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
Old days Photo - Goddess - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old days Photo - Goddess 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 hi...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - Portrait - Vintage Photo - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Portrait is a vintage photo, realized in the late 19th Century by Fermanelli & Betti Studio. .
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
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19th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - Portrait of Enrico Tamberlik - Vintage Photo - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Portrait of Portrait of Enrico Tamberlik is a vintage photo, realized in the 19th Century .
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
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19th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons 'Poolside Friendship' (Mid-Century Modern Photography)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Nelda Linsk (left, in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk with guests by the pool at the Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, January 1970. At centre, left is actress Lita Baro...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Historical Photo - Michel Scembri - Vintage photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Michel Scembri 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 Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ayatollah Khomeini - Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Ayatollah Khomeini is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$71 Sale Price
25% Off
Stewart Granger and Caroline LeCerf - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Stewart Granger and Caroline LeCerf in Via Veneto Rome .
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$143 Sale Price
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes 1969
A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tows a waterskier, in the sea off the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Rivi...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
NEW: Slim Aarons 'Safari Party at Romanoff's' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests at a fancy dress party held at the Romanoff Restaurant in Hollywood, Los Angeles in 1950.
Slim Aarons
Safari Party at Romanoff's, 1950
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stampe...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Sunbathing In Barbados' 1976 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Sunbathing In Barbados'
The former Pauline Haywood sunbathing on a lilo in a swimming pool designed by English artist Oliver Messel, Barbados,...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Skiing At St. Moritz' 1978 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Skiing At St. Moritz'
Skiers on a slope in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1978.
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Sl...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Catching The Sun In Cortina' 1976 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Catching The Sun In Cortina'
Giuliana Gerolinetto, Maria Cristina Giaconelli, Marina Aletti and Cristina Gerolinetto bask in the sun of an open terrace at El Toula, overlooking Co...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'On The Slopes Of Sugarbush' 1960 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'On The Slopes Of Sugarbush'
A group of people relaxing at the chalet of stockbroker A Albert Sack Jr, at the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort in Warren, Vermont, circa 1960.
40 x 3...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Poolside In Kenya' 1958 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside In Kenya'
A woman sits at the edge of a swimming pool in Kenya, December 1958.
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Phot...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Sunbathing In Antibes'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Sunbathing In Antibes
1976 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Dani Geneux (left) and Marie-Eugenie Gaudfri...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Historical Photo of Prison Carinola - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison Carinola is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$53 Sale Price
25% Off
Historical Places Photo- Old Folkestone - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Places Photo- Folkestone is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century. It belongs to historical album including masterpieces of historical places...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$89 Sale Price
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Galyn Görg - 1985
Located in Roma, IT
Galyn Görg is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1985.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
War in Algeria - Historical Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
War in Algeria - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photograph realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical events and p...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$53 Sale Price
25% Off
Vintage Photo of Painting - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of Painting is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$49 Sale Price
25% Off
The Italian Actress and Singer Loretta Goggi - Photo- 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian singer and actress Loretta Goggi with Antonio Fattorini
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$53 Sale Price
25% Off
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
25% Off
Vintage Photo of Painting by F. Gioli - Mother and Children - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of Painting - Mother and Children is a vintage photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
The photo belongs to Album of historical paintings, meticulously captur...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
'Palm Springs Party' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Palm Springs Party'
A poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, in Palm Springs, January 1970. Featured...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Italian Actress and Singer Loretta Goggi - Photo- 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian singer and actress Loretta Goggi with Antonio Fattorini
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$53 Sale Price
25% Off
Life In Italy 1960s - Historical Photos -1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Life in Italy 1960s - 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
$62 Sale Price
25% Off
In the Garden - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
In the Garden is a vintage photo, realized in the Early 20th Century .
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$80 Sale Price
25% Off
The Old Days - Woman in Hollandaise Costume - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Woman in Hollandaise Costume is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, roya...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$62 Sale Price
25% Off
Women's Rights Movement - Historical Photo -1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Women's Rights Movement - Historical Photos is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s in Italy, it belongs to an album of women rights, protests, manifestation fo...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$58 Sale Price
25% Off
The Cityscape - Photograph after Painting - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Cityscape - Photograph after Painting is a vintage black and white photographof an artwork realized in the 1960s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the cultural and a...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days - Smoking - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Smoking Elderly is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, a...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Women's Rights Movement - Historical Photos -1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Women's Rights - Historical Photos is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s in Italy, it belongs to an album of women rights, protests, manifestation for their r...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$58 Sale Price
25% Off
Jean-Paul Belmondo and Gina Lollobrigida in Mare Matto - Photo - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Jean-Paul Belmondo and Gina Lollobrigida in Mare Matto is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1963.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$170 Sale Price
25% Off
Vintage Photo of Painting - Gladiator by Jean Léon Jerome - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of Painting - Gladiator Jean Léon Jerome is a vintage silver salt photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
Some foxing and missing...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
General Raoul Salan- Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
General Raoul Salan is a black and white vintage photograph realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical events and political issues...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Mick Jagger- Historical Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Mick Jagger is a photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Photo of a Painting by Giuseppe Raggio - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of a Painting by Giuseppe Raggio is a vintage photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
The photo belongs to Albumen of historical painting, photographs, meticu...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Women's Rights Movement - Historical Photo -1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Women's Rights Movement - Historical Photos is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s in Italy, it belongs to an album of women rights, protests, manifestation fo...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$58 Sale Price
25% Off
Women's Rights Movement - Historical Photo -1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Women's Rights Movement - Historical Photos is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s in Italy, it belongs to an album of women rights, protests, manifestation fo...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Women's Work - Historical Photos -1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Women's Work - Historical Photos is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1950s in Italy, it belongs to an album of women rights, protests, manifestation for their rig...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$62 Sale Price
25% Off
Decorative Frieze of Nude at Beach
Located in Greenwich, CT
This marvelous photograph taken by Eleanor Park Custis is an iconic nude reflecting trends in the late 1920's and 1930's with the female form in art. In dance and the applied arts -...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Bromoil
Vintage Photo of a Painting by Antonio Peltrinelli- Photo - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of a Painting by Antonio Peltrinelli is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1940s.
Good conditions.
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$53 Sale Price
25% Off
Vintage Photo of Painting by Tommaso Minardi - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of Painting by Tommaso Minardi is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
The photo belongs to Albumen of historical painting, photo...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
All That Fall - Samuel Beckett play - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
All That Fall - Samuel Beckett play in is an vintage black and white photograph realized in 1964.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$80 Sale Price
25% Off
Portrait of Miranda Martino - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Miranda Martino is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$71 Sale Price
25% Off
Slim Aarons, Sugarbush Chalet
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A group of people relaxing in a chalet in the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort, one of the largest ski resorts in New England, in Warren, Vermont, USA, circa 1960.
Estate stamped and h...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Fred Bongusto - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Fred Bongusto- Vintage Photograph is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Alfredo Antonio Carlo Buongusto (6 April 1935 – 8 November 2019), ...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Vintage Photo of an Orientalist Painting - Cityscape - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of an orientalist Painting - Cityscape is a vintage photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
The photo belongs to Albumen of historical painting, photographs, m...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days Photo - Horse is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$62 Sale Price
25% Off
Barbara Zhollner - Photo- 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Barbara Zhollner is an original black and white photograph realized in 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$71 Sale Price
25% Off
Architecture and Art Photo - Miracoli Church - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - Miracoli Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously captured....
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1920s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$71 Sale Price
25% Off
Jean-Paul Belmondo - Photo - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Jean-Paul Belmondo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1990s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$80 Sale Price
25% Off
A Scene from Full Metal Jacket - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
A Scene from Full Metal Jacket is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1987.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$71 Sale Price
25% Off
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 Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$80 Sale Price
25% Off
'Snowmass Picnic' 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Snowmass Picnic'
1967: A stand-up fondue picnic for fashionable skiers at Snowmass-at-Aspen, Colorado which has more than fifty miles of trails and snowfields. Helicopter in the b...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons, Ski Fashion At Sugarbush
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Ski Fashion At Sugarbush, 1960
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
American socialite and fashion writer Nan Kempner (1...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Alain Delon and Richard Burton in The Assassination of Trotsky - Photo - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Alain Delon in The Assassination of Trotsky is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1972.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$89 Sale Price
25% Off
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Pool In Jamaica
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The covered swimming pool at Stanley Vaughan's home in Montego Bay, Jamaica, March 1970.
Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 40" inches / ca 76.2 x 101.6 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamp...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Anthony Delon , Sophie Duez and Alberto Lattuada in A Thorn - Photo - 1986
Located in Roma, IT
Anthony Delon , Sophie Duez and Alberto Lattuada in A Thorn in the Heart is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Jean-Paul Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale - Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Jean-Paul Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
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.