Stephen Mallon Figurative Photography
American
Stephen Mallon is a photographer and filmmaker who specializes in the industrial-scale creations of mankind at unusual moments of their life cycles.
Mallon is well known for his series "Next Stop Atlantic," featuring decommissioned NYC subway cars as they are retired in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean as artificial reefs, as well as his series "Brace for Impact," which chronicles the reclamation of the plane which was successfully landed in the waters of the Hudson River by Captain "Sully" Sullenberger.
Mallon’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally and his work has been written about in many publications, including National Geographic, The New Yorker, New York Times, Vanity Fair, Wired, Stern, PetaPixel, Viral Forest, BuzzFeed, New York Magazine and The Huffington Post. Mallon’s work has also been featured on CNN, CBS, MSNBC and NPR. Mallon lives in New York with his wife and daughter.
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Artist: Stephen Mallon
Blue Riband
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
45"x30" C-Print photograph
edition of 5, signed on reverse
This photograph is featured in a current exhibition of photographs by the artist, "Stephen Mallon" depicting the SS Uni...
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2010s Contemporary Stephen Mallon Figurative Photography
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C Print
"Air Break" Reefing of New York Subway Car (20"x30" Color Photograph ed.5
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
20"x30" This is a limited edition photograph, newly released by the New York artist, Stephen Mallon. It is 20"x30" edition #1 of 5, signed and editioned on the reverse. This color p...
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2010s Contemporary Stephen Mallon Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
"Italian Forest" framed photograph, 40"x60" signed and edition #4/5 on reverse
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
40"x 60" framed Chromogenic large scale photograph by the New York artist, Stephen Mallon, edition #4 of 5 signed on reverse, This is the second to last available print in this edit...
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2010s Contemporary Stephen Mallon Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper, C Print
" 1600" C Print Photograph, 30"x45"
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
This is a large scale photograph, limited edition of 5, signed by the artist on the reverse. Available unframed, please inquire about framing options.
In this photograph, the vibran...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Stephen Mallon Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper, C Print
"Boxcar CSXT 994 371" Contemporary Freight Train photograph, do not hump text
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
Boxcar CSXT 994 371 is a photograph by the photographer Stephen Mallon. In this photo a grey boxcar with the words "do not hump" emblazoned on it appears against a snow covered mount...
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C Print
240, 000
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
30"x45" C-Print photograph, available unframed
edition of 5, signed on reverse
Still holding the record that it set in 1952 for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic (fewer than 4 days from New York to La Havre, France), the USS United States...
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2010s Contemporary Stephen Mallon Figurative Photography
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C Print
"Armn 110418" Graffiti painted railroad train car, limited edition photo 10"x30"
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
10"x30" c-print photograph, limited edition of 10 signed upon reverse, depicting a freight train car from the Union Pacific railroad, coated in colorful graffiti. The tagger team collaborated in a writing session on the train car using the same colors, in gradient colors of yellow, orange and pink letters, outlined in blue. The cream white metal sides of the train car are the perfect 'canvas' for the tags some recognized as "Trigz" "Betor" "Croox" "ICR". The photographer, Stephen Mallon, captures this moving train car and its tagged graffiti sides as it travels through the landscape of America, with a bucolic blue clouded sky just behind the railroad freight train car.
This is a limited edition, color photograph by the New York artist, Stephen Mallon, capturing moving freight trains in the United States. This series tracks the still active railroad lines and their rail cars in America, featured in "Passing West".
Front Room Gallery is pleased to present, “Passing West” a solo exhibition of photographs by Stephen Mallon. “Passing West” is a continuation of Mallon’s “Passing Freight” series, a visual celebration of the unique beauty and function of freight train cars in United States. This series of photographs captures the still active rail lines that carry freight to destinations across the country. Mallon’s industrial landscape photographs isolate freight cars within this iconic transportation system, which has played a critical role in supply infrastructure across the continent for hundreds of years. The photos in “Passing West” are framed against the open plains, mountain ranges, and the salt flats— mostly taken during a residency at the Montello Foundation in 2020, in which Mallon travelled the countryside of Utah and Nevada.
Poised against the rugged western landscape Mallon’s photographs of train cars often appear to carry the weight of the mountains themselves. Whether they are covered in graffitti or smartly displaying the rail lines iconic logos, each of these cars are brimming with it’s own individual personality. In one “Hopper” car, the tan car stands in front of the dusty desert mountains, and on it graffitti states “confront my toxic masculinty”. Another car, a yellow caboose with the crimson “Union Pacific” logo on it, would be as comfortable in an episode of “Thomas the Tank Engine” as on the set of “East of Eden”. Some of the open Box cars actually frame the mountains and flats themselves with their rectilinear shapes.
These trains are all moving, quite literally. And while they might appear to be stopped in the photograph, it is only for that split second as they pass Stephen Mallon, his camera, and his tripod. Mallon’s procedure involves many elements including the perfect location, light, the individual personality of each car, the trickiness of getting exactly the right moment, and patience. The intersection of mechanical and natural worlds, singular encounters where the trains activate the landscape are hard to predict.
About Stephen Mallon
Stephen Mallon is a photographer and filmmaker who specializes in the industrial-scale creations of mankind at unusual moments of their life cycles.
Mallon’s work blurs the line between documentary and fine art, revealing the industrial landscape to be unnatural, desolate and functional yet simultaneously also human, surprising and inspiring. It has been featured in publications and by broadcasters including The New York Times, National Geographic, NBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Mail, MSNBC, The Atlantic, GQ, CBS, the London Times...
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2010s Contemporary Stephen Mallon Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
"Armn 110418" Graffiti painted railroad train car, limited edition photo 15"x45"
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
15"x45" c-print photograph, limited edition of 10 signed upon reverse, depicting a freight train car from the Union Pacific railroad, coated in colorful graffiti. The tagger team collaborated in a writing session on the train car using the same colors, in gradient colors of yellow, orange and pink letters, outlined in blue. The cream white metal sides of the train car are the perfect 'canvas' for the tags some recognized as "Trigz" "Betor" "Croox" "ICR". The photographer, Stephen Mallon, captures this moving train car and its tagged graffiti sides as it travels through the landscape of America, with a bucolic blue clouded sky just behind the railroad freight train car.
This is a limited edition, color photograph by the New York artist, Stephen Mallon, capturing moving freight trains in the United States. This series tracks the still active railroad lines and their rail cars in America, featured in "Passing West".
Front Room Gallery is pleased to present, “Passing West” a solo exhibition of photographs by Stephen Mallon. “Passing West” is a continuation of Mallon’s “Passing Freight” series, a visual celebration of the unique beauty and function of freight train cars in United States. This series of photographs captures the still active rail lines that carry freight to destinations across the country. Mallon’s industrial landscape photographs isolate freight cars within this iconic transportation system, which has played a critical role in supply infrastructure across the continent for hundreds of years. The photos in “Passing West” are framed against the open plains, mountain ranges, and the salt flats— mostly taken during a residency at the Montello Foundation in 2020, in which Mallon travelled the countryside of Utah and Nevada.
Poised against the rugged western landscape Mallon’s photographs of train cars often appear to carry the weight of the mountains themselves. Whether they are covered in graffitti or smartly displaying the rail lines iconic logos, each of these cars are brimming with it’s own individual personality. In one “Hopper” car, the tan car stands in front of the dusty desert mountains, and on it graffitti states “confront my toxic masculinty”. Another car, a yellow caboose with the crimson “Union Pacific” logo on it, would be as comfortable in an episode of “Thomas the Tank Engine” as on the set of “East of Eden”. Some of the open Box cars actually frame the mountains and flats themselves with their rectilinear shapes.
These trains are all moving, quite literally. And while they might appear to be stopped in the photograph, it is only for that split second as they pass Stephen Mallon, his camera, and his tripod. Mallon’s procedure involves many elements including the perfect location, light, the individual personality of each car, the trickiness of getting exactly the right moment, and patience. The intersection of mechanical and natural worlds, singular encounters where the trains activate the landscape are hard to predict.
About Stephen Mallon
Stephen Mallon is a photographer and filmmaker who specializes in the industrial-scale creations of mankind at unusual moments of their life cycles.
Mallon’s work blurs the line between documentary and fine art, revealing the industrial landscape to be unnatural, desolate and functional yet simultaneously also human, surprising and inspiring. It has been featured in publications and by broadcasters including The New York Times, National Geographic, NBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Mail, MSNBC, The Atlantic, GQ, CBS, the London Times...
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2010s Contemporary Stephen Mallon Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Train in the Sky, limited edition photograph, NYC subway car, recycling
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
C Print Photograph 30" x45", edition 5 of 5, C Print Photograph, signed on reverse, unframed- this is the final available print in this edition.
This photograph is from Stephen Mall...
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2010s Contemporary Stephen Mallon Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper, C Print
"Watertight Hatches" Maritime Large Scale Color Fine Art Photograph
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
C Print Photograph 40"x60" edition of 5, available unframed. This color photograph depicts an abstract composition of Watertight Hatches from the USS Radford, prior to its controlled...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Stephen Mallon Figurative Photography
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C Print
Gear Pile
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
C Print Photograph, signed on reverse
available as 30"x45" edition of 5, framed and mounted in high quality shadow box frame with natural wood finish.
This is from Stephe...
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2010s Contemporary Stephen Mallon Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper, C Print
First Class
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
40"x60"C-Print photograph
edition of 5, signed on reverse
This photograph is featured in a current exhibition of photographs by the artist, "Stephen Mallon" depicting the SS Un...
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2010s Contemporary Stephen Mallon Figurative Photography
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C Print
Crew Quarters
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
30"x45" C-Print photograph, edition of 5, signed on reverse
This photograph by Stephen Mallon is taken aboard the SS United States, depciting the section of the vessel that held the...
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2010s Contemporary Stephen Mallon Figurative Photography
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C Print
"Armn 110418" Graffiti painted railroad train car, limited edition photograph
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
20"x60" c-print photograph, limited edition of 10 signed upon reverse, depicting a freight train car from the Union Pacific railroad, coated in colorful graffiti. The tagger team col...
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2010s Contemporary Stephen Mallon Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Promenade
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
40"x60" C-Print photograph
edition of 5, signed on reverse
This photograph is featured in a current exhibition of photographs by the artist, "Stephen Mallon" depicting the SS U...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stephen Mallon Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Crew Quarters
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
40"x60" C-Print photograph
edition of 5, signed on reverse
This photograph is featured in a current exhibition of photographs by the artist, "Stephen Mallon" depicting the S...
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2010s Contemporary Stephen Mallon Figurative Photography
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C Print
"Diver in Icy Water" Edition of 5 - 30"x45" limited edition phototgrapah
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
"Diver in Icy Water" 30"x45" photograph - edition of 5 (unframed)
This photograph is featured in our current exhibition at the gallery and is available as 2/5 unframed, or framed a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Stephen Mallon Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper, C Print
JP5 Pump Room, 30"x45" photograph, edition of 5
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
C Print Photograph 30"x45" edition of 5, signed and editioned on reverse
please inquire about additional print sizes
This photograph is from Stephen Mallon's series: "The Reefing o...
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2010s Contemporary Stephen Mallon Figurative Photography
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C Print
Aluminum Siding
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
40"x 60" unframed photograph, edition of 5
This photograph is from Stephen Mallon's series, "American Reclamation" and depicts a painterly composition of bailed ...
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2010s Abstract Stephen Mallon Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper, C Print
Anchor Room
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
20"x30" C-Print photograph
edition of 5, signed on reverse
This photograph is featured in a current exhibition of photographs by the artist, "Stephen Mallon" depicting the SS Uni...
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2010s Contemporary Stephen Mallon Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
"Air Break" Subway Reefing Photograph series
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
This is a limited edition photograph, newly released by the New York artist, Stephen Mallon. It is 30"x45" edition #1 of 5, signed and editioned on the reverse.
This photograph capt...
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2010s Contemporary Stephen Mallon Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper, C Print
Steel Turnings
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
C Print Photograph, signed on reverse
available as 30"x45" edition of 5
This is from Stephen Mallon's series, "American Reclamation" which captures the abstract beauty within d...
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2010s Contemporary Stephen Mallon Figurative Photography
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C Print
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Stephen Mallon figurative photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Stephen Mallon figurative photography available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of figurative photography to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of blue, red and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Stephen Mallon in c print, paper, photographic paper and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Stephen Mallon figurative photography, so small editions measuring 30 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Randal Ford, Tom Chambers, and Lèa Bon. Stephen Mallon figurative photography prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1,200 and tops out at $10,500, while the average work can sell for $4,200.