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Figurative Photography For Sale
Shining Shining
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento, Italy in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography,...
Category
2010s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Friday Fishing - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 35" x 25"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This evocative underwater fine art photograph captures a figure gracefully enveloped in fishing net beneath crystalline turquoise waters. The composition features luminous aquamarine...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Morgan Library, New York
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Morgan Library
New York
50 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
60 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
70 x 70 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label,...
Category
2010s Conceptual Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
The Real Mermaid - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 35x52"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater nude photograph of a model swimming in the pool.
"There were five grand pianos at her house, a pool at the third floor, and a sad man on the bottom of that pool me. I jus...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Mere Mortal #4 (Archival Photograph of Male Nude in Islamic Window)
By Newbold Bohemia
Located in Hudson, NY
Mere Mortal #4 (Archival Photograph of Male Nude in Islamic Window)
30 x 18 inches archival pigment print, unframed
Limited edition of 10
Inspired by the story of Icarus in Greek my...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Pristine - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 16" x 24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater photograph of a young naked woman in a pool.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print signed by the author.
Limited edition of 24
Paper size: 18 x 24"
Image...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Historical Places Photo- Old Folkestone - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Places Photo- Old Folkestone is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century. It belongs to historical album including masterpieces of historical pl...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Everlong
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Everlong - 2016,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2016-2003.
Not mounted.
K...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
I always was your girl
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
I was always your Girl - 2018,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Digital C-print, based on an original Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL201...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid, Archival Paper, Black and White
$671 Sale Price
20% Off
'Lounging In Verbier' ( Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Lounging In Verbier'
Holidaymakers in sun loungers on the slopes at Verbier, Switzerland, February 1964.
Gorgeous print measuring an extra large 60 x 40" inches / ca 152 x 101 cm...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Stretch - Signed limited edition semi nude fine art print, Sexy Black white
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Stretch - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 10
This image was captured on film in 1982.
From the same photoshoot, the so-called 'Zip' print by Ian Sa...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
Slim Aarons 'Saint-Tropez Boucherie' Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Saint-Tropez Boucherie'
A boucherie or butcher's shop on Rue des Commercants in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1971.
Gorgeous print measuring an extra large 40 x 30"...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Estelle -Signed limited edition nude print, Black white, Sexy woman Contemporary
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘Estelle‘ who was captured on film in 199...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Pi...
Vintage Travel Elegance - Giant Oversize Silver Gelatin Print Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Vintage Travel Elegance
circa 1925
by H Armstrong Roberts Archive
Passengers Awaiting Boarding Beside Classic Propeller Aircraft circa 1925
Giant supersize silver gelatine print ...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx, NY, 2022" photograph "HOOPS" series, 17"x20.5"
Located in New York, NY
35" 42"" fine art photograph, hand signed by the artist. This color photograph depicts a basketball court in Van Cordlant Park, Bronx, NY. The photo show a basketball court, shiny, a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Emergence' Photo collage. Woman, Female, Dancer, Iconography, Monroe
Located in Penzance, GB
'Emergence'
Limited edition archival photograph. Unframed, hand signed and numbered
________________________________
From your cocoon my darling,
Your wings are emerging:
Delicate ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
The Real Mermaid - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 43x64"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater nude photograph of a model swimming in the pool.
"There were five grand pianos at her house, a pool at the third floor, and a sad man on the bottom of that pool me. I jus...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
It's About Time We Go: cinematic photograph, road trip w/ classic car and trees
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Nadine Rovner orchestrates lush cinematic scenes, exploring a visual world of heightened tension, anticipation, anxiety, longing and desire. These carefu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
Hedy Lamarr - Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Hedy Lamarr is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Meet me in front of Church 2 o'clock sharp - Sidewinder, 18 pieces
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Meet me in front of Church 2 o'clock sharp (Sidewinder) 2005,
18 pieces, installed 154x379cm installed including gaps, 48x59cm each,
Edition 4/5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive paper,
based on 18 Polaroids, Certificate and Signature labels
artist Inventory No. 30568.04, not mounted
The series 'Sidewinder' was used by the Salzburger Festspiele 2008 for the main image campaign:
Stefanie Schneider, Sidewinder
Exhibit • Galeries of the City of Salzburg • Galerie am Mozartplatz
July 16 – August 29, 2008
“For love is as strong as death” – this motto, taken from King Salomon’s Song of Songs, is at the programmatic center of the Salzburg Festival...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$15,098 Sale Price
30% Off
Six Sons and Daughters of John Wayne - Vintage Photo - 1982
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo. Dedication of the John Wayne Elementary School.
New York
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Horatio Street, NYC" Contemporary Photograph on Aluminum Framed
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Horatio Street, NYC" is a framed photograph on aluminum by Xan Padron, depicting a compilation of walking figures set against a brown/grey architectural background in NYC. Padron's ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Original Marilyn Monroe Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Marilyn Monroe Photograph
Original photograph of Marilyn Monroe posing in her dressing room on the film of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" by photographer Milton Gold (American,...
Category
1950s Photorealist Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
'Coral Beach' 1977 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Coral Beach'
A view of Coral Beach, Bermuda, 1977.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printed in 2025
Limi...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Vintage Photo of Painting - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of Painting is a vintage photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
The photo belongs to Albumen of historical painting, photographs, meticulously captured.
Good...
Category
Early 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons 'Beauty and the Beast'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a tiger skin rug in the trophy room at socialite Laddie Sanford's home in Palm Beach, Florida, 1959.
Slim Aarons
Beauty and the Beast
19...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Male Nude with Head Down (Sepia Toned Figurative Photograph by David Halliday)
Located in Hudson, NY
Contemporary figurative sepia toned photograph of nude male model
Sepia toned silver gelatin print, edition 3 of 25
Image size: 8 x 8 inches
17.5 x 16.5 x 1 inches framed with 8-ply white mat and non reflective glass.
Signed and dated below image with atelier stamp
This contemporary figurative photograph was taken by David Halliday in 1998. The sepia toned silver gelatin print beautifully captures a standing male model on a simple monotone background. The nude model's flawless skin complements the similarly toned sepia backdrop, while contrasts in light and shadow accentuate his toned back and shoulder muscles. The figure's casual pose lends a serene atmosphere to the image. This print, 3rd in the edition of 25, is framed in a custom brown wood Larson Juhl frame with an 8 ply white mat and non reflective glass. The print is signed with an atelier stamp on the lower right.
About the Artist:
David Halliday's photographs are about beauty, pure and simple. His primary subjects are carefully composed still lifes, portraits and landscapes which he shoots in black and white film with only natural light. He is a purist behind the lens, rarely manipulating his negatives in any way, and a master in the darkroom. His work has an ethereal quality that's translated not only through the subject, but also by the warm colors and sepia tones he uses in his printing.
More about the work:
A master of light, David Halliday produces lush and elegant images that are both classical and modern. Celebrated for his ‘purist’ eye, he poetically captures the nude male body in a selection of sepia-toned prints from 1996. Rarely revealing the model's face, Halliday prefers to focus on the natural drape of limbs, soft folds of flawless skin, and curvature of the spine. Overall, a stunningly intimate portrayal of the male form done with elegance and charm.
Resume:
Born 1958, Glen Cove, New York
Lives in Schodack Landing, NY
EDUCATION
1998 Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina
1988 The Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, Maine
1976-79 Syracuse University, New York
1974-76 Wooster School Community Art Center, Danbury, Connecticut
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Threadbare/New Photographs, Arthur Roger Galley, New Orleans, LA
McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
2012 The Past Still Present, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
2010 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Wessel+O’Connor Fine Art, Lambertville, NJ
Julie Heller...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'Scottsdale Home' Arizona (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Scottsdale Home'
Guests by the pool at the home of Wayne Beal in Scottsdale, Arizona, January 1973.
Guests relax around the beautiful turquoise waters of the swimming pool of Wayn...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dark Rain
By Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed, titled, and inscribed in pencil, recto
17 x 17 inches, sheet
11 x 11 inches, image
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Ro...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sylva Koscina - Golden Age of Italian Cinema - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sylva Koscina - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 20th Century.
Good conditions.
Sylva Koscina is considered one of the best actresses of her ti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Katia - Platinum Palladium print, Limited Edition, Contemporary Nude Woman
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Katia , Platinum Palladium print on Arches Platine paper from Ian Sanderson, unframed.
Edition of 12 plus 2 AP ( small Size )
Portrait of a naked woman in a fur coat lying u...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Platinum
Slim Aarons 'Poolside Pairs'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Poolside Pairs
1970 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
$4,968 Sale Price
20% Off
Breakdance - underwater nude photograph - print on paper 35”x51"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater nude photograph of a girl dancing in a swimming pool. The dark pool is filled with sharp sunbeams. Some mysterious light ornaments cover the pool bottom and inner water su...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Warm ice. Erotic Photograph, 22.5x16 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Warm ice. Erotic Photograph, 22.5x16 cm
Erotic woman photograph by Latvian photographer Juris Abramenko.
Photo made at winter by the sea at sunny day
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$364 Sale Price
20% Off
The Boys, Montreuil – Paris 1962: Christer Strömholm’s Most Iconic Photograph
Located in Stockholm, SE
Among Christer Strömholm’s most iconic images is Pojkarna, taken in the Paris suburb of Montreuil in 1962. Two small boys, one curious and leaning i...
Category
2010s Figurative Photography
Materials
Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - My Toy
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Member of the ‘Jolly Club’, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Prince Di Montenevoso at Vallelonga with his red Lola racing car. He is Chief Test Driver for Firestone International, April 1982.
P...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marilyn Monroe, American Modern Photograph by Bert Stern
By Bert Stern
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bert Stern, American (1929 - 2013) - Marilyn Monroe, Medium: Photograph, signed and numbered in crayon, Edition: AP, Image Size: 34 x 20 inches, Size: 34.75 x 21 in. (88.27 x 53.34 cm)
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jawaharlal Nehru and Julie Andrews - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Jawaharlal Nehru and Julie Andrews is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Heartbreak Motel
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Heartbreak Motel, 2016,
50x50cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2016-1...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Polaroid
Candy Floss, Xuzhou, Jiangsu - Chinese Color Street Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Candy Floss was taken by Richard Heeps when travelling in China. The street food vendor with pops of colour and the layers of detail draw you in. The Chinese Writing does not say 'candy floss/cotton candy for sale' as you might expect, it says something beautiful along the lines...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Il Pellicano Beach' 1973 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Il Pellicano Beach'
A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Estate...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Led Zeppelin Photo #B4 - Never seen shot of Zeppelin in Concert
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Led Zeppelin sitting downstage at the Forum in 1972
Archival pigment print on 100% cotton paper with a satin baryta finish. It is from a limited edition series Published by FATHOM ...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Penthouse Pool, Estate Edition, framed
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Young women by the Canellopoulos penthouse pool, Athens, July 1961. Framed in white.
Slim Aarons
Penthouse Pool
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Com...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Summer - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment 55" x 35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater nude photograph of a beautiful young woman diving in a red pool. Ripples and sunbeams are painting mysterious pattern on her perfect breasts.
Original gallery quality...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Plantation Cocoyer
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Plantation Cocoyer
People relaxing in the bar at Plantation Cocoyer, Cocoyer Beach, Haiti, February 1981.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edi...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Man’s Work 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Man’s Work 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Working at his typewriter surrounded by ‘bunny girls’, publisher Hugh M Hefner at the Playboy Key Club in Chicago. He founded adult maga...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests by the pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976.
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc
1976
C-Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with cert...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Contemporary sensual, erotic photograph of a nude female with historical imagery
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"Alisma Plantago Aquatica" by artist Paul Cava is a one-of-a-kind (unique) Iris print of a nude female figure from a historical glass plate on an 18th-c bota...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Engraving
Lie Detector Dog
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nick Vedros
Lie Detector Dog
Archival Pigment Print Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta 325 gsm
Year: 2000s
Size: 8x8.5in
Edition: 12
Signed, dated and numbered by ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
$790 Sale Price
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Contemporary sensual, erotic photograph of nude man & woman from historic image
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"Pipe Tee" by artist Paul Cava is a one-of-a-kind (unique) archival pigment print of a nude man and woman from a historical glass plate on a historic mechani...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Ink
Murray Garrett 'Frank Sinatra' Archival Photograph by Getty Image Gallery
Located in San Rafael, CA
American singer and actor Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998) gestures with his hands while singing into a microphone during a recording session in a studio at Capitol Records, early 1950s. ...
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
George Platt Lynes Vintage 1949 Photograph #11 of dancer Francisco Moncion
Located in Glenford, NY
George Platt Lynes Photograph #11 of dancer Francisco Moncion 1949.
George Platt Lynes rare original vintage 1949 gelatin silver photograph of dancer Francisco Moncion. Stamped on verso - GEORGE PLATT LYNES. Photo is 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches, glossy finish in excellent condition.
This photograph is #11 from a collection of 12 different poses in this series taken in Platt Lynes's NYC studio in 1949 (as per the NY Public Library archives). The cloud backdrop is recognizable in other Platt Lynes photographs. Moncion was a personal friend of Platt Lynes and this photograph is from Moncion's personal photographic collection.
George Platt Lynes (1907–1955), was a gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s through the early 1950s. From age eighteen, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate community in Paris when he became acquainted with the salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. He began photographing authors like Stein, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, and Colette and soon established himself as one of the premier fashion photographers in the Condé Nast stable, documenting the ballet companies of George Balanchine/Lincoln Kirstein, and pursuing a private obsession with seductive images of young male nudes rarely published in his lifetime. Platt Lynes photographs are in the collections of every major art museum and university archive including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Yale Art Museum, and the Smithsonian.
Francisco Moncion (July 6, 1918 – April 1, 1995) was a charter member of the New York City Ballet. Over the course of his forty year career, choreographers George Balanchine, and Jerome Robbins in the New York City Ballet created 22 major roles for Moncion including the Dark Angel in Orpheus, Death in La Valse, Prince Ivan in Firebird, and the Boy in Afternoon of a Faun. He was also a choreographer and a talented painter who exhibited alongside Miro, Picasso and Carrado Cagli. Moncion was a popular model for many famed mid-century (late 1930s, 1940s - 1950s) figure photographers including Platt Lynes, Carl van Vechten, Maurice Seymour...
Category
1940s Post-War Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Army Of Caine Large Oversize Pop Art Print Signed Limited Edition
By BATIK
Located in London, GB
Army Of Caine
by B A T I K
Pop art work featuring multiples of Michael Caine in Get Carter mode - possibly his most iconic movie role.
Archival pigment pop art print signed & limi...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Hot Champagne - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 43x59"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater photograph of a naked young woman wrapped in bubbles. This is a bright high resolution photograph with rich green and golden tones migrating onto blue and orange.
Ori...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Harmony II
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...
Category
2010s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Swiss Valais Blacknose Lamb No. 2" Contemporary Photograph on Aluminum Framed
By Randal Ford
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Swiss Valais Blacknose Lamb No. 2" is a framed contemporary photograph on aluminum by Randal Ford depicting a lamb named Klover.
This piece is finished in a white floater frame. Pr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
Slim Aarons 'Cadillac at the Carlton Hotel' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A Cadillac with Florida plates parked outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, circa 1955, printed later.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Racing At Baden Baden, Germany, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features spectators dining in the open air as the horses go by at Baden Baden racecourse, Germany....
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
"1974, Syl and Big Stroll" Paper collage of vintage interior with figures
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"1974, Syl and Big Stroll" is an original piece by Shawn Theodore made from hand-crafted paper collage and acrylic and archival ink on Epson Hot Press Natural paper on wood panel. Theodore delves into the specific experiences of African American families, capturing a longing for lost photographs, missing heirlooms, and vanished archives. Using a blend of traditional portraiture, found photographs, paint, paper, pencils, and digital manipulation, Theodore creates archetypes representing hypothetical family members, spiritual guardians, and ancestors. These boldly crafted archetypes inhabit an imagined macro-family album, offering a unique perspective on portraiture, connection, and community. Theodore's work aims to deepen spiritual connections and encourage personal introspection. This pieces measures 36”h x 48”w and comes with a gallery-issued Certificate of Authenticity.
Shawn Theodore (b. 1970) was born in Germany to American parents from Philadelphia, and currently lives and works in Philadelphia. Theodore was awarded the prestigious PDN’s 30 New & Emerging Photographers to Watch (2019), the Getty Images / ARRAY ‘Where We Stand’ grant, and a grant from the Knight Foundation for ‘A Dream Deferred’. Theodore was a two-time nominee for the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Fellowship and a nominee for the Magnum Foundation Fund. He is an Associate Adjunct Professor at the University of the Arts, a trustee of The Print Center, a trustee of the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, and a former trustee of the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center.
Theodore was announced as a two-time nominee of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Fellowship and a nominee of the Magnum Foundation Fund in 2018. In the following years 2019 and 2020, he was awarded the PDN's 30 New & Emerging Photographers to Watch and AI-AP American Photography 35. He has had several solo exhibitions and is included in several group exhibitions. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; the collection of the Philadelphia Library, Drexel University's Center for Black Culture, the Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Walker Center, Minneapolis; the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C.; the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; and the Legacy Museum, Montgomery, among others. Artist...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Cheeky Briefs by Kurt Hutton
By Kurt Hutton
Located in London, GB
Cheeky Briefs by Kurt Hutton
A badly sun-burned holidaymaker admires his friend's leopard-print briefs, while standing at the bar of a holiday camp on C...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White
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Life becomes art in figurative photography. Shared moments are captured and history is recorded in images of people and their lives.
Figurative photography is often used to describe a kind of photography in which people are the subject. Early black and white photography of people can be a glimpse into a past century — witness the celebrated work of photographers such as Ansel Adams or lesser-known artists like Berenice Abbott, for example. The cultural and social standards of the time are captured in these figurative photographs.
Mid-century photos might show the life and fashions of the day, sometimes with the shared thread of humanity, joy and love. Indeed, figurative photographs can be a source of inspiration and wonder, speaking of common life experiences and beauty. Vintage photos of celebrities and iconic actors can be valuable keepsakes as snapshots of a bygone era.
Just as if you were bringing paintings, prints or drawings into your space as part of the decor, there are many ways to arrange your figurative photography. Large photos can be statement pieces in a room. Smaller photographs can be placed on bookcases or on compact wall spaces to add an artistic element to a living room or a bedroom.
Find a collection of figurative photography on 1stDibs today.