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Item Ships From: California
30x30" Black & White Nude photography - Nude n.2
By MAE Curates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a series of black and white Nude abstract art photography (13 in series). Gallery exclusively presents this series of the human form - that which has inspired artists from ti...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Little Cool 1" Photography 30" × 30" in Edition of 20 by Kate Garner
By Kate Garner
Located in Culver City, CA
"Little Cool 1" Photography 30" × 30" in Edition of 20 by Kate Garner
Hahnemuhle fine art archival paper
Kate Garner: Seeker, Sage, and Preservationist of Identity
A thoughtful se...
Category
20th Century Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
CHARMAINE, Paris 1991 (P&E_060)
By Bruno Bisang
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bruno Bisang
CHARMAINE, Paris 1991 (P&E_060)
45 x 37.5 inches
Archival Pigment Print / Black & white fine art Bartya / Color gloss resin coated
Edition of 7 + 2 AP
Signed by arti...
Category
2010s California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Resin, Coating, Archival Pigment
Dune
By Brett Weston
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This silver gelatin print is signed and dated in pencil on the front of the mount, and again on the back of the mount. Printed in 1961 for inclusion in the "Fifteen Photographs" port...
Category
1930s Abstract California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$7,500
Wildlife - "Lion" award winning photo 24 x 23 in. Fuji Flex premium
By William Chua
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Award winning photographer William Chua artistically captures the essence of the flair and magnificence of one of Nature's great beasts.
Exclusively from gallery - printed on Fuji Fl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Meyer's Ranch, Yosemite
By Edward Weston
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Titled with artist's reference number and signed in pencil by Cole Weston with Edward Weston's facsimile signature on back of mount. Printed later by Cole Weston.
Category
1930s California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
November in the Suburb
By Bill Brandt
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed by the artist and numbered on the front of the print. 11/25. Printed in 1982.
Category
20th Century California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Kelp Bulbs ~ K178
By Ryuijie
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Museum Angles, Germany
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed, dated, titled and editioned by the artist on the back of the print. Stamped with title, date and edition on the back of the mount. Editions of 53.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Toilet / Fountain at Baur au Lac Hotel in Zurich
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique photograph was taken by Warhol in the bathroom at Baur au Lac Hotel in Zurich. Toilets were a common subject of Warhol's photos. This photo is dated 'Mar 9 1982' (on...
Category
1980s Pop Art California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Men 2" Black & White Photography 24" x 24" inch Edition 1/15 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Men 2" Black & White Photography 24" x 24" inch Edition 1/15 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Point Lobos Wave
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This mounted silver gelatin print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount and was printed c. 1970. This is one of Bullock's best-known images from Point Lobos, California--an a...
Category
1970s Modern California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled ~ Ferns and Log
By Brett Weston
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed, dated and marked "$600" on the back of the mount.
Category
1940s California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Door, Mission Dolores, San Francisco, California
By Rod Dresser
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed and numbered on mount recto. Titled and dated with artist's stamp on mount verso. Edition of 35. Printed in 2000.
Category
1980s California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
B-PC-9G Palm Canyon, Borrego Desert
By Edward Weston
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Initialed and dated front of mount. Negative number annotated on back of mount. Printed in 1938.
Category
20th Century California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Doors, English Camp, San Juan, 2008
By Rod Dresser
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Numbered and signed on front of the mount. Titled, dated with artist's stamp on back of the mount. Number 1 of 15. Price subject to change without notice.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Black Moon" Black & White Photography 24" x 24" in Ed. 2/15 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Black Moon" Black & White Photography 24" x 24" in Ed. 2/15 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Time is endless
By Sarah Hadley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Each photograph is hand printed on Canson Baryta Paper and is signed and editioned by the artist.
Sarah Hadley's narrative work focuses on memory, place and the subconscious. She re...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Joseph Kennedy II
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation inventory number.
The work comes ...
Category
1980s Pop Art California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'Tiger Lady' Limited Edition Photograph by Getty Images 24 x 24
Located in San Rafael, CA
March 16, 1971: Air Stewardess Cynthia Robertson models the new uniform for National Airlines. A synthetic tiger skin number, the new uniform will be worn by over 1000 stewardesses. In her arms is an eight week old Bengal tiger called 'Indira'. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)
As an authorized Getty Images Gallery...
Category
1970s Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
On the Road
By Sarah Hadley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Each photograph is hand printed on Canson Baryta Paper and is signed and editioned by the artist.
Sarah Hadley's narrative work focuses on memory, place and the subconscious. She re...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Smoky Light Play Abstract Photography - Black and White Series
By MAE Curates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a series curated by gallery in Los Angeles. The subject matter of the work is a series of abstract photography of smoky swirls of light play, against a deep inky velvet hue o...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
The Pilings
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount. This print comes directly from the personal collection of Edna Bullock, whose stamp and annotations in pencil adorn the reve...
Category
1950s Modern California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Removal of Self #60" Photography 16" x 20" inch Edition 1/1 by Ben Cope
By Ben Cope
Located in Culver City, CA
"Removal of Self #60" Photography 16" x 20" inch Edition 1/1 by Ben Cope
2011
Photo on deconstructed paper
16” x 20” inch
Ben Cope is a Georgia native graduating from Columbus Sta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Pigment
"No Time" Black & White Photography 24" x 24" in Edition of 15 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"No Time" Black & White Photography 24" x 24" in Edition of 15 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Making a Circle" Photography 24" x 24" inch Edition of 15 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Making a Circle" Photography 24" x 24" inch Edition of 15 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
"Adam" Black & White Photography 24" x 24" in Edition 2/15 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Adam" Photography 24" x 24" in Edition 2/15 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
Available sizes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"WooDoo Doll" Fine Art Photography 18x24inch Ed 2/20 by Viktorija Pashuta
By Viktorija Pashuta
Located in Culver City, CA
"WooDoo Doll" Fine Art Photography 18x24inch Ed 2/20 by Viktorija Pashuta
2016
Ready to hang
Latvian born Viktorija Pashuta is internationally published and award winning fashion and art photographer gaining momentum and notoriety in Southern California. With visual cues rooted in dance and music, and fashion passion stemming from her European upbringing, her images are sensual, sultry, yet powerful. Viktorija’s work is known for so called ‘color therapy’ – where she uses saturated and vibrant colors to achieve the effect of fashion surrealism. Her images are very feminine and empowering at the same time to celebrate the essence of a woman.
Her work has been published in such magazines as RUNWAY (USA), GQ, Esquire, VISION (China), Prestige International (France), Essence (USA), Estetica (USA), Nylon Guys, Vogue (Italia), Tchad (Canada), Fashizblack (France), Highlights (UK), CULTURE (Australia), shooting celebrity covers for Healthy Living Magazine, Runway, Orlando Style, Justine and more.
Her celebrity work includes Paris Hilton, Kathy Griffin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
Airplane Engine
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique photographic print taken by Andy Warhol in 1982 in the airline/Port Authority terminal while shooting U.S. Airways commercial. Andy notes in his diary on April 12, 1...
Category
1980s Pop Art California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'Swan in Car' Limited Edition Photograph by Getty Images Gallery, 20x16
Located in San Rafael, CA
April, 6 1936: A tame swan named Leila is given a lift in the back of a car. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
As an authorized Getty Images Gallery...
Category
1930s Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
"Zebras - Splash" 2009, Amboseli National Park, Kenya (wildlife)
By William Chua
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Critically acclaimed image of wildlife art photography - Zebras - in motion.
Drawn from the archives of fine art photographer William, his technique for capturing subjects in flight...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Framed geometric black & white Unique Silver Gelatin Print "Overlap"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Black and white unique gelatin silver print, (chemical print on fiber-based paper), in black frame with no glass, which allows one to see the texture of the paper and enjoy the image unobstructed.
Betsy Kenyon...
Category
2010s California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"I'm at Home" Black & White Photography 24" x 24" in Ed of 15 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"I'm at Home" Black & White Photography 24" x 24" in Ed of 15 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Johnny Cash, Las Vegas, NV
By Mark Seliger
Located in Santa Monica, CA
signed, titled and dated on verso, artists stamp in ink
Category
California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Alba Clemente and Julian Schnabel
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Illustrated in The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol. Edited by Pat Hackett, Warner Books, 1991.
Julian Schnabel was a regular at The Factory and was so close to Warhol and the ot...
Category
1980s Pop Art California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Pyhäjärvi, Finland (Horse & Barn)
By Pentti Sammallahti
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Pentti Sammallahti
Pyhäjärvi, Finland (Horse & Barn)
1982
Gelatin Silver print
Category
20th Century California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'Michael Caine Throwing a Punch' Limited Edition Photograph by Archetti, 20x24
By Stephan C Archetti
Located in San Rafael, CA
English actor Michael Caine, throwing a punch, August 1965. (Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images).
As an authorized Getty Images Gallery partner, we offer premium quality...
Category
1960s Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Loss
By Sarah Hadley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This image is from Sarah Hadley's series Lost Venice.
Each photograph is hand printed on Canson Baryta Paper, and is signed and editioned by the artist.
Sarah Hadley is a Los Angel...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$1,680 Sale Price
20% Off
'Swan in Car' Limited Edition Photograph by Getty Images Gallery, 20x24
Located in San Rafael, CA
April, 6 1936: A tame swan named Leila is given a lift in the back of a car. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
As an authorized Getty Images Gallery...
Category
1930s Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Haywood Magee, Louis Armstrong on Stage Limited Edition Photographic Print 20x30
Located in San Rafael, CA
American jazz trumpeter and bandleader Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong (1900 - 1971), shouts after clarinettist Edmund Hall's solo, on stage during the band's British tour, May 19, 1956. An unidentified bassist stands in the foreground. (Photo by Haywood Magee...
Category
1950s Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
'Ali in Training' by R. McPhedran, Limited Edition Photograph Print, 20x30
Located in San Rafael, CA
American heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali throws bare-handed punches in the ring while in training for his fight against Brian London, London, England, August 1966. (Photo by R. McPhed...
Category
1960s Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Silver Linings
By Julian Lennon
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Lennon’s photographs serve as allegorical vehicles in this time of heightened awareness for our planet’s peril.In surveilling these ever-changing skies, Atmospheria celebrates the be...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Dye Transfer
Framed geometric abstract black&white Unique Silver Gelatin Print "Conjoined"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Black and white unique silver gelatin print, (chemical print on fiber-based paper), in white frame.
Betsy Kenyon’s work is a merging of different process...
Category
2010s California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"OTHER 01" Black & White Photography 48" x 48" in Ed. of 10 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"OTHER 01" Black & White Photography 48" x 48" in Ed. of 10 by Giuliano Bekor
Archival pigment print
Not framed. Ships in tube.
Men's - Other Series Intro
This series connecting us to nature’s raw materials to create a piece that is organic and pure
We put on the mask and the headdress not to hide but to reveal ourselves, to give ourselves the freedom to break with taboo, to transgress, to transform. Referencing ritual and native practices, this collection pays homage to an identity built by reaching into the Other and imbibing cross-cultural forms of self-expression.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Internationally recognized photographer, Giuliano Bekor, holds a portfolio that includes work from the realms of fashion, beauty, celebrity, advertising, and fine art.
Giuliano’s photography has been featured in top publications around the globe, and his client list includes an endless file of beauty industry leaders, advertising agencies, celebrities, producers, and artists.
With 30 years in the industry, Giuliano has perfected his craft to an exceptional level of expertise. Composed of light, color, space and form, Giuliano brings ideas conceptualized in his own imagination into reality throughout his work.
Currently living between New York and Los Angeles, Giuliano is often on the move traveling for work and inspiration. Always the restless visionary, he ceases to continually express his fresh and nuanced style.
For Giuliano Bekor, a photograph is an image that comes into being consciously, composed of light, color, space and form. Like a painter, he sketches, refining ideas through pen and pencil well before the shutter clicks. A camera is strictly a means to an end, a way of making a palpable visual record of an idea that gestates in his mind, gains shape by his hand, and resolves through his eye as it peers through the lens.
His subject is the human body, almost always nude. These images delve into the splendor of the body - how it can express the inner meaning of who we are. Limbs, torsos, muscles and bones are exposed as though carved out of a supple, glowing stone that flexes and twists. Many of these photographs feature subjects posed with the eyes obscured, the face covered.
If we look closely, Bekor says, we can see that the body is as much a window into the soul as the eyes. This is a gallery of the soul etched into the forms we assume in the physical world. Through exaggerated contrast between light and dark, smooth and textured, vaporous and tactile, Giuliano deliberately filters the extraneous.
The camera captures the image, but for Bekor each exposure is a transformation - of himself, his subjects, and us. He is digging into uneasy turf, fraught with tension: masculine/feminine, heroic/cowardly, shameless/shameful, eternal/fleeting. The intensity of detail, the fiercely exquisite perfection of the bodies themselves, the unflinching, scrupulous engagement of the lens, negates all pretense of politeness. Confronted, we are summoned to look. So we must. And we do. And we experience the beautiful human forms we inhabit and the silent, eloquent language they speak.
EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
Giuliano Bekor’s most recent fine art photography solo shows include:
2019 - March Lips The cool HeArt...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Plexiglass
Reflections in the Maine Woods
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This image reminds of Walden Pond, and the peaceful views seen by Henry Thoreau.
Words that describe this piece: pond, reflections, au...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Selma to Montgomery March. Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King Jr., Munici
By Dan Budnik
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed, titled & dated in pencil on verso; Signed in ink on recto
Category
1960s California - Black and White Photography
Materials
ABS, Silver Gelatin
Andy Warhol, Photograph of Willie Shoemaker, circa 1977
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Willie, aka Bill, Shoemaker was an American jockey. Inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1958, he held the world record for jockey victories for 29 years. ...
Category
1970s Pop Art California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Cockney Life at the Elephant & Castle
By Bert Hardy
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed in ink on recto. Artist's stamp on verso.
Category
20th Century California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"OTHER 20" Black & White Photography 60" x 60" in Ed. of 10 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"OTHER 20" Black & White Photography 60" x 60" in Ed. of 10 by Giuliano Bekor
Archival pigment print
Not framed. Ships in tube.
Men's - Other Series Intro
This series connecting us to nature’s raw materials to create a piece that is organic and pure
We put on the mask and the headdress not to hide but to reveal ourselves, to give ourselves the freedom to break with taboo, to transgress, to transform. Referencing ritual and native practices, this collection pays homage to an identity built by reaching into the Other and imbibing cross-cultural forms of self-expression.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Internationally recognized photographer, Giuliano Bekor, holds a portfolio that includes work from the realms of fashion, beauty, celebrity, advertising, and fine art.
Giuliano’s photography has been featured in top publications around the globe, and his client list includes an endless file of beauty industry leaders, advertising agencies, celebrities, producers, and artists.
With 30 years in the industry, Giuliano has perfected his craft to an exceptional level of expertise. Composed of light, color, space and form, Giuliano brings ideas conceptualized in his own imagination into reality throughout his work.
Currently living between New York and Los Angeles, Giuliano is often on the move traveling for work and inspiration. Always the restless visionary, he ceases to continually express his fresh and nuanced style.
For Giuliano Bekor, a photograph is an image that comes into being consciously, composed of light, color, space and form. Like a painter, he sketches, refining ideas through pen and pencil well before the shutter clicks. A camera is strictly a means to an end, a way of making a palpable visual record of an idea that gestates in his mind, gains shape by his hand, and resolves through his eye as it peers through the lens.
His subject is the human body, almost always nude. These images delve into the splendor of the body - how it can express the inner meaning of who we are. Limbs, torsos, muscles and bones are exposed as though carved out of a supple, glowing stone that flexes and twists. Many of these photographs feature subjects posed with the eyes obscured, the face covered.
If we look closely, Bekor says, we can see that the body is as much a window into the soul as the eyes. This is a gallery of the soul etched into the forms we assume in the physical world. Through exaggerated contrast between light and dark, smooth and textured, vaporous and tactile, Giuliano deliberately filters the extraneous.
The camera captures the image, but for Bekor each exposure is a transformation - of himself, his subjects, and us. He is digging into uneasy turf, fraught with tension: masculine/feminine, heroic/cowardly, shameless/shameful, eternal/fleeting. The intensity of detail, the fiercely exquisite perfection of the bodies themselves, the unflinching, scrupulous engagement of the lens, negates all pretense of politeness. Confronted, we are summoned to look. So we must. And we do. And we experience the beautiful human forms we inhabit and the silent, eloquent language they speak.
EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
Giuliano Bekor’s most recent fine art photography solo shows include:
2019 - March Lips The cool HeArt...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Plexiglass
Untitled (Nr. 1036) Photography 18" x 24" Edition of 20 by Rowan Daly
By Rowan Daly
Located in Culver City, CA
Untitled (Nr. 1036) Photography 18" x 24" Edition of 20 by Rowan Daly
Unframed - ships rolled in a tube
Ben Cope + Rowan Daly Off the Grid
Off the Grid is the culmination of a six-year photographic journey through Baja, Mexico. Ben Cope and Rowan Daly began their travels in 2014, working their way through the towns of la Salinas, Baja Mar, and Cantamar, down through Ensanada and la Bufadora. This series of photographs depicts the pair’s adventures and explorations. Off the Grid documents the textures, people, and places visited during this incredible journey.
Ben Cope is a Los Angeles based portrait artist with a BFA in ceramic sculpture and photography from Columbus State University. He maintains a successful career with a diverse portfolio including fashion, editorial, celebrity portraiture and advertising. He is widely known for his celebrity and fashion portraiture, which has been published internationally in publications such as Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, GQ, The Work Magazine, Fucking Young, and l’Officiel, and has shot international campaigns for such clients as Adidas, L’Oréal, Paul Mitchell, and Vidal Sassoon. He has photographed Selena Gomez, Jennifer Lopez, David Lynch, Alex Rodriguez...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bedroom in Paris/Monte Carlo
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work is unique.
Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Art...
Category
1980s Pop Art California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Father's Day Picnic, 1948
By William Heick
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Father's Day Picnic, 1948
Gelatin silver print
Signed in pencil on recto.
Category
20th Century California - Black and White Photography
"WH2" Photography 48" x 84" inch Edition 1/6 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"WH2" Photography 48" x 84" inch Edition 1/6 by Giuliano Bekor
From WILD HORSES series
Archival exhibition Giclee Baryta print
Not framed. Ships in tube.
WILD HORSES series
A man, it is said, never forgets a great horse, nor the horse a great man. Put the thoroughbred, the draft horse, the Lipizzaner stallion, and the wild Mustang, into the same coral, and they act as equals – no blinders, no misery, no slavery. Man, though, must harness and lash the horse. In becoming the horse – wearing his mane, strapping on his saddle, chomping on his bit – his civilized skin peels away. A terrible beast is let loose.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Internationally recognized photographer, Giuliano Bekor, holds a portfolio that includes work from the realms of fashion, beauty, celebrity, advertising, and fine art.
Giuliano’s photography has been featured in top publications around the globe, and his client list includes an endless file of beauty industry leaders, advertising agencies, celebrities, producers, and artists.
With 30 years in the industry, Giuliano has perfected his craft to an exceptional level of expertise. Composed of light, color, space and form, Giuliano brings ideas conceptualized in his own imagination into reality throughout his work.
Currently living between New York and Los Angeles, Giuliano is often on the move traveling for work and inspiration. Always the restless visionary, he ceases to continually express his fresh and nuanced style.
For Giuliano Bekor, a photograph is an image that comes into being consciously, composed of light, color, space and form. Like a painter, he sketches, refining ideas through pen and pencil well before the shutter clicks. A camera is strictly a means to an end, a way of making a palpable visual record of an idea that gestates in his mind, gains shape by his hand, and resolves through his eye as it peers through the lens.
His subject is the human body, almost always nude. These images delve into the splendor of the body - how it can express the inner meaning of who we are. Limbs, torsos, muscles and bones are exposed as though carved out of a supple, glowing stone that flexes and twists. Many of these photographs feature subjects posed with the eyes obscured, the face covered.
If we look closely, Bekor says, we can see that the body is as much a window into the soul as the eyes. This is a gallery of the soul etched into the forms we assume in the physical world. Through exaggerated contrast between light and dark, smooth and textured, vaporous and tactile, Giuliano deliberately filters the extraneous.
The camera captures the image, but for Bekor each exposure is a transformation - of himself, his subjects, and us. He is digging into uneasy turf, fraught with tension: masculine/feminine, heroic/cowardly, shameless/shameful, eternal/fleeting. The intensity of detail, the fiercely exquisite perfection of the bodies themselves, the unflinching, scrupulous engagement of the lens, negates all pretense of politeness. Confronted, we are summoned to look. So we must. And we do. And we experience the beautiful human forms we inhabit and the silent, eloquent language they speak.
EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
Giuliano Bekor’s most recent fine art photography solo shows include:
2019 - March Lips The cool HeArt gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
NAOMI CAMPBELL for Swish, New York 1994 (P_013)
By Bruno Bisang
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bruno Bisang
NAOMI CAMPBELL for Swish, New York 1994 (P_013)
45 x 37.5 inches
Archival Pigment Print / Black & white fine art Bartya / Color gloss resin coated
Edition of 7 + 2 AP...
Category
2010s California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Resin, Coating, Archival Pigment
Barun-Khemchik, Tuva
By Pentti Sammallahti
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Pentti Sammallahti
Barun-Khemchik, Tuva
1997
Gelatin Silver print
Category
20th Century California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Statue of Liberty and World Trade Center
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work is unique.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist, to The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, to Private Collector London, to current collector Los Angeles
Exhibition H...
Category
1980s Pop Art California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Large framed black&white abstract vertical Unique Silver Gelatin Print
Located in San Francisco, CA
"Condense 2" is a black and white unique gelatin silver print, (chemical print on fiber-based paper), in white frame. There is no glass or acrylic covering the work, allowing the viewer to connect with the texture of the work.
Betsy Kenyon...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Small Framed black&white Unique Silver Gelatin Print "Half Circle / Half Square"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Black and white unique gelatin silver print, (chemical print on fiber-based paper), in black frame. There is no glass or acrylic covering the image so none of the texture of the work gets lost.
Betsy...
Category
2010s California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Paris Street
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also written on verso.
Work comes with...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Andy Warhol, Photo Booth Strip of Bobby Short, circa 1960s
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
The musician Bobby Short is known for his interpretations of American standards by such composers as Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, and George and Ira Gers...
Category
1960s Pop Art California - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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