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Trailer Window, Bombay Beach, Salton Sea, California - American Color Photograph
By Richard Heeps
Located in Cambridge, GB
There is something beautiful about the decay. Something ironic about the contrast of the shiny RV life. The RV is this thing which is mobile, here it's been frozen in salt, the manma...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Eroded Trailer, Bombay Beach, Salton Sea, California - American Color Photograph
By Richard Heeps
Located in Cambridge, GB
There is something beautiful about the decay. Something ironic about the contrast of the shiny RV life. The RV is this thing which is mobile, here it's been frozen in salt, it has be...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Eroded Trailer, Bombay Beach, Salton Sea, California - American Color Photograph
By Richard Heeps
Located in Cambridge, GB
There is something beautiful about the decay. Something ironic about the contrast of the shiny RV life. The RV is this thing which is mobile, here it's been frozen in salt, it has be...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Bombay Hook Wildlife Reserve: large black & white landscape photograph w/ sepia
By Ron Tarver
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Refuge. It depicts the wetlands of the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, one of the largest remaining
Category

2010s Realist Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Bombay Palm Trees (California Badlands) - Bombay Beach - Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bombay Palm Trees (California Badlands) - Bombay Beach) - 2019 50x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2
Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Church Gate Station, Bombay, India
By Sebastião Salgado
Located in New York, NY
Organization in Africa when he began taking photographs and decided to become a professional photojournalist
Category

Realist Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Last Stop Bombay Beach (California Badlands)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Last Stop Bombay Beach (California Badlands) - 2019 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Churchgate Station, Western Railroad Line, Bombay, India
By Sebastião Salgado
Located in New York, NY
Organization in Africa when he began taking photographs and decided to become a professional photojournalist
Category

1990s Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Church Gate Station, Bombay, India, 1995 - Sebastião Salgado
By Sebastião Salgado
Located in London, GB
Church Gate Station, Bombay, India, 1995 Sebastião Salgado International Shipping Available
Category

1990s Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Visit Bombay Beach (California Badlands) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Landscape
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Visit Bombay Beach (California Badlands) - 2019 Edition of 10, 50x50cm, Archival C-Print, based
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Bombay Beach Pirates (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush')
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bombay Beach Pirates (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Bombay Beach Pirates (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush')
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bombay Beach Pirates (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Bombay Beach Pirates (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush')
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bombay Beach Pirates (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Bombay Beach Pirates (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush')
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bombay Beach Pirates (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Bombay Beach Pirates III (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush')
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bombay Beach Pirates III (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper

Bombay Beach Pirates II (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush')
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bombay Beach Pirates II (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Bombay Beach Pirates II (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush')
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bombay Beach Pirates II (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Bombay Beach Pirates III (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush')
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bombay Beach Pirates III (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Starman (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Starman (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 48x47cm, Edition
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Contact (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Contact (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 20x20cm, Edition
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Polaroid, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color

Starman (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Starman (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 20x20cm, Edition
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Contact (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Contact (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 48x46cm, Edition of
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Genie (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Genie (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 20x20cm, Edition of
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper

Genie (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Genie (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 48x47cm, Edition of
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Untitled (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 20x20cm, Edition
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Nowhere (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Nowhere (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 48x47cm, Edition
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Castaway (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Castaway (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 80x80cm, Edition
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Messages (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Messages (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 50x50cm, Edition
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Castaway (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Castaway (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 50x50cm, Edition
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Castaway (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Castaway (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 20x20cm, Edition
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Nowhere (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Nowhere (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 20x20cm, Edition
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Polaroid, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color

Waiting (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Waiting (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 40x40cm, Edition
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Waiting (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Waiting (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 20x20cm, Edition
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Messages (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Messages (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 20x20cm, Edition
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Untitled (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 20x20cm, Edition
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Towards Rock Hill, Bombay Beach, Salton Sea, California - Waterscape Photography
By Richard Heeps
Located in Cambridge, GB
Photographed by Richard Heeps in Bombay Beach, Salton Sea, California. The combination of the suns
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Towards Rock Hill, Bombay Beach, Salton Sea, California - Waterscape Photography
By Richard Heeps
Located in Cambridge, GB
Photographed by Richard Heeps in Bombay Beach, Salton Sea, California. The combination of the suns
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Towards Rock Hill, Bombay Beach, Salton Sea, California - Waterscape Photography
By Richard Heeps
Located in Cambridge, GB
Towards Rock Hill, photographed by Richard Heeps in Bombay Beach, Salton Sea, California. The
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Mother and Child at Car Window, Bombay, India, 1993 - Steve McCurry
By Steve McCurry
Located in London, GB
Mother and Child at Car Window, Bombay, India, 1993 - Steve McCurry Signed and affixed with
Category

1990s Color Photography

Materials

C Print

View from Bombay Beach, Salton Sea, California - Blue Waterscape Color Photo
By Richard Heeps
Located in Cambridge, GB
View from Bombay Beach, photograph from Richard Heeps Salton Sea series. Cool shades of blue in
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Planet Earth (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') -Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Planet Earth (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 20x20cm
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Planet Earth (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') -Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Planet Earth (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 48x47cm
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

The Visit (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') -Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Visit (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 48x47cm, Edition
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

The Visit (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') -Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Visit (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 20x20cm, Edition
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Close Encounter (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Close Encounters (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 48x47cm
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Space Cowboy (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Space Cowboy (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 48x47cm
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

No Effects (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
No Effects (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 48x60cm
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Rocket Man (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Rocket Man (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 50x50cm
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

The Rockstar (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Rockstar (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 20x20cm
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Close Encounter (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Close Encounters (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 20x20cm
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Waiting II (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Waiting II (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 40x40cm
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Waiting III (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Waiting III (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 40x40cm
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Waiting III (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Waiting III (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 20x20cm
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Waiting II (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Waiting II (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 20x20cm
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Polaroid, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color

No Effects (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
No Effects (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 20x24cm
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Space Cowboy (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Space Cowboy (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 20x20cm
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Polaroid, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color

Rocket Man (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Rocket Man (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 20x20cm
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Pretty in Pink (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Pretty in Pink (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 48x47cm
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

By the Sea (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
By the Sea (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 48x47cm
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Polaroid, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color

Beam me up (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Beam me up (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 20x20cm
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

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Bombay Photograph For Sale on 1stDibs

You are likely to find exactly the bombay photograph you’re looking for on 1stDibs, as there is a broad range for sale. There are many contemporary, abstract and Impressionist versions of these works for sale. If you’re looking for a bombay photograph from a specific time period, our collection is diverse and broad-ranging, and you’ll find at least one that dates back to the 19th Century while another version may have been produced as recently as the 21st Century. If you’re looking to add a bombay photograph to create new energy in an otherwise neutral space in your home, you can find a work on 1stDibs that features elements of beige, gray, brown, blue and more. A bombay photograph from Stefanie Schneider, Clare Marie Bailey, Tao Ruspoli, Lisa Toboz and Luca Artioli — each of whom created distinctive versions of this kind of work — is worth considering. Frequently made by artists working in polaroid, paper and c print, these artworks are unique and have attracted attention over the years.

How Much is a Bombay Photograph?

A bombay photograph can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price for items in our inventory is $575, while the lowest priced sells for $95 and the highest can go for as much as $65,000.

A Close Look at contemporary Art

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.

Finding the Right photography for You

Find a broad range of photography on 1stDibs today.

The first permanent image created by a camera — which materialized during the 1820s — is attributed to Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. The French inventor was on to something for sure. Kodak introduced roll film in the 1880s, allowing photography to become more democratic, although cameras wouldn’t be universally accessible until several decades later. 

Digital photographic techniques, software, smartphone cameras and social-networking platforms such as Instagram have made it even easier in the modern era for budding photographers to capture the world around them as well as disseminate their images far and wide. 

What might leading figures of visual art such as Andy Warhol have done with these tools at their disposal?

Today, when we aren’t looking at the digital photos that inundate us on our phones, we look to the past to celebrate the photographers who have broken rules as well as records — provocative and prolific artists like Horst P. Horst, Lillian Bassman and Helmut Newton, who altered the face of fashion and portrait photography; visionary documentary photographers such as Gordon Parks, whose best-known work was guided by social justice; and pioneers of street photography such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, who shot for revolutionary travel magazines like Holiday with the likes of globetrotting society lensman Slim Aarons.

Find photographers you may not know in Introspective and The Study — where you’ll read about Berenice Abbott, who positioned herself atop skyscrapers for the perfect shot, or “conceptual artist-adventurer” Charles Lindsay, whose work combines scientific rigor with artistic expression, or Massimo Listri, known for his epic interiors of opulent Old World libraries. Photographer Jeannette Montgomery Barron was given a Kodak camera as a child. Later, she shot on Polaroid film before buying her first 35mm camera in her teens. Barron's stunning portraits of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Warhol and other artists chronicle a crucial chapter of New York’s cultural history.

Throughout the past two centuries, photographers have used their medium to create expressive work that has resonated for generations. Shop a voluminous collection of this powerful fine photography on 1stDibs. Search by photographer to find the perfect piece for your living room wall, or spend some time with the work organized under various categories, such as landscape photography, nude photography and more.