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Period: Early 2000s
Memories of Green I, triptych, analog, hand printed, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Memories of Green I, triptych, - 2003
Edition of 5,
each 58x56cm, installed with gaps 58x178cm,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Three Girls II (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Three Girls II (The Last Picture Show) - 2006,
50x49cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label.
...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper
Contemporary sensual, erotic photograph of nude man from historic image w/ text
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"For Walt Whitman" by artist Paul Cava is a one-of-a-kind (unique) archival pigment print with gouache and collage on fine art paper. It depicts the negative image of a nude man base...
Category
Abstract Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Gouache, Archival Paper
La Casa de Daniel, Artist Self Portraits. Black and white Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Water is constant in the artist's visual investigation, for her water is no longer the stage in which the body's memory bursts, but rather the environment and protagonist, constant o...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Skywhale (Stay) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay'. Featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie's ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Headless (Stay) featuring Ewan McGregor
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Headless (Stay) - 2006
featuring Ewan McGregor
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #5084.
Not mounted.
Torsten Scheid, “Fotografie, Kunst, Kino. Revisited.”, FilmDienst 3/2006, page 11-13
Photography Art Cinema. Revisited
Stay expands a traditional connection through new facets
Interwoven between the media of photography and film is a veritable mesh-work of technical, motific, metaphorical and personal interrelationships. Extending from photo-film which, as in La Jetée by Chris Marker (France, 1962) is a montage of single, unmoving photographs all the way to the portrayal of photographic motifs in Hollywood cinema―most recently in Memento (USA, 2000) and One hour photo (USA, 2002)―is the range of filmic-photographic interactions on the one hand, and from the adaption of modes of cinematic production to the imitation of film stills on the other. For instance, with the legendary Untitled Film Stills (1978) of the American artist Cindy Sherman, who later made her debut as a film director with Office Killer (USA, 1997) and thereby, like many others, changed sides: Wim Wenders, Robert Frank and Larry Clark are doubtlessly the most successful of these photographic-filmic border crossers. This brief survey provides only a vague indication of the dimensions of this intermedial field, which in fact extends much further and is constantly being cultivated.
Also as a motif in film, photography has experienced a historical transformation: Photographers were once considered to be technicians who mastered a craft but never achieved the status of artists. Photographer-figures were caught in the allure of beautiful appearance, incapable of penetrating to the actual essence of things. Such depth was reserved for literature or painting. When photography in film touched upon the sphere of art, then most often as its contrasting model, as the metaphor for a superficial access to the world. Coming to mind are Fred Astaire as a singing fashion photographer in Stanley Donen’s musical film Funny Face (USA, 1957), or the restless lifestyle-photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni’s genre-classic Blow up (GB, 1966). For the doubting Thomas, only that exists which can be photographed. He ultimately enters the world of fantasy and thereby the field of art only unwillingly, when he becomes entangled in the world of his images. The last of his detail-enlargements shows only the photographic grain and has lost all connection to reality. The photograph looks as if it had been painted by Bill, the painter who is both friend and antagonist to the protagonist.
Photography as Art
It was first around the end of the last century that numerous filmmakers discovered photography as a genuine art form. In The Bridges of Madison County (USA, 1995) a sensitive Clint Eastwood stands, camera in hand, on the threshold of artistic status, and in Smoke (USA, 1994) a tobacco merchant ripens into a philosopher through his involvement in photography. Finally, in John Water’s parody of the art market, Pecker (USA, 1998), a provincial tom-fool is hyped into celebrated stardom amid the New York art scene because of his blurred snapshots. This film about a postmodern Kaspar Hauser in photographic art (with clear parallels to Richard Billingham, the British shooting...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Boccia VII (Beachshoot ) with Radha Mitchell -Polaroid, Contemporary, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boccia VII (Beachshoot) - 2005
38x36cm, Edition of 10.
Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 1467.
Not mounted.
featuring Camil...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Santa María, Artist Self Portraits. Black and white Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Water is constant in the artist's visual investigation, for her water is no longer the stage in which the body's memory bursts, but rather the environment and protagonist, constant o...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Womb - Contemporary, Figurative, Woman, 21st Century, Polaroid, photograph, life
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Womb #02 - 2006,
56x55cm, Edition 2/5,
Analog C-Print, printed by hand by the artist on Fuji Archive Crystal Paper.
Based on a Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label
artist In...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Galleria dellAccademia (David by Michelangelo)
Located in New York, NY
Galleria dellAccademia, 2009
C print
Edition of 5
cm 100X120 120X150 180X225
inch 39.40x47.28 47.28x59.10 70.92x88.65
Massimo Listri is a Florence-based photographer whose work o...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Alphabet Soup (Till Death do us Part) - mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Alphabet Soup (Till Death do us Part) - 2005,
128x127cm,
Edition 2/5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist. based on the Polaroid.
Artist Inventory No. 9283.02.
Mounted o...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
Girls like Strawberries, for no reason at all #15 - 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Girls like Strawberries, for no reason at all #15 - 2006
[From the series Need to be]
Edition of 25
25x25cm (white border included)
Hand signed & numbered by the artist.
Archival ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Untitled (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' (The Last Picture Show) - 2005
38x37cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory 1016.
Not mounted.
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Boccia III (Beachshoot ) with Radha Mitchell -Polaroid, Contemporary, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boccia III (Beachshoot) - 2005
38x36cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 1467.
Not mounted.
featuring C...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Santa María, Artist Self Portraits Black and white Photograph. Triptych
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Water is constant in the artist's visual investigation, for her water is no longer the stage in which the body's memory bursts, but rather the environment and protagonist, constant o...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
A Man and a Woman - abstract in bathroom (Sidewinder) - Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Man and a Woman - abstract in bathroom (Sidewinder), triptych - 2005
Edition of 10, installed 20x70cm including gaps, 20x20cm each.
Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Artist In...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Burning II - Gestures - analog C-Print, printed by the Artist - 40x40cm
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Burning II' (Gestures)
38 x 37cm, Edition 3/5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label
arti...
Category
Outsider Art Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled - part 8 - Beachshoot starring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boccia VIII (Beachshoot) - 2005
30,7x30cm,
sold out Edition of 68, Artist Proof 4/5
Lambda Print, based on a Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label,
artist Inventory # 1467.
Not...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Bird of Paradise, New York
Located in Hudson, NY
Edition #1/15
This is the framed price listed. The photograph is available unframed in two additional editioned paper sizes.
Heal brings us through a world of stillness and sensual...
Category
Modern Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Loading the Gun (Wastelands) hand printed analog C-Print, based on a Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Loading the Gun (Wastelands) - 2003
57x56cm,
Edition of 5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on the Polaroid, Artist inventory Number...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
First Violin (self Portrait) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Photography, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
First Violin #03 - 2013
[From the series Need to be]
50x50cm
Archival color print based on original Polaroid
on beautiful PHOTO RAG ULTRA SMOOTH
305gsm - 100% cotton by HAHNEMÜHLE....
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Read till you need no more…Words [from the series Schoffie]
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Read till you need no more…Words
[from the series Schoffie]
Published in Carmen De Vos's new book 'The Eyes of the Fox'.
80x80cm, edition of 5,
Digital archival pigment print
...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Polaroid, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
![Read till you need no more…Words [from the series Schoffie]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/carmen-de-vos-photography-read-till-you-need-no-morewords-from-the-series-schoffie-for-sale/a_6523/a_83703521624741720113/carmendevos_09_Read_24_master.jpg?width=240 "carmen de vos")
Untitled - Oilfields
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' by Stefanie Schneider
(Oilfields) 2004,
60x60cm,
Edition of 10, Analog C-Print, based on the Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label
artist Inventory Nr. 1215.05
Not mo...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid
Altstadt Rêveries #03 [From the series Goldenbogen & Zouzou]
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Altstadt Rêveries #03, 2008
[From the series Goldenbogen & Zouzou]
Digital color print based on original Polaroid on beautiful PHOTO RAG ULTRA SMOOTH 305gsm - 100% cotton by HAHNEMÜH...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
![Altstadt Rêveries #03 [From the series Goldenbogen & Zouzou]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/carmen-de-vos-photography-altstadt-reveries-03-from-the-series-goldenbogen-zouzou-for-sale/a_6523/a_74328121611687524102/carmendevos_08_AltstadtReveries_03_master.jpg?width=240 "Carmen de Vos - Altstadt Rêveries #03 [From the series Goldenbogen & Zouzou]")
Cuban Artist Original Hand Signed photoengraving 30x22 in. n3
Located in Miami, FL
Juan Carlos Alom (Cuba, 1964)
'Esta obra no tiene título es sólo el silencio de mi veneración', 2004
photoengraving on paper
30 x 22.1 in. (76 x 56 cm...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Paper, Photogravure
Untitled (Oilfields)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' (Oilfields) - 2004
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 1207.
Not mounted.
OILFIELDS...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Cuban Artist Original Hand Signed photoengraving 30x22 in. n1
Located in Miami, FL
Juan Carlos Alom (Cuba, 1964)
'Sólo tu cabes en la palma de mi mano', 2004
photoengraving on paper
30 x 22.1 in. (76 x 56 cm.)
Edition of 106
ID: ALO1...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photogravure
Kingman Haunted #52, Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative Photograph
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Kingman Haunted #52, 2007
[From the series Schoffie]
Published in her book The Eyes of the Fox, 2018
Digital color print based on original Polaroid
on beautiful PHOTO RAG ULTRA SMO...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Polaroid
Small Town Love - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Portrait, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Small Town Love' (Last Picture Show), 2006, 20x20cm, Edition 3/10.
Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No 1029.15,
not mounted
...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Childhood Memories (Stay) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Film,
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Childhood Memories (Stay) from the Ryan Gosling's memory sequence, 2006,
50x50cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, matte surface, based on the Polaroid. ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Oaxaca, Artist Self Portraits. Black and white Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Water is constant in the artist's visual investigation, for her water is no longer the stage in which the body's memory bursts, but rather the environment and protagonist, constant o...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Santa María, Sillón. Artist Self Portraits. Black and white Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Water is constant in the artist's visual investigation, for her water is no longer the stage in which the body's memory bursts, but rather the environment and protagonist, constant o...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Brunswick #28, Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Kingman #28, 2007
[From the series Schoffie]
Published in her book The Eyes of the Fox, 2018
Digital color print based on original Polaroid
on beautiful PHOTO RAG ULTRA SMOOTH
305g...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Polaroid
Oaxaca, kitchen. Artist Self Portraits. Black and white Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Water is constant in the artist's visual investigation, for her water is no longer the stage in which the body's memory bursts, but rather the environment and protagonist, constant o...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Planet of the Apes XI - Polaroid, Color, Nude, Men, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Planet of the Apes XI, 1999,
Edition 1/10, 40x40cm,
Signature label and Certificate.
not mounted,
Stefanie Schneider received her MFA in Communication Design at the Folkwang Schul...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Neil Folberg Impressionists Color Photo Hand Signed Pigment Print Photograph
By Neil Folberg
Located in Surfside, FL
Neil Folberg (b. 1950)
Travels with Van Gogh and the Impressionists, Lin Arison and Neil Folberg
Pigment print on rag paper
Ultrachrome K3 inks on Crane Museo Silver Rag archival fin...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color
"Recital" - Framed color photograph
Located in East Quogue, NY
Contemporary color figurative photograph by Anthony Goicolea, titled "Recital." Offered framed.
Image size: 8 x 10 inches
Frame size: 12 x 15 inches
As you view Anthony Goicolea's ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Cuban Artist Original Hand Signed photoengraving 30x22 in. n7
Located in Miami, FL
Juan Carlos Alom (Cuba, 1964)
'Mandy y Tara', 2004
photoengraving on paper
30 x 22.1 in. (76 x 56 cm.)
Edition of 106
ID: ALO1534-007-106
Hand-signed ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Paper, Photogravure
White Handbag, Goodwood, Chichester - Feminine fashion, color photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
'White Handbag (detail)' by Richard Heeps, taken at the glamorous retro event Goodwood Revival, perfectly captures the fine details in vintage fashion, a...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Untitled (Suburbia) featuring Radha Mitchell, analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Suburbia), 2004, Edition of 3/3, 50x60cm, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid, not mounted, signature label and Certificate, artist Inventory No...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Boy with Silver Mask (Stay)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boy with Silver Mask (Stay) - 2006
37x36cm,
Edition of 30,
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label
artist Inventory #5606.
Not mounted.
Torsten ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
'Richard Ashcroft Of The Verve' Limited Edition
By Jamie Beeden
Located in London, GB
'Richard Ashcroft Of The Verve' at recording studios Limited Edition
originally shot for Q Magazine, London 2002.
Beautiful Large 20x24" inches C type pr...
Category
Modern Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Bluesette #23 - Contemporary, Figurative, Polaroid, Photograph
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bluesette #23, 2009
[From the series Need to be]
Digital archival pigment print on beautiful
PHOTO RAG ® ULTRA SMOOTH paper
305gsm, 100% cotton by HAHNEMÜHLE
- not mounted
25x25 c...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Cuban artist original hand signed photo-engraving n6 22x30 in.
Located in Miami, FL
Juan Carlos Alom (Cuba, 1964)
'Tarjetas postales', 2004
photoengraving on paper
22.1 x 30 in. (56 x 76 cm.)
Edition of 99
ID: ALO1534-006
Hand-signed ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Paper, Photogravure, Engraving
'Margarita smokes in Bathroom' (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Margarita Smokes in Bathroom II
(Till Death do us Part),
2007, 40x50cm, Edition 1/5,
analog C-Print, printed by the artist,
mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection, based on a...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
Untitled #20, Cascais - Karine Laval, Landscape photography, Travel
By Karine Laval
Located in Brighton, GB
All prints are produced to order. Lead times between 5-10 days.
Due to currency fluctuations prices may change.
Please contact the gallery for more information about this print.
...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
Cuban Artist Original Hand Signed photoengraving 30x22 in. n2
Located in Miami, FL
Juan Carlos Alom (Cuba, 1964)
'Esta obra no tiene título es sólo el silencio de mi veneración', 2004
photoengraving on paper
30 x 22.1 in. (76 x 56 cm...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Paper, Photogravure
Pool at Night (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Pool at Night (Suburbia) 2004, 50x50cm, Edition of of 10, digital C-Print based on an expired Polaroid.
Signature label with Certificate, unmounted.
The project "Suburbia" was shot...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Ryan Gosling - Stay
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Ryan Gossling' (Stay) - 2006,
20x20cm, Edition of 2/10,
digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label
artist Inventory No. 2447.02
Not mounted.
Stefanie Schneider:
Torsten Scheid, “Fotografie, Kunst, Kino. Revisited.”, FilmDienst 3/2006, page 11-13
Photography Art Cinema. Revisited
Stay expands a traditional connection through new facets
Interwoven between the media of photography and film is a veritable mesh-work of technical, motific, metaphorical and personal interrelationships. Extending from photo-film which, as in La Jetée by Chris Marker (France, 1962) is a montage of single, unmoving photographs all the way to the portrayal of photographic motifs in Hollywood cinema―most recently in Memento (USA, 2000) and One hour photo (USA, 2002)―is the range of filmic-photographic interactions on the one hand, and from the adaption of modes of cinematic production to the imitation of film stills on the other. For instance, with the legendary Untitled Film Stills (1978) of the American artist Cindy Sherman, who later made her debut as a film director with Office Killer (USA, 1997) and thereby, like many others, changed sides: Wim Wenders, Robert Frank and Larry Clark are doubtlessly the most successful of these photographic-filmic border crossers. This brief survey provides only a vague indication of the dimensions of this intermedial field, which in fact extends much further and is constantly being cultivated.
Also as a motif in film, photography has experienced a historical transformation: Photographers were once considered to be technicians who mastered a craft but never achieved the status of artists. Photographer-figures were caught in the allure of beautiful appearance, incapable of penetrating to the actual essence of things. Such depth was reserved for literature or painting. When photography in film touched upon the sphere of art, then most often as its contrasting model, as the metaphor for a superficial access to the world. Coming to mind are Fred Astaire as a singing fashion photographer in Stanley Donen’s musical film Funny Face (USA, 1957), or the restless lifestyle-photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni’s genre-classic Blow up (GB, 1966). For the doubting Thomas, only that exists which can be photographed. He ultimately enters the world of fantasy and thereby the field of art only unwillingly, when he becomes entangled in the world of his images. The last of his detail-enlargements shows only the photographic grain and has lost all connection to reality. The photograph looks as if it had been painted by Bill, the painter who is both friend and antagonist to the protagonist.
Photography as Art
It was first around the end of the last century that numerous filmmakers discovered photography as a genuine art form. In The Bridges of Madison County (USA, 1995) a sensitive Clint Eastwood stands, camera in hand, on the threshold of artistic status, and in Smoke (USA, 1994) a tobacco merchant ripens into a philosopher through his involvement in photography. Finally, in John Water’s parody of the art market, Pecker (USA, 1998), a provincial tom-fool is hyped into celebrated stardom amid the New York art scene because of his blurred snapshots. This film about a postmodern Kaspar Hauser in photographic art (with clear parallels to Richard Billingham, the British shooting star of the nineteen-nineties), not only takes into account the exponentially expanded significance of photography in the art market, but also attributes to photography an extreme degree of conformity to the “operating system” of the visual arts. This admittedly ironic equation of photography and the visual arts is new. It is repeated with much more earnestness in Lisa Chollondencko’s High Art (USA) from the same year. Artistic photography has finally become established in a cinematic context.
Stay
Stay (USA, 2005) could have fitted in seamlessly here. Considering that the films High Art and Pecker establish photography as an ideal art form at the end of the millennium, director Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland) takes a step backward; he revives an anti-technical, intuitive concept of art, including the customary clichés about madness and genius. This choice documents less an anachronistic notion of art (especially considering that painting is currently experiencing a Renaissance) than instead the appraisal that paintings are more suitable for representing the free objectification of the mind. Stay is not an artist-film but rather a psycho-thriller in which the borders between dream and reality become blurred.
The psychiatrist Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor) has saved his girlfriend, the artist Lila (played by Naomi Watts) from committing suicide. Now he is attempting to keep another patient, the art student Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Polaroid
'Teenage Kicks' C-type Limited Edition
By Jamie Beeden
Located in London, GB
'Teenage Kicks' C-type Limited Edition
by Jamie Beeden, personal work.
A portrait of a young girl at a club in Tufnell Park, London 2003.
Jamie's body of work includes varied maga...
Category
Modern Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Girls like Strawberries, for no reason at all #14 - 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Girls like Strawberries, for no reason at all #14 - 2006
[From the series Need to be]
Edition of 25
25x25cm (white border included)
Hand signed & numbered by the artist.
Archival ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
First Violin (self Portrait) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Photography, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
First Violin #04 - 2013
[From the series Need to be]
50x50cm
Archival color print based on original Polaroid
on beautiful PHOTO RAG ULTRA SMOOTH
305gsm - 100% cotton by HAHNEMÜHLE. ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Untitled #27, Oslo - Karine Laval, Travel photography, Contemporary imagery
By Karine Laval
Located in Brighton, GB
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Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
'Margarita smokes in Bathroom' (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Margarita Smokes in Bathroom
(Till Death do us Part),
2007, 40x50cm, Edition 1/5,
analog C-Print, printed by the artist,
mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection based on an o...
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Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
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Metal
The Hunter 01 [From the series Wild Things] - Polaroid, Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Hunter 01 [From the series Wild Things]
2007 / 2019, 25x25x0.4cm
Edition of 7 + 2AP
Hand signed & numbered by artist on the back
Museum quality c-print based on a Polaroid
Mount...
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Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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A sunny Morning II (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence_ - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A sunny Moring II (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)
2013, 20x24cm, Edition 9/10,digital C-Print, based on an expired Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventor...
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Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid
Cuban Artist Original Hand Signed photoengraving 30x22 in. n4
Located in Miami, FL
Juan Carlos Alom (Cuba, 1964)
'El cielo protector', 2004
photoengraving on paper
30 x 22.1 in. (76 x 56 cm.)
Edition of 106
ID: ALO1534-004-106
Hand-s...
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Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Paper, Photogravure
Escaping History
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The series, Traveling Dream comes from a lifelong obsession of exploring how my subconscious generates my dreams. As I move through my day, I am keenly aware of my encounters with pe...
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Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
A Dazzling Beauty #2 – Miles Aldridge, Woman, Nude, Fashion, Erotic, Dinner, Art
Located in Zurich, CH
MILES ALDRIDGE (*1964, Great Britain)
A Dazzling Beauty #2
2008
Chromogenic print
Image 67.5 x 101.5 cm (26 5/8 x 40 in.)
Sheet 77.5 x 111.5 cm (30 1/2 x 43 7/8 in.)
Edition of 10, ...
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Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled 20
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The series, Traveling Dream comes from a lifelong obsession of exploring how my subconscious generates my dreams. As I move through my day, I am keenly aware of my encounters with pe...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
