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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
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

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

Materials

Archival Pigment

Biblioteca Ortopedica, Bologna, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Ortopedica Bologna, Italy 2022 A view of the main table and globe of the main scientific library in the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, named for Italian King Umberto I. The vista is framed between echoing frescoed arched ceilings, cases of scientific volumes, and geometric floor. These sixteenth-century rooms, where the books of the Olivetani Monks were kept, are located in the ancient complex of San Michele in Bosco. They were transformed into an orthopaedic hospital at the end of the nineteenth century. The library holds an important scientific collection...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

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

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Archival Paper, Color

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

Stairway to Heaven, Lello Bookshop, Portugal
Located in Los Angeles, CA
50 x 46.3 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 55.6 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 64.8 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Lambda

Venus (detail), Sandro Botticelli Workshop, Painting Gallery, Berlin, Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Venus (detail), Sandro Botticelli Workshop, Painting Gallery, Berlin, Photograph 53.4 x 40 inches ed. of 7 $4400 66.7 x 50 ed. of 5 $6800 signed and numbered on label, verso Rein...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment

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

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Archival Paper, Color

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...
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1990s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color

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

Materials

Lambda

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

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Amber Lens
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original enamel on metal painting by emerging contemporary conceptual artist Craig Sheperd (b. 1984) Craig Sheperd’s paintings, most of which are enamel on metal, were created o...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Metal, Enamel

Biblioteca Gambalunga, Rimini, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Gambalunga Rimini, Italy 2022 A view of the main table and globe of the main scientific library in the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, named for Italian King Umberto I. The ...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

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

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 ...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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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 ...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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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...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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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...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Polaroid

Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Marucelliana Florence, 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 ...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

The Beef Sisters - Sophie - 16 unique Polaroids
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester Sophie - 2023 16 original Polaroids, mixed media. 50x50cm installed. Signed in front. "The Beef Sisters...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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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...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Polaroid

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

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Biblioteca Archiginnasio II
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Archiginnasio Bologna, Italy 2022 62.5 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 87 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner records cultural and industrial heritage through his series of photographs depicting contemporary and historical architecture, landscapes, parks, and plants. Best known for his photographs of libraries and reading rooms from around the world—in works such as George Peabody Library 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. This stunning photograph captures a vista through the storied volumes, intricately painted walls, and doorways inside the Biblioteca comunale dell'Archiginnasio (Archiginnasio Municipal Library). The Biblioteca Archiginnasio is a public library located inside the Palace of the Archiginnasio in Bologna, Italy. The largest library in Emilia-Romagna, it boasts some 850,000 volumes and pamphlets, 2,500 incunabula, 15,000 16th century editions, 8,500 manuscripts and then letters, collections of autographs, prints and drawings, and 250 archives. The library has also a section of 7,500 magazines. In 1838 a section of the building was destined to preserve the books collected from Napoleon's closure of the religious orders. Fabled patrons include the cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti, Giovanni Gozzadini, Marco Minghetti, Giovanni Pascoli, Jacob Moleschott, Luigi Serra, Laura Bassi, Aurelio Saffi, Riccardo Bacchelli, Pelagio Palagi...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

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

Boschereccia Palazzo, Hercolani, Bologna
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

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C Print, Lambda

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

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Lambda

Virtue, Bode–Museum, Berlin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Virtue, Bode–Museum, Berlin 50 x 62.5 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 75 inches ed. of 5 $9,000 70 x 87.5 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görn...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Lambda

Biblioteca della Biennale
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca della Biennale, Venice, Italy 2022 A view of the main table and globe of the main scientific library in the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, named for Italian King Umberto I...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

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 ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

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

DETAIL FROM: YOUNG WOMAN WITH BARE BREAST, 2008 GIACOMO DI ANTONIO NIGRETI
Located in Los Angeles, CA
DETAIL FROM: YOUNG WOMAN WITH BARE BREAST, 2008 GIACOMO DI ANTONIO NIGRETI, NAMED PALMA IL VECCHIO, 1524-26, PAINTING GALLERY BERLIN 40 x 53.4 inches ed....
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Lambda

Morgan Library, New York
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Morgan Library New York 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,...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

Singapore Stamp Collection, 30c Singapore Orchid Blue - Floral color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
30 Cents Singapore Orchid Blue, from the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection. This historic postage stamps that make up the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection, Singapore Series 'Postcards from Afar' have been given a twenty-first century pop art lease of life. The fine detailed tapestry of the original small postage stamp has been brought to life, made unique by the franking stamp and Heidler & Heeps specialist darkroom process. This artwork is a limited edition of 25 gloss photographic c-print, accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate of authenticity. The print is fragile and it is recommended it is handled and framed professionally. This artwork is available in other sizes. Be sure to look at Heidler & Heeps other artworks listed on 1stDibs as they are great paired for interior design projects. Following on from the hugely successful ‘Vinyl Collection’, Natasha Heidler & Richard Heeps have collaborated again, drawing from the childhood past time of stamp collecting...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Grass - Salt Factory, Northwich - Blue British Square Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
Grass, blue abstract photography from the Richard Heeps series Ordinary Places, photographing Britain on the brink of change. It was Richard's first colour collection and was shot be...
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1980s Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

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

Materials

Lambda

Biblioteca Gambalunga I, Rimini, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Gambalunga I Rimini, Italy 2022 In this photograph, a series of echoing doors serve as a portal into the interior of the Biblioteca Gambalunga in Rimini, Italy. One of ...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

Card Index, Bologna, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Card Index Bologna, Italy 2022 A classic card index with red and white labels, below a classical religious fresco and carved ceiling. signed and numbered ...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

Card Index, Bologna, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Card Index Bologna, Italy 2022 A classic card index with red and white labels, below a classical religious fresco and carved ceiling. signed and numbered ...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Marucelliana Florence, 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 ...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

Letter P ( 48 x 71" / 122 x 188cm )
Located in San Francisco, CA
LETTER P by Christian Stoll large scale conceptual photography playing with viewer's perspective incredible details in this body of work, a series of environmental stills playing w...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Letter O ( 48 x 71" / 122 x 188cm )
Located in San Francisco, CA
LETTER O by Christian Stoll large scale conceptual photography playing with viewer's perspective incredible details in this body of work, a series of environmental stills playing w...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Biblioteca Archiginnasio II
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Archiginnasio Bologna, 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 ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Biblioteca Archiginnasio I
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Archiginnasio Bologna, 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 ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Biblioteca Archiginnasio I
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Archiginnasio Bologna, Italy 2022 62.5 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 87 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner records cultural and industrial heritage through his series of photographs depicting contemporary and historical architecture, landscapes, parks, and plants. Best known for his photographs of libraries and reading rooms from around the world—in works such as George Peabody Library 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. This stunning photograph captures a vista through the storied volumes, intricately painted walls, and doorways inside the Biblioteca comunale dell'Archiginnasio (Archiginnasio Municipal Library). The Biblioteca Archiginnasio is a public library located inside the Palace of the Archiginnasio in Bologna, Italy. The largest library in Emilia-Romagna, it boasts some 850,000 volumes and pamphlets, 2,500 incunabula, 15,000 16th century editions, 8,500 manuscripts and then letters, collections of autographs, prints and drawings, and 250 archives. The library has also a section of 7,500 magazines. In 1838 a section of the building was destined to preserve the books collected from Napoleon's closure of the religious orders. Fabled patrons include the cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti, Giovanni Gozzadini, Marco Minghetti, Giovanni Pascoli, Jacob Moleschott, Luigi Serra, Laura Bassi, Aurelio Saffi, Riccardo Bacchelli, Pelagio Palagi...
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

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

Materials

C Print, Lambda

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

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C Print, Lambda

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

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Singapore Stamp Collection, 30c Singapore Orchid Yellow - Floral color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
30 Cents Singapore Orchid Yellow, from the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection. This historic postage stamps that make up the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection, Singapore Series 'Postcar...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Duke Humfrey's Library I, Oxford, England
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Duke Humfrey's Library I 54.2 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 65.1 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 75.9 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trimme...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

HOPE - 4 conceptual still life photographs spelling motivational word
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale conceptual environmental still life photographs playing with viewer's perspective creating individual letters from found objects spelling the word HOPE H-O-P-E by Christ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

'Great Minds' Duchess Anna Amalia Library, German Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Great Minds' Duchess Anna Amalia Library Weimar, Germany 2017 55 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 66 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 77 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered ...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

HOPE ( 4 Artworks ) series of environmental stills
Located in San Francisco, CA
H-O-P-E by Christian Stoll large scale conceptual photography playing with viewer's perspective 4 individual photographs individual artwork size 21.6 x 32 inches (55 x 81cm) horiz...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

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

Letter H ( 27 x 40" / 68 x 102cm )
Located in San Francisco, CA
LETTER H by Christian Stoll large scale conceptual photography playing with viewer's perspective incredible details in this body of work, a series of environmental stills playing w...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

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

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

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

Materials

C Print, Lambda

'Study Center' Duchess Anna Amalia Library, Germany, Architectural Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner 'Study Center' Duchess Anna Amalia Library Weimar, Germany 2017 A luminous ode to architectural grandeur and intellectual heritage, Reinhard Görner’s masterful phot...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

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

Materials

Photographic Paper

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

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

Conceptual photography for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Conceptual photography available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add photography created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, green, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Reinhard Görner, Jose Sierra, xulong zhang, and Gianfranco Pezzot. Frequently made by artists working with C Print, and Paper and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Conceptual photography, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available. Prices for photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $45 and tops out at $46,412, while the average work sells for $3,512.

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