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Art Subject: Men
Selene (Argentum by Guido Argentini)
Located in New York City, NY
40x40in ed.18 Archival Pigment Print MOUNTED AND FRAMED Also available in 48x48in and 60x60in. Limited edition signed print by Guido Argentini. Guido Argentini was born in Florenc...
Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Athirat (Argentum by Guido Argentini)
Located in New York City, NY
40x40in ed.18 Archival Pigment Print MOUNTED AND FRAMED Also available in 48x48in and 60x60in. Limited edition signed print by Guido Argentini. Guido Argentini was born in Florenc...
Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Engulfment - Cartagena 6. From the series Engulfment. Nude color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Engulfment - Cartagena 6 by Javier Rey From the series Engulfment Archival pigment print Image size: 165 cm H x 110 cm W. Edition of 2 + 1AP Unframed All prices are quoted as "ini...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color

On the Rhodes again - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'On the Rhodes again' part of the series 'Hands down' - 2019 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2019-504. Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde, based in Brussels also uses expired Polaroid film for her storylines. She explores the American landscape, the utterly destruction of the American dream and the wonders of the naked body put into forgotten, lost spaces...
Category

2010s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

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

Drew, Stretching
Located in New York, NY
Drew, Stretching 2019 Signed and numbered on label, verso Archival pigment print (Edition of 3 + 1 AP) 30 x 40 inches $3,000 This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category

2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Engulfment - Cartagena 7. From the series Engulfment. Nude Color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Engulfment-Cartagena 7, 2021 by Javier Rey From the series Engulfment Archival pigment print Image size: 110 cm H x 73 cm W. Edition of 5 + 1AP Unframed All prices are quoted as "...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color

Green Roll III - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 18" x 24"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater photograph of a naked young woman diving (rolling) in a pool. This extremely dynamic photograph is rich in green tones looks abstract while in fact it is entirely figu...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Thompson and Brown, Male Nudes Photographed in Studio, Queer Art
Located in New york, NY
A black and white photograph, Thompson and Brown, c. 1980 by George Dureau is a 20" x 16" gelatin silver print, signed and titled recto (front of photo) below the image. Often compar...
Category

1980s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Engulfment - Cartagena 9. From the series Engulfment Color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Engulfment- Cartagena 9 by Javier Rey From the series Engulfment Archival pigment print Medium size: 73 cm H x 110 cm W. Edition of 5 + 1AP Unframed All prices are quoted as "init...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color

Untitled (Alan in the Barn)
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (Alan in the Barn), New Hampshire 1975 Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil, verso Vintage gelatin silver print (Edition of 2) 14 x 11 inches, sheet This work is offere...
Category

1970s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

"Time Travel" Photography 40"x30" inch Edition 3/24 by Rob Woodcox
Located in Culver City, CA
"Time Travel" Photography 40"x30" inch Edition 3/24 by Rob Woodcox Hahnemuhle Torchon Matte FineArt Paper (archival) 2019 ABOUT Rob Woodcox Rob Woodcox is a fine art and fashion photographer currently living between Mexico City, Los Angeles and New York City. Rob's surrealistic contemporary style has developed into a dedication for advocacy and making strained voices heard through visual storytelling. Rob has produced projects raising consciousness and conversation around the US foster system and adoption, queer identity, body neutrality, racial diversity and environmental justice. Within any given concept lies not only a captivating visual, but a deep and powerful narrative that inspires the viewer to appreciate and contemplate. Rob creates from a unique perspective, finding hope in the human connection and the will to overcome existing constructs within our complex societies. In 2020 Rob produced and released his first photographic art book “Bodies Of Light”. Rob continues to rise in the global art scene. Selected Exhibitions: 2021 Bodies Of Light (Solo Exhibition), Liquidity Wine Gallery, Okanagan Falls, BC Canada; 2020 Bodies Of Light (Solo Exhibition), Space Place Gallery, Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia; 2020 Bodies Of Light (Solo Exhibition), 500px Gallery, Toronto, ON Canada; 2020 Bodies Of Light (Solo Exhibition), Warehouse, Miami, FL USA; 2020 Bodies Of Light (Solo Exhibition), Warehouse, Detroit, MI USA; 2020 Bodies Of Light (Solo Exhibition), Private Residence, New York, NY USA 2020 Bodies Of Light (Solo Exhibition), Warehouse, Portland, OR USA; 2020 Bodies Of Light (Solo Exhibition), Private Residence, Los Angeles, CA USA; 2020 Bodies Of Light (Solo Exhibition), Jardín Juarez, México City, México; 2019 Bodies Of Light (Solo Exhibition), The National Museum of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia; 2019 ClearChannel France, 800 Screen Public Gallery Display, Paris, France; 2019 Paris Photo...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Archival Paper

Engulfment - Cartagena 8. From the series Engulfment. Nude Color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Engulfment- Cartagena 8 by Javier Rey From the series Engulfment Archival pigment print Medium size: 73 cm H x 110 cm W. Edition of 5 + 1AP Unframed All prices are quoted as "init...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Blue Collar Fantasy, N.Y.
Located in New York, NY
Blue Collar Fantasy, N.Y. 1979 Signed, titled, and dated in ink, recto Vintage gelatin silver print 15 x 15 inches (38.1 x 38.1 cm), image 20 x 16 inche...
Category

1970s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled #3245-1 (Man Holding Bow and Arrow)
Located in New York, NY
Untitled #3245-1 (Man Holding Bow and Arrow) Stamped and numbered in black ink, verso Vintage silver print 6.875 x 4.875 inches, sheet 6.5 x 4.5 inches...
Category

20th Century Contemporary Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Untitled 1983 Signed, titled, dated, and inscribed “A/P” in blue ink, verso Gelatin silver print 16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm) This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category

1980s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Fallen Angel
Located in New York, NY
Fallen Angel 2023 Signed, titled, numbered, and dated in pencil, verso Cyanotype print toned with ammonia and tannic acid (Edition of 5) 10.5 x 8.5 inc...
Category

2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Woodstock, Visitors
Located in Cologne, DE
From Wikipedia: Woodstock was a music festival held between August 15–18, 1969, which attracted an audience of more than 400,000. Billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music", it was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm near White Lake in Bethel, New York, 43 miles (70 km) southwest of Woodstock. Over the sometimes rainy weekend, 32 acts performed outdoors. It is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history, as well as the definitive nexus for the larger counterculture generation. Rolling Stone listed it as number 19 of the 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll. The event was captured in the Academy Award-winning 1970 documentary film Woodstock, an accompanying soundtrack album, and Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock", which commemorated the event and became a major hit for both Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Matthews Southern Comfort...
Category

1960s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Kirk Bond #3268-3
Located in New York, NY
Kirk Bond #3268-3 Stamped and numbered in black ink, verso Vintage silver print 6.875 x 4.875, sheet 6.5 x 4.5 inches, image This work is offered by CLAMP...
Category

1960s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Engulfment - Cartagena 1. From the series Engulfment. Color Nude photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Engulfment (Cartagena 1) by Javier Rey From the series Engulfment Archival pigment print Medium size: 110 cm H x 125 cm W. Edition of 5 + 1AP Unframed All prices are quoted as "in...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Engulfment - Cartagena 2. From the series Engulfment. Color Nude Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Engulfment (Cartagena 2) by Javier Rey From the series Engulfment Archival pigment print Medium size: 110 cm H x 73 cm W. Edition of 5 + 1AP Unframed All prices are quoted as "ini...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

"Eva and Gorilla" Photography 16.5" x 23" inch Edition 6/10 by Lukas Dvorak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Eva and Gorilla" Photography 16.5" x 23" inch Edition 6/10 by Lukas Dvorak Pigment print on Epson Fine ART paper 2015 Ships rolled in a tube ABOUT THE ARTIST Lukas Dvorak is a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

Pigment, Archival Paper

Roman charity/Charité romain, 2013
Located in Torino, IT
Digital print on cotton paper Styles: Feminist Art and Contemporary feminist Medium: Manipulated, Colour Photography This artwork includes a certificate of authenticity In perfect co...
Category

2010s Abstract Color Photography

Materials

Cotton, Digital

Engulfment - Cartagena 3. From the series Engulfment. Color Nude Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Engulfment (Cartagena 3) by Javier Rey From the series Engulfment Archival pigment print Medium size: 110 cm H x 73 cm W. Edition of 5 + 1AP Unframed All prices are quoted as "ini...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color

Please (Sidewinder) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Nude, 21st Century, Color, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Please (Sidewinder) - 2005 20x24cm, Edition 1/10. Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 3391. Not mounted. "private history...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

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

Nude portrait study of unidentified male model
Located in Senoia, GA
Unidentified male model, photographed nude, 1971. This is a vintage silver gelatin photograph made by hand by master photographer Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell...
Category

1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

`Uma Gishiki, 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). In 2021, this series received ten nominations for the Prix Pictet Award with the theme FIRE. `Residence of Impermanence` is currently exhibited at the UCR: California Museum of Photography in Los Angeles with the exhibition `Facing Fire,` Art, Wildfire and The End of Nature in the New West...
Category

2010s Nude Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

Mel Fellini
Located in London, GB
Silver gelatin print, studio stamp (verso), 20cm x 23cm, (45cm x 46cm framed). The photographed behind museum quality, UV and non-reflective glass. A titan of American 20th century photography, Platt Lynes took his first photographs as a young artist living in New York and Paris in the 1920s. He maintained an interest in the male figure throughout his career and was part of a close-knit group of artists, including Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Margaret French...
Category

1950s American Modern Nude Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

"The Tower" (FRAMED) Photography 40" x 40" inch Ed. 1/12 by Rob Woodcox
Located in Culver City, CA
"The Tower" (FRAMED) Photography 40" x 40" inch Ed. 1/12 by Rob Woodcox Hahnemuhle Torchon Matte FineArt Paper (archival) 2019 Other sizes available AB...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Paper

Red - Contemporary, Polaroid, Nude, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Red' (Bombay Beach) 2019, 20x20cm, Edition 2/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid, Not mounted. Signed label & certificate. Artist inventory PL2019-5...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Nude male model multiple exposure with plant leaves
Located in Senoia, GA
Unidentified male model, multiple exposure with plant leaves, 1971. This is a vintage silver gelatin photograph made by hand by master photographer Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from...
Category

1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Strange Math (The Princess and her Lover)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Strange Math (The Princess and her Lover) - 2007 part of the 29 Palms, CA project. Edition of 10, 20x24cm. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certif...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

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

Muscular Nude Man on Dreamy Surreal Road to Destiny
Located in Miami, FL
A hunched-over nude man on an endless sunset road conjures up big themes. Time, distance, life, death, rebirth, and infinity are weaved together in a purposely enigmatic and dreamli...
Category

1970s Surrealist Nude Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, 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). In 2021, this series received ten nominations for the Prix Pictet Award with the theme FIRE. `Residence of Impermanence` is currently exhibited at the UCR: California Museum of Photography in Los Angeles with the exhibition `Facing Fire,` Art, Wildfire and The End of Nature in the New West...
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2010s Nude Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

I wanna be sedated - Contemporary, Nude, men, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
I wanna be sedated - from the series The crazy Adventures of David C. 2019, 20x20cm, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signed on the back and w...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Henry Jones #3237-6
Located in New York, NY
Henry Jones #3237-6 Stamped and numbered in black ink, inscribed in blue ink, verso Vintage silver print 6.875 x 4.875 inches, sheet 6.5 x 4.5 inches, image This work is offered b...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Dance Study: Askia Swift
Located in Lawrence, NY
#11 of 24, signed, dated and numbered edition of 24 across all sizes Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a following in the 1990s with two collections of underwater photography, Water Dance and Pool...
Category

1990s American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Kirk Bond #3268-4
Located in New York, NY
Kirk Bond #3268-4 Stamped and numbered in black ink, verso Vintage silver print 6.875 x 4.875 inches, sheet 6.5 x 4.5 inches, image This work is offered b...
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20th Century Contemporary Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Bowling Fantasy
Located in London, GB
Silver gelatin print, studio stamp (verso), 19cm x 19cm (print size), (50cm x 40cm in mount), unframed, but contained within archive quality mount. Tress is one of the most renowned and innovative photographers of his generation. Citing his influences as Hokusai, Frank Lloyd Wright, Picasso, El Lissitzky, Duane Michaels...
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1970s Surrealist Nude Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Warhol superstar Ultra Violet & friends nude for 'After Dark' magazine
Located in Senoia, GA
Warhol superstar Ultra Violet, art dealer Jason McCoy and art historian Ron Caran photographed nude for 'After Dark' magazine in 1971. This is a vintage gelatin silver print, made b...
Category

1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Ned Brower Celebrity Loose Print Signed on Verso
Located in Carmel, CA
Mint Condition In Corners Signed on Verso
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Untitled (Alan in the Barn), New Hampshire
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (Alan in the Barn), New Hampshire 1975 Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil, verso Vintage gelatin silver print 14 x 11 inches, sheet Edition of 3 20 x 16 inches, sheet...
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1970s Contemporary Photography

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Silver Gelatin

"Fencers 2" Photography 24" x 32" inch Edition 2/7 by Lukas Dvorak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Fencers 2" Photography 24" x 32" inch Edition 2/7 by Lukas Dvorak 24" x 32" inch Pigment print on Epson Fine ART paper 2015 Ships rolled in a tube ABOUT THE ARTIST Lukas Dvor...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Pigment

Artist’s Photograph of His Own Work
Located in New York, NY
Artist’s Photograph of His Own Work c. 1980s Signed in pencil, verso Polaroid 3.125 x 3 inches (7.9 x 7.9 cm), image 8 x 7 inches (20.3 x 17.8 cm), sheet This work is offered by ...
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1980s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Polaroid

Adult film star Cal Culver (AKA Casey Donovan) 'After Dark' Nude, Signed
Located in Senoia, GA
Adult film star Cal Culver (AKA Casey Donovan) 'After Dark' magazine nude study, photographed in 1972. This is a vintage gelatin silver print, selenium t...
Category

1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Male Nude with Head Down (Sepia Toned Figurative Photograph by David Halliday)
Located in Hudson, NY
Contemporary figurative sepia toned photograph of nude male model Sepia toned silver gelatin print, edition 3 of 25 Image size: 8 x 8 inches 17.5 x 16.5 x 1 inches framed with 8-ply ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Jeanloup Sieff - Intimode - Les Dessous de la mode
Located in Cologne, DE
From a Portfolio with 26 exclusive works of Jeanloup Sieff, limited to 200 copies. The photograph of Jeanloup Sieff has been produced as Collotype under the direct commandment of the...
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1980s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Photogravure, Archival Paper

Roots I (the nude male body becomes part of the terrain - nude texture)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is number 1 from a limited edition of 12. It is signed on the back of the image. A new book on the artist's work will be released this Spring London-based Photographer and Graphic designer Omer Ga...
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2010s Surrealist Color Photography

Materials

C Print

The Eggs of My Amnesia
Located in Washington, DC
B&W photograph by Joel-Peter Witkin (b. 1939). Title is The Eggs of My Amnesia, Rome, 1996. Print is signed on reverse and is marked AP. Frame is included. ...
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1990s Nude Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Homecoming - Polaroid, Women, 21st Century, Nude, Desert
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Homecoming - 2020 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-935. Not mo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

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

"Fencers 4" Photography 24" x 32" inch Edition 1/7 by Lukas Dvorak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Fencers 4" Photography 24" x 32" inch Edition 2/7 by Lukas Dvorak 24" x 32" inch Pigment print on Epson Fine ART paper 2015 Ships rolled in a tube ABOUT THE ARTIST Lukas Dvor...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Pigment

Equivalent
Located in Lenox, MA
Jeff Robb Equivalent Lenticular Photograph 46" x 34" Edition 1/15 Provenance: From the artist's studio Additional Information: Available in additional sizes, please inquire with t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

Lenticular

Pairs Study 106
Located in Lawrence, NY
#1 of 8, signed, numbered, dated Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a following in the 1990s with two collections of underwater photography, Water Dance and Pool Light...
Category

2010s American Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Nude on the Stairs
Located in London, GB
Silver gelatin print, studio stamp (verso), 19cm x 19cm (print size), (50cm x 40cm in mount), unframed, but contained within archive quality mount. Tress is one of the most renowned and innovative photographers of his generation. Citing his influences as Hokusai, Frank Lloyd Wright, Picasso, El Lissitzky, Duane Michaels...
Category

1970s Surrealist Nude Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Rich Thomson
Located in New York, NY
Rich Thomson c. 1959-1981 Signature stamp in black ink, verso Vintage silver print 7 x 5 inches $800 This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
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1960s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled (Alan)
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (Alan) 1975 Signed, dated, and numbered (1/1) in pencil, verso Vintage gelatin silver print 11 x 14 inches, sheet This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
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1970s Contemporary Photography

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Silver Gelatin

North Shore Yacht Club II (Back in the 80's)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
North Shore Yacht Club II (Back in the 80's) - 1999 48x46cm, Edition of 10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger 'After Dark' magazine, Color 17 x 22" Exhibition Photo
Located in Senoia, GA
Professional bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger posing at the top of his form in October 1976 for a cover and feature article in After Dark magazine. One of Mitchell's most beautiful ...
Category

1970s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Male Nude VI from the 29 Palms, CA series - Polaroid, 20th Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Male Nude VI (29 Palms, CA) - 1999, 20x20cm, Edition of 10. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory # 23700. Not mounted. T...
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1990s Contemporary Nude Photography

Materials

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

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