Surrealist Portrait Photography
SURREALIST STYLE
In the wake of World War I’s ravaging of Europe, artists delved into the unconscious mind to confront and grapple with this reality. Poet and critic André Breton, a leader of the Surrealist movement who authored the 1924 Surrealist Manifesto, called this approach “a violent reaction against the impoverishment and sterility of thought processes that resulted from centuries of rationalism.” Surrealist art emerged in the 1920s with dreamlike and uncanny imagery guided by a variety of techniques such as automatic drawing, which can be likened to a stream of consciousness, to channel psychological experiences.
Although Surrealism was a groundbreaking approach for European art, its practitioners were inspired by Indigenous art and ancient mysticism for reenvisioning how sculptures, paintings, prints, performance art and more could respond to the unsettled world around them.
Surrealist artists were also informed by the Dada movement, which originated in 1916 Zurich and embraced absurdity over the logic that had propelled modernity into violence. Some of the Surrealists had witnessed this firsthand, such as Max Ernst, who served in the trenches during World War I, and Salvador Dalí, whose otherworldly paintings and other work responded to the dawning civil war in Spain.
Other key artists associated with the revolutionary art and literary movement included Man Ray, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Frida Kahlo and Meret Oppenheim, all of whom had a distinct perspective on reimagining reality and freeing the unconscious mind from the conventions and restrictions of rational thought. Pablo Picasso showed some of his works in “La Peinture Surréaliste” — the first collective exhibition of Surrealist painting — which opened at Paris’s Galerie Pierre in November of 1925. (Although Magritte is best known as one of the visual Surrealist movement’s most talented practitioners, his famous 1943 painting, The Fifth Season, can be interpreted as a formal break from Surrealism.)
The outbreak of World War II led many in the movement to flee Europe for the Americas, further spreading Surrealism abroad. Generations of modern and contemporary artists were subsequently influenced by the richly symbolic and unearthly imagery of Surrealism, from Joseph Cornell to Arshile Gorky.
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Style: Surrealist
Two Facades - Old New York Bar with Surreal Mid-Century Mannequin Face
Located in Miami, FL
Two Facades. Mickey's Place was Bar
/ Restaurant in Chelsea opposite the old West Side Highway. In this photograph, late afternoon light illuminates the old walk-up building giving ...
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1970s Surrealist Portrait Photography
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Dali in Toreador Costume - Original Silver Gelatin Photography - SIGNED
By Marc Lacroix
Located in Paris, FR
Marc LACROIX (1927-2007)
Dali in Toreador Costume, 1971
Original silver print photograph
Signed in ink
Numbered on 99 copies
On silver print paper 57 x 47 cm (c. 22.4 x 18.5 inch)
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1970s Surrealist Portrait Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Dalí with White Flowers - Original Gelatin Silver Photography, SIGNED
By Marc Lacroix
Located in Paris, FR
Marc LACROIX (1927-2007)
Dalí with White Flowers, 1971
Original gelatin silver photography
Signed in ink
Numbered on 99 copies
On silver print paper 57 x 47 cm (c. 22.4 x 18.5 inch)...
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1970s Surrealist Portrait Photography
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Silver Gelatin
"Age, Sex, Beauty" Photography 30" x 45" in Ed. of 7 by Masha Ko & Kolten Horner
Located in Culver City, CA
"Age, Sex, Beauty" Photography 30" x 45" in Ed. of 7 by Masha Ko & Kolten Horner
Available sizes:
Edition of 15: 24" 36"
Edition of 7: 30" 45"
Edition of 3: 40" 60"
Masha Ko is a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
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Digital, Archival Paper
"Fell For You" Photography 30" x 45" in Ed. of 7 by Masha Ko & Kolten Horner
Located in Culver City, CA
"Fell For You" Photography 30" x 45" in Ed. of 7 by Masha Ko & Kolten Horner
Available sizes:
Edition of 15: 24" 36"
Edition of 7: 30" 45"
Edition of 3: 40" 60"
Masha Ko is a Rus...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
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Archival Paper, Digital
"Toy Machine" Photography 30" x 45" in Ed. of 7 by Masha Ko & Kolten Horner
Located in Culver City, CA
"Toy Machine" Photography 30" x 45" in Ed. of 7 by Masha Ko & Kolten Horner
Available sizes:
Edition of 15: 24" 36"
Edition of 7: 30" 45"
Edition of 3: 40" 60"
Masha Ko is a Russ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
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Archival Paper, Digital
"De-Sculpt" Photography 30" x 45" in Ed. of 7 by Masha Ko & Kolten Horner
Located in Culver City, CA
"De-Sculpt" Photography 30" x 45" in Ed. of 7 by Masha Ko & Kolten Horner
Available sizes:
Edition of 15: 24" 36"
Edition of 7: 30" 45"
Edition of 3: 40" 60"
Masha Ko is a Russia...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
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Archival Paper, Digital
"Human Circuitry" Photography 45" x 30" in Ed. of 7 by Masha Ko & Kolten Horner
Located in Culver City, CA
"Human Circuitry" Photography 45" x 30" in Ed. of 7 by Masha Ko & Kolten Horner
Available sizes:
Edition of 15: 36" 24"
Edition of 7: 45" 30"
Edition of 3: 60" 40"
Kolten Horner ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
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Archival Paper, Digital
"Positive Result" Photography 30" x 45" in Ed. of 7 by Masha Ko & Kolten Horner
Located in Culver City, CA
"Positive Result" Photography 30" x 45" in Ed. of 7 by Masha Ko & Kolten Horner
Available sizes:
Edition of 15: 24" 36"
Edition of 7: 30" 45"
Edition of 3: 40" 60"
Masha Ko is a ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
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Archival Paper, Digital
"Lighthouse" Photography 45" x 30" in Edition of 7 by Masha Ko & Kolten Horner
Located in Culver City, CA
"Lighthouse" Photography 45" x 30" in Edition of 7 by Masha Ko & Kolten Horner
Available sizes:
Edition of 15: 36" 24"
Edition of 7: 45" 30"
Edition of 3: 60" 40"
Kolten Horner i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
"Birth" Photography 45" x 30" in Edition of 7 by Masha Ko & Kolten Horner
Located in Culver City, CA
"Birth" Photography 45" x 30" in Edition of 7 by Masha Ko & Kolten Horner
Available sizes:
Edition of 15: 36" 24"
Edition of 7: 45" 30"
Edition of 3: 60" 40"
Masha Ko is a Russia...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
"Cream” Photography 36" x 28" inch Edition of 24 by Brian Ziff
By Brian Ziff
Located in Culver City, CA
“Cream” Photography 36" x 28" inch Edition of 24 by Brian Ziff
Giclee (Archival Ink) Print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag
From "Rite of Spring" series
In this melancholy series, we ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Man Ray, Échiquier Surréaliste: 1934/1991, Silver Gelatin Print, Dada
By Man Ray
Located in Hamburg, DE
Man Ray (1890-1976)
Échiquier Surréaliste (Surrealist Checkerboard), 1934/1991
Medium: Silver Gelatin Print (later print)
Dimensions: 30.5 x 23.7 cm
Stamped: "Copie d'une épreuve...
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20th Century Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
“Tramp Stamp 1” (FRAMED) Photography 30" x 24" inch Edition 1/12 by Brian Ziff
By Brian Ziff
Located in Culver City, CA
“Tramp Stamp 1” (FRAMED) Photography 30" x 24" inch Edition 1/12 by Brian Ziff
Giclee (Archival Ink) Print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag
American Dreams - From "Playboy" series.
T...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Armenian Mirror
Located in Boca Raton, FL
New York-based, Armenian-born artist, Tigran Tsitoghdzyan, is especially interested in how people interact in this new era of technology and social media. His “Mirrors” series sugges...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Like No One is Watching, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Like No One is Watching, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettabl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Our House, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Our House, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's im...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Realist
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment
The Writer
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment
Vanilla
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment
Wonder Room, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Wonder Room, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Transport of Delight
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Night Feast
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment
“Al Andalus 2” Photography 30" x 24" inch Edition of 12 by Brian Ziff
By Brian Ziff
Located in Culver City, CA
“Al Andalus 2” Photography 30" x 24" inch Edition of 12 by Brian Ziff
Giclee (Archival Ink) Print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag
American Dreams - From "Pla...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
“Mano a Mano” (FRAMED) Photography 30" x 24" inch Edition 1/12 by Brian Ziff
By Brian Ziff
Located in Culver City, CA
“Mano a Mano” (FRAMED) Photography 30" x 24" inch Edition 1/12 by Brian Ziff
Giclee (Archival Ink) Print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag
American Dreams - From "Playboy" series.
The...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
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Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
The Gatekeeper
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment
“Bad Bunny” (FRAMED) Photography 30" x 24" inch Edition 1/12 by Brian Ziff
By Brian Ziff
Located in Culver City, CA
“Bad Bunny” (FRAMED) Photography 30" x 24" inch Edition 1/12 by Brian Ziff
Giclee (Archival Ink) Print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag
American Dreams - From "Playboy" series.
The n...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Welcome to the Water Planet
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment
The Next Big Adventure
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment
Fifth Avenue at Rush Hour with Extreme Intense Light, Neutral Palette
Located in Miami, FL
Occupying the lower third of the picture plane, a herd of humans stride down Fifth Avenue. They form an overall pattern. The top of the picture is also comprised of a simple pat...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
“Smoke and Mirrors” (FRAMED) Photography 30" x 24" in Edition 1/12 by Brian Ziff
By Brian Ziff
Located in Culver City, CA
“Smoke and Mirrors” (FRAMED) Photography 30" x 24" in Edition 1/12 by Brian Ziff
Giclee (Archival Ink) Print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag
American Dreams - From "Playboy" series.
...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
“Defiant” (FRAMED) Photography 30" x 24" inch Edition of 12 by Brian Ziff
By Brian Ziff
Located in Culver City, CA
“Defiant” (FRAMED) Photography 30" x 24" inch Edition of 12 by Brian Ziff
Giclee (Archival Ink) Print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag
American Dreams - From "Playboy" series.
The no...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Giclée, Archival Ink
Astronaut Space Walks on Park Avenue Manhattan
Located in Miami, FL
An unexpected pedestrian is caught walking across Park Avenue on a rainy day. We are not sure where he came from or where he is going but he seems like he is on a mission. The Astro...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Listening Room
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Occasion
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hypnotic Dream-like Scene of Women - Surreal Street Photography
Located in Miami, FL
With a nod to the surrealist painter Paul Delvaux, Street Photographer Mithcell Funk captures two differently dressed women in a dreamlike state. The lighting and architectural sett...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Invitation to a dream
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Bird Watchers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Surprise
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lucky, Color Photograph, Archival Pigment Ink Print, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Lucky, 2023 is a recent archival pigment ink print by Maggie Taylor. All prints are signed and numbered by Maggie Taylor.
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterima...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sailors Delight
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
“Pollen” Photography 36" x 28" inch Edition of 24 by Brian Ziff
By Brian Ziff
Located in Culver City, CA
“Pollen” Photography 36" x 28" inch Edition of 24 by Brian Ziff
Giclee (Archival Ink) Print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag
From "Rite of Spring" series
In this melancholy series, we...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Shot spring
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
I did a photo session of a neighbour in my bombed-out office in a studio in Kharkiv. A Russian fighter jet dropped a bomb on March 2 on the roof of this 5-storey building and a neigh...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Photography
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C Print
Shot spring
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
I did a photo session of a neighbour in my bombed-out office in a studio in Kharkiv. A Russian fighter jet dropped a bomb on March 2 on the roof of this 5-storey building and a neigh...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
NIGHTMARE Signed Photograph, Surrealist Self-Portrait Mexican Folklore, Skeleton
By Nia Mora
Located in Union City, NJ
NIGHTMARE by the photographer Nia Mora is a very unique self portrait color photograph exhibiting lush deep tones of intense red and jet-black, with haunting surrealist imagery of three figures positioned on a bed in a red walled room: one wearing a skeleton mask robed in black velvet, two with ghostly white faces all portraying the artist's self portrait as three entities of a nightmare.
Photo Print size - 24 x 24 inches, unframed, excellent condition, signed in black ink on reverse by photographer Nia Mora
Edition of 10
Year produced - 2007
Nia Mora, an American photographer, artist and chef, focuses her commercial work towards her passions of food, wine, and travel. Originally from Detroit, Michigan, her father is the jazz percussionist Francisco Mora...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color
1950s Girly Pin-Up Hangs out on Miami Beach in the 1970s
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Besides being a pioneering staged photograph, the composition is unique as well. A five-inch cutout appears to be monumental. The subject fills the pictorial space from the bottom to the top. It dominates the vast beachscape and dwarfs the life-size figures to the lower right. By photographing a reproduction of a person on paper, Funk pushes the boundaries of portraiture in 1977. Robert Funk is a pioneer of Staged Photography. The work is signed, numbered 3/15, dated, and titled lr. printed later, unframed, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Robert Funk is a pioneer of toy, doll, miniature, plastic thingies and staged photography. He also photographs his own paintings. Most of his work is done on location. He does not use photoshop to strip in images. He doesn’t take photographs he creates photographs and has works dating from 1973. He was widely published in the 1970's and early 1980's. As an undergrad in painting, he studied with first-generation abstract expressionist Robert Richenburg...
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1970s Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Panic Room
By JeeYoung Lee
Located in VALLAURIS, FR
"The patterns in this piece were derived from the places of childhood play and the memories of me hiding myself inside a closet as a place of escape. The piece also involves a series of occurrences that happened in childhood relationships. To imply the state of emotional chaos, Op art was employed in tactfully expressing the messiness of a room; and by turning mere boudoir items, or sewing tools into ones that seem aggressive and disquieting, I tried to evoke the fear that a child has when facing changes to the world they are familiar with. It also tells that unforeseen difficulties may lie in wait nearby."
_JeeYoung Lee...
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2010s Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Victorian Fashion
Located in Nashville, TN
Victorian Fashion portrays a female model wearing an interesting shaped black gown with a white lace detail on the bust and matching headpiece. The model is posed in front of a red m...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
Manhattan Street Scene With Glamours Billboard ( Street Photography )
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures a Manhattan moment of contrast. The top three-quarters of the composition is a wrap-around billboard seen behind street lights. It dep...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink
Running Dog in First Light with Long Shadows
Located in Miami, FL
First light skims across the schoolyard pavement creating long and dramatic shadows. A golden dog is captured running through the scene and blends in creating a de Chirico like a su...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Pearls of Joy
Located in Nashville, TN
"Pearls of Joy" is a Chromaluxe print on aluminum from Carlos Gamez de Francisco's series of digital paintings, "Butterflies in the Stomach." Francisco developed this series as a way to combine his two passions of photography and painting.
He began by photographing and interviewing the youngest generation of Cubans. Each model talked about leaving Cuba to pursue her dreams in another country. The artist was then inspired by passport photos...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
Head Over High Heels
Located in Nashville, TN
"Head Over High Heels" is a Chromaluxe print on Aluminum from Carlos Gamez de Francisco's series of digital paintings, "Butterflies in the Stomach." Francisco developed this series as a way to combine his two passions of photography and painting.
He began by photographing and interviewing the youngest generation of Cubans. Each model talked about leaving Cuba to pursue her dreams in another country. The artist was then inspired by passport photos...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
Salvador Dali's Party, Estate Edition Photograph [Surrealist Dinner, Green+Red]
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1959: Surrealist painter Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) with a red-haired woman in a green dress at a vintage ball in New York. The artist is captured with his characteristic walking st...
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1950s Surrealist Portrait Photography
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Lambda
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Salvador Dali's Party, Estate Edition Photograph [Surrealist Dinner, Green+Red]
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1959: Surrealist painter Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) with a red-haired woman in a green dress at a vintage ball in New York. The artist is captured with his characteristic walking st...
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1950s Surrealist Portrait Photography
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Lambda
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Black Cat. Green Eyes
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Besides being mysterious, cats are equally beautiful and unmatched in that regard with anyone else in the animal kingdom. Black Cat. Green Eyes was photogr...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Sponge
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic mounted photograph.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Color
Vintage Hand Signed Color Photograph Digital Photo Baby Portrait Jo Ann Callis
Located in Surfside, FL
JoAnn Callis (1940- American, Contemporary)
Baby
Color photograph, hand signed in pencil en verso, dated 2000, and numbered 4/200
Upon magnification, it appears to be some kind of digital print, similar to a half-tone, but composed of fine lines rather than dots. It is on heavy wove printmaking paper, the sheet measures 17" x 14". Sight: 6.25" x 6" .
Jo Ann Callis (born Cincinnati, Ohio 1940) is an American artist who works with photography and is based in California.
Though Callis initially pursued a degree at Ohio State University in 1958, she dropped out in her second year when she got married. She and her husband moved to Southern California in 1961. Her father died after the birth of her first son Stephen in the same year. In 1963, her second son Michael was born. By 23, she was married with two children; she later separated from her husband. Callis enrolled at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1970 initially in graphic design. When she took a course from Robert Heinecken in photography, she was encouraged by Heinecken to explore things within her mind.
Both sensual and unsettling, these scenes showcase erotic imagination in its many forms, all intimate and deeply human. Although the work may sound like a very contemporary investigation of desire, it was made some 40 years ago, predating the staged photographs of Cindy Sherman and Gregory Crewdson. In 1975, while still a student at UCLA, a year before finishing her Masters in Fine Arts, she was offered a position to work at California Institute of the Arts (S. CA), where she works up until now (2017).
Callis's work is primarily surrealist. Thematically, she has traditionally been invested in drawing attention to and complicating domestic spaces and the role of motherhood. These characteristics are demonstrated in pieces such as Dish Trick (1985)
Publications
Woman Twirling. Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. Text by Judith Keller.
Decor. Thistle & Weed, 2013. Essay by Jennifer A. Watts.
Other Rooms. New York: Aperture, 2014.
Select public collections:
Museum Of Modern Art, New York.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Gallery Min, Japan.
References
Bohnacker, Siobhan (March 6, 2014). "Jo Ann Callis's Color Work".
Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. "Culture Monster All the Arts, All the Time"
Cecilia Alvarez...
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20th Century Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Color
'Dali's Party, ' Estate Edition, ft Surrealist Salvador Dali in New York
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1959: Surrealist painter Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) with a red-haired woman in a green dress at a vintage ball in New York. The artist is captured with his characteristic walking st...
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1950s Surrealist Portrait Photography
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Surrealist portrait photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Surrealist portrait photography available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add portrait photography created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, red, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Maggie Taylor, Mitchell Funk, Brian Ziff, and Drew Tal. Frequently made by artists working with Pigment Print, and Archival Pigment Print and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Surrealist portrait photography, so small editions measuring 6.25 inches across are also available. Prices for portrait photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $400 and tops out at $28,800, while the average work sells for $3,000.
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