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
Palazzo dei Cesari - Vintage Photo by Ludovico Tuminello - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
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.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Marx Brothers - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Marx Brothers in a scene from the movie "Horse Feathers" by Norman Z.Mc Leod.
Good condition.
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$225 Sale Price
25% Off
Ready To Roll, John Ford in Hawaii (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Ready To Roll, John Ford in Hawaii, 1955
Silver gelatin print
16 x 20 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the est...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Capote At Home' Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Capote At Home'
Author Truman Capote (1924 – 1984) relaxes with a book and a cigarette in his cluttered apartment, Brooklyn Heights, New York. 1958.
Paper size 30 x 30 inches / 7...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Gianni Morandi - Vintage Photo - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$162 Sale Price
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Untitled
Located in Kansas City, MO
Wolff Buchholz
Title: Untitled
Medium: Photograph
Year: 1980s
Size: 11.9 × 17.9 inches
Wolff Buchholz was born in 1935 in Hamburg, Germany. From 1955 to 1957 he studied at the "Hoc...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Palazzo dei Cesari - Vintage Photo by Ludovico Tuminello - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Palazzo dei Cesari is a vintage photograph realized by Ludovico Tuminello in the early 20th Century.
Titled on the lower.
Good conditions except for some foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Alain Le Garsmeur - Reno 1979 signed limited edition
Located in London, GB
Reno by Alain Le Garsmeur
A group of Reno City Casino Staff on a break, Nevada, USA in 1979.
Paper size 60 x 40 inches / 152 x 101 cm
Printed in 2024
Archival Pigment Print
Sign...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Apres Ski Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Apres Ski
A party of skiers adjourn for drinks at Squaw Valley, California, 1961. Second from right is American lawyer and businessman Alexander Cochrane Cushing (1913 – 2006), who ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Japanese Director Akira Kurosawa - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Japanese Filmmaker during a Television Show.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$81 Sale Price
25% Off
Concorde- Limited edition contemporary art print, City, Black white, Mouvement
By Sam Thomas
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Concorde - Limited edition pigment print - Limited Editions of 5
Paris under the snow, France, 2005
Signed + numbered by artist with certificate of authenticity.
Free delivery
...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Pigment, Archival P...
Gianni Morandi and Claudio Villa - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi and Claudio Villa - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Palazzo dei Cesari - Vintage Photo by Ludovico Tuminello - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
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.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Signed Silver Gelatin Photograph Beat Poet Peter Orlovsky Beatnik Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Peter Orlovsky reads poem disrobed at Judson Memorial Church. Behind him is Allen Ginsberg - December 6th, 1964. (by Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village, New York City.)
Phot...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Fascism Period in Italy - Gymnastics in a Stadium - Vintage b/w Photo - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo from the Fascist period. Photo by Riccardo Moncalvo, Torino.
Photo dimensions 18 x 23 cm. Includes passepartout.
Very good condition.
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$234 Sale Price
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Paris 9:33AM, France
Located in Hudson, NY
Each year, Robin Rice celebrates a Salon style exhibition to showcase her gallery artists and invite new ones.
With Robin’s extensive experience as a gallery curator, all Robin Rice Gallery...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Roman Monuments - Silver Salt Photographs - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Monuments are Silver salt photographs on paper, Three images applied on paper one on the front, and one on the rear, with the description on the lower of each in English.
Pyra...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$180 Sale Price
25% Off
Aristotle Onassis - Vintage b/w Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Aristotele Onassis - Vintage b/w Photo realized in the 1960s.
Stamped on the rear.
Good conditions.
With the handwriting on the rear.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$198 Sale Price
25% Off
'New England Skiing' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'New England Skiing' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in New Hampshire, 1955.
Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Produced from the original ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons, Tennis in the Bahamas ( Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Tennis in the Bahamas, 1957
Chromogenic lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Two women stand talking t...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pop And Society - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pop And Society
From left to right; singer Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness and Mick Jagger (of the Rolling Stones) sit on a sofa un...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Bluegrass Reunion' 1984 Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Located in London, GB
'Bluegrass Reunion' 1984
by Alain Le Garsmeur
Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
A small gathering for a family reunion during a Bluegrass concert in Kentucky, USA, August, 198...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Blondie Close Up by Martyn Goddard Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Blondie Close Up
By Martyn Goddard Signed Limited Edition
Debbie Harry (Blondie) New York 1978
All prints are signed and numbered by the artist.
Paper size 16x20 inches
printe...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Anna Magnani - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Anna Magnani - Vintage Photo is a vintage b/w photographic print on single-coated paper, realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Good conditions.
Anna Magnan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$198 Sale Price
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Slim Aarons 'Winter Wear' 1976 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Winter Wear' 1976 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Manuela Boraomanero (left) and Emanuela Beghelli holiday in the Italian ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo, March 1976.
P...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Stephen Hawking - Vintage Photograph -1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Stephen Hawking is a photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$162 Sale Price
25% Off
'Poolside Pairs' 1970 Slim Aarons Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside Pairs' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace) and Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Lins...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Baths of Caracalla - Vintage Photo by Ludovico Tuminello - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bath of Caracalla is a vintage print in salt silver realized by Ludovico Tuminello in the early 20th Century.
Titled on the lower.
Good conditions.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Portrait of Giorgio Gaber - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Portrait of Giorgio Gaber
Photograph , hand dedicated lower center. 1980s.
20 x 29 cm <; 27 x 37 cm with frame.
Good conditions!
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$162 Sale Price
25% Off
The Italian Actress Ornella Muti - Vintage Photograph - Early 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Ornella Muti during the Venice Film Festival.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$86 Sale Price
40% Off
The Beatles 1964 Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
The Beatles perform “I Want To Hold Your Hand”, 1964.
Photo by Globe Archives
Paper size 40 x 40" / 101 x 101cm
Unframed
Archival Pigment Pr...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Apres Ski' 1963 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Apres Ski'
A group of women reclining on the snow in Gstaad with rugs covering their knees, 1963.
Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Poolside Pairs' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside Pairs' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace) and Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Lins...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
'Barbados Bliss' 1976 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Barbados Bliss'
Ava Marshall relaxes with a book amongst the bougainvillea in Barbados, April 1976.
A sumptuous scene of relaxation in an exquisite...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Gianni Morandi and Elisabetta Virgili - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi and Elisabetta Virgili - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$126 Sale Price
25% Off
'Home Waters' 1983 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Home Waters'
June 1983: Dress designer Gianni Versace (1946 - 1997) and Lalla Spagnol on a motor launch in front of his 17th century villa on Lake Como.
Paper Size 24x20 inches...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Queen In Concert by Martyn Goddard Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Queen In Concert
Freddie Mercury and Queen in concert
By Martyn Goddard Signed Limited Edition
All prints are signed and numbered by the artist.
Paper size 16x20 inches
printe...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Slim Aarons 'Keep Your Cool' 1978 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'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 6...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - New England Skiing - Oversize C Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in Cranmore Mountain, New Hampshire, circa 1955.
Paper size 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm
Estate Stamped Collection E...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Catherine Wilke' 1980 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Catherine Wilke'
Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers - along with Elisabetta Catalano, Charlotte Ticken and Pamela Grupas - at the Hotel Punta Tragara on the island of Ca...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Palazzo dei Cesari - Vintage Photo by Ludovico Tuminello - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
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.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Manuel Benítez Pérez El Cordobés - Bullfigter- Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Manuel Benítez Pérez El Cordobés - Bullfigter is a photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$162 Sale Price
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The Portrait of Mussolini before his rise to the power - Vintage Photo - 1934
Located in Roma, IT
The Portrait of Mussolini before his rise to the power is an original b/w photo realized in August 1934 by Agence Trampus (Paris). On the back there is the original hallmark of the A...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$270 Sale Price
25% Off
Manuel Benítez Pérez El Cordobés - Bullfigter- Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Manuel Benítez Pérez El Cordobés - Bullfigter is a photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$144 Sale Price
25% Off
Caroline Kennedy with Infant John John - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Caroline Kennedy with Infant John John is a vintage photograph realized in 1960.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$270 Sale Price
25% Off
Portrait of Benito Mussolini Riding a Horse - Vintage Photo - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Benito Mussolini Riding a Horse is an original sepia photograph.
Realized in the 1930s.
Included a Passepartout: 35 x 50 cm.
Good condi...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$270 Sale Price
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Ancient Views of Aden - Original Albumen Print - 1880s/90s
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient views of Aden is a set of four original vintage Albumen prints on single cardboard: 34 x 26 cm.
Images 15 x 21, two on the front and two on the rear.
They were realized bet...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$405 Sale Price
25% Off
Women Manifestation - Vintage b/w Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Women Manifestation - Vintage b/w Photo realized in the 1970s. Copyright by Giancolombo News Photo.
In the photo: Women Manifestation for the divorce right in piazza Repubblica of R...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$135 Sale Price
25% Off
Alfred Hitchcock and Grace Kelly - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The film director Alfred Hitchcock with the actress Grace Kelly.
Vintage Photo.
Lightly damaged.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$216 Sale Price
25% Off
The Italian Actress Ornella Muti - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Ornella Muti with Dino Risi and Patrick Dewaere on the set of the movie "La stanza del vescovo".
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$100 Sale Price
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Jacqueline Bouvier Aristorele Onassisis - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Jacqueline Bouvier Aristorele Onassisis a vintage photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$252 Sale Price
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'Saint-Tropez' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Saint-Tropez'
Cars and pedestrians on the busy seafront at Saint-Tropez, in southeastern France, September 1970.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collecti...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ancient Views of China - Albumen Prints - 1890s
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient views of China is a set of seven vintage albumen prints on single cardboard: 25 x 33 cm.
Four images on the front 11x 15.5 cm and three images o...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$360 Sale Price
25% Off
Slim Aarons 'Porto Ercole' 1973 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Porto Ercole'
A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm
Estate Stamped ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Actor Cary Grant - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The American Actor Cary Grant is an original black and white photograph realized in the 1950s.
Portrait of the American actor with his third wife Betsy Drake.
Slightly blurry.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$90 Sale Price
25% Off
Automobile Plant - American Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Automobile Plant - 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....
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$180 Sale Price
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Protests after the Death of M.L. King - Vintage Photo - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Protests after the Death of M.L. King is a historical photograph realized in the 1968.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons 'Skiing Waitress in Stowe'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiing Waitress
1955 (printed later)
C-print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Ski 'bum' Alice Clement, a waitress a...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Baths of Caracalla - Vintage Photo by Ludovico Tuminello - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Baths of Caracalla is a vintage photograph realized by Ludovico Tuminello in the early 20th Century.
Titled on the lower.
Good conditions except for some foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons 'New England Skiing' 1955 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'New England Skiing'
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in Cranmore Mountain, New Hampshire, circa 1955
Paper size 30 x 30 inches / 76 x 76 cm
Estate Stamped Collection E...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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.