Conceptual Still-life 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
Oscar Niemeyer Staircase, Light Pastel Tones Interior Architecture, Still-Life
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Sexy Miami Futuristic Cocktail Lounge" is a series of photographs by Ryan Rivadeneyra inspired by the Art Deco colors of Miami that show beautiful objects and textures arranged meti...
Category
2010s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Flora 29, 2015 - Autumnal Fall Seasonal Fruit Floral Arrangement Frozen in Ice
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 29, 2015 - Autumnal Fall Seasonal Fruit Floral Arrangement Frozen in Ice
Flora 29 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper.
It is available i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Giclée
Orthochromatic Positive - Black & White Photography of a Typewriter
By Samuel Field
Located in Cambridge, GB
Samuel Field's still life of an Olivetti Typewriter, is given depth in the orthochromatic process he has used. Isolated in monochrome you appreciate the details of this vintage utili...
Category
1980s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin
Library Hall, Upper Lusatian Library of Sciences, Görlitz
Located in Los Angeles, CA
50 x 54 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
60 x 64.7 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
70 x 75.5 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner, with his large format pho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Lambda
Orthochromatic Negative - Black & White Photography of a Typewriter
By Samuel Field
Located in Cambridge, GB
Samuel Field's still life of an Olivetti Typewriter, is given depth in the orthochromatic process he has used. Isolated in monochrome you appreciat...
Category
1980s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin
Miami Inspired Art Deco Still Life, Studio54, Pastel Tones Disco Lights, Purple
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Sexy Miami Futuristic Cocktail Lounge" is a series of photographs by Ryan Rivadeneyra inspired by the Art Deco colors of Miami that show beautiful objects and textures arranged meti...
Category
2010s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Pigment, Giclée, Digital, C Print, Photograp...
Dangerous Love, Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this mesmerizing macro photograph, Görner masterfully captures the delicate interplay between form and color within a flower's intimate landscape. The soft, diaphanous pink petals...
Category
2010s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, NFS Sample Conceptual Taxidermy Art
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a proof print. Stamped with the Muse X stamp and marked NFS.
This is a single print from 1998 Birds. Suite of eight Cibachromes. Edition of fifteen. 10″ × 10″ (sheet size). Muse [X] Editions. Taxidermy Bird.
Brenda Zlamany has shown widely in the United States and Europe. Her work has been reproduced in The New York Times Magazine, Artforum, Flashart, Art in America, Art and Antiques, and The New Yorker. She was born in New York City in 1959. 1976 - 77 Yale College Before College Program, New Haven, Conn. 1981 Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (BA)
Stanley William Hayter s Atelier 17, Paris. Tyler School of Art, Rome. 1984 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine.
Select Museums:
Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei;
the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution;
the National Museum, Gdansk;
Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent.
Select Collections:
Cincinnati Art Museum;
Deutsche Bank;
the Museum of Modern Art, Houston;
the Neuberger Museum of Art;
the Virginia Museum of Fine Art;
the World Bank;
the Yale University Art Gallery.
Select Commissions
the World Bank,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
the New York Times Magazine (Marian Anderson for an article by Jessye Norman, Osama bin Laden for the September 11, 2005, cover, Jeffrey Dahmer)
Select Grants and Awards:
Fulbright Fellowship (2011),
Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2006–07),
New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship in Painting (1994).
MacDowell Colony (1995, 1992, 1986)
Yaddo (1997).
For many years, Brenda Zlamany has painted portraits of other artists, including Chuck Close, Alex Katz, and David Hockney. She has also been a subject for them; as she puts it, “we are professional posers.” Recently, however, she has worked to paint portraits of those whose gaze is more internal—monks and nomads in Tibet, aboriginal people in Taiwan—creating large bodies of portraits that investigate the limits of the genre. She returned, with her daughter, to Hockney’s studio in 2014, not only to sit for him but to paint him once again. Her practice involves the long sittings and intense looking required of traditional portrait-making.
Muse X Editions. An (now defunct) LA based innovative publisher of limited-edition prints, Muse X has launched its first group of prints and is just beginning to make itself known to artists, curators, dealers and collectors. Among works just off the press are otherworldly landscapes by Barbara Kasten and Oliver Wasow...
Category
1990s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
C Print
Longing, Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this mesmerizing macro photograph, Görner masterfully captures the delicate interplay between form and color within a flower's intimate landscape. The soft, diaphanous pink petals...
Category
2010s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Allegoria, Library Wolfenbüttel
Located in Los Angeles, CA
50 x 51.5 inches
ed of 10
$6000
60 x 62 inches
ed of 7
$9000
70 x 72.3 inches
ed of 5
$11000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner, with his large format photograp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Portals with Bookshelves, Biblioteca Joanina, Portugal
Located in Los Angeles, CA
50 x 59.4 inches
ed. of 10
$6000
60 x 71.3 inches
ed. of 7
$9000
70 x 83.1 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner, with his large format pho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Lambda
Uris Library, Ithaca, Cornell University, Large Scale Architectural Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A mesmerizing portrait of architectural elegance and intellectual grandeur, Reinhard Görner’s Uris Library, Ithaca immerses viewers in the ornate beauty of Cornell University’s iconi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Red Staircase, Lello Bookshop, Portugal
Located in Los Angeles, CA
50 x 52 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
60 x 62.4 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
70 x 72.8 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner, with his large format pho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Lambda
Flora 2, 2015 - Seasonal Floral Arrangement with Daisy and Snapdragon Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 2, 2015 - Seasonal Floral Arrangement with Daisy and Snapdragon Print
Flora 2 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limited E...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Giclée, Photographic Paper, Color
"Untitled 1.23" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 1.23" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina
García de Marina was born in Gijón (Spain) in 1975. He emerged thru a deep transformation in 2010. A dor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Flora 10, 2015 - Ivory Rose with Gold Snapdragon and Pink Wildflower in Ice
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 10, 2015 - Ivory Rose with Gold Snapdragon and Pink Wildflower in Ice
Flora 10 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limited ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée
"Untitled 2.14" Photography 24' x 16' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 2.14" Photography 24' x 16' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina
García de Marina was born in Gijón (Spain) in 1975. He emerged thru a deep transformation in 2010. A do...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Flora 34, 2015 - Passion Flower Photograph Lavender Photograph Cocktail Ice
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 34, 2015 - Passion Flower Photograph Lavender Photograph Cocktail Ice by Marisa Culatto
Flora 34 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée
Flora 18, 2015 - Flower Portrait Natural Environment
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 18, 2015 - Flower Portrait Natural Environment by Marisa Culatto
Flora 18 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limited Edit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Color, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Flora 15, 2015 - Yellow Snapdragon Star Flower Portrait
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 15, 2015 - Yellow Snapdragon Star Flower Portrait by Marisa Culatto
Flora 11 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limited ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée
Flora 27, 2015 - Goldenrod Flower Yarrow Achillea in Ice Color Print Photograph
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 27, 2015 - Goldenrod Flower Yarrow Achillea in Ice Color Print Photograph
Flora 27 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée
Large French Conceptual Sculpture Photograph Triptych Copper Frame Pascal Kern
Located in Surfside, FL
Pascal Kern (1952-2007)
Icone (three panel triptych), 1987
Cibachrome print, inn copper handmade frame. (One is empty of photo on purpose.)
Bearing artist label and inscriptions (fra...
Category
1980s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Copper
Flora 30, 2015 - Gin Cocktails Juniper Berries in Ice
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 30, 2015 - Gin Cocktails Juniper Berries in Ice by Marisa Culatto
Flora 30 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limited Edi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée
Flora 31, 2015 - Harvest Photography Hay Farm Grass
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 31, 2015 - Harvest Photography Hay Farm Grass by Marisa Culatto
Flora 31 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limited Editi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée
Flora 11, 2015 - Summertime Wildflower Meadow Grasses Frozen in Ice Color Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 11, 2015 - Summertime Wildflower Meadow Grasses Frozen in Ice Color Print
Flora 11 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Color, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Flora 12, 2015 - Viola Yellow Pansies with Ivy Leaves Frozen in Ice Color Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 12, 2015 - Viola Yellow Pansies with Ivy Leaves Frozen in Ice Color Print
Flora 12 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée
Flora 16, 2015 - Autumnal Floral Fruit Seasonal Arrangement Frozen in Ice Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 16, 2015 - Autumnal Floral Fruit Seasonal Arrangement Frozen in Ice Print
Flora 16 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Giclée, Color
Flora 6, 2015 - Springtime Grasses Clover Crimson Rose Frozen in Ice Color Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 6, 2015 - Springtime Grasses Clover Crimson Rose Frozen in Ice Color Print
Flora 6 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée
Shining Wall of Books, Yale Beinecke Library, Interior Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A breathtaking homage to the grandeur of knowledge, Reinhard Görner’s Shining Wall of Books captures the luminous beauty of one of the world’s most revered libraries. This masterfull...
Category
2010s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Wren Library, Cambridge, England, German Interior Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A masterpiece of Baroque symmetry and intellectual grandeur, Reinhard Görner’s Wren Library, Cambridge captures the timeless elegance of one of Brita...
Category
2010s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Flora 3, 2015 - Summer Spring Seasonal Goldenrod Flowers Frozen in Ice Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 3, 2015 - Summer Spring Seasonal Goldenrod Flowers Frozen in Ice Print
Flora 3 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limited ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Giclée, Photographic Paper, Color
Contemporary Giclée Photo of Modern Still Life, Tableware Figures on Pink & Blue
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Sexy Miami Futuristic Cocktail Lounge" is a series of photographs by Ryan Rivadeneyra inspired by the Art Deco colors of Miami that show beautiful objects and textures arranged meti...
Category
2010s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Orthochromatic Positive (Antique Olivetti Typewriter)
By Samuel Field
Located in Cambridge, GB
This bold graphic piece fantastically captures the iconic Italian Olivetti Typewriter.
This artwork is a limited edition of 25, lustre photographi...
Category
1980s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin
Flora 35, 2015 - Wildflower Photography Purple Thistles in Garden
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 35, 2015 - Wildflower Photography Purple Thistles in Garden by Marisa Culatto
Flora 35 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée
Flora 33, 2015 - Maple Helicopter Seeds Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 33, 2015 - Maple Helicopter Seeds Photography by Marisa Culatto
Flora 33 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limited Editi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée
Flora 32, 2015 - Garden Herbs and Flowers
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 32, 2015 - Garden Herbs and Flowers by Marisa Culatto
Flora 32 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limited Edition of 6.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Color, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Flora 20, 2015 - Oregon Grape Lily Environment Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 20, 2015 - Oregon Grape Lily Environment Photography by Marisa Culatto
Flora 20 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limite...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Color, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Flora 19, 2015 - Chinese Lantern Portrait Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 19, 2015 - Chinese Lantern Portrait Photography by Marisa Culatto
Flora 19 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limited Edi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée
Flora 17, 2015 - Crimson Hibiscus with Purple Iris Red Berries Frozen in Ice
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 17, 2015 - Crimson Hibiscus with Purple Iris Red Berries Frozen in Ice
Flora 17 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limited...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée
Flora 13, 2015 - Green Beetle Photography Natural Environment Portrait
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 13, 2015 - Green Beetle Photography Natural Environment Portrait by Marisa Culatto
Flora 14 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée
Wren Library, Cambridge, England, German Interior Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A masterpiece of Baroque symmetry and intellectual grandeur, Reinhard Görner’s Wren Library, Cambridge captures the timeless elegance of one of Brita...
Category
2010s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Pinball Wizard, Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In Pinball Wizard, part of Görner's Secret World of Plants series, the interplay of vibrant greens and soft-focus spheres creates a mesmerizing, otherworldly scene. This German macro...
Category
2010s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Letter H ( 27 x 40" / 68 x 102cm )
Located in San Francisco, CA
LETTER H by Christian Stoll
large scale conceptual photography playing with viewer's perspective
incredible details in this body of work, a series of environmental stills playing w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
The Grand Piano, Biblioteca Joanina
Located in Los Angeles, CA
60 x 61.3 inches
ed. of 7
$9000
70 x 71.6 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Lambda
Dealer, Kowloon, Hong Kong - Asian Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Dealer, street photography from Richard Heeps series, The Streets of Hong Kong. Richard's aim for his City series is to represent the fingerprint of a place, in this the street store...
Category
2010s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
DETAIL FROM: FOUR REGENTS OF THE GROOT-KRAMERGILD, 1622 painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Detail From: Four Regents of the Groot-Kramergild
WERNER J. VAN DEN VALCKERT, 1622, PAINTING GALLERY BERLIN
Timeless authority, captured anew. In this masterful fine art photograph...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Lambda
Self Portrait #10. La Piedra Sustituta, Series. Limited edition color photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Showing a body that is hidden is the aesthetic apology for the insane judgment that the artist himself has taken as an excuse for not being 'pointed at' or rather as self-pointing. T...
Category
2010s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Sala dei Fiumi I (Hall of Rivers), Ducal Palace of Mantua, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Embark on a visual journey into the heart of Italian architectural grandeur with Reinhard Görner's 2022 photograph, Sala dei Fiumi I. This breathtaking image captures the impressive "Hall of the Rivers" within the Ducal Palace of Mantua, a historic complex recognized as the sixth largest palace in Europe.
Built between the 14th and the 17th century by the noble Gonzaga family, the Ducal Palace of Mantua serves as a testament to Italy's rich architectural heritage and royal history. The palace complex, featuring an impressive assortment of more than 500 rooms, corridors, galleries, inner courts, and extensive gardens, spans an area of approximately 34,000 m2.
While the palace is widely recognized for Mantegna's frescos in the Camera degli Sposi (Wedding Room), the Sala dei Fiumi offers its unique allure. Created during the Habsburg rule in Mantua, this hall showcases distinctive wall paintings where the rivers of the Mantuan territory are anthropomorphized as giants.
Reinhard Görner's photograph is more than a visual delight; it's a historical journey into Italy's cultural past. Ideal for art enthusiasts, history lovers, and those with a keen eye for architectural beauty, this piece promises to enhance any collection. Allow the grandeur of the Palazzo Ducale di Mantova and the majesty of the Sala dei Fiumi to resonate within your space with this stunning image.
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner records cultural and industrial heritage through his series of photographs depicting contemporary and historical architecture, landscapes, parks, and plants. Best known for his photographs of libraries and reading rooms from around the world—in works such as George Peabody Library II, Baltimore (2017) and Riggs Library I, Washington DC (2017)—Görner captures the atmosphere of absolute silence and concentration the spaces embody while also revealing their almost cathedral-like sense of grandeur. Görner’s images have a vivid sense of depth and dimension that convey an impression of intimacy, as in Isaac Newton, Cambridge (2017), or monumentality via his precise and skilful use of framing and perspective.
Reinhard Görner, with his large format photographs orchestrates the monumentality of rooms.
An active architecture photographer since 1985, is a master of perspectives and precise spatial compositions, and he thus considers classical sculpture, in all of its possible facets, a special challenge.
"Görner’s photographs sometimes open the doors to another world and take the viewer with them on a journey through time. Here the palace is no longer a museum but both royal residence and a site steeped in history. The viewer does not have to share the halls with the masses of visitors; instead the images offer him exclusive impressions of the Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) and the Galerie des Batailles (Hall of Battles) as even the king of France was probably never granted. The halls are empty of people, yet they seem to be able to unfurl their individual characters of their own accord. These places practically breathe history, and this aspect is also part of the essence captured in the photographs. King Wilhelm of Prussia was named German Emperor Wilhelm I in the Hall of Mirrors after France was defeated in 1870–1871 in the Franco-German War. The Treaty of Versailles following World War I was also signed there in 1919. In this sense, the architectural photographs of Versailles...
Category
2010s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Radios in Lounge, Giclée print, Photography, Documentary, BBC Radio Lounge
Located in Deddington, GB
"This abandoned manor must have been occupied by a creative and curious mind, as it contained 3 pianos, all sorts of recording equipment and old radios, scul...
Category
2010s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Longing, Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this mesmerizing macro photograph, Görner masterfully captures the delicate interplay between form and color within a flower's intimate landscape. The soft, diaphanous pink petals...
Category
2010s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Reinhard Görner, Ganymed, Palazzo Grimani, Venice
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner, Ganymed, Palazzo Grimani, Venice, Italy.
In this monumental photograph, a sculpture depicting the Kidnapping of Ganymed is suspended in the center of the vault, decorated by lacunae. The image combines the unique geometric abstraction of the architecture with the organic form of the sculpture and the floor.
What is so unique about this artwork? Compositionally, all lines radiate to the the center of the room, where the energy is thrust upwards again by the mythical figure. The wings of Ganymed direct the eye back to the perimeter of the room, where the attention flows inwards once again. The floor radiates with an earthy ktenic energy, which compliments the vertical push of the sculpture. The result is a living, pulsing composition, set within the unusual warm classicism of this unique Venetian Palazzo.
This beautiful palace was the residence of the Doge Antonio Grimani. It is one of the most unique examples of Venetian architecture in transition from Gothic, well-rooted in the local culture, to the Renaissance.
German large-scale photographer Reinhard Görner is known for his stunning, monumental-scale photography, which combine a sense of grandness with intimacy. He was born in 1950 in Leipzig, Germany, and he lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He studied drama, german literature and sinology in Munich and Berlin, and has been photographing architecture, interiors, and public spaces since 1981.
Condition: New. Images are crisp and sharp. Images are not shown at full resolution for the protection of the artist.
50 x 49 inches
ed of 10
$6,000
60 x 59 inches
ed of 7
$9,000
70 x 68.8 inches
ed of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner with his large format architectural photographs orchestrates the monumentality of rooms.
An active architecture photographer since 1985, is a master of perspectives and precise spatial compositions, and he thus considers classical sculpture, in all of its possible facets, a special challenge.
"Görner’s photographs sometimes open the doors to another world and take the viewer with them on a journey through time. Here the palace is no longer a museum but both royal residence and a site steeped in history. The viewer does not have to share the halls with the masses of visitors; instead the images offer him exclusive impressions of the Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) and the Galerie des Batailles (Hall of Battles) as even the king of France was probably never granted. The halls are empty of people, yet they seem to be able to unfurl their individual characters of their own accord. These places practically breathe history, and this aspect is also part of the essence captured in the photographs. King Wilhelm of Prussia was named German Emperor Wilhelm I in the Hall of Mirrors after France was defeated in 1870–1871 in the Franco-German War. The Treaty of Versailles following World War I was also signed there in 1919. In this sense, the architectural photographs of Versailles’s ceremonial rooms have an edge on Renaissance paintings; here even a sense of world history arises within the viewer – one which continues to exert an influence today". Horst Klöver
Paper is trimmed to the image: actual image size listed
More about the Palazzo: Newly restored, the Palazzo Grimani also includes Camerino di Callisto, with stucco by Giovanni da Udine...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
"Untitled 8.20" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 8.20" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina
García de Marina was born in Gijón (Spain) in 1975. He emerged thru a deep transformation in 2010. A do...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Surrealist Fake Limb Prosthetic Factory Photo
By Shimon Attie
Located in Surfside, FL
These are vintage prints from the 1980's. The last photo shows a gallery or museum label from an accompanying piece (there were three sequence shots in this series) but is not on thi...
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1980s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Library Hall, Upper Lusatian Library of Sciences, Görlitz Germany, Architecture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This large-scale architectural photograph by German artist Reinhard Görner depicts the Library Hall at the Upper Lusatian Library of Sciences in Görlitz, Germany. Arches open like portals into the interior, bringing public cultural heritage into private space in the rich, glowing tones of brown wood.
Reinhard Görner is known for invoking an atmosphere of awe, meditation and contemplation through crisp, richly detailed scenes of grand historical and cultural public narratives. This effect is enhanced through aesthetically striking compositions, which might include stunningly perfect (or interestingly-off) symmetry, portals through a series of doorways, and other careful choices of perspective and scale.
Housing about 150,000 volumes, this library is not only the largest in Görlitz, but also the most significant regional library between Dresden and Wrocław. Rich in history, it stands at the crossroads of Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic, serving as a beacon for historical research and knowledge transfer in the region. Lit by a warm, timeless glow, the scene leads you through multiple carved archways...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Lambda
"Untitled 3.16" Photography 24' x 16' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 3.16" Photography 24' x 16' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina
García de Marina was born in Gijón (Spain) in 1975. He emerged thru a deep transformation in 2010. A do...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
"Untitled 2.21" Photography 24' x 16' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 2.21" Photography 24' x 16' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina
García de Marina was born in Gijón (Spain) in 1975. He emerged thru a deep transformation in 2010. A do...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Uris Library, Ithaca, Cornell University, Large Scale Architectural Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A mesmerizing portrait of architectural elegance and intellectual grandeur, Reinhard Görner’s Uris Library, Ithaca immerses viewers in the ornate beauty of Cornell University’s iconi...
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2010s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christian Rothmann
ROBOTNICS Series
C-Print
2019
Edition S (Edition of 10)
12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered verso
Other Edition Sizes available:
- Edition ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
C Print
Biblioteca Piccolomini, SIenna, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Piccolomini
Siena, Italy
2022
Immerse yourself in the grandeur of history and art with this captivating photograph of the Biblioteca Piccolomini by acclaimed photographer...
Category
2010s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Out of Nowhere, Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In Out of Nowhere, part of Reinhard Görner's Secret World of Plants series, the delicate interplay of deep purples, vibrant greens, and soft-focus backgrounds creates an evocative an...
Category
2010s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Conceptual still-life photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Conceptual still-life 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 still-life 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, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Reinhard Görner, Brenda Zlamany, Phil Marco, and Samuel Field. Frequently made by artists working with Digital Print, and C 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 Conceptual still-life photography, so small editions measuring 5.91 inches across are also available. Prices for still-life 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 $350 and tops out at $11,000, while the average work sells for $3,500.
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