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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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Style: Contemporary
Vinnytsia 22 - underwater nude photo - print on aluminum 8 x 12"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Vinnytsia a tiny Ukrainian town hit by Russian missiles on July 14 2022. There were no military installations neither industrial objects. Putin’s regime was targeting civilians as a...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Metal

Möbius Mermaid - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 24x35"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Radiating with mythic sexuality, the mermaid’s topless body becomes fluid, her multiplying naked breasts and her scaly tail swirling into the hips of a real woman form a Möbius Strip...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Marilyn Monroe in Dark Hat Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white capture of star actress Marilyn Monroe close up, wearing a dark hat. -- One-of-a-kind original vintage press print from the Celebrity Vault archives. Own a piece of ...
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1950s Contemporary Photography

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Black and White

Shanghai #5. Nude photography in color
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...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Color

'Evening Poppies' Limited Edition 15 x 30" floral nature wild photo panorama
Located in Penzance, GB
'Evening Poppies' ('Mono No Aware' Series) Limited edition archival photograph. Unframed, hand signed and numbered _________________ Buds, blooms, and the fading glories of Icelandic...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Autobiography - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Autobiography - 2021 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid, Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2021-1028. No...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Andrew Moore - Gaineswood Library, Photography 2018, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Archival Pigment Print Antebellum Home in Alabama All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 40" x 30” - Edition of 5 + 2 Artist Proofs 50" X 40"- Edition of ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Seascape XI Triptych - 3 large format photograph of blue ocean surface & horizon
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mesmerizing large scale photograph from artist's Seascape series, a body of works capturing the tactile surfaces and monochromatic marine nature of oceanic water and cloudscapes Sea...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

Steve McQueen Relaxing on Phone
Located in Austin, TX
Steve McQueen sitting shirtless on the floor while speaking on the phone Terrence Stephen McQueen was an American actor and his antihero persona, emphasized during the height of the...
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1960s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Untitled 17 and 22. Diptych, Paranoia Series. Male Nude. Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled 17 and 22 (Diptych), 2020 by Salvatore Arnone From The Paranoia series Digital print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth Overall size: 27.5 in. H x 78.8 in. W Individual...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Digital, Archival Pigment

Iceberg XIX - Arctic
Located in München, BY
Limited Edition of 6 More sizes on request Sebastian Copeland is considered a photographer "who has created works of outstanding artistic quality and conveys messages of urgent glob...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Platinum

Saltire no. 3 (Unframed)
Located in Burlingame, CA
Large-scale photographer Troy House celebrates people’s primordial attraction to the beach. He travels the world capturing iconic, breathtaking scenes – often from a bird’s-eye view ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Digital Pigment

Last Dance 3- Michael Schumacher Formula 1 Mercedes, Red, Still life photo, Race
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Last Dance 3 - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 2011 - Edition of 5 Formula 1 , Preseason test, 2011 , Barcelona, Spain. Michael Schumacher's last appearance in th...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pig...

Andrew Moore - Chalk Hills, SD, Photography 2013, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Archival Pigment Print These formations lie in the Buffalo Gap National Grassland. Nearby is French Creek, a tributary of the Cheyenne River, where gold was found by an expedition l...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

New York City, Horse Bracelets, Friendship, Black and White Photography
Located in New york, NY
An 11" x 14" (Ed of 5) signed gelatin silver print of Friendship, 1994 by Roberta Fineberg is from a world of horse-crazy girls in New York City. A black-and-white photograph, friendship shared by three teenage girls who display their horseback riding bracelets. The girls wear the names of their horses engraved on the bracelets. The photograph was shot in the 1990s at the now defunct City stable, Claremont, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The photo is published in the book City Riders (1997) - Howell/Macmillan Publishers Provenance: RF Studio *** Artist's Bio: As a visual artist, Roberta Fineberg (RF) focuses on the themes of serendipity, inventiveness, and the development of ideas for her photography, video, installations, works on paper, and painting. Drawn to experimentation, she explores diverse mediums and concepts such as the ephemeral (Butterfly Series), stolen moments (documentary photography), play, timelessness, the enduring, and the significance of matter. RF, living in New York City, began her career as an editorial photographer while studying in Paris. In France she contributed both photography and writing to publications, landing a column (photos and text) with The Saturday Review while exhibiting photographs in public spaces. Roberta Fineberg’s freelance photography appeared in Le Monde, Jeune Afrique, Paris Match, L’Officiel Femme, Ms, Weltwoche, Vanguardia, among others with images licensed through stock agencies. Photographs were selected for cover art at W.W. Norton, St. Martin’s Press, Harcourt, Bookspan, Simon & Schuster, etc. Print Regional Design Annual New York (2003) awarded her for book jacket photography for If Wishes Were Horses. In 1997 Macmillan published City Riders: A Story of Riding and Friendship her first book of black-and-white photographs and a story about three teenage girls in the 1990s who rode horses at the now-defunct Claremont Riding Academy and oldest stable in New York City. In 2023, RF created an interactive installation, works on paper on the female body, in a public space. In July 2022, Fineberg’s Double Helix was included in a Sotheby’s auction in New York City and exhibited in the preview show Contemporary Discoveries. Selected exhibitions include Time Gallery New York (2022), Phyllis Harriman Gallery New York studio shows (2020, 2022), CADAF online art...
Category

1990s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin

Controversy - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Controversy - 2018 20x25cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2018-1096. Not ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Blue - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century - mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blue - 2017 40x31cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL2017-251. Not mounted. Kirst...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Under - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival pigment print 35x51"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white photograph of a young naked woman in a pool. Original gallery quality archival pigment print signed by the author. Limited edition of 24 Paper size...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Engulfment - Cartagena 8. From the series Engulfment. Nude Color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The first encounter I had with the abyss, was arriving to a place that does not exist, a point suspended in time where I am without being. An unreal world expands in front of me, eve...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Fires 7, 2018 - Autumnal Seasonal Landscape in Ancient English Woodland
Located in Brighton, GB
Fires 7, 2018 - Autumnal Seasonal Landscape in Ancient English Woodland by Ellie Davies Fires 7 is a stunning Digital C-Type Print on Fuji Maxima Matte paper, available in this size...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Paper, Digital, C Print

Rita Hayworth Posed in Fur
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white studio portrait of Rita Hayworth posed in a fur coat. Rita Hayworth was an American actress, dancer, and pin-up girl. She achieved fame in the 1940s as one of the to...
Category

1940s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Untitled Film Still #59
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Since the late 1970's Cindy Sherman has donned an array of personas to explore how women are perceived and presented in Western culture. Sherman's "Untitled Film Stills...
Category

1980s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Rat Packin' with a Bottle of Jack
Located in Chicago, IL
July 25, 1961. Singer Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. sit at a table as fellow singer and Rat Pack member Frank Sinatra pours Jack Daniels from a bottle at the Cocoanut Grove during...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Don't Tell Mamma #6. Black and white nude photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This is a series of black and white nude photographs that began with analog photography between 1992 and 2005, followed by a transition period to digital photography. Erkaya is curre...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Black and White, Archival Pigment

Altstadt Rêveries #02 [From the series Goldenbogen & Zouzou]
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Altstadt Rêveries #02, 2008 [From the series Goldenbogen & Zouzou] Digital color print based on original Polaroid on beautiful PHOTO RAG ULTRA SMOOTH 305gsm - 100% cotton by HAHNEMÜ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Paper, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Square one - Polaroid, Color, Women, 21st Century, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Square one - 2020 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-950. Not mo...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Stilt House, Fishing, France, long exposure, black and white, photography, print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digit...

New moon rising - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
New moon rising- 2021 - 20x24cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2021-1021. No...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Untitled (Amber) - large scale photographic details of baroque Italian palazzo
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale abstract photograph of mesmerizing monochromatic color space and tactile marble stone and velvet textures captured in Roman palazzo Untiltled (Amber) by Frank Schott 72...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée

Pool Party VII - underwater black & white photograph - print on paper 36" x 54"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white photograph of young women diving naked in a pool. Original gallery quality archival pigment print on archival paper signed...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Untitled (Traintracks) - based on a Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Traintracks) - The last Picture Show - 2004 38x37cm. Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Arti...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Fluorescence - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 18" x 24"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater nude photograph of a beautiful model at the bottom of a pool. The photograph has powerful monochrome schema floating from white to blue with light magenta tint. Orig...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Milla pink blue Uke" Photography 29" × 20" in Edition 2/20 by Kate Garner
Located in Culver City, CA
"Milla pink blue Uke" Photography 29" × 20" in Edition 2/20 by Kate Garner Hahnemuhle fine art archival paper Kate Garner: Seeker, Sage, and Preservationist of Identity Not framed...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Ink

Andy Warhol's Medicine Cabinet by David Gamble
Located in Chicago, IL
Andy Warhol's Medicine Cabinet East 66th Street NYC 1987 6x7 Format Film Archival Inkjet on Paper *Also available on Aluminum. Please inquire regarding sizing and prices* Availabl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper

INNOCENCE
Located in Chicago, IL
Archival digital print on Hahnemühle fine art matte paper. Edition size: 11 Paper size: 16 x 20 inches Sold Matted with 3" white mat Also, available in 11" x 1...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Bush Encased by Sand Dunes in Namibia, Africa, Minimalist, Vertical
Located in US
"Haven" In this award-winning image, a lone bush is encased by a delicate sand dune, as if nature has protected it in a loving embrace. The print series Dunes: Landscapes Evolving...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

TODAY - large format photograph of conceptual motivational billboard at night
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale original photograph of a billboard against ultramarine blue night sky from a series of conceptual motivational messages on iconic Americana signs and billboards in landsc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée

Through the looking-glass
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Known for her whimsical and intuitive style, Taylor uses digital technology to build evocative photomontages of what she terms 'dreamlike worlds inhabited by everyday objects.' Inspired in part by Lewis Carroll's classic Alice in Wonderland, the images released today serve to complete the artist's multi-year poetic-narrative project Through the Looking Glass...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Set of Hands (India, Holi Festival, Warm, Saffron, Hand, Calm, ~30% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Lord Fauntleroy Set of Hands 2015 3 x Archival Pigment Prints on Matte Paper Size: 24 x 24 inches (60.96 x 60.96cm) (each) Edition: 9 Signed, titled and dated on label COA provided ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Greenland Sky III - N69˚25 W045˚30 - Greenland
Located in München, BY
Limited Edition of 15 More sizes on request Sebastian Copeland is considered a photographer "who has created works of outstanding artistic quality and conveys messages of urgent glo...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Topiary I (framed) - large format photograph of ornamental shaped urban tree
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photogaph from a series of photographic observances capturing the antics of urban gardening and whimsical botanical art of topiaries' green minimalism Topiary I...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Plexiglass, Giclée

Homage to Heraclitus: Earth I - Black and White Landscape Photograph of a Cave
Located in New York, NY
John Stathatos "Homage to Heraclitus: Earth I" is a black - and white 50 x 40 inch photograph. It is printed on archival Hahnemuhle Barita paper. The photograph is part of a series (...
Category

20th Century Contemporary Photography

Materials

Giclée

Led Zeppelin Outside the Chateau Marmont
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white capture of the band Led Zeppelin during their infamous visit to Chateau Marmont, circa 1969. This listing is for a limited edition archival print. What's included: ...
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1960s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Marilyn Monroe nude on set of Somethings Got To Give - Celebrity Photography
Located in Chicago, IL
When Lawrence Schiller got the assignment from the French magazine Paris Match to photograph Marilyn Monroe on the 20th century Fox set of Something’s Got To Give, he thought nothing...
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20th Century Contemporary Photography

Materials

C Print

Marilyn Monroe Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Screen Test Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white promo photo of Marilyn Monroe posed in a a cloak for her role in "Monkey BusinessGentlemen Prefer Blondes", circa 1953. -- One-of-a-kind original vintage press print...
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1950s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Black and White

Mr. Harlem, Photograph of African American Life New York City 1960s
Located in New york, NY
The image capturing African-American life in Harlem in the 1960s, Mr. Harlem, 1963 by Leonard Freed, is a 14” x 11” black-and-white photograph from the photographer's book Black in W...
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1960s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Flower Vendor on Dal Lake by Steve McCurry, 1999, Digital C-Print
Located in Denton, TX
Flower Vendor on Dal Lake by Steve McCurry depicts a man transporting vibrant, multi-colored flowers in a canoe. He paddled down the calm river, passing by a house surrounded by lush...
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1990s Contemporary Photography

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Digital

Sinking #3 - Floral still life abstract contemporary colorful photography
Located in New York, NY
This floral photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century. With multiplied ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Grace Jones, 21st Century, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography
Located in München, BY
Edition 25 Also available in 101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch, Edition 10 Black and white portrait of the singer and actress Grace Jones. From personality portraits and advertising cam...
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1990s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Hallelujah - large format photograph of baroque Italian palazzo fresco ceiling
Located in San Francisco, CA
Epic scale photograph of mesmerizing baroque details in a long forgotten architectural masterpiece discovered in Mediterranean Sicily, Italy Hallelujah by Frank Schott 66 x 59 inch...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée

Contemporary Color Photography of Butterfly, Broken Wing by RF
Located in New york, NY
From the transformative to the ephemeral, the birth and death of a butterfly with a broken wing is reimagined in a photo series by Roberta Fineberg inspired by a poem by the 13th Century Persian poet Rumi who wrote: ‘Whatever you know, or don’t - only love is real...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Archival Ink, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...

Under - underwater black & white nude photograph - print on aluminum 36x53"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white photograph of a young naked woman in a pool. Original digital print on aluminum plate signed by the artist. Limited edition of 12. Print #2 The artwo...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Metal

Hashikui Rocks, Study 1, Kushimoto, Honshu, Japan. 2002
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential am...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Marilyn Monroe Singing in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white capture of actress Marilyn Monroe singing in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", circa 1953. -- One-of-a-kind original vintage press print from the Celebrity Vault archives....
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1950s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Black and White

Chair, Northwich - Vintage industrial interior color photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Chair, from Richard Heeps 'Ordinary Places', a series capturing Britain on the brink of change. It was Richard's first colour series and it achieved much success with an exhibition ...
Category

1980s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Radha Leopard Dress III - Figurative, Portrait, Polaroid, Photograph, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Radha Leopard Dress III' (29 Palms, CA) Edition 3/10, 20x20cm, 1999, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory 18258.03. Not mounted. Featuring Australian actress Radha Mitchell. Living and working in Los Angeles and Berlin, Stefanie Schneider's scintillating situations take place in the American West. Situated on the verge of an elusive super-reality, her photographic sequences provide the ambience for loosely woven story lines and a cast of phantasmic characters. Schneider works with the chemical mutations of expired Polaroid film stock. Chemical explosions of color spreading across the surfaces undermine the photograph's commitment to reality and induce her characters into trance-like dreamscapes. Like flickering sequences of old road movies Schneider's images seem to evaporate before conclusions can be made - their ephemeral reality manifesting in subtle gestures and mysterious motives. Schneider's images refuse to succumb to reality, they keep alive the confusions of dream, desire, fact, and fiction. Stefanie Schneider received her MFA in Communication Design at the Folkwang Schule Essen, Germany. Her work has been shown at the Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, the Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt, the Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Museum für Moderne Kunst Passau, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Foto -Triennale Esslingen. “It was Stefanie Schneider, who inspired me to start the company THE IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT after seeing her work, which seems to achieve the possible from the impossible, creating the finest of art out of the most basic of mediums and materials. Indeed, after that one day, I was so impressed with her photography that I realized Polaroid film could not be allowed to disappear. Being at the precise moment in time where the world was about to lose Polaroid, I seized the moment and have put all my efforts and passion into saving Polaroid film. For that, I thank Stefanie Schneider almost exclusively, who played a bigger role than anyone in saving this American symbol of photography.” –Florian Kaps, March 8th 2010 (“Doc” Dr. Florian Kaps, founder of “The Impossible Project”) Selected Exhibitions 2019 Participating and curating the newly founded Polaroid Museum at the Bombay Beach Biennale 2019 (G) invited project at Saatchi's The Other Art Fair, LA - Polaroid Curation Instant Dreams USA film release March/April NYC, L.A. 2018 participating and curating Bombay Beach Biennale 2018 (G) Rough Play Project, Available for all, Joshua, Tree, USA (G) 2017 BLICKFELD] Analoge Fotografie, Kommunale Galerie Steglitz-Zehlendorf (G) (catalog) Kunstverein Bad Homburg Artlantis, Bad Homburg (G)

 2016 
Instantdreams, Instantdreams Gallery, Berlin 

(S) 2015
 Desert Voices, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G) with Pamela Littky 
Blue Nudes, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G) 

 2014

 Summer Show, Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France (G) 6 Finalists, Saatchi Gallery London (G) 
Instantdreams, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (S)
Grand Opening, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G) with Banksy, Andy Warhol, Alison Bignon, Sophie Dickens, Victor Gingembre and others
 2013 
Heather's Dream, Short, nominated for the German Short Film Award 2013 (Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis)
Images For Images (Artists fir Tichy), GASK - Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region,  Kutná Hora, Czech Republic, (G) with Richard Prince, Nan Golding, Shirana Shahbazi, Sophie Calle, Martin Kippenberger, Arnulf Rainer, Thomas Ruff, Katharina Grosse, Jonathan Meese & others (catalog) 
The Girl behind the White Picket Fence, Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France (S)
 Heather's Dream, Short, German Competition Short Film Festival Oberhausen 
Multimedia Presentation with Artist Stefanie Schneider, Palms Springs Art Museum, Annenberg Theater
 The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, (G) with Ansel Adams, Bruce Charlesworth, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Charles and Ray Eames, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lisa Oppenheim, Andy Warhol and others, (catalog)
 Road Atlas - Straßenfotografie, DZ Bank Collection: Kunsthalle Erfurt (Spring), Art Foyer DZ Bank, Frankfurt/Main, (G) with Helen Levitt, Pieter Hugo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Pietro Donzelli, and others (catalog)  
2012
 Stranger Than Paradise, Christian Hohmenn Fine Art, Palms Desert, (S)
 Stefanie Schneider, Gallery at Cliff Lede Vineyards, Napa Valley, CA, (S)
 Bienale Art Auction 2012, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, (G), with Ai Weiwei, John Baldessari, Christo, Ed Ruscha, Christopher Russell... MUSES, Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France (G) 
Polaroid (IM)POSSIBLE - THE WESTLICHT COLLECTION, NRW Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf (G), (catalog)
 Road Atlas - Straßenfotografie, DZ Bank Collection: Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk, Cottbus, (G), (catalog), 
Studio Scholorship, Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, May 2012
 Selling Sex, ShowStudio Gallery, London (G) with Cortney Andrews, Una Burke, Liz Cohen, Inge Jacobsen, and others
 Stranger Than Paradise, Scott White Contemporary, San Diego, (S) 

2011 
Kunst zu verlosen !  // Art to raffle off !, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, (G) with Monica Bonvicini, Tim Eitel...
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1990s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

David Bowie by Brian Aris
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition 16.5" x 23" print of David Bowie by Brian Aris in 1991. Brian Aris limited edition prints, signed and numbered by Brian and carryin...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Photography

Materials

Giclée

Cape Otway, South Australia
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Cape Otway, South Australia, 1998 - 20x30cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print based on a 35mm negative. Signed on back with Certificate. Not mounted.
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1990s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color

Abstract - Original Polaroid Unique Piece
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Abstract - 2020 Polaroid - Unique Piece 1/1, 7.8 x 7,7cm (image area) 10.7 x 8.7 cm ( including white Polaroid frame). Artist Inv. #23481. Signed on verso. Stefanie Schneider's ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Polaroid

Moonlight II - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment 24" x 36"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A beautiful and sophisticated underwater photograph of a young naked woman swimming in the pool. This is a monochrome photograph close to black and white with reach aquatic tint. T...
Category

2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival 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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