Contemporary Still-life Photography
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Style: Contemporary
Chad Kleitsch - Untitled Flower # 69, Photography 2004, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Untitled Flower # 69
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Wedgwood Wild Strawberry with Strawberry, limited edition photograph, signed
By JP Terlizzi
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Wedgwood Wild Strawberry with Strawberry, limited edition photograph, signed and numbered
Eating is a physical need, but meals are a social...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hortus Nocturnum
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Cottage Sunrise", Contemporary, Summer, Window, Bedroom, Color Photograph, 2011
Located in Franklin, MA
Cottage Sunrise is a color photograph that captures the sun rising across the lake on a summer day. The scene is framed by the double window of the cottage bedroom. Having one of the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Color
Ornamental Kale
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
Tulip Fountain
By Hans Withoos
Located in New York City, NY
Fine art inkjet print on special paper rag
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Hans Withoos career spans more than twenty years worldwide. After graduating from the Art Academy. He specializ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Noritake Yoshino with Kiwi, Royal Albert Gratitude with Cherry, limited edition
By JP Terlizzi
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Royal Albert Gratitude with Cherry, limited edition photograph, signed and numbered
Eating is a physical need, but meals are a social ritual. Utilizing the passed down heirlooms of ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Concetti
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
Take Out Containers no. 1, Montara, California
Located in Sante Fe, NM
“The hovering installations featured in this ongoing series of photographs are inspired by self-organizing, "emergent" systems in nature such as termite mounds, swarming locusts, sch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Unaccompanied", industrial, abandoned, hose reel, shadows, orange, color photo
Located in Franklin, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Unaccompanied” was photographed in an abandoned train repair yard. A rusty hose reel leaves a black shadow along the graffiti filled wall ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Metal
Chad Kleitsch - Untitled Flower # 10, Photography 2002, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Untitled Flower # 10
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fight for family values II
By Hans Withoos
Located in New York City, NY
Fine art inkjet print on special paper rag
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Hans Withoos career spans more than twenty years worldwide. After graduating from the Art Academy. He specializ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Tentation #16- Floral landscape soft pastel silver 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...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Daffodils & Forget-me-Nots
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...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Coating, Rag Paper, Pigment
Untitled No. 80 (Framed Still Life Photograph of a Pink Flower on White)
Located in Hudson, NY
Framed still life photograph of a pink and yellow flower on a crisp white background
“Untitled 80” by Chad Kleitsch, this image is part of the artist’s “Botanical Mind” series began ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
New Rome #4- 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
Autumn Clematis
Located in Sante Fe, NM
9 x 12 inch images, matted at 16 x 20 inches, starting at $1,200
12 x 16 inch images matted at 20 x 24 inches, starting at $1,600
Each successive print in both editions increases by ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Coating, Rag Paper, Pigment
Drifting Peonies
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
Chad Kleitsch - Untitled Flower # 150, Photography 2020, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Untitled Flower # 150
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" ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hairbrush
By Hans Withoos
Located in New York City, NY
Fine art inkjet print on special paper rag
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Hans Withoos career spans more than twenty years worldwide. After graduating from the Art Academy. He specializ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Chad Kleitsch - Untitled Flower # 11, Photography 2002, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Untitled Flower # 11
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vined
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
$2,200
Underground # 2 abstract black pink blue white still life floral photograph
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 ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Avant que #1 - 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
Milkweed Prairie Still Life (Modern Digital Flora Still Life)
Located in Hudson, NY
Archival digital scanograph
27.75 x 20 inches, edition of 75
Additional sizes available
This contemporary, archival digital scanograph was made by fine art photographer, Lisa Frank,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Digital
Explosion of Freedom
By Hans Withoos
Located in New York City, NY
Fine art inkjet print on special paper rag
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Hans Withoos career spans more than twenty years worldwide. After graduating from the Art Academy. He specializ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Wisteria
By Jo Whaley
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Photography has been my medium for the past twenty years. However, early in my career, I studied painting and worked as a scenic artist for the theater. The skills and sensibilities ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$2,000
Stilness Photography Art Print Signed Limited
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Art Print, photographed in Asia, limited edition 10, signed.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
$229 Sale Price
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Fremontodendron Californicum
By Jo Whaley
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Photography has been my medium for the past twenty years. However, early in my career, I studied painting and worked as a scenic artist for the theater. The skills and sensibilities ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
ALJ #1 - 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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
"Carts", contemporary, abandoned, mill, industrial, vintage, color photograph
Located in Franklin, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Carts” was photographed at an abandoned silk mill and is part of a series documenting the loss of industry in America. The 12 x 18 inch color photograph, with ric...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Metal
Meeting of beauties
By Hans Withoos
Located in New York City, NY
Fine art inkjet print on special paper rag
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Hans Withoos career spans more than twenty years worldwide. After graduating from the Art Academy. He specializ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Untitled (Aquapod)
By Frank Yamrus
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print (Edition of 11)
Signed, dated, and numbered, verso
From the series, "Rune Lagu"
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Please note that pr...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
C Print
August 30, 2019
By Ion Zupcu
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered on label, verso
14 x 18 inches, image size, mounted to 20 x 24-inch museum board
(Edition of 10 + 3 APs)
26 x 34 inches, image size
(Edit...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
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Archival Pigment
Beauty in Nature - Nature limited edition Square art print, Floral Contemporary
By Sam Thomas
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Beauty in Nature - Limited edition pigment print - Limited Editions of 15
Signed + numbered by artist with certificate of authenticity.
Archival pigment print available sizes (...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Pigment, A...
Fight for humanity
By Hans Withoos
Located in New York City, NY
Fine art inkjet print on special paper rag
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Hans Withoos career spans more than twenty years worldwide. After graduating from the Art Academy. He specializ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Stage Stills (6)
By Jo Whaley
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Stage Stills
“With the portfolio of images entitled Stage Stills, I have returned to my roots as a scenic artist, but from a different perspective. Upon seeing the backstage of the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
New Rome #5- 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
Cherry Tomatoes (Contemporary Still Life Study in Light Box with Diffused Light)
Located in Hudson, NY
11.25 x 11.25 inches unframed
Archival pigment print
edition of 12
Some of David Halliday's most engaging works are those from his Box Series in which he merges traditional ideas about light and composition with contemporary experiments. In this series an empty cookie tin becomes a tiny studio for food objects. Halliday carefully styles his photographic subjects inside and, allowing only natural light to seep in through a circular window. The results feel less like still lifes and more like intimate portraits of human sustenance. In these photographs, the fleshy curves of a fig, the slick bodies of sardines, even the homeliest porcini mushrooms possess a degree of nobility, providing a refreshing contrast to the compulsive relationship we so often have with food, reminding us to slow down and savor with gratitude.
In this particular image, the bright red tomato skins are gently brushed with the natural diffused light, echoing techniques associated with a Vermeer painting.
About the work:
The Past Still Present: A master of light, New Orleans photographer David Halliday produces lush and elegant images that are both classical and modern. Using window...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Clover Flower, black and white, still life photograph, signed, numbered
By James Pitts
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Clover Flower, black and white, still life photograph, signed, numbered
James Pitts, based in Santa Fe New Mexico, delicate still lifes are crafted as exquisite hand-coated platinu...
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1990s Contemporary Still-life Photography
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Platinum
Carrousel-Signed limited edition still life print, Black white, Paris France
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Carrousel - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 2009 - Edition of 10
Place de l'Hôtel de Ville in Paris
This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( H...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Photography
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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Phot...
Bibbia Sacra
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
Trumpet Plant
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Trumpet Plant is from Beth Moon's series The Savage Garden. Printed in rich platinum/palladium, these intricate and formal portraits depict the delicate but dangerous nature of carni...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Platinum
Nepenthes Coccinea
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 poeti...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Platinum
Venus Fly Trap
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 poeti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Platinum
Macaw #2 - Signed limited edition nature fine art print, Contemporary, Bird
By Tim Platt
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
" Macaw #2 ” - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 10
Green Winged Macaws are monogamous and pair for life. They become in...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Still Life with Cushaw (Sepia Toned Still Life Photograph of Vegetable, Framed)
Located in Hudson, NY
Contemporary still life sepia toned photograph of cushaw squash, black cherries, and banana vines on a tabletop by David Halliday
Sepia toned silver gelatin print, edition 1 of 25
17...
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1990s Contemporary Still-life Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Leaf
By Jo Whaley
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Photography has been my medium for the past twenty years. However, early in my career, I studied painting and worked as a scenic artist for the theater. The skills and sensibilities ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Stage Stills (3)
By Jo Whaley
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Stage Stills
“With the portfolio of images entitled Stage Stills, I have returned to my roots as a scenic artist, but from a different perspective. Upon seeing the backstage of the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hortus Nocturnum
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hortus Nocturnum
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The photography of Carla van de Puttelaar allows the eye to touch the skin on many different levels. Through her lens, she makes the viewer aware of the sensitivity and the sensualit...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bread House (Food Still Life Photograph of Bread, Vegetables & Stones)
Located in Hudson, NY
Contemporary food still life photograph of bread with assorted vegetables on a wood table
Archival pigment print, ed. of 25
Image size: 11 x 14 inches
...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Photography
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Archival Pigment
Stairsy
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
Picknicky
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
Clockwork
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
"Sunflower #11", Botanical, Bee, Yellow, Orange, Flower, Color Photograph, 2013
Located in Franklin, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Sunflower #11” is part of her "Simplicity" series of photographs taking an up close look at flowers and other botanical subjects. The 12 x 18 inch color photo is o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Metal
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hortus Nocturnum
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
No. 69 (Framed Still Life Photograph of a Bright Orange Poppy Flower on White)
Located in Hudson, NY
Framed still life photograph of a bright orange Poppy flower on a crisp white background
“Untitled 69” by Chad Kleitsch, this image is part of the artist’s “Botanical Mind” series be...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
History Revisited 1/10 - detailed, interior, color, photography, giclée print
By Shani Mootoo
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Shani Mootoo grew up in this house in Trinidad. She returned as an adult and created a photographic memoir of its interior in her ‘History Revisited’ series. Her images of these room...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Giclée
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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