Realist Landscape Photography
REALIST STYLE
Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world.
Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history.
By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.
Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.
Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.
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Style: Realist
Slim Aarons 'Beverly Hills Hotel' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957.
Beverly Hills Hotel
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
40x40 inches
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate. Certifi...
Category
1950s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Adobe Landscape - Black & White Landscape Photograph
By Robert Tracy
Located in Soquel, CA
Adobe, a black and white silver photographic print by California landscape photographer Robert Tracy (American, 1926-2006). circa 1990. Signed lower right on white board. Image size,...
Category
1990s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Cuatro Arcos
Located in New Orleans, LA
For Victoria Montoro Zamorano, the art of seeing consists not in actively looking for the striking or unusual, but in being ever open and receptive to see the world with new eyes. This unguarded, spontaneous approach gives her images a quality of abstract realism that turns undulating sand dunes into a woman’s prone body, and equally captures the emotional content of a crumbling façade or an old woman’s face. An avid world traveler. Cuban born Zamorano has a special sensibility for people and places off the beaten path. Having no preconceived notions of what a photograph should be, Zamorano’s instinctual approach has led her to the poignant remains of the Jewish synagogues...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Hang Gliding' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hang gliding in Kitzbuhel, Austria, 1980
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Chromogenic ...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Jack and GeeGee Entz on Rose-Canopied Steps, Tivoli (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jack and GeeGee Entz beneath the rose-canopied steps which lead to the entrance of the tennis courts at the Villa d'Este at Tivoli, near Rome, Italy, ...
Category
1980s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Tres Cuentos
Located in New Orleans, LA
For Victoria Montoro Zamorano, the art of seeing consists not in actively looking for the striking or unusual, but in being ever open and receptive to see the world with new eyes. This unguarded, spontaneous approach gives her images a quality of abstract realism that turns undulating sand dunes into a woman’s prone body, and equally captures the emotional content of a crumbling façade or an old woman’s face. An avid world traveler. Cuban born Zamorano has a special sensibility for people and places off the beaten path. Having no preconceived notions of what a photograph should be, Zamorano’s instinctual approach has led her to the poignant remains of the Jewish synagogues...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cotton Bay
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The Campbells' pool at Cotton Bay, on Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas, November 1982.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of a...
Category
1980s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Jolly Club: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince Di Montenevoso at Vallelonga with Lola
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
April 1982: Member of the 'Jolly Club', Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince Di Montenevoso at Vallelonga with his red Lola racing car. He is Chief Test Driver for Firestone International.
...
Category
1980s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Hotel Taormina Pool, Sicily
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The seaside swimming pool at the Hotel Taormina, Sicily, August 1975.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Chromogenic...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
The Palms at the Boardwalk - Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Color Photograph
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful color photograph of the roller coaster and palm trees at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk by California artist Deborah Eddy (American, b. 1943)....
Category
1980s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Fairfield Croquet
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Players in the Fairfield County Hunt Club's croquet tournament, Fairfield, New England.
40 x 60 inches
$3950
30 x 40 inches
$3350
20 x 30 inches
$3000
Complimentary dealer shippi...
Category
1990s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Delos Column #2
By Lee Wells
Located in New York, NY
Delos Column #2
30 x 20 inches
Edition of 10
20 x 16 inches
edition of 20
Where light was born
It’s a UNESCO world heritage site. It’s an ark of history, floating lazily on the waters of the Aegean Sea, just a few miles away from cosmopolitan Mykonos. It’s a chance to walk around the revival of the glory of the Greek civilization. It’s the head priest of the Cyclades, the birthplace of the immortals. In the ancient times, the myth of god Apollo, god of light, and goddess Artemis having been born there rendered the island sacred: no mortal would ever be allowed to be born on its land. But, a cradle of gods as the island has been, no mortals would ever be allowed to die on it either. So, apart from it being a conspicuous religious and economic centre, the island had also been exclusive in that: even during the years of peak of the Delian Alliance, women on the brink of childbirth and people close to dying would be carried to the neighbouring island of Rineia. The whole of the known world of that age was aware of the sacredness of the island and of its uniqueness.
Lee Wells is a conceptual artist, independent curator and writer working in New York since 2000. His artwork and projects question systems of power and control and have been exhibited internationally, including the 51st Venice Biennale, 2nd Moscow Biennial, The Guggenheim Museum, NCCA Moscow, PS1/MoMA, and the 1st Mykonos Biennale. He has lectured on art, technology, and contemporary society at many schools and universities including: Columbia University, Princeton University, New York University, Carnegie Mellon University, School of Visual Arts, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Moscow School of Photography, and others. His projects and exhibitions have been reviewed, publications include: The New York Times, The NY Observer, The Art Newspaper...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Sunbather on Rock, Costa Smeralda Sardinia, Italy' (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A sunbather on a rock by the seaside pool at Jacques Couelle's home 'Monte Mano', on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, August 1973.
40 x 60 inches
$3950
30 x 40 inches
$3350
2...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Early 20th Century Photograph Landscape --Looking Through The Sky
Located in Soquel, CA
"Looking Through", a lithobrome photograph by Sigismund Blumann (American, 1872-1956). Signed "Sigismund Blumann" lower right. Unframed. Titled "Looking Through" on verso. Image size, 13.25"H x 11.5"W.
Sigismund Blumann (1872–1956) was a prominent tastemaker in Californian photography during the 1920s and 1930s. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area for his entire career, he edited magazines, wrote books, and made creative photographs. From 1924 to 1933 Blumann edited Camera Craft, the leading West Coast photographic monthly. Subsequently he established his own periodical, Photo Art Monthly, which he published until 1940. In these two magazines — for over fifteen years — Blumann found a large audience of mainstream pictorial photographers. In addition, he wrote five instructional books on photography...
Category
1920s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
Sailor's Light Seascape - Black & White Landscape Photograph
By Robert Tracy
Located in Soquel, CA
Sailor's Light Seascape - Black & White Landscape Photograph
Gorgeous black and white textured screen to negative by California landscape photographer Robert Tracy (American, 1926-2...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin
Scone, Madam?
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1960, Afternoon tea round the pool on a cold day at the home of interior decorator James Pendleton in Beverly Hills.
48 x 48 inches
$4500
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$335...
Category
1960s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Poolside Party (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, January 1970. The house was designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar Kaufman
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition ...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Vermont Winter (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
circa 1960: Students from Stowe Preparatory School track through deep snow near Mount Mansfield and Spruce Peak, Vermont.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with cert...
Category
1960s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Guests at the Villa Nirvana (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Caption:Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1978.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity ...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Palm Beach Arts Festival (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The Palm Beach Arts Festival Procession, Florida, 1964.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
...
Category
1960s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Church Gate Station, Bombay, India
Located in New York, NY
Sebastião Salgado (Brazilian, b.1944) is a documentary photographer and photojournalist best known for his work covering Africa and Latin America and his collaborations with humanita...
Category
Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Klosters (Aarons state Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiers pass by the Hotel Chesa Grischuna in Klosters, Switzerland, 1963.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aa...
Category
1960s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Seaside Picnic (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Rudulph Ellis Carter holds a picnic in Newport, August 1987.
The group includes David Lindh, Frank Gilligan, Kenneth Lindh, Diana Prince, Foxy Carter, Lisette Prince de Ramel, Yusha...
Category
1980s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Skiers at Verbier (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiers at Verbier, 1964
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publica...
Category
1960s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Portofino Villa (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests by the pool at Klaus Pudel's villa, the Casa Montefino, overlooking Portofino harbour, Portofino, Italy, August 1977.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with c...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
The Palace Hotel
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The Palace Hotel in Gstaad, Switzerland, 1961.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Sli...
Category
1960s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Annevoie (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1980, Jean and Christiane de Montpellier d'Annevoie float across the moat of their home, Annevoie, Belgium.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authe...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
"The Spanish Court" Black and White New Orleans Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Spanish Court" Black and White New Orleans Photograph
Gorgeous New Orleans courtyard photograph by Eugene Delcroix (American, 1891-1967)....
Category
1930s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Viareggio Sun
Located in New York, NY
2006
Offset lithograph in colors on Consort Royal paper
Sheet: 27 3/5 x 35 2/5 in.
Edition of 120
Stamped with artist ink stamp and numbered on verso
Category
Early 2000s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Paper, Lithograph, Offset
Poolside Glamour
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1970: A desert house in Palm Springs designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar Kaufman. Lita Baron approaches Nelda Linsk, right, wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk who is talking to a friend, Helen Dzo Dzo.
This is framed in a simple white gallery frame, in stock.
Slim Aarons
Poolside Glamour...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Lambda
Mount Everest in Morning Light, from Camp at 22, 500 ft. - Landscape Photography
Located in London, GB
A modern platinum print from The Royal Geographical Society's first expedition to Mount Everest's summit. Made with extraordinary skill and care by Belgi...
Category
1920s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Platinum
Cairns at a Rest Stop on the Way to the Kharta Glacier - Landscape Photography
Located in London, GB
A modern platinum print from The Royal Geographical Society's first expedition to Mount Everest's summit. Made with extraordinary skill and care by Belgi...
Category
1920s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Platinum
Mount Everest in Cloud from Summit North of Advanced Base - Landscape Photograph
Located in London, GB
A modern platinum print from The Royal Geographical Society's first expedition to Mount Everest's summit. Made with extraordinary skill and care by Belgi...
Category
1920s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Platinum
Everest Summit and Great Couloir in Centre of North Face - Landscape Photography
Located in London, GB
A modern platinum print from The Royal Geographical Society's first expedition to Mount Everest's summit. Made with extraordinary skill and care by Belgi...
Category
1920s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Platinum
Women in White, Hamptons
Located in New York, NY
Women in White, Hamptons, circa 1980
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Antarctica, Iceberg, "The Castle"
Located in New York, NY
Having seen deforestation in his native Brazil, acclaimed photographer Sebastião Salgado went to five corners of the earth in pursuit of a portrait of the natural world.
Sebastião...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Staring At The Sea #2
By Weng Fen (Weng Peijun)
Located in New York, NY
The transitional phases and changes in China since its opening up in the 1980′s, both physically and emotionally, have been the source of inspiration for Weng Fen (b. 1961) and his w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print
Realist landscape photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Realist 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, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Slim Aarons, Pico Garcez, Kind of Cyan, and Sean Scully. Frequently made by artists working with Digital Print, and Lambda Print and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Realist landscape photography, so small editions measuring 9 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 $200 and tops out at $65,000, while the average work sells for $3,038.
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