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
The Sea and Passengers- Photo after Painting - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
The Sea and Passengers is a vintage black and white photograph of a painting realized in the 1960s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the cultural and artistic events in...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$58 Sale Price
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Old days Photo -Trees and Ibex - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old days Photo -Trees and ibex s a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album includi...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$58 Sale Price
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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...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$72 Sale Price
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Historical Photo - Portrait of Fred Clark - Vintage Photo - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Portrait of Fred Clark is a vintage photo, realized in the late 19th Century by John Watkins Studio.
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$90 Sale Price
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Portrait of Maria Sole Baldari - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Maria Sole Baldari is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$81 Sale Price
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Hugh L. Dryden - Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Hugh L. Dryden - 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.
...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$180 Sale Price
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Philippe Noiret In Pose - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Philippe Noiret In Pose is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$126 Sale Price
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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...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$63 Sale Price
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Atlantic City by Louis Malle - Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Atlantic City by Louis Malle is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1980.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$90 Sale Price
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The Old Days - Church - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and politi...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$54 Sale Price
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Women's Rights Movement - Historical Photo -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
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$63 Sale Price
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Haile Sellassie and Lyndon B. Johnson -1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Haile Sellassie and Lyndon B. Johnson is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$162 Sale Price
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Halldór Laxness - Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Halldór Laxness is a photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$72 Sale Price
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The Battle - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Battle is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$72 Sale Price
25% Off
A Leap in the Dark - Mrco Bellocchio and Michele Piccoli - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
A Leap in the Dark - Mrco Bellocchio and Michele Piccoli is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1980.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$108 Sale Price
25% Off
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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$126 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
$72 Sale Price
25% Off
Historical Photo - Kim Il Sung - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Kim Il Sung vintage photo, realized in the 1970s.
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$135 Sale Price
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Alitalia - Historical Photos - New York - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Alitalia - Historical Photos - New York 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
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Photographic Paper
$135 Sale Price
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Exhibition - Life 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
$63 Sale Price
25% Off
Portrait of Martin Heidegger - Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Martin Heidegger is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$108 Sale Price
25% Off
The Fighting Police, Historical Photograph - Mid-20 Century
Located in Roma, IT
The fighting Police, Historical Photograph is an original vintage photograph realized by an Anonymous photographer.
With the stamp of copyright ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$72 Sale Price
25% Off
Tug of War - Vintage B/W photo - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Tug of war is an original black and white photograph realized by an Anonymous photographer.
With the stamp of "Combattimento" on the rear, and Hand-notes on the rear.
Good conditions...
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1930s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$180 Sale Price
25% Off
Painting Still Life - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Painting Still Life- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the mid-20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Certosa Museum Naples - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Certosa Museum Naples - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century realized by Alinari.
Good conditions, aged with foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Omiccioli and Villoresi at Vetrina di Chiurazzi - Vintage Photo - 1953
Located in Roma, IT
Omiccioli and Villoresi in Vetrina di Chiurazzi is a vintage leaflet, realized in 1953.
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$162 Sale Price
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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
$63 Sale Price
25% Off
Women Working -Women's Rights Photos - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Women Working -Women's Rights Photos is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s in Italy, it belongs to album of women rights, protests, manifestation for their r...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$108 Sale Price
25% Off
Training of Soldiers - Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Training of Soldiers is a vintage photograph realized in the mid-20th Century.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$54 Sale Price
25% Off
Massimo Ghini - Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Massimo Ghini is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$81 Sale Price
25% Off
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
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Photographic Paper
$162 Sale Price
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Portrait of Maurizio Nichetti - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Maurizio Nichetti is a vintage black and white photograph in the1980s
Good conditions.
Maurizio Nichetti is a well-known Italian actor and director.
Filmography:
197...
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1980s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$135 Sale Price
25% Off
Maurizio Nichetti - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Maurizio Nichetti - Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the 1980s
Good conditions.
Maurizio Nichetti is a well-known Italian actor and director...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$144 Sale Price
25% Off
Medieval Cathedral - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Medieval Cathedral - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the early 20th century.
Good conditions with foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait Herbert von Karajan - Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait Herbert von Karajan is a photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$144 Sale Price
25% Off
Leonard Bernstein - Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Leonard Bernstein is a photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$162 Sale Price
25% Off
The Italian Actress and Singer Loretta Goggi - Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian actress and singer Loretta Goggi in a scene from "Canzonissime" by Gianni Brezza.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$54 Sale Price
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Vintage Photographs - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photographs is a group of 2 vintage photographs mounted on cardboard, realized in the early 20th Century.
Mounted on a cardboard.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$54 Sale Price
25% Off
Fausto Leali - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Fausto 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 celebrities of the ...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$126 Sale Price
25% Off
Joan Baez - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Joan Baez - Vintage Photograph is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$180 Sale Price
25% Off
The Church's Altar - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Church's altar 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 m...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$108 Sale Price
25% Off
Enzo Jannacci and Johnny Dorelli - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Enzo Jannacci and Johnny Dorelli s 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 ...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$108 Sale Price
25% Off
Young Girls Posing for a Photo Before a Marathon - Vintage b/w Photo - 1934 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
"La fotografica" photo reportage agency - Torino
By Studio Gherlone.
Good condition.
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Landscape in Northern Africa - Vintage Photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape in Northern Africa is a series of 8 original Vintage b/w Photographs realized by an anonymous artist in the Early 20th Century.
Goos conditions except for being aged.
The...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Bernstein with his First Violin - Original b/w Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Amazing Vintage b/w Photo of the famous American Conductor, Leonard Bernstein in concert with his First Violin. Early 1980s. cm 23.8 x 18.
In Very Good conditions.
In back a blue i...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$126 Sale Price
25% Off
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
$90 Sale Price
25% Off
View of Rome - Vintage Photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
View Of Rome is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the early 20th Century as reprint of an image of the late 19th century. With the hand-note in pencil on the rear.
Go...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$180 Sale Price
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Ancient Views of Aden Photograph - Original Albumen Print - 1880s/90s
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient views of Aden is a set of three original vintage albumen prints on single cardboard: 34 x 26 cm.
Two Images 15 x 21, on the front and on the rear 28 x 22 cm which depicted ...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$360 Sale Price
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Portrait of John Huston - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The American film director and actor John Huston on one of his sets.
Vintage Photo.
Good condition.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$126 Sale Price
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Winner of Sanremo (Anna Oxa, Fausto Leali, Toto Cutugno) -Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Winner of Sanremo (Anna Oxa, Fausto Leali, Toto Cutugno) is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the music, cinem...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$126 Sale Price
25% Off
The Old Days - Historical Photo - 1915
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1915.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and political eve...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$72 Sale Price
25% Off
Devil in the Flesh - Film of Marco Bellocchio - 1986
Located in Roma, IT
Devil in the Flesh - Film of Marco Bellocchio is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1986.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$81 Sale Price
25% Off
Baths of Caracalla - Vintage Photo - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Baths of Caracalla is a vintage black and white photograph realized by an anonymous artist in the early 20th Century.
Good conditions except for some foxing.
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Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Manuela 1 - Photograph By Roberto Vignoli - 2006
Located in Roma, IT
Light painting technique, realized in a completly dark photographic studio, where the photographer manually "paint" by torch with light of different colours, the subjects and the ba...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$2,703 Sale Price
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Work Beginning at the 1941 Universal Exhibition - Vintage Photo - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
Work beginning at the 1941 Universal Exposition is an original photograph realized in 1937. B/w photograph printed by Agence Trampus, Paris. The original hallmark of the agency (phot...
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1930s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$324 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
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Photographic Paper
$450 Sale Price
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The Baptistery of Parma - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Baptistery of Parma - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century by Alinari.
Information is written on the lower in Italian.
Good conditions, aged...
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Early 20th Century 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
$63 Sale Price
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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
Ancient View of Kobe - Vintage Photo -1890s
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient View of Kobe is an original vintage albumen print on single cardboard realized in the 1890s.
Hand-written ink caption in Italian at the bottom of the print. Good conditions ...
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19th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
$315 Sale Price
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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.