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Art Subject: Portrait
Georg Schirmer (1816-1880) - 1875 Oil, Gentleman from Cassel
Located in Corsham, GB
This 1875 oil on plywood portrait by Georg Schirmer exemplifies late 19th-century German realism. The composition centres on a gentleman in formal attire, set against a dark, atmosph...
Category
Late 19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Portrait of Elegant" Oil on Canvas Figurative Painting of the Nineteenth Century Italian
Located in Pistoia, IT
Modesto Faustini (1839-1891), "Portrait of elegant," oil on canvas in gilt frame signed lower right "M. Faustini - Rome."
This splendid portrait belongs to one of the most flourishi...
Category
1860s Italian School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Snowmass Village Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snowmass Village
1968
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Women in colourful hats at an apres ski party in Snowmass Village, in Pitkin County, Colorado, in March 196...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cabot Family Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cabot Family
1960
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Mrs Henry Cabot Jnr with her children (left to right) Henry Bromfield Cabot III, Camilla Foote Cabot and Andrew Hull...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Yudy
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print, painted frame (Edition of 4 + 1 AP)
Signed and numbered, verso
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Price includes mounting and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
W.C. Fields Eating a Pizza
Located in Austin, TX
This candid black and white capture features W.C. Fields eating a pizza.
W.C. Fields was an American comedian, actor, juggler, and writer. Fields' comic persona was a misanthropic a...
Category
1920s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
TWINS Color Lithograph, Passengers Waiting, Double Entendre, British Humor
By Beryl Cook
Located in Union City, NJ
TWINS is a hand drawn, limited edition color lithograph by the well known and loved British artist and humorist, Beryl Cook(1926-2008). TWINS was printed using traditional hand litho...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Two Happy Sisters - Portrait of two black girls - Royal
Located in Aartselaar, BE
A portrait of two young girls by the Royal Portraitist Chen Yanning.
Both the artist as well as the sitters of this magnificent portrait are from racial...
Category
19th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
On a Dust Kissed Drive
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In Home By Nightfall, Angela Bacon-Kidwell photographs a lone road surrounded by stretches of a seemingly infinite smokey landscape bathed in gausy light. Ultimately speaking of tran...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue ...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Paper
White Transparent Apples
Located in Zofingen, AG
This painting will come to you stretched on a wooden stretcher and completely ready to be placed in the interior.
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
"White Transparent Apples" presents a scene suffu...
Category
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Atmosphere - Polaroid, Women, 21st Century, Nude, Landscape
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Atmosphere - 2022
20x205cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signed on the back with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2022-20431.
Not mou...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
African Boy I
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
African Boy is a series of paintings by talented artist Faith Gbadero. This series of Artworks captures the response and attitudes of African young adult...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Neon Demon - Contemporary, Polaroid, Woman, 21st Century, Psychiatry
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Neon Demon (Shot 2019 on 600 film)
Influenced by films such as Ridley Scotts Blade Runner and Luc Bessons Fifth Element, it is based on futuristic imaginings of planet earth.
Editi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, C Print, Polaroid, Color
Adoration
By Leonor Fini
Located in Columbia, MO
Leonor Fini (Argentine-French, 1907–1996)
A fiercely spirited Surrealist unfettered by social mores, Leonor Fini defied convention with her haunting, dreamlike works that explore the...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Adult film star Cal Culver (AKA Casey Donovan) 'After Dark' Nude, Signed LGBTQ+
Located in Senoia, GA
Adult film star Cal Culver (AKA Casey Donovan) 'After Dark' magazine iconic nude study, photographed in 1972. LGBTQ+ Pride This is a vintage gelatin silver print, selenium toned, mad...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Eye of the Beholder - 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude Photography, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Eye of the Beholder - 2018
60x48cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Digital C-print, based on an Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2018...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper
Madonna - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, New Expressionism
Located in Salzburg, AT
Maciej Olekszy was born in 1982, Poland. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland in 2007. Faculty of Painting in the studio of Professor Jan Świtka. He made his de...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Baroque Portrait of a gentleman 18th century Italian master by Domenico Parodi
By Domenico Parodi (Genoa, 1672 - 1742)
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are grateful to Prof. Daniele Sanguineti for suggesting the attribution to Domenico Parodi (1672 - 1742). He dates the painting into the period between 1730 and 1740. Domenico Par...
Category
1730s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Field of Dreams (Sidewinder), analog, 80x78cm, Edition 2/5
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Field of Dreams (Sidewinder) - 2005
80 x 78 cm,
Edition of 5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid,
Artist Inventory 3131.02,
Not mounted
Stefanie ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Wilderness, Jeremy Geddes, Large Format, 25" x 24" Contemporary Street Art Print
Located in Draper, UT
"Wilderness" by Jeremy Geddes. Edition of 1441 with dimensions of 25 in. x 24 in. Hand signed and numbered by the artist.
Our gallery takes pride in providing only the highest quali...
Category
2010s Street Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Giclée
Hot Water - underwater nude photograph - print on paper 64" x 43"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater photograph of a naked young woman diving in a pool in front of bright red background.
There is no rules for luck. I was sure the new girl would need practice and prac...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jeff Bridges, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography, Portrait
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Combined Edition 25
Also available in 50 x 60 cm/ 20 x 24 inch
and as combined Edition 10 in
76 x 101 cm / 30 x 40 inch
101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch
Portrait of American actor, singe...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jack Nicholson, LA, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography, Portrait
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Combined Edition 25
Also available in 50 x 60 cm/ 20 x 24 inch
and as combined Edition 10 in
76 x 101 cm / 30 x 40 inch
101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch
Portrait of American actor and fi...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Brigitte Bardot, 1967 - Getty Archive, 20th Century Photography, Film Stars
Located in Brighton, GB
Taken from the world’s largest photographic archive, (Hulton Archive and Getty Images), the Getty Images Gallery collection features an extraordinary time capsule of the last century...
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White
Dutch Family in the Forest
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming figurative genre painting of Dutch family in the forest. Signed illegibly lower left. Presented in a period giltwood frame. Image size, 27.25"H ...
Category
1930s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hortense (Ballerina) /// Impressionism Degas French Ballet Renoir Figurative Art
By Pal Fried
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Pál Fried (Hungarian, 1893-1976)
Title: "Hortense (Ballerina)"
*Signed by Fried lower left
Circa: 1940
Medium: Original Oil Painting on Canvas
Framing: Framed in a light gold...
Category
1940s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Gerlach's Allegorien Folio, plate #53: "Junius" Lithograph, Gustav Klimt.
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Contributors to Gerlach & Schenk’s publications valued design and innovation in the graphic arts just as much as they examined allegories as subject matter for exploration. Here, Gus...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Edith - 21st Century Contemporary Portrait Oil Painting of a Woman
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This painting is made by Dutch artist Jantien de Boer (1984, Classical Academy for Painting Groningen) The artist likes to tell a story in her paintin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Before the Yves St. Laurent Show
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes framing with UV plexi, free express shipping and a 14-day return policy.
Four 4.5 x 3.25 inch unique vintage Kodak prints featuring Jerry Hall, Pat Cleveland and Adele Lutz. Prints are on active consignment from the estate of Antonio Lopez. Purchase includes certificates of authenticity from the estate of Antonio Lopez. These Kodak prints are not signed by Antonio Lopez.
Frame has some minor damage and is note in the pictures. The price reflects this with a reduction compared to similar listings.
Antonio Lopez Biography -
The foremost fashion illustrator of the 1970s and 80s, Antonio (as he signed his work) was and remains one of the most highly regarded and influential figures in the fashion world. While not initially known as a photographer, Antonio was rarely without his favorite Instamatic camera, and as his career progressed he turned increasingly to photography to create fashion stories, portraits, and elaborate mise-en-scènes.
A serial Svengali, as the writer Karin Nelson noted: “Lopez brilliantly transformed the women in his world. Under his tutelage, Jerry Hall, a long tall Texan he met at Paris’s Club Sept, evolved into a golden goddess. He put Jessica Lange in gold lamé evening dresses after discovering her in Paris studying mime, and gave aspiring model Tina Lutz her start (and an introduction to future husband Michael Chow...
Category
1970s Portrait Photography
Materials
Polaroid, Photographic Paper
"Ready to Shine" Original Oil Painting
By Matt Talbert
Located in Denver, CO
"Ready to Shine," created by Matt Talbert in 2023, is an original oil on panel artwork, sized at 18 x 12 inches (45.72 x 30.48 cm). The framed dimensions of the piece are 19.25 x 13....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Stefanie Schneider Minis - The Party's over -based on a Polaroid, Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Minis
Party's over (Oxana's 30th Birthday), 2008
featuring Radha Mitchell
Signed and signature brand on verso.
Lambda digital Color Photographs based on a Polar...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Plexiglass, Color, Polaroid, Lambda
Pierre - XXI Century Contemporary Linocut Print, Surrealism, Black & white
Located in Warsaw, PL
Anna Gawlikowska is a Polish artist born in 1980.
She studied printmaking, painting, and graphic design at the Academy of Fine Arts of Wroclaw in Poland in the workshops of professor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Glenn Close, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography, Portrait
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Combined Edition 25
Also available in 50 x 60 cm/ 20 x 24 inch
and as combined Edition 10 in
76 x 101 cm / 30 x 40 inch
101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch
Portrait of the famous American ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Kee-She-Waa, A Fox Warrior: Hand-colored McKenney & Hall Folio-sized Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This an original 19th century hand-colored folio-size McKenney and Hall engraving of a Native American entitled "Kee-She-Waa, A Fox Warrior", drawn b...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Boy George, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography, Portrait
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Combined Edition 25
Also available in 50 x 60 cm/ 20 x 24 inch
and as combined Edition 10 in
76 x 101 cm / 30 x 40 inch
101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch
Portrait of British-American sta...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Wild Blood - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 24x18"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
There are no rules for luck. I was sure the new girl would need practice and practice - and was wrong. She was just perfect from the first second till the last one. Next month she g...
Category
2010s Photorealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Digital, Archival Paper
Carla - Signed limited edition print, Sensual, Contemporary, Oversized photo
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Carla - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 10
This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm , Acid-fre...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Archival Pigment, Pigment, Phot...
Hot Water - underwater nude photograph - print on paper 52" x 35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater photograph of a naked young woman diving in a pool in front of bright red background.
There is no rules for luck. I was sure the new girl would need practice and prac...
Category
2010s Photorealist Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Joni Mitchell vintage 8x10" Print by Norman Seeff from 1983
By Norman Seeff
Located in Austin, TX
Original vintage 8x10” work print from Norman Seeff of Joni Mitchell. Hand printed in 1983 at the time of the photoshoot, featuring Norman Seeff's official studio stamp on the back.
In excellent condition having been stored flat in a climate controlled room
These Norman Seeff vintage...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Elvis Presley "Last Train to Memphis" 1960
Located in Austin, TX
Fine art print of Elvis Presley "Last Train to Memphis" from the collection of acclaimed photographer. Lynn Goldsmith, taken in 1960
These prints are 16x20" open edition and come wi...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
David Carradine, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography, Portrait
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Combined Edition 25
Also available in 50 x 60 cm/ 20 x 24 inch
and as combined Edition 10 in
76 x 101 cm / 30 x 40 inch
101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch
Portrait of American actor David Carradine...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bergstrom, Paris
Located in New York, NY
Offset lithograph, signed in pencil by Newton. Acquired from a private collection, Paris, France.
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Offset, Lithograph
Steam / Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog, 21st Century, Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Steam, 2017, Edition 2/7
Based on an original Impossible film Digital C-print, not mounted.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2017-133
Kirsten Thys van den...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Polaroid
Large 1980's French Abstract Surrealist Original Oil Amazing Bright Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French abstract, by T. Fabris
Title: Abstract Surrealist Portrait
Medium: oil on board, unframed
Painting: 24 x 16 inches
Provenance: private collection, Paris
C...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Kim Basinger, Los Angeles, 21st Century, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Edition 25
Also available in 101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch, Edition 10
Black and white portrait of actress Kim Basinger.
From personality portraits and a...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
A Lullaby for Luna - Contemporary, Polaroid, Woman, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Lullaby for Luna- (2020) Polaroid 600
This image is influenced by the mysterious languor of Angelo Badalamenti’s soundtracks for David Lynch’s films and the series Twin Peaks.
Ed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
A love song (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A love song (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
20x20cm, (ask about a larger sized edition)
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, ba...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Marilyn III aka Jane Bond - Heavenly Falls
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Marilyn aka Jane Bond' (part 3) (Heavenly Falls) - 2016
20x20cm,
Edition 8/10,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory numbe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper
Field of Dreams (Sidewinder), analog- Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Field of Dreams (Sidewinder), 2005
38.5 x 38 cm,
Edition 2/5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on an original Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artis...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Xie Kitchin as Dane - Vintage b/w Photograph by Lewis Carroll - 1873
By Lewis Carroll
Located in Roma, IT
Xie Kitchin as Dane is an original vintage photograph realized in 1873 by Lewis Carroll (Daresbury, January 27, 1832 - Guildford, January 14, 1898).
Original albumen print on postcard; dimensions: 14 x 10 cm.
N° 2132 "The Dane manuscript" was written by the author in pencil on the back.
Provenance: Jeffrey Stern Bookseller York UK.
Certificate of Athenticity: provided by the Original Gallery.
Framed in a coeval frame.
Mint conditions.
Lewis Carroll (Daresbury, January 27, 1832 - Guildford, January 14, 1898) in 1873. This work depicts the figure of Xie (Alexandra) Kitchin as "Dane", a standing children with an elegant dress and headgear.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of children's fiction, notably Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. The poems "Jabberwocky" and The Hunting of the Snark are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. He was also a mathematician, photographer, inventor, and Anglican deacon.
Carroll came from a family of high-church Anglicans, and developed a long relationship with Christ Church, Oxford, where he lived for most of his life as a scholar and teacher. Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, Henry Liddell, is widely identified as the original for Alice in Wonderland, though Carroll always denied this. Scholars are divided about whether his relationship with children included an erotic component.
In 1982, a memorial stone...
Category
1870s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bimbo
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Bimbo" by Aba Linus is an exquisite portrayal of timeless elegance and grace. The centerpiece of this enchanting artwork is a young woman, adorned with a stylish hat perched atop he...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Loose Lips Sink Ships, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"The flowers hide the face so that you don’t make assumptions about the model, you focus on the beauty of existence," states artist David Shepherd. "You appreciate that they are a person without any impressions of their character. When I compose a painting I think back to my childhood memories. It ties in with what I was saying above. When you’re a child it’s much easier to make friends and enjoy people. That innocence allows for such pure emotion. I always try and get back to that feeling when I’m composing my work."
About the Artist
Canadian artist David Shepherd fuses techniques from both old and modern masters to create contemporary interpretations of the human form. While offering strong nods to pop art and cubism, the work remains grounded by David’s training in 19th Century academic realism. Combining discrete techniques within a single tableau is initially jarring to the viewer, creating an unexpected visual complexity in the work and demonstrating the artist’s breadth of skills. “I think in the future we will be much more interested in works of art that show a mastery of multiple styles,” says David. Each artwork effectually suggests the surreal nature of human existence within a convoluted modern society.
Words that describe this painting: flowers, floral, portrait, realism, hyperrealism, photorealism, hyperreal, face, beauty, eye, rainbow, calm, calming, love, lips, people, large, people, flora, realism, oil painting, pink
Loose Lips...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Richard Harris – Malta, 1973 Limited Estate Print
By David Steen
Located in London, GB
Richard Harris – Malta,
1973
Born in 1930 in Limerick, Ireland, Harris made his screen debut in the 1958 film Alive and Kicking. This was followed by solid supporting roles in films such as Shake Hands with the Devil (1959), The Guns of Navarone (1961) and Mutiny on the Bounty (1962). But he jumped to the top of Hollywood’s list of leading men in 1963 following his performance as young coal miner turned professional rugby player in This Sporting Life which earned him an Oscar nomination. Once a notorious drinker and hell-raiser to rival Oliver Reed, his work during the Seventies and Eighties isn’t widely revered, but in 1990 he once again earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his role in The Field.
Limited Edition David Steen Estate Print
Limited Edition: All prints are limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold
Paper size - 34 x 24 " / 86 x 61 cm
Limited to 30 only this size
All prints are bespoke and printed to order
stamped and numbered by the Estate
Copyright: © David Steen / The David Steen Archive
David Steen’s introduction to photography was as a 15-year-old school leaver joining Picture Post where he had the good luck to be taken under the wing of the legendary Bert Hardy as an assistant. It was the ultimate training ground in photojournalism, and the launch pad for his career.
David’s reunion with Picture Post after doing his National Service (as special photographer based in Eygpt, covering the major trouble zones) was short-lived. The magazine was losing ground and closed. He moved to Fleet Street, first to a bright new Mirror title, Woman’s Sunday Mirror, where incidentally he picked up First Prize in Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Best Pictures of the Year Award for his sequence of ‘Birth of a Baby’, the progress of a young woman delivering her own baby under hypnosis.
He was 21, the youngest ever to be awarded this prize. There followed time as a staff photographer with The Daily Mail; Fleet Street was the hub of the world. Then on to freelancing…Queen magazine, Nova, the Sunday Times Magazine, international magazines around the world, over the years covering projects as diverse as riots in Harlem to a film set in Acapulco, a battered wives’ refuge to the Queen and family at Sandringham: the hopeless, the homeless, the glitterati. Trained on the maxim ‘every picture tells a story’ he has focused on film stars, actors, criminals, politicians, prime ministers and countless men, women and children going about their everyday lives.
David Steen believes himself to be lucky. He thinks lucky; luck is being in the right place at the right time, having the luck to have a loving family and enduring friends and winning a three-year battle against cancer.
Asked by aspiring photographers for his best advice, his stock reply is: ‘Get up early.’
David Steen † 1936 – 2015
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Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Michelle-Free delivery- Signed limited edition fine art print, Black white photo
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Michelle - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 1997 - Edition of 5
This image was captured on film. The negative was scanned creating a digital file which was the...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Pi...
Beach Series #182
Located in Park City, UT
"After painting for over 30 years, I am still fascinated by the alchemy & expression of paint. Primarily I am a studio painter working in oil on canvas. Oil paint is a very elastic m...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian-American tenor & actor Sergio Franchi
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Italian-American tenor/actor Sergio Franchi photographed for a feature article, 1973. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives wi...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Hisako, Study 2, Japan
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Ten years ago, after a particularly tumultuous period in his life, Michael Kenna quietly made a decision to expand his photographic practice to include the human form. Kenna is well known for his minimalistic landscapes, and has been vocal in the past about the absence of the human figure in his photographs stating, "I feel they gave away the scale and became the main focus of the viewer’s attention." But, believing "fixed dogma is not a creative tool...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
