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
Cuban Artist Original Hand Signed photoengraving 30x22 in. n7
Located in Miami, FL
Juan Carlos Alom (Cuba, 1964)
'Mandy y Tara', 2004
photoengraving on paper
30 x 22.1 in. (76 x 56 cm.)
Edition of 106
ID: ALO1534-007-106
Hand-signed ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Paper, Photogravure
The United States of India - Contemporar Symbolic Street Photography
Located in Salzburg, AT
Edition of 10 in format 41,5x65 cm, Photograph on Hahnemuhle Paper ; Digigraphie technology , Limited edition
41,5x65 cm + 5 cm white margin
The photo will be after purchese signed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Parking - large scale photograph - urban architectural element
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Parking by Frank Schott
from a series of photographs capturing urban observations onto humanity and its constructs
27 x 40 inches / 68cm x 102cm
edition of 25
signed
48 x 72 inches...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Untitled (Girl with Dog in Water)
By Evžen Sobek
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered, verso
12 x 12 inches
(Edition of 10)
25 x 25 inches
(Edition of 10)
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Please note that prices increase as editions sell.
Evžen Sobek...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Silhouette IX
By Deana Nastic
Located in München, BY
Edition of 10
More sizes available on request.
Silhouette of a woman in black and white.
Artist Statement:
Art is the air that I breathe. I grew up in an artistic family, surround...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Way of the Hare 3
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
An Island in the Air - Photograph by Urs Luthi - 1975
By Urs Lüthi
Located in Roma, IT
An Island in the Air is a Photograph realized by Urs Luthi in 1975.
From the portfolio "Un'isola nell'aria", edition of 75 copies.
Hand-signed, numbered, and dated.
Very good cond...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bondi Foundations, 2020 - Limited Edition Digital C-Print in Color
Located in Brighton, GB
Bondi Foundations is a gorgeous C-Type Print in a Limited Edition of 10 in this size by contemporary photographer Ben Thomas.
Hasselblad Master Photograph...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color
Fluid Bella Hadid Portrait. Photograph intervened by the artists.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This artwork was created by the artistic duo Hunter & Gatti (2010–2023). These works are part of the archive managed and exhibited by Cristian Hunter.
The artist's technique consists...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Acrylic, Black and White, Archival Pigment
Theodore (Vignanello) 21st Century, Figurative Photography
By Tao Ruspoli
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Theodore' (Vignanello), Edition 1/10, 30x20cm, 2016, C-Print, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate.
About
Tao Ruspoli (bor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Untitled - part 8 - Beachshoot starring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boccia VIII (Beachshoot) - 2005
30,7x30cm,
sold out Edition of 68, Artist Proof 4/5
Lambda Print, based on a Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label,
artist Inventory # 1467.
Not...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$416 Sale Price
30% Off
Rayas Three. Fashion Sepia Limited Edition Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Throughout his exploration of movement of the body, with modern and ballet dancers, as well as a focus on the male physic; he has concentrated on the curves and lines of the their a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Weifang Sun and Kaaling, Bruno Mars, Portraits Intervened by the artists.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This artwork was created by the artistic duo Hunter & Gatti (2010–2023). These works are part of the archive managed and exhibited by Cristian Hunter.
The artist's technique consists...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Acrylic, Black and White, Archival Pigment
Old Days - High Altitude Surveys - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
High Altitude Surveys is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to a historical album including historical moments, royal families, and pol...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Pointe - underwater photograph - print on aluminum
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This elegant underwater photograph captures a ballet dancer in pointe shoes and flowing white tutu, suspended in deep teal waters. The rich contrast between the pristine white costum...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
Penny Lane (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Penny Lane (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2019 -
20x24cm, Edition of 10.
Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Artist inventory 19141.
Signature label and Certificate.
N...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Remote Control - Unique piece - Original Polaroid, Women, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
REMOTE CONTROL #HS02, 2013, 15 x 10 x 1,7 cm
[Scene from the series Odd Stories]
Original Polaroid - PIÈCE UNIQUE
Hand cast in resin by the artist
Patented Procédé © Carmen De Vos
H...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Resin, Polaroid
'Margarita smokes in Bathroom' (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Margarita Smokes in Bathroom
(Till Death do us Part),
2007, 40x50cm, Edition 1/5,
analog C-Print, printed by the artist,
mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection based on an o...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
La Folie - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Figurative, Woman, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
La Folie - 2018 -
Edition of 10, 40x40cm,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Signed on back and certificate.
Not mounted.
about this work:
La Folie (Shot 2018 on 600 Film)
In part this image was influenced by the films Les Diaboliques...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Photo of Iva Zanicchi - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Photo of Iva Zanicchi a Portrait is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Nipple - Bathtime III (29 Palms, CA) based on a Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Nipple - Bathtime IV (29 Palms, CA)
1999, 40x40cm, Edition 1/10,
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist inventory ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Boxing Elena - Unique piece in Resin - Original Polaroid, Women, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boxing Elena (Odd Stories)
Original Polaroid.
Hand cast in resin and signed by the artist
#HS01, 2012, 20x15 x 2cm
Original Polaroid - PIÈCE UNIQUE
Carmen de Vos' Polaroids in Res...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Resin, Polaroid
Old Days - Camping - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Old Days - Camping is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Magalyn (Black Rock City), 21st Century, Figurative Photography, Contemporary
By Tao Ruspoli
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Magalyn (Black Rock City), Edition 1/10, 20x30cm, 2010, digital Print, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Cer...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Dancer III
By Deana Nastic
Located in München, BY
Edition of 10
More sizes available on request.
Silhouette of a woman in black and white.
Artist Statement:
Art is the air that I breathe. I grew up in an artistic family, surround...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Abstract Dancers, Green 3, 2019 by Giles Revell - Contemporary, Photography, Art
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order and lead times are between 15-20 days.
A stunning and dynamic Archival Pigment Print by contemporary British photographer Giles Revell...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
"Traces of Tears" (Cyndi Lauper) - record cover shoot
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Traces of Tears (Cyndi Lauper)
from the 'Bring Ya to the Brink' record shoot in 2009
20x20cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival Print based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$320 Sale Price
20% Off
'Margarita smokes in Bathroom' (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Margarita Smokes in Bathroom II
(Till Death do us Part),
2007, 40x50cm, Edition 1/5,
analog C-Print, printed by the artist,
mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection, based on a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
Leslie & Ella on the Hudson, Wednesday, May 31st, 9:26-9:47 p.m.
Located in New York, NY
Pigmented ink print (Edition of 20)
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, recto
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Pigment
Santa María, Artist Self Portraits Black and white Photograph. Triptych
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Water is constant in the artist's visual investigation, for her water is no longer the stage in which the body's memory bursts, but rather the environment and protagonist, constant o...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Alejandra - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Figurative, Woman, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Alejandra (2014)
Alejandra shaved her head when she was 16. It was an act of rebellion and transgressions. She came to visit me, I took her to the river...
20x20 cm, Edition of 10...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Dancer II
By Deana Nastic
Located in München, BY
Edition of 10
More sizes available on request.
Silhouette of a woman in black and white.
Artist Statement:
Art is the air that I breathe. I grew up in an artistic family, surround...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Smile - underwater nude b&w photograph - archival pigment print 35x51"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater black and white photograph of a naked young woman smiling to the camera from the pool surface.
This minimalistic photograph blends well with wide verity of interiors.
Or...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"VERSACE L1" Figurative Photography D 24"in Edition of 12 by Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"VERSACE L1" Figurative Photography D 24"in Edition of 12 by Giuliano Bekor
Lips Series
Title of artwork: Versace L1
Year: 2018
Print Size: 24 Inches diameter trim bleed
Rarity: Lim...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Zeppelin - monumental photograph of iconic pioneering airship (48” x 69”)
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format monochromatic photograph
Zeppelin by Christian Stoll
48 x 69 inches (122 x 175cm)
edition of 7
signed
28 x 40 inches (71 x 102cm)
edition of 25
signed
archival fine ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Luna. Nude. Limited Edition Color Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Exploring color in the darkness, inspired by the Italian and Dutch renaissance. He brings hints of the fauna of his native South American vibrant and passionate colors. Bringing them...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dog and ducklings - Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Dog and ducklings is a Vintage Photograph was realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Stamped on the rear.
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Haley and the Bird Man (Haley and the Birds) - Polaroid, 21st Century, analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Haley and the Bird Man (Haley and the Birds) - 2013
105x100cm,
Edition of 5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Crystal Fuji Archive Paper, matte surface,
based on a P...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
In Bloom - Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid, Painting
By Lisa Toboz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
In Bloom - 2020
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proof, 50x40cm
Digital Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemühle photo rag paper.
Signature label and certificate.
Not mounted.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
"Scrutiny" Portrait Photography
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This archival illustrative photography pigment print on cotton rag by Andrew Pinkham measures 20in x 16in and is signed and numbered. This piece is part of a small edition of 10.
"...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Automobili I (Ferrari) - details at iconic Italian race car performance garage
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Automobili I by Frank Schott
a series of Industrial Style still life photographs
(Ferrari) - details at iconic Italian race car performance garage
48 x 72inches / 122cm x 183cm
edi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Herbert von Karajan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Herbert von Karajan is an original photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Two Paths, 2020 - Limited Edition Color Digital C-Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Two Paths is a gorgeous C-Type Print in a Limited Edition of 10 in this size by contemporary photographer Ben Thomas.
Hasselblad Master Photographer Ben T...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color
Cuba - Historical Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Cuba - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical moment and political events...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Shirin Neshat - Limited edition framed figurative photograph
By Laurina Paperina
Located in East Quogue, NY
Limited edition framed figurative photograph titled "Shirin Neshat" by Laurina Paperina - Edition 3/3
Laurina Paperina, the artistic alter ego of Laura Scottini, pokes fun at art a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
The Moai - Vintage Photo - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Moai is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments, pl...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Untitled 8 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
Historical Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Vintage Photo is a black and white vintage photograph realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical albumen including photo reportages of historical events and political...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Lucia at 13 - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Youth, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lucia at 13 (2016)
40x50 cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Giclée Print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta, based on a Fuji Instant Film (not mounted)
Bombay B...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
The Sandinistas - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
The Sandinistas- Vintage Photo is a black-and-white photograph, realized 9/83 by Marcello Montecino.
Good condition.
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ghost Story - Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid, Painting
By Lisa Toboz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Ghost Story - 2021
50x40cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proof.
Archival Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemühle photo rag paper.
Signature label and certificate.
Not mou...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Fidel Castro with Cuban Socialists - Historical Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Fidel Castro with Cuban Socialists is a black-and-white vintage photograph realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical albumen including photo reportages of historical events and...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Loading the Gun (Wastelands) hand printed analog C-Print, based on a Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Loading the Gun (Wastelands) - 2003
57x56cm,
Edition of 5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on the Polaroid, Artist inventory Number...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Ryan Gosling - Stay
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Ryan Gossling' (Stay) - 2006,
20x20cm, Edition of 2/10,
digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label
artist Inventory No. 2447.02
Not mounted.
Stefanie Schneider:
Torsten Scheid, “Fotografie, Kunst, Kino. Revisited.”, FilmDienst 3/2006, page 11-13
Photography Art Cinema. Revisited
Stay expands a traditional connection through new facets
Interwoven between the media of photography and film is a veritable mesh-work of technical, motific, metaphorical and personal interrelationships. Extending from photo-film which, as in La Jetée by Chris Marker (France, 1962) is a montage of single, unmoving photographs all the way to the portrayal of photographic motifs in Hollywood cinema―most recently in Memento (USA, 2000) and One hour photo (USA, 2002)―is the range of filmic-photographic interactions on the one hand, and from the adaption of modes of cinematic production to the imitation of film stills on the other. For instance, with the legendary Untitled Film Stills (1978) of the American artist Cindy Sherman, who later made her debut as a film director with Office Killer (USA, 1997) and thereby, like many others, changed sides: Wim Wenders, Robert Frank and Larry Clark are doubtlessly the most successful of these photographic-filmic border crossers. This brief survey provides only a vague indication of the dimensions of this intermedial field, which in fact extends much further and is constantly being cultivated.
Also as a motif in film, photography has experienced a historical transformation: Photographers were once considered to be technicians who mastered a craft but never achieved the status of artists. Photographer-figures were caught in the allure of beautiful appearance, incapable of penetrating to the actual essence of things. Such depth was reserved for literature or painting. When photography in film touched upon the sphere of art, then most often as its contrasting model, as the metaphor for a superficial access to the world. Coming to mind are Fred Astaire as a singing fashion photographer in Stanley Donen’s musical film Funny Face (USA, 1957), or the restless lifestyle-photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni’s genre-classic Blow up (GB, 1966). For the doubting Thomas, only that exists which can be photographed. He ultimately enters the world of fantasy and thereby the field of art only unwillingly, when he becomes entangled in the world of his images. The last of his detail-enlargements shows only the photographic grain and has lost all connection to reality. The photograph looks as if it had been painted by Bill, the painter who is both friend and antagonist to the protagonist.
Photography as Art
It was first around the end of the last century that numerous filmmakers discovered photography as a genuine art form. In The Bridges of Madison County (USA, 1995) a sensitive Clint Eastwood stands, camera in hand, on the threshold of artistic status, and in Smoke (USA, 1994) a tobacco merchant ripens into a philosopher through his involvement in photography. Finally, in John Water’s parody of the art market, Pecker (USA, 1998), a provincial tom-fool is hyped into celebrated stardom amid the New York art scene because of his blurred snapshots. This film about a postmodern Kaspar Hauser in photographic art (with clear parallels to Richard Billingham, the British shooting star of the nineteen-nineties), not only takes into account the exponentially expanded significance of photography in the art market, but also attributes to photography an extreme degree of conformity to the “operating system” of the visual arts. This admittedly ironic equation of photography and the visual arts is new. It is repeated with much more earnestness in Lisa Chollondencko’s High Art (USA) from the same year. Artistic photography has finally become established in a cinematic context.
Stay
Stay (USA, 2005) could have fitted in seamlessly here. Considering that the films High Art and Pecker establish photography as an ideal art form at the end of the millennium, director Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland) takes a step backward; he revives an anti-technical, intuitive concept of art, including the customary clichés about madness and genius. This choice documents less an anachronistic notion of art (especially considering that painting is currently experiencing a Renaissance) than instead the appraisal that paintings are more suitable for representing the free objectification of the mind. Stay is not an artist-film but rather a psycho-thriller in which the borders between dream and reality become blurred.
The psychiatrist Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor) has saved his girlfriend, the artist Lila (played by Naomi Watts) from committing suicide. Now he is attempting to keep another patient, the art student Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Polaroid
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
Production time is 2 to 3 weeks.
Unframed
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Stephen Sleeping
By Jen Davis
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
11 x 14 inches
(Edition of 15)
20 x 24 inches
(Edition of 10)
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in N...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Neptunus (Odd Stories)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Neptunus' (Odd Stories), 1/25, 2012
digital Print, based on a Polaroid, mounted on black mdf, dimensions 15x11,3cm
(the second image shows a sample piece mounted)
hand signed by the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital, Polaroid
The Double Cross - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women, Figurative, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Double Cross
Edition of 10 - 40 x 40 cm.
Digital C-Print based on a on a Polaroid.
Signed on back and certificate.
Not mounted.
The Double - Cross (Shot 2016 on SX70 film)
Infl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Abstract Dancers, Green 4, 2019 by Giles Revell - Photography, Contemporary, Art
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order and lead times are between 15-20 days.
A stunning and dynamic Archival Pigment Print by contemporary British photographer Giles Revell...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Forest - Contemporary Minimalist Street Photography, Black And White
Located in Salzburg, AT
Edition 10 in format 38x85 cm Photograph on Hahnemuhle Paper ; Digigraphie technology , Limited edition, 38x85 cm + 5 cm white margin
The photo is signed on the front and will be sen...
Category
2010s 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.