Continental Europe - Figurative Photography

Silvana Pampanini - Vintage Autographed Photograph is a vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century. Signature and dedication by the actress Silvana Pampanini: "Attraverso "Lanc...

Elsa Poppin - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 1998 - Edition of 5 This image was captured on film. The negative was scanned creating a digital file which was t...

Coloured poster after a photograph by Franco Fontana (Modena, 1933), one of the italian most famous contemporary photographer. Titled at the bottom. Very good conditions. Fontana st...

Ancient Views of Panama city is a set of of 2 original albumen prints made in 1880s. Prints in excellent condition, applied on a single cardboard. Caption in Italian ink hand-written on hardcover under each print. Prints 17.5 x 23 cm, 16.5 x 21.5 cm, cardboard 26 x 33.5 cm In the photographs two different views of Panama City, Central Park and Cathedral Square...

Stockings - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 5 This image was captured on film. The negative was scanned creating a digital file which was then pri...

Elsa Poppin - Platinum Palladium print over 24 carat Gold leaf on vellum paper Edition 1/8 or 2/8, plus 2 AP ( Medium size ) Unframed handmade photographic reproduction on sensit...

Brigitte Auber is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1960s. The photo depicts the actress, Brigitte Auber, in the Winter Circus in Paris, during the show with the horses ....

The Acrobats is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1950s. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments, places, f...

Photo of Iva Zanicchi a Portrait is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s. Good conditions.

Vanessa into the Blue - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 2022 - Edition of 5 Underwater photography of a woman This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based pape...

The American actor Frank Wolff, on the set of "Salavatore Giuliano". Vintage b/w photo, good condition.

Photography done for the publication Mexico/ Volk und Welt Berlin, 1967, signed on the back by the author.

The Burlesque is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1960s. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments, places, ...

Airplane on fire  is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1960s. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments, plac...

Golden Girl 1 Large scale photograph by Michael Banks - Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo RAG Baryta 315 gsm ) Limited Editions of 5 , signed + numbere...

Euro Disney Resort is a color vintage photo, realized in 1980s.  The photo depicts the Sequoia Lodge guest room. Good conditions and aged. ...

Vedute is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century by Studio Vasari. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including histori...

Lady Blandfort opens Antique Dealers' Fair  is a black and white vintage photo, realized in June 10th 1964. The photo depicts the Marchioness of Blandford viewing exhibits after ope...

Portrait of Coretta Scott King is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1960s.  Good conditions and aged. Copyright by Rizzoli Press, Milan.

Ancient Views of Johor and Singapore photographs is a set of 12 original vintage albumen prints on single cardboard: 25 x 34 cm. Size of photos: Various sizes 12x8, 8.5 x11, 8.5x10...

Ancient views of China is a set of seven vintage albumen prints on single cardboard: 25 x 33 cm. Four images on the front 11x 15.5 cm and three images o...

Protests after the Death of M.L. King is a historical photograph realized in the 1968. Good conditions and aged.

Prince Charles and Princess Anne - Vintage press print realized in the mid-20th Century. Good conditions and aged.

The Girl 3 - Large scale photograph by Michael Banks Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo RAG Baryta 315 gsm ) Limited Editions of 5 , signed + numbered ...

The Pope  Giovanni XXIII is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1950s.  The photo depicts Giovanni XXII, known as the "Good Pope". Good conditions and aged. It belongs to...

The Church's altar is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical m...

"Fontana del Moro, Piazza Navona", Rome is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album i...

Campo dei Fiori, Rome is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historica...

Italian Workers in Lebanese Town of Zahle is an original photograph realized in the 1960s. Good conditions.

Cock Robin is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1980s. Hand signed and dedicated. The photo depicts the American pop-rock band "Cock Robin"; the group was founded by Pete...

Vanessa - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 10 This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm , Acid-fr...

Okurimono Pigment Print Images from the Okurimono series is available in 3 different formats : * 50 x 75 cm : edition of 10 + (+2ap) * 80 x 120 cm : edition of 7 + (+2ap) * 113 x 170 cm : edition of 7 + (+2ap) Each print is numbered and signed About the work : Work by contemporary photographer Christian Houge, from the Okurimono series. In this series, Houge has, through five trips to Japan (Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto), explored Japans otherworldly subculture and its ritualistic perfection. In this personal art documentary he has ventured into delicate themes such as personal identity, sexuality, longing and gender dysphoria. In this particular series, he uses staging as a method to create a story within a story. The viewers associations are important in meeting this work and ambiguity plays an important role. In this series, Houge has, through five trips to Japan (Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto), explored Japans otherworldly subculture and its ritualistic perfection. In this personal art documentary he has ventured into delicate themes such as personal identity, sexuality, longing and gender dysphoria. In this particular series, he uses staging as a method to create a story within a story. The viewers associations are important in meeting this work and ambiguity plays a Okurimono (meaning both “gift” and “that which is in-between” in Japanese) - is a word that binds together this comprehensive project developed over five trips to Japan between 2007 and 2018. The series explores the personal pursuit of identity, at times with an underlying darkness as Houge had the chance to be introduced to Tokyo’s subculture. In exploring this theme, Houge has ventured into delicate matters such as sexuality, longing and gender dysphoria. In this particular series, he uses staging as a method to create a story within a story. The artist wishes to question the viewer and provoke a reflection on topics that are often seen as taboos in our contemporary societies. The viewer’s own associations are important in appreciating this work where ambiguity plays an important role. The project started in the Harajuku district of Tokyo which is known as a center of Japanese youth culture and where Houge found some of his first motifs: teenage girls dressing up in post-Victorian dresses or ‘cosplay’ costumes to identify with a character of their favorite comics. Here, the desire to express one’s uniqueness is central and the photographer explores the tension between personal identity and aesthetics shared by all (or at least by the same youth group). In many of his carefully staged photographs, Houge’s models are masked, so as to echo the many social masks we wear in our day-to-day lives. In our post-modern information society, drained of wonder, these enigmatic masked characters also evoke the world of shamans and pagan rituals, therefore injecting a sense of mystery and spirituality that many people are longing for. Symbolism and the many references to ritual and identity in an otherwise suppressed society, may at times create a sense of unease among viewers. The Okurimono project also explores the topic of identity and sexuality in gender dysphoria with Japan’s nyūhāfu (the transsexual ‘new halfs’). Here, the quest for identity coincides with a search of femininity and body image which results in complex physical transformations. Viewers may look at these portraits not having any clue that models are nyūhāfu. Yet, the photographs are staged so that viewers are placed in a disconcerting voyeuristic role while looking at otherwise closed world. Shibari (the art of tying), which originates from the Edo period (1600s), is another territory explored by Houge in his Okurimono series. His striking photographs of female models tied with red rope on a white background take us into this powerful journey into vulnerability and surrender, power and freedom. Through tradition, symbolism and technology, Okurimono also explores the hugely potent symbols that help define parts of Japanese culture and national identity, between old and new. As Art historian Erling Bugge put it: “Christian Houge guides us into a mystery. It resides between the ritualized shapes of the traditional and withdrawn Zen garden in Kyoto and the equally ritualized spaces of futuristic, urban Tokyo. For a westerner, Japan might look familiar, since what is held up for us looks like a futuristic spectacle somehow grounded in a western imagination. This judgment, however, is too easy. In Houge’s photographs, the sense of sameness withdraws and a very different feeling of strangeness creeps up on us. In fact, what this series registers is a remarkable place of alterity in today’s global order, a radical difference bang in the middle of the familiar.” The images of the Okurimono series share a ghostly, otherworldly quality. In reality and dream, ritual and play merge while the boundaries between the known and the unknown dissolve. Christian Houge – Now – Okurimono Christian Houge guides us into a mystery. It resides between the ritualized shapes of the traditional and withdrawn Zen garden in Kyoto and the equally ritualized spaces of futuristic, urban Tokyo. For a westerner, Japan might look familiar, since what is held up for us looks like a futuristic spectacle somehow grounded in a western imagination. This judgment, however, is too easy. In Houge’s photographs, the sense of sameness withdraws and a very different feeling of strangeness creeps up on us. In fact, what this series registers is a remarkable place of alterity in today’s global order, a radical difference bang in the middle of the familiar. This is pushed to the limit in the technological and virtual wonderland of Akihabara in Tokyo, where shop after shop trade in electronic products and computer games, while a weird costume play, “cosplay”, is being performed in streets. A similar kind of simulation is being acted out in the district of Harajuku, where Houge found some of his motifs. There is no authenticity here, no western “essence” or “reality”; instead, the virtual conquers the carnal body in a purified play of surface, image and the hyperreal. This is exotic. All the while as we are conscious of these notions as pinnacle points in a western idea of the post-modern. But in this sense Japan has always been “post-modern”. It has always integrated the most refined culture and technology from the outside while somehow retained an identity for itself. So, what would this identity be? Houge takes the view of ritual and play. Indeed, Japanese culture seems to be grounded solely on ritual, in business and in sex, in its relation to nature and in religion. This play transcends the notion of authenticity altogether, unlike the West which is haunted by the “ghost” of origin and beginnings. In Japan, “now” would mean just that; it is a “no looking back”, but rather a flow of intensities integrated in the play and ritual of the ever-present, okurimono. There is no threat of being eaten up by western culture and technology here, for, like in Zen practice, the ritual oversees everything and has no historical drag. Japan becomes weightless, shot into orbit outside the material of earth itself. Is acting out the role as Lewis Caroll’s Victorian girl driven by a sense of nostalgia? I think not. It is a striving for a moment of perfected presence, in dialogue with Houge’s optical machine. It is the moment of Now. The girl, the Zen garden and the image shares in a perfection modified by small uncertainties, coincidental imperfections that become somewhat oblique points of entry for us - a discarded handkerchief or seemingly unremarkable shapes and reflections in the prismatic play of surfaces. There is a ghostly, otherworldly quality in these images, even in the fleeting blossoming cherrytree and the play of shadows across a concrete minimalism. The doubly exposed or reflected light on the lens reminds us of the uncertain beginnings in photography’s history, with its widespread belief that the camera was able to perceive more than the naked eye, like spirits and ghosts. In Houge’s images there are different specters, skeletal, natural shapes on the one hand, the machine and the virtual on the other. Here, like some scene from the film Blade Runner, there is an uncanny confusion and mix between the human and non human. Maybe the search for a perfect moment in the perpetual flow of things is a romantic or melancholic longing for transcendent wholeness, a drive that is harnessed in a rigorous attention to visual detail. This compulsive discipline might seem absurd to any western observer, while longing itself form a common ground and will ultimately be the basis in our meeting. Erling Bugge Bio: Christian Houge (born in Oslo 1972) Based in Oslo, Norway, I have been making photographs for over twenty years and new insights continue to open. By exploring the relation, and conflict, between Nature and culture, I get a better understanding about Mans` condition. I am interested in the consequences of Humankinds progression and how science often is the result of our conquering of Nature, both on Earth and beyond. Mans` ego, consumer society, the last remnants of pure Nature and identity are recurring elements in my work. I often juxtapose the visually aesthetic with an underlying uneasiness. This often emanates a cognitive dissonance in the viewer to invite deeper truths and personal references. Looking at our actions and place in environment, which we are so dependent on, is a recurring theme in all my exploration and can use everything from digital cameras to large format and panoramic analog cameras for specific projects. I have exhibited extensively in galleries and museums in my native country Norway, as well as the US, England, France and China. The series `Death of a Mountain`(2016-2021) is nominated for the 2021 Leica Oskar Barnack Award, as well as receiving an arts grant from Norwegian Arts Council. Most recently, my series `Residence of Impermanence` 2017-2019 has been exhibited at five museums and several galleries already (including a solo show at Fotografiska, Stockholm (2019), and Les Recontres d`Arles, Haugar Artmuseum, Preus Muaeum of Photography and 2019 (Galerie Omnius, Arles). In 2021, this series received ten nominations for the Prix Pictet Award with the theme FIRE. `Residence of Impermanence` is currently exhibited at the UCR: California Museum of Photography in Los Angeles with the exhibition `Facing Fire,` Art, Wildfire and The End of Nature in the New West...

Uramino Jacki Fall - 21 August 1893 - Japan. Nicco. This ancient photo is part of a journey throughout the world performed by Prince Franz Ferdinand von Osterreich Este (1863-1914), heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Despite his affairs and the growing importance of his role within the Empire, he took a year off his duties to travel the world, from North Africa to India, East Asia, Australia, and America, where he attended the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair...

Vintage Photo. The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi in a vintage dress.

Metro Dog - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 5 This image was captured on film. The negative was scanned creating a digital file which is then printed o...

Godley & creme - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 5 London, 1983 Tinted Black & White Art print This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper...

The Sandinistas  is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1983 by the photographer Marcelo Montesino. The Sandinista National Liberation Front is a socialist political party ...

Josephine Baker is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s. Good conditions.

Alfred Hitchcock is a vintage photo, realized in 1963. Good conditions.

Point-Aven is a vintage poster realized by Michel Tersiquel in 1972. Black and white colored offset print. The artwork represented a phothograph po...

Opening Exhibition - Life in Italy in the 1960s in the 1960s is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the cultural...

Carla - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 10 This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm , Acid-fre...

Kali - 2021 60 x 50 cm, Edition of 10 + 2 Artist Proofs. Photograph printed in Hanemühle Baryta Photo Rag 340gr, based on the original reclaimed Fuji Instant Film Negative (not m...

"Giusva" Fioravanti is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1970s. The photo depicts the neo-fascist terrorist, Giuseppe Valerio Fioravanti, known as "Giusva", when he did t...

Virna Lisi is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s. Good conditions.

Nathalie - Platinum Palladium print over 24 carat Gold leaf on vellum paper, Unframed handmade photographic reproduction on sensitised paper Edition 1 of 8 plus 2 AP ( Medium Size ) ( Another edition in medium size will be available shortly) Woman in a wet silk bathrobe...

Queen Elizabeth - Vintage press print realized in the 1960s. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Andrew at Liverpool Street station. Good conditions and aged.

Queen Elizabeth with Princess Anne and Prince Charles- Vintage press print realized in 1960. Good conditions and aged.

Queen Elizabeth and French president- Vintage press print realized in the 1950s. Salute to Britain Good conditions and aged.

Queen Elizabeth - Vintage Photo realized in the 1950s. Good conditions and aged.

Queen Elizabeth and Edinburg Duce - Vintage press print  realized in the 1950s by Edward Blackbrow Good conditions and aged.

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip Wave from Top of Aircraft - Vintage press print realized in the 1950s. Royal Family back from Mille Tour of Canada, London. Good conditions and aged.

Light painting technique, realized in a completly dark photographic studio, where the photographer manually "paint" by torch with light of different colours, the subjects and the ba...

Paris Romance - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 5 This image was captured on film in 1994 in Paris, Champs-Elysées front o...

An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘Ben 2 ‘ who was captured on film in 1989...

Beach Shower- Signed limited edition archival pigment print , Edition of 5 The setting sun behind the girl under the shower brings out the water droplets This is an Archival Pigm...

St Peter's Square is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Second Half 20th Century.  A beautiful view of the Bernini square. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a hist...

Gianni Agnelli is a vintage black and white Photograph realized in the 1970s. Good conditions with blue spots. The copyright stamp on the rear.