Contemporary Figurative Photography
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.
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Style: Contemporary
French Contemporary Collotype Photograph Black White Photo Andre Naggar
By Andre Naggar
Located in Surfside, FL
Photos pictured of information cards after the images of the black and white photos are not included.
La Chute D'Icare (The Fall of Icarus) is a original, black and white photograp...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photogravure
"Edens Dreaming" Photography 24" x 24" inch Edition 1/15 by Aaron Mcpolin
Located in Culver City, CA
"Edens Dreaming" Photography 24" x 24" inch Edition 1/15 by Aaron Mcpolin
Medium: Archival Giclee Print
Available sizes:
Edition of 15 24" x 24" inch
Edition of 7 30" x 30" inch
Ed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
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
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"Black Iris" Photography 39" x 31" in Edition of 7 by Kseniya Vashchenko
Located in Culver City, CA
"Black Iris" Photography 39" x 31" in Edition of 7 by Kseniya Vashchenko
Not framed. Ships rolled in tube.
Available sizes:
Edition of 15: 29.5" x 24" in
Edition of 7: 39" x 31"...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Faye, MarLane Motel, No.1: cinematic photograph, Los Angeles, mid-century modern
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Nadine Rovner orchestrates lush cinematic scenes, exploring a visual world of heightened tension, anticipation, anxiety, longing and desire. These carefu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
"Cir1" 3-D Lenticular Black & White figurative nude photo framed, contemporary
By Jeff Robb
Located in New York, NY
This is a 3-D motion lenticular - its moves when you walk past it and it is incredibly 3-D
there are little lenses on the face that create this effect.
It is professionally framed a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Plastic, Photographic Film, Lenticular
French Contemporary Collotype Photograph Black White Photo Andre Naggar
By Andre Naggar
Located in Surfside, FL
Photos pictured of information cards after the images of the black and white photos are not included.
La Chute D'Icare (The Fall of Icarus) is a original, black and white photograp...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photogravure
Sit-Up
By Luke Smalley
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print
Stamped and numbered, verso
20 x 24 inches
(Edition of 10)
30 x 40 inches
(Edition of 5)
50 x 60 inches
(Edition of 3)
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Please note that prices increase as editions sell.
Luke Smalley was an American artist known for his photographic work, which pairs a coolly minimalist aesthetic with a retro nostalgia. Images from his early in his career were inspired by fitness manuals and yearbooks c. 1910. This is not surprising since Smalley graduated with a degree in sports medicine from Pepperdine University and worked for a number of years as a model and personal trainer. Smalley shot the bulk of his photographs in his home state of Pennsylvania, using real high school athletes as models.
“Exercise at Home” is Luke Smalley’s second major body of work. Shot in and around the tiny Pennsylvania town the artist called home, Smalley revisits themes of adolescent growing pains acted out under the guise of earnest athleticism. Teenagers engage in simple yet strange competitions meant to establish their standings amongst one another. Two youths practice boating safety...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven) - Landscape, Horse, Boys
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven). Part of the 29 Palms, CA project. - 2006,
50x50cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs,
archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Signature ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Crepusculo. From The series danza de las naranjas. Color Figurative Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Crepusculo, 2023 by Ricky Cohete
From the series danza de las naranjas
Color Archival Pigment print
Image size: 36 in. H x 24 in. W
Edition of 10
Unframed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven) - Landscape, Horse, Boys
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven). Part of the 29 Palms, CA project. - 2006,
20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs,
archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Signature ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Red Flower - underwater photograph - archival pigment print 43" x 68"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
In this evocative underwater photograph, a crimson dress billows like a delicate flower petal beneath the surface, creating a powerful contrast against a serene aqua backdrop. The mi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Calypso
Located in New York, NY
Cyanotype on albumen-coated watercolor paper (Unique)
Signed, titled, and dated, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
“Ghost Ship” is a series of un...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Color
Melody - 21st Century, Figurative Photography, Contemporary, Color
By Tao Ruspoli
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Melody', Edition 2/10, 20x30cm, 2017, digital C-Print, Signature label and Certificate.
About
Tao Ruspoli (born 7 November 1975) is an Italian-American filmmaker, photographer, and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color
Le Nuove , Turin - Vintage Photograph - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Le Nuove", Turin is a is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century.
The photo depicts the gate of the "Museo del Carcere Le Nuove" of Turin.
Good conditions an...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Medieval Figure Sculpture - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Medieval Figure Sculpture is a is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1950s.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nosta...
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven) - Landscape, Horse, Boys
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven). Part of the 29 Palms, CA project. - 2006,
50x50cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Signature...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Waiter Woodcut by Tim Engelland, Deerfield Academy
Located in New York, NY
Tim Engelland (American, 1950-2012)
Untitled (Waiter), 1987
Woodcut
11 x 8 1/2 in.
Numbered, dated, and signed bottom: 87/100, 1987, T. Engelland
A lifelong artist, Engelland specialized in oil portraits and landscapes, and also worked extensively in woodcuts and linocuts. He was born on Jan. 5, 1950, in Ames, Iowa, the son of Charles Wilbur “Will” Engelland and Patricia Fairman Engelland.. Tim grew up in Terre Haute, IN, attending Fairbanks Elementary School and Indiana State University’s Laboratory School. He knew he wanted to be an artist from an early age, and was mentored by Lab School’s John Laska, graduating in 1968.
He received a BFA from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art; was a Norfolk Fellow at Yale University; and received his MFA from Cornell University, teaching there for two years after graduation.
He spent the majority of his career, from 1976-2004, at Deerfield Academy, a prestigious preparatory school in Deerfield, Mass. There he taught art and photography, coached basketball and lacrosse, and served as faculty resident. When the school began accepting female students, Tim designed The Deerfield Girl, a bronze statue to accompany The Deerfield Boy statue...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Woodcut
Calliope (50x50cm) - Contemporary, Polaroid, 21 Century, Color, Mystical
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Calliope (Haley and the Birds) - 2013
50x50cm
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs
Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid
Signature label and Certificate
Not mounted
That’s a compelli...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"Beguiled, Christine No. 1" - ballet, black and white, figurative, ballerina
Located in Atlanta, GA
This photograph has a total limited edition of 30 and can be printed in a variety of sizes.
This listing is for a framed print.
27.5 by 21.5 inches - unframed print
36 by 31 inches...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Flora 04 - Contemporary Photography, Floral, Female Nude, Body, Portraits
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 04 is a vibrant Digital C-Type print in an Edition of 15 in this size by contemporary photographer duo Tortora & Travezan.
All prints are produced to order.
Lead times betwee...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital
French Contemporary Collotype Photograph Black White Photo Andre Naggar
By Andre Naggar
Located in Surfside, FL
Photos pictured of information cards after the images of the black and white photos are not included.
La Chute D'Icare (The Fall of Icarus) is a original, black and white photograp...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photogravure
Large Vintage Photo Print Digital Photograph Some People of Kuwait, Arabic Woman
By Jack Butler
Located in Surfside, FL
SOME PEOPLE OF KUWAIT, 2000, Color iris print, on heavy rag photo paper signed on verso and inscribed "OK to print', from small edition of just 10.
images 40 x 26 ¾", full margins; printed by Muse X.
This was a series about Kuwaiti, Arab woman or men dressed in Burka's from up close it appears completely abstract from a bit of a distance an image emerges.
Jack Butler was a Professor of Art at California State University Los Angeles from 1988 to 2010. He received his Master of Arts degree from California State University Los Angeles in 1972 and earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from UCLA in 1979. He was a dedicated teacher from 1971 to 2010 and taught at numerous educational institutions including California State University Los Angeles, the University of California, Riverside, UCLA Extension, Pasadena City College, East Los Angeles College, Los Angeles Southwest College and was a visiting instructor at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.
He has participated in approximately one hundred exhibitions during that time including sixteen solo exhibitions. His work has been shown at such institutions as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fahey / Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Art, Gallery Min in Tokyo, Japan, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Osaka, Japan, Photo-Tableau in Paris, France, the Photographers Gallery in London England, the Kansas City Art Institute, The Friends of Photography Ansel Adams Center, the Laguna Beach Art Museum, the Long Beach Museum of Art, Sala Arcs Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, the California Museum of Photography, the Center of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, the Corcoran Gallery, Boston Mass., and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and was represented by the former Sherry Frumkin Gallery.
He has been published in numerous books and catalogs. These include publications from such seminal exhibitions as “ Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph 1960-1980”, “Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946”, “Photography and Language” and “Attitudes: Photography in the Seventies” as well as having a catalog of his work published by Min Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. Recent publications include catalogs from the exhibition "Transfictions" at the Fisher Gallery USC and the exhibition "COLA 2004" at Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery as well as “The Polaroid Years, Instant Photography and Experimentation”, The Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College 2013.
During his career he has been involved in numerous workshops and lectures and has curated numerous exhibitions. He has participated in a Distinguished Artists Forum, 20x24 Polaroid Project in 1989 and was supported the by Polaroid Corporation to work on the 20x24 Polaroid camera in New York Studio in 1990 and again in 1998. Polaroid Corporation was also instrumental in assisting with the production of his project Hot Rod "Kulture / Culture.” He was also a recipient of a SECA Award from the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1980, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (major individual grant) in 1981 and received a City of Los Angeles Individual Artists Fellowship (COLA Grant) in 2004.
His work is included in such collections as the Los Angeles County Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Art, California Museum of Photography, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts UCLA, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture, Seattle Art Museum, the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art, Japan, the Graham and Susan Nash Collection, the Aaron Spelling Collection as well as numerous other private collections. Going back to the 1840s, the earliest days of photography, people like Fox Talbot, Hippolyte Bayard and Oscar Gustave Rejlander were manipulating images and producing work that they referred to as Art or “Light Drawings”. Moving on to the 1920s and 30s we discover people such as Kurt Schwitters, Christian Schad, Hana Hoch, Raoul Haussmann, Man Ray, John Heartfield, Max Ernst, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, Hans Bellmer, Andre Breton, Herbert Bayer and William...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Glitter Skull - Black on Gold
By Nick Veasey
Located in PARIS, FR
X-Ray print onto textured metallic vinyl in black frame
Limited Edition of 15
From artist's studio, signed recto.
Accompanied with the catalog of the artist and the certificate of a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
"Art is Dead" (FRAMED) Photography 36" x 36" inch Edition 2/7 by Brendan North
Located in Culver City, CA
"Art is Dead" (FRAMED) Photography 36" x 36" inch Edition 2/7 by Brendan North
Size framed: 41" x 41" inch
Other sizes available per request
ABOUT:
Brendan North is a fine art phot...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
Picasso, Photograph by Maurizio Cattelan
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Maurizio Cattelan
Title: Picasso
Year: 1999
Medium: Photograph [Stamped and Numbered in Ink, verso]
Edition: 39/1000
Size: 16 x 12 in. (40.64 x 30.48 cm)
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Untitled V. From The Balance Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled V, 2022 by Salvatore Arnone
From the Balance series
Photographic print on paper
Image size: 50 in. H x 35 in. W
Edition of 3 + 1AP
Unframed
With Balance the artist starts e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Circulus" 3-D Lenticular Black & White figurative nude photo, Contemporary
By Jeff Robb
Located in New York, NY
This is a 3-D motion lenticular - its moves when you walk past it and it is incredibly 3-D
there are little lenses on the face that create this effect.
It is professionally framed a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Plastic, Photographic Film, Lenticular
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
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Falling Stars - Contemporary, Figurative, Woman, Polaroid, 21st Century
By Lisa Toboz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Falling Stars - 2020
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proof.
Digital C-Print based on a mixed-media collage of an original Polaroid on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper.
Signature label and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
"Spontaneous Creation (part 1)" Photography 50"x40" in Ed. of 12 by Rob Woodcox
By Rob Woodcox
Located in Culver City, CA
"Spontaneous Creation (part 1)" Photography 50"x40" in Ed. of 12 by Rob Woodcox
Hahnemuhle Torchon Matte FineArt Paper (archival)
Not framed. Ships in tube.
More sizes available
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
A Man and a Woman (Sidewinder) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid, Photograph
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Man and a Woman (Sidewinder) - 2005
50x50cm, Edition of 10,
digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid,
Artist Inventory 3213.
Signature label and Cer...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Everything put Together (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Everything put Together (Suburbia) - 2004
50x50cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signature label with Certificate.
Artist inventory #19313.
Not mounte...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Massimo Listri, Biblioteca Laurenziana I, Florence, Italy
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print
Girl from the Nant - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Figurative, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Girl from the Nant (2018) Edition of 10 - 40 x 40 cm - Digital C-Print based on a on a SX-70 Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on back and certificate.
Artist:
The image was partly insp...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Martin Luther King, Los Angeles, 1963 by Julian Wasser - 15/15
Located in Chicago, IL
Martin Luther King speaking at a civil rights rally in central Los Angeles in 1963. Julian Wasser took this photo for TIME Magazine. Years later former president Barack Obama purchas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Footballer - Foro Italia
Located in London, GB
C-Print, signed, titled and edition ‘3/15’ (recto), and certificate of authenticity (verso), 37cm x 56cm (image size), (59cm x 75cm framed). (Provenance: in the collection of the art...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Pigment
Circle of Magic - Elixirs (29 Palms, CA)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Circle of Magic - Elixirs (29 Palms, CA) - 2009
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inv...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
Agneta IV signed and numbered
By Blank Barbie
Located in London, GB
Agneta IV
by Blank Barbie
pop art work of the iconic Agneta Fältskog of Swedish music super band ABBA.
Japan 1978
paper size 30x30 inches / 76 x 76 cm
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
"Twirl No. 255" - ballet, black and white, figurative, ballerina, motion
Located in Atlanta, GA
This photograph has a total limited edition of 30 and can be printed in a variety of sizes.
This listing is for a framed print
16 by 20 inches - unframed print
24.5 by 27.5 inches ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Boccia (Beachshoot ) with Radha Mitchell - Polaroid, Contemporary, Women, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boccia (Beachshoot) - 2005
70x135cm installed, including gaps - 8 pieces, 30x30cm each,
almost sold out Edition of 100 plus 3 Artist Proofs.
Available 100/100, AP 1/3, AP 3/3.
Arc...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled (Figure #17)
Located in New York, NY
Pinhole camera Chromogenic print (Unique)
Signed and dated, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Robert Calafiore employs a hand-built pinhole camer...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Large Vintage Photo Print Digital Photograph Some People of Kuwait, Arabic Woman
By Jack Butler
Located in Surfside, FL
SOME PEOPLE OF KUWAIT, 2000, Color iris print, on heavy rag photo paper signed on verso and inscribed "OK to print', from small edition of just 10.
images 40 x 26 ¾", full margins; printed by Muse X.
This was a series about Kuwaiti, Arab woman or men dressed in Burka's from up close it appears completely abstract from a bit of a distance an image emerges.
Jack Butler was a Professor of Art at California State University Los Angeles from 1988 to 2010. He received his Master of Arts degree from California State University Los Angeles in 1972 and earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from UCLA in 1979. He was a dedicated teacher from 1971 to 2010 and taught at numerous educational institutions including California State University Los Angeles, the University of California, Riverside, UCLA Extension, Pasadena City College, East Los Angeles College, Los Angeles Southwest College and was a visiting instructor at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.
He has participated in approximately one hundred exhibitions during that time including sixteen solo exhibitions. His work has been shown at such institutions as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fahey / Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Art, Gallery Min in Tokyo, Japan, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Osaka, Japan, Photo-Tableau in Paris, France, the Photographers Gallery in London England, the Kansas City Art Institute, The Friends of Photography Ansel Adams Center, the Laguna Beach Art Museum, the Long Beach Museum of Art, Sala Arcs Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, the California Museum of Photography, the Center of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, the Corcoran Gallery, Boston Mass., and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and was represented by the former Sherry Frumkin Gallery.
He has been published in numerous books and catalogs. These include publications from such seminal exhibitions as “ Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph 1960-1980”, “Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946”, “Photography and Language” and “Attitudes: Photography in the Seventies” as well as having a catalog of his work published by Min Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. Recent publications include catalogs from the exhibition "Transfictions" at the Fisher Gallery USC and the exhibition "COLA 2004" at Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery as well as “The Polaroid Years, Instant Photography and Experimentation”, The Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College 2013.
During his career he has been involved in numerous workshops and lectures and has curated numerous exhibitions. He has participated in a Distinguished Artists Forum, 20x24 Polaroid Project in 1989 and was supported the by Polaroid Corporation to work on the 20x24 Polaroid camera in New York Studio in 1990 and again in 1998. Polaroid Corporation was also instrumental in assisting with the production of his project Hot Rod "Kulture / Culture.” He was also a recipient of a SECA Award from the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1980, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (major individual grant) in 1981 and received a City of Los Angeles Individual Artists Fellowship (COLA Grant) in 2004.
His work is included in such collections as the Los Angeles County Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Art, California Museum of Photography, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts UCLA, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture, Seattle Art Museum, the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art, Japan, the Graham and Susan Nash Collection, the Aaron Spelling Collection as well as numerous other private collections. Going back to the 1840s, the earliest days of photography, people like Fox Talbot, Hippolyte Bayard and Oscar Gustave Rejlander were manipulating images and producing work that they referred to as Art or “Light Drawings”. Moving on to the 1920s and 30s we discover people such as Kurt Schwitters, Christian Schad, Hana Hoch, Raoul Haussmann, Man Ray, John Heartfield, Max Ernst, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, Hans Bellmer, Andre Breton, Herbert Bayer and William...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Massimo Listri, Biblioteca de Mafra V, Mafra, Portugal
Located in New York City, NY
Chromogenic Print – Unframed
Free Shipping – Ask us foar 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 p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print
Massimo Listri, Queluz National Palace, Sintra, Portugal
Located in New York City, NY
Chromogenic Print – Unframed
Free Shipping – Ask us foar 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 p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print
Candida Höfer, N.Y Carlsberg Glyptotek Copenhagen III - Signed Photograph
Located in Hamburg, DE
Candida Höfer (German, b. 1944)
N.Y Carlsberg Glyptotek Copenhagen III, 2000
Medium: C-Print on photo paper (and signed artist’s book, in linen case)
Edition of 30 Artist Prints: Han...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Large Vintage Photo Print Digital Photograph Some People of Kuwait, Arabic Woman
By Jack Butler
Located in Surfside, FL
SOME PEOPLE OF KUWAIT, 2000, Color iris print, on heavy rag photo paper signed on verso and inscribed "OK to print', from small edition of just 10.
images 40 x 26 ¾", full margins; printed by Muse X.
This was a series about Kuwaiti, Arab woman or men dressed in Burka's from up close it appears completely abstract from a bit of a distance an image emerges.
Jack Butler was a Professor of Art at California State University Los Angeles from 1988 to 2010. He received his Master of Arts degree from California State University Los Angeles in 1972 and earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from UCLA in 1979. He was a dedicated teacher from 1971 to 2010 and taught at numerous educational institutions including California State University Los Angeles, the University of California, Riverside, UCLA Extension, Pasadena City College, East Los Angeles College, Los Angeles Southwest College and was a visiting instructor at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.
He has participated in approximately one hundred exhibitions during that time including sixteen solo exhibitions. His work has been shown at such institutions as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fahey / Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Art, Gallery Min in Tokyo, Japan, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Osaka, Japan, Photo-Tableau in Paris, France, the Photographers Gallery in London England, the Kansas City Art Institute, The Friends of Photography Ansel Adams Center, the Laguna Beach Art Museum, the Long Beach Museum of Art, Sala Arcs Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, the California Museum of Photography, the Center of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, the Corcoran Gallery, Boston Mass., and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and was represented by the former Sherry Frumkin Gallery.
He has been published in numerous books and catalogs. These include publications from such seminal exhibitions as “ Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph 1960-1980”, “Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946”, “Photography and Language” and “Attitudes: Photography in the Seventies” as well as having a catalog of his work published by Min Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. Recent publications include catalogs from the exhibition "Transfictions" at the Fisher Gallery USC and the exhibition "COLA 2004" at Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery as well as “The Polaroid Years, Instant Photography and Experimentation”, The Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College 2013.
During his career he has been involved in numerous workshops and lectures and has curated numerous exhibitions. He has participated in a Distinguished Artists Forum, 20x24 Polaroid Project in 1989 and was supported the by Polaroid Corporation to work on the 20x24 Polaroid camera in New York Studio in 1990 and again in 1998. Polaroid Corporation was also instrumental in assisting with the production of his project Hot Rod "Kulture / Culture.” He was also a recipient of a SECA Award from the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1980, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (major individual grant) in 1981 and received a City of Los Angeles Individual Artists Fellowship (COLA Grant) in 2004.
His work is included in such collections as the Los Angeles County Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Art, California Museum of Photography, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts UCLA, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture, Seattle Art Museum, the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art, Japan, the Graham and Susan Nash Collection, the Aaron Spelling Collection as well as numerous other private collections. Going back to the 1840s, the earliest days of photography, people like Fox Talbot, Hippolyte Bayard and Oscar Gustave Rejlander were manipulating images and producing work that they referred to as Art or “Light Drawings”. Moving on to the 1920s and 30s we discover people such as Kurt Schwitters, Christian Schad, Hana Hoch, Raoul Haussmann, Man Ray, John Heartfield, Max Ernst, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, Hans Bellmer, Andre Breton, Herbert Bayer and William...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
"Admont Abbey, Library Hall, Austria", photography by Reinhard Görner, 2016
Located in Paris, France
Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin. Two weeks manufacturing time, then shipping in two days after manufacture. Other sizes available.
The pictures of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Lambda, Digital Pigment
Parade
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print (Edition of 10)
Signed, dated, and numbered, recto
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Susan Barnett’s photographs are not about the t-sh...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
"Lola’s Offering" (FRAMED) Photography 50" x 40" in Edition 1/7 by Aaron Mcpolin
Located in Culver City, CA
"Lola’s Offering" (FRAMED) Photography 50" x 40" in Edition 1/7 by Aaron Mcpolin
Size framed: 52" x 42" inch
Medium: Archival Giclee Print
"A Tender Dissolution" series:
Shibari is...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Steam
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Steam - 2017,
50x50cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2017-132.
Not m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"Third Eye Chakra" Black & White Photography 24" x 24" in Ed. 1/10 by Oleg Char
Located in Culver City, CA
"Third Eye Chakra" Black & White Photography 24" x 24" in Ed. 1/10 by Oleg Char
Not framed. Ships rolled in tube.
Available sizes:
Edition of 20: 18 x 18 inch
Edition of 10: 24 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Digital
"Untitled (Nr. 3671)" Nude Photography 24" x 18" Edition of 20 by Rowan Daly
By Rowan Daly
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled (Nr. 3671)" Nude Photography 24" x 18" Edition of 20 by Rowan Daly
Unframed - ships rolled in a tube
Ben Cope + Rowan Daly Off the Grid
Off the Grid is the culmination...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Inside" Black & White Photography Ed. of 18 36 x 36 in by Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Located in Culver City, CA
"Inside" Black & White Photography Ed. of 18 36 x 36 in by Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Inside
Photography
Edition of 18 (36 x 36 inch) by Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Year photo was taken: 2016
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
We are eleven
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Miguel Milló builds complex compositions in which painting, sculpture, and the play of light and shadow combine to create subtle and poetic atmospheres. In his images, the human being is a metaphor for the fertile land from which life springs; an overflowing life, full of throbbing. It can be said that the nude bodies are blank canvases that the artist intervenes with mud and pigments, to later cover them with simple or complex compositions of plants, earth, roots, leaves, flowers, and fruits. This gives life to his final work, through the masterful handling of light sources and shadows that provide volume and movement to the creation captured through his magic eye...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Screen
Large Vintage Photo Print Digital Photograph Some People of Kuwait, Arabic Woman
By Jack Butler
Located in Surfside, FL
SOME PEOPLE OF KUWAIT, 2000, Color iris print, on heavy rag photo paper signed on verso and inscribed "OK to print', from small edition of just 10.
images 40 x 26 ¾", full margins; printed by Muse X.
This was a series about Kuwaiti, Arab women or men dressed in Burka's from up close it appears completely abstract from a bit of a distance an image emerges.
Jack Butler was a Professor of Art at California State University Los Angeles from 1988 to 2010. He received his Master of Arts degree from California State University Los Angeles in 1972 and earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from UCLA in 1979. He was a dedicated teacher from 1971 to 2010 and taught at numerous educational institutions including California State University Los Angeles, the University of California, Riverside, UCLA Extension, Pasadena City College, East Los Angeles College, Los Angeles Southwest College and was a visiting instructor at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.
He has participated in approximately one hundred exhibitions during that time including sixteen solo exhibitions. His work has been shown at such institutions as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fahey / Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Art, Gallery Min in Tokyo, Japan, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Osaka, Japan, Photo-Tableau in Paris, France, the Photographers Gallery in London England, the Kansas City Art Institute, The Friends of Photography Ansel Adams Center, the Laguna Beach Art Museum, the Long Beach Museum of Art, Sala Arcs Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, the California Museum of Photography, the Center of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, the Corcoran Gallery, Boston Mass., and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and was represented by the former Sherry Frumkin Gallery.
He has been published in numerous books and catalogs. These include publications from such seminal exhibitions as “ Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph 1960-1980”, “Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946”, “Photography and Language” and “Attitudes: Photography in the Seventies” as well as having a catalog of his work published by Min Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. Recent publications include catalogs from the exhibition "Transfictions" at the Fisher Gallery USC and the exhibition "COLA 2004" at Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery as well as “The Polaroid Years, Instant Photography and Experimentation”, The Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College 2013.
During his career he has been involved in numerous workshops and lectures and has curated numerous exhibitions. He has participated in a Distinguished Artists Forum, 20x24 Polaroid Project in 1989 and was supported the by Polaroid Corporation to work on the 20x24 Polaroid camera in New York Studio in 1990 and again in 1998. Polaroid Corporation was also instrumental in assisting with the production of his project Hot Rod "Kulture / Culture.” He was also a recipient of a SECA Award from the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1980, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (major individual grant) in 1981 and received a City of Los Angeles Individual Artists Fellowship (COLA Grant) in 2004.
His work is included in such collections as the Los Angeles County Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Art, California Museum of Photography, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts UCLA, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture, Seattle Art Museum, the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art, Japan, the Graham and Susan Nash Collection, the Aaron Spelling Collection as well as numerous other private collections. Going back to the 1840s, the earliest days of photography, people like Fox Talbot, Hippolyte Bayard and Oscar Gustave Rejlander were manipulating images and producing work that they referred to as Art or “Light Drawings”. Moving on to the 1920s and 30s we discover people such as Kurt Schwitters, Christian Schad, Hana Hoch, Raoul Haussmann, Man Ray, John Heartfield, Max Ernst, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, Hans Bellmer, Andre Breton, Herbert Bayer and William...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
"Butterfly Monarch #3" Print on Canvas 40x40 in Ed. of 75 by Mick Fleetwood
Located in Culver City, CA
"Butterfly Monarch #3" Print on Canvas 40x40 in Ed. of 75 by Mick Fleetwood
Digital print on canvas
Not framed
Mick Fleetwood, the legendary drummer and founding member of Fleetwo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Canvas, Digital
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