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
Half Dome with Wild Sky No. 1
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
Ortucchio Lake Reflection, Fucino, Abruzzo, Italy
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Abruzzo, located in southern Italy, is known as the ‘green region of Europe’ because of the system of parks and nature reserves covering more than one-third of its territory. It has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Afternoon Trees, Shexian, Anhui, 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
Shiprock Storm, limited edition photograph, signed and numbered, archival
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Shiprock Storm, limited edition photograph, signed and numbered, archival.
*No more than 50 prints of this image will be made, all three sizes combined.
For nearly a decade, Mitch D...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Half Dome 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
Above Lake Tenaya
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Influenced by late nineteenth-century expeditionary photographers such as Timothy O'Sullivan, who documented the "unexplored" territories of the West, Mark Klett visually explores these landscapes and the marks left on them by man. His images, like O'Sullivan's, have a human context - whether it be the lights of a city, a hat, foot or shadow jutting into the frame, or debris/artifacts left behind by ancient or modern passers-by. Working mostly in the desert Southwest...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Half Dome in Fog Tryptich (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
Cathedral Rock Singularity 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
Mount Watkins Sunrise 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
Wrapped Half Dome (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
Acrylic Polymer, Archival Pigment
Safety Fence, no. 1, Carrizo Plain, 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
Three Oak Trees, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico
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
Overtaken
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patricia Galagan’s photography often concerns the aftermath of upheaval in the landscape. Her work has been shown at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon, the New Mexico Museum of Ar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Erhai Lake, Study 3, Dali, Yunnan, China. 2013
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
Château Lafite Rothschild, Study 22, Bordeaux, 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 among ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Above the Clouds, Campo Imperatore, Abruzzo, Italy
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Abruzzo, located in southern Italy, is known as the ‘green region of Europe’ because of the system of parks and nature reserves covering more than one-third of its territory. It has one of the highest biodiversity indexes in Europe, and one of the richest areas of flora in the world.
In Abruzzo, Michael Kenna found a cultural identity that elsewhere, for the most part, has been lost to globalization and instant communication. Kenna photographed medieval ruins, ancient villages and a countryside rich in traditional cultivation. As curator Vincenzo de...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Adrift #1
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Adrift is a project that uses a visual language as a means of polar comparison. By pairing photographs of Antarctic icebergs and empty In~upiat Eskimo hunting cabins, it offers a res...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fifty Two Birds, Zurich, Switzerland
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
Volcano and Skeleton
Located in Sante Fe, NM
NEW WORK by prominent landscape photographer Mitch Dobrowner. JUST RELEASED, JAN 2018
Dobrowner presents landscapes with sublime complexity – imagery poised between permanence and f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Night Lights, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Edition 11 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
Tea Estates, Study 1, Munnar, India
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Edition 18 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
Single Tree, Mita, Hokkaido, Japan. 2007
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
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bandelier Skyline
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patricia Galagan’s photography often concerns the aftermath of upheaval in the landscape. Her work has been shown at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon, the New Mexico Museum of Ar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Til the Moment it's Gone
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
Ring of Fire
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Dreaming in Reverse
Twenty-five years ago I traveled freely throughout the Mexican countryside where I relished a warm, welcoming, and slow-paced style of living. I was heartened...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Quayside, Study 2, Bosham, West Sussex, England
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
Untitled #47
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Vanessa Marsh is an American artist living and working in California. Her series The Sun Beneath the Sky reflects upon the nature of light, atmosphere, geology and time. Layers of pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photogram
Strolling Swan, Chateau d'Azay le Rideau, 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 among ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Swan Song, Prague, Czech Republic. 1990
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Edition 14 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
1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Oak Tree with Brush, Plum Creek, Texas
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
Eagle Canyon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patricia Galagan’s photography often concerns the aftermath of upheaval in the landscape. Her work has been shown at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon, the New Mexico Museum of Ar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Nest 9
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
Silk, Archival Pigment
Juniper Tree, Monument Valley, Utah
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
Untitled #46
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Vanessa Marsh is an American artist living and working in California. Her series The Sun Beneath the Sky reflects upon the nature of light, atmosphere, geology and time. Layers of pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photogram
Copse, Mt. Etna, Sicily
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
Kool-Aid no. 2, Montara, 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
Oassis Court, Benson, Arizona; December 3, 1980
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
Storm Approaching Silo
Located in Sante Fe, NM
New 2015 Storms Release
The Earth is an ever-changing ecosystem. It existed well before we were here and will hopefully be here well beyond the time we leave it. It’s real, at times...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
I'm Here: The Sun Leaving Cathedral Spires, Yosemite, 2016
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Austin’s minimal and atmospheric landscapes are portraits of the sun while it traverses the sky on a specific day at a specific time.
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tutus no. 5, The Sound, Isle of Man
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
Bentonite Wave
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Dobrowner presents landscapes with sublime complexity – imagery poised between permanence and flux, his images at once capturing seemingly eternal geological formations and the ever-changing complexion of weather. For Dobrowner, these swirling skies and monolithic mountains inspire a reverence and respect for our vast, wondrous, and sometimes perilous planet. While photographing, Dobrowner keeps the words of Edward Abbey...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rock Family
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Dobrowner presents landscapes with sublime complexity – imagery poised between permanence and flux, his images at once capturing seemingly eternal geological formations and the ever-...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Darkness Follows, 2017
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Austin’s minimal and atmospheric landscapes are portraits of the sun while it traverses the sky on a specific day at a specific time.
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Matar
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
Full Moon Setting
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
Hoodoo
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Dobrowner presents landscapes with sublime complexity – imagery poised between permanence and flux, his images at once capturing seemingly eternal geological formations and the ever-changing complexion of weather. For Dobrowner, these swirling skies and monolithic mountains inspire a reverence and respect for our vast, wondrous, and sometimes perilous planet. While photographing, Dobrowner keeps the words of Edward Abbey...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pinaca Form
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Dobrowner presents landscapes with sublime complexity – imagery poised between permanence and flux, his images at once capturing seemingly eternal geological formations and the ever-...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Center Dome, limited edition photograph, signed and numbered, archival ink
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Center Dome, limited edition photograph, signed and numbered, archival ink
Dobrowner presents landscapes with sublime complexity – imagery poised between permanence and flux, his im...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Toward Kasuga Shrine, Along Pathways of Lanterns
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
Bottle With Shadow
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
Trees, Myponga, South Australia
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
Desert Rose (Erher Beach)
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
Jaguar with a rattlesnake tail petroglyph, Three Rivers, New Mexico; January 10,
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
El Kapp Motel, Highway 64, Raton, New Mexico; December 19, 1980
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
Seneca, Kansas; April
By Steve Fitch
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In “American Motel Signs” Steve Fitch crisscrossed the United States documenting the colorful dynamic, advertisements inviting weary traveler to park their car and pack it in for the...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Harlowton, Montana; June, 1998
By Steve Fitch
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In “American Motel Signs” Steve Fitch crisscrossed the United States documenting the colorful dynamic, advertisements inviting weary traveler to park their car and pack it in for the...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Umbrellas no. 1, Druidale, Isle of Man
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
Radio Tower near Sudan, Texas; October 18, 2010
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 evolving features of the western roadside landscape including topologies of neon motel signs, drive-in movie theaters, radio towers...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Contemporary landscape photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary landscape 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 landscape 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, green, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Stefanie Schneider, Gerald Berghammer, Massimo Listri, and David Burdeny. Frequently made by artists working with Pigment 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 Contemporary landscape photography, so small editions measuring 0.4 inches across are also available.