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Medium: Paper
On the Run (Till Death do us Part) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
On the Run (Till Death do us Part) - 2005,
24x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventor...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Portrait of Monica Bellucci - Vintage Photo by Marton Schneider - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Monica Bellucci, b/w photo is a photograph realized by Marton Schneider in the 1990s.
Very good conditions.
Category
1990s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The way we were (Till Death do us Part)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The way we were (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
48x58cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label
artist Inventory No. 9088.
No...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$630 Sale Price
30% Off
Kirk Hutton 'Commissionaire's Dog' Archival Photograph by Getty, 20x24
Located in San Rafael, CA
A hotel commissionaire talking to a small dachshund dog in Piccadilly Circus, London. Original Publication: Picture Post - 2 - In The Heart of the Empire - pub. 1938 (Photo by Kurt H...
Category
1930s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Photograph of Nude Marilyn Monroe Pose 2
By Tom Kelly
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white photograph of a nude Marilyn Monroe taken by Tom Kelly in 1949. The work was distributed as calender art and one was featured in an issue of Playboy magazine in 1953. The photograph is not framed.
Artist Biography: Kelley was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He learned photography as an apprentice in a New York photo studio, and then worked for the Associated Press and Town & Country magazine. After coming to California in 1935, Kelley established a photography studio in Hollywood and produced promotional photographs of motion picture stars. David O. Selznick and Samuel Goldwyn retained Kelley to take promotional photos of their stars and starlets for magazine covers and advertising. Later, Kelley's business shifted to commercial and advertising photography.
Some of Kelley's most famous photo subjects have included Gary Cooper, Greta Garbo, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Winston Churchill, Bob Hope, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Jack Benny, David Bowie, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Yma Sumac and, of course, Marilyn Monroe, with and without clothes. Tom Kelley had a way of making his subjects feel comfortable behind the camera. He would bring his wife with him to his shoots to create a more soothing and relaxed atmosphere.
Kelley served on the panel of judges at the Miss Universe...
Category
1940s Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Japan – Three dancing geisha apprentices – Hand-colored Meiji Period photograph
Located in Middletown, NY
Yokohama, Japan: c 1880.
Hand-tinted albumen print, 8 1/8 x 10 1/2 inches (205 x 267 mm), numbered 1625 and captioned "Dancing" in negative at lower right; pencil inscription in Jap...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Watercolor, Photographic Paper
Tranquility - Contemporary, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Tranquility - 2019,
20x20cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid, not mounted.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Photographic Paper
The Nine Lives of Cindy, porcelain plate & official COA in box Lt Edition of 100
Located in New York, NY
Cindy Sherman
The Nine Lives of Cindy, 2019
Printed Bone Porcelain
12 1/2 in diameter
Limited Edition of 100
Plate signed verso and also accompanied by plate signed documentation card/official Certificate of Authenticity
In original box
Produced exclusively for the National Portrait Gallery in the United Kingdom on the occasion of the 2019 Cindy Sherman exhibition which also traveled to the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Acquired directly from the National Portrait Gallery before it sold out.
Cindy Sherman Biography:
Born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Cindy Sherman lives and works in New York NY. Her ground-breaking photographs have interrogated themes around representation and identity in contemporary media for over four decades. Coming to prominence in the late 1970s with the Pictures Generation group alongside artists such as Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince and Louise Lawler, Sherman studied art at Buffalo State College in 1972 where she turned her attention to photography. In 1977, shortly after moving to New York, Sherman began her critically acclaimed Untitled Film Stills. A suite of 69 black and white portraits, Untitled Film Stills sees Sherman impersonate a myriad of stereotypical female characters and caricatures inspired by Hollywood pictures, film noir, and B movies. Using a range of costumes, props and backdrops to manipulate her own appearance and to create photographs resembling promotional film images, the series explores the tension between artifice and identity in consumer culture which has preoccupied the artist’s practice ever since.
Sherman continued to channel and reconstruct familiar personas known to the collective psyche, often in unsettling ways. In 1981, the artist created her Centerfolds, a series of photographic double spreads inspired by men’s erotic magazines...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Paper, Mixed Media, Screen
Lounging in Bermuda - Sundowners by Swimming Pool Jill Council Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Lounging in Bermuda - Sundowners by Swimming Pool Jill Council Photograph by Slim Aarons
16" x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
"Loun...
Category
20th Century American Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
Untitled (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn) (~67% OFF - LIMITED TIME ONLY)
By Irving Penn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Irving Penn
Title: Untitled (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn)
Medium: Glossy, fibre based paper
Date: New York, circa 1949
Dimensions: 11 x 14 inches
Stamped ...
Category
1940s Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
$4,900 Sale Price
67% Off
Portrait
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Victor Arimondi (1942-2001). Portrait, ca. 1975. Period print measures 11 x 14 inches. Artist studio stamp on verso.
Victor Arimondi (November 8, 1942 – July 24, 2001) was an Italian American photographer and model who lived and worked in Europe before moving to the United States in the late 1970s. His early fashion photography, his portraits of Grace Jones and other artists, and his male nudes photographed in New York and San Francisco captured the pre-AIDS culture of the 1970s and early 1980s.
Arimondi's nudes were collected in several books, including David Leddick's award-winning[1] The Male Nude, (New York: Taschen 1998, 2005 and 2015). The photographer's later work documented homeless individuals in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood and the toll of the AIDS epidemic on the city. His photographs, featured in several posthumous exhibitions, also are in the collections of Sweden's museum of modern art, Moderna Museet, and San Francisco's GLBT Historical Society.
Biography
Arimondi was born Vittorio Maria Tevitti to his unwed mother, Alessandra Calligaris, in Bologna, Italy on November 8, 1942. His mother struggled financially, which left an impression on her only child. In 1948, she temporarily left him at a children's boarding school and orphanage in Italy to move to Sweden for a job. There she met and married Bruno Arimondi, who adopted her son. The family returned to Naples, Italy in 1952 where Victor graduated from high school.[1]
In 1960, Arimondi returned to Sweden to study at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, although he did not graduate. Meanwhile, he worked at several blue collar jobs, including as a mailman, before he gave up on traditional full-time work to pursue what he considered more essential— a life of creative expression. He created costume-like clothing for himself and friends and at age 19 became a fashion model.
Even as a teenager, the Italian born photographer who spent his 20s and 30s primarily based in Sweden, noted that he preferred fantasy to the trials of real life.[1] That conflict, and his passion for beauty as well as his sexual energy, were major factors in his life and his work.[2]
From 1965 through 1972 Arimondi worked as model in London, Milan, Germany, New York and Stockholm, appearing in catalogs and fashion magazines including Vogue , Harper's Bazaar and Esquire and on the runway in several Valentino fashion shows.
In 1972 he decided to try working on the other side of the lens as a photographer to better express his creativity.[2]
Arimondi moved to New York in 1979 and continued to build his photography portfolio.
Portrait of Bearded Man, New York City, 1979
Two years later, in 1981, he moved to San Francisco where he lived and worked for twenty years until his death of AIDS at age 58 on July 24, 2001.
The year he moved to San Francisco, Arimondi opened a photo gallery in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood for a short time. When he struggled financially, he gave up on trying to earn a living through commercial fashion photography and closed the gallery.[3]
Arimondi returned to modeling for the financial benefits, though he did so on less of an international scale than in his early years.
He continued to create photographic portraits of the denizens of the San Francisco gay and arts cultures, to shoot male nudes and publish his work in magazines, and he began to compose and photograph evocative still lifes using his own photographic images. Many of them touched on the death of dozens of his former photography models from AIDS.
Arimondi was in the midst of a new photography project that brought together his background as a fashion photographer and his more recent social documentary work when he died several months after he learned he was HIV-positive.[4] The project featured his former colleague, haute couture cover model Ivy Nicholson,[5] who he found living homeless in San Francisco. Several of the haunting portraits he took of her were later included in a noted group exhibit at SF Camerawork.
Art
Arimondi's early photography in the 1970s in Stockholm included portraits of the stars of Sweden's fashion, theater and dance worlds. His first two photography exhibits were in Stockholm and met with mixed reviews. But as he matured as a photographer and tapped into his fashion world contacts, Arimondi landed a number of commercial fashion jobs, including shooting for the Italian designer Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A.'s I.Magnin department store ad that ran in Vogue.
Marlboro Man Nude, New York City,1980.
He also shot other artists and models for his own portfolio, including Grace Jones, the Norwegian actress, Liv Ullmann, and the American writer, Norman Mailer.
Arimondi's aesthetic vision was focused on fantasy and drama, and he prided himself on pushing limits.[6]
Although less well-known than his San Francisco contemporary...
Category
1970s Realist Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$600 Sale Price
25% Off
The Diva and the Boy (Beachshoot) - 9 pieces - Polaroid, Vintage, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Diva and the Boy (Beachshoot) - 2005
Edition of 10 plus 2 artist Proofs.
48x46cm each, installed 155x151cm.
9 archival C-Prints, based on the 9 Polaroids.
Certificate and Sig...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The English Actress Claire Bloom - Photography - Early 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The English Actress Claire Bloom in an elegant pose.
Category
1970s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Beatles in Concert - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Beatles in Concert - is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$76 Sale Price
35% Off
Michael Ochs 'Brigitte Bardot' Limited Edition Photograph, 20 x 16
By Michael Ochs
Located in San Rafael, CA
Brigitte Bardot with cigarette in hand by photographer Michael Ochs, originally taken in 1962. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
As an authorized Getty Images Gallery...
Category
1960s Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Portrait of Miranda Martino - Golden Age of Italian Cinema - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Miranda Martino - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the mid-20th Century.
Fair conditions with oxidation.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Goldfinger, 1964 - Sean Connery Goldfinger James Bond 007 Photograph
Located in Brighton, GB
Goldfinger, 1964 - Sean Connery Goldfinger James Bond 007 Photograph
The original James Bond, Scottish actor Sean Connery, pauses and poses during the shooting of the film Goldfinge...
Category
20th Century Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin
"Birthday Gloves" fashion photography, black and white, elegant woman, framed
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A framed photograph by Horst P. Horst titled "Birthday Gloves" , photo is matted under glass in a gold trim frame.
Artist Bio:
Horst P. Horst (1906–1999) was a German-born fashio...
Category
20th Century Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
Vintage 1960s Black and White Civil Rights Photography, Birmingham Children
Located in New york, NY
Birmingham Children, 1963 by American photographer Leonard Freed is a 16" x 12" vintage gelatin silver photograph, signed verso (on back) by the photographer. A photo that depicts th...
Category
1960s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Tanga Moreau, Pirelli session for the 1998 Pirelli Cal, Hand tinted Print
By Bruce Weber
Located in London, GB
The 1998 Pirelli Calendar was photographed in Miami by Bruce Weber.
Tanga Moreau was among the many iconic models photographed.
'Tanga Moreau is a Belgian model. She has appeared on...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Acrylic, Photographic Paper, Pigment, Black and White, Aquatint, Digital...
$2,387 Sale Price
35% Off
The American Actress and Singer Abbe Lane - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The American Actress and Singer Abbe Lane during the tv program "The joyous".
Category
1960s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, 1963 - Black and White Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, 1963 - Black and White Silver Gelatin Print
Famous couple Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton shelter under their umbrellas in the rain as they ...
Category
20th Century Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Tropics Motor Motel I (Memories of Green)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Tropics Motor Motel I (Memories of Green) - 1999
58x56cm,
Edition 1/10,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on a Polaroid, Artist inven...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Michael Caine and Geraldine Moffat filming Get Carter, 1971 b/w photograph
Located in Norwich, GB
Terry O’Neill CBE is one of the world’s most collected photographers, with work hanging in national art galleries and private collections worldwide. From presidents to pop stars, he ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Because I am (Stage of Consciousness) featuring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Because I am (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007
featuring Radha Mitchell
40x48cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Car, Downtown Car Park, Dallas, Texas - Vintage Automobile Photography
By Samuel Hicks
Located in Brighton, GB
Car, Downtown Car Park, Dallas, Texas is a stunning C-Type Print by contemporary photographer Samuel Hicks.
It is available in in this size in an Edition of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital, Color
$509 Sale Price
66% Off
Louis Armstrong, Berlin 1965
Located in Cologne, DE
This black-and-white photo captures jazz legend Louis Armstrong playing his trumpet during a performance in Berlin in 1965. Armstrong, with intense focus, holds the trumpet close to his lips, his cheeks slightly puffed as he blows into the instrument. The lighting creates a dramatic effect, highlighting the shine of the trumpet and his facial expression, which conveys his passion and dedication to the music. Dressed in formal attire, Armstrong stands in the spotlight, embodying his iconic status as one of jazz music's greatest figures. The background is blurred, keeping the focus on Armstrong and his trumpet.
The print is new, Highest Quality on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta. More sizes up to 150x150 cm available on request.
About Tassilo Leher:
Born in the dark years of World War II, Tassilo Leher became an icon of photographic art in divided Germany. As the son of war correspondent Karl Leher, whose lens captured moments of contemporary history, he was born in 1940 in the heart of Berlin.
He shared not only the studio in the picturesque Prenzlauer Berg with his father, but also the mysterious world of the darkroom. While Karl Leher, an early riser, made use of the morning hours, Tassilo found his creative flow only by midday, often working late into the night.
His camera knew no bounds: from the dazzling stars of East German show business like Phudys, Karat, Hildegard Kneef, Manfred Krug, Bubi Scholz, to international greats such as Dean Reed, Karel Gott, Jiri Korn, and Costa Cordalis – all found themselves in front of his lens.
The Friedrichstadt-Palast and numerous film sets became his stages, where he played with light and shadow to perfectly frame famous...
Category
1960s Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White
Hotel Camino Real - Mexican Resort Photograph Swimming Pool Palm Trees
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Hotel Camino Real - Mexican Resort Photograph Swimming Pool Palm Trees by Slim Aarons
16 x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
"Hotel C...
Category
20th Century Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
Floral Striped Dress, Goodwood Revival - Vintage Fashion Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
This stylish artwork, 'Floral Striped Dress' taken at the glamorous retro event Goodwood Revival, perfectly captures feminine sophistication with a vintage vibe.
This artwork is a l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Greta Garbo "Mata Hari" Film Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1931
Located in Soquel, CA
Greta Garbo "Mata Hari" Film Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1931
A black and white photograph, matte finish, double-weight paper, depicting a 1931 shot of the star titled 'Mata Hari,' printed decades later from the original negative, penciled in the lower left corner "A.P.," Estate stamped and blind embossed in the lower right corner "Clarence Sinclair Bull," further blind embossed in same corner "The Kobal / Collection," verso with the photographer's black ink credit stamp, verso further with two "Edward Weston" black ink credit stamps dated "1981" and "1992," originally from the John Kobal Collection.
Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American actress. Regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time, she was known for her melancholic, somber persona, her film portrayals of tragic characters, and her subtle and understated performances. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on its list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema.
Clarence Sinclair Bull was born in Sun River, Montana, in 1896. His career began when Samuel Goldwyn hired him in 1920 to photograph publicity stills of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio's stars. He is most famous for his photographs of Greta Garbo, taken between 1926 and 1941. Bull's first portrait of Garbo was a costume study for the silent romantic drama film Flesh and the Devil in September 1926.
Bull was able to study with the great Western...
Category
1930s Photorealist Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Cadillac at the Drive-In, Goodwood - Vintage Lifestyle Color Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
Vintage Americana inspired Drive-In movie theatre, from the glamorous Goodwood Revival, featuring a classic Cadillac and Marilyn Monroe on the big screen. Richard was incredibly insp...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Fire Hydrant, Harlem, Portrait Photography of African American Children 1960s
Located in New york, NY
Punctuated by documentary photo essays such as Black in White America, Fire Hydrant is one of Leonard Freed's most iconic in the Harlem series. In the image of Fire Hydrant, two chil...
Category
1960s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Film, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digital Pi...
Jumping Geoff, 1966 - Geoff Hurst English Football Black and White Photograph
Located in Brighton, GB
Jumping Geoff, 1966 - Geoff Hurst English Football Black and White Photograph
Geoff Hurst jumps into the air after scoring the first hat-trick in a final of the World Cup. England w...
Category
20th Century Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Elaine Irwin Mellencamp, Photograph with Gold Paint, Pirelli 1998, Custom framed
By Bruce Weber
Located in London, GB
The Pirelli Calendar, known and trade-marked as "The Cal", is an annual trade calendar which has been published by the UK subsidiary of the Italian tyre manufacturing company Pirelli...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Gold
Not Bad For 36, from The Last Sitting
By Bert Stern
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Original color photograph hand developed from the original negative by Bert Stern. This photo is part of The Last Sitting portfolio, taken six weeks before Marilyn Monroe’s death in ...
Category
1960s Other Art Style Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Elvis on Milton Berle, 1956 - Elvis Presley Black and White Photograph
Located in Brighton, GB
Elvis on Milton Berle, 1956 - Elvis Presley Black and White Photograph
Elvis Presley caught mid-performance on the Milton Berle show. Milton Berle was a household name as both a com...
Category
20th Century Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Spectral (Kings Road) - unique solarized gelatin silver artist print
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In Kings Road (2022) Mona Kuhn lyrically reconsiders the realms of time and space within the midcentury architectural elements of the iconic Schindler House in Los Angeles. Built by Austrian architect Rudolph M. Schindler in 1922, the house was both a social and design experiment and an avant-garde hub for intellectuals and artists in the 1920s and ’30s.
The body of works incorporates chromogenic color prints, reflecting vignettes and materials of the building's emotional architecture, juxtaposition with unique solarized gelatin silver prints capturing traces of an ethereal human presence.
Spectral (2022)
Kings Road: A Rudolph Schindler House
30" x 40" / 76cm x 102cm /edition of 12
15" x 20" / 38cm x 56cm / edition of 12
limited edition solarization photograph printed by the artist + accompanied by signed artist certificate:
artist signature label (8x10")
signed/editioned/dated/titled by the artist + stamped for authenticity
label is placed centered on verso of the mounted print
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About the artist
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art.
For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Stanley/Barker Editions published Kuhn's Bushes & Succulents in 2018. In 2021, Thames & Hudson published a career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn's most recent publication Kings Road (2022) with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum traveling exhibition shown in Europe and the US.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris; The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London; Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland; Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and Australian Centre for Photography. Mona Kuhn lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Solo Exhibitions
2025
Mona Kuhn: Y Tu Desnudo será Un Gran Poema, Museum of Contemporary Art, Malaga, Spain
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Lianzhou Museum of Photography, China
2024
Mona Kuhn: The Schindler House, A Love Affair, Galerie XII...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Spanish Dancer - Spanish Dancing Photograph Flamenco US Navy Sailors Photograph
Located in Brighton, GB
Spanish Dancer - Spanish Dancing Photograph Flamenco US Navy Sailors Photograph
A Spanish flamenco dancer performs her art on a stage for sailors out of the US Navy.
16" x 20" pri...
Category
20th Century Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Tina Chow
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes framing with UV plexi, free express shipping and a 14-day return policy.
Four 4.5 x 3.25 inch unique vintage Kodak prints featuring Tina Chow. Prints are on active consignment from the estate of Antonio Lopez. Purchase includes certificates of authenticity from the estate of Antonio Lopez. These Kodak prints are not signed by Antonio Lopez.
Frame has some minor damage and is note in the pictures. The price reflects this with a reduction compared to similar listings.
Antonio Lopez Biography -
The foremost fashion illustrator of the 1970s and 80s, Antonio (as he signed his work) was and remains one of the most highly regarded and influential figures in the fashion world. While not initially known as a photographer, Antonio was rarely without his favorite Instamatic camera, and as his career progressed he turned increasingly to photography to create fashion stories, portraits, and elaborate mise-en-scènes.
A serial Svengali, as the writer Karin Nelson noted: “Lopez brilliantly transformed the women in his world. Under his tutelage, Jerry Hall, a long tall Texan he met at Paris’s Club Sept, evolved into a golden goddess. He put Jessica Lange in gold lamé evening dresses after discovering her in Paris studying mime, and gave aspiring model Tina Lutz her start (and an introduction to future husband Michael...
Category
1970s Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Polaroid
Radha Pink (29 Palms, CA) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Portrait Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Radha Pink' (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
38x36cm,
Edition of 30, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #6...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Polaroid, Color, C Print, Archival Paper
Japan, Girl Winter Costume
Located in Middletown, NY
Stillfried, Raimund von
Japan, Girl Winter Costume
Yokohama, Japan: c 1880. Hand-tinted albumen print, 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches (260x 200 mm), numbered B 1080 and titled in the lower r...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Watercolor, Photographic Paper
Monaco Grand Prix, 1973 - Monaco Grand Prix Formula One James Hunt
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Monaco Grand Prix, 1973 - Monaco Grand Prix Formula One James Hunt by Slim Aarons
16 x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
'Monaco Grand Prix' is a beautiful Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type print from 20th Century photographer Slim Aarons.
A unique view from the driver's height of Formula One Grand Prix...
Category
20th Century American Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
Harlem Beauty Contest, African American Fashion, Black and White Photograph
Located in New york, NY
Beauty Contest, Harlem, 1963 by Leonard Freed is a 16" x 20" gelatin silver print, signed verso (on back) by the Freed estate. The image appears in Amer...
Category
1960s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
"Neiman Marcus, Reka", New York, NY, 2002
By Jose Picayo
Located in Hudson, NY
This photograph is printed on Japanese Paper.
The price is for an unframed photograph.
The Robin Rice Gallery is pleased to announce, 25 Years of Polaroids, a new exhibit by Jose ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Circle of Magic - A Wish - 29 Palms, CA
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Wish (Circle of Magic) from the 29 Palms, CA project - 2009
40x48cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label and ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$420 Sale Price
30% Off
Architecture and Art Photo - San Zaccaria Church - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - San Zaccaria Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously captu...
Category
1920s Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$42 Sale Price
40% Off
Victoria - Contemporary, Polaroid, Childhood
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Victoria - 2019
33x40cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Photograph printed on Fuji glossy paper,
based on a reclaimed Fuji Instant Film Negative
(not mounted).
Signed on ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Japan – Samurai - Hand-colored Meiji Period photograph
Located in Middletown, NY
Yokohama, Japan: c 1890.
Hand-tinted albumen print, 10 1/8 x 7 3/4 inches (258 x 198 mm), numbered B 1161 and captioned in negative at lower right; very light cockling, brightly col...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Watercolor, Photographic Paper
Africa, Painted Faces, Tribal Women Ethiopia, Photography on Japanese Paper
Located in New york, NY
Painted Faces, 1996 by Jean-Michel Voge, is a contemporary color photograph 13" x 19" of two women with painted faces from the Surma tribe in the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, Africa.
Th...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...
Fabrizio Bentivoglio by Angelo Frontoni - Vintage Photograph - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
Fabrizio Bentivoglio t by Angelo Frontoni is a lot of two photographic prints on baryta paper.
Photographer's ink stamp on back, high quality prints.
...
Category
1980s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$528 Sale Price
25% Off
Silence and their words (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Silence and their words (Till Death do us Part) - 2007
20x24cm, Edition of 10,
digital C-Print print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 8...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Bath Time Story
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bath Time Story - 2017,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid, not mounted.
Signature label and certificate.
Artist inventory PL201...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Snowmass Picnic, 1967 - Aspen Skiing Colorado Apres Ski American Snow Sports
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Snowmass Picnic, 1967 - Aspen Skiing Colorado Apres Ski American Snow Sports by Slim Aarons
16" x 16" print on 16" x 20" paper.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150....
Category
20th Century American Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
Chalet Costi, Zermatt, 1968 - Switzerland Landscape Photography Zermatt Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Chalet Costi, Zermatt, 1968 - Switzerland Landscape Photography Zermatt Skiing by Slim Aarons
16" x 16" print on 16" x 20" paper.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 15...
Category
20th Century American Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
Grace Jones for After Dark
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Victor Arimondi (1942-2001). Portrait of Grace Jones, 1975. Period print measures 8.5 x 11.25 inches; 10 x 13 inches framed. Artist studio stamp on ver...
Category
1970s Realist Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$3,500 Sale Price
41% Off
Gaudi Cathedral, Barcelona, Spain, Child on Swing, Black and White Photography
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
Burt Glinn's The Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Swing, 1959, is a gelatin silver print, 20 x 16, signed and stamped print, authenticated by the estate. A young girl swings carefree agai...
Category
1950s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Follow the white rabbit - Contemporary Photography, Vintage, Alice in wonderland
Located in Warsaw, PL
She finished her studies at the Art Institute of the Pedagogical University in Cracow, obtaining a diploma at a drawing atelier of professor Piotr Jargusz; she currently is a lecture...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Color
Faiber Oct 10. From The series Guerreros. Photomontage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From The series Guerreros.
Photomontage on archival paper intervened by the artist with bland ink mounted on archival paper.
Unframed
Signed, titled and dated by the artist
The root...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper
Divine Nude No.39 by Ronald Martinez - Fine art photography, Renaissance, woman
Located in Paris, FR
Divine Nude No.39 is a limited-edition photograph by French contemporary artist Ronald Martinez.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Sean Connery & Ian Fleming on set of Dr.No b/w photograph 17 x25 inch
Located in Norwich, GB
Invited onto the set of the first James Bond film Dr.No, Herrmann captured the historic moment when author of the Bond books Ian Fleming dropped in on the filming to chat with actor ...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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