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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
Inauguration by Mussolini - Vintage Photo - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Inauguration is an original photograph realized in 1935. Published by Agence Trampus, Paris. The original hallmark of Agence Trampus on the back is present. There is a small piece o...
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1930s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Achille Occhetto and Antonio Bassolino - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Achille Occhetto is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s. Good conditions.
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Grounding Man. Sepia Limited Edition Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Channeling the energy of “water-signs” in astrology, he captures these mysterious men thru a romantic lens. The embrace of the shadows and the light mixed with the gaze of their bodi...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Marble Cave - underwater nude photo - print on aluminum 12 x 8"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater black and white photograph of a naked young woman in a pool. Original print on aluminum plate with solid black backboard. The artwork needs no additional framing: it can...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Metal

Photo of Iva Zanicchi - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Photo of Iva Zanicchi a Portrait is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s. Good conditions.
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Cuban Socialists - Historical Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Cuban Socialists - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photograph realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical albumen including photo reportages of historical events an...
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1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Dissolved
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...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Sweet Grass
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...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Martin Luther King, Los Angeles, 1963 by Julian Wasser
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Good Morning / Photo / Collage / Signed
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
This photography is a reminiscence to a PF card from 1968 done by my father. The replica in a bigger format was done on the occasion of his solo exhibition in June 2023 in Slovakia. Will be signed and a single copy of the photo for sale.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Color, Photographic Paper

Nino Manfredi- Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Nino Manfredi is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s. Good conditions.
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20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Khartoum Market - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Khartoum Market is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century by M. Venieris.  The scene is meticulously captured.
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Early 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Alone - Contemporary Symbolic Black And White Photography
Located in Salzburg, AT
The photo will be sent unframed. Limited edition of 10 in format 23x28 cm + 5 cm white margin. Photograph on Hahnemuhle Paper ; Digigraphie technology Marcin Ryczek is Polish phot...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Garage
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print Stamped and numbered, verso 24 x 20 inches (Edition of 10) 40 x 30 inches (Edition of 5) 60 x 50 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...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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C Print

Moonlight III - underwater nude photo - archival pigment print 24x35"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A beautiful and sophisticated underwater photograph of a young naked woman in the pool. This is a monochrome photograph close to black and white with reach aquatic tint. This is th...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Parts - Contemporary Symbolic Black And White Photography Limited edition of 15
Located in Salzburg, AT
Limited edition of 10 in format 30x40 cm + 5 cm white margin. Photograph on Hahnemuhle Paper ; Digigraphie technology Marcin Ryczek is Polish photographer specializing in black and ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Roman Statue Study 3. Hand. Abstract figurative Color Photography
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Touching the skin of the past is an extraordinary collection of Roman Statues captured with the ICM technique in order to make the marble skin like a truly human body. 'Touching the ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Palm Four, Sepia Limited Edition Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Channeling the energy of “water-signs” in astrology, he captures these mysterious men thru a romantic lens. The embrace of the shadows and the light mixed with the gaze of their bodi...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

All the others in me (New York) Performance photography color portrait
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The body, in opposition to this language system and ironically living it, speaks through organs, plays with images, sounds, smells, textures, mixtures, everything reacts, absorbs and...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Black and White, Giclée, Archival Pigment

Beau Simmons - Carwash 78', Photography 2023, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: The Western Collection Archival Pigment Print Unframed Sizes: 32" x 40" - $6,250.00 48" x 60" - $9,500.00 75" x 60" - $12,250.00 Framed Sizes: 39" x 47" - $7,750.00 55" x 6...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

The Italian Actors Enrica Bonaccorti - Vintage Photo - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo. The Italian Actors Enrica Bonaccorti and Marco Columbro.
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Wallgirls- underwater nude photograph - print on paper 18” x 24”
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater nude photograph of two girls diving in a pool. Original gallery quality print signed by the artist. Digital archival pigment print on archival paper with metallic fin...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment, Archival Paper

Untitled, Landscape With Clouds - Contemporary Photography - Painting Object
Located in Salzburg, AT
Magdalena Peszkowska born in 1980 in Gdańsk, Poland. Studied in Department of Painting at Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (1999-2004). Diploma with special recognition in painting in 2004. The character of Magdalena Peszkowska's works Series Stand is like an poetic archive of memories, which call for a classification and reconstruction of the time of childhood and the intense experience of time with everything around it. Gdansk - where the artist comes from - becomes a mythical place, This city, with a very strong symbolic potential inherent in its history, needs editing from a single point of view. Magdalena Peszkowska uses her own photos or those from the family album. She transfers them to gray field blankets and camp beds with her own secret technology Then she paints on the used objects. Many of her objects show figures from the closest circle of Peszkowska, often it is herself, her family or places close to her in Gdansk. Her objects have intentional signs of use. The field blankets have a sewn-in wooden bar to hang them on the wall. The field military beds...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Metal

Portrait of Francisco Araiza - Vintage Photo by Mike Evans - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage photograph realized in 1970s. Copyright by Phonogram Int. Excellent condition.
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Portrait of the conductor Neville Marriner - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage photograph realized in 1970s. Copyright by Phonogram Int. Excellent condition.
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Volpone by Ben Johnson at Teatro Eliseo - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage photograph realized in 1970s. Comedy by Ben johnson directed by Gabriele Lavia with Gianni De Lellis, Sergio Regi, Pietro Biondi and Umberto Orsini. Excellent condition.
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Portrait of Agnes Baltsa - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage photograph realized in 1970s. Photographer: Lauterwasser; Copyright by Phonogram Int. Excellent condition.
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Massino Ranieri during a Theatrical Represention-Photo by Guglielmo Coluzzi-1970
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage photograph realized in 1970s. Excellent condition.
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Massino Ranieri during a Theatrical... - Photo by Guglielmo Coluzzi - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage photograph realized in 1970s. Excellent condition.
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Ornella Vanoni and Aldo Fabrizi - Photo by Guglielmo Coluzzi - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage photograph realized in 1970s by Guglielmo Coluzzi. Excellent condition.
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Representation at La Scala in Milan - Photo by Guglielmo Coluzzi - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage photograph realized in 1980s. Excellent condition.
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Don Juan - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage photograph representing Mozart's Don Juan, by Lelli & Masotti at Teatro alla Scala Milano.
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Capriccio by Strauss - Vintage Photo - 1986
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage photograph showing M.Matteuzzi, A. Ariostini and R. Kabaivanska while playing Richard Strauss' Capriccio. Excellent condition.
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Photo of Wanda Osiris and Miranda Martino - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Photo of Liliana Cavani Levi Montalcini and Monica Vitti is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1990s. Good conditions.
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20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Despertar. Figurative Limited Edition Color Photograph
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...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

All the others in me. (Milan) Performance photography color portrait
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The body, in opposition to this language system and ironically living it, speaks through organs, plays with images, sounds, smells, textures, mixtures, everything reacts, absorbs and...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Color, Giclée, Archival Pigment

French General Raoul Salan - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
French General Raoul Salan is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical moment and political eve...
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1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

The frequencies I am made of #1 Performance photography color portrait
Located in Miami Beach, FL
"The frequencies that make me" is a project that aims to find points of contact between dance and performance to generate a space in between, where the body plays with time, explores...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment, Giclée

Infinity Man, Two. Limited Edition Black and White Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
For this black-and-white photography series, he used elements such as water (emotions) to narrate a story. He worked with the color white in the fabrics to communicate clarity and re...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Untitled, Laughing Couple, Series Stand - Photography - Painting Object
Located in Salzburg, AT
Individual technique on grey military blanket Magdalena Peszkowska born in 1980 in Gdańsk, Poland. Studied in Department of Painting at Academy of F...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Textile, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Monoprint, Other Medium

Ballons over Paris
Located in New York City, NY
David Drebin Balloons over Paris, 2016 30 x 72 inches Edition of 10 40 x 96 inches Edition of 7 C-Print
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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C Print

Queen Elizabeth II in Belfast - Vintage Press Print - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
The Queen Elizabeth II in Belfast is a is a black and white vintage press print, realized in October 8th. 1977. The photo depicts an official moment of the English Crown. Queen Eliz...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

May 6, 1976 -Friuli Earthquake - Vintage Photograph - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
May 6, 1976 -Friuli earthquake is a black and white vintage photo, realized in May 8, 1976. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including histo...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

All the others in me (New York) Performance photography color portrait
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The body, in opposition to this language system and ironically living it, speaks through organs, plays with images, sounds, smells, textures, mixtures, everything reacts, absorbs and...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Black and White, Giclée, Archival Pigment

Caballero, Two. Limited Edition Black and White Photograph
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...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Nymphs Empty Spaces, Fashion photrograph Intervened by the artists.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Series titled "Nothing Stays Still", where they keep questioning the fashion photography industry by creating a new visual identity of their images moving them away from their origin...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Acrylic, Black and White, Archival Pigment

Man on Water, Dancer. Limited Edition Sepia Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
For this series, he used elements such as water (emotions) to narrate a story. He worked with the color Blanco in the fabrics to communicate clarity and rebirth. Cohete frequently p...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Circus - underwater nude photograph - print on aluminum 26x36"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This ethereal underwater photograph showcases minimalist composition in rich teal and turquoise tones, capturing a performer suspended in crystalline waters. The topless young woman ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Metal

Royal Blood- Staged Photograph of Queen Elizabeth at Home Birth in Buckingham
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Royal Blood" is part of international artist, Natalie Lennard's series Birth Undisturbed. "When the Queen’s parents suggested she move to a quieter room away from the crowds of well-wishers heard from the front of the Palace, she refused, insisting 'I want my baby to be born in my own room, amongst the things I know.'" Prince Edward was born 10 March 1964 in the Belgian Suite at Buckingham Palace, attended by midwife Helen Rowe and ob-gyn John Harold Peel. The last of Queen Elizabeth II’s children, it was the first to be active and conscious, at a time when “twilight sleep” - knocking out the mother and delivering via forceps - was beginning to phase out. All the Queen’s children were Royal homebirths. Her first birth in 1948 had already marked the end of centuries’ long tradition of Royal observation. Historically, at a birth of any potential heir to the throne, the room would be crowded with ladies-in-waiting, midwives, servants and doctors, near crushing Marie Antoinette to death in 1778. With the birth of her fourth and final child, the Queen was said to lay down the terms for how she wanted to deliver, breaking yet another tradition by having her husband present. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, had always been a nervous expectant father and historically had chosen to spend the Queen’s labours swimming and playing squash. This time he stayed at her bedside holding her hand, the first male Royal partner to be present in the room in years. In our modern form of collective mass-observation, the whole world watched...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Satin Paper, Digital

Beau Simmons - Western Heritage, Photography 2023, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: The Western Collection Archival Pigment Print Unframed Sizes: 40" x 32" - $6,250.00 60" x 48" - $9,500.00 75" x 60" - $12,250.00 Framed Sizes: 47" x 39" - $7,750.00 67" x 5...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Shadow Man, Sepia Limited Edition Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Channeling the energy of “water-signs” in astrology, he captures these mysterious men thru a romantic lens. The embrace of the shadows and the light mixed with the gaze of their bodi...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Portrait - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a vintage photo, realized in the early 20th Century.  The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
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Early 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Don't Tell Mamma #1. Black and white lips photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This is a series of black and white nude photographs that began with analog photography between 1992 and 2005, followed by a transition period to digital photography. Erkaya is curre...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Porcelain II - underwater nude photo - print on aluminum 8 x 12"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
"Porcelain II" captures a young naked woman floating in dark waters, their pale form creating ethereal ripples against the black backdrop. This underwater fine art photograph showcas...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Metal

Cuban Artist Original Hand Signed photoengraving 30x22 in. n4
Located in Miami, FL
Juan Carlos Alom (Cuba, 1964) 'El cielo protector', 2004 photoengraving on paper 30 x 22.1 in. (76 x 56 cm.) Edition of 106 ID: ALO1534-004-106 Hand-s...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Paper, Photogravure

Historical Photo - Speech - Vintage photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo -Speech is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical album including historical momen...
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Untitled 9, Costume National. Fashion Archival Color Pigment Print
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Sükan created the series as he was working for international magazines such as L'Uomo Vogue (Italy), A Magazine (France), Crash (France), Faces (Switzerland), and Muse Magazine (Ital...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

Max in Pool - Contemporary, Landscape, Figurative, expired, Polaroid, analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Max in Pool (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 Edition 3/10, 48x46cm, Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and certi...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Hotel Santa Fe - Vintage Photograph - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Hotel Santa Fe is a colour vintage photo, realized in the Early 1990s. The photo depicts the Cantina Restaurant at Hotel Santa Fe, Euro Disneyland. Good conditions and aged. It be...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Bruno Mars, Portrait Intervened by the artists. Nothing Stays Still series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Series titled "Nothing Stays Still", where they keep questioning the fashion photography industry by creating a new visual identity of their images moving them away from their origin...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Acrylic, Black and White, Archival Pigment

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.

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