Realist Color Photography
REALIST STYLE
Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world.
Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history.
By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.
Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.
Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.
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Style: Realist
Julie London (Aarons Estate Print)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1957: Singer Julie London enjoying breakfast in bed at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authe...
Category
1950s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Pico Garcez - Atacama #1, Landscape Photography
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
Category
2010s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
$2,450 Sale Price
30% Off
Slim Aarons 'Sunbathing in Capri'(Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Caption: American actress Marisa Berenson sunbathing in Capri, 1968.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons ...
Category
1960s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Madame Jean Serpieri'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Madame Jean Serpieri sits in the ballroom of the Tour La Reine near Athens, wearing a gown which belonged to the wife of Otto, the first king of m...
Category
1960s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Boating In Antigua'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American actor Hugh O'Brian (left) hoists the sail on a dinghy, Antigua, West Indies, 1961.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the...
Category
1960s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda, Acrylic Polymer
Slim Aarons, Sunbathers at Il Canille
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Sunbathers lounge on the white-painted terrace of Il Canille, built into the rocks of Pizzolungo overlooking the waters off the coast of the island of Capri, Italy, in August, 1980. ...
Category
1970s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Montecatini (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Marie-Louise Scio at the Tettuccio Terme in Montecatini, Italy, June 1980.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim...
Category
1980s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Poolside In Sotogrande
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Bathers round a pool in Sotogrande, Spain, August 1975
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) ...
Category
1970s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Coconut Cocktail (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Teddy Stauffer and a friend share a cocktail, from a coconut shell, Acapulco, Mexico, 1952.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the...
Category
1950s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
El Venero, Marbella, Spain (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1971.
Slim Aarons worked mainly for society publications, taking pictures of the rich and famous both b...
Category
1970s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Delos Column #3
By Lee Wells
Located in New York, NY
Delos Column #3
30 x 20 inches
Edition 3 of 10
$1500
Set of three - $3000
20 x 16 inches
edition of 20
$900
Set of three - $2000
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Joan Collins Relaxes (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Film star Joan Collins relaxes with her pink poodle on her pink bed.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenti...
Category
1950s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Madame Jean Serpieri
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
December 1961—Madame Jean Serpieri sits in the ballroom of the Tour La Reine near Athens, wearing a gown which belonged to the wife of Otto, the f...
Category
1960s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Atacama Desert, Chile Pico Garcez
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing freedom of look and intuition, seeking aesthetic challenges linked to the observation of the image in subjects such as: solitude, reflections of emptiness and behavior. Awarded by The Art of Intuitive Photography in NY for 4 times, Pico also find his work in the permanent collections of: The Rio Art Museum (MAR), Museum of Modern Art of Bahia (MAM-BA) and Museum of Photography of Fortaleza among other international collections.
Having contact with a work of art has to be transformative. This photographic essay by Pico Garcez leads us to this, puts the gaze, sees and sees in constant dispute. The meaning is hidden and this leads us to be co-authors. In Pico's UNCONSCIOUS-NEST, work is not the aesthetics or the colors that speak the most, instead they fog our critical eye, trying to distract us in the central core of which it treats. It is an experience to observe these images. Pico puts us & leaves us in a void where our own inner solitude surfaces - Not having to share with. Where is life, if not ours? We are part of this work for empathy, and in that, Pico was generous - letting us in. UNCONSCIOUS-NEST is not a geographical place, instead it lives in us and everywhere. It shows what we've done for ourselves - it's a pool without a ledge. – “I can but I will not ... - I am here! I want to die and die where I've touched my heart...
Category
2010s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
$2,450 Sale Price
30% Off
Caped Skiers (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Led by skimaster Stein Eriksen, skiers 'sail' down a slope at Snowmass-at-Aspen, Colorado, circa 1967. The skiers are wearing thin capes which attach to their wrists and billow out l...
Category
1960s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Skiing Princess (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Princess Luciana Pignatelli on a skiing holiday in Lech, Austria. February 1961
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
S...
Category
1960s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Gasthof Post Pool (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests lounging by the indoor swimming pool of the Gasthof Post in Lech, Austria, February 1979.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity f...
Category
1970s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Coconut Cocktail (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Teddy Stauffer and a friend share a drink from a coconut shell, Acapulco, Mexico, 1952.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the est...
Category
1950s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Pool At Carvoeiro (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Holidaymakers round a pool, Carvoeiro, Portugal, July 1970.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (1916-200...
Category
1970s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Vuccino and Rava in Capri (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Carla Vuccino, wearing a swimming cap, and a sunbathing Marina Rava, both wearing bikini as they sit on the rear of a boat, on the waters off the coast of the island of Capri, Italy,...
Category
1950s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Big Sight, Photography by Pico Garcez
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing freedom of look and intuition, seeking aesthetic challenges linked to the observation of the image in subjects such as: solitude, reflections of emptiness and behavior. Awarded by The Art of Intuitive Photography in NY for 4 times, Pico also find his work in the permanent collections of: The Rio Art Museum (MAR), Museum of Modern Art of Bahia (MAM-BA) and Museum of Photography of Fortaleza among other international collections.
Having contact with a work of art has to be transformative. This photographic essay by Pico Garcez leads us to this, puts the gaze, sees and sees in constant dispute. The meaning is hidden and this leads us to be co-authors. In Pico's UNCONSCIOUS-NEST, work is not the aesthetics or the colors that speak the most, instead they fog our critical eye, trying to distract us in the central core of which it treats. It is an experience to observe these images. Pico puts us & leaves us in a void where our own inner solitude surfaces - Not having to share with. Where is life, if not ours? We are part of this work for empathy, and in that, Pico was generous - letting us in. UNCONSCIOUS-NEST is not a geographical place, instead it lives in us and everywhere. It shows what we've done for ourselves - it's a pool without a ledge. – “I can but I will not ... - I am here! I want to die and die where I've touched my heart...
Category
2010s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
$2,450 Sale Price
30% Off
Cuba 30, Green Car, Travel, Vintage Car, Limited Edition, Color Photograph
By John Conn
Located in Riverdale, NY
Cuba 30 is a limited edition color photograph of a classic car taken in Cuba in 2016. It is 20x30 photograph. It is printed on 24x36 archival paper, framed. Edition of 15. Signed and Numbered. This is framed with a white frame.
John Conn got his start as a Marine Combat photographer, and later earned his BFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
As a freelance photographer and writer, he has captured a range of subjects photojournalism delving into political and social issues, nature and landscapes, architecture, and underwater images. His work has appeared in: New York Times Sunday Magazine; Time/Life Books; IMAX Films; Village Voice; Human Rights Magazine; Shutterbug Magazine; Hasseleblad Magazine; American Photographer; RangeFinder Magazine; LensWork Magazine; Ocean Realm; Dive Travel Magazine; Picture Magazine; Discover Diving Magazine; Picture Magazine; Popular Photography; Nikon World; Black & White Photography; B&W Magazine; Studio Photography, to name a few.
Starting in 1970, John traveled to South Africa capturing images of the people and social divide of Aparteid. His iconic Subway series shot between the mid 1970’s and 1982 in New York City is part of the permanent collection of The New York Historical Society and Hoboken Historical Museum. In 2010, John Conn spent 45 days in Antarctica and Patagonia, traveling and hiking to capture the land and seascapes. He spent over 20 days journeying over 3,200 nautical miles in Antarctica before heading to Patagonia for the second part of his expedition. In 2014/15 John began a series of treks across the US photographing Americans, similar to what Robert Frank did in the late 1950’s. In 2015/16, he spent a month in Cuba photographing...
Category
2010s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
MAT BEETSON - Pelican Heart, Western Australia
By MATT BEETSON
Located in PARIS, FR
Limited Edition print of 5 . Mounted on diasec ( acrylic face)
About the picture : Pelican Heart, the 'squadron' of pelicans are on the hunt as they work in unison to corral bait
fis...
Category
2010s Realist Color Photography
Materials
C Print
"Cut Food - Eggs" Multiple Sliced Egg Composition Yellow, White and Hot Pink
By Beth Galton
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Cut Food - Eggs" Archival Pigment Print Photograph, Edition 10, 16 1/2 x 23 1/4 Inches Sheet Size.
This photograph is unframed.
Note: Also available in two larger format shee...
Category
2010s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dinosaur Parade
Located in Miami, FL
Dinosaur , Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, Edition 2 of 15, Printed later. Unframed , Other sizes available Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Category
Early 2000s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Atacama Mountains - Bright Landscape Photography by Brazilian Photographer
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
Category
2010s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
$2,450 Sale Price
30% Off
Red Hat and Pink Hat with mandolin. East Village New York City
Located in Miami, FL
Colorful street life is capture with a color photograph, In 1970, very few photographers we actually shooting in color. This image celebrates color with its eye-popping red and magenta hats compliments by a pink door with graffiti. One of the give-a-ways to the date is the New York City street sign...
Category
1970s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Arranged Marriage
By Drew Tal
Located in New York, NY
With his works included in the permanent collection at the Norton and the New Britain Museum, Drew Tal’s successful career has been nothing but a soaring ascension into the global ar...
Category
2010s Realist Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Price Upon Request
Massimo Listri 'Castello di Rivoli III - Torino'
Located in New York, NY
Castello di Rivoli III - Torino
"What makes his work unique is how he has made interiors look so absolutely vivid, as if they had a secret life of their own that only he knows how t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Price Upon Request
Massimo Listri 'Castello di Rivoli III - Torino'
Located in New York, NY
Castello di Rivoli III - Torino
"What makes his work unique is how he has made interiors look so absolutely vivid, as if they had a secret life of their own that only he knows how...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Price Upon Request
Palazzo Pitti, Sala Bianca I, Firenze
Located in New York, NY
Palazzo Pitti, Sala Bianca I Firenze, 2008
The photographer is based in Florence, and is fascinated how his architectural subject matter allows him to c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Price Upon Request
Teatro Colon I, Buenos Aires - White baroque Interior, Fine Art Photography, 201
Located in Vienna, AT
Beautiful portrait of famous Theater Colin I, Buenos Aires in white shades by the master of interior photography Massimo Listri. All prints are limited edition. Available in multiple...
Category
2010s Realist Color Photography
Materials
C Print
National Library, Naples - portrait by the master of interior photography
Located in Vienna, AT
Beautiful portrait of the National Library, Naples in brown shades by the master of interior photography Massimo Listri. Massimo Listri is an Italian photographer and best known for ...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Seitenstetten Library, Austria, Fine Art Photography
Located in Vienna, AT
Beautiful blue & yellow portrait of Seitenstetten Library, Austria by the master of interior photography Massimo Listri. Massimo Listri is an Italian photographer and best known for ...
Category
1990s Realist Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Price Upon Request
Afghan Girl (Peshawar, Pakistan)
Located in New York, NY
Steve McCurry
Afghan Girl
1984 (printed later
C-print on Fuji Crystal archival paper
24 x 20 inches
Signed and dated
Steve McCurry has been one of the mos...
Category
1980s Realist Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Price Upon Request
Palazzo Pitti, Sala Bianca I, Firenze
Located in New York, NY
Palazzo Pitti, Sala Bianca I Firenze, 2008
The photographer is based in Florence, and is fascinated how his architectural subject matter allows him to c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Price Upon Request
Biblioteca Palatina - Parma
Located in New York, NY
Biblioteca Palatina - Parma, 2012
The Biblioteca Palatina (also known as Reale Biblioteca Parmense, Biblioteca Nazionale, Bibliothèque Imperiale, Bibliothèque de la Ville de Parme...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Price Upon Request
Realist color photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Realist 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, pink, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Slim Aarons, Massimo Listri, Sean Scully, and John Conn. Frequently made by artists working with Digital Print, and Lambda 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 Realist color photography, so small editions measuring 8.5 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 $200 and tops out at $28,500, while the average work sells for $3,350.
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