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Conceptual Portrait Photography

CONCEPTUAL STYLE

In 1967, artist Sol LeWitt wrote that in “Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.” He was giving a name to an art movement that had emerged in the 1960s in which artists were less focused on their medium being something traditionally “artistic” and instead engaged in using any object, movement, form, action or place to express an idea.

LeWitt’s work was featured alongside an assemblage of notes, drawings and outlines by other artists in “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” a groundbreaking show at New York City’s School of Visual Arts curated by Mel Bochner, another leading exponent of Conceptualism. Building on radical 20th-century statements, like Fountain (1917) by French artist Marcel Duchamp, Conceptual artists around Europe and North and South America were not interested in the commercial art scene and rather directly challenged its systems and values.

Stretching into the 1970s, this movement has also been called Post-Object art and Dematerialized art. Conceptual art reflected a larger era of social and political upheaval. Pieces associated with the style range from Roelof Louw’s Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) — a work of installation art that sees fresh oranges stacked into a pyramid from which visitors are allowed to take one orange away — to On Kawara’s “Today” series, which saw the Japanese artist carefully painting a date in white acrylic on canvases consisting of a single color from 1966 to his death in 2014. Artists such as Ed Ruscha, who created the Twentysix Gasoline Stations book — a collection of photos of gas stations that is widely said to be the first modern artists’ book — made photography a major platform for Conceptual art, as did Bruce Nauman, who burned one of Ruscha's books and then photographed it for his own.

Conceptual art’s legacy of questioning artistic authorship, ownership and how to work with complex ideas of space and time had a significant influence on the decades of culture that followed, and it continues to inform art today.

The collection of Conceptual photography, paintings and sculptures on 1stDibs includes artworks by John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth and others.

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Style: Conceptual
Untitled I. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
Untitled I. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph

Untitled I. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph

By Jose Sierra

Located in Miami Beach, FL

This work is the result of an artistic residence outside his "study”.The artist worked on a different ecosystem, a house of vernacular architecture built in 1913 in the department of...

Category

2010s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Untitled IV. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
Untitled IV. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph

Untitled IV. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph

By Jose Sierra

Located in Miami Beach, FL

This work is the result of an artistic residence outside his 'study'.The artist worked on a different ecosystem, a house of vernacular architecture built in 1913 in the department of...

Category

2010s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color

Untitled II. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
Untitled II. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph

Untitled II. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph

By Jose Sierra

Located in Miami Beach, FL

This work is the result of an artistic residence outside his "study”.The artist worked on a different ecosystem, a house of vernacular architecture built in 1913 in the department of...

Category

2010s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur

Tupac Shakur

By Jack Florczyk

Located in New York, NY

Homage to the late great musician Tupac Shakur. Images. Lyrics from his songs. Not framed. Acrylic paint on sheet music wheat pasted to wood panel. ...

Category

2010s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Wood, Mixed Media

African American Large Vintage Color Photograph Dandy C Print Photo Ike Ude
African American Large Vintage Color Photograph Dandy C Print Photo Ike Ude

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 closed jacket photograph. Vintage C-print on Fuji crystal archive paper. Image size is 40 x 30", sheet measures 50 X 32 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

1990s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color

Gordon Ramsay, Chef Portrait / Large Photograph / British Chef

Gordon Ramsay, Chef Portrait / Large Photograph / British Chef

By John Reardon

Located in London, GB

Gordon James Ramsay; (born 8 November 1966) is a British celebrity chef, restaurateur, television presenter, and writer. His restaurant group, Gordon Ramsay Restaurants, was founded ...

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Color, Photographic Film, Archival Pigment

African American Youth With Water Reflections - Self Reflection
African American Youth With Water Reflections - Self Reflection

African American Youth With Water Reflections - Self Reflection

By Mitchell Funk

Located in Miami, FL

"Self Reflection " In the early 1970's Mitchell Funk was a trailblazer of color photography. In this stunning portrait the photographer merges naturalism and representation with abst...

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1970s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

David Bowie Aladdin Sane Eyes Open, limited edition by Duffy

David Bowie Aladdin Sane Eyes Open, limited edition by Duffy

By Brian Duffy

Located in Austin, TX

Museum quality fine art print of an alternative shot from the cover shoot for Aladdin Sane by David Bowie from the official Duffy Archive. This official Duffy Archive print is avail...

Category

Late 20th Century Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls Slides for Carousel, Photographic Film, Plastic
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls Slides for Carousel, Photographic Film, Plastic

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls Slides for Carousel, Photographic Film, Plastic

By Jo Yarrington

Located in Darien, CT

Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instruments or signage or other applications where light must be produced for long periods without external energy sources. Radioluminescent paint used to be used for clock hands and instrument dials...

Category

2010s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Metal

Floor full of pink salt, yellow sponge, surreal shadows, coquette pop art.
Floor full of pink salt, yellow sponge, surreal shadows, coquette pop art.

Floor full of pink salt, yellow sponge, surreal shadows, coquette pop art.

By Maria Moldes

Located in Carballo, ES

The photograph measures 40 x 60 cm. It is printed on matte Hahnehmühle paper. The dimension of time for María Moldes (Pontevedra, 1974) is used as a weapon of resistance against wha...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

A Nation of Shopkeepers - Black and white, portrait photography
A Nation of Shopkeepers - Black and white, portrait photography

A Nation of Shopkeepers - Black and white, portrait photography

By Richard Heeps

Located in Cambridge, GB

This series of portraits were shot by Richard Heeps whilst he was studying Photography in Northwich. They beautifully capture a time of life. Here they have been compiled together fo...

Category

1980s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin

Untitled - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Portrait Photography

Untitled - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Portrait Photography

By xulong zhang

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

'Untitled' 2014 - 8.5cm x 8.5cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival Print, based on a Polaroid SX-70 B&W Negative Scanning. Signed, embossed stamp and artist certificate. Not mounted. Short Bio: Xulong Zhang has been engaged in fashion portrait photography for 30 years and loves Polaroid photography. In 2000, he began to develop Polaroid photography and traveled to 34 countries for his photography. Vita: 1999 Has won the title “Ten Elites” in the 3rd China Portrait Photography. 2000 Named the World Chinese Artist, known as “The Prince of Album” 2001 September, CCTV special report on “Zhang Xulong’s Body Art Photography” gained strong feedback from the community. 2002 January, published “Strategies for Commercial Portrait Photograph” by Zhejiang Photography Publishing. 2002 February, launched the concept of “Tang Yun” and greatly accepted by the market. His idea has spread across whole China’s photography industry. 2002 July, launched the concept of “Picasso’s scene backdrop” for kids photography and shocking the whole industry. 2002 August, published “Ms.Tang’s Body Art Portrait Album”, the first female body photography in China, by People’s Arts Publishing 2002 September, a personal exhibition entitled “seeing memory” in the ancient city of Shanxi Province, the 2nd session of the Pingyao International Photography Festival. In December of 2002, he was invited to give lectures in Malaysia and auction off the “Fruitful Achievements” exhibition in Kuala Lumpur, donating all money to the Kuala Lumpur Charitable aid for nursing homes and orphanages, won the "goodwill ambassador" title of honor in Kuala Lumpur. 2003 February-March, held the exhibition of “White Valentines” at Beijing International Trade and Exhibition Centre. December 2003, pioneered the new concept of "Royal Wedding", and completed the album of “Invasion 2004” wedding photography books published by Jilin art press. In December 2003 was awarded the 2003 annual contribution of the Chinese human body photography. 2003 Published “China Portrait Culture”. 2004 January, published Body Art & Portrait album “Chun Hua Qiu Shi”. 2004 March, held the exhibition of “Body Art & Portrait photography” in Chengdu. 2004 May, featured on a special report of “Match En China” in Paris. 2004 September, Pingyao international photography festival held entitled "the ambiguity of ancient legacy" xu-long Zhang body art exhibition 2005 August. 2005 August, accept the German star weekly "Der Stern" special report of “China nude” photography...

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2010s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

The Swan, With Leda (Limited Edition of 25)
The Swan, With Leda (Limited Edition of 25)

The Swan, With Leda (Limited Edition of 25)

By John Stoddart 1

Located in New York, NY

This 2009 photograph by legend photographer, John Stoddart depicts “The Swan with Leda.” It was inspired from the mythology of the Greek story of Leda and the Swan, when the God Zeus...

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled III. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
Untitled III. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph

Untitled III. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph

By Jose Sierra

Located in Miami Beach, FL

This work is the result of an artistic residence outside his 'study'.The artist worked on a different ecosystem, a house of vernacular architecture built in 1913 in the department of...

Category

2010s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls 2018, Digital Print, Plastic
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls 2018, Digital Print, Plastic

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls 2018, Digital Print, Plastic

By Jo Yarrington

Located in Darien, CT

This series of six transparencies are in an edition size of 3. They are designed to be installed directly onto interior window areas to allow light to pass thru them. These transparencies can also be purchased separately for $3200 each and are an edition size of 3. Dimensions are 72 x 48 inches each. The upper transoms are window transparencies in shades of green. They are also available and can be fit to meet specific window sizes. In this window setting, they are 45 x 45 inches and can be purchased as a set of 5 panels for $3500 for that group. Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instruments or signage or other applications where light must be produced for long periods without external energy sources. Radioluminescent paint used to be used for clock hands and instrument dials...

Category

2010s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Plastic, Digital

Large Mixed Media Construction Sculpture Painting Ike Ude African American Art
Large Mixed Media Construction Sculpture Painting Ike Ude African American Art

Large Mixed Media Construction Sculpture Painting Ike Ude African American Art

By Iké Udé

Located in Surfside, FL

Iké Udé (1964- Nigerian American) Hand signed and dated 1993 on verso. Large carved and painted abstract wood sculptural construction Dimensions: 58 X 26 X 3 inches The work of Nig...

Category

1990s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Thread, Paint, Mixed Media

Body full of salt and pink water, lagoon, pop art, surreal photography.
Body full of salt and pink water, lagoon, pop art, surreal photography.

Body full of salt and pink water, lagoon, pop art, surreal photography.

By Maria Moldes

Located in Carballo, ES

The photograph measures 50 x 50 cm. It is printed on matte Hahnehmühle paper. The dimension of time for María Moldes (Pontevedra, 1974) is used as a weapon of resistance against wha...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Child bathing in the pink sea, imagination, creativity, pop art.
Child bathing in the pink sea, imagination, creativity, pop art.

Child bathing in the pink sea, imagination, creativity, pop art.

By Maria Moldes

Located in Carballo, ES

The photograph measures 40 x 40 cm. It is printed on matte Hahnehmühle paper. The dimension of time for María Moldes (Pontevedra, 1974) is used as a weapon of resistance against wha...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

The Beef Sisters - May - Unique Polaroid - Contemporary, Youth, Photograph
The Beef Sisters - May - Unique Polaroid - Contemporary, Youth, Photograph

The Beef Sisters - May - Unique Polaroid - Contemporary, Youth, Photograph

By Curtiz

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester May - 2023 Original Polaroid, mixed media. 10.7 x 8.8 cm (total), 7.8 x 7.6 cm (image area). Signed in fr...

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2010s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Polaroid

The Beef Sisters - Ella and May - 16 unique Polaroids
The Beef Sisters - Ella and May - 16 unique Polaroids

The Beef Sisters - Ella and May - 16 unique Polaroids

By Curtiz

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester Ella and May - 2023 16 original Polaroids, mixed media. 50x50cm installed. Signed in front. "The Beef S...

Category

2010s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Polaroid

The Beef Sisters - Sophie - 16 unique Polaroids
The Beef Sisters - Sophie - 16 unique Polaroids

The Beef Sisters - Sophie - 16 unique Polaroids

By Curtiz

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester Sophie - 2023 16 original Polaroids, mixed media. 50x50cm installed. Signed in front. "The Beef Sisters...

Category

2010s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Polaroid

The Beef Sisters - Sui - 16 unique Polaroids
The Beef Sisters - Sui - 16 unique Polaroids

The Beef Sisters - Sui - 16 unique Polaroids

By Curtiz

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester Sui - 2023 16 original Polaroids, mixed media. 50x50cm installed. Signed in front. "The Beef Sisters" i...

Category

2010s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Polaroid

Untitled - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Portrait Photography

Untitled - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Portrait Photography

By xulong zhang

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

'Untitled' 2013, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Digital C-Print, based on a SX70 B&W Negative Scanning, not mounted, 8.5cm x 8.5cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed stamp and artis...

Category

2010s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

African American Large Vintage Color Photograph Dandy C Print Photo Ike Ude
African American Large Vintage Color Photograph Dandy C Print Photo Ike Ude

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 closed jacket photograph. Vintage C-print on Fuji crystal archive paper. Image size is 40 x 30", sheet measures 50 X 36 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

1990s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color

African American Large Vintage Color Photograph Dandy C Print Photo Ike Ude
African American Large Vintage Color Photograph Dandy C Print Photo Ike Ude

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

1990s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color

Faces, Vintage Color Photograph Digital Photo Collage Print Asian American
Faces, Vintage Color Photograph Digital Photo Collage Print Asian American

Faces, Vintage Color Photograph Digital Photo Collage Print Asian American

By Emily Cheng

Located in Surfside, FL

This was from Muse X publishers. It came in a plastic bag signed Emily Cheng. (the plastic bag is not included) It is on Fuji crystal photo paper. It depicts two Asian faces in a cubist, fractured way, with a woman (or man) holding a photograph over his/her face. it is marked proof NFS and is not signed or numbered. Emily Cheng (born in New York City, in 1953) is an American artist of Chinese ancestry. She is best known for large scale painting with a center focus often employing expansive circular images radiantly colored, radially composed. Cheng received her BFA in 1975 from the Rhode Island School of Design and attended the New York Studio School. Cheng has exhibited widely in the US and in Asia. In 2011, Cheng created Charting Sacred Territories, an exhibition exploring world religions which opened in the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (MOCA) , Taiwan (2011) and traveled to Hanart TZ Gallery in (2015), Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, (2015) and in Europe at the Palais Liechtenstein Feldkirch, Austria (2019). Cheng has had numerous solo shows in the US and in Asia and is represented by Hanart TZ Gallery in Hong Kong. In 2007, Timezone 8 published a monograph of Emily Cheng titled, Chasing Clouds, a decade of studies, with essays by Kevin Powers and Johnson Chang. Emily Cheng has lived and worked in New York City since 1977 and teaches Asian Art History at the School of Visual Arts. Influenced by a wide array of eastern and western artists including Van Gogh, Gauguin, Manet and Giacometti as well as de Kooning, early Philip Guston and Jackson Pollock. Nicolas Carone...

Category

1990s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print

Stallion Portrait: Slickly - Mane - Champion Horse's hair portrait print
Stallion Portrait: Slickly - Mane - Champion Horse's hair portrait print

Stallion Portrait: Slickly - Mane - Champion Horse's hair portrait print

By John Reardon

Located in London, GB

Slickly was a world champion miler and leading French sire. Series: Studio Portraits, Slickly - 'Mane', 2009 by John Reardon Archival Pigment Print on Ha...

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Early 2000s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Col...

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls Film and Vintage Projector, 2018, Film, Found Objects
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls Film and Vintage Projector, 2018, Film, Found Objects

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls Film and Vintage Projector, 2018, Film, Found Objects

By Jo Yarrington

Located in Darien, CT

This installation imagines the Radium Girls as abstractd subjects. Repeating a motif of a circle, signifying the mouth, this art object conveys a modern view of the these workers, tied in with repetitive actions in abstracted patterns. Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instrument...

Category

2010s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Film, Found Objects

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls_Transparencies, 2017, Inkjet Print, Photographic Film
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls_Transparencies, 2017, Inkjet Print, Photographic Film

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls_Transparencies, 2017, Inkjet Print, Photographic Film

By Jo Yarrington

Located in Darien, CT

Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instruments or signage or other applications where light must be produced for long periods without external energy sources. Radioluminescent paint used to be used for clock hands and instrument dials...

Category

2010s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Plastic, Photographic Film, Inkjet

Church & Steeple - Dog and Cat Large Format Polaroid
Church & Steeple - Dog and Cat Large Format Polaroid

Church & Steeple - Dog and Cat Large Format Polaroid

By William Wegman

Located in Miami, FL

William Wegman's highly conceptual Dog - Cat interaction is depicted in this large-format Polaroid Polacolor print that features a double portrait - a Dog and a Cat - together but separate in their own defined space. Signed, titled, and dated to lower right ‘Church & Steeple William Wegman 93’. This work is unique. provenance: Wright Chicago, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco Acquired from the previous in 1993 by the original owner Thence by descent Best viewed with a top gallery light...

Category

1990s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Polaroid

Prelude to 220, or 110 - A Shocking Performance Art
Prelude to 220, or 110 - A Shocking Performance Art

Prelude to 220, or 110 - A Shocking Performance Art

By Chris Burden

Located in Miami, FL

An artist who puts his life on the line for his art. Chris Burden was at the forefront of the conceptual art movement in the early 1970s. Prelude to 220, or 110 is one of his most important works where the artist puts his life on the line for his art. Burden voluntarily lays on his back. His neck and wists are have copper bands that bolt him to the floor. To his immediate left and right are two buckets of water with a 110-volt line inside. If the buckets were compromised in any way by a passerby or an unexpected event - Burden would have been electrocuted in a literal shocking performance. Art history is replete with artists who put themselves in harm's way to accomplish their art. Michelangelo risked a misstep to a certain death as he elevated himself over 60 feet to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Francisco Goya's "The Disasters of War" may have put him at odds with a governing orthodoxy. Picasso walked a very narrow line with during the Nazi occupation. Gutzon Borglum dangled himself off the face of Mount Rushmore and War Photographer Robert Capa, landed on Omaha Beach during D-Day. But it was Chris Burden whose art spotlighted...

Category

1970s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Chef Portrait: Gary Rhodes / Large Photographic Colour Print/ Chef and Knife

Chef Portrait: Gary Rhodes / Large Photographic Colour Print/ Chef and Knife

By John Reardon

Located in London, GB

Gary Rhodes OBE (22 April 1960 – 26 November 2019)[1] was an English restaurateur and television chef, known for his love of English cuisine and ingredients and for his distinctive s...

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Color

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