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Item Ships From: California
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
"Thinking of Rodin 2" Nude Photography 28" x 20" in Ed. of 20 by Lika Brutyan
By Lika Brutyan
Located in Culver City, CA
"Thinking of Rodin 2" Nude Photography 28" x 20" in Ed. of 20 by Lika Brutyan
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta.
Not Framed. Ships in a tube.
Lika Brutyan is Am...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Archival Pigment
"Dark Spark" (FRAMED) Photography 20" x 16" in Edition 1/15 by Aaron Mcpolin
By Aaron McPolin
Located in Culver City, CA
"Dark Spark" (FRAMED) Photography 20" x 16" in Edition 1/15 by Aaron Mcpolin
Size framed: 22" x 18" inch
Medium: Archival Giclee Print
"A Tender Dissolution" series:
Shibari is the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Nicely Coiffed, France, Estate Edition, Cityscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970s urban photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a poodle entering a barber shop on a street in Deauville, Normandy, France.
This is an estate sta...
Category
1970s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Smoke Jumper Ballet (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Smoke Jumper Ballet (29 Palms, CA) - 2007
50 x 60 cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist I...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"Untouched Nr 2" 30x40 in Photography Edition 2/10 by Lika Brutyan
By Lika Brutyan
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untouched Nr 2" 30x40 in Photography Edition 2/10 by Lika Brutyan
"Untouched Nr 2"
30" x 40" inch
Original photography by Lika Brutyan from the ""Untouched" series
Edition 2/10
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
Daydreams
By Sarah Hadley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Archival pigment print
Hand printed by Sarah Hadley on Canson Baryta Photo paper
From the series In Between Days
Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles based artist whose narrative work focuses on issues of female identity and memory.
Hadley's photographs have been exhibited at the Milan Photo...
Category
2010s Romantic California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Everything put Together (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog, Portrait
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Everything put Together (Suburbia) - 2004,
50x50cm, Edition of 1/10,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Signature label with Certificate,
Not mounted.
The project "Suburbia" ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Zero Gravity Lounge III - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment 18x24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater photograph of a young naked woman diving in a pool. The artwork depicts in soft pastel colors her slim body, long hair, her beautiful face bringing up recollection of clas...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Boy Running (Point Dume) - analog, color, expired, Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boy Running (Point Dume) - 2000
Sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 1/2.
100x133cm.
Analog C-Print, hand printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Spoonbills at the Lagoon by Cheryl Medow, 2023, Archival Pigment Print
By Cheryl Medow
Located in Denton, TX
Spoonbills at the Lagoon by Cheryl Medow features a large spoonbill bird walking on a log in front of a body of water. Two smaller spoonbills are seen s...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Circle of Magic (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Landscape, Magic
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Circle of Magic -
from the 29 Palms, CA series - 2009
40x48cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Art...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"Synchronicity (part 1)" Photography 40" x 30" inch Edition of 24 by Rob Woodcox
By Rob Woodcox
Located in Culver City, CA
"Synchronicity (part 1)" Photography 40" x 30" inch Edition of 24 by Rob Woodcox
Hahnemuhle Torchon Matte FineArt Paper (archival)
Ships in a tube
2021
ABOUT Rob Woodcox
Rob Woo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Three Girls X (The Last Picture Show)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Three Girls X (The Last Picture Show) - 2006,
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Ar...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
A Nice Spot For Lunch, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group enjoying a picnic at a rocky coastline in Bermuda.
This is an estate stamped and ...
Category
1950s American Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Spoonbills at the Lagoon by Cheryl Medow, 2023, Archival Pigment Print
By Cheryl Medow
Located in Denton, TX
Spoonbills at the Lagoon by Cheryl Medow is a 16 x 20 inch archival pigment print. This photograph features a large spoonbill bird walking on a log in front of a body of water.
The paper size is 21 x 24 inches, the image size is 16 x 20 inches.
This photograph is signed and numbered in pencil, and blind stamp on print margin. It's also signed, titled, dated, and print type in pencil on print verso. This photograph is available in multiple sizes.
Cheryl Medow's background in the arts is diverse, but interconnected.
Medow studied ceramics at the famed Chouinard Institute and received a BA in Art from UCLA, concentrating on life drawing with charcoal and pastels. Continuing her art education, she studied printmaking at Hand Graphics in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
With a wealth of materials and techniques, Medow layers her photographs and weaves them together to create visual narratives.
There have been numerous articles written about her work. Avian Alchemy by Becca Cudmore was published by Audubon News/Culture on June 5, 2015, Proof. National Geographic - An Altered Reality by Becky Harlan along with National Geographics Sunday Stills, Sunday, July 12, 2015 and an article in Inspire Adobe Photoshop For The Birds by Alyssa Coppelman in August.
In 2016, Medow was included in the SLIDESHOW Night at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City, California. She received the Juror's Award at PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury Vermont for Great Blue Heron With Chicks Revisited and her print will be exhibited from March 23 through April 22 and White Ibis With Fish will be part of the Online Gallery Annex at PhotoPlace.
Medow was a finalist in the 89th Annual International Competition at The Print Center in Philadelphia given the Olcott Family Award. She is also a finalist at the LensCulture Earth Awards 2015.
In 2015, Medow's images were exhibited at The G2 Gallery in Venice, CA and at Flock: Birds On The Brink / Ganna Walksa Lotusland, curated by Nancy Gifford...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Childhood Memories - 21st Century, Polaroid, Contemporary, Color, Ocean, Dog
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Childhood Memories (Stay), from Ryan Gosling's memory sequence - 2006
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, matte surface, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature la...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Three Girls VIII (The Last Picture Show)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Three Girls VIII (The Last Picture Show) - 2006,
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label. ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Burrowing Owls - Color Photograph, Birds, Animals, Landscape, Woman Artist
By Cheryl Medow
Located in Denton, TX
Burrowing Owls by Cheryl Medow is a color photograph featuring four birds standing in a grassy landscape, with mountains and a river in the background.
Archival Pigment Print
Paper ...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Sisters (Circus)" Photography 31" x 31" inch Edition of 7 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Sisters (Circus)" Photography 31" x 31" inch Edition of 7 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
Wonderland II - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 23.5" x16.7"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater nude photograph of a young woman in the pool surface next to the red pool wall.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print on archival paper signed by the artist.
Li...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Bermuda Beach, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman running towards the ocean on a beach in Bermuda, 1957. The bather wears a vintage coral red swimsuit, which provides a pop of color against the sun-dappled turquoise waves. F...
Category
1950s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Bermuda Beach, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman running towards the ocean on a beach in Bermuda, 1957. The bather wears a vintage coral red swimsuit, which provides a pop of color against the sun-dappled turquoise waves. F...
Category
1950s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Zen Beauty - Contemporary black and white photography of Flower series - medium
By MAE Curates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This photography is part of a series of zen like beauty of Flowers art photography.
In 3 sizes.
This piece:
Print size: 30 x 37.5 in.
Image dimensions are 22 x 30 in.
Matted in ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Querelle
By Andy Warhol
Located in Beverly Hills, 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
$24,000
"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
Soirée
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Soirée, 2022
Unique Cyanotype Variant Print
Limited Edition of 7
Two women in round toed-pumps and skirts blowing in the wind, three men in overcoats with hats in their hands. This ...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Organic Material, Paper, Film, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Magazine Paper, ...
Jon Gould Under Pier (11" x 14")
By Andy Warhol
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
From The Jon Gould Collection of Andy Warhol Photographs. It's extremely rare to see a photo larger than 8 x 10 inches printed by Warhol, making this 11 x 14 inch photograph impressi...
Category
1980s Pop Art California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Winter Fishing - underwater nude photograph - print on paper 25" x 35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Winter Fishing by Alex Sher presents a striking underwater nude photograph featuring a young naked woman entangled in fishing nets beneath dark waters. The monochromatic palette crea...
Category
2010s Photorealist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Liquid Fire - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 17x23.5"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater photograph of a naked young women with long blonde hair diving in a pool. The realistic photograph is taken with red background.
Original gallery quality archival pigm...
Category
2010s Photorealist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Karine - 21st Century, Portrait Photography, Contemporary, Color
By Tao Ruspoli
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Karine - 2018
Edition of 10, 30x20cm.
Archival Print.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
Tao Ruspoli (born 7 November 1975) is an Italian-American filmmaker, phot...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Photographic Paper, C Print
$330 Sale Price
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"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
"One Heart" Black & White Photography 24" x 24" in Ed. 4/15 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"One Heart" Black & White Photography 24" x 24" in Ed. 4/15 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
Mary Pickford Douglas Fairbanks at Walpi First Mesa Hopi Village 1920 Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks at Walpi First Mesa Hopi Village 1920 Photograph
Original Sepia toned Silver gelatin photographic print by Charles Roshe (British, 1885-1974).
Provenance: Mary Pickford, Elizabeth (Bess) Huggins.
Image 10.75"H x 13.75"W
He was Mary Pickford's favorite cinematographer and a personal friend, shooting all of the films in which she starred from 1918 to 1927, before they had a falling out during production of Coquette (1929). He was the first cinematographer to receive an Academy Award, along with Karl Struss, for Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), and won again for The Yearling (1946), with Leonard Smith and Arthur Arling. He was also nominated four times.
Walpi, pueblo (village), Navajo county, northeastern Arizona, U.S., on the edge of a high mesa in the Hopi Indian Reservation. It comprises a group of angular stone houses of two to three stories crowded on a narrow tip of the steep-walled mesa at an elevation of 6,225 feet (1,897 metres). The original pueblo (founded c. 1700) was on a lower part of the mesa, but following the Pueblo Rebellion, the inhabitants moved to the top as a defensive measure against Spanish retaliation. Walpi is known for an antelope ceremony and for snake dances, held during odd years in August and generally closed to non-Hopi spectators. Shitchumovi (Sichomivi) pueblo is adjacent and Hano is nearby.
Pickford was the first Canadian to win an Oscar. She was also the second to win best actress and the first for a role in a film with sound. She was one of the founding members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
In 1919 Pickford took the lead in organizing the United Artists Corporation with Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks. In 1920, after the dissolution of her first marriage (1911–19) to actor Owen Moore, she married Fairbanks (divorced 1936). Pickford’s popularity continued unabated in Pollyanna (1920), Little Lord...
Category
1920s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
"OPTASIA 14" Abstract Photography 39" x 39" inch Edition 3/5 by Giuliano Bekor
By Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"OPTASIA 14" Abstract Photography 39" x 39" inch Edition 3/5 by Giuliano Bekor
OPTASIA 02
39" x 39" inch
Edition 3/5
Archival pigment print.
Not frame...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
A Friendly Chat, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a man wearing diving equipment talking with a girl in a wicker chair on the beach, Bahamas...
Category
1960s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
"Miss Ada" Black & White Photography 24" x 24" in Edition 1/15 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Miss Ada" Black & White 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....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Leonard Dalsemer
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Leonard Dalsemer and his family at their villa in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Undercurrent Projects is p...
Category
1970s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Traintracks (Last Picture Show)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Traintracks (The Last Picture Show) - 2006,
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Arti...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Governing Couple
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Nancy Reagan and her husband film star and Governor of California, Ronald Reagan (later the 40th President of the USA) in Acapulco, mexico.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your fr...
Category
1970s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Springtime
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Springtime, 2022
Unique Cyanotype Print Arches Aquarelle Paper
Edition 1/7
14 x 11” / 36 x 28 cm
+ Cyanotype hand-printed on Arches BFK Rives French watercolor paper
+ Signed and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Color, Photogram
Three Girls IV (Last Picture Show)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Three Girls IV (The Last Picture Show) - 2006,
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
A...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Blue Fall - underwater photograph - archival pigment print 43x55"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
"Blue Fall" exemplifies contemporary underwater fine art photography, merging surrealism with dynamic motion capture. In this ethereal composition, a figure in striking red fabric de...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Flying Boy (Stay) - Contemporary, Figurative, Polaroid, Photograph, Film
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Flying Boy (Stay) - from Ryan Gosling's memory sequence - 2006
58x56cm,
Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand printed by the artist on Fuji Archive Crystal Pape...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Lipstick (Sidewinder) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Contemporary, Women, Portrait
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lipstick (Sidewinder) - 2005
20 x 24 cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid,
signature label and certificate.
Artist Inventory 3045.
Not mounted.
sidewinder
...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Zen Beauty - Contemporary black and white photography of Flower series - medium
By MAE Curates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This photography is part of a series of zen like beauty of Flowers art photography.
In 3 sizes.
This piece:
Print size: 30 x 37.5 in.
Image dimensions are 22 x 30 in.
Matted in 8 ply museum archival matt.
Ed of 15, signed, editioned on a Certificate of Authenticity by by photographer.
About this series:
With great patience and respect, the photographer observes the life cycle of the flower, viewing the subject much like a portrait photographer views a person, choosing the particular instance which in his view represents the essence of the flower. We feel the piece evokes a certain poetic, quiet, Zen beauty.
The photographer was a London Central Saint Martins graduate and lived in a short spell in a monastery in Japan, and now primarily lives in Japan.
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The artist was born in the UK in 1971, and after leaving Central Saint Martin’s in London in 1992, determined to explore a deeper sense of meaning, and contemplate life, he journeyed to Japan where he lived in a Zen Buddhist monastery and lived and studied in a temple in the mountains of Yamanashi for months, during which he studied Zen Buddhism and joined the monks in their daily prayers and routines.
Over time, the subject matter for this series is borne out of a respect of the inner life of living things, Nature, in this instance and a sense of “mono no aware” (the art of impermanence). His artist vision has drawn influences from his Western artistic culture, Japanese classical aesthetics, and the 1933 classical text, “In Praise of Shadows” by Japanese literary titan, Junichiro Tanizaki (1886–1965). Tanizaki, as translated by scholars, examines the singular standards of Japanese aesthetics and their stark contrast with the value systems of the industrialized West. He writes:
“We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates… Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.”
“Shadows” presumably refers to the subtle interplay between light and darkness, not a stark dualism between black and white. Hence, the quiet beauty expressed in shadows of light and darkness as a living flower moves through the passage of life.
The art of impermanence refers to a “pathos” (aware) of “things” (mono), deriving from their transience. The flower is a perfect metaphor for the expression of impermanence and beauty. Each flower has its own distinctive character and temperament, and is in constant dynamic motion. Through the passage of its life, it blossoms to its greatest peak, turning always towards the light until they eventually give up their petals. The artist documents this process through hundreds of images over time, essentially capturing the essence of the life of the subject. Both the visual aesthetic and process of his art calls to mind the transcient nature of things and reminds us to rejoice what we do have.
In his gold series - Gold, in turn associated with the sacred, the divine, with supernatural powers and even immortality, has been recognized since ancient times in all the great civilizations as a noble material. Gold leaves have been used to decorate shrines, temples, statues, armor, jewelry since ancient times. At different times of the day, the light reflects off the gold differently as the day progresses, providing a visual context in which the celebration of life was captured.
The artist has been recognized for his work for example, with a merit award at the Art Directors Club 87th Annual Awards N.Y. (2008). His work has been in group exhibitions as a runner up at the National Portrait Gallery in London as part of the Taylor Wessing London – Elle Commendation Portrait Awards, and at the Kiyosato Photo Art Museum in 1999. A successful photographer, the artist’s commercial clients include Adidas, Estee Lauder, Hugo Boss and shot celebrities for magazines / editorials featuring Sam Smith, Jeremy Renner, Gwyneth Paltrow, David Fincher, Zhang Ziyi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Nicely Coiffed, France, Estate Edition, Cityscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970s urban photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a poodle entering a barber shop on a street in Deauville, Normandy, France.
This is an estate sta...
Category
1970s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
The Art of Seduction
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Art of Seduction, 2023
22 x 30"
Edition of 7
Limited Edition, Cyanotype Unique Variant Print.
This cyanotype diptych made from 1960's magazines, gives a contemporary edge to this vintage flirt...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Film, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Magazine Paper, Color, Photogram
Sleeping Swan - underwater nude ballet photograph - print on paper 16.5” x 23.5”
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater ballet. An underwater photograph of topless ballerina in white tutu skirt on a bottom of a pool.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print on archival paper signed ...
Category
2010s Photorealist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Liza Minnelli posing in Halston's Apartment
By Andy Warhol
Located in Beverly Hills, 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
1970s Pop Art California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Stretched
By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stretched - 2016,
50x50cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2016-121.
N...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Photographic Paper
Untitled from "Pia"
By Christopher Anderson
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes free shipping in the US and Europe, framing with UV plexi and a 14-day return policy. Equivalent to a ~$550 or 10% discount. Ships from our New York gallery.
Christopher Anderson...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digital P...
Prayer Beads, Western Tibet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Prayer Beads, Western Tibet" 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 ...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Other Medium
Daisy and Austen in front of Trailer III (Till Death do us Part)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Daisy and Austen in front of Trailer II (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005
80x79cm,
Edition 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
White Swan - underwater nude ballet photograph - print on paper 24.5” x 35”
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater ballet. An underwater photograph of topless ballerina in white tutu skirt on a bottom of a pool.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print on archival paper signed...
Category
2010s Photorealist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Equilibrium 1" Black & White Photography 24" x 24" in Ed 2/15 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Equilibrium 1" Black & White Photography 24" x 24" in Ed 2/15 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tub...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
“Nectar” Surreal Photography 24" x 24" inch Edition of 24 by Brian Ziff
By Brian Ziff
Located in Culver City, CA
“Nectar” Surreal Photography 24" x 24" inch Edition of 24 by Brian Ziff
Giclee (Archival Ink) Print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag
From "Unbearable Lightness...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
"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
Circle of Magic - Elixirs (29 Palms, CA)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Circle of Magic - Elixirs (29 Palms, CA) - 2009
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inv...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Barcelona - limited edition photograph of iconic midcentury architect pavillion
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
A serene interior photograph of the iconic mid century modern "Barcelona Pavilion", designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, director of the Bauhaus, who envisioned the iconic building ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Bauhaus California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée
