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
Russian Samizdat Art Conceptual Compass Sculpture Assemblage Gerlovin, Gerlovina
Located in Surfside, FL
Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin
Compass, 1988
Aluminum sculpture, mixed media and c-print photograph construction, c-print, felt tip marker
12.5 h × 12.5w × 4 d in (30 × 30 × 6...
Category
1980s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Metal
Russian Samizdat Art Conceptual Photo Sculpture Assemblage Gerlovin & Gerlovina
Located in Surfside, FL
Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin
Clock, 1987-94
Aluminum sculpture, mixed media and c-print photograph construction, c-print, felt tip marker
13 h × 13 w × 4 d in (30 × 30 × 6 c...
Category
1980s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Metal
Phillips Exeter Academy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Phillips Exeter Academy Library
60 x 50 inches
ed. of 10
$6,000
70 x 58.5 inches
ed. of 7
$9,000
80 x 66.8 inches
ed. of 5
$11,000
signed a...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, 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...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Acrylic Polymer, Neon Light, Archival Paper, Photogra...
Set of Three Framed Singapore Stamp Collection, Orchid Floral Color Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
30 Cents Singapore Orchid, from the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection.
These historic postage stamps that make up the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection, Singapore Series 'Postcards fro...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Isaac Newton, Cambridge, Trinity College Library
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This large-scale interior architectural photograph by German artist Reinhard Görner depicts the bust of Sir Isaac Newton in the Trinity College librar...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Untitled #9 from Ruven Afanador "Sombra" series, silver gelatin print 2/5
Located in New York, NY
Untitled #9 from Ruven Afanador "Sombra" series, silver gelatin print 2/5
This work is featured in Afanador's 2004 book 'Sombra" which combines elegant, erotic portraits and nudes of...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Flora 31, 2015 - Harvest Photography Hay Farm Grass
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 31, 2015 - Harvest Photography Hay Farm Grass by Marisa Culatto
Flora 31 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limited Editi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée
Oscar Niemeyer Staircase, Light Pastel Tones Interior Architecture, Still-Life
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Sexy Miami Futuristic Cocktail Lounge" is a series of photographs by Ryan Rivadeneyra inspired by the Art Deco colors of Miami that show beautiful objects and textures arranged meti...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Deseo Insular X. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Deseo Insular II, Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Untitled IV. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
José Sierra painted his body as a tribute to Afro-Colombian and pre-Columbian cultures, documenting the performance in photographs that portray him in erotic and suggestive positions...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Stallion Portrait: Slickly - Mane - Champion Horse's hair portrait print
Located in London, GB
Slickly was a world champion miler and leading French sire.
Series: Studio Portraits, Slickly - 'Mane', 2009 by John Reardon
Archival Pigment Print on Ha...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Col...
Deseo Insular IX. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
"Untitled 1.18" Still Life Photography 16' x 24' in Ed of 15 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 1.18" Still Life Photography 16' x 24' in Ed of 15 by García De Marina
Signed and numbered by the artist
Comes with COA issued by the artist
Not framed. Ships rolled in tu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
"Untitled 3.16" Photography 24' x 16' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 3.16" Photography 24' x 16' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina
Signed and numbered by the artist
Comes with COA issued by the artist
García de Marina was born in Gijó...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
"Untitled 4.21" Photography 35' x 24' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 4.21" Photography 35' x 24' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina
Signed and numbered by the artist
Comes with COA issued by the artist
García de Marina was born in Gijó...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Wilhold Up the Mirror Photograph and Mixed Media Assemblage Wall Hanging Artwork
Located in Surfside, FL
Dennis Hopper, (American, 1936-2010)
Mixed media sculpture
"Outmolding Older Concepts (Wilhold Up the Mirror)", 1961, photo and assemblage,
Ace gallery and Easy Rider Production labels verso 27"h x 40"w x 5"d.
There is broken mirror glued into the wooden collage box with the ceramic head that is attached to the front. I assume that is how it was made.
Provenance: Estate of Pentti Kouri, NYC; Ace Gallery, Los Angeles; Exhibited MOCA, Los Angeles, 2010
From a 1997 interview with Hopper where he references this piece "Right now it's very intense. I had a show that travelled Germany, about 15 different museums. Sunday we go to Denmark; I'm showing the early assemblage I did in 1961 which was the signal for conceptual art. I'm just two days there, then I'm going to Venice to meet Julian Schnabel - Count Volpe's given us a place to paint in Giudecca. Then I'm going to Documenta in Germany to hang another show, then I go back to LA on the 21st and start a film on the 23rd."
Notes/Literature: Dr. Pentti Kouri(1949-2009) was a Finnish economist and venture capitalist with partner George Soros. He built his prestigious art collection with the goal of opening a private art foundation focused on his interests in Minimalism, Arte Povera, Conceptual and Text-based art. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Dia Art Foundation, and on the boards of Tate, London and the Guggenheim Museum, New York. In addition, a portion of his collection forms the core of the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland
Hopper made his film debut alongside James Dean in 1955's Rebel Without a Cause. Both lost souls from dysfunctional households, they gravitated to each other, smoked dope and took joy rides. When Dean died, Hopper saw himself as the natural inheritor of his rebellious mantle and, revelling in his nickname of "Dennis the Menace", gave it to Hollywood with both barrels; so they dropped him. Dennis didn't make another Hollywood movie for seven years.
Frustrated by the deliberate stifling of his film career, Dennis turned to art and photography for creative stimulus, beginning with abstract subjects such as landscapes. His cutting-edge conceptual art became established round the world, with exhibitions in major cities. At home in the dining room stood one particularly interesting work, a white plastic box, eight feet long, that had an aluminium shaft sticking out of it, and two very large balls. It was called The Perpetual Erection Machine. Before Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst, there was Dennis.
In 1961, Hopper took part in an international photography competition in Australia with a contribution of five abstract photos, which he called Pieces. He won first place.
Soon after, Hopper married Hayward, daughter of the film producer Leland Hayward, whose credits include The Sound of Music and South Pacific. The wedding party of Hopper and Hayward was held in August at the apartment of actress Jane Fonda, a childhood friend of Hayward, who introduced Hopper to her younger brother Peter Fonda. Their daughter Marin was born in 1961, and they moved to Bel Air, California. Soon afterward the famous Bel Air fire destroyed their home, including approximately three-hundred Abstract Expressionist works and hundreds of pages of poetry that Hopper had begun in the mid-1950s. Hopper and his actor friends Dean Stockwell and Russ Tamblyn were close to many artists in California, especially assemblage artists Edward Kienholz...
Category
1960s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Ceramic, Wood, Mixed Media
Self Portrait #13 From Cuerpo en Tensión Series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Self Portrait #8 From La Piedra Sustituta II Series. Nude color photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Chef Portrait: Daniel Clifford /British Chef / Large Photograph in white + blue
Located in London, GB
Daniel Clifford (born 6 August 1973) is an English chef who is best known for his work at the two Michelin star restaurant Midsummer House. He was also named one of the winners of th...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Nude #15 From Cuerpo en Tensión Series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Haystack, After Monet #3 (Pictures of Color)
By Vik Muniz
Located in Greenwich, CT
Haystack, After Monet #3 was created by Vik Muniz for his 'Pictures of Color' series. The art is 47.5 x 67 inches and the framed size is 52.25 x 72.5 inches. There is a label on the verso with the artist's signature and edition number AP 1/5. From the total edition of 15 of which there were 10 Arabics and 5 APs. Framed in the original artist's frame.
Literature:
Pedro Corrêa do Lago, Vik Muniz: Obra Completa 1987-2009, Rio de Janeiro, 2009, pg.456.
Vik Muniz — Haystack, After Monet #3 (from Pictures of Color)
Vik Muniz’s Pictures of Color series stands at a pivotal moment in the evolution of visual culture. Conceived for the Venice Biennale, the series responds to the year when digital cameras first outsold film cameras worldwide, a symbolic tipping point in how images are made, shared, and believed. While exploring Venice’s long tradition of mosaic art, Muniz recognized a striking parallel between ancient mosaics and the emerging digital pixel: both construct images from countless discrete units, inviting viewers to experience perception as an assembly of parts.
In Pictures of Color, Muniz replaces the pixel with a tactile, analog counterpart: Pantone color chips. Each work is composed of thousands of hand-placed squares, arranged with meticulous precision to form images that appear crisp and cohesive at a distance. As the viewer approaches, the illusion dissolves into grids of pure color. This oscillation between clarity and fragmentation, between image and code, lies at the heart of the series. Muniz reveals the mechanics behind seeing in the digital age, prompting the viewer to consider how images are built, translated, and trusted.
Within this broader project, Muniz created a subseries dedicated to reinterpreting Monet’s iconic haystacks. Monet’s original paintings...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Paper, C Print
The Son
By Tina Barney
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Tina Barney is an American artist renowned for her photographs of friends and family in domestic, yet often highly-charged, settings. Her images evoke both the spontaneity of documen...
Category
1980s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print
$5,250
Vintage Ektacolor Color Photograph Untitled Memory Projection Photo Shimon Attie
By Shimon Attie
Located in Surfside, FL
Shimon Attie (American, b. 1957), Untitled Memory (Projection of Marsha A.)
Ektacolor photograph, 1998, from the Untitled Memory series,
Gallery label to verso, Jack Shainman Galle...
Category
1990s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color
Untitled V. La Costilla Roja Series. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude
By Jose Sierra
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...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Candida Höfer, Deutsche Oper - Signed C-Print, Contemporary Photography
Located in Hamburg, DE
Candida Höfer (German, b. 1944)
Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, 2012
Medium: C-Print on photo paper
Image dimensions: 30 x 45,5 cm
Sheet dimensions: 38 x 53,5 cm
Edition of 100: H...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print
I've always preferred my own birthday, 2013
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sign Of The Time - large scale photograph of conceptual motivational billboard
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large format photograph of a billboard signage in California desert landscape, from a series of conceptual motivational messages on iconic Americana roadside signs and billboards cap...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Flora 34, 2015 - Passion Flower Photograph Lavender Photograph Cocktail Ice
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 34, 2015 - Passion Flower Photograph Lavender Photograph Cocktail Ice by Marisa Culatto
Flora 34 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée
Nipple Detail (Black and White Nude Photography, B&W Nude)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit
We The Nipple
30 x 30 inches
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
Edition of 5
Signed by artist
Erotica to save our souls.
Latest press
ARTSY: May 28, 2019: The Photographers Fighting Instagram’s Censorship of Nude Bodies, by Kelsey Ables. First artist featured: Savannah Spirit.
In this self portrait, Savannah Spirit turns the tradition of black and white female portraiture back on itself. The muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own.
Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Her artwork asserts that a woman is her own muse. Through her artistic, social and curatorial projects, Spirit also takes on technology and social media censors, who assume that the unclothed body of a human—especially a female human—is by definition, pornography, in need of control.
Press
FORBES: Savannah Spirit Wants to Trigger Your Trump
VICE: Erotic Art Fights Trump with Scenes of Female Pleasure
BULLETT: The Art Show Fighting Fascism with Erotica
HUFFINGTON POST: Artists Are Resisting Trump's Misogyny with Erotic Art
DAZED: The Erotic Show Taking on Donald Trump
Internal:
Savannah Spirit, Black and White Photography, Black and White Nude...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Singapore Stamp Collection, 30c Singapore Orchid Purple - Floral color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
30 Cents Singapore Orchid Purple, from the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection.
This historic postage stamps that make up the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection, Singapore Series 'Postcar...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Limited Edition Japanese Photography, #189 Yunoyani Village, Nigata Prefecture
Located in New york, NY
The photograph Toshio Shibata, #189 Yunoyani Village, Nigata Prefecture, 1989 by Japanese photographer Toshio Shibata is hand-signed (on recto) by the photographer. The 13" x 19" pri...
Category
1980s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Pigment, Arc...
Raspail Red, Paris Metro Series
Located in Surfside, FL
these are original (signed with initials) proof prints
c-print on Fuji crystal archive paper. there is some minor wear to the surface but it cannot be photographed and will probabl...
Category
1990s Conceptual Photography
Materials
C Print
Flora 19, 2015 - Chinese Lantern Portrait Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 19, 2015 - Chinese Lantern Portrait Photography by Marisa Culatto
Flora 19 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limited Edi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée
Untitled - Contemporary, based on a Polaroid
By xulong zhang
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' 2013 -
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, 10.2 cm x 8.5cm.
Archival Print, based on a Fuji FP-100C Negative scanning.
Signed, embossed stamp and artist certificate.
Not mounted.
Xulong Zhang
Short Bio:
He has been engaged in fashion portrait photography for 30 years and loves Polaroid photography. In 2000, he began to develop Polaroid photography and traveled to 34 countries for photography.
Vita:
1999 Has won the title “Ten Elites” in the 3rd China Portrait Photography.
2000 Named the World Chinese Artist, known as “The Prince of Album”
2001 September, CCTV special report on “Zhang Xulong’s Body Art Photography” gained strong feedback from the community.
2002 January, published “Strategies for Commercial Portrait Photograph” by Zhejiang Photography Publishing.
2002 February, launched the concept of “Tang Yun” and greatly accepted by the market. His idea has spread across whole China’s photography industry.
2002 July, launched the concept of “Picasso’s scene backdrop” for kids photography and shocking the whole industry.
2002 August, published “Ms.Tang’s Body Art Portrait Album”, the first female body photography in China, by People’s Arts Publishing
2002 September, a personal exhibition entitled “seeing memory” in the ancient city of Shanxi Province, the 2nd session of the Pingyao International Photography Festival.
In December of 2002, he was invited to give lectures in Malaysia and auction off the “Fruitful Achievements” exhibition in Kuala Lumpur, donating all money to the Kuala Lumpur Charitable aid for nursing homes and orphanages, won the "goodwill ambassador" title of honor in Kuala Lumpur.
2003 February-March, held the exhibition of “White Valentines” at Beijing International Trade and Exhibition Centre.
December 2003, pioneered the new concept of "Royal Wedding", and completed the album of “Invasion 2004” wedding photography books published by Jilin art press.
In December 2003 was awarded the 2003 annual contribution of the Chinese human body photography.
2003 Published “China Portrait Culture”.
2004 January, published Body Art & Portrait album “Chun Hua Qiu Shi”.
2004 March, held the exhibition of “Body Art & Portrait photography” in Chengdu.
2004 May, featured on a special report of “Match En China” in Paris.
2004 September, Pingyao international photography festival held entitled "the ambiguity of ancient legacy" xu-long Zhang body art exhibition 2005 August.
2005 August, accept the German star weekly "Der Stern" special report of “China nude” photography...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Flora 18, 2015 - Flower Portrait Natural Environment
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 18, 2015 - Flower Portrait Natural Environment by Marisa Culatto
Flora 18 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limited Edit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée
Flora 27, 2015 - Goldenrod Flower Yarrow Achillea in Ice Color Print Photograph
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 27, 2015 - Goldenrod Flower Yarrow Achillea in Ice Color Print Photograph
Flora 27 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, 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
Deseo Insular XIII. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
"Merce Cunningham" Saul Leiter, 2 Contact Sheets, Fluxus Movement, Ballet
By Saul Leiter
Located in New York, NY
Saul Leiter
2 Merce Cunningham Contact Sheets, 1954
Dated and inscribed by Carolyn Brown on verso
Kodak safety film
10 x 8 inches
Provenance
Estate of Carolyn Brown, New York 2025.
Saul Leiter (1923-2013) was born in Pittsburgh to a father who was a well-respected Talmudic scholar. His passion for the arts ignited during his late teenage years, and despite being urged to follow in his father's footsteps to become a Rabbi, he chose to forgo theological studies, moving to New York at the age of 23 to delve into painting. In the city, he formed a friendship with Abstract Expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart, who was exploring photography. This connection, along with a subsequent friendship with W. Eugene Smith, deepened his fascination with photography. Leiter's initial black and white images reveal a remarkable talent for the art form. By the 1950s, he also began to explore color, producing a substantial and noteworthy collection during the early stages of this medium. His uniquely muted color palette often imparts a painterly essence that distinguishes his work from that of others in his era.
Leiter's inaugural showcase of color photography took place in the 1950s at the Artist's Club, a gathering spot for many Abstract Expressionists of that period. Edward Steichen included twenty-three of his black and white works in the influential 1953 exhibition "Always the Young Stranger" at the Museum of Modern Art and also showcased twenty of Leiter's color photographs during the 1957 MoMA event "Experimental Photography in Color. " In the late 1950s, art director Henry Wolf featured Leiter's color fashion photography...
Category
1950s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
Flora 10, 2015 - Ivory Rose with Gold Snapdragon and Pink Wildflower in Ice
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 10, 2015 - Ivory Rose with Gold Snapdragon and Pink Wildflower in Ice
Flora 10 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limited ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée
Flora 15, 2015 - Yellow Snapdragon Star Flower Portrait
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 15, 2015 - Yellow Snapdragon Star Flower Portrait by Marisa Culatto
Flora 11 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limited ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée
Untitled - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Figurative, 21st Century
By xulong zhang
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' (Chinese Classical), 2002, Edition 2/50 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival Pigment Print based on a POLAROID 809 Emulsion Transfer, 16.5x23.5inches, mounted on Aluminum, Signe...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Polaroid, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Flora 30, 2015 - Gin Cocktails Juniper Berries in Ice
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 30, 2015 - Gin Cocktails Juniper Berries in Ice by Marisa Culatto
Flora 30 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limited Edi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée
Untitled - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative Photography
By xulong zhang
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' 2011, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid 59, not mounted, 27cm x 21.5cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed stamp and artist certificate. ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Flora 11, 2015 - Summertime Wildflower Meadow Grasses Frozen in Ice Color Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 11, 2015 - Summertime Wildflower Meadow Grasses Frozen in Ice Color Print
Flora 11 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée
Flora 12, 2015 - Viola Yellow Pansies with Ivy Leaves Frozen in Ice Color Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 12, 2015 - Viola Yellow Pansies with Ivy Leaves Frozen in Ice Color Print
Flora 12 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée
Flora 6, 2015 - Springtime Grasses Clover Crimson Rose Frozen in Ice Color Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 6, 2015 - Springtime Grasses Clover Crimson Rose Frozen in Ice Color Print
Flora 6 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée
Flora 2, 2015 - Seasonal Floral Arrangement with Daisy and Snapdragon Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 2, 2015 - Seasonal Floral Arrangement with Daisy and Snapdragon Print
Flora 2 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limited E...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Giclée, Photographic Paper, Color
Self Portrait #1. From La Piedra Sustituta II. Limited edition color photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Orangerie, Parc de Versailles, France
Located in Los Angeles, CA
40 x 60 inches
ed. of 10
$5,000
50 x 75 inches
ed. of 5
$8,000
signed and numbered on label, verso
Reinhard Görner, with his large format photographs orchestrates the monumentalit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Lambda
Untitled I. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
José Sierra painted his body as a tribute to Afro-Colombian and pre-Columbian cultures, documenting the performance in photographs that portray him in erotic and suggestive positions...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
MAYBE - large format photograph of conceptual motivational billboard at night
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph of a billboard signage against ultramarine blue night sky, from a series of conceptual motivational messages on iconic Americana roadside signs and billboards ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée, Archival Ink
Singapore Stamp Collection, 30c Singapore Orchid Blue - Floral color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
30 Cents Singapore Orchid Blue, from the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection.
This historic postage stamps that make up the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection, Singapore Series 'Postcards...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Self Portrait #14 From Cuerpo en Tensión Series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Project 12:31 [ House ] 48 x 69" / 122 x 175cm
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
PROJECT 12:31 [ HOUSE ] by Frank Schott
long exposure light drawings using motion graphics of scientific scans to recreate the human form
48" x 69" / 122cm x 175cm
edition of 7
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
![Project 12:31 [ House ] 48 x 69" / 122 x 175cm](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_2422/a_13151731476481222958/Edition_EKTAlux_Frank_Schott_Project_1231_House_master.jpg?width=240 "Frank Schott - Project 12:31 [ House ] 48 x 69\" / 122 x 175cm")
$3,520 Sale Price
20% Off
Deseo Insular I. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was enchanted by some images he had a relationship with since childhood, working them into iconographies, such as the image of the fisherman carrying on his back a cod alm...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Untitled VIII. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
José Sierra painted his body as a tribute to Afro-Colombian and pre-Columbian cultures, documenting the performance in photographs that portray him in erotic and suggestive positions...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Untitled IX. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
José Sierra painted his body as a tribute to Afro-Colombian and pre-Columbian cultures, documenting the performance in photographs that portray him in erotic and suggestive positions...
Category
2010s Conceptual Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Conceptual photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Conceptual photography available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add photography created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, green, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Reinhard Görner, Jose Sierra, xulong zhang, and Gianfranco Pezzot. Frequently made by artists working with C Print, and Paper and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Conceptual photography, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available. Prices for photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $45 and tops out at $46,412, while the average work sells for $3,512.