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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
Vietnam War Protests Central Park - Nuclear War, Civil Rights,  Agent Orange
Vietnam War Protests Central Park - Nuclear War, Civil Rights,  Agent Orange

Vietnam War Protests Central Park - Nuclear War, Civil Rights, Agent Orange

By Mitchell Funk

Located in Miami, FL

In 1971, Central Park was a hub for Vietnam War Protests. In this work, Mitchell Funk captures a packed protest scene with emphasis on the graphic nature of the banners and flags. Th...

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1970s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Muscle Man and Female Admirer at the Beach - Staged Photography
Muscle Man and Female Admirer at the Beach - Staged Photography

Muscle Man and Female Admirer at the Beach - Staged Photography

By Robert Funk

Located in Miami, FL

A ripped muscleman strikes the pose with an admiring female bystander who holds an oversized pair of prank sunglasses. In reality, the muscleman is a 5-inch cut-out, and the girl is ...

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1970s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Sci Fi Close Encounters with Orange New York City
Sci Fi Close Encounters with Orange New York City

Sci Fi Close Encounters with Orange New York City

By Mitchell Funk

Located in Miami, FL

Conceptual Photographer Mitchell Funk created a Sci-Fi image 2 years before the iconic Close Encounters of a Third Kind was released in 1977. Funk's work is really two images combine...

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1970s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

"Untitled 2.14" Photography 24' x 16' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina

"Untitled 2.14" Photography 24' x 16' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina

By García De Marina

Located in Culver City, CA

"Untitled 2.14" Photography 24' x 16' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina Signed and numbered by the artist Comes with COA issued by the artist García de Marina was born in Gijó...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

A Cut Above

A Cut Above

By Cabell Molina

Located in New York, NY

Mixed Media. Female centric. Featuring Madonna. About the Artist: Cabell Molina is a contemporary artist transplanted from California to the east. Where Cabell has proved hers...

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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Mixed Media

Birth of Flight

Birth of Flight

By Phil Marco

Located in New York, NY

Aluminum mounted giclee archival print. Sits about an inch off the wall. ABOUT THE ARTIST Marco studied fine art at Pratt Institute and the Art Students League in New York. New York Times photography critic Gene Thornton called Marco “a Minimalist, whose images are sensual, whimsical, often surreal, always strong, and deceptively simple.” “I’ve had the pleasure of working with Phil Marco on a number of my films. Phil is a man of extraordinary talents. It seems that his passion is to take an everyday object or event, and show it in an entirely new and exciting way.” Martin Scorsese. Phil’s work is represented in MOMA, The Museum of the Moving Image, and The George Eastman Museum of Photography. His first photographs were studies for his paintings, before he launched a career in print advertising. He eventually became a Director / DP for film and television for a vast base of national and international clients with his wife Patricia as Partner and Producer. In the 1980’s and 90’s Phil was the go to person for Special Effects in Television and Cinema, also best known for his graphic conceptual still lives, and his consummate mastery of lighting, and design. He’s won many awards for his work, including numerous Cannes Lions, Cleo’s, a Grammy for his print work on the legendary “Tommy the Who...

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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Giclée

#5

#5

By Nadine Saacks

Located in New York, NY

Photojournalist portrait of vanishing Surma tribe. Printed on canvas. Shot in July 2018, over a month in Ethiopia. "I wanted to photograph lost tribes because there are not m...

Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Canvas, Archival Pigment

End of the Affair #2 - Ltd Ed
End of the Affair #2 - Ltd Ed

End of the Affair #2 - Ltd Ed

By Andrea McCafferty

Located in New York, NY

Vintage 50's Barbie with vintage accessories and set. Narrative depicts title - the end of the affair. Metallic print produced on metal. Black and white Photography. Ltd Ed.

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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Metal

Crushed Oil Can Ltd Ed 3/20

Crushed Oil Can Ltd Ed 3/20

By Phil Marco

Located in New York, NY

Aluminum mounted giclee archival print. Ltd Ed 3/20. Sits about an inch off the wall. ABOUT THE ARTIST Marco studied fine art at Pratt Institute and the Art Students League in New York. New York Times photography critic Gene Thornton called Marco “a Minimalist, whose images are sensual, whimsical, often surreal, always strong, and deceptively simple.” “I’ve had the pleasure of working with Phil Marco on a number of my films. Phil is a man of extraordinary talents. It seems that his passion is to take an everyday object or event, and show it in an entirely new and exciting way.” Martin Scorsese. Phil’s work is represented in MOMA, The Museum of the Moving Image, and The George Eastman Museum of Photography. His first photographs were studies for his paintings, before he launched a career in print advertising. He eventually became a Director / DP for film and television for a vast base of national and international clients with his wife Patricia as Partner and Producer. In the 1980’s and 90’s Phil was the go to person for Special Effects in Television and Cinema, also best known for his graphic conceptual still lives, and his consummate mastery of lighting, and design. He’s won many awards for his work, including numerous Cannes Lions, Cleo’s, a Grammy for his print work on the legendary “Tommy the Who...

Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Giclée

Tempus Fugit

Tempus Fugit

By Phil Marco

Located in New York, NY

Face mounted Plexi. Aluminum Braced. Archival Print. Humorous, conceptual subject matter. ABOUT THE ARTIST Marco studied fine art at Pratt Institute and the Art Students League in New York. New York Times photography critic Gene Thornton called Marco “a Minimalist, whose images are sensual, whimsical, often surreal, always strong, and deceptively simple.” “I’ve had the pleasure of working with Phil Marco on a number of my films. Phil is a man of extraordinary talents. It seems that his passion is to take an everyday object or event, and show it in an entirely new and exciting way.” Martin Scorsese. Phil’s work is represented in MOMA, The Museum of the Moving Image, and The George Eastman Museum of Photography. His first photographs were studies for his paintings, before he launched a career in print advertising. He eventually became a Director / DP for film and television for a vast base of national and international clients with his wife Patricia as Partner and Producer. In the 1980’s and 90’s Phil was the go to person for Special Effects in Television and Cinema, also best known for his graphic conceptual still lives, and his consummate mastery of lighting, and design. He’s won many awards for his work, including numerous Cannes Lions, Cleo’s, a Grammy for his print work on the legendary “Tommy the...

Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Manhattan Skyscraper Abstract Multiple Exposure, Kali,  Abstract Photography
Manhattan Skyscraper Abstract Multiple Exposure, Kali,  Abstract Photography

Manhattan Skyscraper Abstract Multiple Exposure, Kali, Abstract Photography

By Mitchell Funk

Located in Miami, FL

This trailblazing in-camera multiple exposures of New York buildings with the moon was done in 1972. It's not just an image that pushes the boundaries of visual imagery but it is a t...

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1970s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Offline, The Dream Art Project
Offline, The Dream Art Project

Offline, The Dream Art Project

By Anne Valverde

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. In "Offline," a thought-provoking photograph by Anne Valverde, we are presented with a tranquil coastal scene at twilight. The neon text 'off line' glows softly amidst the wild grasses at the forefront, suggesting a deliberate disconnection from the digital world and an immersion into natural serenity. The horizon blends sea and sky in a gradient of blues, symbolizing the vastness and depth of the world beyond our screens. The pristine environment, with its calm waters and untouched sands, encourages viewers to consider the peacefulness that comes with being 'offline' and reconnecting with the environment around us. The placement of the phrase 'off line' within the serene landscape invites the viewer to reflect on the concept of presence and the importance of disconnecting from the constant flow of information and connectivity that defines modern life. It's a gentle nudge to step back, to breathe in the fresh air, and to take in the moment without the distraction of technology. "Offline" is not just a visual experience; it is a statement on the balance we seek between the digital and natural worlds. It's a call to occasionally break away from the tether of our devices and to indulge in the beauty that exists when we do. This image captures that fleeting moment of dusk when the world slows down, and we can find solace in the simple and profound beauty of nature. 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...

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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Film, Acrylic Polymer, Neon Light, Archival Paper, Photogra...

multiple indentity 2
multiple indentity 2

multiple indentity 2

By Maurizio Sapia

Located in Greifswald, DE

"Everyone has a different vision of us because they look at us with their own eyes and not with ours, therefore, what we believe to be our identity is different from what others attr...

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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Panel, Inkjet

EXP_5785.RAW
EXP_5785.RAW

EXP_5785.RAW

By Maurizio Sapia

Located in Greifswald, DE

„According to some theories, the human brain encodes images through a process that takes place in several stages. At the beginning, the images are organized into two-dimensional sket...

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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Panel, Inkjet

EXP_8623.RAW
EXP_8623.RAW

EXP_8623.RAW

By Maurizio Sapia

Located in Greifswald, DE

„According to some theories, the human brain encodes images through a process that takes place in several stages. At the beginning, the images are organized into two-dimensional sket...

Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Panel, Inkjet

EXP_8783.RAW
EXP_8783.RAW

EXP_8783.RAW

By Maurizio Sapia

Located in Greifswald, DE

„According to some theories, the human brain encodes images through a process that takes place in several stages. At the beginning, the images are organized into two-dimensional sket...

Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Panel, Inkjet

EXP_4873.RAW
EXP_4873.RAW

EXP_4873.RAW

By Maurizio Sapia

Located in Greifswald, DE

„According to some theories, the human brain encodes images through a process that takes place in several stages. At the beginning, the images are organized into two-dimensional sket...

Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Panel, Inkjet

Surreal to Conceptual Distortion Color Walls With Montreal Museum Napoleon
Surreal to Conceptual Distortion Color Walls With Montreal Museum Napoleon

Surreal to Conceptual Distortion Color Walls With Montreal Museum Napoleon

By Barbara Rosenthal

Located in New York, NY

Barbara Rosenthal’s Conceptual Photography is a concrete manifestation of complex inner stresses from external realities of all kinds: physical, familial, political, religious, time, space and relentless travel. Rosenthal begins by shooting surreal photographs in a kind of trance-state. She believes that the resultant images, and the Conceptual Distortions created from them, reveal elements of both her particular personality and psychological states, and reach the same in the viewers’ own. In artist’s own words: “I gave myself a camera and promised not to interfere.” During this decade of relentless exhibition and travel, Rosenthal has been shooting several hundred rolls of color and BW 35mm film with analog Olympus OM...

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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Las flores del mal
Las flores del mal

Las flores del mal

By Nadín Ospina

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

He refers to the history of art, particularly to pop culture and the social circumstances of its local environment as well as its universal confrontation. Humor and irony with a crit...

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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Cotton, Color

Bulb

Bulb

By Walker Pickering

Located in New York, NY

Walker Pickering is an artist and educator based in Lincoln, Nebraska. He is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he has taught photography sinc...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Untitled, MT Inv. No 9-1-56 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

Untitled, MT Inv. No 9-1-56 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

By Miroslav Tichy

Located in Zurich, CH

Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 9-1-56 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 28,4 x 19,5 cm (11 1/8 x 7 5/8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, practically reinventing photography from scratch, reconstitutes pictorialism along with it, and not as a distortion of the medium but as something like its essence. What counts for him is not only the image - just one moment in the photographic process - but also the chemical activity of the materials, which is never entirely stable or complete, and the delimitation of the results via cropping and framing. Marginal and exceptionally voyeuristic, in his methods Tichý could be described as an “art brut photographer” yet he is also marked by classical influences. Though his images are produced with poor-quality equipment and carelessly shot, they offer an idiosyncratic and almost hallucinatory vision of a fantastical, eroticised reality. With his endless return to the same subject and the volume and regularity of his production, Tichý’s work draws many parallels to certain practices of conceptual art during the same period. – Art, Black and White...

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Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 4-3-275 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

Untitled, MT Inv. No 4-3-275 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

By Miroslav Tichy

Located in Zurich, CH

Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 4-3-275 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 18,1 x 13,1 cm (7 1/8 x 5 1/8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, ...

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Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-10-51 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-10-51 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

By Miroslav Tichy

Located in Zurich, CH

Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-10-51 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 16 x 8,4 cm (6 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, pra...

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Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-11-31 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-11-31 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

By Miroslav Tichy

Located in Zurich, CH

Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-11-31 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 18 x 13 cm (7 1/8 x 5 1/8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, prac...

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Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 10-1-96 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

Untitled, MT Inv. No 10-1-96 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

By Miroslav Tichy

Located in Zurich, CH

Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 10-1-96 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 17,9 x 11,2 cm (7 x 4 3/8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, prac...

Category

Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 11-1-120 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

Untitled, MT Inv. No 11-1-120 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

By Miroslav Tichy

Located in Zurich, CH

Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 11-1-120 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 17,9 x 13 cm (7 x 5 1/8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, pract...

Category

Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 10-1-167 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

Untitled, MT Inv. No 10-1-167 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

By Miroslav Tichy

Located in Zurich, CH

Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 10-1-167 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 17,7 x 17,8 cm (7 x 7 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, practically reinventing photography from scratch, reconstitutes pictorialism along with it, and not as a distortion of the medium but as something like its essence. What counts for him is not only the image - just one moment in the photographic process - but also the chemical activity of the materials, which is never entirely stable or complete, and the delimitation of the results via cropping and framing. Marginal and exceptionally voyeuristic, in his methods Tichý could be described as an “art brut photographer” yet he is also marked by classical influences. Though his images are produced with poor-quality equipment and carelessly shot, they offer an idiosyncratic and almost hallucinatory vision of a fantastical, eroticised reality. With his endless return to the same subject and the volume and regularity of his production, Tichý’s work draws many parallels to certain practices of conceptual art during the same period. – Art, Black and White...

Category

Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-437 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-437 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

By Miroslav Tichy

Located in Zurich, CH

Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-437 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 11,8 x 20,4 cm (4 5/8 x 8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, prac...

Category

Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-431 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-431 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

By Miroslav Tichy

Located in Zurich, CH

Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-431 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 15 x 9,8 cm (5 7/8 x 3 7/8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, pra...

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Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 2-070 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

Untitled, MT Inv. No 2-070 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

By Miroslav Tichy

Located in Zurich, CH

Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 2-070 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 18,1 x 13,2 cm (7 1/8 x 5 1/4 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, practically reinventing photography from scratch, reconstitutes pictorialism along with it, and not as a distortion of the medium but as something like its essence. What counts for him is not only the image - just one moment in the photographic process - but also the chemical activity of the materials, which is never entirely stable or complete, and the delimitation of the results via cropping and framing. Marginal and exceptionally voyeuristic, in his methods Tichý could be described as an “art brut photographer” yet he is also marked by classical influences. Though his images are produced with poor-quality equipment and carelessly shot, they offer an idiosyncratic and almost hallucinatory vision of a fantastical, eroticised reality. With his endless return to the same subject and the volume and regularity of his production, Tichý’s work draws many parallels to certain practices of conceptual art during the same period. – Art, Black and White...

Category

Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-185 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-185 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

By Miroslav Tichy

Located in Zurich, CH

Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-185 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 14,9 x 10,4 cm (5 7/8 x 4 1/8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, practically reinventing photography from scratch, reconstitutes pictorialism along with it, and not as a distortion of the medium but as something like its essence. What counts for him is not only the image - just one moment in the photographic process - but also the chemical activity of the materials, which is never entirely stable or complete, and the delimitation of the results via cropping and framing. Marginal and exceptionally voyeuristic, in his methods Tichý could be described as an “art brut photographer” yet he is also marked by classical influences. Though his images are produced with poor-quality equipment and carelessly shot, they offer an idiosyncratic and almost hallucinatory vision of a fantastical, eroticised reality. With his endless return to the same subject and the volume and regularity of his production, Tichý’s work draws many parallels to certain practices of conceptual art during the same period. – Art, Black and White...

Category

Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Canyon Whisper - Other sizes available

Canyon Whisper - Other sizes available

Located in New York, NY

Abstract Nature shot. In a canyon. Black and white. About the artist: Mital Patel is an internationally recognized nature and wildlife photographer who focuses on capturing bea...

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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Lonely Looking Wide Eyed Dog in a Car Window
Lonely Looking Wide Eyed Dog in a Car Window

Lonely Looking Wide Eyed Dog in a Car Window

By Mitchell Funk

Located in Miami, FL

A lonely-looking wide-eyed boxer peers out a car window in anticipation that his owner will return. On closer examination, this is not a photograph of a real Boxer but a cut out of...

Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

#3

#3

By Nadine Saacks

Located in New York, NY

Photojournalist portrait of vanishing Surma tribe. Printed on canvas. Shot in July 2018, over a month in Ethiopia. "I wanted to photograph lost tribes because there are not m...

Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Canvas, Archival Pigment

#2

#2

By Nadine Saacks

Located in New York, NY

Photojournalist portrait of vanishing Surma tribe. Printed on canvas. Shot in July 2018, over a month in Ethiopia. "I wanted to photograph lost tribes because there are not m...

Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Canvas, Archival Pigment

End of the Affair #4 Ltd Ed
End of the Affair #4 Ltd Ed

End of the Affair #4 Ltd Ed

By Andrea McCafferty

Located in New York, NY

Vintage 50's Barbie with vintage accessories and set. Narrative depicts title - the end of the affair. Metallic print produced on metal. Black and white Photography. Ltd Ed.

Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Metal

End of the Affair #3 Ltd Ed.
End of the Affair #3 Ltd Ed.

End of the Affair #3 Ltd Ed.

By Andrea McCafferty

Located in New York, NY

Vintage 50's Barbie with vintage accessories and set. Narrative depicts title - the end of the affair. Metallic print produced on metal. Black and white Photography. Ltd Ed.

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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Metal

The End of The Affair #1 - Ltd Ed
The End of The Affair #1 - Ltd Ed

The End of The Affair #1 - Ltd Ed

By Andrea McCafferty

Located in New York, NY

Vintage 50's Barbie with vintage accessories and set. Narrative depicts title - the end of the affair. Metallic print produced on metal. Black and white Photography. Ltd Ed.

Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Metal

The Messenger

The Messenger

By Phil Marco

Located in New York, NY

Face Mounted Plexi. Aluminum braced archival print. Mysterious subject matter. ABOUT THE ARTIST Marco studied fine art at Pratt Institute and the Art Students League in New York. New York Times photography critic Gene Thornton called Marco “a Minimalist, whose images are sensual, whimsical, often surreal, always strong, and deceptively simple.” “I’ve had the pleasure of working with Phil Marco on a number of my films. Phil is a man of extraordinary talents. It seems that his passion is to take an everyday object or event, and show it in an entirely new and exciting way.” Martin Scorsese. Phil’s work is represented in MOMA, The Museum of the Moving Image, and The George Eastman Museum of Photography. His first photographs were studies for his paintings, before he launched a career in print advertising. He eventually became a Director / DP for film and television for a vast base of national and international clients with his wife Patricia as Partner and Producer. In the 1980’s and 90’s Phil was the go to person for Special Effects in Television and Cinema, also best known for his graphic conceptual still lives, and his consummate mastery of lighting, and design. He’s won many awards for his work, including numerous Cannes Lions, Cleo’s, a Grammy for his print work on the legendary “Tommy the Who...

Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Giclée

Business Man Rises Above the Manhattan Skyline - Staged Photography
Business Man Rises Above the Manhattan Skyline - Staged Photography

Business Man Rises Above the Manhattan Skyline - Staged Photography

By Robert Funk

Located in Miami, FL

A two-inch plastic toy figure of a suited man is placed on top of an extended firetruck ladder. The toy truck and man are placed on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights building and positioned directly in front of the lower Manhattan skyline. At the time, it was the very center of of world commerce. The two-inch toy man raises above the tallest and most important buildings , including the recently finished World Trade Center Twin Towers. Clearly, this man is above it all and this photo is more than child's play. The work is signed, numbered 2/15, dated and titled lr. printed later, unframed, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Robert Funk is a pioneer of toy, doll, miniature, plastic thingies and staged photography. He also photographs his own paintings. Most of his work is done on location. He does not use photoshop to strip in images. He doesn’t take photographs he creates photographs and has works dating from 1973. He was widely published in the 1970's and early 1980's. As an undergrad in painting, he studied with first-generation abstract expressionist Robert Richenburg...

Category

1970s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Surreal to Conceptual Distortion Color Walls With Post-hospital Bathtub Photo
Surreal to Conceptual Distortion Color Walls With Post-hospital Bathtub Photo

Surreal to Conceptual Distortion Color Walls With Post-hospital Bathtub Photo

By Barbara Rosenthal

Located in New York, NY

Barbara Rosenthal’s Conceptual Photography is a concrete manifestation of complex inner stresses from external realities of all kinds: physical, familial, political, religious, time, space and relentless travel. Rosenthal begins by shooting surreal photographs in a kind of trance-state. She believes that the resultant images, and the Conceptual Distortions created from them, reveal elements of both her particular personality and psychological states, and reach the same in the viewers’ own. In artist’s own words: “I gave myself a camera and promised not to interfere.” During this decade of relentless exhibition and travel, Rosenthal has been shooting several hundred rolls of color and BW 35mm film with analog Olympus OM...

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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

FORT DE SOTO WAVES #36, St Petersburg, Florida  2013

FORT DE SOTO WAVES #36, St Petersburg, Florida 2013

By Jay Mark Johnson

Located in Santa Monica, CA

This large format, color-photograph belongs to Jay Mark Johnson's wave series - the images from which depict the rhythmic cycling and recycling of oceanfront waves as recorded on remote coastlines around the world--in Hawaii, Florida, California, the Caribbean, Great Britain, Australia and South Africa. These artworks belong to the artist’s ongoing inquiry into the possibilities for timeline photography. For this decades-long project Johnson employs an unconventional camera system to produce seamless delineated renderings of familiar events as they occur over time. The results present an altered view of our surroundings. Artworks from Johnson’s timeline series have been exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe. They can be found in the permanent collections of the Bundestag (German Parliament) in Berlin, the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie at Karlsruhe, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, the Phoenix Art Museum, the Langen Foundation, Hombroich, Germany, the Peter Klein...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Aluminum

Totem of Unmeasurable Memory Assemblage 7 Silver Gelatin Photograph Photo Prints
Totem of Unmeasurable Memory Assemblage 7 Silver Gelatin Photograph Photo Prints

Totem of Unmeasurable Memory Assemblage 7 Silver Gelatin Photograph Photo Prints

By Lewis Koch

Located in Surfside, FL

Totem of Unmeasurable Memory, 1995 Assemblage of 7 vintage silver gelatin prints Lewis Koch lives in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. After completing undergraduate studies in social histor...

Category

1990s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Daisy May, 1991 - William Wegman (Colour Photography)

Daisy May, 1991 - William Wegman (Colour Photography)

By William Wegman

Located in London, GB

Daisy May, 1991 - William Wegman (Colour Photography) Signed and inscribed with title Unique colour Polaroid print 24 x 20 inches The dogs, bewigged and bedecked with outfits and pr...

Category

1980s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Polaroid

Constructivism - William Wegman (Colour Photography)
Constructivism - William Wegman (Colour Photography)

Constructivism - William Wegman (Colour Photography)

By William Wegman

Located in London, GB

Signed and numbered on label affixed to reverse of mount Pigment print 44 x 57 1/3 inches Edition of 4 The dogs, bewigged and bedecked with outfits and props, demonstrate a wide ran...

Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Pawns - William Wegman (Colour Photography)

Pawns - William Wegman (Colour Photography)

By William Wegman

Located in London, GB

Pawns - William Wegman (Colour Photography) Signed and numbered on label affixed to reverse of mount Pigment print 44 x 34 inches From an edition of 7 The dogs, bewigged and bedeck...

Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Split Level

Split Level

By William Wegman

Located in London, GB

Signed and numbered on label affixed to reverse of mount Pigment print 44 x 34 inches From an edition of 7 + 2 APs

Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Breakout - William Wegman (Colour Photography)

Breakout - William Wegman (Colour Photography)

By William Wegman

Located in London, GB

Breakout - William Wegman (Colour Photography) Signed and inscribed with title Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1995 24 x 20 inches The dogs, bewigged and bedecked with outfits...

Category

1990s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Polaroid

Presentation - William Wegman (Colour Photography)

Presentation - William Wegman (Colour Photography)

By William Wegman

Located in London, GB

Presentation - William Wegman (Colour Photography) Signed and inscribed with title Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 2004 24 x 20 inches The dogs, bewigged and bedecked with out...

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Polaroid

Look There - William Wegman (Colour Photography)

Look There - William Wegman (Colour Photography)

By William Wegman

Located in London, GB

Look There - William Wegman (Colour Photography) Signed and inscribed with title Unique colour Polaroid print, printed 1996 24 x 20 inches The dogs, bewigged and bedecked with outfi...

Category

1990s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Polaroid

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