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Noverre - Horse Landscape 2, Sky and Mane, Panoramic Print, Australia 2003
Located in London, GB
Noverre - Horse Landscape 2, 'Mane', 2003
C-type Hand Print, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, Museum low glare, UV protective art glass
36.5 x 94 cm / 14.5 x 37 inches approx.
Ed...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Landscape Photography
Materials
Glass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Pr...
Noverre - Horse Landscape I, Blue Sky and Clouds, Panoramic Print, Australia
Located in London, GB
Noverre - Horse Landscape I, 2003
C-type Hand Print, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, Museum low glare, UV protective art glass
36.5 x 94 cm / 14....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Glass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Wax, Panel, Archival Paper...
Stallion Studio Portrait: 'Dubawi' - Pigment Print Mounted and Custom Framed
Located in London, GB
Dubawi, 2009 by John Reardon
Archival Pigment Print, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, UV protective Museum AR Glass
This piece is part of: "(after) W...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper,...
Cape Cross - Studio Portrait, Stallions, Champion Horse, Equine Art Print
Located in London, GB
Cape Cross, 2009 by John Reardon
Archival Pigment Print, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, UV protective Museum AR Glass
This piece is part of (after) Whistlejacket - Contemporar...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photo...
Studio Portrait: Medaglia d’Oro, Horse head and eye - Stallion Portrait
Located in London, GB
Studio Portrait: Medaglia d’Oro, 2009
Archival Pigment Print on Hahenmühle Fine Art Paper, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, UV protective Museum AR Glass 76x76cm/30x30in
Edition of 5 only
Certificate of Authenticity provided, Stamped and Signed by the gallery and John Reardon Archive Estate
Medaglia d'Oro (foaled April 11, 1999) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won several major stakes races including the 2002 Travers Stakes and the 2003 Whitney Handicap. He also finished second in the 2002 Belmont Stakes, the Breeders' Cup Classic in both 2002 and 2003, and the 2004 Dubai World Cup. Since retiring to stud, he has become an excellent stallion whose progeny include 2009 Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra, two-time champion filly Songbird and two-time Hong Kong Horse of the Year Golden Sixty.
This piece is part of "(after) Whistlejacket" - Contemporary Equine Photographs exhibition at MMX Gallery by John Reardon.
The show explores an artistic way of photographing horses.
"Racehorses, and the people in their realm, turned out to be his ideal subjects. Reardon’s eye found the elegance, power, and plaintive vulnerability of whatever settled before his camera, and the thoroughbred...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photo...
Kabool, ‘Avenue of Trees’, Horse Exit, Black and White landscape and a stallion
Located in London, GB
Kabool, 'Avenue of Trees’, 2001 by John Reardon
Edition of 2/10
Silver Gelatin Print, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, UV protective Museum AR Glass
This piece was part of (afte...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, B...
Dubawi, ‘Striped/ shadows', Abstract Black and white horse portrait photograph
Located in London, GB
Dubawi, 'Stripped’, 2001 by John Reardon
Edition of 15
Silver Gelatin Print, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, UV protective Museum AR Glass
This piec...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, B...
Singspiel, Running Stallion, Champion Equine Black and White Photograph
Located in London, GB
Singspiel, Stallion Portrait 2001 by John Reardon
76 x 51 cm
Edition of 5 only
Silver Gelatin Print, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, UV protective Mu...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, G...
Cape Cross - Hoof, Horseshoe, Stallion - Equine detail, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
Cape Cross, ‘Hoof’, 2001 by John Reardon
Edition of 2/7
Silver Gelatin Print, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, UV protective Museum AR Glass
This pie...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, G...
Xaar - Tail, Stallion Detail horse abstract, Silver Gelatin Print on Aluminium
Located in London, GB
Xaar, ‘Tail', 2001 by John Reardon
Edition of 7 (2/7)
Silver Gelatin Print, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, UV protective Museum AR Glass
This piece...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, B...
King's Best - Neck, Stallion detail / abstract horse portrait
Located in London, GB
King's Best, ‘Neck’, 2001 by John Reardon
Edition of 7
Silver Gelatin Print, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, UV protective Museum AR Glass
This piece is part of : (after) Whist...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Glass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photogra...
Mark of Esteem, Silhouette - Portrait of Stallion, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
Mark of Esteem, ‘Silhouette’, 2001 by John Reardon
This Print is part of the Hermès Collection of Contemporary Photographs since November 2023
A few mor...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Siren immobilised in marble locked in embrace and galleon ship in the background
Located in London, GB
Handcoloured portrait of a conjoined siren, immobilised in marble, locked in a sisterly embrace. Inspired by 19th-century cabinet cards, medical illustration, sweet singing Scottish Selkies, Lyra and her sister defend each other's isolation.
Taken from The Sialia Marbles, a series of portraits containing ephemeral human sculptures taken between 2016-19. Together these works act as tales contained in a fictional sculpture hall, in direct reaction to Andre Malraux’s 1947 Le Musee Imaginaire (Museum Without Walls).
Original title: 'Lyra’s Lips are as White as Mine’, 2019
Hand-coloured Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle Photorag Fine Art Paper (100% cotton)
40.5 x 30.5 cm
Unique
Series: The Sialia Marbles
Signed and dated on verso
"I’m not a sculptor, but I wanted to construct my own stories. Photographers have often used sculpture in order to challenge our idea of a “sculptural” body or object, by casting them in a two-dimensional light. I love playing with perception. A lot of my work is influenced by the nineteenth century—the pictorialist movement for instance. When photography was a new experiment, people would play around with perception tricks—Victorian paper theaters...
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Prints
Materials
Photographic Film, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Lady Macbeth as Regal monarch immobilised in Marble with her reigning in Blooms
Located in London, GB
Katie Eleanor, ‘Your Hand, Your Tongue III’, 2017
Hand-coloured portrait of a regal monarch, immobilised in marble, her reigning celebrated the blooms she becomes entwined in. The characterisation is inspired by visual depictions of Lady Macbeth, in particular, John Singer Sargent’s 1889 portrait of actress Ellen Terry.
Taken from The Sialia Marbles, a series of portraits containing ephemeral human sculptures taken between 2016-19. Together these works act as tales contained in a fictional sculpture hall, in direct reaction to Andre Malraux’s 1947 Le Musee Imaginaire (Museum Without Walls).
Original title: 'Your Hand, Your Tongue’, 2017
Hand-coloured Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle Photorag
40.5 x 30.5 cm
Unique
Series: The Sialia Marbles
Signed and dated on verso
"I’m not a sculptor, but I wanted to construct my own stories. Photographers have often used sculpture in order to challenge our idea of a “sculptural” body or object, by casting them in a two-dimensional light. I love playing with perception. A lot of my work is influenced by the nineteenth century—the pictorialist movement for instance. When photography was a new experiment, people would play around with perception tricks—Victorian paper theaters...
Category
2010s Romantic Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Regal monarch immobilised in marble with her reigning celebrated the blooms
Located in London, GB
Katie Eleanor, ‘Your Hand, Your Tongue’, 2017
Hand-coloured portrait of a regal monarch, immobilised in marble, her reigning celebrated the blooms she becomes entwined in. The characterisation is inspired by visual depictions of Lady Macbeth, in particular, John Singer Sargent’s 1889 portrait of actress Ellen Terry.
Taken from The Sialia Marbles, a series of portraits containing ephemeral human sculptures taken between 2016-19. Together these works act as tales contained in a fictional sculpture hall, in direct reaction to Andre Malraux’s 1947 Le Musee Imaginaire (Museum Without Walls).
Original title: 'Your Hand, Your Tongue’, 2017
Hand-coloured Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle Photorag
40.5 x 30.5 cm
Unique
Series: The Sialia Marbles
Signed and dated on verso
"I’m not a sculptor, but I wanted to construct my own stories. Photographers have often used sculpture in order to challenge our idea of a “sculptural” body or object, by casting them in a two-dimensional light. I love playing with perception. A lot of my work is influenced by the nineteenth century—the pictorialist movement for instance. When photography was a new experiment, people would play around with perception tricks—Victorian paper theaters...
Category
2010s Romantic Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper, Watercolor
Otherworldly lovers, immobilised in marble, Dancing in blooming Garden
Located in London, GB
Handcoloured portrait of otherworldly lovers, immobilised in marble, dancing in blooming meadows. A whimsical tale of adoration, Ursa and her spiritual partner take visual cues from Titania and Bottom in Dieterle and Reinhartd’s 1936 interpretation of A Midsummer Nights Dream.
Taken from The Sialia Marbles, a series of portraits containing ephemeral human sculptures taken between 2016-19. Together these works act as tales contained in a fictional sculpture hall, in direct reaction to Andre Malraux’s 1947 Le Musee Imaginaire (Museum Without Walls).
Original title: URSA LOVES YOU, 2017
Hand-coloured Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle Photorag
40.5 x 30.5 cm
Unique
Series: The Sialia Marbles
Signed and dated on verso
"I’m not a sculptor, but I wanted to construct my own stories. Photographers have often used sculpture in order to challenge our idea of a “sculptural” body or object, by casting them in a two-dimensional light. I love playing with perception. A lot of my work is influenced by the nineteenth century—the pictorialist movement for instance. When photography was a new experiment, people would play around with perception tricks—Victorian paper theaters...
Category
2010s Romantic Figurative Prints
Materials
Photographic Film, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Watercolour Photo Print of Male as Daphne with Flowers as Marble Sculpture
Located in London, GB
Handcoloured portrait of nymph Daphne, immobilised in marble, as she is transformed into a laurel tree. Birthed in Greek Mythology, Daphne is associated with bodies of freshwater and is an unwilling object of the god Apollo’s desire.
Taken from The Sialia Marbles, a series of portraits containing ephemeral human sculptures taken between 2016-19. Together these works act as tales contained in a fictional sculpture hall, in direct reaction to Andre Malraux’s 1947 Le Musee Imaginaire (Museum Without Walls).
Original title: Daphne II...
Category
2010s Romantic Figurative Prints
Materials
Spray Paint, Watercolor, Archival Pigment
Blue grey watercolour Print of Male as Daphne with Flowers as Marble Sculpture
Located in London, GB
Hand-coloured portrait of nymph Daphne, immobilised in marble, as she is transformed into a laurel tree. Birthed in Greek Mythology, Daphne is associated with bodies of freshwater and is an unwilling object of the god Apollo...
Category
2010s Romantic Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Watercolor
Hand coloured print Portrait detail of a devil creature immobilised in marble
Located in London, GB
Katie Eleanor, St Medard and the Devil II, 2019
Handcoloured portrait of a devil creature, immobilised in marble, inspired by the tale of St Medard. Purchasing on his rock, he lovin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Gothic Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Photographic Film
Hand coloured print in blue Portrait of a devil creature immobilised in marble
Located in London, GB
Katie Eleanor, St Medard and the Devil, 2019
Handcoloured portrait of a devil creature, immobilised in marble, inspired by the tale of St Medard. Purchasing on his rock, he lovingly...
Category
2010s Gothic Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Hand coloured framed print of semi nude sculpture like marble statue of female
Located in London, GB
Katie Eleanor, "Cleansing a Shrike (Blackbird’s Birdbath)", 2018
Handcoloured portrait of a bird-like spirit, immobilised in marble, cleansing in a sprin...
Category
2010s Romantic Portrait Prints
Materials
Glass, Oak, Paint, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Sweet Violet... Spring face of female looking up in flowers hand coloured print
Located in London, GB
Katie Eleanor, "Sweet Violet", 2019
Handcoloured portrait of blooming flower, immobilised in marble, featuring frozen eyes and the silky colours of Sprin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Glass, Oak, Paint, Watercolor, Archival Pigment
A man looking at Dragon Blood Tree in the morning sunrise in Socotra in Yemen
Located in London, GB
Paining like image of Dragon Blood Tree in Socotra - Yemen - 2020 by Guillaume Petermann
Life Framer Photography Prize Winner, Category: The Face Of The...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Twilight's #09 - Witches Sabbath - Black and white print of fir trees
Located in London, GB
A group of moss draped fir trees dance together as if they were a coven of witches weaving incantations...
"When your eyes have little information, your imagination takes over and fills in the gaps."
- Jasper Goodall...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Golden brown Scots Pine tree Landscape in the twilight
Located in London, GB
A Scots pine emerges from the darkness like a cloud forming in a black sky.
Looming like a cloud over the delicate remains of its young siblings lost to a forest fire...
It is only ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Burnt Place #3
Located in London, GB
Burnt Place 03 - After the fire swept through, the forest was left scorched and barren. The ground is still warm and the unstirring air is thick with the scent of charred wood. Scorched, lifeless pines stand solemn and mournful in the shadows of the Burnt Place.
About the Twilight's Path project:
"We spend our lives surrounded by the security of possessions, relationships and roles, but our futures hold nothing so substantial; one day we must all enter into true not- knowing - into a dark, unconscious place." Jasper Goodall...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Burnt Place Twilight's Path Forest by Night Fine Art Print
Located in London, GB
"Burnt Place" - After the fire swept through, the forest was left scorched and barren. The ground is still warm and the unstirring air is thick with the scent of charred wood. Scorched, lifeless pines stand solemn and mournful in the shadows of the Burnt Place.
About the Twilight's Path project:
"We spend our lives surrounded by the security of possessions, relationships and roles, but our futures hold nothing so substantial; one day we must all enter into true not- knowing - into a dark, unconscious place." Jasper Goodall...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Glass, Wood, Archival Paper, Color...
Black and white Moonlight behind the trees and path in the forest at night
Located in London, GB
Original title: Silver Path, Twilight #35 by Jasper Goodall
A silver path winds its way through twisted, towering beech trees; an invitation to step int...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Twilight #19, Gathering - Silver Birch Tree - Black and White Landscape Print
Located in London, GB
A stand of spinous silver birch gather, shining white against the inky night...
Over a three-year period, Goodall has visited areas of British forest and moorland to make images that he refers to as being 'more akin to fairytale than documentary'. There is indeed an unreal quality to the images, and this is perhaps a result of using artificial lighting; it reminds one of those spooky, unnaturally lit forests we see in the movies. In the absence of any natural illumination (save for a few that include the moon), scenes are lit as if they are in a studio setting. This results in imagery that feels eerily unfamiliar; transporting the viewer from the recognisable landscape into a kind of liminal netherworld - it's the landscape, but not as we are used to seeing it.
Goodall responds to this observation by speaking about the possibility of the darkness being seen as a metaphor for the unconscious mind; the 'light' of consciousness illuminates the known forms of tree and rock, but beyond these certainties lies the unknown.
When your eyes have little information, your imagination takes over and fills in the gaps."
- Jasper Goodall...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Ancient #02, Beech Pollard; Black and White Tree Landscape
Located in London, GB
An immense beech pollard, cut in its youth hundreds of years ago, has developed dozens of thick branches from its spiralling trunk. One in a line of several very old beeches in Sussex woodland that may have marked a boundary or a long forgotten track.
Artwork info:
Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 8 +2AP
This print is unframed but can be mounted on Dibond upon request (price upon application) and further framing options are also available - Please contact us at MMX Gallery for more details or purchase here the unframed print.
About the Artist:
Born in Birmingham in 1973, Jasper Goodall...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Portrait of tree stiletto in the forest at night
Located in London, GB
'Wild Night' is s series inspired by the Swedish Tradition of Årsgång. Translated as ‘the omen walk’, it is traditionally performed on new years eve or the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Twilight's 034, Danse Macabre - A skeletal Oak tree - Landscpae
Located in London, GB
A skeletal oak, starved of light by the surrounding fir trees still holds its twisted limbs up towards the light as if frozen in its death throes.
"I want to bring a sense of unfamiliarity into the images; to present commonplace nature in a peculiar way. This is, in part, a reaction against our over sanitised and conditioned lives. The night forest is devoid of people. It is an undomesticated wilderness right on our doorstep." - Jasper Goodall...
Category
2010s Conceptual Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Twilight's Path, 030, Moonrise - Midsummer full moon - skeletal oak - landscape
Located in London, GB
The midsummer full moon casts its pale light over the skeletal remains of a deceased oak.
Twilight's Path
‘Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat
With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing,
Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn
As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path
Against the pilgrim, borne in heedless hum’
– William Collins (1721–1759), Ode to Evening.
"Once in a while (helped by a bit of planning) everything comes together and you take a photograph that feels really satisfying. However much one reads about artists/photographers trying and failing, taking many shots to end up with that one that works, it’s hard to remember. Just keep showing up, keep doing what you do, it won’t always work out, but sometimes things flow and something special can come through." - Jasper Goodall...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Dark Flora #8, Skeletons of the Summer, 2021
Located in London, GB
Even in deep mid winter there still stands, in sheltered places, the bleached skeletal remains of the summer past - delicate and intricate memories of the verdant life that just months before stood lush and green.
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Inspired by Victorian era taxidermy dioramas...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Dark Flora #, Horsetail, A floral arrangement of wild plants and flowers
Located in London, GB
Dark Flora #6 – Horsetail: Foraged from a damp, boggy area of woodland in mid-summer. It includes Horsetail (Marestail), buckthorn, mallow, tutsan berry, blackberry and heather.
I s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dark Flora #5, May Foxgloves, A floral arrangement of wild flowers and plants
Located in London, GB
Dark Flora #5 - May Foxgloves, 2020
Archival Pigment Print, Mounted on Aluminium, in bespoke Oak Framed, Edition 3/8
Foraged from Sussex Wealden woodland in early summer, it includes Foxgloves, beech, heather and star moss surrounding a woodland bird’s nest. Foxglove’s sometimes used to be called dead man’s bells due to every part of the plant being poisonous...
Inspired by Victorian era taxidermy dioramas...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Glass, Wood, Photographic Paper, Color
Dark Flora Autumn Weald in Floral arrangement of wild flowers and plants, Framed
Located in London, GB
Dark Flora #4 - Autumn Weald: An arrangement of cloth of gold, pine, beech, and bracken surrounding a nest of exquisite blue eggs.
Archival Pigment Print, Mounted on Aluminium, in bespoke Oak Framed, Edition 3/8
Print size: 75 x 54 cm
Framed: 80 x 60 cm approx.
Inspired by Victorian era taxidermy dioramas...
Category
2010s Victorian Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Glass, Wood, Oak, Photographic Paper, Color
#112, 1970s Nightclubs of Chicago South Side - Rare Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
“I walked into a timeless place … full of supporting actors and actresses of every conceivable role,” Abramson wrote in Light: On the South Side, published by Chicago’s Numero Group in 2009.
“Brassai, who photographed nocturnal Paris around 1930, had always been one of my favourite. Having seen, his pictures and, later, read about his experiences, I was fascinated by the implied romance with which he viewed his photography. (…)
When I photographed on the South Side, especially in Peppers Hideout, it was very much in recognition of a Brassai–type world. Whether it be ambiance, gestures, or dress, there seemed to be a direct correlation with the Parisian bistros and dance halls that Brassai had photographed.” - Michael Abramson, “Black Night Clubs of Chicago’s South Side”, May 1977.
Print details: © Michael L Abramson, Untitled #112, CA. 1974 -1977
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print, in custom made frame
Image size: 20.5 x 30.5 cm, Printed on 11 x 14" paper (27.9 x 35.4 cm), white border
Series: 1970s Nightclubs of Chicago South Side
Stamped; "Provenance Authenticated by Michael L Abramson Estate, 2011" on verso
Frame: 38 x 48 cm (Custom made classic hardwood frame, stain in black, museum mount board and antireflective UV AR protective art glass)
All prints from 1970s South Side Chicago series are available for purchase as the singular works or as the group of images - please view a selection on 1stDibs and the gallery storefront.
All works are Vintage Silver Gelatin prints made by the photographer at the time there were taken.
All prints can be purchased in bespoke hardwood frames, museum mount board and anti-reflective UV protective Art Glass. If you wish to ship or purchase unframed prints, we are happy to arrange that for you.
About the Photographer:
Michael L Abramson was born in New Jersey in 1948, the late American photographer graduated with Master of Photography from Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago in 1977. His work was regularly featured in Time, New York Times, Newsweek, People, Forbes, Harpers, Wall Street Journal and other popular American and international magazines.
He was a highly sought after commercial portrait photographer and photojournalist. His subjects comprised celebrities, prominent stars from sport, politics and the entertainment industry included Bill Clinton, Steve Jobs, Steven Spielberg, Michael Jordan, Oprah Winfrey and many more.
Yet it was his 1970s series documenting the Chicago South side club scene that made Abramson’s name. Influenced by Brassaï’s photographs of the 1920s Paris, Abramson caught the stylish nightlife of the funk and soul era in full, alluring swing.
His work was exhibited frequently since 1978, including a solo show at Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, in 2014 and in the same year the group show on American Photography since 1950 at Madison Museum of Contemporary Arts (US).
Following Abramson’s death in 2011 a new book entitled Gotta Go Gotta Flow: Life, Love, and Lust From Chicago’s South Side was released by Chicago-based Chicago City...
Category
1970s Performance Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Sci-fi sparkle Red Blue Tree by Night with skylight stars - Framed Print
Located in London, GB
UNTITLED #5, 2021
Archival Pigment Print, Mounted on Aluminium Dibond, Framed with antireflective art glass
90 x 60 cm
91 x 61 cm - framed _ Overseas ship...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Glass, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color
#4, Tree Huggers from the Future, 'Star Wars like Eco-tourists in the Wood'
Located in London, GB
UNTITLED #4, 2021
Archival Pigment Print, Framed (Unframed option is also available - please enquire for an offer)
30 x 46 cm / 12 x 18 inches approx. plus frame
Edition of 10 + 2 AP
Other dimensions are also available
Series: Tree Huggers from the Future
Signed on verso
"On a recent walk in my favourite area of woodland I came across a group of time travelling eco tourists, appearing one by one from a brilliantly bright space suspended over a small pond.
They had come back to our time to study trees and invited me to document their research. Apparently they knew I would say yes.
Twice now our trips have coincided, almost as if they knew where and when I would be going on holiday, and I must admit, I hope our paths cross again, as I find them strangely photogenic." - George McLeod...
Category
2010s Performance Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
#3, Tree Huggers from the Future, Eco-tourists studying trees - colour print
Located in London, GB
UNTITLED #3, 2021
Archival Pigment Print, Framed; white frame with antireflective glass; larger size - framing options available)
30 x 46 cm
Edition of 10 + 2 AP
Series: Tree Huggers...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
#2, Tree Huggers from the Future, 'Funky eco-tourist levitating in the forest'
Located in London, GB
UNTITLED #2, 2021
Archival Pigment Print, Framed; white frame with antireflective art glass
30 x 46 cm
Edition of 10 + 2 AP
Other dimensions from a smaller editions also available
Series: Tree Huggers from the Future
Signed on verso
About:
"On a recent walk in my favourite area of woodland I came across a group of time travelling eco tourists, appearing one by one from a brilliantly bright space suspended over a small pond.
They had come back to our time to study trees and invited me to document their research. Apparently they knew I would say yes.
Twice now our trips have coincided, almost as if they knew where and when I would be going on holiday, and I must admit, I hope our paths cross again, as I find them strangely photogenic." - George McLeod...
Category
2010s Futurist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
#1, Tree Huggers from the Future - (Man in Yellow Hazmat Suit in a Poppy field)
Located in London, GB
George McLeod, UNTITLED #1, 2021
Archival Pigment Print
30 x 46
Edition of 10 + 2 AP, Framed; white frame with antireflective art glass (Unframed options...
Category
2010s Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slagheaps, Silesia - Graphic Black and White Landscape, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
SLAGHEAPS I, CZERWIONKA, 1978
Unframed Silver Gelatin Print, framing options available
44 x 29 cm/ 17.3 x 11.5 inches approx.
From an Edition of 15 + 2 APs, Printed 2005, Hand printed in the traditional darkroom by the Artist (Michał Cała).
Series: Silesia
Signed and dated 2005 in pencil on verso
Shipping: The print would be shipped flat in the print box.
‘I've been photographing workers’ housing, mines and ironworks but the giant slagheaps and the surrounding landscape were always the most surreal subjects for me. The geometric forms of the slagheaps and the contours of the drying sediments created an amazing array of abstract forms. This particular image - Slagheaps I, Czerwionka - won the grand prix at the Polish Landscape...
Category
1970s Tonalist Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Landscape around the Marcel Mine, Radlin - Industrial - Rare Vintage Print
Located in London, GB
THE LANDSCAPE AROUND THE MARCEL MINE, RADLIN, 1978
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
47.5 x 32.5 cm
Series: Silesia
Signed, titled and dated on verso; Artist's stamp
Using a basic 35mm Exa 500 camera, Cała managed to produce images of lyrical beauty, emphasised by a dark graphic printing style that gave the landscape an apocalyptic, otherworldly look.
More print information: A little tape marks in the back corners of the print. Nr 61 noted in the middle on the back of the print. The front of the photograph in a very good condition. Hand printed by the photographer on gloss paper. A rare vintage gelatin silver print from the Silesia series.
Michal Cala was born in Toruń, Poland in 1948 and studied aircraft construction in Warsaw at the University of Technology in the early 1970's. From 1974 to 1983 he worked as an engineer in various companies in Silesia, and began photographing in the area. In 1977, he moved to Tychy in Upper Silesia, where he co-founded the photographers' association KRON and become a member of the ZPAF - the Union of Polish Art Photographers.
Publications on his work include The Anthology of Polish Photography 1839 - 1989, The Masters of Polish Landscape...
Category
1970s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Forest at the bottom of the Slagheaps - Landscape - Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
"Forest at the bottom of the Slagheaps", Walbrzych, Silesia, Poland, 1978
Silver Gelatin Print, Signed and dated in pencil on verso
Printed in 2008 by the Photographer, hand printed darkroom print.
17 3/10 × 12 1/5 in
44 × 31 cm
50 x 37 cm paper size with white border , 44 x 31 cm (image size)
"My fascination started when I first saw industrial centres of Upper and Lower Silesia,’ says Cała. ‘The landscape was terrifying and beautiful at the same time. It did not change for the whole period from the 19th century to the end of communism in Poland." - Michal Cala
Exhibition frame as seen on additional picture available upon request - please contact gallery for further details or purchase unframed print with a free shipping worldwide.
About the Artist:
"Cala become relatively well known in Poland but he is still little known in the West, despite the fact that his work bears comparison with masters such as Bill Brandt and Robert Frank."
- Bill Kouwenhoven, British Journal of Photography, 2007
Michal Cala was born in Toruń, Poland in 1948 and studied aircraft construction in Warsaw at the University of Technology in the early 1970's. From 1974 to 1983 he worked as an engineer in various companies in Silesia, and began photographing in the area. In 1977, he moved to Tychy in Upper Silesia, where he co-founded the photographers' association KRON and become a member of the ZPAF - the Union of Polish Art Photographers.
Relatively unknown outside of his native country, his work is in several museum collections in Poland; in the Silesian Museum of Katowice, the Silesian Library in Katowice, the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, the Coal Mining Museum in Zabrze as well as local government building in Duisburg in the Ruhr (Germany) and MAST Foundation (Bologna) and various international private collections. His work has received much acclaim and won numerus awards; among which are the Grand Prix at the Polish Landscape...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Omphalopagus monster, an orphan from Saint Wanderer's Hospital, tinted print
Located in London, GB
© Katie Eleanor, VIII. "Omphalopagus monster, an orphan"
Series: Saint Wanderer's Hospital, 2015
Archival Pigment Print of the hand Coloured Photograph on cotton fine art paper, custom framed
7 1/2 × 5 7/10 in
19 × 14.5 cm (unframed print)
35 x 30.5 cm (Framed : Museum mount-board, antireflective art glass in hardwood custom frame)
Edition of 15
Framed or Unframed option available - please enquire
'Saint Wanderer’s Hospital' series depicts a fictional tale birthed from the artist’s inherent need to find splendour in the idea of sickness.
Rooted first from her own words, Katie used the idea of illustrating as a form of personal art therapy by immersing herself in the realm of the otherworldly characters. Every aspect of each scene was created by Katie alone, from building and designing the sets to printing and hand-colouring the final images. In this act, over the year long course of the projects creation, the artist managed to make certain turmoil in her personal life bearable.
In the world of the hospital, the artist adapts the role of medical photographer – creating accurate portraits of each character’s condition as a record for the hospitals future use.
The final series comprises of 8 ‘specimen...
Category
2010s Medieval Nude Photography
Materials
Cotton, Cotton Canvas, Watercolor, Archival Pigment
Eye Infection As A Result Of Ingesting Poison - Print of the hand colour photo
Located in London, GB
© Katie Eleanor, IV., Eye Infection As A Result Of Ingesting Poison
Series: Saint Wanderer's Hospital, 2015
Archival Pigment Print of the hand Coloured Photograph on cotton fine art paper, custom frame
7 1/2 × 5 7/10 in
19 × 14.5 cm (unframed print)
35 x 30.5 cm (Framed : Museum mount-board, antireflective art glass in hardwood custom frame)
Edition of 15
Framed or Unframed option available
Saint Wanderer’s Hospital depicts a fictional tale birthed from the artist’s inherent need to find splendour in the idea of sickness.
Rooted first from her own words, Katie used the idea of illustrating as a form of personal art therapy by immersing herself in the realm of the otherworldly characters. Every aspect of each scene was created by Katie alone, from building and designing the sets to printing and hand-colouring the final images. In this act, over the year long course of the projects creation, the artist managed to make certain turmoil in her personal life bearable.
In the world of the hospital, the artist adapts the role of medical photographer – creating accurate portraits of each character’s condition as a record for the hospitals future use.
The final series comprises of 8 ‘specimen cased...
Category
2010s Symbolist Nude Photography
Materials
Cotton, Watercolor, Archival Pigment
Truth - the honesty seed, Print on Glass, hand gilded with Lemon and Moon Gold
Located in London, GB
Truth, 2017
Print on Museum Glass, Hand gilded with Lemon and Moon Gold
31 x 31 cm/ 12.2 x 12.2 in (custom framed)
Edition of 5
This print is from a series of images made from a collection of honesty seeds gathered at the end of baking hot summer... The papery enclosures are like parchment through which the light filters with a pale gold delicacy."
The beauty of the pieces printed on glass are truly revealed when seen in the flesh, which shimmer in the daylight and change constantly as different light sources are reflected off the print.
"My fascination with colour goes back a long way. One of my earliest creative recollections has me sitting at a table endlessly mixing paints in a valiant but ultimately futile attempt to 'invent a new colour'. It was an imperative that kept me occupied for some time as I recall. The result was always the same - and unedifying fudge of pale peach and silver." - Valda Bailey...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Gold, Gold Leaf
Eternal Flame III - Koi Carp - Print on Museum Glass with Gold and Silver leaf
Located in London, GB
"The bottomless depths of a private koi pond in a Sussex garden. Dancing light, rhythmic flow and a coloured whirl of so many flashing fins, all help to convey the dark mystery of a life below the surface"
ETERNAL FLAME III, 2017
Printed on museum glass, hand finished with White Gold and Silver leaf
30 x 30 cm image glass size/ 31 x 31 cm/ 12.2 x 12.2 inches (Framed)
From edition of 5
Series: Southern Song
Each piece is individually hand finished by the artist with White Gold and Silver leaf giving the piece its own unique style.
Larger dimensions available from limited edition of 5 also available and made upon order.
The beauty of the pieces printed on glass are truly revealed when seen in the flesh, which shimmer in the daylight and change constantly as different light sources are reflected off the print.
"I am primarily driven by an exploration of colour and form. My objective is to bring an emotional element and aesthetic balance to my work. I try to depict the subtleties of the landscape and am happiest making images from the smallest, most insignificant detail - the challenge being to portray the essence of what is about my subject matter that has taken my eye." - Valda Bailey...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Gold, Silver, Gold Leaf
Blossom Blizzard, Stanmer Park, Sussex; Spring landscape with Gold leaf
Located in London, GB
Print detail:
Painting like photographic print, Printed on Museum Glass and Hand Gilded with Gold leaf in custom made frame.
41 x 57 cm (Framed)
Glass Print from Edition of 1/5
Series: Blossom Blizzard (New Print on Glass edition 2022)
Shipping: The print on glass would be packed and into wooden crate for artwork protection and shipped with professional art shippers.
About the work:
"Despite T.S. Eliot's assertion that 'April is the cruellest month', I invariably feel a sudden surge of wellbeing and optimism when the first scent of spring hangs in the air. I know I'm far from alone in this - photographers and artists surely feel that sense of excitement as keenly as any gardener eagerly rifling though their seed packets. Mother Nature, it seems, is handing us our images on a plate. The light is soft and benign, the colours, gentle, and the countryside seems to suddenly be filled with boundless enthusiasm. Quotes such as 'Spring is nature's way of reminding us that every day is worthy of celebration' pop up on social media with unfailing regularity - long before the first cuckoo is heard.
This image was taken at Stanmer Park, just outside of Brighton. A blustery day in early April, the air was filled with the sweet smell of April and the profligacy and exuberance of the new growth emerging was inspirational. Blossom-laden branches were everywhere but I concentrated on one small tree that stood apart from the rest. For reasons unclear, its tiny flowers seemed whiter, fluffier, altogether more generous than that of any of its neighbours.
It was bitterly cold. The type of cold that can only be experienced when one has left home in overly optimistic clothing, only to realise that the wind chill factor hadn't been accounted for when getting dressed. I struggled on for about half an hour - reluctant to retreat to the warmth of the nearby cafe and the very enticing appeal of a cup of coffee.
Fortunately, my inspiration came quickly - as the tiny petals blew around my head and I stood there shivering in all my reckless optimism, I realised it felt like nothing more than being encased in one of those half-domed snow globes. The fiercest blizzard was surely never this intense. I certainly couldn't imagine it ever being this cold.
Photographic perfection is not my objective. Its obedient conformity initially attracts, but, for me, leaves little enticement to investigate further. So it was that the tangled complexity of branches and the disparate arrangement of blossom engaged, rather than frustrated my aspirations. By layering image upon image, frame upon frame, I was able to build up the layers of blossom and emphasise the movement of the branches. All photographic images represent a moment in time. The way I make my images combine several. I walked around the tree, back and forth trying to engage with the long-limbed gaucheness of its extended branches.
The colour palette needed little intervention; I don't think anybody makes a paint called 'blustery blue' but perhaps they should. This contrasted beautifully with the jade and emerald grass, subsequently overlaid with soft white snowflakes and created, what for me, was a very pleasing and fresh arrangement of seasonal colours." - Valda Bailey
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Gold, Gold Leaf
Abstract Print on Glass with Gold leaf and copper depicting Koi carp and Blossom
Located in London, GB
"The bottomless depths of a private koi pond in a Sussex garden. Dancing light, rhythmic flow and a scattering of flowers on the surface, all help to convey the dark mystery of a life below the surface." - Valda Bailey...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Still-life Prints
Materials
Copper, Gold Leaf
Supernova 2 - Sunflower Print on Museum Glass, hand gilded with Citron Gold leaf
Located in London, GB
Supernova 2, 2017
"The sunflowers displayed here have been chosen, not only because of their golden individuality, but also because, like gold, they seem to have an everlasting quality. They don't readily wither and die but remain timelessly viable; their dazzling petals slowly becoming bronzed and desiccated, their statuesque form, elegantly contorted."
Valda Bailey...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Still-life Prints
Materials
Gold Leaf
Architectural Abstract Landscape of London in 3-Dimensional vision on Print
Located in London, GB
London, 2021
In this piece I try to express my feeling of the overwhelming containment and expansive architecture of London. I wanted to make the piece three dimensional - showing buildings moving in and out of the print - as well as the jumbled nature of the old and new. - Mike G Jackson
"The goal isn't to replicate the real world - it is to show where the real world and the process meet - sometimes pushing towards the real world, sometimes pushing towards the process - but never completely at either extreme." - (the Artist: Mike G Jackson)
Artwork detail:
Unique One-off-piece; combining 4 x Prints, Selenium toned Silver Gleatin Luminogram Print, Hand printed in the darkroom, Framed Dimensions: 30 x 40 inches (76.2 x 102.6 cm approx plus frame); can be framed separately or in one frame upon request
Frame: Mounted on aluminium Dibond, custom made hardwood frame (framing options available upon request; colour and various wood options) finish with antireflective UV protective AR Art Glass
Mounting and framing of this work will be done after the purchase so the framing options like framing colour for example can be made according to specifications of the client; matt or gloss, black, white, metallic etc
Shipping: the work would be crated for protection and shipped by professional art shipping company; front door delivery; complementary delivery and install available in London area
About the Artist:
Michael Jackson (b.1966) is an experimental photographer based in North Dorset, England. He studied art at West Dean College in Sussex, then apprenticed under landscape painter Christopher W Baker and later discovered his passion for photography. He moved away from working with traditional camera techniques in 2015 and is currently progressing the Luminogram process into new directions in which he has become regarded as a leading practitioner.
Past awards and accolades include being named a Finalist for the Hasselblad Masters Award (2008, 2009, 2010) and winner of the 2013 Chris Beetles Award. His work has been exhibited internationally and is part of various private and public art and photography collections including The National Art Gallery in Washington, USA.
Michael Jackson’s Luminograms are a very special piece of photographic art. Not a photograph in itself but a creative medium of its own. Each one is meticulously crafted by Michael in his darkroom. There are many structured stages to go through before the photographic paper can be hand developed and permanently fixed. Once Michael is happy with a finished Luminogram print it’s then toned in Selenium, which not only intensifies the prints tonality, but also increases the prints archival quality. Traditional photographic darkroom printing techniques have an unquestionable pedigree when it comes to the life expectancy of a photograph.
Each Luminogram is unique and only one Silver Gelatin Print is produced of each image. The images reveal themselves with a 3D quality; viewed in the flesh the abstracted surreal forms within the paper come alive to the viewer.
Michael Jackson’s Luminograms were exhibited for the first time at MMX Gallery in 2016; The Self Representation of Light exhibition and the following year at Photo London 2017 as well as next Photo London editions. The Luminogram work was also paired with theologian Edwin A. Abbott in a book published by 21st Editions, titled after the author’s famous work ‘FLATLAND’ and premiered in November at the Grand Palais in Paris, for Paris Photo 2017. Other recent group exhibitions include Light + Metal, PhotoEye Gallery, (USA) and Unbound 7, Candela Gallery, (USA), ATO>MIC, MMX Gallery, London 2022.
“Mike Jackson...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist More Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Silver Gelatin
Calla Lilies, Sill Life Flowers, Pigment Print, from medium format transparency
Located in London, GB
"In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends." - Okakura Kakuzo
Calla Lilies - flower study, originally taken on medium format Fujichrome transp...
Category
1990s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Color
Colour print of Anthurium flower in red green and yellow
Located in London, GB
“Nature creates nothing without the purpose” - Aristotele
Anthurium - flower study, originally taken on medium format Fujichrome transparency colour film in the studio setting, in 1...
Category
1990s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
#05, 1970s Nightclubs of Chicago South Side - Rare Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
"A camera is a window through which a photographer interacts with the world, and it's up to the operator to decide whether his camera will be a barrier or a mirror between he and his subjects. In the 1970s, Michael Abramson...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
#19, 1970s Nightclubs of Chicago South Side - Rare Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
A camera is a window through which a photographer interacts with the world, and it's up to the operator to decide whether his camera will be a barrier or a mirror between he and his subjects. In the 1970s, Michael Abramson chose the latter path when he brought his camera to Pepper's Hideout on Chicago's South Side. Following in the footsteps of his acknowledged influence Gyula Halász, a Hungarian photographer better known as Brassaï who became the pre-eminent chronicler of the Paris nightlife he loved so much, Abramson initiated himself into the nightlife of Chicago's predominantly black neighbourhoods. He was very much a part of the scene he documented on film, drinking, laughing, and dancing with his subjects into small hours and becoming as much a part of the atmosphere as the locals who frequented the same nightspots he did. - Joe Tangari (Numero Group, 2009)
This series won Abramson a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1978 and launched his career as a photojournalist. Eventually the project resulted in a hardbound book, Light: On the South Side, including the Grammy and Mojo nominated album, featuring Chicago blues...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
#114, 1970s Nightclubs of Chicago South Side - Rare Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
"Abramson comes much closer to recording the sound of these clubs than we would have any right to expect from a photographer." - Nick Hornby (London, 2009), Light On the South Side, ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Blue Moon Rising Tree Print on Glass with White Gold leaf in white frame frame
Located in London, GB
"I am primarily driven by an exploration of colour and form. My objective is to bring an emotional is to bring an emotional element and aesthetic balance to my work."
"It came to me in the middle of the night - as these things often do - that to incorporate gold leaf into the finished print would neatly encapsulate some of the elements I am trying to express. Its application would obviously have to be done by hand with all its attendant imperfections and mistakes. Kintsugi - the Japanese art of patching broken ceramics with gold - shares its aesthetic with Wabi Sabi." - Valda Bailey...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Gold Leaf
