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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
Slim Aarons, "Poolside in Arizona" (Architecture, Desert, Pool, 1970's)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Poolside In Arizona' by Slim Aarons Fabulously fashionable guests by the calm water of the swimming pool at the home of Wayne Beal in Scottsdale, Arizona, January 1973. This classi...
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1970s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons, Hello There, 1955 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1955: Film star Diana Dors (Diana Fluck) (1931 - 1984) in blonde bombshell pose on a satin covered bed Slim Aarons Hello There, 1955 Lambda Print 4 sizes available Slim Aarons Estat...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Slim Aarons, C.Z. Guest With Her Great Dane, 1955 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
C.Z. Guest, 1955: The American socialite with a Great Dane at her ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, in Palm Beach, Florida, 1955 Slim Aarons C.Z. Guest With Her Great Dane, 1955 La...
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1960s Realist Photography

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Slim Aarons, Il Pellicano Pool, 1987 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers relax beside the swimming pool of Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, 1987 Slim Aarons Il Pellicano Pool, 1987 Lambda Print 4 sizes available Slim Aarons Esta...
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1980s Realist Photography

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Slim Aarons, Fairfield Croquet (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Players in the Fairfield County Hunt Club's croquet tournament, Fairfield, New England. Slim Aarons Fairfield Croquet Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition 40 x 60 in...
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1990s Realist Photography

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Slim Aarons, Fairfield Croquet (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Players in the Fairfield County Hunt Club's croquet tournament, Fairfield, New England. Slim Aarons Fairfield Croquet Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition 40 x 60 in...
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1990s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Il Pellicano Pool, Estate Edition, Seascape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests walking up steps at the Hotel Il Pellicano at Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1969 Slim Aarons Il Pellicano Pool, 1969 Lambda Print 4 sizes available Slim Aarons Estate Edition...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Photography

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Lambda

Snowmass Gathering, Colorado, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Two women, wearing brightly-coloured skiwear, stand in the foreground of a group of people attending a party in Snowmass Village, in Pitkin County, Colorado, in April 1968. Slim Aarons Snowmass Gathering Lambda Print 6 sizes available Slim Aarons Estate Edition Printed Later Collector gets next number in the edition Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type print. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives a true continuous tone. Photograph is unframed. Slideshow includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition. Slim Aarons was born and raised in New York City and New Jersey and later New Hampshire. He took up photography as a teenager. At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and was later appointed official photographer at the United States Military Academy at West Point. During World War II he served as an army combat photographer for Yank magazine in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. After the war he became a freelance photojournalist, first based in Hollywood, then Rome, then New York. His photographs appeared in many magazines, including Life, Holiday, Town & Country, Look, Venture, and Travel & Leisure. His first book A Wonderful Time (1974) is considered a classic. Internal: Slim Aarons, Snowmass Village, Pitkin County, Colorado, Ski Photography, Helicopter, Winter Scene, Snowscape, Snow Photography...
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1960s Realist Photography

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David Nightingale Hicks (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
April 1970—Interior designer David Nightingale Hicks (1929 - 1998) on Windermere Island in the Bahamas. David Nightingale Hicks Slim Aarons Es...
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1970s Realist Photography

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David Nightingale Hicks (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
April 1970—Interior designer David Nightingale Hicks (1929 - 1998) on Windermere Island in the Bahamas. David Nightingale Hicks Slim Aarons Es...
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1970s Realist Photography

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Laguna Beach (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Surfers outside a beach hut in Laguna Beach, California, January 1970. 60 x 40 inches $3950 40 x 30 inches $3350 30 x 20 inches $3000 Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer...
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1970s Realist Photography

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Capote At Home, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the author Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) relaxing with a book and a cigarette in his clutter...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Slim Aarons 'Relaxing at Lake Tahoe' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A group of people relaxing by a pool near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959. Relaxing at Lake Tahoe Slim Aarons Estate Edition Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate. Certifica...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Capote At Home, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the author Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) relaxing with a book and a cigarette in his clutter...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Slim Aarons 'Beverly Hills Hotel' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1957—Cars parked outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California. Beverly Hills Hotel Slim Aarons Estate Edition Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate. C...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Beverly Hills Hotel, Estate Edition Photograph, Classic Mint Green on Blue
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1957—Cars parked outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California. Beverly Hills Hotel Slim Aarons Estate Edition 40x40 inches Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aar...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Blue Trailer Marfa Texas - Limited Photograph by Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
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2010s Realist Photography

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Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Esther Williams' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons Esther Williams Slim Aarons Estate Edition Legendary American swimmer and actress Esther Williams (1921 - 2013) lounging on a white trampoline in a green swimsuit, circa...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Slim Aarons 'Hang Gliding' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hang gliding in Kitzbuhel, Austria, 1980 Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Chromogenic ...
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1970s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Capote At Home, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the author Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) relaxing with a book and a cigarette in his clutter...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Capote Cycling, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons Capote Cycling Slim Aarons Estate Edition 1970: Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) on his bicycle in Palm Springs, California. Author of several novels including 'Breakfast at ...
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1970s Realist Photography

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Slim Aarons 'Mara Lane at the Sands' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Austrian actress Mara Lane lounging by the pool in a red and white striped bathing costume at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954. Slim Aarons Mara Lane at the Sands Chromogenic Lambd...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Scone, Madam?
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1960, Afternoon tea round the pool on a cold day at the home of interior decorator James Pendleton in Beverly Hills. 48 x 48 inches $4500 40 x 40 inches $3950 30 x 30 inches $335...
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1960s Realist Photography

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Slim Aarons: Esther Williams In Pool (Limited Edition Estate Stamped)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American actress and former swimming champion, Esther Williams (August 8, 1921 – June 6, 2013), in a Florida swimming pool. 40 x 40 inches $3950 30 x 30 inches $3350 20 x 20 in...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Big Sight, Large Scale Limited Photography by Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
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2010s Realist Photography

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Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Neon Iconic Pool Photograph by Brazilian Photographer
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
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2010s Realist Photography

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Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Red Trailer Marfa Texas - Limited Photograph by Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
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2010s Realist Photography

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Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Cuatro Arcos
Located in New Orleans, LA
For Victoria Montoro Zamorano, the art of seeing consists not in actively looking for the striking or unusual, but in being ever open and receptive to see the world with new eyes. This unguarded, spontaneous approach gives her images a quality of abstract realism that turns undulating sand dunes into a woman’s prone body, and equally captures the emotional content of a crumbling façade or an old woman’s face. An avid world traveler. Cuban born Zamorano has a special sensibility for people and places off the beaten path. Having no preconceived notions of what a photograph should be, Zamorano’s instinctual approach has led her to the poignant remains of the Jewish synagogues...
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2010s Realist Photography

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Archival Pigment

Pico Garcez 'Black Ship, Bahia Brazil' - Black & White Photograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing freedom of look and intuition, seeking aesthetic challenges linked to the observation of the image in subjects such as: solitude, reflections of emptiness and behavior. Awarded by The Art of Intuitive Photography in NY for 4 times, Pico also find his work in the permanent collections of: The Rio Art Museum (MAR), Museum of Modern Art of Bahia (MAM-BA) and Museum of Photography of Fortaleza among other international collections. Having contact with a work of art has to be transformative. This photographic essay by Pico Garcez leads us to this, puts the gaze, sees and sees in constant dispute. The meaning is hidden and this leads us to be co-authors. In Pico's UNCONSCIOUS-NEST, work is not the aesthetics or the colors that speak the most, instead they fog our critical eye, trying to distract us in the central core of which it treats. It is an experience to observe these images. Pico puts us & leaves us in a void where our own inner solitude surfaces - Not having to share with. Where is life, if not ours? We are part of this work for empathy, and in that, Pico was generous - letting us in. UNCONSCIOUS-NEST is not a geographical place, instead it lives in us and everywhere. It shows what we've done for ourselves - it's a pool without a ledge. – “I can but I will not ... - I am here! I want to die and die where I've touched my heart.” Black and White...
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2010s Realist Photography

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Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Wonder Green Trailer Marfa Texas Photography by Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
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2010s Realist Photography

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Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Atacama Mountains - Bright Landscape Photography by Brazilian Photographer
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
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2010s Realist Photography

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Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Pico Garcez - Atacama #1, Landscape Photography
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
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2010s Realist Photography

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Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

NEON Lighting Noir Swimming - Vibrant Photograph by Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
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2010s Realist Photography

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Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Massimo Listri 'Castello di Rivoli III - Torino'
Located in New York, NY
Castello di Rivoli III - Torino "What makes his work unique is how he has made interiors look so absolutely vivid, as if they had a secret life of their own that only he knows how t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Photography

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C Print

Magenta Swimming - Vibrant Noir Photography
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
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2010s Realist Photography

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Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Nova Car - Marfa Texas - Vintage Car Photograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
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2010s Realist Photography

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Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

NEON Swimming - Vibrant Noir Photograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
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2010s Realist Photography

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Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice' Mid-century Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Westin Excelsior in Venice 1957 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons, an acclaimed fine art photo...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons 'Lido Life, Venice' Mid-century Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Lido Life, Venice 1957 C print Signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate. A waiter ...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Nova Car - Marfa Texas - Vintage Car Photograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
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2010s Realist Photography

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Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Lido Life, Venice'
Located in New York, NY
Lido Life, Venice 1957 C print Signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate. A waiter ...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Frank Sinatra, 1959 - Bob Willoughby (Portrait Photography)
Located in London, GB
Frank Sinatra, 1959 - Bob Willoughby (Portrait Photography) Archival pigment print Printed on 20 x 24 inch paper From an edition of 25 Also available in alternative sizes Bob Wi...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Archival Pigment

La Herida
Located in New Orleans, LA
For Victoria Montoro Zamorano, the art of seeing consists not in actively looking for the striking or unusual, but in being ever open and receptive to see the world with new eyes. This unguarded, spontaneous approach gives her images a quality of abstract realism that turns undulating sand dunes into a woman’s prone body, and equally captures the emotional content of a crumbling façade or an old woman’s face. An avid world traveler. Cuban born Zamorano has a special sensibility for people and places off the beaten path. Having no preconceived notions of what a photograph should be, Zamorano’s instinctual approach has led her to the poignant remains of the Jewish synagogues...
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2010s Realist Photography

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Archival Pigment

Big Sight, Photography by Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing freedom of look and intuition, seeking aesthetic challenges linked to the observation of the image in subjects such as: solitude, reflections of emptiness and behavior. Awarded by The Art of Intuitive Photography in NY for 4 times, Pico also find his work in the permanent collections of: The Rio Art Museum (MAR), Museum of Modern Art of Bahia (MAM-BA) and Museum of Photography of Fortaleza among other international collections. Having contact with a work of art has to be transformative. This photographic essay by Pico Garcez leads us to this, puts the gaze, sees and sees in constant dispute. The meaning is hidden and this leads us to be co-authors. In Pico's UNCONSCIOUS-NEST, work is not the aesthetics or the colors that speak the most, instead they fog our critical eye, trying to distract us in the central core of which it treats. It is an experience to observe these images. Pico puts us & leaves us in a void where our own inner solitude surfaces - Not having to share with. Where is life, if not ours? We are part of this work for empathy, and in that, Pico was generous - letting us in. UNCONSCIOUS-NEST is not a geographical place, instead it lives in us and everywhere. It shows what we've done for ourselves - it's a pool without a ledge. – “I can but I will not ... - I am here! I want to die and die where I've touched my heart...
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2010s Realist Photography

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Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Joan Collins Relaxes - (Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Film star Joan Collins relaxes with her pink poodle on her pink bed. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aaron...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Beauty and the Beast'
Located in New York, NY
Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a tiger skin rug in the trophy room at socialite Laddie Sanford's home in Palm Beach, Florida. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition o...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Massimo Listri 'Castello di Rivoli III - Torino'
Located in New York, NY
Castello di Rivoli III - Torino "What makes his work unique is how he has made interiors look so absolutely vivid, as if they had a secret life of their own that only he knows how t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Photography

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C Print

Floating Market Asia
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
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2010s Realist Photography

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Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Untitled - Abstract Modern Architecture Photograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
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2010s Realist Photography

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Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Verbier Skier'
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Verbier Skier 1964 C print Estate edition of 150 A blonde skier on the slopes at Verbier, February 1964. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certific...
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1960s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Lake Tahoe Ladies
Located in New York, NY
Caption:A group of young women in their bathing suits on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, 1959. Slim Aarons worked mainly for society publications, taking pictures of the rich and fa...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Pool At Porto Rotondo'
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Pool At Porto Rotondo 1982 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. A sw...
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1980s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Massimo Listri 'Castello di Rivoli III - Torino'
Located in New York, NY
Castello di Rivoli III - Torino "What makes his work unique is how he has made interiors look so absolutely vivid, as if they had a secret life of their own that only he knows how t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Photography

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C Print

Tres Cuentos
Located in New Orleans, LA
For Victoria Montoro Zamorano, the art of seeing consists not in actively looking for the striking or unusual, but in being ever open and receptive to see the world with new eyes. This unguarded, spontaneous approach gives her images a quality of abstract realism that turns undulating sand dunes into a woman’s prone body, and equally captures the emotional content of a crumbling façade or an old woman’s face. An avid world traveler. Cuban born Zamorano has a special sensibility for people and places off the beaten path. Having no preconceived notions of what a photograph should be, Zamorano’s instinctual approach has led her to the poignant remains of the Jewish synagogues...
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2010s Realist Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Verbier Skier'
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Verbier Skier 1964 C print Estate edition of 150 A blonde skier on the slopes at Verbier, February 1964. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certific...
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1960s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Lido Life, Venice'
Located in New York, NY
Lido Life, Venice 1957 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. A waiter serves fruit to...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons 'Lake Tahoe Ladies'
Located in New York, NY
Caption: A group of young women in their bathing suits on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, 1959. Slim Aarons worked mainly for society publications, taking pictures of the rich and f...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Lake Tahoe Ladies
Located in New York, NY
Caption:A group of young women in their bathing suits on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, 1959. Slim Aarons worked mainly for society publications, taking pictures of the rich and fa...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Lambda

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.

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