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Late 19th Century Academic Black and White Photography
Photographic Paper
Late 19th Century Academic Black and White Photography
Photographic Paper
Early 20th Century Academic Black and White Photography
Photographic Paper
Early 20th Century Academic Black and White Photography
Photographic Paper
Early 20th Century Academic Black and White Photography
Photographic Paper
Early 20th Century Academic Black and White Photography
Photographic Paper
Late 19th Century Academic Black and White Photography
Photographic Paper
1890s Landscape Photography
Paper, Photographic Paper
Early 20th Century American American Craftsman Historical Memorabilia
Paper
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Prints
Foil
Mid-20th Century German Expressionist Paintings
Paint
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 1900s Showa Animal Prints
Woodcut
Mid-20th Century Arte Povera Abstract Sculptures
Stone, Iron
1840s Realist Landscape Prints
Lithograph
1840s Realist Landscape Prints
Lithograph
1840s Realist Interior Prints
Lithograph
2010s Street Art Mixed Media
Concrete
Mid-19th Century Victorian Landscape Prints
Lithograph
1940s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern North and South American Rugs
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1840s Realist Interior Prints
Lithograph
20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1840s Realist Interior Prints
Lithograph
20th Century Modern Abstract Prints
Engraving, Etching
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Late 19th Century Academic Landscape Photography
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Late 19th Century Academic Landscape Photography
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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.