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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
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...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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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...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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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...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Slim Aarons Penthouse Pool Official Limited Estate Edition Supersize
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 ...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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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 ...
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Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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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.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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Woodcut

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...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

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...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Desert House Party 1970 Official Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
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...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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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.
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1930s Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Slim Aarons 'Actors In Antibes'
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...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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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.
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

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...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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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...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Slim Aarons Estate Print - New England Skiing 1955 - Oversize
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 ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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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...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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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...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

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...
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1980s Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

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...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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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 
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20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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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...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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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...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion IV
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 ...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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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...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

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...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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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.
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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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.
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20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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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...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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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 ...
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2010s Modern Figurative Photography

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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.
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20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

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.
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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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...
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1980s Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

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.
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1980s Modern Figurative Photography

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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...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Slim Aarons Conca dei Marini Limited Estate Edition
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...
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1980s Modern Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Official Estate Stamped Edition - Mara Lane Las Vegas
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 ...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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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...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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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 ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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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 ...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Beach At Saint Tropez 1977 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
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...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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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...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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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...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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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,...
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1980s Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

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...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

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...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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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.
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

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...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

'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...
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1980s Modern Figurative Photography

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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...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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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...
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Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

'Desert House Party' Palm Springs (Slim Aarons Estate Print)
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...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Plantation Cocoyer
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...
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1980s Modern Figurative Photography

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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.
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

'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...
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1980s Modern Figurative Photography

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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...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Slim Aarons 'Speedboat Landing'
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...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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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.
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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Photographic Paper

Slim Aarons 'Holiday in Boston'
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...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography

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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...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

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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.

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