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Style: Contemporary
Style: Minimalist
Rhinoceros #2, Albuquerque, NM, 2013 - Animal Portrait Photography
Located in Paris, FR
'Rhinoceros #2, Albuquerque, NM, 2013' is a limited-edition fine art photograph by American photographer Brad Wilson. Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta Paper, 2013...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

David Yarrow Photograph / Ferrari II / Staged Wolves Series, Vintage Car
Located in Greenwich, CT
Ferrari II In the 1950s, the Californian Dream made Route 66 the most famous road in the world. The route of flight for the American Middle Class, the stretch of road east of Ambo...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Orange Poppies - Analogue floral photography, Limited edition of 10
Located in London, GB
'Orange Poppies' Analogue colour floral photography. London, United Kingdom 2024. Limited edition of 10. Printed on the finest archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper, these limited ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Film, Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée

Thomas Ruff, Queen in Car - Double-sided digital pigment print, Signed Print
Located in Hamburg, DE
Thomas Ruff (German, b. 1958) Queen in Car, 2021 Medium: Double-sided digital pigment print on cardboard (glossy front, matt verso) Dimensions: 15 x 20 cm Edition of 30: Hand-signed ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Sarah Morris, Color Referents (Miami) - Portfolio of 9 Prints, Contemporary Art
Located in Hamburg, DE
Sarah Morris (American, born 1967) Color Referents (Miami), 2003 Medium: Portfolio of 9 digital pigment prints, on photo rag paper Dimensions: 68 x 68 cm (26¾ x 26¾ in) each Edition ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Flower Vendor on Dal Lake by Steve McCurry, 1999, Digital C-Print
Located in Dallas, TX
Flower Vendor on Dal Lake by Steve McCurry depicts a man transporting vibrant, multi-colored flowers in a canoe. He paddled down the calm river, passing by a house surrounded by lush...
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1990s Contemporary Photography

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Digital

Vignettes
Located in Lenox, MA
Vignettes Printed by the Artist Ormond Gigli Born New York City, 1925 Ormond Gigli became famous early on during the 1950s for his photographs of theatre, celebrities, dance, exotic persons & places. His work appeared prominently on covers & editorial pages of LIFE, TIME, PARIS MATCH, SATURDAY EVENING POST, COLLIERS, and other major international publications. Gigli's groundbreaking portraits include Sophia Loren (at age 21), Anita Ekberg, Marcel Duchamp, John F. Kennedy, Halston, Gina Lollobrigida, Diana Vreeland, Giancarlo Giannini, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Sir Laurence Olivier, Alan...
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20th Century Contemporary Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Aram Butterfly Ginkgo with Melon, 2019
Located in Lenox, MA
From "The Good Dishes" Collection Aram Butterfly Ginkgo with Melon, 2019 Archival Pigment Print Signed en verso/Signed Certificate of Authenticity Artist's Bio: US, Born in New Jersey, 1962 Lives in New York City. NY JP Terlizzi (American, b.1962) is a New York City photographer whose contemporary practice explores themes of memory, relationship, and identity. His images are rooted in the personal and heavily influenced around the notion of home, legacy, and family. He is curious how the past relates and intersects with the present and how the present enlivens the past, shaping one’s identity. Born and raised in the farmlands of Central New Jersey, JP earned a BFA in Communication Design at Kutztown University of PA with a background in graphic design and advertising. He has studied photography at both the International Center of Photography in New York and Maine Media College in Rockport, ME. His work has been exhibited widely in galleries including shows at The Center for Fine Art Photography, Vicki Myhren Gallery at the University of Denver, The Griffin Museum, Tilt Gallery, Panopticon Gallery, Candela Gallery, Sohn Fine Art, The Los Angeles Center of Photography, University Gallery at Cal Poly, and The Berlin Foto...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Simon Procter - Stella McCartney Opéra, Spring- Summer 2006 Paris
Located in PARIS, FR
chromogenic print About this image: Stella McCartney Fashion Show, Spring/Summer 2006 Collection in the Ballet Room of the Grand Hôtel de Paris, named Opéra Garnier in homage to th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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C Print

Ultraviolet Flowers - A Limited Edition Photograph - Tom Blachford & Kate Ballis
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Influorescense - A limited edition large scale photography collaboration by Tom Blachford and Kate Ballis. The series takes its name from the marriage of two words. Fluorescence (me...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Large Maxx Hermann C-Print, Signed Limited Edition
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Additional Information: Work is titled “Hersheys”. Provenance: Wolfgang Roth & Partners Fine Art, Miami, Florida. Marking(s); notes: signed; ed. 1/ 5; 2007 Country of origin; mater...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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C Print

Beach parking at Georgica
Located in Fairfield, CT
Archival pigment print 40 x 60 in.
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Taxi Portrait - Lost in Thought in New York City
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk's signature hi-color/design photography merges with photojournalism in this introspective New York City Taxi Portrait. Signed, dated, numbered low...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink

Dune Path
Located in Fairfield, CT
Editions of 12. Mounting and framing not included.
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Aspens
Located in New York, NY
Samoylova's "Landscape Sublime" series explores how landscape imagery in contemporary culture is used to create constructed realities, wholly apart from our lived experiences. Samoyl...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Iceberg N°2 by Christophe Jacrot - Landscape photography, winter, sea, blue
Located in Paris, FR
Iceberg N°2 is a limited-edition photograph by French contemporary artist Christophe Jacrot. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 2 dimensions: *60 ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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C Print, Photographic Paper

Hilary Lloyd, Shopfront - Signed Print, Contemporary Photography
Located in Hamburg, DE
Hilary Lloyd (British, b. 1964) Shopfront, 1999 Medium: Offset lithograph on card stock Dimensions: 21 x 26 cm Edition of 100: Hand-signed, numbered and dated Condition: Excellent
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20th Century Contemporary Photography

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Offset

Summer Dunes
Located in Fairfield, CT
Editions of 12. Mounting and framing not included.
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

PROJECTED SPECIMEN – DEER
Located in Seoul, KR
About PROJECTED SPECIMEN Series … in Projected Specimen series (2014), Han positions multiple screens placed around the exhibition space showing the shadows of a dog, rabbit, deer, e...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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C Print

"The Beatles at Candlestick Park" 1966 framed photograph by Jim Marshall
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"The Beatles at Candlestick Park" photograph by Jim Marshall depicts George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and John Lennon at their final concert at Candlestick Park in San Fr...
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1960s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Paper

"Deborah Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie on Their Roof in NYC" framed photo
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Deborah Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie on Their Roof in NYC 11/28/80" black and white photograph by Allan Tannenbaum. Image size: 9 x 13 inches. The text to the right of the photo...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Paper

"Jimi at Woburn Festival 1968" framed B&W photograph by Michael Putland
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Jimi at Woburn Festival 1968" framed black and white photograph by Michael Putland of Jimi Hendrix at the July 6, 1968, Woburn Music Festival in England. "Jimi at Woburn Festival 1...
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1960s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Paper

Cape Cross - Studio Portrait, Stallion, Champion, Equine Art Print Unframed
Located in London, GB
Cape Cross (13 March 1994 – 21 April 2017) was an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse. He is a son of the July Cup winner Green Desert and Cheveley Park Stakes, winner Park Appeal who ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Bla...

Pulpit in Room Limited edition fine art print signed by the artist
Located in BORDEAUX, FR
Born in 1990 in Cartagena, Jose Sierra Vega is a prodigious young Colombian photographer. Employing photography as an instrument to explore the human ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Proposal
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Proposal, 2022 20 x 30" Cyanotype Unique Variant Print Limited Edition of 7 + Cyanotype hand-printed on Arches BFK Rives French watercolor paper + Deckled Edges on all four sides + Signed and editioned on front in pencil + Letter of Authenticity + Printed in Los Angeles, CA WHAT IS A CYANOTYPE? cyan = blue type = print Cyanotype is a historic photographic processes, invented in 1842 and used by Anna Atkins–the first female photographer. The process involves coating watercolor paper with light-sensitive chemistry made of iron salts. Photographic negatives are laid on top, exposed in the sunlight, and then washed in water to develop into the deep Prussian-blue unique to cyanotypes. Brings a moment of beauty and conversation to any space. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Alexandra DeFurio...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Magazine Paper, Newsprint, Colo...

Make up - Part I
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Sebastien's body of work unfolds around the image. Almost always, he works on his work in series, which means that several works result from one source image. He is very methodical ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Gesso, Acrylic, Monotype

"Steve Miller 'Gretsch Guitar'" photograph by Lisa S. Johnson from Hard Rock
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Steve Miller 'Gretsch Guitar'" framed color photograph by Lisa S. Preston taken for her book "108 Rock Star Guitars." "Photo by Lisa S. Johnson" printed on front lower right corner....
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Paper

"The Cure Gets Caught on Columbus Ave., NYC 4/11/80" photo by Allan Tannenbaum
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"The Cure Gets Caught on Columbus Ave., NYC 4/11/80" black and white photograph by Allan Tannenbaum. Image size: 9 x 13 inches. The text reads: "The Cure New York City 1980. In 1978, the Sussex ensemble led by Robert Smith changed its name from Easy Cure to the name that would follow them into the pages of music history - the Cure. Their debut album, 'Three Imaginary Boys...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Paper

014
Located in Almaty, KZ
Bismildin (b. 1987) is a Kazakh photographer belonging to the young generation who actively collaborates with fashion publications, exhibitions, and social projects. Working primaril...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Metal

Iceland Glacier Sólheimajökull, 2011
Located in New York, NY
Iceland Glacier Sólheimajökull, 2011. Is an archival inkjet print that captures the uncanny beauty of one of the most enigmatic glaciers in Iceland. Sólheimajökull is an outlet gla...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Inkjet, Archival Ink

Red 03
Located in Almaty, KZ
Bismildin (b. 1987) is a Kazakh photographer belonging to the young generation who actively collaborates with fashion publications, exhibitions, and social projects. Working primaril...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Metal

"Bedroom Action" Photography on Aluminum, Figurative, Nude, Color
Located in New York, NY
"Bedroom Action" Photography, Dye Sublimation on Aluminum, Removable Censor Bar Limited Edition of 5 This piece is signed on verso, includes gallery label, and certificate of authenticity. Leah Schrager is an artist who works between the web and New York City. She graduated in 2015 with an MFA in Fine Art from Parsons, The New School. In her work, she photographs, appears in, augments and markets her own image. She is interested in the line, movement and, biography of the female body. In 2010, she founded a new form of therapy as Sarah White, The Naked Therapist, followed by online performance @OnaArtist (Instagram 3 million+). Her project, “Ona,” an artist and musician, evolved out of the question of celebrity as art practice. With her performances, Schrager explores themes of sexuality, representation, and distribution. Her practice is situated in a contemporary hotbed of female (in)appropriateness, arousal, celebrity, fandom, and commercialism that seeks to explore female biography and labor in today’s global society. Schrager has been compared by journalists to such seminal figures as Marina Abramovic, Marcel Duchamp, Laurel Nakadate, Diane Fossey, and Sigmund Freud. She and/or her work has been profiled in 1000′s of media outlets, including Art Forum, Monopol, The Huffington Post, Vice, Viceland, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, CBS News, ABC News, The NY Daily News, and Playboy. She has exhibited with The Museum Of Sex, Johannes Vogt Gallery, Castor Gallery, Roman Fine Art...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Metal

"Femme Du Canyon" Photography 28" x 20" inch Edition of 20 by Lika Brutyan
Located in Culver City, CA
"Femme Du Canyon" Photography 28" x 20" inch Edition of 20 by Lika Brutyan Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Not Framed. Ships in a tube. Lika Brutyan is Ameri...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Rag Paper, Archival Pigment

Red 01
Located in Almaty, KZ
Bismildin (b. 1987) is a Kazakh photographer belonging to the young generation who actively collaborates with fashion publications, exhibitions, and social projects. Working primaril...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Metal

Kate Spade Birch Way with Dragonfruit, 2019
Located in Lenox, MA
From "The Good Dishes" Collection Kate Spade Birch Way with Dragonfruit, 2019 30" x 20" Photograph Archival Pigment Print Edition of 5 + 2 APs Signed in Verso Artist's Bio: US, Bor...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Untitled (from the series A Bee in the Rose)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Erica Kelly Martin is an artist and photographer, based in Los Angeles, whose work centers on recurring themes of identity, transformation, and the paradox of human existence, conden...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Satsuma Town, Kagoshima Prefecture (C-2318)
Located in New York, NY
4 x 5 inch contact print (image size), on 8 x 10 inch sheet, edition 10, signed on verso LARGER SIZES AVAILABLE - please inquire. Toshio Shibata is one of Japan's leading landscape ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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C Print

SIMON PROCTER - Karl & Brides, Haute Couture 2010, Rue Cambon, Paris
Located in PARIS, FR
Limited edition of 10 + 2 artist proof About the picture : Chanel rue Cambon, unusual scene for the Fashion shows but feels like home. On the backstage, few minute before the oshow ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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C Print

"Rick Savage Def Leppard" guitar photo by Lisa S. Johnson from Hard Rock Hotel
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Original photo of a Rick Savage Def Leppard guitar taken by Lisa S. Johnson for her book, "108 Rock Star Guitars." "Rick Savage Def Lepard" printed on lower left front margin. "Photo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Paper

"Only You No 602" Photography, Archival Ink on Aluminum
Located in New York, NY
ONLY YOU Series Photography, Archival Ink on Aluminum Dimensions 8 x 12in (Limited Edition of 6), 12 x 18in (Limited Edition of 6). Signed on verso, includes a certificate of authen...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Metal

Women on Top
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Limited Edition, Unique Variant Print. Two women in round toed-pumps with skirts blowing in the wind, three men in overcoats with hats in their hands. This flirty diptych was inspired by the glamorous style of the 1960's, turning the tables and putting women on top, men below with hats off. + Cyanotype hand-printed on Arches BFK Rives French watercolor paper + Deckled Edges on all four sides + Signed and editioned on front in pencil + Letter of Authenticity + Printed in Los Angeles, CA WHAT IS A CYANOTYPE? cyan = blue type = print Cyanotype is a historic photographic processes, invented in 1842 and used by Anna Atkins–the first female photographer. The process involves coating watercolor paper with light-sensitive chemistry made of iron salts. Photographic negatives are laid on top, exposed in the sunlight, and then washed in water to develop into the deep Prussian-blue unique to cyanotypes. Brings a moment of beauty and conversation to any space. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Alexandra DeFurio...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Film, Watercolor, Magazine Paper, Color, Photogram

"Fishing For New Friends" Photography, Color, Aluminum Dibond Mounted Print
Located in New York, NY
"Fishing For New Friends" Photography: Aluminum Dibond Mounted Print, Giclée Fuji Metallic Paper, High Gloss Lamination Dimensions: 20 x 30 in, 16 x 24 in, or 12 x 18 in These photog...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Metal

Untitled, from the series Ametsuchi
Located in Santa Fe, NM
With a title that loosely translates to “heaven and earth,” Rinko Kawauchi’s 2013 publication, Ametsuchi addresses the inherently circular nature of creation and destruction through ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Lambda

GREG LOTUS - Wagon Wheel
Located in PARIS, FR
The female nude becomes a canvas on which to paint with shadows and light. The curvature of the woman’s body is accentuated by the spiralling circular forms cast over her body. The f...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Painted Rainbows
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Julian Lennon’s photographs serve as allegorical vehicles in this time of heightened awareness for our planet’s peril. In surveilling these ever-changing skies, Atmospheria celebrate...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Dye Transfer

Infrared - Study 2
Located in Knokke-Heist, VWV
Fine art photograph by Antoine Rose from his "Up in the Air" series Limited edtion of 8 + 2 AP's
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

#114, 1970s Nightclubs of Chicago South Side - Rare Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
"Abramson comes much closer to recording the sound of these clubs than we would have any right to expect from a photographer." - Nick Hornby (London, 2009), Light On the South Side, ...
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1970s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

PHILIPPE ROBERT - Marie Agnes Gillot - Opera National de Paris 2008
Located in PARIS, FR
Limited edition of 12. Metal framed and aluminium monting. Signed and numbered on the back. Philippe Robert was the first photographer to shoot the Opéra national of Paris ballerinas. Marie Agnes...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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Silver Gelatin

White Lipped Tree Viper #3 - Animal portrait photography, green snake
Located in Paris, FR
'White Lipped Tree Viper #3, Albuquerque, NM, 2016' is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Brad Wilson from the ‘Affinity’ series which features studio portraits of w...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Noritake Yoshino with Kiwi, 2020
Located in Lenox, MA
From "The Good Dishes" Collection Noritake Yoshino with Kiwi, 2020 30" x 20" Photograph Archival Pigment Print Edition of 5 + 2 APs: $2400 Signed en verso/Signed Certificate of Auth...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Concert
Located in Kansas City, MO
archival pigment print
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Teatro Cervantes, Tanger, Morocco
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
Limited Edition Material: Chromogenic Print mounted on dibond and framed with art glass Since 2002, photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre have been united by their shared pa...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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C Print

Colour print of Anthurium flower in red green and yellow
Located in London, GB
“Nature creates nothing without the purpose” - Aristotele Anthurium - flower study, originally taken on medium format Fujichrome transparency colour film in the studio setting, in 1...
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1990s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

PANTHEON.1
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Martin Etem is a multidisciplinary artist using drawing, painting, and sculpture to survey modern society’s ideologies and sociology. Influenced by past experiences and imagination, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Pigment, Inkjet, Mirror, Foam

Massimo Listri, Biblioteca Marciana, Venezia, Italy, 2012. C-print, Edition of 5
Located in London, GB
C-Print mounted on aluminum and framed. Edition of 5 Signed, numbered and titled on label. Various sizes available. 120 x 100 cm (47,2'' x 39,3'' Inches) - € 12.500 150 x 120 cm (5...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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C Print

FAXIFOSS #2 (Faxi, Iceland)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
The artworks presented in ÍSLENSKIR FOSSAR were produced in Iceland in October of 2021 towards the end of global travel restrictions. Traversing the stark volcanic landscape, Johnson...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Anges’ Cousin in America, expressive, monochrome, expressive
Located in New York, NY
This photogravure by Carol Munder, 16 x 16" framed; has a beautiful sense of light that creates an expressive image for the viewer, depicting a quiet scene divided in foreground, middle ground, and background that draws the viewer into the atmospheric perspective. In the foreground there is a haunting figure making eye contact, followed by some houses that create a gap to reveal another figure in the background that is out of focus, all if these aspects come together creating an engaging narrative. Carol Munder (b. 1953) is a Key West based photographer and lithographer. Munder graduated from Colombia College in 1973 with a focus in photography. In 1986, she was the recipient of the NEXUS PRESS Book Competition residency. From the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, she created large-format black and white prints of nineteenth-century statuary and Etruscan figurines utilizing a simplistic camera with a plastic lens. After she acquired a gravure press, Munder taught herself the art of photogravure. Munder explains, "This [plastic] lens produces a soft focus image that is evident in my work…The tree then branches as I work with the process if photogravure. Photogravure is a 19th century technique used to transfer an image to a copper plate by means of photomechanical process... the plate is [then] inked and printed on paper using a gravure press. My current imagery is focusing on wooden sculptures that have been found in French flea markets"
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Photogravure

Garage
Located in Kansas City, MO
archival pigment print
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

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