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Pop Art Photography

POP ART STYLE

Perhaps one of the most influential contemporary art movements, Pop art emerged in the 1950s. In stark contrast to traditional artistic practice, its practitioners drew on imagery from popular culture — comic books, advertising, product packaging and other commercial media — to create original Pop art paintings, prints and sculptures that celebrated ordinary life in the most literal way.

ORIGINS OF POP ART

CHARACTERISTICS OF POP ART 

  • Bold imagery
  • Bright, vivid colors
  • Straightforward concepts
  • Engagement with popular culture 
  • Incorporation of everyday objects from advertisements, cartoons, comic books and other popular mass media

POP ARTISTS TO KNOW

ORIGINAL POP ART ON 1STDIBS

The Pop art movement started in the United Kingdom as a reaction, both positive and critical, to the period’s consumerism. Its goal was to put popular culture on the same level as so-called high culture.

Richard Hamilton’s 1956 collage Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? is widely believed to have kickstarted this unconventional new style.

Pop art works are distinguished by their bold imagery, bright colors and seemingly commonplace subject matter. Practitioners sought to challenge the status quo, breaking with the perceived elitism of the previously dominant Abstract Expressionism and making statements about current events. Other key characteristics of Pop art include appropriation of imagery and techniques from popular and commercial culture; use of different media and formats; repetition in imagery and iconography; incorporation of mundane objects from advertisements, cartoons and other popular media; hard edges; and ironic and witty treatment of subject matter.

Although British artists launched the movement, they were soon overshadowed by their American counterparts. Pop art is perhaps most closely identified with American Pop artist Andy Warhol, whose clever appropriation of motifs and images helped to transform the artistic style into a lifestyle. Most of the best-known American artists associated with Pop art started in commercial art (Warhol made whimsical drawings as a hobby during his early years as a commercial illustrator), a background that helped them in merging high and popular culture.

Roy Lichtenstein was another prominent Pop artist that was active in the United States. Much like Warhol, Lichtenstein drew his subjects from print media, particularly comic strips, producing paintings and sculptures characterized by primary colors, bold outlines and halftone dots, elements appropriated from commercial printing. Recontextualizing a lowbrow image by importing it into a fine-art context was a trademark of his style. Neo-Pop artists like Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami further blurred the line between art and popular culture.

Pop art rose to prominence largely through the work of a handful of men creating works that were unemotional and distanced — in other words, stereotypically masculine. However, there were many important female Pop artists, such as Rosalyn Drexler, whose significant contributions to the movement are recognized today. Best known for her work as a playwright and novelist, Drexler also created paintings and collages embodying Pop art themes and stylistic features.

Read more about the history of Pop art and the style’s famous artists, and browse the collection of original Pop art paintings, prints, photography and other works for sale on 1stDibs.

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Style: Pop Art
Darth Elvis - Oversize limited edition - Darth Vader Elvis Pop Art
Located in London, GB
Darth Elvis - limited edition - Darth Vader Elvis Pop Art Mint Archival pigment print by the London based contemporary pop art image creator and artist, BATIK. Measures an extra...
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2010s Pop Art Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Warhol films director Paul Morrissey photographed nude for Vogue magazine
Located in Senoia, GA
Paul Morrissey, director of ‘Trash’, photographed nude for Vogue magazine on September 21, 1970. This is a vintage gelatin silver print, made by hand by...
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1970s Pop Art Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Darth Elvis by BATIK Supersize Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Darth Elvis By BATIK Signed Limited Edition BATIK is a London based fine artist and image maker. Produced directly in the artist's studio Certificate of authenticity supplied Pa...
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2010s Pop Art Photography

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Archival Pigment

Young Actress Meryl Streep 16x20" Exhibition Print, Signed
Located in Senoia, GA
16 x 20" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Actress Meryl Streep photographed January 7, 1979 just before the release of her first film ‘The Deer Hunter...
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1970s Pop Art Photography

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Silver Gelatin

ICES Red, Bexhill-on-Sea - Pop Art Typography Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
ICES Red, bold pop art street photography from Richard Heeps' series, On-Sea. Created as an ode to Richard's childhood visits to his grandparents living on the Sussex coast, the art...
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2010s Pop Art Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Vinyl Collection 21 Piece Multi-Color Installation - Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Heidler & Heeps Vinyl Collection Twenty-One Piece Multi-Color Installation. Acclaimed contemporary photographers, Richard Heeps and Natasha Heidler have collaborated to make this bea...
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2010s Pop Art Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

American Composer David Del Tredici, nude.
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of composer David Del Tredici, photographed nude in 1973. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell...
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1970s Pop Art Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Las Vegas Pool Supplies - Contemporary pop art color photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Las Vegas Pool Supplies, perfect pop-art kitsch from Richard Heeps in this American roadside 'Sign Porn' photography. This artwork is a limited edition of 25, gloss photographic pri...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Tony & Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, signed by Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, 1983. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes directly from the Jac...
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1980s Pop Art Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Cindy Sherman Vinyl Record Art
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Cindy Sherman Vinyl Record Art 2007: Off-set print on vinyl record. 12 x 12 inches. Excellent Condition. Published by Visionaire Fashion from a limited ed...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Photography

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Plastic, Offset

New World Order Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
New World Order by BATIK Satirical pop art artwork featuring Vladimir Putin, VP J.D. Vance, Donald Trump and Elon Musk in WW2 war rooms. BATIK is a London based fine artist and im...
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2010s Pop Art Photography

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

American Ballet Theater Dancer Lupe Serrano in 'Swan Lake'
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of American Ballet Theater ballerina Lupe Serrano performing in 'Swan Lake', 1966. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. Jack Mitchell, (1925-2013) bulging photographic portfolio of actors, writers, painters, musicians and especially dancers describes a pictorial history of the arts in the late 20th century. Mr. Mitchell, who took hundreds of pictures for The New York Times, was both a portraitist and a capturer of complex motion. An expert in lighting, he worked mostly, though not entirely, in black and white, and he was known — by his subjects, by the magazine and newspaper editors he worked for, and by critics — as someone who could make a photograph reveal character. Jack Mitchell was the official photographer for the American Ballet Theater, and he chronicled the work of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for more than thirty years. When he retired in 1995, he had fulfilled more than 5,000 assignments in black and white, and nearly a thousand in color. He photographed more than 160 covers for Dance magazine, and his photos have appeared in Time, Life, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Vogue and many other publications. Mitchell’s photographs are in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, among others. The 2019 USPS Black Heritage postage stamp honoring American performer Gregory Hines was made from a Jack Mitchell photograph, and a Jack Mitchell photograph of Audre Lorde...
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1960s Pop Art Photography

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Silver Gelatin

American Ballet Theatre dancer Stephan Jan-Hoff photographed Nude signed
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of American Ballet Theatre dancer Stephan Jan-Hoff photographed nude, 1967. Signed on the verso by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the J...
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1960s Pop Art Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Mother India II, Delhi - India Color Street Photograph of Books
Located in Cambridge, GB
As books are beginning to disappear in physical form this picture is perfect for book lovers, it even gives you the sense of book hunting in a store. Photographed in Delhi in 2013 th...
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2010s Pop Art Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Nude portrait study of Harkness Ballet dancer Zane Wilson
Located in Senoia, GA
Harkness Ballet dancer nude portrait study, 1972. This is a vintage silver gelatin photograph made by hand by master photographer Jack Mitchell. Comes ...
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1970s Pop Art Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Multiple exposure nude portrait study of male model Brahm
Located in Senoia, GA
Male model Brahm multiple-exposure nude portrait study, 1970. This is a vintage silver gelatin photograph made by hand by master photographer Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the J...
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1970s Pop Art Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Bible - Fisherman's Mission - Ordinary Places Vintage Interior Color Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
Photograph from From Richard Heeps acclaimed series Ordinary Places, a bible on a brown side chair taken from above at the Chapel at the Fleetwood's Fisherman's Mission. It was Rich...
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1980s Pop Art Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

16 x 20" Colleen Dunn and Peter Allen in 'Legs Diamond' signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
16 x 20" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Colleen Dunn and Peter Allen in 'Legs Diamond' on Broadway in 1988.. It is signed by Jack Mitchell on the re...
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1980s Pop Art Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Galatea 11 - Contemporary Limited Edition C-Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Galatea 11 is a vibrant C-Type Print on Fujiflex Paper in a Limited Edition of 9 + 2 Artist Proof with Dimensions of 100cm x 150cm. Photography duo Tortora & Travezan create vibrant...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Photography

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C Print, Digital

After Dark male model Mikel Peters, nude, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. This photograph was from a session for After Dark magazine and was selected and signed by Jack Mitchell as one of his favorites. Jack’s artist statement on his work for the magazine: “After Dark was a magazine of entertainment, theater and the arts. It was a popular magazine, with a gay slant, enjoyed by many gay men, and some broad minded women and men. As well as (I learned years later) many closeted male youngsters. The magazine was ahead of its time, as advertisers were reluctant to place ads in an essentially gay magazine...
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1970s Pop Art Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Tape Collection, 90 Minutes A Side - Contemporary Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
90 Minutes A Side, artwork from the Heidler & Heeps Tape Collection The Heidler & Heeps collaborations are creative representations of Natasha Heidler and Richard Heeps’, personal p...
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2010s Pop Art Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

PRINCE photograph Detroit 1980 (Prince by Leni Sinclair)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Prince Detroit 1980: A standout, hand signed photograph of the late all-time great Prince, shot by legendary Detroit photographer Leni Sinclair,...
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1980s Pop Art Photography

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Inkjet

Tape Collection, 90 Minutes Tinted Blue - Contemporary Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
90 Minutes Tinted Blue, artwork from the Heidler & Heeps Tape Collection The Heidler & Heeps collaborations are creative representations of Natasha Heidler and Richard Heeps’, perso...
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2010s Pop Art Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Vinyl Collection B Side Pop of Pink Installation - Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Heidler & Heeps B Side Pop of Pink Nine Piece Installation. Acclaimed contemporary photographers, Richard Heeps and Natasha Heidler have collaborated to make this beautifully mesmeri...
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2010s Pop Art Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Best Choice in Downtown, Kowloon, Hong Kong Asian architecture color photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
Best Choice in Downtown, captured by Richard Heeps in Kowloon in 2016, this piece perfectly captures the layers of Hong Kong. As a photographer Richard is always looking at what trul...
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2010s Pop Art Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

BASQUIAT photographs by Nicholas Taylor (set of 9 Basquiat photographs)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat by Nicholas Taylor 1979/2014: The complete set of 9 works, shot in 1979 and recently exhibited at the The Philharmonie de Paris, as part of the heralded 2023 ‘B...
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1980s Pop Art Photography

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Photogravure

Galatea 7 - Contemporary Photography, Pop Art, Nude, Papaya, Lillies, Fruit
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days. Galatea 7 is a vibrant C-Type Print on Fujiflex Paper in an Edition of 9 + 2 A...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Photography

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C Print, Digital, Photographic Paper, Color

Eternal Recurrence #3. Large limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Zupan combines images from old masters, alchemical prints, contemporary artists, and bits from magazines and newspapers to create overlapping, intersecting worlds of transparencies a...
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2010s Pop Art Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Vinyl Collection Made in France Blue - Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Heidler & Heeps Vinyl Collection 'Made in France Blue'. Acclaimed contemporary photographers, Richard Heeps and Natasha Heidler have collaborated to make this beautifully mesmerisin...
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2010s Pop Art Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

African American Dancer/Founder Donald McKayle leading his company in class
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of African American Dancer/ Company Founder Donald McKayle leading his company in class, 1962. Comes ...
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1960s Pop Art Photography

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Silver Gelatin

'Sea Duet' Ballet for Still Photography, Signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of 'Sea Duet', a ballet for still photography created by Mitchell to celebrate his love of dance, 1983. Si...
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1980s Pop Art Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Warhol Basquiat Boxing advertisement 1985 (Warhol Basquiat boxing 1985)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat boxing pictorial, 1985. Rare vintage 1985 large sized magazine advertisement for the historic Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat collaborations sh...
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1980s Pop Art Photography

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Paper, Offset

Vinyl Collection B Side Recording - Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
'B Side Recording'. Acclaimed contemporary photographers, Richard Heeps and Natasha Heidler have collaborated to make this beautifully mesmerising collection. A celebration of the vi...
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2010s Pop Art Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Las Vegas Pool Supplies - Contemporary pop art color photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Las Vegas Pool Supplies, perfect pop-art kitsch from Richard Heeps in this American roadside 'Sign Porn' photography. This artwork is a limited edition of 25 gloss photographic prin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Bert Stern, "Red Scarf", unique photograph
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Original color photograph, from the original transparency, by Bert Stern taken six weeks before Marilyn Monroe’s death in 1962. The sitting took p...
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1960s Pop Art Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print

Listen to the Bass - Vintage Interior Music Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Captured when documenting the Preston Hall Museum, this atmospheric piece beautifully captures the nostalgic feeling of a record collection, the added detail of 'His Master's Voice' ...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Bardot Supreme - Luna Blue - SOLD - other sizes available
Located in New York, NY
Shot of Bardot. Custom luna blue acrylic paint created by the artist. Hand pulled enamel screen print and diamond dust on linen. Stretched on black frame. Signed by the artist. ...
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2010s Pop Art Photography

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Acrylic

ICES Green, Pink, Blue, Yellow - Four Framed Artworks Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
ICES - Four Framed Artworks, Photographs by Richard Heeps. Featured here Vivid Lime Green, Pink Lemonade, Cornflower Blue, Lemon Yellow. Get in touch to request other sizes or colo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Susan Sontag and Gloria Vanderbilt
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This is a unique work. Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation inventory number and initialed Tim...
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Late 20th Century Pop Art Photography

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Silver Gelatin

"I Love LnD" print on hahnemuhle photo rag
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Born and raised in London, British photographer Nathalie Gordon shoots with an unusual but fantastic hyper realistic style. Her work is packed with high sheen and edge, yet she is ab...
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2010s Pop Art Photography

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Rag Paper

Male Nude Model
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This is a unique photographic work taken by Andy Warhol of an unknown man. Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visu...
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1980s Pop Art Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Dancer Christopher Aponte, nude, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. This photograph was from a session for After Dark magazine and was selected and signed by Jack Mitchell as one of his favorites. Jack’s artist statement on his work for the magazine: “After Dark was a magazine of entertainment, theater and the arts. It was a popular magazine, with a gay slant, enjoyed by many gay men, and some broad minded women and men. As well as (I learned years later) many closeted male youngsters. The magazine was ahead of its time, as advertisers were reluctant to place ads in an essentially gay magazine...
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1970s Pop Art Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Ices (Turquoise Teal), Bexhill-on-Sea - British Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
ICES, by Richard Heeps, photographed at the British Seaside at the end of summer 2020. This artwork is about evoking memories of the simple joy of days by the beach. The turquoise te...
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2010s Pop Art Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Poor Richard Heads, American Cowboy, Muffler Men - Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
A classic American icon, the roadside giant Cowboy "Muffler Man", captured on Richard Heeps' road trip between Mecca and the Salton Sea. Part of a series of pictures by Richard Heeps...
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2010s Pop Art Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

ICES Vivid Lime Green, Bexhill-on-Sea - Pop Art Typography Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
ICES Vivid Lime Green, bold pop art street photography from Richard Heeps' series, On-Sea. Created as an ode to Richard's childhood visits to his grandparents living on the Sussex c...
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2010s Pop Art Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Nude Model
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This work is unique. Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Art...
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1980s Pop Art Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Arnold Schwarzenegger & Grace Jones at His Wedding
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This is a unique photographic work by Andy Warhol of Grace Jones with Arnold Schwarzenegger at his wedding to Maria Shriver in Hyannis Port, Maine in Apr...
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1980s Pop Art Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Alfred Hitchcock - Pop Art, Photograph in Pink and Blue from the 1960s
Located in New York, NY
Limited edition of 10. Printed on Hahnemuhle German Etching 310g Archival Paper. Dated and signed with the certificate of authenticity. This photograph portraying American movie director Alfred Hitchcock was created by Enzo Ragazzini in the early 60s, making him a pioneer of Por-Art and a precursor of the photographic creations done through color separation and solarization, like Andy Warhol’s Marylin...
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1960s Pop Art Photography

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Archival Paper, Giclée

Color Polaroid ‘Sex Parts and Torsos’ by Andy Warhol
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This work is unique. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso. Work comes with a Certifi...
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1970s Pop Art Photography

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Polaroid

Fun Loving Criminals III by B A T I K signed limited edition POP ART
Located in London, GB
Fun Loving Criminals III by B A T I K signed limited edition POP ART print Paper Size Oversize 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm Signed & numbered by artist on front Archival Pigment print Limited to 15 only Featuring police arrest mugshot photos of Tupac, Eminem , Vanilla Ice, Michael Jackson, Justin Bieber...
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2010s Pop Art Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Anonymous Male Nude Dancer
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of anonymous male dancer, 1965. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. Jack Mitchell, (1925-...
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1970s Pop Art Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Vinyl Collection 8 Piece Multicolor Installation - Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Heidler & Heeps Vinyl Collection Eight Piece Multicolor Installation. Acclaimed contemporary photographers, Richard Heeps and Natasha Heidler have collaborated to make this beautiful...
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2010s Pop Art Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

New World Order Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
New World Order by BATIK Satirical pop art artwork featuring Vladimir Putin, VP J.D. Vance, Donald Trump and Elon Musk in WW2 war rooms. BATIK is a London based fine artist and im...
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2010s Pop Art Photography

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

Tape Collection Elektronik - Contemporary Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Elektronik, pop art from the Heidler & Heeps Tape Collection The Heidler & Heeps collaborations are creative representations of Natasha Heidler and Richard Heeps’, personal past and...
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2010s Pop Art Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Tape Collection, 90 Minutes A Side - Contemporary Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
90 Minutes A Side, pop art from the Heidler & Heeps Tape Collection The Heidler & Heeps collaborations are creative representations of Natasha Heidler and Richard Heeps’, personal p...
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2010s Pop Art Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Nicola (Nicky) Weymouth, unique acetate positive of British socialite provenance
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol Nicola (Nicky) Weymouth, ca. 1976 Acetate positive, acquired directly from Chromacomp, Inc. Andy Warhol's printer in the 1970s. Accompanied by a Letter of Provenance from the representative of Chromacomp Unique Frame included: Elegantly framed in a museum quality white wood frame with UV plexiglass: Measurements: Frame: 18 x 15.5 x 1.5 inches Acetate: 11 x 8 inches This is the original, unique photographic acetate positive taken by Andy Warhol as the basis for his portrait of Nicky Weymouth, that came from Andy Warhol's studio, The Factory to his printer. It was acquired directly from Chromacomp, Inc. Andy Warhol's printer in the 1970s. It is accompanied by a Letter of Provenance from the representative of Chromacomp. This is one of the images used by Andy Warhol to create his iconic portrait of the socialite Nicola Samuel Weymouth, also called Nicky Weymouth, Nicky Waymouth, Nicky Lane Weymouth or Nicky Samuel. Weymouth (nee Samuel) was a British socialite, who went on to briefly marry the jewelry designer Kenneth Lane, whom she met through Warhol. This acetate positive is unique, and was sent to Chromacomp because Warhol was considering making a silkscreen out of this portrait. As Bob Colacello, former Editor in Chief of Interview magazine (and right hand man to Andy Warhol), explained, "many hands were involved in the rather mechanical silkscreening process... but only Andy in all the years I knew him, worked on the acetates." An acetate is a photographic negative or positive transferred to a transparency, allowing an image to be magnified and projected onto a screen. As only Andy worked on the acetates, it was the last original step prior to the screenprinting of an image, and the most important element in Warhol's creative process for silkscreening. Warhol realized the value of his unique original acetates like this one, and is known to have traded the acetates for valuable services. This acetate was brought by Warhol to Eunice and Jackson Lowell, owners of Chromacomp, a fine art printing studio in NYC, and was acquired directly from the Lowell's private collection. During the 1970s and 80s, Chromacomp was the premier atelier for fine art limited edition silkscreen prints; indeed, Chromacomp was the largest studio producing fine art prints in the world for artists such as Andy Warhol, Leroy Neiman, Erte, Robert Natkin, Larry Zox, David Hockney and many more. All of the plates were done by hand and in some cases photographically. Famed printer Alexander Heinrici worked for Eunice & Jackson Lowell at Chromacomp and brought Andy Warhol in as an account. Shortly after, Warhol or his workers brought in several boxes of photographs, paper and/or acetates and asked Jackson Lowell to use his equipment to enlarge certain images or portions of images. Warhol made comments and or changes and asked the Lowells to print some editions; others were printed elsewhere. Chromacomp Inc. ended up printing Warhol's Mick Jagger Suite and the Ladies & Gentlemen Suite, as well as other works, based on the box of photographic acetates that Warhol brought to them. The Lowell's allowed the printer to be named as Alexander Heinrici rather than Chromacomp, since Heinrici was the one who brought the account in. Other images were never printed by Chromacomp- they were simply being considered by Warhol. Warhol left the remaining acetates with Eunice and Jackson Lowell. After the Lowells closed the shop, the photographs were packed away where they remained for nearly a quarter of a century. This work is exactly as it was delivered from the factory. Unevenly cut by Warhol himself. This work is accompanied by a signed letter of provenance from the representative of Chromacomp, Andy Warhol's printer for many of his works in the 1970s. About Andy Warhol: Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? —Andy Warhol Andy Warhol’s (1928–1987) art encapsulates the 1960s through the 1980s in New York. By imitating the familiar aesthetics of mass media, advertising, and celebrity culture, Warhol blurred the boundaries between his work and the world that inspired it, producing images that have become as pervasive as their sources. Warhol grew up in a working-class suburb of Pittsburgh. His parents were Slovak immigrants, and he was the only member of his family to attend college. He entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in 1945, where he majored in pictorial design. After graduation, he moved to New York with fellow student Philip Pearlstein and found steady work as a commercial illustrator at several magazines, including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and the New Yorker. Throughout the 1950s Warhol enjoyed a successful career as a commercial artist, winning several commendations from the Art Directors Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. He had his first solo exhibition at the Hugo Gallery in 1952, showing drawings based on the writings of Truman Capote; three years later his work was included in a group show at the Museum of Modern Art for the first time. The year 1960 marked a turning point in Warhol’s prolific career. He painted his first works based on comics and advertisements, enlarging and transferring the source images onto canvas using a projector. In 1961 Warhol showed these hand-painted works, including Little King (1961) and Saturday’s Popeye (1961), in a window display at the department store Bonwit Teller; in 1962 he painted his famous Campbell’s Soup Cans, thirty-two separate canvases, each depicting a canned soup of a different flavor. Soon after, Warhol began to borrow not only the subject matter of printed media, but the technology as well. Incorporating the silkscreen technique, he created grids of stamps, Coca-Cola bottles, shipping and handling labels, dollar bills, coffee labels...
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1970s Pop Art Photography

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Photographic Film

Area Nightclub poster 1984 (Area nightclub New York)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Area Nightclub 1984: A RARE original 1984 street poster for the seminal & much legendary 1980s New York nightclub Area, uniquely featuring an alien-like Ronald Reagan; a poster that ...
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1980s Pop Art Photography

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Lithograph, Offset

Dancer and Choreographer Louis Falco nude, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. This photograph was from a se...
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1960s Pop Art Photography

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Silver Gelatin

UNTITLED (TORSO)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original photo transfer on acetate and colored paper mounted on paper. Hand signed on front by the artist. Authenticated by Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board...
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1980s Pop Art Photography

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Photographic Paper, Color

Prism, Marilyn Minter
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Marilyn Minter (1948-) Title: ​Prism Year: 2009 Medium: ​C-Print Edition: 9/27, 18 proofs Size: 20 x 15.88 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, titled, dated, and...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Photography

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C Print

Pop Art photography for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Pop Art 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, pink, purple, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Jack Mitchell, Andy Warhol, Heidler & Heeps, and Richard Heeps. Frequently made by artists working with Silver Gelatin Print, and Paper and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Pop Art photography, so small editions measuring 1.5 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 $175 and tops out at $150,000, while the average work sells for $1,500.

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