Pop Art Photography

16 x 20" vintage silver gelatin photograph of film director Alfred Hitchcock photographed in New York City in 1972 the year he released 'Frenzy'. It is signed by Jack Mitchell on the...

"Butterfly 6" Photography 24" x 24" in Edition 1/24 by Giuliano Bekor Title: Butterfly B12 Year: 2018 Print size: 24" x 24" Inch Edition: 1/24 Artist proof: 2 Medium: Archival fi...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Pop Artist Jack Brusca in his NYC studio with new work, signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchel...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of author James Purdy, 1976. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity....

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Tony award-winning playwright Terrence McNally photographed in Mitchell's studio for 'After Dark' magazi...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of famed 1960's iconic fashion model & actress Twiggy, studio portrait 1972, signed by Jack Mitchell on the verso. Comes directly from the...

16 x 20" vintage silver gelatin photograph of dancer/choreographer and dance company founder Paul Taylor performing his work 'Aureole' in 1963. It is signed by Jack Mitchell on the r...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of actor Christopher Walken, 1973. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the verso. Comes directly from the Jack Mi...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of French actresss Maria Schneider, who starred opposite Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci's film 'Last Tango in Paris...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of choreographer and director Jerome Robbins, 1965. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a ce...

Bowie 2 Bowie By BATIK Signed Limited Edition Archival pigment pop art print of the infamous criminal arrest mugshot of David Bowie in 1976 BATIK is a London based fine artist an...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Joffrey Ballet dancer Robert Blankshine performing, 1966. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Co...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein in his NYC studio with his recent work, signed By Jack Mitchell on the verso. Comes directly from the Jack ...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Martha Graham performing "Clytemnestra", 1966. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archive...

8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Andy Warhol Superstar Candy Darling and Dorian Gray. This is a print that was published by After Da...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of choreographer/dancer Twyla Tharp captured in her classic ‘Vida Blue’ (after the baseball pitcher) pose in 197...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Choreographer/Director ("A Chorus Line") Michael Bennett - 1966. This photograph is in the collection of the ...

4625 2 10 1986 1/20. This is a vintage gelatin silver print, selenium toned, made by hand by master photographer Jack Mitchell and signed both on the recto and verso. Chosen by the p...

Bowie 2 Bowie By BATIK Signed Limited Edition Archival pigment pop art print of the infamous criminal arrest mugshot of David Bowie in 1976 BATIK is a London based fine artist an...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Swedish Multimedia artist Oyvind Fahlstrom at an exhibition of his work in Manhattan, 1969. Signed on th...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of artist Carolee Schneemann, 1995. Signed by Jack Mitchell on print recto. Comes directly from the Jack...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Merce Cunningham and Carolyn Brown performing "Antic Meet" in 1963. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell A...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of famed American Ballet Theatre dancer Royes Fernandez, considered to be America's first premier ba...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of young dancer and choreographer Louis Falco, 1965. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certi...

Fashion designer Willi Smith, photographed in April 1984. One of Mitchell's most beautiful color photographs. This exhibition print is 17 x 22". Comes dire...

8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Gloria Swanson at the Booth Theatre on Broadway where she starred in 'Butterflies Are Free' in 1972, her last major stage role. This is a...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Kevin Kline, Norman Snow and Patti LuPone, members of John Houseman's "The Acting Company", 1975. Signed by J...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of actor, producer, director John Houseman , 1973. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. Jac...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph Beverly Sills in her classic makeup and costume for New York City Opera's "Roberto Devereux in 1972. Comes dir...

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 at that time. Today they swarm like bees to place their own hot ads in gay publications. I had been photographing on assignment for Dance Magazine well before After Dark was created. Being a friend of William (Bill) Como, the Editor, and being gay, I was called into service, for the life of the publication, to photograph many of the handsome young men and women, who were featured in After Dark. Needless to say, this was enjoyable work for me, Because, mixed in with the hot-looking young guys and gals sent to my studio were some famed performers like Debbie Reynolds, Giancarlo Giannini, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Natalie Wood, Placido Domingo, Sergio Franco...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein and his wife Dorothy photographed in his Manhattan loft, 1968. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. C...

Cooler than cool... Debbie Harry, New York, 1977, photographed on the set of "The Foreigner" by celebrated New York underground photographer Fernando Natalici. The Foreigner (direct...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Tenor Jose Carreras at the Metropolitan Opera, 1978. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes dir...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of sculptor Marisol (Maria Sol Escobar) photographed in her New York City studio with her sculpture “Guy” in 1968. Comes directly from the ...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of painter Stephen Mueller in his Manhattan studio with his paintings, 1971. Signed on the print verso by Ja...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Artist/Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet (real name Isabelle Collin Dufresne) and stylist Corey Tippin photograp...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Abstract Minimalist painter Charles Hinman posing with his recent work in 1967. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes direct...

16 x 20" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Merce Cunningham performing "Solo", in 1975 numbered 23/25. It is signed by Jack Mitchell on the recto and in pencil on the verso. Comes...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Photorealist Artist John Kacere at an exhibition of his paintings in 19712. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certi...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of 'All in the Family' actor Carroll O'Connor, 1983. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. ...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Debbie Reynolds photographed by Jack Mitchell for the "What Becomes A Legend Most?" Blackglama fur ad cam...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Grammy Award-winning Singer Songwriter Carly Simon, photographed in 1971 signed by Jack Mitchell on the print...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Actress and singer Tammy Grimes, 1970. Signed on the verso by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certi...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Dance Theatre of Harlem dancer Mel Tomlinson, photographed in New York City, 1975. Comes directly from the ...

Christian Rothmann ROBOTNICS Series C-Print 2019 Edition S (Edition of 10) 12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm) Signed, dated and numbered verso Other Edition Sizes available: - Edition M (Edition of 6) 35.4 x 23.6 inches (90 x 60 cm) - Edition L (Edition of 6) 47.2 x 31.5 inches (120 x 80 cm) - Edition XL (Edition of 3) 88.8 x 58.8 inches (225 x 150 cm) PUR - Price Upon Request -------------- Since 1979 Christian Rothmann had more than 40 solo and 80 group exhibitions worldwide. Christian Rothmann had guest lectures, residencies, art fairs and biennials in Europe, Japan, USA, Australia and Korea. Christian Rothmann (born 1954 in Kędzierzyn, Poland ) is a painter, photographer, and graphic artist.⁠ ⁠ In 1976 he first studied at the “Hochschule für Gestaltung” in Offenbach, Germany and moved to Berlin in 1977, where he graduated in 1983 at the “Hochschule der Künste”. From 1983 to 1995 he taught at the university as a lecturer and as an artist with a focus on screenprinting and American art history. To date, a versatile body of work has been created, which includes not only paintings but also long-standing photo projects, videos, and public art.⁠ ⁠ Guest lectures, teaching assignments, scholarships and exhibitions regularly lead Rothmann to travel home and abroad.⁠ ------------------------ Rothmann's Robots These creatures date back to another era, and they connect the past and the future. They were found by Christian Rothmann, a Berlin artist, collector and traveler through time and the world: In shops in Germany and Japan, Israel and America, his keen eye picks out objects cast aside by previous generations, but which lend themselves to his own work. In a similar way, he came across a stash of historic toy robots of varied provenance collected by a Berlin gallery owner many years ago. Most of them were screwed and riveted together in the 1960s and 70s by Metal House, a Japanese company that still exists today. In systematically photographing these humanoids made of tin - and later plastic - Rothmann is paraphrasing the idea of appropriation art. Unknown names designed and made the toys, which some five decades on, Rothmann depicts and emblematizes in his extensive photo sequence. In their photographs of Selim Varol's vast toy collection, his German colleagues Daniel and Geo Fuchs captured both the stereotypical and individual in plastic figures that imitate superheroes which were and still are generally manufactured somewhere in Asia. Christian Rothmann looks his robots deep in their artificially stylized, painted or corrugated eyes - or more aptly, their eye slits - and although each has a certain degree of individuality, the little figures remain unknown to us; they project nothing and are not alter egos. Rothmann trains his lens on their faces and expressions, and thus, his portraits are born. Up extremely close, dust, dents, and rust become visible. In other words, what we see is time-traces of time that has passed since the figures were made, or during their period in a Berlin attic, and - considering that he robots date back to Rothmann's childhood - time lived by the photographer and recipients of his pictures. But unlike dolls, these mechanical robots bear no reference to the ideal of beauty at the time of their manufacture, and their features are in no way modeled on a concrete child's face. In this art project the robots appear as figures without a context, photographed face-on, cropped in front of a neutral background and reduced to their qualities of form. But beyond the reproduction and documentation a game with surfaces is going on; our view lingers on the outer skin of the object, or on the layer over it. The inside - which can be found beneath - is to an extent metaphysical, occurring inside the observer's mind. Only rarely is there anything to see behind the robot's helmet. When an occasional human face does peer out, it turns the figure into a robot-like protective casing for an astronaut of the future. If we really stop and think about modern toys, let's say those produced from the mid 20th century, when Disney and Marvel films were already stimulating a massive appetite for merchandising, the question must be: do such fantasy and hybrid creatures belong, does something like artificial intelligence already belong to the broader community of humans and animals? It is already a decade or two since the wave of Tamagotchis washed in from Japan, moved children to feed and entertain their newly born electronic chicks in the way they would a real pet, or to run the risk of seeing them die. It was a new form of artificial life, but the relationship between people and machines becomes problematic when the machines or humanoid robots have excellent fine motor skills and artificial intelligence and sensitivity on a par with, or even greater than that of humans. Luckily we have not reached that point yet, even if Hollywood adaptations would have us believe we are not far away. Rothmann's robots are initially sweet toys, and each toy is known to have a different effect on children and adults. They are conceived by (adult) designers as a means of translating or retelling history or reality through miniature animals, knights, and soldiers. In the case of monsters, mythical creatures, and robots, it is more about creating visions of the future and parallel worlds. Certainly, since the success of fantasy books and films such as Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit, we see the potential for vast enthusiasm for such parallel worlds. Successful computer and online games such as World of Warcraft...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Italian-American opera singer Anna Moffo, portrait by Jack Mitchell, 1977. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes directly fr...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of dancer/choreographer Molissa Fenley performing, 2000. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with ...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of artist Ellsworth Kelly photographed at his New York studio in 1967. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell...

8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph of dancer Judith Jamison in costume for her leading role in the Broadway musical 'Sophisticated Ladies' in 1980. This is a print that was pu...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Choreographer/Director ("A Chorus Line") Michael Bennett - 1966. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of British Pop Artist Gerald Laing in his Manhattan studio with recent work, 1970. Comes directly from th...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein and his wife Dorothy in his New York studio in 1968. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes direc...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Artist/Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet (real name Isabelle Collin Dufresne) photographed in 1971 i...

16 x 20" vintage silver gelatin photograph of artist Tom Wesselmann in his New York studio, photographed in 1969. It is signed by Jack Mitchell on the recto and in pencil on the vers...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Italian sculptor Gio Pomodoro, 1999. Signed on the print recto by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a c...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Martha Graham dancer Terese Capucilli in "Rite of Spring", 1985. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes directly from the Jac...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph Paris Opera Ballet principal dancer Patrick Dupond, 1983, leaping in Jack Mitchell's studio. It is signed...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Paul Taylor rehearsing a new dance in his studio, 1962. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a...

16 x 20" vintage silver gelatin photograph of modern dancer Elena Kogan performing in 1994. It is signed by Jack Mitchell on the recto and in pencil on the verso. Comes directly from...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of actor and comedian Robin Williams, photographed in 1984. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the verso. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Ar...