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
'Villa At Cuarton' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Villa At Cuarton'
Bathers by the pool at the home of Vanessa Somers McConnell at Cuarton, Costa de la Luz, Spain, September 1970.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate S...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
King George 6th and Mother Queen - Vintage Photograph - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
King George 6th and Mother Queen is a photograph realized in the 1940s.
Good conditions.
The artwork is realized in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
'Jack And GeeGee Entz' 1983 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Jack And GeeGee Entz' 1983 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Jack and GeeGee Entz beneath the rose-canopied steps which lead to the entrance...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
The Old Days - A Greek Soldier in Traditional Costume - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - A Greek Soldier in traditional costume is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the late 19th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical mom...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Pietro Martire Church - - Vintage Photo - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Pietro Martire Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously ...
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1920s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Ski Instructors Only 1955
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Ski Instructors Only
Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked ‘Ski Instructors Only’ in New Hampshire, 1955.
Paper size 16 x 16" inches / 40 x 40 cm
Estate Stamped Collect...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
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...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$46 Sale Price
40% Off
Marcello Mastroianni in 8 1/2 by Federico Fellini - Photo - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Marcello Mastroianni in 8 1/2 Federico Fellini is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1963.
It is taken on the set of Fellini's masterpiece, with Marcello Mastroianni ...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$230 Sale Price
35% Off
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy is a vintage photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Pop And Society (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
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...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Sexy Scot' Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Print
By Bob Haswell
Located in London, GB
'Sexy Scot' by Bob Haswell
British actor Sean Connery lounges on a sofa with a cigarette. He is in London during filming of the thriller ‘Woman of Straw’ with Gina Lollobrigida, 28t...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Julie London
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Singer Julie London enjoying breakfast in bed at the Beverly Hills Hotel, circa 1957.
Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 30" inches / ca 76 x 76 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped Coll...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Vila Vera' 1968 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Vila Vera'
The bar at the Villa Vera Hotel Spa and Racquet Club in Acapulco, January 1968.
30x40 inches / 76 x 102 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Ph...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
'Blue Lagoon' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Blue Lagoon'
Marietine Birnie snorkeling at the Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comina), Malta, July 1959.
Gorgeous print measuring a Extra Large 30 x 30" inches / ca 76 x 76 cm's.
Estate...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Lake Tahoe
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lake Tahoe
Young women holidaying by Lake Tahoe, circa 1959
Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 30" inches / ca 76 x 76 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Pho...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons George Hamilton St Tropez
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
George Hamilton Saint-Tropez, 1977
C Print
40 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity.
American actor George Hamilton holidays ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
'Laguna Beach' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Laguna Beach'
A beachside garden in Laguna Beach, California, January 1970.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aaron...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
'El Venero' 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'El Venero'
El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1967.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Bowling Green' 1960 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Bowling Green'
circa 1960: Playing a game of bowls at the Newport Casino. In action Captain Edward L Robertson, right Buddy Bombard a noted America's ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests by the pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976.
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc
1976
C-Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with cert...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
El Venero 1967 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
El Venero 1967
El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rudolf Nureyev – Applying His Make-Up for the Filming of ‘Valentino’, London
By David Steen
Located in London, GB
Twiggy & Patrick Macnee – Major John Steed / The Avengers, London 1968
Limited Edition David Steen Estate Print
Limited Edition: All prints are limited editions, no further pri...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Saint-Tropez Boucherie' Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Saint-Tropez Boucherie'
A boucherie or butcher's shop on Rue des Commercants in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1971.
Gorgeous print measuring an extra large 40 x 30"...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
War - Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
War is a vintage photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons 'Cannes Watersports at the Carlton' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Holidaymakers waterskiing from the pier of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958.
Cannes Watersports at the Carlton
1958
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with cert...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Hepburn And Friends 1953 Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
On the left film star Audrey Hepburn (1929 - 1993) talks with Mrs Grover Magnin (centre) and another guest at a party in San Francisco, 1953.
The beautiful and fashionable movie star and style icon dressed in her eponymous look; all in black with elegant white gloves joins Mrs Grover Magnin who wears an all white long gown...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Terry O'Neill, 'Elton John, Dodger Stadium'
Located in New York, NY
Elton John and his Airplane, Los Angeles, CA
1975 (printed latter)
C-print
Posthumous estate signature stamped edition of 50 with certificate of authenticity
Wearing a custom LA Do...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Madame Gilles and her Husband - Vintage Photo - 1935
Located in Roma, IT
Madame Gilles and her Husband is a black and white photo realized in 1935 ca.
The artwork is depicted in a well-balanced composition.
Good Conditions.
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Josèphine Baker Serves Breakfast in Brussels - Vintage Photo - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Josèphine Baker serves breakfast in Brussels is an orignal black and white photograph realized in 1964.
The photo shows the famous singer serving sweets to 3 of his children In Brus...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sailor, Istanbul, 1994
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...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Actor Cary Grant - Vintage Photo - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Lightly damaged (Folds on the angles).
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Debbie Harry, NYC (Car Wreck)
By Bob Gruen
Located in New York, NY
Debbie Harry (Blondie), NYC, 1976
Silver gelatin print
40 x 50 inches
Signed and numbered edition
Debbie Harry of Blondie in a wrecked car on 6th Avenue and 50th Street, NYC. Septem...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Queen Elizabeth Wears Mineral's Helmet - Vintage Photograph 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elizabeth wears mineral's helmet is a vintage photograph, an original black and white photograph realized by Associated Press News photo.
The description of the image on the le...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Middle-Class Family - American Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Middle-class Family- 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 Centur...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$142 Sale Price
40% Off
Giulietta Masina - Golden Age of Italian Cinema - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Giulietta Masina - Golden Period of Italian Cinema is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 20th Century.
Good conditions.
Giulietta Masina is considered one of the ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
English Cuirassiers Riding Horses - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
English Cuirassiers Riding Horses is a photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
The artwork is realized in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Functional Art- American Vintage Photograph - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Functional Art- American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th century in a series of America...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Virna Lisi - Golden Period of Italian Cinema - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Virna Lisi - Golden Period of Italian Cinema is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the mid-20th Century.
Good conditions.
Virna Lisi Born on November 8, 1936, she beg...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Nice Pool 1955 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Nice Pool 1955
American writer C.Z. Guest (Mrs F.C. Winston Guest, 1920 – 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of their Grecian temple pool on the ocean...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Princess Victoria and Prince Gustaf of Sweden - Ancient Photo - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
Princess Victoria and Prince Gustaf of Sweden is a photographic reinforced albumen print applied on cardboard.
Print of photographic studio on front and back of cardboard: "Thschuhmann & Sohn Karlsruhe ".
Slight abrasion on corners, otherwise excellent conditions.
Dim: cm 17 x 11
In the full-length portrait, Victoria and Gustaf of Sweden show the wedding rings in an informal pose.
The photograph was taken in Karlsruhe, the wedding venue of the two future royals of Sweden...
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1880s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
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 ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Giulietta Masina - Golden Age of Italian Cinema - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Giulietta Masina - Golden Age of Italian Cinema is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Giulietta Masina is ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Giulietta Masina - Golden Age of Italian Cinema - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Giulietta Masina - Golden Age of Italian Cinema is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Giuliett...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Leonard Bernstein - Original B/W Photograph - Early 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Leonard Bernstein is a beautiful black and white vintage photo portraying Leonard Bernstein, most likely in the early 1980s.
In good conditions.
The famous American con...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$132 Sale Price
30% Off
Bowling - American Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bowling - 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.
With th...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
"Beggars Banquet Classic" Photography 24" x 20" in Ed. 4/30 by Michael Joseph
Located in Culver City, CA
"Beggars Banquet Classic" Photography 24" x 20" in Ed. 4/30 by Michael Joseph
Medium: C-Print
Comes in black frame
Size framed: 29 x 28 inch
Michael Joseph is a photographer best k...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Low-Cost Vacations for American Wage Earners - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Low-Cost Vacations for American Wage Earners- 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...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Exercises and Female Games during Fascism in Italy- Vintage b/w Photo - 1934 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo from the Fascist period. Photo by Studio Gherlone, Torino.
Very good condition.
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1930s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Angel Serving Dinner Woodcut by Tim Engelland
Located in New York, NY
Tim Engelland (American, 1950-2012)
Untitled, c. 1990
Woodcut
11 x 8 1/2 in.
Signed and numbered bottom right: T. Engelland, 161/250
A lifelong artist,...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Woodcut
Slim Aarons - Yacht Holiday (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Tanned bodies on the deck of Dino Pecci Blunt's yacht in Marbella, 1967
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aaro...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Beauty and the Beast'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a tiger skin rug in the trophy room at socialite Laddie Sanford's home in Palm Beach, Florida, 1959.
Slim Aarons
Beauty and the Beast
19...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Golfing at Le Toque'
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Golfing at Le Toque
1939 printed later
Silver gelatin print
40 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and numbered on verso
A woman in a white suit hitting a golf ball in a sa...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Belgium Blue #1. Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Zoltan Gerliczki took advantage of global circumstances to emerge as an artist who crosses borders. Gerliczki's images are a continuation of the artist's journey from the unknown to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Desert House Party (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Desert House Party
1970 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. T...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Vintage Photograph Cibachrome Tibetan Monk Chengdu China Portrait Photo Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Mat measures 20 X 26 sight measures 13 X 19.5
Mark Abrahamson is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1944. Mark completed a BA at Whitman College in Walla Wa...
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1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
The Heart - Desert Flower
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Desert Flower is a project created by Guilherme Licurgo in collaboration with the iconic Martha Graham Dance Company, using the dancers, Graham technique, and original costumes. Imag...
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2010s Modern Figurative Photography
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Archival Pigment
The 17th-century Ishak Pasha Palace, Province, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey 1988
Located in Cologne, DE
The photo showcases the historic Ishak Pasha Palace (İshak Paşa Sarayı), built in the 17th century near Doğubeyazıt in the province of Ağrı, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey. The image, like...
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1980s Modern Figurative Photography
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Color
Vijay, Protrait. From The Series The Third Gender of India
By Jill Peters
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The term "hijra" applies to a very diverse group of people in India who identify as third gender. They can range from a natural born hermaphrodite to a male cross dresser. Dating bac...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
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...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Disco, Bill Bernstein Set of Four Photographs
By Bill Bernstein
Located in New York, NY
Bill Bernstein
Disco
c. 1970
Set of four Photographs
These iconic images not only document the people and places of the golden age of disco, but also capture the spirit and intensit...
Category
1970s 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.
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