Realist Photography
REALIST STYLE
Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world.
Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history.
By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.
Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.
Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.
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Style: Realist
Skiing in New Hampshire, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA, circa 1955.
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1950s Realist Photography
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Skiing in New Hampshire, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA, circa 1955.
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1950s Realist Photography
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Apres Ski, Lounging in Gstaad, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mrs Alfredo Cernadas reclines on a balcony in Gstaad, 1977.
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1970s Realist Photography
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Skiers in Gstaad, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers at Gstaad, Switzerland, March 1961.
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1960s Realist Photography
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Skiers in Gstaad, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers at Gstaad, Switzerland, March 1961.
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Lech Ice Bar, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960. The mountain in the background is the Omershorn.
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Skiing In Seefeld, Austria, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1980s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of men and women go cross-country skiing in Seefeld, Austria, 1985.
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1980s Realist Photography
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Skiing In Seefeld, Austria, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1980s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of men and women go cross-country skiing in Seefeld, Austria, 1985.
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1980s Realist Photography
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Zermatt Skiing, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968.
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Ice Bar, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in the Austrian ski resort of Lech, February 1979.
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Skiers at Gstaad, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers at Gstaad, Switzerland, March 1969.
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Skiers at Gstaad, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers at Gstaad, Switzerland, March 1969.
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Verbier View, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Verbier View, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers admiring the vie...
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Palace Hotel, Gstaad, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Palace Hotel, Gstaad, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
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Verbier View, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Verbier View, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers admiring the vie...
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Verbier View, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Verbier View, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers admiring the vie...
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Verbier View, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Verbier View, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers admiring the vie...
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Skiing In Vail, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A group of skiers stand in line waiting for the ski lift in Vail, Colorado, USA, 1964.
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Skiers In St. Moritz, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
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Skiing In Vail, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A group of skiers stand in line waiting for the ski lift in Vail, Colorado, USA, 1964.
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Skiers In St. Moritz, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
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On The Slopes Of Sugarbush, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Two skiers inspecting their skis on the slopes of the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort in Warren, Vermont, United States, April 1960.
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On The Slopes Of Sugarbush, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Two skiers inspecting their skis on the slopes of the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort in Warren, Vermont, United States, April 1960.
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Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at Cortina D...
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Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at Cortina D...
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Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at Cortina D...
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Buckleys in Switzerland, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American author and journalist William F. Buckley Jr. and his wife Patricia take a sleigh ride from the Chateau de Rougemont in Switzerland, 1986.
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Buckleys in Switzerland, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American author and journalist William F. Buckley Jr. and his wife Patricia take a sleigh ride from the Chateau de Rougemont in Switzerland, 1986.
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Hotel Olden, Gstaad, Estate Edition, Urban Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s urban photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features people carrying their skis past the Hotel Olden in Gstaad, 1961.
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Hotel Olden, Gstaad, Estate Edition, Urban Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s urban photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features people carrying their skis past the Hotel Olden in Gstaad, 1961.
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Princess Bianca, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Princess Bianca Hanau-Schaumburg at her Gstaad chalet, 1985.
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Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a helicopter arriving at a mo...
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Skiers in St. Moritz, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
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Skiers in St. Moritz, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
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Signpost in St. Moritz, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A signpost indicating various ski slopes and toboggan tracks in the resort of St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
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Signpost in St. Moritz, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A signpost indicating various ski slopes and toboggan tracks in the resort of St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
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Ski Siren, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ski Siren, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
This early 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Model Barbara...
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Curling at St. Moritz, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Curlers on a rink, or curling sheet, in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
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Curling at St. Moritz, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Curlers on a rink, or curling sheet, in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
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Curling at St. Moritz, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Curlers on a rink, or curling sheet, in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
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On the Slopes of Sugarbush, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A group of people relaxing at the chalet of stockbroker A Albert Sack Jr, at the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort in in Warren, Vermont, circa 1960.
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Eagle Club, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers dining at the Eagle Club, Gstaad, Switzerland, March 1969.
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Relaxing in Lech, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A ski resort in Courchevel in the French Alps, circa 1970.
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Dining in Gstaad, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Curlers on a rink, or curling sheet, in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
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Courchevel, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A ski resort in Courchevel in the French Alps, circa 1970.
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Culinary Heights, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Courchevel restaurant chefs Jean Jacob (left) of 'Le Bateau Ivre', Michel Rochedy (centre) of 'Le Chabichou', and Albert Parveaux of 'Pralong 2000', Courchevel, France, April 1987.
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Dining in Gstaad, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Curlers on a rink, or curling sheet, in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
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Dining in Gstaad, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Curlers on a rink, or curling sheet, in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
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Culinary Heights, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Courchevel restaurant chefs Jean Jacob (left) of 'Le Bateau Ivre', Michel Rochedy (centre) of 'Le Chabichou', and Albert Parveaux of 'Pralong 2000', Courchevel, France, April 1987.
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Skiers at Gstaad, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers at Gstaad, Switzerland, 1969.
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Skiers at Gstaad, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers at Gstaad, Switzerland, 1969.
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Curling at St. Moritz, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Curlers on a rink, or curling sheet, in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
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Curling at St. Moritz, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Curlers on a rink, or curling sheet, in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
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Curling at St. Moritz, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Curlers on a rink, or curling sheet, in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
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On the Sugarbush Slopes, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stockbroker A Albert Sack Jr playing backgammon with Betsy Pickering on a polar bear rug at his chalet at the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort in in Warren...
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Ski Fashion at Sugarbush, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American socialite and fashion writer Nan Kempner (1930 - 2005) at the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort in Vermont, December 1960.
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Ski Fashion at Sugarbush, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American socialite and fashion writer Nan Kempner (1930 - 2005) at the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort in Vermont, December 1960.
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Ice Bar in Lech, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Customers at the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960.
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Ice Bar in Lech, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Customers at the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960.
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Crossing Snow Field, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A line of sleighs crossing a snow field at St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
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Realist photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Realist photography available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add photography created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, red, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Slim Aarons, Pico Garcez, Kind of Cyan, and Massimo Listri. Frequently made by artists working with Digital Print, and Lambda 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 Realist photography, so small editions measuring 3.94 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 $105 and tops out at $75,000, while the average work sells for $3,000.