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
Carmen, NY 1946, Silver Gelatin print. Printed later.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This striking black-and-white photograph captures Carmen in NY enveloped in a flowing, white gown, creating a graceful, sculptural form. Her head is elegantly tilted to the side, fra...
Category
1940s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Female Nude, Kate Standing, Vintage Black and White Photography, Signed Print
Located in New york, NY
Leonard Freed's stamped vintage (verso), 14" x 11," gelatin silver signed and hand-printed by Freed, Kate Standing, is from the Kate series, 2002. A photographer herself, model Kate ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Versailles no 1 Occupation
Located in Paris, FR
Digital Photography from the Occupation series .
limited number of 8.
Possible to order different sizes in limited print.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Subiendo Las Escaleras
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 5.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is prod...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Trio 2" Black & White Photography 24" x 24" in Edition of 15 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Trio 2" Black & White Photography 24" x 24" in Edition of 15 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Aldo Fabrizi and Nino Manfredi at...- Vintage Photo by Guglielmo Coluzzi - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage photograph realized in 1970s.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Window 1" - Abstract Figurative Photography - Irving Penn
By Mark Cáceres
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Window 1" is a photograph featuring hues of orange, blue and black, edition of 10.
19 by 13 inches (framed)
Mark Caceres is inspired by the work of Jeff Jacobson, Alex Webb...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Nastassia Kinski for Playboy by Helmut Newton - Vintage Photograph - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Nastassia Kinski for Playboy is a mixed colored photograph realized by Helmut Newton in 1981.
Photograph on positive trasparency films.
From the series realized by Newton for Playb...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Untitled VII. From The Balance Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled VII, 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
Production time is 2 to 3 weeks.
Unframe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
A Scene from Atti by Lully - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage photograph realized in 1970s.
Copyright Marchiori Fotografia
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Black and White (School children in Gambia, West Africa)
By Benno Thoma
Located in New Orleans, LA
This black and white image is of an excited group of school children in Gambia, West Africa This impression is #1 of an edition of 10. It is printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth paper that meets the highest industry standards regarding density, color gamut, color graduation and image sharpness. This white 100% rag paper guarantees archival standards.
Benno Thoma was born in the university city of Maastricht on the southern tip of the Netherlands in November, 1956. He strives to stimulate our senses in his photographs and to move his audience to touch, feel and experience his vision.
Thoma's photographs show us the beauty in each aspect of the composition. There is a tactile feel to his material, a positive energy that comes from the light that gives nuance to the subtle colors created. Arranged together with the beauty and dignity of the human body his technique invites us to become one with the scene. He travels around the world to create his images and strives to bathe his subjects in the natural light of that locale. Above all he captures the sense of place, its uniqueness -- cultural, natural or architectural. His newest photographs manipulate the element of water and light to express his vision of the male body – in both its innocence and vulnerability. Thoma uses movement and composition to capture the beauty of the body.
The German publishing house of Bruno Gmunder has published five monographs of the work of Thoma. His photographs chronicle the luxurious properties of the Kempinski Hotel Group, the beautiful young actors of Bel Ami...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
A Family Portrait #1 – Miles Aldridge, Woman, Fashion, Family, Park, Colour, Art
Located in Zurich, CH
MILES ALDRIDGE (*1964, Great Britain)
A Family Portrait #1
2011
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, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Cold Song - underwater photograph - archival pigment print 43" x 63"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This striking underwater fine art photograph captures a figure draped in flowing white fabric, suspended between worlds with vibrant red blossoms and yellow spherical elements. The r...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
$1,280 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of Massimo Ranieri - Vintage Photo by Guglielmo Coluzzi - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage photograph realized in 1980s.
Excellent condition.
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ode to Waterhouse's The Lady of Shalott
Located in New Orleans, LA
12.25 x 16 inches - Edition 1 of 7 with 2 APs
STATEMENT:
e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the his...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Peter Beard - Elephant's Embryo, Uganda, Platinum Print- Unsigned
By Peter Beard
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Elephant's Embryo, Uganda
Aributed to Peter Beard/Unsigned
The original photograph "unsigned" but documented by its inclusion in "Peter Beard - Fifty Years of Portraits, The End of the Game...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Platinum
"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
New York City, Policewoman Playing Tag with Children, Street Photography 1970s
Located in New york, NY
Policewoman Playing Tag, New York City, 1978 by Leonard Freed, is a 16” x 20” gelatin silver photograph from the photographer's Police Work series and book. The photograph from the estate is stamped verso (back of photo) and signed by Brigitte Freed (widow). This is a black and white modern photograph...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
"Leaving the Scene (Met Gala with Ming Xi & Gabrielle Union)" - Bold Abstract
Located in Atlanta, GA
Landon Nordeman is inspired by the work of Garry Winogrand and William Eggleston.
Nordeman's unique point of view, characterized by National Geographic senior picture editor Sadie Quarrier, as "delightful, bold and unexpected," provided his audience - many of whom follow his work on his Instagram feed - with a fresh perspective on the world of fashion.
"Photography for me is about discovery and appreciation," states Nordeman. "It is a way of probing the world, and making pictures to satisfy my curiosity."
Landon Nordeman (born 1974, NYC) has photographed around the world for fine art projects as well as commercial clients. American Photography, Communication Arts, Pictures of the Year International, The PDN Photo Annual, The Best of Photojournalism, The Center for Documentary Studies, PDN's 30, The Society for Publication Design and The James Beard Foundation have all commended his work.
"Leaving the Scene (Met Gala...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Elisabetta 4 - Photograph By Roberto Vignoli - 2006
Located in Roma, IT
Light painting technique, realized in a completly dark photographic studio, where the photographer manually "paint" by torch with light of different colours, the subjects and the ba...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$3,594 Sale Price
25% Off
Stocking -Signed limited edition print, Black white photo, Contemporary, Sexy
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Stockings - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 5
This image was captured on film in 1982.
This print that is being offered is a high-quality Archival...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Black and White, Pigment, Archival Pi...
Nesting Tree Study #2 by Keith Carter, 2012, Archival Pigment Print
Located in Denton, TX
Nesting Tree Study #2 by Keith Carter presents a group of white egrets perched in a grove of bald cypress trees. The branches hold nests for the birds, creating a habitat in the swampy landscape of the Big Thicket.
Edition 8 of 25
Archival pigment print
Paper size: 17 x 22 in., Image size: 16 x 20 in.
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil on print verso by Keith Carter
Series: Ghostlight
Keith Carter is an American photographer who is known for his dreamlike black and white photographs of the figure, animals, and meaningful objects. He began photographing new and unknown realities using East Texas natives as subjects. This population and background setting spoke to the folklore, religious, and cultural motifs Carter was visually exploring. Since his start in Texas, his work continues to push imaginative realms while reaching prestigious artistic and technical status.
In 1970, Carter earned a Business Management degree from Lamar University and began his career as a commercial photographer while working on personal projects. These personal projects have become a strong and highly sought after collection that have become twelve published monographs. Carter currently teaches photography at Lamar University as a Distinguished Faculty Lecturer. He travels worldwide providing photography lectures and workshops for artists.
Carter’s fine art photography collections...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Dior No. 2 (After the Show)" - Celebrity Fashion Photography - Winogrand
Located in Atlanta, GA
Landon Nordeman is inspired by the work of Garry Winogrand and William Eggleston.
Described by New York Magazine's The Cut as their "backstage photographer extraordinaire," Nordeman...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"S2M" Photography (FRAMED) 44" x 44" inch Edition of 10 by Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"S2M" Photography (FRAMED) 44" x 44" inch Edition of 10 by Giuliano Bekor
"S2M" from SCULPT series
Original photography by Giuliano Bekor
44" x 44" inch
Edition of 10
Archival pigment print mounted on dibond
Custom frame comes with non reflective museum glass
SCULPT series
The body is a vessel for the soul. The movement of every muscle – a hand position, an arch in the back, the nape of a neck – reveals the innermost continuum of the spirit. Together, lines and sinew form an emotional narrator. Using contrast, texture, and the language of the human body, this collection exposes the intersection of physical and non-physical, the marriage of tactile and ethereal.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Internationally recognized photographer, Giuliano Bekor, holds a portfolio that includes work from the realms of fashion, beauty, celebrity, advertising, and fine art.
Giuliano’s photography has been featured in top publications around the globe, and his client list includes an endless file of beauty industry leaders, advertising agencies, celebrities, producers, and artists.
With 30 years in the industry, Giuliano has perfected his craft to an exceptional level of expertise. Composed of light, color, space and form, Giuliano brings ideas conceptualized in his own imagination into reality throughout his work.
Currently living between New York and Los Angeles, Giuliano is often on the move traveling for work and inspiration. Always the restless visionary, he ceases to continually express his fresh and nuanced style.
For Giuliano Bekor, a photograph is an image that comes into being consciously, composed of light, color, space and form. Like a painter, he sketches, refining ideas through pen and pencil well before the shutter clicks. A camera is strictly a means to an end, a way of making a palpable visual record of an idea that gestates in his mind, gains shape by his hand, and resolves through his eye as it peers through the lens.
His subject is the human body, almost always nude. These images delve into the splendor of the body - how it can express the inner meaning of who we are. Limbs, torsos, muscles and bones are exposed as though carved out of a supple, glowing stone that flexes and twists. Many of these photographs feature subjects posed with the eyes obscured, the face covered.
If we look closely, Bekor says, we can see that the body is as much a window into the soul as the eyes. This is a gallery of the soul etched into the forms we assume in the physical world. Through exaggerated contrast between light and dark, smooth and textured, vaporous and tactile, Giuliano deliberately filters the extraneous.
The camera captures the image, but for Bekor each exposure is a transformation - of himself, his subjects, and us. He is digging into uneasy turf, fraught with tension: masculine/feminine, heroic/cowardly, shameless/shameful, eternal/fleeting. The intensity of detail, the fiercely exquisite perfection of the bodies themselves, the unflinching, scrupulous engagement of the lens, negates all pretense of politeness. Confronted, we are summoned to look. So we must. And we do. And we experience the beautiful human forms we inhabit and the silent, eloquent language they speak.
EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
Giuliano Bekor’s most recent fine art photography solo shows include:
2019 - March Lips The cool HeArt gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Ali vs The Beatles - Chris Smith, black, white, muhammad ali, beatles, 20x30 in
Located in London, GB
Chris Smith (b.1937)
Ali Versus The Beatles
1964
silver gelatin fibre based print
20 x 30 in. / 34.5 x 48 in. / 46 x 66 in. / 50 x 92 in.
signed and numbered
printed later
This work...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
No title (No 16) Ballet Photography 32x32 in Ed. of 25 by Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Located in Culver City, CA
No title (No 16) Ballet Photography 32x32 in Ed. of 25 by Yevgeniy Repiashenko
No title (No 16)
Photography
Edition of 25 (32 x 32 inch) by Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Year photo was tak...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Plexiglass
9, 10
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
Vases in various sizes.
From left to right:
9 - 21h x 5w in
10 - 20h x 5w in
[lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954]
Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
$5,800
8
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
[lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954]
Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and ceramicist who creates pieces that chemically and conceptually fuse the two medi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
$3,200
5
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
[lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954]
Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and ceramicist who creates pieces that chemically and conceptually fuse the two medi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
$4,200
Flipping Boy, 4th Ward, Houston, TX by Earlie Hudnall, Jr., 1983
Located in Denton, TX
Flipping Boy, 4th Ward, Houston, TX by Earlie Hudnall, Jr. is a 14 x 11 inch silver gelatin print. This photograph features a boy flipping in the street, with people watching from the sidewalk and the skyline of Houston in the background. This photograph is signed, titled, and dated in pencil on print verso by Earlie Hudnall, Jr.
Earlie Hudnall, who is one of the most notable African American...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Lady in the Red Dress (at the Frick)" - Abstract Fashion Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
Landon Nordeman is inspired by the work of Garry Winogrand and William Eggleston.
Nordeman's unique point of view, characterized by National Geographic senior picture editor Sadie Q...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Self Touches #11. Fashion limited edition color photograph.
By Koray Erkaya
Located in Miami Beach, FL
All about narcissism. The series, which he started during the exhibition of the Don't Tell Mama photography series at the European Nu Photo Festival (Europeen de la Photo de NU) held...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Palm Trees on Wilcox - Contemporary, Polaroid, mounted under Plexi
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Trees on Wilcox (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999
78x76cm,
Edition of 100.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Mounted under matte Plexiglass.
Artist inventory number: 398.
Signed on back and Certificate.
Stefanie Schneider – Palm Trees on Wilcox...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Vitality
Located in New Orleans, LA
edition 1/7
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of ge...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Breakdown - Contemporary, Polaroid, vintage Cars, Color, Women, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Breakdown (Bombay Beach) - 2019
50x50cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Prince, 1981
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Lynn Goldsmith Limited Edition of 20 ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Accessories
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 15
Signed by Patty Carroll
Paper size: 30 x 30 in., Image size: 22 x 22 in.
From the series, Anonymous Women
Patty Carroll is an American photographer who has taught and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to van Dyck's Grimaldi
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 9 inches - Edition 2 of 7 with 2 APs
STATEMENT:
e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the history...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Zoffany's Portrait of Belle and Murray
Located in New Orleans, LA
11.5 x 16 inches - Edition 3 of 7 with 2 APs
STATEMENT:
e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the hist...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Gheeraerts' Portrait of Elizabeth I
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 10.25 inches - Edition 4 of 7 with 2 APs
STATEMENT:
e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the his...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Man jumping our of the water, Two. Figurative Limited Edition B&W Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Man jumping our of the water, One by Ricky Cohete
From Motion series
Archival pigment print
Size 36" x 24"
Ed of 10 + 1AP
Unframed
Throughout his exploration of the movement of the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Train in the Sky, limited edition photograph, NYC subway car, recycling
Located in New York, NY
C Print Photograph 30" x45", edition 5 of 5, C Print Photograph, signed on reverse, unframed- this is the final available print in this edition.
This photograph is from Stephen Mall...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
"Undoubtedly" Photography 39" x 31" in Edition of 7 by Kseniya Vashchenko
Located in Culver City, CA
"Undoubtedly" 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
Tyler Shields - The Red Book, Photography 2018, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Fairytale
Chromogenic Print on Kodak Endura Luster Paper
All available sizes and editions:
22.5" x 30"
30" x 40"
45" x 60"
56" x 72"
63" x 84"
Editions of 3 + 2 AP
Tyler Shi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Passage of the Squirrel
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Beth Moon is an American-born photographer. She has gained international recognition for her large-scale, richly toned platinum prints.
This portfolio focuses on totem-like beliefs ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Platinum
Elisabetta 1 - Photograph By Roberto Vignoli - 2006
Located in Roma, IT
Light painting technique, realized in a completly dark photographic studio, where the photographer manually "paint" by torch with light of different colours, the subjects and the ba...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$2,695 Sale Price
25% Off
Mother and Child by Keith Carter, 2016, Archival Pigment Print, Photography
Located in Denton, TX
This black and white photograph by Keith Carter features a mother holding her child with their backs facing the viewer. They are both dressed ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Real Mermaid - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 16x23.5"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater nude photograph of a model swimming in the pool.
"There were five grand pianos at her house, a pool at the third floor, and a sad man on the bottom of that pool me. I jus...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
"S2R" Photography (FRAMED) 44" x 44" inch Edition 1/10 by Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"S2R" Photography (FRAMED) 44" x 44" inch Edition 1/10 by Giuliano Bekor
"S2R" from SCULPT series
Original photography by Giuliano Bekor
44" x 44" inch
Edition of 10
Archival pigment print mounted on dibond
Custom frame comes with non reflective museum glass
SCULPT series
The body is a vessel for the soul. The movement of every muscle – a hand position, an arch in the back, the nape of a neck – reveals the innermost continuum of the spirit. Together, lines and sinew form an emotional narrator. Using contrast, texture, and the language of the human body, this collection exposes the intersection of physical and non-physical, the marriage of tactile and ethereal.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Internationally recognized photographer, Giuliano Bekor, holds a portfolio that includes work from the realms of fashion, beauty, celebrity, advertising, and fine art.
Giuliano’s photography has been featured in top publications around the globe, and his client list includes an endless file of beauty industry leaders, advertising agencies, celebrities, producers, and artists.
With 30 years in the industry, Giuliano has perfected his craft to an exceptional level of expertise. Composed of light, color, space and form, Giuliano brings ideas conceptualized in his own imagination into reality throughout his work.
Currently living between New York and Los Angeles, Giuliano is often on the move traveling for work and inspiration. Always the restless visionary, he ceases to continually express his fresh and nuanced style.
For Giuliano Bekor, a photograph is an image that comes into being consciously, composed of light, color, space and form. Like a painter, he sketches, refining ideas through pen and pencil well before the shutter clicks. A camera is strictly a means to an end, a way of making a palpable visual record of an idea that gestates in his mind, gains shape by his hand, and resolves through his eye as it peers through the lens.
His subject is the human body, almost always nude. These images delve into the splendor of the body - how it can express the inner meaning of who we are. Limbs, torsos, muscles and bones are exposed as though carved out of a supple, glowing stone that flexes and twists. Many of these photographs feature subjects posed with the eyes obscured, the face covered.
If we look closely, Bekor says, we can see that the body is as much a window into the soul as the eyes. This is a gallery of the soul etched into the forms we assume in the physical world. Through exaggerated contrast between light and dark, smooth and textured, vaporous and tactile, Giuliano deliberately filters the extraneous.
The camera captures the image, but for Bekor each exposure is a transformation - of himself, his subjects, and us. He is digging into uneasy turf, fraught with tension: masculine/feminine, heroic/cowardly, shameless/shameful, eternal/fleeting. The intensity of detail, the fiercely exquisite perfection of the bodies themselves, the unflinching, scrupulous engagement of the lens, negates all pretense of politeness. Confronted, we are summoned to look. So we must. And we do. And we experience the beautiful human forms we inhabit and the silent, eloquent language they speak.
EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
Giuliano Bekor’s most recent fine art photography solo shows include:
2019 - March Lips The cool HeArt gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Atchafalaya Study #1 by Keith Carter, 2021, Archival Pigment Print
Located in Denton, TX
Atchafalaya Study #1 by Keith Carter presents three cypress trees standing tall amidst swampy waters. More trees are seen in the distant horizon, obscured by fog and dwarfed by the t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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
Young Duke (Chicks and Chicks)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Young Duke (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2017
20x24 cm,
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Edition of 10 Artist inventory 20047.
Signature label and Certificate....
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Encuentro. From The Blanco - Sepia Series
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Encuentro, 2023 by Ricky Cohete
From The Blanco - Sepia Series
Archival Pigment print
Size: 30 x 20 in.
Ed of 13.
Unframed
For this series, he used elements such as water (emotions...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mad Mauve - Limited Edition Color Photograph, Woman Artist, Pink, Fabric
Located in Denton, TX
Mad Mauve by Patty Carroll presents a monotoned scene. A figure reclines in a mauve chair, draped with mauve fabric that falls from the ceiling. The figure...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fashion Models Nude Legs Fifth Avenue Billboard with Pedestrians
Located in Miami, FL
A monumental Fifth Avenue billboard depicting three nude models from the waist down and only wearing shoes soars above passing pedestrians. The scene is characterized by a deeply imp...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Ode to Metsys' Moneylenders
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 16 - Edition 5 of 7 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $265.
Shot in 2013 in Amsterdam
Inspired by Metsys’ Moneylenders, 1514
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
I Love I – John Yuyi, Temporary Tattoos, Social Media, Photography, Nose, Art
Located in Zurich, CH
JOHN Yuyi (*1991, Taiwan)
I Love I, 2016
Archival Pigment Print
Sheet 75 x 60 cm (29 1/2 x 23 5/8 in.)
Edition of 6, plus 2 AP; Ed. no. 4/6
John Yuyi (*1991, Taiwan) is known worldw...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Instincto. From The Blanco - Sepia Series
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Instincto, 2023 by Ricky Cohete
From The Blanco - Sepia Series
Archival Pigment print
Size: 30 x 20 in.
Ed of 13.
Unframed
For this series, he used elements such as water (emotions...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Poor Richard Head, Salton Sea, California - Roadside America Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
A classic American icon, the roadside giant "Muffler Man", captured on Richard Heeps' road trip between Mecca and the Salton Sea. Part of a series of pictures by Richard Heeps featur...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Portrait of Dino Zoff - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Copyright by Agenzia Giornalistica Italia.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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