Cologne Night (1965)
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Salk Institute' Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Print
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Ravishing Rampling (1966) Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Print
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Kaiser Deluxe (1949)
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Elvis With Fans (1956) Silver Gelatin Print
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Metropolitan Opera Lights (1966) Oversized Print
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Color, Archival Pigment
Ravishing Rampling (1966)
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Hysterical Elvis Fans (1956)
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Elvis Hysteria (1956)
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Charlotte Rampling (1966)
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Elvis Adoration (1956)
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Metropolitan Opera Lights (1966)
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Color, Archival Pigment
Princess Audrey (1953) Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Print
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
$177
'Pink Champagne Ceiling' Metropolitan Opera House - Archival Pigment Print
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Color, Archival Pigment
Charlotte Rampling (1966) Silver Gelatin Print
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Elvis At The Piano (1956) Silver Gelatin Print
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Elvis At The Piano (1956)
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Elvis At The Piano (1956)
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Princess Audrey (1953)
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Elvis And His Harley (1956)
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Touching The King (1956)
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Kennedy Holiday (1959)
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Ravishing Rampling Charlotte Limited Estate Signature Edition Oversize
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Silver Gelatin
Ravishing Rampling Charlotte Limited Estate Signature Edition Oversize
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Silver Gelatin
$1,800
Vintage Color Abstract Art Landscape Photography Large C Print Photo Terry Evans
By Terry Evans
Located in Surfside, FL
From Above: Aerial Photography from the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ Heartland: The Photographs of Terry Evans, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, IN 2012 ...
C Print
$1,800
Vintage Color Abstract Art Landscape Photography Large C Print Photo Terry Evans
By Terry Evans
Located in Surfside, FL
From Above: Aerial Photography from the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ Heartland: The Photographs of Terry Evans, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, IN 2012 ...
C Print
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Print "Luxor, Las Vegas" Marilyn Bridges Photo
By Marilyn Bridges
Located in Surfside, FL
Lola Alvarez Bravo, Yolanda Andrade, Marilyn Bridges, Margo Davis, Flor Garduño, Laura Gilpin, Kati Horna, Graciela Iturbide, Tina Modotti, Isabel Muñoz, Marta María Perez Bravo, Mar...
Silver Gelatin
Untitled 409
By Henry Lautz
Located in Tulsa, OK
Henry Lautz’s work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in museums and galleries throughout the United States, including the National Invitational at the Outdoor Museum of Art,...
Steel
Sold
H 25 in W 20 in D 1.25 in
Modernist Abstract Painting (Brown, Yellow, Terra Cotta Orange, White, & Black)
Located in Denver, CO
When Jones became artistic director of the Central City Opera House in 1932 – restored thanks to the efforts of Anne Evans and Ida Kruse McFarlane – he invited Gates to join him to p...
Gouache, Watercolor
Sold
H 24 in W 20 in
Vintage Color Abstract Art Landscape Photography Large C Print Photo Terry Evans
By Terry Evans
Located in Surfside, FL
From Above: Aerial Photography from the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ Heartland: The Photographs of Terry Evans, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, IN 2012 ...
C Print
Sold
H 24 in W 20 in
Vintage Color Abstract Art Landscape Photography Large C Print Photo Terry Evans
By Terry Evans
Located in Surfside, FL
From Above: Aerial Photography from the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ Heartland: The Photographs of Terry Evans, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, IN 2012 ...
C Print
African Elephant and Rider Sculpture
By Auguste Seysses 1
Located in Denver, CO
Provenance: Estate of renowned early 20th century photographer, Laura Gilpin.
Metal
Iron Sculpture, circa 1930
Located in Denver, CO
Gilpin was a furniture maker and the father of renowned Southwest photographer, Laura Gilpin.
Iron
UNTITLED 406
By Henry Lautz
Located in Tulsa, OK
Henry Lautz’s work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in museums and galleries throughout the United States, including the National Invitational at the Outdoor Museum of Art,...
Wood
Jackie Kennedy (1956)
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Elvis With Fans (1956)
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Touching The King (1956) Silver Gelatin Print
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Elvis At The Piano (1956)
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Elvis At The Piano (1956)
By Phillip Harrington
Located in London, GB
White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, and Ralph Steiner. Harrington studied under Clarenc...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Sold
H 21.25 in W 26.54 in D 2 in
Untitled (Colorado Mountains, Modernist Landcape)
By Frank Pancho Gates
Located in Denver, CO
When Jones became artistic director of the Central City Opera House in 1932 - restored thanks to the efforts of Anne Evans and Ida Kruse McFarlane - he invited Gates to join him to p...
Watercolor
Sold
H 32 in W 36 in D 0.5 in
1930s Modernist Oil Painting of a Colorado Landscape, Rocks & Mesa, brown, blue
By John Edward Thompson
Located in Denver, CO
He successfully weathered the storm, going on to teach for a time in the early 1920s at the Denver Academy of Fine and Applied Arts along with Laura Gilpin, Anne Van Briggle Ritter, ...
Canvas, Oil, Board
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
Find a collection of modern paintings, sculptures, prints and other fine art on 1stDibs.
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.