Conceptual 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
YES - large format photograph of conceptual motivational sign at night
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale original photograph from a series of conceptual motivational messages on classic Americana billboard signs in iconic landscape of the American West
YES by Frank Schott
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Self Portrait #6 From La Piedra Sustituta II Series. Nude color photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Next Sign - large format landscape photograph with conceptual road sign
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Next Sign by Frank Schott
from a series of works capturing conceptual roadside signs in iconic American landscapes
captured with a large format camera to allow epic scale print s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
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Morgan Library, New York
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Morgan Library
New York
50 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
60 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
70 x 70 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label,...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Francke Foundations II, Library, Halle, Germany, Architectural Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This large-scale architectural photograph by German photographer Reinhard Görner depicts the Francke Foundations library in Halle, Germany. The artist is praised for crisp, rich deta...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Self Portrait III, Sin Título, Series. Limited edition color photograph.
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
José Sierra painted his body as a tribute to Afro-Colombian and pre-Columbian cultures, documenting the performance in photographs that portray him in erotic and suggestive positions...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Deseo Insular III, Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Photograph F
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Deseo Insular XI, Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Stamp Collection, Goddess Kannon (Buddhist Goddess of Mercy) - Asian art
Located in Cambridge, GB
Kannon Goddess of Mercy, part of the Heidler & Heeps Japanese Stamp Collection.
This artwork is a limited edition of 25, gloss photographic print (pr...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Untitled V, Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
José Sierra painted his body as a tribute to Afro-Colombian and pre-Columbian cultures, documenting the performance in photographs that portray him in erotic and suggestive positions...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Untitled 2. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Self Portrait #17 From El Envuelto Divino Series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
YES - large format photograph of conceptual motivational message sign at night
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale original photograph from a series of conceptual motivational messages on iconic Americana signs in landscape of the American West
YES by Frank Schott
48 x 67 inches (122 x 171cm)
signed edition of 7
29 x 40 inches (74 x 102cm)
signed edition of 25
archival quality fine art pigment print
limited art edition published by Edition EKTAlux
artist signed + numbered certificate of authenticity
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Frank Schott grew up in Germany and attended the prestigious Academy of Arts in Cologne, studying under Professor Arno Jansen, who was an early influence.
Moving to California in 1998, Schott's work has evolved to include the epic landscapes and deserts of the American West as well as architectural, conceptual and more formal environments from both home and his travels.
Influenced by a number of photographic peers and precursors such as Candida Höfer, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, Ed Rusha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Giclée, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Sleeping Beauty, Old National Gallery, Berlin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
60 x 45 inches
ed. of 5
$6,000
80 x 60 inches
ed. of 5
$9,000
93.2 x 70 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner, with his large format photographs orchestrates the monumentality of historical architecture, gardens, and masterpieces.
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
Notes on the Old National Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Lambda
Deseo Insular VI. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
"The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod al...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Reinhard Görner, The Long Room IV, Trinity College Library, Dublin Ireland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This large-scale architectural photograph by German artist Reinhard Görner depicts the The Long Room, an awe-inspiring vista into the Old Library at Trinity College in Dublin, Irelan...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Savannah Spirit, Hold Onto Power (Black and White Nude Photography B&W)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this self portrait, Savannah Spirit turns the tradition of black and white female portraiture back on itself. The muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own.
Through her artistic, social and curatorial projects, Spirit also takes on technology and social media censors, who assume that the unclothed body of a human, especially of those who identify as female, is pornography that must be controlled. Her artwork asserts that a woman is her own muse.
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
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DAZED: The Erotic Show Taking on Donald Trump
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
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Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage pinup...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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 Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
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 Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Pigment, Giclée, Digital, C Print, Photograp...
Reinhard Görner, Beinecke, New Haven, Yale Rare Books and Manuscript Library
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner
Beinecke, New Haven
Yale Rare Books and Manuscript Library
New Haven
Contemporary large scale photograph
50 x 56 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
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 Photography
Materials
Lambda
Untitled
By xulong zhang
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' 2013, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid 59, not mounted, 15.2cm x 10.8cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed stamp and artist certificate...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Back in 10 - large format photograph of conceptual message sign in landscape
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph from a series of conceptual motivational messages on classic Americana billboard signs in landscape of the American West
BACK I...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Self Portrait #14. 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 Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Classense
Ravenna, Italy
2022
62.5 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
75 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
87 x 70 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
The sunlit entrance to the Sala delle scienze e delle arti (Hall of sciences and arts) with the bust of Teresa Gamba (Lord Byron’s lover) in background. The vista is framed by a rhythmic repetition of gleaming wooden doorways and archways, housing shelves of antique tomes.
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...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Riggs Library II, Washington DC, Interior Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riggs Library II, Washington DC, by world-renowned architectural photographer Reinhard Görner, captures the timeless elegance of one of America's rare surviving cast-iron libraries. ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Singapore Stamp Collection, 30c Singapore Orchid Pink - Floral color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
30 Cents Singapore Orchid Pink, from the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection.
This historic postage stamps that make up the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection, Singapore Series 'Postcards...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
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 Photography
Materials
Giclée
HOPE ( framed ) - 4 individual conceptual photographs spelling motivational word
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale conceptual environmental still life photographs playing with viewer's perspective creating individual letters from found objects spelling the word HOPE
H-O-P-E by Christian Stoll
Incredible details in this body of work: focusing in on this epic photograph work, you will find yourself lost in the artwork's details. Reminiscent of the appropriation artwork of Vik Muniz, Christian Stoll arranges everyday objects to spell letters of the alphabet.
Only at close inspection does the viewer realize he/she is looking at an actual photograph, created in camera rather than with digital manipulation.
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Artwork can be installed vertically, horizontally, square or across multiple walls
4 individual photographs
individual artwork size
24 x 24 inches (61 x 61cm)
horizontal artwork composition
24 x 96 inches (61 x 244cm)
vertical artwork...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Plexiglass, Archiv...
Self Portrait #20 From Un niño en el Chicle Series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Notre Dame 9 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Large Format Polaroid, Paris, Icons
By xulong zhang
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Notre Dame 9' - Editions 1, 2, 3 of 10 + 2AP, archival Pigment Print, Photographed with a super-large Polaroid 20x24 camera in Paris in 2015, 90x58cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Bapst Library, Boston
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bapst Library
Boston
50 x 62.4 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
60 x 74.9 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
70 x 87.4 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Paper is trimmed to...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Self Portrait #6 From La Piedra Sustituta, Series. Limited edition color photo
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 Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Savannah Spirit, Film Strip
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Erotica to save our souls.
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
ARTSY: May 28, 2019: The Photographers Fighting Instagram’s Censorship of Nude Bodies, by Kelsey Ables. ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Qana, Palestine Large Mixed Media Conceptual Abstract Painting
By Dennis Balk
Located in Surfside, FL
From his show Hashish at Michael Steinberg Gallery (bearing their label verso)
Reviewed by Roberta Smith in the New York Times.
Abstract Expressionism meets graffiti photography. Cy Twombly in cyberspace. Existential physics. The trajectories of car bombs. These phrases came to mind at the show of Dennis Balk's new work, made during the last three years while he lived in Bahrain and traveled primarily in the Middle East.
The show is dominated by black-on-white gestural drawings on canvas from Mr. Balk's Faith Thumbnail series. Full of graphic and even painterly nuance, they turn out to have been made completely on the computer. In a smaller room, the Exhausted and Ideographic series features gaudy, vertiginous digital mixes of colorful photographs.
Originally a performance artist, he became known in the art world in the early 1990s for improvisational diagrams that brought different historical narratives into collision. One work in his solo debut at American Fine Arts in SoHo in 1992 charted the lives of Ho Chi Minh and Abraham Lincoln -- both fathers of their countries in different ways -- across white paper napkins. His 2003 exhibition at that gallery was titled ''Particles + Waves With Plausibility,'' as is a recent book of his work.
Dennis Balk is an educator, visual artist, writer, media designer and playwright based primarily in New York. Balk has an MFA Degree from California Institute of the Arts. Throughout the 90s and 00s he was an Art Director and media designer for television, outdoor, print and emerging tech and social/ media at; Arnell/ Bickford Associates, Frankfurt Gipps Balkind, Foote Cone & Belding and McCann Erickson, New York. At Amster Yard, the conceptual agency within McCann Worldwide, Balk was involved in concepting high-profile campaigns that ran both domestically and internationally. As an interactive and exhibition designer, Balk has designed significant exhibition work for; Princeton University (The Firestone Library), The National Building Museum (Washington DC), The Jewish Museum (New York) and The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington DC) in conjunction with the offices of James Ingo Freed. Balk has taught and lectured at a variety of Universities, most recently; UCLA in the Department of New Genres, the Università IUAV di Venezia, Yale University, Otis College of Art and Design- Public Practice MFA and as Coordinator of the Department of Fine Arts/ Computer Graphics at the New York Institute of Technology, Bahrain Campus. Since the late 80s his art work has addressed, in multiple formats (including several productions of his plays), the conditions of narrative and the narrative aspects of historicizing the present. His work has been exhibited internationally and reviewed extensively including; Artforum, Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche, Bookforum, Art in America, Paper Magazine and The New York Times. While in New York, his primary gallery representation was with the seminal gallery, American Fine Arts. In February 2009, INOVA at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee presented the early work survey titled, “Dennis Balk - Early Work 1890-2090”. His recent publications include; “Dennis Balk/1890-2090” (2010-channel 171), “Dennis Balk The Arabian Gulf” (2010-channel 171), “ash” (2009-channel 171), “Colin de Land, American Fine Arts” (2008-powerhouse books), and “particles + waves with plausibility” (2006-powerhouse books).
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2011 Jack Bankowsky, Rosetta Brooks, Ingrid Schaffner, Nicholas Frank, Christina Valentine, Dennis Balk, Jennifer Bolande...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Canvas, Ink
Palm Springs 7
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Further to Fly is a series of Wet Plate Collodion Photograms that continues in my practice of using drawings on mylar layered with light-sensitive materials in the darkroom to create...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photogram
Deseo Insular XII, Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
"The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod al...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Untitled, Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude Photography
By xulong zhang
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' 2013,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, 27 x 21.5 cm,
Digital C-Print, based on an IMPOSSIBLE 8x10 Colour Instant Film,
Signed, embossed stamp and artist certificate.
...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Joshua's Muse II from the series Joshua Tales - 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Joshua's Muse II from the series Joshua Tales
30x30cm, Edition of 7, 2017.
Archival Color Print on Pearl photo paper, based on the original Polaroid.
Signed on the back with Certificate.
Not mounted.
Whether in color and black and white, van Driessche’s photos marry the atmospheric qualities of integral and instant pack films with the sensuality of his models. The effect is often painterly, intimate, delicate. The softness and vulnerability of the nude feminine form is often juxtaposed with untamed landscapes or graphic urban architecture. Other photos in the series read like fine art paintings, with luminous colors and classic compositions.
Van Driessche has traveled all over the world, taking photos wherever he goes. These days, he often schedules photo shoots with models when he travels, working with both professionals and amateurs.
Despite being a perfectionist in his photography, van Driessche likes the unpredictable nature of expired film. He embraces its inherent perfections. He says it is thrilling when an instant photo develops before your eyes, and it happens to be exactly what you were hoping for. And equally frustrating when, for whatever reason, the photo just doesn’t work. He says that you have to be very sure of everything, the composition, the lighting, the poses, before pushing the button. Instant photography requires more thought and more patience than other forms of photography, but the rewards are worth the effort.
His work has been widely featured, having appeared in Dreck Magazine, Tata Magazine, 100 Volume 1, Latent Magazine, Hylas Magazine, and Fine Art Photo Magazine. He has been interviewed by the on-line magazines Whataroll and Kaltblut and he recently participated in a group exhibition at the Brick Lane Gallery in London in March 2017.
Van Driessche cites these photographers as his influences: Anton Corbjin, for his square format and black and white images; Helmut Newton for his nudes; Stephanie Schneider...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Polaroid
Deseo Insular VIII. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
I Am My Own Muse (Black and White Nude Photography, Self-Portraiture)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Through her artwork and curation, Spirit takes on technology and social media censors who operate on the assumption that any unclothed body is pornography.
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
Savannah Spirit
Listening to Debussy
Edition 2/3
Edition of 3
"We are unique beauty, we are strong, we are equal, we are body-positive, we are elegant, we are powerful, we are vulnerable. We are our own muses."
Exhibition History:
Woman
March 31st – May 1st, 2018
Undercurrent Projects
Also featuring works by: Lillian Bassman, Elinor Carucci, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Nona Faustine...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
India the Wonderful Land original vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage linen backed, travel poster to INDIA The Wonderful Land. The center image of this poster is the Taj Mahal at Agra, India with the Qutb Minar minaret red tower...
Category
1950s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled II. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
José Sierra painted his body as a tribute to Afro-Colombian and pre-Columbian cultures, documenting the performance in photographs that portray him in erotic and suggestive positions...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
YES - XXL format photograph of conceptual motivational message sign at night
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale original photograph from a series of conceptual motivational messages on classic Americana signs in landscape of the American West
YES by Frank Schott
58 x 81 inches (...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, 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 Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin
'Great Minds' Duchess Anna Amalia Library, German Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Great Minds'
Duchess Anna Amalia Library
Weimar, Germany
2017
55 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
66 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
77 x 70 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, 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 Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin
Piazza San Marco, Italy, Architectural Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
60 x 40 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
75 x 50 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
90 x 60 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner, with his large format photogra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
George Peabody Library, Baltimore
Located in Los Angeles, CA
George Peabody Library
Baltimore
62.5 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
74.9 x 60 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
87.3 x 70 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
The Swan, With Leda (Limited Edition of 25) - 30x40 In Fine Art Print
Located in New York, NY
This 2009 photograph by legend photographer, John Stoddart depicts “The Swan with Leda.” It was inspired from the mythology of the Greek story of Leda and the Swan, when the God Zeus...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Long Room III, Trinity College Library, Dublin Ireland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This large-scale architectural photograph by German artist Reinhard Görner depicts the The Long Room, an awe-inspiring vista into the Old Library at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. The vaulted ceiling arches above, while below a warm, golden light fills the room, illuminating bookshelves and cultural artifacts. The room is flanked by white marble busts of philosophers, writers, and great minds who have shaped the intellectual landscape of the Western world, adding a sense of gravitas and continuity to the space, and bringing public cultural heritage into private space in the rich, glowing tones of aged brown wood, leather and gilt.
Reinhard Görner is known for invoking an atmosphere of awe, meditation and contemplation through crisp, richly detailed scenes of grand historical and cultural narratives. This effect is enhanced through aesthetically striking compositions, which might include stunning symmetry, portals through a series of doorways, and other careful choices of perspective and scale.
Görner's photography celebrates libraries as both shelters and places of escape. This particular photograph is part of his quest to explore the most beautiful and solemn reading rooms around the world. Görner aims to convey how architects play with shadows, light, proportions, and rhythms to create spaces that breathe beauty and silence.
Starting from his work with architect Sir Norman Foster in 2005, Görner has meticulously documented libraries' cathedral-like atmospheres across the globe. His photographs seek to convey the impact of architecture on our awareness of life, showcasing spaces that tell stories and refer to a time when aesthetics and spatial awareness were intertwined.
Embrace the tranquility and beauty encapsulated in Görner's art and allow it to transport you to the grand arches and timeless serenity of The Long Room, Trinity College Library. Perfect for art collectors, architecture enthusiasts, and advocates of intellectual history, this piece serves as a gateway to explore the spirit of great builders through Görner's distinctive lens.
Reinhard Görner
The Long Room, Trinity College Library
Dublin Ireland
50 x 62.5 inches
Contemporary large scale photograph
Signed and numbered on label, verso
Edition of 10
Collector gets the next number in the edition
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...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
David Bowie Aladdin Sane Eyes Open, limited edition by Duffy
By Brian Duffy
Located in Austin, TX
Museum quality fine art print of an alternative shot from the cover shoot for Aladdin Sane by David Bowie from the official Duffy Archive.
This official Duffy Archive print is avail...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Isabelle Carbonell "Kansas" Iconic Wizard of Oz Set of Four
Located in Detroit, MI
"Kansas" is one of a set of four digital prints whose titles were inspired by the iconic film The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland. The other three are titled: The Land of OZ, The ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
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 Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Reinhard Görner 'Francke Foundations II' (Library, Halle, Germany)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This large-scale architectural photograph by German photographer Reinhard Görner depicts the Francke Foundations library in Halle, Germany. Arches open like portals into the interior, bringing public cultural heritage into private space in the rich, aged tones of wood and marble, taupe, blue and gray.
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.
Reinhard Görner
Francke Foundations II
Halle, Germany
2014
50 x 52.6 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
60 x 63.2 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
70 x 73.7 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Paper is trimmed to the image: actual image size listed
Internal Search: Reinhard Görner, Library series, Halle, Germany, Large-Scale Photography, Large-scale German photography, German Libraries, German Monuments...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
The Long Room V, Trinity College Library, Dublin Ireland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This large-scale architectural photograph by German artist Reinhard Görner depicts the The Long Room, an awe-inspiring vista into the Old Library at Trinity College in Dublin, Irelan...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Psychiatric Observation (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Psychiatric Observation (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
Edition 6 + 2 AP - Edition 1/6
This new series titled Neurosis bring...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
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 Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Amour is Pink, The Dream Art Project
Located in New York, NY
The photograph is available in three sizes. The print is proposed as a face-mount; it is mounted to acrylic at the front and Dibond at the back. It is ready to hang with a metal bracket on the wall.
"Amour is Pink," a tranquil photograph by Anne Valverde, features the serene expanse of a beach at dusk, with the word 'amour'—French for love—spelled out in an understated neon script along the wet sand. The image is steeped in a quiet poignancy, where the vastness of the ocean meets the warmth of the sky, wrapping the scene in a gentle embrace.
The sky is a canvas of soft pastels, where the blush of pink clouds hints at the sun's recent departure below the horizon. This celestial spectacle is mirrored by the ocean's surface, creating a symmetry that is both calming and introspective. The neon text 'amour' adds a layer of romanticism to the scene, its reflection on the wet sand doubling its presence, as if to emphasize the strength and depth of the sentiment it represents.
Valverde's choice to place the text in such a setting invites contemplation on the nature of love itself—vast, enduring, and reflective of our own feelings. The beach, with its smooth sand and receding tide, suggests a place where emotions can be openly expressed and contemplated, while the encroaching night speaks to the intimacy and quietude that love often craves.
"Amour is Pink" is a visual ode to the heart's landscape, where love is as expansive as the sea and as beautifully nuanced as the evening sky. It's a reminder that love, in its many forms, is a fundamental and beautiful part of the human experience, always worthy of reflection and appreciation.
Since 2015, Valverde has been working on a neon light installation project in several countries, which she materialises through photography. The DREAM ART PROJECT
Her portfolio “City Icons” in 2008 brought her work to public attention. A series about Iconic Monuments from Major cities like Paris, New York, Hong Kong, London, Dubaï… Writing with Neon brings together two passions for Anne Valverde: light and words thus incorporating her main medium of expression: Photography.
Valverde brings artificial light to areas where electricity is absent, creating a dissonance in the landscape and an unexpected and dreamlike light, creating a new message, independent from preexisting signs and words.
Valverde’s first message is "dream", as she invites the viewer to go past reality and reflect on open spaces for escape in a complex and tormented world.
Some themes are recurring: an amused gaze on social media omnipresence, hyper-connectivity or even office language shortcuts. This contemplation of the natural landscape suddenly opens up to a perspective on social evolution. By inserting neon lights in her photographs, she initiates a return...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Acrylic Polymer, Neon Light, Archival Paper, Photogra...
Reinhard Görner – Leda with Swan, 1532, Correggio – Painting Detail Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner’s Leda with Swan unveils an intimate and evocative perspective on Correggio’s 16th-century masterpiece, capturing the painter’s exquisite handling of light, texture, ...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Lambda
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