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Engulfment, Nacional 7. Nude in a landscape color photo.
By Javier Rey
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The first encounter I had with the abyss, was arriving to a place that does not exist, a point suspended in time where I am without being. An unreal world expands in front of me, eve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Orpheus #5 and #10 Bundled Special Balanchine Ballet with Moncion and Magallanes
Located in Glenford, NY
Special...George Platt Lynes 1948 Photographs #5 and #10 of Balanchine Ballet ‘Orpheus’ bundled together at one special price for both original 1948 photographs...$2,800.
George Pl...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bath time Story IV - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bath time Story IV - 2021 -
20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid,
Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2021-1069...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
To Swallow a Photo of Him the Way One Swallows the Eucharist
By Bill Costa
Located in New York, NY
To Swallow a Photo of Him the Way One Swallows the Eucharist
1994
Lifetime gelatin silver print
10.75 x 7.125 inches, image
14 x 11 inches, sheet
This work is offered by CLAMP in...
Category
1990s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lose your head - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lose your head- 2021 -
20x24cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid,
Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2021-1050.
Not...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
DOUGLAS JULEFF Vintage 1950s Photograph "Beefcake" model LARRY KLEIN #1 Framed
Located in Glenford, NY
Rare 1950s Original Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph by DOUGLAS JULEFF - also known as DOUG OF DETROIT - of popular young physique model LARRY KLEIN. Klein is seen here in a double ...
Category
1950s Post-War Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Figurative photo, Limited edition print, Contemporary, Portrait- Dentist chair
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Dentist chair - Signed limited edition archival pigment print
Edition of 10
This image was captured on film in 1986.
This print that is being offered is a high-quality Archival P...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Arc...
156.04.11, Torsi series by Klaus Kampert - Black and White nude photography
Located in Paris, FR
156.04.11 is a limited-edition black & white photograph by contemporary artist Klaus Kampert from the series entitled Torsi. In this series the model is stripped of identity. The pos...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Aventure d'une libertine I. From The Secret Album Series
By Uwe Ommer
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Aventure d'une libertine I, Paris, 2015
From The Secret Album Series
Edition 6/6 ex. 5 AP.
Unframed
The Secret Album Series
This series is born from a personal experience. The mode...
Category
1960s Modern Nude Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Voyeurism for Playboy by Helmut Newton - Vintage Photograph - 1991
Located in Roma, IT
Voyeurism for Playboy is a black and white photograph realized by Helmut Newton.
Black and white photograph
From the series "Voyeurism " realized by Newton for Playboy magazine.
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Untitled. From The series Buscando Papá. Photo Collage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The root of these unique photographic works by the artist Celso Castro occurred when the artist returned from Italy to live back in Colombia in 1987.
Castro wanted to produce from t...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color
Limited edition nude art print, Analogue, Sensual Charismatic woman - Heather
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘Heather'
Limited edition of 5
Signed by...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
Calvin Culver (Casey Donovan) Iconic Porn Star- Nude, 1972
Located in Glenford, NY
Jack Mitchell vintage mid-20th Century nude photograph of gay porn star Calvin Culver (porn name Casey Donovan) best know for his lead role in the break throu...
Category
1970s Modern Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Male Model Brian Destazio, Dot Pattern Projection Nude, Signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. This photograph was from a session for After Dark magazine and was selected and signed by Jack Mitchell as one of his favorites. Jack’s artist statement on his work for the magazine:
“After Dark was a magazine of entertainment, theater and the arts. It was a popular magazine, with a gay slant, enjoyed by many gay men, and some broad minded women and men. As well as (I learned years later) many closeted male youngsters. The magazine was ahead of its time, as advertisers were reluctant to place ads in an essentially gay magazine at that time. Today they swarm like bees to place their own hot ads in gay publications.
I had been photographing on assignment for Dance Magazine well before After Dark was created. Being a friend of William (Bill) Como, the Editor, and being gay, I was called into service, for the life of the publication, to photograph many of the handsome young men and women, who were featured in After Dark.
Needless to say, this was enjoyable work for me, Because, mixed in with the hot-looking young guys and gals sent to my studio were some famed performers like Debbie Reynolds, Giancarlo Giannini, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Natalie Wood, Placido Domingo, Sergio Franco...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Voyeurism for Playboy by Helmut Newton - Vintage Photograph - 1988
Located in Roma, IT
Riders for Playboy is a black and white photograph realized by Helmut Newton.
Black and white photograph.
From the series "Riders" realized by Newton for Playboy magazine.
Editio...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Nastassia Kinski for Playboy by Helmut Newton - Vintage Photograph - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Nastassia Kinski for Playboy is a mixed colored photograph realized by Helmut Newton in 1981.
Photograph on positive trasparency films.
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Rattle my Heart - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Rattle your Heart - 2024 -
40x48cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label with certificate.
inventory PL2024-12.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Franci and Rachael -Figurative sensual photo, Fine art nude print, Contemporary
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘ Franci and Rachael ‘ who was capture...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
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
Self Portrait
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Polaroid transfer on Rives BFK paper
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered (4/6) in pencil, recto
Also blindstamped, l.r.
22 x 15 inches, sheet
10 x 8 inches, image
This artwork is o...
Category
1990s Other Art Style Portrait Photography
Materials
Photogravure
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
Don't Tell Mamma #5. Black and white nude photograph
By Koray Erkaya
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This is a series of black and white nude photographs that began with analog photography between 1992 and 2005, followed by a transition period to digital photography. Erkaya is curre...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sophie- Signed limited edition nude print, Black white photo, Sexy, Contemporary
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Sophie - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 1995 - Edition of 10
A classical approach, sensual not sexual
This image was captured on film.
The negative was scanned...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Pi...
Coup de filet
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print (Edition of 10)
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Category
1990s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cai by Markus Klinko
Located in Austin, TX
Museum quality fine art print of Cai by photographer Markus Klinko in 2000 in New York.
This print is available in the following sizes, signed and numbered by Markus Klinko
24" high...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
C Print
Stranger - Contemporary, Polaroid, Nude, Landscape, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stranger - 2016
80x80 cm, Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, not mounted.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2016 - ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Blondes (Limited Edition of 25) - Nude Photography, 30x40 In Fine Art Print
Located in New York, NY
This 2007 photograph features six beautiful blondes posing on a bed. The photograph is from John Stoddart’s, “Risqué” series, where he explored a form of photography that seeks to shed any barriers between the subject and the camera, by using a human body in a nude or semi-nude form.
John Stoddart is known as the “Photographer to the Stars” and recognized as one of the world’s most renowned photographers. Born in the United Kingdom, his work includes photographing glamorous celebrities such as Catherine Zeta-Jones, Sir Anthony Hopkins, to big name bands such as “The Rolling Stones”. By the early 1980’s, John had photographed every major record label band, establishing himself as a legend photographer. A notoriously fast photographer, he has a preference for working with film as opposed to digital. John’s passion for photography carries over to the complete printing process and also includes his collection of beautiful, era gone by cameras. He is not just a photographer; he is an artist and his work capture not just a picture but a story that can be told to the viewer through the eyes of his subjects. He has worked for major publications and brands that included Vogue, Harper’s, EMI and Virgin and is often credited for the return of glamour to popular culture.
Stoddart has exhibited world-wide, including galleries in London and Paris. The Sofitel Hotel, Beverly Hills in 2017 held an “A” list invitation only exhibition and has continued to use his celebrity images as framed art throughout the hotel.
Limited Numbered Edition, on premium quality Archival Rag paper, signed by John Stoddart are available in the sizes below.
We ship world-wide and shipping is free. Your choice of one or many artworks will be given the highest standard care and delivery. Limited Edition print orders, due to risk of damage, value and high shipping and insurance costs are not framed. All limited-edition prints are professionally packaged and shipped in sturdy tubes.
Contemporary Bold Fine Art Print, Iconic Photography...
Category
Early 2000s Young British Artists (YBA) Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Kate Moss 1993, Paradise Island Bahamas, Original Print Custom Framed
By Herb Ritts
Located in London, GB
For the 1994 Pirelli Calendar shot on the Paradise Island in the Bahamas, photographer Herb Ritts set out to capture in a series of nudes what he called “the gentle innocence” of Kat...
Category
1990s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Glass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print
Aventure d'une libertine IV. From The Secret Album Series
By Uwe Ommer
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Aventure d'une libertine IV, Paris, 2015
From The Secret Album Series
Edition 6/6 ex. 5 AP.
Unframed
The Secret Album Series
This series is born ...
Category
1960s Modern Nude Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Warhol Superstars Candy Darling & Dorian Gray nude, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Warhol Superstars Candy Darling and Dorian Gray (nude) for 'After Dark' magazine, 1971 Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes...
Category
1960s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Nude in Landscape
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Shiver - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Shiver- 2021 -
20x24cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid,
Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2021-1046.
Not mounted...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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 multiple exposure nude for 'After Dark' magazine in 1971. This is a vintage gelatin silver print, m...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Figurative photo, Signed limited edition pigment print, Black white photo , Lisa
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘ Lisa ‘ who was captured on film in 198...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Arc...
DOUGLAS JULEFF Vintage 1940s Photograph of "Beefcake" model MIKE DUBEL #6 Framed
Located in Glenford, NY
COLD WINTER SUPER SPECIAL...$825...FRAMED
Rare 1940s Original Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph by DOUGLAS JULEFF - also known as DOUG OF DETROIT - of bodybuilder and Mr. America con...
Category
1940s Post-War Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Contemporary sensual, erotic photograph of nude man & woman from historic image
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"Pipe Tee" by artist Paul Cava is a one-of-a-kind (unique) archival pigment print of a nude man and woman from a historical glass plate on a historic mechani...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Ink
Clyde
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print, painted frame (Edition of 4 + 1 AP)
Signed and numbered, verso
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Price includes mounting and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Nude Studies - Edition griffelkunst
Located in Cologne, DE
With a socially critical eye and Berlin humor, the prints by Heinrich Zille (1858 - 1929) capture the milieu of the "little people" around 1900. The fact that the famous artist was a...
Category
1890s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
The Fencer back, Nude, Fine Art Photography
Located in München, BY
Unique Piece
Original Polaroid
Framed and Passepartout
Evocative, sensual and voluptuous, Marc Lagrange's work celebrates beauty and pleasure.
With a predilection for nudes and port...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Aventure d'une libertine IX. From The Secret Album Series
By Uwe Ommer
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Aventure d'une libertine IX, Paris, 2015
From The Secret Album Series
Edition 6/6 ex. 5 AP.
Unframed
The Secret Album Series
This series is born from a ...
Category
1960s Modern Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Orpheus #5 - Balanchine Ballet with Francisco Moncion and Nicholas Magallanes
Located in Glenford, NY
George Platt Lynes 1948 Photograph #5 of Balanchine Ballet ‘Orpheus’.
George Platt Lynes rare original vintage 1948 silver gelatin photograph (dated by the NY City Public Library) of nude dancers Francisco Moncion and Nicholas Magallanes in George Balanchine's iconic mid-20th Century ballet Orpheus. Stamped on verso in dark blue ink at upper center, "GEORGE PLATT LYNES/145 EAST 52 STREET NEW YORK”. Photo shoot took place in NYC. Costumes and Set by ISAMU NAGUCHI. Photo is 7 5/8 x 9 1/4 inches, soft satin finish in excellent condition.
This photograph is from my collection of 14 different poses in this series of nude photographs by Platt Lynes of Moncion and Magallanes in Orpheus. 8 different photographs are remaining and are available on request. Original gelatin silver prints that are stamped by the artist are rare. Photographs from this celebrated series are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), Museum of Modern Art (MOMA, NYC), the NYC Public Library, and the art archives of many prominent universities.
George Platt Lynes (1907–1955), was a gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s through the early 1950s. From age eighteen, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate community in Paris when he became acquainted with the salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. He began photographing authors like Stein, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, and Colette and soon established himself as one of the premier fashion photographers in the Condé Nast stable, documenting the ballet companies of George Balanchine/Lincoln Kirstein, and pursuing a private obsession with seductive images of young male nudes rarely published in his lifetime.
Orpheus represents a major 20th Century artistic collaboration between composer Igor Stravinsky, choreographer George Ballanchine, and artist/designer Isamu Naguchi. Orpheus is a thirty-minute neoclassical ballet composed by Igor Stravinsky in collaboration with choreographer George Balanchine in Hollywood, California in 1947. The work was commissioned by Ballet Society, later renamed New York City Ballet, which Balanchine founded with Lincoln Kirstein. Sets and costumes were created by Isamu Noguchi. Noguchi’s lyre harp from the production became the symbol of the New York City Ballet.
Francisco Moncion (July 6, 1918 – April 1, 1995) was a charter member of the New York City Ballet. Over the course of his forty year career, choreographers George Balanchine, and Jerome Robbins in the New York City Ballet created 22 major roles for Moncion including the Dark Angel...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Engulfment - Cartagena 4 and Mosquera 5, Diptych. Nude color photographs
By Javier Rey
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The first encounter I had with the abyss, was arriving to a place that does not exist, a point suspended in time where I am without being. An unreal world expands in front of me, eve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Untitled From the 'Serendipia' series, Black and white nude photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Mauricio Velez's photographs seeks to refine the viewer's sensitivity and perception of art and the human body, elevating these elements to an aesthetic realm that can inspire, distu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Sam - Intimate photograph of a woman in bed, Contemporary, Black, Sensual Nude
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘ Sam ‘ who was captured on film in 199...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
Heartbeats - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Heartbeats - 2021 -
20x25cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid,
Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2021-1054.
Not m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Nude Female, Black and White Creative Photography of Young Woman, Kate #2
Located in New york, NY
Kate #2, 2002 by Leonard Freed is an 8" x 10" hand printed, signed by the photographer black and white photograph, stamped "vintage" by the Freed estate on verso (back of print)..
M...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Stretch - Signed limited edition nude fine art print, Black and white, Model
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Stretch - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 10
This image was captured on film in 1982.
From the same photoshoot, the so-called 'Zip' print by Ian San...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
163.08.12 by Klaus Kampert - Colour nude photography, woman's body, water, legs
Located in Paris, FR
163.08.12 is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Klaus Kampert. It belongs to the series "Water Creatures". In this series, Klaus Kampert submerges his model in water...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
She Disappeared into Complete Silence (AD6387) - large scale abstract photograph
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the series 'She Disappeared into Complete Silence' (2014) Mona Kuhn takes a new direction into abstraction.
She turns to a highly austere and restrained reductionist geometry and distilled formal purity, connecting the interior to the exterior, the visible to the hidden. These reflections cause one to linger, as they merge to create a dynamic equilibrium of tension, spaces and rythms.
AD6387 (She Disappeared into Complete Silence)
40" x 30" / 102cm x 76cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
60" x 45" / 152cm x 114cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
limited edition photograph is printed under artist supervision and accompanied by signed artist certificate:
artist signature labels are 8x10 in size
signed, editioned, dated and titled by the artist, and stamped for authenticity
label
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About the artist
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art.
For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Mona Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Stanley/Barker Editions published Kuhn's Bushes and Succulents (2018) with a debut at Musee Jeu de Paume in Paris in 2019. Thames & Hudson published a career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn's most recent publication Kings Road with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum exhibition in Germany and the US.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, the Perez Art Museum in Miami, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris, The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London, Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland, Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Australian Centre for Photography and Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan.
Mona Kuhn currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Solo Exhibitions
2024
Mona Kuhn: Between Modernism and Surrealism, Houk Gallery, New York, NY
2023
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Galerie XII...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin, Giclée
Wild Blood - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 62x43"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
There are no rules for luck. I was sure the new girl would need practice and practice - and I was wrong. She was just perfect from the first second. Next month she got married and m...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Chinchilla Glamour' Silver Gelatin Print
By George Mayer
Located in London, GB
'Chinchilla Glamour' Silver Gelatin Print
George Mayer
Exquisite, very large 40x40" inches / 101 x 101 cm Silver Gelatin resin Print.
Certificate of authenticity provided.
Stampe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Diagonal Lift - Nude Female Balanced on a Pedestal, Black and White Photograph
Located in Chicago, IL
This gorgeous female figure is balanced on a wooden pedestal with a stray hand on her torso. Her muscular figure is enhanced by the sepia tones and the play of light on the subject....
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Archival Pigment
Photograph of Nude Marilyn Monroe Pose 2
By Tom Kelly
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white photograph of a nude Marilyn Monroe taken by Tom Kelly in 1949. The work was distributed as calender art and one was featured in an issue of Playboy magazine in 1953. The photograph is not framed.
Artist Biography: Kelley was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He learned photography as an apprentice in a New York photo studio, and then worked for the Associated Press and Town & Country magazine. After coming to California in 1935, Kelley established a photography studio in Hollywood and produced promotional photographs of motion picture stars. David O. Selznick and Samuel Goldwyn retained Kelley to take promotional photos of their stars and starlets for magazine covers and advertising. Later, Kelley's business shifted to commercial and advertising photography.
Some of Kelley's most famous photo subjects have included Gary Cooper, Greta Garbo, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Winston Churchill, Bob Hope, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Jack Benny, David Bowie, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Yma Sumac and, of course, Marilyn Monroe, with and without clothes. Tom Kelley had a way of making his subjects feel comfortable behind the camera. He would bring his wife with him to his shoots to create a more soothing and relaxed atmosphere.
Kelley served on the panel of judges at the Miss Universe...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Untitled 1997 - Erotic Nude Photo with Figure in Jean Paul Gauthier Tattoo Shirt
Located in Chicago, IL
In this seductive black and white photograph the model poses with his back to the camera wearing John Paul Gautier's sheer Tattoo shirt. The artist uses t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sophie- Signed limited edition contemporary print, Black white, Nude woman
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Sophie - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 10
A classical approach, sensual not sexual
This image was captured on film in 1995.
The negative was scanned ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Pi...
I Am the Spirit That Hovers Above the Shapeless Mass of Dreams
By Bill Costa
Located in New York, NY
I Am the Spirit That Hovers Above the Shapeless Mass of Dreams
1991
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in ink, recto
Gelatin silver print (Edition of 5)
12.5 x 8.5 inches (31.8 x...
Category
1990s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Innuendo
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Innuendo, 2016,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2016-2001.
Not mounted.
Ki...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Marion- Woman, limited edition nude print, Black white, Sensual, Contemporary
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Marion - Signed limited edition archival pigment print , France, 2003 - Edition of 5
This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Archival Pigment, Pigment, Phot...
