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Art Subject: Plant
Dark Flora: Fly Argaric - mounted print and framed in oak
Located in London, GB
Inspired by Victorian era taxidermy dioramas, 'Dark Flora' is a series of photographs using wild plants and flowers in a curated yet naturalistic arrangement. The plants are foraged ...
Category
2010s Victorian Still-life Photography
Materials
Color, Oak, Glass, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
SER*ES CACHI II
Located in New York, NY
It is a photograph and will be printed after the purchase.
Embarking on a photographic odyssey amid the rugged landscapes of northern Argentina, "SER*ES" invites you into a realm whe...
Category
2010s Color Photography
Materials
Digital
SER*ES II
Located in New York, NY
It is a photograph and will be printed after the purchase.
Embarking on a photographic odyssey amid the rugged landscapes of northern Argentina, "SER*ES" invites you into a realm whe...
Category
2010s Color Photography
Materials
Digital
Ultraviolet Flowers - A Limited Edition Photograph - Tom Blachford & Kate Ballis
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Influorescense - A limited edition large scale photography collaboration by Tom Blachford and Kate Ballis.
The series takes its name from the marriage of two words. Fluorescence (me...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Ramures cérébrales n° 47
Located in STRASBOURG, FR
Valérie Graftieaux est photographe et plasticienne.
Nourrie de science et de curiosité et ouverte à ce qui l’entoure, Valérie Graftieaux porte une attention particulière aux détails...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Macro Leaf
Located in Norwalk, CT
This image is part of my Floraphilia portfolio that has been an ongoing visual exploration for over two decades. A B&W portfolio was first published in Lenswork Magazine in 2010, a s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Summer Dunes
By Bill Tansey
Located in Fairfield, CT
Editions of 12.
Mounting and framing not included.
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Longwood Waterlilies
Located in Norwalk, CT
This image is part of my Floraphilia portfolio that has been an ongoing visual exploration for over two decades. A B&W portfolio was first published in Lenswork Magazine in 2010, a s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cornwall Botanical Family
Located in Norwalk, CT
This image is part of my Floraphilia portfolio that has been an ongoing visual exploration for over two decades. A B&W portfolio was first published in Lenswork Magazine in 2010, a s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Color Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Golden and Yellow Foliage in Central Park - Nature Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Nature Photography in the City. Central Park's Autumn foliage is transformed into a delightful abstract pattern where natural organic shapes interact with the architectonic shapes of...
Category
2010s Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tulips and Bleeding Hearts in a Japanese Vase
By T.M. Glass
Located in Cleveland, OH
This Series includes flowers from Renowned Gardens around the world and fine vases/vessels from museums and distinguished collections.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Colour print of Anthurium flower in red green and yellow
Located in London, GB
“Nature creates nothing without the purpose” - Aristotele
Anthurium - flower study, originally taken on medium format Fujichrome transparency colour film in the studio setting, in 1...
Category
1990s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Last Call, Motel 1960's
Located in Toronto, ON
Last Call, Motel 1960's
Canada, Ontario, Niagara Falls, Last phone call from a motel room. interior of 1960's motel, shot 2014
Photograph by Cosmo Condina of the interior of a 1960’...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Timeless Cherry Blossoms in Central Park Pre-War Architecture
Located in Miami, FL
Cherry Blossoms in Central Park with a lone figure in a blue shirt set against the iconic pre-war architecture of Central Park West.
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on v...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Euphorbia in a Japanese Imari Vessel
By T.M. Glass
Located in Cleveland, OH
This Series includes flowers from Renowned Gardens around the world and fine vases/vessels from museums and distinguished collections.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Blushing Vintage Roses
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Blushing Vintage Roses is part of a series by Alexandra DeFurio, evoking the memory of summer days and the light-hearted romance. (may be hung horizontal ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dark Flora #8, Skeletons of the Summer,
Located in London, GB
Even in deep mid winter there still stands, in sheltered places, the bleached skeletal remains of the summer past - delicate and intricate memories of the verdant life that just months before stood lush and green.
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Inspired by Victorian era taxidermy dioramas...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Forest at the bottom of the Slagheaps - Landscape - Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
"Forest at the bottom of the Slagheaps", Walbrzych, Silesia, Poland, 1978
Silver Gelatin Print, Signed and dated in pencil on verso
Printed in 2008 by the Photographer, hand printed darkroom print.
17 3/10 × 12 1/5 in
44 × 31 cm
50 x 37 cm paper size with white border , 44 x 31 cm (image size)
"My fascination started when I first saw industrial centres of Upper and Lower Silesia,’ says Cała. ‘The landscape was terrifying and beautiful at the same time. It did not change for the whole period from the 19th century to the end of communism in Poland." - Michal Cala
Exhibition frame as seen on additional picture available upon request - please contact gallery for further details or purchase unframed print with a free shipping worldwide.
About the Artist:
"Cala become relatively well known in Poland but he is still little known in the West, despite the fact that his work bears comparison with masters such as Bill Brandt and Robert Frank."
- Bill Kouwenhoven, British Journal of Photography, 2007
Michal Cala was born in Toruń, Poland in 1948 and studied aircraft construction in Warsaw at the University of Technology in the early 1970's. From 1974 to 1983 he worked as an engineer in various companies in Silesia, and began photographing in the area. In 1977, he moved to Tychy in Upper Silesia, where he co-founded the photographers' association KRON and become a member of the ZPAF - the Union of Polish Art Photographers.
Relatively unknown outside of his native country, his work is in several museum collections in Poland; in the Silesian Museum of Katowice, the Silesian Library in Katowice, the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, the Coal Mining Museum in Zabrze as well as local government building in Duisburg in the Ruhr (Germany) and MAST Foundation (Bologna) and various international private collections. His work has received much acclaim and won numerus awards; among which are the Grand Prix at the Polish Landscape...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Tulips in a Blue, White, and Gold Vessel
By T.M. Glass
Located in Cleveland, OH
This series includes flowers from Renowned Gardens around the world and fine vases/vessels from museums and distinguished collections
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Headdress" / X-Ray Print Native American / Photography
By Nick Veasey
Located in Greenwich, CT
Headdress
47 x 47 inches
X-Ray C-Type print with Diasec frame
Limited Edition 4 of 9
Acquired from artist's studio, signed recto
Available in a smaller size 23 X 23 inches
X-Ray print of Native American headdress...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
C Print
Aspen Study I - large scale photograph of Indian summer autumnal color palette
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Aspen Study I by Frank Schott
a series of images capturing the yellow golden Indian summer foliage palette of aspen trees in California's Sierra Nevada
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
Headdress/ X-Ray Print / Photography / Radiographic Imaging / Edition of 9
By Nick Veasey
Located in Greenwich, CT
Headdress
47x47 inches
X-Ray C-Type print with Diasec frame
Limited Edition 4 of 9
X-Ray print of a Native American feathered headdress...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
C Print
Calla Lilies, Sill Life Flowers, Pigment Print, from medium format transparency
Located in London, GB
"In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends." - Okakura Kakuzo
Calla Lilies - flower study, originally taken on medium format Fujichrome transp...
Category
1990s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Color
Monsoon Flora, 1985
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Steve McCurry is an American photographer, freelancer, and photojournalist. His photo Afghan Girl, of a girl with piercing green eyes, has appeared on the cover of National Geographi...
Category
20th Century Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Kylemore Castle, Ireland, Connemara, County Galway, 2018.
Located in Toronto, ON
Landscape of Mountains and Lake. Kylemore Castle, County Galway, Connemara, Ireland, 2018.
Photograph by Cosmo Condina of a toned landscape in black and white. Ireland, Connemara...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Halston Holding American Flag at Warhol's Montauk Estate
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Dated 'Jul 6 1982' (on the reverse).
Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The And...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled from the Series Any Human Heart
Located in New York, NY
36" x 24"
Edition of 5 +2AP
Hahnmühle paper matt fibre 200gr.
Archival digital pigment print, unframed.
Humans are complex. We are made up of many different layers, oftentimes unwi...
Category
2010s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo (0960-04)
By Yoko Ikeda
Located in New York, NY
20 x 24 inch type-c print
Edition 10. Signed on verso.
Throughout her career, photographer Yoko Ikeda has been finding poetry in the prosaic, and mystery in the mundane. Her photog...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Romantic Flatiron Building in Autumn Colors of Orange and Yellow, Architecture
Located in Miami, FL
New York City's early example of a skyscraper from 1902 is depicted in an artistically abstract way. It is photographed with autumn foliage in the foreground and with the iconic tri...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Kentucky Mansion
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Dated 'May 03 1982' (on the reverse).
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundati...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Yummie Trees. Primal Magenta Earth
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 3/15, unframed, other sizes available.
Robert Funk was widely published in the 1970's and 1980's. He is an Art Director, Painter and Photo...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
OWN
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Edition of 7
Isabelle van Zeijl is an established mid-career international artist. Recognized for her mastery to create striking self portraits with depth and meaning who enriches l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
From the series "Roots to Branches #1"
Located in New York, NY
Unframed-
Luján Candria is a multidisciplinary artist who uses an array of media, such as painting, objects, photography, sound and video to create introspective works of art. In her work, Luján Candria addresses the topic of memory. Her inward-looking landscapes seem to reveal familiar, and in tandem distant and strange places as she plays with lights and shadows to talk about reminiscences, memory and oblivion.
Luján Candria is one of the winners of the Fundación Casa Wabi...
Category
2010s Landscape Photography
Materials
Giclée
Heart
By Omar Torres
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
OMAR TORRES
(Mexico City, 1977)
Lives and works in Mexico City
The artist produces sets for each piece, which he then photographs. This is what makes Omar Torres’s works spectacula...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Hotel Pierre and Sherry-Netherland from Central Park Landscape
Located in Miami, FL
This image of Hotel Pierre and Sherry-Netherland from Central Park was shot at magic hour. That's when the light is late in the day and skims over the surfaces of the grass and build...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Inkjet
South Beach Tropical Palm Trees in Miami
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Palm trees blowing in a tropical breeze and captured at first light to creates a dramtic contrast of light and shadow.. Nature becomes abstract while still being beautiful. Signed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Keith Haring in Park with Friends
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work is unique.
Stamped on the reverse by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso.
The work comes with an Authentication Letter from the ...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
From the series "Roots to Branches #11"
Located in New York, NY
Luján Candria is a multidisciplinary artist who uses an array of media, such as painting, objects, photography, sound and video to create introspective works of art. In her work, Luján Candria addresses the topic of memory. Her inward-looking landscapes seem to reveal familiar, and in tandem distant and strange places as she plays with lights and shadows to talk about reminiscences, memory and oblivion.
Luján Candria is one of the winners of the Fundación Casa Wabi...
Category
2010s Landscape Photography
Materials
Giclée
Omaha Sketchbook: Dog on Hill (Sunrise), Omaha, NE - Contemporary Photography
Located in London, GB
Omaha Sketchbook: Dog on Hill (Sunrise), Omaha, NE - Contemporary Photography
Signed on reverse
Digital chromogenic print
22 x 18 inches
From a limited edition of 7 prints
For the l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Omaha Sketchbook: Ladder and House, Omaha, NE - Contemporary Photography
Located in London, GB
Omaha Sketchbook: Ladder and House, Omaha, NE - Contemporary Photography
Signed on reverse
Digital chromogenic print
22 x 18 inches
From a limited edition of 7 prints
For the last f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Tree Candy - Simpson Park
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Trees taste good.
The first image enlarged is most accurate for color.
Signed, dating and numbered 3/15 recto, unframed, other sizes available. printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Dusk, Point Kean, The Kaikoura Penninsular, New Zealand, Autumn 2018
By Jem Southam
Located in London, GB
Dusk, Point Kean, The Kaikoura Penninsular, New Zealand, Autumn 2018
Signed and inscribed with title and date on reverse
Archival pigment print
35.5 x 25.75 inchess
Edition of 7 + 2 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Umbrellas, Rainy New York
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 4/15, other size available, unframed
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Tropical Colorful Foliage Trees Flaunt Brilliant Color Crimson leaves
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This is not colorful fall foliage. This is artistic interpretation.
Why do trees change color? Because it's the intent of the artist to depict them that way.
In this tropical abstr...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Flowers
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Image dimensions: 4.25 x 3.375 in.
Framed dimensions: 11 x 10.5 in.
Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts....
Category
1980s Pop Art Still-life Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Blue Trees. Blue Forest. Blue Leaves.
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Nature displays itself in a beautiful and abstract way. The Royal Poinciana tree is art by God.
Signed, dating and numbered 3/15 recto, unframed, ot...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
The Artichoke
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Jerome Grilhot was born and raised in Beziers, France. After a successful career as a chef for over 25 years, Grilhot has been focusing his creative talents on photography for the p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Photographic Paper
Topiary II - large format photograph of ornamental shaped sidewalk trees
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photogaph from a series of photographic observances capturing the antics of urban gardening and whimsical botanical art of topiaries' green minimalism
TOPIARY II by Fran...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Giclée
Painted Landscape v.1
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A Lightjet print on Fuji Gloss Archive paper and acrylic enamel paint by contemporary artist Timothy Tompkins. Painted Landscape v.1 is executed primarily in saturated blues and gree...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Photography
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Photographic Paper
Redwoods (6 glass panels) - large format abstract nature forest panorama
Located in San Francisco, CA
a large scale photograph of lush emerald green nature oasis, a highly detailed observation of the soothing natural beauty of the California redwood forest
Redwoods (hexaptych) by Erik Pawassar
48 x 132 inches (122 x 335cm)
six panels of 48 x 22 inches / each
"frameless" acrylic glass face mount
edition of 7
signed
archival quality fine art pigment print
limited art edition published by Edition EKTAlux
artist signed + numbered certificate of authenticity
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"Modern Gallery Frameless", a contemporary alternative to classic framing:
photo print is mounted onto aluminum composite for archival support and stability,
then sealed behind a protective layer of high quality acrylic glass with polished edges all around.
A recessed aluminum back frame adds additional stability, allows instant hanging and provides a floating artwork appearance.
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Erik Pawassar's work focuses on the beauty of the disregarded or mundane object. The subjects for his striking and captivating visuals are typically set in the most ordinary environments, drawing the viewer into a charged but serene experience based on composition, palette and formal lines. Saturated in color, the nominal subjects gather a haunting and mesmerizing quality, creating a poignant pretext for the making of a formal color photograph.
Decisively capturing the traces left by humanity, Pawassar's images are filled with a sense of universal nostalgia and pay homage to the passage of time and the extinguished moment, referencing documentary and street photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastian Salgado...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Plexiglass, Archival Ink, Giclée
Chatsworth Lone Rider, Chatsworth Estate, Derbyshire, England, 2007
By Pete Kelly
Located in Hudson, NY
CURRENT EXHIBITION - runs through June 25th, 2017. Any framed photographs purchased during the show will be available then. If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a d...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Pigment
Flora Italiana ( Waratah Red ) - large format botanical still life photograph
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original large format still life photograph from Linda Rosewall's series "Flora Italiana", an intensely beautiful body of works exploring the botanical splendor of Italian flowers with highly detailed captures
Flora Italiana ( Waratah Red )
64 x 48 inches (162 x 122cm)
signed edition of 7
40 x 30 inches (102 x 76cm)
signed edition of 25
archival fine art pigment print
signed & numbered by artist on label
custom/larger sizes are available on request
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About the artist
Linda Rosewall’s artistic path was cemented during her childhood. She was inspired by her farther, an accomplished musician and composer who raised his six children as a performing family act.
The experience of traveling the United States and Canada in a small airplane piloted by her father provided the opportunity for Linda to capture these moments on her small Kodak Instamatic Camera.
At the age of 18, she enrolled at Columbia College of Fine Arts Chicago. During her studies, Linda apprenticed under photographer Norman Bilisko and later worked with Dennis Manarchy...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Flora ll - large format photograph of abstract floral and liquid cloud explosion
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph from a series of colorful floral explosions, flower power and liquid clouds captured in water
FLORA lI by Christian Stoll
27 x 40 inches (68.5 x 102cm)
sign...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Giclée, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Calla by JJK, Photography, Limited Edition, Flower, Calla
Located in Munich, DE
Edition of 10
signed and numbered by the artist
This picture of a flower "Calla" was shot on polaroid film.
JJK is a pseudonym for one of the world's most successful photo artists....
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The River Jordan by Jeanine Michna-Bales, 2014, Digital C-Print, Panorama
Located in Dallas, TX
The River Jordan. First view of a free state, crossing the Ohio River to Indiana by Jeanine Michna-Bales is a panoramic photograph of a river taken at night. This photograph is from ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Digital
"Nesting", contemporary, Voltswagen, landscape, VW, color photograph, print
Located in Natick, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Nesting” is a 18 x 12 inch metal print and is part of her “Awakening” series. An antique Voltswagen Bug car rests in a foggy landscape in rural Massachusetts. The ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Metal
Orchestral by Gina Soden - Abandoned place, urbex photography, forest, chairs
By Gina Soden
Located in Paris, FR
Orchestral is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Gina Soden. It is part of the “Reclamation” series.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is availab...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Giclée
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