Surrealist Color Photography
SURREALIST STYLE
In the wake of World War I’s ravaging of Europe, artists delved into the unconscious mind to confront and grapple with this reality. Poet and critic André Breton, a leader of the Surrealist movement who authored the 1924 Surrealist Manifesto, called this approach “a violent reaction against the impoverishment and sterility of thought processes that resulted from centuries of rationalism.” Surrealist art emerged in the 1920s with dreamlike and uncanny imagery guided by a variety of techniques such as automatic drawing, which can be likened to a stream of consciousness, to channel psychological experiences.
Although Surrealism was a groundbreaking approach for European art, its practitioners were inspired by Indigenous art and ancient mysticism for reenvisioning how sculptures, paintings, prints, performance art and more could respond to the unsettled world around them.
Surrealist artists were also informed by the Dada movement, which originated in 1916 Zurich and embraced absurdity over the logic that had propelled modernity into violence. Some of the Surrealists had witnessed this firsthand, such as Max Ernst, who served in the trenches during World War I, and Salvador Dalí, whose otherworldly paintings and other work responded to the dawning civil war in Spain.
Other key artists associated with the revolutionary art and literary movement included Man Ray, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Frida Kahlo and Meret Oppenheim, all of whom had a distinct perspective on reimagining reality and freeing the unconscious mind from the conventions and restrictions of rational thought. Pablo Picasso showed some of his works in “La Peinture Surréaliste” — the first collective exhibition of Surrealist painting — which opened at Paris’s Galerie Pierre in November of 1925. (Although Magritte is best known as one of the visual Surrealist movement’s most talented practitioners, his famous 1943 painting, The Fifth Season, can be interpreted as a formal break from Surrealism.)
The outbreak of World War II led many in the movement to flee Europe for the Americas, further spreading Surrealism abroad. Generations of modern and contemporary artists were subsequently influenced by the richly symbolic and unearthly imagery of Surrealism, from Joseph Cornell to Arshile Gorky.
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Style: Surrealist
The Occasion
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bon Fire Night (Body Terrain) - In Celebration of Pride Month
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
This is number 1 from a limited edition of 12.
London-based Photographer and Graphic designer Omer Ga'ash, graduated from Bezalel Academy...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
C Print
The Writer
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Bird Watchers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Realist
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Artists & Prostitutes
Located in New York, NY
Limited Edition of 2,500 copies, numbered and signed by David LaChapelle
Edition of 2,500
Hardcover in clamshell box, 13.6 x 19.7 in., 43.43 lb, 698 pages
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Lucky, Color Photograph, Archival Pigment Ink Print, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Lucky, 2023 is a recent archival pigment ink print by Maggie Taylor. All prints are signed and numbered by Maggie Taylor.
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterima...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sailors Delight
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Suzanne Camp Crosby "Enchanted Forest" 1989 Original Photograph
Located in New York, NY
Suzanne Camp Crosby (American, 1948-2020)
Enchanted Forest, 1989
Cibachrome
Sight: 14 3/4 x 14 3/4 in.
Framed: 23 x 22 x 7/8 in.
Signed and inscribed bottom: 2/25, Suzanne Camp Crosb...
Category
1980s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Transport of Delight
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Miss Friday
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Much of Keith Hamilton's work is a comment on human perception: how our mind tries to recognize patterns and make sense of a complex world. Because context greatly influences how we ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Kori Bustard And Zebras - Color Photograph, Woman Artist, Bird, Landscape
By Cheryl Medow
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 10
Signed and numbered in pencil, and blind stamp on print margin by Cheryl Medow
Signed, titled, dated, and print type in pencil on print verso by Cheryl Medow
Paper size...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
White Pelicans at Dawn
By Cheryl Medow
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 10
Signed and numbered in pencil, and blind stamp on print margin.
Signed, titled, dated, and print type in pencil on print verso.
Paper size: 21 x 24 in., Image size: 16 ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Surreal Gas Station on a Foggy Night with Green Lights. Close Encounters
Located in Miami, FL
The same year, the iconic science fiction movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released, visionary still photographer Mitchell Funk shot this SciFi-like image. It's of an un...
Category
1970s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Wherever You Look You See The Chrysler Building: Williamsburg
Located in Miami, FL
In 1974, wherever you looked, you could see the Chrysler Building. In this image, from Williamsburg, the distinctive Art Deco spire of the Chrysler Building peeks its head out above ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Steady My Steed, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Steady My Steed, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
I present unspoken stories that illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a moo...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Double Heist
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Billionaires Row from Central Park Reservoir with Magical Light
Located in Miami, FL
Photographer Mitchell Funk revisits many popular tourist locations and shoots them in a way that perhaps millions of tourists never imagined. In "Billionaires Row from Central Park Reservoir...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Path in Central Park. Negative Color
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of more the 10 different styles of Color Photography.
This very early experimentation with negative color combined with colored filters yields a romantica...
Category
1970s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Our House, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Our House, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's im...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marsh Flight, Steady My Steed, limited edition photograph, archival, signed
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Marsh Flight, Steady My Steed, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
I present unspoken stories that illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended t...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pretty Fly For A Fungi In The Forrest
Located in London, GB
CRISTINA SCHEK
Pretty Fly For A Fungi In The Forrest, 2020
Signed certificate of authenticity included.
Giclée Print on Hahnemühle
Anti-Reflective Museum Glass
60 x 60 cm
23 5/8 x 23...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Digital, Giclée
Surreal Blue Landscape - Early Sci-fi Photography
Located in Miami, FL
This image from the imagination of Mitchell Funk was the cover photograph for Popular Photography Magazine, May 1978, It is signed and numbered on lower right, as well as titled ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Buffalo Gal
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Wonder Room, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Wonder Room, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
An American in Italy
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Badlands
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vanilla
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Raven's Blessing
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Next Big Adventure
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Like No One is Watching, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Like No One is Watching, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettabl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Listening Room
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fragment Attraction, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Fragment Attraction, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
I present unspoken stories that illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
“Working an Angle” Photography 36" x 24" inch Edition of 1/7 by Brian Ziff
By Brian Ziff
Located in Culver City, CA
“Working an Angle” Photography 36" x 24" inch Edition of 1/7 by Brian Ziff
Giclee (Archival Ink) Print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag
Not framed.
American Dreams - "Park Drive" serie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Archival Ink, Giclée
Welcome to the Water Planet
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Surprise
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Invitation to a dream
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The philosopher’s study.
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Maggie Taylor (born 1961 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an artist who works with digital images. She won the Santa Fe Center for Photography's Project Competition in 2004. Her work has been ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Formation - In Celebration of Pride Month
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
Formation is from a limited edition of 12. It is signed in pencil on back, Nude males are the falling leaves in this autumnal wonderland.
A new book on the artist will be published in Spring.
London-based Photographer and Graphic designer Omer Ga...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Burn to Shine, limited edition photograph, archival pigment, signed and numbered
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Burn to Shine, limited edition photograph, archival pigment, signed and numbered
From Tom Chambers' series Animal Visions
All my life I have held a fas...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Wildfire
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Hostess
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sweet Nectar
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tea For Two, limited edition photograph, archival pigment, signed and numbered
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Tea For Two, limited edition photograph, archival pigment, signed and numbered
My photographic series Tales of Heroines is a collection of stories about the lives of young women tol...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mirando al Cielo 1 - Limited Edition Digital Photographic Print on Cotton Paper
By Rosa Basurto
Located in Brighton, GB
Mirando al Cielo 1 is a beautiful 80cm x 80cm print on 100cm x 100cm Cotton paper.
This is a Limited Edition of 9 + 2 Artist Proofs in this size only. The 50cm x 50cm edition is so...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital
Vintage Hand Signed Color Photograph Digital Photo Baby Portrait Jo Ann Callis
Located in Surfside, FL
JoAnn Callis (1940- American, Contemporary)
Baby
Color photograph, hand signed in pencil en verso, dated 2000, and numbered 4/200
Upon magnification, it appears to be some kind of ...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Color
Surreal Blue Landscape
Located in Miami, FL
This image from the imagination of Mitchell Funk was the cover photograph for Popular Photography Magazine, May 1978, It is signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/1...
Category
1970s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Marc Lacroix, "Dali with Flowers", original photograph
By Marc Lacroix
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original photograph taken by French photographer, Marc Lacroix in 1971. This image depicts Surrealist artist, Salvador Dali, who Lacroix photographed numerous times. There is a large room at the Dali Museum in Figueres, Spain, that is dedicated to Lacroix where his photographs of Dali are on permanent display. This piece is hand signed and numbered 6/15 from the edition of 15 on glossy Kodak photo...
Category
1970s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Night Feast
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Morning On The Grand Canal, limited edition photograph, archival, signed
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Morning On The Grand Canal, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
I present unspoken stories that illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Gamekeeper's Charge, limited edition photograph, archival, signed
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Gamekeeper's Charge, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
I present unspoken stories that illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evok...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tart to the Taste, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Tart to the Taste, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
I present unspoken stories that illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a m...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Gatekeeper
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Angel Study, Vintage C Print Color Photograph Signed Surrealist Photo Rome Italy
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed, titled and dated verso.
Stephan Brigidi was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1951, and is a widely published artist whose work has been...
Category
1970s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Black Cat. Green Eyes
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Besides being mysterious, cats are equally beautiful and unmatched in that regard with anyone else in the animal kingdom. Black Cat. Green Eyes was photogr...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Southern Migration
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Steady My Steed, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Steady My Steed, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
I present unspoken stories that illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Winter Sun
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Surrealist color photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Surrealist 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, red, orange, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Mitchell Funk, Tom Chambers, Maggie Taylor, and Drew Tal. 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 Surrealist color photography, so small editions measuring 8 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 $321 and tops out at $28,800, while the average work sells for $2,300.