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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.

Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.

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Style: Contemporary
Dream in Color Series, Some Like it Hot, Bisbee, Arizona - Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Richard Heeps' Dream in Colour Series beautifully captures 1950's chic, the nostalgic vibe and warm colours paired with a Marilyn Monroe movie sti...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Psychedelic Butterfly, Star, Contemporary Art and Design Photography
Located in New york, NY
From the transformative to the ephemeral, the birth and death of a butterfly is reimagined in a photo series by Roberta Fineberg inspired by a poem by 13th Century Persian poet Rumi a great believer in the power of love: ‘Whatever you know, or don’t - only love is real’. A contemporary color photograph of a butterfly the work explores the natural and man-made world in which a caterpillar breaks free of its skin for a metamorphosis. Hatching into an exquisite creature...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

Rita Hayworth in Burbank
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white candid image of Rita Hayworth in Burbank, walking along a beautiful street scene. Rita Hayworth was an American actress, dancer, and producer. She achieved fame dur...
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1930s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment

Shine - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Shine - 2020 - 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-1005. Not ...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

"Ehpico d’ Atela” pure bred Lusitano stallion #1 - Horse, Limited edition print
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
"Ehpico d’ Atela” pure bred Lusitano stallion #1 , Champion pure bred Lusitano grey stallion 2018. These images of a champion Lusitano stallion running free and untethered, use powerful studio lighting for ultra fast flash durations to freeze detail to less than 1/6000th of a second. Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 3 This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm , Acid- and lignin-free, Museum quality for highest age resistance and a popular alternative to analogue baryta paper). The inks used are also known for their longevity Signed + numbered by artist with certificate of authenticity, unframed Please note that prices increase as editions sell. Archival pigment print available sizes ( Image size , the white margin is not counted) : 106 x 84 cm/ 41.73 x 33.07 in- Edition of 10 129 x 103 cm/ 51 x 40.55 in - Edition of 3 Tim Platt specialises in creating minimal stylised studio portraits of birds and animals, which he describes as beauty shots. A frozen moment in time allows us to observe the world in suspension and will often reveal a graphic beauty that might otherwise flash by in the blink of an eye and remain unnoticed. Whether observing the magnified eye of a bullfrog, or an eagle captured at several thousandths of a second in mid-flight, he is fascinated by the level of detail that can be revealed in a large format print. It is the stillness of a photograph that gives us time to pause and marvel at the myriad levels of detail in Nature’s grand design and allows us to reflect on the wonderful diversity of life on Earth. categories : Color Photography, 21st Century, Archival Pigment Print, Horse, Animal, Portrait, Lusitano, Equine, Equestrian...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Color, Archival Paper, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pigment

Céo De Azulejos. From the Iberia series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist inspiration is deeply rooted in the notion of discovery through visual reflections and a strong passion for symmetry and linear structure. Her architectural works of Refle...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Factory Spine, Milan - Italian industrial architecture photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Factory Spine, Italian industrial architecture photograph from Richard Heeps series A Short History of Milan. A Short History of Milan began as...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Cortina d'Ampezzo - Analogue Sunset Photography of Italian Dolomite mountains
Located in London, GB
'Cortina d'Ampezzo' 2022 It is a colour film photograph of Cortina d'Ampezzo, Dolomite mountain area in Italy, made using a 4x5 Large format camera Linhof. Ugne Pouwell does all the...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

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Film, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Giclée

N°TSSI27, France
Located in München, BY
The production of sea salt is one of the oldest forms of human intervention in natural spaces. Sea salt comes from natural evaporation of seawater out of artificial created ponds. Th...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Dealer, Kowloon, Hong Kong - Asian Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Dealer, street photography from Richard Heeps series, The Streets of Hong Kong. Richard's aim for his City series is to represent the fingerprint of a place, in this the street store...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Walthamstow Stadium Day and Night, London - Architecture Typography Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Two individually framed artworks, Walthamstow Stadium Day and Night. London typography street photography by Richard Heeps. This historic iconic British neon sign has been captured ...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

More than This - Contemporary, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
More of This (Bombay Beach) - 2024 48x40cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. inventory PL2...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Kuba, 2005 – Balthasar Burkhard, Color Photography, Cityscape, Car, Cuba
Located in Zurich, CH
Balthasar BURKHARD (1944–2010, Switzerland) Kuba, 2005 C-print in artist’s iron frame, museum glass Sheet 176 x 176 cm (69 1/4 x 69 1/4 in.) From an...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

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C Print

New York City, Central Park, Night Photography, Twin Greek Temples (Dusk)
Located in New york, NY
A contemporary color photograph by Roberta Fineberg is a nod to photo secessionist Edward Steichen. The subject for the artist's night photography is a Central Park West building (th...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...

Radha Mind Screen (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Radha Mind Screen (29 Palms, CA) - 2016 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

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Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Lap Dance with Light - 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude Photography, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lap Dance with Light - 2018, 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist inventory PL201...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

High II. Limited edition color photograph of a assembled guitars body sculpture
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Photography helps Kevin Krag to freeze in time his one-of-a-kind sculptures capturing the spiritual dimension, vulnerability, and mortality of his ephemeral...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

Grammia Virgo Female, Coral Red, Black Peach Moth Insect Wings Nature Photograph
Located in Kent, CT
In this hyper-detailed archival pigment print on watercolor paper, a coral red moth with black markings on its wings and abdomen and pale peach on its upper wings is dramatic and vib...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

High I. Limited edition color photograph of a assembled guitars body sculpture
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Photography helps Kevin Krag to freeze in time his one-of-a-kind sculptures capturing the spiritual dimension, vulnerability, and mortality of his ephemeral pieces. Using ethically s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Sundowner II, Salton Sea, California - Blue sky roadside America color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
This giant isolated roadside sign set against a vast blue sky is a remnant of 'The Sundowner Bar and Restaurant' of the motel which is sadly no more. This photograph, part of Richard...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Flora Italiana (Waratah Red) - large format botanical still life photograph
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original large format still life photograph from Linda Rosewall's series "Flora Italiana", an intensely beautiful body of works exploring the botanical ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment

Dutch dog #3 King Charles Spaniels - Animal signed limited edition contemporary
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Dutch dog #3 King Charles Spaniels - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 10 A series of four images inspired by the 17th century g...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pig...

Lilac Gloves, Goodwood, Chichester - Feminine fashion, color photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
'Lilac Gloves' by Richard Heeps, taken at the glamorous retro event Goodwood Revival, perfectly captures the fine details in vintage fashion, a time of sophistication. This artwork f...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Pink wall Los Angeles by JJK, Photography, Limited Edition, Street, people
Located in München, BY
Pink Wall in Los Angeles Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist The pink wall in Los Angeles is a hotspot for photographers and influencer. They use it as backdrop and pose...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Rainbow Apartments, Milan - Italian Architecture Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
Rainbow Apartments, Italian architecture photograph from Richard Heeps series A Short History of Milan. A Short History of Milan' began in ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Shed - Railroad Depot, Nevada, 2003 - After the Gold Rush - Architecture Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
Shed - Railroad Depot, from Richard Heeps series 'After the Gold Rush', named after the Neil Young song. The series captures former American mining towns that he visited on his journ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized Minis - 'Daisy in front of...' - signed, loose
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Mini Daisy in front of Trailer (Till Death do us Part) signed in front, not mounted. Digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid. Polaroid sized open Editi...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Paper, Color, Lambda, Polaroid

Ancient Laurisilva Forest, bent Tree, Madeira, black and white landscape photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Crooked tree in fairy forest in foggy mood, Fanal, Portugal. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 5. All Gerald ...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Digital Pigment

I am fleeting #11. From I am fleeting Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Tulle no. 34_v2, Ocracoke Island, NC
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The hovering installations featured in this ongoing series of photographs are inspired by self-organizing, "emergent" systems in nature such as termite mounds, swarming locusts, scho...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Mrs. Richards Darling [from Les Foxy Femmes] - Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Mrs. Richards Darling, 2019 (diptych) [From the series Les Foxy Femmes] 20x20cm each, 20x45cm installed, Edition of 30. Archival pigment prints, based on two original Polaroids on...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid

White Horses Standing Beneath a Waterfall, Color Photography, Horizontal
Located in US
"Endless Dream" Although the horses are calm and collected, the powerful waterfall Skógafoss pounds thousands of gallons of water into the pool they stand in. The conditions to crea...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

0°00 Longitude, 52°32N' Latitude, Hake's Drove - Landscape Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Hake's Drove, British landscape photograph from Richard Heeps series, 36 Minutes in Cambridgeshire. Richard Heeps was awarded a Millennium Year of the Artist Arts Council Grant to make this work. This project was born from an idea to produce a set of photographs...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Untitled 1 from the series of INtheVISIBLE, 2013
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Sukan’s photographic work explores the conventions of the modern white cube as both an architectural context and as a content subject in and of itself. By addressing the notions of s...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper, Inkjet

Flower Vendor on Dal Lake by Steve McCurry, 1999, Digital C-Print
Located in Denton, TX
Flower Vendor on Dal Lake by Steve McCurry depicts a man transporting vibrant, multi-colored flowers in a canoe. He paddled down the calm river, passing by a house surrounded by lush...
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1990s Contemporary Color Photography

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Digital

Silk no. 2, Nantucket, MA
Located in Sante Fe, NM
“The hovering installations featured in this ongoing series of photographs are inspired by self-organizing, "emergent" systems in nature such as termite mounds, swarming locusts, sch...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Seascape IX - large format photograph of blue water surface
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of mesmerizing water and cloudscape SEASCAPE IX by Frank Schott 48 x 48 inches ( 122 x 122cm ) edition of 7 signed 5...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Giclée

Weekending - Polaroid - Unique piece
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Weekending - Polaroid - Unique piece - 2020 Original Polaroid - Unique Piece, signed and titled on back. 7.8 x 7,7cm (image area) 10.7 x 8.7 cm ( including white Polaroid frame)...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Polaroid

Untitled VI, DECO series by Matthieu Venot - Architecture photography, framed
Located in Paris, FR
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...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, Pigment

First Violin (self Portrait) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Photography, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
First Violin #03 - 2013 [From the series Need to be] 50x50cm Archival color print based on original Polaroid on beautiful PHOTO RAG ULTRA SMOOTH 305gsm - 100% cotton by HAHNEMÜHLE....
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid

Large Landscape Photograph Banyan Tree India Nature Wildlife Forest Green Brown
Located in Norfolk, GB
Aditya Dicky Singh Untitled Photograph on fine-art Hahnemuhle archival paper 44" x 65" unframed (112cm x 165cm) 2017 Edition 1/15 *Should you wish the photograph to be printed ...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Lollipop Mini - mounted - featuring Radha Mitchell, based on a Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Minis - The size of a Polaroid. Lollipop (Beachshoot) featuring Radha Mitchell, 2005. Lambda digital Color Photographs based on the Polaroid. Sandwiched in ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

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Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Color, Lambda, Polaroid

Morning Light in the Mountains, Large Format Mono Photograph, Limited Edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Color fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuehle ...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Digital Pigment

N°TSSI05, France
Located in München, BY
The production of sea salt is one of the oldest forms of human intervention in natural spaces. Sea salt comes from natural evaporation of seawater out of artificial created ponds. Th...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Randal Ford - Mountain Lion Cub, Photography 2018, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Available Sizes: 37.5 x 30 in Edition of 15 50 x 40 in Edition of 10 60 x 48 in Edition of 5 Over 40,000 years ago, we began to depict animals in cave drawings. Throughout history, ...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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C Print

Randal Ford - Mountain Lion No. 1, Photography 2018, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Available Sizes: 30" x 37.5" Edition of 15 40" x 50" Edition of 10 48" x 60" Edition of 5 Over 40,000 years ago, we began to depict animals in cave drawings. Throughout history, man...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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C Print

Randal Ford - Highland Calf Baby, Photography 2018, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Available Sizes: 32" x 32" Edition of 15 40" x 40" Edition of 10 48" x 48" Edition of 5 Over 40,000 years ago, we began to depict animals in cave drawings. Throughout history, manki...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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C Print

Randal Ford - Penguin No. 2, Photography 2018, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Available Sizes: 37.5 x 30 in Edition of 15 50 x 40 in Edition of 10 60 x 48 in Edition of 5 Over 40,000 years ago, we began to depict animals in cave drawings. Throughout history, ...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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C Print

Randal Ford - Lion No. 1, Photography 2018, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Available Sizes: 37.5 x 30 in Edition of 15 50 x 40 in Edition of 10 60 x 48 in Edition of 5 Over 40,000 years ago, we began to depict animals in cave drawings. Throughout history, ...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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C Print

Randal Ford - Lion No. 2, Photography 2018, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Available Sizes: 37.5 x 30 in Edition of 15 50 x 40 in Edition of 10 60 x 48 in Edition of 5 Over 40,000 years ago, we began to depict animals in cave drawings. Throughout history, ...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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C Print

Randal Ford - Lion No. 3, Photography 2018, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Available Sizes: 37.5 x 30 in Edition of 15 50 x 40 in Edition of 10 60 x 48 in Edition of 5 Over 40,000 years ago, we began to depict animals in cave drawings. Throughout history, ...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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C Print

Randal Ford - Leopard Appaloosa Horse No. 1, Photography 2018, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Available Sizes: 30" x 45" Edition of 15 40" x 60" Edition of 10 48" x 72" Edition of 5 Over 40,000 years ago, we began to depict animals in cave drawings. Throughout history, manki...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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C Print

Randal Ford - Lion No. 4, Photography 2018, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Available Sizes: 37.5 x 30 in Edition of 15 50 x 40 in Edition of 10 60 x 48 in Edition of 5 Over 40,000 years ago, we began to depict animals in cave drawings. Throughout history, ...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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C Print

Randal Ford - Giraffe No. 3, Photography 2018, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Available Sizes: 37.5 x 30 in Edition of 15 50 x 40 in Edition of 10 60 x 48 in Edition of 5 Over 40,000 years ago, we began to depict animals in cave drawings. Throughout history, ...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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C Print

Randal Ford - Foal No. 2, Photography 2018, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Available Sizes: 32" x 32" Edition of 15 40" x 40" Edition of 10 48" x 48" Edition of 5 Weston: There are few things more adorable than a baby horse. 28-day-old Weston and his ridi...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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C Print

Randal Ford - Grizzly Bear Portrait, Photography 2018, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Available Sizes: 32" x 32" Edition of 15 40" x 40" Edition of 10 48" x 48" Edition of 5 Over 40,000 years ago, we began to depict animals in cave drawings. Throughout history, manki...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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C Print

Craig y Don Pool, Llandudno Beach, Wales - Blue British Swimming Pool Sea Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
Craig y Don Pool, looking across the bay of Llandudno, Wales in the United Kingdom. Blue symmetry guides your eyes out to sea in this photograph by Richard Heeps. This artwork is a limited edition of 25 gloss photographic print from negative, accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate of authenticity. We recommend the print is professionally framed. This artwork is available in other sizes and it pairs well with Richard Heeps artworks in our 1stdibs store. "Richard Heeps' seductive, highly saturated colours and sophisticated pictorial structures demonstrate a true love and empathy for his subject matter - be it cool descriptive interiors, still life or landscape. His distinctive style pushes the limits of photography." He is a film-based photographer, using a range of vintage analogue cameras. He considers himself to have three studios, the external studio of whichever location he may be shooting, his darkroom where I make my master prints and his home studio where he does the postproduction where the artworks are mounted framed and finished. He aims to make accessible artwork without compromising on quality and making everything in house he is in control of each step to achieve that. Although he was brought up in East Anglia (England), he was heavily influenced by America. he visited American bases, kept magazine cuttings and followed drag racing. The speed, lifestyle and technicolour is reflected in his imagery. 'American' colour is a major aspect in his work, it drives his equipment and material choices. At age ten he began participating in art shows and became comfortable with showing his work and the praise and criticism which is part of an artists development. In his early paintings Manhattan was reoccurring theme, fascinated with New York. Throughout his professional career he has been lucky enough to exhibit in Museums and Public Galleries since the 1980's. Since 2008 his gallery Bleach Box...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Living in a Dream (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
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...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

New York City, Cloud, Contemporary Color Fine Art Photography
Located in New york, NY
For the pastel blue and white photograph “Cloud” the artist Roberta Fineberg’s attention and equilibrium remained anchored on an anthropomorphic cloud during an unusual springtime (2020) in New York. With the soul of the City laid bare, birds sang louder than usual outside city dwellers’ windows. Sunlight illuminated the empty streets, formerly bustling. Nature reigned. A contemporary color photograph, Cloud, 2020 by Roberta Fineberg is 16" x 20" (sheet size) an archival pigment print on baryta paper in an edition of 5. Photograph is signed by the artist. Provenance: RF Studio *** Artist 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...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment...

Vetyver Pool, Poovar, Kerala - Tropical Palm Print Indian Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Vetyver Pool, photograph from Richard Heeps India series, The Ambassador's Window. On a journey through India, a pilgrimage from Kerala in the South, to his Grandfather's birthplace ...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Contemporary color photography for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary color 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 color 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, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Stefanie Schneider, Tyler Shields, Richard Heeps, and Chad Kleitsch. Frequently made by artists working with Pigment Print, and Paper 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 color photography, so small editions measuring 1.58 inches across are also available.

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