Modern Figurative Photography

The Dukes of Windsor- Royal family is a black and white vintage photo, realized by Herbert Kudford in 1936. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical mo...

Architecture and Art Photo - S. Maria dei Miracoli Church  is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulo...

Victor Bockris - "Portrait William S. Burroughs" Iconic photos by Victor Bockris: Portrait of the American novelist William S. Burroughs. Black and whit...

Architecture and Art Photo - S. Agata by Bellini is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously captu...

Modern Science - 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 Century. ...

Architecture and Art Photo - S. Giovanni e Paolo Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulousl...

'Nicaragua Street' by Alain Le Garsmeur Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print Girls and boys on a street in Nicaragua, Central America, 1981. Paper size : 40x30 inches / 101...

Gianni Morandi - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s. Good conditions.

'Helen & Nelda by the Pool' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo (left) talking to Nelda Linsk, wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the...

Vintage Photo. The Actor Cary Grant.

'Green Door, San Francisco' is a dynamic and stylish Archival Inkjet Print by photographer Morgan Silk. It is available in this size of 17" x 23" in an edition of 20. Morgan Silk ...

'Vila Vera' The bar at the Villa Vera Hotel Spa and Racquet Club in Acapulco, January 1968. Paper size 30 x 40 inches / 76 x 102 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 ...

Palazzo dei Cesari is a vintage print in salt silver realized by Ludovico Tuminello in the early 20th Century. Titled on the lower. Good conditions except for some foxing.

Djebel Amour, the vintage photograph is an original vintage photograph realized by an Anonymous photographer. With the typed note of a short description i...

'Crespi And Mastroianni' 1968 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print Italian countess Consuelo Crespi (left, 1928-2010) and Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni (right, 1924 - 1996...

Tightrope Walkers- Vintage b/w Photo realized in the Late 1980s. With the handwriting on the rear. Good conditions. The photograph is captured aesthetically, in an interesting mom...

James Dean in Restroom by Globe Photo Archives Hilarious black and white candid shot of actor James Dean talking on the phone while using the re...

Tightrope Walkers- Vintage b/w Photo realized in the Late 1980s. With the handwriting on the rear. Good conditions. The photograph is captured aesthetically, in an interesting mom...

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...

'Santa Maria Smoke' 1981 by Alain Le Garsmeur Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print Villagers sharing a smoke in Santa Maria, a small village on the border with Honduras, Nicarag...

'Pool At Las Hadas' 1974 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print Guests round the pool at Las Hadas, Manzanillo, Mexico, 1974. Produced from the original transparency Certificate...

Bronx Teenagers by Alain Le Garsmeur Teenagers in front of abandoned tenement burnt-out buildings, South Bronx, New York City, USA - August 1977 Paper...

Torcello’s Cathedral is a b/w photographic print on Cardboard. the artwork represents Byzantine tile representing two lions. O.Bohm 3813 Torcello - Duomo Formella bizantina con Le...

'Pescheria' is a tranquil Archival Inkjet Print by photographer Morgan Silk. It is available in this size of 17" x 24" in an edition of 100. Morgan Silk has been involved in creat...

Giulietta Masina - Golden Period of Italian Cinema is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s. Good conditions. Giulietta Masina is considered one of the best It...

U.S. School - American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th Century in a series of American life in the 20th Century. Wit...

'Cable Car America' 1979 by Alain Le Garsmeur Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print A cable car carries passengers through the steep streets of San Francisco, California, 1979. Paper size : 40x30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Limited edition Edition Size 5 only this paper size Printed 2021 certificate of authenticity provided All prints are on archival photographic papers and limited edition per paper size offered. Total editions per image 100 only. 10x12 inches edition size 25 12x16 inches edition size 20 20x16 inches edition size 20 20x24 inches edition size 15 30x20 inches edition size 8 40x30 inches edition size 5 60x40 inches edition size 5 72x48 inches edition size 2 Alain Le Garsmeur was born in France in 1943 and after assisting the likes of Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin and Donald Silverstein became a prolific editorial documentary photographer for publications which included Fiagaro Magazine, The Independent, Newsweek and the The Observer as well as The Sunday Times. See photo Bio for more details. 1970s 1970 70s USA San Francisco California American Flag Tourist Cable Car Grand Building Stairs Vintage Retro Summer

Chinese historical and ethnic photograph is a set of eight original vintage albumen prints on single cardboard: 34 x 26 cm. Six Images 8 x 11 cm on the front and six on the rear. T...

Slim Aarons Estate Print - Villa Del Balbianello Italian mountain climber and explorer Guido Monzino (1928-1988) and four people relaxing on th...

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 except for some foxing.

'C. Z. Guest' American socialite Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest (aka C. Z. Guest, 1920 - 2003) with a Great Dane at her ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, in Palm Beach, Florida, 1955. ...

Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Dining Al Fresco On Capri Italian artist and actress Domiziana Giordano, Italian author Francesca Sanvitale (1928 - 2011), Dino Trappetti and Umbe...

Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur, 1970 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate edition of 150 Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and other guests at the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, Ca...

Vintage Photo. The French Actress Claudine Auger on the set of the movie "Escalation". Goo condition.

Marbella House Party Guests at a party at the home of Sebastiano Bergese in Marbella, Spain, August 1967. 60x40” / 101x152 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 15...

President Kennedy's Family is a vintage photograph realized in the early 1960s. Good conditions.

Esther Williams, American aquatic actress and former swimming champion, relaxing in a Florida swimming pool 1956 Gorgeous print measuring 48 x 48" in...

Virna Lisi - Golden Period of Italian Cinema is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1990s. Good conditions. Virna Lisi Born on November 8, 1936, she began her film...

'La Concha Beach Club' Bathers at La Concha Beach Club, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1975. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate St...

'Penthouse Pool' Young women by the Canellopoulos penthouse pool, Athens, July 1961. Paper size 30 x 30 inches / 76 x 76 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by ...

Cheyenne Cowboy by Alain Le Garsmeur Cowboy drinking in the downtown lights, Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA, 1979. Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Printed in 2023 Archival Pigment...

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 M (Edition of 6) 35.4 x 23.6 inches (90 x 60 cm) - Edition L (Edition of 6) 47.2 x 31.5 inches (120 x 80 cm) - Edition XL (Edition of 3) 88.8 x 58.8 inches (225 x 150 cm) PUR - Price Upon Request -------------- Since 1979 Christian Rothmann had more than 40 solo and 80 group exhibitions worldwide. Christian Rothmann had guest lectures, residencies, art fairs and biennials in Europe, Japan, USA, Australia and Korea. Christian Rothmann (born 1954 in Kędzierzyn, Poland ) is a painter, photographer, and graphic artist.⁠ ⁠ In 1976 he first studied at the “Hochschule für Gestaltung” in Offenbach, Germany and moved to Berlin in 1977, where he graduated in 1983 at the “Hochschule der Künste”. From 1983 to 1995 he taught at the university as a lecturer and as an artist with a focus on screenprinting and American art history. To date, a versatile body of work has been created, which includes not only paintings but also long-standing photo projects, videos, and public art.⁠ ⁠ Guest lectures, teaching assignments, scholarships and exhibitions regularly lead Rothmann to travel home and abroad.⁠ ------------------------ Rothmann's Robots These creatures date back to another era, and they connect the past and the future. They were found by Christian Rothmann, a Berlin artist, collector and traveler through time and the world: In shops in Germany and Japan, Israel and America, his keen eye picks out objects cast aside by previous generations, but which lend themselves to his own work. In a similar way, he came across a stash of historic toy robots of varied provenance collected by a Berlin gallery owner many years ago. Most of them were screwed and riveted together in the 1960s and 70s by Metal House, a Japanese company that still exists today. In systematically photographing these humanoids made of tin - and later plastic - Rothmann is paraphrasing the idea of appropriation art. Unknown names designed and made the toys, which some five decades on, Rothmann depicts and emblematizes in his extensive photo sequence. In their photographs of Selim Varol's vast toy collection, his German colleagues Daniel and Geo Fuchs captured both the stereotypical and individual in plastic figures that imitate superheroes which were and still are generally manufactured somewhere in Asia. Christian Rothmann looks his robots deep in their artificially stylized, painted or corrugated eyes - or more aptly, their eye slits - and although each has a certain degree of individuality, the little figures remain unknown to us; they project nothing and are not alter egos. Rothmann trains his lens on their faces and expressions, and thus, his portraits are born. Up extremely close, dust, dents, and rust become visible. In other words, what we see is time-traces of time that has passed since the figures were made, or during their period in a Berlin attic, and - considering that he robots date back to Rothmann's childhood - time lived by the photographer and recipients of his pictures. But unlike dolls, these mechanical robots bear no reference to the ideal of beauty at the time of their manufacture, and their features are in no way modeled on a concrete child's face. In this art project the robots appear as figures without a context, photographed face-on, cropped in front of a neutral background and reduced to their qualities of form. But beyond the reproduction and documentation a game with surfaces is going on; our view lingers on the outer skin of the object, or on the layer over it. The inside - which can be found beneath - is to an extent metaphysical, occurring inside the observer's mind. Only rarely is there anything to see behind the robot's helmet. When an occasional human face does peer out, it turns the figure into a robot-like protective casing for an astronaut of the future. If we really stop and think about modern toys, let's say those produced from the mid 20th century, when Disney and Marvel films were already stimulating a massive appetite for merchandising, the question must be: do such fantasy and hybrid creatures belong, does something like artificial intelligence already belong to the broader community of humans and animals? It is already a decade or two since the wave of Tamagotchis washed in from Japan, moved children to feed and entertain their newly born electronic chicks in the way they would a real pet, or to run the risk of seeing them die. It was a new form of artificial life, but the relationship between people and machines becomes problematic when the machines or humanoid robots have excellent fine motor skills and artificial intelligence and sensitivity on a par with, or even greater than that of humans. Luckily we have not reached that point yet, even if Hollywood adaptations would have us believe we are not far away. Rothmann's robots are initially sweet toys, and each toy is known to have a different effect on children and adults. They are conceived by (adult) designers as a means of translating or retelling history or reality through miniature animals, knights, and soldiers. In the case of monsters, mythical creatures, and robots, it is more about creating visions of the future and parallel worlds. Certainly, since the success of fantasy books and films such as Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit, we see the potential for vast enthusiasm for such parallel worlds. Successful computer and online games such as World of Warcraft...

Colosseum View is a vintage print in salt silver realized by Ludovico Tuminello in the early 20th Century. Good conditions except for some foxing.

Guests at a beach hut at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera, August 1969. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150...

Ernest Hemingway's Grave is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1962, dated on the back. With stamp and handwriting on the rear. Good conditions with slight folding on...

'Keep Your Cool' 1978 Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank ‘Brandy’ Brandstetter in a swimming pool at Acapulco. Paper size 20 x 30 inches / 51 x 76 cm Esta...

Saint Patrick Parade is a photograph realized in the 1960s. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted in a well-balanced composition.

'Lounging In Verbier' by Slim Aarons Holidaymakers in sun loungers on the slopes at Verbier, Switzerland, February 1964. This photograph epitomises the Travel, Lifestyle and Glamou...

Slim Aarons Laudomia And Alessandro Pucci 1991 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Laudomia Pucci di Barsent...

'Palm Springs Party' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print A poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, in Palm Springs, January 19...

Ancient views of Singapore is a set of 8 original vintage Albumen prints on single cardboard: 26 x 34 cm. They were realized in the 1890s. Four images on the front and four on the ...

Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938 – July 20, 1973) was an American artist who used photography in relation to sculpture and land art. signed in ink and with photographer stamp verso and hand written title. Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off-Broadway actors, troubadours, politicians, agitators and social protests. Fred captured Jack Kerouac frolicking with women at a New Year’s bash in 1958, Andy Warhol adjusting a movie-camera lens in his silver-covered factory, and Bob Dylan offering a salute of recognition outside Sheridan Square near the Village Voice Greenwich Village old office. Not just a social chronicler, McDarrah was a great photo-journalist. For years, McDarrah was the Voice's only photographer and, for decades, he ran the Voice’s photo department, where he helped train dozens of young photographers, including James Hamilton, Sylvia Plachy, Robin Holland and Marc Asnin. His mailbox was simply marked "McPhoto." An exhibit of McDarrah’s photos of artists presented by the Steven Kasher Gallery in Chelsea was hailed by The New York Times as “a visual encyclopedia of the era’s cultural scene.” artists in their studios, (Alice Neel, Philip Guston, Stuart Davis, Robert Smithson, Jasper Johns, Franz Kline), actors (Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro on the set of “Taxi Driver”), musicians (Janis Joplin, Alice Cooper, Bob Dylan) and documentary images of early happenings and performances (Yayoi Kusama, Charlotte Moorman, Al Hansen, Jim Dine, Nam June Paik). The many images of Andy Warhol include the well-known one with his Brillo boxes at the Stable Gallery in 1964. Woody Allen, Diane Arbus, W. H. Auden, Francis Bacon, Joan Baez, Louise Bourgeois, David Bowie, Jimmy Breslin, William Burroughs, John Cage, Leo Castelli, Christo, Leonard Cohen, Merce Cunningham, William de Kooning, Jim Dine, Mark di Suvero, Marcel Duchamp, Bob Dylan, Federico Fellini, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Indiana, Mick Jagger, Jasper Johns, Kusama, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Nam June Paik, Elvis Presley, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Robert Rauschenberg, Lou Reed, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko, Ed Ruscha, Robert Smithson, Susan Sontag, Andy Warhol, and others have all been shot by him. McDarrah’s prints have been collected in depth by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington. His work is in numerous public and private collections. Smithson was born in Passaic, New Jersey. He studied painting and drawing in New York City at the Art Students League of New York from 1955 to 1956 and then briefly at the Brooklyn Museum School. His early exhibited artworks were collage works influenced by "homoerotic drawings and clippings from beefcake magazines", science fiction, and early Pop Art. He primarily identified himself as a painter during this time, but after a three-year rest from the art world, Smithson emerged in 1964 as a proponent of the emerging minimalist movement. His new work abandoned the preoccupation with the body that had been common in his earlier work. Instead he began to use glass sheet...

'Keep Your Cool' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank ‘Brandy’ Brandstetter in a swimming pool at Acapulco. Paper size 4...

Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Culinary Heights Jill Council relaxes with a drink by a swimming pool in Bermuda, 1969. Paper Size 24x20 inche...

'Poolside Party' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, January 1970. The house was designed by Richard Neu...

Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Neo-Classical Pool Mrs T. Dennie Boardman and her children Samuel Jay and Sarah climbing the steps from the pool at the home of Boardman's paren...

'Out Islands' Sailing boats in the Out Islands of the Bahamas, April 1964. Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons...

Liberty Statue - Photograph is a photograph realized in the 1960s. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted in a well-balanced composition.

The Speech of Mussolini is an original b/w photo realized in the 1930s by Agence Trampus, Paris. On the back there is the hallmark of the Agence Trampus and a piece of paper with the...

Ancient views of Japan, Osaka, is a set of four original vintage Albumen prints on single cardboard: 26 x 34 cm. Image in the front 21 x 26 and three images on the rear 9.5 x 13.5 c...