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Period: 1980s
Nirvana Quartet
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Oscar Obregon Salazar Gomez Velez Guzman y Murphy (centre, left) with Karen Murphy, Robin Goodland and Melissa Engelhardt at the Villa Nirvana hotel, Acapulco, Mexico, 1986.
Compli...
Category
Realist 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Nirvana Quartet
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Oscar Obregon Salazar Gomez Velez Guzman y Murphy (centre, left) with Karen Murphy, Robin Goodland and Melissa Engelhardt at the Villa Nirvana hotel, Acapulco, Mexico, 1986.
Compli...
Category
Realist 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Nirvana Quartet
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Oscar Obregon Salazar Gomez Velez Guzman y Murphy (centre, left) with Karen Murphy, Robin Goodland and Melissa Engelhardt at the Villa Nirvana hotel, Acapulco, Mexico, 1986.
Compli...
Category
Realist 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Subway 12, Black & White, Limited Edition Photograph, NYC, 1980, Unframed
By John Conn
Located in Riverdale, NY
John Conn’s New York City Subway limited edition fine art photographs were originally taken between 1975 and 1982. Each black and white photograph is signed. Edition of 20. The i...
Category
American Realist 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Kiss Performing
Located in Toronto, ON
Rock N Roll Photograph - Black & White
Hand Signed by Lynn Goldsmith
About the Artist:
Lynn Goldsmith's imagery is in numerous collections: The Smithsonian, The Polaroid Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the permanent collection of Museum Folkwang. She is a multi-awarded portrait photographer whose work has appeared on and between the covers of Life, Newsweek, Time, Rolling Stone, People, Elle, The New Yorker, etc. Her subjects have varied from entertainment personalities to sports stars, from film directors to authors, from the extra-ordinary to the ordinary man on the street. Her forty years of photography have not only been an investigation into the nature of the human spirit, but also into the natural wonders of our planet.
Twelve books of her photography have been published. She has been on The New York Times Best Seller list...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Michael Jackson, 1984
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Lynn Goldsmith Limited Edition of 20 ...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Elton John Pink Mohawk at Piano 1980
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Lynn Goldsmith Limited Edition of 20 ...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Color
Ray Charles Piano in Glasses, 1986
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Lynn Goldsmith Limited Edition of 20 ...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Muscular Male and Leggy Female Figure on the Roof
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This is a self-portrait with a 1950s girly cut-out set against a dramatic tropical sky.
It's is a straight shot. The camera is on a tripod while the photographer slides over to bec...
Category
Surrealist 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Fabrizia Lanza di Mazzarino, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Donna Fabrizia Lanza di Mazzarino relaxing in a boat on a small lake in the grounds of the Villa Tasca d'Almerita in Sicily, Italy, in October 1984.
Slim Aarons
Fabrizia Lanza di Ma...
Category
Realist 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Suzanne Bent with Curl
Located in New York, NY
Shot on a 20x24 Polaroid camera, "Suzanne Bent with Curl" is a one-of-a-kind print made only rarer by the limited availability of the device’s large-format film. Includes silver fram...
Category
1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Keith Haring 1986
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Lynn Goldsmith Limited Edition of 20 ...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pat Benatar, Los Angeles, CA 1980
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Lynn Goldsmith Limited Edition of 20 ...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sonia and Suzanne
Located in New York, NY
Shot on a 20x24 Polaroid camera, "Sonia and Suzanne" is a one-of-a-kind print made only rarer by the limited availability of the device’s large-format film. Includes silver frame wit...
Category
1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Do Coke, Los Angeles, CA
By Bill Owens
Located in Denton, TX
"After work we change clothes, redo our makeup, do some coke and go dancing."
Edition of 10
Signed and numbered in black ink on print verso.
Bill Owens was born and raised...
Category
Post-Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Laura Hawk amid the ancient Greek ruins of Paestum, on the Gulf of Salerno
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Laura Hawk amid the ancient Greek ruins of Paestum, on the Gulf of Salerno, 1984.
Slim Aarons
Laura Hawk in Paestum
30 x 40 inches
Slim Aarons Estate Stam...
Category
American Realist 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Ranchos de Taos, Front View
By Chris Regas
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, titled and dated in pencil on print verso.
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Russian Samizdat Art Conceptual Compass Sculpture Assemblage Gerlovin, Gerlovina
Located in Surfside, FL
Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin
Compass, 1988
Aluminum sculpture, mixed media and c-print photograph construction, c-print, felt tip marker
12.5 h × 12.5w × 4 d in (30 × 30 × 6 cm)
Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin were founding members of the underground conceptual movement Samizdat in the Soviet Union, described in their book Russian Samizdat Art. Based on a play of paradoxes, their work is rich with philosophic and mythological implications, reflected in their writing as well. Their book Concepts was published in Russia in 2012. The work by Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin is emphatically contemporary. The artist couple were part of the Moscow Conceptualists, their performance Costumes, from 1977, deepened their ongoing work with linguistic semiotic systems and their own bodies. Considering the context in which Gerlovina and Gerlovin made their work—that of political restrictions on public life, of unfreedom, and censorship—their collaborative togetherness must also be read as a space of possibility for political community and resistance. Rimma Gerlovina’s hair is featured prominently in the art of the Gerlovins as a constructing element of the body. Used for the linear drawings her braids transmit transpersonal waves reminiscent of an aura of live filaments. Long loose hairs function as threads of life; streaming in abundance, they allude to Aphrodisiac vitality and Samsonian strength. On the other hand, they are the haircloth worn during mourning and penitence. In New York they continued to make sculptural objects, and their photographic projects grew into an extended series called Photoglyphs. In their photographs, they use their own faces to explore the nature of thought and what lies beyond it. Since coming to the United States in 1980, they had many exhibitions in galleries and museums including the Art Institute of Chicago. The New Orleans Museum of Art launched a retrospective of their photography, which traveled to fifteen cities. Group exhibitions include the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C., Bonn Kunsthalle, Germany, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and others.
Samizdat or “self-published” began in the Soviet Union, and Samizdat art consists mainly of books and magazines published and distributed by the artists who made them. Samizdat art has sources in the innovative books and magazines turned out by the early 20th century Russian avant-garde—artists and writers like Olga Rozanova, Vladimir Mayakovsky, El Lissitzky, and Alexander Rodchenko.
Artists as varied as Alexander Archipenko, Leon Bakst, Marc Chagall, Naum Gabo, Alexandra Exter...
Category
Conceptual 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
Russian Samizdat Art Conceptual Photo Sculpture Assemblage Gerlovin & Gerlovina
Located in Surfside, FL
Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin
Clock, 1987-94
Aluminum sculpture, mixed media and c-print photograph construction, c-print, felt tip marker
13 h × 13 w × 4 d in (30 × 30 × 6 cm)
Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin were founding members of the underground conceptual movement Samizdat in the Soviet Union, described in their book Russian Samizdat Art. Based on a play of paradoxes, their work is rich with philosophic and mythological implications, reflected in their writing as well. Their book Concepts was published in Russia in 2012. The work by Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin is emphatically contemporary. The artist couple were part of the Moscow Conceptualists, their performance Costumes, from 1977, deepened their ongoing work with linguistic semiotic systems and their own bodies. Considering the context in which Gerlovina and Gerlovin made their work—that of political restrictions on public life, of unfreedom, and censorship—their collaborative togetherness must also be read as a space of possibility for political community and resistance. Rimma Gerlovina’s hair is featured prominently in the art of the Gerlovins as a constructing element of the body. Used for the linear drawings her braids transmit transpersonal waves reminiscent of an aura of live filaments. Long loose hairs function as threads of life; streaming in abundance, they allude to Aphrodisiac vitality and Samsonian strength. On the other hand, they are the haircloth worn during mourning and penitence. In New York they continued to make sculptural objects, and their photographic projects grew into an extended series called Photoglyphs. In their photographs, they use their own faces to explore the nature of thought and what lies beyond it. Since coming to the United States in 1980, they had many exhibitions in galleries and museums including the Art Institute of Chicago. The New Orleans Museum of Art launched a retrospective of their photography, which traveled to fifteen cities. Group exhibitions include the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C., Bonn Kunsthalle, Germany, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and others.
Samizdat or “self-published” began in the Soviet Union, and Samizdat art consists mainly of books and magazines published and distributed by the artists who made them. Samizdat art has sources in the innovative books and magazines turned out by the early 20th century Russian avant-garde—artists and writers like Olga Rozanova, Vladimir Mayakovsky, El Lissitzky, and Alexander Rodchenko.
Artists as varied as Alexander Archipenko, Leon Bakst, Marc Chagall, Naum Gabo, Alexandra Exter...
Category
Conceptual 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
Caroline in the Entrance Hall, Villa Victoria, MONTE-CARLO, B&W photography
Located in Cody, WY
UNIQUE PRINT SILVER GELATIN - silver gelatin print mounted on diebond and framed in black frame.
THE MONTE-CARLO SERIES (1980), Early works from 1980, Executed in 2011. Shot in abandoned 19th century villas in and around Monaco and Monte-Carlo between 1980 and 1982, the photographs feature young women in the artist's intimate circle of friends playfully posing in eccentric vintage attire...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Spinal Tap - NYC, 1984
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Lynn Goldsmith Limited Edition of 20 ...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Color
Flipping Boy, 4th Ward, Houston, TX by Earlie Hudnall, Jr., 1983
Located in Denton, TX
Flipping Boy, 4th Ward, Houston, TX by Earlie Hudnall, Jr. is a 14 x 11 inch silver gelatin print. This photograph features a boy flipping in the street, with people watching from the sidewalk and the skyline of Houston in the background. This photograph is signed, titled, and dated in pencil on print verso by Earlie Hudnall, Jr.
Earlie Hudnall, who is one of the most notable African American...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Terlingua conference
By Chris Regas
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, titled and dated in pencil on print verso.
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bodegon de la Candelaria, Catagena, Col. - Black and White Photograph, Latin
By Mario Algaze
Located in Denton, TX
Bodegón de la Candelaria, Cartagena, Col. is a black and white photograph of an interior space, with two rocking chairs resting on a checkered tile floor.
Selenium toned gelatin sil...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Rope, Otavalo, Ecuador
By Mario Algaze
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, titled and dated by Mario Algaze
Gelatin silver print, 20 x 16 in.
Mario Algaze was a contemporary Cuban-American photographer whose work celebrated the culture of Latin Ame...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Safetyville, Sacramento by David Graham, 1989, C-Print, Photography
By David Graham
Located in Denton, TX
Safetyville, Sacramento by David Graham is a 20 x 24 inch C-Print, available in an edition of 25. This photograph features a miniaturized town with a man and child standing near the ...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Color
EP 131, Miami Beach, Arlington
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Cheyco Leidmann does not hesitate to present marginal beings who are mostly drug addicts, unemployed, tramps, criminals, prostitutes, transsexuals ... Images often difficult, someti...
Category
1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Wild West, 89-PC-C-38, #5/5
Located in Park City, UT
David Levinthal is a central figure in American postmodern photography. Since 1972, he has photographed dolls and toys in settings that force us to question their apparent innocence....
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Slim Aarons 'Pool At Porto Rotondo'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Pool At Porto Rotondo
1982
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A sw...
Category
Realist 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Amalfi Coast' (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Amalfi Coast
1984
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A young woman, wearing a bi...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Amalfi Coast' (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Amalfi Coast
1984
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A young woman, wearing a bi...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Adriatic Riviera' (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Princess Pia
1980
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Princess Pia Ruspoli laying...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Contessa Giuppi Petromarchi'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Contessa Giuppi Petromarchi
1987
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Contessa Giuppi Petromarchi...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
El Beso
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Roof Top Jazz Trumpet Player Celebration of Life, Fireworks in New York
Located in Miami, FL
A celebration of Life is symbolized by a rooftop Black Jazz Musician hitting the high note just as a fireworks display lights up the New York sky. Signed ...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Polo Prince'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
August 1985: Prince Charles playing polo for the 'Diables Blues' at Cowdray Park in Sussex.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the...
Category
1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Wild West 89-PC-C-33, AP
Located in Park City, UT
David Levinthal is a central figure in American postmodern photography. Since 1972, he has photographed dolls and toys in settings that force us to question their apparent innocence....
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Slim Aarons, Scotti's Yacht
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Scotti's Yacht, 1981
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Guests on board Italian Count Hannibal Scotti's yacht, 'Scotla...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Post Bulletins (football team) Practicing at Graham Park, Rochester, NY
By David Graham
Located in New York, NY
20 x 24 inch type-c print. Edition 25.
Signed, titled and dated on verso.
Other sizes available - please inquire.
For more than thirty years, David Graham, has produced photographic images infused with both compassion and humor, as he has documented the homes we have built, our lives both public and private, and a purely American expression of “freedom.”
Graham was born in Abington, Pennsylvania, in 1952. He received a BA from The University of the Arts, and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art, both in Philadelphia. He studied under Ray K. Metzker and Will Larson, and was mentored by Emmet Gowin...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Chic Fashion Model with Fireworks Explosion of Color - Monochromatic
Located in Miami, FL
A chic, high-fashion model clad in high heels and a chic hat holds a refreshing drink as she sits on a pedestal. She is depicted in silhouette as a burst of zoomed fireworks explode...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Anne Lambton
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work was acquired directly from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The work is in pristine condition and has never been framed.
This is a unique work which comes w...
Category
Pop Art 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Noble Lion Silhouetted at Sunset, Animal Photography by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Noble lion caught in quintessential and heroic pose against primal sunset sunet. Signed, dated and numbered lower right recto. 4/15 Printed later, unframed, other sizes available . P...
Category
Impressionist 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Dale Chihuly, Life Magazine,
Located in Miami, FL
Inkjet Archival Print. The Shot was done on a Life Magazine assignment on "Glass Artists" 1981. The three essential elements are presented in a bold fr...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Silhouetted Lion on the planes of Africa at Sunset
Located in Miami, FL
Striking image of lone Lion set against a dramatic colorful sunset of the animals domain. Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 3/15, unframed, other sizes available , printed ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Noble Lion at Sunset
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100.
Noble lion caught in quintessential and heroic pose against primal sunset sunet. Signed, dated and numbered lower right recto. 4/15 Printed later, un...
Category
Impressionist 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Noble Lion at Sunset
Located in Miami, FL
Noble lion caught in quintessential and heroic pose against primal sunset sunet. Signed, dated and numbered lower right recto. 4/15 Printed later, unframed, other sizes available Pr...
Category
Impressionist 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Silhouetted Lion on the planes of Africa at Sunset
Located in Miami, FL
The striking image of lone Lion set against a dramatic colorful sunset of the animal's domain. Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 3/15, unframed, other sizes are available , ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Silhouetted Lion on the planes of Africa at Sunset
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. Striking image of lone Lion set against a dramatic colorful sunset of the animals domain. Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 3/15, unframed, ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Noble Lion Silhouetted at Sunset, Animal Photography by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Noble lion caught in quintessential and heroic pose against primal sunset sunet. Signed, dated and numbered lower right recto. 4/15 Printed later, unframed, other sizes available . P...
Category
Impressionist 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Elephants in Mexico, Life Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
Done on assignment for Life Magazine, It was photographed outside Tampico Mexico. Elephants were transported to Mexico from for rehab after training in Oregon. The photographer and h...
Category
American Realist 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Board
Aerosmith - Pine Knob, Klarkstone, MI 1988
Located in Toronto, ON
Open and Limited Edition C-Prints
Hand Signed by Richard Beland
8" x 10" Unframed
Open Edition
11" x 14" Unframed
Open Edition
16" x 20" Unframed
Open Edition
20" x 24" Unframed
...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Color
Stevie Nicks Perform Pink, 1982
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Lynn Goldsmith Limited Edition of 20 ...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Color
Kiss Performing 1980 - Group Edition
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Lynn Goldsmith Limited Edition of 20 ...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Eurythmics on Rooftop, 1984
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Lynn Goldsmith Limited Edition of 20 ...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Color
AC/DC 1983
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Lynn Goldsmith Limited Edition of 20 ...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Eddie & Dave Performance, 1980
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Lynn Goldsmith Limited Edition of 20 ...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Color
Keith Richards, Studio Cig, 1988
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Lynn Goldsmith Limited Edition of 20 ...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Color
EP 96, Miami Beach, Ocean Drive
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Cheyco Leidmann does not hesitate to present marginal beings who are mostly drug addicts, unemployed, tramps, criminals, prostitutes, transsexuals ... Images often difficult, someti...
Category
1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
