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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
Self Portrait #5. La Piedra Sustituta Series. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
#5, 2020 by Jose Sierra From "La Piedra Sustituta" Series Image size: 24 in. H x 15.03 in. W Edition of 10 + 2AP Unframed Additional sizes are available. All Prices are quoted as "...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

#1 La Piedra Sustituta Series. Limited Edition Color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
#1, 2020 by Jose Sierra From "La Piedra Sustituta" Series Image size: 16 in. H x 24 in. W Edition of 10 + 2AP Unframed Additional sizes are available. All Prices are quoted as "ini...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

Reinhard Görner 'Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain' (Library, Madrid)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid 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 on label, verso Paper is trimmed to the image: actual image size listed Internal Search: 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 'Open Space, City Library' Stuttgart, Germany
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner Open Space, City Library Stuttgart, Germany 2014 50 x 55.8 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 67 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 78 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

#2
Located in New York, NY
Photojournalist portrait of vanishing Surma tribe. Printed on canvas. Shot in July 2018, over a month in Ethiopia. "I wanted to photograph lost tribes because there are not m...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment, Canvas

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

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

Savannah Spirit, Laced
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit Laced 30 x 40 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

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Archival Pigment

Untitled, Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' 2013, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, 27 x 21.5 cm, Digital C-Print, based on an IMPOSSIBLE 8x10 Colour Instant Film, Signed, embossed stamp and artist certificate. ...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Polaroid

Reinhard Görner 'Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain' (Library, Madrid)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid 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 on label, verso Paper is trimmed to the image: actual image size listed Internal Search: Reinhard Görner, Library series, Madrid, Spain, Large-Scale Photography, Large-scale German photography, Spanish Libraries...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

Shining Wall of Books Beinecke Library, New Haven
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. 3 sizes, below. The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is the rare book library and literary archive of the Yale University Library in New Haven, Connecticut. Situated on Yale University's Hewitt Quadrangle, the building was designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and completed in 1963. The building has been called a "jewel box", and also a "laboratory for the humanities". The Modernist structure contains furniture designed by Florence Knoll and Marcel Breuer. It is one of the largest buildings in the world entirely dedicated to rare books and manuscripts. An elevated public exhibition mezzanine surrounds the glass stack tower, and displays among other things, one of the 48 extant copies of the Gutenberg Bible. Two basement floors extend under much of Hewitt Quadrangle. The first sub-grade level, the "Court" level, centers on a sunken courtyard in front of the Beinecke, which features The Garden (Pyramid, Sun, and Cube). These are abstract allegorical sculptures by Isamu Noguchi that are said to represent time (the pyramid), sun (the disc), and chance (the cube). German large-scale photographer Reinhard Görner is known for his stunning, monumental-scale photography, which combine a sense of grandness with intimacy. He was born in 1950 in Leipzig, Germany, and he lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He studied drama, german literature and sinology in Munich and Berlin, and has been photographing architecture, interiors, and public spaces since 1981. Condition: New. Images are crisp and sharp. Image and details are not shown at full resolution for the protection of the artist. Reinhard Görner Shining Wall of Books...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

Self Portrait #18. La Piedra Sustituta, Series. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
#18, 2020 by Jose Sierra From "La Piedra Sustituta" Series Edition of 10 + 2AP Unframed Additional sizes are available. All Prices are quoted as "initial price". Please note that p...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

Self Portrait #17. La Piedra Sustituta, Series. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
#17, 2020 by Jose Sierra From "La Piedra Sustituta" Series Edition of 10 + 2AP Unframed Additional sizes are available. All Prices are quoted as "initial price". Please note that p...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - VM 12 Wall-Gazing, The Cloisters
Located in Paris, IDF
Eastman Kodak HDPE polyester film viewing machine reel, signed open edition Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun p...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Film

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - VM4 Wall-Gazing II
Located in Paris, IDF
Eastman Kodak HDPE polyester film viewing machine reel, signed open edition Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun p...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Film

Fires 10 - Ellie Davies, Photography, Landscape, Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order and lead times are between 15-20 days. Fires 10 is a stunning Digital C-Type print on Fuji Maxima Matte Paper. This is Art...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Digital

Self Portrait #16. La Piedra Sustituta, Series. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
#16, 2020 by Jose Sierra From "La Piedra Sustituta" Series Edition of 10 + 2AP Unframed Additional sizes are available. All Prices are quoted as "initial price". Please note that p...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

Self Portrait #12. La Piedra Sustituta Series. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
#12, 2020 by Jose Sierra From "La Piedra Sustituta" Series Image size: 24.42 in. H x 40 in. W Edition of 10 + 2AP Unframed Additional sizes are available. All Prices are quoted as ...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

Self Portrait #15. La Piedra Sustituta, Series. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
#15, 2020 by Jose Sierra From "La Piedra Sustituta" Series Edition of 10 + 2AP Unframed Additional sizes are available. All Prices are quoted as "initial price". Please note that p...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

Self Portrait #14. La Piedra Sustituta, Series. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
#14, 2020 by Jose Sierra From "La Piedra Sustituta" Series Edition of 10 + 2AP Unframed Additional sizes are available. All Prices are quoted as "initial price". Please note that ...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

Self Portrait #13. La Piedra Sustituta, Series. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
#13, 2020 by Jose Sierra From "La Piedra Sustituta" Series Edition of 10 + 2AP Unframed Additional sizes are available. All Prices are quoted as "initial price". Please note that p...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

Self Portrait #8 . La Piedra Sustituta Series. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
#8, 2020 by Jose Sierra From "La Piedra Sustituta" Series Image size: 40 in. H x 23.02 in. W Edition of 10 + 2AP Unframed Additional sizes are available. All Prices are quoted as "...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

Self Portrait #10. La Piedra Sustituta, Series. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
#10, 2020 by Jose Sierra From "La Piedra Sustituta" Series Image size: 40 in. H x 23.02 in. W Edition of 10 + 2AP Unframed Additional sizes are available. All Prices are quoted as ...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

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

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 1940
Located in Paris, IDF
UV print of digital photograph on pewter leaf on paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Kojun project started in 201...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Paper, Photographic Paper

The Swan, With Leda (Limited Edition of 25) - 30x40 In Fine Art Print
Located in New York, NY
This 2009 photograph by legend photographer, John Stoddart depicts “The Swan with Leda.” It was inspired from the mythology of the Greek story of Leda and the Swan, when the God Zeus...
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Early 2000s Conceptual Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Seafront Landscape with Rocks, Conceptual Photography, Lively Colors Cave
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Sexy Miami Futuristic Cocktail Lounge" is a series of photographs by Ryan Rivadeneyra inspired by the Art Deco colors of Miami that show beautiful ob...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital, Giclée, Archival Pig...

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

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Lambda

Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - VHM4K2019
Located in Paris, IDF
Gloss finish urushi lacquer over ABS thermoplastic viewer / Black film diffuser Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 1999. Koj...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Plastic, Lacquer

Sliver Streak
Located in New York, NY
Archival Ink. Photograph. Waves. Produced by Dye Sublimation - which means archival inks infused into aluminum. Ltd Ed of 10. The art can be inside or outside with no visible lo...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Metal

Seascapes 8 - Ellie Davies, Photography, Print, Landscape
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order and lead times are between 15-20 days. Seascapes 8 is a stunning Digital C-Type print on Fuji Maxima Matte Paper. This is ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Digital

Deseo Insular XII, Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Deseo Insular XII by Jose Sierra Archival Pigment Print Semi-Matte Sheet size: 40 in. H x 21.95 in. W Edition of 10 + 2AP Unframed 2016 Other sizes are available. All Prices are quo...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Color, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Notre Dame 3 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Paris, Icons
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Notre Dame 3' 2010, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, archival Pigment Print, based on a Polaroid 810 transfer process, 27.3x20cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed stamp and artist c...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid

"WH2" Photography 48" x 84" inch Edition 1/6 by Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"WH2" Photography 48" x 84" inch Edition 1/6 by Giuliano Bekor From WILD HORSES series Archival exhibition Giclee Baryta print, Coated and mounted on dibond Custom frame Roma, 2...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment

TODAY - large format (framed) photograph of conceptual billboard sign at night
Located in San Francisco, CA
billboard against ultramarine blue night sky, a large scale original photograph from a series of conceptual motivational messages on classic Americana billboards in landscape of the ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Paper, Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Giclée, Ar...

#1
Located in New York, NY
Photojournalist portrait of vanishing Surma tribe. Printed on canvas. Shot in July 2018, over a month in Ethiopia. "I wanted to photograph lost tribes because there are not m...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment, Canvas

Elton
Located in New York, NY
Homage to the great Elton John. Painting. Portrait. Vibrant. About the Artist: Le Closier is a Belgian painter living in New York. After moving to Paris in the early 2000's, mixing Pop Art and Street Art, he started painting on the walls of his Montparnasse neighborhood in Paris (famous in the 50's for being the gathering point of writers and painters i.e Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne, Modigliani....). A few years later, Le Closier made official portraits for tennis players Serena Williams, Kei Nishikori, Gustavo "Guga" Kuerten, Bryan Brothers, David Goffin, Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Jeremy Chardy, American golf player Cristie Kerr and Paris-Saint-Germain's president Nasser Al-Khelaifi (among others). ​ In May 2016, he was asked by France Pavilion to paint a portrait of Chief Justice Stephen Breyer for the French/American business week at the French Embassy in Washington, DC. Today, Le Closier creates colorful compositions inspired by celebrities, arts, comics, advertising, fashion..., mixing people, brands and symbols on different supports (canvas, wood cutouts...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Untitled, Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' 2013, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Digital C-Print, based on a Fuji FP-100C Instant Film, not mounted, 27 x 21.5 cm, Signed, embossed stamp and artist certific...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Polaroid

VII: Istinto Primordiale
Located in London, GB
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed. This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Brain. It was created by combining fragments o...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Paper, Archival Pigment

Fast Food Still Life, Modern Print of Orange Food Scene, Animal Print Texture
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Sexy Miami Futuristic Cocktail Lounge" is a series of photographs by Ryan Rivadeneyra inspired by the Art Deco colors of Miami that show beautiful objects and textures arranged meti...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital, G...

Notre Dame 8 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Paris, Icons
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Notre Dame 8' 2010, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, archival Pigment Print, based on a Polaroid 810 transfer process, 27.3x20cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed stamp and artis...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid

Reinhard Görner, Portals with Bookshelves, Biblioteca Joanina, Portugal
Located in Los Angeles, CA
50 x 59.4 inches ed. of 10 $6000 60 x 71.3 inches ed. of 7 $9000 70 x 83.1 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format pho...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Lambda

Human Abacus
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment

#5
Located in New York, NY
Photojournalist portrait of vanishing Surma tribe. Printed on canvas. Shot in July 2018, over a month in Ethiopia. "I wanted to photograph lost tribes because there are not m...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment, Canvas

Invacuo Project #18. B&W Portrait inspired by the Gezi Park resistance movement
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Invacuo Project #18, 2016 by Koray Erkaya From the series of Invacuo Project Hahnemühle Photo Matt Fibre Duo 210 Image size: 16 in. H x 24 in. W (40 cm H x 24 cm W) Edition of 10 Work is also available framed at an additional cost. All sizes signed, titled, dated, and numbered on artist label verso All Prices are quoted as "initial price". Please note that prices and availability may change due to current sales. _____________________ JAZZ AND GAS Joyful humour characteristic of the pro-democracy environmentalist Gezi Park protests in June 2013. People of all ages, students, writers, artists, actors, musicians, LGBT activists, Anti-Capitalist Muslims, Marxists, Anarchists, Kurdish and Turkish nationalists were peacefully together in the heart of modern Istanbul: Taksim Square. Then the police attacked with tear gas and their usual equipment. But if they use uneven brutal force, then we use uneven intelligence and creativity: “We are fair: Their gas is fresh air.” Such sarcastic slogans multiplied echoing the positive, hopeful, unyielding and determined character of the our jazz like plural harmony. If Sultanahmet Square is the heart of Classical Istanbul with its Byzantine and Ottoman heritage, Taksim Square represents the modern city: the central statue representing the national liberation war and the formation of the Turkish Republic, Gezi Park, Ataturk Cultural Centre, big hotels, and the historic Istiklal (Independence) Street. Eyes shed tears not only because we laughed due to high quality satirical slogans but also because of the harmful gas and the deaths of several youngsters. Numerous citizens lost an eye or arm. Thanks to international media coverage, the inspiring Gezi Park resistance (or “June Movement”) in Turkey drew attention all over the world -while the pro-government media kept silent. Whether on purpose or not, tear gas –and its canisters at close range- took several lives. Don’t let anybody fool you: Tear gas may kill. And it did. Though “as a nation” we had been used to gas in previous demonstrations, one point was unique: The whole city was gassed. Babies, old people and citizens with asthma suffered in their homes. Before the police attack, maybe most of the young protesters were “merely” environmentalists without a major political orientation. Tear gas brutality transformed most of them into political activists. Since that June, our lungs, souls and future have been full of that gas. Tear gas has been used not only in Turkey but in many other countries as well –since the 1990s. We tend to think that “Every soul shall taste it,” –sounding like a statement from a holy book. The situation is unacceptable: A child on the way to get bread for breakfast may die –in fact be killed by the police using tear gas without proper concern and care. Tear gas is a chemical weapon. It’s vital to comprehend that. The marketing is well-phrased but misleading: “Made from fruit and vegetables, wholly organic.” But when it is used at close range, its metal canister becomes a bullet. Fifty years ago, in late 1960s, 90 countries signed a petition against the usage of tear gas. Our country signed the 1997 Convention on Chemical Weapons, which states that tear gas is considered to be a chemical weapon when it is used in closed places, at close range or in a crowd. Despite this, it has been used time and again in Brasil, Chile, Egypt, Germany, Gaza, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Panama, the Philippines, South Korea, UK, USA, and Vietnam. The Association of Turkish Medical Doctors and the Initiative Against Tear Gas have been working and reacting diligently on this issue. “But the label says it’s harmless,” say some. But the firms that produce gas bombs put labels according to the demands of governments. Are you Shocked? Global trade has priority over humanitarian concern. But why this introduction? Don’t we all know all these things? We certainly do, but the “agenda” changes so fast that our knowledge does not find time to unite with our action in order to change the ongoing chain of events. Enter arts. With the mission of contributing to collective memory, Artist Koray Erkaya creatively documents experience. In his new photographic art series, Erkaya revolts against individual and social de-sensitivisation. In order to address the memory and to increase awareness, he uses “gas” against everyone –without discrimination. He tests his models with gas in the specifically prepared labyrinth made of mirrors. But of course, the gas he uses is not one of the types of tear gas labeled OC, CS or CN. In any case, the violence the people suffer is not limited to the content of the gas. When he started his voyage to display the violence, loneliness, nakedness, helplessness, spiritual and physical isolation of women, children, gays, transsexuals -all the humiliated people under some form of gas, Erkaya began working with models from various nations in Istanbul. Now he is on his way to show that this issue is a problem for all who live on the same planet. When we see ourselves in the eyes of the models in the mirrors...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment, C Print

Untitled - Contemporary, Figurative, Women, Polaroid, Photograph
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' 2015, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print, based on an IMPOSSIBLE 8x10 Polaroid, 27 cm x 21.5 cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed stamp and artist certificat...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Polaroid

Detail from: Venus, Sandro Botticelli Workshop, Painting Gallery, Berlin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Detail from: VENUS, SANDRO BOTTICELLI WORKSHOP, PAINTING GALLERY BERLIN 53.4 x 40 inches ed. of 7 $4400 66.7 x 50 ed. of 5 $6800
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment

Untitled VI. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Nude Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled VI, from the Sin Título Series by Jose Sierra Archival Pigment Print Semi-Matte Sheet size: 40 in. H x 29.01 in. W Edition of 10 + 2AP Unframed 2016 Other sizes are avai...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Color, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Stamp Collection, Liberty (Gradient Mosaic) - Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
This highly original artwork captures the iconic Statue of Liberty in this cool Pop Art Photographic Print. This artwork is a limited edition of 25, gloss photographic print. Accomp...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Untitled
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' (Chinese Classical), 2003, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print, POLAROID 809 Emulsion Transfer, 26 cm x 32cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed stamp and artis...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Polaroid

Savannah Spirit Human Abacus (Black and White Nude Photography B&W)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. ...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment

Untitled
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' 2015, Edition of 20 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print, based on an IMPOSSIBLE 8x10 Colour, 21.5 cm x 27cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed stamp and artist certificate. ...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Polaroid

Singapore Stamp Collection, 15c Singapore Sterna Bird Pink - Pop art color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
From the 2018 Singapore Series, Postcards from afar. This artwork is a limited edition of 25, gloss photographic print. Accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate of authentic...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Untitled
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' (Chinese Classical), 2002, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print, POLAROID 809 Emulsion Transfer, 26 cm x 32cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed stamp and artis...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Polaroid

Untitled, Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Portrait Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' 2013, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Digital C-Print, based on a SX70 B&W Negative Scanning, not mounted, 8.5cm x 8.5cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed stamp and artis...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Polaroid

Tupac Shakur
Located in New York, NY
Homage to the late great musician Tupac Shakur. Images. Lyrics from his songs. Not framed. Acrylic paint on sheet music wheat pasted to wood panel. ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Wood, Mixed Media

End of the Affair #2 - Ltd Ed
Located in New York, NY
Vintage 50's Barbie with vintage accessories and set. Narrative depicts title - the end of the affair. Metallic print produced on metal. Black and white Photography. Ltd Ed.
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Metal

Reinhard Görner, The Long Room, Trinity College Library, Dublin Ireland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Discover the captivating beauty of Reinhard Görner's photography with The Long Room, an awe-inspiring vista into the Old Library at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. This iconic ph...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Lambda, C Print

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