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Period: 1980s
Conca dei Marini, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A busy bay in Conca dei Marini, on the Amalfi coast in Italy, August 1984. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered...
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Realist 1980s Photography

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Lambda

II Pellicano Hotel, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers relax beside the swimming pool of Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered ...
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Realist 1980s Photography

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Lambda

Lucy Hamilton, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Princess Lucy Ruspoli in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, 1982. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate Collector w...
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Realist 1980s Photography

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Lambda

Droulers And Daughters, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Roberta Droulers sitting with her daughters, Nathalie and Virginie, in the lobby of the Villa D'Este on Lake Como, Cernobbio, Italy, circa 1984. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certifi...
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Realist 1980s Photography

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Lambda

Crespi Family Members, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Left to right: Brando Crespi and daughter Chloe, with his sister Pilar Crespi Echavarria and her son Sebastian, at Monte Argentario Polo Club, Porto Ercole, Tuscany, Italy, September...
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Realist 1980s Photography

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Lambda

Candle Sticks, Manea - British Vintage Interior Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Part of Richard Heeps 'Ordinary Places' Series, it captures Britain on the brink of change. It was Richard's first colour series and it achieved much success with an exhibition at th...
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Henry R Kravis, Diana Beattie, Francesca Stanfill, Peter Tufo, Carolyne Roehm, Dick Beattie and Marie-Louise Scio at the Scio family villa in Porto Ercole, September 1986. Slim Aar...
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Realist 1980s Photography

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Lambda

Conca dei Marini, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A busy bay in Conca dei Marini, on the Amalfi coast in Italy, August 1984. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered...
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Realist 1980s Photography

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Lambda

Lunch At La Pigna, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
US restaurateurs Gilda Cioffi, owner of Mama Gilda in Palm Beach, Guy Avventuiero and his wife, of Gino's in New York, Gus and Geraldine Pucillo, of the Petite Marmite in Palm Beach,...
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Realist 1980s Photography

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Lambda

Franco Zeffirelli, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1985, Film director Franco Zeffirelli at his home, Tre Ville, in Positano, Italy. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included ...
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Realist 1980s Photography

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Lambda

Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Private boats in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim A...
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Realist 1980s Photography

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Lambda

Sandwich Board in Street, 1989 - Black and White Monochrome Photographic Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Man with Newspaper is a Black & White print on Hahnemuehle Paper in this size of 24" x 34" in an edition of 10. Michael Ormerod was a British photographer with a distinct and powerf...
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper, Black and White

Man Walking in Front of Building, Houston, 1989 - Black and White Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Man Walking in Front of Building, Houston is a Black and White photographic print on Hahnemuhle paper, in 24" x 34" in an edition of 10. States of America is the photographic legacy of one of the UK’s leading photographic talents whose untimely death in 1991 ended prematurely the highly promising career of a distinctive and powerful photographic voice. Michael Ormerod was born in Cheshire in 1947. He lived in Newcastle, but spent many years travelling America. Fascinated by the American image, and following in the footsteps of Robert Frank, Ormerod took to the American West to find a washed out dream of capitalism. His images capture a strange juxtaposition of an American beauty tainted by a hidden sense of menace and corruption. The photographs are understated, but show an unseen America, where the industrial heartland is decaying, highways stand empty and towns are deserted. The subjects of Ormerod’s work are the disenfranchised. A teenager cycles through her neighbourhood wearing a Halloween-style hockey mask, a Native American man stands in a graveyard, their expressions are unreadable. The work subverts traditional American icons. A white picket fence is staved in, a huge billboard for Miss Teen Dakota USA stands next to an empty highway. Inverting the famous Hollywood sign, Ormerod photographs a Texaco sign...
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper, Black and White

Mustique Tranquility, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Meg O'Neill, a writer for Town and Country magazine, relaxing by the infinity pool at Colin Tennant's home on the West Indies island of Musti...
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Realist 1980s Photography

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Lambda

Il Pellicano Hotel, Poolside Porto Ercole, Italy. Red, Blue, Turquoise
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers relax beside the swimming pool of Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980. Slim Aarons 'Il Pellicano Hotel, Porto Ecole' Il Pellicano, Porto Ercole, Tuscany, Italy Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate. Certificate of Authenticity included. 60 x 40 inches $3950 40 x 30 inches $3350 30 x 20 inches $3000 Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). * Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Internal: Slim Aarons, Porto Ercole, Italy, Il Pelicano, Vintage Glamour, 70s...
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American Realist 1980s Photography

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Lambda

Princess Bianca, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Princess Bianca Hanau-Schaumburg at her Gstaad chalet, 1985. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by...
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Realist 1980s Photography

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Lambda

Drinks at Gstaad, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Models from Parisian jeweller M. Gerard enjoying drinks on the terrace of The Palace Hotel in Gstaad, Switzerland, 1984. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity inc...
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Realist 1980s Photography

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Lambda

Large Scale 1980s Laser Holography, Cvetkovich Organic Hologram Collage
By Tom Cvetkovich
Located in Surfside, FL
In this holographic collage the artist, and inventor Thomas Cvetkovich uses a method of recording an object image of a first hologram as a second hologram is provided. This holographic method is known as compact holographic human interface, and was invented by him. Reconstructed images of holograms, in this case a fish, a banyan leaf and flora and fauna abstract forms, generally become visible when illuminated by a source of light having an angle of reconstruction. Thse are created with laser and computer technology. An artile in Life magazine was all it took it took to influence Tom Cvetkovich's career path, one that has brought his Youngstown company, Chromagem, an international clientele. It focused on new technology that linked the use of lasers in producing holograms, three-dimensional and free-standing images. Reminiscing on Chromagem's past work, Cvetkovich said, One of the things we're most proud of is a series of U.S. postage stamps, achievement in space. We did three stamps for that. We've done postage stamps for Canada, the German government. We've also done work for Moet & Chandon, the champagne; Estee Lauder; and the cover of the 'Star Trek Generations' box set. Over the past two Christmases, Chromagem created a special variety of Reynolds Wrap that features snowflake holograms stamped on the entire roll. Cvetkovich created his first hologram when he was a student at Kent State University in 1974. He took science and art classes to gain the knowledge on how to make the creations running through his head and onto a sketchpad into a fully realized form. "I'm coming at it, primarily, from an art background, but with some science background." He continued his studies at Lake Forest College. It was the first place in the world to offer a workshop in holography. I was there for their third year. Combining art, science Next, he earned a master's degree from the Art Institute of Chicago. The Art Institute was just starting a holography lab. Actually, I had to build my own because theirs wasn't ready. When I was going to college, I would do a math class and then make art. I could tell I was using different parts of my brain. Over the years, Cvetkovich has developed a mental truce between the creative and scientific sides of his brain. At this point, it's more of a craft, he said. I don't rely on a lot of math or science at all. I try to keep abreast at what's being invented, what new...
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Mixed Media

Slim Aarons, Polo Party, 1981 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Paul Butler, patriarch of one of America’s foremost polo families, with his son, daughter, grandchildren and son-in-law, Palm Beach, April 1981. Left to r...
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Realist 1980s Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons, Jack & GeeGee Entz on Rose-Canopied Steps, Tivoli near Rome, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jack and GeeGee Entz beneath the rose-canopied steps which lead to the entrance of the tennis courts at the Villa d'Este at Tivoli, near Rome, Italy, ...
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Realist 1980s Photography

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Lambda

Limited edition still life print, Black white, Contemporary, Analogue- Table Top
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 ‘ Table Top ‘ who was captured on film i...
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Ar...

Chateau Saint-Martin, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Breakfast on the verandah of the Chateau Saint-Martin, a luxury hotel in Vence on the Cote d'Azur, France, 1986. The building was once a Commanderie of the Knights Templar, dating ba...
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Realist 1980s Photography

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Lambda

BASQUIAT photographs: set of 3 works (Nicholas Taylor Basquiat photograph)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat New York 1979: A set of 3 rare, early Jean-Michel Basquiat photographs by Basquiat Gray bandmate, Nicholas Taylor of Gray. A ...
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Pop Art 1980s Photography

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Archival Ink, Inkjet

Klaus Kinski and Deborah Caprioglio - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Klaus Kinski and Deborah Caprioglio-Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the 1980s. Good conditions and aged.
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Klaus Kinski in "Android" - Vintage Photo - 1982
Located in Roma, IT
Klaus Kinski in "Android"-Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in 1981. Good conditions and aged.
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Claudio Villa's Funerals - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Claudio Villa's Funerals-Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in 1987. With a Description on the rear. Good conditions and aged.
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Claudio Villa's Funerals - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Claudio Villa's Funerals-Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in 1987. With a Description on the rear. Good conditions and aged.
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Orthochromatic Negative (Antique Olivetti Typewriter)
Located in Cambridge, GB
This bold graphic piece fantastically captures the iconic Italian Olivetti Typewriter. This artwork is a limited edition of 25, lustre photographi...
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Conceptual 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin

Zoli Models, Art Deco inspired Fashion photograph
Located in Greenwich, CT
In Zoli Models, Horst pays homage to an earlier composition, Movement Study 1924, by Rudolph Kooptiz (1884-1936) one of the leading proponents of art photography in Europe between th...
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Art Deco 1980s Photography

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Platinum

Slim Aarons 'Paola Mussetti in Sardinia'
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Paola Mussetti, 1982 Fiber print Paola Mussetti, a science student from Turin, poses in a bikini in Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, Italy, in August 1982. (Photo by Slim Aarons...
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Modern 1980s Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Wall Street #59 10-11, 1988 Vertical
Located in Westwood, NJ
Print: 1988
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Pop Art Vintage Color Photograph Dye Transfer Print Audrey Flack Judaica Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed and titled in ink by the artist from edition of 50 (plus proofs). Color Photo printed at CVI Lab by master printer Guy Stricherz. Published by Prestige Art Ltd. From the ...
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Photorealist 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Dye Transfer

Vintage Street Photography Bruce Cratsley Photo Silver Gelatin Print Photograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Bruce Cratsley, American (1944-1998) Vintage gelatin silver print (Television) TV Head A surrealist image of a window mannequin man with a TV head. Hand signed, titled and dated 1987 verso image (each): 15 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches, matted to 24 X 20 inches Provenance: From the collection of AGFA Graphics Corporation David Bruce Cratsley (1944 - 1998) was an American photographer specialized in still lifes, portraits of friends, and life in New York City. He had a reputation of master of light and shadow. Bruce Cratsley attended Swarthmore College, graduating in 1966, and then, in the early 1970s, The New School for Social Research, studying under Lisette Model. Cratsley worked for many years as a gallerist at Marlborough Gallery before quitting in 1986 to become a full-time photographer. As "Bruce Cratsley", he exhibited in various New York galleries, like: Laurence Miller Gallery, Howard Greenberg Gallery and Witkin Gallery. Cratsley was represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery, a dealer of fine art photography based in SoHo. He was photographed by Elsa Dorfman...
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American Modern 1980s Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Claudio Villa - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Claudio Villa-Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the 1980s. Good conditions and aged.
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Claudio Villa's Funerals - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Claudio Villa's Funerals is a black and white photograph realized in the 1980s. Good conditions and aged.
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Frank Zappa Conducting, Digital Pigment Print by Alan Herr
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alan Herr, American (1954 - ) Title: Zappa 1 Medium: Digital Print Photograph, Signed in Permanent Marker Edition: AP Size: 13.5 x 13 inches
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American Modern 1980s Photography

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Digital Pigment

Pool At Porto Rotondo, Estate Edition (Sardinia, Italy)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' Pool at Porto Rotundo, an Estate Edition photograph, is a vintage scene of a swimming pool in Rosarda, Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, Italy, August 1982. Visual Description:...
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Realist 1980s Photography

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Lambda

Blue Seas, Corsica (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Holidaymakers' yachts find a quiet haven off the Mediterranean island of Cavallo, Corsica, August 1984. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authentic...
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Modern 1980s Photography

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Lambda

Keith Haring Tony Shafrazi gallery 1982 (Keith Haring resume)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Tony Shafrazi Gallery New York circa 1982: Rare original Keith Haring artist biography sheet produced by Tony Shafrazi ...
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Pop Art 1980s Photography

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Offset, Paper

Claudio Amendola in Lontano da dove - Vintage Photo - 1983
Located in Roma, IT
Claudio Amendola in Lontano da dove-Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in 1983. Good conditions.
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Rare Harry Bowers Vintage C Print Photograph From Ten Photographs Fashion Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
HARRY BOWERS T E N P H O T O G R A P H S I DON'T LOOK FOR PHOTOGRAPHS I INVENT THEM I recall my first meeting with Harry Bowers in California a few years ago. As he produc...
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1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Jon Gould in Speedo in Palm Beach
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
From The Jon Gould Collection of Andy Warhol Photographs This work is not signed by the artist, however, each photo is unique and blind embossed “Andy Warhol” in the lower right co...
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Pop Art 1980s Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Rare Harry Bowers Vintage C Print Photograph From Ten Photographs Fashion Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
HARRY BOWERS T E N P H O T O G R A P H S I DON'T LOOK FOR PHOTOGRAPHS I INVENT THEM I recall my first meeting with Harry Bowers in California a few years ago. As he produc...
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1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Mindy, Hamptons, NY, 1985
Located in Hudson, NY
Edition 2 of 25. Shipping time depends on method of shipping. ABOUT Robin Rice is an accomplished Gallerist in The West Village. Her eye manages to capture the bliss of small sing...
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Vintage Large Format Abstract Unique Color Photo Polaroid Photograph Ellen Carey
Located in Surfside, FL
Untitled, Unique photograph. Center panel from larger scale installation. Shot in the 20X24 format. (this measures about 20X20 inches) Ellen Carey, American artist and photographer. Ellen Carey resides in Hartford, Connecticut, and teaches at the Hartford Art School. She holds a B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri, and an M.F.A. from State University of New York at Buffalo. Her photographs have been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums, including the International Center for Photography, New York and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has received many grants from her home state of Connecticut as well as the Massachusetts Council of the Arts, New Works Grant, New York State Federation for Artists Grant; and a National Endowment for the Arts Award. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; the Baltimore Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum of Arts; Chase Manhattan Bank; Coca Cola Corporation; Fogg Art Museum; George Eastman House; International Center for Photography; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. Abstract photography, sometimes called non-objective, experimental, conceptual or concrete photography, is a means of depicting a visual image that does not have an immediate association with the object world and that has been created through the use of photographic equipment, processes or materials. Some photographers pushed the boundaries of conventional imagery by incorporating the visions of surrealism or futurism into their work. Man Ray, Maurice Tabard, André Kertész, Curtis Moffat and Filippo Masoero were some of the best known artists who produced startling imagery that questioned both reality and perspective. Both during and after World War II photographers such as Minor White, Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith and Lotte Jacobi explored compositions of found objects in ways that demonstrated even our natural world has elements of abstraction embedded in it. Beginning in the late 1970s photographers stretched the limits of both scale and surface in what was then traditional photographic media that had to be developed in a darkroom. Inspired by the work of Moholy-Nagy, Susan Rankaitis first began embedding found images from scientific textbooks into large-scale photograms. By the 1990s a new wave of photographers were exploring the possibilities of using computers to create new ways of creating photographs. Photographers such as Thomas Ruff, Barbara Kasten, Tom Friedman, and Carel Balth were creating works that combined photography, sculpture, printmaking and computer-generated images. Any boundaries that remained between pure artists and pure photographers were eliminated by individuals who worked exclusively in photography but produced only computer-generated images. Among the most well-known of the early 21st century generation were Gaston Bertin...
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Abstract 1980s Photography

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Polaroid

Dining Al Fresco On Capri, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian artist and actress Domiziana Giordano, Italian author Francesca Sanvitale (1928 - 2011), Dino Trappetti and Umberto Terrelli dining al fresco ...
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Realist 1980s Photography

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Lambda

Platinum Palladium print over Gold leaf Limited Edition sensual photo- Nathalie
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Nathalie - Platinum Palladium print over 24 carat Gold leaf on vellum paper, Unframed handmade photographic reproduction on sensitised paper Edition 1 of 8 plus 2 AP ( Medium Size ) Woman in a wet silk bathrobe...
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Platinum, Gold, Gold Leaf

Slim Aarons Cortina d’Ampezzo Limited Estate Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Cortina d’Ampezzo Isa Genolini and Maria Antonia in the main street of Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, March 1982. 30x20” / 76 x 51 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to...
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Modern 1980s Photography

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Archival Pigment

Stockings-Signed limited edition print contemporary print, Black white sexy
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Stockings - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 5 This image was captured on film. The negative was scanned creating a digital file which was then pri...
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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

Seasons 1981 Photo Color Copier Print Photograph Museum Collected Art Xerography
Located in Surfside, FL
SEASONS (1981) This is for the single print listed here. (not the outside folder or title sheet) Title: Beachball. This one is hand signed and dated verso. Seasons explores the seasons of Man, Woman, Child, Civilization, Nature and Technology. First digital artwork purchased by the Metropolitan Museum. Date: 1980-1981 Medium: vintage color photocopy print. “I worked at The Metropolitan Museum in 1981, when they acquired [Lesley’s] SEASONS portfolio. We knew we wanted it, even though we didn’t have a category for it.” David Kiehl, Curator of Prints and Special Collections The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. Lesley Schiff (born 1951) is an American fine artist. Schiff studied painting at the Art Institute Chicago before developing her signature practice using color laser printers to create images. Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Mead Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other major museums, corporate and private collections globally. Lesley Schiff revolutionized the photocopier from being an office tool to just another instrument in the artist's arsenal. Rather than addressing the tool in her work, Schiff instead uses the photocopier like a paintbrush to realize her vision. Once a painter, Schiff says: “I never intended to stop painting. I just decided to start painting with a modern tool. Working with the color laser printer keeps you in your culture. It's like America. Plugged in. Electronic. Direct." Painting with light, Schiff's body of work outlines a cycle of life: man, woman, child, civilization, nature, technology. More recent works challenge the viewer to understand the concept of eye-levels and perspectives, reinventing the way we see. Schiff's work was the Metropolitan Museum of Art's first digital acquisition, and most recently, was featured at the Whitney Museum of American Art in "Experiments in Electrostatics". She uses a color laser printer “like a paintbrush” to create her art. She has said about her work and her tool: “I never intended to stop painting. I just decided to start painting with a modern tool. Working with the color laser printer keeps you in your culture. It's like America. Plugged in. Electronic. Direct—but no matter how hi-tech my tools become, I’m a painter, but instead of painting with oils, I paint with light. The Whitney Museum will show Lesley Schiff's pioneering SEASONS portfolio in its entirety. Many prominent collections acquired SEASONS as their first digital artwork. She participated in the Punk Art show in the 1970's. Her work kind of relates to Fluxus and Dada. Leslie Schiff moved from Chicago to New York in the early 1970s. Much of her art involves collage and the Xerox photocopy machine. Her images are rooted in her personal psyche and have an intuitive meaning that is not always easily understood. In exhibitions, Xerox sheets are combined and displayed decoratively on the wall. Schiff has also created books; and made video and sound tapes. She was included in the seminal New York/New Wave 1981 exhibition show at MoMA PS1 along with Jean-Michel Basquiat, William S.Burroughs, David Byrne, Larry Clark, Crash (John Matos), Ronnie Cutrone, Brian Eno, Nan Goldin, Keith Haring, Ray Johnson, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Mapplethorpe, Kenny Scharf, Steven Sprouse, Andy Warhol and Lawrence Weiner. She did a “visual biography,” comprised of portraits of Bob Dylan—depicted at different ages, from his 20s to his 60s—illustrations of his lyrics, and images of iconic objects like his sunglasses and harmonica. Schiff collaborated with Matthew Carter...
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Color

Seasons 1981 Photo Color Copier Print Photograph Museum Collected Art Xerography
Located in Surfside, FL
SEASONS (1981) This is for the single print listed here. (not the outside folder or title sheet) Title: Butterfly. This one is hand signed and dated verso. Seasons explores the seaso...
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Color

Slim Aarons 'Portofino' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1985, The most exclusive fishing village in Italy, Portofino, on Italy's Ligurian coast. 40 x 60 inches $3950 30 x 40 inches $3350 20 x 30 inches $3000 Complimentary dealer shipp...
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Realist 1980s Photography

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Lambda

Seasons 1981 Photo Color Copier Print Photograph Museum Collected Art Xerography
Located in Surfside, FL
SEASONS (1981) This is for the single print listed here. (not the outside folder or title sheet) Title: Toy Snake. This one is hand signed and dated verso. Seasons explores the seaso...
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Color

Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat 1987 (printed later) Archival pigment print 48 x 48 inches Signed and numbered edition of 40 William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, ...
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Modern 1980s Photography

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Archival Pigment

Pagoda Poolhouse, Estate Edition, Palm Springs
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A group of bathers in a swimming pool in Palm Beach, 1985. Behind them is a Chinese-style pagoda poolhouse designed by John Volk. Slim Aarons Pag...
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Realist 1980s Photography

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Lambda

Large Harry Bowers Vintage C Print Photograph From Ten Photographs Fashion Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
HARRY BOWERS T E N P H O T O G R A P H S I DON'T LOOK FOR PHOTOGRAPHS I INVENT THEM I recall my first meeting with Harry Bowers in California a few years ago. As he produc...
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Arte Povera 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print

Pop Art Color Photograph Dye Transfer Print Audrey Flack "Skull & Roses" Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed and titled in ink by the artist from edition of 50 (plus proofs). Color Photo printed at CVI Lab by master printer Guy Stricherz. Published by Prestige Art Ltd. From the ...
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Photorealist 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Dye Transfer

Shssh! Framed Fashion Color Photograph by Willie Miller
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Willie Miller, American (1940 - ) Title: Shssh! Year: 1985 Medium: Color Photograph Size: 12 in. x 18 in. (30.48 cm x 45.72 cm) Frame: 19.5 x 25.5 inches
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Post-Modern 1980s Photography

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Color

Miguel Bose
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This work is unique. Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Art...
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Pop Art 1980s Photography

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Polaroid

Untitled
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Untitled 1987 Ektacolor Professional print taken with Wide Lux camera Unsigned AP 1/1, apart from an edition of 9 24” x 20" Chamberlain began to explore photograp...
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s Photography

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C Print

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