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.
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Period: 1970s
Style: Contemporary
Portrait of Alessandro Altobelli - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Stefano Chiodi - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Eraldo Pecci - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Soccer in 1970s - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Gigi Riva - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Soccer in 1970s - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Juventus vs Inter in 1970s - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Copyright by Agenzia Giornalistica Italia.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Juventus vs Inter in 1970s - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Copyright by Agenzia Giornalistica Italia.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Moreno Roggi - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Copyright by Agenzia Giornalistica Italia.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Pietro Anastasi - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Copyright by Agenzia Giornalistica Italia.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Enrico Albertosi - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Copyright by Agenzia Giornalistica Italia.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Goal by Giuseppe Savoldi - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Copyright by Agenzia Giornalistica Italia.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Alessandro Altobelli in Action - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Copyright by Agenzia Giornalistica Italia.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Roberto Bettega - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Copyright by Agenzia Giornalistica Italia.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Enrico Albertosi - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Copyright by Agenzia Giornalistica Italia.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Goal by Alessandro Altobelli - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph realized in 1970s.
Copyright by Agenzia Giornalistica Italia.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Clint Eastwood "The Beguiled"
Located in Austin, TX
This black and white film still features Clint Eastwood leaning against a car in his role for "The Beguiled".
Clint Eastwood is an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and politicia...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Portrait of Johan Cruyff - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Portait of Johann Cruyff in 1970s.
Vintage photo.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Mauro Bellugi - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage portrait of soccer player Mauri Bellugi.
1970s.
Copyright by Agenzia Giornalistica Italia.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Pickup, Morgue Work
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 12
Signed, titled, dated, print date, numbered and series in black ink on print margin.
Jeffrey Silverthorne was an American photographer known for photographing the dead...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Arnold Schwarzenegger Flexing
By Arthur Gordon
Located in Austin, TX
A Vintage 1976 image depicting a young Arnold Schwarzenegger, the champion bodybuilder who was Mr. Olympia a staggering seven times. Schwarzenegger would become the biggest action mo...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Ballet Bodybuilder
By Michael Norcia
Located in Austin, TX
Actor and bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger Practicing ballet with a trainer, circa 1976.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American actor, producer, businessman, retired bodyb...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Warhol, Opening Night Studio 54, New York, NY, 1977
By Robin Rice
Located in Hudson, NY
This listing is for the unframed photograph.
The Robin Rice Gallery proudly announces SUMMERTIME Salon 2019, an annual photography exhibit featuring gallery artists as well as a fe...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Ali Skipping - Chris Smith, Muhammad Ali, boxing, black & white, 46x66 in
Located in London, GB
Chris Smith (b.1937)
Ali Skipping
1971
silver gelatin fibre based print
20 x 30 in. / 34.5 x 48 in. / 46 x 66 in.
signed and numbered
printed later
This work is available in the fol...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Ali Skipping - Chris Smith, Muhammad Ali, boxing, black & white, 20x30 in
Located in London, GB
Chris Smith (b.1937)
Ali Skipping
1971
silver gelatin fibre based print
20 x 30 in. / 34.5 x 48 in. / 46 x 66 in.
signed and numbered
printed later
This work is available in the fol...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
David Gregory
Located in New York, NY
c. 1974
Stamped, verso
Vintage silver print
10 x 8 inches, sheet
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Price includes matting and framing.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dean Martin, Las Vegas
Located in London, GB
lifetime edition silver gelatin fine art archival print
72 x 48 in. (paper size)
edition 10 of 50
signed and numbered
Notes:
Dean Martin prepares to go on...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
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
Debbie Harry - NYC - 1977
By Bob Gruen
Located in North Adams, MA
Silkscreen in 10 colors
40 x 54 inches
2-Ply Museum Board
Edition of 50
2014
Bob Gruen is one of the most well-known and respected photographers in rock and roll. From John Lennon t...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Screen
Hard at the Gym - Chris Smith, Muhammad Ali, boxing, black and white, 34.5x48 in
Located in London, GB
Chris Smith (b.1937)
Hard at the Gym
1971
silver gelatin fibre based print
20 x 30 in. / 34.5 x 48 in. / 46 x 66 in.
signed and numbered
printed later
This work is available in the ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
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
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
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
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 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
Harvey Edwards, Ballet Slippers, Hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Harvey Edwards
Ballet Slippers
1979
Hand signed by the artist
Silver dye bleach print (Cibachrome)
Numbered 105/299
*unframed*
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
C Print
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
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
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
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
The English Actress Claire Bloom - Photography - Early 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The English Actress Claire Bloom in an elegant pose.
Category
1970s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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