Contemporary Photography
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.
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Style: Contemporary
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Lava - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Lava' part of the series 'Hands Down' - 2019,
20x20cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label with certificate.
Ar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Edie Sedgwick
By Nat Finkelstein
Located in Manchester, GB
Nat Finkelstein, Edie Sedgwick
Casual portrait of Edie Sedgwick wearing a scarf
Image size: 40 x 60cm
Paper size: 50 x 70cm
Semi Gloss 250gsm conservation digital paper. This p...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Photography
Materials
Lithograph
"Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx, NY, 2022" photograph "HOOPS" series, 17"x20.5"
Located in New York, NY
35" 42"" fine art photograph, hand signed by the artist. This color photograph depicts a basketball court in Van Cordlant Park, Bronx, NY. The photo show a basketball court, shiny, a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Changing every Day - Bombay Beach - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Changing every Day' part of the series 'A girl called N.' 2019
50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Digital C-Print based on a Polaroid,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Petit Minou Lighthouse, black and white photograph, seascape, limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Petit Minou Lighthouse Study 1, France - no. 21181 Black and white fine art long exposure landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Ge...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Cows on the foggy Pasture, misty forest, black and white photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Cows on the foggy Pasture Study 3, Portugal - no. 21062 // Black and white fine art landscape photography.
Fairy forest of madeira in the fog with cows and crooked trees, Fanal, Por...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Golden - large format photograph of conceptual iconic object in urban landscape
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
GOLDEN by Frank Schott
from a series of photographic observances - environmental still life capturing found objects in urban cityscapes
40 x 32 inches (102 x 81cm)
signed edition ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Tuscany Cypress Road, Amazing Clouds, Italy, landscape photo, limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Ha...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Heather - Limited edition nude photo, Charismatic erotic woman, Contemporary
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘Heather'
Naked woman with shiny skin swa...
Category
1980s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
Chestnut Trees on the Promenade, Traunsee, b&w fine art photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Chestnut Trees on the Promenade, Austria - no. 21144
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Chesternut trees and bench in fog over Lake Traunsee w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Award Winning Beach, coastline, Scotland, black and white landscape photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Award Winning Beach Study 1, Scotland - no. 11337 // Black and White Fine Art city and landscape photography.
Award Winning Beach, beautiful beach with dramatic rock formations in t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Sunbeams - underwater black & white nude photograph - print on aluminum 36x24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater B&W photograph of a young naked woman wrapped in air bubbles and sunbeams.
There were five grand-pianos at her house, a pool on the third floor, and a sad man on the bott...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Metal
$3,840 Sale Price
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Sophia Loren Holding a Flower
Located in Austin, TX
Sophia Loren holding a flower in Karlsruhe, Germany circa 1961.
This listing is for a limited edition archival print.
What's included:
- Limited Edition Archival Print
- Numbered C...
Category
1950s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York City, Office Party, Black and White Dance Party Photograph 1960s
Located in New york, NY
Office Party by Leonard Freed is a 13" x 19" limited-edition photograph. The print 4/5 is signed verso (back of photo) by Brigitte Freed (wife of the phot...
Category
1960s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigme...
Snow covered Central Park New York USA limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Snow covered Central Park Study 3, New York City, USA - no. 11838
Black and white fine art cityscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Friday Fishing - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 35" x 25"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This evocative underwater fine art photograph captures a figure gracefully enveloped in fishing net beneath crystalline turquoise waters. The composition features luminous aquamarine...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Ann Miller as a Witch
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white portrait of actress Ann Miller posed in a witch costume, circa 1946.
Ann Miller was an American actress and dancer. She is best remembered for her work in the classi...
Category
1940s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$396 Sale Price
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"Frozen Apple Trees Panorama" limited landscape photograph by Gerald Berghammer
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and White Fine Art Panorama Landscape. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity included. Printed wit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Great Pollet Sea Arch, monochrome photograph, limited edition, irland seascape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Great Pollet Sea Arch Study 2, Ireland - no. 11706
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Alabaster Coast France white cliffs long exposure
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Alabaster Coast Study 1, Etretat, France - no. 21143
Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Golden Gate Detail San Francisco USA monochrome limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Golden Gate Study 7, CA, USA - no. 11638 // Black and white fine art long exposure cityscape photography.
Pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Prints are made to...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Marilyn Monroe at the St. Judes Hospital Benefit Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white candid capture of star actress Marilyn Monroe at the St Judes Hospital benefit at the Hollywood Bowl in September 1953.
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One-of-a-kind original vintage press print...
Category
1950s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Black and White
Billie Holiday Singing
Located in Austin, TX
This capture features Billie Holiday at Downbeat, New York, N.Y., circa June 1946
Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed "L...
Category
1940s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
Nuns of New York - black and white photography, limited edition 11 of 20
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Nuns of New York'
New York, United States 2019
Limited edition of 20.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Film, Giclée
Telephone VII, Ballantines Movie Colony, Palm Springs - Interior Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
'Telephone VII' part of Richard Heeps 'Dream in Colour' Series.
This cool Palm Springs interior photography featuring a vintage telephone on a nightstand combines gorgeous pastel c...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Ancient Laurel Cloud Forest black and white art photography landscape framed
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival Pigment Ink Print, Edition 1/7, signed, numbered, dated. Aluminum frame, matt black, natural white archival passepartout, anti-reflection glass, UV-protection 70, metal corn...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Portrait of a Raven
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
When the trembling heart stops beating, what remains is a tiny beautiful corpse. I make a portrait to commemorate that life and to express my sorrow and regret. It’s my gesture towar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lonely Tree in Lavender, Provence, France, black and white landscape photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and White Fine Art Landscape Photography. Single Tree in Lavender Field, Provence, France.
Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by arti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Peony No.7 - analogue black and white floral photography, limited edition of 20
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Peony No.7’ photographed in London, United Kingdom 2023.
It is a still life black and white film photograph, made with a large format 4x5 Linhof camera.
Giclée print on Hahnemühle...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée
Car Crash in via Appia, Rome - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Car crash in via Appia, Rome is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1960s.
A great car crash in via Appia, Rome, claimed the lives of four people.
Good conditions and age...
Category
1960s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Twelve Gondolas, Venice, black and white panorama photograph, limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Twelve Gondolas, Venice, Italy - no. 11517 // Black and white long exposure cityscape, panorama photography.
Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Fairy Forest Madeira Portugal limited signed
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Fairy Forest Study 1, Portugal - no. 21299
Printed on Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the back and signed, numbered and accompanied by a letter of authentic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Flatiron Building Study 1 New York City
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art cityscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited ed...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Bent Palm Beach Florida USA
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Ha...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Winter Storm, Minimalist Wooden Pier, Limited Edition, Waterscape Photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Winter Storm, Austria 2015 - no. 11591
Wooden pier during a storm on the lake Neusiedlersee in Austria. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Bergh...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Italian Stone Pines Tuscany monochrome photograph limieted edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Italian Stone Pines Study 4, Tuscany - no. 21067
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer p...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Silver Hand.
By Dora Franco
Located in Miami Beach, FL
"Each image by photographer Dora Franco is accompanied by a detailed, visual description of the moment, light, and colors of the scene. Franco always observes how light touches thing...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Candy Floss, Xuzhou, Jiangsu - Chinese Color Street Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Candy Floss was taken by Richard Heeps when travelling in China. The street food vendor with pops of colour and the layers of detail draw you in. The Chinese Writing does not say 'candy floss/cotton candy for sale' as you might expect, it says something beautiful along the lines...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
The bitter end - Contemporary, Polaroid, Color, Women, 21st Century, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The bitter end - 2020
60x48cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2020-963.
Not mo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Tape Collection, Chrome Tutti Frutti - Contemporary Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Chrome Tutti Frutti, from the Heidler & Heeps Tape Collection - The B Sides.
The Heidler & Heeps collaborations are creative representations of Natasha Heidler and Richard Heeps’, pe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
World Class Sailboats on the Open Seas, Classic, Horizontal, Minimalist
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"In Sync"
The iconic super yachts Lionheart, Ranger, Rainbow, and Velsheda appear to work together to create a pattern where there was none in this timeless and classic black and white photograph...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Absolute Ink Tattoo, Las Vegas, USA, limited edition photograph, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Absolute Ink Tattoo, NV, USA - no. 11663 // Black and white fine art landscape photography.
Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer print...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Stillness 1, 2021 - Misty Natural Landscape of Trees in Ancient English Woodland
By Ellie Davies
Located in Brighton, GB
Stillness 1, 2021 - Misty Natural Landscape of Trees in Ancient English Woodland by Ellie Davies
Stillness 1 is a stunning Digital C-Type Print on Fuji Maxima Matte paper, available...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital
Attracted by the Sea, minimalist photograph, limited edition seascape print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Attracted by the Sea Study 2, Norway - no. 21327 // Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography.
Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited editio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
She Disappeared into Complete Silence (AD14491) - large scale abstract photo
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large scale photograph of reflective golden architectural abstraction
In the series 'She Disappeared into Complete Silence' (2014) Mona Kuhn takes a new direction into abstraction. She turns to a highly austere and restrained reductionist geometry and distilled formal purity, connecting the interior to the exterior, the visible to the hidden. These reflections cause one to linger, as they merge to create a dynamic equilibrium of tension, spaces and rythms.
AD14491 (She Disappeared into Complete Silence)
60" x 45" / 152cm x 114cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
40" x 30" / 102cm x 76cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
limited edition photograph is printed under artist supervision and accompanied by signed artist certificate:
artist signature labels are 8x10 in size
signed, editioned, dated and titled by the artist, and stamped for authenticity
label is then placed centered on verso if the mounted print
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About the artist
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art.
For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Mona Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Stanley/Barker Editions published Kuhn's Bushes and Succulents (2018) with a debut at Musee Jeu de Paume in Paris in 2019. Thames & Hudson published a career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn's most recent publication Kings Road with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum exhibition in Germany and the US.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, the Perez Art Museum in Miami, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris, The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London, Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland, Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Australian Centre for Photography and Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan.
Mona Kuhn currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Solo Exhibitions
2024
Mona Kuhn: Between Modernism and Surrealism, Houk Gallery, New York, NY
2023
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Galerie XII, Paris, France
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Kunsthaus-Göttingen, Germany
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Jackson Fine Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
White Cliffs Sea Arch monochrome minimalist seascape limited edition photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure searscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mapplethorpe, Composition, A Season in Hell (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Photogravure on papier gravure Cartiere Enrico Magnani à la main, mounted on papier Cartiere Enrico Magnani à la main moulé-pressé paper, as issued. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbe...
Category
1980s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photogravure
$2,796 Sale Price
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Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Waiting' (Sidewinder) - signed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid-sized unlimited Mini 'Waiting' (Sidewinder) - 2005 -
signed in front, not mounted.
1 Archival Color Photograph based on the Polaroid.
Polaroid sized ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Pont Neuf Paris France, black and white photography landscape fine art print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Pont Neuf Study 1, Paris, France - no. 11842
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Prisca
Located in München, BY
Total Edition of 15
signed and numbered
Also available in:
40 x 50 cm / 16 x 20 in
90 x 120 cm / 35.4 x 47.2 in
Nude woman bend over.
Thierry Le Gouès...
Category
1990s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Black and White
$17,786
Eiffel Tower, Fontaine Du Trocadero, Paris, black and white fine art photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and White Fine Art Cityscape Photography. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity included. Printed ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Madeira Peaks, morning Light, black white photography, limited edition landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography print. Madeira's mountain peaks in morning light, Fanal, Portugal. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
She Disappeared into Complete Silence (AD6075) - large scale abstract photograph
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the series 'She Disappeared into Complete Silence' (2014) Mona Kuhn takes a new direction into abstraction.
She turns to a highly austere and restrained reductionist geometry and distilled formal purity, connecting the interior to the exterior, the visible to the hidden. These reflections cause one to linger, as they merge to create a dynamic equilibrium of tension, spaces and rythms.
AD6075 (She Disappeared into Complete Silence)
45" x 60" / 114cm x 152cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
30" x 40" / 76cm x 102cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
limited edition photograph printed under artist supervision + accompanied by signed artist certificate:
artist signature labels are 8x10 in size
signed, editioned, dated and titled by the artist, and stamped for authenticity
label is placed centered on verso of the mounted print
__________________
About the artist
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art.
For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Mona Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Kuhn's monograph titled Bushes and Succulents has been published by Stanley/Barker Editions, with a debut at Jeu de Paume in Paris, in 2019. A stunning career retrospective of Mona Kuhn's works has been published by Thames & Hudson, Spring 2021. Kuhn's forthcoming publication Kings Road, will be published and released by Steid this Fall 2021.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris; The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London; Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland; Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and Australian Centre for Photography. Mona Kuhn lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Solo Exhibitions
2023
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Galerie XII, Paris, France
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Kunsthaus-Göttingen, Germany
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Jackson Fine Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
3 Stefanie Schneider's Minis 'Nudes' - triptych, signed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
3 Stefanie Schneider's Minis 'Nudes' - 1999 -
signed in front, not mounted.
3 Archival Color Photographs based on 3 original Polaroids.
Polaroid sized open Editions 1999-2022
10...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Milla Jovovich, Nude portrait, Pirelli session (1997) for the 1998 Pirelli Cal (
By Bruce Weber
Located in London, GB
The 1998 Pirelli Calendar was photographed in Miami by Bruce Weber.
Milla Jovovich was among the many iconic models photographed for the series entitled: "Women that Men Live For". T...
Category
1990s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Digital Pigment
Tincture of Myrrh, Stockton-on-Tees - Vintage Interior Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Tincture of Myrrh, part of Richard Heeps' 'Forward to the Past' series, he was commissioned to photograph Preston Hall Museum before it went through regeneration. The works captured ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
LA Parking - large scale photograph of midcentury urban architectural element
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
LA Parking by Frank Schott
a burst of red in an urban landscape of striking minimalism, from a series of photographs capturing the mid century modern architecture and architectural e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
Audrey Hepburn Holding Dog
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white portrait of Audrey Hepburn posed in the sutdio, holding a Yorkie in her arms.
Audrey Hepburn was a British actress. Hepburn had a successful career in Hollywood and ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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Turbulent Times, Single Tree, Storm, Long Exposure, black and white photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 20. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Wooden Boat House Panorama, Austria, black and white art waterscape photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Wooden Boat House Panorama, Austria - no. 21013 // Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Contemporary photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary 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, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Stefanie Schneider, Tyler Shields, Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde, and Richard Heeps. Frequently made by artists working with Pigment Print, and Archival Pigment Print and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary photography, so small editions measuring 0.4 inches across are also available.
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