Abstract Photography

from a series of works capturing conceptual signs in iconic landscapes captured with a large format camera to allow epic scale print sizes with incredible image details CLOUD STUD...

Edward Burtynsky (b. 1955) is Canada's most successful photographer. Through masterful technique and frequently dizzying compositions, Burtynsky presents thought-provoking inquiries...

'10000 blue days' Mesr Desert, Iran 2016. Limited edition of 20.

' Rain II ' SIGNED Limited Edition Oversize print by Stuart Möller Beautiful large print of rain falling onto water. 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size - signed and numbere...

GERHARD RICHTER b. 1932 Born in Dresden 1932 (German) Title: Abstract Photo Abstraktes Foto, 1989 Technique: Hand Signed, Dated and Numbered Black an...

N°14, Illusions is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Matthieu Venot. This photograph is a limited edition of 10 copies, it is sold framed with a white shadow box...

This is an exclusive handprinted unique cyanotype that takes its inspiration from the mid-century modern shapes. It's made by layering paper cutouts and different exposures using uv-...

This is an exclusive handprinted unique cyanotype that takes its inspiration from the mid-century modern shapes. It's made by layering paper cutouts and d...

Between the Trees 12, 2014 - Misty and Fog Natural Landscape in Ancient Woodland by Ellie Davies Between the Trees 12 is a stunning Digital C-Type Print on Fuji Maxima Matte paper, ...

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Igor Vitomirov has over 15 years experience of working in photography. He loves nature and people and expressing their interactions with different emotions. Igor's...

African Mines 007 is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 3 dimensions: *60 × 60 ...

an homage to Caspar David Friedrich, towering thunder clouds over the Mediterranean Sea, captured with a large format camera to allow epic scale photograph...

Though it resembles a giant abstract watercolor painting owing to its soft gradations and luminous quality, this is a form of photography called a cyano...

Baltic Ice, Kloogaranna 021 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 4 dime...

large scale photography of mesmerizing color compositions of liquid cloudscape painting in water, hypnotizing abstract liquidscapes from the body of works titled 'Hemisphere' Hemisp...

Stefanie created the art for both main actors Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling in the movie 'Stay' directed by Marc Forster. She also created the art for several dream sequences and the ...

Baltic Ice, Kakumaee 004 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 3 dimensi...

An underwater photograph of a naked young woman swimming in dense bubbles. Memories of the Russian model Katerina Potapkina. Original gallery quality archival pigment print on pape...

Deep Mirroring Forest 011 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 5 dimens...

Summer Interlude II (Deconstructivism) - 2020 - about the narrative potential of images. 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Art...

In Fidel Santos' work, Saint Peter Chanel, a sense of pure exuberance is captured through the depiction of the sculptural remnant of the head of the saint, The first martyr of the So...

CREATURE II by Christian Stoll from a series of still life photographs capturing fantastical creatures made of found objects and organic materials 28 x 40 inches (71 x 102cm) editi...

Pillow III. photography belongs to a concept of three photographies done on a sole bank in a park. Will be signed.

The galaxy like silver particles scattered on the giant black circle which floating in the square frame. That is a complexity of artist’s concept formation and culture practicing. In...

Original black-and-white lobby card for the TV show "I Love Lucy" (1951) featuring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a charming domestic sce...

This is an exclusive handprinted unique cyanotype that takes its inspiration from the mid-century modern shapes. It's made by layering paper cutouts and different exposures using uv-...

abstract photography, signed by the author, limited 3.

From Eduardo Rezende’s new series Rilievo, this photograph treats the skin of architecture as a sculptural field. Curved partitions fold into one another, casting measured shadows th...

Wallscape VI (Il Famoso) by Frank Schott from a series of photographic observances capturing urban textures and palimpsest color palettes in Italy 48 x 60 inches / 122cm x 152cm edi...

Unique chromoskedasic monoprint on photographic paper 22 x 18 inches framed This contemporary, abstract style chromoskedasic monoprint was created by experimental photographer Birgi...

The Bog Renaturated 016 is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. It is an archival pigment print on Hahnemüle Fine Art Paper. This photograph is sold u...

Living in a Dream (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No. 9781. Not mounted. on offer is a piece from the movie "Till Death do us Part" Stefanie Schneider’s Till Death Do Us Part or “There is Only the Desert for You.” BY DREW HAMMOND Stefanie Schneider’s Til Death to Us Part is a love narrative that comprises three elements: 1. A montage of still images shot and elaborated by means of her signature technique of using Polaroid formats with outdated and degraded film stock in natural light, with the resulting im ages rephotographed (by other means) enlarged and printed in such a way as to generate further distortions of the image. 2. Dated Super 8 film footage without a sound track and developed by the artist. 3. Recorded off-screen narration of texts written by the actors or photographic subjects, and selected by the artist. At the outset, this method presupposes a tension between still and moving image; between the conventions about the juxtaposition of such images in a moving image presentation; and, and a further tension between the work’s juxtaposition of sound and image, and the conventional relationship between sound and image that occurs in the majority of films. But Till Death Do Us Part also conduces to an implied synthesis of still and moving image by the manner in which the artist edits or cuts the work. First, she imposes a rigorous criterion of selection, whether to render a section as a still or moving image. The predominance of still images is neither an arbitrary residue of her background as a still photographer—in fact she has years of background in film projects; nor is it a capricious reaction against moving picture convention that demands more moving images than stills. Instead, the number of still images has a direct thematic relation to the fabric of the love story in the following sense. Stills, by definition, have a very different relationship to time than do moving images. The unedited moving shot occurs in real time, and the edited moving shot, despite its artificial rendering of time, all too 2009often affords the viewer an even greater illusion of experiencing reality as it unfolds. It is self-evident that moving images overtly mimic the temporal dynamic of reality. Frozen in time—at least overtly—still photographic images pose a radical tension with real time. This tension is all the more heightened by their “real” content, by the recording aspect of their constitution. But precisely because they seem to suspend time, they more naturally evoke a sense of the past and of its inherent nostalgia. In this way, they are often more readily evocative of other states of experience of the real, if we properly include in the real our own experience of the past through memory, and its inherent emotions. This attribute of stills is the real criterion of their selection in Til Death Do Us Part where consistently, the artist associates them with desire, dream, memory, passion, and the ensemble of mental states that accompany a love relationship in its nascent, mature, and declining aspects. A SYNTHESIS OF MOVING AND STILL IMAGES BOTH FORMAL AND CONCEPTUAL It is noteworthy that, after a transition from a still image to a moving image, as soon as the viewer expects the movement to continue, there is a “logical” cut that we expect to result in another moving image, not only because of its mise en scène, but also because of its implicit respect of traditional rules of film editing, its planarity, its sight line, its treatment of 3D space—all these lead us to expect that the successive shot, as it is revealed, is bound to be another moving image. But contrary to our expectation, and in delayed reaction, we are startled to find that it is another still image. One effect of this technique is to reinforce the tension between still and moving image by means of surprise. But in another sense, the technique reminds us that, in film, the moving image is also a succession of stills that only generate an illusion of movement. Although it is a fact that here the artist employs Super 8 footage, in principle, even were the moving images shot with video, the fact would remain since video images are all reducible to a series of discrete still images no matter how “seamless” the transitions between them. Yet a third effect of the technique has to do with its temporal implication. Often art aspires to conflate or otherwise distort time. Here, instead, the juxtaposition poses a tension between two times: the “real time” of the moving image that is by definition associated with reality in its temporal aspect; and the “frozen time” of the still image associated with an altered sense of time in memory and fantasy of the object of desire—not to mention the unreal time of the sense of the monopolization of the gaze conventionally attributed to the photographic medium, but which here is associated as much with the yearning narrator as it is with the viewer. In this way, the work establishes and juxtaposes two times for two levels of consciousness, both for the narrator of the story and, implicitly, for the viewer: A) the immediate experience of reality, and B) the background of reflective effects of reality, such as dream, memory, fantasy, and their inherent compounding of past and present emotions. In addition, the piece advances in the direction of a Gesammtkunstwerk, but in a way that reconsiders this synaesthesia as a unified complex of genres—not only because it uses new media that did not exist when the idea was first enunciated in Wagner’s time, but also because it comprises elements that are not entirely of one artist’s making, but which are subsumed by the work overall. The totality remains the vision of one artist. In this sense, Till Death Do Us Part reveals a further tension between the central intelligence of the artist and the products of other individual participants. This tension is compounded to the degree that the characters’ attributes and narrated statements are part fiction and part reality, part themselves, and part their characters. But Stefanie Schneider is the one who assembles, organizes, and selects them all. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THIS IDEA (above) AND PHOTOGRAPHY This selective aspect of the work is an expansion of idea of the act of photography in which the artistic photographer selects that which is already there, and then, by distortion, definition or delimitation, compositional and lighting emphasis, and by a host of other techniques, subsumes that which is already there to transform it into an image of the artist’s contrivance, one that is no less of the artist’s making than a work in any other medium, but which is distinct from many traditional media (such as painting) in that it retains an evocation of the tension between what is already there and what is of the artist’s making. Should it fail to achieve this, it remains, to that degree, mere illustration to which aesthetic technique has been applied with greater or lesser skill. The way Til Death Do Us Part expands this basic principle of the photographic act, is to apply it to further existing elements, and, similarly, to transform them. These additional existing elements include written or improvised pieces narrated by their authors in a way that shifts between their own identities and the identities of fictional characters. Such characters derive partially from their own identities by making use of real or imagined memories, dreams, fears of the future, genuine impressions, and emotional responses to unexpected or even banal events. There is also music, with voice and instrumental accompaniment. The music slips between integration with the narrative voices and disjunction, between consistency and tension. At times it would direct the mood, and at other times it would disrupt. Despite that much of this material is made by others, it becomes, like the reality that is the raw material of an art photo, subsumed and transformed by the overall aesthetic act of the manner of its selection, distortion, organization, duration, and emotional effect. * * * David Lean was fond of saying that a love story is most effective in a squalid visual environment. In Til Death Do Us Part, the squalor of the American desert...

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Igor Vitomirov has over 15 years experience of working in photography. He loves nature and people and expressing their interactions with different emotions. Igor's...

The Bog 003 is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. It is a Fine Art Print on Hahnemüle Paper. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is...

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Igor Vitomirov has over 15 years experience of working in photography. He loves nature and people and expressing their interactions with different emotions. Igor's...

Jose Bassit Kepha, Catimbau Valley I, Brazil, 2012 Kepha series 72 x 48 inches Edition of 5 Archival Pigment Print UNFRAMED Ask us for framing options

"Gibson SG – Buckle Rash" Dye sublimation on aluminium, flush mounted 37.5 x 30 inches / 95 x 76 cm Gibson SG – Buckle Rash is part of Scott McDermott’s acclaimed Backline series, a...

Aerial view of Muhammad Ali victorious after round 3 knockout of Cleveland Williams during fight at Astrodome, November 14, 1966 24 x 20 in. (61 x 51 cm) Archival Digital C-Print ...

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Igor Vitomirov has over 15 years experience of working in photography. He loves nature and people and expressing their interactions w...

ATARI Imperatore by Frank Schott from a series of photographic observances capturing urban textures and color palettes 30 x 46.25 inches / 76cm x 118cm edition of 25 signed 48 x ...

Streets of Kowloon Navy, part of Richard Heeps series photographing on the streets of Hong Kong in Kowloon in 2016 this stunning abstract piece is so striking in a room. The whole 20...

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Niko (aka c-nik) is a multidisciplinary artist, currently based on a pixel in a city that never sleeps, quietly working to create peace from chaos in surreal arcs ...

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Igor Vitomirov has over 15 years experience of working in photography. He loves nature and people and expressing their interactions with different emotions. Igor's...

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Niko (aka c-nik) is a multidisciplinary artist, currently based on a pixel in a city that never sleeps, quietly working to create peace from chaos in surreal arcs ...

This unique cyanotype monotype transforms organic, river-like forms into a serene field of flowing blues. Soft, undulating shapes echo water, canyon horizons, and desert calm, giving...

Liberace II by Christian Stoll an epic scale photograph of mesmerizing texture details ( 60 x 48" / 152.25 x 122cm ) edition of 7 signed 40 x 32 inches / 122cm x 81.25cm edition o...

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Andrew Zhao is a student of his experiences. Hailing from Washington to Suzhou, China to Washington again, his fascination with art blossomed under the quaint mini...

Part of Eduardo Rezende’s Billboard series, this work explores the dialogue between image, architecture, and illusion. In this series, Rezende photographs urban façades and overlays ...

ABOUT THIS PIECE: Freeforms : Exploring form and color combinations in a series of freestanding paper foil sculptures. Using natural light I arranged foiled shapes in different posit...

Pillow II. photography belongs to a concept of three photographies done on a sole bank in a park. Will be signed.

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Igor Vitomirov has over 15 years experience of working in photography. He loves nature and people and expressing their interactions w...

Wallscape II by Frank Schott from a series of photographic observances capturing urban textures and color palettes 48 x 60 inches / 122cm x 152cm edition of 7 signed 32 x 40 inches...

Abstract Metal Shape in Rocky Landscape - Esoteric Art Photograph Photo depicting a curved, metallic sculpture resting on a rocky ground by Y. Y. Meru (American b. 1923 d. 2009.) Th...

From Eduardo Rezende’s Lavori in Corso series, this work contemplates the quiet intervals within construction—those suspended moments when form is still becoming. Shadow, texture, an...

ABOUT THIS PIECE: Danish photographer Kim Høltermand photographed the Herning Art Museum in Jutland, Denmark. He is known for his moody, quiet photos that show public spaces before t...

Original black-and-white lobby card for the film "Humoresque" (1946) featuring John Garfield and Oscar Levant. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a somber moment between ...

large scale photograph morphing into a mesmerizing abstract tapestry, a highly detailed aerial photograph, on closer observation morphing into an abstract pictorial tapestry of deser...

Stars 15, 2015 - Stars and Trees in Ancient English Woodland Forest Landscape by Ellie Davies Stars 15 by Ellie Davies is a stunning Digital C-Type Print on Fuji Maxima Matte paper,...

Stars 10, 2015 - Stars and Trees in Ancient English Woodland Forest Landscape by Ellie Davies Stars 10 by Ellie Davies is a stunning Digital C-Type Print on Fuji Maxima Matte paper,...

This is an exclusive handprinted unique cyanotype that takes its inspiration from the mid-century modern shapes. It's made by layering paper cutouts and different exposures using uv-...