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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
Decking by the Sea - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Color Print
Decking by the Sea - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Color Print

Decking by the Sea - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Color Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in Brighton, GB

Decking by the Sea by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Digital C-Type print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. 'Decking by the Sea' is a Limited Editi...

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20th Century Modern Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital

Ski Instructors Only (1955) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant

Ski Instructors Only (1955) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Ski Instructors Only (1955) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked ‘Ski Instructors Only’ New Hampshire, 1955. Additional ...

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1950s Modern Photography

Materials

Black and White, Archival Pigment

'Rainy Embankment' London (Limited Edition) Oversize

'Rainy Embankment' London (Limited Edition) Oversize

Located in London, GB

A man standing alone on a rain-drenched pavement on the River Thames Embankment, London. August 1929. (Photo By Fox Photos/ The Getty Images Photographic Archives London, England) ...

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1920s Modern Photography

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Still Life with Shells. Flowers. Digital Collage Color Photograph
Still Life with Shells. Flowers. Digital Collage Color Photograph

Still Life with Shells. Flowers. Digital Collage Color Photograph

Located in Miami Beach, FL

As an artist, He is fascinated by the opulence and richness of still life of the golden age of Dutch painting in the 17th c. These works, of course, symbolize mortality and the temporal nature of material goods. In his still life, He built these images with the same symbolic references but with the best quality, you can get. By playing with light and dark, He captures the beauty of every flower and each object down to the smallest detail. In addition to photography, he uses high-resolution scans to achieve extreme detail. He use photography as a base, but in the end, he arrive at an image that nobody could actually shoot as a photograph.He is not a photographer in the traditional sense, but he does take many pictures and he needs a lot of layers. In his still life of flowers and objects, he creates a balance between objects and living materials with light and shadow and the best quality. He created the photographic illusion of a painting from the golden age in a new tech way by scanning every object individually and combining these with photographs that he took. The construction takes a lot of time and months of post-production. In his work, everything has to be perfect. It’s like a movie. The light and color have to be right. (It is quite obsessive work.) He loves the idea of “the impossible image” – the idea of there being no limits and of using the photograph as the basis for an image that’s in his head. Zoltan Gerliczki...

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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography

Materials

Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment

French Polo Crowd (1950) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant

French Polo Crowd (1950) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

French Polo Crowd (1950) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) A group of spectators at a polo match, France, circa 1950. Additional Information: Unframed Paper Size: ...

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1950s Modern Photography

Materials

Black and White, Archival Pigment

Bianca Volpato (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL

Bianca Volpato (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Bianca Volpato (1958) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Bianca Volpato poses in front of the Temple of Love on the island of Capri, Italy, 1958. Additional Informa...

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1950s Modern Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color

'Poolside Backgammon' 1972 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition

'Poolside Backgammon' 1972 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

'Poolside Backgammon' Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. 30x40 inches / 76 x 102 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collecti...

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1970s Modern Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

French Stately Home, 1956 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Color C-Type Print
French Stately Home, 1956 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Color C-Type Print

French Stately Home, 1956 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Color C-Type Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in Brighton, GB

French Stately Home, 1956 by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. 'French Stately Home, 1956' by Slim Aarons is a Limite...

Category

20th Century Modern Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital

Carriage Awaits (1977) Limited Estate Stamped

Carriage Awaits (1977) Limited Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Carriage Awaits (1977) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Mrs. Kenneth Appleton Ives with a horse and carriage outside her house in Bermuda, 1977. Additional Inform...

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1970s Modern Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Bond Girl to Be (1955) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant

Bond Girl to Be (1955) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Bond Girl to Be (1955) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Sultry sex symbol, film star Ursula Andress takes a siesta in a hammock on a visit to Rome, circa 1955. Abo...

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1950s Modern Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color

Bermudan Hostess (1957) Limited Estate Stamped

Bermudan Hostess (1957) Limited Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Bermudan Hostess (1957) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Polly Trott Hornburg in front of her father’s typical Bermudian house. She is wearing her own design of Tha...

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1950s Modern Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

"Walt Disney's Pinocchio" Lobby Card, USA 1940

"Walt Disney's Pinocchio" Lobby Card, USA 1940

Located in Cologne, DE

Walt Disney's Pinocchio, USA 1940, Animation, Lobby Card, The lobby cards would have been displayed inside the cinemas at the time of the film's release. Pinocchio is a 1940 Americ...

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1940s Modern Photography

Materials

Color

Andros Island (1957) Limited Estate Stamped

Andros Island (1957) Limited Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Andros Island (1957) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Marsha Gayle of Paris enjoys a deserted beach near Calabash Bay, Andros, Bahamas, 1957. Additional Informat...

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1950s Modern Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Rhinos In The Mist  (2014)  Print - Oversized

Rhinos In The Mist (2014) Print - Oversized

Located in London, GB

Rhinos (2014) Print - Oversized (Photo by Alamy) Two rhinos in a field on a foggy day, 5th July 2014 Additional Information: Unframed Paper Size: 40x60'' Printed Later Archi...

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2010s Modern Photography

Materials

Black and White, Archival Pigment

Anna Maria Alberghetti, 1959 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Print
Anna Maria Alberghetti, 1959 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Print

Anna Maria Alberghetti, 1959 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in Brighton, GB

Anna Maria Alberghetti, 1959 by Slim Aarons This is a 16" x 16" print on 16" x 20" paper. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. 'Anna Maria Alberghet...

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20th Century Modern Photography

Materials

C Print, Digital, Photographic Paper, Color

Kaufmann Desert House Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
Kaufmann Desert House Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print

Kaufmann Desert House Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Kaufmann Desert House Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace) and Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Sp...

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1970s Modern Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Jeanloup Sieff - Intimode - Les Dessous de la mode

Jeanloup Sieff - Intimode - Les Dessous de la mode

By Jeanloup Sieff

Located in Cologne, DE

From a Portfolio with 26 exclusive works of Jeanloup Sieff, limited to 200 copies. The photograph of Jeanloup Sieff has been produced as Collotype under the direct commandment of the...

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1980s Modern Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photogravure

"Hungry Elephant" by Fox Photos

"Hungry Elephant" by Fox Photos

Located in London, GB

"Hungry Elephant" by Fox Photos An elephant named Mae West accepts an apple from a passing tram driver while taking her morning exercise along Gray's ...

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1930s Modern Photography

Materials

Black and White

"Marlon Brando" by Murray Garrett

"Marlon Brando" by Murray Garrett

By Murray Garrett

Located in London, GB

"Marlon Brando" by Murray Garrett 1954: EXCLUSIVE American actor Marlon Brando sits on a sofa with a typewriter in his lap while a cat lays across his shoulders at his home in Los A...

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1950s Modern Photography

Materials

Black and White

Vintage C Print "Of Time and Change" Boulders on a Sea Shore
Vintage C Print "Of Time and Change" Boulders on a Sea Shore

Vintage C Print "Of Time and Change" Boulders on a Sea Shore

By Sonja Bullaty

Located in Surfside, FL

1981, Chromogenic Print. It is supposed to be signed lower right recto but has not been examined out of frame. Provenance: Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York; ARCO Chemical Company, Newtown Square, PA. Sonja Bullaty (October 17, 1923 - October 5, 2000) was a Jewish American photographer. Bullaty is known for her "lyrical composition" and strong use of color during her fifty-year collaboration with her husband, Angelo Lomeo. Bullaty and Lomeo's photographs appeared in LIFE, Time and Audubon magazines and journal.They have both exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography, the George Eastman House, UMPRUM Museum in Prague, in the Nikon House galleries and other venues. Bullaty was born in Prague to a Jewish banking family. Her family gave her a camera when she turned fourteen. Since Bullaty had been forced to leave school at the time, the camera was a "consolation gift." When Bullaty was eighteen, she was deported by the Nazis to Poland, where she was kept in the Lodz ghetto, and then later taken to Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen concentration camps. During a death march near Dresden, she and a friend successfully hid in a barn and were able to escape and return to Prague. When she got back to her home city, she discovered that no one else in her family had survived the Holocaust. Bullaty, "her head shaved," saw and answered an advertisement to be the helper to Czech photographer, Josef Sudek. As his assistant, she mixed chemicals for the darkroom, organized his negatives and learned from his sense of composition.[1] Sudek called her his "apprentice-martyr." Sudek's work often focused on the Czech landscape and windows, such as in the series The Windows of My Studio (1940-1954). Bullaty also photographed windows, but unlike Sudek, who photographed his own windows looking out, Bullaty photographed windows looking into buildings. Bullaty published a book, Sudek (1978), about her mentor, and it was the first publication of his work in the West. Bullaty found work with a photographer on her third day in New York. Also in 1947, she met Angelo Lomeo. They were brought together when she was inquiring about a darkroom in a building he managed. Lomeo was intrigued by Bullaty's accent and went to see her. They started photographing together a year later, traveling and sharing resources; during their time together, they became close. Bullaty and Lomeo were married in 1951. Later, when she was married, she and her husband would visit Sudek and bring him photography supplies. They visited him in Czechoslovakia "almost yearly." In 1971, she helped mount an exhibition of Sudek's work in New York. As photographers, Bullaty and Lomeo started using studio cameras...

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1980s Modern Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print

Slim Aarons 'Palm Springs Party' Midcentury Modern
Slim Aarons 'Palm Springs Party' Midcentury Modern

Slim Aarons 'Palm Springs Party' Midcentury Modern

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

Italian artist and actress Domiziana Giordano, Italian author Francesca Sanvitale (1928 - 2011), Dino Trappetti and Umberto Terrelli dining al fresco on a terrace overlooking the waters off the coast of the island of Capri, Italy, in August 1980. Palm Springs Party...

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1970s Modern Photography

Materials

C Print

Bahamas Signpost - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Color C-Type Print, 16 x 20
Bahamas Signpost - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Color C-Type Print, 16 x 20

Bahamas Signpost - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Color C-Type Print, 16 x 20

By Slim Aarons

Located in Brighton, GB

Bahamas Signpost by Slim Aarons 16" x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. "Bahamas Signpost, May 1964" is a Limited Edition Estate Stamp...

Category

20th Century Modern Photography

Materials

C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital

Sunbathing In Antibes Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
Sunbathing In Antibes Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print

Sunbathing In Antibes Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Sunbathing In Antibes Dani Geneux (left) and Marie-Eugenie Gaudfrin sunbathing at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. 30x40 inches / 76 x 102 cm paper size ...

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1970s Modern Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

60x45 Rocket Firing Boba Fett Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Jedi Unsigned
60x45 Rocket Firing Boba Fett Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Jedi Unsigned

60x45 Rocket Firing Boba Fett Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Jedi Unsigned

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

"Taylor In Ball Gown" by Silver Screen Collection

"Taylor In Ball Gown" by Silver Screen Collection

Located in London, GB

"Taylor In Ball Gown" by Silver Screen Collection British-born American actress Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - 2011) in a white, off-the shoulder ball gown, circa 1951. Unframed Paper Si...

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1950s Modern Photography

Materials

Black and White

Beverly Hills Hotel (1957) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant

Beverly Hills Hotel (1957) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Beverly Hills Hotel (1957) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Cars parked outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard. California, 1957. About the image: Th...

Category

1950s Modern Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Lake Tahoe Ladies (1959) Limited Estate Stamped

Lake Tahoe Ladies (1959) Limited Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Lake Tahoe Ladies (1959) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) A group of young women in their bathing suits on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, 1959. Additional Informat...

Category

1950s Modern Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

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.