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
Iva Zanicchi Singing - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Iva Zanicchi Singing is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - Gilgamesh Theater - Vintage Photo - 1992
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Gilgamesh Theater is a black and white vintage photo, realized by Corado Maria Falsini in 1992.
It belongs to a historical album including historical moments, ro...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$71 Sale Price
25% Off
Professor Barnard and his Wife - Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Professor Barnard and his Wife is an original black and white photograph realized in 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$89 Sale Price
25% Off
Little Tony - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Little Tony is a vintage photograph realized in the 1970s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the music, cinema, and art of Italy with celebrities of the 1970s and 1980s.
...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Women Movement and Rights - Historical Photo -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 belongs to an album of women rights, protests, manifestation fo...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$89 Sale Price
25% Off
The Old Days - Historical Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$62 Sale Price
25% Off
Sunbathing On Capri 1980 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sunbathing On Capri
Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers – along with Elisabetta Catalano, Charlotte Ticken and Pamela Grupas – on the island of Capri, Italy, in August 1980...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Emilio Lussu - Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Emilio Lussu is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$80 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
Materials
Photographic Paper
$71 Sale Price
25% Off
Robin Williams in Peter Weir's Dead Poets Society - Photo - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
Robin Williams in Peter Weir's Dead Poets Society is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1987.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$179 Sale Price
25% Off
Portrait of Amedeo Nazzari - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Amedeo Nazzari is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$80 Sale Price
25% Off
Alain Delon 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
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$161 Sale Price
25% Off
The Old Days - Historical Photo - The Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and ...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Massimo Salvadori e Rosario Villari - Photo - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Massimo Salvadori e Rosario Villari is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Emilio Lussu - Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Emilio Lussu is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Trout - Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
The Trout is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$53 Sale Price
25% Off
Alitalia - Historical Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Alitalia - Historical Photos is a vintage photograph realized in the 1970s.
This photo belongs to a precious testament album of Italian airline.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
'Carlton Hotel' OVERSIZE Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Carlton Hotel'
The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958.
A couple dressed elegantly in all white tennis outfits with rackets in hand, wander past the entrance to t...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Talitha and Paul Getty Jr.- Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Talitha and Paul Getty Jr. is a vintage photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$125 Sale Price
25% Off
Historical Photo - Portrait - Vintage Photo - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Portrait is a vintage photo, realized in the late 19th Century .
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$89 Sale Price
25% Off
Women's Rights Movement 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
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$71 Sale Price
25% Off
'Dance Class' 1959 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Dance Class'
Premium Rates Apply. June 1959: Children at Mrs William de Rham's Dancing Class held at the River Club, New York. L to r, Arturo Ramos Jnr, Constance Rogers, Stephen C...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Women's Rights Movement - Historical Photo -1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Women's Rights - 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 for their r...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$67 Sale Price
25% Off
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
Japanese Women in Tokyo - Original Albumen Print - 1880s/90s
Located in Roma, IT
Japanese women in Tokyo is an original vintage Albumen print hand colored, on single cardboard: 26 x 34 cm.
Realized between the 1880s and the early 18...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Life in Italy in 1960s - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Life in Italy in the 1960s is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the cultural and artistic events in Italy in t...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo 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
$71 Sale Price
25% Off
March - Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
March is an vintage black and white photograph realized in the Mid-20th Century,
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$125 Sale Price
25% Off
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi - Photo- 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress Ornella Muti - Vintage Photograph - Early 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Ornella Muti in a scene from "Private Access", a 1989 Italian drama Film by Francesco Maselli.
Lightly blurry.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$93 Sale Price
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Princess Alexandra of Kent - Historical Photo - 1928
Located in Roma, IT
Princess Alexandra - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1928. It belongs to historical album including photo repor...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Portrait 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
Slim Aarons 'Swimmer And Sunbather' 1959 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Swimmer And Sunbather'
An underwater swimmer and a sunbather at the Cal Neva Lodge on the shore of Lake Tahoe, 1959. The Cal Neva resort and casino straddles the border between Ne...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mao Zedong Funeral - Vintage Photo - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Mao Zedong Funeral is a vintage photo, realized in the 1976.
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$80 Sale Price
25% Off
The Old Days - Interior - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Interior is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and poli...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$58 Sale Price
25% Off
'Social Call' Acapulco 1972 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Social Call' Acapulco 1972 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Charley Weaver at the Las Brisas resort in Acapulco, Mexico, 1972.
A new Archive discovery.
The beautiful young soci...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Life in Italy in 1960s - Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Life in Italy in the 1960s is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the cultural and artistic events in Italy in t...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$80 Sale Price
25% Off
Historical Places Photo- Lynton and Lynmouth - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Places Photo- Lynton and Lynmouth is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century. It belongs to historical album including masterpieces of historic...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Exhibition- Culture in Italy- Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Exhibition - Life in Italy in 1960s is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the cultural and artistic events in ...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days - Historical Photo - 1938
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1938.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and political even...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Photo of Painting - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of Painting is a vintage silver salt photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and political...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
'Skiing Waiters' Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons 'Skiing Waiters'
Three skiing waiters on a ski slope, with the man in the foreground carrying a bird on a tray, the second man carrying a bottle of wine in an ice bucke...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Maria de Friar Church - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Maria de Friar Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously ...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$58 Sale Price
25% Off
The Old Days Photo - Queen Elizabeth - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days Photo - Queen Elizabeth is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
It belongs to a historical album including historical moments, royal fam...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Landscape - Vintage photo - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a vintage photo, realized in the 19th Century .
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
'Funk In Tuscany' 1969 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Funk In Tuscany' 1969 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Italian fashion designer, model and socialite, Marta Marzotto (1931 - 2016), playing a James Brown album on an Itali...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color
Historical Photo - Portrait of Aurelio Mistruzzi - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Portrait of Aurelio Mistruzzi 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
$134 Sale Price
25% Off
Italian Fascism Era - Litwinoff - Mussolini - Vintage Photo - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Italian Fascism Era - Litwinoff - Mussolini is a vintage photo, realized in the 1930s .
By Agence Trampus.
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$251 Sale Price
25% Off
Vintage Photo of Painting - Portrait of Livia Simonetti - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of Painting - Portrait of Livia Simonetti is a vintage photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
The photo belongs to Albumen of historical painting, photograph...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Alitalia - Historical Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Alitalia - Historical Photos is a vintage photograph realized in the 1970s.
This photo belongs to a precious testament album of Italian airline.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$161 Sale Price
25% Off
Alitalia - Historical Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Alitalia - Historical Photos is a vintage photograph realized in the 1970s.
This photo belongs to a precious testament album of Italian airline.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$161 Sale Price
25% Off
Alitalia - Historical Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Alitalia - Historical Photos is a vintage photograph realized in the 1970s.
This photo belongs to a precious testament album of Italian airline.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$143 Sale Price
25% Off
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Cortina d'Ampezzo
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cortina d'Ampezzo
Skiers at Cortina D’Ampezzo in Italy, 1962.
Gorgeous print measuring 40 x 40" inches / ca 101.6 x 101.6 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Relaxing in Lech
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Relaxing in Lech
A group of people sitting in the sun at the Gasthof Post hotel in the Austrian ski resort of Lech, 1960.
Paper Size 24x20 inch...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Physical Education at School - Vintage b/w Photo - 1934 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo from Fascist period in Italy, by Studio Gherlone, Torino.
Very good condition.
Category
1930s Modern 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 Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$80 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
Materials
Photographic Paper
$71 Sale Price
25% Off
Fishermen in Napoli - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Fishermen in Napoli is a vintage photo, realized in the Early 20th Century.
Fair condition.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Women Working at Italtel -New Technologies - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Women Working Italtel -New Technologies in the 1970s is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s in Italy
Good conditions an aged.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$89 Sale Price
25% Off
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