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
Presences - Vintage Offset Print by Franco Fontana - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Presenze is a print realized by Franco Fontana, in 1981.
Offset print. Rondanini Galleria D'arte Contemporanea - Roma.
Coloured poster from a photograph by Franco Fontana (Modena, ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Offset
Historical Photo - La Paz - Vintage Photo - mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - La Paz is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions, with some decoloration spots and aged margins.
It belongs to a hist...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Lord Alvary Gascoigne - Vintage Photograph - 1953
Located in Roma, IT
Lord Alvary Gascoigne is a black and white vintage photo, realized in April 1953.
The photo depicts an elegnant portrait of Alvary Gascoigne, English Ambassador. He leaves London f...
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Dutch Actress Maruschka Detmers - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Dutch Actress Maruschka Detmers in a scene from the movie "Devil in the body" a movie by Marco Bellocchio.
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Armn 110418" Graffiti painted railroad train car, limited edition photograph
Located in New York, NY
20"x60" c-print photograph, limited edition of 10 signed upon reverse, depicting a freight train car from the Union Pacific railroad, coated in colorful graffiti. The tagger team col...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Countryside Landscape - Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The countryside landscape 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 histo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Colombia -Historical Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Colombia -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 eve...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of John Wayne - Vintage Photo - 1979
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The American Actor John Wayne shortly before his Death.
A little blurry.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Elephants at the Circus - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Elephants at the circus is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1950s.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical mom...
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Discoveryland by Night - Euro Disneyland - Vintage Photograph - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Discoveryland by night - Euro Disneyland is a colour vintage photo, realized in the Early 1990s.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days Photo - Painter Carlo Ferrari - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days Photo - Painter Carlo Ferrari is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to a historical album including historical moments, r...
Category
Early 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Power Pilgrimage - Birth Scene from the Farm and Ina May Gaskin (Red+Orange)
Located in Gilroy, CA
In 1971, three hundred hippies set off from California in a convoy of 90 trucks and schoolbuses to find a new life. The pregnant women amongst them, out a desire to treat birth as a normal part of proceedings, passed around birth manuals and learnt to deliver each others' babies on the road.
It was the memory of the very first woman, calmly and tenderly birthing in the arms of her husband in the back of a bus on a pitstop, that was to change the lives of two watching women...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital Pigment
Portrait of Sean Connery with Hand Signature - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Sean Connery is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1990s.
Hand signed by the author.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Hibiscus - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 35х53
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater photograph of a beautiful naked female on black background. The bright red scarf covers model's head and shoulders leaving open her beautiful butt and legs.
Original ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Moonlight - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 26x35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A beautiful and sophisticated underwater photograph of a young naked woman on her back on the bottom of the pool. This is a monochrome photograph close to black and white with rea...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Los Sueños by James Sparshatt. Framed Palladium Platinum Photograph
Located in Coltishall, GB
Dreams of a moment…
James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people lost in the rhythm of the moment.
The work is available as silver g...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Platinum
Elizabeth II and Elizabeth the Queen Mother - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Elizabeth II and Elizabeth the Queen Mother is a black and white vintage press print, realized in 1960s.
The photo depicts an official moment of the English Crown. Elizabeth II an...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Moonlight IV - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 24x18"
By Alex Sher
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 the photo IV from the Moonlight series.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print signed by the author.
Limited edition of 24
Paper size: 24x18"
Image size: 23.5x17"
The artwork is furnished with certificate of authenticity, signed by artist with artist's name, edition number, edition limit, and other details.
The photograph has been exhibited at:
2023 LA Art Show (Los Angeles, US)
2023 Beverly Hills Art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Beach Shower- Signed limited edition nude art print, Contemporary photo, Model
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Beach Shower - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 5
The setting sun behind the girl under the shower brings out the water droplets
This is an Archival Pig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Archival Pigment, Pigment, Phot...
Gianni Morandi and Catherine Spaak - Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi and Catherine Spaak is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1986.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of M.P. de Narducci - Vintage Photograph - 1916
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of M.P. de Narducci is a is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1916.
The photo is glued on brown cardboard. Total dimensions: 29 x 21 cm.
Good conditions and age...
Category
1910s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Hot Champagne - underwater nude photograph - print on aluminum 8 x 12"
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
Metal
Before the War
By Amy Friend
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In the Dare alla Luce series, I initially responded to a collection of vintage photographs, retrieved from a variety of sources both personal and anonymous. Through hand-manipulated ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Portrait Herbert von Karajan - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait Herbert von Karajan is an original photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Rivers of the Far West - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Rivers of the Far West is a colour vintage photo, realized in 1980s.
The photo depicts steamboat Mark Twain and canoes passing Big Thunder Mountain and Phantom Manor in Euro Disneyl...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Family Portait - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Family Portrait is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1970s.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments, places...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Aldo Maccione and Ida di Benedetto - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Aldo Maccione and Ida di Benedetto is a vintage photo, realized in the 1970s.
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Cooper's Hawk VI & II - sharp, detailed, figurative, bird, pigment photograph
By Deborah Samuel
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The stunning beauty of the Cooper Hawk is celebrated in this double image of the bird taken by photographer Deborah Samuel. Part of her series titled, ‘Th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Queen Elizabeth in Schefferville - Vintage Press Print - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elizabeth in Schefferville is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1950s.
The photo depicts an official moment of the English Crown. The Queen Elizabeth visit Scheffer...
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Ancient Temple - Acropolis - Vintage Photograph - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Ancient Temple is a is a silver salt vintage photo, realized in the Late 19th Century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nost...
Category
Early 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Water Lily - underwater photograph - archival pigment print 18x24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater photograph of a gorgeous girl with dark hair in red dress.
Original gallery quality print on archival metallic paper signed by the artist.
Paper size: 18" x 24"
Image siz...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Untitled (Nr. 4017) Photography 36" x 44" Edition of 12 by Rowan Daly
By Rowan Daly
Located in Culver City, CA
Untitled (Nr. 4017) Photography 36" x 44" Edition of 12 by Rowan Daly
Unframed - ships rolled in a tube
Ben Cope + Rowan Daly Off the Grid
Off the Grid is the culmination of a s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Spring
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
Disco Concr (Disco, Disco Ball, Black and White, Shiny, Concrete, Floor)
By David Pugh
Located in Kansas City, MO
David Pugh
Disco Concrete
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta, 100% Cotton Fibre, 315 gsm, Acid and Lignin free, ISO 9706 conform / museum quality for highest age r...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Untitled 3
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
The Acrobats - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Acrobats is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1950s.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments, places, f...
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - Yazid Belkocem - Vintage Photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo -Yazid Belkocem is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical album including histori...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Abbe Lane - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The American Actress and Singer Abbe Lane posing in a swimsuit at the seaside.
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Euro Disney Resort - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Euro Disney Resort is a color vintage photo, realized in 1980s.
The photo depicts the Sequoia Lodge guest room.
Good conditions and aged.
...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Formula 1 Ferrari - Fernando Alonso, Signed limited edition still life, Race
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Formula 1 Ferrari - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 2011 - Edition of 5
Formula 1 , Preseason test, 2011 , Barcelona, Spain.
Fernando Alonso for Ferrari
Photo/R...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Color, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pig...
The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet - Vintage photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Venice, The Actress Barbara Bouchet during a break from the making of the movie "Replica di un delitto" by Silvio Amadio.
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Piero Braglia - Vintage Photo - 1980s
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 Roberto Boninsegna - 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 the Soccer Players Savoldi e Braglia - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Copyright by Agenzia Giornalistica Italia.
Very good condition.
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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 Giacinto Facchetti - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Copyright by Olympia.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of the Soccer Players Spinosi and Boninsegna - 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 Giuseppe Savoldi - 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 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
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
Portrait of Johan Cruyff - Vintage Photo - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph depicting Johan Cryuff while training.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Johan Cruyff - Vintage Photo - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph of Johann Cruyff while playing.
Copyright Agenzia Giornalistica Italia.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Gaetano Scirea - 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
Paolo Rossi in Action - 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 Fabio Capello - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Very good condition.
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Portrait of Antonio Cabrini - 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 Gaetano Scirea - 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 the Soccer Players Savoldi and Pecci - 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
Paolo Pulici in Action - 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
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
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