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.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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Style: Contemporary
Item Ships From: New Mexico
Olive Press
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
Ugento III
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
Temple Lotus Flowers, Ayutthaya, Thailand
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
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Struda I
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
Alliste 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 sense of the past. Here the landscape speaks in the language of origins: remnants of a crumbling stone wall suggest absence while the landscape beyond can be seen through holes of a hollowed trunk...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Pigment
Curious Cloud, Campo Imperatore, Abruzzo, Italy
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Edition of 40
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures, and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Tree of Life, Mesquite, Full Moon Rising, Bahrain
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
Casarano 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
Nardo 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
Tulle no. 18, 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. 37, 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, scho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tulle no. 8, Point Reyes National Seashore, 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
Tulle no. 39, Neskowin, Oregon
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
Erhai Lake, 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
Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Study 8, 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
Mountaintop Buddha, Pindaya, Myanmar
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
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Atlas
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
Palm Springs 10
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
Brea Elizabeth & Love Bugs
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
House of the Poet 5
By Chaco Terada
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Chaco Terada, originally from Japan, was trained at a young age in the art of calligraphy. When Chaco was in her twenties she had the opportunity to work on her calligraphy in ten co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silk, Sumi Ink, Archival Pigment
Moon Rise, Cuandixia, Beijing, 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
Twelve Clouds, Softly, Slowly (K)
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, Pastel, Pencil
Lake Tree, Beihai Park, Beijing, China. 2008
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
Sunrise Moments, August 27, 2021, 6:38:24 am, Eagle Nest Lake, New Mexico
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In a world entrenched in societal division and ecological turmoil, it can be refreshing to step back and enjoy the quiet beauty of the natural world. Dallas photographer David H. Gib...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sunrise Moments, August 25, 2013, 7:18:53 am, Eagle Nest Lake, New Mexico
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In a world entrenched in societal division and ecological turmoil, it can be refreshing to step back and enjoy the quiet beauty of the natural world. Dallas photographer David H. Gib...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
House of the Poet 4
By Chaco Terada
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Chaco Terada, originally from Japan, was trained at a young age in the art of calligraphy. When Chaco was in her twenties she had the opportunity to work on her calligraphy in ten co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silk, Sumi Ink, Archival Pigment
TSITAKAKOIKE, 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
Yews of Wakehurst
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
Seligman, Arizona; April 15, 2022
By Steve Fitch
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Vanishing Vernacular features a selection of color works by photographer Steve Fitch focusing primarily on the distinctive, idiosyncratic, and evolving features of the western roadsi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Comet Neowise and Shooting Star
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
Comet Neowise
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
Saucer Over Northern Plains, limited edition, signed, archival pigment ink
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Saucer Over Northern Plains, limited edition, signed, archival pigment ink
The adrenaline of seeing Mother Nature during some of her finest moments will be ingrained in me forever. It is a humbling experience - and I feel fortunate to have witnessed her power and grandeur over the past 12 years. My experiences are hard to describe in words
During this last trip (July 2021) we traveled over 6400 miles in 10 days crossing through 10 different states - all in my quest/passion to photograph these storm systems. But this time the events of the last year made me more aware, opened my eyes wider, and had a different effect on me. The effects of Climate Change have become obvious.
The current patterns are changing and they are accelerating faster than anyone realized or predicted. Just over the past decade, the characteristics of the Jet Stream and the Gulf Stream have changed. Pandemics, droughts, devastating heatwaves, wildfires, massive floods, and rising oceans are accelerating. As I sit here in my house in Lone Pine, CA in 103-degree heat I can hardly see the outlines of Lone Pine Peak and Mount Whitney...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Black Swans, Kellidie Bay, South Australia
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
Queen Elizabeth Oak
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
Droopy Daisies
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
Anka
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
Lyra
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
South Vist, Outer Herbides, Scottland
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
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vortex No. Duae, limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment ink
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Vortex No. Duae, limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment ink
Mitch Dobrowner has been traveling across the country with professional storm chasers for over a decade wi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Three Trees in Pasture, 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
Fingernail Moon Setting Behind Safford Peak
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
From El Tovar to Yavapai
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Using landscape photography to reflect on broader notions of culture, the passage of time, and the construction of perception, photographers Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe spent five years exploring the Grand Canyon for their most recent project, Reconstructing the View. The team's landscape photographs are based on the practice of rephotography, in which they identify sites of historic photographs and make new photographs of those precise locations. Klett and Wolfe referenced a wealth of images of the canyon, ranging from historical photographs and drawings by William Bell and William Henry Holmes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Kussharo Lake, Study 11, Hokkaido, Japan
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
Moreton Bay Fig
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
Retreating Shoreline
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
Istanbul, Turkey (Man leaning near doorway, feeding a cat)
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
Tornado Crossing Power Poles
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Dobrowner has always been drawn to weather and in 2009 he actively started seeking out tempests and twisters in the company of professional storm chasers, and since that time, storm ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Haapasaari, Finland (Rock in body of water + celestial horizon)
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
Mountain Tree, Study 2, Danyang, Chungcheongbukdo, South Korea
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
Untitled (FT #2211)
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I find comfort in forests, especially the few remaining old-growth stands of the Pacific Northwest. Life is churning in such places. Death and rebirth create
a rich musk of decay, th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Kokdua Tree and Exposed Roots, Mekong River, Luang Prabang, Laos
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
Majesty
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
Shebehon Forest
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
Ugento I
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
Untitled (FT #1890)
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I find comfort in forests, especially the few remaining old-growth stands of the Pacific Northwest. Life is churning in such places. Death and rebirth create
a rich musk of decay, th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Nardo I
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
Highway 66, Holbrook, Arizona; April 16, 2022
By Steve Fitch
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Vanishing Vernacular features a selection of color works by photographer Steve Fitch focusing primarily on the distinctive, idiosyncratic, and evolving features of the western roadsi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
BAOBABS OF SAMBA DIA, Senegal
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
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