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Photography For Sale
Audrey Hepburn in Paris, 1956 - Funny Face Audrey Hepburn Bert Hardy Film Still
Located in Brighton, GB
Audrey Hepburn in Paris, 1956 - Funny Face Audrey Hepburn Film Still Photograph
Belgian Actress Audrey Hepburn is photographed between scenes while on the set of the photography-ins...
Category
20th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin
The River Seine and the Eiffel Towel, Paris, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin black and white photograph. The view shows Paris, the River Seine, and the Eiffel Tower, circa 1940.
Features:
Original silver gelatin print photography un...
Category
1940s Art Deco Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Drangarnir Sea Stacks monochrome minimalist photograph limited print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Drangarnir Sea Stacks Study 2, Faroe Islands - no. 21295
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berg...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Flora 15 - Contemporary Limited Edition Nude C-Print Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 15 is a vibrant Digital C-Type print in an Edition of 15 in this size by contemporary photographer duo Tortora & Travezan.
Her flaming auburn hair spreads out luxuriously agai...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital
163.08.12 by Klaus Kampert - Colour nude photography, woman's body, water, legs
Located in Paris, FR
163.08.12 is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Klaus Kampert. It belongs to the series "Water Creatures". In this series, Klaus Kampert submerges his model in water...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Descending Circles, White and Blue, Handmade Unique Monotype Cyanotype, Paper
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This cyanotype monotype features a constellation of overlapping circular forms that seem to hover like celestial bodies or drifting clouds. The soft, mottled texture within each whit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Paper, Monotype
Cecil Beaton, Rudolf Nureyev, from Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1981 (after)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite heliogravure after Sir Cecil Beaton (1904–1980), titled Rudolf Nureyev, from the folio Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1981, originates from the 1981 edition...
Category
1980s Modern Photography
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Transport of delight.
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
In 1981 Maggie Taylor (b. 1961) began to photograph while she was a student at Yale University majoring in philosophy. She primarily took photographs of suburban landscapes and stran...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Nuns of New York - black and white photography, limited edition 11 of 20
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Nuns of New York'
New York, United States 2019
Limited edition of 20.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Film, Giclée
Helen Frankenthaler, Painter New York City, Photograph of Woman Artist in 1950s
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
A documentary portrait of Helen Frankenthaler (1925-2011) in her studio in New York in the 1950s. Frankenthaler has remained a major American woman artist and female force of nature ...
Category
1950s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
The Muse (29 Palms, CA) - analog, mounted - Polaroid, 21st Century, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Muse (29 Palms, CA) - 2009
38x37cm,
Edition of 5, Artist Proof 1/2,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the Artist,
mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection, based on the Pol...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Metal
Amelia
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 5.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production.
Shipping time depends on method of shipping.
Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph.
ABOUT:
For the last two years Mark and Kristen have collaborated using one of the earliest photographic methods, collodion wet plate to create ambrotypes on glass and tintypes on aluminum. They use a 1860 style view camera to create one-of-a-kind images, which become windows into an intimate, romantic, and beautiful world of faces, still lives, nudes, and landscapes. In this demanding process, the collodion coated tin or glass plates are immersed in a silver nitrate solution, and then they must be exposed in the camera and developed while still wet. Serendipitous flaws and beautiful imperfections are an inevitable part of this imprecise hands-on process.
This show includes a combination of 24 tintypes and ambrotypes, which are 8x10 and smaller in size. Their intimate sizes ask the viewers to look closer and spend more time with these photographs to fully appreciate their power. — A welcome antidote to today's nonstop, ¬instantaneous imagery. Paradoxically, this intersection of past and present gives these pieces an unmistakably contemporary feel. The two collaborators deliberately play up the ambiguity of time.
The nudes (some recalling E.J. Bellocq's alluring portraits of New Orleans prostitutes in 1912) are suffused with freshness and sensuality, even eroticism at times, with nearly all of them coming off as refined rather than crass.
Fredrick Scott...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
HM Queen Elizabeth II profile portrait, 2015
Located in New York, NY
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is photographed in profile while wearing The State Diadem, the same tiara she wore on the way to her coronation at Westminster Abbey, during a London p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mojave Airfields (The Last Picture Show) - analog, mounted, vintage, plane
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Mojave Airfields (The Last Picture Show) - 2005 -
128x126cm,
Edition 1/5
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Pro...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Metal
Bert Stern - Marilyn Monroe, the last sitting - 1962
By Bert Stern
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Bert Stern - Marilyn Monroe, the last sitting
Silver photograph
1962
50,7x61
Signed and numbered 220/250
3900€
Category
1960s Photography
Materials
Paper
Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Black and White Original Photography Postcard
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin black and white photography postcard by Albert Monier, Paris. A view of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, circa 1950.
Features:
The original silver gelatin pr...
Category
1950s Art Deco Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
New York City Skyline With Clouds
Located in London, GB
New York City Skyline With Clouds 2022
by Orbon Alija
C print
Oversize
30x20" inches / 76 x 51 cm
Unframed
Framing & different Sizes availabl...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Cape Town Pool I
By Rick Day
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered, recto
20 x 24 inches, sheet
(Edition of 7)
11 x 14 inches, sheet
(Edition of 20)
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
About the artist:
Rick Day is an American photographer based in New York City, who names Bruce Weber, Herb Ritts, and Victor Skrebneski as influences. His work concentrates on fashion advertising photography and video—his fashion spreads and images have been published in numerous publications across the world including “ELLE,” “Details,” “Vogue Italia,” “Männer,” “DNA,” and “GQ.” Day has produced four photography books since 2008, with BelAmi being the most recent (all published through Bruno Gmünder...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$2,500
Verve No. 1; December 1937 – FIRST ISSUE Modernist journal, original works.
Located in Middletown, NY
The inaugural issue of VERVE, the influential modernist magazine – original lithographs - texts in English.
Teriade, E. (director), André Gide, Georges Bataille, Henri Michaux, Andr...
Category
20th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Photogravure, Lithograph
Black and white portrait in profile of a zebra against a white backdrop
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"""Striped Ensemble""
Black and white portrait in profile of a zebra against a white backdrop
Minimlist black and white portrait of a zebra
Exceptional Creatures is a limited edit...
Category
2010s Minimalist Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lover Man, Oh Where Can You Be? Framed Large limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Zupan combines images from old masters, alchemical prints, contemporary artists, and bits from magazines and newspapers to create overlapping, intersecting worlds of transparencies a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Pigment
Fishermen's Mission, Fleetwood - British Vintage Interior Color Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
Fishermen's Mission, Fleetwood, British vintage interior with a nautical theme, photograph from Richard Heeps' series, Ordinary Places.
Ordinary Places was Richard's first colour co...
Category
1980s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Fabien (The Last Picture Show) Polaroid, Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fabien (The Last Picture Show) triptych - 2005,
30x30cm each,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
3 Archival C-Prints, based on the three original Polaroids.
Certificate and sign...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Metal
Halt by Mark Harvey. B+W Photo of horses legs. Stallion of power
Located in Coltishall, GB
Halt – by Mark Harvey
A moment of control. The horse is brought ot a halt during dressage. Dramatic light and flying sand captures this dynamic, authoritative moment as power comb...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Blinded - Polaroid, Black and White, Women, 21st Century, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blinded - 2020
50x50cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2020-916.
Not mount...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Modern fine art photography nature floral meadow on premium paper "Wild grace"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
Title: "Wild grace"
Medium: Archival pigment print on premium matte photo paper
Dimensions: 20 x 27 cm / 7.8 x 10.6 inches (unframed)
Limited Edition
Each photograph is printed o...
Category
2010s Realist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Joshua Trees (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Skylark (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997
43x59cm,
Edition 3/5.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Signature Label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory...
Category
1990s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$585 Sale Price
35% Off
Untitled (Brian and Carl Morphed) - Two Nude figures, Black and White Photograph
Located in Chicago, IL
Two nude males lie on a bare wood floor. The angle of the photograph suggests that their bodies have melded into one. The artist uses traditional photography methods shooting the i...
Category
1990s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lerici 252 - Polaroid Coastal Landscape Photograph, Limited Edition of 20
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
Lerici '25 is an original black and white Polaroid photograph captured on SX-70 film along the Ligurian coastline of Italy. The image is part of a limited edition of 20, hand-signed ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Fugitives (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fugitives (Till Death do us Part) - 2005,
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist In...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Endless Ride California
By Ludwig Favre
Located in New York, NY
THIS PIECE IS AVAILABLE FRAMED. Please reach out to the gallery for additional information.
Photographer Ludwig Favre's affinity for shooting California is deeply tied to nostalgi...
Category
2010s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Jeanloup Sieff - Intimode - Les Dessous de la mode
Located in Cologne, DE
From a Portfolio with 26 exclusive works of Jeanloup Sieff, limited to 200 copies.
The photograph of Jeanloup Sieff has been produced as Collotype under the direct commandment of the...
Category
1980s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photogravure
Summer in the 1930s
Located in Cologne, DE
Summer in the 1930s
Captured in 1936 by German photographer Heinz Pollmann, this evocative image shows a young woman peacefully paddling across a lake in a classic Klepper folding k...
Category
1930s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White
Rainforest II, Brazil
Located in New York City, NY
Recognized as a pioneer of nature photography in Brazil, Araquém Alcântara (b. 1951) has, for over five decades, built a monumental visual legacy that celebrates and defends the coun...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Adia, Paris 1997
Located in München, BY
Total Edition of 15
signed and numbered
Also available in:
90 x 120 cm / 35.4 x 47.2 in
120 x 160 cm / 47.2 x 63 in
Portrait of foot soles.
Thierry Le Gou...
Category
1990s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Black and White
Atomic Yellow - Signed limited edition Pop Art - Brigitte Bardot
By BATIK
Located in London, GB
Atomic Yellow
- Oversize Signed limited edition - Pop Art - Brigitte Bardot
by the London based contemporary pop art
image creator and artist, BATIK.
Me...
Category
2010s Pop Art Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Ice skating Jutta Leerdam - 1000 meters Champion women 2024 Sports photography
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Sports Photographer Klaas Jan van der Weij
Ice skating Jutta Leerdam
Edition of 10, Hand-signed and numbered by Klaas Jan van der Weij.
Printed with Epson UltraChrome Pro ink on Hah...
Category
2010s Photography
Materials
Ink, Color
Frida Kahlo by Nickolas Muray, 1939, Platinum Print, Portrait Photography
Located in Denton, TX
Frida Kahlo by Nickolas Muray is a black and white portrait of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo leaning against a wall, with a dark scarf wrapped around her shoulders.
Paper size: 20...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Platinum
Untitled I by Matthieu Venot - Abstract photography, architecture, large-size
Located in Paris, FR
Untitled I, Ain’t Got No Troubles series, is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Matthieu Venot.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Pigment
Punk - Figurative photo, Signed limited edition nude print, Black white, Sensual
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘ Punk ‘
Signed by Ian Sanderson lower...
Category
1980s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Wild Water Canyon - landscape photograph - limited edition - waterscape print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Wild Water Canyon Study 1, Austria - no. 18147
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography print.
Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Deseo Insular VI. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
"The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod al...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Cadillac at the Drive-In, Goodwood - Vintage Lifestyle Color Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
Vintage Americana inspired Drive-In movie theatre, from the glamorous Goodwood Revival, featuring a classic Cadillac and Marilyn Monroe on the big screen. Richard was incredibly insp...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Bare Tree, Toya Lake, Hokkaido, Japan, limited edition photograph
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"Bare Tree, Toya Lake, Hokkaido, Japan, 2009 is a silver gelatin print that was printed in the darkroom by master photographer and printer Michael Kenna. The print is matted to 20x1...
Category
2010s Minimalist Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Lagoon Geometry
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: Beauty, elegance and fierce attitude defines Elena’s eye-catching work. She is known for her high impact colorful portraits. Her style is permeated with the passion f...
Category
2010s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Cornuta - black and white fine art botanical photography, edition 10
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Cornuta'
Printed on museum-grade Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper, each print is hand-signed by the artist on both the front and back, numbered as part of a limited edition of 20,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Giclée
Big Car
By Karol Kallay
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
The photography belongs to a cycle of photographies of NY, published in the book "New York", Verlag und Volk, Berlin 1967. Signed by the author on the back, certificate will be inclu...
Category
1960s Photorealist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$439 Sale Price
88% Off
Bonjour, Robert - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bonjour Robert - 2016,
20x20cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2016-17...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Wanaka Lake Tree, Study 2, Otafo, New Zealand, black and white photograph
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Wanaka Lake Tree, Study 2, Otafo, New Zealand is a black and white photograph by Michael Kenna. The (silver gelatin) print is signed and numbered.
Michael Kenna is master of cont...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Poppy No.5 - analogue black and white floral photography, limited edition of 20
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
Poppy No.5 printed on archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta fine art paper, this limited edition piece measures 40 x 32 cm and is part of an exclusive series of 20 prints, each hand-s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Photography
Materials
Giclée
Balance - underwater nude b&w photograph - archival pigment 24х16"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white nude photograph of young woman and her reflection in the water surface.
Original digital archival pigment print signed by the artist.
Limited edition o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$640 Sale Price
20% Off
Sea Drive Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sea Drive
1967
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Film producer Kevin McClory takes his wife Bobo Sigrist and their family for a drive in an ‘Amphicar’ across the harbour at Nassau....
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Eagle Club, Estate Edition, Midcentury Gstaad Ski Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this midcentury snowscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, holidaymakers dining at the Eagle Club, Gstaad, Switzerland, March 1969.
Slim Aarons Estate E...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Peony No.11 - analogue black and white floral photography, limited edition 20
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
Peony No.11 printed on archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta fine art paper, this limited edition piece measures 40 x 32 cm and is part of an exclusive series of 20 prints, each hand-...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Photography
Materials
Giclée
Blue Morpho Butterfly
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Element ‘Gold, (Au) can only be make in the nuclear reactor of stars.
It came to our planet when the Earth was first forming, as dust from catastrophic astronomical events –sta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Gold Leaf
Al Pacino LA, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography, Scarface, Portrait
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Combined Edition 10
Also available in
101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch
and as combined Edition 25 in
40 x 50 cm / 16 x 20 inch
50 x 60 cm/ 20 x 24 inch
This picture shows a scene of the movie blockbuster "Scarface" with Al Pacino.
From personality portraits and advertising campaigns to magazine layouts and fine art work, Greg Gorman has developed a unique style in his profession. His distinctive use of light in his black and white portraits is one of the identifying aspects of a Gorman photograph.
Gorman’s strength has been photographing motion picture and music personalities. His work has been used in film advertising and publicity campaigns as well as album and CD covers. Some of the motion picture celebrities that he has photographed include Ben Affleck, Lauren Bacall, Alec Baldwin, Antonio Banderas, Kim Basinger, Marlon Brando, Pierce Brosnan, Kevin Costner, Bette Davis, Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Andy Garcia, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Dustin Hoffman, Sophia Loren, Al Pacino, Barbra Streisand, Kiera Knightley, Clive Owen, Jennifer Lopez and John Travolta.
In the music field, Mr. Gorman has worked with Elton John, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Morrissey, John Mayer...
Category
1980s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Colorful Bows
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...
Category
2010s Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Hotel Chelsea, New York. Room 822
Located in Miami Beach, FL
These extraordinary photographs are part of the the Hotel Chelsea series. The Hotel Chelsea closed its doors for the first time in its iconic history of over one hundred years. American photographer Victoria Cohen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
C Print
"Sharing A Chair" by Thurston Hopkins
Located in London, GB
"Sharing A Chair" by Thurston Hopkins
12th February 1955: A young couple getting to know each other at the Manchester University Student Union Fresher's Ball.
Unframed
Paper Size: ...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White
Beau Simmons - Western Heritage, Photography 2023, Printed After
Located in Stamford, CT
Series: The Western Collection
Archival Pigment Print
Unframed Sizes:
60" x 48" - $9,500.00
75" x 60" - $12,250.00
Framed Sizes:
67" x 55" - $11,500.00
84" x 69" - $19,500.00
Edit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
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Archival Pigment
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