For five years he was the assistant to the photographer Lynn Davis. He lived and worked in New York City/USA, Vienna/Austria and Istanbul/Turkey. Brian McKee called himself “a visual historian” who ventured to “convey a unique and important view of select aspects of World History” with his photographs. “Within architecture and landscapes I find my true subject, the detritus of civilization, and seek to explore the way we define and relate to its existence. Although creating precisely composed and executed images I carefully chose projects that have a conceptual meaning and importance beyond their visual interest or beauty.” For the past 15 years McKee had focused on examining and visualizing a body of work that explored both the current and past social and political atmospheres of countries around the world. Photographing with an 8x10 inch Deardorff plate camera he composed poetic images, which conveyed a complex untold narrative embedded in an immaculate concept, which didn’t only exist for aesthetic purposes. He was fond of ”the idea that houses, buildings, towns and cities provide us with a true understanding of the cultures that inhabited those spaces. At the same time they are a reflection of the social, political and personal atmosphere that created them.” His signature subject of the rise and fall began 1999 when he photographed Soviet military...

This is a series of THREE (3) - all of which is MONA, the photographer's Muse and Model. Mona painted in black and white. Original framing in white.

This is a series of three (3) - all of which is Mona, the photographer's Muse and model. This is a fully painted body in black and white. Original framing in white.

This is a series of THREE (3) - all of which is MONA, the photographer's Muse and Model. This is a FULLY painted body in black and white. Original framing in white.

This brass trimmed framed photo print with details of wood grain and wonderful black print with excellent clarity. A wonderful piece of wall art. The LeVeque Tower is a 47-story s...

The silver gelatin photograph was printed by the photography department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in the 1990s frim the original negative. George Platt Lynes...

Fashion photography, original, photographer Robert Jean Chapuis, Paris, not signed.

GIANNI Versace. Beautiful and rare Poster of the Metropolitan Museum of Art December 1997-March 1998 of the exhibition on Gianni Versace. The poster depicts a photograph by Irving Penn. Penn's photograph depicts the famous 1987 theatre costume in black quilted satin and white satin with black and white applications. from the TEATRO collection. Approximate size 89 x 63.5 cm. pay. Thank you for your cooperation! The poster is an interesting black and white look on one of Versace's most extravagant evening dresses. This item would be the perfect addition to any Gianni Versace or MMA collection. Versace's catwalk collections...

Black and white photography of henri matisse 'Geraniums', by Cleveland Museum of Art from 1993. In original condition, with minor wear consi...

Black and White Photography of Wassily Kandinsky Painting " Fragment I for Composition 7" by Terra Museum of American Art, 1982. In original co...

Black and White Photography of Wassily Kandinsky Painting " Fragment I for Composition 7" by Terra Museum of American Art, 1993. In original co...