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Item Ships From: California
Tina Turner on Nightclub Balcony
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work was acquired directly from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The work is in pristine condition and has never been framed.
This is a unique work which comes w...
Category
1980s Pop Art California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Querelle
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance issued by Christie’s.
Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation num...
Category
1980s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"LIPS - LD4 Dior" Photography (FRAMED) 38" x 38" inch Ed. 2/8 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"LIPS - LD4 Dior" Photography (FRAMED) 38" x 38" inch Ed. 2/8 by Giuliano Bekor
Lips series
Title - LD4 Dior
Edition 2 OF 8
Year created 2018
Print size: 26 Inch trim bleed
Artwork finish size 38 x 38 Inch
Medium:
The artwork is printed on Archival fine art Fujiflex print. Print face-mounted on 1 inch non-reflective museum-grade acrylic. Comes with a custom-made laser-cut frame with a custom hardwood poplar semi-matte black museum-style floater frame face finished with black plexi with Optimum, a non-reflective museum grade UV Acrylic. Frame includes custom-made French cleat.
LIPS series
Love...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
"Round Horse" Photography 31" x 31" in Edition 1/7 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Round Horse" Photography 31" x 31" in Edition 1/7 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
Available...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
A Midsummer Night's Dream
By Bert Stern
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an offset photolithograph, originally shot by Bert Stern in 1967, and printed at a later date. It was photographed for the New York City Ballet production by George Ballachine, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" starring Arthur Mitchell...
Category
1960s Modern California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
"Makers Mark" Photography 30" x 30" inch Edition 1/7 by Aaron Mcpolin
By Aaron McPolin
Located in Culver City, CA
"Makers Mark" Photography 30" x 30" inch Edition 1/7 by Aaron Mcpolin
Medium: Archival Giclee Print
Not framed. Ships in tube.
Available sizes:
Edition of 15 24" x 24" inch
Editio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Submission" Photography 40" x 40" inch Edition 1/3 by Aaron Mcpolin
By Aaron McPolin
Located in Culver City, CA
"Submission" Photography 40" x 40" inch Edition 1/3 by Aaron Mcpolin
Medium: Archival Giclee Print
Available sizes:
Edition of 15 24" x 24" inch
Edition of 7 30" x 30" inch
Edition...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Modernismo M26" Pop Art Photography 48"x48" in Edition of 12 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"Modernismo M26" Pop Art Photography 48"x48" in Edition of 12 by Giuliano Bekor
Title of artwork: M26
Year: 2012
Printed on a high-quality museum-grade archival photo paper. Not fra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
"Day Off 2" Photography 49" x 39" inch Edition of 3 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Day Off 2" Photography 49" x 39" inch Edition of 3 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
Oth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Gasoline II, triptych - Stranger than Paradise - Sold out Edition of 5, AP 1/2
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Gasoline II (Stranger than Paradise) 1999 -
3 pieces, each 128x125cm,
installed 125x295cm including gaps.
sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 1/2
Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by...
Category
1990s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"Bow" Photography 30" x 30" inch Edition 1/7 by Aaron Mcpolin
By Aaron McPolin
Located in Culver City, CA
"Bow" Photography 30" x 30" inch Edition 1/7 by Aaron Mcpolin
Medium: Archival Giclee Print
Available sizes:
Edition of 15 24" x 24" inch
Edition of 7 30" x 30" inch
Edition of 3 4...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Red Flower - underwater photograph - archival pigment print 43" x 68"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
In this evocative underwater photograph, a crimson dress billows like a delicate flower petal beneath the surface, creating a powerful contrast against a serene aqua backdrop. The mi...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Painted Spirit_Brooke Shaden_Photo_Velvet FineArtPaper, ed 1/15_Figure
By Brooke Shaden
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
BROOKE SHADEN
The Painted Spirit, 2020
Photo on Velvet Fine Art Paper
10 × 10 in. Unframed
18.25 x 18.25 in. Framed
Edition 1 of 15
Channeling the light and darkness inherent in hu...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Modernismo M26" Pop Art Photography 24"x24" in Edition of 24 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"Modernismo M26" Pop Art Photography 24"x24" in Edition of 24 by Giuliano Bekor
Title of artwork: M26
Year: 2012
Printed on a high-quality museum-grade archival photo paper. Not fra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Palm Beach Idyll, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a couple sunbathing by the sea at Palm Beach, Florida.
This is an estate stamped and hand ...
Category
1950s American Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Blue Jeans
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work which comes with a Certificate of Provenance from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts issued by Christie’s, the acting registrar of the foundation.
...
Category
1980s Pop Art California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Polaroid
"Pygmalion and Galatea" Photography 24" x 24" in Edition of 15 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Pygmalion and Galatea" 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 - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Snowy Egret in the Bayou - White Bird, Landscape, Animal, Swamp, Wetland
By Cheryl Medow
Located in Denton, TX
Snowy Egret in the Bayou by Cheryl Medow is a color portrait of a white bird perched on a branch, in front of a swampy landscape.
Edition of 6
Signed and numbered in pencil, and bli...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Skiing At Courchevel, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers on the slopes at Courchevel, France, 1963.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
Modern estate edit...
Category
1960s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
"Murakami TMF4" Pop Art Photography 40" x 40" in Edition 1/4 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"Murakami TMF4" Pop Art Photography 40" x 40" in Edition 1/4 by Giuliano Bekor
Title: Murakami Inspired TMF4
Year: 2010
Print size: 40" x 40" Inch
Edition: 1/4
Artist proof: 1
Other...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sigrid
By Michael Andreas Russ
Located in San Francisco, CA
This photograph titled "Sigrid" 1978 is an original gelatin silver print by famous German photographer and artist Michael Andreas Russ, born 1945. It is signed, dated and titled in t...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"After the Dance" Photography 24" x 32" in Edition of 10 by Lika Brutyan
By Lika Brutyan
Located in Culver City, CA
"After the Dance" Photography 24" x 32" in Edition of 10 by Lika Brutyan
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta.
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
Lika Brutyan is Ameri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Archival Pigment
"Growth" Photography 30" x 30" inch Edition 1/7 by Aaron Mcpolin
By Aaron McPolin
Located in Culver City, CA
"Growth" Photography 30" x 30" inch Edition 1/7 by Aaron Mcpolin
Medium: Archival Giclee Print
Available sizes:
Edition of 15 24" x 24" inch
Edition of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Girl Nude at Window - Bathtime III (29 Palms, CA) based on a Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Girl Nude at Window - Bathtime III (29 Palms, CA) - 1999,
40x40cm, Edition 2/10,
Digital C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate...
Category
1990s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"Play" Black & White Photography 39" x 39" inch Edition of 3 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Play" Black & White Photography 39" x 39" inch Edition of 3 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 - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven) - Landscape, Horse, Boys
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven). Part of the 29 Palms, CA project. - 2006,
20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs,
archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Signature ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"Modern Traditions 2" Photography 39" x 39" inch Edition 1/3 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Modern Traditions 2" Photography 39" x 39" inch Edition 1/3 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 - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Untouched Nr 1" 40x30 in Photography Edition 3/10 by Lika Brutyan
By Lika Brutyan
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untouched Nr 1" 40x30 in Photography Edition 3/10 by Lika Brutyan
"Untouched Nr 1"
40" x 30" inch
Original photography by Lika Brutyan from the ""Untouched" series
Edition 3/10
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta.
Not Framed. Ships in a tube.
Lika Brutyan is American photographer, was born in a family of scientists and artists in Yerevan, Armenia.
Her training and work in psychotherapy has lead her to a deep curiosity in human nature.
While still in the field of psychology, she started to shoot. Over the years she became more and more interested in photographing human emotion and behavior. This interest combined her great appreciation for fashion has lead Lika down the path of fashion photography and portraiture.
Lika’s work are shown across the U.S, Great Britain, France, Italy, Romania. Her photographs have been published in various magazines, many of them belong to private collections.
Selected Exhibitions
2019 - Sublimation at Voies Off Festival, Arles
2019 - Sublimation at Fondazione Luciana Matalon...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Archival Pigment
"Swimming Suit 3" Photography 31" x 31" in Edition 1/7 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Swimming Suit 3" Photography 31" x 31" in Edition 1/7 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
Avail...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Girl Nude at Window - Bathtime III (29 Palms, CA) based on a Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Girl Nude at Window - Bathtime III (29 Palms, CA) - 1999,
40x40cm,
Edition 3/10.
Archival C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label a...
Category
1990s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"S2M" Photography (FRAMED) 44" x 44" inch Edition of 10 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"S2M" Photography (FRAMED) 44" x 44" inch Edition of 10 by Giuliano Bekor
"S2M" from SCULPT series
Original photography by Giuliano Bekor
44" x 44" inch
Edition of 10
Archival pigment print mounted on dibond
Custom frame comes with non reflective museum glass
SCULPT series
The body is a vessel for the soul. The movement of every muscle – a hand position, an arch in the back, the nape of a neck – reveals the innermost continuum of the spirit. Together, lines and sinew form an emotional narrator. Using contrast, texture, and the language of the human body, this collection exposes the intersection of physical and non-physical, the marriage of tactile and ethereal.
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 Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
"Swimming Suit 3" Photography 24" x 24" in Edition 1/15 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Swimming Suit 3" Photography 24" x 24" in Edition 1/15 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
Avai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Fluidity Nr 7" Photography 40" x 30" inch Edition of 10 by Lika Brutyan
By Lika Brutyan
Located in Culver City, CA
"Fluidity Nr 7" Photography 40" x 30" inch Edition of 10 by Lika Brutyan
Original photography by Lika Brutyan from the ""Fluidity" series
Archival pig...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Archival Pigment
“Apéritif” (FRAMED) Photography 24" x 36" inch Edition of 7 by Brian Ziff
By Brian Ziff
Located in Culver City, CA
“Apéritif” (FRAMED) Photography 24" x 36" inch Edition of 7 by Brian Ziff
Giclee (Archival Ink) Print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag
From "Park Drive" series
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
"Modernismo M60" Pop Art Photography 60"x48" in Edition of 12 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"Modernismo M60" Pop Art Photography 60"x48" in Edition of 12 by Giuliano Bekor
Title of artwork: M60
Year: 2012
Printed on a high-quality museum-grade archival photo paper. Not fra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Jon Gould Pointing on Fire Island Beach
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
From The Jon Gould Collection of Andy Warhol Photographs
Each photo is unique and blind embossed “Andy Warhol” in the lower right corner
Provenance: Gift of the Artist to Jon Goul...
Category
1980s Pop Art California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Hips Horizontal - Rare Signed in White on Recto
By Ruth Bernhard
Located in Carmel, CA
Vintage photograph printed by Ruth Bernhard.
Rare signature signed on recto in white pen.
Excellent Condition.
Category
Late 20th Century California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"OTHER 50" Photography (FRAMED) 60" x 48" inch Edition of 10 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"OTHER 50" Photography (FRAMED) 60" x 48" inch Edition of 10 by Giuliano Bekor
Archival pigment print mounted on dibond
Custom frame comes with non reflective museum glass
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 gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Porcelain III - underwater nude photo - print on aluminum 8 x 12"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
The most recent photo from the Porcelain series.
The series Porcelain includes my favorite photographs of nude models in the porcelain color scheme on the black background. The serie...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
"COCA-COLA" Photography (FRAMED) 40" x 40" inch Ed. of 20 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"COCA-COLA" Photography (FRAMED) 40" x 40" inch Ed. of 20 by Giuliano Bekor
Print size 40x40 Inches
Artwork finished size 42x42 Inches
Limited edition of 20
Artist proof 2
Medium:
This artwork printed on a highest resolution archival fine art museum quality Kodak optima paper, Printed with a high gloss finish. Mounted on 1/4 Inch non-reflective museum grade acrylic face- mount. 1/8 Inch polished aluminum back-mount. finished with hand polished crystal clear edges for extra depth and dimension. Comes with custom gallery style chrome metal floater frame-face finish. Artwork framed with a stainless metal linner float mount hanger.
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 Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
Original Vintage Print - Woman in Bikini - Unique Piece
By Miroslav Tichy
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Original Miroslav Tichý b/w Photography.
Woman in Bikini. 17.5cm x 10.5cm
Unique Vintage Print on paper with the artist's drawing on it.
Miroslav Tichý: The Outsider Photographer
...
Category
1970s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Pinhole
Ocho Rios, Jamaica, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests relaxing by the swimming pool at John Young's villa 'Plantana', Ocho Rios, Jamaic...
Category
1970s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Ocho Rios, Jamaica, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests relaxing by the swimming pool at John Young's villa 'Plantana', Ocho Rios, Jamaic...
Category
1970s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Ocho Rios, Jamaica, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests relaxing by the swimming pool at John Young's villa 'Plantana', Ocho Rios, Jamaic...
Category
1970s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Ocho Rios, Jamaica, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests relaxing by the swimming pool at John Young's villa 'Plantana', Ocho Rios, Jamaic...
Category
1970s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Ocho Rios, Jamaica, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests relaxing by the swimming pool at John Young's villa 'Plantana', Ocho Rios, Jamaic...
Category
1970s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Ocho Rios, Jamaica, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests relaxing by the swimming pool at John Young's villa 'Plantana', Ocho Rios, Jamaic...
Category
1950s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Ocho Rios, Jamaica, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests relaxing by the swimming pool at John Young's villa 'Plantana', Ocho Rios, Jamaic...
Category
1950s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Sailing In The Bahamas, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a crew member tending to the rigging on a yacht in Lyford Cay, Bahamas.
This is an estate...
Category
1970s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Sailing In The Bahamas, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a crew member tending to the rigging on a yacht in Lyford Cay, Bahamas.
This is an estate...
Category
1970s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Sailing In The Bahamas, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a crew member tending to the rigging on a yacht in Lyford Cay, Bahamas.
This is an estate...
Category
1970s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Sailing In The Bahamas, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a crew member tending to the rigging on a yacht in Lyford Cay, Bahamas.
This is an estate...
Category
1970s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Andros Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features some friends preparing for a day snorkelling by Andros Island, Bahamas.
This is an estate ...
Category
1960s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Andros Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features some friends preparing for a day snorkelling by Andros Island, Bahamas.
This is an estate ...
Category
1960s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Andros Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features some friends preparing for a day snorkelling by Andros Island, Bahamas.
This is an estate ...
Category
1960s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Andros Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features some friends preparing for a day snorkelling by Andros Island, Bahamas.
This is an estate ...
Category
1960s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Andros Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features some friends preparing for a day snorkelling by Andros Island, Bahamas.
This is an estate ...
Category
1960s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Andros Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features some friends preparing for a day snorkelling by Andros Island, Bahamas
This is an estate s...
Category
1960s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
