1970s Abstract Photography

Las Brisas A villa in Las Brisas, Acapulco, February 1972 Gorgeous print measuring 72 x 48" inches / ca 182.88 x 121.9 cm’s paper size. Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 ...

Pentti Sammallahti was born in 1950 in Helsinki, Finland. Sammallahti was surrounded by works from his grandmother, Hildur Larsson, who was a photographer in the early 1900s. Sammallahti has been photographing the world around him with a poetic eye since the age of eleven. At the age of nine, he visited "The Family of Man...

Pentti Sammallahti was born in 1950 in Helsinki, Finland. Sammallahti was surrounded by works from his grandmother, Hildur Larsson, who was a photographer in the early 1900s. Sammallahti has been photographing the world around him with a poetic eye since the age of eleven. At the age of nine, he visited "The Family of Man...

Pentti Sammallahti was born in 1950 in Helsinki, Finland. Sammallahti was surrounded by works from his grandmother, Hildur Larsson, who was a photographer in the early 1900s. Sammallahti has been photographing the world around him with a poetic eye since the age of eleven. At the age of nine, he visited "The Family of Man...

Franco Fontana (Italian, born 1933) Title: Varsavia, (Warsaw, Poland streetscape with buildings) 1977 Medium: dye-transfer Dimensions: Frame 28.5 x 20.5. Sight 20 x 13. Provenance: Monique Goldstrom Gallery Franco Fontana (Italian, 1933) is an Italian photographer. He is best known for his Minimalist abstract colour landscapes. He was influenced by Minimalism and Abstract Expressionism. Franco Fontana was born in 1933 in Modena. He started taking photographs in the 1950s when he was working as a decorator in a furniture showroom. In 1961 he joined a local amateur club in Modena. The experience would be a turning point in his career, and Fontana went on to have his first solo exhibition in 1965 at the Società Fotografica Subalpina, Turin and at the Galleria della Sala di Cultura in Modena in 1968. Since then he has participated in more than 400 group and solo exhibitions including the exhibit Lines, Spheres and Glyphs at Robert Klein Gallery with works by photographers: Franco Fontana, Mario Giacomelli, Ernst Haas, Gyorgy Kepes and Aaron Siskind. Franco Fontana is considered one of the most relevant photographers of our time, In 1963 he exhibited his work at the Biennale of Color in Vienna, and in 1968 he held his first solo exhibition in Modena. Fontana often pares landscapes down to their essential elements, producing flat, geometric compositions reminiscent of the color field abstract expressionist paintings of Mark Rothko Ad Reinhardt and Barnett Newman, by underexposing his transparencies. Contrasting blue skies with green or yellow grass and the rigid lines of buildings with the softness of puffy clouds, he makes color and texture his primary subjects. He has also shot in Polaroid film. His art has been acquired by some of the most important museums worldwide, including the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, MoMA in New York, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Museum of Modern Art in Norman, Oklahoma, National Gallery in Beijing, Australian National Gallery in Melbourne, University of Texas in Austin, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris. Fontana has photographed for advertising campaigns for brands such as Fiat, Volkswagen, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, Snam, Sony, Volvo, Versace, Canon, Kodak, Robe di Kappa, Swissair, and has been a magazine photographer for publications including Time, Life, Vogue (USA and France), Venerdì di Repubblica, Panorama, and with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and The New York Times. Fontana's first book, Skyline, was published in 1978 in France by Contrejour and in Italy by Punto e Virgola with a text by Helmut Gernsheim. Fontana is the art director of the Toscana Foto Festival. He has received numerous awards, such as the 1989 Tokyo Photographer Society of Japan - The 150 Years of Photography - Photographer Award. Fontana is especially interested in the interplay of colours. His early innovations in colour photography in the 1960s were stylistically disruptive. According to art critic Giuliana Scimé, Fontana "destroyed all the structures, practices, and technical choices within the Italian tradition." Fontana uses 35mm cameras, and as noted by Iwan Zahar, deploys distant viewpoints with telephoto lenses to flatten contours in a landscape of crops and fields into bands of intense, saturated colour. This is an effect that Franco Lefèvre has described as 'dialectical landscapism'. Of his use of colour in his 2019 retrospective exhibition Sintesi ('Synthesis') at Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, curator Diana Baldon has observed; “His bold geometric compositions are characterised by shimmering colours, level perspectives and a geometric-formalist and minimal language, By adopting this approach during the 1960s, Fontana injected a new vitality into the field of creative colour photography for then multicolour was not in fashion in art photography., The way Fontana shoots, dematerializes the objects photographed, which loose three-dimensionality and realism to become part of an abstract drawing”. Aside from the rural landscape Fontana has applied his graphic sensibility to other subjects: city architecture, portraiture, fashion, still-life and the nude. He was included in the exhibition of the Helmut Newton Collection along with Brassaï, Diane Arbus, Franco Fontana, Horst P. Horst, Irving Penn, June Newton, Just Loomis, Man Ray, Mark Arbeit...

Morris Louis MoMa New York 1986: Rare 1980s Morris Louis press photographs featuring Morris Louis's Alpha Alpha & Albireo: Silver-gelatin prints: set of 2 individual works. Dimensi...

Signed and dated on the front of the mount. Limited edition of 35. Number 17 of 35. From the “Twenty Photographs, 1970-1977” Portfolio.

Signed and dated on the front of the mount. Limited edition of 35. Number 14 of 35. From the “Twenty Photographs, 1970-1977” Portfolio.

Pioneering Street Photographer Mitchell Funk exploits an upward angle of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center. At the convergence of the two towers, a full moon appears wedged...

An observing black dog is captured against a yellow and red Coca-Cola sign in Guaymas, Mexico. Shot in 1970, Mitchell Funk was innovating in color photography, which is what many col...

Inspired by the drama of chiaroscuro painting by Caravaggio, Mitchell Funk captures figures on the steps of Bryant Park in Manhattan. Unified by the late golden rays of the sun and t...

Decades before Photoshop and digital photography enabled the user to manipulate a photograph easily - Mitchell Funk created some of the most original, mind-bending, and technically brilliant images in analog. This work, "Futuristic Vision: Sci-Fi Outer Space," is a composite of two inverted Transamerica Buildings on a 35mm piece of film. It was done in 1978, and that is six years after the completion of the futuristic Transamerica Pyramid Building...

Home Movies - Wie du mir, so ich dir, USA 1979, Cast: Mary Davenport, Gerrit Graham, Vincent Gardenia. The lobby cards would have been displayed inside th...

Signed on the front of the mount by the artist. Printed circa 1975.

As a progenitor of special effects photography and experimental photography in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Mitchell Funk employed a variety of non-digital techniques to achieve ...

"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...

This image from the imagination of Mitchell Funk was the cover photograph for Popular Photography Magazine, May 1978, It is signed and numbered on lower right, as well as titled ...

Typically the verdant landscape is transformed into a Color Field photograph consisting of vibrant red and magenta horizontal bands that radiate and reverberate with optical force. ...

Home Movies - Wie du mir, so ich dir, USA 1979, Cast: Keith Gordon, Nancy Allen. The lobby cards would have been displayed inside the cinemas at the time ...

Marc LACROIX (1927-2007) Kaleidoscope of Dalí, 1971 Original silver print photograph Signed in ink Numbered on 50 copies On silver print paper 57 x 47 cm (c. 22.4 x 18.5 inch) INF...

Printed by artist. Signed and dated in lower right. Matted. Amazing powerful photograph by an incredible artist.

Original Lobby Card, The Pom Pom Girls, USA 1976, Director: Joseph Ruben, Cast: Jennifer Ashley, Lisa Reeves, Susan Player, Cheryl Smith, Diane Lee Hart, Crown International Pictures...

'Racing At Baden Baden' Spectators dine in the open air as the horses go by at Baden Baden racecourse, Germany, September 1978. In his words, he phot...

Home Movies - Wie du mir, so ich dir, USA 1979, Cast: Keith Gordon, Nancy Allen. The lobby cards would have been displayed inside the cinemas at the time ...

Home Movies - Wie du mir, so ich dir, USA 1979, Cast: Keith Gordon, Nancy Allen. The lobby cards would have been displayed inside the cinemas at the time ...

Home Movies - Wie du mir, so ich dir, USA 1979, Cast: Keith Gordon, Nancy Allen. The lobby cards would have been displayed inside the cinemas at the time ...

Marc LACROIX (1927-2007) Psychedelic Dalí, 1971 Original silver gelatin photography Signed in ink Numbered on 15 copies On silver print paper 50.5 x 61 cm (c. 19.7 x 24 inch) INFO...

Pentti Sammallahti was born in 1950 in Helsinki, Finland. Sammallahti was surrounded by works from his grandmother, Hildur Larsson, who was a photographer in the early 1900s. Sammallahti has been photographing the world around him with a poetic eye since the age of eleven. At the age of nine, he visited "The Family of Man...

Home Movies - Wie du mir, so ich dir, USA 1979, Cast: Kirk Douglas, Keith Gordon. The lobby cards would have been displayed inside the cinemas at the time...

'Hotel Il San Pietro' Slim Aarons Estate Edition Guests at the Hotel Il San Pietro in Positano, Italy, August 1979. In his words, he photographed 'be...

This image from the imagination of Mitchell Funk was the cover photograph for Popular Photography Magazine, May 1978, It is signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/1...

Excellent hand printed photograph by the master Brett. Signed and dated in pencil.

The image is signed dated lower right signed dated and numbered verso 2 /15, Unframed, Other sizes available, printed later

SOREL COHEN (Canadian b. 1936 - ) Speak Silence- 1978 Ektacolor photograph and vinyl letter typography Verso with gallery label for Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 41 inches x 53 inches edition of 3 The original receipt included with this item is only available in the digital form. I only have the copy of it, not the original. SOREL COHEN (Canadian b. 1936 - ) A graduate of Concordia University, Cohen has been a major figure on the Canadian photography scene for over thirty years. She has been invited as guest lecturer to many Canadian universities, and was awarded the Canada Council’s prestigious Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography (1988). Her master’s thesis examined feminist art in the 1970s, while her art practice, which is largely autobiographical, weaves original links conceptual art, photography, painting and film. Cohen creates works that directly reference the historical and social context of the artist, especially through depictions of gender and the body. She has participated in numerous group shows both in Canada and abroad (France, Germany, Mexico, the United Kingdom, etc.) and has had solo exhibitions in major Canadian cities from Halifax to Vancouver, as well as in New York, Marseilles, and Tempe, Arizona. ) She was included in the show She Photographs which presented thirty photographers, mostly Canadian, a few American, who explore the portrait or the self-portrait, nudes, still-life, landscape. Artists included Sarah Anne Johnson...

Artist: Michael DeCamp, American (1928 - 2013) Title: Tantra Year: circa 1975 Medium: Photograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 50 Image Size: 16 x 23.5 inches Size: 20 x 27...

A stunning example of Brett Weston's eye for the abstract. Mint Condition. Over matted Signed in pencil lower right. Titled on verso by artist.

"Second Nature" is a black & white framed archival pigment print (photograph) from a hand-etched photogram from artist Jenny Lynn's "Personal Myths" series Includes image of nude wit...

"Flaking Red" is an original fine art photography print by James Auer. The artist signed and titled the piece on the mat. It depicts a close-up image of flaking red paint, abstractin...

"Echo" is a black & white framed archival pigment print (photograph) from a hand-etched photogram from artist Jenny Lynn's "Personal Myths" series Includes image of legs and heels.. ...

A foreground stone wall structure of a repeating vertical shapes alternating with openings is mimicked by the similar but more majestic vertical shapes of the Mid-Town Manhattan skyl...

Rosemary Ellis (1910-1988) Windows X Original proof photograph for Windows in the Outlooks and Insights series published by Bodley Head, by Rosemary & Charlotte Ellis. Silver Gelatin...

Slim Aarons - Boca Raton - Estate Stamped A swimming pool in Boca Raton, Florida, USA, circa 1978. Gorgeous print measuring an large 30 x 30" inches / ca...

Home Movies - Wie du mir, so ich dir, USA 1979, Cast: Theresa Saldana, Keith Gordon, Lobby Card. The lobby cards would have been displayed inside the cinem...

Home Movies - Wie du mir, so ich dir, USA 1979, Cast: Keith Gordon, Nancy Allen. The lobby cards would have been displayed inside the cinemas at the time ...

Home Movies - Wie du mir, so ich dir, USA 1979, Cast: Keith Gordon, Nancy Allen. The lobby cards would have been displayed inside the cinemas at the time ...

This photograph is of old Last Vegas - The Fremont Sign, Las Vegas, 1974 The work is signed, dated number lower right 3/15. It's printed later, unframed and other sizes are available. Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Before one of America's most iconic streets was desecrated into a mall, Fremont street was a wonderland of classic casino signs...

Galaxy in Ursa Major with Zabriskie Gallery stamp and Ibram Laassaw stamp verso. The Photographer is John Reed. An East Hampton Photographer who shot Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Larry Rivers, Philip Guston, Conrad Marca-Relli, Syd Solomon, and James Brooks amongst other art luminaries. This is for the original vintage photograph. I believe the inscription is in the hand of Ibram Lassaw some also bear the photographers stamp. Lassaw was born in Alexandria, Egypt, of Russian Jewish émigré parents, he went to the U.S. in 1921. His family settled in Brooklyn, New York. He became a US citizen in 1928. He first studied sculpture in 1926 at the Clay Club and later at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York. He made abstract paintings and drawings influenced by Kandinsky, Sophie Tauber Arp...

Step by Step - Coffret Prestige # 1 - Portfolio of 6 photos, 21st Century, Minimalist Black and White Photography Artwork sold in perfect condition Portfolio Step by Step, 6 photos. Steps, a ladder, almost all from the bottom to the top, to show you are climbing. Or ? It's up to everyone to decide, to think about which metaphor they prefer. But it's still a personal matter. For some it will be happy, easy or joyful, while for others, Jörg says in a text written in 1982, the image will refer to a painful memory, a painful sensation, an ordeal. Because this image is "us", it is only us but it is all of us. 6 baryta prints 24 cm x 30 cm mounted under a white open-frame 2mm thick in 40 cm x 50 cm format with the artist's stamp on the back. From left to right and top to bottom: Munich 1979, Munich 1982, Munich 1979, Liège 1982, Donaustauf 1973, Anagni 1977. This constitutes a very exceptional offer. German photographer Jörg Krichbaum...

Spaceloom XXIII The Photographer is John Reed. It bears his stamp verso. An East Hampton Photographer who shot Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Larry Rivers, Philip Guston, Conrad Marca-Relli, Syd Solomon, and James Brooks amongst other art luminaries. This is for the original vintage photograph. I believe the inscription is in the hand of Ibram Lassaw some also bear the photographers stamp. Lassaw was born in Alexandria, Egypt, of Russian Jewish émigré parents, he went to the U.S. in 1921. His family settled in Brooklyn, New York. He became a US citizen in 1928. He first studied sculpture in 1926 at the Clay Club and later at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York. He made abstract paintings and drawings influenced by Kandinsky, Sophie Tauber Arp...

The Photographer is John Reed. An East Hampton Photographer who shot Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Larry Rivers, Philip Guston, Conrad Marca-Relli, Syd Solomon, and James Brooks amongst other art luminaries. This is for the original vintage photograph. I believe the inscription is in the hand of Ibram Lassaw some also bear the photographers stamp. Lassaw was born in Alexandria, Egypt, of Russian Jewish émigré parents, he went to the U.S. in 1921. His family settled in Brooklyn, New York. He became a US citizen in 1928. He first studied sculpture in 1926 at the Clay Club and later at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York. He made abstract paintings and drawings influenced by Kandinsky, Sophie Tauber...

This photograph was created by American artist and avid scuba diver Michael DeCamp. DeCamp's abstract photos have an enigmatic quality, and the interactions between shapes and colors...

Viktor Schreckengost paints an ocean scene and moon with precise attention. The painting is part document and part flat abstraction. The uniqueness in this work is how Schreckengos...

Does anyone remember Nedicks? What New York looked like in the 1970s. Veteran photographer Mitchell Funk captures 42nd Street at night with a parade of glowing marquees framed by t...

This vintage print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount with a title and negative number in pencil on the back of the mount. What is likely Wynn Bullock's most renowned neg...

Mitchell extracts color from a seemingly boring landscape. Eye-popping saturated primary colors, and an unexpected camera angle defines his visual style and springboards him into a c...

'Coming Ashore' by Slim Aarons Gorgeous print measuring a large 20x24" inches / ca 51 x 61 cm's. Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by S...

'Speedboat Landing' A Magnum motorboat belonging to Count Filippo Theodoli arrives at the private jetty of the Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Italy, 1973. A modern classic 'Si...

'Coming Ashore' by Slim Aarons Gorgeous print measuring a large 20x24" inches / ca 51 x 61 cm's. Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by S...

'Coming Ashore' by Slim Aarons A Magnum motorboat belonging to Count Filippo Theodoli arrives at the private jetty of the Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto E...

"Tin Roof in Winter (White Thatch)" is an original fine art photography print by James Auer. The artist signed and titled the piece on the mat below the photograph. This photograph d...