Continental Europe - Figurative Photography

Women's Rights - Historical Photos is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s in Italy, it belongs to an album of women rights, protests, manifestation for their r...

Aerial view of Lisbon is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1967. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments, p...

Portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi is a precious Silver Salt print on paper, realized by Cesare Bernieri in 1861-1864. Hand-signed and stamped on the lower. E...

The Student's Assembly is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1970s. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments,...

Portrait of Lady is a Vintage Photograph in the early 20th Century by Debenham Gould in Glen View Studio. With a Greenish Passepartout and Cover wrote: Debenham Gould, Glen View Stu...

Ancient Views of Panama and the District of Colon is a set of two different prints made in 1880s Prints in very good condition, applied on a single cardboard. Caption in Italian in...

Anna Corradini  is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid-20th century, that depicts the journalist Anna Corradini, sent by the italian magazine "Grazia" Good conditions a...

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

Michele Landel creates intensely textured and airy collages using burned, quilted, and embroidered fabric, photographs and paper to explore the themes of exposure, absence, and memor...

Monica Guerritore is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s. Good conditions.

Gianni Morandi and Loredana Bertè  is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s. Good conditions.

Swim - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, Edition of 5 This print that is being offered is a high-quality Archival Pigment print which has been printed on fiber-based p...

Fall- Vintage Photograph is a Silver salt print realized in the late 19th Century. Applied on a Passepartout Good conditions with folding on the lower and...

Emma Bovary is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist and photographer Angelo Cricchi in 2009. Original Digital Photograph. Hand-signed, dated, numbered by the artist ...

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...

Vertical City is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid-20th Century, by Gunvor Betting . Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album includi...

Lapland farming area 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 ...

Skiline view of New York 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 histor...

View Of Rome - Vintage Photograph realized in the Early 20th Century. Applied on a Passepartout Good conditions. From Vintage Historical Albumen print....

Silver slat photograph of a painting, hand dedicated to Carlo Ferrari by Simonetta Alfoso realized by G.B. Berra in the early 20th Century. Four photographs, two on the front and tw...

The parachutist 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 mome...

Darling is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1970s, by the photographer and magazine publisher Gunnar Larsen (1930-1990).  Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a hist...

Easter Island 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 moment...

Piccadilly Circus is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1970s, by Gabria Belloni.  Good conditions and aged. The photo depicts tje young street sellers of forbidden newsp...

Fashionable Virna Lisi is an amazing vintage b/w photo of the Italian actress herself realized in 1961 by the famous Italian designer and photographer Willy...

Friends is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1970s. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments, places, famili...

Diver - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 2002 - Edition of 5 Powerful photo of a man diving, in profile. This print that is being offered is a high-quality Archiv...

Morningside Heights, New York 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 h...

Mussolini Passes in Zapatiè is a black and white vintage photo realized in 1937. Good condition.

Portrait of Mao Zedong is a vintage photo, realized in the 1970s. The artwork is a well-balanced composition.

Benares is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century.  The photo depicts the city Benares and the Hindus who plunge into the Ganges. Good conditions and aged. ...

New Yorker Hotel, New York 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 hist...

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...

Historical Photo of Prison  - Carcere dell'Ucciardone Palermo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s. Good conditions.

English Cuirassiers Riding Horses is a photograph realized in the 1950s. Good conditions. The artwork is realized in a well-balanced composition.

Old Days  - Bookshops in 1980s is a vintage black and white photograph. Good conditions.

Coretta Scott King- Vintage Photo is a historical photograph realized in the 1950s. Good conditions and aged. Coretta Scott King shared notes from her husband, Martin Luther King J...

Pink Zone- Piccadilly Circus is a black and white vintage photo, realized in december 1959 by the Agency Keystone. Good conditions and aged. The photo depicts the Piccadilly Circus...

Venice is an original Photographic Transfer print, realized by an unknown artist in the late 20th century. Hand-signed on the lower right, illegible. Good conditions. A picturesqu...

Tokyo is a photograph taken by Amanda Ludovisi in 2019. It represents a street in a rainy evening in the center of Tokyo. This is a giclée print on Ca...

Elton John and Goldie Hawn is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s. Good conditions.

Masked dancers in the 1970s. is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1970s. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historica...

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...

Sud America Reportage- is a Vintage b/w Photo realized in the 1960s by Mario De Biasi. Good conditions with aged margins Stamped on the rear. Good conditions.

Photograph of the Sainte-Geneviève Library by Reinhard Görner. Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin. Two weeks manufacturing time, then shipping in two ...

A very early portrait of Claudio Baglioni realized in the 1960s. Good conditions.

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

Prince Charles III- Vintage Photo realized in 1965. Good conditions and aged.

Mother Queen With Students- Vintage Photo realized in the 1950s. Good conditions and aged.

Prince Charles in Military Uniform - Vintage press print realized in 1969 in Cardiff, Wales Good conditions and aged.

Queen Elizabeth II With Royal Family- Vintage Photo realized in the 1950s. Good conditions and aged.

Queen Elizabeth II- Vintage Press print realized in 1965. Good conditions and aged. Photo by Tom Abrahams

Queen Elizabeth II- Vintage Photo realized in the mid-20th century Good conditions and aged.

Rome Mayor, Giulio Argan - Vintage Photo realized in 1977, Rome. Good conditions and aged.

Lattansio, Defense Minister - Vintage Photo realized in 1977. Good conditions and aged.

Oranzo Pavane and Giovagneli -  Vintage Photo is a historical photograph realized in 1977. Coming out of Police Station. Good conditions and aged.

Jawaharlal Nehru- Vintage Photo is a historical photograph realized in the 1950s. Good conditions and aged.

Jawaharlal Nehru in Rome- Vintage Photo  is a historical photograph realized in the 1950s. Good conditions and aged.