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Pop Art Color Photography

POP ART STYLE

Perhaps one of the most influential contemporary art movements, Pop art emerged in the 1950s. In stark contrast to traditional artistic practice, its practitioners drew on imagery from popular culture — comic books, advertising, product packaging and other commercial media — to create original Pop art paintings, prints and sculptures that celebrated ordinary life in the most literal way.

ORIGINS OF POP ART

CHARACTERISTICS OF POP ART 

  • Bold imagery
  • Bright, vivid colors
  • Straightforward concepts
  • Engagement with popular culture 
  • Incorporation of everyday objects from advertisements, cartoons, comic books and other popular mass media

POP ARTISTS TO KNOW

ORIGINAL POP ART ON 1STDIBS

The Pop art movement started in the United Kingdom as a reaction, both positive and critical, to the period’s consumerism. Its goal was to put popular culture on the same level as so-called high culture.

Richard Hamilton’s 1956 collage Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? is widely believed to have kickstarted this unconventional new style.

Pop art works are distinguished by their bold imagery, bright colors and seemingly commonplace subject matter. Practitioners sought to challenge the status quo, breaking with the perceived elitism of the previously dominant Abstract Expressionism and making statements about current events. Other key characteristics of Pop art include appropriation of imagery and techniques from popular and commercial culture; use of different media and formats; repetition in imagery and iconography; incorporation of mundane objects from advertisements, cartoons and other popular media; hard edges; and ironic and witty treatment of subject matter.

Although British artists launched the movement, they were soon overshadowed by their American counterparts. Pop art is perhaps most closely identified with American Pop artist Andy Warhol, whose clever appropriation of motifs and images helped to transform the artistic style into a lifestyle. Most of the best-known American artists associated with Pop art started in commercial art (Warhol made whimsical drawings as a hobby during his early years as a commercial illustrator), a background that helped them in merging high and popular culture.

Roy Lichtenstein was another prominent Pop artist that was active in the United States. Much like Warhol, Lichtenstein drew his subjects from print media, particularly comic strips, producing paintings and sculptures characterized by primary colors, bold outlines and halftone dots, elements appropriated from commercial printing. Recontextualizing a lowbrow image by importing it into a fine-art context was a trademark of his style. Neo-Pop artists like Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami further blurred the line between art and popular culture.

Pop art rose to prominence largely through the work of a handful of men creating works that were unemotional and distanced — in other words, stereotypically masculine. However, there were many important female Pop artists, such as Rosalyn Drexler, whose significant contributions to the movement are recognized today. Best known for her work as a playwright and novelist, Drexler also created paintings and collages embodying Pop art themes and stylistic features.

Read more about the history of Pop art and the style’s famous artists, and browse the collection of original Pop art paintings, prints, photography and other works for sale on 1stDibs.

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Style: Pop Art
Fashion designer Gianni Versace, 1988.
Located in Senoia, GA
13 x 19" Lifetime vintage archival pigment color print made under the instruction of and approved by Jack Mitchell. Fashion designer Gianni Versace, ...
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1980s Pop Art Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Stamp Collection, 1864 Hamburg (Multi-Color Mosaic German Stamps) - Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
From the Heidler & Heeps German Stamp Collection these historic postage stamps are given a twenty-first century pop art lease of life. This artwork is a ...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

La Belle Femme in the Sun, Atlantic City, New Jersey - American Color Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
La Belle Femme in the Sun, Atlantic City photograph from Richard Heeps 2013 'Jersey Shore' series. This is one of Richard's photographic signature styles where he uses surreal twists...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Just Looking II by B A T I K signed limited edition POP ART Audrey Hepburn
Located in London, GB
Just Looking II by B A T I K signed limited edition POP ART print Paper Size Oversize 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm Signed & numbered by artist on front Archival Pigment print Limited to 10 only Pop Art featuring Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast At Tiffany's looking at tv monitors...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Singapore Stamp Collection, 10c QEII Ship Series Magenta - Pop Art Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
From the 2018 Singapore Series, Postcards from afar. This artwork is a limited edition of 25, gloss photographic print. Accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate of authentic...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Singapore Stamp Collection, Singapore Ship Sequence (4x4) - Pop art color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
From the 2018 Singapore Series, Postcards from afar. This artwork is a limited edition of 25, gloss photographic print. Accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate of authentic...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

B Side Vinyl Collection, Seventies Blue - Contemporary Pop Art Color Photogrpahy
Located in Cambridge, GB
Acclaimed contemporary photographers, Richard Heeps and Natasha Heidler have collaborated to make this beautifully mesmerising collection. A celebration of the vinyl record and analo...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Singapore Stamp Collection, 30 Cents QEII Oil Tanker Teal - Pop Art Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
From the 2018 Singapore Series, Postcards from afar. This artwork is a limited edition of 25, gloss photographic print. Accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate of authentic...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Singapore Stamp Collection, 30 Cents QEII Oil Tanker Pink - Pop Art Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
From the 2018 Singapore Series, Postcards from afar. This artwork is a limited edition of 25, gloss photographic print. Accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate of authentic...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

B Side Vinyl Collection, Double B Side (Blue) - Pop Art Color Photogrpahy
Located in Cambridge, GB
Acclaimed contemporary photographers, Richard Heeps and Natasha Heidler have collaborated to make this beautifully mesmerising collection. A celebration of the vinyl record and analo...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

B Side Vinyl Collection, Made in England- Contemporary Pop Art Color Photogrpahy
Located in Cambridge, GB
Acclaimed contemporary photographers, Richard Heeps and Natasha Heidler have collaborated to make this beautifully mesmerising collection. A celebration of the vinyl record and analo...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

B Side Vinyl Collection, Stereo - Conceptual Pop Art Color Photogrpahy
Located in Cambridge, GB
Acclaimed contemporary photographers, Richard Heeps and Natasha Heidler have collaborated to make this beautifully mesmerising collection. A celebration of the vinyl record and analo...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Eternal Recurrence #16. Color Photograph from the original collage image.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Zupan combines images from old masters, alchemical prints, contemporary artists, and bits from magazines and newspapers to create overlapping, intersecting worlds of transparencies a...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Hot Heads East, Finsterwalde, Germany
Located in Cambridge, GB
Taken at the traditional Drag Racing event, Hot Heads East where the spirit of motor racing is taken back to the past as Hot Rodding enthusiasts gather in Germany. Whether you're int...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

B Side Vinyl Collection, Side One - Conceptual Pop Art Color Photogrpahy
Located in Cambridge, GB
Acclaimed contemporary photographers, Richard Heeps and Natasha Heidler have collaborated to make this beautifully mesmerising collection. A celebration of the vinyl record and analo...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

NOMAD VII, New York - Contemporary architectural color photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Brand new artwork by Richard Heeps featuring the iconic Empire State building in the mist. Photographed in New York City in 2017, he just executed this in his darkroom, printing it i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

NOMAD VI, New York - Contemporary architectural color photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Brand new artwork by Richard Heeps featuring the iconic Empire State building in the mist. Photographed in New York City in 2017, he just executed this in his darkroom, printing it i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Bananarama by BATIK signed limited edition POP ART
Located in London, GB
Bananarama aka It Ain't What You Do It's The Way That You Do It by BATIK signed limited edition POP ART print Paper Size Oversize 40...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

SHE 1/1
Located in New York, NY
Woman in pop style. Silver Highlight Chromogenic Photograph Face Mounted to Acrylic. About the Artist: My art is a mix of media combining images, textures, vintage memorabilia...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Soup Can 1/1
Located in New York, NY
Soup can in pop style. Silver Highlight Chromogenic Photograph Face Mounted to Acrylic. About the Artist: My art is a mix of media combining images, textures, vintage memorabilia...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Eternal Recurrence #13. Large limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Zupan combines images from old masters, alchemical prints, contemporary artists, and bits from magazines and newspapers to create overlapping, intersecting worlds of transparencies a...
Category

2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color

B Side Vinyl Collection, Reggae Blue - Contemporary Pop Art Color Photogrpahy
Located in Cambridge, GB
Acclaimed contemporary photographers, Richard Heeps and Natasha Heidler have collaborated to make this beautifully mesmerising collection. A celebration of the vinyl record and analo...
Category

2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Ohh Baby ! - Oversize Signed limited edition - Pop Art - Kate Moss
Located in London, GB
Ohh Baby ! - Oversize Signed limited edition - Pop Art - Kate Moss by the London based contemporary pop art image creator and artist, BATIK. Measures 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 ...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

B Side Vinyl Collection, Idea (Orange) - Contemporary Pop Art Color Photogrpahy
Located in Cambridge, GB
Acclaimed contemporary photographers, Richard Heeps and Natasha Heidler have collaborated to make this beautifully mesmerising collection. A celebration of the vinyl record and analo...
Category

2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

B Side Vinyl Collection, Side B (Green) - Contemporary Pop Art Color Photogrpahy
Located in Cambridge, GB
Acclaimed contemporary photographers, Richard Heeps and Natasha Heidler have collaborated to make this beautifully mesmerising collection. A celebration of the vinyl record and analo...
Category

2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

B Side Vinyl Collection, A Hot Jazz Classic (Coral) - Pop Art Color Photogrpahy
Located in Cambridge, GB
Acclaimed contemporary photographers, Richard Heeps and Natasha Heidler have collaborated to make this beautifully mesmerising collection. A celebration of the vinyl record and analo...
Category

2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Telephone III, Ballantines Movie Colony, Palm Springs, California
Located in Cambridge, GB
Part of Richard Heeps 'Dream in Colour' Series, this cool Palm Springs interiors picture combines gorgeous colours and dreamy nostalgic mid-century vibes. This artwork is a limited ...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Arriving, Las Vegas - American Sign Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Part of Richard Heeps 'Dream in Colour' Series, this is one of his classic American signs. This artwork is a limited edition of 25, gloss photographic print. Accompanied by a signed...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Car Boot, Hemsby, Norfolk
Located in Cambridge, GB
Part of Richard Heeps 'Man's Ruin' Series, this fun multi-colour picture has so many iconic nostalgic icons, from Marilyn Monroe, Elvis, vintage Cars & homeware and mid-century desig...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Artist Louise Nevelson, 17 x 22" Exhibition Photograph
Located in Senoia, GA
This photograph of artist Louise Nevelson was taken in 1974 in Nevelson's home in Manhattan. One of Mitchell's most beautiful color photographs. This exhibition print is 17 x 22". Co...
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1970s Pop Art Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Eternal Recurrence #42. Large limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Eternal Recurrence #42 by Natasha Zupan Archival pigment print on photographic paper Image size: 60 in. H x 53.5 in. W Edition of 5 2015 All Prices are quoted as "initial price". ...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

Dream It I by BATIK signed limited edition Oversize POP ART
Located in London, GB
Dream It I by BATIK signed limited edition Oversize POP ART Paper Size OVERSIZE 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm Signed & numbered by artist on front ...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Eternal Recurrence #9, Large limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Zupan combines images from old masters, alchemical prints, contemporary artists, and bits from magazines and newspapers to create overlapping, intersecting worlds of transparencies a...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Ohh Baby ! - Hand Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Ohh Baby ! - Hand Signed Limited Edition - Pop Art - Kate Moss Archival Pigment Print BATÍK is a London based contemporary pop art image creator and artist. Measures 30 x 20 inc...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Darth Elvis - Hand Signed Limited Edition by BATIK
Located in London, GB
Darth Elvis - Hand Signed Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print This piece is a fun and modern reworking of actor and singer Elvis Presley, dressed as Star Wars' Darth Vader. B...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Eternal Recurrence #2. Large limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Zupan combines images from old masters, alchemical prints, contemporary artists, and bits from magazines and newspapers to create overlapping, intersecting worlds of transparencies a...
Category

2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

Eternal Recurrence #27. Large limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Zupan combines images from old masters, alchemical prints, contemporary artists, and bits from magazines and newspapers to create overlapping, intersecting worlds of transparencies a...
Category

2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Eternal Recurrence #44. Large limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Zupan combines images from old masters, alchemical prints, contemporary artists, and bits from magazines and newspapers to create overlapping, intersecting worlds of transparencies a...
Category

2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Patti LuPone 'Anything Goes' Dance Magazine Cover 17 x 22" Exhibition Photograph
Located in Senoia, GA
This photograph of diva Patti LuPone, choreographer Michael Smuin and the cast of Broadway hit 'Anything Goes' was taken in 1987 for the cover of Dance Ma...
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1980s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Jasper Johns and Leo Castelli, legendary Pop artist and his dealer, FRAMED
Located in New York, NY
Hans Namuth Jasper Johns and Leo Castelli, ca. 1985 Color Photograph Frame included Provenance: from the Marjorie and Anselm Talalay collection, Cleveland, OH. Rare original color p...
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1980s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christian Rothmann ROBOTNICS Series C-Print 2019 Edition S (Edition of 10) 12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm) Signed, dated and numbered verso Other Edition Sizes available: - Edition M (Edition of 6) 35.4 x 23.6 inches (90 x 60 cm) - Edition L (Edition of 6) 47.2 x 31.5 inches (120 x 80 cm) - Edition XL (Edition of 3) 88.8 x 58.8 inches (225 x 150 cm) PUR - Price Upon Request -------------- Since 1979 Christian Rothmann had more than 40 solo and 80 group exhibitions worldwide. Christian Rothmann had guest lectures, residencies, art fairs and biennials in Europe, Japan, USA, Australia and Korea. Christian Rothmann (born 1954 in Kędzierzyn, Poland ) is a painter, photographer, and graphic artist.⁠ ⁠ In 1976 he first studied at the “Hochschule für Gestaltung” in Offenbach, Germany and moved to Berlin in 1977, where he graduated in 1983 at the “Hochschule der Künste”. From 1983 to 1995 he taught at the university as a lecturer and as an artist with a focus on screenprinting and American art history. To date, a versatile body of work has been created, which includes not only paintings but also long-standing photo projects, videos, and public art.⁠ ⁠ Guest lectures, teaching assignments, scholarships and exhibitions regularly lead Rothmann to travel home and abroad.⁠ ------------------------ Rothmann's Robots These creatures date back to another era, and they connect the past and the future. They were found by Christian Rothmann, a Berlin artist, collector and traveler through time and the world: In shops in Germany and Japan, Israel and America, his keen eye picks out objects cast aside by previous generations, but which lend themselves to his own work. In a similar way, he came across a stash of historic toy robots of varied provenance collected by a Berlin gallery owner many years ago. Most of them were screwed and riveted together in the 1960s and 70s by Metal House, a Japanese company that still exists today. In systematically photographing these humanoids made of tin - and later plastic - Rothmann is paraphrasing the idea of appropriation art. Unknown names designed and made the toys, which some five decades on, Rothmann depicts and emblematizes in his extensive photo sequence. In their photographs of Selim Varol's vast toy collection, his German colleagues Daniel and Geo Fuchs captured both the stereotypical and individual in plastic figures that imitate superheroes which were and still are generally manufactured somewhere in Asia. Christian Rothmann looks his robots deep in their artificially stylized, painted or corrugated eyes - or more aptly, their eye slits - and although each has a certain degree of individuality, the little figures remain unknown to us; they project nothing and are not alter egos. Rothmann trains his lens on their faces and expressions, and thus, his portraits are born. Up extremely close, dust, dents, and rust become visible. In other words, what we see is time-traces of time that has passed since the figures were made, or during their period in a Berlin attic, and - considering that he robots date back to Rothmann's childhood - time lived by the photographer and recipients of his pictures. But unlike dolls, these mechanical robots bear no reference to the ideal of beauty at the time of their manufacture, and their features are in no way modeled on a concrete child's face. In this art project the robots appear as figures without a context, photographed face-on, cropped in front of a neutral background and reduced to their qualities of form. But beyond the reproduction and documentation a game with surfaces is going on; our view lingers on the outer skin of the object, or on the layer over it. The inside - which can be found beneath - is to an extent metaphysical, occurring inside the observer's mind. Only rarely is there anything to see behind the robot's helmet. When an occasional human face does peer out, it turns the figure into a robot-like protective casing for an astronaut of the future. If we really stop and think about modern toys, let's say those produced from the mid 20th century, when Disney and Marvel films were already stimulating a massive appetite for merchandising, the question must be: do such fantasy and hybrid creatures belong, does something like artificial intelligence already belong to the broader community of humans and animals? It is already a decade or two since the wave of Tamagotchis washed in from Japan, moved children to feed and entertain their newly born electronic chicks in the way they would a real pet, or to run the risk of seeing them die. It was a new form of artificial life, but the relationship between people and machines becomes problematic when the machines or humanoid robots have excellent fine motor skills and artificial intelligence and sensitivity on a par with, or even greater than that of humans. Luckily we have not reached that point yet, even if Hollywood adaptations would have us believe we are not far away. Rothmann's robots are initially sweet toys, and each toy is known to have a different effect on children and adults. They are conceived by (adult) designers as a means of translating or retelling history or reality through miniature animals, knights, and soldiers. In the case of monsters, mythical creatures, and robots, it is more about creating visions of the future and parallel worlds. Certainly, since the success of fantasy books and films such as Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit, we see the potential for vast enthusiasm for such parallel worlds. Successful computer and online games such as World of Warcraft, or the creation of avatars are also interesting worldwide phenomena of virtual realities that are not only relevant for children and teens. So when a middle-aged Berlin photographic artist (like Christian Rothmann) chooses to study 120 toy robots with great difference in form, it represents a journey back to his own childhood - even if at the time, he played with a steam engine rather than a robot. Once batteries had been inserted, some of the largely male or gender-neutral robots, could flash, shoot, turn around and even do more complicated things. Some can even still do it today - albeit clumsily. This, of course, can only be seen on film, but the artist intends to document that as well; to feature the robots in filmic works of art. The positioning of the figures in the studio is the same as the tableau of pictures in the exhibition room. In this way, one could say Rothmann deploys one robot after the other. This systematic approach enables a comparative view; the extreme enlargement of what are actually small and manageable figures is like the macro vision of insects whose fascinating, sometimes monster-like appearance only becomes visible when they are blown up a hundredfold. The same thing goes for the robots; in miniature form, they seem harmless and cute, but if they were larger than humans and made noises to match, they would seem more threatening. Some of the tin figures...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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C Print

Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author Toni Morrison, 17 x 22" Exhibition Photograph
Located in Senoia, GA
This photograph of Pulitzer-Prize winning author Toni Morrison was taken in 1979. One of Mitchell's most beautiful color photographs. This exhibition print is 17 x 22". Comes direct ...
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1970s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Fun Loving Criminals II by BATIK- Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Fun Loving Criminals II By BATIK- Signed Limited Edition Archival pigment pop art print of infamous criminal arrest mugshots of Fifty Cent, Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Snoop Dog, ...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Argentinian Dancer Julio Bocca, Color 17 x 22" Exhibition Photograph
Located in Senoia, GA
Argentinian dancer Julio Bocca, one of the most important ballet dancers of the later part of the 20th century, photographed in 1991. One of Mitchell's mo...
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1990s Pop Art Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Fun Loving Criminals II by BATIK- Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Fun Loving Criminals II By BATIK- Signed Limited Edition Archival pigment pop art print of infamous criminal arrest mugshots of Fifty Cent, Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Snoop Dog, ...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

NOMAD, New York - Four Framed Purple Pop Art Photographs
Located in Cambridge, GB
NOMAD, New York, set of four framed American architecture color photographs by Richard Heeps. Richard Heeps has photographed the iconic Empire State building in the mist. The NOMAD s...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Jimi Hendrix at the Monterey Pop Festival by Jill Gibson
By Jill Gibson
Located in Austin, TX
June 16th marked the 55-year anniversary of Monterey Pop Festival, remembered for the first major appearances of Jimi Hendrix, the Who and Ravi Shankar, the first large-scale performance of Janis Joplin and the introduction of Otis Redding...
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1960s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper

Fashion Designer Willi Smith, Color 17 x 22" Exhibition Photograph
Located in Senoia, GA
Fashion designer Willi Smith, photographed in April 1984. One of Mitchell's most beautiful color photographs. This exhibition print is 17 x 22". Comes dire...
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1980s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Operatic Soprano Leontyne Price, 17 x 22" Exhibition Photograph
Located in Senoia, GA
This photograph of famed operatic soprano Leontyne Price was taken in 1980 during an album cover session. One of Mitchell's most beautiful color photogr...
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1980s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Rudolf Nureyev photographed for 'After Dark', signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
13 x 19" archival pigment color print of Rudolf Nureyev, Soviet-born dancer of ballet and modern dance, photographed for 'After Dark' magazine in New York City on Christmas Day 1975....
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1970s Pop Art Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein in his Studio, Color 17 x 22" Exhibition Photograph
Located in Senoia, GA
Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein photographed in his New York studio with new work in 1968. One of Mitchell's most beautiful color photographs. This exhibition print is 17 x 22". Comes di...
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1960s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Merce Cunningham Dance Company Repertory, Color 17 x 22" Exhibition Photo
Located in Senoia, GA
Choreographer/dancer Merce Cunningham repertory, 1975. One of Mitchell's most beautiful color photographs. This exhibition print is 17 x 22". Comes direct from the Jack Mitchell Arch...
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1970s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Poet & Playwright Ntozake Shange, Color 17 x 22" Exhibition Photograph
Located in Senoia, GA
Playwright, poet and black feminist Ntozake Shange photographed with the cast of her play “A Photograph: Lovers in Motion,” in 1977. One of Mitchell's ...
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1970s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christian Rothmann ROBOTNICS Series C-Print 2019 Edition S (Edition of 10) 12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm) Signed, dated and numbered verso Other Edition Sizes available: - Edition M (Edition of 6) 35.4 x 23.6 inches (90 x 60 cm) - Edition L (Edition of 6) 47.2 x 31.5 inches (120 x 80 cm) - Edition XL (Edition of 3) 88.8 x 58.8 inches (225 x 150 cm) PUR - Price Upon Request -------------- Since 1979 Christian Rothmann had more than 40 solo and 80 group exhibitions worldwide. Christian Rothmann had guest lectures, residencies, art fairs and biennials in Europe, Japan, USA, Australia and Korea. Christian Rothmann (born 1954 in Kędzierzyn, Poland ) is a painter, photographer, and graphic artist.⁠ ⁠ In 1976 he first studied at the “Hochschule für Gestaltung” in Offenbach, Germany and moved to Berlin in 1977, where he graduated in 1983 at the “Hochschule der Künste”. From 1983 to 1995 he taught at the university as a lecturer and as an artist with a focus on screenprinting and American art history. To date, a versatile body of work has been created, which includes not only paintings but also long-standing photo projects, videos, and public art.⁠ ⁠ Guest lectures, teaching assignments, scholarships and exhibitions regularly lead Rothmann to travel home and abroad.⁠ ------------------------ Rothmann's Robots These creatures date back to another era, and they connect the past and the future. They were found by Christian Rothmann, a Berlin artist, collector and traveler through time and the world: In shops in Germany and Japan, Israel and America, his keen eye picks out objects cast aside by previous generations, but which lend themselves to his own work. In a similar way, he came across a stash of historic toy robots of varied provenance collected by a Berlin gallery owner many years ago. Most of them were screwed and riveted together in the 1960s and 70s by Metal House, a Japanese company that still exists today. In systematically photographing these humanoids made of tin - and later plastic - Rothmann is paraphrasing the idea of appropriation art. Unknown names designed and made the toys, which some five decades on, Rothmann depicts and emblematizes in his extensive photo sequence. In their photographs of Selim Varol's vast toy collection, his German colleagues Daniel and Geo Fuchs captured both the stereotypical and individual in plastic figures that imitate superheroes which were and still are generally manufactured somewhere in Asia. Christian Rothmann looks his robots deep in their artificially stylized, painted or corrugated eyes - or more aptly, their eye slits - and although each has a certain degree of individuality, the little figures remain unknown to us; they project nothing and are not alter egos. Rothmann trains his lens on their faces and expressions, and thus, his portraits are born. Up extremely close, dust, dents, and rust become visible. In other words, what we see is time-traces of time that has passed since the figures were made, or during their period in a Berlin attic, and - considering that he robots date back to Rothmann's childhood - time lived by the photographer and recipients of his pictures. But unlike dolls, these mechanical robots bear no reference to the ideal of beauty at the time of their manufacture, and their features are in no way modeled on a concrete child's face. In this art project the robots appear as figures without a context, photographed face-on, cropped in front of a neutral background and reduced to their qualities of form. But beyond the reproduction and documentation a game with surfaces is going on; our view lingers on the outer skin of the object, or on the layer over it. The inside - which can be found beneath - is to an extent metaphysical, occurring inside the observer's mind. Only rarely is there anything to see behind the robot's helmet. When an occasional human face does peer out, it turns the figure into a robot-like protective casing for an astronaut of the future. If we really stop and think about modern toys, let's say those produced from the mid 20th century, when Disney and Marvel films were already stimulating a massive appetite for merchandising, the question must be: do such fantasy and hybrid creatures belong, does something like artificial intelligence already belong to the broader community of humans and animals? It is already a decade or two since the wave of Tamagotchis washed in from Japan, moved children to feed and entertain their newly born electronic chicks in the way they would a real pet, or to run the risk of seeing them die. It was a new form of artificial life, but the relationship between people and machines becomes problematic when the machines or humanoid robots have excellent fine motor skills and artificial intelligence and sensitivity on a par with, or even greater than that of humans. Luckily we have not reached that point yet, even if Hollywood adaptations would have us believe we are not far away. Rothmann's robots are initially sweet toys, and each toy is known to have a different effect on children and adults. They are conceived by (adult) designers as a means of translating or retelling history or reality through miniature animals, knights, and soldiers. In the case of monsters, mythical creatures, and robots, it is more about creating visions of the future and parallel worlds. Certainly, since the success of fantasy books and films such as Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit, we see the potential for vast enthusiasm for such parallel worlds. 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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Located in Senoia, GA
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1980s Pop Art Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

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1980s Pop Art Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

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Located in Long Island City, NY
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Digital

Rudolf Nureyev photographed for 'After Dark', signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
13 x 19" archival pigment color print of Rudolf Nureyev, Soviet-born dancer of ballet and modern dance, photographed for 'After Dark' magazine in New York City on Christmas Day 1975....
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1970s Pop Art Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Rudolf Nureyev photographed for 'After Dark', 1975. Signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
13 x 19" archival pigment color print of Rudolf Nureyev, Soviet-born dancer of ballet and modern dance, photographed for 'After Dark' magazine in New York City on Christmas Day 1975....
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1970s Pop Art Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Artist Andy Warhol at his Union Square Factory, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
13 x 19" lifetime vintage archival pigment print of Artist Andy Warhol at his Union Square Factory in 1968, signed by Jack Mitchell (the only ...
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1970s Pop Art Color Photography

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Digital Pigment

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