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Item Ships From: California
Officer's Wives Club - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Officer's Wives Club (29 Palms, CA), diptych - 1999
Edition of 10, 58x56cm each, installed 58x123cm, including gap.
2 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on 2 Polaro...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Gilded Beauty - observation on iconic French master paintings and gilded frames
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
a series of large scale observations on French master paintings and their opulent gilded frames
GILDED BEAUTY by Frank Schott
40 x 32 inches...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Boccia III (Beachshoot ) with Radha Mitchell -Polaroid, Contemporary, Women
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boccia III (Beachshoot) - 2005
38x36cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 1467.
Not mounted.
featuring C...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
DETAIL FROM: FOUR REGENTS OF THE GROOT-KRAMERGILD, 1622 painting
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Detail From: Four Regents of the Groot-Kramergild
WERNER J. VAN DEN VALCKERT, 1622, PAINTING GALLERY BERLIN
Timeless authority, captured anew. In this masterful fine art photograph...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Susanna (Bombay Beach), 21st Century, Figurative Photography
By Tao Ruspoli
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Susanna' (Bombay Beach) - 2018 -
Edition 1/10, 20x20cm, C-Print,
Signature label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
About
Tao Ruspoli (born 7 November 1975) is an Italian-American ...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
"Around the World 2" Photography 39" x 39" inch Edition of 3 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Around the World 2" 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
Lila's Studio (Stay) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Contemporary, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's art work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay'. Featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie's art was the art both created during the movie. Stefanie's images were also used for Ryan Gosling's memory sequence, for the end titles, for edits in between and as art paintings hanging in several scenes within the movie.
“I never remember the details of a Stefanie Schneider image, just the whole. She treads a third path between reality and dream that connects the two and truly sparks my artistic, visual freedom.” (Marc Forster)
This piece:
Lila's Studio (Stay) with Noami Watts and Ewan McGregor - 2006
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 5109.
Not mounted.
Torsten Scheid, “Fotografie, Kunst, Kino. Revisited.”, FilmDienst 3/2006, page 11-13
Photography Art Cinema. Revisited
Stay expands a traditional connection through new facets
Interwoven between the media of photography and film is a veritable mesh-work of technical, motific, metaphorical and personal interrelationships. Extending from photo-film which, as in La Jetée by Chris Marker (France, 1962) is a montage of single, unmoving photographs all the way to the portrayal of photographic motifs in Hollywood cinema―most recently in Memento (USA, 2000) and One hour photo (USA, 2002)―is the range of filmic-photographic interactions on the one hand, and from the adaption of modes of cinematic production to the imitation of film stills on the other. For instance, with the legendary Untitled Film Stills (1978) of the American artist Cindy Sherman, who later made her debut as a film director with Office Killer (USA, 1997) and thereby, like many others, changed sides: Wim Wenders, Robert Frank and Larry Clark are doubtlessly the most successful of these photographic-filmic border crossers. This brief survey provides only a vague indication of the dimensions of this intermedial field, which in fact extends much further and is constantly being cultivated.
Also as a motif in film, photography has experienced a historical transformation: Photographers were once considered to be technicians who mastered a craft but never achieved the status of artists. Photographer-figures were caught in the allure of beautiful appearance, incapable of penetrating to the actual essence of things. Such depth was reserved for literature or painting. When photography in film touched upon the sphere of art, then most often as its contrasting model, as the metaphor for a superficial access to the world. Coming to mind are Fred Astaire as a singing fashion photographer in Stanley Donen’s musical film Funny Face (USA, 1957), or the restless lifestyle-photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni’s genre-classic Blow up (GB, 1966). For the doubting Thomas, only that exists which can be photographed. He ultimately enters the world of fantasy and thereby the field of art only unwillingly, when he becomes entangled in the world of his images. The last of his detail-enlargements shows only the photographic grain and has lost all connection to reality. The photograph looks as if it had been painted by Bill, the painter who is both friend and antagonist to the protagonist.
Photography as Art
It was first around the end of the last century that numerous filmmakers discovered photography as a genuine art form. In The Bridges of Madison County (USA, 1995) a sensitive Clint Eastwood stands, camera in hand, on the threshold of artistic status, and in Smoke (USA, 1994) a tobacco merchant ripens into a philosopher through his involvement in photography. Finally, in John Water’s parody of the art market, Pecker (USA, 1998), a provincial tom-fool is hyped into celebrated stardom amid the New York art scene because of his blurred snapshots. This film about a postmodern Kaspar Hauser in photographic art (with clear parallels to Richard Billingham...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Flurry - underwater photograph - archival pigment print 24" x 35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater photograph of a young woman in red dress dancing underwater in a pool. A very bright photograph with plenty of sun and positivity. The model was an amazing Russian dancer...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Gordon C. MacKenzie, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the race driver Gordon C. MacKenzie in Franconia, New Hampshire.
This is an estate stampe...
Category
1950s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Cranmore Mountain Skiers, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA
This is an estat...
Category
1950s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Cranmore Mountain Skiers, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA
This is an estat...
Category
1950s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Cranmore Mountain Skiers, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA
This is an estat...
Category
1950s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Cranmore Mountain Skiers, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA
This is an estat...
Category
1950s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
"Street in Chaouen, Morocco" Cibachrome photograph
By Jeffrey Becom
Located in San Francisco, CA
This photograph titled "Steet in Chaouen, Morocco" is a colors cibachrome photograph by noted American photographer Jeffey Becom, b.1953. It is hand signed and numbered 64/75 on the ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Other Medium
Split - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 17x24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater photograph of female knees and feet
Original gallery quality print on archival metallic paper signed by the artist.
Paper size: 18" x 24"
Image size: 17.2" x 23.5"
Limite...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Market Day, Guatemala
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Market Day, Guatemala" c.1998, is a photograph by American artist Lisa Kristine, b.1965. It is stamp signed and titled on the back. The photograph size is 6.5 x ...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Other Medium
Boy with Silver Mask (Stay)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boy with Silver Mask (Stay) - 2006
37x36cm,
Edition of 30,
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label
artist Inventory #5606.
Not mounted.
Torsten ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Namaste
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Namaste" 2001, is a photograph (Cibachrome) by American artist Lisa Kristine, b.1965. It is hand signed, titled and dated in pencil by the artist. The photograph...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Other Medium
Untitled (Nr. 0442) Photography 36" x 44" Edition of 12 by Rowan Daly
By Rowan Daly
Located in Culver City, CA
Untitled (Nr. 0442) Photography 36" x 44" Edition of 12 by Rowan Daly
Unframed - ships rolled in a tube
Ben Cope + Rowan Daly Off the Grid
Off the Grid is the culmination of a s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
OK Corral - part 2 - (Stranger than Paradise)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
OK Corral - part 2 - (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999,
20 x 20 cm, Edition 5/10,
Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid
Artist Inventory 3182.18.
Not mounted
Stefanie Schneider's s...
Category
1990s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper
Theodore (Vignanello) 21st Century, Figurative Photography
By Tao Ruspoli
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Theodore' (Vignanello), Edition 1/10, 30x20cm, 2016, C-Print, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate.
About
Tao Ruspoli (bor...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Light Blue Lingerie (Wastelands)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Light Blue Lingerie - however - (Wastelands) - 2003
57x56cm,
Edition 4/5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on a Polaroid, Artist inve...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Badwater (Memories of Green) 4 analog hand-prints, 58x56cm each
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Badwater - Memories of Green, quadriptych (four pieces), - 2003
Edition 1/5,
each 58x56cm, installed with gaps 122x117cm,
analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crysta...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Slow Motion - underwater nude photograph - print on aluminum 36x24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A beautiful and mysterious underwater photograph of a young naked woman slowly falling down through the pool water. Her strong body drops a bizarre shadow on the bottom of the pool ...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
Automobili I (Ferrari) - details at iconic Italian race car performance garage
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Automobili I by Frank Schott
a series of Industrial Style still life photographs
(Ferrari) - details at iconic Italian race car performance garage
48 x 72inches / 122cm x 183cm
edi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
White Trash Beautiful I (29 Palms, CA) featuring Radha Mitchell, analog, mounted
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
White Trash Beautiful I (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
128x125cm, Edition 3/5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on a Polaroid.
Mounted on A...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
Pool at Night (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Pool at Night (Suburbia) 2004, 50x50cm, Edition of of 10, digital C-Print based on an expired Polaroid.
Signature label with Certificate, unmounted.
The project "Suburbia" was shot...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Ladies Of Lyford Cay
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Grace, Mrs Dauphinot, Marina Posson and Baroness Meriel de Posson in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974.
20 x 30 inches
$3000
20 x 24 inches
$2500
16 x 20 inches
$2150
...
Category
1970s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Handball In Central Park, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman modelling for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot.
This is an estate stamped ...
Category
1940s American Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Photogram, Digital, Black and White, ABS, Emulsion
Handball In Central Park, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman modelling for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot.
This is an estate stamped ...
Category
1940s American Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Handball In Central Park, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman modelling for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot.
This is an estate stamped ...
Category
1940s American Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Handball In Central Park, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman modelling for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot.
This is an estate stamped ...
Category
1940s American Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Handball In Central Park, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman modelling for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot.
This is an estate stamped ...
Category
1940s American Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Handball In Central Park, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman modelling for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot.
This is an estate stamped ...
Category
1940s American Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Handball In Central Park, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman modelling for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot.
This is an estate stamped ...
Category
1940s American Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
On Hold - The Girl behind the White Picket Fence
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'On Hold' (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
98x97cm,
Edition of 5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label
a...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Lido Life, Venice, 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 group of friends squeeze onto an inflatable raft at the Venice Lido, Venice, Italy.
This...
Category
1950s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Lido Life, Venice, 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 group of friends squeeze onto an inflatable raft at the Venice Lido, Venice, Italy.
This...
Category
1950s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Lido Life, Venice, 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 group of friends squeeze onto an inflatable raft at the Venice Lido, Venice, Italy.
This...
Category
1950s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Mermaids - a book of underwater nude and ocean wildlife photographs
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
The book “Mermaids” has the best of Alex Sher’s underwater photography for eight years (2010-2018). It blends human erotics with the beauty of the ocean wildlife - transforming the c...
Category
2010s Photorealist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Magazine Paper
Raindancer - archival pigment print - 35х24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A young beautiful woman is dancing under the rain. Her dress is all wet. Some strange fishes are reflected in the window behind her.
Original gallery quality print signed by the art...
Category
2010s Photorealist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Boccia I (Beachshoot ) with Radha Mitchell -Polaroid, Contemporary, Women, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boccia I (Beachshoot) - 2005
38x36cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 1467.
Not mounted.
featuring Cam...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"Feels Good" Polar Bear Photograph - Signed and Numbered Limited Edition
By Thomas Mangelsen
Located in Soquel, CA
Signed and numbered limited edition photograph of a polar bear by Thomas Mangelsen (American, b. 1945). Signed "Thomas Mangelsen" in the lower right corner and numbered "794/950" in the lower left corner. This particular image is no longer produced. Presented in a double mat of light grey and tan, in a wood frame. Image size: approx. 21"H x 31"W
Renowned American nature and wildlife photographer Thomas D. Mangelsen (American, b. 1945) has traveled throughout the natural world for over 40 years observing and photographing the Earth’s last great wild places. A Nebraska native, Mangelsen’s love of nature, his life outdoors and business success were heavily influenced by his father. An avid sportsman, Harold Mangelsen took his sons to favorite blinds along the Platte River in Nebraska to observe the great flocks of ducks, geese and cranes that migrate through the valley. From these adventures, Mangelsen learned important lessons for photographing in the field, most notably patience and understanding animal behavior.
In 1965, Mangelsen began studying business at the University of Nebraska. In 1967, Tom transferred to Doane College in Crete, Nebraska, where he changed his major and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biology. Tom continued postgraduate study in zoology and wildlife biology at the University of Nebraska and Colorado State University.
In 1970 Mangelsen moved to Nederland, Colorado. He spent two years living in the Rocky Mountains in an old mining shack without electricity or running water with his English setter, black lab and raccoon. Tom continued to work on his photography and studied arctic alpine ecology at the University of Colorado’s Mountain Research Station near Nederland. There he met Bert Kempers, a CU film producer, who later hired Tom as cinematographer and film editor for his company Westwind Productions, making educational and nature documentaries. Tom longed...
Category
1990s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Nebula - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Abstract, 21st Century, Mermaid, Bl
By Josey Cary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Nebula #1, 2014, 10x15", Edition of 3/10.
digital C-Print, based on an edited Polaroid Spectra film.
Hand-signed and numbered by the artist on the back.
Not mounted.
Exhibitions:
B...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Sir Run Run Shaw, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features philanthropist and entertainment mogul Sir Run Run Shaw surrounded by the stars of Hong Ko...
Category
1970s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Renée's Dream XIII (Days of Heaven) - Landscape, Horse, Polaroid, 21st Century
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Renée's Dream XIII (Days of Heaven). Part of the 29 Palms, CA project - 2006
20x20cm,
Edition of 10
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and certificate.
Artist...
Category
1990s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Pointe - underwater photograph - acrylic print
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater photograph of ballerina tying up her pointe shoes.
"Four years ago I wrecked my sailboat and was selfmedicating with vodka at a Russian restaurant when I suddenly noticed...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Archival Pigment
Porcelain - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 24" x 35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater photograph of a two naked young women on neutral black background.
Porcelain, aside from being an exquisite material, is the name of an exquisite photo series. The se...
Category
2010s Naturalistic California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Ewan McGregor - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative Photography
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Ewan McGregor' (Stay) - 2006
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label
artist Inventory No. 5007.01
Not mounted
Stefanie Schneider:
Torsten Scheid, “Fotografie, Kunst, Kino. Revisited.”, FilmDienst 3/2006, page 11-13
Photography Art Cinema. Revisited
Stay expands a traditional connection through new facets
Interwoven between the media of photography and film is a veritable mesh-work of technical, motific, metaphorical and personal interrelationships. Extending from photo-film which, as in La Jetée by Chris Marker (France, 1962) is a montage of single, unmoving photographs all the way to the portrayal of photographic motifs in Hollywood cinema―most recently in Memento (USA, 2000) and One hour photo (USA, 2002)―is the range of filmic-photographic interactions on the one hand, and from the adaption of modes of cinematic production to the imitation of film stills on the other. For instance, with the legendary Untitled Film Stills (1978) of the American artist Cindy Sherman, who later made her debut as a film director with Office Killer (USA, 1997) and thereby, like many others, changed sides: Wim Wenders, Robert Frank and Larry Clark are doubtlessly the most successful of these photographic-filmic border crossers. This brief survey provides only a vague indication of the dimensions of this intermedial field, which in fact extends much further and is constantly being cultivated.
Also as a motif in film, photography has experienced a historical transformation: Photographers were once considered to be technicians who mastered a craft but never achieved the status of artists. Photographer-figures were caught in the allure of beautiful appearance, incapable of penetrating to the actual essence of things. Such depth was reserved for literature or painting. When photography in film touched upon the sphere of art, then most often as its contrasting model, as the metaphor for a superficial access to the world. Coming to mind are Fred Astaire as a singing fashion photographer in Stanley Donen’s musical film Funny Face (USA, 1957), or the restless lifestyle-photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni’s genre-classic Blow up (GB, 1966). For the doubting Thomas...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Kelp Mermaid - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater ocean photograph of a naked girl swimming in kelp forest. Her beautiful body is surrounded with kelp trees. The photograph was taken in ...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Wallgirls- underwater nude photograph - print on paper 18” x 24”
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater nude photograph of two girls diving in a pool.
Original gallery quality print signed by the artist.
Digital archival pigment print on archival paper with metallic fin...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Wren Library, Cambridge, England, German Interior Architecture Photograph
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A masterpiece of Baroque symmetry and intellectual grandeur, Reinhard Görner’s Wren Library, Cambridge captures the timeless elegance of one of Brita...
Category
2010s Conceptual California - Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Freediver - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 35x26"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater photograph of a young naked dark hair woman in the pool. A transparent silk scarf slid off her shoulders opening the breasts and partially covering the hips and pubis....
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Home of Colonel William H. Terrill Roanoke Virginia Original Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Home of Colonel William H. Terrill Roanoke Virginia Original Photograph
Home of the Colonel William Terrill (CSA) Roanoke Virginia, original period s...
Category
1870s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Ink, Silver Gelatin
When we were friends (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
When we were friends (Suburbia) - 2004, 28x37cm,
Edition of 10, digital C-Print based on an expired Polaroid.
Signature label with Certificate, unmounted.
The project "Suburbia" wa...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Porcelain II - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 43x64"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
"Porcelain II" captures a young naked woman floating in dark waters, their pale form creating ethereal ripples against the black backdrop. This underwater fine art photograph showcas...
Category
2010s Naturalistic California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Porcelain - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 43" x 64"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater photograph of a two naked young women on neutral black background.
Porcelain, aside from being an exquisite material, is the name of an exquisite photo series. The se...
Category
2010s Naturalistic California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Call to Prayer - Staged Photograph of Muslim Birth Scene (Peach+Teal)
By Natalie Lennard
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Call to Prayer" is the latest photograph in the award-winning series 'Birth Undisturbed' by British photographer Natalie Lennard. The series travels through time and space to show t...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Digital
