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
"Salle Labrouste I", photography by Reinhard Gorner (50x50'), 2018
Located in Paris, France
Photograph of the salle Labrouste in Paris, France by Reinhard Görner.
Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin. Two weeks manufacturing time, then shipping...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Resin, Plexiglass, Color, Digital Pigment
The Italian Actress Lea Massari - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Lea Massari.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress Lea Massari - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Lea Massari on the set of a movie.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Lady Blandfort opens Antique Dealers' Fair - Vintage Photograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Lady Blandfort opens Antique Dealers' Fair is a black and white vintage photo, realized in June 10th 1964.
The photo depicts the Marchioness of Blandford viewing exhibits after ope...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
John and Yoko Kimonos Bed Laugh, NYC, 1980
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Allan Tannenbaum
"John and Yoko Kimonos Bed Laugh, NYC, 1980"
C-Print
Paper size: 10 7/8 x 13 7/8 Inches
Image Size: 8 5/8 x 13 7/8
Edition Number: From ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
$1,749 Sale Price
30% Off
Arbus, Composition, Diane Arbus, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
By Diane Arbus
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Diane Arbus, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1979. Published by Unite...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
The Chapel - Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Chapel 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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Eduardo De Filippo - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Eduardo De Filippo 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, pla...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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
Slow Motion (blue) - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A beautiful and mysterious underwater photograph of a young naked woman slowly falling down through the pool water. Her strong body drops a bizarre shadow on the bottom of the pool ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
The Italian Actress Lea Massari - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Lea Massari.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet. 25-4-1970
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Indian Motorcycle Yippee
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nick Vedros
Indian Motorcycle Yippee
Archival Pigment Print Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta 325 gsm
Year: 1990s
Size: 8x12in
Edition: 12
Signed, dated and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
$790 Sale Price
39% Off
Via dell'Argilla, Rome - Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Via dell'Argilla, Rome" is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th century .
The photo depicts a violent thunderstorm in "Via dell'Argilla", near San Peter, in Rome....
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Blue Fall - underwater photograph - archival pigment print 17x22"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
"Blue Fall" exemplifies contemporary underwater fine art photography, merging surrealism with dynamic motion capture. In this ethereal composition, a figure ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Historical Photo - Africa Dove - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Africa Dove is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 20th century, Photo of Night of Trip by Alberto Moravia.
Good conditions, with some decoloration s...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress Lea Massari - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Lea Massari on the set of a movie.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Canada's New Flag - Vintage photo - 1965
Located in Roma, IT
Canada's new flag is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1965.
The photo depicts the new maple leaf flag of Canada, red on white, flying over the entrance to Canada House, ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Greenpeace demonstration on "The Top of Europe" - Vintage Photograph - 1989
Located in Roma, IT
Greenpeace demonstration on "The Top of Europe" is a black and white vintage photo, realized in September 22th. 1989.
The photo depicts two Japanese tourists flash v-signs posing f...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Fred Astaire and Ray Noble - Vintage Photo - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of Fred Astaire, realized in the mid-20th Century.
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi in a seductive pose.
Lighty damaged.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Memento Mori – Cup, Platter in Baby Lamb Carcass
Located in Kansas City, MO
Edition: 25
Signed, dated and numbered in ink on label affixed verso
Other sizes available upon request
COA provided
In Sherman's photographs she is experimenting with groupings of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Digital
John Lennon & Yoko Ono 1980
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Allan Tannenbaum
"John Lennon & Yoko Ono 1980"
Inkjet print
Paper size: 19 x 13 Inches
Image Size: 12 7/8 x 8 5/8
Edition Number: From the second edition of 200
Editions:
First edition of 200 (C-print Colors, Silver gelatin print - Black & white) 1988
Second edition of 200 - Ink Jet Print (Giclee) - 2000
Third edition of 50 - C-Print & Silver gelatin print - 2007 - 2008
Signed, Numbered, Titled & dated in pencil by the artist.
Condition: In Excellent Condition
Provenance: All of our Allan Tannenbaum prints come from The Williams Gallery (via William Back) which was the exclusive representative of Allan Tannenbaum from 1980 to 2006
About the John Lennon collection: In November 1980, on the eve of John Lennon's untimely murder by a lone gunman, photographer Allan Tannenbaum had unique and total access to John and Yoko...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Inkjet
$1,199 Sale Price
20% Off
The Italian Actress Lea Massari - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Lea Massari on the set of a movie.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Antonella Lualdi - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Plate with Antler, Flowers, Egg Shells, Onions and Fish (Memento Mori)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Archival Pigment Print
Year: 2015
Signed, dated and numbered in ink on label affixed verso
Other sizes available upon request
COA provided
arita, aritaware, bones, ceramic Sculpture, ceramics, china paint, chinapaint, chris anteman, contemporary ceramics, contemporary porcelain, death, decal, deer, ephemerality, etagere, excess, futility of pleasure, georg flegel, glaze, gold luster, Herend, ilona romule, imari, imariware, jingdezhen, limoges, meissen porcelain, memento mori, Mortality salience, old masters, pattern, photography, porcelain, sevres, Sic transit gloria mundi, skull, still life painting, Ubi sunt, underglaze, vanitas, vanitatum, vera mercer...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tennessee Williams (Polaroid Transfer of American Playwright his Reflection)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
image size: 8 x 10 inches
Portrait of Tennessee Williams
Unique Polaroid Transfer on 22 x 15 inch Rives BFK paper, unframed
signed SM Beard in penci...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Polaroid
Terlingua conference
By Chris Regas
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, titled and dated in pencil on print verso.
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Italian Actress Lea Massari - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Lea Massari with Ferruccio De Ceresa.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Early Morning (an atmospheric sense of a lone figure in Hoi An, Vietnam)
By Benno Thoma
Located in New Orleans, LA
This colorful image is of a lone woman trying to navigate the street of an old Vietnamese town. Hội An is a city on Vietnam’s central coast known for its well-p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
The Italian Actress Lea Massari - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Lea Massari on the set of a movie.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress Lea Massari - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Lea Massari.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Italian Workers in Lebanese Town of Zahle - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Italian Workers in Lebanese Town of Zahle is an original photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Palazzo dello Sport, Rome - Vintage Photograph - Second Half 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Palazzo dello Sport, Rome is a black and white vintage photo, realized in second half 20th Century
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album includin...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress Nicoletta Machiavelli - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Nicoletta Machiavelli during a break.
Photo by Guido Di Domenico.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of a Woman- Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a Woman 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, pl...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet - Vintage Photograph - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Rome, 20 ottobre 1972.
The Actress Barbara Bouchet during "Canzonissima 72".
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Coretta Scott King - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Coretta Scott King is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1960s.
Good conditions and aged.
Copyright by Rizzoli Press, Milan.
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet - Vintage Photograph - 1986
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Rome, 13.3.86, The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet presents his TV program"Body body".
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Dinner Party #5 – Miles Aldridge, Woman, Fashion, Erotic, Model, Flowers, Food
Located in Zurich, CH
Miles ALDRIDGE (*1964, Great Britain)
Dinner Party #5, 2009
Chromogenic print
Image 67.5 x 101.5 cm (26 5/8 x 40 in.)
Sheet 77.5 x 111.5 cm (30 1/2 x 43 7/8 in.)
Edition of 10, plus...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Napoli - via Caracciolo e via Partenope - Vintage Photo - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Napoli - via Caracciolo e via Partenope is a black and white vintage photo, realized in mid 20th Century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album i...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Hommage a Yves Klein - The Violin Player
Located in New York, NY
Nicole Furman is a multimedia artist, body painter and photographer from Bogotá, Colombia. Having studied a range of art practices from body painting and performance to art history ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Plexiglass
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
The French Actress Claudine Auger - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The French Actress Claudine Auger on the set of the movie "Escalation".
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress Enrica Bonaccorti - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Enrica Bonaccorti
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi with Lando Buzzanc-Vintage Photograph-1969
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi with Laudo Buzzanca in a scene of "Un caso di coscienza". 15-10-1969
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress Serena Grandi and Maurizio Costa- Vintage Photograph - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo realized in 1990s.
Good condition, slightly blur.
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Indonesian Landscape - Vintage photo - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Indonesian 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 histor...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress Simona Izzo - Vintage Photograph - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Simona Izzo with her sister Rossella Izzo.
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The French Actor Henry Vidal - Vintage photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Elton John's Certificate of Marriage 1984 - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Elton John certificate of marriage 1984 is a black and white photograph realized in 1984
The photograph depicts Elton John Rock superstar and his bride Rena...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - Anniversary of Krupp, Western Germany - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Anniversary of Krupp, Western Germany is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century, 150 anniversary of Krupp.
Good conditions and aged.
I...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Back to the Future (1985 Film) - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Back to the Future (1985 Film) is a black and white photograph realized in 1985
Vintage Photo depicting Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd in a sc...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Salle Sauvage- Staged Representation of the "Primitive Room" by Michael Odent
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Salle Sauvage" is part of international artist, Natalie Lennard's series Birth Undisturbed.
“The bearing of children ought to become as free from danger and long debility to civilised woman as it is to the savage.”— Thomas Huxley ‘Salle Sauvage’ translates to ‘primitive room’, a term coined by renowned obstretician Michel Odent in reference to his hospital in Pithiviers, France, with rooms designed to accommodate the primal instincts of labouring women. Here, a glass Cube set within the urban landscape of London becomes a metaphor for Odent’s primitive room and a woman’s connection with nature through homebirth. It is as though the walls of a living room have become transparent admitting our spectatorship into the private space of a birthing woman, perhaps for our enlightenment as well as vicariousness. “Buscar la forma” say the women of the Yucatan in Mexico, meaning to find your style, in contrast to the Western medical model...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Satin Paper, Digital
John Lennon, NYC 1980
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Allan Tannenbaum
"John Lennon, NYC 1980"
C-Print
Paper size: 13 7/8 x 11 7/8 Inches
Image Size: 12 3/4 x 8 5/8
Edition Number: From the first edition of 200
Editions:
First edition ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
$1,499 Sale Price
25% Off
Court - Vintage Photograph - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Court is a vintage black and white photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions.
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sabina Guzzanti - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Sabina Guzzanti is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Rue Muller Willy Ronis Twentieth Century Humanist photography Paris black white
By Willy Ronis
Located in Paris, FR
One of the most famous members of the Humanist photography in France.
Signed lower right by the artist.
Stamp of the artist's studio on the back.
Category
1930s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Painting and Sculpture, Shepherd Gallery
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print
Signed, titled and dated, verso of mount
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Over the course of more than two decades, Bruce Crats...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled. Photography, 30.5x45.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Untitled
Photography, 30.5x45.5 cm
Atis Ievins (1946)
The exhibition by artist Atis Ieviņš reminds the very origins of serigraphy technique in Latvian art in the time of the 1970’s...
Category
1990s 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.