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
El Grito De La Gitana, from Corazon Sagrado series by Delilah Montoya, 1993
Located in Denton, TX
This image is a collotype print from Delilah Montoya's series, Corazon Sagrado, and is edition 1/1. It is signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil on print margin by Delilah Montoya.
This collotype print features a woman in a dress dancing in front of a backdrop on a checkered floor...
Category
1990s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Other Medium
God's Gift by Delilah Montoya, 1993, Collotype Print
Located in Denton, TX
God's Gift by Delilah Montoya depicts a woman facing a graffitied wall, with her arms stretched out. Lit candles surround her on the floor. The woman's pose is reminiscent of Jesus o...
Category
1990s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Other Medium
A Cut Above
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...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Mixed Media
`Untitled 16`-Shadow Within-wolf nature b/w animal
Located in Oslo, NO
`Shadow Within`
Norway/USA
2010-2013
70 cm x 110 cm. (28 in. x 43 in.) Edition 6 + 2 a.p.
100 cm x 150 cm. Edition 3 + 1 a.p.
Archival ink cotton paper (archival pigment print)...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Without innocence how can there be wisdom, from Corazon Sagrado series
Located in Denton, TX
Edition 1/1
Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil on print margin.
Collotype print
Category
1990s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Other Medium
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
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
Vietnam War Protests Central Park - Nuclear War, Civil Rights, Agent Orange
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...
Category
1970s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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
Las flores del mal
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...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Cotton, Color
Los Americanos
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...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Cotton, Photographic Paper
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
Tupac Shakur
Located in New York, NY
Homage to the late great musician Tupac Shakur. Images. Lyrics from his songs. Not framed. Acrylic paint on sheet music wheat pasted to wood panel. ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media
#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
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
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...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Giclée
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 ...
Category
1970s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Bulb
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
Gonfleur
Located in White Plains, NY
Chromogenic print in diptych format from the Minimiam series. Depicts workers inflating raisins, to make grapes. In celadon, yellow and blue.
Facemounted in plexiglas. No need for ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print
Elton
Located in New York, NY
Homage to the great Elton John. Painting. Portrait. Vibrant.
About the Artist:
Le Closier is a Belgian painter living in New York. After moving to Paris in the early 2000's, mixing Pop Art and Street Art, he started painting on the walls of his Montparnasse neighborhood in Paris (famous in the 50's for being the gathering point of writers and painters i.e Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne, Modigliani....).
A few years later, Le Closier made official portraits for tennis players Serena Williams, Kei Nishikori, Gustavo "Guga" Kuerten, Bryan Brothers, David Goffin, Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Jeremy Chardy, American golf player Cristie Kerr and Paris-Saint-Germain's president Nasser Al-Khelaifi (among others).
In May 2016, he was asked by France Pavilion to paint a portrait of Chief Justice Stephen Breyer for the French/American business week at the French Embassy in Washington, DC.
Today, Le Closier creates colorful compositions inspired by celebrities, arts, comics, advertising, fashion..., mixing people, brands and symbols on different supports (canvas, wood cutouts...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Untitled, MT Inv. No 10-1-96 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
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
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
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
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
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 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 3-8-185 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
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
Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-3-11 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-3-11
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 22,9 x 17,1 cm (9 x 6 3/4 in.)
Unique
Print only
Tichý, pract...
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 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
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 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 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
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
Untitled, MT Inv. No 6-9-23 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 6-9-23
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 23 x 16,5 cm (9 x 6 1/2 in.)
Unique
Print only
Tichý, practic...
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
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
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
Glove Benedict
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 Pigment, Giclée
#3
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
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
Sci Fi Close Encounters with Orange New York City
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...
Category
1970s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
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
#1
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
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
End of the Affair #3 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
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
Lonely Looking Wide Eyed Dog in a Car Window
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
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
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
Golden Gate Bride with Sailboats
Located in Miami, FL
Cover Nikon World, Spring 2005, Published in Popular Photography Magazine 2000, Times Square Billboard 2001
Signed , dated lower right, Edition 2 ...
Category
1990s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
For F From F
By General Idea
Located in Toronto, Ontario
In 1967, General Idea was founded in Toronto by AA Bronson (b. 1946), Felix Partz (1945-1994), and Jorge Zontal (1944-1994). Over the course of 25 years, they made a significant cont...
Category
1970s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Polaroid
"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
"Nicaragua, " from the series "We are the Kings and Queens of Narnia"
Located in New York, NY
From the series "We are the Kings and Queens of Narnia." This is a series of photographs about Bezzubov's family's somewhat unconventional way of traveling around the world - by wal...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print
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 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
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
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
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