Roberta Fineberg

Bistro by RF, Paris, France, Cities, Black and White Art Photography

1989

A black-and-white image of a French woman a Parisian captured on film by Roberta Fineberg. The subject of the photograph is lost in thought en route on a bus winding through the maze...

Paris is one of photographer Roberta Fineberg's favorite cities, which the artist has documented in an ongoing series . This is a black-and-white contemporary landscape photograph, a...

A young woman at a popular cafe-bar, Le Pick-Clops, in the Marais in Paris is the subject of Heartbreak, 1990 by Roberta Fineberg. Drawn to street photography for her early work, R...

A black-and-white photograph (analog) of a magazine/newspaper shopkeeper who exhibits a unique brand of French quirkiness and expressiveness in Paris of the 1980s. Shot on film, Shopkeeper, 1989 by Roberta Fineberg is a 14” x 11” gelatin silver print in an edition of 5. Signed, dated, and titled on recto (photo front) by the artist. Provenance: RF Archive *** Artist's Bio: As a visual artist, Roberta Fineberg (RF) focuses on the themes of serendipity, inventiveness, and the development of ideas for her photography, video, installations, works on paper, and painting. Drawn to experimentation, she explores diverse mediums and concepts such as the ephemeral (Butterfly Series), stolen moments (documentary photography), play, timelessness, the enduring, and the significance of matter. RF, living in New York City, began her career as an editorial photographer while studying in Paris. In France she contributed both photography and writing to publications, landing a column (photos and text) with The Saturday Review while exhibiting photographs in public spaces. Roberta Fineberg’s freelance photography appeared in Le Monde, Jeune Afrique, Paris Match, L’Officiel Femme, Ms, Weltwoche, Vanguardia, among others with images licensed through stock agencies. Photographs were selected for cover art at W.W. Norton, St. Martin’s Press, Harcourt, Bookspan, Simon & Schuster, etc. Print Regional Design Annual New York (2003) awarded her for book jacket photography for If Wishes Were Horses. In 1997 Macmillan published City Riders: A Story of Riding and Friendship her first book of black-and-white photographs and a story about three teenage girls in the 1990s who rode horses at the now-defunct Claremont Riding Academy and oldest stable in New York City. In 2023, RF created an interactive installation, works on paper on the female body, in a public space. In July 2022, Fineberg’s Double Helix was included in a Sotheby’s auction in New York City and exhibited in the preview show Contemporary Discoveries. Selected exhibitions include Time Gallery New York (2022), Phyllis Harriman Gallery New York studio shows (2020, 2022), CADAF online art...

Available in 3 sizes: 24 x 30 cm; 30 x 40 cm; 40 x 50 cm JEAN-LUC OLEZAK Jean-Luc Olezak is a French photographer of Polish decent. He has been working in photography for 30 years a...

Rue Mouffetard Edition 6 ex. 5AP Unframed Printed later 1964, Uwe Ommer, a young 20-year-old photographer who recently arrived from Cologne, lives in ...

Each photograph is hand printed on Canson Baryta Paper and is signed and editioned by the artist. More sizes available Sarah Hadley's narrative work focuses on memory, place and the...

Sükan created the ‘La Notte’ series as he was working for international magazines documenting the fashion shows and backstage as well as the social times of the fashion world in Pari...