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Art Subject: Flower
Original Photography by Cyrille Druart
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Black and white original photography by Cyrille Druart. Edition: II/V Dimensions: 120 x 90 cm Cyrille Druart is a French photograph and architect, a book about his new series ...
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2010s Modern Black and White Photography

Ruth- Signed limited edition nude print, Black white Contemporary, Romantic
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Ruth - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 1995 - Edition of 5 This image was captured on film. The negative was scanned creating a digital file which was then print...
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1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Gi...

Ruth- Signed limited edition nude print, Contemporary Black white photo, Model
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Ruth - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 1995 - Edition of 5 This image was captured on film. This print that is being offered is a high-quality Archival Pigment pri...
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1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Gi...

Roses are Red, 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude Photography, Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Roses are Red, 2018, 20x20cm, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Digital C-print, based on a Polaroid photograph not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inven...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

'SuperVision' Print on Hahnemüle Paper, Yellow Figurative Photo, by Abi Polinsky
Located in New York, NY
SuperVision by Abi Polinsky. REP by Tuleste Factory 2021 W 62" x H 31" — Framed. Signed limited edition of 5. — Please contact us for shipping quotes and customization option...
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21st Century and Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Jeune fille en fleurs, Normandie
Located in München, BY
A very beautiful and sexy heinie is looking out of a wonderful bush of flowers. These stunning photographs of Sieff’s subjects in Paris, in their homes, on the shores of Normandy, a...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Photography

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Archival Pigment

Untitled. From The series Buscando Papá. Photo Collage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled, 2001 by Celso José Castro Daza From The series Buscando Papá One of a kind photo collage Sheet Size: 39.5 in. H x 27.5 in. W 2001 Unfr...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

RANONKEL #1 [From the series Need to Be] - Polaroid, Portrait, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
RANONKEL #1, 2009 [From the series Need to Be] Published in her book The Eyes of the Fox, 2018 30x40x2cm. Digital archival pigment print based on an original Polaroid on museum qual...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigmen...

RANONKEL #diptych [From the series Need to Be] - Polaroid, Nude, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
RANONKEL #diptych, 2009 [From the series Need to Be] Published in her book The Eyes of the Fox, 2018 30x40cm each, 70x40cm installed. Digital archival pigment print based on a Polar...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigmen...

Flora 08 - Contemporary Photography, Floral, Female Nude, Roses, Irises, Color
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 08 is a vibrant Digital C-Type print in an Edition of 15 in this size by contemporary photographer duo Tortora & Travezan. All prints are produced to order. Lead times betwee...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital

Candid - Polaroid, Black and White, Women, 21st Century, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Candid - 2020 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-969. Not mounted. ...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Le boudoir #1
Located in München, BY
Edition of 10 2 beautiful girls lying in sexy underwear on a big bed. The artist, photographer and director Iris Brosch, living between New York and Paris, i...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Flora 05 - Contemporary Photography, Floral, Female Nude, Poppies, Flowers
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 05 is a vibrant Digital C-Type print in an Edition of 15 in this size by contemporary photographer duo Tortora & Travezan. All prints are produced to order. Lead times betwee...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital

Omnia Vanitas No.7 by Ronald Martinez - Fine art photography, still life, skull
Located in Paris, FR
Omnia Vanitas No.7 is a limited-edition photograph by French contemporary artist Ronald Martinez. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in one size: *40...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print

Blue Moon Rose, 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude Photography, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blue Moon Rose, 2018, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Digital C-print, based on a Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2018-420 Kirst...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Omnia Vanitas No.2 by Ronald Martinez - Fine art photography, still life, skull
Located in Paris, FR
Omnia Vanitas No.2 is a limited-edition photograph by French contemporary artist Ronald Martinez. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in one size: *60...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print

Skindeep - 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude Photography, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Skindeep - 2018, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival Print based on Polaroid. Not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2018-448. Kirste...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper

Statuesque, 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude Photography, Contemporary, B&W
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Statuesque, 2018, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Digital C-print, based on an Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2018-403. Kirsten...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Ophelia Series
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The photography of Carla van de Puttelaar allows the eye to touch the skin on many different levels. Through her lens, she makes the viewer aware of the sensitivity and the sensualit...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Outtake (29 Palms, CA) - 58x56cm, analog, Polaroid, Contemporary, 20th Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Outtake (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 58x56cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, printed on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, matte surface, based ...
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1990s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

RANONKEL #2 [From the series Need to Be] - Polaroid, Nude, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
RANONKEL #2, 2009 [From the series Need to Be] Published in her book The Eyes of the Fox, 2018 30x40x2cm. Digital archival pigment print based on an original Polaroid on museum qual...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigmen...

Lap Dance with Light (50x50cm) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lap Dance with Light, 2018, 50x50cm, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Arti...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Carried away -Contemporary, Polaroid, Black and White, Women, 21st Century, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Carried away - 2020 20x25cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-970. Not moun...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Butterflies (Odd Stories) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Women, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Vlinderbuik (Odd Stories) - 1/25, 2013, digital print, based on a Poalroid, mounted on black mdf, matte coating, dimensions 15x11,3cm, hand signed by the artist on the back. -- Par...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Photography

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Wood Panel, Color, Digital, Polaroid

Galatea 8 - Contemporary photography, Nude, Portrait, Fruit, Still life, Flowers
Located in Brighton, GB
Galatea 8 is a vibrant C-Type Print on Fujiflex Paper in an Edition of 9 + 2 Artist Proof. Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected betwee...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

C Print, Digital

Blue Moon Rose (50x50cm) 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude Photography, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blue Moon Rose, 2018, 50x50cm, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Digital C-print, based on a Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2018-420 Not mo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Lap Dance with Light, 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude Photography, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lap Dance with Light - 2018, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival Print, based on a Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inv...
Category

2010s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper

Roses are Red - 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude Photography, Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Roses are Red, 2018, 50x50cm, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid photograph Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2018-4...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Marcy
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing. Edition of 1. If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production. Shipping time depends on method of shipping. Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph. ABOUT: For the last two years Mark and Kristen have collaborated using one of the earliest photographic methods, collodion wet plate to create ambrotypes on glass and tintypes on aluminum. They use a 1860 style view camera to create one-of-a-kind images, which become windows into an intimate, romantic, and beautiful world of faces, still lives, nudes, and landscapes. In this demanding process, the collodion coated tin or glass plates are immersed in a silver nitrate solution, and then they must be exposed in the camera and developed while still wet. Serendipitous flaws and beautiful imperfections are an inevitable part of this imprecise hands-on process. This show includes a combination of 24 tintypes and ambrotypes, which are 8x10 and smaller in size. Their intimate sizes ask the viewers to look closer and spend more time with these photographs to fully appreciate their power. — A welcome antidote to today's nonstop, ¬instantaneous imagery. Paradoxically, this intersection of past and present gives these pieces an unmistakably contemporary feel. The two collaborators deliberately play up the ambiguity of time. The nudes (some recalling E.J. Bellocq's alluring portraits of New Orleans prostitutes in 1912) are suffused with freshness and sensuality, even eroticism at times, with nearly all of them coming off as refined rather than crass. Fredrick Scott Archer developed the collodion process in 1851. Artists such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll, William Henry Jackson and Civil War photographer Mathew Brady...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Photography

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Archival Pigment

Love-Dream, Love-Nothing #025 – Nobuyoshi Araki, Woman, Nude, Japan, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Nobuyoshi ARAKI (*1940, Japan) Love-Dream, Love-Nothing #025, 2018 gelatin silver print 50.8 x 60 cm (20 x 23 5/8 in.) Print only – Nobuyoshi Araki Nobuyoshi Araki (Tokyo, 1940) is ...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Photography

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Silver Gelatin

"Radiance III" Figurative Nude Photography 30" x 24" in Ed. 1/7 by Aaron Mcpolin
Located in Culver City, CA
"Radiance III" Figurative Nude Photography 30" x 24" in Ed. 1/7 by Aaron Mcpolin Medium: Archival Giclee Print Available sizes: Edition of 15 20 x 16 inch Edition of 7 30 x 24 inch...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Still life and nude - Signed limited edition fine art print, Contemporary, Model
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Still life and nude- Signed limited edition archival pigment print, Edition of 5 This print that is being offered is a high-quality Archival Pigment print which has been printed ...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Paper, Color, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pigment

Ruth- Signed limited edition contemporary print, Black white photo, Nude, Religious
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Ruth - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 1995 - Edition of 5 This image was captured on film. The negative was scanned creating a digital file which was then printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm (Acid-free and lignin-free paper, Museum quality paper for highest age resistance and a popular alternative to analogue baryta paper) using pigment inks which are known for their longevity. Signed + numbered by artist with certificate of authenticity , unframed Please note. There are three sizes of this archival pigment print; each is an edition of five (5) making the total that can be printed as fifteen (15). This will include any custom sizes requested Archival pigment print available sizes : 50 x 37 cm / 19,68 x 14,56 in - Edition of 5 75 x 55 cm / 29.53 x 21.66 in - Edition of 5 105 x 77 cm / 41,34 x 30,31 in - Edition of 5 Ian Sanderson (born 1951 Scotland, died 2020 Spain) was a Scottish photographer. He produced images over a 35 year career, and in recent years used archival techniques to produce his prints. For most of his career he worked as both a Commercial and Fine Art photographer, and during his last years concentrated on his personal imagery. Towards the end of his life journey, Ian was reviving with his partner two 19th century printing techniques in their studio, Platinum Palladium and Gum Bichromate ( one-of-a-kind pieces). This culminated in a large retrospective exhibition in Barcelona which was sponsored by the Nando and Elsa Peretti Foundation. The Platinum and Palladium prints are particularly interesting as they printed them onto vellum paper therefore transparent and bonded pure gold or silver to the back of the prints ( every print is therefore a unique and timeless piece of art). They have created rare and personalized pieces with an artisanal technique. Ian Sanderson was one of only a handful of artists worldwide producing this type of work. Nowadays, Ian’s partner continues their work, she’s still creating Platinum Palladium prints but also silver gelatin photographs. categories : Black and white photography, 20th. century, Archival pigment print, Sensual, Nude, fashion, model, Grainy, Photographic film, Analogue, Analog, Monochromatic, Fine Art, Vintage...
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1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Gi...

Young Soldiers Dream in the Garden of the Dead with Flowers
Located in New York, NY
Young Soldiers Dream in the Garden of the Dead with Flowers Growing from Their Heads 1995 Signed and numbered in black ink, verso Archival pigment pri...
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1990s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Vines
Located in Austin, TX
From a stunning collection of contemporary nudes from celebrated photographer, Markus Klinko, featuring amongst others, Dita Von Teese, Stoya and Aubrey O’Day This print is availabl...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Photography

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C Print

"Thorned Heart" Nude Photography 24" x 32" inch Edition 1/7 by Aaron Mcpolin
Located in Culver City, CA
"Thorned Heart" Nude Photography 24" x 32" inch Edition 1/7 by Aaron Mcpolin Medium: Archival Giclee Print Available sizes: Edition of 15 18" x 24" inch Edition of 7 24" x 32" inch...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

I am dissolved #3. From the series I Am Dissolved. Color nude photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
An insipid notion (The astonished world) is a collection of unreal experiences caused by the feeling of late and inexperienced love, and the inability to fully know the experience of...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

‘Seated Woman’ Figurative Nude Female Model B&W Photography by Shuki Laufer
Located in Carmel, CA
Limited Edition of 3 1/3 The photograph comes with a certificate of authenticity and a letter of appraisal. Shuki Laufer - 'Woman in black and white' Ph...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Love-Dream, Love-Nothing #011 – Nobuyoshi Araki, Woman, Nude, Japan, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Nobuyoshi ARAKI (*1940, Japan) Love-Dream, Love-Nothing #011, 2018 gelatin silver print 50.8 x 60 cm (20 x 23 5/8 in.) Print only – Nobuyoshi Araki Nobuyoshi Araki (Tokyo, 1940) is ...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Original Photography by Cyrille Druart
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Black and white original photography by Cyrille Druart. Edition: I/V It is the last available. Dimensions: 120 x 90 cm Cyrille Druart is a Fre...
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2010s Black and White Photography

`Ritual`, Tokyo -from the series `Okurimono`- nude flowers blue Japan
Located in Oslo, NO
Okurimono Pigment Print Images from the Okurimono series is available in 3 different formats : * 50 x 75 cm : edition of 10 + (+2ap) * 80 x 120 cm : edition of 7 + (+2ap) * 113 x...
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2010s Nude Photography

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Digital Pigment

"MW Untitled 2" Figurative Photography 40" x 30" in Edition 1/7 by Lika Brutyan
Located in Culver City, CA
"MW Untitled 2" Figurative Photography 40" x 30" in Edition 1/7 by Lika Brutyan Original photography by Lika Brutyan from the "Milky Way" series Edition 1/7 Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Not Framed. Ships in a tube. Lika Brutyan is American photographer, was born in a family of scientists and artists in Yerevan, Armenia. Her training and work in psychotherapy has lead her to a deep curiosity in human nature. While still in the field of psychology, she started to shoot. Over the years she became more and more interested in photographing human emotion and behavior. This interest combined her great appreciation for fashion has lead Lika down the path of fashion photography and portraiture. Lika’s work are shown across the U.S, Great Britain, France, Italy, Romania. Her photographs have been published in various magazines, many of them belong to private collections. Selected Exhibitions 2019 - Sublimation at Voies Off Festival, Arles 2019 - Sublimation at Fondazione Luciana Matalon...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Photography

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Rag Paper, Archival Pigment

Meagan Rose
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing. Edition of 1. If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production. Shipping time depends on method of shipping. Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph. ABOUT: For the last two years Mark and Kristen have collaborated using one of the earliest photographic methods, collodion wet plate to create ambrotypes on glass and tintypes on aluminum. They use a 1860 style view camera to create one-of-a-kind images, which become windows into an intimate, romantic, and beautiful world of faces, still lives, nudes, and landscapes. In this demanding process, the collodion coated tin or glass plates are immersed in a silver nitrate solution, and then they must be exposed in the camera and developed while still wet. Serendipitous flaws and beautiful imperfections are an inevitable part of this imprecise hands-on process. This show includes a combination of 24 tintypes and ambrotypes, which are 8x10 and smaller in size. Their intimate sizes ask the viewers to look closer and spend more time with these photographs to fully appreciate their power. — A welcome antidote to today's nonstop, ¬instantaneous imagery. Paradoxically, this intersection of past and present gives these pieces an unmistakably contemporary feel. The two collaborators deliberately play up the ambiguity of time. The nudes (some recalling E.J. Bellocq's alluring portraits of New Orleans prostitutes in 1912) are suffused with freshness and sensuality, even eroticism at times, with nearly all of them coming off as refined rather than crass. Fredrick Scott...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

American Contemporary Photo by Michael K. Yamaoka - Botanical Ink, The Tattoo
Located in Paris, IDF
Digital Photograph , ed. 2 of 9 HP Premium Satin Photo Paper with archival inks Born in Japan in 1940 and educated at The Art Center College of Design in California, Michael K. Yama...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Color Photography

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Ink, Photographic Paper, Satin Paper, Digital

Ghost Souls IV • # 2 of 12 • 42 cm x 29 cm
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Ghost Souls IV • 2022 • 2/12 • Edition of 18 prints in 2 different sizes. A collaboration of photographer Angelika Büttner and visual artist Laure Laferrerie. All prints are numbered and signed by both artists. Printed on Hahnemühle Archival Paper. Two different sizes are available, the series is limited to a total of 18 prints H 42.00. cm x W 29.70 cm - Edition of 12 - 1/12 to 12/12 H 59.40 cm x W 42.00 cm - Edition of 6 - 1/6 to 6/6 The artwork is sold unframed as a print only. • Renowned photographer Angelika Buettner and accomplished visual artist Laure Laferrerie join forces in a captivating creative collaboration, unveiling a mesmerizing series that seamlessly merges nude photography with the allure of digital paintings. Together, these visionary women embark on a duet of creation, capturing reflections of concealed female souls. Angelika Buettner's revealing eye and Laure Laferrerie's raw artistic gesture converge in a project that transcends whispers to explosive artistic expression. Having previously established a creative rapport through various editorial collaborations, Angelika Buettner and Laure Laferrerie draw inspiration from their deep understanding of each other. Their enchanting nude series delves into the depths of the soul, unveiling the eternal bond with our unique soul sisters...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Photography

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

LOST WOMAN by Guido Argentini
Located in New York City, NY
Series: SHADES OF A WOMAN All available sizes and editions: 40" x 40" editions of 18 50" x 50" editions of 7 60" x 60" editions of 3 Archival Pigment Print on Fine Art Baryta paper...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

`Psycho`, Okurimono series, Tokyo- japan-nude -harajuku-girl-color
Located in Oslo, NO
Okurimono Pigment Print Images from the Okurimono series is available in 3 different formats : * 50 x 75 cm : edition of 10 + (+2ap) * 80 x 120 cm : edition of 7 + (+2ap) * 113 x 170 cm : edition of 7 + (+2ap) Each print is numbered and signed About the work : Work by contemporary photographer Christian Houge, from the Okurimono series. In this series, Houge has, through five trips to Japan (Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto), explored Japans otherworldly subculture and its ritualistic perfection. In this personal art documentary he has ventured into delicate themes such as personal identity, sexuality, longing and gender dysphoria. In this particular series, he uses staging as a method to create a story within a story. The viewers associations are important in meeting this work and ambiguity plays an important role. In this series, Houge has, through five trips to Japan (Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto), explored Japans otherworldly subculture and its ritualistic perfection. In this personal art documentary he has ventured into delicate themes such as personal identity, sexuality, longing and gender dysphoria. In this particular series, he uses staging as a method to create a story within a story. The viewers associations are important in meeting this work and ambiguity plays a Okurimono (meaning both “gift” and “that which is in-between” in Japanese) - is a word that binds together this comprehensive project developed over five trips to Japan between 2007 and 2018. The series explores the personal pursuit of identity, at times with an underlying darkness as Houge had the chance to be introduced to Tokyo’s subculture. In exploring this theme, Houge has ventured into delicate matters such as sexuality, longing and gender dysphoria. In this particular series, he uses staging as a method to create a story within a story. The artist wishes to question the viewer and provoke a reflection on topics that are often seen as taboos in our contemporary societies. The viewer’s own associations are important in appreciating this work where ambiguity plays an important role. The project started in the Harajuku district of Tokyo which is known as a center of Japanese youth culture and where Houge found some of his first motifs: teenage girls dressing up in post-Victorian dresses or ‘cosplay’ costumes to identify with a character of their favorite comics. Here, the desire to express one’s uniqueness is central and the photographer explores the tension between personal identity and aesthetics shared by all (or at least by the same youth group). In many of his carefully staged photographs, Houge’s models are masked, so as to echo the many social masks we wear in our day-to-day lives. In our post-modern information society, drained of wonder, these enigmatic masked characters also evoke the world of shamans and pagan rituals, therefore injecting a sense of mystery and spirituality that many people are longing for. Symbolism and the many references to ritual and identity in an otherwise suppressed society, may at times create a sense of unease among viewers. The Okurimono project also explores the topic of identity and sexuality in gender dysphoria with Japan’s nyūhāfu (the transsexual ‘new halfs’). Here, the quest for identity coincides with a search of femininity and body image which results in complex physical transformations. Viewers may look at these portraits not having any clue that models are nyūhāfu. Yet, the photographs are staged so that viewers are placed in a disconcerting voyeuristic role while looking at otherwise closed world. Shibari (the art of tying), which originates from the Edo period (1600s), is another territory explored by Houge in his Okurimono series. His striking photographs of female models tied with red rope on a white background take us into this powerful journey into vulnerability and surrender, power and freedom. Through tradition, symbolism and technology, Okurimono also explores the hugely potent symbols that help define parts of Japanese culture and national identity, between old and new. As Art historian Erling Bugge put it: “Christian Houge guides us into a mystery. It resides between the ritualized shapes of the traditional and withdrawn Zen garden in Kyoto and the equally ritualized spaces of futuristic, urban Tokyo. For a westerner, Japan might look familiar, since what is held up for us looks like a futuristic spectacle somehow grounded in a western imagination. This judgment, however, is too easy. In Houge’s photographs, the sense of sameness withdraws and a very different feeling of strangeness creeps up on us. In fact, what this series registers is a remarkable place of alterity in today’s global order, a radical difference bang in the middle of the familiar.” The images of the Okurimono series share a ghostly, otherworldly quality. In reality and dream, ritual and play merge while the boundaries between the known and the unknown dissolve. Christian Houge – Now – Okurimono Christian Houge guides us into a mystery. It resides between the ritualized shapes of the traditional and withdrawn Zen garden in Kyoto and the equally ritualized spaces of futuristic, urban Tokyo. For a westerner, Japan might look familiar, since what is held up for us looks like a futuristic spectacle somehow grounded in a western imagination. This judgment, however, is too easy. In Houge’s photographs, the sense of sameness withdraws and a very different feeling of strangeness creeps up on us. In fact, what this series registers is a remarkable place of alterity in today’s global order, a radical difference bang in the middle of the familiar. This is pushed to the limit in the technological and virtual wonderland of Akihabara in Tokyo, where shop after shop trade in electronic products and computer games, while a weird costume play, “cosplay”, is being performed in streets. A similar kind of simulation is being acted out in the district of Harajuku, where Houge found some of his motifs. There is no authenticity here, no western “essence” or “reality”; instead, the virtual conquers the carnal body in a purified play of surface, image and the hyperreal. This is exotic. All the while as we are conscious of these notions as pinnacle points in a western idea of the post-modern. But in this sense Japan has always been “post-modern”. It has always integrated the most refined culture and technology from the outside while somehow retained an identity for itself. So, what would this identity be? Houge takes the view of ritual and play. Indeed, Japanese culture seems to be grounded solely on ritual, in business and in sex, in its relation to nature and in religion. This play transcends the notion of authenticity altogether, unlike the West which is haunted by the “ghost” of origin and beginnings. In Japan, “now” would mean just that; it is a “no looking back”, but rather a flow of intensities integrated in the play and ritual of the ever-present, okurimono. There is no threat of being eaten up by western culture and technology here, for, like in Zen practice, the ritual oversees everything and has no historical drag. Japan becomes weightless, shot into orbit outside the material of earth itself. Is acting out the role as Lewis Caroll’s Victorian girl driven by a sense of nostalgia? I think not. It is a striving for a moment of perfected presence, in dialogue with Houge’s optical machine. It is the moment of Now. The girl, the Zen garden and the image shares in a perfection modified by small uncertainties, coincidental imperfections that become somewhat oblique points of entry for us - a discarded handkerchief or seemingly unremarkable shapes and reflections in the prismatic play of surfaces. There is a ghostly, otherworldly quality in these images, even in the fleeting blossoming cherrytree and the play of shadows across a concrete minimalism. The doubly exposed or reflected light on the lens reminds us of the uncertain beginnings in photography’s history, with its widespread belief that the camera was able to perceive more than the naked eye, like spirits and ghosts. In Houge’s images there are different specters, skeletal, natural shapes on the one hand, the machine and the virtual on the other. Here, like some scene from the film Blade Runner, there is an uncanny confusion and mix between the human and non human. Maybe the search for a perfect moment in the perpetual flow of things is a romantic or melancholic longing for transcendent wholeness, a drive that is harnessed in a rigorous attention to visual detail. This compulsive discipline might seem absurd to any western observer, while longing itself form a common ground and will ultimately be the basis in our meeting. Erling Bugge Bio: Christian Houge (born in Oslo 1972) Based in Oslo, Norway, I have been making photographs for over twenty years and new insights continue to open. By exploring the relation, and conflict, between Nature and culture, I get a better understanding about Mans` condition. I am interested in the consequences of Humankinds progression and how science often is the result of our conquering of Nature, both on Earth and beyond. Mans` ego, consumer society, the last remnants of pure Nature and identity are recurring elements in my work. I often juxtapose the visually aesthetic with an underlying uneasiness. This often emanates a cognitive dissonance in the viewer to invite deeper truths and personal references. Looking at our actions and place in environment, which we are so dependent on, is a recurring theme in all my exploration and can use everything from digital cameras to large format and panoramic analog cameras for specific projects. I have exhibited extensively in galleries and museums in my native country Norway, as well as the US, England, France and China. The series `Death of a Mountain`(2016-2021) is nominated for the 2021 Leica Oskar Barnack Award, as well as receiving an arts grant from Norwegian Arts Council. Most recently, my series `Residence of Impermanence` 2017-2019 has been exhibited at five museums and several galleries already (including a solo show at Fotografiska, Stockholm (2019), and Les Recontres d`Arles, Haugar Artmuseum, Preus Muaeum of Photography and 2019 (Galerie Omnius, Arles). 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