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Style: Modern
Medium: C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Roquebrune-Cap-Martin' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The Monte-Carlo Beach Hotel on the Pointe de la Vieille in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, southeastern France, August 1981.
Slim Aarons
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
1981
C print (Printed later)
E...
Category
1980s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Olivier Coquelin and Lahaina Kameha' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Entrepreneur Olivier Coquelin and actor Lahaina Kameha in Haiti, February 1981.
Slim Aarons
Olivier Coquelin and Lahaina Kameha
1981 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numb...
Category
1980s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Mario Andretti at Monaco Grand Prix' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American racing driver Mario Andretti at the Monaco Grand Prix, 22nd May 1977.
Slim Aarons
Mario Andretti
1977 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
w...
Category
1970s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christian Rothmann
ROBOTNICS Series
C-Print
2019
Edition S (Edition of 10)
12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered verso
Other Edition Sizes available:
- Edition M (Edition of 6) 35.4 x 23.6 inches (90 x 60 cm)
- Edition L (Edition of 6) 47.2 x 31.5 inches (120 x 80 cm)
- Edition XL (Edition of 3) 88.8 x 58.8 inches (225 x 150 cm)
PUR - Price Upon Request
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Since 1979 Christian Rothmann had more than 40 solo and 80 group exhibitions worldwide.
Christian Rothmann had guest lectures, residencies, art fairs and biennials in Europe, Japan, USA, Australia and Korea.
Christian Rothmann (born 1954 in Kędzierzyn, Poland ) is a painter, photographer, and graphic artist.
In 1976 he first studied at the “Hochschule für Gestaltung” in Offenbach, Germany and moved to Berlin in 1977, where he graduated in 1983 at the “Hochschule der Künste”. From 1983 to 1995 he taught at the university as a lecturer and as an artist with a focus on screenprinting and American art history. To date, a versatile body of work has been created, which includes not only paintings but also long-standing photo projects, videos, and public art.
Guest lectures, teaching assignments, scholarships and exhibitions regularly lead Rothmann to travel home and abroad.
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Rothmann's Robots
These creatures date back to another era, and they connect the past and the future. They were found by Christian Rothmann, a Berlin artist, collector and traveler through time and the world: In shops in Germany and Japan, Israel and America, his keen eye picks out objects cast aside by previous generations, but which lend themselves to his own work. In a similar way, he came across a stash of historic toy robots of varied provenance collected by a Berlin gallery owner many years ago. Most of them were screwed and riveted together in the 1960s and 70s by Metal House, a Japanese company that still exists today. In systematically photographing these humanoids made of tin - and later plastic - Rothmann is paraphrasing the idea of appropriation art. Unknown names designed and made the toys, which some five decades on, Rothmann depicts and emblematizes in his extensive photo sequence.
In their photographs of Selim Varol's vast toy collection, his German colleagues Daniel and Geo Fuchs captured both the stereotypical and individual in plastic figures that imitate superheroes which were and still are generally manufactured somewhere in Asia. Christian Rothmann looks his robots deep in their artificially stylized, painted or corrugated eyes - or more aptly, their eye slits - and although each has a certain degree of individuality, the little figures remain unknown to us; they project nothing and are not alter egos. Rothmann trains his lens on their faces and expressions, and thus, his portraits are born. Up extremely close, dust, dents, and rust become visible. In other words, what we see is time-traces of time that has passed since the figures were made, or during their period in a Berlin attic, and - considering that he robots date back to Rothmann's childhood - time lived by the photographer and recipients of his pictures. But unlike dolls, these mechanical robots bear no reference to the ideal of beauty at the time of their manufacture, and their features are in no way modeled on a concrete child's face.
In this art project the robots appear as figures without a context, photographed face-on, cropped in front of a neutral background and reduced to their qualities of form. But beyond the reproduction and documentation a game with surfaces is going on; our view lingers on the outer skin of the object, or on the layer over it. The inside - which can be found beneath - is to an extent metaphysical, occurring inside the observer's mind. Only rarely is there anything to see behind the robot's helmet. When an occasional human face does peer out, it turns the figure into a robot-like protective casing for an astronaut of the future.
If we really stop and think about modern toys, let's say those produced from the mid 20th century, when Disney and Marvel films were already stimulating a massive appetite for merchandising, the question must be: do such fantasy and hybrid creatures belong, does something like artificial intelligence already belong to the broader community of humans and animals? It is already a decade or two since the wave of Tamagotchis washed in from Japan, moved children to feed and entertain their newly born electronic chicks in the way they would a real pet, or to run the risk of seeing them die. It was a new form of artificial life, but the relationship between people and machines becomes problematic when the machines or humanoid robots have excellent fine motor skills and artificial intelligence and sensitivity on a par with, or even greater than that of humans. Luckily we have not reached that point yet, even if Hollywood adaptations would have us believe we are not far away.
Rothmann's robots are initially sweet toys, and each toy is known to have a different effect on children and adults. They are conceived by (adult) designers as a means of translating or retelling history or reality through miniature animals, knights, and soldiers. In the case of monsters, mythical creatures, and robots, it is more about creating visions of the future and parallel worlds. Certainly, since the success of fantasy books and films such as Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit, we see the potential for vast enthusiasm for such parallel worlds. Successful computer and online games such as World
of Warcraft...
Category
2010s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christian Rothmann
ROBOTNICS Series
C-Print
2019
Edition S (Edition of 10)
12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered verso
Other Edition Sizes available:
- Edition M (Edition of 6) 35.4 x 23.6 inches (90 x 60 cm)
- Edition L (Edition of 6) 47.2 x 31.5 inches (120 x 80 cm)
- Edition XL (Edition of 3) 88.8 x 58.8 inches (225 x 150 cm)
PUR - Price Upon Request
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Since 1979 Christian Rothmann had more than 40 solo and 80 group exhibitions worldwide.
Christian Rothmann had guest lectures, residencies, art fairs and biennials in Europe, Japan, USA, Australia and Korea.
Christian Rothmann (born 1954 in Kędzierzyn, Poland ) is a painter, photographer, and graphic artist.
In 1976 he first studied at the “Hochschule für Gestaltung” in Offenbach, Germany and moved to Berlin in 1977, where he graduated in 1983 at the “Hochschule der Künste”. From 1983 to 1995 he taught at the university as a lecturer and as an artist with a focus on screenprinting and American art history. To date, a versatile body of work has been created, which includes not only paintings but also long-standing photo projects, videos, and public art.
Guest lectures, teaching assignments, scholarships and exhibitions regularly lead Rothmann to travel home and abroad.
------------------------
Rothmann's Robots
These creatures date back to another era, and they connect the past and the future. They were found by Christian Rothmann, a Berlin artist, collector and traveler through time and the world: In shops in Germany and Japan, Israel and America, his keen eye picks out objects cast aside by previous generations, but which lend themselves to his own work. In a similar way, he came across a stash of historic toy robots of varied provenance collected by a Berlin gallery owner many years ago. Most of them were screwed and riveted together in the 1960s and 70s by Metal House, a Japanese company that still exists today. In systematically photographing these humanoids made of tin - and later plastic - Rothmann is paraphrasing the idea of appropriation art. Unknown names designed and made the toys, which some five decades on, Rothmann depicts and emblematizes in his extensive photo sequence.
In their photographs of Selim Varol's vast toy collection, his German colleagues Daniel and Geo Fuchs captured both the stereotypical and individual in plastic figures that imitate superheroes which were and still are generally manufactured somewhere in Asia. Christian Rothmann looks his robots deep in their artificially stylized, painted or corrugated eyes - or more aptly, their eye slits - and although each has a certain degree of individuality, the little figures remain unknown to us; they project nothing and are not alter egos. Rothmann trains his lens on their faces and expressions, and thus, his portraits are born. Up extremely close, dust, dents, and rust become visible. In other words, what we see is time-traces of time that has passed since the figures were made, or during their period in a Berlin attic, and - considering that he robots date back to Rothmann's childhood - time lived by the photographer and recipients of his pictures. But unlike dolls, these mechanical robots bear no reference to the ideal of beauty at the time of their manufacture, and their features are in no way modeled on a concrete child's face.
In this art project the robots appear as figures without a context, photographed face-on, cropped in front of a neutral background and reduced to their qualities of form. But beyond the reproduction and documentation a game with surfaces is going on; our view lingers on the outer skin of the object, or on the layer over it. The inside - which can be found beneath - is to an extent metaphysical, occurring inside the observer's mind. Only rarely is there anything to see behind the robot's helmet. When an occasional human face does peer out, it turns the figure into a robot-like protective casing for an astronaut of the future.
If we really stop and think about modern toys, let's say those produced from the mid 20th century, when Disney and Marvel films were already stimulating a massive appetite for merchandising, the question must be: do such fantasy and hybrid creatures belong, does something like artificial intelligence already belong to the broader community of humans and animals? It is already a decade or two since the wave of Tamagotchis washed in from Japan, moved children to feed and entertain their newly born electronic chicks in the way they would a real pet, or to run the risk of seeing them die. It was a new form of artificial life, but the relationship between people and machines becomes problematic when the machines or humanoid robots have excellent fine motor skills and artificial intelligence and sensitivity on a par with, or even greater than that of humans. Luckily we have not reached that point yet, even if Hollywood adaptations would have us believe we are not far away.
Rothmann's robots are initially sweet toys, and each toy is known to have a different effect on children and adults. They are conceived by (adult) designers as a means of translating or retelling history or reality through miniature animals, knights, and soldiers. In the case of monsters, mythical creatures, and robots, it is more about creating visions of the future and parallel worlds. Certainly, since the success of fantasy books and films such as Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit, we see the potential for vast enthusiasm for such parallel worlds. Successful computer and online games such as World
of Warcraft, or the creation of avatars are also interesting worldwide phenomena of virtual realities that are not only relevant for children and teens.
So when a middle-aged Berlin photographic artist (like Christian Rothmann) chooses to study 120 toy robots with great difference in form, it represents a journey back to his own childhood - even if at the time, he played with a steam engine rather than a robot. Once batteries had been inserted, some of the largely male or gender-neutral robots, could flash, shoot, turn around and even do more complicated things. Some can even still do it today - albeit clumsily. This, of course, can only be seen on film, but the artist intends to document that as well; to feature the robots in filmic works of art.
The positioning of the figures in the studio is the same as the tableau of pictures in the exhibition room. In this way, one could say Rothmann deploys one robot after the other. This systematic approach enables a comparative view; the extreme enlargement of what are actually small and manageable figures is like the macro vision of insects whose fascinating, sometimes monster-like appearance only becomes visible when they are blown up a hundredfold. The same thing goes for the robots; in miniature form, they seem harmless and cute, but if they were larger than humans and made noises to match, they would seem more threatening.
Some of the tin figures...
Category
2010s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
1986 Red Grooms & Sculpture Vintage C-Print Photograph Abe Frajndlich Colo Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Abe Frajndlich (German American, b. 1946)
Portrait of Red Grooms
1986
Los Angeles
Hand signed, titled, and dated verso
Abe (Abraham Samuel) Frajndlich was born in a displaced per...
Category
1980s American Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christian Rothmann
ROBOTNICS Series
C-Print
2019
Edition S (Edition of 10)
12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered verso
Other Edition Sizes available:
- Edition ...
Category
2010s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Twiggy – at David Steen’s Home, Surrey, 1967 Limited Estate Print
By David Steen
Located in London, GB
Twiggy – at David Steen’s Home, Surrey,
1967
Lesley Lawson (born 19 September 1949) is an English model, actress, and singer widely known by the nickname Twiggy. She was a British...
Category
1960s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Katherine Pastrie and a Gustav Klimt painting. Vogue, 1965'
Located in New York, NY
Katherine Pastrie in front of a Gustav Klimt’s painting Life and Death, wearing a Cardin dress with make-up by Carita and hair by Prisca of Carita. British Vogue, 1 September 1965.
...
Category
1960s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Terry O'Neill, Faye Dunaway Oscar Stare
Located in New York, NY
Faye Dunaway at the Beverly Hills Hotel, 1977 (printed later)
C-print
60 x 60 inches
Estate stamped edition of 50 with certificate of authenticity
American actress Faye Dunaway take...
Category
1970s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
'Beauty and the Beast' Slim Aarons
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Beauty and the Beast
1959 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Ca...
Category
1950s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Man Ray in Paris' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Man Ray in his Paris studio with poster for Non-Abstractions exhibition opening (1956) and Peinture féminine (1954)
Slim Aarons
Man Ray in Paris
1956 printed later
C-Print
Estate si...
Category
1950s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'HRH Princess Anne, The Princess Royal'
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Her Royal Highness Princess Anne, The Princess Royal
1969
C print
40 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
Her Royal Highness Princess Ann...
Category
1960s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Actress Maud Adams, Vogue, August 1964'
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Actress Maud Adams, Vogue, August, 1964
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
with certificate of authenticity
Norman Parkinson (1913-1990) was...
Category
1970s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pool On Amalfi Coast 1984 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pool On Amalfi Coast
A view of the seaside pool at the Hotel St. Caterina, Amalfi, Italy, September 1984.
Slim Aarons Chromogenic C print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Editio...
Category
1980s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
'Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc' Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc' Slim Aarons - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Guests standing by a white Rolls-Royce convertible courtesy car at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, Fra...
Category
1970s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, C Print
' Family ' Oversize Limited Edition C type
Located in London, GB
'Mennonite Family Belize' by Alain Le Garsmeur
Mennonite brothers and sister from a Spanish Lookout settlement, Belize, Central America, June 1985.
A gorgeously observed scene by ...
Category
1980s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Iman at King Peter's Bay in Tobago for Vogue, 1976'
Located in New York, NY
Somali-American fashion model and actress Iman at King Peter’s Bay, Tobago wearing a Mexicana dress made from Liberty fabric. British Vogue magazine, May 1...
Category
1970s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Pool On Amalfi Coast 1984 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Pool On Amalfi Coast - Oversize
A view of the seaside pool at the Hotel St. Caterina, Amalfi, Italy, September 1984.
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Chromogenic...
Category
1980s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Stevie Wonder, Framed Color Photograph by Lynn Goldsmith
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lynn Goldsmith
Title: Stevie Wonder
Year: 1976
Medium: Color Photograph, signed, numbered, and dated in pen
Edition:...
Category
1970s American Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Iman at King Peter's Bay in Tobago for Vogue, May 1976'
Located in New York, NY
Somali-American fashion model and actress Iman at King Peter’s Bay, Tobago wearing a Shuji Tojo swimsuit. British Vogue magazine, May 1976.
Iman at King P...
Category
1970s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
'Princess Ruspoli' 1979 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Princess Ruspoli' 1979
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print - Oversized
Princess Lucy Ruspoli stands in front of a colourful wall of old skis in Lech ...
Category
1970s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Norman Parkinson 'Mouche at Praia do Vau, Portugal for Vogue, January 1973'
Located in New York, NY
Mouche at Praia do Vau, Portugal wearing a Nina Ricci swimsuit. British Vogue magazine, January 1973.
Mouche at Praia do Vau, Portugal for Vogue, January 1973
Printed later
C print
...
Category
1970s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Apollonia on Bird Island, Seychelles. Vogue, 1971'
Located in New York, NY
Apollonia van Ravenstein on Bird Island, Seychelles wearing a dress by Mrs Caswell for Angela at Rosie Nice, Kensington Antique Market with a Herbert Johnson straw hat and jewelry by...
Category
1970s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Tania Mallet in Eleuthera' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Tania Mallet, 1961
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
1961: Actress Tania Mallet relaxes on a red-curtained four poster...
Category
1950s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Katherine Pastrie in Mexico for Vogue, July 1966'
Located in New York, NY
Katherine Pastrie wearing Ken Scott pyjamas from Fortnum & Mason with tissue flowers handmade by the family firm Jesus Tamayo. Photographed in Mexico for British Vogue, January 1966....
Category
1970s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Clio Goldsmith in Tobago for Vogue, April 1975'
Located in New York, NY
Clio Goldsmith in Tobago for British Vogue, 15 April 1975
Clio Goldsmith in Tobago for Vogue, April 1975
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
with certificate ...
Category
1970s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Jerry Hall in feathered Dior, 1975'
Located in New York, NY
Jerry Hall is photographed wearing a one-shouldered satin column dress and feathered coat by Dior during a British Vogue photoshoot at the Palace of Versailles. The image, taken Sept...
Category
1970s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Duchess of Feria, 1982'
Located in New York, NY
Nati Abascal, the Duchess of Feria, photographed with her black stallion ‘Idle Ruler’ in Barbados for Town & Country magazine, in 1982.
Duchess of Feria, 1982
C print
Estate stamped...
Category
1980s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Apollonia van Ravenstein in Palm Beach, 1983'
Located in New York, NY
Dutch fashion model Apollonia van Ravenstein at the Lannan Foundation, Palm Beach, wearing a Mary McFadden dress on Ronald Bladen’s The X. Town & Country, October 1983.
Apollonia va...
Category
1980s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Iman at King Peter's Bay in Tobago for Vogue, 1976'
Located in New York, NY
Somali-American fashion model and actress Iman at King Peter’s Bay, Tobago wearing a Krizia jumpsuit. British Vogue magazine, May 1976.
Iman in Krizia jum...
Category
1970s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Iman for Vogue Italia, 1976'
Located in New York, NY
Iman poses in a monochrome Valentino suit, cape, and headdress surrounded by ornate pillows for Vogue Italia in March of 1976. A muse of the designers Gianni Versace, Thierry Mugler,...
Category
1970s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Capucine (Slim Aarons estate edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Capucine, 1957
Fiber print
30 x 20 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
Category
1950s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Deborah Harris in a mermaid's tail, 1990'
Located in New York, NY
Deborah Harris is photographed on location in Malaysia wearing a custom-designed mermaid’s tail by Bob Mackie for Town & Country in February of 1990. This story was photographer Norm...
Category
1990s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Man Ray in Paris' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Man Ray in his Paris studio with poster for Non-Abstractions exhibition opening (1956) and Peinture féminine (1954)
Slim Aarons
Man Ray in Paris
1956 printed later
C-Print
Estate si...
Category
1950s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Terry O'Neill 'David Bowie, Yellow Suit' 1974
Located in New York, NY
David Bowie, 1974
Chromogenic print
24 x 20 inches
Signed and numbered edition of 50
printed 2006
English singer, musician and actor David Bowie with dyed red hair and a yellow sui...
Category
1970s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Iman posing with Lucas Samaras’ sculpture, 1982'
Located in New York, NY
Iman poses with Lucas Samaras’ sculpture Stiff Box #12 at the Patrick Lannan Foundation near Palm Beach, Florida in 1982. A muse of the designers Gianni Versace, Thierry Mugler, Calv...
Category
1980s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Nicky Samuel Waymouth at home in Chelsea, 1972'
Located in New York, NY
Fashion model Nicola Samuel Waymouth at home in Chelsea wearing a tulip-print chiffon dress by Ossie Clark. British Vogue, December 1972.
Nicky Samuel Waymouth at home in Chelsea, 1...
Category
1970s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Katherine Pastrie and a Gustav Klimt painting. Vogue, 1965'
Located in New York, NY
Katherine Pastrie in front of a Gustav Klimt’s painting Life and Death, wearing a Cardin dress with make-up by Carita and hair by Prisca of Carita. British Vogue, 1 September 1965.
...
Category
1960s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
In the Blazing Sun at George Airfield
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
In the Blazing Sun at George Airfield
1951
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
British fashion model Wenda Parkinson wearing a grey gabardine...
Category
1950s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Rebecca, Tiffany Vase, Large Scale Sheila Metzner Photograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Sheila Metzner’s unique photographic style has positioned her as a contemporary master in the worlds of fine art, fashion, portraiture, still life and landscape photography. Looking at Metzner’s photographs is a captivating experience. Innocent, sensual, and sexual, each photo, regardless of subject, exhibits and elicits deep emotion. It is nearly impossible to just glance at Metzner’s photos; they beg to be studied. She says, “Photography in its most basic form is magic…This image, caught in my trap, my box of darkness, can live. It is eternal, immortal. The child in the image will not age as the living child will.”
Sheila Schwartz was born in 1939 to an orthodox Jewish family in a poor section of Brooklyn. While attending the School of Industrial Art in Manhattan (now the High School of Art and Design), she was awarded the Mayor Robert F. Wagner scholarship to the college of her choice. She chose Pratt Institute, where she majored in visual communication. Her fondness for painting and sculpture also led her to study with abstract artists Jack Tworkov and James Brooks.
After graduating in 1961, Sheila worked as an assistant to Lou Dorfsman at CBS Network Advertising. Five years later, she was hired by the Doyle Dane Bernbach advertising agency as its first female art director, and in 1968 she met and married director, creative director, and painter Jeffrey Metzner. While pregnant with their first child, she was riding in a cab with her mentor and friend, photographer Aaron Rose, discussing whether or not to give up her career in advertising. “He said, ‘You should be a photographer. You live like an artist. You have a good eye, you’d be good at it.’ ”
Metzner started taking pictures, amassing them slowly over the next 13 years, while raising her and Jeffrey’s five children—Raven, Bega, Ruby, Stella and Louie. Jeffrey’s two daughters from a previous marriage, Evyan and Alison, were also a regular part of the family. “When they were really small, I’d be with them during the day, photographing and printing at night. At eight or nine in the evening, when they were all asleep, I’d take a shower to wake up and put on high heels and lipstick, which I wore then, to give me the feeling of being ready to work.” She continues, “My children never interfered. When I couldn’t travel because of them, I would find a place in upstate New York and call it Antarctica or Egypt. I found microcosms.”
Nine years later, Metzner had accumulated a box of 22 pictures. One of them, a black-and-white photograph titled “Evyan, Kinderhook Creek,” caught the eye of John Szarkowski at the Museum of Modern Art, which he included in his famous and controversial exhibition “Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960.” The New York Times art critic Hilton Kramer loved the picture and soon it became the dark-horse hit of the exhibition. Later that year, Metzner’s first solo show at the Daniel Wolf Gallery in New York drew record crowds.
Metzner was now ready to work in color, but not just conventional color. Of her subjects, she once said, “If I use a rose, I want it to be the essential rose—the rose Beauty brought to her father from the Beast’s garden.” Now she aspired to an essential kind of color. “I wanted something that would last. I was looking for Fresson even though I didn’t know they existed.”
The Fresson family works outside of Paris and specializes in a labor-intensive four-color “process de charbon” method, which they invented in 1895. Some prints can go up to seven colors, and are pigment prints, the only true archival color print. Metzner is one of just ten American photographers with whom they are willing to work. Fresson prints are the perfect complement to Metzner’s style—soft, sensuous, and grainy, the prints resemble paintings, with a finish which Metzner describes as “a glaze on fine porcelain. The moment I saw the neutral gray,” she adds, “I knew it was perfect.”
In 1980 Metzner showed her Fresson color prints at her second solo exhibition at the Daniel Wolf Gallery. This show led to commissioned editorial work for such magazines as Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Rolling Stone. She secured an exclusive contract with Vogue for the next eight years. Metzner considers her portrait of actress Jeanne Moreau for Vanity Fair a turning point in her career. “It gave me a chance to show my work to a broader audience. I wasn’t just producing photographs for the art world.”
Of Sheila’s foray into fashion, critic Carol Squiers says, “At a time when fashion photography was caught between sterility and the snapshot, Metzner created a sumptuous vision that stimulated the entire field.”
Metzner also started doing commercial photography around this time. Her first client was Valentino, soon to be followed by Bloomingdale’s, Perry Ellis, Revlon, Shiseido, Saks Fifth Avenue, Paloma Picasso, Victoria’s Secret, Levi’s, Ralph Lauren, and fragrances for Chloe and Fendi (the Fendi campaign won a Fragrance Foundation Recognition Award). Her work also appeared on John Mellencamp...
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1980s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Audrey Hepburn with Flowers', Posthumous Later Print
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Audrey Hepburn with Flowers
1955
60 x 40 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
Posthumous Later Print
Norman Parkinson, born in 1913 and passin...
Category
1950s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Audrey Hepburn, Vogue''
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
'Audrey Hepburn, Vogue'
1952
Silver gelatin print
36 x 36 inches
Estate stamped and numbered on verso
“The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassi...
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1950s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
'Verbier View' Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Verbier View (1964) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Skiers admire the view across a valley of clouds.
Verbier, 1964.
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Size:...
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1960s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, C Print
Slim Aarons Lola Albright's Penthouse
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lola Albrights Penthouse, 1960
C print
20 x 16 inches
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150
American singer and actress Lola Albright (1924 - 2017) at Richard La...
Category
1950s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Jerry Hall in Feathered Dior
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Jerry Hall in Feathered Dior
1975
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
Caption: Jerry Hall is photographed wearing a one-shouldered satin colu...
Category
1980s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Wenda and Ostriches'
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Wenda and Ostriches
1951 (printed later)
C print
40 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
Wenda Parkinson wearing knee-buttoned jeans and ...
Category
1950s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
'Teenage Kicks' C-type Limited Edition Oversize
By Jamie Beeden
Located in London, GB
'Teenage Kicks' C-type Limited Edition
by Jamie Beeden, personal work.
A portrait of a young girl at a club in Tufnell Park, London 2003.
Jamie's body of work includes varied maga...
Category
Early 2000s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Terry O'Neill, Faye Dunaway Oscar Reclining
Located in New York, NY
Faye Dunaway at the Beverly Hills Hotel, 1977 (printed later)
C-print
60 x 60 inches
Estate stamped edition of 50 with certificate of authenticity
American actress Faye Dunaway take...
Category
1970s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
The Royal Family
Located in New York, NY
The Royal Family
1980's
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
A portrait of members of the British royal family; L-R: HR...
Category
1980s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Susanna Boylston Bolton'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Susanna Boylston Bolton
1965 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition 1 of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Susanna ‘Sukey’ Boylston Bolton, Newport...
Category
1950s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Polo Prince'
By Slim Aarons
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...
Category
1980s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Fan Mail (Marilyn Monroe)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962), wearing a red negligee trimmed with black lace, sorts out her fan mail shortly after her film 'The Asphalt Jungle' had been rele...
Category
1950s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Terry O'Neill 'Audrey Hepburn in the Pool' (signed)
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn in the Pool
1966 (printed later)
C-print
16 x 20 inches
signed and numbered edition of 50
Actress Audrey Hepburn, swimming in the South of France during the filming ...
Category
1960s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Tania Mallet'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Tania Mallet
1960, Printed Later
C print
20 x 20 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Caption: Actress Tania Mall...
Category
1960s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Antonio Lopez Draws Jerry Hall
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Antonio Lopez draws Jerry Hall
1975
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
Caption: Antonio Lopez draws model Jerry Hall as she poses with a lif...
Category
1980s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Wenda and Ostriches'
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Wenda and Ostriches
1951 (printed later)
C print
60 x 40 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso with certificate from the Parkinson estate, print...
Category
1950s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Terry O'Neill 'Audrey Hepburn Dove' (Colorized)
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn Dove
1967 (printed later)
C-Type Print
40 x 30 inches
Posthumous Edition of 50: digitally signed and numbered on the front, estate-stamped on reverse.
The print is a...
Category
1960s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Jerry Hall Dive (Diptych)
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Jerry Hall , 1976
C print
16 x 12 inches each
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
American model Jerry Hall wearing a swimsuit by Martil and lipstick...
Category
1980s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christian Rothmann
ROBOTNICS Series
C-Print
2019
Edition S (Edition of 10)
12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered verso
Other Edition Sizes available:
- Edition ...
Category
2010s Modern C Print Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
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