Modern Color Photography
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Vogue Dive 1944 Toni Frissell Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Vogue Dive 1944
A Vogue fashion shoot featuring a model jumping on a diving board wearing a bright 1940's yellow floral bikini, Florida USA 1944
by Toni Frissell
40 x 30" inches...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'All Aboard'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
All Aboard
1975
C-print
Edition of 150
Friends board a riva boat in Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1975. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Image...
Category
1980s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Skiers At Gstaad' - Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Skiers At Gstaad
1969 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Skiers at Gstaad, Switzerland, 1969.
Slim Aa...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Designer's Homes, Nico Stands with Dachshunds, Wears Dior, 1960
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Designers' Homes Nico Stands with Dachshunds, 1960 -- Nico, (born Christa Paffgen) was a popular fashion model and later lead singer of the The Velvet Underground. She was photograph...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Slim Aarons 'Sunbathers at Il Canille' : Mid-century Modern Photography : Capri
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Sunbathers at Il Canille
1980 (printed later)
C print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the es...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Lounging In Verbier'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Lounging In Verbier
1964 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Holidaymakers in sun loungers on the slope...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
'Water Babe' 1989 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Water Babe' 1989 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
'Town & Country' writer Meg O'Neil relaxes by the pool on the island of Mustique, in the Grenadines, February 1989.
(Phot...
Category
1980s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
'Holiday In Mustique' 1989 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Holiday In Mustique' 1989 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Pierre Vincent Marais and his wife Isabelle holiday with friends at Gelliceaux Hou...
Category
1980s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'View From Il Pellicano'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
View From Il Pellicano, 1991
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Aerial view with sunbathers and parasols and, dotted w...
Category
1990s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons : Surfing Brothers
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Freddie and Howard Cushing surfing with friends at Bailey's Beach (the Spouting Rock Beach Association) in Newport. Their father introduced the sport to the club in the 1930's.
Esta...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Exuma Holiday (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Exuma Holiday, 1964, Printed Later
A yachting holiday on Exuma in the Bahamas, April 1964.
Lambda C-print
Estate Edition of 150
Estate stamped and hand ...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Monocled Miss (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renata Boeck enjoying breakfast in bed at the Regency Hotel in New York, 1964.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
S...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Ingressi di Milano. viale Tunisia 10, Interior Architecture, Color Photography
Located in Los Angeles, CA
36 x 50 cm, 14.2 x 19.7 in. (unframed)
Inkjet Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Paper
Edition of 15
The photographer
Matthew Billings is a Berlin-based photographer and video artist who...
Category
2010s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
'Pussyfooting' 1958 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Pussyfooting' 1958 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Actress Dee Hartford, wife of film producer Howard Hawks, sips a Pussyfoot - a mixtu...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
'Great Harbour Cay' 1973 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Great Harbour Cay' 1973 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
A horseshoe beach on Great Harbour Cay, Bahamas, March 1973.
Produced from the original transparency
Certificate ...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
'Bouldereign' 1973 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Bouldereign' 1973 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Carl Hovgard's home, Bouldereign in Carefree, Arizona, built around the boulders on a desert site, January 1973.
Produc...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
'Treasure Cay' 1986 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Treasure Cay' 1986 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Treasure Cay resort on Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas, March 1986.
Produced from the original transparency
Certifi...
Category
1980s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
'Mustique' 1973 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Mustique' 1973 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
March 1973: Linda Ashland relaxes in a beach hammock on the island of Mustique in the Gr...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Frida on White Bench - Portrait, Celebrity, Frida Kahlo, Painter, Artist
Located in Denton, TX
Frida on White Bench, New York, by Nickolas Muray is a colorful portrait of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. This iconic image features the woman artist sitting on a white bench in fron...
Category
1930s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons, Skiing In Sugarbush Vermont (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiing In Vermont, 1963
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Skiers on the slopes at the Sugarbush Resort, Vermont, USA, March 1963.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edi...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'The Fullers'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
May 1970: Alvin and Lilly Fuller outside their new home in Palm Beach, Florida, pose with their fashionable European sports car, the Mercedes 190SL
Estate stamped and hand numbered ...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Lake Tahoe Couple'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A couple at a swimming pool near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959. The line on the bottom of the pool marks the state line between Nevada and California.
Estate stamped and hand numbere...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Speedboat Landing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Speedboat Landing
1973 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda Print (C Print)
Estate edition of 150
August 1973: A motor boat arrives at a j...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Golf In Hong Kong 1959 Toni Frissell Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Golf In Hong Kong
1959
A group play golf on a coastl golf course, Hong Kong, 1959.
by Toni Frissell
16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size
Archival pigment print
unframed
(fr...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat
1987 (printed later)
Archival pigment print
24 x 24 inches
Signed and numbered edition of 40
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, ...
Category
1980s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Zermatt Skiing' - Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Culinary Heights
1987 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Courchevel restaurant chefs Jean Jacob (left) of 'Le Bate...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Man Ray in Paris' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Man Ray in his Paris studio with poster for Non-Abstractions exhibition opening (1956) and Peinture féminine (1954)
Slim Aarons
Man Ray in Paris
1956 printed later
C-Print
Estate si...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Ingressi di Milano. via Francesco Cilea 106, Interior Architecture Photography
Located in Los Angeles, CA
36 x 50 cm, 14.2 x 19.7 in. (unframed)
Inkjet Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Paper
Edition of 15
The photographer
Delfino Sisto Legnani lives and works in Milan. His photography has ...
Category
2010s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
The Royal Family
Located in New York, NY
The Royal Family
1980's
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
A portrait of members of the British royal family; L-R: HR...
Category
1980s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Culinary Heights' - Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Culinary Heights
1987 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Courchevel restaurant chefs Jean Jacob (left) of 'Le Bate...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Dior, Vivalamariee Wedding Gown, 1954
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
A model wearing Dior photographed by Mark Shaw in the mid 1950s. Recently published in the book Dior, Glamour, Mark Shaw. Rizzoli, 2013. Image size is 13.75" x 20" (for 17" x 22" ...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Rolex Daytona 60x45 6263 Paul Newman Photomosaic Photography Fine Art Unsigned
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Newman" is an acrylic photomosaic artwork by Destro. The first release in a series mosaic works called "Icons". Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Beverly Hills Hotel'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Beverly Hills Hotel, 1957
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Cars parked outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boul...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Cabaret Dolphin' 1979 Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Located in London, GB
'Cabaret Dolphin' 1979
by Alain Le Garsmeur
Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
A performer at the Moulin Rouge Cabaret swimming with a dolphin in a tank, Clichy, Paris, France,...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Polo Match, Argentina
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Polo Match, Argentina, 1990
Chromogenic Lambda print
A polo match in play, Argentina, December 1990.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with ...
Category
1990s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Pussyfooting 2 (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Pussyfooting 2
1958
Chromogenic print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Actress Dee Hartford, wife of film produce...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Megachess - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Megachess
A giant game of chess in Saint Lucia, in the Lesser Antilles, February 1993.
Paper size 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo b...
Category
1990s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lake Tahoe Ladies
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lake Tahoe Ladies, 1959
Archival pigment print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A group of...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Palm Beach Idyll
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Palm Beach Idyll, 1955
C-print
30 x 30 inches
A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photograp...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Massimo Listri 'Braccio Nuovo, Musei Vaticani I'
Located in New York, NY
Braccio Nuovo, Musei Vaticani I,
2011
C print
edition of 5
39.5 x 47 inches Edition of 5
47.5 × 59 inches Edition of 5
71 x 88.75 inches Edition of 5
framing options also avai...
Category
2010s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Speedboat Landing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Speedboat Landing
1973 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda Print (C Print)
Estate edition of 150
August 1973: A motor boat arrives at a j...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Balenciaga, Orange Coat Side, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Balenciaga Orange Coat Side. Published in LIFE in 1954, a model poses for buyers from I Magnin in the Salon of Cristobal Balenciaga. THE 24” x 36” SI...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Slim Aarons Sunbathing in Capri, Catherine Wilke
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Sunbathing in Capri, Catherine Wilke,
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Printed Later.
Cath...
Category
1980s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Dior Salon, Haiti, 1954
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Dior Salon, Haiti, 1954. Image size is 22" x 32" (for 24" x 36" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper. Each print is Estate stamped on the back and signed and numbered by David Shaw, and accompanied by a letter of authenticity. Lead time is four to six weeks, but we often receive them sooner. *Please note this image is available in several sizes. Prices increase as editions sell out.
A photograph in color of a model wearing Dior. She is wearing a red dress with black gloves, and a red hat. She is walking into an open room...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Slim Aarons 'Poolside Friendship'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Desert House Party
1970 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Nelda Linsk (left, in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk with guests by the pool at the...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Nico in Gray Dior Day Dress, 1960
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Nico in Gray Dior Day Dress, 1960. Image size is 10" x 10" (for 11" x 17" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper. Each print is Estate stamped on the back and signed and numbered by David Shaw, and accompanied by a letter of authenticity. Lead time is four to six weeks, but we often receive them sooner. *Please note this image is available in several sizes. Prices increase as editions sell out.
Fashion photography of Nico in a Dior day dress. Nico is wearing a grey dress with a think black belt around the waist and big black buttons in the front. She is also wearing black gloves and a white hat with a black band. She is standing in a purple room...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
California Garden Party (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
California Garden Party, 1975
Chromogenic lambda print
Estate Edition of 150
Fashionable guests attend a poolside luncheon at the ...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Designer's Homes, Ghislaine Lounges in Elsa Schiaparelli's Home, Back, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Ghislaine Lounges in Elsa Schiaparelli's Home -- Mark Shaw photographed Elsa Schiaparelli's best-known model, Ghislaine de Bosisson in an ankle-length dress lounging on an elongated ...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Penthouse Pool, Athens (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Penthouse Pool, 1961
Archival pigment print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Young women by the Canellopoulos pentho...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
'Beauty and the Beast' Slim Aarons
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Beauty and the Beast
1959 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Ca...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Norina Pisciotto'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Paola Mussetti, 1982
C print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Norina Pisciotto poses at the v...
Category
1980s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
View looking down the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Italy, 1960. Opened in 1890, the covered arcade is on the northern side of ...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Designer's Homes, Teal Dior Gown in Gold Room, Red Furniture, 1960
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Designer’s Homes Teal Dior Gown in Gold Room. Furniture adjusted to Red -- Outtake from a 1960 photo shoot for Life Magazine, this image was photographed in a grand Parisian residenc...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
Slim Aarons 'Ursula Andress'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Posing At Cap Ferrat
1954
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Swiss actress Ursula Andress in It...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Sunbathers at Eden Roc (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Sunbathers at Eden Roc, 1969
Chromogenic lambda print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing attract...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Blondie (Deborah Harry)
By Bob Gruen
Located in New York, NY
Blondie (Deborah Harry)
gelatin silver print
20 x 24 inches
Category
20th Century Modern Color Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Mustique Hammock' (Slim Aarons Estate)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
March 1973: Linda Ashland relaxes in a beach hammock on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity f...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Nelda and Friends, Palm Springs, 1970 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced t...
Category
20th Century Modern Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
Modern color photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Modern 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, red, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Slim Aarons, Mark Shaw, Toni Frissell, and Alain Le Garsmeur. Frequently made by artists working with Pigment Print, and Archival Pigment Print and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Modern color photography, so small editions measuring 3 inches across are also available. Prices for color photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $36 and tops out at $185,000, while the average work sells for $2,500.