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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
Peoples Privacy
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 Sl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Inkjet

Out of Nowhere, Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In Out of Nowhere, part of Reinhard Görner's Secret World of Plants series, the delicate interplay of deep purples, vibrant greens, and soft-focus backgrounds creates an evocative an...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

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

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Boston Public Library
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Boston Public Library 55.4 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 66.5 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 77.6 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbere...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

Flora 3, 2015 - Summer Spring Seasonal Goldenrod Flowers Frozen in Ice Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 3, 2015 - Summer Spring Seasonal Goldenrod Flowers Frozen in Ice Print Flora 3 is a Giclée print on Ultra Bright Hahnemuehle paper, available in this size only from a Limited ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Giclée, Photographic Paper, Color

Riggs Library I, Washington DC, Interior Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riggs Library I, Washington DC, by world-renowned architectural photographer Reinhard Görner, captures the timeless elegance of one of America's rare surviving cast-iron libraries. T...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

Riggs Library, Washington DC, Interior Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riggs Library, Washington DC, by world-renowned architectural photographer Reinhard Görner, captures the timeless elegance of one of America's rare surviving cast-iron libraries. Thi...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

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

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

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

George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Interior Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This masterful photograph by renowned architectural photographer Reinhard Görner captures the timeless elegance of the George Peabody Library in Baltimore. Known as the 'cathedral of...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Let's Fly Away, Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This exquisite fine art photograph captures the delicate interplay of light and texture, inviting the viewer to explore the ephemeral beauty of nature in intimate detail. A celebrati...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Cosmic Dance, Secret World of Plants, German Macro Botanical Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An intimate portrayal of nature’s elaborate choreography, Cosmic Dance is a fine art photograph that invites the viewer into a world of vibrant textures and earthy chromatics. With i...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

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

1990s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color

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

Materials

Archival Paper, Color

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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

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

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Reinhard Görner: Beinecke, New Haven (Yale Rare Books and Manuscript Library)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner captures the monumentality of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale's principal repository for literary archives, early manuscripts, and rare books...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

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

Materials

C Print, Lambda

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

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...
Category

1980s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Estante No. 6, Biblioteca Joanina, Portugal
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 photogr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Lambda

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

Materials

C Print, Lambda

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

Materials

Photographic Paper

Beuys' Exhibition - Original Vintage Photo by Ruby Durini - 1084 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Beuys' Exhibition 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's. Th...
Category

1940s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Reinhard Görner, 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 and Sleeping Beauty: The Old National Gallery (Alte Nationalgalerie) is the original home of the Nationalgalerie, whose collections today are divided between the New National Gallery, the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary Art – Berlin, the Friedrichswerder Church, Museum Berggruen and the Collection Scharf-Gerstenberg. The idea of establishing a cultural and educational centre across from the Berlin Palace...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Lambda

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...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

"Raven Skull" Diptych from Comparative Anatomy Portfolio Pacific Northwest 1993
Located in Portland, OR
DIANNE KORNBERG (1945) RAVEN SKULL, Diptych from Comparative Anatomy Portfolio, 1993 A selenium toned gelatin silver print edition 7/15. Housed in a high quality hardwood frame with acid free and UV materials. Kornberg is a Professor Emerita at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon, she relocated her studio to an Island in the San Juan Archipelago in Washington State. Since that time she has been collaborating with two poets, making prints that are photo based but also incorporate drawing, painting, software artifacts and text. Kornberg earned a BFA from the University of Washington...
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1990s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Reinhard Görner: Phillips Exeter Academy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner Phillips Exeter Academy Library 3 sizes available 60 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 70 x 58.5 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 80 x 66.8...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Morgan Library II, New York
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Morgan Library II New York 50 x 62.4 inches ed. of 10 $6000 60 x 74.9 inches ed. of 7 $9000 70 x 87.5 inches ed. of 5 $11000 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trimmed...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Embrace
Located in East Hampton, NY
Two Men in an Embrace Printed to order Gay content Inquire about various sizing Comes unframed. About the Artist: Short Biography in a Nutshell: A fun journey My first foray into...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Grand Opening, Lello Bookshop, Portugal
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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Lambda

Reinhard Görner, Sainte Geneviève II Library, Paris
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner Sainte Geneviève II Library Paris, France 62.5" x 50" Edition of 10 $6,000 75" x 60" Edition of 7 $9,000 87.5" x 70" Edition of 5 $...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Lambda

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

Materials

Lambda

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

1990s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Color

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...
Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Rose Main Reading Room (New York Public Library): Private Offer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rose Main Reading Room, 2014 Public Library New York Signed and numbered
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Lambda

Greek Temple, Pergamon Museum, Berlin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Greek Temple, Pergamon-Museum, Berlin 50 x 62.5 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 75 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 87.5 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed 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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

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...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Boston Public Library
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Boston Public Library 55.4 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 66.5 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 77.6 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbere...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

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...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Venus and Amor I, 1530, Lucas Cranach The Elder, Painting Detail Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner’s Venus and Amor I presents an exquisite close-up of Lucas Cranach the Elder’s 1530 masterpiece, capturing the delicate interplay of sensuality and symbolism characte...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

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

Materials

Photographic Paper

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

1990s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Color

Athena, Pergamon Museum, Berlin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
62.5 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 60 inches ed. of 5 $9,000 87.5 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format pho...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Lambda

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

Materials

C Print, Lambda

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

Materials

Archival Pigment

Large Scale Color Photograph Ektacolor C Print Art Photo Typography Sorel Cohen
By Sorel Cohen
Located in Surfside, FL
SOREL COHEN (Canadian b. 1936 - ) Speak Silence- 1978 Ektacolor photograph and vinyl letter typography Verso with gallery label for Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 41 inches x 53 inches edition of 3 The original receipt included with this item is only available in the digital form. I only have the copy of it, not the original. SOREL COHEN (Canadian b. 1936 - ) A graduate of Concordia University, Cohen has been a major figure on the Canadian photography scene for over thirty years. She has been invited as guest lecturer to many Canadian universities, and was awarded the Canada Council’s prestigious Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography (1988). Her master’s thesis examined feminist art in the 1970s, while her art practice, which is largely autobiographical, weaves original links conceptual art, photography, painting and film. Cohen creates works that directly reference the historical and social context of the artist, especially through depictions of gender and the body. She has participated in numerous group shows both in Canada and abroad (France, Germany, Mexico, the United Kingdom, etc.) and has had solo exhibitions in major Canadian cities from Halifax to Vancouver, as well as in New York, Marseilles, and Tempe, Arizona. ) She was included in the show She Photographs which presented thirty photographers, mostly Canadian, a few American, who explore the portrait or the self-portrait, nudes, still-life, landscape. Artists included Sarah Anne Johnson...
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1970s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Color

Reinhard Görner 'Inter Arma Charitas' Lisbon, Portugal
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner Inter Arma Charitas Lisbon, Portugal 2014 50 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 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 Search: Reinhard Görner, Library series, Halle, Germany, Large-Scale Photography, Large-scale German photography, German Libraries, German Monuments...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

The Grand Piano, Biblioteca Joanina
Located in Los Angeles, CA
60 x 61.3 inches ed. of 7 $9000 70 x 71.6 inches ed. of 5 $11,000
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Lambda

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

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

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C Print, Lambda

Villa Adriana II, Tivoli, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
60 x 40 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 50 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format photographs orchestrates the monumentali...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment

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

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Silver Gelatin

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

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

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C Print, Lambda

Reinhard Görner 'Toreno, Biblioteca del Senado, Madrid, Spain' (Library, Madrid)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner Toreno Biblioteca del Senado, Madrid 2017 50 x 59.7 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 71.7 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 83.6 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

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

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Lambda

Entrance Hall, San Nicolo, Sicily, 2013
Located in Los Angeles, CA
60 x 40 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 50 inches ed. of 5 $9,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format photographs orchestrates the monumentali...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Lambda

El Grito De La Gitana, from Corazon Sagrado series by Delilah Montoya, 1993
Located in Denton, TX
This image is a collotype print from Delilah Montoya's series, Corazon Sagrado, and is edition 1/1. It is signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil on print margin by Delilah Montoya. This collotype print features a woman in a dress dancing in front of a backdrop on a checkered floor...
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1990s Conceptual Photography

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Other Medium

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...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Polaroid

Conceptual photography for sale on 1stDibs.

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