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Period: 2010s
Abscence
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Unique Collage Printed on Canson Platine Fiber Rag Framed in black wood to 31 x 38 cm This image is from Sarah Hadley's series The Whispering Dark, about her unusual childhood grow...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Massimo Listri, Reggia di Portici V, Napoli
Located in New York, NY
Reggia di Portici V, Napoli 2013 Chromogenic print Edition of 5 Signed, dated, and numbered on verso label Mounted on aluminum, framed 39.5 x 47.5 inches edition of 5 47.5 x 59...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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C Print

Massimo Listri, Reggia di Portici III, Napoli
Located in New York, NY
Reggia di Portici, III Napoli, 2013 Chromogenic print Edition of 5 Signed, dated, and numbered on verso label Mounted on aluminum, framed 39.5 x 47.5 inches edition of 5 47.5 x...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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C Print

Polka Dot Beach Umbrella
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Ed. of 7 For over a decade, Joshua Jensen-Nagle has captivated the viewer with his evocative large-scale photographs. Best known for his dreamy aerial ...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

Moda by Rosie Emerson, Black and white analogue photography, glam female figure
Located in Dallas, TX
"Moda" is one of Rosie Emerson's newest pieces from her fashion inspired photographic series. This is a photopolymer etching with embossing on paper, framed in a custom box black frame. This is an edition of 12, and each piece is slightly different because they are each hand-made. Moda, Ed 2/12 Photopolymer etching with embossing on paper, framed Artwork: 22" x 10" inches / 55 x 25 cm Rosie Emerson, born in 1981, is a contemporary artist working almost exclusively on representing the female form. Emerson’s figures draw reference from archetypes old and new, from Artemis to the modern day super model, each solitary figure, an allegory of her own fantasy. Interested in surface, the interplay between photography and painting. Emerson’s works are playful constructs; Photography is used, not as a device for capturing reality but for creating romanticised optical illusions. Inspired by her love of theatre, performance, shrines and rituals, she uses lighting, costume, set and prop making, alongside printmaking and painting to create other worldly one off pieces. Her photography is inspired by both the drama of the baroque, and ethereal qualities of Pre Raphaelite works. Other important influences include late medieval and renaissance paintings, Japanese prints, and magical realist literature. Emerson’s screen-prints use unusual materials including charcoal powder, ash and saw dust to shift the focus of printmaking from accuracy and replication to the creation of unique, hand-finished prints with subtle texture. She explains ‘By combining photography with painting it allows me to balance energy and precision, and create something, which despite hours of planning will still surprise me in its results.’ Her recent Cyanotype works enable her to montage objects with real size photographic negatives. Using UV light from the sun to expose objects and images directly on to the sensitized surface, the works are often hand painted or gilded with gold leaf. Emerson describes ‘the technique itself has an element of magic about it, it also a wonderful discovery to be able to combine painting, collage and photography in this way’’. Emerson’s work is widely collected and exhibited both in the UK as well as internationally, through galleries, art fairs and museums. She has also worked with brands and individuals including Harvey Nichols, The Ivy Club, Sony, Triumph Underwear, Redbull, P&O Cruises, and Annoushka jewelry...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Black and White, Etching

Mother & Child II- Figurative Photograph
Located in Miami, FL
H-Allen Benowitz is a self-taught photographer, born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, and a graduate from the Interboro Institute of Business in Manhattan, migrated to Miami, FL in the 1960s, sharing time at his log home...
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2010s Figurative Photography

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

White Ibis with Fish by Cheryl Medow, 2014, Archival Pigment Print, Photography
Located in Denton, TX
White Ibis with Fish by Cheryl Medow is a color photograph of a white bird with orange legs walking across a beach, carrying a green fish in it's beak. Image size: 10.4 x 13 in. Pa...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

French Contemporary Art by Jean-Claude Byandb - According to Hokusai
Located in Paris, IDF
Photography on paper
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

French Contemporary Art by Jean-Claude Byandb - According to Max Ernst
Located in Paris, IDF
Photography on paper
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Bathing Box #60
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Ed. of 7 For over a decade, Joshua Jensen-Nagle has captivated the viewer with his evocative large-scale photographs. Best known for his dreamy aerial ...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

4636
Located in New York, NY
Bob Tabor is a well-established, New York based, photographer best known for his exquisite large scaled portraits of subjects ranging from horses to seascapes. It is his unique appro...
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Photorealist 2010s Figurative Photography

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digita...

Tropical Storm 8, Brazil
Located in New York City, NY
Archival Pigment Print - UNFRAMED 27 x 40 inches - edition of 15 40 x 60 inches - edition of 10 48 x 72 inches - edition of 5 Ask us for custom framing options. CHROMA presents...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Venaria Reale IX Torino
Located in New York, NY
Venaria Reale IX Torino, 2016 Lambda print Signed, titled, dated and numbered (edition of 5) on artist's label on verso. Mounted to aluminum with custo...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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C Print

Yellow Floral Beach Umbrella
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Ed. of 7 For over a decade, Joshua Jensen-Nagle has captivated the viewer with his evocative large-scale photographs. Best known for his dreamy aerial ...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

Olympic Breakdancer
Located in PARIS, FR
A man with x-ray vision, Nick Veasey creates art that shows what it is really like inside. Original artwork. C print, diasec Framed. Signed and numbered out of 15. Accompanied with ...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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C Print

Palazzo Colonna II, Rome, Italy by Massimo Listri
Located in New York City, NY
Chromogenic Print – Unframed Free Shipping – Ask us for custom framing options. 40 x 48 inches - edition of 5 48 x 60 inches - edition of 5 71 x 88.5 inches - edition of 5 "My ph...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Archival Paper, C Print

Kampos Project (Woman in White)
Located in New York, NY
Kampos Project (Woman in White), 2016 Archival pigment print on Hahne Muehle 200 gm Edition of 7 20 x 35 cm - $1200 40 x 60 cm - $1900 70 x 90 cm - $2900 Stratis Vogiatzis was bor...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Crashing from Dreams 6
Located in New York, NY
Crashing From Dreams Archival pigment print on Hannemule paper pearl. 70x100 cm, edition of 17 80x120 cm, edition of 11 100x150 cm, edition of 9 150x200 cm, edition of 7 Photographs...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Ninos de la Calle 3
Located in New York, NY
Steve Schlackman is a lawyer by profession and a photographer by choice. Fascinated by the magical world of photography since his youth, he honed this...
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Photorealist 2010s Figurative Photography

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Digital, Photogram, Archival Pigm...

Kampos Project #6 (Two Women in a Bathtub
Located in New York, NY
Kampos Project #6 (Two women in a Bathtub), 2016 Archival pigment print on Hahne Muehle 200 gm Edition of 7 20 x 35 cm - $1200 40 x 60 cm - $1900 70 x 90 cm - $2900 Stratis Vogiatz...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Springtime
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Springtime, 2022 Unique Cyanotype Print Arches Aquarelle Paper Edition 1/7 14 x 11” / 36 x 28 cm + Cyanotype hand-printed on Arches BFK Rives French watercolor paper + Signed and ...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Watercolor, Archival Paper, Color, Photogram

Giralda, Sala del Capitolo, Sevilla, Spain
Located in New York City, NY
Chromogenic Print – Unframed Free Shipping – Ask us for custom framing options. 40 x 48 inches - edition of 5 48 x 60 inches - edition of 5 71 x 88.5 inches - edition of 5 "My ph...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Archival Paper, C Print

"Art World" Wayne Hills Mall, NJ (Modern Ruin series) 24"x30" color photograph
Located in New York, NY
24"x30" contemporary color photograph, limited edition of 5, signed on reverse by the artist, Phillip Buehler. This photograph depicts the time ravaged corridor of the abandoned Wayne Hills Mall, in Wayne, New Jersey. A waterlogged hallway leads from the crumbling atrium to the empty storefront shell of Art World, with its sign still intact on the upper wall of the shop. Phillip Buehler captures the last stages of the life of the once bustling mall, with the empty corridors and dilapidated storefronts and kiosks. This photograph is a featured in a solo exhibition of Phillip Buehler's photographs, entitled: “Mallrat to Snapchat: The End of the Third Place.” Front Room Gallery is proud to present “Mallrat to Snapchat: The End of the Third Place,” on view November 29th - January 12th. January recent work by photographer Phillip Buehler documenting the death of the Wayne Hills Mall in Wayne, New Jersey. This is Buehler’s second solo show at Front Room Gallery. Buehler’s exhibition is part photography, part installation, part cultural critique, mixed in with nostalgia and genuine affection for this very American economical and sociological experiment— The Mall. Buehler takes a very intimate look at the beginning, and possibly ending, of mall culture in the United States featuring not only photographs, but also artifacts from the mall and its opening year, 1973. Under a photograph of a desolate Sam Goody will be a bin filled with almost 100 albums from that year, that visitors can flip through and play in the gallery on a vintage record player. Buehler’s photos of iconic hangouts and lowbrow teenage meeting places ring out from the 1970’s, 80’s, and 90’s but are torn away from their movie soundtracks and sent into an apocalyptic icy future. Featuring Sam Goody, Waldenbooks, Toys R Us...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

5S58825
Located in New York, NY
Photograph - Archival Pigment print, facemounted to Acrylic. Bob Tabor is a well-established, New York based, photographer best known for his exquisite large scaled portraits of sub...
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Other Art Style 2010s Figurative Photography

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Digital, Photogram, Archival Pigm...

No.1
Located in New York, NY
A fan of photography since her early childhood, Mizrakli graduated from Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Interior Decoration Department, and continued her higher education in London, where she started out her work as a photographer. Later on, she moved to New York to further develop her career as a photographer and enrolled in classes at the Photography Department of the New York Film Academy. She received a Master’s Degree in photography in Los Angeles, where she is currently based. Mizrakli has conducted many shooting sessions for Mica Studios and Bullet Magazine in New York and had two solo exhibitions in Los Angeles. She has recently participated in the Contemporary Istanbul Exhibition (November 2013). In some of her black and white works she uses the human body only as a pictorial sign in order to create almost abstract works. First made anonymous, the female model is then cloned and circularly multiplied. The result is a kind of wheel in which the repeated human body gives birth to a new, seemingly vegetal or mineral structure. Thus, the human element seems to be transformed into different other natural...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Digital, Photogram, Archival Pigm...

NO.2
Located in New York, NY
A fan of photography since her early childhood, Mizrakli graduated from Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Interior Decoration Department, and continued her higher education in London, where she started out her work as a photographer. Later on, she moved to New York to further develop her career as a photographer and enrolled in classes at the Photography Department of the New York Film Academy. She received a Master’s Degree in photography in Los Angeles, where she is currently based. Mizrakli has conducted many shooting sessions for Mica Studios and Bullet Magazine in New York and had two solo exhibitions in Los Angeles. She has recently participated in the Contemporary Istanbul Exhibition (November 2013). In some of her black and white works she uses the human body only as a pictorial sign in order to create almost abstract works. First made anonymous, the female model is then cloned and circularly multiplied. The result is a kind of wheel in which the repeated human body gives birth to a new, seemingly vegetal or mineral structure. Thus, the human element seems to be transformed into different other natural...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Digital, Photogram, Archival Pigm...

Gipsoteca di Canova, Possagno, Italy by Massimo Listri
Located in New York City, NY
Chromogenic Print – Unframed Free Shipping – Ask us for custom framing options. 40 x 48 inches - edition of 5 48 x 60 inches - edition of 5 71 x 88.5 inches - edition of 5 "My ph...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Archival Paper, C Print

Lace
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lace, 2022 Unique Cyanotype print Arches Aquarelle Paper Edition 2/7 23 x 18” / 58 x 46 cm + Cyanotype hand-printed on Arches BFK Rives French watercolor paper + Signed and edition...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Watercolor, Archival Paper, Color, Photogram

"Art World" Wayne Hills Mall, New Jersey (Modern Ruin series) color photograph
Located in New York, NY
limited edition of 5, signed on reverse by the artist, Phillip Buehler. This photograph depicts the time ravaged corridor of the abandoned Wayne Hills Mall, in Wayne, New Jersey. A...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Blue Coat
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Blue Coat 2021 Archival Print on Ilford Smooth Cotton Rag M10 Edition 3of 10 Joan Haseltine is a visual artist whose practice revolves around complex ideas of perception and the ...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Pill Box
Located in New York City, NY
Available Sizes: 18 x 18 Edition of 3 30 x 30 Edition of 3 45 x 45 Edition of 3 60 x 60 Edition of 3 Los Angeles-based photographer Tyler Shields seeks “beauty in chaos,” capturing...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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C Print

Ultimate face to face Françoise Benomar Contemporary African photography nude
Located in Paris, FR
Photography printed on fine art paper Hand-signed and numbered 1/5 on the back by the artist
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Portrait Photography_Figurative_Manipulated Image_Brooke Shaden, Smallness
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
BROOKE SHADEN "Smallness" 2024 Photo on Velvet Fine Art Paper (Unframed) 20 x 20 inches, ed of 10 Channeling the light and darkness inherent in humanity through her self-portraits, ...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Palazzo Altieri, Rome, Italy by Massimo Listri
Located in New York City, NY
Chromogenic Print – Unframed Free Shipping – Ask us for custom framing options. 40 x 48 inches - edition of 5 48 x 60 inches - edition of 5 71 x 88.5 inches - edition of 5 "My ph...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Archival Paper, C Print

Reggia di Caserta II, Italy by Massimo Listri
Located in New York City, NY
Chromogenic Print – Unframed Free Shipping – Ask us for custom framing options. 40 x 48 inches - edition of 5 48 x 60 inches - edition of 5 71 x 88.5 inches - edition of 5 "My ph...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Archival Paper, C Print

Marathon
Located in New York City, NY
Archival Pigment Print - UNFRAMED 27 x 40 inches - edition of 15 40 x 60 inches - edition of 10 48 x 72 inches - edition of 5 Ask us for custom framing options. CHROMA presents...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Venus Etcetera (after Veronese) – Miles Aldridge, Woman, Fashion, Housewife
Located in Zurich, CH
MILES ALDRIDGE (*1964, Great Britain) Venus Etcetera (after Veronese) 2021 Screenprint in colours with silver ink Image 109 × 150 cm (42 3/4 × 59 in.) Sheet 121 × 162 cm (47 3/4 × 6...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Screen

Venaria Reale IX, Torino, Italy by Massimo Listri
Located in New York City, NY
Chromogenic Print – Unframed Free Shipping – Ask us for custom framing options. 40 x 48 inches - edition of 5 48 x 60 inches - edition of 5 71 x 88.5 inches - edition of 5 "My ph...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Archival Paper, C Print

Portrait Photography, Figurative_Digital Manipulation_Brooke Shaden, Overgrown
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
BROOKE SHADEN "Overgrown" 2024 Photo on Velvet Fine Art Paper, ed 1/15 10 x 10 inches; 19 x 19 inches Framed Channeling the light and darkness inherent in humanity through her self-...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

My Baby My Life
Located in New York, NY
Born in 1967 in a small village in the south of Israel, Eitan Vitkon is an acclaimed contemporary photographer whose work has been exhibited and applauded worldwide. In 1996, Eitan m...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram

Great Egret and the Chicks by Cheryl Medow, 2023, Archival Pigment Print
Located in Denton, TX
Great Egret and the Chicks by Cheryl Medow is a 20 x 16 inch archival pigment print, available in an edition of 10. This photograph features a great egret with three egret chicks standing in the top of a tree, with the starry night sky in the background. The paper size is 25 x 20 inches, the image size is 20 x 16 inches. This photograph is signed and numbered in pencil, and blind stamp on print margin. It's also signed, titled, dated, and print type in pencil on print verso. This photograph is available in multiple sizes. Cheryl Medow's background in the arts is diverse, but interconnected. Medow studied ceramics at the famed Chouinard Institute and received a BA in Art from UCLA, concentrating on life drawing with charcoal and pastels. Continuing her art education, she studied printmaking at Hand Graphics in Santa Fe, New Mexico. With a wealth of materials and techniques, Medow layers her photographs and weaves them together to create visual narratives. There have been numerous articles written about her work. Avian Alchemy by Becca Cudmore was published by Audubon News/Culture on June 5, 2015, Proof. National Geographic - An Altered Reality by Becky Harlan along with National Geographics Sunday Stills, Sunday, July 12, 2015 and an article in Inspire Adobe Photoshop For The Birds by Alyssa Coppelman in August. In 2016, Medow was included in the SLIDESHOW Night at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City, California. She received the Juror's Award at PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury Vermont for Great Blue Heron With Chicks Revisited and her print will be exhibited from March 23 through April 22 and White Ibis With Fish will be part of the Online Gallery Annex at PhotoPlace. Medow was a finalist in the 89th Annual International Competition at The Print Center in Philadelphia given the Olcott Family Award. She is also a finalist at the LensCulture Earth Awards 2015. In 2015, Medow's images were exhibited at The G2 Gallery in Venice, CA and at Flock: Birds On The Brink / Ganna Walksa Lotusland, curated by Nancy Gifford...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Panther - Limited Edition Color Photograph, Woman Artist, Interior, Decor
Located in Denton, TX
Panther is a color photograph of a staged panther themed room, created by photographer Patty Carroll. This scene consists of a mannequin, representing a woman, laying on a couch surr...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Italian Contemporary Photo by Ian Art - Surfer_III, Two Men
Located in Paris, IDF
Surfer_III, Two Men (2012-2018) 180 x 100 cm - original / single unique print + 1AP Museum-Quality Fine Art Printing Ships in a well protected, solid tube Original Warranty for all ...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Paper, Digital

5S5A6039
Located in New York, NY
Bob Tabor is a well-established, New York based, photographer best known for his exquisite large scaled portraits of subjects ranging from horses to seascapes. It is his unique appro...
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Photorealist 2010s Figurative Photography

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Digital, Photogram, Archival Pigm...

The sea, Brazil
Located in New York City, NY
Archival Pigment Print - UNFRAMED 27 x 40 inches - edition of 15 40 x 60 inches - edition of 10 48 x 72 inches - edition of 5 Ask us for custom framing options. CHROMA presents...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Ninos de la Calle 2
Located in New York, NY
This digital print is part of a limited edition set. Steve Schlackman is a lawyer by profession and a photographer by choice. Fascinated by the magical world of photography since his youth, he honed this skill over time, meticulously pouring over all things photographic, technical and creative alike, with unstoppable enthusiasm. Steve’s passion for taking photographs was ignited early on, during a study-abroad trip to Paris, where he immersed himself in all things art historical. Diligence, a strong trait Schlackman is known for, paid off, and after daily meanderings at the Louvre, a great love for art emerged along with hundreds of photographs. These pictures proved to be early tributes to the urban landscape, and although they didn’t amount to full-on series, a seed was planted. The omnipresent tension between the poor neighborhoods of the Cuban capital, as a result of political dictatorship, and the rich Afro-Cuban cultural roots of their inhabitants, whose wealth is represented by their music and feelings, is physically visible in Steve’s use of high contrast, a metaphoric touch on the subject of the light and darkness of the Afro-Cuban heritage. Although intentionally apolitical, the pictures speak volumes about the Cuban status quo and, appropriately, the eternal joy of living despite socio-political hardship. Play, in and of itself a mode to survive the harsh reality, represents another subject Steve is keen on capturing. Whether it is adults playing dominoes...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Black and White, Digital, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Marie Sulac 07
Located in New York, NY
In this artwork by renowned Belgian photographer Eric Ceccarini, he invited painter Marie Sulac to transpose a colorful universe on the body of the model. With bright yellow stripes,...
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Abstract 2010s Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment, Pigment

Childhood, Indigenous Tribe, Brazil
Located in New York City, NY
Archival Pigment Print - UNFRAMED 27 x 40 inches - edition of 15 40 x 60 inches - edition of 10 48 x 72 inches - edition of 5 Ask us for custom framing options. CHROMA presents...
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

`Psycho`, Okurimono series, Tokyo- japan-nude -harajuku-girl-color
Located in Oslo, NO
Okurimono Pigment Print Images from the Okurimono series is available in 3 different formats : * 50 x 75 cm : edition of 10 + (+2ap) * 80 x 120 cm : edition of 7 + (+2ap) * 113 x 170 cm : edition of 7 + (+2ap) Each print is numbered and signed About the work : Work by contemporary photographer Christian Houge, from the Okurimono series. In this series, Houge has, through five trips to Japan (Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto), explored Japans otherworldly subculture and its ritualistic perfection. In this personal art documentary he has ventured into delicate themes such as personal identity, sexuality, longing and gender dysphoria. In this particular series, he uses staging as a method to create a story within a story. The viewers associations are important in meeting this work and ambiguity plays an important role. In this series, Houge has, through five trips to Japan (Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto), explored Japans otherworldly subculture and its ritualistic perfection. In this personal art documentary he has ventured into delicate themes such as personal identity, sexuality, longing and gender dysphoria. In this particular series, he uses staging as a method to create a story within a story. The viewers associations are important in meeting this work and ambiguity plays a Okurimono (meaning both “gift” and “that which is in-between” in Japanese) - is a word that binds together this comprehensive project developed over five trips to Japan between 2007 and 2018. The series explores the personal pursuit of identity, at times with an underlying darkness as Houge had the chance to be introduced to Tokyo’s subculture. In exploring this theme, Houge has ventured into delicate matters such as sexuality, longing and gender dysphoria. In this particular series, he uses staging as a method to create a story within a story. The artist wishes to question the viewer and provoke a reflection on topics that are often seen as taboos in our contemporary societies. The viewer’s own associations are important in appreciating this work where ambiguity plays an important role. The project started in the Harajuku district of Tokyo which is known as a center of Japanese youth culture and where Houge found some of his first motifs: teenage girls dressing up in post-Victorian dresses or ‘cosplay’ costumes to identify with a character of their favorite comics. Here, the desire to express one’s uniqueness is central and the photographer explores the tension between personal identity and aesthetics shared by all (or at least by the same youth group). In many of his carefully staged photographs, Houge’s models are masked, so as to echo the many social masks we wear in our day-to-day lives. In our post-modern information society, drained of wonder, these enigmatic masked characters also evoke the world of shamans and pagan rituals, therefore injecting a sense of mystery and spirituality that many people are longing for. Symbolism and the many references to ritual and identity in an otherwise suppressed society, may at times create a sense of unease among viewers. The Okurimono project also explores the topic of identity and sexuality in gender dysphoria with Japan’s nyūhāfu (the transsexual ‘new halfs’). Here, the quest for identity coincides with a search of femininity and body image which results in complex physical transformations. Viewers may look at these portraits not having any clue that models are nyūhāfu. Yet, the photographs are staged so that viewers are placed in a disconcerting voyeuristic role while looking at otherwise closed world. Shibari (the art of tying), which originates from the Edo period (1600s), is another territory explored by Houge in his Okurimono series. His striking photographs of female models tied with red rope on a white background take us into this powerful journey into vulnerability and surrender, power and freedom. Through tradition, symbolism and technology, Okurimono also explores the hugely potent symbols that help define parts of Japanese culture and national identity, between old and new. As Art historian Erling Bugge put it: “Christian Houge guides us into a mystery. It resides between the ritualized shapes of the traditional and withdrawn Zen garden in Kyoto and the equally ritualized spaces of futuristic, urban Tokyo. For a westerner, Japan might look familiar, since what is held up for us looks like a futuristic spectacle somehow grounded in a western imagination. This judgment, however, is too easy. In Houge’s photographs, the sense of sameness withdraws and a very different feeling of strangeness creeps up on us. In fact, what this series registers is a remarkable place of alterity in today’s global order, a radical difference bang in the middle of the familiar.” The images of the Okurimono series share a ghostly, otherworldly quality. In reality and dream, ritual and play merge while the boundaries between the known and the unknown dissolve. Christian Houge – Now – Okurimono Christian Houge guides us into a mystery. It resides between the ritualized shapes of the traditional and withdrawn Zen garden in Kyoto and the equally ritualized spaces of futuristic, urban Tokyo. For a westerner, Japan might look familiar, since what is held up for us looks like a futuristic spectacle somehow grounded in a western imagination. This judgment, however, is too easy. In Houge’s photographs, the sense of sameness withdraws and a very different feeling of strangeness creeps up on us. In fact, what this series registers is a remarkable place of alterity in today’s global order, a radical difference bang in the middle of the familiar. This is pushed to the limit in the technological and virtual wonderland of Akihabara in Tokyo, where shop after shop trade in electronic products and computer games, while a weird costume play, “cosplay”, is being performed in streets. A similar kind of simulation is being acted out in the district of Harajuku, where Houge found some of his motifs. There is no authenticity here, no western “essence” or “reality”; instead, the virtual conquers the carnal body in a purified play of surface, image and the hyperreal. This is exotic. All the while as we are conscious of these notions as pinnacle points in a western idea of the post-modern. But in this sense Japan has always been “post-modern”. It has always integrated the most refined culture and technology from the outside while somehow retained an identity for itself. So, what would this identity be? Houge takes the view of ritual and play. Indeed, Japanese culture seems to be grounded solely on ritual, in business and in sex, in its relation to nature and in religion. This play transcends the notion of authenticity altogether, unlike the West which is haunted by the “ghost” of origin and beginnings. In Japan, “now” would mean just that; it is a “no looking back”, but rather a flow of intensities integrated in the play and ritual of the ever-present, okurimono. There is no threat of being eaten up by western culture and technology here, for, like in Zen practice, the ritual oversees everything and has no historical drag. Japan becomes weightless, shot into orbit outside the material of earth itself. Is acting out the role as Lewis Caroll’s Victorian girl driven by a sense of nostalgia? I think not. It is a striving for a moment of perfected presence, in dialogue with Houge’s optical machine. It is the moment of Now. The girl, the Zen garden and the image shares in a perfection modified by small uncertainties, coincidental imperfections that become somewhat oblique points of entry for us - a discarded handkerchief or seemingly unremarkable shapes and reflections in the prismatic play of surfaces. There is a ghostly, otherworldly quality in these images, even in the fleeting blossoming cherrytree and the play of shadows across a concrete minimalism. The doubly exposed or reflected light on the lens reminds us of the uncertain beginnings in photography’s history, with its widespread belief that the camera was able to perceive more than the naked eye, like spirits and ghosts. In Houge’s images there are different specters, skeletal, natural shapes on the one hand, the machine and the virtual on the other. Here, like some scene from the film Blade Runner, there is an uncanny confusion and mix between the human and non human. Maybe the search for a perfect moment in the perpetual flow of things is a romantic or melancholic longing for transcendent wholeness, a drive that is harnessed in a rigorous attention to visual detail. This compulsive discipline might seem absurd to any western observer, while longing itself form a common ground and will ultimately be the basis in our meeting. Erling Bugge Bio: Christian Houge (born in Oslo 1972) Based in Oslo, Norway, I have been making photographs for over twenty years and new insights continue to open. By exploring the relation, and conflict, between Nature and culture, I get a better understanding about Mans` condition. I am interested in the consequences of Humankinds progression and how science often is the result of our conquering of Nature, both on Earth and beyond. Mans` ego, consumer society, the last remnants of pure Nature and identity are recurring elements in my work. I often juxtapose the visually aesthetic with an underlying uneasiness. This often emanates a cognitive dissonance in the viewer to invite deeper truths and personal references. Looking at our actions and place in environment, which we are so dependent on, is a recurring theme in all my exploration and can use everything from digital cameras to large format and panoramic analog cameras for specific projects. I have exhibited extensively in galleries and museums in my native country Norway, as well as the US, England, France and China. The series `Death of a Mountain`(2016-2021) is nominated for the 2021 Leica Oskar Barnack Award, as well as receiving an arts grant from Norwegian Arts Council. Most recently, my series `Residence of Impermanence` 2017-2019 has been exhibited at five museums and several galleries already (including a solo show at Fotografiska, Stockholm (2019), and Les Recontres d`Arles, Haugar Artmuseum, Preus Muaeum of Photography and 2019 (Galerie Omnius, Arles). In 2021, this series received ten nominations for the Prix Pictet Award with the theme FIRE. `Residence of Impermanence` is currently exhibited at the UCR: California Museum of Photography in Los Angeles with the exhibition `Facing Fire,` Art, Wildfire and The End of Nature in the New West...
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Real Gabinete Português de Leitura by Steve McCurry, 2014, Digital C-Print
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Contemporary 2010s Figurative Photography

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Ball
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