Modern Figurative Photography
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
NEW Slim Aarons 'Palm Beach Fox Hunt' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Hunt followers on horseback among a pack of dogs during a fox hunt, Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons
Palm Beach Fox Hunt
1955
Fiber Print
Estate signature stamped and h...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Meeting - Vintage Photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Meeting is a vintage photo, realized in the early-20th Century
Good conditions.
It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including historical moments, places, families, artw...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days - Hunting - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Hunting is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and polit...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons Penthouse Pool Official Limited Estate Edition Supersize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Penthouse Pool'
Young women by the Canellopoulos penthouse pool, Athens, July 1961.
Paper size 48 x 48 inches / 122 x 122 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ancient Views of Nagasaki - Original Albumen Print - 1880s/90s
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient views of Nagasaki photographs is a set of eight original vintage albumen prints on single cardboard: 26 x 34 cm.
Four images in the front and four on the rear 9 x 13.5 cm
...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ex Libris - Bianca Balbi - Woodcut - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Bianca Balbi is an Artwork in Mid 20th Century.
Woodcut.
Good conditions.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Woodcut
$134 Sale Price
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Industrial City - Photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Industrial city 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 mom...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$125 Sale Price
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Taormina - Photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Taormina is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century.
Good conditions and aged.
The photo depicts the beautiful city of Taormina, one of the most beautiful and...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$89 Sale Price
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Desert House Party 1970 Official Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Desert House Party, 1970
A poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, in Palm Springs, January 1970. Featured in the group are: industrial d...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mussolini Passes in Zapatiè - Vintage Photograph - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
Mussolini Passes in Zapatiè is a black and white vintage photo realized in 1937.
Good condition.
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$268 Sale Price
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Slim Aarons 'Actors In Antibes'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Actors In Antibes
1969 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: August - Actors Kirk Douglas (left), Louis Jourd...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Gianni Morandi - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$125 Sale Price
25% Off
Old days Photo -Twilight in the Mountain - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old days Photo -Twilight in the Mountain is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic al...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Old days Photo - Stony House - vintage photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old days Photo - Stony House is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album includin...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$53 Sale Price
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Slim Aarons Estate Print - New England Skiing 1955 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in New Hampshire, 1955.
Paper size 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
'Bluebird' Rainer W. Schlegelmilch Archive Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
'Bluebird' Rainer W. Schlegelmilch Archive Limited Edition
Fantastic and fantastical, many of the top car manufacturers like Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini etc launched concept cars in the 1970s...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Women's Rights Movement - Historical Photos -1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Women's Rights Movement - Historical Photos is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s in Italy, it belong to album of women rights, protests, manifestation for th...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$71 Sale Price
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Milena Cantu' and F. Leali - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Milena Cantu' and F. Leali is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the music, cinema, and art of Italy with cele...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$134 Sale Price
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Lady's Painting - Vintage Photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lady's Painting is a vintage photo, realized in the early-20th Century
Good conditions and aged
It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including historical moments, places...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Baths of Caracalla - Vintage photo by Ludovico Tuminello - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Baths of Caracalla is a vintage print in salt silver realized by Ludovico Tuminello in the early 20th Century.
Titled on the lower.
Good conditions with some foxing and folding
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
War in Algeria - Urban Life - Historical Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
War in Algeria - Urban Life - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photograph realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Beach Bar circa 1960 Oversize Colour Pigment print
Located in London, GB
The beach of Cecina circa 1960
unknown photographer / Alinari Archives, Italy
Beautiful and giant Archival Pigment print of this gloriously summery and colorful Italian scene.
Produced on heavy Hahanemühle art photo paper.
40x40 in / 101 x 101 cm paper size
Stamped with gallery stamp and comes with certification of providence.
Shipped securely rolled in very strong large tube with Fedex or similar - tracked.
Italy, Italian holiday summer heat colourful color vivid summer...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion IV
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion IV
Guests of American publisher Hugh Hefner enjoying themselves at a party being held at the ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Old days Photo -Farmers - Vintage Photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old days Photo -Farmers is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including h...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$71 Sale Price
25% Off
Vintage Photo of Painting by Pietro Sassi - Landscape - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of Painting by Pietro Sassi - Landscape is a vintage silver salt photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
The photo belongs to Albumen of historical painting, p...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
London Changing of the Guard - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
London changing of the Guard is a photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Drawing a Portrait - Photo- Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Drawing a Portrait is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 20th Century.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Photo of Painting -Little Sleeping Sheperdhess - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of Painting -Little sleeping Sheperdhess by P. Michetti is a vintage photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
The photo belongs to Albumen of historical painti...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christian Rothmann
ROBOTNICS Series
C-Print
2019
Edition S (Edition of 10)
12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered verso
Other Edition Sizes available:
- Edition ...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Paola Borboni and Bruno Vilar - Photo - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Paola Borboni and Bruno Vilar is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1978.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$89 Sale Price
25% Off
Italian Workers in Border - Historical Photos -1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Italian Workers in Border - Historical Photos is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s in Italy.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress Enrica Bonaccorti - Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Enrica Bonaccorti with: Daniel Hallydey, Daniela e Simona D'Angelo, Massimo Franchi, Gianfranco Ingrassia, Massimo Lauzi, Carolina Rosi, Cristiano...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$53 Sale Price
25% Off
Pope John Paul II and General Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
Pope Giovanni Paolo II and General Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1987.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Optical Reader and Synthetic Voice - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Optical reader and synthetic voice is an original black and white photograph realized by an Anonymous photographer.
Typed notes on the rear, the description in Italian.
Good condit...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$107 Sale Price
25% Off
Slim Aarons Conca dei Marini Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Conca dei Marini'
A bay in Conca dei Marini, on the Amalfi coast in Italy, August 1984.
Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Pho...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Stamped Edition - Mara Lane Las Vegas
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Austrian actress Mara Lane posing by the pool at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, in a red and white striped bathing costume, 1954.
40 x 40" inches / 101 ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
' Police Patrol ' 1978 Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Located in London, GB
'Police Patrol' 1978
by Alain Le Garsmeur
Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
A 28th Precinct policeman reads notes in his police patrol car in Harlem, New York City, USA, Apr...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Old Days Photo - Palace - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old days Photo - Palace is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Dizzy Gillespie Playing the Trumpet - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Dizzy Gillespie playing the trumpet is an original black and white photo realized in the 1970s.
The photo depicts John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie trumpet ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Beach At Saint Tropez 1977 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beach At Saint Tropez
Sunbathers on the beach at St. Tropez, France, 1977.
30x20” / 76x51 cm - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printed...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Samba - Vintage Photo by Rubens Barbosa - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Samba is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th Century, by Rubens Barbosa.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including h...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Old days Photo - Burg - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old days Photo - Burg is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including histo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Refugee Children - Vintage b/w Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Refugee Children- Vintage b/w Photo realized by Peter Tatiner in 1980. Copyright by Agenzia Gamma, Paris.
In the photo: Border Cambodia Thailand Refugee children on 28 January 1980,...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$146 Sale Price
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Historical Photo - China - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - China is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1970s.
It belongs to a historical album including historical moments, royal families, and political eve...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$71 Sale Price
25% Off
Old days Photo - Column in San Marco Venice - Vintage Photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old days Photo -Column is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including hist...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni in an elegant pose.
Good condition.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$161 Sale Price
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Historical Photo - BenKhedda - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo-BenKhedda 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 mom...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$71 Sale Price
25% Off
'Honduras Cafè Cars 1981' 1981 Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Located in London, GB
'Cafè Cars' 1981
by Alain Le Garsmeur
Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Taxis outside a cafe in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Central America, 1981.
Paper size : 40x30 inches / 101...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Old days Photo - Castle - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old days Photo - Castle is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including h...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Punto Arenas - Vintage Photograph - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Punto Arenas - Vintage Photograph is a Silver salt print realized in the late 19th Century.
Five photographs, applied on a Passepartout:
Good condition an...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
'Desert House Party' Palm Springs (Slim Aarons Estate Print)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Desert House Party' by Slim Aarons
This photograph was taken during the same party as Slim Aaron's now also iconic 'Poolside Gossip' photograph (see our other listings) and is jus...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Plantation Cocoyer
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Plantation Cocoyer
People relaxing in the bar at Plantation Cocoyer, Cocoyer Beach, Haiti, February 1981.
72 x 48" inches / 183 x 122 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edi...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Charles Aznavour and Milva - Photo- 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Charles Aznavour and Milva is a photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$107 Sale Price
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'Front Step Greeting' 1984 Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Located in London, GB
'Front Step Greeting' 1984
by Alain Le Garsmeur
Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
A Cape Verde immigrant woman carrying a wash basket on her head wa...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Art Museums in The U.S. - Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Art Museums in The U.S. - American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the Mid-20th Century in a series on American life in the 20th C...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$179 Sale Price
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Slim Aarons 'Speedboat Landing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A motor boat arrives at a jetty in Porto Ercole, Italy. August 1973.
Slim Aarons
Speedboat Landing
1973 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda Print (C Print)
Estate stamped and hand nu...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Portrait of Mao Zedong - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Mao Zedong is a vintage photo, realized in the 1970s.
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$71 Sale Price
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Slim Aarons 'Holiday in Boston'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Henry B. Cabot Jr. (in black) with his host Barclay (Buzzy) H Warburton III (in striped shirt) aboard the brigantine 'Black Pearl', circa 1959. They are sailing off North Shore, Bost...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Portrait of Lady - Photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Lady is a Vintage Photograph in the early 20th Century by Debenham Gould in Glen View Studio.
With a Greenish Passepartout and Cover wrote: Debenham Gould, Glen View Stu...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Old days Photo - On the Boat - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old days Photo - On the Boat is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album includ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Modern figurative photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Modern 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 blue, purple, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Slim Aarons, Mark Shaw, Alain Le Garsmeur, and Terry O'Neill. Frequently made by artists working with Digital Print, 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 Modern figurative photography, so small editions measuring 0.79 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 $22 and tops out at $115,000, while the average work sells for $1,800.