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L'Ange Heurebise - Book by Jean Cocteau and Man Ray - 1925
Located in Roma, IT
L'Ange Heurebise is an original rare Surrealist work realized in France in 1925, written by Jean Cocteau with an original rayogram realized by Man Ray.
Limited edition of 350 numbe...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Paper
Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building: Lower Manhattan
Located in Miami, FL
For over 50 years, Mitchell Funk has been renowned for creating images with hyper-lighting and compositional exactitude. The present image,
"Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler B...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Garden - Off-Print # 2 - Roma 1980 - Minimalist Black & White Photography
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork sold in perfect condition - Off-Print # 2 (Roma 1980) from the portfolio Garden 2 (Coffret Prestige # 9)
This image was captured on film (1980) The selected negative was printed on Baryta paper by the author and then limited digital reproduction printed later (2021) on fine art paper Photo Rag Baryta 310 gsm for highest age resistance using pigment inks which are known for their longevity.
From Germany to Portugal, from Portugal to Italy, the artist continues his research on light and its games, this time taking nature and trees as the theme. The black and white, the strong intensity of the contrasts, the immobility that seems to emerge from them, all combine to suggest that the vegetation has also mineralized, frozen, under the ascetic gaze of the artist. But put together, close together (which is the very principle of Jörg Krichbaum...
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Minimalist 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$1,459 Sale Price
30% Off
Gardens (2) - Coffret Prestige # 9 , 1979 - Minimalist Black & White Photography
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork sold in perfect condition - Portfolio Garden 2, 6 photos (Box 40x50cm included)
From Germany to Portugal, from Portugal to Italy, the artist continues his research on light and its games, this time taking nature and trees as the theme. The black and white, the strong intensity of the contrasts, the immobility that seems to emerge from them, all combine to suggest that the vegetation has also mineralized, frozen, under the ascetic gaze of the artist. But put together, close together (which is the very principle of Jörg Krichbaum...
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Minimalist 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Darkness Below - Abstract Marine Scene in Cobalt Blue with Colorful Accents
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Acrylic
Surreal Blue Landscape
Located in Miami, FL
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...
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Surrealist 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Car Abrasion
By Brett Weston
Located in Carmel, CA
Excellent hand printed photograph by the master Brett. Signed and dated in pencil.
Category
20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bug Tracks on Sand, Oceano
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
The is the 20th Sand Dune, Oceano made by Weston (20SO) and a vintage print. It is quite rare as 38 are noted as being printed of vintage age but the amount known in existent may be ...
Category
20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$30,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Space Field, Digital Iris Print Muse X Large Photograph on Heavy Paper
Located in Surfside, FL
These are from the 1990s printed at Muse X and never framed. they are unsigned and unnumbered but from a very small edition. they are quite beautiful.
Victor Raphael was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1950. He studied art and theater at California State University Northridge and graduated from UCLA. He has exhibited throughout the nation and abroad. In 1996, his work was among the 50 best examples of Polaroid photography included in Polaroid 50: Art and Technology, an international touring exhibition commemorating the company’s 50th anniversary. He works in a wide range of media spanning painting, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, and digital technology. He creates complex and beautiful images that expand conventional views of time and space. For the past three decades, Raphael has produced a unique body of work by merging traditional media such as painting, photography and printmaking with modern electronic media, including video, digital printing and interactive technologies. In addition to his central themes of the exploration of the cosmos and aspects of travel–through space or time–and their visual records, the artist has developed an important body of paintings, in which water, for instance, and its protean and timeless qualities, form an important part. His photography process of digitally manipulating NASA photographs of planets and other natural celestial phenomena into Polaroid prints, and next altering them by hand with metallic paints and gold and metal leaf.
Education: University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., 1973, Magna Cum Laude
California State University, Northridge, 1968-1970
SELECTED ONE AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, From Lead Into Gold
Oregon Jewish Museum, The Heavens Spread Out Like A Prayer Shawl
Skirball Cultural Center, Illuminated Reflections: A Bill Aron and Victor Raphael Collaboration.
Cypress College, Victor Raphael & Clayton Spada Collaboration: From Zero to Infinity
Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, Jean-Pierre Hebert & Victor Raphael: Illuminated Collaboration
Cypress College, Paris Polaroids: Art In The City Of Lights
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Victor Raphael: Envisioning Space
(20-year survey with catalogue)
Santa Monica College, Space Fields, Abstractions and Jackson Pollock 1980-1991 (catalogue)
Richard Green Gallery...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Cactus, 20C
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Titled with artist's reference number on back of mount. Stamped, 'Edward Weston printed by' and signed by Cole Weston on back of mount. Printed later by Cole Weston.
Category
20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mindscreen 02 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Mindscreen 02 (Night on Earth) - 1999
58x56cm,
Edition of 10.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist,
based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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
Kneeling Magical Figure
By Jimmy DeSana
Located in New York, NY
Kneeling Magical Figure
1999
Signed by Laurie Simmons (Executor of the Jimmy DeSana Trust), titled, dated, and numbered in pencil, verso
Iris print (Edition of 100)
30 x 22 inches...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital
Large Scale Color Photograph Ektacolor C Print Art Photo Typography Sorel Cohen
By Sorel Cohen
Located in Surfside, FL
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...
Category
Conceptual 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
' Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II ' (SLIM AARONS Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II'
View looking down the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Italy, 1960. Opened in 1890, the covered arcade is on the northern side of the Piazza ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Guest [C.B.], 7.47 pm, 12th August
By Christopher Bucklow
Located in New York, NY
Unique dye destruction print
Signed, titled, and dated, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Price includes framing.
Christopher Bucklow is a Britis...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Dye, Color
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Black Paint Splatters - Large Scale Textural Photograph
By Bill Clark
Located in Soquel, CA
White Paint Splatters - Large Scale Textural Photograph
Detailed macro photo by Bill Clark (American, 20th Century). Clark has taken a photograph of white painted concrete with a sp...
Category
Photorealist 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
$920 Sale Price
20% Off
Haight Ashbury Erratics
By Bill Clark
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful photograph of Haight Ashbury Page Remnants of Music Playbills on a telephone pole in San Francisco, California by Bill Clark (American, 20th ...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage C Print Gold Color Photograph Eiffel Tower Paris France Cibachrome Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Ellen Kaplowitz
"Eiffel Tower, Paris", photograph print,
Hand signed and titled verso,
15.75"h x 23.75"w (sight),
17"h x 25"w (frame)
Ellen Kaplowitz has been globetrotting and ...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photo of Ibram Lassaw Modernist Sculpture (Photograph)
Located in Surfside, FL
Space Densities
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...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Mystic Sunset" Explosion of Shapes & Colors, Mixed Media Photography
Located in Detroit, MI
"Mystic Sunset" belies the title of sunset, which usually conjures images of the quiet settling of the day. This abstract explodes with action and flashing colors of white and yello...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Photographic Film
Tantra, Surrealist Color Photograph by Michael DeCamp
Located in Long Island City, NY
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...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Glen Canyon
By Brett Weston
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed and dated on the front of the mount. Mounted on Crescent Board. Printed in the 1960s.
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,000
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
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Combination Green (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Combination Green (Abstract Photography)
C-print — Unframed.
Edition: 4/5 + 2 A/P
This early work from Caldicott's acclaimed Tupperware series exemplifies his ability to breathe li...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Combination Blue No.1 (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Combination Blue No.1 (Abstract Photography)
C-print — Unframed.
Edition: 5/5 + 2 A/P
This early work from Caldicott's acclaimed Tupperware series exemplifies his ability to breath...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Drawing Air #3A
By Davide Mosconi
Located in Roma, IT
Drawing Air #3A is an original artwork realized by Davide Mosconi in 1996. Photograph printed on paper by phototransfer and magnets.The stamp of the bequest is present. Perfect condi...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
1991 "Gate" Large Scale Signed Vintage Silver gelatin Print Photograph
By Zeke Berman
Located in Surfside, FL
Gate Taught Version 1991. Large format silver gelatin photo. signed and dated.
Zeke Berman’s still lifes are fabrications derived from the material of ordinary and intimate experience, reconstituted to satisfy the demands of improvised play, monocular vision, and the special characteristics of photographic description. They are concerned with the pictorial aspect of sculpture and the provisional nature of realistic indication. In the central tradition of still-life art, they aim to establish an unsuspected order in the congregation of unremarkable things.
Since the late 1970's Zeke Berman has been making singular, studio-based photographs. These works reflect his long standing interest in visual cognition, optics and
the intersection between sculpture, photography and drawing. The formal range of his work and his sculptural use of materials is varied, original and idiosyncratic. Berman’s work has been collected and exhibited in museums such as The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan, Whitney, Art Institute of Chicago and LA
County Museum. His work was featured in the first New
Photography Exhibition, 1984, at MoMA. Awards include Guggenheim, NEA and NYFA Arts Fellowships. Berman lives and works in New York City.
from MOMA A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio examines the ways in which photographers and other artists using photography have worked and experimented within their studios, from photography’s inception to the present. Featuring both new acquisitions and works from the Museum’s collection that have not been on view in recent years, A World of Its Own brings together photographs, films, and videos by artists such as Berenice Abbott, Uta Barth, Zeke Berman, Karl Blossfeldt, Constantin Brancusi, Geta Brătescu, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank, Jan Groover, Barbara Kasten, Man Ray, Bruce Nauman, Paul Outerbridge, Irving Penn, Adrian Piper...
Category
Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Pelican, 1945
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Titled with artist's reference number on mount verso. Stamped, 'Edward Weston printed by' and signed by Cole Weston. Negative now retiered and housed at the Center for Creative Photo...
Category
20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled 110/7 (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 110/7 (Abstract Photography)
C print. Unframed.
Richard Caldicott is most well known for this earlier work series which used Tupperware containers as the subject for his p...
Category
Minimalist 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled #59 (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Untitled #59 (Abstract Photography)
C-print — Unframed.
Edition: 2/5 + 2 A/P
This early work from Caldicott's acclaimed Tupperware series exemplifies his ability to breathe life in...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Doubleend: framed abstract black & white photo collage w/ nude, clock, clouds
By Jenny Lynn
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"Doubleend" is a black & white framed silver gelatin collage photograph in a surrealist style with images of nude, clock, clouds, and other abstract elements from artist Jenny Lynn's...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Second Nature: abstract photograph with nude on black from hand-etched photogram
By Jenny Lynn
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"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...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
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
Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Me & You: framed abstract black & white photo collage w/ nudes, insect, heart
By Jenny Lynn
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"Me & You" is a black & white framed silver gelatin collage photograph with images of nudes, insect, heart, key, and other abstract elements from artist Jenny Lynn's "Extrapolations"...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
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
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Surface Area - Planet of the Apes 02 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Surface Area - Planet of the Apes 02 - 1999
58x56cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature labe...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Day for Night - Planet of the Apes 01 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Day for Night - Planet of the Apes 01 - 1999
58x56cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature lab...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Flora - Planet of the Apes 08 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Flora - Planet of the Apes 08 - 1999
58x56cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label and C...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Jacques Lipchitz Bronze Sculpture Photo Signed
By Marc Vaux
Located in Surfside, FL
Marc Vaux, a figure of Montparnasse, produced a trove of photographs which are currently held in the collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. Marc Vaux was committed equally to supporting artists, notably by creating the Foyer des Artistes (1946-70) and, in 1951, the first Musée du Montparnasse at 10, rue de l’Arrivée.
Marc Vaux was born on February 19, 1895 in Crulai, Normandy Thanks to the color merchant from whom he bought his plates and his photographic equipment, he met the sculptor Charles Desvergnes winner of Prix the Rome and author of various memorials who was looking for someone to photographs his works. Two of Marc Vaux’s first clients were his neighbors of 21 Avenue du Maine- Marie Vassilieff and Maria Blanchard...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons - Boca Raton - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
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...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Combination No.2 (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Combination No.2 (Abstract Photography)
C-print — Unframed.
Edition: 3/5 + 2 A/P
This early work from Caldicott's acclaimed Tupperware series exemplifies his ability to breathe lif...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Rock, Point Lobos
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Titled with artist's reference number on back of mount. Stamped, 'Edward Weston printed by' and signed by Cole Weston on back of mount. Negative Code 50R. Printed later by Cole Weston from the original negative. The negative is retired and housed at the Center for Creative Photography in Tuscon, Arizona. Weston Gallery is owned by Matthew (grandson of Edward Weston and son of renowned collector and dealer Margaret "Maggi" Weston) and his wife Davi Weston and we've been dealing in fine art photography since 1975! Edward Weston (1886 – 1958) was an American photographer, and co-founder of Group f/64. Most of his work was done using an 8 by 10 inch view camera. In 1902, he received his first camera for his sixteenth birthday, a Kodak Bull's-Eye #2, and began taking photographs in parks in Chicago and at his aunt's farm. The young Weston met with quick success, and his photographs were already being exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute merely a year later, in 1903. Weston worked mainly with nudes, still life - his shells and vegetable studies were especially important - and landscape subjects. After a few exhibitions of his works in New York, he went on to found Group f/64 in 1932 with fellow photographers Ansel Adams, Willard van Dyke and others. Weston became the first photographer ever to be selected for the Guggenheim fellowship in 1937. Stricken with Parkinson's disease, Weston made his last photographs at Point...
Category
20th Century 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, ...
Category
Conceptual 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Orange Flask (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Orange Flask (Abstract Photography)
C-print — Unframed.
Edition: 4/5 + 2 A/P
This early work from Caldicott's acclaimed Tupperware series exemplifies his ability to breathe life in...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Rosemary Ellis Windows X Silver Gelatin Photograph Print architectural machinery
Located in London, GB
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...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Echo: abstract photograph with leg & heels on black from hand-etched photogram
By Jenny Lynn
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"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.. ...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Flora Fauna Series Vintage Color Photograph Abstract Flower Fuji Crystal Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
FLORA & FAUNA SERIES, c.1998, Fuji crystal archive paper. Unsigned.
Photographer Jeffrey Rothstein focuses on different elements within Nature for his subject matter, ranging from f...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
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
Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Fotogramma No. 33
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 30
Signed, dated and numbered.
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,400 Sale Price
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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
Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: Weehawken Palisade
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Space Field, Digital Iris Print Muse X Large Photograph on Heavy Paper
Located in Surfside, FL
These are from the 1990s printed at Muse X and never framed. they are unsigned and unnumbered but from a very small edition. they are quite beautiful.
Victor Raphael was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1950. He studied art and theater at California State University Northridge and graduated from UCLA. He has exhibited throughout the nation and abroad. In 1996, his work was among the 50 best examples of Polaroid photography included in Polaroid 50: Art and Technology, an international touring exhibition commemorating the company’s 50th anniversary. He works in a wide range of media spanning painting, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, and digital technology. He creates complex and beautiful images that expand conventional views of time and space. For the past three decades, Raphael has produced a unique body of work by merging traditional media such as painting, photography and printmaking with modern electronic media, including video, digital printing and interactive technologies. In addition to his central themes of the exploration of the cosmos and aspects of travel–through space or time–and their visual records, the artist has developed an important body of paintings, in which water, for instance, and its protean and timeless qualities, form an important part. His photography process of digitally manipulating NASA photographs of planets and other natural celestial phenomena into Polaroid prints, and next altering them by hand with metallic paints and gold and metal leaf.
Education: University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., 1973, Magna Cum Laude
California State University, Northridge, 1968-1970
SELECTED ONE AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, From Lead Into Gold
Oregon Jewish Museum, The Heavens Spread Out Like A Prayer Shawl
Skirball Cultural Center, Illuminated Reflections: A Bill Aron and Victor Raphael Collaboration.
Cypress College, Victor Raphael & Clayton Spada Collaboration: From Zero to Infinity
Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, Jean-Pierre Hebert & Victor Raphael: Illuminated Collaboration
Cypress College, Paris Polaroids: Art In The City Of Lights
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Victor Raphael: Envisioning Space
(20-year survey with catalogue)
Santa Monica College, Space Fields, Abstractions and Jackson Pollock 1980-1991 (catalogue)
Richard Green Gallery...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
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
Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Au chic Parisien - Off-Print # 2 - 1983 - Minimalist Black & White Photography
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork sold in perfect condition - Off-Print # 2 from the portfolio Au Chic Parisien (Coffret Prestige # 8)
This is a Minimalist framing & presentation of the artwork :
The Fine Art...
Category
Minimalist 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Statuary - Off-Print # 3 - 1978 - Minimalist Black & White Photography
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork sold in perfect condition - Off-Print # 3 (Munich 1978) from the portfolio Statuary (Coffret Prestige # 7)
This is a Minimalist framing & presentation of the artwork :
The Fi...
Category
Minimalist 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$1,410 Sale Price
20% Off
Step by Step - Off-Print # 2 - 1979 - Minimalist Black & White Photography
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork sold in perfect condition - Off-Print # 2 (Munich 1979) from the portfolio Step by Step (Coffret Prestige # 1)
This is a Minimalist framing & presentation of the artwork :
Th...
Category
Minimalist 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$1,410 Sale Price
20% Off