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.
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Style: Contemporary
In Bloom - Contemporary, Figurative, Woman, Polaroid, Photograph, 21st Centur
By Lisa Toboz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
In Bloom - 2021
Archival C-Print based on a mixed-media collage of an original Polaroid on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper, not mounted.
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Signature ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Carmen - underwater nude photo - print on aluminum 12 x 12"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This dramatic underwater nude portrait of Katya Lee captures a figure in motion against a stark black backdrop, where flowing crimson fabric creates passionate contrast with pale, et...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
$480 Sale Price
20% Off
Hip Beautiful Black Female Roller Skates in Central Park Soaked in Golden Light
Located in Miami, FL
A hip young black woman in Central Park pauses for a moment of reflection after her roller skate dance. Street photographer, Mithcell Funk, captures her in an off moment of introspe...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Queen Elizabeth - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elizabeth - Vintage Photo realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Dino Zoff and Gigi Riva - 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
Flamencos en Route - Vintage Photo by Marc Funk - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage photograph realized in 1990s.
Tanzcompagnie Flamencos en route "Rondon", Baden.
Excellent condition.
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic 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
Because
By Molly McCall
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Molly’s current photographic work explores themes of memory, the passage of time, a sense of place, and the natural world, using both painting and photography. Her unique silver gela...
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
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
Claudio Villa and the Kessler Twins - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Claudio Villa and the Kessler Twins-Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$85 Sale Price
40% Off
Portrait of Diego Armando Maradona - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph depicting Diego Armando Maradona.
Very good condition.
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
A Scene from "Rugantino" - Vintage Photo - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage photograph realized in 1990s.
Simona Marchini and Maurizio Mattioli
Copyright by Publifoto.
Excellent condition.
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Chicken and Egg
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nick Vedros
Chicken and Egg
Archival Pigment Print Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta 325 gsm
Year: 1990s
Size: 12x11in
Edition: 12
Signed, dated and numbered by hand on label
Stamped
COA pro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
$790 Sale Price
39% Off
"Eruptio" Ballet Photography 32" x 32" in Ed. of 25 by Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Located in Culver City, CA
"Eruptio" Ballet Photography 32" x 32" in Ed. of 25 by Yevgeniy Repiashenko
"Eruptio" by Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Year photo was taken: 2019
Limited Edition of 25
Picture size:
Height:...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Pigment, Plexiglass
The Letter O of HOPE ( 27 x 40" / 68 x 102cm )
Located in San Francisco, CA
LETTER O by Christian Stoll
large scale conceptual photography playing with viewer's perspective
incredible details in this body of work, a series of environmental stills playing w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Ernest Borgnine - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Ernest Borgnine-Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$128 Sale Price
40% Off
Men Legs, One. Motion Series. Male Nude Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Through his exploration of bodily movement, with modern and ballet dancers, and with particular attention to the male physique, the artist has focused on the curves and lines of thei...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Path of the Fox
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
$3,200
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
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Taking Turns (Till Death Do Us Part) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Taking Turns (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2006
40x48cm,.
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper
Royal Family Goes to Sandringham - Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Royal Family goes to Sandringham is a b/w photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Stamped on the rear.
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Karine - 21st Century, Portrait Photography, Contemporary, Color
By Tao Ruspoli
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Karine - 2018
Edition of 10, 30x20cm.
Archival Print.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
Tao Ruspoli (born 7 November 1975) is an Italian-American filmmaker, phot...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Photographic Paper, C Print
$334 Sale Price
20% Off
War in Algeria - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Politician - Vintage Photo is a historical photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$64 Sale Price
40% Off
The Green Ray - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Figurative, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Green Ray (2012)
Edition of 10
40 x 40 cm - Digital C-Print based on a on a Polaroid,
Not mounted.
Signed on back with certificate.
Artist:
Influenced by Fellini’s 8 1/2 and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Peter Andrew Lusztyk - Ramones, Photography 2021, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Ramones
Digital C-Print / Archival Pigment Print
Available sizes:
24 x 16 - Edition of 20
36 x 24 - Edition of 5
48 x 36 - Edition of 5
60 x 48 - Edition of 5
“Collectible” series i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Claudio Villa's Funerals - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Claudio Villa's Funerals-Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in 1987.
With a Description on the rear.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$57 Sale Price
40% Off
Matthew Barney, Isle of Man. B&W Photograph.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Photographer Michael James O'Brien documented with beautiful and unique images the final part of Matthew Barney's lyric opera cycle about a tragic love story set in romantic Budapest...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Two Sisters - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Childhood. 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Two Sisters (2020)
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Lambda Print on Fuji Cristal Archive Paper (glossy surface)
based on a Fuji Instant Film (not mounted).
Signed on back with ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Untitled 24 Paris, From the series La Notte, Black and White Photograph
By Arslan Sükan
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Sükan created the ‘La Notte’ series as he was working for international magazines documenting the fashion shows and backstage as well as the social times of the fashion world in Pari...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Window
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
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hot Champagne - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment 18x24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater photograph of a naked young woman wrapped in bubbles. This is a bright high resolution photograph with rich green and golden tones migrating onto blue and orange.
Ori...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Homesteading (Heavenly Falls) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Homesteading (Heavenly Falls)
2016, 50x50cm, Edition 2/10,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory number: 19655.02
Not mounted
S...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Gil at Fourteen - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Childhood, abstract
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Gil at Fourteen ( A Crack in the Mirror) - 2019
60 x 50 cm,
Edition of 10 +2 Artist Proofs.
Photograph printed in Hanemühle Baryta Photo Rag 340gr,
based on the original reclaim...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Two Snowys - Color Photograph, Woman Artist, Birds, Landscape
By Cheryl Medow
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 10
Signed and numbered in pencil, and blind stamp on print margin by Cheryl Medow
Signed, titled, dated, and print type in pencil on print verso by Cheryl Medow
Archival p...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Birdman, Lithuania 2018
Located in Hudson, NY
This listing is for the unframed photograph.
The Robin Rice Gallery proudly announces SUMMERTIME Salon 2019, an annual photography exhibit featuring gallery artists as well as a fe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
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
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Portrait of Gianni Rivera - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
A Man Feeding Swans in the Snow - Grand Prix NYPH New York Photo Festival 2015
Located in Salzburg, AT
The photo is signed and stamped on the front by Marcin Ryczek and will be send unframed
A Man Feeding Swans in the Snow (2013) - edition 25 in format 30...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Stefanie Schneider Minis - 2 Minis from the Beachshoot
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
2 Stefanie Schneider's Minis
from the Beachshoot: The Diva and the Boy
signed on front, not mounted
Lambda digital Color Photographs based on original expired Polaroid photographs
P...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Lisa with Turban, NY, Silver Gelatin print (Printer later)
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Lisa with Turban, NY 1940 (Printer later)Silver Gelatin print
Printed later 1984
Sheet size: 14 H x 11 W in.
Image size: 11.5 H x 9 W in.
Engraved signature on front
Hand written, ti...
Category
1940s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled Garrafa, From the series Ser Cosa, Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This series of portraits that at first glance appear to us as extraterrestrial beings, once we understand the images they become more familiar than they appear, “humans too human” pe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Portrait of Gianni Rivera - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Signed Silver Gelatin Photo Card Tina Turner #2
Located in Surfside, FL
Hatay is a visual artist, a healer and a former Rock and Roll photojournalist. Her past greatly contributes to the woman she is today.
Born in Scotland of a Hungarian physicist/inve...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Italian Soccer Teal in the mid-1970s - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Boccia I (Beachshoot ) with Radha Mitchell -Polaroid, Contemporary, Women, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boccia I (Beachshoot) - 2005
38x36cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 1467.
Not mounted.
featuring Cam...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Lila Running (Stay) - featuring Naomi Watts - Polaroid, 21st Century
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 Sc...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Portrait of Gianni Rivera - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Two Rabbits - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Youth, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Two Rabbits (2018) -
40 x 50 cm,
Edition of 10 + 2 Artist Proofs.
Photograph printed in Hanemühle Baryta Photo Rag 340gr,
based on a Fuji Instant Film original (not mounted).
S...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Portrait of Nino Manfredi - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Nino Manfredi is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Austen and Daisy in front of Trailer IV (Till Death do us Part)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Austen and Daisy in front of Trailer IV (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005
80x79cm,
Edition 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Meeting in front of Church (Sidewinder)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Meeting in front of Church (Sidewinder) - 2007
Edition 2/5,
each 30x37cm, installed 30x160cm.
4 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on the 4 oirginal Polaroids.
Ce...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Maria Veronica is dead, Tixán, Ecuador - Casket, Cross, Religion, Dead, Funeral
By Flor Garduño
Located in Denton, TX
Maria Veronica is dead, Tixán, Ecuador by Flor Garduño is a black and white photograph of a woman, carrying a cross in her hands, and a man, carrying a casket strapped to his back.
...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Portrait of the Soccer Players Anastasi and Chiarugi - 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
Portrait of Alessandro Altobelli - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Gianni Rivera - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Eraldo Pecci - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph.
1970s.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Lucky Catch - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 58" x 43"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater photograph of a naked young woman wrapped in fishing net. The perfect body of the model has slight green tint; her perfect breasts are partially covered with the green fi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Portrait of Diego Armando Maradona - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph depicting Diego Armando Maradona wearing the Napoli shirt.
Very good condition.
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Contemporary figurative photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary figurative photography available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add figurative photography created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of green, yellow, orange, blue and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Tyler Shields, Brian Finke, Stefanie Schneider, and David Drebin. Frequently made by artists working with Polaroid, and Paper and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary figurative photography, so small editions measuring 3.04 inches across are also available. Prices for figurative photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $110 and tops out at $40,000, while the average work sells for $701.