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Medium: Wood
Meloria - large scale photograph of Mediterranean beach scene (artist framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the summer rites and rituals of modern leisure
Meloria (20...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Paper
Cala Conta Evening - large scale Mediterranean beach scene (artist framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format beach photograph by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Cala Conta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Wood, Archival Paper
Trittico Forum (2011) - large format triptych photograph of iconic Roman site
Located in San Francisco, CA
original large format photography triptych by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Trittico Forum (2011)
three individually framed original archival photography prints, each with diasec (acrylic glass) face mount in contemporary light grey lacquered gallery frames
76.7 in x 61.25 in (194.8cm x 156cm) / each
4,6m / 183.75" / 15' 4" installation width
limited edition of 6 + 2AP
signed, titled and dated verso
'Roman Forum' was installed at the US Embassy in Rome, Italy, as part of 2014 'Art in Embassies' exhibition curated by Virginia Shore and Claire D...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Wood, Archival Paper
ATO>MIC #3, Unique Silver Luminogram Print, Warm toned black and white abstract
Located in London, GB
ATO>MIC #3, 2020
Unique Gelatin Silver Print/ Luminogram and Photogram technique, Printed on tea infused fibre based paper, Custom Framed: museum mount-board with antireflective UV protective art glass in dark brown lacquered hardwood frame, /hand made in UK/
23 x 18 cm (image print)
40.5 x 36 cm (Framed)
Unique
Series: ATO>MIC
Signed and dated in pencil on verso
Provided with the Certificate of Authenticity
“The ATO>MIC work started as an attempt to replicate the idea behind still life painting - where you are trying to reproduce the image of solid looking things, things that could be on a shelf. So, I wanted to try doing that with just using light instead of paints - however I soon started to see the similarities with Harold Edgerton’s famous atomic explosion photos and how the scale of my work could be switched between small items on a shelf to enormous atomic explosions.
That is the reason behind the strange title ATO>MIC - where the “>” is a kind of link between larger and smaller scales, between the two influencing ideas.” – Mike G Jackson
The images (from the ATO>MIC series) may be reminiscent of the first milliseconds of atomic bomb explosions captured by Harold Edgerton's Rapatronic camera in the early 1950s but also visualise the thought of Maholy-Nagy’s bold visions in the Bauhaus’s movement toward the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk, or “total work of art.”
The 3D concepts that were first expanded in the same art movement by El Lissitzky a hundred years ago, are also explored here by Jackson’s drowned thin line within the third of the image. In his vision, the line reflects a shelf with the object on top, by adding the weight to it, the gravity pushing them down.
Or maybe the thin line is just the horizon, where the enormous atomic blast took place…?
Beyond these flat forms of two dimensional ‘lumino-graphic’ works on paper, the purest form of photography (‘light drawing’) lays a visible path to three-dimensional imaginary world, realised in precise composition, rhythm and warm earthy tones of these works.
It’s up to the viewer to decide what they prefer to see and take with them.
As Wassily Kandinsky once said; “Imagination is what allows your mind to discover.”
About the Artist:
Michael G Jackson...
Category
2010s Abstract Wood Photography
Materials
Glass, Wood, Archival Paper, Black and White, Bromoil, Silver Gelatin, T...
Trittico Forum (2011) - large format triptych photograph of iconic Roman site
Located in San Francisco, CA
original large format photography triptych by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Trittico Forum (2011)
three individually framed original archival photography prints, each with diasec (acrylic glass) face mount in contemporary light grey lacquered gallery frames
76.7 in x 61.25 in (194.8cm x 156cm) / each
4,6m / 183.75" / 15' 4" installation width
limited edition of 6 + 2AP
signed, titled and dated verso
'Roman Forum' was installed at the US Embassy in Rome, Italy, as part of 2014 'Art in Embassies' exhibition curated by Virginia Shore and Claire D...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Wood, Archival Paper
TooLess 4420, 3D Nude Color Photograph. Framed Lightbox
By Koray Erkaya
Located in Miami Beach, FL
TooLess 3D versions of the photographs of the TooLess series create a miss perception of the human brain. The first layer of the photo texture is formed by very small black and white...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
C Print, Archival Pigment, Plexiglass, Wood, Lights
Meloria - large scale photograph of Mediterranean beach scene (artist framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the summer rites and rituals of modern leisure
Meloria (20...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Paper
Vaschette - large scale photograph of Mediterranean beach scene (artist framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format original photograph of the iconic Mediterranean rock pools of Calafuria Vaschette in Tuscany by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
TooLess 4692, 3D Nude. Limited edition Color photograph Frame Lightbox
By Koray Erkaya
Located in Miami Beach, FL
TooLess 3D versions of the photographs of the TooLess series create a miss perception of the human brain. The first layer of the photo texture is formed by very small black and white...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Wood, Lights, Plexiglass
Les Fleurs à la Manière de Redon #7: Anemones, circa 1998, Ian Hornak — Painting
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Les Fleurs à la Manière de Redon #7: Anemones
Year: 1998
Medium: Oil on masonite
Size: 16 x 13.5 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate of Ia...
Category
1990s Photorealist Wood Photography
Materials
Masonite, Oil, ABS
Her last Call (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - framed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Her last Call II (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
80x80cm,
Edition 2/5,
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Mounted and Shadow frame.
Signed on back with Certificate.
Artist Inventory # 16495.02.
Featuring Heather Megan Christie.
Offered is a piece from the movie: The Girl behind the White Picket Fence
A tale told with blemished and expired Polaroid film about the hopes and dreams of a newly orphaned girl after losing her parents who lived in the Californian desert in a vintage Spartan travel-trailer.
-filmed with Polaroid film stock and Super-8 footage, overlaid with poetic voice-over monologue - this feature film creates a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a dreamy tale that channels Terrence Malick, Gus Van Sant, and pages torn from a lonely girl's journal (Palms Springs life magazine / Caroline Ryder)
Stefanie Schneider
By Caroline Ryder
Travel up a bumpy dirt road in Morongo Valley, the trail strewn with rocks, and you’ll come upon a gigantic 1950s trailer in pristine condition, ringed by a white picket fence, with cottontail rabbits hopping among neat little rose bushes that bloom in spite of the broiling desert heat.
Inside the trailer are period accents—a vintage radio, vintage fridge...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Wood
JR MIGRANTS, WALKING NEW YORK CITY Limited edition skate set Street Art Design
Located in Madrid, Madrid
JR - MIGRANTS, WALKING NEW YORK CITY. NEW YORK, USA (2015)
Date of creation: 2019
Medium: Digital print on Canadian maple wood
Edition: 250
Size: 80 x 20 cm (each skate)
Condition: I...
Category
2010s Modern Wood Photography
Materials
Wood, Maple, Screen
'Lily in Charcoal' abstract expressionism photography, limited edition 3 of 5
Located in London, GB
'Lily in Charcoal' 2023
From raw energy to sublime. 'Lily in Charcoal' is an expression piece combining an abstract charcoal drawing with a live lily...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Wood Photography
Materials
Fabric, Organic Material, Wood, Cotton Canvas
D. and Felix - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
D. and Felix (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997
Edition of 2/30.
Image size 16 x 21.6 inch,
External dimensions: 17.7 x 23.3 inch.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Mounted...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Wood, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid
'Peony no.2' cotton canvas scroll, floral photography, Limited edition 3 of 5
Located in London, GB
'Peony no.2' 2023
97×120 cm printed on organic cotton canvas, limited edition of 5 + 1AP
Canvas fixed on bamboo fixtures, to be and hanged as a scroll.
Photograph is signed and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Wood Photography
Materials
Fabric, Organic Material, Wood, Cotton Canvas
Santa Cesarea diptych - large scale Mediterranean beach scene (artist framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photography diptych by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Santa Ces...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Wood, Archival Paper
Porto Miggiano (framed) - large scale photograph of Italian Mediterranean beach
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph of iconic summer beach scene in Southern Italy's Puglia by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper,...
Plage des Catalans (framed) - large scale photograph of Mediterranean beach
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of Cote d'Azur beach by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Plage des Catalans...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Peony no.3 - cotton canvas scroll, floral photography, Limited edition 2 of 5
Located in London, GB
'Peony no.3' 2023
97×120 cm printed on organic cotton canvas, limited edition of 5 + 1AP
Canvas fixed on bamboo fixtures, to be and hanged as a scroll.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Wood Photography
Materials
Fabric, Organic Material, Wood, Cotton Canvas
Coupled Poppies - organic cotton canvas scroll on bamboo, limited edition 2 of 5
Located in London, GB
'Coupled Poppies' 2023
97×120 cm printed on organic cotton canvas, limited edition of 5 + 1AP
Canvas fixed on bamboo fixtures, to be and hanged as a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Wood Photography
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Organic Material, Wood, Cotton Canvas, Archival Pigment
Manarola Multi Jump (framed) large scale photograph of Mediterranean beach scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of summer beach scene along Cinque Terre coast by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Manarola (2020)
61.25” x 81.68” / 155.60 cm x 207.46 cm
limited edition of 6 + 2AP (signed, titled and dated on certificate of authenticity)
original archival photography print with diasec (acrylic glass) face mount in contemporary white lacquered gallery frame
Each limited edition original Massimo Vitali photograph is printed in Italy under artist supervision in strictly limited edition (6 + 2AP) , signed/titled/dated upon final inspection and expertly framed at renowned European art framing facility
About the artist:
Massimo Vitali was born in Como, Italy, in 1944.
He studied photography at the London College of Printing, in the 1970s initially working as a photojournalist, but at the beginning of the 80s a growing mistrust in the belief that photography had an absolute capacity to reproduce the subtleties of reality led to a change in his career path.
Vitali worked in cinematography for film and television before beginning a fine art practice in 1995.
Over the next two decades, he would gain recognition for his highly detailed, epic-scale panoramas — sociopolitical observations of the natural habitat of humankind at leisure. Vitali’s iconic series of beach panoramas, captured from a distance with an elevated large-format camera platform, began in the light of drastic political changes in Italy.
Drawing inspiration from Renaissance and Old Flemish masters, in which the central space is fully exploited and the urban or natural landscape becomes the background, Vitali’s photographs grasp the viewer by capturing highly detailed observances of the recreational habitats of modern civilization.
Vitali’s work has been collected in six monographs: Beach and Disco, Natural Habitats, Landscapes With Figures, Swimming Pools, Short Stories and Entering A New World.
Additionally, his work is represented in the world’s major museums, including the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the Fond National Art Contemporaine in Paris, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris, the Fondation Cartier in Paris and the Museo Luigi Pecci in Prato.
Massimo Vitali lives and works in Lucca (Italy) and in Berlin (Germany).
__________________________
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
'PienoVuoto'
Forte di Belvedere, Florence
2020
'Human Constellations'
Museo Ettore Fico, Turin
2019
Massimo Vitali: Short Stories'
Mazzoleni, London
2018
'Coastal Colonies'
Spiral, Tokyo
2017
‘Disturbed Coastal Systems’
Benrubi Gallery (New York, USA)
2016
‘Landscapes with Figures’
Guido & Schoen Arte Contemponania (Genoa, Italy)
2016
‘Massimo Vitali’
Crown Gallery (Knokke-Zoute, Belgium)
2016
‘Massimo Vitali’
Ronchini Gallery (London, UK)
2015
‘New Prints’
Hilger Next (Vienna, Austria)
2014
‘Massimo Vitali’
Studio La Citta (Verona, Italy)
2014
‘Into The White’
Erich Lindenberg Art Foundation (Porza, Switzerland)
2014
‘Sempre più pallide. Towards Achrome’
Palazzo Tadea (Spilimbergo, Italy)
2013
‘Between Normalities’
Bonni Benrubi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Cala Conta Point - large scale Mediterranean beach scene (artist framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format beach photograph by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Cala Conta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Wood, Archival Paper
Myvatn Nature Baths (framed) - large scale photograph of Iceland hot springs
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of iconic Icelandic hot springs by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Myvatn Nature Baths (2016)
61.25” x 81” / 156 cm x 206 cm
signed, titled and dated verso
edition of 6 + 2AP
original archival photography print with diasec (acrylic glass) face mount in contemporary white gallery frame
Each limited edition original photograph is printed in Italy under artist supervision in strictly limited edition (6 + 2AP) , signed/titled/dated upon final inspection and expertly framed at renowned European art framing facility
About the artist:
Massimo Vitali was born in Como, Italy, in 1944.
He studied photography at the London College of Printing, in the 1970s initially working as a photojournalist, but at the beginning of the 80s a growing mistrust in the belief, that photography had an absolute capacity to reproduce the subtleties of reality, led to a change in his career path. He worked in cinematography for film and television before beginning a fine art practice in 1995.
Over the next two decades, Vitali’s large scale works would become recognizable for his highly detailed sociopolitical observations of the natural habitat of humankind at leisure.
His iconic series of beach panoramas, captured from a distance with an elevated large format camera platform, began in the light of drastic political changes in Italy.
Drawing inspiration from Renaissance and Old Flemish masters, in which the central space is fully exploited and the urban or natural landscape becomes the background, Vitali’s photographs grasp the viewer by capturing highly detailed observances of humanity’s coastal habitats in the bright light of summer.
Vitali’s work has been collected in six monographs: Beach and Disco, Natural Habitats, Landscapes With Figures, Swimming Pools, Short Stories and the just published Entering A New World.
Additionally, his work is represented in the world’s major museums, including the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the Fond National Art Contemporaine in Paris, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris, the Fondation Cartier in Paris and the Museo Luigi Pecci in Prato.
Massimo Vitali lives and works in Lucca (Italy) and in Berlin (Germany).
__________________________
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
'PienoVuoto'
Forte di Belvedere, Florence
2021
'No Country For Old Men...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
North Shore Motel Office II, Salton Sea, California - Architectural Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
North Shore Motel, from Richard Heeps Salton Sea series. Blue skies over this Californian classic mid-century modern Americana Motel exterior. Captured by Richard Heeps in the Salton...
Category
2010s Conceptual Wood Photography
Materials
Resin, Wood, Color
Presque Isle River (stained glass mosaic frame, metal print)
Located in Agoura Hills, CA
17.5x13.5x1
Stained Glass, Metal Print, Wood Frame
Mixed Media Art – Fine Art Photography Meets Fine Craft Mosaic-Stained Glass Frame
My award-winning Photozaics blend the textures...
Category
2010s Wood Photography
Materials
Metal
Once in a Blue Moon - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Color, Photo
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Once in a Blue Moon (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
20x24cm,
dition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label and certificate.
Artist Inventory Number 17849.
Not mounted.
Offered is a piece from the movie: The Girl behind the White Picket Fence
A tale told with blemished and expired Polaroid film about the hopes and dreams of an newly orphaned girl after loosing her parents who lived in Californian desert in an vintage Spartan travel-trailer .
-filmed with Polaroid film stock and Super-8 footage, overlaid with poetic voice over monoloque - this feature film creates a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a dreamy tale that channels Terrence Malick, Gus Van Sant, and pages torn from a lonely girls journal
(Palms Springs life magazine / Caroline Ryder)
Stefanie Schneider
By Caroline Ryder
Travel up a bumpy dirt road in Morongo Valley, the trail strewn with rocks, and you’ll come upon a gigantic 1950s trailer in pristine condition, ringed by a white picket fence, with cottontail rabbits hopping among neat little rose bushes that bloom in spite of the broiling desert heat.
Inside the trailer are period accents—a vintage radio, vintage fridge, little crocheted doilies and dusty gilt-framed
photographs. It’s a surreal home-sweet-home, an Americana fantasy as imagined by German artist and experimental filmmaker Stefanie Schneider whose work is so inspired by the desert landscape, she made it her home in 2005. “There’s a completely different light here than in Germany, a beautiful light,” says Schneider, whose 10 acre property in Morongo is dotted with vintage trailers. They surround her midcentury home, and serve as sets for her photo shoots or as guest lodgings for her friends from Hollywood and Berlin. “But what I really love about the desert is the desolation,” she continues. “The sense of hope for something that might or might not come. It’s easy to see our dreams projected in the desert.”
Famed for shooting trailer park chic fine art photographs exclusively on vintage Polaroid film, Schneider recently completed her most ambitious project to date—a feature film made entirely of Polaroid stills (4000 images in total), the story set around her magnificent 1950s trailer. The film, called “The Girl Behind The White Picket Fence” tells the story of a broken-hearted girl who lives in the trailer. Her name is Heather, and she is played by model Heather Megan Christie, girlfriend of actor Joaquin Phoenix, and former partner of Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis, with whom she has a son. Heather stars opposite Kyle Larson (who plays ‘Hank’), a real-life gypsy fisherman who catches crab in Alaska when he’s not surfing in Southern California. Neither of the two had ever acted before, and never in the history of movie making has a director shot a film entirely on Polaroid film.
“There was great difficulty shooting a film this way,” says Schneider, who, with her long straight hair, wide innocent eyes and thick-framed glasses, conjures an art-house Gretel. “If I had used a regular camera I would have had 36 exposures per minute, much faster and easier than using the old Polaroid camera which takes a long time to shoot one frame. Also, sometimes it doesn’t shoot at the exact moment you think it’s going to—but that’s really great because then you miss the perfect moment…and often those are the best shots.” Individually, the Polaroid photographs that comprise 29 PALMS, CA stand alone, but together and in sequence, filmed with super 8 and 16mm film stock and overlaid with poetic voice-over monologues, they create a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a dreamy tale that channels Terrence Malick. Gus Van Sant, and pages torn from a lonely girl’s journal.
The idea to shoot a movie in this way came about in 2004, when Schneider was working with leading German director Mark Forster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland, Quantum of Solace) on his film Stay. She had met Forster at director Wim Wender’s birthday party in Hollywood. A few years later, Forster asked Schneider to shoot Polaroids of scenes from Stay as he filmed; he used those photographs for dream and memory sequences in the movie. For the first time, Schneider saw her Polaroids strung together in sequence, moving with rhythm like a flipbook, in the context of a story. When Forster urged her to consider making a feature film using that technique, the seed of 29 PALMS, CA was sown. She mentioned the idea to her good friend German actor Udo Kier, who also gave the idea a big thumbs up, and agreed to play the part of a mysterious shaman in the film.
Thanks to her strong reputation in the art world and her Hollywood connections, getting talented people on board was the easy part (for a while, Charlotte Gainsbourg was pegged to play the starring role, although she pulled out two weeks before shooting commenced because she was pregnant and not fit to travel to the desert.) The hard part was finding the perfect trailer—and bringing it to the desert. “This trailer almost killed us,” says Schneider’s partner Lance Waterman, who lives and works with Schneider in Morongo Valley. After finding it on eBay, the couple drove to Utah to pick it up, the plan being to tow it all the way back to the high desert themselves. Bad idea. “We were driving down a hill with this enormous trailer behind us when we realized that if we wanted to stop, there would be no way to do so without the trailer crushing us,” says Waterman. Adds Schneider: “Lance was even giving me instructions on how to jump out of the truck, if we needed to.” Thankfully the road leveled and as soon as they were able to slow down and pull over, they called a professional towing company, which transported the trailer the remaining distance to Morongo Valley.
Filming took place in Spring 2011 and 2012. Schneider recently submitted the film to major film festivals in Europe and the US, and it will be broadcast in 2013 by leading German television channel, Arte. While Schneider may come from a long tradition of photographers-turned-filmmakers—Stanley Kubrick started out as a photographer, as did Ken Russell (Tommy, Women in Love) and Larry Clark, who was was a controversial fine art photographer before directing smash hit Kids—she does not see her future in Hollywood, directing blockbusters. Not necessarily. “I don’t think I want to make more films,” she says. “The actors were saying they would love to work with me again, and were asking if I would like to make other movies. But being on movie sets is far too stressful, and at least with this, I was in complete power of what was going on creatively. That said, if this gets a lot of acclaim…we can always think again. One should never say never.”
Film features
original soundtrack with songs by Adam Weiss, Daisy McCrackin, Billy Harvey, Sophie Huber, Zoe Bicat, Max Sharam, Cheyenne Randall...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Wood, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Plage du Prophete Evening (framed) - large scale photo of Mediterranean beach
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of Cote d'Azur beach by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Wood, Giclée, Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographi...
American Girl, New York, NY - Contemporary portrait colour photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
American Girl, part of Richard Heeps street photography collection, capturing city's raw history before they change in the face of development. The picture is classic of his style of...
Category
2010s Conceptual Wood Photography
Materials
Resin, Wood, Color
Praia do Aterro Galp Matosinhos - large scale MassimoVitali beach scene (framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format beach photograph by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and ritua...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Plexiglass, Wood, Archival Paper
Gateway to Racepoint Beach(mosaic stained galss wooden frame around metal print)
Located in Agoura Hills, CA
Stained Glass, Metal Print, Wood Frame
Mixed Media Art – Fine Art Photography Meets Fine Craft Mosaic-Stained Glass Frame
My award-winning Photozaics blend the textures of Van Gogh...
Category
2010s Wood Photography
Materials
Metal
Myvatn Nature Baths (framed) - large scale photograph of Iceland hot springs
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of iconic Icelandic hot springs by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Myvatn Nature Baths (2016)
61.25” x 81” / 156 cm x 206 cm
signed, titled and dated verso
edition of 6 + 2AP
original archival photography print with diasec (acrylic glass) face mount in contemporary white gallery frame
Each limited edition original photograph is printed in Italy under artist supervision in strictly limited edition (6 + 2AP) , signed/titled/dated upon final inspection and expertly framed at renowned European art framing facility
About the artist:
Massimo Vitali was born in Como, Italy, in 1944.
He studied photography at the London College of Printing, in the 1970s initially working as a photojournalist, but at the beginning of the 80s a growing mistrust in the belief, that photography had an absolute capacity to reproduce the subtleties of reality, led to a change in his career path. He worked in cinematography for film and television before beginning a fine art practice in 1995.
Over the next two decades, Vitali’s large scale works would become recognizable for his highly detailed sociopolitical observations of the natural habitat of humankind at leisure.
His iconic series of beach panoramas, captured from a distance with an elevated large format camera platform, began in the light of drastic political changes in Italy.
Drawing inspiration from Renaissance and Old Flemish masters, in which the central space is fully exploited and the urban or natural landscape becomes the background, Vitali’s photographs grasp the viewer by capturing highly detailed observances of humanity’s coastal habitats in the bright light of summer.
Vitali’s work has been collected in six monographs: Beach and Disco, Natural Habitats, Landscapes With Figures, Swimming Pools, Short Stories and the just published Entering A New World.
Additionally, his work is represented in the world’s major museums, including the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the Fond National Art Contemporaine in Paris, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris, the Fondation Cartier in Paris and the Museo Luigi Pecci in Prato.
Massimo Vitali lives and works in Lucca (Italy) and in Berlin (Germany).
__________________________
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
'PienoVuoto'
Forte di Belvedere, Florence
2021
'No Country For Old Men...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Monopoli Sunrise (framed) - large scale photo of Mediterranean beach ritual
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of Puglia ritual by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern lei...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper,...
Praia do Moinho Handstand - large scale Massimo Vitali beach scene (framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
iconic large format beach photograph by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites an...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Wood, Archival Paper
Gravity (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Gravity (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
80x80cm,
Edition 2/5.
Analog C-Print printed on Fuji Archive Paper, hand-printed by the artist,
based on the Polaroid.
Mou...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Wood, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Done Crying (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Done Crying (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Signed Certi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Wood, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Done Crying (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Done Crying (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
Edition 1/10,
48,7 x 50 cm (External dimensions: 53,1 x 54,4 cm)
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, mounted on Alu-...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Wood
Coupled Poppies - organic cotton canvas scroll on bamboo, limited edition 2 of 5
Located in London, GB
'Coupled Poppies' 2023
97×120 cm printed on organic cotton canvas, limited edition of 5 + 1AP
Canvas fixed on bamboo fixtures, to be and hanged as a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Organic Material, Wood, Cotton Canvas, Archival Pigment
The soul of the forest n°6
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Inside the Trailer - 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative, Photograph, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Inside the Trailer (Sidewinder),
2005, Edition 1/5,
4 pieces, each 48x47cm, installed with gaps 48x207cm installed including 5cm gaps.
Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Wood, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"ELLA" Assemblage
By Jim Houser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"ELLA" is an original assemblage artwork by Jim Houser measuring 10" x 10".
Jim Houser was born in 1973 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the city where he currently resides. He is a s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Acrylic
D. and Felix - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
D. and Felix (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997
Edition of 2/30.
Image size 16 x 21.6 inch,
External dimensions: 17.7 x 23.3 inch.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Mounted...
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1990s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid, Wood
April blue Eyes (Suburbia) - mounted on Aluminum with shadow frame, analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
April Blue Eyes (Suburbia) - 2004,
60x80cm, Edition of 2/5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid.
Mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection, with o...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Wood
End of Day - Sun Flower Print on Museum Glass with White Gold and Silver leaf
Located in London, GB
END OF DAY, 2017
Printed on museum glass, hand finished with White Gold and Silver leaf, Framed
52 x 43 cm (framed), 36 x 27 cm (glass image size)
Edition 1/5. Although the prints ar...
Category
2010s Aesthetic Movement Wood Photography
Materials
Gold, Gold Leaf
Bambi Pang Pang - The Bride
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Bambi Pang Pang - The Bride' by Carmen De Vos
(Odd Stories) - 2/25, 2014
mounted on black mdf, dimensions 15x11,3cm
(the second image shows a sample piece mounted)
hand signed by th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Polaroid, Wood, C Print, Archival Paper
Kanariepiet (Odd Stories) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Kanariepiet (Odd Stories)
2/25, 2014
digital print mounted on mdf (15x11cm - 0,8 mm), matt coating
hand signed by the artist on the back.
-- Part of Carmen De Vos' solo show Odd St...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Color, Digital, Polaroid, Wood, Archival Paper
Actor Girl (29 Palms, CA) - analog, mounted, Contemporary, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Actor Girl (29 Palms, CA) - Installation, diptych
2008, 60x75x5cm each, 60x250 installed, sold out Edition of 5 Artist Proof 1/2.
2 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fu...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Wood
Presque Isle River (stained glass mosaic frame, metal print)
Located in Agoura Hills, CA
17.5x13.5x1
Stained Glass, Metal Print, Wood Frame
Mixed Media Art – Fine Art Photography Meets Fine Craft Mosaic-Stained Glass Frame
My award-winning Photozaics blend the textures...
Category
2010s Wood Photography
Materials
Metal
Cala Conta Black Dog - large scale Mediterranean beach scene (artist framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Cala Conta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Wood, Archival Paper
Porto Miggiano Colony - large scale Mediterranean beach scene (artist framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph of iconic summer beach scene in Puglia by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Porto Miggiano...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
TooLess 7482, 3D Nude. Color Limited edition color photograph. Framed Back Light
By Koray Erkaya
Located in Miami Beach, FL
TooLess 3D versions of the photographs of the TooLess series create a miss perception of the human brain. The first layer of the photo texture is formed by very small black and white...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Wood, Lights, Plexiglass
Divers by Monica Denevan. Photograph. Burma. Silver Gelatin Print. Framed
Located in Coltishall, GB
Divers by Monica Denevan Photography, Silver Gelatin Print with Wooden Frame, Burma
Monica Denevan studied photography at San Francisco State University. She has travelled extens...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Paper, Silver Gelatin, Glass, Wood
Dawn Over Bagan by James Sparshatt. Archival Print with Wooden Frame, 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
Just after sunrise the mists disburse to reveal a panorama of pagodas stretching across the Bagan valley in Burma. Drifting slowly in the almost imperceptible breeze a flotilla of h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Wood
Vigilant by Monica Denevan. Photograph - Burma. Lower body with tattoo and sword
Located in Coltishall, GB
Vigilant by Monica Denevan - Photography, Silver Gelatin Print with Wooden Frame
Burma 2009
The legs of a young man showing tradional Burmese tattoos and carrying a sword.
The Ir...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Paper, Silver Gelatin, Glass, Wood
Richard Klein, Johnson Hs. & Guest Hs. General View (2024), Ed 2/3, replica
Located in Darien, CT
In the mid 1990s Richard Klein started working with found glass objects, including bottles, drinking glasses, ashtrays, and eyeglasses. Initially, Klein rejected any object with commercial or advertising content, but in 2015 he became fascinated with the promotional content that was screen printed on ashtrays from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. This period was before smoking was looked at as being primarily a negative habit, and iconic American businesses, including Howard Johnson’s, International House of Pancakes (iHop) and Holiday Inn, all produced promotional ashtrays printed with their graphic identity.
By the time Klein became interested in these objects, the businesses had either ceased to exist, or had changed their logos, and many of their signature buildings, which where examples of classic, “Pop” roadside architecture, has been torn down or repurposed. The artist wanted to connect the glass objects with the business’s sites that were still recognizable and spoke of their history, so he began researching where original buildings still stood.
Klein then embarked on a series of road trips to photograph these sites with the intention of combining the photographs with the promotional glass objects. This led him to as far south as Maryland and as far north as upstate New York from his home in Connecticut.
Johnson Hs. & Guest Hs. is an exact replica of an art history slide made in the 1950s picturing Philip Johnson’s Glass House. The slide has been replicated digitally on a much larger scale (23” x 23”) and like the original is made of a cardboard mount that contains a color transparency. The original slide is faded from years of use and most of the color, other than red, has been bleached out.
Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, independent curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Caren Golden Fine Art, New York; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Hales Gallery, London; Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; James Barron Art, Kent, CT; The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Exhibit by Alberson Tulsa, OK; Incident Report/Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY; ICEHOUSE Project Space, Sharon, CT; Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT and with ODETTA Gallery at the Equity Gallery in New York City..
Reviews of his work have appeared in Two Coats of Paint, Whitehot Magazine, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, and The New Yorker. In the summer of 2024 he will be the first Artist-In-Residence at Peck Ledge Light...
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2010s Dada Wood Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Film, Archival Paper, Digital, Wood
Island by Monica Denevan - Photography, Silver Gelatin Print with Wooden Frame
Located in Coltishall, GB
Island by Monica Denevan - Photography, Silver Gelatin Print with Wooden Frame
Monica Denevan studied photography at San Francisco State University. She has travelled extensively i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Wood, Paper, Glass
Sands of The Himalaya by James Sparshatt. Archival Print with Wooden Frame
Located in Coltishall, GB
The Nubra Valley is part of the Tibetan plateau. It is an arid landscape surrounded by awesome peaks, a high altitude desert inhabited by a few small Ladakhi communities and their ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Wood
Daylight Diptych (Two 24 x 12 inch monotypes mounted on wood panels)
Located in Oakland, CA
These yellow monotypes look like block prints or screen prints but are actually lensless photographs. They began as blue cyanotypes and were turned yellow through a process called "t...
Category
2010s Wood Photography
Materials
Birch, Paper, Mixed Media, Panel, Monotype, Photogram
Fallen Tree by Monica Denevan - Silver Gelatin Print with Wooden Frame
Located in Coltishall, GB
Fallen Tree by Monica Denevan - Silver Gelatin Print with Wooden Frame
Monica Denevan studied photography at San Francisco State University. She has travelled extensively in Burma...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Paper, Wood, Glass
La Celebracíon by James Sparshatt. Silver Gelatin Print with Wood Frame, 2004
Located in Coltishall, GB
A moment of pure joy in Holguín, Cuba, during las Romerias de Mayo festival.
James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people lost in the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Wood
El Barbudo by James Sparshatt. Silver Gelatin Print with Wooden Frame, 2002
Located in Coltishall, GB
The bearded one… in Old Havana.
The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They have a strength of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Wood Photography
Materials
Wood, Silver Gelatin
El Caballero - Baryta silver gelatin print - wood frame, 2014
Located in Coltishall, GB
The gentleman… a man of calm dignity and endessly kind eyes in Old Havana in 2016.
The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic chan...
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21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Wood Photography
Materials
Wood, Silver Gelatin, Glass
Coupled Poppies - organic cotton canvas scroll on bamboo, limited edition 2 of 5
Located in London, GB
'Coupled Poppies' 2023
97×120 cm printed on organic cotton canvas, limited edition of 5 + 1AP
Canvas fixed on bamboo fixtures, to be and hanged as a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Wood Photography
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Organic Material, Wood, Cotton Canvas, Archival Pigment
Sands of The Himalaya by James Sparshatt. Archival Print with Wooden Frame
Located in Coltishall, GB
The Nubra Valley is part of the Tibetan plateau. It is an arid landscape surrounded by awesome peaks, a high altitude desert inhabited by a few small Ladakhi communities and their ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Wood
The Skelligs by Moonlight by James Sparshatt. 34 x 24" Framed Archival Print
Located in Coltishall, GB
The Skellig Islands are off the coast of Kerry in Ireland. Once the home of reclusive monks they have gained notoriety recently as a retreat for Luke Skywalker… Lit by moon light reflected off the Atlantic Ocean swell they portray a calm at odds with the often stormy seas that batter them..
James Sparshatt’s black and white landscapes have an ethereal beauty. They are moments when the natural form of topography is given magic by the transient touch of the elements.
The work is also available as a smaller archival giclee print and as a collectors edition Palladium Platinum print.
Archival print on 300gsm Hahnemuhle rag
Edition of 15
Dark wood frame with UV clarity glass
Framed size 96cm x 72cm (38″ x 28.5″)
Signed by the artist
Certificate of Authenticity from the gallery
Country: County Kerry...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Glass, Wood
Desert canyon road (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Desert canyon road (Abstract Photography)
Mix media, C-print, and acrylic paint on a wood mount - Unframed
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
Artworks are of ...
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2010s Abstract Wood Photography
Materials
Wood, Acrylic, C Print
Gateway to Racepoint Beach(mosaic stained galss wooden frame around metal print)
Located in Agoura Hills, CA
Stained Glass, Metal Print, Wood Frame
Mixed Media Art – Fine Art Photography Meets Fine Craft Mosaic-Stained Glass Frame
My award-winning Photozaics blend the textures of Van Gogh...
Category
2010s Wood Photography
Materials
Metal
Rays of City Light, fine art photography on maple wood, yellow and orange NYC
Located in Dallas, TX
Part of the “Wooden Postcards” series by husband and wife team Hugo Garcia-Urrutia & MK Semos, "Rays of City Light" is shot using cross-processed medium format film and a Holga camera. The imagery is a vibrant New York City street scene, showing an iconic yellow taxi cab and abstract orange patterns and "rays of light" emulating from the buildings.
The frames are manually juxtaposed inside the camera to create “rays” emulating from the urban chaos of taxi cabs and skyscrapers. Urrutia crafts the substrate from white oak flooring, with the natural wood grain becoming an essential element of the composition. The choice of white oak, with its natural grain visible through the film overlay, reinforces a sense of history and urban grit, allowing the wood itself to become an active part of the composition.
HUGO GARCIA URRUTIA
Hugo Garcia Urrutia is an interdisciplinary artist, interested in the cross-pollination between art and architecture. A graduate and active member of the Architectural Association in the United Kingdom, Urrutia’s work creates a distinct spatiality located at the interstice of art and architecture. His work explores and uses the technology for design and fabrication, with a sensitive and conscious reminder of the creativity of human endeavor.
Urrutia graduated from the Architectural Association in 2013, earning a Master of Architecture in the Design & Make programme. In 2000, he graduated from Texas Tech University, with a Bachelor of Architecture and Design and received the 2000 Outstanding Thesis Award. In 2004, he founded Decorazon Gallery in Dallas’ historic Bishop Arts District where he directed, curated and exhibited numerous art/architectural exhibitions for national and international artists.
His personal artwork has been exhibited in the United States, United Kingdom, Thailand, Colombia, and Hong Kong. His participation in art and architectural competitions and public projects include; the AIA Cincinnati, where he received the Design Award for the 2000 National Urban Poetry I competition and the 2005 ARQUINE - International Architecture Competition in Mexico City. His art installations – The Mexican Tsunami, and Making a Killing – have both been featured at the Art Santa Fe 2010 Contemporary Art Fair, curated by Charlotte Jackson, and University of Dallas and the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (MAC) in Dallas curated by Charissa N. Terranova. Together with the AA-DLAB 2012 team, Urrutia presented the Fallen Star at the Architectural Association Back Member’s Room.
MK SEMOS
MK Semos is a Greek-American artist whose work is deeply rooted in her passion for storytelling. Raised in Dallas, Texas, her artistic journey began at the Booker T. Washington School for the Performing and Visual Arts and later at the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned degrees in photojournalism and photo illustration. It was in New York City during the vibrant 1990s that her artistic vision crystallized. Captivated by the city's energy, Semos photographed its dynamic urban landscapes and eclectic people, using her SL 66 Rolleiflex camera to capture movement and emotion. Even after three decades, she finds endless inspiration in the city’s pulse, describing it as an "endless source of inspiration."
Semos’ work spans travel, portraiture, and environmental photography, with her mastery of the Holga camera earning her recognition in publications like New York Magazine, Business Traveler, and Timeout NY. Alongside her husband, Hugo Garcia Urrutia, she co-founded DeCorazon Gallery, showcasing global artists and exhibiting her own works in prestigious art fairs around the world. Semos also serves on the board of the Association of Women Art Dealers...
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2010s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Wood, Oak, Maple, Photographic Film, Varnish
WOMEN OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES Large Photo NETA
Located in Surfside, FL
"Women of the IDF" Large Exhibition color Photograph
30 x 40 inches, mounted on masonite and laminated.
Edition of 4 + 2 artists proof. minor dings and bumps to edges Born in Tehran, Iran, Ashkan Sahihi moved with his family to West Germany at the age of seven. Although he began taking photographs as a teenager, Sahihi traces the beginning of his professional trajectory to New York in 1987, a thriving “pop culture metropolis” where he could do the kind of photography work that he wanted to do, exploring the underbelly of the society around him. Taking assignments from German publications such as the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine, Der Spiegel, Dummy and GEO, he photographed subjects like prisoners on death row, players in the hip-hop scene, and the downtown art scene of New York. Neither black nor white, an insider among outsiders, he found himself able to navigate spaces and dynamics that others might have had difficulty entering. He considered this both a privilege and an obligation – to visit these places and tell these stories. His success led to commissions from American publications as well, including the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and Vogue.
Put off by the limitations of photojournalism (the expectation that he would illustrate the writer’s perspective rather than author a narrative of his own), Sahihi began to embark on independent, highly compact conceptual series. His main goal in these series has been to drive forward public discourse on topics he believes have not provoked enough or the right kind of discussion: drugs, gender in the media, women in the military, etc. His portraits draw on a familiar visual language – often seated subjects before a neutral backdrop – but push the viewer to feel and think about entirely new things. Although he constantly challenges the comfort level of both the viewer and the subject, Sahihi never removes himself from the line of fire; all of his work requires the artist to immerse himself in uncomfortable situations and challenge his own emotional fortitude.
Photographic Series
In the “Face Series”, latex-gloved hands manipulate the subjects’ features, stretching, pushing, squeezing, pinching at the whim of external direction – from the artist? The customer? The public? The “Hypnosis Series” comprises 8 portraits of hypnotized subjects each experiencing a single emotion, e.g. helplessness, withholding/anger, or regret. In a society that rewards the suppression of such naked emotion, the purity of these depictions is arresting.
In 2006, Sahihi photographed himself in the homes and with the families of six ex-girlfriends and one ex-wife, imposing himself more or less awkwardly on the constellations that emerged after he had exited their lives (“Exes Series”).
For Sahihi’s most well-known work, the “Drug Series,” he convinced 11 non–drug users to consume a particular drug, then took their portraits over the course of their trips. The series was born out of Sahihi’s frustration with the hypocrisy of the political conversation about drugs in the United States. “By attempting to present an objective image of drug use, the artist addresses the cultural politics that allow our society to simultaneously glamorize the ‘drug look’ in fashion magazines and the entertainment industry and meanwhile turn a blind eye to the complicated, and vast, problem of drug abuse.” Sahihi has exhibited this series at MoMA PS1 New York in 2001, in Dresden in 2008, and alongside his installation “100 Million in Ready Cash."
Sahihi’s dense explorations through small photographic series include “Women of the IDF," portraits of female Israeli soldiers...
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Early 2000s Wood Photography
Materials
Masonite
Barbara Hocker, Whirlwind Waterfall, 2021, encaustic, photography, Naturalism
Located in Darien, CT
Barbara Hocker sees her life’s vocation as being an ambassador for the natural world through her art.
Nature is facing many challenges right now. Hock...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Wood Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Encaustic, Panel, Digital, Monotype, Thread, Wood
Soaring Sky High, fine art abstract on maple wood, NYC, water towers & blue sky
Located in Dallas, TX
Soaring Sky High, part of the “Wooden Postcards” series, lifts the viewer above Union Square’s rooftops, capturing New York’s iconic water towers against a vast blue sky. Shot with a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Wood, Maple, Oak, Photographic Film, Varnish
Chefs's Last Supper - Portrait of 13 Michelin-starred Chefs - Framed Print
Located in London, GB
'Last supper' of 13 Michelin-starred Chefs...
John Reardon is particularly associated with his portraits of chefs for the Observer Food Monthly (UK) for which this commission based o...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Glass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photograph...
Back in the New York Groove, Sunset painted colors, Brooklyn Bridge photography
Located in Dallas, TX
Positivity & uplifting imagery is the theme of Urrutia's unique work "Back in the New York Groove". A striking black & white photograph of the Brooklyn Bridge sits in the center, and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Wood, Oak, Acrylic
The Ridge, Cheshire, England, UK, 2013
By Pete Kelly
Located in Hudson, NY
Each year, Robin Rice celebrates a Salon style exhibition to showcase her gallery artists and invite new ones.
With Robin’s extensive experience as a gallery curator, all Robin Rice...
Category
2010s Modern Wood Photography
Materials
Wood, Encaustic, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Wood photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Wood photography available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add photography created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, pink and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Miguel Vallinas, Massimo Vitali, James Sparshatt, and Jason Engelund. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, Abstract, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Wood photography, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available
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