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
Vintage Photo of Painting - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of Painting is a vintage photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
The photo belongs to Albumen of historical painting, photographs, meticulously captured.
Good...
Category
Early 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - Lekhder - Vintage photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Lekhder is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions
It belongs to a historical album including historical moments, roya...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Photo of Painting - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of Painting is a vintage photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
The photo belongs to Albumen of historical painting, photographs, meticulously captured.
Good...
Category
Early 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Old Days - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old Days - is a vintage photo, realized in the Mid-20th Century .
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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
Vintage Photo of Painting - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of Painting is a vintage photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
The photo belongs to Albumen of historical painting, photographs, meticulously captured.
Good...
Category
Early 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Painter Franco Gentilini - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old Days is a vintage photo, realized in the Mid-20th Century.
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bamboo Sticks in Sudan - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bamboo Sticks in Sudan is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century by M. Venieris.
Category
Early 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Del Pelo Pardi - Historical Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Del Pelo Pardi - Historical Photo 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
Old Days - Portrait of M.Me Gilles with her Dog - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of M.Me Gilles with her dog is a vintage photo, realized in the Mid-20th Century .
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - T. Boularoug - Vintage photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - T. Boularoug is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical album including historic...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Rio de Janeiro View - Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Rio de Janeiro View is a Vintage b/w Photograph, realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Stamped on the rear.
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Havana Cuba - Historical Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Havana 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...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Gianni Morandi - Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - Algeria, General Morin - Vintage photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo -Algeria, General Morin is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions
It belongs to a historical album including historical...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - Lawyer Sherif and Ben Bella - Vintage Photo-mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Lawyer Sherif and Ben Bella is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Italian Former President Giovanni Leone - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Italian Former President Giovanni Leone is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1970s.
It belongs to a historical album including historical moments, royal families, an...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bourbon (Suburbia) featuring Louis Ferreira, analog, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bourbon (Suburbia) - 2004
Edition of 2/5,
60x80cm.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist
based on the Polaroid,
mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection.
Artist Inventor...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
Batman
By Nick Veasey
Located in PARIS, FR
A man with x-ray vision, Nick Veasey creates art that shows what it is really like inside.
Original artwork.
C print, diasec Framed. Signed and numbered out of 25.
Accompanied with ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
$5,200 Sale Price
37% Off
Cubans Rebels - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Cubans rebels 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, meticulo...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - Protests in Cuba - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo- Protests in Cuba is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical moment and poli...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Mrs. Gilles - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old Days - Historical Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the Early 20th Century.
Good conditions.
Category
Early 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - Fouchet Fares, Algeria - Vintage Photo - mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Fouchet Fares, Algeria is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical album includin...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Cara- Figurative photo, Limited edition sensual print, Black white, Square photo
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘ Cara ‘
Photographed in Paris, this is...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Archival Pigment, Pigment
People Leaving Cuba - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
People Leaving Cuba 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, me...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Wim Wenders - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Wim Wnders is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The British Actor Stewart Granger - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Photo showing the actor leaving for Morocco where Verrano completed filming of the movie. In the company of his wife and director Robert Aldrich .
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Mrs. Gilles - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Mrs. Gilles is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the Early 20th Century.
Good conditions.
Category
Early 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Nude Reflection - Historical Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude reflection - Historical Photo 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
Historical Photo - Firemen - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo -Fire 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 histori...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Manuela 4 - Photograph By Roberto Vignoli - 2006
Located in Roma, IT
Light painting technique, realized in a completly dark photographic studio, where the photographer manually "paint" by torch with light of different colours, the subjects and the ba...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo- Janos Kadar and Mikhail Andreyevich - photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo- Janos Kadar and Mikhail Andreyevich is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century, consultative Meeting in Budapest.
Good conditions and age...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - Havana Cuba - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Havana is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical moment and political even...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Violence Between Pro- Castro ad Anti- Castro, Cuba - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Violence Between Pro- Castro ad Anti- Castro, Cuba is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip - Photograph - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip is a vintage b/w photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Stamped on the rear.
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Santiago (Cuba), Requisition of oil Refineries - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Santiago (Cuba), Requisition of oil Refineries is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical mome...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - Mohammed Khider - Vintage photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Mohammed Khider is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical album including histor...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - BenKhedda - Vintage photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Ben Khedda is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical album including historical moments, r...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - Panorama - Vintage Photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo -Panorama 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 his...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - Cubans - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo -Cubans in 1960s is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical moment and politi...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - Avanti - Vintage Photo - mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo- Avanti 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 histo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven) - Landscape, Horse, Boys
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven). Part of the 29 Palms, CA project. - 2006,
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs,
archival C-Print,
based on the Polaroid.
Signat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Mrs. Gilles - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old Days - Historical Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the Early 20th Century.
Good conditions.
Category
Early 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - Mother and Child - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Mother and Child is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions, with some decoloration spots and aged margins.
It belongs to a histo...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - Ben Barker - Vintage Photo - mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo- Ben Barker 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 ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo- Abderrahmane Fares - Vintage Photo - mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo- Abderrahmane Fares is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
Fair conditions, with some decoloration spots and aged margins.
It belong...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - Armenian Earthquake - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo -Armenian Earthquake is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1988.
Good conditions, with some decoloration spots and aged margins.
It belongs to a hist...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - Players in Buenos Aires - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo -Players in Buenos Aires is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions, with some decoloration spots and aged margins.
It belongs to a...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Alberto Sordi - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Alberto Sordi is a vintage photo, realized in the 1960s.
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Luchino Visconti - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Old Days - On The Stage is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Prof. Christiaan Barnard - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Prof. Christiaan Barnard is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Waking-up - Women, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative, Photograph
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Waking up'
(The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2016
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature label,...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid
Prof. Christiaan Barnard and President Sandro Pertini - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Prof. Christiaan Barnard and President Sandro Pertini is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Stocking -Signed limited edition print, Black white photo, Contemporary, Sexy
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Stockings - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 5
This image was captured on film in 1982.
This print that is being offered is a high-quality Archival...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Black and White, Pigment, Archival Pi...
Tina Turner at hungry-i, San Francisco, 1967
By Baron Wolman
Located in Westwood, NJ
A very special Platinum Palladium artist proof (AP) print of Tina Turner performing at the Hungry-i in San Francisco on November 23rd 1967 which was to became the cover of Rolling S...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Platinum
The Beatles in Concert - Historical Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
The Beatle in Concert is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Bud Burkhart as William Penn at the Three Arches, Levittown, PA"
By David Graham
Located in Astoria, NY
David Graham (American, XX), "Bud Burkhart as William Penn at the Three Arches, Levittown, PA", Chromogenic Print in Colors, 1993, titled to reverse lower left, numbered edition "12/...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Old Days - In Pose - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old Days - In Pose is a vintage photograph realized in the Mid 20th Century.
The photo belongs to Albumen of historical photographs, meticulously captured.
Good conditions and aged
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Miranda Martino - Vintage Photo - 1970s - price?
Located in Roma, IT
Miranda Martino is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s 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.