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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Period: 1970s
Style: Contemporary
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Sophia Loren Quirky Portrait
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white quirky portrait of actress Sophia Loren smiling with her hands on the sides of her face.
Sophia Loren is an Italian actress, active in her native country and the Uni...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Bianca Jagger's Birthday Party at Studio 54
By Eric Kroll
Located in Austin, TX
Circa 1970's in New York: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Bianca Jagger, and Mick Jagger at Studio 54 for Bianca's birthday party.
Bianca Jagger is a former Nicaraguan actress who was married...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Freddie Mercury: Queen Frontman on Stage
Located in Austin, TX
This black-and-white action shot features Queen frontman Freddie Mercury singing in a white leotard.
Freddie Mercury was a British singer-songwriter, record producer, and lead voc...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Bea with a whip at The Other Side
By Nan Goldin
Located in New York, NY
Nan Goldin
Bea with a whip at The Other Side
1973
Gelatin silver print
14 x 11 inches; 36 x 28 cm
Edition of 100
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in graphite (lower right verso)
...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Muhammad Ali Training in Florida
By Jeff Joffe
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning image of Muhammad Ali training in Florida, 1970.
Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer and activist. Nicknamed "The Greatest", he is regarded as one of the most ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Bianca Jagger's Birthday Party at Studio 54
By Eric Kroll
Located in Austin, TX
Circa 1970s in New York: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Bianca Jagger, and Mick Jagger at Studio 54 for Bianca's birthday party.
Bianca Jagger is a former Nicaraguan actress who was married ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Twin Towers, World Trade Center in Gold
Located in Miami, FL
The World Trade Centers in its most captured in it's most simplified form. The buildings are reduced to just two columns of glowing gold.
Mitchell Funk has been famous for his interp...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Making Leaves - In Celebration of Pride Month
By Arthur Tress
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
Tress uses a bed, the juxtaposition of two rakes and a scattering of fallen leaves ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Futuro - iconic midcentury futuristic architectural design in icy wilderness
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Iconic futuristic architectural design of midcentury prefab "Futuro" in Great Tetons Yellowstone landscape, designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
Blue Collar Fantasy
By Arthur Tress
Located in New York, NY
Blue Collar Fantasy
1979
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in ink, recto
Gelatin silver print (Edition of 25)
10.25 x 10.25 inches (26 x 26 cm), image...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
JOAN COLLINS, THE STUD, LIMOUSINE, LONDON, 1978 - Portrait, Black & White Photo
By David Steen
Located in Brighton, GB
Edition of 50.
Joan Collins is a striking portrait, on fibre paper, from iconic 20th Century photographer David Steen. Steen’s introduction to photography was as a 15-year-old scho...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Raquel Welch on the Cross - Terry O'Neill, lifetime signed, 48x48 in, colour
Located in London, GB
Terry O'Neill (1938-2019)
Raquel Welch on the Cross, Los Angeles
1970
lifetime edition Lambda C-Type print
48 x 48 in. (paper size)
edition of 50
signed and numbered
printed later
Price:
£25,200 GBP (inc. 20% UK VAT)
Notes:
A publicity shot for One Million Years B.C.
From the start of the 1960s and continuing until the present day the name of Terry O'Neill has become inextricably connected with some of the most interesting takes on photographic portraits of celebrities. From the Beatles and Rolling Stones in the 1960s to the Royal Family and the Prime Minister's family in more recent times Terry O'Neill has proved adept at recording the significant subjects of the day in a visually stimulating and sometimes unexpected way and thus illuminated history of our age.
Terry O'Neill was born on 30 July 1938 in the East End of London. His career as a photographer evolved by chance out of his first ambition to become a jazz drummer. Leaving school at fourteen and then doing his National Service his ambition was to go to America to study with the great drummers there. He thought that the best way to travel frequently and inexpensively to the USA would be to get a job as an air steward for BOAC. The airline at that time had no vacancies for stewards but suggested he took a vacancy in their technical photographic unit, which he combined with time at an art school and he then became interested in photojournalism.
At first, O'Neill worked as freelance at London Airport, later was offered a stunt as a reportage photographer at Heathrow. This was followed by three years in Fleet Street, with O'Neill at 21, the youngest photographer in Fleet Street taking pop pictures for the up-tempo Daily Sketch.
One thing lead to another and O'Neill quickly became a significant image-maker and one of the group of talented young photographers who helped create the photographic icons of the 1960s and create part of the buzz that became Swinging London. The peer group that emerged in this decade included David Bailey, Terence Donovan and Brian Duffy from the East End and Patrick Lichfield and Lewis Morley...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Lambda
Joyce Carol Oates - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Joyce Carol Oates- Vintage Photo is a black-and-white photograph that was realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Press Conference, Lattanzio - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Press Conference, Lattanzio- Vintage Photo is a historical photograph realized in 1977.
With an Italian note on the rear.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Norberto Caparella, Case of Kappler - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Norberto Caparella, Case of Kappler - Vintage Photo realized in 1970s.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Joseph Heller - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Joseph Heller - Vintage Photo is a black-and-white photograph, realized by Rob Rich in the 1970s.
Good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Somerset Maugham, Author in the South of France, Black and White Photography
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
A black and white photograph from 1963 that captures Brit author (1874-1965) Somerset Maugham, age 89, at his Villa Mauresque garden in Cap Ferrat, Fr...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin
Claudio Villa - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Claudio Villa-Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Woman with Cigar at Wedding, The Huntington Town House, Huntington, NY, 1997
Located in New York, NY
Woman with Cigar at a Wedding
The Huntington Town House, Huntington, NY, April 1977
1977/printed later
Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil, verso
Gelatin silver print (Edition of...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (Portrait in a Grand Wig)
By Jimmy DeSana
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (Portrait in a Grand Wig)
1972/1991
Offset print (Edition of 50 + 50 APs)
11 x 14 inches
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Offset
Ernest Borgnine - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Ernest Borgnine-Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Potassa de la Fayette Poised on Grand Piano at COYOTE Hookers Ball
Located in New York, NY
Potassa de la Fayette Poised on Grand Piano at COYOTE Hookers Ball
The Copacabana, NY, NY
February 1977
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
Gelatin silver print
20 x 16 inc...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Reportage from Brunei - Palace - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Far East is a vintage photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Claudio Villa - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Claudio Villa-Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Claudio Villa - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Claudio Villa-Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Women Embrace on Floor Near JudiJupiter’s Legs Les Mouches, NY, NY June 1978
Located in New York, NY
Women Embrace on Floor Near JudiJupiter’s Legs
Les Mouches, NY, NY
June 1978
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
Gelatin silver print
20 x 16 inches
(Edition of 5 + 2 APs)
...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Reportage from Vietnam - Vietnam Landscape - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vietnam Landscape is a vintage photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Monica Guerritore - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Monica Guerritore is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Reportage from Albania - Tirana - Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Reportage from Albania - Tirana is a vintage photograph realized in the Late 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
New York City, Handcuffed, Street Photography 1970s, Limited Edition
Located in New york, NY
Handcuffed (or Arrested), New York City, 1978 by Leonard Freed is 19" x 13" in a limited edition of 10 signed by the estate, Brigitte Freed (wife of t...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigme...
The Italian Actress Nicoletta Machiavelli - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Nicoletta Machiavelli during a break.
Photo by Guido Di Domenico.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Brigitte Bardot Skiing in Switzerland
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white action shot of star actress Brigitte Bardot skiing in Switzerland, circa 1971.
Brigitte Bardot is a French former actress, singer, and model as well as an animal ri...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Muhammad Ali Preparing for the "Thrilla in Manila"
By George Fischer
Located in Austin, TX
World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali preparing for the fight that would come to be known as the "Thrilla in Manila", the final fight in the Ali-Frazier trilogy and one that lived ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Arbus, Composition, Diane Arbus, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
By Diane Arbus
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Diane Arbus, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1979. Published by Unite...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Lithograph
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Lucille Ball
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white capture of Lucille Ball at the podium for The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast. Pictured: Nipsey Russell, Totie Fields, Don Rickles, Dean Martin AND Lucille Ball.
Lucille...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Johnny Cash at Levenworth Prison
Located in Austin, TX
Vintage 1970 image capturing country superstar Johnny Cash at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary in Kansas.
The prison has held some notorious fig...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Harvey Edwards, Leg Warmers, hand signed print
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Harvey Edwards
Leg Warmers
Oversized dye bleach print (Cibachrome print)
1978, printed in 1981
Hand signed in ink by the artist
Numbered 103/299 from the edition of 299
Sheet: 39.5 x...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
C Print
Guy with Radio, East 7th Street
Located in New York, NY
Guy with Radio, East 7th Street
January 01, 1977
Vintage gelatin silver print
14 x 11 inches
Arlene Gottfried was a New York City street photographer celebrated for her intimate a...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
KISS on a Street in London, England
Located in Austin, TX
KISS posed in full costume on a Street in London, England.
Kiss (commonly styled as KISS) was an American rock band formed in New York City in 1973 by Paul Stanley (vocals, rhythm g...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
"Hotel Las Vegas" - Cervia - Ravenna - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
"Hotel Las Vegas" - Cervia - Ravenna is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1970s.
The photo depicts n. 32 SMI-SOL copper tubes on the roofs, for heating the hotel.
Good c...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Brigitte Bardot Smiling with Dog
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white candid capture of actress Brigitte Bardot posed smiling, sitting on a bed with a dog.
Brigitte Bardot is a French former actress, singer, and model as well as an ani...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Portrait of Nadine Gordimer - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Nadine Gordimer is a black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Signed limited edition Landscape photo , Contemporary, Countryside - Woodingdean
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 ‘ Woodingdean 1 ‘
Signed by Ian Sanders...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
Portrait of Allen Watts - Vintage Photograph by Bill Ansenutt - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Allen Watts - Vintage Photo is a black-and-white photograph by Bill Ansenutt realized in1973
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
JJ Holding Head as Hair Flies While Dancing with JudiJupiter, Studio 54, NY, NY
Located in New York, NY
JJ Holding Head as Hair Flies While Dancing with JudiJupiter
Studio 54, NY, NY
1977
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
Gelatin silver print
20 x 16 inches
(Edition of 5 + ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Richard Bach - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Richard Bach by Elliot Marks from the movie Jonathan Livingstone - Vintage Photo is a black-and-white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Richard Bach - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Richard Bach- Vintage Photo is a black-and-white photograph that was realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
May 6, 1976 -Friuli Earthquake - Vintage Photograph - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
May 6, 1976 -Friuli earthquake is a black and white vintage photo, realized in May 8, 1976.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including histo...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Muhammad Ali vs. Antonio Inoki
Located in Austin, TX
This black and white capture features Muhammad Ali in the ring holding a 5R Channel, Tokyo sign for his match with Antonio Inoki.
Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer, a...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Reportage from Albania - Tirana - Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Reportage from Albania - Tirana is a vintage photograph realized in the Late 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
1970s Fashion - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
1970's Fashion is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1970s.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments, places,...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Alfred Hitchcock LA, Celebrity, Photography, Portrait
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Printed later
Combined Edition 25
Also available in 40 x 50 cm/ 16 x 20 inch
and as combined Edition 10 in
76 x 101 cm / 30 x 40 inch
101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch
Portrait of the famous Director and Author Alfred Hitchcock...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet - Vintage Photograph - 1986
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Rome, 13.3.86, The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet presents his TV program"Body body".
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Under the Boardwalk
Located in New York, NY
Under the Boardwalk
c. 1976
Vintage gelatin silver print
11 x 14 inches
Arlene Gottfried was a New York City street photographer celebrated for her intimate and vibrant portrayals...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Point-Aven - Vintage Offset Print by Michel Tersiquel - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Point-Aven is a vintage poster realized by Michel Tersiquel in 1972.
Black and white colored offset print.
The artwork represented a phothograph po...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Offset
Portrait of Zeudi Araya - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Zeudi Araya a Portrait is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sean Connery in The Man Who Would Be King
Located in Austin, TX
The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 adventure film adapted from Rudyard Kipling's 1888 novella. It was adapted and directed by John Huston and starred Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Sa...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Alain and Arianne Blum- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Alain and Arianne Blum is a color photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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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