Modern Abstract Photography

Composition With Pink by Stuart Möller 2010 limited edition to 20 only this size - signed & numbered by the artist A large pink door in Northern Italy. Go...

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...

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...

Coolidge Dam, Arizona Gelatin silver print, 1938 Unsigned A lifetime printing by Brett Weston, supervised by his father Edward Edition of 5 or 6 examples Weston negative Numbered verso: "843" on reverse (see photo) photographer's estate stamp, verso (see photo) LITERATURE: C. Wilson, "Edward Weston," California Arts and Architecture, vol. 30, January 1941, p. 16 A. Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, The Center for Creative Photography, 1992, fig. 1206. Label: The Photographs of Edward Weston/Arizona Board of Regents label affixed to paper folder. (see photo) Provenance: Edward Weston Estate Arizona Board of Regents Robert B. Egelston (1930-2016), noted photography collector Condition: Overall very good condition. Chipping and bumping in the margins at extreme edges and corners of sheet, not affecting the image. Sheet is loose; not framed. Sheet size/Image size: 8 x 10 inches Edward Weston description of printing in 1953-54 In 1945 Edward Weston began to experience the first symptoms of Parkinson's disease, which slowly progressed until by 1948, he took his last photograph. By the second half of 1952, Weston decided he should select a master set of his best work. Out of his approximately 3000 negatives, he would pick 1000 and have Brett Weston print...

' Untitled ' SIGNED Limited Edition Oversize print by Stuart Möller Beautiful large print abstract image of a natural chasm in a cornfield. 40 x 30" inches paper size - signed an...

#1 of 12 signed and dated Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a following in ...

Edition of 30 Signed, dated and numbered. Gelatin silver print, 9 x 11 1/8 in. Printed 1977

' Rain II ' SIGNED Limited Edition Oversize print by Stuart Möller Beautiful large print of rain falling onto water. 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size - signed and numbere...

Agave by Justin Creedy Smith 2005 Agaves in Tangiers, Morocco. Photo, July 2005. Exquisite large oversize 20 x 20 inches / 51 x 51 cm silver gelatin print signed and numbered by the artist. 1/50 biography Justin Creedy Smith is a British photographer. Having graduated with a bachelor of arts degree – including a thesis on the role of war photography as a propaganda tool – he moved to Paris in 1984. Initially working as a studio assistant, his apprenticeship in fashion and advertising photography was both intense and diverse. He rapidly started assisting on a free-lance basis the likes of Horst P. Horst and Steven Meisel. From 1985 until 1987 he was assistant to Peter Lindbergh. In 1987 he travelled to Japan for the first time, a voyage that had a profound impact on him. Returning to Europe in 1988 he started working for Japanese magazines...

Elepahnt by Justin Creedy Smith 2001 The legs of an elephant in the the temple area of Siem Reap (Siem Reap province, Cambodia). Photo, 02.12.2001. Exquisite giant oversize 40 ...

' Untitled ' SIGNED Limited Edition Oversize print by Stuart Möller Beautiful large print abstract image of a natural chasm in a cornfield. 40 x 30" inches paper size - signed an...

' Rain II ' SIGNED Limited Edition Oversize print by Stuart Möller Beautiful large print of rain falling onto water. 40 x 30" inches paper size - signed and numbered by the arti...

' Untitled ' SIGNED Limited Edition Oversize print by Stuart Möller Beautiful large print abstract image of a natural chasm in a cornfield. 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper siz...

Slim Aarons - Boca Raton - Estate Stamped A swimming pool in Boca Raton, Florida, USA, circa 1978. (Photo by Slim Aarons) This photograph epitomises the ...

Abstracted still life photograph of white leaves with accents of cream, blush, and white gold Archival digital print, made to order 30 x 30 inches, edition of 30 Additional sizes av...

'Calm Sea' by Stuart Möller A view of the sea at dusk in Sri Lanka during a rainstorm. A fabulously atmospheric image of the sea, and the seemingly blurred horizon between water an...

Abstracted still life photograph of white leaves Archival digital print 40 x 40 inches, edition of 15 Additional sizes available This contemporary, archival digital print was made b...

Edition of 30 Signed, dated and numbered.

Signed and dated on the front of the mount. Mounted on Crescent Board. Printed in the 1960s.

Presenting a suite of five original photographic collages by American artist Jan Stussy. The artist took various images on paper, some perhaps from magazines, and cut and assembled these five original collages, all of Vogue models. Jan Stussy was a prolific artist, a close companion of artist Stanton Macdonald Wright, and was head of the arti department at UCLA for thirty years. Stussy also received an academy award for his short film, "Gravity is my Enemy," This suite of collages are absolutely brilliant, in the surreal manner of Man Ray. Please contact our West Hollywood gallery...