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Contemporary Abstract Photography

CONTEMPORARY STYLE

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

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Style: Contemporary
India
Located in New York City, NY
Orlando Azevedo India series, 2014 Archival Pigment Print 40 x 60 inches Edition of 13 Unframed Ask us for custom framing options
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

India
Located in New York City, NY
Orlando Azevedo India series, 2014 Archival Pigment Print 40 x 60 inches Edition of 13 Unframed Ask us for custom framing options
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

India
Located in New York City, NY
Orlando Azevedo India series, 2014 Archival Pigment Print 40 x 60 inches Edition of 13 Unframed Ask us for custom framing options
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

India
Located in New York City, NY
Orlando Azevedo India series, 2014 Archival Pigment Print 40 x 60 inches Edition of 13 Unframed Ask us for custom framing options
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

India
Located in New York City, NY
Orlando Azevedo India series, 2014 Archival Pigment Print 40 x 60 inches Edition of 13 Unframed Ask us for custom framing options
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

India
Located in New York City, NY
Orlando Azevedo India series, 2014 Archival Pigment Print 40 x 60 inches Edition of 13 Unframed Ask us for custom framing options
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

arancia from Seta Series
Located in New York, NY
20 x 15 inches image size 30 x 25 inches paper size Please Note: This work is framed; the framed photograph shows the print with the 5 inch paper border Pigment print on Kodak met...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Digital Pigment

Keeping An Eye on Things
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In Jessica Houston’s Afterward, Silence (Franklin’s Crewmen’s Grave, Beechey Island) a single pale gravestone stands on an otherwise desolate ashen shore – a relic of Sir John Frankl...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Digital

Enduring Claims (Antarctica)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In Jessica Houston’s Afterward, Silence (Franklin’s Crewmen’s Grave, Beechey Island) a single pale gravestone stands on an otherwise desolate ashen shore – a relic of Sir John Frankl...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Digital

How To Make Them Believable (diptych)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My work emerges from research on memory and the remembrance of landscape, where vaporous atmospheres of evanescent recollections are illustrated. My work thus, contains ghostly and e...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Plexiglass, Digital

Horizon #4
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through photography, Michel Piquette creates captures of time, animated by a paradoxical quest for an image preceding any technique. By weaving together aspects of geometry and abstr...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Digital

VFH NZ 3
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through photography, Michel Piquette creates captures of time, animated by a paradoxical quest for an image preceding any technique. By weaving together aspects of geometry and abstr...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Digital

Milford sound, NZ
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through photography, Michel Piquette creates captures of time, animated by a paradoxical quest for an image preceding any technique. By weaving together aspects of geometry and abstr...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Digital

Wild Things - Key West, Florida, Ltd Ed 1/10
Located in New York, NY
Shot from a helicopter in Back Country Waters, Key West, Florida. Abstract feel. Soft colors. Mounted on Acrylic. About the Artist Dinesh Boaz creates a dynamic juxtapositi...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

This Wayward Floating Body
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Nancy Webb In Jessica Houston’s Afterward, Silence (Franklin’s Crewmen’s Grave, Beechey Island) a single pale gravestone stands on an otherwise desolate ashen shore – a reli...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Digital

Basic Channels, Potash Ponds, Moab, Utah Ltd Ed 1/10
Located in New York, NY
Shot from a helicopter in Potash Pond, Utah. Vibrant colors. Abstract. Mounted on Acrylic. About the Artist Dinesh Boaz creates a dynamic juxtaposition between the natural l...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Horizon #3
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through photography, Michel Piquette creates captures of time, animated by a paradoxical quest for an image preceding any technique. By weaving together aspects of geometry and abstr...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Digital

Horizon #1
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through photography, Michel Piquette creates captures of time, animated by a paradoxical quest for an image preceding any technique. By weaving together aspects of geometry and abstr...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Digital

Uncontained Consumption: Beach Bum - composite photo, beachscape, environmental
Located in Atlanta, GA
This textured composite landscape, beachscape, seascape features hues of blue and white. This listing is for an unframed print. Jennifer McKinnon Ri...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

STORM AT SEA #1, Los Angeles 2010
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This large format, color-photograph belongs to Jay Mark Johnson's wave series - the images from which depict the rhythmic cycling and recycling of oceanfront waves as recorded on remote coastlines around the world--in Hawaii, Florida, California, the Caribbean, Great Britain, Australia and South Africa. These artworks belong to the artist’s ongoing inquiry into the possibilities for timeline photography. For this decades-long project Johnson employs an unconventional camera system to produce seamless delineated renderings of familiar events as they occur over time. The results present an altered view of our surroundings. Artworks from Johnson’s timeline series have been exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe. They can be found in the permanent collections of the Bundestag (German Parliament) in Berlin, the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie at Karlsruhe, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, the Phoenix Art Museum, the Langen Foundation, Hombroich, Germany, the Peter Klein...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Aluminum

'Moonrise Over Metropolis' vintage New York City photograph
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Moonrise over Metropolis by Fernando Natalici Shot Queens, NY, 1995 on a very cloudy day. A black balloon against the sky, amidst a very cloudy day combines to create a surre...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Silver Gelatin

'Blurry Reality' vintage Manhattan photograph
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Fernando Natalici - Blurry Reality, 1992 - Shot in Midtown Manhattan, pre-uber period as people waited for a rainstorm, cars drove by, the usual, no taxis one pedestrian wearing a lo...
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Silver Gelatin

I’ve Run Right Out Of World
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My work emerges from research on memory and the remembrance of landscape, where vaporous atmospheres of evanescent recollections are illustrated. My work thus, contains ghostly and e...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Plexiglass, Digital

40 x 53in. - Abstract River Landscape - Framed Print
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a new series available exclusively through gallery. This series is largely influenced by the abstract expressionist field paintings of the 40’s and 50’s with a nod to Gerhar...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Descending to Heaven
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Darryll Schiff (Chicago, 1948) is an internationally recognized contemporary artist with work in many of the leading museums including the Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Mus...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper

"The Truths #9783" - Contemporary Abstract Photography - Zao Wou-Ki
Located in Atlanta, GA
"The Truths #9738" features hues of pink, orange, blue and purple. This photograph is edition 1/10 +2 AP. Zhou Peng is a fine art photographer from Shanghai, China. Formally traine...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Experimental No. 2 #6964" - Contemporary Abstract Photography - Zao Wou-Ki
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Experimental No. 2 #6032" features hues of orange and yellow. This photograph is edition 1/6 +2 AP. Zhou Peng is a fine art photographer from Shanghai, China. Formally trained as ...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

《大象无形》Great Form Is Beyond Shape
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Fu Wenjun, 1955, is a famous Chinese contemporary artist. He creates principally through the art media of photography, installation, sculpture and oil painting, and has put forward t...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Digital Pigment

Red Roses Pink Roses Romantic Bouquet of Flowers - Timeless Love by Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Hundreds of Red Roses, Pink Roses, and Yellow Roses in stacked blocks flank a 19th Century nude marble statue of a nude young girl. In a sense, the...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

The Story of a Street Light and a Bridge
Located in Miami, FL
Veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk creates an arresting image composed of contrasting elements. A common New York City street light morphs into a haunting abstraction while ...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Graphic Blossom IV, Color Photograph, 30x30, Botanical, Pink, Yellow, Framed
Located in Riverdale, NY
Rebecca Swanson, Graphic Blossom IV, Limited Edition Photograph, 15x15, with a white frame. Framed size 36x36. This stunning image is filled fuschia and a vibrant yellow colors. This is an edition of 10. Also available in 20x20 Rebecca Swanson’s work is inspired from her childhood in Ohio, growing up with her mother, an avid gardener, and her grandmother, an accomplished china painter. Her work is cultivated by the natural world, with its universal fragility and beauty we share with all plants and flowers. She “paints” with her camera, blending the abstract forms of nature with subtle colors to build intimate portraits of perfect, individual blooms. Her utopia is New York City with its parks, waterfronts, and botanical gardens. Rebecca studied drawing, painting, photography, and sculpture at the Cleveland Institute of Art and moved to New York to work as a textile designer. Rebecca has been exhibiting since 1995 in renown locations including the New York City Leica Gallery. Her photographs can be found in corporate collections including Banana Republic, St. Regis, Marriott and Omni hotels and in hospitals throughout the country. She has photographed gardens...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Photographic Paper

In Between #12 - Seascape
Located in New York City, NY
Alessandro Puccinelli In Between #12, 2018 Seascape - From the In-Between series - Framed 27 x 40 inches Edition of 10 40 x 60 inches Edition of 5 47 x 71 inches Edition of 3 Arc...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

In Between #20 - Seascape
Located in New York City, NY
Alessandro Puccinelli In Between #20, 2018 Seascape - From the In-Between series - Framed 27 x 40 inches Edition of 10 40 x 60 inches Edition of 5 47 x 71 inches Edition of 3 Arc...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

In Between #24 - Panoramic Seascape Photography
Located in New York City, NY
Alessandro Puccinelli In Between #24, 2018 In Between series Seascape 20 x 40 inches Edition of 10 Archival Pigment Print 30 x 60 inches Edition of 5 Archival Pigment Print 35.5 x...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

In Between #15 - Panoramic Seascape Photography
Located in New York City, NY
Alessandro Puccinelli In Between #15, 2018 In Between series Seascape 20 x 40 inches Edition of 10 Archival Pigment Print 30 x 60 inches Edition of 5 Archival Pigment Print 35.5 x...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

In Between #19 - Seascape
Located in New York City, NY
Alessandro Puccinelli In Between #19, 2018 Seascape - From the In-Between series - Framed 27 x 40 inches Edition of 10 40 x 60 inches Edition of 5 47 x 71 inches Edition of 3 Arc...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

In Between #8 - Seascape
Located in New York City, NY
Alessandro Puccinelli In Between #8, 2018 Seascape - From the In-Between series - Framed 27 x 40 inches Edition of 10 40 x 60 inches Edition of 5 47 x 71 inches Edition of 3 Arch...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

In Between #2
Located in New York City, NY
Alessandro Puccinelli In Between #2, 2018 Seascape - From the In-Between series - Framed 27 x 40 inches Edition of 10 40 x 60 inches Edition of 5 47 x 71 inches Edition of 3 Arch...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

In Between #5 - Seascape
Located in New York City, NY
Alessandro Puccinelli In Between #6, 2018 Seascape - From the In-Between series - Framed 27 x 40 inches Edition of 10 40 x 60 inches Edition of 5 47 x 71 inches Edition of 3 Arch...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

In Between #3 - Seascape
Located in New York City, NY
Alessandro Puccinelli In Between #3, 2018 Seascape - From the In-Between series - Framed 27 x 40 inches Edition of 10 40 x 60 inches Edition of 5 47 x 71 inches Edition of 3 Arch...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

In Between #4 - Seascape
Located in New York City, NY
Alessandro Puccinelli In Between #4, 2018 Seascape - From the In-Between series - Framed 27 x 40 inches Edition of 10 40 x 60 inches Edition of 5 47 x 71 inches Edition of 3 Arch...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

In Between #1
Located in New York City, NY
Alessandro Puccinelli In Between #1, 2018 Seascape - From the In Between series - Framed 27 x 40 inches Edition of 10 40 x 60 inches Edition of 5 47 x 71 inches Edition of 3 Arch...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Construction Site, Decatur, GA #3" - Aerial Landscape Photography, Ansel Adams
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Construction Site, Decatur, Georgia #3, 2018" is a drone photograph featuring hues of yellow, mauve, blue grey and green. Edition of 5. This photograph may be available in additional sizes. Peter Essick is inspired by the work of Walker Evans, Ray Metzker, and David Hockney. Peter Essick is a photographer, author, speaker, instructor, and drone pilot who specializes in nature and environmental themes. Named one of the 40 most influential nature photographers in the world by Outdoor Photography MagazineUK, Essick has been influenced by many noted American landscape photographers from Carleton Watkins to Robert Adams. His goal is to make photographs that move beyond mere documentation to reveal in careful compositions the human impact of development as well as the enduring power of the land. Essick is the author of two books of his photographs, "The Ansel Adams Wilderness," and "Our Beautiful, Fragile World." He has had solo exhibitions of his work at the Booth Western Art Museum, Yoho National Park: A Canadian Gem, and at Lumière Gallery, Compositions in Nature. Essick has photographed stories for National Geographicon many environmental issues including climate change, high-tech trash, nuclear waste and freshwater. Other work has been published in international magazines. Essick's photographs are in public and private collections. Currently, Essick is working on a book of his photographs about Fernbank Forest, an urban old-growth forest in Atlanta, and will be published by Fall Line Press...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Construction Site, Decatur, GA #1" - Aerial Landscape Photography - Ansel Adams
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Construction Site, Decatur, Georgia #1, 2018" is a drone photograph featuring hues of orange, red, turquoise and grey. Edition of 5. This photograph may be available in additional s...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Construction Site, Decatur, GA #9" - Aerial Landscape Photography - Ansel Adams
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Construction Site, Decatur, Georgia #9, 2019" is a drone photograph featuring hues of yellow, purple, orange and brown. Edition of 5. This photograph may be available in additional ...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Construction Site, Decatur, GA #6" - Aerial Landscape Photography - Ansel Adams
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Construction Site, Decatur, Georgia #6, 2017" is a drone photograph featuring hues of orange and grey. Edition of 5. This photograph may be available in additional sizes. Peter Essi...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Construction Site, Decatur, GA #7" - Aerial Landscape Photography - Ansel Adams
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Construction Site, Decatur, Georgia #7, 2018" is a drone photograph featuring hues of yellow, tan, blue and grey. Edition of 5. This photograph may be available in additional sizes....
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Construction Site, Decatur, GA #11" Aerial Landscape Photography - Ansel Adams
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Construction Site, Decatur, Georgia #11, 2019" is a drone photograph featuring hues of yellow, grey and green. Edition of 5. This photograph may be available in additional sizes. Pe...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Construction Site, Decatur, GA #2" - Aerial Landscape Photography - Ansel Adams
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Construction Site, Decatur, Georgia #2, 2019" is a drone photograph featuring hues of red, turquoise and tan. Edition of 5. This photograph may be available in additional sizes. Pet...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Construction Site, Doraville, GA #3" Aerial Landscape Photography - Ansel Adams
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Construction Site, Doraville, Georgia #3, 2019" is a drone photograph featuring hues of blue, grey, orange and black. Edition of 5. This photograph may be available in additional si...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Construction Site, Lilburn, GA #2" - Aerial Landscape Photography - Ansel Adams
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Construction Site, Lilburn, Georgia #2, 2019" is a drone photograph featuring hues of orange, yellow, grey, green and brown. Edition of 5. This photograph may be available in additi...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Construction Site, Mountain Park #1" Aerial Landscape Photography - Ansel Adams
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Construction Site, Mountain Park, Georgia #1, 2019" is a drone photograph featuring hues of red, orange, green and grey. Edition of 5. This photograph may be available in additional...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Construction Site, Snellville, GA #1" Aerial Landscape Photography, Ansel Adams
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Construction Site, Snellville, Georgia #1, 2018" is a drone photograph featuring hues of grey, orange and yellow. Edition of 5. This photograph may be available in additional sizes....
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Construction Site, Atlanta, GA #3" - Aerial Landscape Photography, Ansel Adams
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Construction Site, Atlanta, GA #3, 2019" is a drone photograph featuring hues of yellow, mauve, blue grey and green. Edition of 5. This photograph may be available in additional siz...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Construction Site, Snellville, GA #3" Aerial Landscape Photography, Ansel Adams
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Construction Site, Snellville, Georgia #3, 2019" is a drone photograph featuring hues of orange and green. Edition of 5. This photograph may be available in additional sizes. Peter ...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Construction Site, Mountain Park #2" Aerial Landscape Photography - Ansel Adams
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Construction Site, Mountain Park, Georgia #2, 2019" is a drone photograph featuring hues of red, orange and grey. Edition of 5. This photograph may be available in additional sizes....
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Construction Site, Snellville, GA #7" - Landscape Photography -Ansel Adams
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Construction Site, Snellville, Georgia #7, 2019" is a drone photograph featuring hues of orange, yellow and red. Edition of 5. This photograph may be available in additional sizes. ...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Construction Site, Stone Mountain, GA #9" Landscape Photography - Ansel Adams
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Construction Site, Stone Mountain, Georgia #09, 2019" is a drone photograph featuring hues of grey, yellow and red. Edition of 5. This photograph may be available in additional size...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Contemporary abstract photography for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary abstract photography available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add abstract photography created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, red, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Alessandro Puccinelli, Peter Mendelson, Stefanie Schneider, and Jessica Houston. Frequently made by artists working with Pigment Print, and Archival Pigment Print and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary abstract photography, so small editions measuring 2 inches across are also available.

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