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
Grace Jones LA 2018, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography, Portrait
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Combined Edition 10
Portrait of the Jamaican model, singer, songwriter, record producer and actress.
From personality portraits and advertising campaigns to magazine layouts and fine art work, Greg Gorman has developed a unique style in his profession. His distinctive use of light in his black and white portraits is one of the identifying aspects of a Gorman photograph.
Gorman’s strength has been photographing motion picture and music personalities. His work has been used in film advertising and publicity campaigns as well as album and CD covers. Some of the motion picture celebrities that he has photographed include Ben Affleck, Lauren Bacall, Alec Baldwin, Antonio Banderas, Kim Basinger, Marlon Brando, Pierce Brosnan, Kevin Costner, Bette Davis, Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Andy Garcia, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Dustin Hoffman, Sophia Loren, Al Pacino, Barbra Streisand, Kiera Knightley, Clive Owen, Jennifer Lopez and John Travolta.
In the music field, Mr. Gorman has worked with Elton John, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Morrissey, John Mayer, Bette Midler, Grace Jones and Frank Zappa to name a few. A partial list of the films that he has generated graphics and publicity for include “The Hurt Locker”, “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “King Arthur”, “Tootsie”, “The Big Chill”, “Bull Durham...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The philosopher's study
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor creates evocative single-scene narratives in her whimsical and elaborate photomontages. Working intuitively, Taylor combines 19th Century photographs, found objects, an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Massimo Listri, Archivio Banco di Napoli II
Located in New York, NY
Palazzo di Ostankino, Mosca, 2015
Chromogenic print
Edition of 5
Signed, dated, and numbered on verso label
Mounted on aluminum, framed
39.5 x 47.5 inches edition of 5
47.5 x 5...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Body, Sepia. Nude. Sepia Limited Edition Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Sepia Color Archival Pigment print
36 x 24 in. Ed of 10
Unframed
Channeling the energy of “water-signs” in astrology, he captures these mysterious men through a romantic lens. The ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rue de Temple #1
By Iris Brosch
Located in München, BY
Edition of 25
3 nude and beautiful girls sitting on a chaiselongue in a historical french builing.
The artist, photographer and director Iris Brosch, living between New York and P...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ezra II, limited edition, archival pigment ink photograph, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Ezra II, limited edition, archival pigment ink photograph, signed and numbered
When looking at Julie Blackmon’s “Hilltop,” notice the elements that are in motion: the grass on the h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Topiary I - large format photograph of ornamental shaped tree
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
from a series of photographic observances capturing the antics of urban gardening and striking art of topiaries' green minimalism
Topiary I by Frank Schott ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Oui Mon Cul 02 - mounted - Nude, Women, Contemporary, Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Oui Mon Cul (The Eyes Of The Fox) - 2015 / 2018
40x30cm,
edition of 7.
High-end art print based on the original Polaroid.
Mounted on aluminum 5mm.
Finished with a high-gloss ep...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Polaroid
Paree #13, Contemporary, Nude, 21st Century, Polaroid by Carmen de Vos, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Paree #13, 2013, Edition printed 2018, Edition 1/7, 25x25cm plus 3cm white border. [From the series Goldenbogen & Zouzou]
Digital archival pigment print on beautiful
PHOTO RAG ® UL...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Steve McQueen Racing Porsche
Located in Austin, TX
This stunning color action shot features American actor Steve McQueen. Often called "The King of Cool", whose "anti-hero" persona developed at the height of the counterculture of the...
Category
1960s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Love Birds, Contemporary Color Landscape Photography, New England
Located in New york, NY
Artist-photographer RF’s saturated color photograph of a white house on a hill. a fruit tree in the yard, and two turtle doves perched outside a birdhouse addresses fact and fiction,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...
NASA Apollo 14, Alan Shepard with American Flag, Vintage Color Photo Kodak paper
By Nasa
Located in New york, NY
NASA Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard stands by the US flag on the moon with the shadow of Edgar D. Mitchell, module pilot, taking the picture.
This is an 8" x 10" vintage chromoge...
Category
1970s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Green Hills in Morning Light, large format photography, limited landscape
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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Eve Arnold - Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses, Photography 1955, Printed After
By Eve Arnold
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses by
James Joyce, New York, Long Island, 1955."
All available sizes and editions:
24" x 20", Edition of 25 + 3 Artist Pro...
Category
1950s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Cotton, Paper
Forlorn - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Forlorn - 2021
50x50cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2021-1032.
Not ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Noodlesculpture (That's me)
By Erwin Wurm
Located in New York, NY
For Austrian artist Erwin Wurm, sculpture is a fluid concept. Over the last three decades, Wurm has created work that blurs the boundary between viewer, object, and performer and cha...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Tiki Tacky
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. Her most recent project, “Anonymous Women,” consists of a 3-part series of s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bel Shore Motel sign, Highway 80, Deming, New Mexico; December, 1980
By Steve Fitch
Located in Sante Fe, NM
From the Vanishing Vernacular series.
Vanishing Vernacular features a selection of color works by photographer Steve Fitch focusing primarily on the distinctive, idiosyncratic, and evolving features of the western roadside landscape including topologies of neon motel signs...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Stillness 1, 2021 - Limited Edition Digital C-Type Print on Fuji Maxima Matt
By Ellie Davies
Located in Brighton, GB
Stillness 1 is a stunning Digital C-Type Print on Fuji Maxima Matte paper, available in this size from a Limited Edition of 7 + 2 Artist Proofs.
Today, most of us live in urban env...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital
"Aquarius" Photography 49" x 39" in Edition of 3 by Kseniya Vashchenko
Located in Culver City, CA
"Aquarius" Photography 49" x 39" in Edition of 3 by Kseniya Vashchenko
Not framed. Ships rolled in tube.
Available sizes:
Edition of 15: 29.5" x 24" in
Edition of 7: 39" x 31" i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
New York City Subway Car - American Interior Color Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
New York City Subway Car interior photograph by Richard Heeps. This atmospheric photograph of a New York City Subway Car captures the cinematic essence of riding the subway. The pers...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Burlesque Series, Boudoir II, Tease-O-Rama, Hollywood, Los Angeles - Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
Richard Heeps became well-known for his Burlesque Photography after he spent 2003 capturing performances in Britain & America. He spent a lot on time with his subjects on a number of...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Daisy in front of Mirror - Polaroid, Figurative, Photograph, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Daisy in front of Mirror (Till Death do Us part) - 2005
Edition 1/5,
48x46cm,
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist,
based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Once We Were Warriors (Stage of Consciousness) starring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Once We Were Warriors (Stage of Consciousness) - part of the 29 Palms, CA project - 2007 - featuring Radha Mitchell
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
digital C-Print, ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid, Archival Paper
Bread House (Food Still Life Photograph of Bread, Vegetables & Stones)
Located in Hudson, NY
Contemporary food still life photograph of bread with assorted vegetables on a wood table
Archival pigment print, ed. of 25
Image size: 11 x 14 inches
...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Enigma (2020)
Located in AMSTERDAM, NL
Presented by The Merchant House Gallery, Amsterdam (www*merchanthouse*nl).
Please note: We have a special deal / discount through Fedex. Shipping prices are negotiable.
This is a sp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Digital
Vertigo- digital manipulated photograph of a whimsical flying swimming pool
Located in New York, NY
Laurent Chéhere, a French photographer born in 1972 in Paris, makes images of flying houses and other dwellings that are informed by his wanderings in the hidden neighborhoods of Par...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital
John Lennon and Yoko Ono in bed
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of John Lennon and Yoko Ono during the filming of a video to promote their new album, "Double Fantasy", New York City, November 26, 1980, taken by Allen Tannenbaum.
Filming began in Central Park, then moved to a gallery on SoHo for scenes where they would arrive in a white bedroom, first in street clothes and later in kimonos, strip, and make love.
Allan Tannenbaum is an esteemed photojournalist and fine art photographer. His documentation of New York art, music, and nightlife has become iconic, particularly his definitive coverage of the burgeoning 1970s punk...
Category
1980s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Roots II by Tamary Kudita - Portrait photography, African women, aesthetic, sky
Located in Paris, FR
Roots II is a limited-edition photograph (Digital Print on Baryta Fine Art paper) by contemporary artist Tamary Kudita.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is avai...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Digital
"Radiance" Nude Photography 40" x 40" inch Edition 1/3 by Aaron Mcpolin
Located in Culver City, CA
"Radiance" Nude Photography 40" x 40" inch Edition 1/3 by Aaron Mcpolin
Medium: Archival Giclee Print
Available sizes:
Edition of 15 24" x 24" inch
Edition of 7 30" x 30" inch
Edit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Adventure
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor creates what she calls “dreamlike worlds inhabited by everyday objects.” To make her intricate compositions, Taylor collages a variety of images using digital technology. She begins with small pastel drawings to use as backgrounds, then scans each additional element into the computer and combines them using Photoshop, arranging figures much in the same way she creates still lifes in the studio. Finding inspiration in 19th-century photographs, taxidermy specimens, mounted insects, vintage toys, sea shells, feathers, and other artifacts she finds at flea markets, online auctions, and in her own backyard, Taylor creates surreal pigmented digital prints that call to mind tintype photographs...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Reale I, Venezia'
Located in New York, NY
Massimo Listri
Palazzo Reale I, Venezia
2022
C print Signed, dated, and numbered on verso label
39.5 x 47.5 inches (100 x 120 cm) edition of 5 - $12,500
47.5 x 59 inches (120 x 1...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Kona
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Title: KONA
Medium: archival pigment print
Edition: 4 of 6
Size: 24 x 32 inches (61 x 81.2 cm)
Price: 2700
From the series WITHOUT WORDS: grounded in nature
When I cannot speak, ph...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Study XVII by Luca Marziale - Landscape photography, Yellowstone Park, framed
Located in Paris, FR
Study XVII is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Luca Marziale.
This photograph is a limited edition of 10 copies, it is sold framed with a black frame. Dimensions...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Sunblind - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sunblind - 2021 -
50x50cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label and certificate.
Artist inventory PL2021-1041.
No...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Amusements, Porthcawl - Seaside Typography Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Amusements, seaside typography photography from Richard Heeps' On-Sea series.
This artwork is a limited edition of 25, gloss photographic print, dry-mounted to aluminium, it is pres...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Plage des Catalans (framed) - large scale photograph of Mediterranean beach
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of Cote d'Azur beach by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Plage des Catalans...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Orange Flowered Couch at Sunset (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Orange Flowered Couch at Sunset (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
Edition 1/10,
20x20cm,
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid
Artist inventory Number 19762
Not mounted.
Stefanie Schneider:...
Category
1990s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Rita Hayworth Sunbathing
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Captivating color image of Hollywood pinup star Rita Hayworth sunbathing, circa 1939.
Rita Hayworth was an American actress, dancer, and pin-up girl. She achieved fame in the 1940s ...
Category
1930s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Rapture - Contemporary, Polaroid, Color, Women, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Rapture - 2020
20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2020-925.
Not mounted.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Fifty Shades
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fifty Shades - 2017,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Digital C-print, based on an original Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2017-333.
Not...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Magic Lite - underwater photograph - archival pigment 15.5" x 23.5"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater photograph of a young model diving in a pool. Bright sunbeams are going through the water surrounding the girl.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print signed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Missing, 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude Photography, Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Missing, 2018, Edition 5/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Digital C-print, Based on an original Impossible film, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2018-...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Cowboy TV - large format photograph of iconic western in American landscape
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale original photograph of vintage TV set with iconic western movie in American wild west landscape
Cowboy TV by Frank Schott
30 x 40...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Giclée, Archival Ink
Wonder Valley (Sidewinder) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wonder Valley (Sidewinder) - 2005
Edition of 5,
156x125cm.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory No. 3094.
Not mounted.
"...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"Knockout" Nude Photography 36 x 48 In Ed. 4/7 by StillVika
Located in Culver City, CA
"Knockout" Nude Photography 36 x 48 In Ed. 4/7 by StillVika
Medium: Canson Platine 310GSM
Print only. Ships rolled in tube.
Other sizes available per request.
Amidst a chaotic w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Digital
Blue Glove ( Michael Jackson ) 40" x 30"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Blue Glove (Michael Jackson) by Tom Schierlitz
a highly detailed glamorous still life photograph of the performer's iconic blue and gold sequin and Swarovski rhinestone crystal glove...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
City Landcuts - Vision of a Urban Territory - Abstract Cityscapes
Located in Miami, FL
Archival photo print under acrylic glass.
Artist and photographer Paul-Émile Rioux lives in Montréal, Canada.
His lifelong interest in cutting-edge media technology as well as his ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
"Silk Mill", contemporary, industrial, machines, metal print, color photograph
Located in Natick, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Silk Mill” was photographed at an abandoned mill and is part of a series documenting the loss of industry in America. The 16 x 24 inch color photograph with satin ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Metal
Beach Time I - color beach photography
By Igal Pardo
Located in New York, NY
In his beach series, Pardo is taking the viewers into a journey. A journey that goes on the line between surreal and real. His photos, straight shots that he manipulates, are sometim...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
American Cowboy Head and Torso, Salton Sea, California - American Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
A classic American icon, the roadside giant Cowboy "Muffler Man", captured on Richard Heeps' road trip between Mecca and the Salton Sea. Part of a series of pictures by Richard Heeps...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Togetherness - Large Scale Cyanotype Style Film Photographic Print Framed
By Pia Clodi
Located in Zürich, CH
Not one to shy away from human representation, Pia Clodi’s more portraiture-like works continually offer the sitter an air of anonymity, and as such the viewer has the opportunity to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Carbon Pigment, Polaroid
Through The Window - Lt ed. 8/25 - Mounted on Plexi
By Greg Lotus
Located in New York, NY
Sexy, fun photograph of woman climbing into a car. Face mounted on acrylic.
About the artist:
Photographer Greg Lotus' work can be found regularly...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pulse (Kings Road) - observations at the Schindler House in Los Angeles
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In Kings Road (2022) Mona Kuhn lyrically reconsiders the realms of time and space within the midcentury architectural elements of the iconic Schindler House in Los Angeles. Built by Austrian architect Rudolph M. Schindler in 1922, the house was both a social and design experiment and an avant-garde hub for intellectuals and artists in the 1920s and ’30s.
The body of works incorporates chromogenic color prints, reflecting vignettes and materials of the building's emotional architecture, juxtaposition with unique solarized gelatin silver prints capturing traces of an ethereal human presence.
Pulse (2022)
Kings Road: A Rudolph Schindler House
60" x 45" / 152cm x 114cm / edition of 3
40" x 30" / 102cm x 76cm /edition of 12
limited edition photograph printed under artist supervision + accompanied by signed artist certificate:
artist signature label (8x10")
signed/editioned/dated/titled by the artist + stamped for authenticity
label is placed centered on verso of the mounted print
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About the artist
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art.
For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Stanley/Barker Editions published Kuhn's Bushes & Succulents in 2018. In 2021, Thames & Hudson published a career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn's most recent publication Kings Road (2022) with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum traveling exhibition shown in Europe and the US.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris; The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London; Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland; Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and Australian Centre for Photography. Mona Kuhn lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Solo Exhibitions
2025
Mona Kuhn: Y Tu Desnudo será Un Gran Poema, Museum of Contemporary Art, Malaga, Spain
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Lianzhou Museum of Photography, China
2024
Mona Kuhn: The Schindler House, A Love Affair, Galerie XII...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Yucca Skies - Photography, 21st Century, Contemporary, Landscape, High Desert
By Tao Ruspoli
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Yucca Skies' Edition 1/10, 20x30cm, 2017, Archival Pigment Print on Velvet Watercolor Paper, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate.
Published in Tao Rusp...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
David Burdeny - Kadō 1, Photography 2019, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
David Burdeny (b. 1968. Winnipeg, Canada) graduated with a Masters in Architecture and Interior Design and spent the early part of his career practicing in his field before establish...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, Pigment, Digital Pigment
Large Landscape India Heritage Lake Nature Wildlife Birds Sunset Orange
Located in Norfolk, GB
Aditya Dicky Singh, Untitled, photograph on fine-art Hahnemuhle archival paper
42" x 63" unframed, 2022
Edition 1/10
*Should you wish the photographs to be printed at a different...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Desert Junkyard II
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Desert Junkyard II (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
58x56cm,
Edition of 10
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist
based on the Polaroid
Artist inventory #319.02
Mounted on Aluminum
Dese...
Category
1990s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid
Seascape XVII - large format photograph of a mesmerizing ocean surface
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
from a series of large scale photographs capturing a mesmerizing color palette of classic blue ocean
SEASCAPE XVII by Frank Schott
60 x 48 inches / 152cm x 122cm
signed edition of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Dutch dog #3 King Charles Spaniels - Animal signed limited edition contemporary
By Tim Platt
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pig...
'Spring couplet' Large Scale Photograph Cherry blossom Sakura flowers white pink
Located in Penzance, GB
'Spring Couplet' ('Mono No Aware' Series) 40 x 60" edition
Limited edition archival photograph, hand signed and numbered. Unframed
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The dance of the cherry blossoms ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Digital, Giclée, Archi...
Ava Gardner at Academy Awards
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Color portrait of Ava Gardner smiling at The Academy Awards in fur and tiara.
Ava Lavinia Gardner was an American actress and singer. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Be...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
"Resolute", Contemporary, Abandoned School, Graffiti, Color Photograph, 2018
Located in Natick, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Resolute” is a 11 x 17 inch metal print of graffiti on a wall of peeling paint in a deserted school. The color photograph with hues of peach and brown is almost ab...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Metal
Reef - X large format photograph of sun reflections on a coral reef
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of sun reflections on a coral reef water surface, mesmerizing light reflections of glistening sunlight on turquoise aquamarine water surface, an homage to th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
I am dissolved #2. Abstract nude color photograph
By Javier Rey
Located in Miami Beach, FL
An insipid notion (The astonished world) is a collection of unreal experiences caused by the feeling of late and inexperienced love, and the inability to fully know the experience of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Poolside - Signed and Numbered
By Blank Barbie
Located in London, GB
Poolside
by Blank Barbie
pop artwork of a couple by a swimming pool.
paper size 40x30 inches / 101 x 76 cm
unframed - framing available just ask
Archival pigment print
signed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Penny Lane (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Penny Lane (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks)
Edition of 10,
102 x 100cm.
Lambda Print based on a Polaroid.
Artist inventory 21327B.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not moun...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Shanghai #2. Nude Color Photograph
By David Jay
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Through David Jay’s photography, context evaporates, and we as the viewer are left to engage the subjects, trade places, and for a moment, live behind their eyes. We recognize our sh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Color
Where Are We Heading? (Olivia Wilde)
By Tao Ruspoli
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Tao Ruspoli (born November 7, 1975) is an Italian-American filmmaker, photographer, and musician.
Background
Tao is the second son of Prince Alessandro Ruspoli, 9th Prince of Cervet...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
H2O VI - large format photograph of sun reflections - Homage to David Hockney
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format Panorama photograph of sun reflections on pool water surface, mesmerizing light reflections of glistening sunlight on turquoise aquamarine water surface, an homage to th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Arctia Caja Manchuria, Nature Photograph, Orange Moth, Spots, White Background
Located in Kent, CT
In this hyper-detailed archival pigment print on watercolor paper, an orange moth with black spots and a black and white pattern on the top half of its wings is dramatic against a so...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Lucio Fontana - Vintage Exhibition Poster - 1982
Located in Roma, IT
Lucio Fontana - Exhibition Poster is an original poster print in 1982.
The artwork was realized on the occasion of the artist's exhibition In Celle Ligure, Savona.
Good conditions ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Paper, Offset
Steve McCurry 'Hilltop View of Chefchaouen'
Located in New York, NY
C-Prints printed on FujiFlex Crystal Archive Super Gloss Paper
40 x 60 inches
Signed and numbered edition of 10
with certificate of authenticity
Steve McCurry (American, b.1950) is ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
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.