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"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
Contemporary 1980s 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
Modern 1980s 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
Abstract 1980s 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
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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
Contemporary 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
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
Conceptual 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Polaroid
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
Street Art 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Inkjet
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
Contemporary 1980s 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
Contemporary 1980s 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
Conceptual 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Pigment, Arc...
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
Contemporary 1980s 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
Modern 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Silver Gelatin
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
Surrealist 1980s 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
Color-Field 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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
Abstract Geometric 1980s 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
Street Art 1980s 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
Abstract Geometric 1980s 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
Abstract Expressionist 1980s 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
Abstract Geometric 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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(2021
Silver gelatin print, printed later
Sheet 60 x 50.8 cm (23 5/8 x 20 in.)
not par...
Category
Contemporary 1980s 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"
1987/2020
Silver gelatin print, later print
Sheet 50.8 x 60 cm (20 x 23 5/8 in.)
not part ...
Category
Contemporary 1980s 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
Minimalist 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
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
Art Deco 1980s 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
Contemporary 1980s 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
Street Art 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Inkjet
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
Contemporary 1980s 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
"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
Contemporary 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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
Pop Art 1980s 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
Conceptual 1980s 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
Art Deco 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
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
Surrealist 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Inkjet
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
Surrealist 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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
Surrealist 1980s 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
Contemporary 1980s 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
Art Deco 1980s 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
Abstract 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Inkjet
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
Abstract Geometric 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Church in Reykjavik, Iceland: Modern Photography Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Signed dated, numbered 3/15 recto, printed later, unframed, other sizes available, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Literature: Cover Modern Photography, January 1981
Category
Abstract Geometric 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
End of the World. Begining of the World
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of Sci-Fi photography. In the 1980's He did work for the groundbreaking Bob Guccioni magazine Omni.
Signed, dated and number LL recto, 3/15 other size ava...
Category
Surrealist 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Main Street, Denton Texas
Located in Miami, FL
Signed dated, numbered lower l 4/15 left recto , other sizes available, unframed, printed later
Category
Modern 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Camel Caravan
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100 Signed, dated and numbered lower right recto, 3/15 Unframed, printed later, other sizes available.
Mithcell Funk is a pioneer of Sci-Fi Photography a...
Category
Surrealist 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Lipstick Building, Citicorp New York Multiple Exposure
Located in Miami, FL
In Camera Multiple Exposure of two iconic New York Landmarks merge together in a harmony of soft colors and overlapping shapes . Signed and dated on ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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
Abstract Geometric 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Brooklyn Bridge in Blue and Gold, Color Photography by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed , Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Category
Abstract Geometric 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Surf
By Ted Adams
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 25.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production.
Shipping time depends on method of shipping.
Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph.
Ted Adams’ first solo show at the Robin Rice Gallery juxtaposes surrealism with the documentary art form. What differentiates Mr. Adams’ work from traditional photojournalism is his keen eye for capturing the irony in the events that unfold before our eyes. It is the found objects in everyday life to which Adams is most attuned. He creates a subtle mood and visual mystery that conveys meaning not only from the image itself but also through imagining what exists just beyond the frame.
"I see photography as a way of cropping the world—selectively taking things out of context—which often results in stripping the meaning out of the original subject matter, or at least making the image open to interpretation. It’s the opposite of traditional photojournalism whose intention is to create ‘narrative’ and context rather than discard them."
While he has exhibited artistic photography in a variety of genres, in the past five years he turned his artistic eye inward to reflect a more autobiographical tone. While some people compare his work to that of Robert Frank, Adams finds himself more and more influenced by Larry Clark whose career was built on pictures drawn from his own life and drug-addled friends rather than a specific documentary mission.
The unique presentation of this collection of twenty-three silver gelatin prints enhances the voyeuristic sensibility of Mr. Adams’ work. Each photograph is jewel box in size, measuring 4" x 6" to invite the viewer in to make an intimate appraisal. The craftsmanship of the wide, dark wood frames hearkens back to late 19th-century Shaker design—yet the aesthetic is boldly contemporary, providing a strong backdrop to draw the viewer’s gaze directly to the subject matter.
This artisanship extends to the printing where Adams exhibits his skills in traditional darkroom processes. He shoots mostly with Leica and Nikon 35mm film cameras...
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Contemporary 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
2 Large Format Abstract Unique Color Photo Polaroid Pulls Ellen Carey Photograph
By Ellen Carey
Located in Surfside, FL
Ellen Carey
Unique pair of photo art Polaroid panels
Untitled, Red Moire Positive (Polaroid Pulls)
Dimensions: H 75" x W 25.5" x D 2"
From a series...
Category
Abstract 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Tile Photograph 8
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print (Edition of 50)
Signed and numbered in purple, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Category
Contemporary 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cerillas, Madrid, 1997
By Chema Madoz
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 15
Signed, dated and numbered.
Toned gelatin silver print
Chema Madoz is one of the most important contemporary Spanish photographers, who is greatly known for his monoch...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Nacht in Shangri-la (I)
Located in Vienna, AT
Helnwein is one of the most renowned yet also most controversial artists in the world. Recurring motifs in Helnwein's process of artistic creation are violence, pain, and injury. The...
Category
1980s Abstract Photography
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