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.
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Style: Conceptual
VI: Utter Blindness (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
VI: Utter Blindness (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Brai...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
V: Dogmatic thinking (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
V: Dogmatic thinking (Abstract Painting)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Brain...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
I. Anthropological Purity (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
I. Anthropological Purity (Abstract photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Huma...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
VII: Istinto Primordiale (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
VII: Istinto Primordiale (Abstract photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
III. Deceit of language (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
III. Deceit of language (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
IV: Nice (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
IV: Nice (Abstract Photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Brain.
It was ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
II. Marvellous Unconsciousness (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
II. Marvellous Unconsciousness (Abstract photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
IX: Genesi (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
IX: Genesi (Abstract photography)
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Brain.
It w...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
VII: Istinto Primordiale (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Brain.
It was created by combining fragments o...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
III. Deceit of language (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Brain.
It was created by combining fragments o...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
V: Dogmatic thinking
Located in London, GB
Digital C-Type print on Archival Pigment Print. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Brain.
It was created by combining fragments of pho...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Pigment
VI: Utter Blindness
Located in London, GB
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed.
This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Brain.
It was created by combining fragments o...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Paper
Partition and Time
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Lorna Simpson is an American artist renowned as a pioneer of conceptual photography. Her artwork, regardless of medium, explores the interplay between hi...
Category
1990s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Untitled 1.23" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 1.23" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina
García de Marina was born in Gijón (Spain) in 1975. He emerged thru a deep transformation in 2010. A dor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Untitled, MT Inv. No 10-1-167 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
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
"Wildfire #32, Witch Creek Fire, Rancho Bernardo, CA, 2007" color photograph
Located in New York, NY
Wildfire #32, Witch Creek Fire, Rancho Bernardo, CA, 2007 (25"x30") Edition 9 + 3 artist prints, signed by the artist, Sasha Bezzubov
The photographs in the Wildfire series were made...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Untitled 3.21" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 3.21" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina
García de Marina was born in Gijón (Spain) in 1975. He emerged thru a deep transformation in 2010. A dor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-11-31 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
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...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Untitled 2.22" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 2.22" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina
García de Marina was born in Gijón (Spain) in 1975. He emerged thru a deep transformation in 2010. A dor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Untitled
By Phil Marco
Located in New York, NY
Humorous subject matter. Face mounted Plexi. Aluminum Braced. Archival Print.
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
Archival Ink
$4,300
Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-431 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
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...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled, MT Inv. No 4-089 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 4-089
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 20,6 x 12,3 cm (8 1/8 x 4 7/8 in.)
Unique
Print only
Tichý, pr...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-5-64 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-5-64
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 18 x 11,7 cm (7 1/8 x 4 5/8 in.)
Unique
Print only
Tichý, pra...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled, MT Inv. No 2-059 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 2-059
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 19,6 x 12,5 cm (7 3/4 x 4 7/8 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
Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-8-73 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-8-73
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 29,3 x 19,7 cm (11 1/2 x 7 3/4 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 9-1-56 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
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...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Untitled 1.14" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 1.14" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina
García de Marina was born in Gijón (Spain) in 1975. He emerged thru a deep transformation in 2010. A do...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
The Great Wave
By Andrew Erdos
Located in New York, NY
The Great Wave, 2014-2015
Archival Pigment Print on Watercolor Paper
Paper size 34 x 48 inches / 86 x 122 cm
Edition of 3 +1 Ap
Vanishing Poin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-10-51 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
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...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled, MT Inv. No 2-070 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
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 3-8-236 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-236
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 16,8 x 11,8 cm (6 5/8 x 4 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...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled, MT Inv. No. 11-1-170 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No. 11-1-170
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 19,2 x 11,6 cm (7 1/2 x 4 5/8 in.)
Unique
Print only
Tichý...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled, MT Inv. No 10-1-54 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 10-1-54
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 23,4 x 14,5 cm (9 1/4 x 5 3/4 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 7-3-74 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-3-74
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 29,7 x 22,5 cm (11 3/4 x 8 7/8 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
Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-6-88 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-6-88
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 17 x 10,3 cm (6 3/4 x 4 in.)
Unique
Print only
Tichý, practic...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-437 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
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
#2
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
$5,000
End of the Affair #2 - Ltd Ed
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
Andy & Rob
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media on wood featuring the famed Andy Warhol. Photographed by Joester. Images on sides as well. Not framed.
About the Artist:
Steve Joester is a British-born Rock & ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Canvas, Photographic Film, Mixed Media
$12,200
By the Sea Ltd Ed 1/25
By Phil Marco
Located in New York, NY
Ltd Ed 1/25. Face mounted Plexi. Aluminum Braced. Archival Print. Female form at the seashore, made to appear part fish.
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
End of the Affair #4 Ltd Ed
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
Water Music Series #5023 : landscape photography
Located in New York, NY
Landscape photography by fine art and documentary photographer Holly Gordon.
Holly Gordon is one of the many treasures that Long Island has to offer, co...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Water Pistol Lt Ed 2/20
By Phil Marco
Located in New York, NY
Photography. Water Pistol Lt Ed 2/20.
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
Archival Ink, Giclée
African American Youth With Water Reflections - Self Reflection
Located in Miami, FL
"Self Reflection " In the early 1970's Mitchell Funk was a trailblazer of color photography. In this stunning portrait the photographer merges naturalism and representation with abst...
Category
1970s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sliver Streak
By Kat O'Neill
Located in New York, NY
Archival Ink. Photograph. Waves. Produced by Dye Sublimation - which means archival inks infused into aluminum. Ltd Ed of 10. The art can be inside or outside with no visible lo...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Metal
$6,300
Queen #2
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media on wood featuring the famed Queen Band. Freddie Mercury in the lead. Photographed by Joester. Images on sides as well. Not framed.
Ab...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Canvas, Photographic Film, Mixed Media
$13,500
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
$3,200
The End of The Affair #1 - Ltd Ed
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
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
$8,500
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
Model: 1964 Renault Dauphine-Four, R-1095, Body Type And Seating: 4-DR Sedan-4 t
Located in New York, NY
Christopher Williams is a conceptual artist and fine art photographer
Gelatin Silver print, artist proof
Unsigned
11 x 14 inches
Provenance:
Ar...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
You are Here, 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.
The photograph titled "You Are Here" by Anne Valverde exhibits a minimalistic seascape where the vastness of the sea meets the expansive sky. The crisp horizon line divides the image into two broad swaths of muted color, imparting a sense of calm and infinity. The foreground is a textured white that looks almost like a continuation of the sea's surface, adding depth and grounding the photograph in a tangible reality.
Against this serene backdrop, the phrase "You Are Here" is superimposed in a style reminiscent of neon signage. The contrast of the modern, human-made font with the natural setting plays on the idea of place and presence. It serves both as a marker of physical location and a philosophical statement about being present in the moment, offering a dual commentary on geography and consciousness.
The artwork’s essence lies in its call for contemplation. In a world often dominated by haste and distraction, Valverde’s work is a gentle prompt to acknowledge and savor the present. The text acts as an anchor, pulling the viewer back from wherever their mind might wander, back to the 'here' that is not just a point in space, but a moment in time.
The composition and the inclusion of the text work together to evoke a reflection on solitude and connectivity. In the absence of any human figures or traces of civilization other than the text, the image suggests isolation, yet the words imply a connection to the viewer. It is this paradox that enriches the photograph, encouraging a deeper engagement with the layers of meaning behind the simplicity of the captured scene.
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...
Manhattan Skyscraper Abstract Multiple Exposure, Kali, Abstract Photography
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...
Category
1970s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
How the Rich Make Street Art - Palm Beach 5
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Robert Funk’s photographs of elaborate landscaping redefine what Street Art is. Landscaping art aesthetically is the opposite of the generally accepted meaning of Graffiti Street Art...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Surreal to Conceptual Distortion Color Walls With Montreal Museum Napoleon
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...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Surreal to Conceptual Distortion Color Walls With Post-hospital Bathtub Photo
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...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Three Empire State Buildings, 1976
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Late light strikes two metal souvenirs placed on a ledge and set against the midtown skyline. Shot with a 20mm lens with maximum depth of field to rende...
Category
Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Corazon Sagrado
Located in Denton, TX
Edition 1/1
Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil on print margin by Delilah Montoya
Collotype print, 10 x 8 in.
Delilah Montoya was born in Texas to a Latina mother and an Anglo father. Her mother raised her in Nebraska until she relocated to New Mexico...
Category
1990s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Other Medium
FORT DE SOTO WAVES #36, St Petersburg, Florida 2013
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Aluminum
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