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Richard Hamilton 'Thorden Wetterling Galleries'- Poster

Richard Hamilton 'Thorden Wetterling Galleries'- Poster

By Richard Hamilton

Located in Brooklyn, NY

The poster "Prints to Date at Wetterling Gallery" features Hamilton's interpretation of Marilyn Monroe, based on famous media images of her, including photo shoots and film stills. I...

Category

1990s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

CBGB Photograph New York, 1982 (East Village 1980s)
CBGB Photograph New York, 1982 (East Village 1980s)

CBGB Photograph New York, 1982 (East Village 1980s)

By Fernando Natalici

Located in NEW YORK, NY

Fernando’s art design featured in the Jeffrey Deitch curated show “Area” at The Hole Gallery NYC in 2013, with his film stills from "Unmade Beds" & "The Foreigner"- two of the most s...

Category

1970s Street Art Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

CBGB Photograph New York, 1982 (East Village 1980s)
CBGB Photograph New York, 1982 (East Village 1980s)

CBGB Photograph New York, 1982 (East Village 1980s)

By Fernando Natalici

Located in NEW YORK, NY

Fernando’s art design featured in the Jeffrey Deitch curated show “Area” at The Hole Gallery NYC in 2013, with his film stills from "Unmade Beds" & "The Foreigner"- two of the most s...

Category

1970s Street Art Photography

Materials

Inkjet

CBGB Photograph New York, 1982 (East Village)

CBGB Photograph New York, 1982 (East Village)

By Fernando Natalici

Located in NEW YORK, NY

Fernando’s art design featured in the Jeffrey Deitch curated show “Area” at The Hole Gallery NYC in 2013, with his film stills from "Unmade Beds" & "The Foreigner"- two of the most s...

Category

1970s Street Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Inkjet

CBGB Photograph New York, 1982 (East Village 1980s)
CBGB Photograph New York, 1982 (East Village 1980s)

CBGB Photograph New York, 1982 (East Village 1980s)

By Fernando Natalici

Located in NEW YORK, NY

Fernando’s art design featured in the Jeffrey Deitch curated show “Area” at The Hole Gallery NYC in 2013, with his film stills from "Unmade Beds" & "The Foreigner"- two of the most s...

Category

1970s Street Art Photography

Materials

Inkjet

'Badrutt's II' - An Aston Martin DB5 in St. Moritz, fine art photography, 2024
'Badrutt's II' - An Aston Martin DB5 in St. Moritz, fine art photography, 2024

'Badrutt's II' - An Aston Martin DB5 in St. Moritz, fine art photography, 2024

By David Yarrow

Located in Vienna, AT

As often in Yarrow’s staged works, the image feels like a perfectly frozen film still — a moment of poised anticipation before departure into the snowy Engadin landscape.

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Divinity (Haley and the Birds)

Divinity (Haley and the Birds)

By Stefanie Schneider

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

Her series often unfold like film stills—fragments of a larger, unspoken story—where the mundane becomes mythical and the personal becomes universal.

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Happy Days (Haley and the Birds)

Happy Days (Haley and the Birds)

By Stefanie Schneider

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

Her series often unfold like film stills—fragments of a larger, unspoken story—where the mundane becomes mythical and the personal becomes universal.

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

In Dubious Battle (Haley and the Birds) - triptych
In Dubious Battle (Haley and the Birds) - triptych

In Dubious Battle (Haley and the Birds) - triptych

By Stefanie Schneider

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

Her series often unfold like film stills—fragments of a larger, unspoken story—where the mundane becomes mythical and the personal becomes universal.

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Apparition (Haley and the Birds)

Apparition (Haley and the Birds)

By Stefanie Schneider

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

Her series often unfold like film stills—fragments of a larger, unspoken story—where the mundane becomes mythical and the personal becomes universal.

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Labyrinth (Haley and the Birds)

Labyrinth (Haley and the Birds)

By Stefanie Schneider

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

Her series often unfold like film stills—fragments of a larger, unspoken story—where the mundane becomes mythical and the personal becomes universal.

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Through the Veil (Oxana's 30th Birthday)
Through the Veil (Oxana's 30th Birthday)

Through the Veil (Oxana's 30th Birthday)

By Stefanie Schneider

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

Her series often unfold like film stills—fragments of a larger, unspoken story—where the mundane becomes mythical and the personal becomes universal.

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

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

Last Dance (Haley and the Birds)

Last Dance (Haley and the Birds)

By Stefanie Schneider

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

Her series often unfold like film stills—fragments of a larger, unspoken story—where the mundane becomes mythical and the personal becomes universal.

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Fleeting (Haley and the Birds)

Fleeting (Haley and the Birds)

By Stefanie Schneider

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

Her series often unfold like film stills—fragments of a larger, unspoken story—where the mundane becomes mythical and the personal becomes universal.

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

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

Melancholy (Haley and the Birds)

Melancholy (Haley and the Birds)

By Stefanie Schneider

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

Her series often unfold like film stills—fragments of a larger, unspoken story—where the mundane becomes mythical and the personal becomes universal.

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Eden (Haley and the Birds)

Eden (Haley and the Birds)

By Stefanie Schneider

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

Her series often unfold like film stills—fragments of a larger, unspoken story—where the mundane becomes mythical and the personal becomes universal.

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

The Girl - Planet of the Apes 09 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract

The Girl - Planet of the Apes 09 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract

By Stefanie Schneider

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

Her series often unfold like film stills—fragments of a larger, unspoken story—where the mundane becomes mythical and the personal becomes universal.

Category

1990s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - Polaroid

Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - Polaroid

By Stefanie Schneider

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

Her series often unfold like film stills—fragments of a larger, unspoken story—where the mundane becomes mythical and the personal becomes universal.

Category

1990s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Clouds Above the Moon - Planet of the Apes 04 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract

Clouds Above the Moon - Planet of the Apes 04 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract

By Stefanie Schneider

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

Her series often unfold like film stills—fragments of a larger, unspoken story—where the mundane becomes mythical and the personal becomes universal.

Category

1990s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Waterhole - Planet of the Apes 05 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract

Waterhole - Planet of the Apes 05 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract

By Stefanie Schneider

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

Her series often unfold like film stills—fragments of a larger, unspoken story—where the mundane becomes mythical and the personal becomes universal.

Category

1990s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Bahia Brazil Photograph (Boy and Dog, Summer)
Bahia Brazil Photograph (Boy and Dog, Summer)

Bahia Brazil Photograph (Boy and Dog, Summer)

By Fernando Natalici

Located in NEW YORK, NY

Fernando’s work was recently featured in the Jeffrey Deitch curated show “Area” at The Hole Gallery NYC, with his film stills from "Unmade Beds" & "The Foreigner"- two of the most si...

Category

1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Inkjet

BB King New York c.1979 (BB King darkroom photograph)
BB King New York c.1979 (BB King darkroom photograph)

BB King New York c.1979 (BB King darkroom photograph)

By Fernando Natalici

Located in NEW YORK, NY

Fernando’s work was recently featured in the Jeffrey Deitch curated show “Area” at The Hole Gallery NYC, with his film stills from "Unmade Beds" & "The Foreigner"- two of the most si...

Category

1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

'The Gold Digger Saloon' - Models and Bison in Snow, Color FIne Art Photography
'The Gold Digger Saloon' - Models and Bison in Snow, Color FIne Art Photography

'The Gold Digger Saloon' - Models and Bison in Snow, Color FIne Art Photography

By David Yarrow

Located in Vienna, AT

Unlike his stark monochrome wildlife portraits, this work embraces vivid colour to heighten theatricality. It feels like a film still from an imagined Western set in a parallel unive...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Untitled

Untitled

By Johnathan Ball

Located in Toronto, ON

Not always bound to one genre he also works from iconic images and film stills while purposefully engaging with the rich history of painting since the rise of abstraction in the 1950s.

Category

2010s Other Art Style Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, Ballpoint Pen

Morning Commute

Morning Commute

By Johnathan Ball

Located in Toronto, ON

Not always bound to one genre he also works from iconic images and film stills while purposefully engaging with the rich history of painting since the rise of abstraction in the 1950s.

Category

2010s Other Art Style Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic

506 Muskoka

506 Muskoka

By Johnathan Ball

Located in Toronto, ON

Not always bound to one genre he also works from iconic images and film stills while purposefully engaging with the rich history of painting since the rise of abstraction in the 1950s.

Category

2010s Other Art Style Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Papercut - analogue black and white still life photography, Limited 10
Papercut - analogue black and white still life photography, Limited 10

Papercut - analogue black and white still life photography, Limited 10

By Ugne Pouwell

Located in London, GB

'Papercut' 2026 Limited edition of 10 Printed on archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper. Signed both front and back with Certificate of Authenticity. Photograph is shipped fas...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Black and White Photography

Materials

Film, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Giclée

Papercut - analogue black and white still life photography, Limited 20

Papercut - analogue black and white still life photography, Limited 20

By Ugne Pouwell

Located in London, GB

'Papercut' 2026 Limited edition of 20 Printed on archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper. Signed both front and back with Certificate of Authenticity. Photograph is shipped fas...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Giclée, Photographic Paper, Film

Maya

Maya

By Johnathan Ball

Located in Toronto, ON

Not always bound to one genre he also works from iconic images and film stills while purposefully engaging with the rich history of painting since the rise of abstraction in the 1950s.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Silver Screen

Silver Screen

By Johnathan Ball

Located in Toronto, ON

Not always bound to one genre he also works from iconic images and film stills while purposefully engaging with the rich history of painting since the rise of abstraction in the 1950s.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

12 Parsecs Giclée Print, Hand Embellished, Contemporary, 21st Century

12 Parsecs Giclée Print, Hand Embellished, Contemporary, 21st Century

By Johnathan Ball

Located in Toronto, ON

Not always bound to one genre he also works from iconic images and film stills while purposefully engaging with the rich history of painting since the rise of abstraction in the 1950s.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Giclée

Bloom

Bloom

By Johnathan Ball

Located in Toronto, ON

Not always bound to one genre he also works from iconic images and film stills while purposefully engaging with the rich history of painting since the rise of abstraction in the 1950s.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Fall Street Car

Fall Street Car

By Johnathan Ball

Located in Toronto, ON

Not always bound to one genre he also works from iconic images and film stills while purposefully engaging with the rich history of painting since the rise of abstraction in the 1950s.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Mingle

Mingle

By Johnathan Ball

Located in Toronto, ON

Not always bound to one genre he also works from iconic images and film stills while purposefully engaging with the rich history of painting since the rise of abstraction in the 1950s.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Intersection Sketch

Intersection Sketch

By Johnathan Ball

Located in Toronto, ON

Not always bound to one genre he also works from iconic images and film stills while purposefully engaging with the rich history of painting since the rise of abstraction in the 1950s.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Sneaky Dees

Sneaky Dees

By Johnathan Ball

Located in Toronto, ON

Not always bound to one genre he also works from iconic images and film stills while purposefully engaging with the rich history of painting since the rise of abstraction in the 1950s.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Stardust

Stardust

By Johnathan Ball

Located in Toronto, ON

Not always bound to one genre he also works from iconic images and film stills while purposefully engaging with the rich history of painting since the rise of abstraction in the 1950s.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

City exploration

City exploration

By Johnathan Ball

Located in Toronto, ON

Not always bound to one genre he also works from iconic images and film stills while purposefully engaging with the rich history of painting since the rise of abstraction in the 1950s.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Paper folds- analogue black and white still life photography, Limited 20

Paper folds- analogue black and white still life photography, Limited 20

By Ugne Pouwell

Located in London, GB

Paper folds 2026 Limited edition of 20 Printed on archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper. Signed both front and back with Certificate of Authenticity. Photograph is shipped fa...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Giclée, Photographic Paper, Film

Paper folds - analogue black and white still life photography, Limited 10
Paper folds - analogue black and white still life photography, Limited 10

Paper folds - analogue black and white still life photography, Limited 10

By Ugne Pouwell

Located in London, GB

Paper folds 2026 Limited edition of 10 Printed on archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper. Signed on both the front and back with a Certificate of Authenticity. The photograph ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Giclée, Photographic Paper, Film

Friedliche Landschaft

Friedliche Landschaft

By Ulf Puder

Located in New York, NY

The palette (cool teals and grays cut by that one band of saturated blue) gives the whole scene a nocturnal, slightly synthetic quality, closer to a half-remembered image or a film s...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Vision you can't Capture (29 Palms) , Figurative, Landscape, Polaroid, Expired

A Vision you can't Capture (29 Palms) , Figurative, Landscape, Polaroid, Expired

By Stefanie Schneider

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

Her series often unfold like film stills—fragments of a larger, unspoken story—where the mundane becomes mythical and the personal becomes universal.

Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

Kaleidoscope (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid

Kaleidoscope (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid

By Stefanie Schneider

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

Her series often unfold like film stills—fragments of a larger, unspoken story—where the mundane becomes mythical and the personal becomes universal.

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

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

Lady in Black, Signed and Embossed Pop Art Lithograph by Robert Peak
Lady in Black, Signed and Embossed Pop Art Lithograph by Robert Peak

Lady in Black, Signed and Embossed Pop Art Lithograph by Robert Peak

By Robert Peak

Located in Long Island City, NY

Considered "the father of the contemporary movie poster," Bob Peak totally transformed the approach to movie advertising from basic collages of film stills or head shots to flamboyan...

Category

1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Eric Clapton photograph (Eric Clapton Madison Square garden 1975)

Eric Clapton photograph (Eric Clapton Madison Square garden 1975)

By Fernando Natalici

Located in NEW YORK, NY

Fernando’s work was featured in the 2014 Jeffrey Deitch curated show “Area” at The Hole Gallery NYC, with his film stills from "Unmade Beds" & "The Foreigner"- two of the most signif...

Category

1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Lips and Bubbles, 2015 - Limited Edition Fine Art Photography
Lips and Bubbles, 2015 - Limited Edition Fine Art Photography

Lips and Bubbles, 2015 - Limited Edition Fine Art Photography

By David Drebin

Located in Vienna, AT

Sensual without being explicit, Lips & Bubbles reflects the artist’s signature fascination with beauty, mystery, fashion, and private moments staged with the sophistication of a ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Sandstill No.4 - analogue black and white still life photography, Limited 10
Sandstill No.4 - analogue black and white still life photography, Limited 10

Sandstill No.4 - analogue black and white still life photography, Limited 10

By Ugne Pouwell

Located in London, GB

Sandstill No.4 2026 Limited edition of 10 Printed on archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper. Signed on both the front and back with a Certificate of Authenticity. The photogra...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Giclée, Photographic Paper, Film

Sandstill No.8 - analogue black and white still life photography, Limited 10
Sandstill No.8 - analogue black and white still life photography, Limited 10

Sandstill No.8 - analogue black and white still life photography, Limited 10

By Ugne Pouwell

Located in London, GB

Sandstill No.8 2026 Limited edition of 10 Printed on archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper. Signed on both the front and back with a Certificate of Authenticity. The photogra...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Giclée, Photographic Paper, Film

Sandstill No.7 - analogue black and white still life photography, Limited 10
Sandstill No.7 - analogue black and white still life photography, Limited 10

Sandstill No.7 - analogue black and white still life photography, Limited 10

By Ugne Pouwell

Located in London, GB

Sandstill No.7 2026 Limited edition of 10 Printed on archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper. Signed on both the front and back with a Certificate of Authenticity. The photogra...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Giclée, Photographic Paper, Film

Ramunes No.3 - analogue black and white still life photography, Limited 10
Ramunes No.3 - analogue black and white still life photography, Limited 10

Ramunes No.3 - analogue black and white still life photography, Limited 10

By Ugne Pouwell

Located in London, GB

Ramunes No.3 2026 Limited edition of 10 Printed on archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper. Signed on both the front and back with a Certificate of Authenticity. The photograph...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Giclée, Photographic Paper, Film

Kate Moss Street Art Photograph New York
Kate Moss Street Art Photograph New York

Kate Moss Street Art Photograph New York

By Fernando Natalici

Located in NEW YORK, NY

Fernando’s work was recently featured in the Jeffrey Deitch curated show “Area” at The Hole Gallery NYC, with his film stills from "Unmade Beds" & "The Foreigner"- two of the mos...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

C Print

New York Street Art Photo (Bushwick Brooklyn New York)

New York Street Art Photo (Bushwick Brooklyn New York)

By Fernando Natalici

Located in NEW YORK, NY

Fernando’s art design was notably featured in the Jeffrey Deitch curated show “Area” at The Hole Gallery NYC in 2014, with his film stills from "Unmade Beds" & "The Foreigner"- two o...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

C Print

New York Street Art Photo (Chelsea Manhattan)

New York Street Art Photo (Chelsea Manhattan)

By Fernando Natalici

Located in NEW YORK, NY

Fernando’s art design was notably featured in the Jeffrey Deitch curated show “Area” at The Hole Gallery NYC in 2014, with his film stills from "Unmade Beds" & "The Foreigner"- two o...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

C Print

David Bowie New York photograph 1999 (David Bowie New York City)
David Bowie New York photograph 1999 (David Bowie New York City)

David Bowie New York photograph 1999 (David Bowie New York City)

By Fernando Natalici

Located in NEW YORK, NY

Fernando’s work was recently featured in the Jeffrey Deitch curated show “Area” at The Hole Gallery NYC, with his film stills from "Unmade Beds" & "The Foreigner"- two of the most si...

Category

20th Century Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

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Films Stills For Sale on 1stDibs

On 1stDibs, there are several options of films stills available for sale. Finding the ideal contemporary, Pop Art or abstract examples of these works for your living room, whether you’re looking for small- or large-size pieces, is no easy task — start by shopping our selection today. These items have been made for many years, with versions that date back to the 19th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 21st Century. Adding a colorful piece of art to a room that is mostly decorated in warm neutral tones can yield a welcome change — see the films stills on 1stDibs that include elements of black, beige, gray, blue and more. These artworks have been a part of the life’s work for many artists, but the versions made by Stefanie Schneider, Fernando Natalici, Clare Marie Bailey, Ian Sanderson and Levi Yitzchak Freidin are consistently popular. Frequently made by artists working in paper, c print and photographic paper, all of these available pieces are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large iterations of these items, so small films stills measuring 1 inches across are available.

How Much are Films Stills?

Prices for art of this kind can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — films stills in our inventory begin at $0 and can go as high as $1,250,000, while the average can fetch as much as $1,452.

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. 

Questions About Films Stills

  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    Yes, some film projectors are still being produced and are available for purchase. While certain brands have shuttered and specific models are no longer in production, movie fanatics and vintage collectors can still find older projectors on the secondhand market. Shop a selection of vintage film projectors on 1stDibs.