Modern Photography
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Lotus Lake -- FIlM NOIR
Located in Lafayette, LA
Here is an AI-generated "FILM NOIR" image of a woman floating in a small boat on a lake of Lotuses under a Full moon.
About Francis X Pavy
In the vast tapestry of the art world, A...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Young blonde woman with orb on a pole
Located in Lafayette, LA
Here is and AI grenerated image of a young Blonde woman with an Illuminated orb on a Pole. She stands in the Dark under some overhead lights that backlight her hair.
IN her left ha...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Blonde woman holding an Orb aloft
Located in Lafayette, LA
This Ai AI-generated photo depicts a Beautiful Blonde woman holding an illuminated Small Orb aloft. It illuminates her facial features.In the background are background are some ligh...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Slim Aarons Carlton Hotel Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Carlton Hotel' by Slim Aarons
The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958.
A couple dressed elegantly in all white tennis outfits with rackets in hand, wander past the...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
Young Woman testing her Orb Lamp -- FILM NOIR
Located in Lafayette, LA
This AI-generated " film Noir" Photograph is of a young woman testing a delicate Orb Lamp on a sidewalk near a street. it is a foggy night and there are trees in the background.
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Floating Formal
Located in Lafayette, LA
Here is an AI-generated "film Noir" Photograph of a woman dressed in a formal gown reclining on a bed of Rocks. There I dramatic light is from above left and the Backdrop has many s...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Woman under a circus tent holding an illuminated orb aloft
Located in Lafayette, LA
This Ai generated Image is a "Film Noir" type that depicts a Woman in an exquisite circus outfit resting for a moment before she goes on stage. An illuminated orb above her head, lig...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Slim Aarons Soho Waiters Race (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Soho Waiters Race
1955
Silver gelatin print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Waiters carrying half bottles of champ...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Print Silver Gelatin Signed Photo President Richard Nixon Innaugural
Located in Surfside, FL
Photograph signed in ink and with photographer stamp verso and hand written title.
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United Stat...
Category
1990s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Montego Bay Fisherman 1940s Toni Frissell Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Montego Bay Fishermen 1940s Toni Frissell Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Fishermen at work on a beach in Montego Bay Jamaica circa 1940.
by Toni Frissell
30 x 30" inches / 76 x...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Winter Wear' 1976 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Winter Wear' 1976 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Manuela Boraomanero (left) and Emanuela Beghelli holiday in the Italian ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo, March 1976.
(Ph...
Category
1970s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Vintage Print Silver Gelatin Signed Photograph Poet Allen Ginsberg Howl Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Allen Ginsberg reading Howl and other poems at Living Theater in 1959.
signed in ink and with photographer stamp verso and hand written title.
Irwin Allen Ginsberg 1926 – 1997 was an...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Florence One, Italy, 2023
By Bill Phelps
Located in Hudson, NY
The Robin Rice Gallery announces the new exhibition VISITOR by photographer Bill Phelps.
Through light and shadow, a gaze, a mindset, Bill Phelps fourth solo show at the Robin Rice ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Captain Oates (1910-13)
Located in London, GB
Captain Oates (1910-13)
(photo by Herbert Ponting)
Scott’s Last Expedition, the ‘Terra Nova’ at the Icefoot Ross Island
British Antarctic Expedition South Pole
Herbert George Pon...
Category
1910s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
40x60 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN "BORN IN THE USA" Cassette Photography Pop Art
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A contemporary photograph of a BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN "BORN IN THE USA" cassette tape.
This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Destro
These i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Brooklyn Two, NY, 2010
By Bill Phelps
Located in Hudson, NY
Through light and shadow, a gaze, a mindset, Bill Phelps fourth solo show at the Robin Rice Gallery VISITOR inspires the imagination. About life, about being, eye and heart his great...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons, Poolside in Arizona (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Poolside in Arizona
1973. (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Guests by the pool at the home of Wayne B...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
AC DC BACK IN BLACK 40x60 Photography Photograph Cassette Tape Fine Art Print
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A contemporary photograph of an AC/DC - Back In Black cassette tape.
"They encapsulate an era instantly transporting the viewer to another time." - Destro
Printed on Archival Paper...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Soho Waiters Race'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Soho Waiters Race
1955
Silver gelatin print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Waiters carrying half bottles of champ...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
40x60 "Goodfellas" VHS Photo Photography Pop Art Photograph Fine Art Signed
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"The VHS" by pop Artist Destro.
We all remember those iconic nights at the video store.
Pop artist DESTRO once again encapsulates one of our favorite past times in a fine art con...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Lounging In Verbier Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Lounging In Verbier' by Slim Aarons
Holidaymakers in sun loungers on the slopes at Verbier, Switzerland, February 1964.
This photograph epitomises the Travel, Lifestyle and Glamou...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
Spot the Ball by Slim Aarons
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category
20th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Lambda, C Print
Pebble Beach 1976 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pebble Beach
1976
Riders from the Pebble Beach Equestrian Center wend their way through the Californian sand dunes and pampas grass, November 1976.
Photo by Slim Aarons
40x40” ...
Category
1970s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
Jean Shrimpton and Terence Stamp Hand Signed Framed Print
Located in London, GB
Jean Shrimpton and Terence Stamp
photo by Terry O’Neill
1963
A close cropped portrait of British actor Terence Stamp and model Jean ‘The Shrimp’ Shrimpton, London 1963.
The couple ...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marilyn Monroe, unique print of 1988 from original negative
Located in Cologne, DE
Ed Feingersh photographed Marilyn Monroe for Redbook magazine in March 1955 for a story which would follow Monroe through her daily routine, the photography to be candid and shot wit...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Florence Three, Italy, 2023
By Bill Phelps
Located in Hudson, NY
The Robin Rice Gallery announces the new exhibition VISITOR by photographer Bill Phelps.
Through light and shadow, a gaze, a mindset, Bill Phelps fourth solo show at the Robin Rice ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Beverly Hills Hotel'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Beverly Hills Hotel, 1957
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Cars parked outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boul...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate edition - Beverly Hills Hotel
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beverly Hills Hotel by Slim Aarons
Beautiful 1950's cars parked outside the iconic Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957.
Typically 'Slim' this photograph ep...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
YODA Star Wars Movie Pop Art Photography Photo Empire Strikes Back Return Jedi
Located in Los Angeles, CA
R2DR - STAR WARS
Exhibition Poster from series "The Toys"
A retrospective on 80's and 90's pop culture by pop artists "Destro"
Original offset lithograph poster printed on acid-free...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Keep Your Cool' 1978 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Keep Your Cool' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank ‘Brandy’ Brandstetter
in a swimming pool at Acapulco.
Slim Aarons ...
Category
1970s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
"Secret Menu" Photography 30" x 45" in Edition 1/7 by Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Secret Menu" Photography 30" x 45" in Edition 1/7 by Larsen Sotelo
Not framed. Ships in a tube
Comes with COA
Available sizes:
Edition of 15: 24" x 36" inch
Edition of 7: 30" ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Orange still. Digital Collage Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Orange still, 2017 by Zoltan Gerliczki
From the series "Still Life"
Archival Pigment Print on fine art paper
Image size: 31.5 in H x 25.5 in W.
Edition of 6 + 2AP
Unframed
As an art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes 1969
A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tows a waterskiier, in the sea off the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riv...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
South Sudan Cattlemen Signed Limited Edition Framed Print
Located in London, GB
South Sudan Cattlemen
2012
by Marco Di Lauro
A Cattleman from the Mundari tribe rubs hash on his face to protect himself from insects in a cattle camp on the road
38 kilometers Nor...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Signed limited edition nude photography, Contemporary black white, Sensual Nadia
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Nadia - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 5
Sexy photo shoot of a woman in profile, hunched over an old dentist's chair with a su...
Category
1980s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
Dasha & Mari - GIRL WITH EARRING - limited edition
By Dasha & Mari
Located in London, GB
Dasha & Mari - Tennis - limited edition
40 x 40" inches oversize C print - numbered and stamped limited to 100 only.
Sumptuous, sensual with erotic undertones, this is a beautiful ...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
Marilyn Monroe, Glass Balanced on Left Knee
Located in Fairlawn, OH
From: The Black Sitting, 1956
Original silver print photograph taken the the photographers studio in New York in 1956.
Hand signed in ink within the photographers stamp verso.
Pri...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Hepburn With Dove Hand Signed Framed Print
Located in London, GB
Hepburn With Dove
1966
by Terry O’Neill
Lifetime hand signed Limited Print
Paper size 12 x 16″ inches / 31 x 41 cm
Gelatin Silver Print
signed and numbered by artist
40/50
With...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Tulip regenerations. Digital Collage Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Tulip regenerations, 2012 by Zoltan Gerliczki
From the series Still Life
Archival pigment print on fine art paper
Image size: 31.5 in H x 25.5 in W.
Edition of 6 + 2AP
Unframed
As a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Hiking in Germany in 1920
By Carl Simon
Located in Cologne, DE
The Carl Simon Archive was a sleeping treasure of photos for 60 years. In 2011 finally the sensational life work of Carl Simon was rediscovered in an old storage room in Unterbilk,...
Category
1920s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
White Still. Digital Collage Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
White Still, 2017 by Zoltan Gerliczki
From the series "Still Life"
Archival pigment print on fine art paper
Image size: 31.5 in H x 25.5 in W.
Edition of 6 + 2AP
Unframed
As an arti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment
60x45 Rocket Firing Boba Fett Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Jedi Photography
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a pop art print of the original Rocket Firing Boba Fett toy from Kenner "The Toys" by LA based Pop Artists DESTRO.
These iconic figures have become more then just iconic col...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Ink, Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Kings of Hollywood' (Mid-Century Modern Photography)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Kings of Hollywood
1957
Fiber print
estate edition of 150
Film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Norman Parkinson 'Wenda and Ostriches'
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Wenda and Ostriches
1951 (printed later)
C print
20 x 16 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
with certificate of authenticity from the Norman ...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
Nobuyoshi Araki - GEISHA Limited ed. Skate Set Japanese Photography Modern Art
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Nobuyoshi Araki - GEISHA
Date of creation: 2016
Medium: Digital print on Canadian maple wood
Edition: 125
Size: 80 x 20 cm (each skate)
Condition: In mint conditions and never displa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Wood, Digital Pigment
Slim Aarons, The High Life (Mid-century Modern Photography)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The High Life
1968
C print
20 x 24 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Actor George Hamilton (in blue) takes off in a speedboat w...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Lambda
Norman Parkinson 'Wenda and Ostriches'
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Wenda and Ostriches
1951 (printed later)
C print
24 x 20 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
with certificate of authenticity from the Norman ...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Wenda and Ostriches'
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Wenda and Ostriches
1951 (printed later)
C print
40 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
Wenda Parkinson wearing knee-buttoned jeans and ...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
Walter Rudolph, Ischia, Italy 1970, Limited ΣYMO Edition, Copy 1 of 50
Located in Cologne, DE
Walter Rudolph
His photographs are reminiscent of the jet-set photographer Slim Aarons. Walter Rudolph discovered the world as a photographer on the idea, travel was his passion, hi...
Category
1970s Modern Photography
Materials
Color
Venice - Gondola on Water and Bridge of Sights, Italy, 1950s, 23, 3 x 15, 9 cm
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 1950.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photogr...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Andres: Arches Nationalpark, Utah, 1966
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1966.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photograph...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mid Century Steve McQueen Pool, Midnight Modern Architecture Palm Springs
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mid Century Modern Palm Springs Architecture. Steve McQueen vintage car photographed for the first time at his pool in Palm Desert.
Archival Inkjet Print on Cotton Paper. Mid Cent...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
Cotton, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons 'Relaxing at Lake Tahoe'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Relaxing at Lake Tahoe
1959
Archival pigment print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A group of people re...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Figurative photo, Signed limited edition nude print, Black white, Sensual - Punk
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘ Punk ‘ who was captured on film in 198...
Category
1980s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Archival Pi...
Walter Rudolph, Alassio, Italian Riviera, Liguria, ΣYMO Edition, Copy 1 of 50
Located in Cologne, DE
Walter Rudolph
His photographs are reminiscent of the jet-set photographer Slim Aarons. Walter Rudolph discovered the world as a photographer on the idea, travel was his passion, hi...
Category
1980s Modern Photography
Materials
Color
Thomas Ruff - TRIPE 12 - 21st Century, Modern Photography Temple Myanmar Design
By Thomas Ruff
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Thomas Ruff - TRIPE 12 - Seeringham. Munduppum inside Gateway.
Date of creation: 2018
Medium: Inkjet giclée on Rag Photographique Paper
Edition: 50 + 5 A.P.
Size: 40 x 50 cm
Conditio...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Inkjet
48x64 " Hollywood Sign" Photomosaic Pop Fine Art Photography Unsigned
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Hollywood Sign" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro.
This image is made up of 100's of smaller images of Hollywood related imagery.
Archival photographic paper
Framing options ava...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mid Century Red Jaguar E Type, Midnight Modern Architecture Palm Springs
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Limited Edition photograph by Australian Photographer Tom Blachford.
Mid Century Modern Palm Springs Architecture. Red Jaguar E-Type vintage Car similar to the Porsche 365 photograp...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
Cotton, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper
Modern photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Modern 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, red, orange, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Kevin Westenberg, Slim Aarons, Howard Schatz, and Terry O'Neill. Frequently made by artists working with Archival Pigment Print, and 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 Modern photography, so small editions measuring 4 inches across are also available. Prices for photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $44 and tops out at $75,000, while the average work sells for $2,150.