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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
Dangerous Love, Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this mesmerizing macro photograph, Görner masterfully captures the delicate interplay between form and color within a flower's intimate landscape. The soft, diaphanous pink petals...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

Dangerous Love, Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this mesmerizing macro photograph, Görner masterfully captures the delicate interplay between form and color within a flower's intimate landscape. The soft, diaphanous pink petals...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, Signed Conceptual Art
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, a sizzling sunset by Peter Alexander, abstract compositions by Pauline Stella Sanchez and Jennifer Steinkamp...
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1990s Conceptual Photography

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C Print

Jeff Becker, Africa's Heartbeat, 2017, Video, Digital Pigment Print
Located in Darien, CT
Using his inkjet printer as a paintbrush, Jeff Becker creates watercolor-like imagery without Photoshop or filters. Disruptive in nature, the Slurry Series works don't follow the tra...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Video, 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 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

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Digital Pigment

Come Closer, Darling! Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This captivating macro photograph by German artist Reinhard Görner draws the viewer into the intricate, sensuous details of a blooming iris. The soft, velvety petals in shades of vio...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

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

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Photographic Paper

Isabelle Carbonell "The Yellow Brick Road" Iconic Wizard of Oz Set of Four
Located in Detroit, MI
"The Yellow Brick Road" is 1 of a set of 4 digital prints whose titles were inspired by the iconic film The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland. The other three are titled: The Land o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Digital Pigment

Jo Yarrington, Ghost girls_Slide Carousel, 2018, Photographic Film, Found Object
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...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Film, Found Objects

Isaac Newton, Cambridge, England
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...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

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

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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...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

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 cm) Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin were founding members of the underground conceptual movement Samizdat in the Soviet Union, described in their book Russian Samizdat Art. Based on a play of paradoxes, their work is rich with philosophic and mythological implications, reflected in their writing as well. Their book Concepts was published in Russia in 2012. The work by Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin is emphatically contemporary. The artist couple were part of the Moscow Conceptualists, their performance Costumes, from 1977, deepened their ongoing work with linguistic semiotic systems and their own bodies. Considering the context in which Gerlovina and Gerlovin made their work—that of political restrictions on public life, of unfreedom, and censorship—their collaborative togetherness must also be read as a space of possibility for political community and resistance. Rimma Gerlovina’s hair is featured prominently in the art of the Gerlovins as a constructing element of the body. Used for the linear drawings her braids transmit transpersonal waves reminiscent of an aura of live filaments. Long loose hairs function as threads of life; streaming in abundance, they allude to Aphrodisiac vitality and Samsonian strength. On the other hand, they are the haircloth worn during mourning and penitence. In New York they continued to make sculptural objects, and their photographic projects grew into an extended series called Photoglyphs. In their photographs, they use their own faces to explore the nature of thought and what lies beyond it. Since coming to the United States in 1980, they had many exhibitions in galleries and museums including the Art Institute of Chicago. The New Orleans Museum of Art launched a retrospective of their photography, which traveled to fifteen cities. Group exhibitions include the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C., Bonn Kunsthalle, Germany, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and others. Samizdat or “self-published” began in the Soviet Union, and Samizdat art consists mainly of books and magazines published and distributed by the artists who made them. Samizdat art has sources in the innovative books and magazines turned out by the early 20th century Russian avant-garde—artists and writers like Olga Rozanova, Vladimir Mayakovsky, El Lissitzky, and Alexander Rodchenko. Artists as varied as Alexander Archipenko, Leon Bakst, Marc Chagall, Naum Gabo, Alexandra Exter...
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1980s Conceptual Photography

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Metal

Vintage Color Photograph Hebrew "Slaves We Were" Signed C Print Photo Israeli
Located in Surfside, FL
SLAVES WE WERE, 1982, color photograph, signed and dated and titled in ink, numbered 3/50, sheet 12 x 16”. Hand signed, titled and has the edition number on the recto. Gerard Allon, ...
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1980s Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print

Floor full of pink salt, yellow sponge, surreal shadows, coquette pop art.
Located in Carballo, ES
The photograph measures 40 x 60 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

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Photographic Paper

Panel D - Brutality of Creation (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Panel B - Brutality of Creation (Abstract Photography) Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed. Edition 6 + 2 AP - Edition 1/6 This new series titled Neuros...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment, Paper

Child bathing in the pink sea, imagination, creativity, pop art.
Located in Carballo, ES
The photograph measures 40 x 40 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

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Photographic Paper

"Untitled 1.15" Photography 16' x 24' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 1.15" Photography 16' x 24' inch Edition of 15 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

Basilica, Bode Museum
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 act...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Lambda

Jo Yarrington, Lick, Dip, Paint, 2018, LED Light, Putty, Plastic
Located in Darien, CT
This installation imagines a dipping pot that the Radium Girls might have had at a work station. Lit by black light to highlight the neon glow, this object conveys a modern view on t...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Plastic, LED Light, Putty

"Untitled 3.20" Photography 16' x 24' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 3.20" Photography 16' x 24' inch Edition of 15 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 1.20" Photography 24' x 16' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 1.20" Photography 24' x 16' inch Edition of 15 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

Sleeping Beauty, Old National Gallery, Berlin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
60 x 45 inches ed. of 5 $6,000 80 x 60 inches ed. of 5 $9,000 93.2 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 historical architecture, gardens, and masterpieces. 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 Notes on the Old National Gallery...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Lambda

"Untitled 4.16" Still Life Photography 24' x 16' in Ed of 15 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 4.16" Still Life Photography 24' x 16' in Ed of 15 by García De Marina García de Marina was born in Gijón (Spain) in 1975. He emerged thru a deep transformation in 2010. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Digital Pigment

"Untitled 2.17" Still Life Photography 35' x 24' in Ed of 10 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 2.17" Still Life Photography 35' x 24' in Ed 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Digital Pigment

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 bound with perspex covers and printed title Ed. 80/XX, signed and numbered (this one is not signed or numbered and might be an artist proof) Guilty, Not Guilty. Themes central to Boltanski’s oeuvre find devastating expression in this tiny piece of pocket pornography containing images of brutal murder re-photographed by the artist from the Spanish detective magazine El Caso. [Ref. Bob Calle - Christian Boltanski Artist's Books 1969-2007, p.60]. Artists' book featuring 17 b/w photographs held together with two metal rings: "Luxury edition of a booklet with real glossy photographs, small enough to be hidden behind the hand... It pictures the bodies of victims of violent crime. By showing these photographs of half-naked corpses, bought nearer by close-up shots, the artist transforms the viewer into a voyeur who virtually becomes a sadistic partner in the crime." -- from Catalogue: Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera 1966-1991. references "Livres" by Christian Boltanski. Paris / Köln / Frankfurt, France / Germany : AFAA / Jennifer Flay / Walther König / Portikus, 1991. No. 69 in "Christian Boltanski : Catalogue: Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera, 1966-1991" by Christian Boltanski, Jennifer Flay, Günter Metken. Köln / Frankfurt, Germany : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König / Portikus, 1992, pp. 184 - 185. "Christian Boltanski : Artist's Books 1969 - 2007" by Christian Boltanski, Bob Calle. Paris, France : Éditions 591, 2008, pp. 60. Quote “There is in the work of the artist something of the high priest and something of the charlatan...
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1980s Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Paper

7000 Oak Trees - Original Vintage Photo by Buby Durini - 1984 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
7000 Querce (7000 Oaks) is an original b/w photograph representing the indoor of the Marino Gallery (in Mignanelli Square, Rome) where Joseph Beuys' exhibition was held in the Eighty...
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1980s Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Paper

Butterfly, Modern French Framed Photograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Contemporary Subject: Landscape Medium: Photograph Country: France 16 X 22.5 without frame Animalia, Insect Butterfly Photograph Élisabeth Montagnier was born in Algeria. S...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Color

Jeff Becker, Privey Policy, 2016, Archival Pigment Print
Located in Darien, CT
Using his inkjet printer as a paintbrush, Jeff Becker creates watercolor-like imagery without Photoshop or filters. He refers to this process of dynamic chemical processes as The Slu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment

Cosa Mentale (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Cosa Mentale (Abstract Photography) Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper — Unframed. Edition 6 + 2 AP This work is part of the "Humanistic Reciprocity". This series...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Paper, Archival Pigment

Experience of the Limits (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Experience of the Limits (Abstract Photography) Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper — Unframed. Edition 6 + 2 AP This work is part of the "Humanistic Reciprocity"....
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Paper, Archival Pigment

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls Window Transparencies, 2018, Plastic, Digital Print
Located in Darien, CT
This series of five 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 transpar...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Plastic, Digital

Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls 2018, Digital Print, Plastic
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...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Plastic, Digital

Heart, Mind and Nervous System (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Heart, Mind and Nervous System (Abstract Photography) Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper — Unframed. Edition 6 + 2 AP This work is part of the "Humanistic Recipro...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Paper, Archival Pigment

Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Classense Ravenna, 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 The...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

Reinhard Görner 'Menendez y Pelayo' Madrid
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner Menendez y Pelayo Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid 2017 40 x 60 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 50 x 75 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is tri...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

A Surreal Watercolor and Cyanotype on Cotton Sateen, "Relational Gradient"
Located in San Diego, CA
A one of a kind 17x19 Surreal Watercolor and Cyanotype executed on Cotton Sateen by artist Annalise Neil. A certificate of authenticity will be provided upon its purchase or delivery...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Paper

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...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

Human nature, Documentary analog photography, 118 x 78 cm, Fred Langford Edwards
Located in Carballo, ES
Fred Langford Edwards turns what seems like documentary research (analogue photographs of curious objects that the artist finds on the beach) into an art of wonder. In this extensive...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Paper

Human nature, Documentary analog photography, 118 x 78 cm, Fred Langford Edwards
Located in Carballo, ES
Fred Langford Edwards turns what seems like documentary research (analogue photographs of curious objects that the artist finds on the beach) into an art of wonder. In this extensive...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Paper

Vintage Ektacolor Color Photograph Untitled Memory Projection Photo 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 Gallery, New York matted and framed. Frame dimensions 27 3/4 x 32 1/4 in, photo 25 X 31 Provenance: from the Estate of the late Ron and Anne Dees, Fayetteville, North Carolina Ron and Anne Dees were longtime collectors, lovers, and patrons of art. Starting in the late 1990s, they began their art acquisition and collection, focusing substantially on contemporary art. Their affinity for art went far beyond simply collecting and displaying. Ron served as a docent at the esteemed Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from the late 1990s into the 2000s. In the series "Untitled Memory," Attie revisited his former (and then-deserted) apartment in San Francisco, projecting black-and-white snapshots of his friends and family in spaces that they previously occupied. The desaturated figures have a specter-like appearance and are often depicted in repose or rest, as if in a perpetual state of waiting. The juxtaposition between the projected images and the empty rooms reminds viewers of the fragility of memory, and how sites are activated/changed by presence and absence. Shimon Attie (born Los Angeles in 1957) is an American visual artist. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008, The Rome Prize in 2001 and a Visual Artist Fellowship from Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study in 2007. His work spans a variety of media, including photography, site-specific installation, multiple channel immersive video installation, performance, and new media. Much of Attie's practice explores how a wide range of contemporary media may be used to re-imagine new relationships between space, time, place, and identity. Much, though not all, of Attie's work in the 90s dealt with the history of the second world war. He first garnered significant international attention by slide projecting images of past Jewish life onto contemporary locations in Berlin. More recent projects have involved using a range of media to engage local communities to find new ways of representing their history, memory and potential futures. Attie's artworks and interventions are site-specific and immersive in nature, and tend to engage subject matter that is both social, political and psychological. In 2013, Five monographs have been published on Attie's work, which has also been the subject of a number of films, which have aired on PBS, BBC, and ARD. Since receiving his MFA Degree in 1991, Attie has realized approximately 25 major projects in ten countries around the world. Most recently, in 2013-14, Shimon Attie was awarded the Lee Krasner Lifetime Achievement Award in Art. He was born in 1957 and received an MFA in 1991. In 1991 he moved to Germany from his previous home in Northern California, and began to make work initially about Jewish identity and the history of the second world war. His work later evolved to engage broader issues of memory, place and identity more generally. Shimon Attie moved to New York City in 1997. Shimon Attie's work has been extensively reviewed by a wide variety of publications, including features and/or reviews in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Art News, Art Forum, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe, and many others. Yasaman Alipour, writing in "The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture", on Shimon Attie's solo exhibition "Facts on the Ground" at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City: Attie achieves something profound: he presents a unique opportunity to contemplate Israel/Palestine without the distraction that is simultaneously a manifestation of the limitations of visual of written language and the possibilities of their alliance." Norman Kleeblatt, writing in a cover story for "Art in America" "Like many other artists in the wake of Marcel Broodthaers...
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1990s Conceptual Photography

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Color

multiple indentity 2
Located in Greifswald, DE
"Everyone has a different vision of us because they look at us with their own eyes and not with ours, therefore, what we believe to be our identity is different from what others attr...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Panel, Inkjet

Conceptual Contemporary Art Color Photograph, Social Commentary
Located in Surfside, FL
Referencing immigrants and the disabled. Social commentary conceptual artwork. Provenance: Deaccessioned from a New York University. Condé + Beveridg...
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Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Color

EXP_5785.RAW
Located in Greifswald, DE
„According to some theories, the human brain encodes images through a process that takes place in several stages. At the beginning, the images are organized into two-dimensional sket...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Panel, Inkjet

EXP_8623.RAW
Located in Greifswald, DE
„According to some theories, the human brain encodes images through a process that takes place in several stages. At the beginning, the images are organized into two-dimensional sket...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Panel, Inkjet

EXP_8783.RAW
Located in Greifswald, DE
„According to some theories, the human brain encodes images through a process that takes place in several stages. At the beginning, the images are organized into two-dimensional sket...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Panel, Inkjet

EXP_4873.RAW
Located in Greifswald, DE
„According to some theories, the human brain encodes images through a process that takes place in several stages. At the beginning, the images are organized into two-dimensional sket...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Panel, Inkjet

Reinhard Görner: Rose Main Reading Room (New York Public Library)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner Rose Main Reading Room, 2014 New York Public Library New York, NY 50 x 63.5 inches Ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 76.2 inches Ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 88.9 inches Ed. of 5 $11,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Lambda

MAYBE - large format photograph of conceptual motivational billboard at night
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 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

MAYBE - large format photograph of conceptual motivational billboard at night
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

The Beef Sisters - Kate - Unique Polaroid - Contemporary, Youth, Photograph
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester Kate - 2023 Original Polaroid, mixed media. 10.7 x 8.8 cm (total), 7.8 x 7.6 cm (image area). Signed in f...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Polaroid

The Beef Sisters - Ella - Unique Polaroid - Contemporary, Youth, Photograph
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester Ella - 2023 Original Polaroid, mixed media. 10.7 x 8.8 cm (total), 7.8 x 7.6 cm (image area). Signed in f...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Polaroid

The Beef Sisters - Emily - Unique Polaroid - Contemporary, Youth, Photograph
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester Emily - 2023 Original Polaroid, mixed media. 10.7 x 8.8 cm (total), 7.8 x 7.6 cm (image area). Signed in ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Polaroid

The Beef Sisters - Mika - Unique Polaroids - Contemporary, Youth, Photograph
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester Mika - 2023 Original Polaroids, mixed media. 10.7 x 8.8 cm (total), 7.8 x 7.6 cm (image area). Signed in ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Polaroid

The Beef Sisters - Page - Unique Polaroids - Contemporary, Youth, Photograph
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester Page - 2023 Original Polaroids, mixed media. 10.7 x 8.8 cm (total), 7.8 x 7.6 cm (image area). Signed in ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Polaroid

The Beef Sisters - Pip - Unique Polaroids - Contemporary, Youth, Photograph
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester Pip - 2023 Original Polaroids, mixed media. 10.7 x 8.8 cm (total), 7.8 x 7.6 cm (image area). Signed in f...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Polaroid

The Beef Sisters - Shosh - Unique Polaroids - Contemporary, Youth, Photograph
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester Shosh - 2023 Original Polaroids, mixed media. 10.7 x 8.8 cm (total), 7.8 x 7.6 cm (image area). Signed in...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Polaroid

The Beef Sisters - Ella and May - 16 unique Polaroids
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester Ella and May - 2023 16 original Polaroids, mixed media. 50x50cm installed. Signed in front. "The Beef S...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Polaroid

The Beef Sisters - Sui - 16 unique Polaroids
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester Sui - 2023 16 original Polaroids, mixed media. 50x50cm installed. Signed in front. "The Beef Sisters" i...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Polaroid

Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Classense Ravenna, 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 The sunlit entrance to the Sala delle scienze e delle arti (Hall of sciences and arts) with the bust of Teresa Gamba (Lord Byron’s lover) in background. The vista is framed by a rhythmic repetition of gleaming wooden doorways and archways, housing shelves of antique tomes. 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...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

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