Rocks & Surf, Big Sur, California
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed contact print Platinum Palladium Signed in pencil on recto
21st Century and Contemporary Jeffrey Conley Art
Platinum
Jeffrey Conley describes his crisp black-and-white photographs of natural phenomena as “meditative” experiences. In the meditation world, one of the most common metaphors used to characterize a human being’s relationship to consciousness is that of waves on the ocean: Consciousness itself is the ocean, and every thought, sensation, emotion and even the idea of a stand-alone self is a wave, still part of the vast body of water yet minuscule in comparison to it.
Conley’s contemplative 2001 photograph Figure and Tide is, indeed, an image of a sparkling, wide-open Pacific Ocean as well as gently undulating waves. But something even smaller grabs the viewer’s attention here: a tiny female figure standing where the water meets the shore. It is reminiscent of Chinese Taoist and Chan Buddhist ink paintings, in which lone monks or sages are dwarfed by the surrounding landscape to show that humankind is a part of nature, not separate from it.
To get the shot, the Oregon-based photographer perched on one of Big Sur, California’s famous cliffs on a sunny afternoon, aiming his Hasselblad 500C down at the sea below. “I was captivated with the play of light on water and the rhythmic patterns of the wave sets,” he has recalled. “As I was looking through the camera, I noticed a beach walker come into the scene. At first, I was not happy to have a person in there. Then, it all happened very quickly. Just as the white surf encircled her, she turned in perfect profile to gaze out at the ocean.”
Decades after Conley captured this perfect moment, a platinum-palladium print of Figure and Tide went on view in 2023’s “A Beautiful World: The Power of Nature,” at Peter Fetterman Gallery, in Santa Monica. The exhibition brought together striking, monochromatic landscape photos by such pioneers of the form as Ansel Adams, Charles Scowen, Isaiah West Taber and John Edward Sache, alongside contemporary masters like Sebastião Salgado, Pentti Sammallahti, Cig Harvey and Conley.
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Rocks & Surf, Big Sur, California
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed contact print Platinum Palladium Signed in pencil on recto
Platinum
Meeting of the Waters #1, California Surf
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed Platinum photograph Signed in pencil by artist on mat recto
Platinum
Meeting of the Waters I
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed platinum palladium print Edition 1/35
Platinum
Cypress Tree Sunbeams - Black & White Landscape Photograph
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Soquel, CA
Cypress Tree Sunbeams - Black & White Landscape Photograph Beautiful black and white photograph of cypress trees with light radiating through by Jeffrey Conley (American, b. 196...
Archival Paper, Silver Gelatin
Twilight Coast
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
signed, titled, dated and number in pencil on recto
Silver Gelatin
Trees in Winter Field, Oregon , 2014, printed 2023
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed & numbered in pencil on print recto; Titled, dated, & numbered in ink with artist's stamp on verso Platinum/Palladium Print Image 12x12", Mat 20x20" Edition of 10
Silver Gelatin
Figure and Solitary Wave
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Figure and Solitary Wave, Iceland, 2018 (Printed 2023) Signed and numbered in pencil on recto. Stamped, titled, dated and numbered on verso. Platinum/Palladium Print Image - 12"x12",...
Platinum
8-12-19, Cascades, Oregon, 2019
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed and numbered in pencil on recto. Stamped, titled, dated and numbered on verso. Platinum/Palladium Print Image - 11"x14", Matted - 20"x22" Edition of 10
Platinum
Figure and Waterfall
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Figure and Waterfall, Iceland, 2018 (Printed 2023) Signed and numbered in pencil on recto. Stamped, titled, dated and numbered on verso. Platinum/Palladium Print Image - 12"x12", Mat...
Platinum
Falling Water, Iceland, 2017
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Falling Water, Iceland, 2017 Signed, titled, dated, stamped by artist Platinum/Palladium Print Image Dimensions: 9 x 11 inches Edition of 20
Platinum
Clustered Trees, Pre-Dawn, Oregon, 2016
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed and numbered in pencil on recto Archival pigments on Japanese Kozo paper 14 x 18" on 16 x 20" mount Edition of 10
Archival Pigment
Figure and Mountain, Iceland, 2017
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed and numbered in pencil on recto Archival pigments on Japanese Kozo paper 14 x 18" on 16 x 20" mount Edition of 10
Archival Pigment
Midnight Sun and Black Sand Beach, Iceland, 2017 (Printed 2023)
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed, titled, dated, & numbered in pencil on print recto; Titled, dated, & numbered in pencil with artist's stamp on matte verso Platinum/Palladium Print Image 11x14", Mat 20x22" E...
Platinum
Price Upon Request
Forest Path, France 2018
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed and numbered in pencil on recto Archival pigments on Japanese Kozo paper 14 x 18" on 16 x 20" mount Edition 1 of 10
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Figure in Vast Landscape, Iceland, 2018 (Printed 2019)
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed and numbered in pencil on recto. Stamped, titled, dated and numbered on verso. Platinum/Palladium Print Image - 11"x14", Matted - 20"x22" 1/10
Platinum
Price Upon Request
Trees and Shadows, Oregon, 2016 (Printed 2017)
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed, titled, dated, stamped by artist Platinum/Palladium Print Image 22"x26", Mat 29"x34" Edition 1 of 9
Platinum
Price Upon Request
Beachwalker, OR, 2015, printed 2016
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed & numbered in pencil on print recto; Titled, dated, & numbered in pencil with artist's stamp on verso Gelatin Silver Print Mat 40 x 40 inches; Mount 37 x 35 inches; Image 30 x...
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Windswept Trees, 2011, printed 2016
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed, titled, dated, & numbered in pencil with copyright stamp on print recto; Titled, dated, & numbered in pencil with artist's stamp on matte verso Gelatin Silver Print 30 x 37 i...
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Grand Oak in Snow, 1991/Printed 2011
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed, titled, dated & numbered in pencil on recto Gelatin silver print 30 x 30 inches Edition 7 of 40
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Snow Galaxy
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
signed, titled, dated and number in pencil on recto
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Waterfall, Southern Alps, NZ
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Jeffrey Conley Waterfall, Southern Alps, NZ Platinum/palladium print Negative date 2011/printed 2015 Edition of 20 Image 8 x 8 inches; Sheet 14 x 11 inches Signed and numbered ...
Platinum
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Crow and Valley View
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
signed, titled, dated and number in pencil on recto
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Snow Covered Reflections
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed & numbered on mount recto; Titled, dated, & numbered in pencil with artist's copyright stamp on mount verso Platinum/Palladium Print Image 12x12", Mat 20"x20" Edition of 20
Platinum
Price Upon Request
Waterfall Veil
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
signed, titled, dated and number in pencil on recto
Silver Gelatin
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Hanging Branches with Snow
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
signed, titled, dated and number in pencil on recto
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Snow Covered Branches
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
signed, titled, dated and number in pencil on recto
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Tree Cathedral
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
signed, titled, dated and number in pencil on recto
Silver Gelatin
Self Portrait with Saguaro About My Same Age
By Mark Klett
Located in New York, NY
Platinum print (Edition of 100) Titled and dated in pencil, recto Signed and dated in pencil, verso 10 x 12 inches, sheet size 8 x 10 inches, image size This artwork is offered by...
Platinum
$11,050
H 13.78 in W 10.63 in D 0.2 in
Kibo - Platinum Palladium Print, Elephant, black and white photography, wildlife
By Joachim Schmeisser
Located in München, BY
Edition 12 The Platinum-Palladium process is the most stable and aesthetically rewarding of all black and white photographic printing techniques. Produced by coating specially manuf...
Platinum
$1,600
H 9.25 in W 7.63 in D 0.07 in
Orpheus #1 - Gelatin Silver Photograph Balanchine Ballet Classical Male Nudes
By George Platt Lynes
Located in Glenford, NY
George Platt Lynes 1948 Photograph #1 of Balanchine Ballet ‘Orpheus’. George Platt Lynes rare original vintage 1948 gelatin silver photograph (dated by the NY City Public Library) of nude dancers Francisco Moncion and Nicholas Magallanes in George Balanchine's iconic mid-20th Century ballet 'Orpheus'. Stamped on verso in dark blue ink at upper center, "GEORGE PLATT LYNES/145 EAST 52 STREET NEW YORK”. Photo shoot took place in NYC. Costumes and Set by ISAMU NAGUCHI. Photo is 7 5/8 x 9 1/4 inches, soft satin finish in excellent condition. This photograph is from Francisco Moncion's original collection given to him by George Platt Lyons. It is one of 14 different poses in the 'Orpheus' series. 8 different photographs are remaining for sale and are available on request. All are original Platt Lyons gelatin silver prints original to Moncion's collection and are stamped by the photographer. Photographs from this celebrated series are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), Museum of Modern Art (MOMA, NYC), the NYC Public Library, and many university art archives. George Platt Lynes (1907–1955), was a gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s through the early 1950s. From age eighteen, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate community in Paris when he became acquainted with the salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. He began photographing authors like Stein, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, and Colette and soon established himself as one of the premier fashion photographers in the Condé Nast stable, documenting the ballet companies of George Balanchine/Lincoln Kirstein, and pursuing a private obsession with seductive images of young male nudes rarely published in his lifetime. Orpheus represents a major 20th Century artistic collaboration between composer Igor Stravinsky, choreographer George Ballanchine, and artist/designer Isamu Naguchi. Orpheus is a thirty-minute neoclassical ballet composed by Igor Stravinsky in collaboration with choreographer George Balanchine in Hollywood, California in 1947. The work was commissioned by Ballet Society, later renamed New York City Ballet, which Balanchine founded with Lincoln Kirstein. Sets and costumes were created by Isamu Noguchi. Noguchi’s lyre harp from the production became the symbol of the New York City Ballet. Francisco Moncion (July 6, 1918 – April 1, 1995) was a charter member of the New York City Ballet. Over the course of his forty year career, choreographers George Balanchine, and Jerome Robbins in the New York City Ballet created 22 major roles for Moncion including the Dark Angel...
Silver Gelatin
$2,222
H 11 in W 14 in
Fashion Show, African American, Gelatin Silver Print, Harlem 1963, Signed, 11x14
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Fashion Show, 1963, Harlem, USA by Leonard Freed, is an 11” x 14” gelatin silver print, which appears in the photographer's seminal Black in White America book. The photograph is sta...
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
$3,499
H 14 in W 11 in
Kate Bending, Signed Vintage Gelatin Silver Print, Couple, 2002
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Leonard Freed's stamped vintage (verso), 14" x 11," gelatin silver signed print, Kate Bending, is from the Kate series, 2002. A photographer herself, model Kate remains complicit i...
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
$2,333
H 11 in W 14 in
Kate #15, California, Gelatin Silver Photo, Signed, 11x14, Contemporary Nude
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Kate #15, 2002 by American photographer Leonard Freed is in the photographer's female nude series "Kate." This is an 11" x 14" gelatin silver photograph signed verso (back of photo) ...
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
$4,444
H 24 in W 20 in
Wall Street, New York, 1950s, Gelatin Silver Print, Signed, 24x20 Photograph
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
American photographer Leonard Freed's photographic career was punctuated by epic documentary photo essays with many works shot in New York City, Wall Street, is one of the photograph...
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Kiva, San Ildefonse
By Morley Baer
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This silver gelatin print is signed and editioned "21/100" in pencil on the front of the mount with Baer's stamp on the back of the mount. This print is accompanied by its original b...
Silver Gelatin
$2,500
H 11 in W 14 in
World Series Parade, New York Photo, Gelatin Silver Print, Signed, 11x14, 1954
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
World Series Parade, New York City, 1954 by Leonard Freed, is an 11" x 14" gelatin silver later ("lifetime") print, signed on verso (back of print) by the photographer and stamped (magnum). The photograph is handprinted by Leonard Freed. Parade by Freed captures the joy of two majorettes en route in the streets of the city for the celebration of the New York Giants...
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film
$4,444
H 24 in W 20 in
Fire Hydrant, Harlem, New York 1960s, Gelatin Silver Photograph, Signed, 24x20
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Punctuated by documentary photo essays such as Black in White America, Fire Hydrant is one of Leonard Freed's most iconic in the Harlem, New York series. Two children enjoy a blissf...
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
$2,222
H 10 in W 8 in
Kate #3, Portrait, Black and White Photograph, Signed, 10x8, Vintage, 2002
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Kate #3, 2002 by Leonard Freed is a 10” x 8” hand printed, signed by the photographer black and white photograph, stamped "vintage" by the Freed estate on verso (back of photograph)....
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
$3,499
H 14 in W 11 in
Kate Standing, Signed Vintage Gelatin Silver Print, 14x11, 2002, Female Nude
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Leonard Freed's stamped vintage (verso), 14" x 11," gelatin silver signed and hand-printed by Freed, Kate Standing, is from the Kate series, 2002. A photographer herself, model Kat...
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Two Trees and Falling Snow
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
signed, titled, dated and number in pencil on recto various sizes
Silver Gelatin