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"Old Room, New Room" - Minimalist Interior Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"Old Room, New Room" - Minimalist Interior Photograph
Minimalist photograph of a red wall with a tile floor by Shirley McWilliams (American, 20th ...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
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By Susie Loucks
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Archival Pigment Print Photograph
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jeff Becker, Privey Policy, 2016, Archival Pigment Print
By Jeff Becker
Located in Darien, CT
Using his inkjet printer as a paintbrush, Jeff Becker creates watercolor-like imagery without Photoshop or filters. He refers to this process of dynamic chemical processes as The Slu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rushing Water, Virgin River, Zion National Monument, Utah
By Rod Dresser
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed, numbered on mount recto. Titled, dated with artist stamp on mount verso. Edition of 35.
Category
20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jeff Becker, Slurry Pentagon, 2016, Inkjet Print
By Jeff Becker
Located in Darien, CT
Using his inkjet printer as a paintbrush, Jeff Becker creates watercolor-like imagery without Photoshop or filters. He refers to this process of dynamic chemical processes as The Sl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Jeff Becker, Flag Privacy, 2016, Archival Paper, Inkjet Paper
By Jeff Becker
Located in Darien, CT
Using his inkjet printer as a paintbrush, Jeff Becker creates watercolor-like imagery without Photoshop or filters. He refers to this process of dynamic chemical processes as The Sl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet
Untitled, 8AF_8997 (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Untitled, 8AF_8997 (Abstract photography)
Archival pigment print, blind embossed stamp, and signed by the artist. Limited edition of 7. Unframed.
Shipments are in a hard tube, protected with acid-free tissue.
Jurek Wajdowicz...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dan 2 - Signed limited edition Abstract photo, Contemporary black square, green
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Dan 2 - Limited edition pigment print of 5
This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo RAG Baryta 315 gsm ). The inks used are known for their longevi...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
'Istan Petal' Hand Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
'Istan Petal' Hand Signed Limited Edition
Stuart Möller
A bugonvilia petal floating on water in Istan, Spain.
Beautiful Archival Pigment Print.
24 x 2...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jelly Fish - Contemporary, Expired, Polaroid, Photograph, Abstract, Ryan Gosling
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Henry and the Jelly Fish'(Stay) with Ryan Gosling - 2006
48x46cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and certificate.
Ar...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Floral Study 246: still life black & white photograph w/ abstract dried flowers
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an archival pigment print depicting an abstracted still life printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308 gsm by artist Paul Cava. It is from the "Flora" series, which is one of three...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
"Sign City Galore", Contemporary, Leaves, Building, Blue, Cyanotype, Photograph
By Marie Craig
Located in Franklin, MA
Marie Craig's "Sign City Galore" is an original deep blue photograph of an old buildings obscured by leaves. This piece was created using cyanotype, an early photographic process whi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photogram
Dusk (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dusk (Deconstructivism) - 2015
- about the narrative potential of images.
40x48cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Signatur...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Mandala #4003
Located in New York, NY
Type-C print
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
20 x 20 inches
(Edition of 10)
30 x 30 inches
(Edition of 5)
40 x 40 inches
(Edition of 5)
This artwork is offered by Clam...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
New Rome #10-Floral landscape soft pastel color abstract contemporary photograph
Located in New York, NY
This floral photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century.
Belgian photog...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Unconscious Mind (29 Palms, CA) - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Unconscious Mind (29 Palms, CA) - 2021
Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024.
25...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"Newnes Oven 3", Abstract, Contemporary, Leaves, Blue, Cyanotype, Photograph
By Marie Craig
Located in Franklin, MA
Marie Craig's "Newnes Oven 3" is an original deep blue photograph of an old coal oven obscured by leaves. This piece was created using cyanotype, an early photographic process which ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photogram
Alstroemeria Cyprus - Royal Horticultural Society England Photographic Print
By Giles Revell
Located in Brighton, GB
Alstroemeria Cyprus by Giles Revell
This is an Archival Pigment Print available in this size of 50cm x 50cm in a limited edition of 25 prints.
In Cartographic Colour, Giles Revell...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment, Pigment
Hemerocallis Teenie Weenie - Hemerocallis Royal Horticultural Society at Wisley
By Giles Revell
Located in Brighton, GB
Hemerocallis Teenie Weenie by Giles Revell
This is an Archival Pigment Print available in this size of 50cm x 50cm in a limited edition of 25 prints.
In Cartographic Colour, Giles...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper, Pigment
Iris Ensata Kozasa Gawa II - Japanese Iris Royal Horticultural Society Wisley
By Giles Revell
Located in Brighton, GB
Iris Ensata Kozasa Gawa 2 by Giles Revell
This is an Archival Inkjet Print available in this size of 50cm x 50cm in a limited edition of 25 prints.
In Cartographic Colour, Giles R...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Abstract Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment, Pigment
Paeonia Red Charm - Bright Red Flowers Royal Horticultural Society Wisley
By Giles Revell
Located in Brighton, GB
Paeonia Red Charm by Giles Revell
This is an Archival Pigment Print available in this size of 50cm x 50cm in a limited edition of 25 prints.
In Cartographic Colour, Giles Revell re...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Abstract Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper, Pigment
Untitled, 8AJ_2946 (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Untitled, 8AJ_2946 (Abstract photography)
Archival pigment print, blind embossed stamp, and signed by the artist. Limited edition of 9. Unframed.
Shipments are in a hard tube, protected with acid-free tissue.
Jurek Wajdowicz...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rosa Tickled Pink - Pink Rose Variety Royal Horticultural Society Wisley
By Giles Revell
Located in Brighton, GB
Rosa Tickled Pink by Giles Revell
This is an Archival Pigment Print available in this size of 50cm x 50cm in a limited edition of 25 prints.
In Cartographic Colour, Giles Revell re...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper, Pigment
Wedding Portrait
Located in Columbia, MO
Scott McMahon grew up in Connecticut and now resides in Columbia, Missouri where he is an Associate Professor of Art at Columbia College. He received his MFA from Massachusetts Colle...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled, A81_5597 (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Untitled, A81_5597 (Abstract photography)
Archival pigment print, blind embossed stamp, and signed by the artist. Limited edition of 15. Unframed.
Shipments are in a hard tube, protected with acid-free tissue.
Jurek Wajdowicz...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Plaisir de France I, Photography, Limited Edition, color, France, Plaisir
Located in München, BY
Plaisir de France I
Edition of 25
signed and numbered by the artist
Plaisir de France was a French magazine owned by the Groupe L'Illustration, owned by the Baschet family, with its...
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Conceptual Artist Allen Ruppersberg Hand Printed Lithograph Prints & Photographs
Located in Surfside, FL
Allen Ruppersberg (American, 1944-)
Lithograph, Mixed media
From the Top Ten Historical Similarities (and Differences) Between Prints and Photographs.
This sale is of one print not t...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Lithograph
Conceptual Artist Allen Ruppersberg Hand Printed Lithograph Prints & Photographs
Located in Surfside, FL
Allen Ruppersberg (American, 1944-)
Lithograph, Mixed media
From the Top Ten Historical Similarities (and Differences) Between Prints and Photographs.
This sale is of one print not t...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Lithograph
Conceptual Artist Allen Ruppersberg Hand Printed Lithograph Prints & Photographs
Located in Surfside, FL
Allen Ruppersberg (American, 1944-)
Lithograph, Mixed media
From the Top Ten Historical Similarities (and Differences) Between Prints and Photographs.
This sale is of one print not t...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Lithograph
Conceptual Artist Allen Ruppersberg Hand Printed Lithograph Prints & Photographs
Located in Surfside, FL
Allen Ruppersberg (American, 1944-)
Lithograph, Mixed media
From the Top Ten Historical Similarities (and Differences) Between Prints and Photographs.
This sale is of one print not t...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Lithograph
Conceptual Artist Allen Ruppersberg Hand Printed Lithograph Prints & Photographs
Located in Surfside, FL
Allen Ruppersberg (American, 1944-)
Lithograph, Mixed media
From the Top Ten Historical Similarities (and Differences) Between Prints and Photographs.
This sale is of one print not t...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Lithograph
Conceptual Artist Allen Ruppersberg Hand Printed Lithograph Prints & Photographs
Located in Surfside, FL
Allen Ruppersberg (American, 1944-)
Lithograph, Mixed media
From the Top Ten Historical Similarities (and Differences) Between Prints and Photographs.
This sale is of one print not t...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Lithograph
A Surreal Watercolor and Cyanotype on Cotton Sateen, "Relational Gradient"
Located in San Diego, CA
A one of a kind 17x19 Surreal Watercolor and Cyanotype executed on Cotton Sateen by artist Annalise Neil. A certificate of authenticity will be provided upon its purchase or delivery...
Category
2010s Conceptual Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Blossom, Katie Hallam, Flower Art, Digital Print, Photographic Artwork, Bright
By Katie Hallam
Located in Deddington, GB
Katie Hallam
Blossom
Limited Edition Digital photograph
Edition of 25
Image Size: H 50cm x W 40cm x D 1cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of ho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Metal
Cracked Paint, Garrapata
By Brett Weston
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front of the mount. This image is from a Brett Weston portfolio Edition of 25 printed between 1990 - 1991.
Category
20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mandala #450
Located in New York, NY
Type-C print
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
20 x 20 inches
(Edition of 10)
30 x 30 inches
(Edition of 5)
40 x 40 inches
(Edition of 5)
This artwork is offered by Clam...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Mandala #4004
Located in New York, NY
Type-C print
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
20 x 20 inches
(Edition of 10)
30 x 30 inches
(Edition of 5)
40 x 40 inches
(Edition of 5)
This artwork is offered by Clam...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
A part: abstract photograph w/ nudes & text on black from hand-etched photogram
By Jenny Lynn
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"A part" is a black & white framed archival pigment print (photograph) from a hand-etched photogram from artist Jenny Lynn's "Personal Myths" series. Includes images of nudes, glove...
Category
1970s Abstract Nude Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Untitled (Film Noir #1407)
Located in New York, NY
Type-C print
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
24 x 20 inches
(Edition of 10)
36 x 30 inches
(Edition of 5)
48 x 40 inches
(Edition of 5)
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
“Film Noir...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Mandala #4005
Located in New York, NY
Type-C print
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
20 x 20 inches
(Edition of 10)
30 x 30 inches
(Edition of 5)
40 x 40 inches
(Edition of 5)
This artwork is offered by Clam...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Summer Games - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, abstract
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Summer Games - 2018
50x60cm,
Edition of 10.
Giclée Print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta, based on a Fuji Peel Apart Instant Film (not mounted).
Signed on back with Certificate.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
A Young Bride Swinging Barefoot - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, abstract
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Young Bride Swinging Barefoot - 2020
60x50cm,
Edition of 10.
Giclée Print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta, based on a Fuji Peel Apart Instant Film (not mounted).
Signed on back w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
The Back Line, Photography, Limited Edition
Located in München, BY
Limited Edition of 7
Framed size 49 x 69 cm
All works are Archival Pigment prints, floating in an all black wooden frame behind museums glass.
More sizes on request.
Sara Punt's wo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Holding My Dark, Photography, Limited Edition
Located in München, BY
Limited Edition of 7
Framed size 49 x 69 cm
All works are Archival Pigment prints, floating in an all black wooden frame behind museums glass.
More sizes on request.
Sara Punt...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Argument (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Argument (Till Death do us Part) - 2007
60x50cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Arti...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
A brief movement after death 8
Located in New York, NY
A brief movement after death 8
2017
Pigment print with china marker
18.25 x 24 inches (46.4 x 61 cm)
$4,500
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Blue Sky (Zuma Beach)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blue Sky (Zuma Beach) - 2004
50x49cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #20432.
No...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
Moonscape - Planet of the Apes 03 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Moonscape - Planet of the Apes 03 - 1999
58x56cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label a...
Category
1990s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Blue Sphere #423
Located in New York, NY
Type-C print
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
20 x 20 inches
(Edition of 10)
30 x 30 inches
(Edition of 5)
40 x 40 inches
(Edition of 5)
This artwork is offered by Clam...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Mandala #4007
Located in New York, NY
Type-C print
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
20 x 20 inches
(Edition of 10)
30 x 30 inches
(Edition of 5)
40 x 40 inches
(Edition of 5)
This artwork is offered by Clam...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Machiel Botman Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Print IJKE 1993 Photo Flowers
Located in Surfside, FL
Botman, Machiel (Dutch, b.1955). "Ijke, 1993" (Boy with Flower, Rainchild). Silver Print.Hand signed in pencil (beneath mat) Image: 8" x 13.25". Framed: 18.5" x 22.5".
A key figure in contemporary Dutch photography, Machiel Botman is represented by the Gitterman Gallery in New York, Galerie VU in Paris and the Kahmann Gallery in Amsterdam. His books include Heartbeat (Volute, 1994), Rainchild (Schaden and Le Point du Jour, 2004) and One Tree (Nazraeli Press, 2011). His work is included in numerous institutional collections, including the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the Tokyo Museum of Photography and the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem. Machiel Botman was born in 1955 in Vogelenzang, The Netherlands. Self-taught, Botman has photographed since the age of 10. In the early 1980s he learned to print by assisting the master printer Philippe Salaün in Paris, who made prints for Willy Ronis, Izis, Robert Doisneau and others.
He lives in Haarlem, the Netherlands.
Select Group Exhibitions
Gitterman Gallery Summer Exhibition
Adam Bartos, Ferenc Berko, Machiel Botman Josef Breitenbach, Eugene Meatyard, Joseph Szabo, Edmund Teske etc.
Gitterman Gallery Eclectic
Bruno Barbey, Machiel Botman, Pierre Cordier, František Drtikol, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Izis, Pierre Jahan, Helen Levitt, Tina Modotti, Josef Sudek, Roman Vishniac, Minor White, etc.
Kahmann Gallery The Old Man & The Sea
Nobuyoshi Araki, Machiel Botman, Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Kertész, Irving Klaw, etc.
Kahmann Gallery FLAVOURS
Eva Besnyö, Machiel Botman, Harry Callahan, Takeshi Shikama, Maura Sullivan, Albert Watson etc.
European Photography - Reggio Emilia
Mark Borthwick, Machiel Botman, Kevin Cummins, Francesco Jodice, Michael Kenna, Man Ray Alberta Pellacani, Alessandra Spranzi, Luigi Veronesi, Richard Wentworth, Alain Willaume etc.
Kahmann Gallery, Imagine A collection of contemporary and vintage photographs
Jehsong Baak, Eva Besnyö, Machiel Botman, Fons Brasser, etc.
Museum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf L'Homme-paysage
Dieter Appelt, Machiel Botman, William Kentridge, Javier Pérez, Giuseppe Penone, Jim Shaw
Zabriskie Gallery, The Beach
Machiel Botman, Esther Bubley, Harry Callahan, Joel Meyerowitz, Garry Winogrand etc.
Kahmann Gallery, Dutch Nudes...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mandala #413
Located in New York, NY
Type-C print
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
20 x 20 inches
(Edition of 10)
40 x 40 inches
(Edition of 5)
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Japan, Conceptual Photography by Tokihiro Sato, Photo-respiration 1998 Yura #340
By Tokihiro Sato
Located in New york, NY
Photo-respiration Yura #340, 1998 by Japanese artist Tokihiro Sato is a contemporary abstract photograph signed by the artist. Sato used a large-format camera for a long exposure ima...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...
Mandala #4011
Located in New York, NY
Type-C print
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
20 x 20 inches
(Edition of 10)
30 x 30 inches
(Edition of 5)
40 x 40 inches
(Edition of 5)
This artwork is offered by Clam...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Mandala #4006
Located in New York, NY
Type-C print
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
20 x 20 inches
(Edition of 10)
30 x 30 inches
(Edition of 5)
40 x 40 inches
(Edition of 5)
This artwork is offered by Clam...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled II by Matthieu Venot - Abstract photography, architecture, building
Located in Paris, FR
Untitled II, Firework series, is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Matthieu Venot.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 3 dimension...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Pigment
Blueprint - Contemporary, Abstract, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
By Lisa Toboz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blueprint - 2019
30x48cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival Print based on the original Polaroid on Hahnemühle photo rag paper.
Signature label and certificate.
Not mounted.
Exhibition: Reclaim Photography Festival: Reclaiming Our Cultural Landscape, Black Country...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Brazilian Conceptual Modernist Photograph Jose Yalenti Architectural Abstract
Located in Surfside, FL
José Yalenti, (1895-1967) Brazilian Photographer
"Beiras" (Sides)
Photo, numbered 5/15, circa 1950, (printed later) on premium luster photo paper with ultrachrome ink.
Art: 15" H x 11" W; Frame: 20 1/4" H x 14 1/4" W.
Provenance: Dickinson Roundell Gallery
José Yalenti’s Architecture photos seem at first disorienting, abstract black & white and grey surfaces, cut through by startlingly straight lines and a variety of surface textures. Much of his work is of mid-century Latin American architecture, by the likes of Oscar Niemeyer and Roberto Burle Marx.
José Yalenti was born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1895. On April 28, 1939, a group of photography aficionados, including Yalenti, formed the Foto Clube Bandeirante, later changed to Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante, or FCCB.
Starting in the late 1940s, a contingent of FCCB photographers began creating photographs of abstracted architectural motifs (as in Architecture or Twilight), and eventually became known as the Escola Paulista, or “Paulista School.” Yalenti was among the members of the unofficial Paulista School. Between 1945 and 1960, the Paulista School photographers explored the rapidly changing formal qualities of São Paulo. By photographing skyscrapers and stairways at steep angles, creating closely cropped compositions from found geometric motifs, and capturing the flattening effects of shadows, Paulista School photographers investigated the new physical perspectives emerging in the urban environment. They created a distinctively Modern aesthetic that used strong contrasts of light and dark, geometric forms, linear compositions, and collapsed space to assert photography’s status as an artistic medium.
As part of their pursuit of photographic Modernism, Yalenti and his fellow Brazilians adapted the stylistic innovations of U.S. and European photographers such as f.64, New Objectivity, Dada, Surrealism, and the Bauhaus, to the Brazilian context. Along with his FCCB compatriots—Thomaz Farkas, Geraldo de Barros, and German Lorca, among others—Yalenti explored the formal properties of black-and-white image-making.
Yalenti and the Paulista’s School’s abstract photographs responded to the new trends in Brazilian Modernist architecture being developed by young architects in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. In 1939, Lúcio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer, and Affonso Reidy broke ground on the Ministry of Education and Health Building (MES), the building that would define Brazilian architectural modernism. The Rio-based team combined elements of Le Corbusier’s undecorated structural purity with Brazilian regional design to produce a more organic and “tropical” Modernism that responded to the local culture and climate.
The sinuous and sensuous curves of Yalenti’s photograph are directly influenced by stylistic developments in architecture at the MES, including the building’s covered entry and its organically abstract contours. By 1957, when Yalenti created Architecture or Twilight, Brazil was globally recognized as an architectural leader. MoMA in New York City organized a popular exhibition of Brazilian architecture in 1943 (“Brazil Builds”), and highlighted the country again in its survey show "Latin American Architecture since 1945," that ran from 1955–56. Brazilian photography...
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Photography - large scale abstract black and white "Flower series - PEONY"
By MAE Curates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a series of photography portraiture of flowers as subject matter.
#773
31.5x42" image dimensions - Edition of 10
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered
About this se...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Popcorn and Banjo 2
Located in Nashville, TN
Early fascinations with photography and science have inspired Don Dudenbostel throughout his extensive career. As a young student interested in Science...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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