Contemporary Abstract Photography

Wave I by Christian Stoll a mesmerizing photographic rendering of blue acquatic surface 58 x 58 inches (147 x 147cm) edition of 7 signed 48 x 48 inches (122 x 122cm) edition of 7 s...

Into the dark (Deconstructivism) - 2020 - about the narrative potential of images. 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Artist Inventory 4600. Signat...

A passionate furious energy radiates in the ripples of red that overtake the reflection. Intense motion, stirring the water into an explosion of bubbles we encounter “The Trouble...

Aerial Views, Tulip Fields 08 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 3 di...

From a series of large scale abstract photographs of muted color monochromatic water surface color clouds and horizon SEASCAPE IV by Frank Schott an homage to Mark Rothko 60" x 48" / 152cm x 122cm signed edition of 7 75 x 58 inches / 190cm x 147cm signed edition of 7 archival quality fine art pigment print limited art edition published by Edition EKTAlux...

Untitled I, Ain’t Got No Troubles series, is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Matthieu Venot. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in...

Untitled II, Ain’t Got No Troubles series, is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Matthieu Venot. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available i...

'The Optimism of Spring' ('Mono No Aware' Series) 40 x 60" edition Limited edition archival photograph, hand signed and numbered. Unframed _________________ The cherry blossoms burst...

Bavarian Forest 020 is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 3 dimensions: *90 × 6...

Edition 15, Lenticular This image shows the guitarist Slash of the famous Rock band Guns 'n Roses. A man with x-ray vision, NICK VEASEY creates art that shows what it is really lik...

Aerial Views, Tulip Fields 01 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 4 di...

Early fascinations with photography and science have inspired Don Dudenbostel throughout his extensive career. As a young student interested in Science, Dudenbostel was always trying...

Versilia 01 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 3 dimensions: *60 cm ×...

Bernd and Hilla Becher (German, 1931-2007 and 1934-2015) Preparation Plants (Aufbereitungsanlagen), 2009 Series: Image VI from Typologies Medium: Digital pigment print (Ditone) on ph...

large format photograph of sun reflections on pool water surface, mesmerizing light reflections of glistening sunlight on turquoise aquamarine water surface, an homage to the iconic ...

Signed large scale original framed photograph of the Mediterranean marble quarries in Carrara, Italy, iconic material source of classic Italian art and architecture, captured with a ...

Rodeo Grounds (Till Death do us Part) - 2010, diptych Edition 1/5. 128x150cm and 128x126cm together 126x286cm including a 10 cm space in between both pieces, Analog C-Print print,...

"Bent Sound" - An ethereal underwater fine art photograph that captures the intersection of music and movement through a portrait of singer Njomza Vitia. This submerged portrait tran...

ATARI Imperatore by Frank Schott from a series of photographic observances capturing urban textures and color palettes 30 x 46.25 inches / 76cm x 118cm edition of 25 signed 48 x ...

Breathing I (Deconstructing) - 2015 - about the narrative potential of images. 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Artist Inventory 15835. Signature...

Erik at Fifteen - 2019 - 20x25cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Photograph printed in Canson Barita Fiber Rag 340gr, based on a reclaimed Fuji Instant Film Negative (not...

Geister or 'Ghost Ship' series from Nina Dietzel. Stunning on own, or paired with other images from the series. Surface mounted to polished plexiglass so that the photograph appears ...

Is a project that debates through the photographic image, the importance that humans have assigned to ourselves, and proposes a reconciliation with the reality of our own insignifica...

Stars 9, 2014 - Stars and Trees in Ancient English Woodland and Forest Landscape by Ellie Davies Stars 9 is a stunning Digital C-Type Print on Fuji Maxima Matte paper, available onl...

This wall-hanging artwork titled "Familiar Marks, Unfamiliar Places Number 11" is an original artwork by Kelly Knaga made of photography, digital print, an...

Edition 15 Framed Chromaluxe In this image we can see Superman x-rayed. A man with x-ray vision, NICK VEASEY creates art that shows what it is really like inside. Nick’s work with r...

Baltic Ice II, Paernu 007 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 4 dimens...

Baltic Ice, Peipsi Jaerv 016 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 4 dim...

Living in a Dream (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No. 9781. Not mounted. on offer is a piece from the movie "Till Death do us Part" Stefanie Schneider’s Till Death Do Us Part or “There is Only the Desert for You.” BY DREW HAMMOND Stefanie Schneider’s Til Death to Us Part is a love narrative that comprises three elements: 1. A montage of still images shot and elaborated by means of her signature technique of using Polaroid formats with outdated and degraded film stock in natural light, with the resulting im ages rephotographed (by other means) enlarged and printed in such a way as to generate further distortions of the image. 2. Dated Super 8 film footage without a sound track and developed by the artist. 3. Recorded off-screen narration of texts written by the actors or photographic subjects, and selected by the artist. At the outset, this method presupposes a tension between still and moving image; between the conventions about the juxtaposition of such images in a moving image presentation; and, and a further tension between the work’s juxtaposition of sound and image, and the conventional relationship between sound and image that occurs in the majority of films. But Till Death Do Us Part also conduces to an implied synthesis of still and moving image by the manner in which the artist edits or cuts the work. First, she imposes a rigorous criterion of selection, whether to render a section as a still or moving image. The predominance of still images is neither an arbitrary residue of her background as a still photographer—in fact she has years of background in film projects; nor is it a capricious reaction against moving picture convention that demands more moving images than stills. Instead, the number of still images has a direct thematic relation to the fabric of the love story in the following sense. Stills, by definition, have a very different relationship to time than do moving images. The unedited moving shot occurs in real time, and the edited moving shot, despite its artificial rendering of time, all too 2009often affords the viewer an even greater illusion of experiencing reality as it unfolds. It is self-evident that moving images overtly mimic the temporal dynamic of reality. Frozen in time—at least overtly—still photographic images pose a radical tension with real time. This tension is all the more heightened by their “real” content, by the recording aspect of their constitution. But precisely because they seem to suspend time, they more naturally evoke a sense of the past and of its inherent nostalgia. In this way, they are often more readily evocative of other states of experience of the real, if we properly include in the real our own experience of the past through memory, and its inherent emotions. This attribute of stills is the real criterion of their selection in Til Death Do Us Part where consistently, the artist associates them with desire, dream, memory, passion, and the ensemble of mental states that accompany a love relationship in its nascent, mature, and declining aspects. A SYNTHESIS OF MOVING AND STILL IMAGES BOTH FORMAL AND CONCEPTUAL It is noteworthy that, after a transition from a still image to a moving image, as soon as the viewer expects the movement to continue, there is a “logical” cut that we expect to result in another moving image, not only because of its mise en scène, but also because of its implicit respect of traditional rules of film editing, its planarity, its sight line, its treatment of 3D space—all these lead us to expect that the successive shot, as it is revealed, is bound to be another moving image. But contrary to our expectation, and in delayed reaction, we are startled to find that it is another still image. One effect of this technique is to reinforce the tension between still and moving image by means of surprise. But in another sense, the technique reminds us that, in film, the moving image is also a succession of stills that only generate an illusion of movement. Although it is a fact that here the artist employs Super 8 footage, in principle, even were the moving images shot with video, the fact would remain since video images are all reducible to a series of discrete still images no matter how “seamless” the transitions between them. Yet a third effect of the technique has to do with its temporal implication. Often art aspires to conflate or otherwise distort time. Here, instead, the juxtaposition poses a tension between two times: the “real time” of the moving image that is by definition associated with reality in its temporal aspect; and the “frozen time” of the still image associated with an altered sense of time in memory and fantasy of the object of desire—not to mention the unreal time of the sense of the monopolization of the gaze conventionally attributed to the photographic medium, but which here is associated as much with the yearning narrator as it is with the viewer. In this way, the work establishes and juxtaposes two times for two levels of consciousness, both for the narrator of the story and, implicitly, for the viewer: A) the immediate experience of reality, and B) the background of reflective effects of reality, such as dream, memory, fantasy, and their inherent compounding of past and present emotions. In addition, the piece advances in the direction of a Gesammtkunstwerk, but in a way that reconsiders this synaesthesia as a unified complex of genres—not only because it uses new media that did not exist when the idea was first enunciated in Wagner’s time, but also because it comprises elements that are not entirely of one artist’s making, but which are subsumed by the work overall. The totality remains the vision of one artist. In this sense, Till Death Do Us Part reveals a further tension between the central intelligence of the artist and the products of other individual participants. This tension is compounded to the degree that the characters’ attributes and narrated statements are part fiction and part reality, part themselves, and part their characters. But Stefanie Schneider is the one who assembles, organizes, and selects them all. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THIS IDEA (above) AND PHOTOGRAPHY This selective aspect of the work is an expansion of idea of the act of photography in which the artistic photographer selects that which is already there, and then, by distortion, definition or delimitation, compositional and lighting emphasis, and by a host of other techniques, subsumes that which is already there to transform it into an image of the artist’s contrivance, one that is no less of the artist’s making than a work in any other medium, but which is distinct from many traditional media (such as painting) in that it retains an evocation of the tension between what is already there and what is of the artist’s making. Should it fail to achieve this, it remains, to that degree, mere illustration to which aesthetic technique has been applied with greater or lesser skill. The way Til Death Do Us Part expands this basic principle of the photographic act, is to apply it to further existing elements, and, similarly, to transform them. These additional existing elements include written or improvised pieces narrated by their authors in a way that shifts between their own identities and the identities of fictional characters. Such characters derive partially from their own identities by making use of real or imagined memories, dreams, fears of the future, genuine impressions, and emotional responses to unexpected or even banal events. There is also music, with voice and instrumental accompaniment. The music slips between integration with the narrative voices and disjunction, between consistency and tension. At times it would direct the mood, and at other times it would disrupt. Despite that much of this material is made by others, it becomes, like the reality that is the raw material of an art photo, subsumed and transformed by the overall aesthetic act of the manner of its selection, distortion, organization, duration, and emotional effect. * * * David Lean was fond of saying that a love story is most effective in a squalid visual environment. In Til Death Do Us Part, the squalor of the American desert...

The Bog Renaturated 010 is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 3 dimensions: *75...

large scale photograph morphing into a mesmerizing abstract tapestry, a highly detailed aerial photograph, on closer observation morphing into an abstract pictorial tapestry of deser...

Signed large scale original photograph of the Mediterranean marble quarries in Carrara, Italy, iconic material source of classic Italian art and architecture, captured with a large format camera to allow epic scale print sizes with incredible image details Carrara I...

Stefanie created the art for both main actors Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling in the movie 'Stay' directed by Marc Forster. She also created the art for several dream sequences and the ...

Edition 25 Framed Chromaluxe A classic handbag from Chanel. Inside is a gun, a mobile phone, a lipstick and powder. A man with x-ray vision, NICK VEASEY creates art that shows what ...

Untitled VI, DECO series is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Matthieu Venot. This photograph is a limited edition of 10 copies, it is sold framed with a white s...

N°14, Illusions is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Matthieu Venot. This photograph is a limited edition of 10 copies, it is sold framed with a white shadow box...

Edition 15, Lenticular In this image Michael Jackson is doing the moonwalk and is x-rayed. A man with x-ray vision, NICK VEASEY creates art that shows what it is really like inside...

mesmerizing light reflections of glistening sunlight on turquoise aquamarine water surface, an homage to the iconic pool reflections paintings by artist David Hockney H2O V by Erik ...

The artist was inspired by the symbology of the one dollar bill, and especially by the image of the pyramid on this bill, which is considered an Illuminati symbol. As this is the mo...

Stars 7, 2015 - Stars and Trees in Ancient English Woodland Forest Landscape by Ellie Davies Stars 7 by Ellie Davies is a stunning Digital C-Type Print on Fuji Maxima Matte paper, a...

Rapture (29 Palms, CA) - 2022 48x46cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival Print, based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 218829. Signature label and Certificate...

Untitled (Paradise) - 1999, 98x97cm. Edition 3/10. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 20451. Not mounted. ...

Baltic Ice, Kloogaranna 021 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 4 dime...

'Sunday's Tulips (I)' 40 x 60" edition Limited edition archival photograph, hand signed and numbered. Unframed _________________ Gauzy afternoon light, the tulips are stretching soft...

Aerial Views, Tulip Fields 37 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 4 di...

"In Praise of Entropy (Untitled #1)" is an original artwork by Anna Tas made of an archival pigment print with lenticular lens. The piece is lenticular––transitioning and creating th...

an homage to Caspar David Friedrich, towering thunder clouds over the Mediterranean Sea, captured with a large format camera to allow epic scale photograph...

The Bog 002 is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. It is a Fine Art Print on Hahnemüle Paper. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is...

large-scale original art photography from a series of dramatic cloud atlas and abstract sky scapes observations above the Pacific Ocean. CLOUD STUDY V by Frank Schott 40 x 32 inch...

Pink red water (Once) - 2019 Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proof. Archival Photograph printed in Canson Barita Fiber Rag 340gr, based on a reclaimed Fuji Instant Film Negative...

Versilia 02 is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 3 dimensions: *60 × 144 cm (2...

Baltic Ice, Peipsi Jaerv 013 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 4 dim...

Aerial Views, Tulip Fields 16 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 3 di...

King's Best, ‘Neck’, 2001 by John Reardon Edition of 7 Silver Gelatin Print, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, UV protective Museum AR Glass This piece is part of : (after) Whist...

The Bog 003 is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. It is a Fine Art Print on Hahnemüle Paper. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is...

Limited Edition of 7 Framed size 49 x 69 cm All works are Archival Pigment prints, floating in an all black wooden frame behind museums glass.  More sizes on request. Sara Punt...

'Cicatrices (5)' Limited edition archival photograph. Unframed, hand signed and numbered _________________ Scars of birthing in the unfolding leaf pattern of the giant graceful Agav...

Sonata (Deconstructivism) - 2015 - about the narrative potential of images. 20x24cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid, Artist Inventory 20273. Signature label ...

"Layers of Light" In this award-winning image, Drew was interested in the way the light hit the sand dunes of Sossusvlei, Namibia creating this breathtaking, ethereal scene. The p...

"Haven" In this award-winning image, a lone bush is encased by a delicate sand dune, as if nature has protected it in a loving embrace. The print series Dunes: Landscapes Evolving...