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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
Palm Springs 1

Palm Springs 1

By Vanessa Marsh

Located in Sante Fe, NM

Further to Fly is a series of Wet Plate Collodion Photograms that continues in my practice of using drawings on mylar layered with light-sensitive materials in the darkroom to create...

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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photogram

Sliver Streak

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...

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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Metal

Palm Springs 8

Palm Springs 8

By Vanessa Marsh

Located in Sante Fe, NM

Further to Fly is a series of Wet Plate Collodion Photograms that continues in my practice of using drawings on mylar layered with light-sensitive materials in the darkroom to create imagined landscapes. The illustrations used in the series are based on reference shots I took in Palm Springs...

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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photogram

Conceptual Artist Allen Ruppersberg Hand Printed Lithograph Prints & Photographs
Conceptual Artist Allen Ruppersberg Hand Printed Lithograph Prints & Photographs

Conceptual Artist Allen Ruppersberg Hand Printed Lithograph Prints & Photographs

By Allen Ruppersberg

Located in Surfside, FL

Allen Ruppersberg (American, 1944-) Lithograph, Mixed media From the Top Ten Historical Similarities (and Differences) Between Prints and Photographs. This sale is of one print not t...

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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Mixed Media, Lithograph

Morgan Library II, New York
Morgan Library II, New York

Morgan Library II, New York

By Reinhard Görner

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

Materials

Lambda, C Print

African American Large Vintage Color Photograph Dandy C Print Photo Ike Ude
African American Large Vintage Color Photograph Dandy C Print Photo Ike Ude

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 36 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

African American Large Vintage Color Photograph Dandy C Print Photo Ike Ude
African American Large Vintage Color Photograph Dandy C Print Photo Ike Ude

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 open jacket photograph. Vintage C-print on Fuji crystal archive paper. Image size is 40 x 30", sheet measures 50 X 35 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

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls 2018, Digital Print, Plastic
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls 2018, Digital Print, Plastic

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls 2018, Digital Print, Plastic

By Jo Yarrington

Located in Darien, CT

This series of six transparencies are in an edition size of 3. They are designed to be installed directly onto interior window areas to allow light to pass thru them. These transparencies can also be purchased separately for $3200 each and are an edition size of 3. Dimensions are 72 x 48 inches each. The upper transoms are window transparencies in shades of green. They are also available and can be fit to meet specific window sizes. In this window setting, they are 45 x 45 inches and can be purchased as a set of 5 panels for $3500 for that group. Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instruments or signage or other applications where light must be produced for long periods without external energy sources. Radioluminescent paint used to be used for clock hands and instrument dials...

Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Plastic, Digital

Sala dei Fiumi I (Hall of Rivers), Ducal Palace of Mantua, Italy

Sala dei Fiumi I (Hall of Rivers), Ducal Palace of Mantua, Italy

By Reinhard Görner

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 "Hall of the Rivers" within the Ducal Palace of Mantua, a historic complex recognized as the sixth largest palace in Europe. Built between the 14th and the 17th century by the noble Gonzaga family, the Ducal Palace of Mantua serves as a testament to Italy's rich architectural heritage and royal history. The palace complex, featuring an impressive assortment of more than 500 rooms, corridors, galleries, inner courts, and extensive gardens, spans an area of approximately 34,000 m2. While the palace is widely recognized for Mantegna's frescos in the Camera degli Sposi (Wedding Room), the Sala dei Fiumi offers its unique allure. Created during the Habsburg rule in Mantua, this hall showcases distinctive wall paintings where the rivers of the Mantuan territory are anthropomorphized as giants. Reinhard Görner's photograph is more than a visual delight; it's a historical journey into Italy's cultural past. Ideal for art enthusiasts, history lovers, and those with a keen eye for architectural beauty, this piece promises to enhance any collection. Allow the grandeur of the Palazzo Ducale di Mantova and the majesty of the Sala dei Fiumi to resonate within your space with this stunning image. 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 II, Baltimore (2017) and Riggs Library I, Washington DC (2017)—Görner captures the atmosphere of absolute silence and concentration the spaces embody while also revealing their almost cathedral-like sense of grandeur. Görner’s images have a vivid sense of depth and dimension that convey an impression of intimacy, as in Isaac Newton, Cambridge (2017), or monumentality via his precise and skilful use of framing and perspective. 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...

Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Reinhard Görner, Ganymed, Palazzo Grimani, Venice
Reinhard Görner, Ganymed, Palazzo Grimani, Venice

Reinhard Görner, Ganymed, Palazzo Grimani, Venice

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Reinhard Görner, Ganymed, Palazzo Grimani, Venice, Italy. In this monumental photograph, a sculpture depicting the Kidnapping of Ganymed is suspended in the center of the vault, decorated by lacunae. The image combines the unique geometric abstraction of the architecture with the organic form of the sculpture and the floor. What is so unique about this artwork? Compositionally, all lines radiate to the the center of the room, where the energy is thrust upwards again by the mythical figure. The wings of Ganymed direct the eye back to the perimeter of the room, where the attention flows inwards once again. The floor radiates with an earthy ktenic energy, which compliments the vertical push of the sculpture. The result is a living, pulsing composition, set within the unusual warm classicism of this unique Venetian Palazzo. This beautiful palace was the residence of the Doge Antonio Grimani. It is one of the most unique examples of Venetian architecture in transition from Gothic, well-rooted in the local culture, to the Renaissance. German large-scale photographer Reinhard Görner is known for his stunning, monumental-scale photography, which combine a sense of grandness with intimacy. He was born in 1950 in Leipzig, Germany, and he lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He studied drama, german literature and sinology in Munich and Berlin, and has been photographing architecture, interiors, and public spaces since 1981. Condition: New. Images are crisp and sharp. Images are not shown at full resolution for the protection of the artist. 50 x 49 inches ed of 10 $6,000 60 x 59 inches ed of 7 $9,000 70 x 68.8 inches ed of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner with his large format architectural 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 More about the Palazzo: Newly restored, the Palazzo Grimani also includes Camerino di Callisto, with stucco by Giovanni da Udine...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Lambda, C Print

The Swan, With Leda (Limited Edition of 25)
The Swan, With Leda (Limited Edition of 25)

The Swan, With Leda (Limited Edition of 25)

Located in New York, NY

This 2009 photograph by legend photographer, John Stoddart depicts “The Swan with Leda.” It was inspired from the mythology of the Greek story of Leda and the Swan, when the God Zeus...

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Early 2000s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

I've always preferred my own birthday, 2013

I've always preferred my own birthday, 2013

By Jennifer Greenburg

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,...

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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment

Conceptual Artist Allen Ruppersberg Hand Printed Lithograph Prints & Photographs
Conceptual Artist Allen Ruppersberg Hand Printed Lithograph Prints & Photographs

Conceptual Artist Allen Ruppersberg Hand Printed Lithograph Prints & Photographs

By Allen Ruppersberg

Located in Surfside, FL

Allen Ruppersberg (American, 1944-) Lithograph, Mixed media From the Top Ten Historical Similarities (and Differences) Between Prints and Photographs. This sale is of one print not t...

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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Mixed Media, Lithograph

Untitled (Orgy), Digital Pigment Print by Peter Coffin
Untitled (Orgy), Digital Pigment Print by Peter Coffin

Untitled (Orgy), Digital Pigment Print by Peter Coffin

By Peter Coffin

Located in Long Island City, NY

A digital c-print by Peter Coffin. A conceptual work featuring a diptych of two pages from open books referring to the degrees of separation within the relationship between artist, a...

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Early 2000s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls Slides for Carousel, Photographic Film, Plastic
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls Slides for Carousel, Photographic Film, Plastic

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls Slides for Carousel, Photographic Film, Plastic

By Jo Yarrington

Located in Darien, CT

Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instruments or signage or other applications where light must be produced for long periods without external energy sources. Radioluminescent paint used to be used for clock hands and instrument dials...

Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Metal

Isabelle Carbonell "The Land of Oz"  Iconic Wizard of Oz Set of  Four
Isabelle Carbonell "The Land of Oz"  Iconic Wizard of Oz Set of  Four

Isabelle Carbonell "The Land of Oz" Iconic Wizard of Oz Set of Four

Located in Detroit, MI

"The Land of Oz" is one of a set of four digital prints whose titles were inspired by the iconic film The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland. The other three are titled: Kansas, The ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Digital Pigment

Post Soviet Russian Avant Garde Art Photograph Mixed Media Gum Arabic Photo
Post Soviet Russian Avant Garde Art Photograph Mixed Media Gum Arabic Photo

Post Soviet Russian Avant Garde Art Photograph Mixed Media Gum Arabic Photo

By Igor Vishnyakov

Located in Surfside, FL

Igor Vishnyakov is a Russian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1968 in Moscow. Igor spent his childhood in Africa and Southeast Asia. After returning to Moscow in the mid...

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Mixed Media, Photographic Paper

Reinhard Görner Virtue, Bode–Museum, Berlin
Reinhard Görner Virtue, Bode–Museum, Berlin

Reinhard Görner Virtue, Bode–Museum, Berlin

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Virtue, Bode–Museum, Berlin 50 x 62.5 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 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...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Lambda

Boschereccia Palazzo, Hercolani, Bologna

Boschereccia Palazzo, Hercolani, Bologna

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Boschereccia Palazzo Hercolani, Bologna, Italy 2022 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 and numbered on labe...

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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Lambda, C Print

Palazzo Zenobio I

Palazzo Zenobio I

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format photographs orchestrates the monumentality of historical architecture, gardens, and masterpieces. An acti...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Reinhard Görner 'Biblioteca del Senado, Madrid, Spain' (Library, Madrid)

Reinhard Görner 'Biblioteca del Senado, Madrid, Spain' (Library, Madrid)

By Reinhard Görner

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

Materials

Lambda, C Print

El Caso
El Caso

El Caso

By Christian Boltanski

Located in Surfside, FL

Christian Boltanski, El Caso, Parkett., Zürich. 1989 in the collection of the MOMA Museum of Modern Art NYC Miniature booklet with 17 photographs, 2 x 3 1/8” (5 x 8 x 0,6 cm) ring bo...

Category

1980s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Faces, Vintage Color Photograph Digital Photo Collage Print Asian American
Faces, Vintage Color Photograph Digital Photo Collage Print Asian American

Faces, Vintage Color Photograph Digital Photo Collage Print Asian American

By Emily Cheng

Located in Surfside, FL

This was from Muse X publishers. It came in a plastic bag signed Emily Cheng. (the plastic bag is not included) It is on Fuji crystal photo paper. It depicts two Asian faces in a cubist, fractured way, with a woman (or man) holding a photograph over his/her face. it is marked proof NFS and is not signed or numbered. Emily Cheng (born in New York City, in 1953) is an American artist of Chinese ancestry. She is best known for large scale painting with a center focus often employing expansive circular images radiantly colored, radially composed. Cheng received her BFA in 1975 from the Rhode Island School of Design and attended the New York Studio School. Cheng has exhibited widely in the US and in Asia. In 2011, Cheng created Charting Sacred Territories, an exhibition exploring world religions which opened in the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (MOCA) , Taiwan (2011) and traveled to Hanart TZ Gallery in (2015), Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, (2015) and in Europe at the Palais Liechtenstein Feldkirch, Austria (2019). Cheng has had numerous solo shows in the US and in Asia and is represented by Hanart TZ Gallery in Hong Kong. In 2007, Timezone 8 published a monograph of Emily Cheng titled, Chasing Clouds, a decade of studies, with essays by Kevin Powers and Johnson Chang. Emily Cheng has lived and worked in New York City since 1977 and teaches Asian Art History at the School of Visual Arts. Influenced by a wide array of eastern and western artists including Van Gogh, Gauguin, Manet and Giacometti as well as de Kooning, early Philip Guston and Jackson Pollock. Nicolas Carone...

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1990s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print

Wilhold Up the Mirror Photograph and Mixed Media Assemblage Wall Hanging Artwork
Wilhold Up the Mirror Photograph and Mixed Media Assemblage Wall Hanging Artwork

Wilhold Up the Mirror Photograph and Mixed Media Assemblage Wall Hanging Artwork

By Dennis Hopper

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...

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1960s Conceptual Photography

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Ceramic, Wood, Mixed Media

Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, Signed Conceptual Art
Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, Signed Conceptual Art

Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, Signed Conceptual Art

By Brenda Zlamany

Located in Surfside, FL

This is a proof print. signed and marked bat (for bon a tirer or good to print) This is a single print from 1998 Birds. Suite of eight Cibachromes. Edition of fifteen. 10″ × 10″ (sheet size). Muse [X] Editions. Taxidermy Bird. Brenda Zlamany has shown widely in the United States and Europe. Her work has been reproduced in The New York Times Magazine, Artforum, Flashart, Art in America, Art and Antiques, and The New Yorker. She was born in New York City in 1959. 1976 - 77 Yale College Before College Program, New Haven, Conn. 1981 Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (BA) Stanley William Hayter s Atelier 17, Paris. Tyler School of Art, Rome. 1984 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine. Select Museums: Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution; the National Museum, Gdansk; Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent. Select Collections: Cincinnati Art Museum; Deutsche Bank; the Museum of Modern Art, Houston; the Neuberger Museum of Art; the Virginia Museum of Fine Art; the World Bank; the Yale University Art Gallery. Select Commissions the World Bank, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center the New York Times Magazine (Marian Anderson for an article by Jessye Norman, Osama bin Laden for the September 11, 2005, cover, Jeffrey Dahmer) Select Grants and Awards: Fulbright Fellowship (2011), Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2006–07), New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship in Painting (1994). MacDowell Colony (1995, 1992, 1986) Yaddo (1997). For many years, Brenda Zlamany has painted portraits of other artists, including Chuck Close, Alex Katz, and David Hockney. She has also been a subject for them; as she puts it, “we are professional posers.” Recently, however, she has worked to paint portraits of those whose gaze is more internal—monks and nomads in Tibet, aboriginal people in Taiwan—creating large bodies of portraits that investigate the limits of the genre. She returned, with her daughter, to Hockney’s studio in 2014, not only to sit for him but to paint him once again. Her practice involves the long sittings and intense looking required of traditional portrait-making. Muse X Editions. An (now defunct) LA based innovative publisher of limited-edition prints, Muse X has launched its first group of prints and is just beginning to make itself known to artists, curators, dealers and collectors. Among works just off the press are otherworldly landscapes by Barbara Kasten and Oliver Wasow...

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1990s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print

Flora 27, 2015 - Goldenrod Flower Yarrow Achillea in Ice Color Print Photograph

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...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée

Conceptual Artist Allen Ruppersberg Hand Printed Lithograph Prints & Photographs
Conceptual Artist Allen Ruppersberg Hand Printed Lithograph Prints & Photographs

Conceptual Artist Allen Ruppersberg Hand Printed Lithograph Prints & Photographs

By Allen Ruppersberg

Located in Surfside, FL

Allen Ruppersberg (American, 1944-) Lithograph, Mixed media From the Top Ten Historical Similarities (and Differences) Between Prints and Photographs. This sale is of one print not t...

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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Mixed Media, Lithograph

Bode Museum

Bode Museum

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

50 x 62.5 inches ed. of 7 $6,000 60 x 75 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 87.5 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format phot...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Lambda

Arches, Bode Museum, Berlin

Arches, Bode Museum, Berlin

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Arches, Bode Museum, Berlin 40 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $5,000 50 x 62.5 inches ed. of 5 $6,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format photograp...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Lambda

Conceptual Artist Allen Ruppersberg Hand Printed Lithograph Prints & Photographs
Conceptual Artist Allen Ruppersberg Hand Printed Lithograph Prints & Photographs

Conceptual Artist Allen Ruppersberg Hand Printed Lithograph Prints & Photographs

By Allen Ruppersberg

Located in Surfside, FL

Allen Ruppersberg (American, 1944-) Lithograph, Mixed media From the Top Ten Historical Similarities (and Differences) Between Prints and Photographs. This sale is of one print not t...

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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Mixed Media, Lithograph

Peristyle, Grand Trianon, Versailles

Peristyle, Grand Trianon, Versailles

By Reinhard Görner

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, gar...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Lambda

Unique piece, Photography made without a camera, Rayogram, Water and plants
Unique piece, Photography made without a camera, Rayogram, Water and plants

Unique piece, Photography made without a camera, Rayogram, Water and plants

Located in Carballo, ES

Ana Paes (A Guarda, 1982) makes us aware of the interstices that exist between one plane and another, shows us that this apparent continuity of the image-movement is, in fact, only a...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Piazza San Marco, Italy, Architectural Photograph
Piazza San Marco, Italy, Architectural Photograph

Piazza San Marco, Italy, Architectural Photograph

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

60 x 40 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 50 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 90 x 60 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format photogra...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Body full of salt and pink water, lagoon, pop art, surreal photography.
Body full of salt and pink water, lagoon, pop art, surreal photography.

Body full of salt and pink water, lagoon, pop art, surreal photography.

Located in Carballo, ES

The photograph measures 50 x 50 cm. It is printed on matte Hahnehmühle paper. The dimension of time for María Moldes (Pontevedra, 1974) is used as a weapon of resistance against wha...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Conceptual photography for sale on 1stDibs.

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