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
Flatiron Building New York's First Skyscraper in Heroic Depiction, Architecture
Located in Miami, FL
The Flatiron is New York's Architectural masterpiece and is depicted in this dramatic photograph as a towering presence as it's rendered in hard light against a surreal sky. Signed ...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Lunge Line
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
Dust bowl Texas Sunset with Dramatic Sky Windmill - Orange and Yellow landscape
Located in Miami, FL
While on assignment in 1980 for a Life Magazine story on drought in Texas, Mitchell Funk encountered this vast landscape near Wichita Falls. A windmill with a wood fence and barn...
Category
1980s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
May, 2021, surrealist New York City street photography, limited edition
Located in New York, NY
During the height of New York City’s shelter-in-place order, Dina took to the streets of the East Village and surrounding neighborhoods after sunset, photographing the sudden absence...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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 digital print, similar to a half-tone, but composed of fine lines rather than dots. It is on heavy wove printmaking paper, the sheet measures 17" x 14". Sight: 6.25" x 6" .
Jo Ann Callis (born Cincinnati, Ohio 1940) is an American artist who works with photography and is based in California.
Though Callis initially pursued a degree at Ohio State University in 1958, she dropped out in her second year when she got married. She and her husband moved to Southern California in 1961. Her father died after the birth of her first son Stephen in the same year. In 1963, her second son Michael was born. By 23, she was married with two children; she later separated from her husband. Callis enrolled at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1970 initially in graphic design. When she took a course from Robert Heinecken in photography, she was encouraged by Heinecken to explore things within her mind.
Both sensual and unsettling, these scenes showcase erotic imagination in its many forms, all intimate and deeply human. Although the work may sound like a very contemporary investigation of desire, it was made some 40 years ago, predating the staged photographs of Cindy Sherman and Gregory Crewdson. In 1975, while still a student at UCLA, a year before finishing her Masters in Fine Arts, she was offered a position to work at California Institute of the Arts (S. CA), where she works up until now (2017).
Callis's work is primarily surrealist. Thematically, she has traditionally been invested in drawing attention to and complicating domestic spaces and the role of motherhood. These characteristics are demonstrated in pieces such as Dish Trick (1985)
Publications
Woman Twirling. Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. Text by Judith Keller.
Decor. Thistle & Weed, 2013. Essay by Jennifer A. Watts.
Other Rooms. New York: Aperture, 2014.
Select public collections:
Museum Of Modern Art, New York.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Gallery Min, Japan.
References
Bohnacker, Siobhan (March 6, 2014). "Jo Ann Callis's Color Work".
Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. "Culture Monster All the Arts, All the Time"
Cecilia Alvarez...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Color
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
May, 2021, surrealist New York City street photography, limited edition
Located in New York, NY
During the height of New York City’s shelter-in-place order, Dina took to the streets of the East Village and surrounding neighborhoods after sunset, photographing the sudden absence...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
May, 2021, surrealist New York City street photography, limited edition
Located in New York, NY
During the height of New York City’s shelter-in-place order, Dina took to the streets of the East Village and surrounding neighborhoods after sunset, photographing the sudden absence...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Collection of 54 posters featuring MAC body painting
Located in New York, NY
2003
30 x 42 inches each
54 C-Print posters in original case
All in excellent condition, original case, unframed.
A collection of 54 designs by a variety of well-known creatives, realized on bodies by M.A.C cosmetics' artists. This set of posters is the origin from which the M.A.C deck cards was created. Extremely rare to come by. Inspired by the irreverent imaging of M.A.C Cosmetics, the creative teams of M.A.C and Assouline got some of the most renowned designers, musicians, and artists to create unique body designs that became a provocative set of images. All the designs submitted were not only original and creative but reflected the individual personalities of the well-known participants. Models and artists donated their time and subjected themselves to long hours of nude body paintings, re-creating the images that photographer Richard Lohr has captured with his camera.
The overall shipping weight of the lot is 170 lbs each.
The lot will be shipped in the original case - 12 x 34 x 46 in.
The list of people featured in these images is what makes the collection truly special, some of them are precicely the people you would never expect to see in body paint:
Moheib Fashion Designer
Tylet Hays Artist
James Gager Creative Director Mac Cosmetics
Pink Musician
Richard Lohr Photographer
Collete Dinnigan Fashion Designer
Angela Adams...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
C Print
April, 2021, surrealist New York City street photography, limited edition
Located in New York, NY
During the height of New York City’s shelter-in-place order, Dina took to the streets of the East Village and surrounding neighborhoods after sunset, photographing the sudden absence...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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
May, 2021, surrealist New York City street photography, limited edition
Located in New York, NY
During the height of New York City’s shelter-in-place order, Dina took to the streets of the East Village and surrounding neighborhoods after sunset, photographing the sudden absence...
Category
2010s 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
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
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
Tangled Up in Blue
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
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
Moi sans toi
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
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
Your Move
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
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
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
Kori Bustard And Zebras
By Cheryl Medow
Located in Dallas, 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 Dallas, 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
Three Oval Glows
Located in Miami, FL
The history of Sci-fi art and illustration has had a rich and storied past. Generation of illustrators and painters have rendered their fantastic ideas on paper and canvas. The decades of the 1920’s - 1940’s saw the imaginative but crudely drawn pulp magazine gouaches of Frank R Paul...
Category
1970s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Wall Street, Negative Color, Abstract Photography by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of negative color, abstract and color photography. This image was shot in 1970 and foreshadows major color photography movements more than 40 years in the...
Category
1960s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Photographic Film, Archival Ink
The Dance of Pink Lights on a New York City Snowy Day
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk's hand held pre-dawn New York street scene evokes a simultaneous state of beauty of unexpectedness. This is a straight shot. He used a Nikon D5 and 400mm while he was w...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Jewels Hat Spaceship
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100.
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 3/15, unframed, other sizes available.
Mitchell Funk is a "Color Photographer Pioneer". He was color when c...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Dreamy Bronze Statue in Central with onlookers
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 4/15, unframed, other sizes available, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
It's an in-camera multiple exposures of two figures on a Central Park bench...
Category
1970s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Another Door Opens
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Michael DeCamp, American (1928 - 2013)
Title: Another Door Opens
Year: circa 1975
Medium: Color Photograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 50
Image Size: 15.5 x 23.5 ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Photographic Film
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
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
End of the World. Begining of the World
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of Sci-Fi photography. In the 1980's He did work for the groundbreaking Bob Guccioni magazine Omni.
Signed, dated and number LL recto, 3/15 other size ava...
Category
1980s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Light Train
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered 3/15 recto unframed, other sizes availab
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sci-fi Single Man, Surreal Road to Destiny, Camera 35 Cover - Surrealism -
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered 4/15 recto, unframed, printed later, other sizes available, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Cover Camera 35 Magazine Aug/Sept 1976
Category
1970s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Ink
Camel Caravan
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100 Signed, dated and numbered lower right recto, 3/15 Unframed, printed later, other sizes available.
Mithcell Funk is a pioneer of Sci-Fi Photography a...
Category
1980s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Grey Crowned Cranes
By Cheryl Medow
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 25
Signed and numbered in pencil, and blind stamp on print margin.
Signed, titled, dated and print type in pencil on print verso.
Paper size: 18 x 14.5 in., Image size: 13...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Surreal LandScape Photograph Four Pyramids, Cover Popular Photography Magazin
Located in Miami, FL
Surreal LandScape with Four Pyramids
Cover Popular Photography Magazine, November, 1977
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of Sci-Fi photography. He did wo...
Category
1970s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
United Nations with Red Sun
Located in Miami, FL
Double Exposure of Red sun into a the black shape of a silhouetted street signed evokes a surreal image of New York. Signed and dated on lower rig...
Category
1970s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Great Egrets in the Bayou
By Cheryl Medow
Located in Dallas, 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: 25 x 20 in., Image size: 20 x...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Man and Universe
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk is the creator of thi work and a pioneer of Sci-Fi Photography. He did an ad campaign for Omni Magazine in the early 1980's.
Archival Inkj...
Category
1980s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Saddle-Billed Storks
By Cheryl Medow
Located in Dallas, 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 x...
Category
2010s 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
Storm #5
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kenny Morrison is a photographer, director, and cinematographer. He is passionate about making images and storytelling. His work pushes boundaries as he searches for limits to situat...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Storm #4
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kenny Morrison is a photographer, director, and cinematographer. He is passionate about making images and storytelling. His work pushes boundaries as he searches for limits to situat...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Storm #6
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kenny Morrison is a photographer, director, and cinematographer. He is passionate about making images and storytelling. His work pushes boundaries as he searches for limits to situat...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Storm #3
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kenny Morrison is a photographer, director, and cinematographer. He is passionate about making images and storytelling. His work pushes boundaries as he searches for limits to situat...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Storm #7
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kenny Morrison is a photographer, director, and cinematographer. He is passionate about making images and storytelling. His work pushes boundaries as he searches for limits to situat...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Storm #1
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kenny Morrison is a photographer, director, and cinematographer. He is passionate about making images and storytelling. His work pushes boundaries as he searches for limits to situat...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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
Seraphim
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
Early 2000s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Photogram, Archival P...
Bliss
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 Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Migration
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
Early 2000s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Field of Sorrow
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
Early 2000s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Photogram, Plexiglass, Photographic Film
Portraits of Dignity
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 Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Awakening
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 Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Within
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
Early 2000s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Porcelain Dynasty
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 Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Photogram
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.