Contemporary Color 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
Artist: Tom Chambers
Presentation
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
“Declaration” was inspired by my return to international travel in 2022. Just as life had changed with the impact of Covid, my photography work shifted from elements of magic realism...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ascension
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
“Declaration” was inspired by my return to international travel in 2022. Just as life had changed with the impact of Covid, my photography work shifted from elements of magic realism...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Repose
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
“Declaration” was inspired by my return to international travel in 2022. Just as life had changed with the impact of Covid, my photography work shifted from elements of magic realism...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Revelation
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
“Declaration” was inspired by my return to international travel in 2022. Just as life had changed with the impact of Covid, my photography work shifted from elements of magic realism...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Visitation
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
“Declaration” was inspired by my return to international travel in 2022. Just as life had changed with the impact of Covid, my photography work shifted from elements of magic realism...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rejuvenation
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
“Declaration” was inspired by my return to international travel in 2022. Just as life had changed with the impact of Covid, my photography work shifted from elements of magic realism...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Genesis
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
“Declaration” was inspired by my return to international travel in 2022. Just as life had changed with the impact of Covid, my photography work shifted from elements of magic realism...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Justice
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
“Declaration” was inspired by my return to international travel in 2022. Just as life had changed with the impact of Covid, my photography work shifted from elements of magic realism...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
A View From The Bridge
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ride A Pony
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Morning On The Grand Canal, limited edition photograph, archival, signed
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Morning On The Grand Canal, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
I present unspoken stories that illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Suspended Animation
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Tom Chambers considers his practice to be not so much about taking photos as “making” them. He creates scenes that evoke magical realism and surreal fairytales by photographing separate elements and assembling them into montages enhanced with patina and warmth. Chambers employs contemporary technology to achieve the luminous quality and dramatic compositions of Old Masters paintings. His aptly titled exhibition, “Reverie,” included images of princess-like girls engaging with the natural world, with an air of post-war painter Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World.
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Coy Koi
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Tom Chambers considers his practice to be not so much about taking photos as “making” them. He creates scenes that evoke magical realism and surreal fairytales by photographing separate elements and assembling them into montages enhanced with patina and warmth. Chambers employs contemporary technology to achieve the luminous quality and dramatic compositions of Old Masters paintings. His aptly titled exhibition, “Reverie,” included images of princess-like girls engaging with the natural world, with an air of post-war painter Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World.
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hidden Aviary
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
From the Still Beating Series
Narrative Art refers to visual imagery which tells stories, engages the imagination, and stirs the emotions. These stories transcend culture and are re...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
I Can Touch
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Other Editions: 32" x 17.75", Edition of 20, $1,850
Tom Chambers is an American born photographer who creates seamless and surreal photomontages. Chambers presents unspoken stories ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Wild By Nature
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Other Editions: 32" x 17.75", Edition of 20, $1,850
Tom Chambers is an American born photographer who creates seamless and surreal photomontages. Chambers presents unspoken stories ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
No You Don't
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Tom Chambers is an American born photographer who creates seamless and surreal photomontages. Chambers presents unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Forever In A Day
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Tom Chambers is an American born photographer who creates seamless and surreal photomontages. Chambers presents unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Black From Blue
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
From the Still Beating Series
Narrative Art refers to visual imagery which tells stories, engages the imagination, and stirs the emotions. These stories transcend culture and are re...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Where Salt Meets Sky
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
From the Still Beating Series
Narrative Art refers to visual imagery which tells stories, engages the imagination, and stirs the emotions. These stories...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Winged Shepherd
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
With the Pack
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Rite of Passage
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might addres...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Garden Gate
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
From the Still Beating Series
Narrative Art refers to visual imagery which tells stories, engages the imagination, and stirs the emotions. These stories transcend culture and are re...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Come What Is
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
From the Still Beating Series
Narrative Art refers to visual imagery which tells stories, engages the imagination, and stirs the emotions. These stories transcend culture and are re...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
With the Pack
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Narrative Art refers to visual imagery which tells stories, engages the imagination, and stirs the emotions. These stories transcend culture and are rela...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Totem
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
From the Still Beating Series
Narrative Art refers to visual imagery which tells stories, engages the imagination, and stirs the emotions. These stories transcend culture and are re...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
No Glory In Regret
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
From the Still Beating Series
Narrative Art refers to visual imagery which tells stories, engages the imagination, and stirs the emotions. These stories transcend culture and are re...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Empty Roost
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
From the Still Beating Series
Narrative Art refers to visual imagery which tells stories, engages the imagination, and stirs the emotions. These stories...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Storm Warning
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
From the Still Beating Series
Narrative Art refers to visual imagery which tells stories, engages the imagination, and stirs the emotions. These stories transcend culture and are re...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fire and Ice
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
From the Still Beating Series
Narrative Art refers to visual imagery which tells stories, engages the imagination, and stirs the emotions. These stories transcend culture and are re...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Heat Lightning
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
From the Still Beating Series
Narrative Art refers to visual imagery which tells stories, engages the imagination, and stirs the emotions. These stories...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
After You, Me
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
From the Still Beating Series
Narrative Art refers to visual imagery which tells stories, engages the imagination, and stirs the emotions. These stories...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Late For Dinner
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Blood Moon
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
From Chambers' "To The Edge" series
"I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
With the Pack
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility o...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Summer Soliloquy
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
View from the Bridge
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Illumination Series
Renaissance artists affirmed the transformational nature of light in their classical paintings. Taddeo Gaddi and Giotto di Bondone...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Afternoon with Octavio
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Twenty-five years ago I traveled freely throughout the Mexican countryside where I relished a warm, welcoming, and slow-paced style of living. I was heartened by the physical beauty ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Edge of a Dream
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
All my life I have held a fascination with the animal kingdom, which began in my childhood growing up on a farm and extended into my adult years. On some inexplicable level I feel a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fowl Play
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Aurora
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Beyond the Upheaval
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Last Bough
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Clouds Touch Stone
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pretty As Me
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Animal Visions
All my life I have held a fascination with the animal kingdom, which began in my childhood growing up on a farm and extended into my adult years. On some inexplicab...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Winged Migration
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Entropic Kingdom
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might addr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vineyard Blush
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Marwari: Indigenous Spirits
In my eyes horses represent that which is beautiful and sacred in nature. In particular, the noble Marwari horses from India have captured my attentio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Offering
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Prom Gown #1
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Rite of Passage
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might addr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ring of Fire
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Dreaming in Reverse
Twenty-five years ago I traveled freely throughout the Mexican countryside where I relished a warm, welcoming, and slow-paced style of living. I was heartened...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Daybreakers
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Animal Visions
All my life I have held a fascination with the animal kingdom, which began in my childhood growing up on a farm and extended into my adult years. On some inexplicab...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Seabird Mimicry
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Dreaming in Reverse
Twenty-five years ago I traveled freely throughout the Mexican countryside where I relished a warm, welcoming, and slow-paced style of living. I was heartened...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Autumn Moorage
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Illumination Series
Renaissance artists affirmed the transformational nature of light in their classical paintings. Taddeo Gaddi and Giotto di Bondone...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pennants Over Pienza, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Pennants Over Pienza, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
From Tom Chambers' Illumination Series
Renaissance artists affirmed the transformational nature of light in their classical paintings. Taddeo Gaddi and Giotto di Bondone...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Annunciation
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Illumination Series
Renaissance artists affirmed the transformational nature of light in their classical paintings. Taddeo Gaddi and Giotto di Bondone...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Catching Koi
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
All my life I have held a fascination with the animal kingdom, which began in my childhood growing up on a farm and extended into my adult years. On some inexplicable level I feel a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Impossible Intentions
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Illumination Series
Renaissance artists affirmed the transformational nature of light in their classical paintings. Taddeo Gaddi and Giotto di Bondone of the Renaissance period painted breathtaking frescoes in which light created dramatic effects. Artists, such as these masters, inspired me to create photomontages that highlight the aesthetic power of light. Following recent travels in Italy, I was awed by the metaphysical nature of Tuscan light...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Goatherd
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Contemporary color photography for sale on 1stDibs.
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