Giraffe Photography

Surely you’ll find the exact piece of giraffe photography you’re seeking on 1stDibs — we’ve got a vast assortment for sale. You can easily find an example made in the Photorealist style, while we also have 1 Photorealist versions to choose from as well. Making the right choice when shopping for an item from our selection of giraffe photography may mean carefully reviewing examples of this item dating from different eras — you can find an early iteration of this piece from the 20th Century and a newer version made as recently as the 21st Century. When looking for the right choice in our collection of giraffe photography for your space, you can search on 1stDibs by color — popular works were created in bold and neutral palettes with elements of gray, black and beige. An object in our assortment of giraffe photography from Randal Ford, Joachim Schmeisser, David Burdeny, Paul Coghlin and Nick Brandt — each of whom created distinctive versions of this kind of work — is worth considering. Artworks like these — often created in pigment print, archival pigment print and paper — can elevate any room of your home. If space is limited, you can find a small option in this array of giraffe photography measuring 10 high and 10 wide, while our inventory also includes works up to 85 across to better suit those in the market for a large piece of giraffe photography.

The price for an artwork of this kind can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — a piece of giraffe photography in our inventory may begin at $2 and can go as high as $12,851, while the average can fetch as much as $4,600.

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.