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Period: 1990s
Untitled (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (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 Certificate.
...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Madonna (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Madonna (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 Certificate.
A...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Another Monday Morning (29 Palms, CA)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Another Monday Morning (29 Palms, CA)
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate,
Artist inventory nu...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
Monday Morning (29 Palms, CA)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Monday Morning (29 Palms, CA)
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate,
Artist inventory number: 88...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
Untitled (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Analog, Landscape, Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory N...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper
Unpredictable (29 Palms, CA)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Unpredictable (29 Palms, CA)
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate,
Artist inventory number: 883...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
Waiting (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Waiting (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
20x24cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate,
Artist inventory number: 99...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Room With A View (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Room With A View (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate,
Artist inventory n...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Girls (29 Palms, CA)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Girls (29 Palms, CA)
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate,
Artist inventory number: 958.
Not m...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
Dreamgirl (29 Palms, CA)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dreamgirl (29 Palms, CA)
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate,
Artist inventory number: 924.
N...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
Dreamgirl (29 Palms, CA)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dreamgirl (29 Palms, CA)
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate,
Artist inventory number: 19318. ...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
Silver Bra (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Silver Bra (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate,
Artist inventory number:...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
'Penelope' from the movie Immaculate Springs - starring Jacinda Barrett
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Penelope' from the movie Immaculate Springs - 1998
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature Label and Certificate.
Artist...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Bathroom (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bathroom (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 Certificate,
...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Living Room (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Living Room (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 Certificate...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Italian Actress Enrica Bonaccorti - Vintage Photo - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian former actress, television and radio presenter, and lyricist Enrica Bonaccorti.
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress Enrica Bonaccorti - Vintage Photo -1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian former actress, television and radio presenter, and lyricist Enrica Bonaccorti.
Photo by ADN Kronos.
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Marty
Located in New York, NY
Portrait of Marty
1999
Titled, dated and inscribed in black ink, recto; Also signed, dated, numbered, and inscribed in black ink, verso
Gelatin silver pr...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Gianni Morandi - Vintage Photo - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1990s.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Youth
By Luke Smalley
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print
Stamped and numbered, verso
14 x 11 inches, sheet
5 x 7 inches, image
(Edition of 15)
20 x 16 inches, sheet
12 x 15.75 inches, image
(Edition of 10)
From the ...
Category
Other Art Style 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Contact Sheet (David Bowie) 16
Located in New York, NY
Signed on label, verso
Vintage chromogenic contact sheet
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
'Hans and Penelope' from the movie Immaculate Springs - starring Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Hans and Penelope' from the movie Immaculate Springs - 1998 -
Edition of 10,
40x50cm, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature Label and Certifi...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg - Vintage b/w Photograph - Early 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
The Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni with the Swedish-Italian Actress Anita Ekberg.
Vintage b/w Photo.
Good condition.
Category
Modern 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Naomi in Morocco – Albert Watson, Black & White, Fashion, Naomi Campbell
Located in Zurich, CH
Albert WATSON (*1942, Scotland)
Naomi in Morocco, 1998
Archival pigment print
142 x 107 cm (55 7/8 x 42 1/8 in.)
Edition of 10, plus 2 AP
Print only
Drake purchased a series of Albe...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sottovuoto (Vacuum-Packed) - b/w Photograph by Plinio Martelli - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Sottovuoto is a b/w photographic print realized by Plinio Martelli in the 1990s.
Very good conditions.
Hand signed and titled by the artist on the back of the photograph.
Plinio Martelli (1945-2016) After scientific studies he graduated from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin with masters such as Enrico Paolucci and Mario Calandri...
Category
Modern 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
E. Murphy and N. Nolte "Another 48 Hrs" - Vintage Photograph - 1990
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte in a Scene from the Movie "Another 48 Hrs."
Good Conditions.
Category
1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Wrong Way (29 Palms, CA)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wrong Way (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
44x59cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventor...
Category
Outsider Art 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Back Country (29 Palms, CA)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Back Country (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
44x59cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inven...
Category
Outsider Art 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
On the Road (California Badlands)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
On the Road (California Badlands) - 1999
44x59cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist...
Category
Outsider Art 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Hidden (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hidden (The last Picture Show) - 1999
50x49cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist In...
Category
Outsider Art 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Sitting Bull (Immaculate Springs) featuring Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sitting Bull (Immaculate Springs) - 1998
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature Label and Certificate.
Artist ...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Pasolini (Immaculate Springs) - starring Jacinda Barrett
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Pasolini (Immaculate Springs) - 1998,
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature Label and Certificate.
Not mounte...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
'Penelope' from the movie Immaculate Springs - starring Jacinda Barrett
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Penelope' from the movie Immaculate Springs - 1998
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature Label and Certificat...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
'M' from the movie Immaculate Springs - starring Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
M (Immaculate Springs) - 1998 -
20x20cm,
Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature Label and Certificate.
Artist inventory...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Headshot (David Bowie) 2
Located in New York, NY
Signed on label, verso
Vintage chromogenic print
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Barren (American Depression) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Landscape, Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Barren (American Depression) - 1997
44x59cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inv...
Category
Outsider Art 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Pearl Jam by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam on Stage
by Kevin Westenberg- Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images...
Category
Modern 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Magic Hour (Musica Poetica) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Magic Hour (Musica Poetica) - 1997
44x59cm,
Edition 4/10.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Arti...
Category
Outsider Art 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Golden (Musica Poetica) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Golden (Musica Poetica) - 1997
44x59cm,
Edition 4/10.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist I...
Category
Outsider Art 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Farmer (Musica Poetica) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Golden (Musica Poetica) - 1997
44x59cm,
Edition 4/10.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and...
Category
Outsider Art 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Desert Bloom (Musica Poetica) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Desert Bloom (Musica Poetica) - 1997
44x59cm,
Edition 4/10.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist...
Category
Outsider Art 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Field (Musica Poetica) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Field (Musica Poetica) - 1997
44x59cm,
Edition 4/10.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist In...
Category
Outsider Art 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Eric Clapton (Framed) hand signed lifetime print
Located in London, GB
Eric Clapton photographed in Surrey, 1993.
TITLE: Eric Clapton
PHOTO: Terry O’Neill
SIGNED LIMITED LIFETIME EDITION 20/50
PAPER: SILVER GELATIN FIBRE PRINT
FULLY FRAMED: 26.8 x 27....
Category
1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
Magic Hour (Stranger than Paradise) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Magic Hour (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999
44x59cm,
Edition 3/10.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist In...
Category
Outsider Art 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
No Parking (Stranger than Paradise) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
No Parking (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999
59x56cm,
Edition 2/10.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist In...
Category
Outsider Art 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Palm Trees Dive by (Stranger than Paradise) - analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Trees Dive by (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999
44x59cm,
Edition 2/10.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
A...
Category
Outsider Art 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Massive Attack by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Massive Attack
Massive Attack, Berlin, 1998.
by Kevin Westenberg- Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative an...
Category
Modern 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Naomi Campbell, Paul Rowland Vintage Portrait Silver Gelatin Print
By Paul Rowland
Located in Surfside, FL
Paul Rowland-
He is the one, that everybody knows about, Paul Rowland. A genius in the modeling industry, president of Ford Models New York, owner of Women Model Management & Supreme Management and photographer. Paul Rowland has more, than 20 years experiences in the industry.
Paul Rowland was born in Arkansas in the USA. He left his home town and moved to New York City with the dream to become a painter. Not long after this he founded Women Management and Supreme Models. Paul Rowland founded Women Management in 1989. In his more than 15 years of professional experience, he has made transformation from model to founder of his own agency, and is credited for establishing a unique roster of talent known for personality and accessibility previously unseen in the business.
He participated in the exhibition at Art Basel in 2008
In Fashion Photo features an exclusive collection of more than 250 contemporary works of photographic art by more than 35 of the world‟s leading icons in fashion photography. Representing more than 15 countries in five continents, some of the most globally esteemed names from the fashion photo world exhibited their work, including Slim Aarons, Miles Aldridge, Olivia Beasley, Michael Dweck, Arthur Elgort, Charles Frèger, Erwan Frotin, Alice Hawkins, Steve Hiett...
Category
Post-Minimalist 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Three Boys (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Three Boys (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997
20x25cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist Inventor...
Category
Outsider Art 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Sweet Boy (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sweet Boy (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997
20x25cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist Inventory...
Category
Outsider Art 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Sweet Boy (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sweet Boy (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997
20x25cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist Inventory...
Category
Outsider Art 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Wild Boy (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wild Boy (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997
20x25cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist Inventory ...
Category
Outsider Art 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Two Unknown Boys (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Two Unknown Boys (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997 -
44 x 59 cm,
Edition 8/10.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist. based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label. ...
Category
Outsider Art 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Rogelio
By Pedro Slim
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print (Edition of 10)
Signed, dated, numbered, and titled, verso
13 x 11 inches, sheet
7 x 7 inches, image
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New Yor...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
After Man Ray
Located in New York, NY
Warm-tone gelatin silver print (Edition of 20)
Signed and numbered on label, verso
From the series, "Before the Camera"
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Nick Cave by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Nick Cave
by Kevin Westenberg- Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and movie ...
Category
Modern 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
African American Large Vintage Color Photograph Dandy C Print Photo Ike Ude
By Iké Udé
Located in Surfside, FL
BEYOND DECORUM, CLOSED AND OPEN Series,
I am selling each individually. they are pairs of open and closed jackets. I will include the second photo for reference. This listing is just for the open jacket photograph.
Vintage C-print on Fuji crystal archive paper.
Image size is 40 x 30", sheet measures 50 X 35
Provenance: printed by Muse X, Los Angeles.
I believe these were test, proof prints. They are not signed or editioned
The work of Nigerian-born Iké Udé explores a world of dualities: photographer/performance artist, artist/spectator, African/post-nationalist, mainstream/marginal, individual/everyman and fashion/art.
Iké Udé (born 1964) is a Nigerian-American photographer, performance artist,
Ike Ude was born in 1964 in Lagos, Nigeria where he was raised. The eldest son of a wealthy family, he was exposed to photography and portraiture at an early age by dressing up for biweekly family portraits. Udé knew he was an artist by the age of six, when he developed a habit of firing a catapult at passers-by when he disapproved of their walk or the way they were dressed. As an adolescent, Udé attended the Government Secondary School, a British boarding school in Afikpo Nigeria. He was a habitué of London before he moved to New York in 1981 to study Media Communications at Hunter College, CUNY. He began his art career in the late 1980s with abstract painting and drawing. Since the 1990s, photography has been his primary medium. Udé is a dual citizen of the United States and Nigeria.
Udé's paintings and drawings are less well known than his photography, though critics and art historians have recognized his early work. The late Henry Geldzahler, said of Udé's paintings and works on paper: "I am touched and amazed at the ways in which he manages to blend invisibly the modernist tradition with his own Nigerian roots. There is never anything forced in the conjunction; air and light seem to be his media."
Udé began his Cover Girls series in 1994. Each photograph imitates the cover of a popular fashion or lifestyle magazines, in which the artist himself is featured as the model. (ala the work of Cindy Sherman) The photographs were consciously stylized, posed, photographed and then paired with type matching that of the respected magazine. At first glance, each photograph appears to be an authentic magazine cover. Udé used the magazine cover as a stage to critique the fetishism of the upper class white model and the effects of popular culture on today's consumerist society. The series was exhibited in 1994 in the New York City gallery Exit Art.
Udé's black and white series of photographs, Uli, references both high fashion and Uli body art, wall motifs from Udé's Igbo heritage. The photographs explore the anonymity of the inscribed and disembodied self. Udé's dynamic use of light, namely the chiaroscuro effect, serves as a critical compositional element in the series.
Udé's Beyond Decorum series, begun in 1999, juxtaposes photographs of men's shirts and women's pumps with suggestive personal advertisements in place of the clothing tags.
With its accompanying book, Beyond Decorum: Photographs by Iké Udé, the series traveled across the United States and Canada. The exhibition was shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine; OBORO in Montreal, Canada; Sert Gallery; Carpenter Center at the Harvard University Art Museum; and MAK Museum in Vienna, Austria before traveling for two more years internationally.
Udé's Paris Hilton: Fantasy and Simulacrum is a conversation between his alter ego, Visconti, and the celebrity Paris...
Category
Conceptual 1990s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
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