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Medium: Paper
150, 000 Dollars (The Princess and her Lover)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
150,000 Dollars (The Princess and her Lover) - 2007
part of the 29 Palms, CA project.
Edition of 10,
20x24cm.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Ce...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Ronald Reagan
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nick Vedros
Ronald Reagan
Archival Pigment Print on Epson Legacy Platine 100% Cotton Fibre, 314 gsm, Acid and Lignin free
Year: 1976
Size: 13x10in
Editi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
$790 Sale Price
34% Off
Calle Bissa, French Black and White Photography of Venice
By Willy Ronis
Located in New york, NY
Interested in “ordinary people" French photographer Willy Ronis was a postwar (WWII) photographer who roamed the streets whether In France or Italy, photographing people in love, at ...
Category
1940s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
NASA Apollo 12, Color Photograph of Astronaut Pete Conrad Jr with Flag on Moon
By Nasa
Located in New york, NY
Photographed by fellow astronaut Alan Bean, NASA Apollo 12 astronaut and commander Pete Conrad Jr poses with the American flag after he and Bean planted it o...
Category
1960s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
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
$54 Sale Price
25% Off
Ella FITZERALD " Mercédès " 1988
Located in CANNES, FR
Annie Leibovitz ( 1949- )
photo : 24 x19 cm .
Ella Fitzgerald devant un cabriolet Mercedes . 1988
Original Vintage work .
Framed : 42 X 42 cm
Category
1980s Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$1,731 Sale Price
20% Off
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...
Un’isola nell’aria
By Urs Lüthi
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed, numbered and dated. Edition of 75 copies.
Original photograph from the portfolio “Un’isola nell’aria”, Vol. IV
Includes passepartout. Image Dimensions : 34 x 46 cm
Category
1970s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$767 Sale Price
25% Off
Portrait of Victor Hugo - b/w Postcard - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Victor Hugo is a photografic albumen print in CDV size.
The print was made around 1870 by J.M. Lopez in Paris, for the publisher Hautecoeur.
Photographer's logo on fron...
Category
1870s Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
$198 Sale Price
25% Off
Cher Barefoot in Car
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning black and white image of Cher, posed barefoot, seated in a car doorway.
Cher is an American singer, actress and television personality. Dubbed the "Goddess of Pop", she is ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Audrey Hepburn in Hat for "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
Located in Austin, TX
Audrey Hepburn posed in a wide-brimmed hat for her role in "Breakfast at Tiffany's".
The film received five nominations at the 34th Academy Awards: Best Actress (for Hepburn), Best ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Vintage Portrait of Monica Vitti - Vintage B/W photo by ANSA - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage portrait of Monica Vitti is a vintage black and white photo realized in 1970s by Agenzia ANSA. Good condition.
Monica Vitti is born in Rome on November 3, 1931. Admitted in ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$135 Sale Price
25% Off
Marilyn Monroe and Simone Signoret
Located in Austin, TX
Candid capture of star actress Marilyn Monroe with French actress Simone Signoret.
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Known for playing comic "blonde bombshell" chara...
Category
1960s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Bedroom Plant (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bedroom Plant (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
58x56cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certifica...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Pin Ups (Framed)
Located in London, GB
English model Twiggy poses with David Bowie in Paris for the cover of his Pin Ups album, 1973.
TITLE: PIN UPS
PHOTO: Justine De Villeneuve
SIGNED LIMITED EDIT...
Category
1970s Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Brave (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.
Brave (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
Actors Amedeo Nazzari and Irene Genna - Vintage b/w Photograph - Late 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
The Italian Actor Amedeo Nazzari and his wife Irene Genna.
Vintage Photo.
Good condition.
Category
1960s Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Billie Holiday Singing
Located in Austin, TX
This capture features Billie Holiday at Downbeat, New York, N.Y., circa June 1946
Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed "L...
Category
1940s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Historical Photo - Portrait of John V. L. Pruyn - Vintage Photo - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Portrait of John V. L. Pruyn is a vintage photo, realized in the late 19th Century .
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
19th Century Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$162 Sale Price
25% Off
Asleep - Contemporary, Portrait, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Asleep, 2020
50x50cm, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, not mounted.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory - PL2020-833.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Greta Garbo in Susan Lenox (Her Fall And Rise) - Photograph by Clarence Sinclair
Located in Soquel, CA
Greta Garbo in Susan Lenox (Her Fall And Rise) - Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull
A black and white photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull (American, 1896-1979), matte finish, double-weight paper, depicting a 1931 shot of Swedish/American actress Greta Garbo (Swedish, 1905-1990) on the set of the film Susan Lenox (Her Fall And Rise) directed by Robert Z. Leonard. Greta Garbo poses in a hat, her hand resting on her face, while gazing into the camera. 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," on verso with the photographer's black ink credit stamp and with "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 painter...
Category
1930s Photorealist Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Japan – A costumed Geisha on stage - hand-colored photograph
Located in Middletown, NY
Yokohama, Japan: c 1885.
Hand-tinted albumen print, 10 1/2 x 8 inches (268 x 204 mm), hand-numbered 498 in negative; pencil inscription in Japanese on verso. Light scratch in negati...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Watercolor, Photographic Paper
Day and Night
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Day and Night - 2017
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
48x46cm
Archival C-print, based on a Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2017-111.
Not m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Clara Bow Posed with Dog
Located in Austin, TX
"Black and white studio capture of classic film actress Clara Bow posed smikling with a dog, circa 1927.
Clara Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film...
Category
1920s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Beatles, Hard Day's Night
Located in Austin, TX
The Beatles getting their hair combed on the set of A Hard Days Night.
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The group, whose best-known line-up compri...
Category
1960s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Marilyn Monroe Posed on Car
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Circa 1945 in Los Angeles, California: Before she was the famous Marilyn Monroe, was known as Norma Jeane Dougherty, seen here siting on a sports car in Hollywood.
Marilyn Monroe wa...
Category
1940s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Audrey Hepburn in Gown with Dogs
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white glamour portrait of actress Audrey Hepburn posed smiling in a gown, walking poodles on leashes.
Audrey Hepburn was a British actress. Hepburn had a successful career...
Category
1950s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
A Princess' Life - Polaroid, Contemporary, Portrait, Color, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Princess' Life (High Desert) - 2019
Edition 1/10, 20x20cm.
Digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory # 22182
Not mounted.
Stef...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled (City of Industry)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (City of Industry) - 2004
38x36cm,
Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signatur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Sunset (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sunset (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
20x24cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #958...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Clara Bow: The Roaring 20s' "It Girl"
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning black and white promotional portrait of Clara Bow gazing into the camera.
Clara Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and ...
Category
1920s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Divine Nude No.22 by Ronald Martinez - Fine art photography, Renaissance, woman
Located in Paris, FR
Divine Nude No.22 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
Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, Chuck Wein, Iconic Black and White Photography
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
A 20" x 16" (18.5” x 12.5” image size) gelatin silver print of Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, and Chuck Wein, 1965 by Burt Glinn with the photographer's blind stamp on recto (front lef...
Category
1960s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
The Italian filmmaker Alberto Bevilacqua - B/w Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo
Category
1980s Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$38 Sale Price
20% Off
James Dean - Black and White Monochrome Print, Getty Archive
Located in Brighton, GB
Taken from the world’s largest photographic archive, (Hulton Archive and Getty Images), the Getty Images Gallery collection features an extraordinary time capsule of the last century...
Category
20th Century Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White
Marilyn Monroe . New baby on the bed . The last sitting
By Bert Stern
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Marilyn Monroe by Bert Stern (1964)
new baby on the bed
circa 2009
hand double signed and dated by Bert Stern
COA hand signed by bert stern
edition of 72
perfect condition
Category
1980s Photorealist Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Accessory Story
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Liz Von Hoene is an award winning fashion photographer and director known for her immaculate concept driven images that strike the right balance between sophistica...
Category
2010s Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Couple at Party - Black and White Monochrome Print, Getty Archive
Located in Brighton, GB
Taken from the world’s largest photographic archive, (Hulton Archive and Getty Images), the Getty Images Gallery collection features an extraordinary time capsule of the last century...
Category
20th Century Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White
Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren vintage photograph is an original black and white photograph realized by an anonymous photographer
With the certification of authenticity by th...
Category
1980s Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$126 Sale Price
25% Off
The End of Love (29 Palms, CA) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The End of Love - Oxana's 30th Birthday (29 Palms, CA) - 2010 -
Edition 1/10 ,
20x24cm.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 4898.13.
Sign...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Francesca Woodman, Providence, Rhode Island
By George Lange
Located in New York, NY
Free Shipping for an unframed print in the US + 14-Day Return Policy.
George Lange
Francesca Woodman, Providence Rhode Islad
11 x 14 inch archival p...
Category
1970s Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
The Betrayal (The Getaway) - The Last Picture Show - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Betrayal - The Getaway (The Last Picture Show) - 1999
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist Inventory #723.
...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Rudolf Nureyev at Copenhagen Royal Theater - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Rudolf Nureyev - Copenhagen Royal Theater, Vintage Photograph is a black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Marilyn Monroe - The Iconic Andy Warhol
Located in Austin, TX
In 2022 Andy Warhol’s Shot Sage Marilyn was sold for $195 million, making this iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe the most expensive work by a U.S. artist ever sold at auction.
Warh...
Category
1950s Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Steve McQueen Racing Porsche
Located in Austin, TX
This stunning color action shot features American actor Steve McQueen. Often called "The King of Cool", whose "anti-hero" persona developed at the height of the counterculture of the...
Category
1960s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Carlton Hotel, 1958 - White Hotel Architecture in Cannes on French Riviera
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Carlton Hotel, 1958 - White Hotel Architecture in Cannes on French Riviera by Slim Aarons
16" x 16" print on 16" x 20" paper.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
P...
Category
20th Century American Modern Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - 2004
20x20 cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid
Certificate and Signature Label
Artist Inventory No. 481
N...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Playboy Bunny doing her make-up b/w archival photograph 17 x25 inch
Located in Norwich, GB
The first Playboy Club in London opened in 1965, following legalisation of gambling in the United Kingdom. Herrmann was dispatched by the Sunday Times to take fly-on-the-wall documen...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Untitled Story II by Camille Brasselet - Contemporary photography, woman, hotel
Located in Paris, FR
Untitled Story II is a photograph by French contemporary artist Camille Brasselet.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 2 dimensions:
*50 cm × 75 cm...
Category
2010s Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Pigment
Fred Astaire Planning Dance Moves
By Fred Hendrickson
Located in Austin, TX
Fred Astaire was an American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer, and television presenter. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential dancers in the history of film and t...
Category
1930s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Helen Frankenthaler, Painter New York City, Photograph of Woman Artist in 1950s
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
A documentary portrait of Helen Frankenthaler (1925-2011) in her studio in New York in the 1950s. Frankenthaler has remained a major American woman artist and female force of nature ...
Category
1950s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Portrait of Nude Man
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
The American Actor Kevin Kline in "Cry Freedom" - Vintage Photograph - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The American Actor Kevin Kline in "Cry Freedom", a 1987 drama film directed by Richard Attenborough.
Category
1980s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$54 Sale Price
25% Off
Grace Jones Holding Pistol
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white glamour studio portrait of Grace Jones holding a pistol for her role in Bond film "A View to a Kill", circa 1985.
Grace Jones is a Jamaican singer, songwriter, model...
Category
1980s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Japan, Girl with Samisen or Gozenobo, titled Beggar (Gozenobo)
Located in Middletown, NY
Hand-tinted albumen print, 10 1/4 inches x 7 3/4 (260 x 198 mm), numbered B 1221 and captioned in negative at lower right. Unmounted; housed in an archival mat with clear mounting co...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Watercolor, Photographic Paper
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
Portrait of Andy Warhol, Black and White Photography of Celebrity Artist
Located in New york, NY
Portrait of Andy Warhol, 1986 by Christopher Makos is an 10 x 8in vintage gelatin silver print on fiber paper.
The photograph is stamped (in black ink) on verso (photo back).
Provenance: Private Collector
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Artist’s Bio:
Christopher Makos (1948- ) is an American photographer and visual artist. He studied architecture in Paris and was an apprentice to Man Ray. Andy Warhol was Makos' good friend and frequent portrait subject. His photographs of Andy Warhol have been exhibited in galleries and museums, including the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao,Tate Modern in London, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, IVAM in Valencia (Spain), Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, among others. Makos’ pictures have appeared in publications, including Paris Match and the Wall Street Journal. The visual artist is the author of numerous books, such as Warhol/Makos In Context (2007), Andy Warhol China...
Category
1980s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
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
Rita Hayworth Posed on Bed
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white glamour shot of Rita Hayworth posed smiling on bed.
Rita Hayworth was an American actress, dancer, and pin-up girl. She achieved fame in the 1940s as one of the top ...
Category
1940s Contemporary Paper Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Divine Nude No.13 by Ronald Martinez - Fine art photography, Renaissance, woman
Located in Paris, FR
Divine Nude No.13 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
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