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Abstract Photography For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1980s
Chicago 45, abstraction
Located in Greenwich, CT
Aaron Siskind was a prominent American photographer known for his significant contributions to abstract photography. Chicago is from a well known series where he photographed walls w...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Kentucky 7, abstract black and white
Located in Greenwich, CT
His famous series that mimicked the abstract expressionist painters movement - but in photography. A great image and a striking work for any sophisticated or rustic environment. Ima...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6: Tights in Shimotakaido" – Daido Moriyama
Located in Zurich, CH
DAIDO MORIYAMA (*1938, Japan)
"How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6: Tights in Shimotakaido"
1987/2021
Silver gelatin print, later print
Sheet 34 x 26.5 cm (13 3/8 x 10 3/8 in.)
not p...
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Morocco 93 by Aaron Siskind, 1982, Photogravure
Located in Dallas, TX
Morocco 93 by Aaron Siskind presents an abstract image, a close up of a textured rock slab. Small dark square holes scatter across the rock. The subject is cropped, emphasizing the t...
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Photography
Materials
Photogravure
Vintage Large Format Abstract Unique Color Photo Polaroid Photograph Ellen Carey
By Ellen Carey
Located in Surfside, FL
Untitled, Unique photograph. Center panel from larger scale installation. Shot in the 20X24 format. (this measures about 20X20 inches)
Ellen Carey, American artist and photographer.
Ellen Carey resides in Hartford, Connecticut, and teaches at the Hartford Art School. She holds a B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri, and an M.F.A. from State University of New York at Buffalo. Her photographs have been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums, including the International Center for Photography, New York and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has received many grants from her home state of Connecticut as well as the Massachusetts Council of the Arts, New Works Grant, New York State Federation for Artists Grant; and a National Endowment for the Arts Award. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; the Baltimore Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum of Arts; Chase Manhattan Bank; Coca Cola Corporation; Fogg Art Museum; George Eastman House; International Center for Photography; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others.
Abstract photography, sometimes called non-objective, experimental, conceptual or concrete photography, is a means of depicting a visual image that does not have an immediate association with the object world and that has been created through the use of photographic equipment, processes or materials. Some photographers pushed the boundaries of conventional imagery by incorporating the visions of surrealism or futurism into their work. Man Ray, Maurice Tabard, André Kertész, Curtis Moffat and Filippo Masoero were some of the best known artists who produced startling imagery that questioned both reality and perspective.
Both during and after World War II photographers such as Minor White, Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith and Lotte Jacobi explored compositions of found objects in ways that demonstrated even our natural world has elements of abstraction embedded in it. Beginning in the late 1970s photographers stretched the limits of both scale and surface in what was then traditional photographic media that had to be developed in a darkroom. Inspired by the work of Moholy-Nagy, Susan Rankaitis first began embedding found images from scientific textbooks into large-scale photograms. By the 1990s a new wave of photographers were exploring the possibilities of using computers to create new ways of creating photographs. Photographers such as Thomas Ruff, Barbara Kasten, Tom Friedman, and Carel Balth were creating works that combined photography, sculpture, printmaking and computer-generated images.
Any boundaries that remained between pure artists and pure photographers were eliminated by individuals who worked exclusively in photography but produced only computer-generated images. Among the most well-known of the early 21st century generation were Gaston Bertin...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Chic Fashion Model with Fireworks Explosion of Color - Monochromatic
Located in Miami, FL
A chic, high-fashion model clad in high heels and a chic hat holds a refreshing drink as she sits on a pedestal. She is depicted in silhouette as a burst of zoomed fireworks explode...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Contemplation by Ida Lansky, c. 1950's, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
By Ida Lansky
Located in Dallas, TX
Contemplation by Ida Lansky depicts a group of three statues. The figures are turned towards each other and away from the viewer, as if talking in secret.
This photograph is listed as a 9.5 x 7.5 inch vintage silver gelatin print. It is signed and titled in pencil on mount margin by the artist.
Ida G. Lansky was born in 1910 in Toronto, Canada. She pursued many careers in her lifetime including Nursing, Art, and Library Science. In 1928 she moved to New York City and later attended New York University, The Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn, NY and Cornell University. In 1942 she received a B.S. in Public Health Nursing.
Ida Lansky moved to Hawaii in 1945 and married Irving Lansky. She then moved to Nor- man, Oklahoma and then to Denton, Texas where she studied art and was mother to two children, Ellen and Michele.
From 1954 - 1959 she was in the Visual Art studies program at Texas Women’s University in Denton with an emphasis on photography. She studied under Carlotta Corpron...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Illusion by Ida Lansky, ca. 1950's, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print, Photography
By Ida Lansky
Located in Dallas, TX
Illusion by Ida Lansky depicts a glass vase in front of a window with blinds. The background is distorted through the glass, abstracting the image by emphasizing the varying tones and shapes.
Illusion by Ida Lansky is listed as a 9.5 x 7.5 inch vintage gelatin silver print. This photograph is signed and titled in pencil on mount margin by artist.
Ida G. Lansky was born in 1910 in Toronto, Canada. She pursued many careers in her lifetime including Nursing, Art, and Library Science. In 1928 she moved to New York City and later attended New York University, The Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn, NY and Cornell University. In 1942 she received a B.S. in Public Health Nursing.
Ida Lansky moved to Hawaii in 1945 and married Irving Lansky. She then moved to Nor- man, Oklahoma and then to Denton, Texas where she studied art and was mother to two children, Ellen and Michele.
From 1954 - 1959 she was in the Visual Art studies program at Texas Women’s University in Denton with an emphasis on photography. She studied under Carlotta Corpron...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (artichokes) by Ida Lansky, ca. 1950, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
By Ida Lansky
Located in Dallas, TX
Untitled (artichokes) by Ida G. Lansky features a detail shot of whole and cut up artichokes. The tones of this photograph are reversed, creating an abstract image from a common object. The produce is lit dramatically from the side, emphasizing it's intricate details.
Untitled (artichokes) by Ida G. Lansky is an 8 x 10 inch vintage silver gelatin print. This photograph includes the artist's stamp in black ink on print verso.
Ida G. Lansky was born in 1910 in Toronto, Canada. She pursued many careers in her lifetime including Nursing, Art, and Library Science. In 1928 she moved to New York City and later attended New York University, The Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn, NY and Cornell University. In 1942 she received a B.S. in Public Health Nursing.
Ida Lansky moved to Hawaii in 1945 and married Irving Lansky. She then moved to Nor- man, Oklahoma and then to Denton, Texas where she studied art and was mother to two children, Ellen and Michele.
From 1954 - 1959 she was in the Visual Art studies program at Texas Women’s University in Denton with an emphasis on photography. She studied under Carlotta Corpron...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Nude Rock by Margaret Hicks, 1986, C-Print, Abstract Photography
Located in Dallas, TX
Nude Rock by Margaret Hicks depicts a detailed shot of cracks on a tan rock. The shape of the rock and placement of the crack give the illusion of the female body.
Nude Rock is a 1...
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
Berlin Wall Photograph 1989 (Berlin street photography Leni Sinclair)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
"The higher you build your barriers the taller I become"
The Berlin Wall, 1989 by legendary photo journalist, Leni Sinclair - a Kresge Foundation Eminent Artist (see The Guardian UK, Jan. 28, 2016) & legendary documenterian of 60's counter-cultural America.
Archival inkjet print.
Dimensions: 11 x 14 inches including borders.
Hand signed, titled & dated in ink on the lower margins.
Acquired directly from artist. Lot 180...
Category
1980s Street Art Abstract Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Vintage Large Format Avant Garde Polaroid 20X24 Photograph
By György Kepes
Located in Surfside, FL
Sorry for the reflection on the plexi. In the early 1980s, the Polaroid Foundation invited Hungarian-born painter and photographer György Kepes (1906-2001) to use the 20x24 Polaroid camera. The resulting carefully staged compositions summarize many of his artistic concerns, employing such objects as prisms, flowers, and graphic papers to manipulate the effects of light and form.
György Kepes 1906-2001 was a Hungarian-born painter, photographer, designer, educator, and art theorist. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1937, he taught design at the New Bauhaus (later the School of Design, then Institute of Design, then Illinois Institute of Design or IIT) in Chicago. In 1967 He founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he taught until his retirement in 1974. Kepes was born in Selyp, Hungary. His younger brother was Imre Kepes, ambassador in Argentina, father of András Kepes journalist, documentary filmmaker and author. At age 18, he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, where he studied for four years with Istvan Csok, a Hungarian impressionist painter. In the same period, he was also influenced by the socialist avant-garde poet and painter Lajos Kassak.
Kepes gave up painting temporarily and turned instead to filmmaking. In 1930, he settled in Berlin, where he worked as a publication, exhibition and stage designer. Around this time, he designed the dust jacket for Gestalt psychologist Rudolf Arnheim's famous book, Film als Kunst (Film as Art), one of the first published books on film theory. In Berlin, he was also invited to join the design studio of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, the Hungarian photographer who had taught at the Dessau Bauhaus. When, in 1936, Moholy relocated his design studio to London, Kepes joined him there as well.
Kepes was lured to Brooklyn College by Russian-born architect Serge Chermayeff, who had been appointed chair of the Art Department in 1942. There he taught graphic artists such as Saul Bass.
In 1944, he published Language of Vision, an influential book about design and design education. In part, the book was important because it predated three other influential texts on the same subject: Paul Rand, Thoughts on Design (1946), László Moholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion (1947), and Rudolf Arnheim, Art and Visual Perception (1954).
In 1947, Kepes accepted an invitation from the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT to initiate a program there in visual design, a division that later became the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (c1968). Some of the Center's early fellows included artists Otto Piene, Vassilakis Takis, Jack Burnham, Wen-Ying Tsai, Stan Vanderbeek, Maryanne Amacher, Joan Brigham, Lowry Burgess, Peter Campus, Muriel Cooper, Douglas Davis, Susan Gamble, Dieter Jung, Piotr Kowalski, Charlotte Moorman, Antoni Muntadas, Yvonne Rainer, Keiko Prince, Alan Sonfist, Aldo Tambellini, Joe Davis, Bill Seaman, Tamiko Thiel, Alejandro Sina, Don Ritter, Luc Courchesne, and Bill Parker...
Category
1980s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Large Scale 1980s Laser Holography, Cvetkovich Organic Hologram Collage
By Tom Cvetkovich
Located in Surfside, FL
In this holographic collage the artist, and inventor Thomas Cvetkovich uses a method of recording an object image of a first hologram as a second hologram is provided. This holographic method is known as compact holographic human interface, and was invented by him. Reconstructed images of holograms, in this case a fish, a banyan leaf and flora and fauna abstract forms, generally become visible when illuminated by a source of light having an angle of reconstruction. Thse are created with laser and computer technology.
An artile in Life magazine was all it took it took to influence Tom Cvetkovich's career path, one that has brought his Youngstown company, Chromagem, an international clientele.
It focused on new technology that linked the use of lasers in producing holograms, three-dimensional and free-standing images. Reminiscing on Chromagem's past work, Cvetkovich said, One of the things we're most proud of is a series of U.S. postage stamps, achievement in space. We did three stamps for that. We've done postage stamps for Canada, the German government. We've also done work for Moet & Chandon, the champagne; Estee Lauder; and the cover of the 'Star Trek Generations' box set.
Over the past two Christmases, Chromagem created a special variety of Reynolds Wrap that features snowflake holograms stamped on the entire roll.
Cvetkovich created his first hologram when he was a student at Kent State University in 1974. He took science and art classes to gain the knowledge on how to make the creations running through his head and onto a sketchpad into a fully realized form.
"I'm coming at it, primarily, from an art background, but with some science background."
He continued his studies at Lake Forest College. It was the first place in the world to offer a workshop in holography. I was there for their third year.
Combining art, science
Next, he earned a master's degree from the Art Institute of Chicago. The Art Institute was just starting a holography lab. Actually, I had to build my own because theirs wasn't ready.
When I was going to college, I would do a math class and then make art. I could tell I was using different parts of my brain.
Over the years, Cvetkovich has developed a mental truce between the creative and scientific sides of his brain.
At this point, it's more of a craft, he said. I don't rely on a lot of math or science at all. I try to keep abreast at what's being invented, what new...
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media
Abstract Portrait Chromogenic Color Print
By Sandra Haber
Located in Surfside, FL
American artist and photographer, Sandra Haber, born 1956
Exhibited at MoMA, 1984
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color
#189 Yunoyani Village, Nigata Prefecture, Japanese Photography Limited Edition
Located in New york, NY
The photograph Toshio Shibata, #189 Yunoyani Village, Nigata Prefecture, 1989 by Japanese photographer Toshio Shibata is hand-signed (on recto) by the photographer. The 13" x 19" pri...
Category
1980s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Pigment, Arc...
Kentucky 7 by Aaron Siskind, Silver Gelatin Print, Abstract Photography
Located in Dallas, TX
Kentucky 7 by Aaron Siskind is an 11 x 14 inch silver gelatin print. The sheet size of this image is 11 x 14 inches, the image size is 9 5/16 x 12 5/16 inches. This photograph featur...
Category
1950s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Seeing 82-9
Located in New York, NY
Akira Komoto
Seeing 82-9, 1982
Cibachrome print, unique
24 x 19 inches (image and sheet)
Signed on verso
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
Door of Deception - Nude With Rocks Surf, Double Exposure
Located in Carmel, CA
Vintage Mint Condition Platinum Photograph
Fabulous image in the true style of Uelsmann
Category
1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Untitled, Painted Photograph, Landscape Nobuyoshi Araki
Located in Surfside, FL
Acrylic paint embellished silver gelatin print, signed on back and dedicated by the artist, "FOR JOHN". Photograph depicting a red and yellow oval organic mass at center surrounded by green and blue fields. Unframed
Nobuyoshi Araki, born in Tokyo, Japan 1940, is one of Japan's foremost contemporary artists and one of the world's most controversial photographers. His work has drawn worldwide attention notably for its erotic content, which blurs the lines between art and photography.
He studied photography at Chiba University, before moving on to work at advertising agency Dentsu; here he met and married Yōko Araki. During their married life Araki took abundant images of his wife before she died in 1990; he published Sentimental Journey, 1971 - photographs taken while on their honeymoon, and Winter Journey, 1991 - images taken during her last days, amongst others.
Araki is part of a generation of artists who emerged in the 1960s as Japan was recovering from the Second World War...
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Silver Gelatin
Pipes. Abstract black and white vintage photograph. (Framed)
By Leo Matiz
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Abstract (Pipes) by Leo Matiz
Image size: 7.5 in. H x 6.75 in. W
Frame size: 19 in. H x 18 in. W
Gelatin silver print
1950
Framed
Signed, titled, dated in ink on verso, "Leo Matiz, A...
Category
1950s Other Art Style Abstract Photography
Materials
Other Medium
Vik Muniz Memory Rendering of John John (Vik Muniz The Best of Life)
By Vik Muniz
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Vik Muniz Memory Rendering of John John (Vik Muniz The Best of Life):
'John John' is a selection from Vik Muniz's The Best of LIFE series from 1989. Muniz's...
Category
1980s Surrealist Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Art Deco Movie Theater Marquee - Color Field Painting Meet Photography, Abstract
Located in Miami, FL
A marquee for an Art Deco Movie theater in Denton, Texas is photographed with meticulous precision by street photographer Mitchell Funk. Funk's approach...
Category
1980s Color-Field Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
La Fenice Venice Opera House by Erich Auerbach Oversize silver gelatine print
Located in London, GB
"La Fenice" by Erich Auerbach
A general view of the boxes at La Fenice, the Venice Opera House, 1954.
Unframed
Paper Size: 30" x 30'' (inches)
Printed...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Photography
Materials
Black and White
Sydney Opera House, Modern Photography Cover , Abstract Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Modern Photography Cover, February, 1987 Triple exposure of silhouetted men on a hill, against plexiglass colored shapes echoing the bold iconic architectural curves of the opera h...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
SoHo Fire Escapes Manhattan 1984 (Soho Manhattan photograph)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
SoHo Fire Escapes, New York, 1984 by Fernando Natalici:
The simplicity & grace of iconic New York architecture rendered timeless by the snap of the camera. A window into a street photographer's decisive moment. A window into, not only the New York of 'then', but the hidden poetry of urban architecture...
Archival Inkjet Print.
Approximately 12 x 18 inches (image size: approx 12 x 17in.).
Hand signed from an edition of 20.
Obtained directly from artist.
Excellent condition.
New York based photographer Fernando Natalici is best known for his iconographic documentation of the downtown Manhattan art scene of the mid/late 70's and early 80's. Natalici’s portfolio includes sought after images of a young Patti Smith, Blondie, Talking Heads, Keith Haring, The Ramones and more. As an Art Director, Fernando has played a key role in creating memorable visuals for historic NY venues such as CBGB's, The Mudd Club, Area and Danceteria.
Soho Building Architecture, A Brief History
The SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District comprises about 500 buildings, many of which are characterized by their cast-iron facades. Development of the district began in the late 18th century. The population surged after the War of 1812, and some homes from this era still remain. The latter half of the 19th century saw the district evolve into a center of commerce and entertainment, and the majority of the cast-iron buildings the district is known for were constructed during this period. The use of cast-iron allowed for ornate facades that were a much cheaper alternative to granite and marble. However, an increase of industrial production along with rising crime and “immorality” steadily drove residents out of the area.
The district began to decline in the early 20th century, leaving many spaces vacant for decades and leading some to refer to the area as Hell’s Hundred Acres.
It was not until the late 1960s that artists became attracted to the area because the large, unoccupied loft spaces made affordable studios. Many of those who moved into the area lived in their workspaces, even though it was illegal to do so, and the area was not sufficiently equipped for residential life, lacking basic necessities.
At the same time, the entire landscape of SoHo was threatened by plans to build the Lower Manhattan Expressway (LOMEX) - a proposed ten-lane elevated highway that would require the demolition of much of SoHo and Little Italy.
Artists in the area collaborated with other preservation advocates in the first, unsuccessful attempt to designate SoHo as a historic district for its architectural significance. Although that failed, they also formed Artists Against the Expressway and ultimately helped defeat the plans for LOMEX, which saved the architecture in the area.
The “SoHo Effect” has become a model for repurposing an industrial district for mixed use, both commercial and residential, while preserving much of the existing structural integrity. Today SoHo is known for its unique cast-iron architecture, desirable loft living...
Category
1980s Street Art Abstract Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Surreal Landscape Sci-Fi Landscape - Modern Photography Magazine Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Aesthetically, this image is generations ahead of it's time. It looks so contemporary but was done in the early 1980's in the pre-digital ear. It was a Modern Photography Cover 198...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Freemont Street Neon Lights Shine in Vintage Las Vegas - urban photography
Located in Miami, FL
Historic Downtown Las Vegas was famous for Illuminating the night with glowing neon. Photographer Mithcell Funk has captured the essence of old Freemont's street. The Mint, Binion'...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Abstract Photo Abstraktes Foto - German Realism
Located in London, GB
GERHARD RICHTER b. 1932
Born in Dresden 1932 (German)
Title: Abstract Photo Abstraktes Foto, 1989
Technique: Hand Signed, Dated and Numbered Black an...
Category
1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin
Surreal Landscape Sci-Fi Landscape - Modern Photography Magazine Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Aesthetically, this image is generations ahead of it's time. It looks so contemporary but was done in the early 1980's in the pre-digital ear. It was a Modern Photography Cover 198...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6: Tights in Shimotakaido" – Daido Moriyama
Located in Zurich, CH
DAIDO MORIYAMA (*1938, Japan)
"How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6: Tights in Shimotakaido"
1987(2021
Silver gelatin print, printed later
Sheet 60 x 50.8 cm (23 5/8 x 20 in.)
not par...
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Here Comes the Sun
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Antony Zega (1962-2019). Here Comes the Sun, ca. 1985. Photographic print, 12 5/8 x 8.5 inches. Mounted to acid free matting board measuring 16 x 2...
Category
1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6: Tights in Shimotakaido" – Daido Moriyama
Located in Zurich, CH
DAIDO MORIYAMA (*1938, Japan)
"How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6: Tights in Shimotakaido"
1987/2020
Silver gelatin print, later print
Sheet 50.8 x 60 cm (20 x 23 5/8 in.)
not part ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Parc Zoologique - Coffret Prestige # 3 - 1980, Minimalist Black and White Photog
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork sold in perfect condition
Zoological Park Portfolio, 8 photos
Still not a single human being in this portfolio, only representatives of the animal kingdom, confined, sad, em...
Category
1980s Minimalist Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6: Tights in Shimotakaido"
Located in Zurich, CH
DAIDO MORIYAMA (*1938, Japan)
"How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6: Tights in Shimotakaido"
1987
Silver gelatin print, printed later
Sheet 60 x 50.8 cm (23 5/8 x 20 in.)
Print only
...
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dondi, Zephyr, Charlie Ahearn Heroin Kills graffiti photograph: Bronx, NY 1981
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Dondi White, Zephyr & Charlie Ahearn ‘Heroin Kills' Subway Art Photograph 1981. A rare, historic, early 1980s Bronx, New York graffiti photograph by Cha...
Category
1980s Street Art Abstract Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Chrysler Building Top - Art Deco Skyscraper in Gold
Located in Miami, FL
Architecture becomes an abstract design statement as seen thru the lens of Mithcell Funk
Striking graphic design with found elements is a signature style of Mitchell Funk. He bring...
Category
1980s Art Deco Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
"How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6: Tights in Shimotakaido" – Daido Moriyama
Located in Zurich, CH
DAIDO MORIYAMA (*1938, Japan)
"How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6: Tights in Shimotakaido"
1987/2020
Silver gelatin print, later print
Sheet 50.8 x 60 cm (20 x 23 5/8 in.)
not part ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Signed Surrealist Color Photograph Eve Sonneman Cibachrome Art Photo AP
By Eve Sonneman
Located in Surfside, FL
The Deflated World, 1981
Cibachrome, this is the rare AP (Artists Proof) outside the edition of 10
20 × 24 in
50.8 × 61 cm
Eve Sonneman (born in Chicago on 1946) is an American woma...
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Color, Polaroid
Bed
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Antony Zega (1962-2019). Bed, ca. 1985. Photographic print, 12 5/8 x 8.5 inches. Mounted to acid free matting board measuring 16 x 20 inches. Unsigned. Estate stamp on verso.
Category
1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Abstract Pattern
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work is unique.
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance.
Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation numb...
Category
1980s Pop Art Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Color Photograph Hebrew "Slaves We Were" Signed C Print Photo Israeli
Located in Surfside, FL
SLAVES WE WERE, 1982, color photograph, signed and dated and titled in ink, numbered 3/50, sheet 12 x 16”. Hand signed, titled and has the edition number on the recto.
Gerard Allon, photographer, born 1949, Casablanca, Morocco. Immigrated to Israel in 1974. In 1985 Allon left Israel and established himself in Canada. He became interested in holography and developed a patent for the "holoposter"
.Gérard Allon (Moroccan, Israeli) was born in 1949 in Morocco, grew up in Algiers, then in France. He learned French literature at the Lille University and worked as director assistant for the cinema and the French television. At age 24 he went to Israel and made a movie on the first Jewish settlement on the Golan Heights. From 1975 he has developed an Artist photographer career.
The transformation of the camera arts in Israel began in the summer of 1975 with a juried exhibition in Tel Aviv entitled Through the Lens of Immigrant Photographers. Held under the auspices of the Ministry Of Education and Culture, the exhibition included six artists selected by a jury: one of them, the then-unknown Gérard Allon. To include him was an act of almost prophetic clairvoyance, since both as an artist and a photographer, Allon was destined to play a most important role in the renewal of the art in Israel, above all in the field of commercial and fashion photography. Together with a handful of other young photographers active at the time (among them the immigrants Yosaif Cohain and Neil Folberg, and Israelis educated abroad, such as Hanan Laskin, Avi Ganor, and Micha Kirshner), Allon was instrumental in bringing much-needed foreign influences into the insular bubble of local photography. He belongs to the younger generation of camera artists who have established new standards and have brought Israel Photography...
Category
1980s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper
Chrysler Building Top Art Deco Skyscraper in Gold
Located in Miami, FL
Architecture becomes an abstract design statement as seen thru the lens of Mithcell Funk
Striking graphic design with found elements is a signature style of Mitchell Funk. He bring...
Category
1980s Art Deco Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Jacques Lipchitz Bronze Sculpture Photo Signed
Located in Surfside, FL
Adolph Studly, Swiss born American photographer. His work is kept in the Photographic Archive at The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. He was known for his gallery photograp...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Stonehenge and Eclipse with Pink Sci-Fi Glow
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100 - Signed, dated, numbered 3/15, lower right, unframed, other sizes available, printed later
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of Sci-fi and did a lot of wor...
Category
1980s Surrealist Abstract Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Jacques Lipchitz Bronze Sculpture Photo Signed
Located in Surfside, FL
Adolph Studly, Swiss born American photographer. His work is kept in the Photographic Archive at The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. He was known for his gallery photographs of works by artists represented primarily by the Buchholz gallery, Curt Valentin, and Stephen Radich Galleries. Artists whose work he shot include Max Beckmann, Francis Bacon, Chaim Soutine, Allan Kaprow, Clyfford Still, Georges Braque, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Georges Rouault. He worked with Louis H. Dreyer, the pre-eminent architecture photographer in New York City.
Chaim Jacob Lipchitz, 1891-1973, was born in Lithuania and came of age in Paris during the early 20th century, where he was active in the avante-garde community of Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Diego Rivera, Chaim Soutine, and Juan Gris. Art historian H. H. Arnason, who ranked Lipchitz with Picasso and Marc Chagall, wrote, "Lipchitz, as a pure sculptor, is ...unquestionably one of the greatest sculptors of this century."
The architect Philip Johnson asked Lipchitz to make a wall sculpture to be placed on the brick chimney over a fireplace of a guest house owned by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III on West 53rd Street in New York. Lipchitz decided to develop the piece from his Pegasus designs and call it Birth of the Muses in honor of the Rockefellers' interest in the arts. In 1950 he completed the work as a bronze relief five feet high. It was installed as planned and later was acquired by Lincoln Center. He participated in the Flight portfolio...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Jacques Lipchitz Bronze Sculpture Photo Signed
Located in Surfside, FL
Adolph Studly, Swiss born American photographer. His work is kept in the Photographic Archive at The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. He was known for his gallery photographs of works by artists represented primarily by the Buchholz gallery, Curt Valentin, and Stephen Radich Galleries. Artists whose work he shot include Max Beckmann, Francis Bacon, Chaim Soutine, Allan Kaprow, Clyfford Still, Georges Braque, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Georges Rouault. He worked with Louis H. Dreyer, the pre-eminent architecture photographer in New York City.
Chaim Jacob Lipchitz, 1891-1973, was born in Lithuania and came of age in Paris during the early 20th century, where he was active in the avante-garde community of Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Diego Rivera, Chaim Soutine, and Juan Gris. Art historian H. H. Arnason, who ranked Lipchitz with Picasso and Marc Chagall, wrote, "Lipchitz, as a pure sculptor, is ...unquestionably one of the greatest sculptors of this century."
The architect Philip Johnson asked Lipchitz to make a wall sculpture to be placed on the brick chimney over a fireplace of a guest house owned by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III on West 53rd Street in New York. Lipchitz decided to develop the piece from his Pegasus designs and call it Birth of the Muses in honor of the Rockefellers' interest in the arts. In 1950 he completed the work as a bronze relief five feet high. It was installed as planned and later was acquired by Lincoln Center. He participated in the Flight portfolio...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Modern Photography Cover, Surreal Landscape
Located in Miami, FL
Historically , newsstand magazines have used a standard set of practices when it came to choosing their cover image. Their goal was to use a image that people could instantly relate to. The idea being, if an image pops off the page it will attract more attention and then generate more newsstand sales. For editors, choosing a cover was first a marketing decision and then an aesthetic one. That is why most magazine covers and (that includes art magazines) pretty much looked the same. They used familiar images, mostly of celebrities, beauty people or news items of that would beckon and aggressively reach out to the prospect. In this Modern Photography Cover of August 1983, they chose a radical departure. Their cover image that was the opposite of the norm. Mitchell Funk’s Graphic Surreal Landscape...
Category
1980s Surrealist Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Jacques Lipchitz Bronze Sculpture Photo Signed
Located in Surfside, FL
Adolph Studly, Swiss born American photographer. His work is kept in the Photographic Archive at The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. He was known for his gallery photographs of works by artists represented primarily by the Buchholz gallery, Curt Valentin, and Stephen Radich Galleries. Artists whose work he shot include Max Beckmann, Francis Bacon, Chaim Soutine, Allan Kaprow, Clyfford Still, Georges Braque, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Georges Rouault. He worked with Louis H. Dreyer, the pre-eminent architecture photographer in New York City.
Chaim Jacob Lipchitz, 1891-1973, was born in Lithuania and came of age in Paris during the early 20th century, where he was active in the avante-garde community of Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Diego Rivera, Chaim Soutine, and Juan Gris. Art historian H. H. Arnason, who ranked Lipchitz with Picasso and Marc Chagall, wrote, "Lipchitz, as a pure sculptor, is ...unquestionably one of the greatest sculptors of this century."
The architect Philip Johnson asked Lipchitz to make a wall sculpture to be placed on the brick chimney over a fireplace of a guest house owned by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III on West 53rd Street in New York. Lipchitz decided to develop the piece from his Pegasus designs and call it Birth of the Muses in honor of the Rockefellers' interest in the arts. In 1950 he completed the work as a bronze relief five feet high. It was installed as planned and later was acquired by Lincoln Center. He participated in the Flight portfolio...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Jacques Lipchitz Bronze Sculpture Photo Signed
Located in Surfside, FL
Adolph Studly, Swiss born American photographer. His work is kept in the Photographic Archive at The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. He was known for his gallery photographs of works by artists represented primarily by the Buchholz gallery, Curt Valentin, and Stephen Radich Galleries. Artists whose work he shot include Max Beckmann, Francis Bacon, Chaim Soutine, Allan Kaprow, Clyfford Still, Georges Braque, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Georges Rouault. He worked with Louis H. Dreyer, the pre-eminent architecture photographer in New York City.
Chaim Jacob Lipchitz, 1891-1973, was born in Lithuania and came of age in Paris during the early 20th century, where he was active in the avante-garde community of Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Diego Rivera, Chaim Soutine, and Juan Gris. Art historian H. H. Arnason, who ranked Lipchitz with Picasso and Marc Chagall, wrote, "Lipchitz, as a pure sculptor, is ...unquestionably one of the greatest sculptors of this century."
The architect Philip Johnson asked Lipchitz to make a wall sculpture to be placed on the brick chimney over a fireplace of a guest house owned by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III on West 53rd Street in New York. Lipchitz decided to develop the piece from his Pegasus designs and call it Birth of the Muses in honor of the Rockefellers' interest in the arts. In 1950 he completed the work as a bronze relief five feet high. It was installed as planned and later was acquired by Lincoln Center. He participated in the Flight portfolio...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Stonehenge and Eclipse with Pink Sci-Fi Glow
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100 - Signed, dated, numbered 3/15, lower right, unframed, other sizes available, printed later
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of Sci-fi and did a lot of wor...
Category
1980s Surrealist Abstract Photography
Materials
Inkjet
"How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6: Tights in Shimotakaido" – Daido Moriyama
Located in Zurich, CH
DAIDO MORIYAMA (*1938, Japan)
"How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6: Tights in Shimotakaido"
1987
Silver gelatin print
Sheet 25.4 x 30.5 cm (12 x 12 in.)
Frame 44 x 50.5 x 3 cm (17 3/...
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Jacques Lipchitz Bronze Sculpture Photo Signed
Located in Surfside, FL
Adolph Studly, Swiss born American photographer. His work is kept in the Photographic Archive at The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. He was known for his gallery photograp...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Nautilus
By Harold Town
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Harold Town (1924-1990) remains one of the most accomplished and fascinating characters from the "Painters Eleven" group.
While Town coined the group's name (based on the number of artists who simply attended their first meeting) his output was diverse, ever-changing and not restricted to painting.
Somewhat ironically, Town's first significant body of work, which established his reputation, was a group of monotype - which he called "Single Autographic Prints"
Town was introduced to lithography by fellow Painters Eleven member Oscar Cahen...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Photography
Materials
Monotype
Chrysler Building Art Deco Skyscraper
Located in Miami, FL
Architecture becomes an abstract design statement as seen thru the lens of Mithcell Funk
Striking graphic design with found elements is a signature style of Mitchell Funk. He brings...
Category
1980s Art Deco Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Colored Geometric Walls, 42nd st. New York City
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100 - Colored Geometric Walls, 42nd st. New York City is what it looked like before they were razes for a new skyscraper. Color field painting meets Color...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Photography
Materials
Inkjet
'La Fenice' Venice Opera House Giant Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
'La Fenice' by Erich Auerbach
A general view of the boxes at La Fenice, the Venice Opera House, 1st January 1954.
A beautiful silver gelatin fibre pr...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Chrysler Building Art Deco Skyscraper
Located in Miami, FL
Architecture becomes an abstract design statement as seen thru the lens of Mithcell Funk
Striking graphic design with found elements is a signature style of Mitchell Funk. He brings ...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
' Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II ' (SLIM AARONS Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
' Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II ' Milan, 1960 by Slim Aarons.
View looking down the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Italy, 1960. Opened in 1890, the covered arcade is on th...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
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