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Period: 1980s
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

Julian Schnabel
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work was acquired directly from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The work is in pristine condition and has never been framed. This is a unique work which comes w...
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Pop Art 1980s Photography

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Polaroid

Yasser Arafat - Vintage Photograph - 1988
Located in Roma, IT
Yasser Arafat is a photograph realized in 1980s. Black and white photograph. Dated 109/988 on the back Fair conditions (light folds)
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Four by Four: Statue of Liberty, Pop Art Photo Collage by Christopher Makos
Located in Long Island City, NY
This collage of gelatin silver prints was created by American photographer Christopher Makos. Makos is well known for his relationships with icons like Andy Warhol, Tennessee William...
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American Modern 1980s Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Annie Leibowitz
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work was acquired directly from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The work is in pristine condition and has never been framed. This is a unique work which comes w...
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Pop Art 1980s Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Rockefeller Brothers, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1980 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Rockefeller brothers in their Radio City, New York office. Left to right, Laurance (1910 - 2...
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Realist 1980s Photography

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Lambda

Photograph of James Curley and Ian Falconer
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work. Image dimensions: 8 x 10 in. Framed dimensions: 16.5 x 18 in. Work is framed to archival standards by Handmade Frames of Brooklyn, New York. Stamped on the ...
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Pop Art 1980s Photography

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Silver Gelatin

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

Jerry Hall & Antonio Lopez for Vogue
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson Jerry Hall & Antonio Lopez for Vogue 1975 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso Caption: Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez is photographed film...
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Modern 1980s Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Storm Light, New Orleans, Rural C-Print Photograph by Josephine Sacabo
By Josephine Sacabo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Josephine Sacabo, American Title: Storm Light Year: 1985 Medium: Photograph, signed l.r. Size: 18 x 13 in. (45.72 x 33.02 cm)
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print

Vintage Silver Gelatin Print Tina Turner
Located in Surfside, FL
Hatay is a visual artist, a healer and a former Rock and Roll photojournalist. Born in Scotland of a Hungarian physicist/inventor and an English art dealer, she grew up in an international environment. Her father encouraged original thinking and experimentation; her mother nourished her creativity and her intuitive skills. Leaving her home in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, for Munich, Germany, she apprenticed to Bauhaus photographer Frl. Berthe Himmler. The next step was New York City where Hatay began to freelance in all aspects of photography. It was when she photographed Jimi Hendrix at Madison Square Garden on May 18, 1969 and was inspired by his music that she got a chance to spread her wings artistically. She was initially inspired by his energy, his vision and his originality. "Jimi Hendrix was absolutely amazing - it is not possible to put words to the Experience. He was, and still is, unique. I didn't know at the time I photographed him that he was interested in his music being a healing power. I learned a lot about this aspect of Hendrix about ten years later when I met people who knew him. When they heard how much I was interested in the healing aspects of his music, they shared their stories with me. I used some of this information in my two books, "Jimi Hendrix, The Spirit Lives On" and "Jimi Hendrix, Reflections and Visions". Nona's experimental techniques were used in her photographs on many other Rock stars, such as Tina Turner, James Brown, and Frank Zappa. She had a major exhibit of her work in Paris. ORIGINAL PHOTO ART one of a kind - experimental & hand painted are in many private collections & museums HARD ROCK CAFE INTERNATIONAL exhibits over 200 original Hatay photoartworks of MUSICIAN worldwide A few original vintage photoartworks available from Studio Hatay 2012 Limited edition archival giclee prints available September from Studio Hatay or Gallery shows ESSAYS, LIMITED EDITION PORTFOLIOS & EXHIBITS ( partial list ) 1968 THREE SUNDAYS IN WASHINGTON SQUARE New York City, NY - one copy handmade book 1969 NEW YORK CITY - essay/exhibit Peace Marches, other events, personalities, Abi Hoffman, Dick Gregory, Stan Lee, Moondog. others, and concerts Fillmore East and Apollo 1975 SAN FRANCISCO HOOKERS BALL (exhibit purchased by Margo St James) 1976 CASTRO STREET FESTIVAL (Sylvester performing) exhibit color (hand painted) expanded photographs 1978 HENDRIX PORTFOLIO limited edition boxed portfolio of 10 original experimental photographs of Jimi Hendrix with tape of 10 songs illustrated (designed to experience listening while looking at the multidimensional pictures and reading Hendrix's lyrics/poems) b/w 1980 THE ROSICRUCIAN PARK, San Jose CA (world headquarters) color photos & experimental b/w 1982 JAMES BROWN & TINA TURNER - limited edition portfolio 1983 COLOR EXPANDED PORTRAITS - hand painted photos - many exhibits & commissions 1986 COLOR EXPANDED VINTAGE CARS at Limerick CT exhibited AUTO ART...
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1980s Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Delorean Club - Color Group Portrait, Vintage Car, Sci-Fi
Located in Denton, TX
Deloeran Club by Neal Slavin features a group of people posing with their Delorean cars on a grassy field. The car's unique gull-wing doors are wide open, as their owners sit inside,...
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons, Il Pellicano Pool, 1987 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers relax beside the swimming pool of Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, 1987 Slim Aarons Il Pellicano Pool, 1987 Lambda Print 4 sizes available Slim Aarons Esta...
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Realist 1980s Photography

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Lambda

New York #121
Located in Fairlawn, OH
New York #121 Silver Gelatin print, 1980 Signed in ink below the image (see photo) Annotated verso in pencil: "New York #121 ©, New York, 1980" (see photo) Provenance: Reader's Digest Association Collection #23214 (label) Condition: Excellent Image size: 12-5/8 x 18-3/4" (32 x 47.6 cm.) Mat size: 19-1/2 x 25-1/2" Photographs by Fielding are in the collections of: Museum of Modern Art Brooklyn Museum International Center of Photography (New York) Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago) Art Institute of Chicago Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) Center for Creative Photography (Tucson) Fielding was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design, where he studied with photographers Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan; he received his BFA in 1975. He received his MFA in 1980 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he studied with photographer Kenneth Josephson. He has photographed in such countries as Italy, Peru, Spain, Greece, Egypt, Mexico, Portugal and the United States. His work has particularly concentrated on the Italian cities of Rome and Naples, as well as Mexico City. Of Fielding's City of Secrets, critic Vince Aletti wrote: [Naples'] citizens, from wiseass kids in diapers to weathered old men, loom into the frame like characters out of Fellini, bursting with antic, earthy energy. Fielding confronts and embraces his subjects, building up a portrait of a place that's as visceral as it is cinematic--a true theatre of the streets. Photography curator and collector W. M. Hunt wrote about the book: Jed Fielding is from the old school: a photographer with vision and technique. I've been to Naples twice in my lifetime; once by ship, and, even more lastingly, through Jed Fielding's astonishing images. At the time of a 2009 New York City exhibition of Fielding's photographs from Look at me, a New Yorker review[who?] said: Fielding's photographs of the blind children he met at schools in Mexico City are not in the tradition of photojournalistic muckraking. Like his terrific earlier series from the streets of Naples, these images are vivacious, audacious, and in your face. His subjects are not pitiable victims; they're rambunctious, apparently happy kids at play, responding to Fielding's attention with curiosity and delight. They may be cut off from the visual world, but they relish physical contact, both with one another and with the patient photographer. The best of the work was made at close range, where that connection was most tangible, and young faces fill the frames with fragile, vivid life. He has had solo exhibitions at venues including the Andrea Meislin Gallery...
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American Modern 1980s Photography

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Silver Gelatin

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 right: Adam Butler, Reutie Bu...
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Realist 1980s Photography

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Lambda

Notre Dame, Study III, Paris, France
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed, numbered and dated on front of the mount. Signed, dated, numbered and titled with artist's copyright stamp on back of the mount.
Category

1980s Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Cotton Bay
Located in New York, NY
The Campbells' pool at Cotton Bay, on Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas, November 1982. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of a...
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Realist 1980s Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Hotel Villa Igra Pool'
Located in New York, NY
Hotel Villa Igra Pool 1975 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered edition 1 of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Caption: Guests by the pool at Hotel Villa Igra, Ta...
Category

Modern 1980s Photography

Materials

C Print

Large Cibachrome Color Photograph LA Woman Artist Dress, Feminist, Photo C Print
Located in Surfside, FL
A large scale Cibachrome photograph. An abstract work from the series titled, "Fairfax Ladies," (the historic old Jewish neighborhood of Los Angeles) produced 1983. The subject was created through by placing diaphanous fashion garments onto photo-sensitive paper, embellishing them with objects, paper bits, and flora, and layering in painterly surfaces with scratches, completely covering the image. The series won a prize in the BCibachrome competition (1985), sponsored by BC Space Gallery (Laguna Beach, CA), and was exhibited at "Robin Valle: From Darkroom to Digital, Works from 1974-2009," posthumously presented August 2009 at El Camino College Gallery (Torrance, CA). Work presented under plexiglass in a custom wood frame. Work Size: 39.5 x 29.5 in. Framed Dimensions: 43.5 X 33.5 X 2 in. Valle, Robin Joy (1953-2009) After receiving her BA from SMU and an MFA in Photo/Cinematography from the University of Illinois in 1977, she moved to Los Angeles. Valle exhibited her one-of-a-kind Cibachrome photographs at galleries and museums locally and nationally. In 1982, she was selected for the NEA funded, "Life in LA" project, sponsored by the Los Angeles Women's Building. Valle taught photography at many Southland colleges as well as the LA County High School for the Arts. She was one of the first LA based photographers to explore digital media, receiving an Innovative Instruction Grant from Chaffee College in 1989 to create their first photography class in digital media. In 1998 she became a member of the full-time faculty at El Camino College, where she was instrumental in developing the Digital Arts program. Her work ranged from Black and white photographs to colorful, intricately layered patterns that command the gallery walls. It isn’t surprising that she, along with fellow art instructor, Joyce Dalal, contributed largely to the ECC art department’s merge towards digital art. As one of the first local photographers to explore digital media, she was crucial to the development of the Digital Arts Program. Before computers became commonplace, Valle’s techniques show a digital influence. “Her work was always inventive”, said ECC art curator, Susanna Meiers. An effect that can easily be done now with a few mouse clicks on Adobe Photoshop, required a long process of rubbing dye into the actual photograph in the ’70s. Her methods of illustrating were just as unique as the topics themselves. Photographs of the violent Chinese protest at Tiananmen Square in 1989 where military response murdered protestors in large numbers included photographing images from her television screen. “Crime Stats/ Hollywood” was a theme she dedicated to the gang violence around her neighborhood in the early ’90s. With washed out gang members as the focal point, and graffiti as well as mapped out grids of Los Angeles as the backdrop, Valle’s layering, collage-like technique is continued on and more developed. “There is a fanciful, imaginary quality of her work,” said Meiers. From her quirky pieces of birds, zebras, and even dinosaurs enveloped in patterned, colorful, designs to her more serious themed feminist pieces, her eclectic, colorful style breaks through. Her feminism is on display in “Expectations” which illustrates women’s ability to “look good and produce children.” A bright human embryo steals your attention dead center, with a “June Cleaver” type 1950’s woman smirking at you from either side of it. A mustard yellow backdrop, brings the entire piece together illustrating society’s views of women as well as her playfulness as an artist. “Robin was terribly funny and had a laugh that would just set people off,” Meiers said. The art curator designed a section of the gallery similar to Valle’s apartment. A bright pink shelf...
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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C Print

Jerry Hall takes a call in the pool
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson Jerry Hall takes a call in the pool 1975 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso Caption: American model Jerry Hall is photographed on the phone ...
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Modern 1980s Photography

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C Print

Polo Prince, Prince Charles for Diables Blues at Cowdrat Park in Sussex
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a LIMITED EDITION ESTATE STAMPED PRINT. When it sells out, no more will be issued. August 1985: Prince Charles playing polo for the 'Diables Blues' at Cowdray Park in Susse...
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1980s Photography

Vintage Signed Silver Gelatin Photo Card Tina Turner #2
Located in Surfside, FL
Hatay is a visual artist, a healer and a former Rock and Roll photojournalist. Her past greatly contributes to the woman she is today. Born in Scotland of a Hungarian physicist/in...
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Silver Gelatin

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

Barcelona Bookseller, Black & White Photography, About life, Houston Foto Fest
Located in Houston, TX
Koch began taking photographs in Paris during the 1940s and later traveled to Barcelona where Barcelona Bird Seller was taken.. She would spend hours strolling the streets of Barcelona taking photos but she especially enjoyed the street life of Las Ramblas...
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Other Art Style 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Knives
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number written on verso, FA09.00168. Provenance: From the Estate of t...
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Pop Art 1980s Photography

Materials

Polaroid

Slim Aarons 'Taormina'
Located in New York, NY
Taormina 1975 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Caption: A swimming pool in Taormina, Sicily, 1975. Slim Aarons,...
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Modern 1980s Photography

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C Print

Original Ed 1/15 Photograph “Boy with Four Arms” GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM Provenance
Located in New York, NY
Up for sale is an original Joel-Peter Witkin photograph. It’s an original photograph, Edition 1 of 15 Guggenheim Museum Provenance and also sold through Sotheby’s 2012 The Boy wit...
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Surrealist 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Untitled (Lower West Side Revisited)
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original gelatin silver print by American social documentary photographer Milton Rogovin depicting a resident of Buffalo's Lower West Side in the early 1980's. This work is hand s...
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Realist 1980s Photography

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Silver Gelatin

View Fr. Living, Large Scale Chicago Color Photograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Jay Wolke lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. He has had solo exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, the St. Louis Art Museum, Harvard University and the California Museum of...
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1980s Photography

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C Print

Jon Gould Under Pier (11" x 14")
Located in Santa Monica, CA
From The Jon Gould Collection of Andy Warhol Photographs Each unsigned photo is unique and blind embossed “Andy Warhol” in the lower right corner Provenance: Gift of the Artist to...
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Pop Art 1980s Photography

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Silver Gelatin

St. Jude, Large Scale Chicago Color Photograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Jay Wolke lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. He has had solo exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, the St. Louis Art Museum, Harvard University and the California Museum of...
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1980s Photography

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C Print

Paloma Picasso
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work was acquired directly from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The work is in pristine condition and has never been framed. This is a unique work which comes w...
Category

Pop Art 1980s Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Aventura
Located in New York, NY
As a young boy, Aldo Sessa studied painting and drawing at the De Ridder Atelier and worked at his father’s printing press in Argentina. As Sessa’s artistic career progressed, his oe...
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1980s Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

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 produced his large-scale prints, I was at first flabbergasted, not only by their size, but by their seamless perfection. Technique appeared to be everything but then technique as technique simply vanished. After the first moment, tech­nique was no longer an issue, but rather a passageway to the imagery. Suffice it to say about Harry Bowers' working style that he is an obsessive man. Trained as an engineer, he has turned that discipline to art. His lenses, equipment and darkroom, much of it exactingly manu­factured by himself to answer certain needs, serve the desire of the artist to take photographic tech­nique to its ultimate perfection in invisibility and transparency. I respect obsession in art, and particularly in photography, because obsession in photography passes beyond the easy, middle ground of image making to a more demanding, more difficult, yet more rewarding end. Bowers' obsession is to eliminate "photography as technique." No grain, no decisive moments, no journalism, or, seemingly, direct auto­biographical endeavors appear in his work. Bowers is an artist of synthesis who controls his environment if only in the studio exactly to his liking. The images he creates are formal structures, saucy stories on occasion, which may offer hints of a darker, more frightening sexuality, but what you see is the end product of an experiment in which nothing save the original insight perhaps is left to chance. We seem fascinated with the idea of replication of reality in art. Popular painting frequently reproduces a scene "with the accuracy of a photograph," and photographs may "make you feel as though you were right there." The very invisibility of the photographic medium is important to Bowers, in that it allows him to maneuver his subject matter without concern for rendering it in an obvious art medium which would interfere with the nature of the materials he uses. The formal subtleties of Bowers' recent work are as delicious and ambiguous in their interrelationships as the best Cubist collages, yet while those col­lages always suggest their parts through edge and texture, these photographs present a structure through a surface purity. Bowers' earlier works, for example, the Skirts I Have Known series, were formed of bits of clothing belong­ing to Bowers and his wife or found at local thrift shops. These works fused an elegance of pattern and texture, reminiscent of Miriam Shapiro...
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1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Jack and GeeGee Entz on Rose-Canopied Steps, Tivoli (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
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, ...
Category

Realist 1980s Photography

Materials

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 produced his large-scale prints, I was at first flabbergasted, not only by their size, but by their seamless perfection. Technique appeared to be everything but then technique as technique simply vanished. After the first moment, tech­nique was no longer an issue, but rather a passageway to the imagery. Suffice it to say about Harry Bowers' working style that he is an obsessive man. Trained as an engineer, he has turned that discipline to art. His lenses, equipment and darkroom, much of it exactingly manu­factured by himself to answer certain needs, serve the desire of the artist to take photographic tech­nique to its ultimate perfection in invisibility and transparency. I respect obsession in art, and particularly in photography, because obsession in photography passes beyond the easy, middle ground of image making to a more demanding, more difficult, yet more rewarding end. Bowers' obsession is to eliminate "photography as technique." No grain, no decisive moments, no journalism, or, seemingly, direct auto­biographical endeavors appear in his work. Bowers is an artist of synthesis who controls his environment if only in the studio exactly to his liking. The images he creates are formal structures, saucy stories on occasion, which may offer hints of a darker, more frightening sexuality, but what you see is the end product of an experiment in which nothing save the original insight perhaps is left to chance. We seem fascinated with the idea of replication of reality in art. Popular painting frequently reproduces a scene "with the accuracy of a photograph," and photographs may "make you feel as though you were right there." The very invisibility of the photographic medium is important to Bowers, in that it allows him to maneuver his subject matter without concern for rendering it in an obvious art medium which would interfere with the nature of the materials he uses. The formal subtleties of Bowers' recent work are as delicious and ambiguous in their interrelationships as the best Cubist collages, yet while those col­lages always suggest their parts through edge and texture, these photographs present a structure through a surface purity. Bowers' earlier works, for example, the Skirts I Have Known series, were formed of bits of clothing belong­ing to Bowers and his wife or found at local thrift shops. These works fused an elegance of pattern and texture, reminiscent of Miriam Shapiro...
Category

Arte Povera 1980s Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

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 produced his large-scale prints, I was at first flabbergasted, not only by their size, but by their seamless perfection. Technique appeared to be everything but then technique as technique simply vanished. After the first moment, tech­nique was no longer an issue, but rather a passageway to the imagery. Suffice it to say about Harry Bowers' working style that he is an obsessive man. Trained as an engineer, he has turned that discipline to art. His lenses, equipment and darkroom, much of it exactingly manu­factured by himself to answer certain needs, serve the desire of the artist to take photographic tech­nique to its ultimate perfection in invisibility and transparency. I respect obsession in art, and particularly in photography, because obsession in photography passes beyond the easy, middle ground of image making to a more demanding, more difficult, yet more rewarding end. Bowers' obsession is to eliminate "photography as technique." No grain, no decisive moments, no journalism, or, seemingly, direct auto­biographical endeavors appear in his work. Bowers is an artist of synthesis who controls his environment if only in the studio exactly to his liking. The images he creates are formal structures, saucy stories on occasion, which may offer hints of a darker, more frightening sexuality, but what you see is the end product of an experiment in which nothing save the original insight perhaps is left to chance. We seem fascinated with the idea of replication of reality in art. Popular painting frequently reproduces a scene "with the accuracy of a photograph," and photographs may "make you feel as though you were right there." The very invisibility of the photographic medium is important to Bowers, in that it allows him to maneuver his subject matter without concern for rendering it in an obvious art medium which would interfere with the nature of the materials he uses. The formal subtleties of Bowers' recent work are as delicious and ambiguous in their interrelationships as the best Cubist collages, yet while those col­lages always suggest their parts through edge and texture, these photographs present a structure through a surface purity. Bowers' earlier works, for example, the Skirts I Have Known series, were formed of bits of clothing belong­ing to Bowers and his wife or found at local thrift shops. These works fused an elegance of pattern and texture, reminiscent of Miriam Shapiro...
Category

American Modern 1980s Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print

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 produced his large-scale prints, I was at first flabbergasted, not only by their size, but by their seamless perfection. Technique appeared to be everything but then technique as technique simply vanished. After the first moment, tech­nique was no longer an issue, but rather a passageway to the imagery. Suffice it to say about Harry Bowers' working style that he is an obsessive man. Trained as an engineer, he has turned that discipline to art. His lenses, equipment and darkroom, much of it exactingly manu­factured by himself to answer certain needs, serve the desire of the artist to take photographic tech­nique to its ultimate perfection in invisibility and transparency. I respect obsession in art, and particularly in photography, because obsession in photography passes beyond the easy, middle ground of image making to a more demanding, more difficult, yet more rewarding end. Bowers' obsession is to eliminate "photography as technique." No grain, no decisive moments, no journalism, or, seemingly, direct auto­biographical endeavors appear in his work. Bowers is an artist of synthesis who controls his environment if only in the studio exactly to his liking. The images he creates are formal structures, saucy stories on occasion, which may offer hints of a darker, more frightening sexuality, but what you see is the end product of an experiment in which nothing save the original insight perhaps is left to chance. We seem fascinated with the idea of replication of reality in art. Popular painting frequently reproduces a scene "with the accuracy of a photograph," and photographs may "make you feel as though you were right there." The very invisibility of the photographic medium is important to Bowers, in that it allows him to maneuver his subject matter without concern for rendering it in an obvious art medium which would interfere with the nature of the materials he uses. The formal subtleties of Bowers' recent work are as delicious and ambiguous in their interrelationships as the best Cubist collages, yet while those col­lages always suggest their parts through edge and texture, these photographs present a structure through a surface purity. Bowers' earlier works, for example, the Skirts I Have Known series, were formed of bits of clothing belong­ing to Bowers and his wife or found at local thrift shops. These works fused an elegance of pattern and texture, reminiscent of Miriam Shapiro...
Category

Arte Povera 1980s Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print

Rare Harry Bowers Vintage C Print Photograph From Ten Photographs Fashion Shot
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...
Category

85 New Wave 1980s Photography

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C Print

El Caso
By Christian Boltanski
Located in Surfside, FL
Christian Boltanski, El Caso, Parkett., Zürich. 1989 in the collection of the MOMA Museum of Modern Art NYC Miniature booklet with 17 photographs, 2 x 3 1/8” (5 x 8 x 0,6 cm) ring bound with perspex covers and printed title Ed. 80/XX, signed and numbered (this one is not signed or numbered and might be an artist proof) Guilty, Not Guilty. Themes central to Boltanski’s oeuvre find devastating expression in this tiny piece of pocket pornography containing images of brutal murder re-photographed by the artist from the Spanish detective magazine El Caso. [Ref. Bob Calle - Christian Boltanski Artist's Books 1969-2007, p.60]. Artists' book featuring 17 b/w photographs held together with two metal rings: "Luxury edition of a booklet with real glossy photographs, small enough to be hidden behind the hand... It pictures the bodies of victims of violent crime. By showing these photographs of half-naked corpses, bought nearer by close-up shots, the artist transforms the viewer into a voyeur who virtually becomes a sadistic partner in the crime." -- from Catalogue: Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera 1966-1991. references "Livres" by Christian Boltanski. Paris / Köln / Frankfurt, France / Germany : AFAA / Jennifer Flay / Walther König / Portikus, 1991. No. 69 in "Christian Boltanski : Catalogue: Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera, 1966-1991" by Christian Boltanski, Jennifer Flay, Günter Metken. Köln / Frankfurt, Germany : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König / Portikus, 1992, pp. 184 - 185. "Christian Boltanski : Artist's Books 1969 - 2007" by Christian Boltanski, Bob Calle. Paris, France : Éditions 591, 2008, pp. 60. Quote “There is in the work of the artist something of the high priest and something of the charlatan...
Category

Conceptual 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Happy New Year, 1980 Vintage Signed Silver Gelatin Emulsion Print Photograph
Located in Surfside, FL
this is a rare (possibly unique) vintage silver gelatin emulsion print of the artist's daughter, it is signed and dated 1980. Laurence Salzmann is a native of Philadelphia who has worked as a photographer/ filmmaker since the early 1960's. His projects document the lives of little known groups in America and abroad. He looks at the lives of people ranging from occupants of single room occupancy hotels in New York City to transhumant shepherds in Transylvania, residents of a Mexican village, and Philadelphia Mummers. His photographic study of a nearly extinct Jewish community in Romania was published as The Last Jews of Radauti by Dial/Doubleday in 1983, with text by Ayse Gürsan-Salzmann. His most recent work in Cuba is soon to be published in book form by Blue Flower Press...
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Modern 1980s Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Pilings
Located in Dallas, TX
"I like to go back to a place. Seasons change. Light, which is theater, changes. Nature is tumultuous, and our contact with it makes life happen.” - David H. Gibson This photograp...
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Gianni Morandi in Moscow - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi in Moscow is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1980s. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including historical mo...
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Untitled from "On The Acropolis"
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes free shipping in the US and a 14-day return policy. All prints are made to order and will arrive in mint condition directly from Tod Papageorge...
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1980s Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Old days Photo - Visiting Konrad Lorenz in Hospital - photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old days Photo - Visiting Konrad Lorenz in Hospital is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1980s. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic al...
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Slim Aarons, Sunbathing in Capri, Catherine Wilke
Located in New York, NY
Sunbathing in Capri, Catherine Wilke, Chromogenic Lambda print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity fr...
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Modern 1980s Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Porto Ercole'
Located in New York, NY
Porto Ercole 1980 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Caption: A jetty juts out from a rocky shoreline in Porto Erco...
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Modern 1980s Photography

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C Print

Historical Photo - Children - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo- Children is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1980s by Giuseppe Moneta. Good conditions, with some decoloration spots and aged margins. and signed l...
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Historical Photo - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century. Good conditions, with some decoloration spots and aged margins. It belongs to a historical al...
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Historical Photo-M. Abdelkader and Ben Barker - Vintage Photo - mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo- M. Abdelkader and Ben Barker is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century. Good conditions, with some decoloration spots and aged margins. ...
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Historical Photo - Janos Kadar and Viktor Kulikov - Vintage Photo - 1985
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo- Janos Kadar and Viktor Kulikov is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1985. Good conditions, with some decoloration spots and aged margins. It belongs to...
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Historical Photo - Pierre Lagaillarde - Vintage Photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo- Pierre Lagaillarde (founder of OAS) is a black and white vintage photo. Good conditions, with some decoloration spots and aged margins. It belongs to a historical...
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Historical Photo - Indian People - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Indian People is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 20th century, Photo by Roberto Koch. Good conditions, with some decoloration spots and aged marg...
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Historical Photo - Iva Zanicchi - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo  - Iva Zanicchi is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1970s. Good conditions, with some decoloration spots and aged margins. It belongs to a historic...
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

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Photographic Paper

Slim Aarons 'Polo Prince'
Located in New York, NY
Polo Prince 1985 C print 12 x 12 inches Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity August 1985, Charles, Prince of Wales, after playing polo for th...
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Modern 1980s Photography

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C Print

Slim Aarons 'Il Pellicano Hotel'
Located in New York, NY
Hotel Il Pellicano 1980 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Caption: Holidaymakers relax beside the swimming pool of...
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Modern 1980s Photography

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C Print

Slim Aarons, Burgenstock Hotel on Lake Lucerne (Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Burgenstock Hotel on Lake Lucerne, 1984 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate edition of 150 The Burgenstock hotel on Lake Lucerne in Switzerland, August 1984....
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Modern 1980s Photography

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Lambda

Andy and Dots signed, 1982
Located in Hudson, NY
This listing is for the unframed photograph. The Robin Rice Gallery proudly announces SUMMERTIME Salon 2019, an annual photography exhibit featuring gallery artists as well as a fe...
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Contemporary 1980s Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

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