Modern Landscape 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
Slim Aarons 'Cocktails at Hotel Du Cap'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Cocktails at Hotel Du Cap
1978 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Holidaymakers at the Hotel du Cap Eden-R...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Hotel Eden-Roc, Antibes' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Hotel Eden-Roc
1976
C-Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate
CAPTION: Guests by the pool at the...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, The High Life (Mid-century Modern Photography)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The High Life
1968
C print
20 x 24 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Actor George Hamilton (in blue) takes off in a speedboat w...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Relaxing at Lake Tahoe'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Relaxing at Lake Tahoe
1959
Archival pigment print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A group of people re...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mid Century Modern Architecture Classic Corvette Palm Springs Tom Blachford
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Limited Edition photography by Tom Blachford. Mid Century Modern Architectural Design.
What began for Tom Blachford as a fateful discovery one night has developed into an ongoing s...
Category
2010s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons, Il Canille, Capri (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Il Canille, Capri, 1980 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Sunbathers lounge on the white-painted terr...
Category
1980s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Historical Photo - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo is a vintage photo, realized in the Early 20th Century .
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons 'On The Sugarbush Slopes'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
On The Sugarbush Slopes
1960
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A group of people relaxing in a chalet in the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort, one of the largest ski resorts in New England, in Warren, Vermont, USA, circa 1960.
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." Taking pictures of the rich and famous both before and after serving as a photographer for the US military magazine Yank during World War II. His work has been included in the publications Town and Country, Holiday, Venture and LIFE.
Aarons was known for the positive portrayals he gave to the people he photographed and was invited to high-society gatherings for exactly this reason. His subject matter covered American and European society as well as nobility and both minor and major stars of the day.
Print is also available in 30 x 30", 40 x...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Poolside Pairs (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Poolside Pairs
1970 (printed later)
C Print
Estate signature stamped and numbered edition of 150
January 1970: The Kaufmann Desert House i...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Reydarfjordur, Iceland
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This silver gelatin print is signed and dated in pencil on the front of the mount. Titled, dated and numbered "#7" in pencil on the back of the mount.
Category
Early 2000s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons, Skiing Waiters (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiing Waiters, 1960
24 x 20 inches
Lambda print
Estate Edition of 150
Three skiing waiters on a ski slope, with the man in the foreground carrying a bird on a tray, the second man...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Acapulco Pool, Villa Nirvana (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Acapulco Pool, Villa Nirvana
1968
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Las Brisas Residencias, ...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
'Route 66 Missouri: Former Antique Shop Sign, Phelps' photograph by T. Ferderbar
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In images such as this, the influence of Ansel Adams and the other members of the group f.64 is clearly evident. The group f.64 was intent on truth in the medium of photography, wanting to push the camera to see even more clearly than the human eye. To do this, they used the small aperture, marked by the f-stop 64, which allows the camera to have an expansive depth of field. In this image, the earthy and sensuous textures of the brick and stone walls stand in direct contrast to the clean lines and graphic finish of the Route 66 sign. Ferderbar's mastery of the camera as an instrument brings out these contrasts following the legacies of the earlier American masters.
10 x 8 inches, image
13.75 x 11.5 inches, sheet
16.13 x 13.88 inches, frame
Signed lower right
Framed to conservation standards using archival materials including 100 percent rag matting, Museum Glass to inhibit fading, and housed in a modern profile silver finish wood moulding.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I wanted to become a photographer at the age of 12, when my sister Grace gave me a Kodak Box Brownie camera for Christmas. (I still have that camera.) Since our family was quite poor, I built my first enlarger with an oatmeal box, while that same box camera was used as its lens.
In 1947, just after graduation from high school, I had the opportunity to travel to California by car and house trailer with my uncle, aunt and mother, and in the process to shoot my first pictures along Route 66. Then, after graduation from college, a stint in the army followed by photography school, I opened an advertising photography studio in 1954. For over four decades my staff and I earned numerous local, regional and national awards for our achievements in photography, including several "best of show" honors.
In 1958 I studied with renowned landscape photographer Ansel Adams at his Yosemite National Park workshop. In 1980, while still operating my advertising photography studio, I began a serious photographic study of the decaying artifacts along our country's former Mother Road, Route 66.
The former national highway route from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California was not a popular subject at the time, and so I filed away my transparencies, not knowing what I might ever do with them. However, as time passed Route 66 did become a topic of national interest, and upon my retirement in 1997, I once again returned to record the Mother Road's artifacts.
A number of my Yosemite series photographs are included in the Ansel and Virginia Adams collection at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona at Tucson, and several of my Route 66 photographs and other subjects have been acquired by the Milwaukee Art Museum. At this time I am preparing a book of my photographic experiences along Route 66, from 1947 to the present.
-Tom Ferderbar
Category
Early 2000s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White
Slim Aarons 'Jamaica Sea Sailing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Jamaica Sea Sailing, 1953
Fiber print
Estate edition of 150
Signature stamped and hand numbered with Certificate of authenticity
1953: Two men sailing their yacht 'Eel II' in Jamaic...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mid Century Modern Architecture Classic Porsche Palm Springs Tom Blachford
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Limited Edition photography by Tom Blachford. Mid Century Modern Architectural Design.
What began for Tom Blachford as a fateful discovery one night has developed into an ongoing s...
Category
2010s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sunset, New Homes, Tracy Hills, CA
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This silver gelatin print is signed, titled, dated, numbered and stamped on the front of the mount. Printed in 2022.
Category
2010s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons, Lounging In Verbier (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Lounging In Gstaad, 1961, Printed Later
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Holidaymakers in sun loungers on the slopes...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Poolside Pairs'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Poolside Pairs (Kaufmann Desert House)
1970 (printed later)
C Print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity
Former fashion model Hel...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, The High Life (Mid-century Modern Photography)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The High Life
1968
C print
20 x 24 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Actor George Hamilton (in blue) takes off in a speedboat w...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Hotel Du Cap-Eden Roc'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Waterskiing from the Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc, 1969. (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Waterskiing from ...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons, Kaufmann Desert House (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
January 1970: The Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, designed by Richard Neutra in 1946 for businessman Edgar J. Kaufmann, and now owned by Nelda Linsk.
Estate stamp...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
The Old Days Photo - Herds- Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days Photo - Lake - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days Photo - Lake is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and po...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons 'Speedboat Landing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Speedboat Landing
1973 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda Print (C Print)
Estate edition of 150
August 1973: A motor boat arrives at a j...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Peace And Plenty (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Peace And Plenty, 1967
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
People by the pool at Club Peace And Plenty, Georgetown on the island of Great Exuma, Bahamas, April 1967.
In...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Palazzo dei Cesari - Vintage Photo by Ludovico Tuminello - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Palazzo dei Cesari is a vintage print in salt silver realized by Ludovico Tuminello in the early 20th Century.
Titled on the lower.
Good conditions except for some foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days - Historical Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families,...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days - Historical Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families,...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days - Ceremony - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Ceremony is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and poli...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days - Little Soldier - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Little Soldier is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, an...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days - Woman on the Snowy Road - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Woman on the snowy road is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal fam...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days - Historical Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families,...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
At the Horse Race - The Old Days - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
At the Horse Race - The Old Days is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Riding Boy - The Old Days - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Riding Boy - The Old Days is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and po...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Women with Bikes - The Old Days - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Women with Bikes - The Old Days is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days - Historica - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families,...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Places Photo-Waterloo and Port-Y-Pair - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Places Photo-Waterloo and Port-Y-Pair, Bettws-Y-Coed is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century. It belongs to historical album including maste...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days - Historical Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families,...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
War in Algeria - Historical Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
War in Algeria- Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photograph realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical events and pol...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Little Nicky's Coffee Shop - Photo by Cindi Emond - 2017
Located in Roma, IT
Red Sign in Toronto of coffee shop.
Original Photograph by Cindi Emond.
Hand signed.
Excellent condition.
Category
2010s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Palazzo dei Cesari - Vintage Photo by Ludovico Tuminello - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Palazzo dei Cesari is a vintage print in salt silver realized by Ludovico Tuminello in the early 20th Century.
Titled on the lower.
Good conditions except for some foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Queen Elisabeth and Princess Margaret - Royal family - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elisabeth and Princess Margaret Rose - Royal family is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1940s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of hist...
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Musei Capitolini Roma
Located in New York, NY
Musei Capitolini Roma, 1998
C print
Edition of 5
180 x 225 mounted on aluminum
(production, framing, and shipping takes approximately 4 weeks)
Total...
Category
1990s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Harbour Island, Bahamas' (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Harbour Island
1970
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A couple relax at the beach on Harbo...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Palm Beach Street (Slim Aarons Estate)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953.
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Bahamas Boat (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Bahamas Boat, 1967
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
A sailing holiday in the Bahamas, May 1967.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of au...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Palazzo Ducale di Massa
Located in New York, NY
Palazzo Ducale di Massa 1999
C print
Edition of 5
180 x 225 mounted on aluminum
(production, framing, and shipping takes approximately 4 weeks)
Total e...
Category
1990s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Cloud, Jokulsarlon, Iceland
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This contact print on 60-year-old single-weight Azo was made in 2020. This print is one of five known. It is signed and dated in pencil on the front of the mount, with title on the b...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Zermatt Skiing' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Zermatt Skiing
1968
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
The apres-ski in Zermatt,...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Marbella Club (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Marbella Club
C print
1976
The swimming pool of the Marbella Club in Andalucia looks out over the sea, 1976.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certif...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Jamaica Sea Sailing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Jamaica Sea Sailing, 1953
Fiber print
Estate edition of 150
Signature stamped and hand numbered with Certificate of authenticity
1953: Two men sailing their yacht 'Eel II' in Jamaic...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons, 'Poolside in Arizona' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Poolside in Arizona
1973. (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Guests by the pool at the home of Wayne B...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Palazzo dei Cesari - Vintage Photo by Ludovico Tuminello - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Palazzo dei Cesari is a vintage print in salt silver realized by Ludovico Tuminello in the early 20th Century.
Titled on the lower.
Good conditions except for some foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Palazzo dei Cesari - Vintage Photo by Ludovico Tuminello - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Palazzo dei Cesari is a vintage print in salt silver realized by Ludovico Tuminello in the early 20th Century.
Titled on the lower.
Good conditions except for some foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Palazzo dei Cesari - Vintage Photo by Ludovico Tuminello - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Palazzo dei Cesari is a vintage print in salt silver realized by Ludovico Tuminello in the early 20th Century.
Titled on the lower.
Good conditions except for some foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons 'Las Brisas' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Las Brisas, Acapulco
1978 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
The coastline near Warren Avis' villa in ...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Verbier Vacation' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Verbier Vacation
1964
C-Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Holiday-makers take the sun on a mountai...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Eden Roc Pool (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Eden Roc Pool, 1976, Printed Later
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Guests by the pool ...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Modern landscape photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Modern 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, orange, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Slim Aarons, Stuart Möller, Mitchell Funk, and Tom Blachford. Frequently made by artists working with C 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 landscape photography, so small editions measuring 3 inches across are also available. Prices for landscape 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 $35,000, while the average work sells for $3,000.