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From Richard Heeps Dream in Color series a cinematic scene, a doorway in a motel in Nevada on an American road trip. Warm evening sunlight glows casting shadows across the picture. ...

Poolside Style, 1970 - Swimming Pool Party at Kaufmann House in Palm Springs by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. "Po...

THIS PIECE IS AVAILABLE FRAMED. Please reach out to the gallery for additional information. ABOUT THIS PIECE: French photographer Ludwig Favre recently road tripped to California. ...

No.119 captures a phantom ascent in the desert, blending surrealism with the raw textures of nature. Created using double exposure on 4x5 large format film, this haunting black-and-w...

This fine art print features back of a woman wearing Yellow-Gray scarf, holding two of her babies. This image was shot by Dorte Verner in Djibouti, East Afr...

"Gymnosomata" Nude Photography 30" x 45" in Edition 1/7 by Larsen Sotelo Not framed. Ships in a tube Comes with COA Available sizes: Edition of 15: 24" x 36" inch Edition of 7:...

"Marilyn In Grand Central Station" by Ed Feingersh NEW YORK - MARCH 24: Actress Marilyn Monroe takes the subway in Grand Central Station on March 24, 1955 in New York City, New York...

The production of sea salt is one of the oldest forms of human intervention in natural spaces. Sea salt comes from natural evaporation of seawater out of artificial created ponds. Th...

The gallery has the most extensive New York City landscape art photography, due to our abiding love for the city. We present the work of different photographers, some of whom are eme...

Confession - 2020 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-889. Not...

Signed limited edition fine art print of The Cure taken in the snow, London 1979. Signed and numbered by Jill Furmanovsky in pencil and featuring Jill’s official embossed studio sta...

Victorias Secret Shop, New York City, USA - no. 18086 Black and white fine art cityscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and ...

Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...

Iggy Raw Power - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print Iggy Pop, Raw Power album cover photograph, 1973 (photo Mick Rock). All prints are nu...

ABOUT THIS PIECE: "I wanted to photograph the pools to show the beauty of the architecture, while minimizing the modern elements. I love the geometry of the tiles, the lines on the b...

R2DR - STAR WARS Exhibition Poster from series "The Toys" A retrospective on 80's and 90's pop culture by pop artists "Destro" Original offset lithograph poster printed on acid-free...

Living in a Dream (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No. 9781. Not mounted. on offer is a piece from the movie "Till Death do us Part" Stefanie Schneider’s Till Death Do Us Part or “There is Only the Desert for You.” BY DREW HAMMOND Stefanie Schneider’s Til Death to Us Part is a love narrative that comprises three elements: 1. A montage of still images shot and elaborated by means of her signature technique of using Polaroid formats with outdated and degraded film stock in natural light, with the resulting im ages rephotographed (by other means) enlarged and printed in such a way as to generate further distortions of the image. 2. Dated Super 8 film footage without a sound track and developed by the artist. 3. Recorded off-screen narration of texts written by the actors or photographic subjects, and selected by the artist. At the outset, this method presupposes a tension between still and moving image; between the conventions about the juxtaposition of such images in a moving image presentation; and, and a further tension between the work’s juxtaposition of sound and image, and the conventional relationship between sound and image that occurs in the majority of films. But Till Death Do Us Part also conduces to an implied synthesis of still and moving image by the manner in which the artist edits or cuts the work. First, she imposes a rigorous criterion of selection, whether to render a section as a still or moving image. The predominance of still images is neither an arbitrary residue of her background as a still photographer—in fact she has years of background in film projects; nor is it a capricious reaction against moving picture convention that demands more moving images than stills. Instead, the number of still images has a direct thematic relation to the fabric of the love story in the following sense. Stills, by definition, have a very different relationship to time than do moving images. The unedited moving shot occurs in real time, and the edited moving shot, despite its artificial rendering of time, all too 2009often affords the viewer an even greater illusion of experiencing reality as it unfolds. It is self-evident that moving images overtly mimic the temporal dynamic of reality. Frozen in time—at least overtly—still photographic images pose a radical tension with real time. This tension is all the more heightened by their “real” content, by the recording aspect of their constitution. But precisely because they seem to suspend time, they more naturally evoke a sense of the past and of its inherent nostalgia. In this way, they are often more readily evocative of other states of experience of the real, if we properly include in the real our own experience of the past through memory, and its inherent emotions. This attribute of stills is the real criterion of their selection in Til Death Do Us Part where consistently, the artist associates them with desire, dream, memory, passion, and the ensemble of mental states that accompany a love relationship in its nascent, mature, and declining aspects. A SYNTHESIS OF MOVING AND STILL IMAGES BOTH FORMAL AND CONCEPTUAL It is noteworthy that, after a transition from a still image to a moving image, as soon as the viewer expects the movement to continue, there is a “logical” cut that we expect to result in another moving image, not only because of its mise en scène, but also because of its implicit respect of traditional rules of film editing, its planarity, its sight line, its treatment of 3D space—all these lead us to expect that the successive shot, as it is revealed, is bound to be another moving image. But contrary to our expectation, and in delayed reaction, we are startled to find that it is another still image. One effect of this technique is to reinforce the tension between still and moving image by means of surprise. But in another sense, the technique reminds us that, in film, the moving image is also a succession of stills that only generate an illusion of movement. Although it is a fact that here the artist employs Super 8 footage, in principle, even were the moving images shot with video, the fact would remain since video images are all reducible to a series of discrete still images no matter how “seamless” the transitions between them. Yet a third effect of the technique has to do with its temporal implication. Often art aspires to conflate or otherwise distort time. Here, instead, the juxtaposition poses a tension between two times: the “real time” of the moving image that is by definition associated with reality in its temporal aspect; and the “frozen time” of the still image associated with an altered sense of time in memory and fantasy of the object of desire—not to mention the unreal time of the sense of the monopolization of the gaze conventionally attributed to the photographic medium, but which here is associated as much with the yearning narrator as it is with the viewer. In this way, the work establishes and juxtaposes two times for two levels of consciousness, both for the narrator of the story and, implicitly, for the viewer: A) the immediate experience of reality, and B) the background of reflective effects of reality, such as dream, memory, fantasy, and their inherent compounding of past and present emotions. In addition, the piece advances in the direction of a Gesammtkunstwerk, but in a way that reconsiders this synaesthesia as a unified complex of genres—not only because it uses new media that did not exist when the idea was first enunciated in Wagner’s time, but also because it comprises elements that are not entirely of one artist’s making, but which are subsumed by the work overall. The totality remains the vision of one artist. In this sense, Till Death Do Us Part reveals a further tension between the central intelligence of the artist and the products of other individual participants. This tension is compounded to the degree that the characters’ attributes and narrated statements are part fiction and part reality, part themselves, and part their characters. But Stefanie Schneider is the one who assembles, organizes, and selects them all. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THIS IDEA (above) AND PHOTOGRAPHY This selective aspect of the work is an expansion of idea of the act of photography in which the artistic photographer selects that which is already there, and then, by distortion, definition or delimitation, compositional and lighting emphasis, and by a host of other techniques, subsumes that which is already there to transform it into an image of the artist’s contrivance, one that is no less of the artist’s making than a work in any other medium, but which is distinct from many traditional media (such as painting) in that it retains an evocation of the tension between what is already there and what is of the artist’s making. Should it fail to achieve this, it remains, to that degree, mere illustration to which aesthetic technique has been applied with greater or lesser skill. The way Til Death Do Us Part expands this basic principle of the photographic act, is to apply it to further existing elements, and, similarly, to transform them. These additional existing elements include written or improvised pieces narrated by their authors in a way that shifts between their own identities and the identities of fictional characters. Such characters derive partially from their own identities by making use of real or imagined memories, dreams, fears of the future, genuine impressions, and emotional responses to unexpected or even banal events. There is also music, with voice and instrumental accompaniment. The music slips between integration with the narrative voices and disjunction, between consistency and tension. At times it would direct the mood, and at other times it would disrupt. Despite that much of this material is made by others, it becomes, like the reality that is the raw material of an art photo, subsumed and transformed by the overall aesthetic act of the manner of its selection, distortion, organization, duration, and emotional effect. * * * David Lean was fond of saying that a love story is most effective in a squalid visual environment. In Til Death Do Us Part, the squalor of the American desert...

"Crowning Glory" by Bert Hardy Premium Rates Apply. An elegant Parisian spends the morning in a Champs Elysees cafe. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5343 - Sunday Morning In Th...

"Ali In Training" by R. McPhedran American heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali throws bare-handed punches in the ring while in training for his fight against Brian London, London, Englan...

Elizabeth Taylor with Sunglasses for "Giant" 1955 by Frank Worth This iconic and elegant portrait captured by celebrity photographer Frank Worth features actress Elizabeth Taylor o...

Edition 25 Framed Chromaluxe A classic handbag from Chanel. Inside is a gun, a mobile phone, a lipstick and powder. A man with x-ray vision, NICK VEASEY creates art that shows what ...

"Galumlee Beach Tree Taean Chungcheongnamdo South Korea" is a silver gelatin print that was printed in the darkroom by master photographer and printer Michael Kenna. The print is ma...

Contact sheet print featuring American model Jerry Hall with singer Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, photographed for Norman Parkinson’s exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery...

Untitled 08 (Saigon) - 2003 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist Inventory #19813. Not ...

Unique piece More sizes and an Essay from Lyle Rexer about this series on request. Joachim Schmeisser’s work rescues photography from the centuries-old straightjacket of realism to...

Audrey Swims Signed Limited Edition photo by Terry O’Neill 1966 Actress Audrey Hepburn, pictured in the South of France during the filming of ‘Two for the ...

Richard Heeps series A Short History of Milan began as a special project for the 2018 Affordable Art Fair Milan. It was well received and the artwork has become popular with art buye...

Karen Alexander broke ground as a black model in the 1980s and 1990s and is sometimes known as “the other supermodel”. "Natural beauty and refined elegance of Karen Alexander" Ritt...

Daisy and Austen in front of Trailer (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 Proof b4 Printing / 128x125cm signed, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid, signed ...

The first encounter I had with the abyss, was arriving to a place that does not exist, a point suspended in time where I am without being. An unreal world expands in front of me, eve...

Signed by Elliott Erwitt. Gelatin silver print, 20 x 24 in. Born to Russian parents in Paris in 1928, Elliott Erwitt spent his childhood in Milan, Italy, b...

Men with the Tenderest Flesh Are Made of Marble 1984, printed 1992 Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in ink, recto Gelatin silver print (Edition of 5) 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 ...

Poolside Poodle 1970 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Josep...

Black and white promo photo of Marilyn Monroe posed in a dress for her role in "As Young As You Feel", circa 1951. -- One-of-a-kind original vintage press print from the Celebrity V...

Unique piece More sizes and an Essay from Lyle Rexer about this series on request. Joachim Schmeisser’s work rescues photography from the centuries-old straightjacket of realism to...

From The series Guerreros One-of-a-kind Photomontage on archival paper Unframed The root of these unique photographic works by the artist Celso Castro occurred when the artist retur...

Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride...

ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Madeleine Gross is a Toronto-based artist who customizes her photographs with paint in a way designed to abstract landscapes but without completely abstracting rea...

"Muse" Photography 39" x 31" in Edition of 7 by Kseniya Vashchenko Not framed. Ships rolled in tube. Available sizes: Edition of 15: 29.5" x 24" in Edition of 7: 39" x 31" in Ed...

"A herd of horses running with dust being kicked up in black and white A herd of dark horses running with sand and dust around them This powerful global series explores horses in ...

Untitled Story II is a photograph by French contemporary artist Camille Brasselet. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 2 dimensions: *50 cm × 75 cm...

David Bowie Aladdin Sane "Eyes Open" print from Brian Duffy, taken during the phot shoot for the Aladdin Sane album cover. Taken from the original 1973 negatives, these official Du...

"Into the Blue" A surfer excitedly runs into the whitewater lapping the shores on Oahu in search of the perfect wave. The print series Swell: Endless Blue takes you on a sweeping y...

"Untitled (Nr. 1546)" Nude Photography 24" x 18" Edition 2/20 by Rowan Daly Unframed - ships rolled in a tube Ben Cope + Rowan Daly Off the Grid Off the Grid is the culmination ...

large scale original photograph of dramatic cloud formations and reflecting sea SEASCAPE VII by Frank Schott 48 x 48 inches ( 122 x 122cm ) signed edition of 7 58 x 58 inches ( 14...

Palm Springs, 1970: This coveted photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features midcentury socialites in front of the turquoise swimming pool of the iconic Kaufma...

Young Velvets 1949 (Photo Norman Parkinson) Fashion models wear a variety of hats on the roof of the Conde Nast Building against a view of the New York skyline for Vogue, 1949, Manh...

The End of Love - Oxana's 30th Birthday (29 Palms, CA) - 2010 - Edition 1/10 , 20x24cm. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 4898.13. Sign...

"Apriel" captures a serene underwater moment in striking black and white. This fine art underwater photograph showcases delicate interplay between light, shadow, and movement as hair...

"Camille" Black & White Nude Photography 32" x 24" in Ed. of 5 by Lukas Dvorak Pigment print on Epson Fine ART paper 2024 Unframed Ships rolled in a tube ABOUT THE ARTIST Lukas ...

150,000 Dollars (The Princess and her Lover) - 2007 part of the 29 Palms, CA project. Edition of 10, 20x24cm. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Ce...

This artwork was created by the artistic duo Hunter & Gatti (2010–2023). These works are part of the archive managed and exhibited by Cristian Hunter. The artist's technique consists...

Il Canille, 1980 - Capri Landscape Photography Faraglioni Rocks Blue Horizon by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. "Il...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of African American Dancer/ Company Founder Donald McKayle leading his company in class, 1962. Comes ...

Palma #5 (Palma de Mallorca, 2022) Beautiful picture of Jacaranda tree captured in OldTown of Palma. Size: 43 x 28 inches / Edition of 6 Size: 70 x 47 inches / Edition of 3 Size: ...

From June and Oris collection - June As she steps inside, day gives way to night. The air is thick with warmth, heavy with the scent of simmering broth. Hands move in quiet rhythm...

Audrey Hepburn posed in a wide-brimmed hat for her role in "Breakfast at Tiffany's". The film received five nominations at the 34th Academy Awards: Best Actress (for Hepburn), Best ...

Grip - 2020 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-839. Not mounted. ...

These are two 24 x 18-inch hand-printed photographs using the 170-year-old cyanotype process. They are actually negatives (a reversal of the dark and light tones) of the original pho...

Three Wait on Dock, Cherry Grove, Fire Island, NY 1978 Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso Gelatin silver print (Edition of 5 + 2 APs) 20 x 16 inches (Edition of 5 + 2 APs)...