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
Tommy loves Aaron, Beach, Florida, USA, monochrome photograph, limited edtition
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
Archival Pigment
Soulmates, Elephant, animal, wildlife, black and white photography
Located in München, BY
Edition No. 8/15
image size 50 x 38 cm / 20 x 15 in
framed size 70 x 60 cm / 27.5 x 23.6 in
signed and numbered
Framed with mat and anti-reflex glass
Young orphan elephants that nes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ezra II, limited edition, archival pigment ink photograph, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Ezra II, limited edition, archival pigment ink photograph, signed and numbered
When looking at Julie Blackmon’s “Hilltop,” notice the elements that are in motion: the grass on the h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rapture - Contemporary, Polaroid, Color, Women, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Rapture - 2020
50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2020-925.
Not mounted.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Tall Hat
Located in New York, NY
William Wegman is an American artist renowned for his iconic dog photographs featuring his Weimaraners, who he sees as "perfect fashion models", utilizing their elegant forms and abi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Pigment
$8,800 Sale Price
26% Off
Female Nude, Black and White Photograph of Woman in Forest, Kate #5
Located in New york, NY
Kate #5, 2002 by American photographer Leonard Freed is an 8” x 10” signed black and white photograph stamped "vintage" by the Freed estate on verso (back of photo). Model, photograp...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
156.13.11 by Klaus Kampert - Black and white nude photography, woman's body
Located in Paris, FR
156.13.11 is a limited-edition black & white photograph by contemporary artist Klaus Kampert from the series entitled Torsi.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Forest Fire - 50x50cm - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Forest Fire' part of the series 'A girl called N.' - 2019,
50x50cm,
Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, not mounted.
Signed on the back and w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Halfway there - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Halfway there - 2020 -
20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2020-1003.
No...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Bubbles - underwater black&white nude photograph - archival pigment print 35x52"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white photograph of beautiful naked young woman breasts covered with air bubbles.
“In my line of photography all best shots are snapped. This photograph is n...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
I am dissolved #2. Abstract nude color photograph
By Javier Rey
Located in Miami Beach, FL
An insipid notion (The astonished world) is a collection of unreal experiences caused by the feeling of late and inexperienced love, and the inability to fully know the experience of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Poppy no.2 - Analogue Black and White Floral Photography, Limited edition of 15
Located in London, GB
'Poppy no. 2'
London, United Kingdom 2023
Limited edition of 15.
Printed on Hahnemühle photo rag Baryta 308 Gsm fine art paper, these limited edition photographs are designed to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Film, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Giclée
Grip - Polaroid, Color, Women, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Grip - 2020
20x20cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2020-839.
Not mounted.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
168.01.12 by Klaus Kampert - Black and white nude photography, woman's body
Located in Paris, FR
168.01.12 is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Klaus Kampert. It belongs to the series "Wrapped".
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is availabl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bright Sunrise Bay, Handmade Cyanotype on Paper, Classic Nautical, Blue Navy
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
"Bright Sunrise Bay " is a handmade cyanotype print of Mediterranean shiny waves.
Details:
+ Title: Bright Sunrise Bay
+...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Lithograph
Half Angels Half Demons #4, Underwater nude color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The angel is a being that religion has bequeathed us as a sign of purity, innocence, and goodness, from the same source, we have been sold to the devil as the form that represents ev...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Shanghai #2. Nude Color Photograph
By David Jay
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Through David Jay’s photography, context evaporates, and we as the viewer are left to engage the subjects, trade places, and for a moment, live behind their eyes. We recognize our sh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Color
Eaten - Contemporary, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Eaten' 2019, 20x20cm, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs
Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid, not mounted.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL219-645.
Kirst...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Naomi Campbell
Located in München, BY
Total Edition of 15
signed and numbered
Also available in:
100 x 100 cm / 39.4 x 39.4 in
Black and white portrait of Supermodel Naomi Campbell in Paris...
Category
1990s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Black and White
'Spring Rain' Large Scale Photograph Cherry blossom Sakura flowers green white
Located in Penzance, GB
'Spring Rain' ('Mono No Aware' Series) 40 x 60" edition
Limited edition archival photograph, hand signed and numbered. Unframed
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The cherry blossoms burst from naked...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Giclée, Archival Pigment, Digital...
Low Tide, Photography, Limited Edition, Africa, Landscape, Zanzibar
Located in München, BY
Low Tide
Edition of 25
signed and numbered by the artist
A fishing boat is moored on the beach at low tide in Zanzibar.
JJK is a pseudonym for one of the world's most successful ph...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Palais Lichtenau Festsaal. From the Grand Interiors series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist inspiration is deeply rooted in the notion of discovery through visual reflections and a strong passion for symmetry and linear structure. Her architectural works of Refle...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bavarian Forest 020 by Bernhard Lang - Aerial abstract photography, autumn
Located in Paris, FR
Bavarian Forest 020 is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Bernhard Lang.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 3 dimensions:
*90 × 6...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
C Print
Stars 7, 2015 - Stars and Trees in Ancient English Woodland Forest Landscape
By Ellie Davies
Located in Brighton, GB
Stars 7, 2015 - Stars and Trees in Ancient English Woodland Forest Landscape by Ellie Davies
Stars 7 by Ellie Davies is a stunning Digital C-Type Print on Fuji Maxima Matte paper, a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, C Print
"Surf" Type C Metallic Print
By Jen Zahigian
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jen's love of photography began as a child, when her grandfather, a photographer, gave her a camera. However, it wasn't until she graduated from UC Berkeley that photography became a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
C Print
This will always be my Memory (Stay) - Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay', featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie Sc...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
BAOBAB VIII, Anombiry Forest
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
*22x30" editions and 24x36" editions are platinum prints. Editions with a width of 60" or greater are archival pigment prints*
Baobabs are one of Africa’s natural wonders: they can ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Platinum
Four Steps Down, Minimalist Monochrome Photograph, Limited Edition, Seascape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and White Fine Art long exposure seascape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Barn Owl Study 9
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
My fascination with birds of prey began eight years ago. There have been nesting owls on my family’s land in the United Kingdom as far as I can remember. I have heard them calling to...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
4 Girls sitting on bed and brushing hair for French ELLE
By Iris Brosch
Located in München, BY
Edition of 25
4 Girls sitting on bed and brushing hair in an old french palace.
The artist, photographer and director Iris Brosch, living between New Y...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
California, Kate #14, Black and White Photography, Female Nude
Located in New york, NY
Leonard Freed’s authenticated/stamped vintage (back of photo), 16" x 20", gelatin silver print, Kate #14, is from the Kate series, 2002.
A photographer herself, model and yogini Kate remains complicit in striking dramatic poses for the Kate nude series by Freed. In this image Kate is supine, arms outstretched, body arched on the backside of a person in a downward dog yoga pose.
On the edge of a cliff with the ebb and flow of the sea and waves many feet below, the duo remain in balance above swirling waters. Kate's trust in the universe, a face of abandon, reveals youthful fearlessness and love of freedom.
Freed captures a self-possessed modern woman and partner in a dance of sorts that Kate shares on the edge of time...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Seafront Shelter (Left), St Leonards-on-Sea - British Seaside Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Seafront Shelters, are a typical of the British Seaside, they are part of a Seaside Towns identity, with nods to various architectural heritage. Photograph from Richard Heeps', On-Se...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Africa, Little Surma Boy, Tribal Child Ethiopia, Photography on Japanese Paper
Located in New york, NY
Little Surma Boy, 1996 by Jean-Michel (JM) Voge, is a contemporary color photograph of a child from the Surma tribe in the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, Africa.
The photograph is printed...
Category
1990s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...
"Wood Spirit #1" - Figurative Sepia Toned Photography
Located in Soquel, CA
"Wood Spirit #1" - Figurative Sepia Toned Photography
Sensual, hi-contrast photo of a woman in the forest by an unknown photographer Sailong Lee (20th cen...
Category
1990s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$300 Sale Price
20% Off
"Crescent" Figurative Nude Photography 30" x 24" in Ed. 1/7 by Aaron Mcpolin
Located in Culver City, CA
"Crescent" Figurative Nude Photography 30" x 24" in Ed. 1/7 by Aaron Mcpolin
Medium: Archival Giclee Print
Available sizes:
Edition of 15 20 x 16 inch
Edition of 7 30 x 24 inch
Edi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Nothing to do with my will (The Princess and her Lover)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Nothing to do with my Will (The Princess and her Lover) - 2007
part of the 29 Palms, CA project.
Edition of 10,
20x24cm.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Signature labe...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Slide, Color Photograph, Archival Pigment Ink Print, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Slide by Julie Blackmon is from an ongoing series titled Home Grown
According to the Los Angeles Times, Blackmon's images are “absorbing, meticulously orchestrated slices of ethnogr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Miami II 001 by Bernhard Lang - Aerial abstract photography, beach, triptych
Located in Paris, FR
Miami II 001 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Bernhard Lang.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 3 dimensions:
*60 × 2...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
C Print
Seasons 1981 Photo Color Copier Print Photograph Museum Collected Art Xerography
Located in Surfside, FL
SEASONS (1981)
This is for the single print listed here. (not the outside folder or title sheet)
Title: Sea Fan. This one is hand signed and dated verso.
Seasons explores the seasons of Man, Woman, Child, Civilization, Nature and Technology. First digital artwork purchased by the Metropolitan Museum.
Date: 1980-1981
Medium: vintage color photocopy print.
“I worked at The Metropolitan Museum in 1981, when they acquired [Lesley’s] SEASONS portfolio.
We knew we wanted it, even though we didn’t have a category for it.” David Kiehl, Curator of Prints and Special Collections The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City.
Lesley Schiff (born 1951) is an American fine artist. Schiff studied painting at the Art Institute Chicago before developing her signature practice using color laser printers to create images. Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Mead Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other major museums, corporate and private collections globally. Lesley Schiff revolutionized the photocopier from being an office tool to just another instrument in the artist's arsenal. Rather than addressing the tool in her work, Schiff instead uses the photocopier like a paintbrush to realize her vision. Once a painter, Schiff says: “I never intended to stop painting. I just decided to start painting with a modern tool. Working with the color laser printer keeps you in your culture. It's like America. Plugged in. Electronic. Direct." Painting with light, Schiff's body of work outlines a cycle of life: man, woman, child, civilization, nature, technology. More recent works challenge the viewer to understand the concept of eye-levels and perspectives, reinventing the way we see. Schiff's work was the Metropolitan Museum of Art's first digital acquisition, and most recently, was featured at the Whitney Museum of American Art in "Experiments in Electrostatics".
She uses a color laser printer “like a paintbrush” to create her art. She has said about her work and her tool: “I never intended to stop painting. I just decided to start painting with a modern tool. Working with the color laser printer keeps you in your culture. It's like America. Plugged in. Electronic. Direct—but no matter how hi-tech my tools become, I’m a painter, but instead of painting with oils, I paint with light.
The Whitney Museum will show Lesley Schiff's pioneering SEASONS portfolio in its entirety. Many prominent collections acquired SEASONS as their first digital artwork.
She participated in the Punk Art show in the 1970's. Her work kind of relates to Fluxus and Dada.
Leslie Schiff moved from Chicago to New York in the early 1970s. Much of her art involves collage and the Xerox photocopy machine. Her images are rooted in her personal psyche and have an intuitive meaning that is not always easily understood. In exhibitions, Xerox sheets are combined and displayed decoratively on the wall. Schiff has also created books; and made video and sound tapes. She was included in the seminal New York/New Wave 1981 exhibition show at MoMA PS1 along with Jean-Michel Basquiat, William S.Burroughs, David Byrne, Larry Clark, Crash (John Matos), Ronnie Cutrone, Brian Eno, Nan Goldin, Keith Haring, Ray Johnson, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Mapplethorpe, Kenny Scharf, Steven Sprouse, Andy Warhol and Lawrence Weiner.
She did a “visual biography,” comprised of portraits of Bob Dylan—depicted at different ages, from his 20s to his 60s—illustrations of his lyrics, and images of iconic objects like his sunglasses and harmonica. Schiff collaborated with Matthew Carter...
Category
1980s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Color
Male Nude with Head Down (Sepia Toned Figurative Photograph by David Halliday)
Located in Hudson, NY
Contemporary figurative sepia toned photograph of nude male model
Sepia toned silver gelatin print, edition 3 of 25
Image size: 8 x 8 inches
17.5 x 16.5 x 1 inches framed with 8-ply white mat and non reflective glass.
Signed and dated below image with atelier stamp
This contemporary figurative photograph was taken by David Halliday in 1998. The sepia toned silver gelatin print beautifully captures a standing male model on a simple monotone background. The nude model's flawless skin complements the similarly toned sepia backdrop, while contrasts in light and shadow accentuate his toned back and shoulder muscles. The figure's casual pose lends a serene atmosphere to the image. This print, 3rd in the edition of 25, is framed in a custom brown wood Larson Juhl frame with an 8 ply white mat and non reflective glass. The print is signed with an atelier stamp on the lower right.
About the Artist:
David Halliday's photographs are about beauty, pure and simple. His primary subjects are carefully composed still lifes, portraits and landscapes which he shoots in black and white film with only natural light. He is a purist behind the lens, rarely manipulating his negatives in any way, and a master in the darkroom. His work has an ethereal quality that's translated not only through the subject, but also by the warm colors and sepia tones he uses in his printing.
More about the work:
A master of light, David Halliday produces lush and elegant images that are both classical and modern. Celebrated for his ‘purist’ eye, he poetically captures the nude male body in a selection of sepia-toned prints from 1996. Rarely revealing the model's face, Halliday prefers to focus on the natural drape of limbs, soft folds of flawless skin, and curvature of the spine. Overall, a stunningly intimate portrayal of the male form done with elegance and charm.
Resume:
Born 1958, Glen Cove, New York
Lives in Schodack Landing, NY
EDUCATION
1998 Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina
1988 The Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, Maine
1976-79 Syracuse University, New York
1974-76 Wooster School Community Art Center, Danbury, Connecticut
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Threadbare/New Photographs, Arthur Roger Galley, New Orleans, LA
McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
2012 The Past Still Present, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
2010 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Wessel+O’Connor Fine Art, Lambertville, NJ
Julie Heller...
Category
1990s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - 2023
50x49cm.
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist I...
Category
1990s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Damage control - Polaroid, Black and White, Women, 21st Century, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Damage control - 2020
50x50cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Signature label with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2020-946.
Not mount...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Christine's '52 Henry J & Teardrop Caravan, Bonneville, Utah - Color photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Christine's '52 Henry J & Teardrop Caravan, photograph by Richard Heeps, captured in the iconic home of speed, Bonneville Salt Flats. Just as the mountains contrast with the flatness...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Louvre, Paris, Monochrome Photograph, Limited Edition Art by Gerald Berghammer
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
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Most Blessed
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pho...
$13,800
Brave (Kings Road) - unique solarized gelatin silver artist print
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In Kings Road (2022) Mona Kuhn lyrically reconsiders the realms of time and space within the midcentury architectural elements of the iconic Schindler House in Los Angeles. Built by Austrian architect Rudolph M. Schindler in 1922, the house was both a social and design experiment and an avant-garde hub for intellectuals and artists in the 1920s and ’30s.
The body of works incorporates chromogenic color prints, reflecting vignettes and materials of the building's emotional architecture, juxtaposition with unique solarized gelatin silver prints capturing traces of an ethereal human presence.
Brave (2022)
Kings Road: A Rudolph Schindler House
30" x 40" / 76cm x 102cm /edition of 12
15" x 20" / 38cm x 56cm / edition of 12
limited edition solarization photograph printed by the artist + accompanied by signed artist certificate:
artist signature label (8x10")
signed/editioned/dated/titled by the artist + stamped for authenticity
label is placed centered on verso of 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.
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 & Succulents in 2018. In 2021, Thames & Hudson published a career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn's most recent publication Kings Road (2022) with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum traveling exhibition shown in Europe and the US.
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
2025
Mona Kuhn: Y Tu Desnudo será Un Gran Poema, Museum of Contemporary Art, Malaga, Spain
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Lianzhou Museum of Photography, China
2024
Mona Kuhn: The Schindler House, A Love Affair, Galerie XII...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
21 February, I
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered on label, verso
12 x 18 inches
(Edition of 10)
24 x 35.5 inches
(Edition of 8)
From the series, "Him"
This artwork is offered by ClampAr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bluebell Dream
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Bluebell Dream', 2017 Edition 2/7 plus 2 Artist Proof
Based on a Polaroid, digital C-Print, not mounted.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2017-306
Kirste...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Screen Test: Edie Sedgwick
Located in Manchester, GB
(After) Andy Warhol, Screen Test: Edie Sedgwick, 1965
Semi-Gloss 250gsm conservation digital paper
Image size: 20 x 30 cm (7.87 x 11.81 in)
Paper size: 28 x 36 cm (11.02 x 14.17 i...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Photography
Materials
Digital
Still Life with Hummingbirds, Botanical Still Life Photograph with Bird, Crystal
Located in Kent, CT
This botanical still life arrangement of orange, pink, yellow and purple flowers is dramatic and mysterious against a dark black background. A white porcelain bird figurine stands to the right of the bouquet, a crystal geode and shell to the left.
Edition 4/15. Printed on archival Simply Elegant Gold Fiber Paper 310gsm. 40 x 31 inches (unframed). The cost for the photograph mounted or framed is separate, please inquire with the gallery.
Lisa A. Frank’s large-scale photographs are kaleidoscopic multilayered images of the natural world. The work’s complex patterns are composed from the artist’s deep archive of her own photographs; the images are digitally collaged and arranged in patterns that take cues from historic wallpaper...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital Pigment
Seascape IV (Homage to Mark Rothko) - large format abstract ocean photograph
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
From a series of large scale abstract photographs of muted color monochromatic water surface color clouds and horizon
SEASCAPE IV by Frank Schott
an homage to Mark Rothko
60" x 48" / 152cm x 122cm
signed edition of 7
75 x 58 inches / 190cm x 147cm
signed edition of 7
archival quality fine art pigment print
limited art edition published by Edition EKTAlux...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
Snap–15 Minutes of Fame (Wastelands) - analog, not mounted, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Snap–15 Minutes of Fame (Wastelands) - 4 pieces, 2003
Edition of 5,
105x100cm each, 220x220cm installed.
Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$7,150 Sale Price
35% Off
Marilyn Monroe in Nightgown for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white promo photo of Marilyn Monroe posed in a a black nightgown for her role in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", circa 1953.
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One-of-a-kind original vintage press print from...
Category
1950s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Black and White
Long beach - black and white west coast Long Beach, Limited edition of 20
Located in London, GB
'Long beach'
Embark on a serene journey to the West Coast with this evocative 4x5 analogue black and white film photograph, offering a glimpse of Long Beach in San Francisco.
Captu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Film, Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée
Leaving (Strange Love)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Leaving (Strange Love) - 2005
20x30cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a 35mm film.
Signature label and certificate.
Not mounted.
In an age of in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Polaroid
Sundowner II, Salton Sea, California - Blue sky roadside America color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
This giant isolated roadside sign set against a vast blue sky is a remnant of 'The Sundowner Bar and Restaurant' of the motel which is sadly no more. This photograph, part of Richard...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Happy Tights by JJK, Photography, Limited Edition, nude, women, legs
Located in München, BY
Happy Tights
Edition of 25
signed and numbered by the artist
Crossed legs of a woman with Velvet tights
JJK is a pseudonym for one of the world's most successful photo artists.
In ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Men with the Tenderest Flesh Are Made of Marble
By Bill Costa
Located in New York, NY
Men with the Tenderest Flesh Are Made of Marble
1984, printed 1992
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in ink, recto
Gelatin silver print (Edition of 5)
6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Juncture (Till Death do us Part)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Juncture (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventor...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Biblioteca Palatina, Parma
Located in New York, NY
Biblioteca Palatina, Parma, 2011
Chromogenic lambda print
39.5 x 47.5 inches edition of 5
47.5 x 59 inches edition of 5
71 x 88.5 inches edition of 5
Born in Florence in 1953, ev...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
C Print
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