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Art Subject: Portrait
Heartbeats - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Heartbeats - 2021 -
20x25cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid,
Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2021-1054.
Not m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Brigitte Bardot b/w silver gelatin photograph on paper
Located in Norwich, GB
Terry O’Neill CBE is one of the world’s most collected photographers, with work hanging in national art galleries and private collections worldwide. From presidents to pop stars, he ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Jhonny. From Searching a Mother Series. Photomontage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Color
Les Voiles. Limited Edition Photograph
By Uwe Ommer
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Uwe Ommer wanted to try a series that revealed less of the body using different wet veils in bright colors to create this sensual effect.This series of photographs were taken for a European calendar. The idea was to create postcards with several countries on different continents, in the images the artist decided to clone the models.
The diversity of German photographer Uwe Ommer, who frequently works with aesthetic nudes, makes his art a perfect gift for all nude devotees. In Ommer's series you can find adventure, vintage erotica, acrobats, models interacting with Icelandic landscapes and many other fascinating shots.
From Les voiles...
Category
1990s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Composer Michael Tilson Thomas & Joshua Mark Robison, signed by Jack
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Conductor, Pianist & Composer Michael Tilson Thomas, and his partner/manager (now husband) Joshua Mark Robis...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,275 Sale Price
36% Off
Mick Jagger with his Aston Martin DB6, 1966 — Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Mick Jagger with his Aston Martin DB6, 1966 —
Signed Limited Edition Print
by Gered Mankowitz
Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones is photographed next to his beloved Aston Martin DB...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Warhol and Basquiat, Black and White Photographic Portrait of Famous Artists
Located in New york, NY
Warhol and Basquiat, 1982 by Christopher Makos is an 8 x 10in vintage gelatin silver print on fiber paper of downtown New York celebrity artists Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The photograph is stamped (black ink) on verso (photo back). Provenance: Private Collector *** Artist’s Bio: Christopher Makos (1948- ) is an American photographer and visual artist. He studied architecture in Paris and was an apprentice to Man Ray. Andy Warhol was Makos' good friend and frequent portrait subject. His photographs of Andy Warhol have been exhibited in galleries and museums, including the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao,Tate Modern in London, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, IVAM in Valencia (Spain), Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, among others. Makos’ pictures have appeared in publications, including Paris Match and the Wall Street Journal. The visual artist is the author of numerous books, such as Warhol/Makos In Context (2007), Andy Warhol China...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Jonas 2
Located in New York, NY
This male nude portrait by Curtice Taylor is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Arena Dos, From the series, Acto Uno. Male Nude Limited Edition B&W Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Cohete's ritual with movement and the male dancer formations, inhabits his black and white theater-like habitat. Like light; always in motion.
The harsh lights and shadows in the wa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Pigment, Black and White, Archival Pigment
NYC 1967, The Boys Army, Street Scene with Signs
Located in Carmel, CA
Created when the artist was stationed in Fort Dix.
First photograph he ever took!!
Dry mounted on board.
Signed in pen and stamped on verso.
Printed 1999
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital
Japan – Geisha Girl with Fan – Hand-colored albumen print
Located in Middletown, NY
Yokohama, Japan: c 1885. Hand-tinted albumen print, 10 1/2 x 8 inches (268 x 204 mm), hand-numbered 1103 in negative. Unmounted; housed in an archival mat with clear mounting corner...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Watercolor, Photographic Paper
Sophie- Signed limited edition nude print, Black white, Sexy woman, Contemporary
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Sophie - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 1995 - Edition of 10
A classical approach, sensual not sexual
Large scale and grainy photograph.
This image was captured...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Pigment, Black and White, Ar...
Jeanloup Sieff - Intimode - Les Dessous de la mode
Located in Cologne, DE
From a Portfolio with 26 exclusive works of Jeanloup Sieff, limited to 200 copies.
The photograph of Jeanloup Sieff has been produced as Collotype under the direct commandment of the...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photogravure
$380 Sale Price
20% Off
Head over Heels - Contemporary, Polaroid, Nude, 21st Century, Joshua Tree
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Head over Heels
2019, 20x20 cm, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, not mounted.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL201...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Beaton, Greta Garbo, Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1981. Published and pri...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lithograph
$626 Sale Price
30% Off
"Cary Grant And Grace Kelly In 'To Catch A Thief" by Paramount
By Paramount Pictures
Located in London, GB
"Cary Grant And Grace Kelly In 'To Catch A Thief" by Paramount
Cary Grant and Grace Kelly publicity portrait for the film 'To Catch A Thief', 1955.
Unframed
Paper Size: 16"x 12'' (...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Jhonny. From Searching a Mother Series. Photomontage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Color
The Italian filmmaker Alberto Bevilacqua - B/w Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$38 Sale Price
20% Off
American Composer David Del Tredici, nude.
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of composer David Del Tredici, photographed nude in 1973. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
25 Hours #06 [Need to be] - Polaroid, Nude, Women, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
25 Hours #06, 2020
[Self-portrait in the series Need to be]
25x25cm, edition 2020, this is # 2 of 7
Archival color print based on original Polaroid
on beau...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
![25 Hours #06 [Need to be] - Polaroid, Nude, Women, Color](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/carmen-de-vos-photography-25-hours-06-need-to-be-polaroid-nude-women-color-for-sale/a_6523/a_100760721650774874090/instaCDV_20_25Hours_06_master.jpg?width=240 "nude women polaroid")
Gorgeous Joan (1931) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
Gorgeous Joan (1931) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(photo Glasshouse Images / Alamy Archives )
Joan Crawford, on-set of the Film “Possessed”,
1931.
Additional Informati...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Joe Dallesandro Andy Warhol Trash promo photo
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Jack Mitchell, American Photographer (1925-2013).
Joe Dallesandro, ca. 1973.
11 x 14 inches; 12 x 15 inches framed.
Period print from artist's studio. The image was intended for ...
Category
1970s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Marilyn Monroe. Long Island, New York
By Eve Arnold
Located in London, GB
Estate stamped on reverse
Archival pigment print
Accompanied by Magnum Photos COA
Available in two sizes:
Paper size: 20 x 24 inches, edition of 21
Paper size: 24 x 34 inches, edit...
Category
1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Faux Couple
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Nazareno #1. From The series Buscando Papá. Photomontage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Nazareno #1, 2002 by Celso José Castro Daza
From The series Buscando Papá.
One of a kind Photomontage on archival paper
Unframed
The root of these unique photographic works by the a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper
Vuccino And Rava 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Vuccino And Rava 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Carla Vuccino, wearing a swimming cap, and a sunbathing Marina Rava, both wearing bikinis as they sit on the rear of a boat, on th...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Aquarius, Nude. Limited Edition Color Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
He uses the vivid contrast of color to add an extra dimension in the movement and shadows of each piece. Almost giving a glimpse, outside of the nostalgia, of his -black & whites- an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Woman collecting sea shells
Located in Middletown, NY
Circa 1890
Hand-tinted albumen print, 10 1/2 x 8 inches (266 x 203 mm), small handwritten number '285' in negative, lower left. Unmounted; housed in an archival mat with clear mounting corners.
[Nagasaki University Library, Catalog Number : 1889]
A woman wearing a towel over her head Anesama kaburi style picks up shells. The background is the sea. There are boats with sails on the beach. It is probably a dramatized photo.
Ogawa Katsumasa (1860 – 1936) was a pivotal figure in early Japanese photography. He adapted cutting-edge Western technology in photo-printing processes to produce numerous half-tone and collotype publications which transformed the market which had previously concentrated on the more expensive souvenir albums. Ogawa's publications were also instrumental in introducing Japanese art and culture to a mass international audience. He built one of the most successful photographic businesses in late-Meiji Japan. He opened his first portrait studio in Tomioka, Gumma Prefecture, in 1877. [Bennett, Terry. Old Japanese Photographs...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Watercolor, Photographic Paper
After the storm.
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
In 1981 Maggie Taylor (b. 1961) began to photograph while she was a student at Yale University majoring in philosophy. She primarily took photographs of suburban landscapes and stran...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Amelia
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 5.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production.
Shipping time depends on method of shipping.
Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph.
ABOUT:
For the last two years Mark and Kristen have collaborated using one of the earliest photographic methods, collodion wet plate to create ambrotypes on glass and tintypes on aluminum. They use a 1860 style view camera to create one-of-a-kind images, which become windows into an intimate, romantic, and beautiful world of faces, still lives, nudes, and landscapes. In this demanding process, the collodion coated tin or glass plates are immersed in a silver nitrate solution, and then they must be exposed in the camera and developed while still wet. Serendipitous flaws and beautiful imperfections are an inevitable part of this imprecise hands-on process.
This show includes a combination of 24 tintypes and ambrotypes, which are 8x10 and smaller in size. Their intimate sizes ask the viewers to look closer and spend more time with these photographs to fully appreciate their power. — A welcome antidote to today's nonstop, ¬instantaneous imagery. Paradoxically, this intersection of past and present gives these pieces an unmistakably contemporary feel. The two collaborators deliberately play up the ambiguity of time.
The nudes (some recalling E.J. Bellocq's alluring portraits of New Orleans prostitutes in 1912) are suffused with freshness and sensuality, even eroticism at times, with nearly all of them coming off as refined rather than crass.
Fredrick Scott...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Joanna Lumley , Ab Fab, Carnegie Tower, NYC 1994 colour limited edition print
Located in Norwich, GB
Iconic and rare limited edition print direct from the negative, signed lower right hand margin and stamped with photographers own blind stamp.
This is Number 8/25.
Image measures 36 ...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print
After midnight - Polaroid, Black and White, Women, 21st Century, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
After midnight - 2020
20x20cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2020-932.
No...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Terry O’Neill, Brigitte Bardot, Spain 1971 - Signed Artist’s Proof
Located in New York, NY
Signed Artist’s Proof — Terry O’Neill, Brigitte Bardot with Cigar, Spain 1971
A rare opportunity to acquire one of Terry O’Neill’s most celebrated and sought‑after images. Captured ...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Fabrizio Bentivoglio by Angelo Frontoni - Vintage Photograph - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
Fabrizio Bentivoglio t by Angelo Frontoni is a lot of two photographic prints on baryta paper.
Photographer's ink stamp on back, high quality prints.
...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Jon Gould & Andy Warhol
By Andy Warhol
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This work is unique taken at the direction of Andy Warhol at a performance of "Gotta Get Wet." Others in attendance were Jon Gould, Christopher Makos & Peter Wise. Warhol gazes very ...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Beatles, Black and White Photography, 1967, 20, 2 x 25, 3 cm
By Michael Ochs
Located in Cologne, DE
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With a line-up comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they are regarded as the mo...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Dancer Daryl Gray nude, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. This photograph was from a session for After Dark magazine and was selected and signed by Jack Mitchell as one of his favorites. Jack’s artist statement on his work for the magazine:
“After Dark was a magazine of entertainment, theater and the arts. It was a popular magazine, with a gay slant, enjoyed by many gay men, and some broad minded women and men. As well as (I learned years later) many closeted male youngsters. The magazine was ahead of its time, as advertisers were reluctant to place ads in an essentially gay magazine 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...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,200 Sale Price
31% Off
Backgammon By The Pool Essentials Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Backgammon By The Pool
1959
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary-Beth Turner playing backgammon by a swimming po...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Somerset (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 20th Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Somerset (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid,
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist inventory Number 5...
Category
1990s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$266 Sale Price
30% Off
Side Effects (Stage of Consciousness) - Radha Mitchell and Udo Kier
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Side Effects (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist Invent...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Nastassia Kinski for Playboy by Helmut Newton - Vintage Photograph - 1983
Located in Roma, IT
Nastassia Kinski for Playboy is a black and white photograph realized by Helmut Newton in 1983.
Black and white photograph.
From the series realized by Newton for Playboy magazine....
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$3,481 Sale Price
25% Off
Jimi Hendrix Poses With A Cigarette, 1967 — Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Jimi Hendrix poses with a cigarette, 1967 —
Signed Limited Edition Print
by Gered Mankowitz
Legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix is pictured head-on during a session at Mankowitz's st...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Apriel - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival pigment 29x35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
"Apriel" captures a serene underwater moment in striking black and white. This fine art underwater photograph showcases delicate interplay between light, shadow, and movement as hair...
Category
2010s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Bardot Supreme - Luna Blue - SOLD - other sizes available
Located in New York, NY
Shot of Bardot. Custom luna blue acrylic paint created by the artist. Hand pulled enamel screen print and diamond dust on linen. Stretched on black frame. Signed by the artist. ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Photography
Materials
Acrylic
Marilyn Monroe, print of 1988 from original negative
Located in Cologne, DE
Ed Feingersh photographed Marilyn Monroe for Redbook magazine in March 1955 for a story which would follow Monroe through her daily routine, the photography to be candid and shot without flash in available light.
The photographs he made of her during the week March 24–30, 1955 as she prepares for two appearances; opening night of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Morosco Theatre and being fitted with a burlesque corset for her ride on a pink elephant at a charity event at Madison Square Garden. (from Wikipedia)
This is a unique silver gelatine print, made in 1988 from the original negative.
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jhonny Diptych. From the series Guerreros. Photomontage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
One of a kind Photomontage on archival paper
Overall sheet size: 27.5 in. H x 39 in. W
Individual sheet Size: 27.5 in. H x 19.5 in. W
Unframed
Signed, titled and dated by the artist
The root of these unique photographic works by the artist Celso Castro occurred when the artist returned from Italy to live back in Colombia in 1987.
Castro wanted to produce from the photographs he took with his camera larger versions of those pieces, but having only registered his models with a single photograph it was impossible to achieve, given this need he adopts the language of fractionation completing the message he wants to transmit through his work.
Castro perfected his technique throughout the years, now on he takes numbers of photographs of his subject, which are then assembled to conform a unique photo collage...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Color
Realm (Kings Road) - unique solarized gelatin silver artist printed photograph
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In Kings Road (2022) Mona Kuhn lyrically reconsiders the realms of time and space within the midcentury architectural elements of the iconic Schindler House in Los Angeles. Built by Austrian architect Rudolph M. Schindler in 1922, the house was both a social and design experiment and an avant-garde hub for intellectuals and artists in the 1920s and ’30s.
The body of works incorporates chromogenic color prints, reflecting vignettes and materials of the building's emotional architecture, juxtaposition with unique solarized gelatin silver prints capturing traces of an ethereal human presence.
Realm (2022)
Kings Road: A Rudolph Schindler House
30" x 40" / 76cm x 102cm /edition of 12
15" x 20" / 38cm x 56cm / edition of 12
true size solarized gelatin silver print
printed at artist darkroom in Los Angeles (10 days handling time)
original photograph accompanied by signed artist certificate:
artist signature label (8x10")
signed/editioned/dated/titled by the artist + stamped for authenticity
label is placed centered on verso of the mounted print
__________________
About the artist
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art.
For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Stanley/Barker Editions published Kuhn's Bushes & Succulents in 2018. In 2021, Thames & Hudson published a career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn's most recent publication Kings Road (2022) with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum traveling exhibition shown in Europe and the US.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris; The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London; Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland; Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and Australian Centre for Photography...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin
Kurt Cobain - Signed Limited Edition Print (1992)
Located in London, GB
Kurt Cobain - Signed Limited Edition Print
Melody Maker Magazine
August 30 1992
Reading
(photos by Kevin Westenberg)
NB All prints are signed and numbered by the artist.
Unf...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
She Disappeared into Complete Silence (AD6387) - large scale abstract photograph
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the series 'She Disappeared into Complete Silence' (2014) Mona Kuhn takes a new direction into abstraction.
She turns to a highly austere and restrained reductionist geometry and distilled formal purity, connecting the interior to the exterior, the visible to the hidden. These reflections cause one to linger, as they merge to create a dynamic equilibrium of tension, spaces and rythms.
AD6387 (She Disappeared into Complete Silence)
40" x 30" / 102cm x 76cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
60" x 45" / 152cm x 114cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
limited edition photograph is printed under artist supervision and accompanied by signed artist certificate:
artist signature labels are 8x10 in size
signed, editioned, dated and titled by the artist, and stamped for authenticity
label
__________________
About the artist
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art.
For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Mona Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Stanley/Barker Editions published Kuhn's Bushes and Succulents (2018) with a debut at Musee Jeu de Paume in Paris in 2019. Thames & Hudson published a career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn's most recent publication Kings Road with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum exhibition in Germany and the US.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, the Perez Art Museum in Miami, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris, The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London, Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland, Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Australian Centre for Photography and Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan.
Mona Kuhn currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Solo Exhibitions
2024
Mona Kuhn: Between Modernism and Surrealism, Houk Gallery, New York, NY
2023
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Galerie XII...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin, Giclée
Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood
By Michael Zagaris
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood walking backstage in Oakland, CA.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
How to Marry a Millionaire
By Frank Worth
Located in New York, NY
Created by Frank Worth in 1953, this absolutely stunning and glamorous image of Marilyn Monroe on the set of How to Marry a Millionaire is a...
Category
20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Body Three, Nude. Sepia Limited Edition Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Channeling the energy of “water-signs” in astrology, he captures these mysterious men thru a romantic lens. The embrace of the shadows and the light mixed with the gaze of their bodi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Milton H. Greene - Fashion, Marilyn Monroe, Photography 1953, Printed After
Located in Stamford, CT
Available Sizes:
21" x 21" $5,000.00 Edition of 15
25" x 25" $6,000.00 Edition of 20
45" x 45" $10,000.00 Edition of 7
Printing is done on Exhibition Photo Baryta 310gsm pape...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Make Up Mirror (1953) - Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
Make Up Mirror (1953) - Silver Gelatin Print
(Photo by Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Getty Images Archive)
8th August 1953: Judy Dunlop, a participant in the Holiday Girl...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Zarina - Signed limited edition fine art print, Black white photo, Contemporary
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Zarina - Limited edition archival pigment print, 1987 - Edition of 5
This image was captured on film. The negative was scanned creating a digital file which is then printed ...
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1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Black and White, Photographic Film, Giclée, Pigment, Arc...
Andy Warhol, Photograph of Caroline Kennedy and Peter Beard
By Andy Warhol
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This is a unique photographic work taken by Andy Warhol. The phot was taken at the premiere party for "Bobby Deerfield" at Tavern on the Green in New York City on September 18, 1977. In attendance was Andy Warhol, Jed Johnson, Monique Van Vooren, Steve Rubell, Michael Goldstein, Susan Blond, Caroline Kennedy, Peter Beard, Grace Jones, Francesco Scavullo, Sean Byrnes, and Margrit Ramme.
Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, the daughter of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017.
Illustrated in The Andy Warhol Diaries...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'Stunning Elizabeth Taylor' (Limited Edition Oversize silver gelatine print)
Located in London, GB
'Stunning Elizabeth Taylor'
Portrait of the actress Elizabeth Taylor, 1953.
As the title suggests; a simply stunning close up image of the iconic movie star, fixing the camera with...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Muse II - Following Mozart's Inspiration & Music in a Photographic Journey
By Pia Clodi
Located in Zürich, CH
Not one to shy away from human representation, Pia Clodi’s more portraiture-like works continually offer the sitter an air of anonymity, and as such the viewer has the opportunity to...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Carbon Pigment, Polaroid
$1,809 Sale Price
20% Off
Nazareno #2. From The series Buscando Papá. Photomontage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
One of a kind Photomontage on archival paper
Sheet size: 40 in. H x 27.5 in. W
Unframed
The root of these unique photographic works by the artist Celso Castro occurred when the arti...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper
Jack Mitchell Reclining Male Nude Study, 1970s
Located in Glenford, NY
Jack Mitchell vintage mid-20th Century study of a reclining nude male. Photo taken approximately 1970. Highly collectible original vintage gelatin silver print, stamped on back by th...
Category
1970s Modern Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$840 Sale Price
30% Off
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