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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
Morgan Library II, New York
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Morgan Library II New York 50 x 62.4 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 74.9 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 87.5 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trim...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

Reinhard Görner, Portals with Bookshelves, Biblioteca Joanina, Portugal
Located in Los Angeles, CA
50 x 59.4 inches ed. of 10 $6000 60 x 71.3 inches ed. of 7 $9000 70 x 83.1 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format pho...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Lambda

Sala dei Fiumi I (Hall of Rivers), Ducal Palace of Mantua, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Embark on a visual journey into the heart of Italian architectural grandeur with Reinhard Görner's 2022 photograph, Sala dei Fiumi I. This breathtaking image captures the impressive ...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

Untitled 1. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

Greek Temple, Pergamon Museum, Berlin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Greek Temple, Pergamon Museum, Berlin 50 x 62.5 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 75 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 87.5 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Lambda

Shining Wall of Books, Yale Beinecke Library, Interior Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A breathtaking homage to the grandeur of knowledge, Reinhard Görner’s Shining Wall of Books captures the luminous beauty of one of the world’s most rever...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

Entrance, Biblioteca Joanina
Located in Los Angeles, CA
60x 40 inches inches Ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 50 inches Ed. of 7 $9,000 90 x 60 inches Ed. of 5 $11,000
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Lambda

THROUGH THE VEIL OF TIME OR A DREAM
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Edition of 10 C-Print 17.875 x 17.875 Framed in natural wood Michelle Buhler has a BFA from the University of Utah. She has studied photography at the International Center of Photography and cinematography at New York University. She currently lives in Idaho. Education: New York University, Cinematography, New York, New York, 2011 International Center of Photography, Advanced Color Photorgraphy with Liz Deschenes, New York City, 2007 University of Utah, BFA Photography, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2003 Articles and Awards 2012 Honorable Mention in the 2012 First Edition of Hey Hot Shot, Jen Bekman Gallery, NYC 2012 The Stone Mind, Open House: Art on Iowa by Justin Roth 2003 Red Magazine...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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C Print

Reinhard Görner: Colored Columns III: Neue Museum, Berlin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner Colored Columns New Museum, Berlin 62.5 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 60 inches ed. of 5 $9,000 87.5 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format photographs orchestrates the monumentality of rooms. An active architecture photographer since 1985, is a master of perspectives and precise spatial compositions, and he thus considers classical sculpture, in all of its possible facets, a special challenge. "Görner’s photographs sometimes open the doors to another world and take the viewer with them on a journey through time. Here the palace is no longer a museum but both royal residence and a site steeped in history. The viewer does not have to share the halls with the masses of visitors; instead the images offer him exclusive impressions of the Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) and the Galerie des Batailles (Hall of Battles) as even the king of France was probably never granted. The halls are empty of people, yet they seem to be able to unfurl their individual characters of their own accord. These places practically breathe history, and this aspect is also part of the essence captured in the photographs. King Wilhelm of Prussia was named German Emperor Wilhelm I in the Hall of Mirrors after France was defeated in 1870–1871 in the Franco-German War. The Treaty of Versailles following World War I was also signed there in 1919. In this sense, the architectural photographs of Versailles’s ceremonial rooms have an edge on Renaissance paintings; here even a sense of world history arises within the viewer – one which continues to exert an influence today". Horst Klöver Paper is trimmed to the image: actual image size listed Internal: The Neues Museum...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Lambda

Colored Columns III: Neue Museum, Berlin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
New Museum, Berlin 3 sizes 62.5 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 60 inches ed. of 5 $9,000 87.5 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trimm...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Lambda

City Hall Law Library, Philadelphia
Located in Los Angeles, CA
City Hall Law Library Philadelphia signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trimmed to the image: actual image size listed 50 x 63 inches ed of 10 ...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Lambda

Laocoon II, Grimani Palace, Venice, German Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Laocoon II Grimani Palace, Venice 2014 ​ A masterful composition by renowned German photographer Reinhard Görner, Laocoon II captures the grandeur of Venetian architecture in exquisi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Lambda

"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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Digital Pigment

"Untitled 1.22" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 1.22" 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 do...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Digital Pigment

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 1940
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on pewter leaf on paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 201...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Paper, Photographic Paper

Shining Wall of Books, Yale Beinecke Library, Interior Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A breathtaking homage to the grandeur of knowledge, Reinhard Görner’s Shining Wall of Books captures the luminous beauty of one of the world’s most revered libraries. This masterfull...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Library of Congress I, Washington DC
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Library of Congress I Washington DC 50 x 62.4 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 74.9 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 87.4 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

Wooden Flowers, Biblioteca Joanina, Portugal
Located in Los Angeles, CA
40 x 60 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 50 x 75 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 60 x 90 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format photogr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Lambda

Birdy Dream, 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. "Birdy Dream," a photograph by Anne Valverde, captures the ethereal beauty of a mist-enshrouded forest, with the word 'dream' crafted in neon lights, seamlessly integrated into the landscape. Valverde's artistry is evident in her ability to blend the artificial glow of neon with the organic forms of nature, creating a harmonious tableau that whispers of the unseen and the imagined. The forest scene is alive with varying textures of foliage, dominated by the large fronds of ferns that fan out across the frame. The mist rolls through the trees like a gentle tide, blurring lines and softening the world to a palette of muted greens and grays. In this dreamscape, the neon 'dream' is both a literal and figurative illumination—a call to the magic that lies in the heart of the wild. The neon text, positioned amongst the forest floor, is like a secret waiting to be discovered, a reminder that even in the dense and tangled growth, there is space for dreams to take root and flourish. The soft light from the sign pierces the fog, symbolizing clarity and hope amidst uncertainty. Valverde's "Birdy Dream" is a tribute to the quiet strength of nature and the power of dreams to persist in even the most unlikely places. It's a visual poem that invites contemplation, asking the observer to consider the myriad of dreams that live hidden beneath the canopy, in the soul of the forest, and within us all. 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...

Biblioteca Malatestiana, Cesena
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Malatestiana Cesena, Italy 2022 62.5 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 87 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner records cultural and industrial heritage through his series of photographs depicting contemporary and historical architecture, landscapes, parks, and plants. Best known for his photographs of libraries and reading rooms from around the world—in works such as George Peabody Library...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

"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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

Untitled
Located in Toronto, Ontario
William Wegman (b. 1943) is an American photographer celebrated for his whimsical images of his beloved Weimaraner dogs. This photograph is from Wegman's "Improved Photographs" seri...
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1970s Conceptual Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Self Portrait #6 From La Piedra Sustituta, Series. Limited edition color photo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Showing a body that is hidden is the aesthetic apology for the insane judgment that the artist himself has taken as an excuse for not being 'pointed at' or rather as self-pointing. T...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Self Portrait #1. From La Piedra Sustituta II. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color

A HEAVY AND DULL DETONATION SHOOK THE GROUND
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Edition of 10 C-Print 17.875 x 17.875 Framed in natural wood Michelle Buhler has a BFA from the University of Utah. She has studied photography at the International Center of Photography and cinematography at New York University. She currently lives in Idaho. Education: New York University, Cinematography, New York, New York, 2011 International Center of Photography, Advanced Color Photorgraphy with Liz Deschenes, New York City, 2007 University of Utah, BFA Photography, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2003 Articles and Awards 2012 Honorable Mention in the 2012 First Edition of Hey Hot Shot, Jen Bekman Gallery, NYC 2012 The Stone Mind, Open House: Art on Iowa by Justin Roth 2003 Red Magazine...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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C Print

Peristyle, Grand Trianon, Versailles
Located in Los Angeles, CA
40 x 80 inches ed. of 5 $8,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format photographs orchestrates the monumentality of historical architecture, ga...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Lambda

Deseo Insular VII. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
"The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod al...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

Untitled 2. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

Untitled V. La Costilla Roja Series. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This work is the result of an artistic residence outside his 'study'.The artist worked on a different ecosystem, a house of vernacular architecture built in 1913 in the department of...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

George Peabody Library, Baltimore
Located in Los Angeles, CA
George Peabody Library Baltimore 62.5 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 74.9 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 87.3 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

Bapst Library, Boston
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bapst Library Boston 50 x 62.4 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 74.9 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 87.4 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trimmed to...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

Reinhard Görner 'Biblioteca del Senado, Madrid, Spain' (Library, Madrid)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner Biblioteca del Senado, Madrid 2017 59 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 71 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 83 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trimmed to the image: actual image size listed Internal Keywords: Reinhard Görner, Library series, Madrid, Spain, Large-Scale Photography, Large-scale German photography, Spanish Libraries, Spanish Monuments, Library Photography...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

Great Blue Courtship S.E.
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 5 Signed and numbered in pencil, and blind stamp on print margin Signed, titled, dated, and print type in pencil on print verso. Paper size: 42 x 34 1/2 in., Image: 40 x 3...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment

Self Portrait #9 From La Piedra Sustituta II Series. Limited edition color photo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

East of Lancaster, CA by Robbert Flick, 1981, Silver Gelatin Print, Photography
By Robbert Flick
Located in Denton, TX
East of Lancaster, CA by Robbert Flick is a 16 x 20 in silver gelatin print. This print features 49 small images of black and white landscapes presented in a grid. Each image measures 1 5/8 x 2 1/8 inches. This print is from Robbert Flick's Sequential Views series from his America Roads Portfolio. It is signed, titled and dated by Robbert Flick. Robbert Flick, Professor Emeritus, is a Southern California artist who uses photography as his primary medium. He has been exhibiting his photographs for over 50 years and his work has been shown and collected by numerous private and public venues both nationally and internationally. He is the recipient of multiple fellowships and in 2001 was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts. The retrospective Robbert Flick: Trajectorieswas shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2004 accompanied by a comprehensive exhibition catalog co-published by LACMA and Steidl. In 2016 Nazraeli Press published “Robbert Flick LA Diary”. He is represented by ROSE Gallery in Santa Monica and Robert Mann...
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1980s Conceptual Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Twilight's 034, Danse Macabre - A skeletal Oak tree - Landscpae
Located in London, GB
A skeletal oak, starved of light by the surrounding fir trees still holds its twisted limbs up towards the light as if frozen in its death throes. "I want to bring a sense of unfamiliarity into the images; to present commonplace nature in a peculiar way. This is, in part, a reaction against our over sanitised and conditioned lives. The night forest is devoid of people. It is an undomesticated wilderness right on our doorstep." - Jasper Goodall...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Savannah Spirit, Reach
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit Reach 24 x 24 inches Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Edition 1 of 5 Signed by artist Latest press ARTSY: May 28, 2019: The Photographers Fighting In...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment

Medaglia D Oro - Whiskers, Stallion Studio Portrait
Located in London, GB
Medaglia d'Oro (foaled April 11, 1999) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won several major stakes races including the 2002 Travers Stakes and the 2003 Whitney Handicap. He also finished second in the 2002 Belmont Stakes, the Breeders' Cup Classic in both 2002 and 2003, and the 2004 Dubai World Cup. Since retiring to stud, he has become an excellent stallion whose progeny include 2009 Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra, two-time champion filly Songbird and two-time Hong Kong Horse of the Year Golden Sixty. Medaglia d'Oro - 'Whiskers' by John Reardon...
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Early 2000s Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Archival P...

Self Portrait #4. La Piedra Sustituta, Series. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Showing a body that is hidden is the aesthetic apology for the insane judgment that the artist himself has taken as an excuse for not being 'pointed at' or rather as self-pointing. T...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Sky ( artist framed ) - large scale abstract gradient monochromatic photograph
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale monochromatic abstract observation of mesmerizing atmospheric color palette, from Raymond Meier's series Renderings Sky (Rendings 04) by Ray...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper

Stand By Me, Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner's captivating close-up botanical photograph 'Stand By Me' invites the viewer to immerse themselves in the vibrant, sensual details of a blooming flower. The striking ...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

Untitled VII, from the Sin Título Series, Archival Pigment Print. Framed
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Body Paint tribute to the Afro and pre-Columbian cultures, taking erotic and suggestive poses such as reading among others. Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-r...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

Untitled I. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Body Paint tribute to the Afro and pre-Columbian cultures, taking erotic and suggestive poses such as reading among others. Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-r...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Self Portrait #8 From La Piedra Sustituta II Series. Nude color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Self portrait #4 From La Piedra Sustituta II Series. Limited edition color photo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Flora 33 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower and Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 33 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper. It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints. Culatto's new series 'Flora'...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Giclée

The Blue Books, Upper Library, Oxford, German Interior Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An exquisite meditation on knowledge and architectural splendor, Reinhard Görner’s The Blue Books invites the viewer into the hallowed halls of Oxford’s Upper Library. The interplay ...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

George Peabody Library, Baltimore
Located in Los Angeles, CA
George Peabody Library Baltimore 62.5 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 74.9 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 87.3 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Bapst Library, Boston
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bapst Library Boston 50 x 62.4 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 74.9 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 87.4 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trimmed to...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

Untitled VI. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Body Paint tribute to the Afro and pre-Columbian cultures, taking erotic and suggestive poses such as reading among others. Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-r...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

Deseo Insular II, Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

Uris Library, Ithaca, Cornell University, Large Scale Architectural Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A mesmerizing portrait of architectural elegance and intellectual grandeur, Reinhard Görner’s Uris Library, Ithaca immerses viewers in the ornate beauty of Cornell University’s iconi...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Self Portrait #3 From La Piedra Sustituta II Series. Limited edition color photo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Color Iris Photo Print Conceptual Tweety Bird Cartoon Art Photograph Todd Gray
Located in Surfside, FL
From his series SHADOW CARTOONS. Color iris print, hand initialed in pencil, This is not numbered. It is on Somerset watermarked archival paper Paper size is 30 X 22.25, images 22.7...
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1990s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Paper, Color

Self Portrait #11. La Piedra Sustituta Series. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Showing a body that is hidden is the aesthetic apology for the insane judgment that the artist himself has taken as an excuse for not being 'pointed at' or rather as self-pointing. T...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Untitled, MT Inv. No 11-1-120 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
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...
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Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Self Portrait #9. La Piedra Sustituta, Series. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Showing a body that is hidden is the aesthetic apology for the insane judgment that the artist himself has taken as an excuse for not being 'pointed at' or rather as self-pointing. T...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Wet Market, Kowloon, Hong Kong - Fish Tank Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
'Wet Market', part of a series Richard Heeps series taken on the streets of Kong Kong in 2013 where he wanted his photographs to be metaphors for the layered, dense living in the Cit...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Silver Gelatin

African American Large Vintage Color Photograph Dandy C Print Photo Ike Ude
By Iké Udé
Located in Surfside, FL
BEYOND DECORUM, CLOSED AND OPEN Series, I am selling each individually. they are pairs of open and closed jackets. I will include the second photo for reference. This listing is just for the closed jacket photograph. Vintage C-print on Fuji crystal archive paper. Image size is 40 x 30", sheet measures 50 X 32 Provenance: printed by Muse X, Los Angeles. I believe these were test, proof prints. They are not signed or editioned The work of Nigerian-born Iké Udé explores a world of dualities: photographer/performance artist, artist/spectator, African/post-nationalist, mainstream/marginal, individual/everyman and fashion/art. Iké Udé (born 1964) is a Nigerian-American photographer, performance artist, Ike Ude was born in 1964 in Lagos, Nigeria where he was raised. The eldest son of a wealthy family, he was exposed to photography and portraiture at an early age by dressing up for biweekly family portraits. Udé knew he was an artist by the age of six, when he developed a habit of firing a catapult at passers-by when he disapproved of their walk or the way they were dressed. As an adolescent, Udé attended the Government Secondary School, a British boarding school in Afikpo Nigeria. He was a habitué of London before he moved to New York in 1981 to study Media Communications at Hunter College, CUNY. He began his art career in the late 1980s with abstract painting and drawing. Since the 1990s, photography has been his primary medium. Udé is a dual citizen of the United States and Nigeria. Udé's paintings and drawings are less well known than his photography, though critics and art historians have recognized his early work. The late Henry Geldzahler, said of Udé's paintings and works on paper: "I am touched and amazed at the ways in which he manages to blend invisibly the modernist tradition with his own Nigerian roots. There is never anything forced in the conjunction; air and light seem to be his media." Udé began his Cover Girls series in 1994. Each photograph imitates the cover of a popular fashion or lifestyle magazines, in which the artist himself is featured as the model. (ala the work of Cindy Sherman) The photographs were consciously stylized, posed, photographed and then paired with type matching that of the respected magazine. At first glance, each photograph appears to be an authentic magazine cover. Udé used the magazine cover as a stage to critique the fetishism of the upper class white model and the effects of popular culture on today's consumerist society. The series was exhibited in 1994 in the New York City gallery Exit Art. Udé's black and white series of photographs, Uli, references both high fashion and Uli body art, wall motifs from Udé's Igbo heritage. The photographs explore the anonymity of the inscribed and disembodied self. Udé's dynamic use of light, namely the chiaroscuro effect, serves as a critical compositional element in the series. Udé's Beyond Decorum series, begun in 1999, juxtaposes photographs of men's shirts and women's pumps with suggestive personal advertisements in place of the clothing tags. With its accompanying book, Beyond Decorum: Photographs by Iké Udé, the series traveled across the United States and Canada. The exhibition was shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine; OBORO in Montreal, Canada; Sert Gallery; Carpenter Center at the Harvard University Art Museum; and MAK Museum in Vienna, Austria before traveling for two more years internationally. Udé's Paris Hilton: Fantasy and Simulacrum is a conversation between his alter ego, Visconti, and the celebrity Paris...
Category

1990s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color

Color Iris Photo Print Conceptual Cartoon Toy Bugs Bunny Photograph Todd Gray
Located in Surfside, FL
From his series SHADOW CARTOONS. Color iris print, hand initialed in pencil, This is not numbered. It is on Somerset watermarked archival paper Paper size is 30 X 22.25, images 22.7...
Category

1990s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Color

Deseo Insular X. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

The Grand Piano, Biblioteca Joanina
Located in Los Angeles, CA
60 x 61.3 inches ed. of 7 $9000 70 x 71.6 inches ed. of 5 $11,000
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Lambda

Back in 10 - large format photograph of conceptual message sign in landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph from a series of conceptual motivational messages on classic Americana billboard signs in landscape of the American West BACK I...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

Reinhard Görner: Beinecke, New Haven (Yale Rare Books and Manuscript Library)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner captures the monumentality of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale's principal repository for literary archives, early manuscripts, and rare books...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

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

Flora 3 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower and Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 3 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper. It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints. Culatto's new series 'Flora' ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Giclée

Flora 28 by Marisa Culatto - Still life Photography, Flower Photography, Color
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 28 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper. It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints. Culatto's new series 'Flora'...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Giclée

Deseo Insular XI, Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

Flora 23 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower and Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 23 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper. It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints. Culatto's new series 'Flora'...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Giclée

Amber Lens
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original enamel on metal painting by emerging contemporary conceptual artist Craig Sheperd (b. 1984) Craig Sheperd’s paintings, most of which are enamel on metal, were created o...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Metal, Enamel

Flora 19 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower and Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 19 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper. It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints. Culatto's new series 'Flora'...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Giclée

Flora 17 by Marisa Culatto - Color Photography, Flower and Nature Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 17 is a stunning and vibrant Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper. It is available in one size only in a limited edition of 6 prints. Culatto's new series 'Flora'...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Giclée

North Shore Motel Office II, Salton Sea, California - Architectural Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
North Shore Motel, from Richard Heeps Salton Sea series. Blue skies over this Californian classic mid-century modern Americana Motel exterior. Captured by Richard Heeps in the Salton...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Wood, Color, Resin

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