Roberta Fineberg Photography

The photograph Wolf Moon by Roberta Fineberg was shot in Manhattan during the night of a full moon in January 2023. The full moon is illuminated in part because the sun's light is al...

A photographer obsessed with the passing of time and family ties, Roberta Fineberg captures the intimate space of a grandmother and her grandson sharing lunch in a local brasserie in...

For Dream Span a contemporary color photograph of a butterfly, Roberta Fineberg explores the natural and man-made world in which a caterpillar breaks free of its skin for a metamorphosis. Hatching into an exquisite creature...

A black and white photograph, Masked Ball, France, 1989 by Roberta Fineberg, is a 14 x 11 signed gelatin silver print in an edition of 5. A couple poses in costume at a masquerade party in France of the 1980s . The image was shot at a masked ball, in a private garden and estate of a local aristocrat -- whose small chateau (castle) once hosted the infamous 18th Century French writer Marquis de Sade. Provenance: RF Studio *** Artist's Bio: As a visual artist, Roberta Fineberg (RF) focuses on the themes of serendipity, inventiveness, and the development of ideas for her photography, video, installations, works on paper, and painting. Drawn to experimentation, she explores diverse mediums and concepts such as the ephemeral (Butterfly Series), stolen moments (documentary photography), play, timelessness, the enduring, and the significance of matter. RF, living in New York City, began her career as an editorial photographer while studying in Paris. In France she contributed both photography and writing to publications, landing a column (photos and text) with The Saturday Review while exhibiting photographs in public spaces. Roberta Fineberg’s freelance photography appeared in Le Monde, Jeune Afrique, Paris Match, L’Officiel Femme, Ms, Weltwoche, Vanguardia, among others with images licensed through stock agencies. Photographs were selected for cover art at W.W. Norton, St. Martin’s Press, Harcourt, Bookspan, Simon & Schuster, etc. Print Regional Design Annual New York (2003) awarded her for book jacket photography for If Wishes Were Horses. In 1997 Macmillan published City Riders: A Story of Riding and Friendship her first book of black-and-white photographs and a story about three teenage girls in the 1990s who rode horses at the now-defunct Claremont Riding Academy and oldest stable in New York City. In 2023, RF created an interactive installation, works on paper on the female body, in a public space. In July 2022, Fineberg’s Double Helix was included in a Sotheby’s auction in New York City and exhibited in the preview show Contemporary Discoveries. Selected exhibitions include Time Gallery New York (2022), Phyllis Harriman Gallery New York studio shows (2020, 2022), CADAF online art...

Butterfly Blue, 2016 by Roberta Fineberg is a 12.5” x 11,5” archival pigment print on Japanese paper mounted on clear plexiglass. Titled, dated, signed...

In her Cities series by Roberta Fineberg, a contemporary photograph of a Greco-Roman statue in Ostia Antica, former Old Port of Rome, rendered in a Pictorialist style. The photographer RF captures the spirit of Ancient Rome for Roman God...

A contemporary color landscape photograph by Roberta Fineberg shot at night in Central Park in New York City. The artist uses light painting and long-exposure photography to create m...

An iconic black-and-white image from the 1980s in France, a look at a rooftop vista from an 11th "arrondissement" (district) apartment window in Paris. Paris Rooftops, 1988 by Robert...

This vibrant abstract color panorama is from a series of images, night photography by the artist Roberta Fineberg. On intentional camera movement and light painting, the image Mixed ...

New York: Bright Lights, Big City, 2018 by Roberta Fineberg is a 20" x 16" signed archival pigment print on baryta paper in an edition of 5. The contemporary color landscape photogra...

Madeleine de Proust (Proust's Madeleine), Paris 2021 by Roberta Fineberg is a contemporary photography panorama on cotton rag paper (archival pigment print). The art is 20.5" x 26.5"...

A black-and-white image shot on film of architecture and a storefront window of a shoe shop in an old Paris district attracted Roberta Fineberg who was drawn to the forgotten and ver...

From the transformative to the ephemeral, the birth and death of a butterfly is reimagined in a photo series by Roberta Fineberg inspired by the poetry of the 13th Century Persian poet Rumi who wrote: ‘Whatever you know, or don’t - only love is real’. Hello, Goodbye, 2017 by Roberta Fineberg is a 16” x 13” archival pigment print on baryta paper in an edition of 5. The photograph is signed, titled, and dated on recto (front of photo) by the photographer. Ed. 3/5 is available. For thé contemporary color photograph of a butterfly RF explores the natural and man-made world in which a caterpillar breaks free of its skin for a metamorphosis. Hatching into an exquisite...

From the horse crazy world of City Riders by Roberta Fineberg, a black-and-white photograph of girls in costumes while riding horses in the streets of New York City. The young ride...

A black-and-white image shot on film in Paris, France in the 1980s, Roberta Fineberg’s subject is a young French-African girl with braids, ribbons, and bows that RF photographed in f...

A contemporary black-and-white landscape photograph of the Brooklyn Bridge, highlighting geometry, abstract forms, light and shadow, patterns and human figures. Beneath the Brooklyn ...

A black-and-white cityscape photograph In the photographer's Cities series features a view of the East River in Lower Manhattan in summertime. Shot at dusk from a small boat on the E...

Bright colors of the Manhattan waterfront at dusk and vibrant neon lights above the East River with the RFK Bridge dancing above textured indigo waters are the subjects for Roberta F...

Butterfly Blue, 2016 by Roberta Fineberg is a 20” x 18” contemporary archival dye-sub on aluminum titled, dated, signed by the artist on verso (back of art). Edition of 10. From the transformative to the ephemeral, the birth and death of a butterfly is reimagined in RF's photo series based on a poem by the 13th Century poet Rumi: ‘Whatever you know, or don’t - only love is real’. The artist explores the natural and man-made world in which a caterpillar breaks free of its skin for a metamorphosis. Hatching into an exquisite creature...

A black and white photograph of a woman dressed in costume - goddess of the hunt, the moon, and nature - in mythology, Diana, the huntress a maiden with blond braids and a gold tiara. The mask on the back of the goddess invites us into the spirit world ... the subject photographed at a countryside masked ball in St Martin d'Ardeche, France. Diana the Huntress, France, 1989 by Roberta Fineberg is a signed 14 x 11 gelatin silver print in an edition of 5. Provenance: RF Archive *** Artist's Bio: As a visual artist, Roberta Fineberg (RF) focuses on the themes of serendipity, inventiveness, and the development of ideas for her photography, video, installations, works on paper, and painting. Drawn to experimentation, she explores diverse mediums and concepts such as the ephemeral (Butterfly Series), stolen moments (documentary photography), play, timelessness, the enduring, and the significance of matter. RF, living in New York City, began her career as an editorial photographer while studying in Paris. In France she contributed both photography and writing to publications, landing a column (photos and text) with The Saturday Review while exhibiting photographs in public spaces. Roberta Fineberg’s freelance photography appeared in Le Monde, Jeune Afrique, Paris Match, L’Officiel Femme, Ms, Weltwoche, Vanguardia, among others with images licensed through stock agencies. Photographs were selected for cover art at W.W. Norton, St. Martin’s Press, Harcourt, Bookspan, Simon & Schuster, etc. Print Regional Design Annual New York (2003) awarded her for book jacket photography for If Wishes Were Horses. In 1997 Macmillan published City Riders: A Story of Riding and Friendship her first book of black-and-white photographs and a story about three teenage girls in the 1990s who rode horses at the now-defunct Claremont Riding Academy and oldest stable in New York City. In 2023, RF created an interactive installation, works on paper on the female body, in a public space. In July 2022, Fineberg’s Double Helix was included in a Sotheby’s auction in New York City and exhibited in the preview show Contemporary Discoveries. Selected exhibitions include Time Gallery New York (2022), Phyllis Harriman Gallery New York studio shows (2020, 2022), CADAF online art fair (2020), Gallery122 New York pop-up group...