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Item Ships From: Los Angeles
Water Sketch - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival pigment 23x35
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater black and white photograph of a young naked woman diving in a pool. The photograph is printed with high grain texture - as you may see on the close up fragments.
Original...
Category
2010s Contemporary Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Small Talk - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival pigment 16x24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white photograph of two women talking in the pool with their heads above the water. The heads are hidden from the camera by black water.
Original gallery qua...
Category
2010s Contemporary Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
No Way - black & white nude photograph - print on paper 18" x 24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A black and white photograph of a perfect woman's buttocks and her handcuffed hands giving a finger.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print signed by the artist.
Paper size: 18" x 24"
Image size: 15.5" x 24"
Limited edition of 1000. Print #6
The artwork is furnished with certificate of authenticity, signed by artist with artist's name, edition number, edition limit, and other details.
The most recent magazine publications:
2023 Edith Glamour Magazine (Canada)
2023 Fienfh Magazine (France)
The photograph has been exhibited at:
2023 LA Art Show (Los Angeles, US)
2023 Beverly Hills Art Show (Beverly Hills, US)
2023 Roth & Taylor Gallery (Los Angeles, US)
2022 Spectrum (Miami, US)
2022 Beverly Hills Art Show (Beverly Hills, US)
2022 Art...
Category
2010s Photorealist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Inga Lindgren And Poodles
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swedish model Inga Lindgren, wife of Argentinian finance minister Ceferino Alonso Irigoyen, wears designs by Vera Stewart with her standard poodles Aja...
Category
1950s American Realist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Mick Jagger and Aston Martin, 1966, Signed, Limited, Silver Gelatin Print
By Gered Mankowitz
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Edition of 150.
Mick Jagger with his beloved Aston Martin DB6, outside his London apartment in 1966 by Gered Mankowitz.
"I shot a series of photographs of each member of the band a...
Category
1960s Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Small Talk - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival pigment 43x64"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white photograph of two women talking in the pool with their heads above the water. The heads are hidden from the camera by black water.
Original gallery qua...
Category
2010s Contemporary Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Four Kings of Hollywood, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A series of four shots of film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) enjoying a joke at...
Category
1940s American Realist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Digging For Clams, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mrs. Leverett Saltonstall Shaw watches her children digging for clams at low tide on Black Beach, Massachusetts Bay.
Slim Aarons
Digging For Clams
Bl...
Category
1950s American Realist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
The Touch - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival pigment 43x64"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater black and white photograph of a young naked women touching her reflection in the water surface.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print on archival paper signed ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Four Kings of Hollywood, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A series of four shots of film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) enjoying a joke at...
Category
1940s American Realist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Bubbles - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival pigment 17x24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white photograph of beautiful naked young woman breasts covered with air bubbles.
“In my line of photography all best shots are ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Four Kings of Hollywood, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A series of four shots of film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) enjoying a joke at...
Category
1940s American Realist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Luxury Dining
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Diners in a grand ballroom during a fashion show, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons
Luxury Dining
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aaron...
Category
1950s American Realist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Emulsion, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Thunderweb - underwater black & white nude photograph - print on aluminum 24x36"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white photograph of beautiful naked young woman in a pool filled with sun light. The bottom of the pool is covered with a mysterious web of ripple shadows and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
"About Love" Photography 24" x 24" in Edition of 15 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"About Love" Photography 24" x 24" in Edition of 15 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
Availabl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Water Sketch - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival pigment 18x24
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater black and white photograph of a young naked woman diving in a pool. The photograph is printed with high grain texture - as you may see on close up fragments.
Original gal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
The Touch - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival pigment 35x52"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater black and white photograph of a young naked women touching her reflection in the water surface.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print on archival paper signed ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Kowloon by Gleb Derujinsky, Vintage Fashion Photography
By Gleb Derujinsky
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Selected from Derujinsky: The Around The World Portfolio, shot in Kowloon, Hong Kong for Harper's Bazaar
Artist: Gleb Derujinsky
Title: Kowloon
Year: 1957
Estate Edition: signed, stamped and numbered on verso. Signed by Andrea Derujinsky. Archival pigment print on 100% cotton paper, baryta finish. Worldwide authorized edition:
24X24 from a portfolio edition of 20
36X36 from an edition of 5
Gleb was raised in a home dedicated to the arts. His father Gleb Derujinsky Sr. was a renowned sculptor, and his mother, Alexandra Micholoff Derujinsky, a classic pianist. By the age of 6 Gleb’s life long passion for photograph blossomed as he began to shoot, develop and print his own photographs. At 15 he became the youngest member of the famed New York Camera Club where he met and was influenced by the legendary photographers in the club including Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz.
Gleb’s fashion photography...
Category
1950s Naturalistic Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fleetwood Mac #1 Photo
By Richard E. Aaron
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Title: Fleetwood Mac #1 Photo (Mick Fleetwood & Stevie Nicks) 1983, live in Los Angeles.
Artist: Richard E. Aaron
Year: 1983
Estate Edition: Hand nu...
Category
1980s Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Water Sketch II - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival pigment
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white nude photograph of a young woman in the pool.
Original gallery quality print signed by the artist.
Digital archival pigment print on archival paper wi...
Category
2010s Photorealist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rounds - underwater black and white photograph - print on aluminum 38x62"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white portrait of Justin Jedlica - The Human Ken Doll
Original digital print on aluminum plate with 1/8" dibond backing signed by the artist.
The artwork is ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
The Touch - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival pigment 24 x 35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater black and white photograph of a young naked women touching her reflection in the water surface.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print on archival paper signed ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
No Way - black and white nude photograph - print on aluminum 23" x 36"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A black and white photograph of a perfect woman's buttocks and her handcuffed hands giving a finger.
Original digital print on aluminum plate signed by the artist.
Limited edition o...
Category
2010s Photorealist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
Eyes and Stripes - underwater b&w nude photograph archival pigment print 24"х18"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater black & white photograph of a young naked women. her face and classic breast are covered with sunbeams.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print signed by the arti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Digging For Clams, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mrs. Leverett Saltonstall Shaw watches her children digging for clams at low tide on Black Beach, Massachusetts Bay.
Slim Aarons
Digging For Clams
Bl...
Category
1950s American Realist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Sunbeams - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival pigment 35x23"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater black and white photograph of a young naked woman wrapped in air bubbles and sunbeams.
There were five grand-pianos at her house, a pool on the third floor, and a sad man...
Category
2010s Contemporary Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Almost - underwater nude photograph - archival paper print 24x18"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater photograph of a young topless woman taking off her red panties. Her almost naked body is surrounded with floating red petals. The photograph has only three colors: black, white and red.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print signed by the artist.
Limited edition of 24 print #4
The artwork is furnished with certificate of authenticity, signed by artist with artist's name, edition number, edition limit, and other details.
The photograph has been shown at:
2023 LA Art Show (Los Angeles, US)
2022 Spectrum (Miami, US)
2022 Beverly Hills Art Show (Beverly Hills, US)
2022 Art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Waiting, Silver Gelatin Black and White Nude Photography
By Savannah Spirit
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit
Waiting
Silver gelatin on Ilford multigrade paper, signed, edition of 5
Scroll for more on the artist and this series and an excerpt from the recent monograph, The Archive #6: Savannah Spirit, published by Quiet Lunch:
"When I first saw Savannah Spirit’s early nudes, I felt immediately struck by their power and awareness. Of course, they were traditionally beautiful, with classical lighting and shadows from Venetian blinds. Some of them were sexy, in the way bodies are sexy. But they weren’t sexualized. Looking at them, I felt powerful. I felt good. They depicted the body of an adult woman viewing herself with love. I’ve been devoted to them ever since.
To me, these portraits invoke the power of a landscape. The way the light rolls over the body evokes the body’s connection with the earth, with sunrise and its long deep shadows. The patterns of darkness can break the figure into geometry, creating a distance between the viewer and the image, as in End of An Era and Staying Abreast. Yet others, like Resist and Be The Woman You Needed When You Were Younger, create direct address, and sometimes empathy. Sometimes, the viewer takes the vantage point of the artist, and the piece becomes a further study in introspection.
The titles, like The Bottom Line and Read Between the Lines, often invoke idioms, figures of speech, or stereotypes that themselves point back to the culture that produced them. As conceptual components, they are both playful and political, which, when juxtaposed against image to elicit a mood or reaction. For me, it’s different every time. I am often pricked to discover how the vernacular of Hollywood capitalism, juxtaposed to a powerful, nude self-portrait of a woman, almost always feels a bit surprising–as if I wasn’t expecting her to be there.
Recent works, like Network, use both shadow and mirror to create a doubled image, the artist and her reflection, further suggesting the sense of a dialogue with the self. The two bodies are not a mirror image, though seen in a mirror: a conversation between two sides of oneself, rather than a literal twinning.
Over the past decade, as this series took on greater and deeper life, Savannah and I have had countless wonderful discussions about women, bodies and art. As a former artist’s model, early in her career, she participated in the form of power that was available to her: that of the quieted muse. She knew she was being objectified, she recalls, but at least she was included in the club. I instantly recognized that message. She was still creating her own work, though, and one day, she realized she’d had enough of seeing herself through someone else’s lens. She turned the camera on herself, and began to take a very different kind of picture.
During the pandemic, the feeling of being alone with oneself can sometimes feel overwhelming. These recent pieces reflect that agitation of the dialogue alone, the being with oneself, seeking connection..."
- Katie Peyton Hofstadter
Classic black and white silver gelatin print, signed by the artist Savannah Spirit. This is a self portrait of the artist. Categorize between self-portrait, contemporary feminism, take back control, I am my own muse, my body my choice...
Category
2010s Contemporary Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Soft Dance - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival pigment 24"х16"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A black and white photograph of a naked young woman diving in a pool. The woman is coming from the depth up toward the surface and her body reflects in the internal water surface.
O...
Category
2010s Photorealist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Kings of Hollywood (Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, James Stewart, Van Heflin)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This iconic photograph is finally available again, for the first time in over a year.
In this classic black and white photograph, film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper...
Category
1950s Realist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Lambda
Soft Dance - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival pigment 35"х23"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A black and white photograph of a naked young woman diving in a pool. The woman is coming from the depth up toward the surface and her body reflects in the internal water surface.
O...
Category
2010s Photorealist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
"Men 2" Photography 24" x 24" inch Edition 1/15 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Men 2" Photography 24" x 24" inch Edition 1/15 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
Availab...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Friday Night - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival pigment 52x35
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater black & white photograph of two young naked women wrapped in air bubbles.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print signed by the artist.
Limited edition of 24
Pap...
Category
2010s Contemporary Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Remedy, Silver Gelatin Black and White Nude Photography
By Savannah Spirit
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit
The Remedy
Silver gelatin on Ilford multigrade paper, signed, edition of 5
Scroll for more on the artist and this series and an excerpt from the recent monograph, The Archive #6: Savannah Spirit, published by Quiet Lunch:
"When I first saw Savannah Spirit’s early nudes, I felt immediately struck by their power and awareness. Of course, they were traditionally beautiful, with classical lighting and shadows from Venetian blinds. Some of them were sexy, in the way bodies are sexy. But they weren’t sexualized. Looking at them, I felt powerful. I felt good. They depicted the body of an adult woman viewing herself with love. I’ve been devoted to them ever since.
To me, these portraits invoke the power of a landscape. The way the light rolls over the body evokes the body’s connection with the earth, with sunrise and its long deep shadows. The patterns of darkness can break the figure into geometry, creating a distance between the viewer and the image, as in End of An Era and Staying Abreast. Yet others, like Resist and Be The Woman You Needed When You Were Younger, create direct address, and sometimes empathy. Sometimes, the viewer takes the vantage point of the artist, and the piece becomes a further study in introspection.
The titles, like The Bottom Line and Read Between the Lines, often invoke idioms, figures of speech, or stereotypes that themselves point back to the culture that produced them. As conceptual components, they are both playful and political, which, when juxtaposed against image to elicit a mood or reaction. For me, it’s different every time. I am often pricked to discover how the vernacular of Hollywood capitalism, juxtaposed to a powerful, nude self-portrait of a woman, almost always feels a bit surprising–as if I wasn’t expecting her to be there.
Recent works, like Network, use both shadow and mirror to create a doubled image, the artist and her reflection, further suggesting the sense of a dialogue with the self. The two bodies are not a mirror image, though seen in a mirror: a conversation between two sides of oneself, rather than a literal twinning.
Over the past decade, as this series took on greater and deeper life, Savannah and I have had countless wonderful discussions about women, bodies and art. As a former artist’s model, early in her career, she participated in the form of power that was available to her: that of the quieted muse. She knew she was being objectified, she recalls, but at least she was included in the club. I instantly recognized that message. She was still creating her own work, though, and one day, she realized she’d had enough of seeing herself through someone else’s lens. She turned the camera on herself, and began to take a very different kind of picture.
During the pandemic, the feeling of being alone with oneself can sometimes feel overwhelming. These recent pieces reflect that agitation of the dialogue alone, the being with oneself, seeking connection..."
- Katie Peyton Hofstadter
Classic black and white silver gelatin print, signed by the artist Savannah Spirit. This is a self portrait of the artist. Categorize between self-portrait, contemporary feminism, take back control, I am my own muse, my body my choice...
Category
2010s Feminist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Bubbles - underwater nude b&w photograph - archival pigment print 23 x 35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white photograph of beautiful naked young woman breasts covered with air bubbles.
“In my line of photography all best shots are ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
My Body, My Choice, Silver Gelatin Black and White Nude Photography
By Savannah Spirit
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit
My Body, My Choice
Silver gelatin on Ilford multigrade paper, signed, edition of 5
Scroll for more on the artist and this series and an excerpt from the recent monog...
Category
2010s Feminist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Model Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward wearing a dinner dress by Gustave Tassell, Beverly Hills, 1960. The bodice is made of white silk faille and the skirt i...
Category
1960s American Realist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Wavering - underwater nude black & white photograph - archival pigment 24x18"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white photograph of a beautiful naked model on her knees at the bottom of the pool.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print on paper signed by the ar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Shulman, Frank Lloyd Wright, Freeman House, LA, Black & White Photography
By Julius Shulman
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American photographer Julius Shulman’s images of Californian architecture have burned themselves into the retina of the 20th century. A book on modern architecture without Shulman is inconceivable. Some of his architectural photographs, like the iconic shots of Frank Lloyd Wright’s or Pierre Koenig’s remarkable structures, have been published countless times. The brilliance of buildings like those by Charles Eames, as well as those of his close friend, Richard Neutra, was first brought to light by Shulman’s photography. The clarity of his work demanded that architectural photography had to be considered as an independent art form. Each Shulman image unites perception and understanding for the buildings and their place in the landscape. The precise compositions reveal not just the architectural ideas behind a building’s surface, but also the visions and hopes of an entire age. A sense of humanity is always present in his work, even when the human figure is absent from the actual photographs. Today, a great many of the buildings documented by Shulman have disappeared or been crudely converted, but the thirst...
Category
Mid-20th Century Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bubbles - underwater nude b&w photograph - archival pigment print 35 x 52"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white photograph of beautiful naked young woman breasts covered with air bubbles.
“In my line of photography all best shots are snapped. This photograph is n...
Category
2010s Contemporary Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Fragrant Harbor Hong Kong by Gleb Derujinsky, Vintage Fashion Photography
By Gleb Derujinsky
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Selected from the Derujinsky: Around The World Portfolio, shot in Fragrant Harbor, Hong Kong for Harper's Bazaar
Artist: Gleb Derujinsky
Title: Fragrant Harbor
Year: 1957
Estate ...
Category
1950s Other Art Style Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marble Cave (gray) - underwater b&w nude photograph - archival pigment 24x16"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A beautiful and mysterious underwater black and white photograph of a young naked woman relaxing on her back in her pool.
This photograph is a part of the series Marble Cave
Original gallery quality archival pigment print.
Limited edition of 24, print #2
Image size: 24" x 16"
The artwork is signed by artist and furnished with certificate of authenticity, with artist's name, edition number, edition limit, and other details.
The photograph has been shown at:
2023 LA Art Show (Los Angeles, US)
2022 Spectrum (Miami, US)
2022 Beverly Hills Art Show (Beverly Hills, US)
2022 Art San Diego (San Diego, US)
2022 LA Art Show (Los Angeles, US)
This photograph has been recently published in:
Moevir Magazine - 2022 France
Lens Culture - 2022 US
The Style Researcher - 2021 Italy
Alex Sher is an award-winning American underwater fine art photographer whose admiration of feminine sensuality heralded him to worldwide acclaim.
Sher was born in Ukraine in 1962 and started taking photographs at the age of twelve. He graduated from Kyiv University in 1984. Two years later, he volunteered as medical personnel to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster recovery. When asked about that time, he says "having no clue how much radiation you are getting makes you appreciate every breath - pretty much what you feel underwater."
Alex Sher started showing his photographs in the early nineties; however, he considered himself an amateur artist until his work was stolen from an exhibition in Kyiv.
Sher immigrated to the US with his family in 1995 and currently resides in Los Angeles. As a former biologist and an ocean diver, Alex is deeply concerned with the decimation of kelp forests along the California Pacific...
Category
2010s Contemporary Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Stevie Nicks #7
By Richard E. Aaron
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Title: Stevie Nicks #7
Artist: Richard E. Aaron
Estate Edition: Hand numbered with estate chop mark in the margin, signature stamp on verso, archival pig...
Category
1970s Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
New England Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, 1955.
Slim Aarons
New England Skiing
Black an...
Category
1950s American Realist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Amor De Artuño, Silver Gelatin Black and White Nude Photography
By Savannah Spirit
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit
Amor de Artuño
Silver gelatin on Ilford multigrade paper, signed, edition of 5
Scroll for more on the artist and this series and an excerpt from the recent monograph, The Archive #6: Savannah Spirit, published by Quiet Lunch:
"When I first saw Savannah Spirit’s early nudes, I felt immediately struck by their power and awareness. Of course, they were traditionally beautiful, with classical lighting and shadows from Venetian blinds. Some of them were sexy, in the way bodies are sexy. But they weren’t sexualized. Looking at them, I felt powerful. I felt good. They depicted the body of an adult woman viewing herself with love. I’ve been devoted to them ever since.
To me, these portraits invoke the power of a landscape. The way the light rolls over the body evokes the body’s connection with the earth, with sunrise and its long deep shadows. The patterns of darkness can break the figure into geometry, creating a distance between the viewer and the image, as in End of An Era and Staying Abreast. Yet others, like Resist and Be The Woman You Needed When You Were Younger, create direct address, and sometimes empathy. Sometimes, the viewer takes the vantage point of the artist, and the piece becomes a further study in introspection.
The titles, like The Bottom Line and Read Between the Lines, often invoke idioms, figures of speech, or stereotypes that themselves point back to the culture that produced them. As conceptual components, they are both playful and political, which, when juxtaposed against image to elicit a mood or reaction. For me, it’s different every time. I am often pricked to discover how the vernacular of Hollywood capitalism, juxtaposed to a powerful, nude self-portrait of a woman, almost always feels a bit surprising–as if I wasn’t expecting her to be there.
Recent works, like Network, use both shadow and mirror to create a doubled image, the artist and her reflection, further suggesting the sense of a dialogue with the self. The two bodies are not a mirror image, though seen in a mirror: a conversation between two sides of oneself, rather than a literal twinning.
Over the past decade, as this series took on greater and deeper life, Savannah and I have had countless wonderful discussions about women, bodies and art. As a former artist’s model, early in her career, she participated in the form of power that was available to her: that of the quieted muse. She knew she was being objectified, she recalls, but at least she was included in the club. I instantly recognized that message. She was still creating her own work, though, and one day, she realized she’d had enough of seeing herself through someone else’s lens. She turned the camera on herself, and began to take a very different kind of picture.
During the pandemic, the feeling of being alone with oneself can sometimes feel overwhelming. These recent pieces reflect that agitation of the dialogue alone, the being with oneself, seeking connection..."
- Katie Peyton Hofstadter
Classic black and white silver gelatin print, signed by the artist Savannah Spirit. This is a self portrait of the artist. Categorize between self-portrait, contemporary feminism, take back control, I am my own muse, my body my choice...
Category
2010s Feminist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Backgammon By The Pool
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary-Beth Turner playing backgammon by a swimming pool in Palm Beach, Florida, 1959.
Slim Aarons
Backgammon By The Pool...
Category
1950s American Realist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Sunbeams - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival pigment 53x35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater black and white photograph of a young naked woman wrapped in air bubbles and sunbeams.
There were five grand-pianos at her house, a pool on the third floor, and a sad man...
Category
2010s Contemporary Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
The Smile - underwater nude b&w photograph - archival pigment print 24x35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater black and white photograph of a naked young woman smiling to the camera from the pool surface.
This minimalistic photograph blends well with wide verity of interiors.
Or...
Category
2010s Contemporary Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Palm Bay Club, Estate Edition Photograph: 1950s Ski in New Hampshire
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Two female skiers outside the Carroll Reed Ski Service Shop and Check Room in New Hampshire, 1955.
Slim Aarons
New England Skiing
Black and White Photogr...
Category
1950s American Realist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Inga Lindgren And Poodles
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swedish model Inga Lindgren, wife of Argentinian finance minister Ceferino Alonso Irigoyen, wears designs by Vera Stewart with her standard poodles Aja...
Category
1950s American Realist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Eden Hartford
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Actress Eden Hartford, sister to Dee, in the Hollywood home she shared with her husband, comedian Groucho Marx.
Slim Aarons
Eden Hartford
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons Est...
Category
1950s American Realist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Jazz Scooter: Louis Armstrong and Lucille Brown in 1940s Rome, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lucille Brown takes control of the Vespa scooter as her husband Louis Armstrong (1898 - 1971) displays his musical appreciation of the ancient Colosseum in Rome.
Slim Aarons
Jazz S...
Category
1940s American Realist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Black and White, Digital
Ballet - underwater black and white nude photograph - archival pigment 27" x 35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white photograph of a young female dancer diving in pool. The naked dances is covering herself with tutu skirt.
Original gallery quality archival pigment pri...
Category
2010s Photorealist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Private Transport
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gladys 'Patsy' Bartlett (1928 - 2011, née Pulitzer, later Pulitzer Preston) rummaging in her bag on the seat of an open car, 1954. The car is parked by a plane belonging to the Everg...
Category
1950s American Realist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Emulsion, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Jamaica Sea Sailing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Two men sailing their yacht 'Eel II' in Jamaica.
Slim Aarons
Spring Break
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Cert...
Category
1950s American Realist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Private Transport
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gladys 'Patsy' Bartlett (1928 - 2011, née Pulitzer, later Pulitzer Preston) rummaging in her bag on the seat of an open car, 1954. The car is parked by a plane belonging to the Everg...
Category
1950s American Realist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Las Vegas Luxury
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Austrian actress Mara Lane enjoys waiter service in the pool at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954.
Slim Aarons
Spring Break
Black and White Photography
Sli...
Category
1950s American Realist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Emulsion, ABS, Black and White, Photogram, Digital
Las Vegas Luxury
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Austrian actress Mara Lane enjoys waiter service in the pool at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954.
Slim Aarons
Spring Break
Black and White Photography
Slim ...
Category
1950s American Realist Los Angeles - Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
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