Contemporary Landscape Photography
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
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Style: Contemporary
Item Ships From: New Mexico
Glastonbury Tor, Study 3, Somerset, England. 1990, silver gelatin photo
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"Glastonbury Tor, Study 3, Somerset, England. 1990" is a silver gelatin photograph, and is signed and numbered and matted to 20x16 in.
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary phot...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Yuanyang, Study 6, Yunnan, China
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential amon...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mt. Olympus No. 240
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For those of us who live in the West, mountains are more than
just landmarks; they dene a sense of home. We have memories
associated with our mountains; those we grew up
surrounded by; remembering the rst time we saw one, and
the people we visited them with. This gave us all a larger
sense of where we locate home.
During our recent pandemic, home shrunk to the walls that
surrounded us. Real experiences became mediated through
computers and the Internet – but something felt lost: a living
connection with things bigger than ourselves. But we kept
our memories – waiting to be triggered by a photograph or
reminder of the mountains that could bring back that sense
of the sublime. Mountains and nature have long been places
of peace and refuge. There are few emotions about places for
which adequate single words exist. At the beginning of the
eighteenth century, the word sublime arose to describe the
feelings that the natural world can evoke in us.
At home, on my kitchen table, I have been trying to capture
something of that sublime in bits of plastic. Using geographical
data from the Internet, I used my 3D printer to make the memories
of those mountains tangible. With a small fog machine, I
create atmospheres and clouds. Sunlight through a window
illuminates some, while others were lit with a variety of sources
including ber optic lights used for microscopy.
For me, these images evoke the place I call home; and remind me
that it is our memories that make a place special.
At Home in the West was created as a companion to Yosemite:
Seeking Sublime, which premiered at photo-eye Gallery in
November 2020. In December of that year, work from that series
was invited to the Art of Staying at Home; Artists in the Time of
Corona exhibition at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, where
I was the only U.S. artist from eight countries included. Additional
works from that series will soon be exhibited at the Krakow
Triennial in Poland and at the Earth Photo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Snow Parfait Tree, Wakoto, Hokkaido, Japan
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential amon...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Motel, Highway 85, Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
By Steve Fitch
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In reading the introduction of his first book Diesels and Dinosaurs, Fitch paints a vivid image of a young version of himself speeding down a two lane highway in back of his father's...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Coast of Sardinia, Italy
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Kate Breakey's artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Gold Leaf
Helsinki, Finland, (Ice Fishing)
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Pentti Sammallahti is a benchmark figure in contemporary Finnish photography. His works depict nature eroded and broken down by civilization, but he does not put man and the environm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Backlighted Moss, Mill Pond, Caddo Lake Texas
Located in Sante Fe, NM
David Gibson is primarily a self-taught photographer. Years of developing and refining his photographic technique have afforded him much recognition. He has also photographed extensi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mountain Moment II, Canadian Rocky Mountians
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Born in 1939 in Louisville Kentucky, David Gibson is primarily a self-taught photographer. Years of developing and refining his photographic technique have afforded him much recognit...
Category
Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Kyoto, Japan
Located in Sante Fe, NM
This print is currently featured in our exhibition, Warm Regards, and will be available to ship after the show closes June 24th, 2017.
Pentti Sammallahti is a benchmark figure in co...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cicada
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Kate Breakey's artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Gold Leaf
Lunar Eclipse
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Kate Breakey's artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Gold Leaf
Chestnut in Cowdray Park
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
All photographs are platinum/palladium prints. These metals are hand coated on 100% rag cotton water color paper with natural deckled edges and contact printed. Since platinum, like ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Platinum
Huangshan Mountains, Study 6, Anhui, China
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential amon...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
BAOBAB IX, Andombiry Forest
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
*22x30" editions and 24x36" editions are platinum prints. Editions with a width of 60" or greater are archival pigment prints*
Baobabs are one of Africa’s natural wonders: they can ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Platinum
Storm Light Passage, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Born in 1939 in Louisville Kentucky, David Gibson is primarily a self-taught photographer. Years of developing and refining his photographic technique have afforded him much recognit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Palm Springs 13
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Further to Fly is a series of Wet Plate Collodion Photograms that continues in my practice of using drawings on mylar layered with light-sensitive materials in the darkroom to create...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photogram
American Bay
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I have spent seven years photographing visual clues that tell of the beauty, complexity and destruction of South Louisiana. Once formed by sediment deposited by the Mississippi River...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Chairlift, Snowqualmie, Washington, USA
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential amon...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Orchid Offerings, But That Pagoda, Bak Ninh, Vietnam
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential amon...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Krakow, Poland (Painting of Jesus Christ moving though city square))
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Finnish photographer Pentti Sammallahti depicts nature, eroded and broken down by civilization, but does not put man and the environment in opposite camps. He sees an equal relations...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Twelve Clouds, Softly, Slowly (I)
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Artist Statement
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Highway 26, Shoshoni, Wyoming; June 9, 2021, color photograph, signed
By Steve Fitch
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"Highway 26, Shoshoni, Wyoming; June 9, 2021" is a color photograph by Steve Fitch. This piece is printed by the artist using archival pigment inks and is signed.
In American Motel Signs, Steve Fitch documents the changing landscape, capturing the bright neon motel signs littered across long highway expanses throughout the West.
The delightful photographs in this series, map out Fitch’s extensive journey to seek out a typology of visual relics that are quickly fading into the American collective memory. For Fitch, these motel signs carry an unquestionable enchantment in their folk originality — the blocky fonts and garish designs. His work is a road trip to the past, down lonesome highways where these emblems of roadside American...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Until the Veil was Torn
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In Home By Nightfall, Angela Bacon-Kidwell photographs a lone road surrounded by stretches of a seemingly infinite smokey landscape bathed in gauzy light. Ultimately speaking of tran...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lone Pine Peak, Eastern Sierra Nevada, CA, limited edition photograph, signed
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Lone Pine Peak, Eastern Sierra Nevada, CA, limited edition photograph, signed
While photographing, the world gets quiet around me... things seem simple again – and I obtain a respe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mars Formation, limited edition archival photograph, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Mars Formation, limited edition archival photograph, signed and numbered
Dobrowner presents landscapes with sublime complexity – imagery poised between permanence and flux, his ima...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tulle no. 54, Taos, NM, color photograph, limited edition, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"Tulle no. 54, Taos, NM" is a color photograph, limited edition, signed and numbered by Thomas Jackson.
Thomas Jackson's Emergent Behavior is inspired by the instinctual self-organi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
On the Tucson to Nogales highway, Greyhound Motel, Tucson, Arizona; December 30,
By Steve Fitch
Located in Sante Fe, NM
From the Vanishing Vernacular series.
Vanishing Vernacular features a selection of color works by photographer Steve Fitch focusing primarily on the distinctive, idiosyncratic, and ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Draco
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
As night falls over the Makgadikgadi Pans, giant trees stand starkly against the horizon. Leafless branches reach for the light. On the opposite side of the sky, Earth’s shadow is ri...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Volucris in High Desert, Trementina, NM, limited edition photograph, signed
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Volucris in High Desert, Trementina, NM, is a landscape photograph by Mitch Dobrowner. This photograph is printed using archival pigment and is signed and numbered in graphite.
Mi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Aludra
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
As night falls over the Makgadikgadi Pans, giant trees stand starkly against the horizon. Leafless branches reach for the light. On the opposite side of the sky, Earth’s shadow is ri...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Asparagus Sticks, Study 2, Hokkaido, Japan. LTD, silver gelatin print, signed
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"Asparagus Sticks, Study 2, Hokkaido, Japan" is a limited edition, silver gelatin print. The photograph is signed and numbered and comes matted to 20x16"
Michael Kenna is a master ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Study 4, France
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential amon...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Homage to HCB, Study 2, Brittany, France, limited edition photograph
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures, and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential amo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Hillside Fence, Study 6, Teshikaga, Hokkaido, Japan. LTD, silver gelatin print
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"Hillside Fence, Study 6, Teshikaga, Hokkaido, Japan" is a limited edition silver gelatin print. The photograph is signed, numbered, and matted to 20x16 in.
Michael Kenna is a mas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Trees in Mist, Bennablio, Italo
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Kate Breakey's artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Canal and Trees, Goro Ferrara, Veneto, Italy
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential among...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Exposition (Banner over doorway & Kitten)
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Pentti Sammallahti is a benchmark figure in contemporary Finnish photography. His works depict nature eroded and broken down by civilization, but h...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Polaris
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
As night falls over the Makgadikgadi Pans, giant trees stand starkly against the horizon. Leafless branches reach for the light. On the opposite side of the sky, Earth’s shadow is ri...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Chrysanthemum II
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Artist Statement
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Kemio, Finland (Children laying in hammock in lush garden)
Located in Sante Fe, NM
This print is currently featured in our exhibition, Warm Regards, and will be available to ship after the show closes June 24th, 2017.
Pentti Sammallahti is a benchmark figure in co...
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dawn Mist, Mont St. Michel, France
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential am...
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Orion
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
As night falls over the Makgadikgadi Pans, giant trees stand starkly against the horizon. Leafless branches reach for the light. On the opposite side of the sky, Earth’s shadow is ri...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cups no. 6, color photograph, limited edition, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"Cups no. 6" is a color photograph, limited edition, signed and numbered by Thomas Jackson.
Thomas Jackson's Emergent Behavior is inspired by the instinctual self-organizing systems...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tulle no. 41, Nantucket, MA
Located in Sante Fe, NM
“The hovering installations featured in this ongoing series of photographs are inspired by self-organizing, "emergent" systems in nature such as termite mounds, swarming locusts, sch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Yosemite Gateway No. 1 (with 3D printed landscape)
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Mountains and nature have long been places of peace and refuge. During this pandemic, due to lockdown and quarantine, they have been denied to us. There are few emotions about places...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tutus no. 4, San Francisco, California
Located in Sante Fe, NM
“The hovering installations featured in this ongoing series of photographs are inspired by self-organizing, "emergent" systems in nature such as termite mounds, swarming locusts, sch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cloud March, Fort Davis, Texas
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Born in 1939 in Louisville Kentucky, David Gibson is primarily a self-taught photographer. Years of developing and refining his photographic technique have afforded him much recognit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Outer Herbides, Scottland (Coastal Landscape w/Rainbows)
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Pentti Sammallahti is a benchmark figure in contemporary Finnish photography. His works depict nature eroded and broken down by civilization, but h...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Alliste
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In 2015 I visited many ancient olive groves in Italy. The Province of Lecce is known for having the oldest trees. The groves, only accessible by stone paths or mule tracks, give a se...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Pigment
Tulle no. 23, Point Reyes National Seashore, CA
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The hovering installations featured in this ongoing series of photographs are inspired by self-organizing, "emergent" systems in nature such as termite mounds, swarming locusts, scho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tulle no. 32, Ocracoke Island, NC
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The hovering installations featured in this ongoing series of photographs are inspired by self-organizing, "emergent" systems in nature such as termite mounds, swarming locusts, scho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tree and Mountain, Suizenji Joju-en Garden, Dumamoto, Kyushi, Japan
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Edition 41 of 45
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains hig...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lightning Strikes, limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment ink
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Lightning Strikes, limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment ink
Dobrowner has always been drawn to weather and in 2009 he actively started seeking out tempests and twis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Etr, Bulgaria (Roof Tops)
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Pentti Sammallahti is a benchmark figure in contemporary Finnish photography. His works depict nature eroded and broken down by civilization, but h...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Tricase II
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In 2015 I visited many ancient olive groves in Italy. The Province of Lecce is known for having the oldest trees. The groves, only accessible by stone paths or mule tracks, give a se...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Pigment
Carnations, White Vase
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Artist Statement
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
St. Mary's Basilica and Flying Birds, Krakow, Poland
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential amon...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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