Contemporary Still-life Photography
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
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Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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Style: Contemporary
Burst - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Burst', 2016 Edition 2/7 plus 2 Artist Proof
Based on a Polaroid, digital C-Print, not mounted.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2016-303
Kirsten Thys va...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Quarantine #51 (Day #65)
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Covid Vanitas: The Pandemic Still Lifes
On the first day of quarantine I began photographing the people-less quiet of a home and studio in isolation. The still lifes are a visual j...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Campanula in Twisty Sculpey Vertical Facing Right
By James Pitts
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The past year afforded more time than normal for stillness and observation. I am thrilled to be alive and sentient. I love making things, whether it be building a guitar, cooking a m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pandemic #77
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"Covid Vanitas: The Pandemic Still Lifes"
On the first day of quarantine I began photographing the people-less quiet of a home and studio in isolation. The still lifes are a visual ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pride Closet
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Spine
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"Covid Vanitas: The Pandemic Still Lifes"
On the first day of quarantine I began photographing the people-less quiet of a home and studio in isolation. The still lifes are a visual ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$1,200
Cherry On Top, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
By JP Terlizzi
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Cherry On Top, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
Holding Arabesque is an inward reflection that investigates our relationship with food and nostalgia and ho...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Nepenthes Albomarginata
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Printed in rich platinum/palladium, these intricate and formal portraits depict the delicate but dangerous nature of carnivorous plants.
"The poetic sensibility of nature seems to h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Platinum
Tea'd Off
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tiny Daffodyl in Green Japanese Squash Vase
By James Pitts
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The past year afforded more time than normal for stillness and observation. I am thrilled to be alive and sentient. I love making things, whether it be building a guitar, cooking a m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bedridden
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Shelter 1/8 - Trinidad, color, photography, giclée print
By Shani Mootoo
Located in Bloomfield, ON
At once intimate and engaging, Shani Mootoo’s photographs are portraits of a life. This image of a garden taken through a sliding glass door framed by a charming wrought iron grate i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Giclée
Fan Club
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Drooping Cyclamen in Coil Sculpt on Gold Rectangle
By James Pitts
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The past year afforded more time than normal for stillness and observation. I am thrilled to be alive and sentient. I love making things, whether it be building a guitar, cooking a m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Moonlight Magnolia (24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a hand-printed photograph using the 170-year-old cyanotype process. This is a negative (reversal of the dark and light tones) of the original photograph of a branch of a magn...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Half and Half
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Petites Natures #23 - white vibrant abstract contemporary flower nature photo
Located in New York, NY
Belgian photographer Isabelle Menin creates portraits of flowers that are not only gorgeous in form and color, but also uniquely expressive. Fresh blossoms and withering blooms melt ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
C Print
Green Beaned
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
New Rome #8- Floral landscape soft pastel color contemporary photograph
Located in New York, NY
This floral photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century.
Belgian photog...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Villeroy & Boch Artesano with Grapefruit, limited edition, archival ink, signed
By JP Terlizzi
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Villeroy & Boch Artesano with Grapefruit, limited edition, archival ink, signed
Eating is a physical need, but meals are a social ritual. Utilizing the passed down heirlooms of fri...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sango Aristocrat with Apple, limited edition photograph, archival, signed
By JP Terlizzi
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Sango Aristocrat with Apple, limited edition photograph, archival, signed
Eating is a physical need, but meals are a social ritual. Utilizing the passed down heirlooms of friends a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Flower Gold Sculpey Edge of Table
By James Pitts
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The past year afforded more time than normal for stillness and observation. I am thrilled to be alive and sentient. I love making things, whether it be building a guitar, cooking a m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Oak Seed #15
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn...” Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the dirt.
This is where life begins.
The journey starts in darkness.
Trees often inspire the gaze u...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Platinum
Oak Seed #8
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn...” Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the dirt.
This is where life begins.
The journey starts in darkness.
Trees often inspire the gaze u...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Platinum
Oak Seed #7
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn...” Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the dirt.
This is where life begins.
The journey starts in darkness.
Trees often inspire the gaze u...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Platinum
Oak Seed #12
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn...” Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the dirt.
This is where life begins.
The journey starts in darkness.
Trees often inspire the gaze u...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Platinum
Walled In
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
" Macaw #1” Animal signed limited edition bird contemporary fine art, Still life
By Tim Platt
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
" Macaw #1 ” - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 3
This sequence of a Green Winged Macaw in flight is captured in a sing...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Photographic P...
Revenge of the Plates
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Demise The subject is the conflation of woman and home. The woman is camouflaged among her domestic objects, activities, and obsessions. The still-life narratives co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
White Christmas Awry
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Reading Green
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Light at the End of the Tunnel
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Miss Me?
By Ion Zupcu
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print mounted to archival board
Signed and dated, verso
9 x 9 inches
(Edition of 15)
15 x 15 inches
(Edition of 15)
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Broken
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Birthday Blues
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise
In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Furnished
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Demise The subject is the conflation of woman and home. The woman is camouflaged among her domestic objects, activities, and obsessions. The still-life narratives co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sphere of Life, #2238. Homage to Horst P. Horst collage color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Natasha Zupan's body of work, 'Homage to Horst P. Horst', explores the manipulation of surface texture, light, and the interweaving of time. She has incorporated found images in book...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Aromati Del Gazia
Located in Sante Fe, NM
SUSANNAH HAYS approaches her photographic practice as a philosopher experiences poetic material renderings of our phenomenological world. Investigating tangible objects, each of her ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fleurice M5
Located in New York, NY
Fleurice M5
2020
Signed and numbered on label, verso
Durst Lambda print on metallic paper mounted to Dibond (Edition of 6 + 1 AP)
24 x 24 inches (61 x 61 cm)
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
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Lambda
Nest II
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Portraits of found nests. Price includes frame.
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Aram Black Orchid with Berries, limited edition photograph, archival, signed
By JP Terlizzi
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Aram Black Orchid with Berries, limited edition photograph, archival, signed and numbered
Eating is a physical need, but meals are a social ritual. ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Converse, Black Hi-Tops - Michael Schachtner, Contemporary Photography, Fashion
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order and lead times are expected between 15-20 days.
Converse, Black Hi-Tops is a dynamic C-Type print, sold in this size in an ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
New Rome #5- Floral landscape soft pastel color abstract contemporary photograph
Located in New York, NY
This floral photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century.
Belgian photog...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bearded Iris
Located in Sante Fe, NM
9 x 12 inch images, matted at 16 x 20 inches, starting at $1,300
12 x 16 inch images matted at 20 x 24 inches, starting at $1,600
Each successive print in both editions increases by ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Coating, Rag Paper, Pigment
Solstice #8 - Floral still life abstract landscape contemporary photograph
Located in New York, NY
This floral photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century.
Belgian photog...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
C Print
Bar
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered, verso
30 x 45 inches
40 x 52 inches
48 x 65 inches
(Total edition of 15)
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Framed #0231: minimalist nature still-life leaf photograph w/ green, earth tones
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an archival pigment photograph by artist Paul Cava depicting a highly detailed autumn leaf in a minimalist arrangement on a textured background. It is framed in a simple, con...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Debbie's Siberian Irises
Located in Sante Fe, NM
9 x 12 inch images, matted at 16 x 20 inches, limited edition of 5, starting at $1,200
12 x 16 inch images matted at 20 x 24 inches, limited edition of 5, starting at $1,600
Each suc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Coating, Rag Paper, Pigment
Geister XI / ghost ship - contemporary floating photograph
By Nina Dietzel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Geister or 'Ghost Ship' series from Nina Dietzel. Stunning on own, or paired with other images from the series. Surface mounted to polished plexiglass so that the photograph appears ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Paper, Digital
Tactile Light
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Carla van de Puttelaar's photographs allow the eye to touch skin on many levels. Although her primary subject is often the female body, in recent years she has also begun to examine...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Capitol Theatre Lobby (Contemporary Photograph of an Abandoned Interior)
Located in Hudson, NY
Contemporary color photograph of the interior of an abandoned theater
35 x 25 inches unframed
41.5 x 31.5 inches in white wood frame with AR non-glare glass
This contemporary photograph of an abandoned theater interior was captured by New York based photographer, Elliott Kaufman, in 2005. Here the artist highlights the beautiful fading facade of the once renowned Capitol Theater in New London, CT. The photograph is complimented with a custom white wood frame measuring 41.5 x 31.5 inches. There is wiring on the back for installation.
About the series:
Elliott Kaufman conveys the haunting magnificence of forgotten buildings in the Abandoned series. Architectural marvels once home to heartbreaking operas, spectacular gatherings, or a loving family now sit vacant and linger in fading memories of the past with each new crack of paint, crumbling brick, or falling beam. Through his lens, Kaufman captures the remnants of these majestic structures, romanticizing what once was for viewers in the present day. This series won 2nd place in the ASMP National Competition.
Exhibitions:
2014 Carrie Haddad Gallery: Water Pictures : December 18th thru January 2015.
2014 International Center of Photography, Juried Group Faculty Show: Photographs in the Social Landscape
2013 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY. Group Show: Street Dance Series
2012 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY. Group Show : Time Transformations
2012 The Hudson Studio, Hudson, NY.: Solo Show : Abandoned Architecture.
2011 Garrison Art Gallery, Juried Group Show
2010 Alan Klotz Gallery, Group Show on the 400th Anniversary of the Hudson River.
2009 Through the Eyes of Others Photographs of India...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital
Avant que #6 - Floral landscape colorful blue dominant contemporary photograph
Located in New York, NY
This floral photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century.
Belgian photog...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Solstice #10 - Floral still life abstract landscape contemporary photograph
Located in New York, NY
This floral photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century.
Belgian photog...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
C Print
Chad Kleitsch - Untitled Flower # 12, Photography 2002, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Untitled Flower # 12
Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Matte Paper with Epson archival quality ink
Edition of 25
Available sizes:
11" x 14”
20" x 24”
30" x 30”
30" x 40”
40" x 40"
48" x 48”
48" x...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
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Archival Pigment
Dried Gourd
By James Pitts
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Santa Fe based photographer James W. Pitts' primary focus for over 20 years has been on hand coating platinum prints from large format negatives.
He explores the still life genera ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
ALJ #5 - abstract floral still life contemporary landscape color photography
Located in New York, NY
This floral photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century. With multiplied ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Noritake Hertford with Tomato, limited edition photograph, signed and numbered
By JP Terlizzi
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Noritake Hertford with Tomato, limited edition photograph, signed and numbered
Eating is a physical need, but meals are a social ritual. Utilizing the passed down heirlooms of frien...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Swamp Milkweed
By Cy DeCosse
Located in Westwood, NJ
With a varied career as both an artist and art director, Cy has collaborated with many of America’s best photographers. His works are close, intimate portraits of almost infinite dep...
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Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Photogravure
Chad Kleitsch - Flower 61 (Black Series), Photography 2003, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Untitled Flower # 156
Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Matte Paper with Epson archival quality ink
Edition of 25
Available sizes:
10" x 10”
18" x 18”
30" x 30”
30" x 40”
40" x 40"
48" x 48”
48" ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
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Archival Pigment
Climatis in Victoria's Sculpie Vase
By James Pitts
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The past year afforded more time than normal for stillness and observation. I am thrilled to be alive and sentient. I love making things, whether it be building a guitar, cooking a m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Contemporary still-life photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary 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 red, purple, blue, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Chad Kleitsch, Tyler Shields, Isabelle Menin, and Patty Carroll. 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 Contemporary still-life photography, so small editions measuring 0.5 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 $150 and tops out at $61,000, while the average work sells for $2,500.
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