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Item Ships From: Continental US
Chrysler Building: The Smokestack and the Skyscraper
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Before Long Island City blossomed into a landscape of high-rise residential development, it was a gritty industrial area. One of the iconic images of the LIC was four monumental smo...
Category
1980s Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
She Disappeared into Complete Silence (AD14491) large scale abstract photograph
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the series 'She Disappeared into Complete Silence' (2014) Mona Kuhn takes a new direction into abstraction. She turns to a highly austere and restrained reductionist geometry and distilled formal purity, connecting the interior to the exterior, the visible to the hidden. These reflections cause one to linger, as they merge to create a dynamic equilibrium of tension, spaces and rythms.
AD14558 (She Disappeared into Complete Silence)
60" x 45" / 152cm x 114cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
40" x 30" / 102cm x 76cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
limited edition photograph is printed under artist supervision and accompanied by signed artist certificate:
artist signature labels are 8x10 in size
signed, editioned, dated and titled by the artist, and stamped for authenticity
label
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About the artist
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art.
For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Mona Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Kuhn's monograph titled Bushes and Succulents has been published by Stanley/Barker Editions, with a debut at Jeu de Paume in Paris, In 2021, Thames & Hudson published a career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn's most recent publication Kings Road with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum traveling exhibition shown in Europe and the US.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris; The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London; Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland; Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and Australian Centre for Photography. Mona Kuhn lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Solo Exhibitions
2025
Mona Kuhn: Works, Museum of Contemporary Art, Malaga, Spain
2024
Mona Kuhn: The Schindler House, A Love Affair, Galerie XII, Los Angeles
Mona Kuhn: Between Modernism and Surrealism, Houk Gallery, New York, NY
2023
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Galerie XII, Paris, France
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Kunsthaus-Göttingen, Germany
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Jackson Fine Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Untitled (W.O.F 18-6-13)
By Christopher Colville
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Works of Fire
When I look into the night sky I am awestruck by the darkness that is the universe. As the sparse light of the stars descends, I am entangled in a state of wonder, sea...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bent Sound - underwater portrait of Njomza Vitia - archival pigment print 24x35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
"Bent Sound" - An ethereal underwater fine art photograph that captures the intersection of music and movement through a portrait of singer Njomza Vitia. This submerged portrait tran...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Alfred Stieglitz Photogravure "City of Ambition, " 1910, New York Image
By Alfred Stieglitz
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Alfred Stieglitz (American, Hoboken, New Jersey 1864–1946 New York)
"City of Ambition" from Camera Work Number 36 (1910)
Photogravure on Japanese tissue mounted on paper, as issued.
...
Category
Early 20th Century Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Paper
Untitled 1994: still life photograph w/ coffee cups & abstract shadow patterns
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an archival pigment print depicting an abstracted still life printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308 gsm by artist Paul Cava. It is from the "Table Top" series, which is one of t...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Little Mermaid - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater photograph of a young naked model wrapped in tulle. One of her charming breasts escaped the cover. The photograph is made in warm sepia tone.
Original gallery quali...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Final Season 1095
By Alyson Belcher
Located in Burlingame, CA
Alyson Belcher's Final Season is a photographic meditation on the fragility and quiet resilience of life, shaped by personal experiences of loss and the witnessing of loved ones in d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pigment
Brushstroke - underwater photograph series REFLECTIONS - archival pigment 19x35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
In a delicate smear of faded blues intermingled with the curves and lines of the pale colors of the skin, Alex Sher’s “Brushstroke” uncovers his phenomenal ability to
capture the tr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Desert Sunrise (22 x 13 abstract cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though it resembles a giant abstract watercolor painting owing to its soft gradations and luminous quality, this is a form of photography called a cyano...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Could You Be Loved, Limited edition Color Photograph
By Juan Pablo Castro
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist was inspired by the symbology of the one dollar bill, and especially by the image of the pyramid on this bill, which is considered an Illuminati symbol. As this is the mo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Archival Pigment
Aerial view, Muhammad Ali victorious over Cleveland Williams, Color Photography
By Neil Leifer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Aerial view of Muhammad Ali victorious after round 3 knockout of Cleveland Williams during fight at Astrodome, November 14, 1966
24 x 20 in. (61 x 51 cm)
Archival Digital C-Print
...
Category
20th Century Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
UNTITLED
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
from a series of works capturing conceptual signs in iconic landscapes
captured with a large format camera to allow epic scale print sizes with incredible image details
CLOUD STUD...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
I am fleeting #1. From I am fleeting Series
By Javier Rey
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Is a project that debates through the photographic image, the importance that humans have assigned to ourselves, and proposes a reconciliation with the reality of our own insignifica...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Three Crosses in night sky, Castro Valley California
By Rolfe Horn
Located in Carmel, CA
Signed, numbered and dated on mount recto. Signed, dated, numbered and titled with artist's copyright stamp on mount verso. Edition of 25 in size
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$200 Sale Price
75% Off
Kokar, Finland (Abstract pattern on Rock Formation)
By Pentti Sammallahti
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Pentti Sammallahti was born in 1950 in Helsinki, Finland. Sammallahti was surrounded by works from his grandmother, Hildur Larsson, who was a photographer in the early 1900s. Sammallahti has been photographing the world around him with a poetic eye since the age of eleven. At the age of nine, he visited "The Family of Man...
Category
1970s Minimalist Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Crayons and Clouds
By Niko Christian
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Niko (aka c-nik) is a multidisciplinary artist, currently based on a pixel in a city that never sleeps, quietly working to create peace from chaos in surreal arcs ...
Category
2010s Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Abandoned Tennis Court, Snellville, GA" - drone photography, color, tennis
By Peter Essick
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Abandoned Tennis Court, Snellville, GA" is a drone photograph featuring colors of blue and green. This listing is for an unframed photograph.
This photograph is available in additi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Youngest Stars
By Niko Christian
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Niko (aka c-nik) is a multidisciplinary artist, currently based on a pixel in a city that never sleeps, quietly working to create peace from chaos in surreal arcs ...
Category
2010s Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
I am fleeting #11. From I am fleeting Series
By Javier Rey
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Is a project that debates through the photographic image, the importance that humans have assigned to ourselves, and proposes a reconciliation with the reality of our own insignifica...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
The Sky is Wide Open: Abstract Still Life Photograph of Purple & Green Flowers
By Lisa A. Frank
Located in Hudson, NY
Bright, Maximalist style still life photograph of purple and green flowers and yellow lights against a black background
Archival digital print, made to order
24 x 24 inches, edition ...
Category
2010s Modern Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Digital
Seascape IV (Homage to Mark Rothko) - large format abstract ocean photograph
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
From a series of large scale abstract photographs of muted color monochromatic water surface color clouds and horizon
SEASCAPE IV by Frank Schott
an homage to Mark Rothko
60" x 48" / 152cm x 122cm
signed edition of 7
75 x 58 inches / 190cm x 147cm
signed edition of 7
archival quality fine art pigment print
limited art edition published by Edition EKTAlux...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
White Paint Splatters - Large Scale Abstract Textural Photograph
By Bill Clark
Located in Soquel, CA
White Paint Splatters - Large Scale Textural Photograph
Detailed macro photo by Bill Clark (American, 20th Century). Clark has taken a photograph of heavily painted concrete, with w...
Category
1990s Photorealist Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
"Old Room, New Room" - Minimalist Interior Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"Old Room, New Room" - Minimalist Interior Photograph
Minimalist photograph of a red wall with a tile floor by Shirley McWilliams (American, 20th ...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Bent Sound - underwater portrait of Njomza Vitia - archival pigment print 43x62"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
"Bent Sound" - An ethereal underwater fine art photograph that captures the intersection of music and movement through a portrait of singer Njomza Vitia. This submerged portrait tran...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$1,540 Sale Price
30% Off
Liberace II ( 60 x 48" / 152.25 x 122cm )
By Christian Stoll
Located in San Francisco, CA
Liberace II by Christian Stoll
an epic scale photograph of mesmerizing texture details
( 60 x 48" / 152.25 x 122cm )
edition of 7
signed
40 x 32 inches / 122cm x 81.25cm
edition o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Cloud Study I - large format photograph of dramatic cloudscape sky
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
an homage to Caspar David Friedrich, towering thunder clouds over the Mediterranean Sea, captured with a large format camera to allow epic scale photograph...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Black and White, G...
Moon Over Garden Chair
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Multidisciplinary visual artist Kim Frohsin created the arcane series, Reliquaries, from a variety of media—acrylic paint, glazes, ink, collage, pencils, and dry pigment—built upon pinhole photographs...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Acrylic, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Pinhole
"Real 3" Black & White Photography 24" x 24" in Edition 1/15 by Olha Stepanian
By Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Real 3" 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 Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Imagine
By Niko Christian
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Niko (aka c-nik) is a multidisciplinary artist, currently based on a pixel in a city that never sleeps, quietly working to create peace from chaos in surreal arcs ...
Category
2010s Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Italian Vintage Dye Transfer Photograph Franco Fontana Color Landscape Photo
By Franco Fontana
Located in Surfside, FL
Franco Fontana (Italian, born 1933)
Title: Los Angeles, California
1979
Edition 6/15
Medium: dye-transfer
Dimensions: Frame 21.5 x 29.25. Sight 13 x 19.5
Provenance: Monique Goldstrom Gallery
Franco Fontana (Italian, 1933) is an Italian photographer. He is best known for his Minimalist abstract colour landscapes. He was influenced by Minimalism and Abstract Expressionism.
Franco Fontana was born in 1933 in Modena. He started taking photographs in the 1950s when he was working as a decorator in a furniture showroom. In 1961 he joined a local amateur club in Modena. The experience would be a turning point in his career, and Fontana went on to have his first solo exhibition in 1965 at the Società Fotografica Subalpina, Turin and at the Galleria della Sala di Cultura in Modena in 1968. Since then he has participated in more than 400 group and solo exhibitions including the exhibit Lines, Spheres and Glyphs at Robert Klein Gallery with works by photographers: Franco Fontana, Mario Giacomelli, Ernst Haas, Gyorgy Kepes and Aaron Siskind. Franco Fontana is considered one of the most relevant photographers of our time, In 1963 he exhibited his work at the Biennale of Color in Vienna, and in 1968 he held his first solo exhibition in Modena. Fontana often pares landscapes down to their essential elements, producing flat, geometric compositions reminiscent of the color field abstract expressionist paintings of Mark Rothko Ad Reinhardt and Barnett Newman, by underexposing his transparencies. Contrasting blue skies with green or yellow grass and the rigid lines of buildings with the softness of puffy clouds, he makes color and texture his primary subjects. He has also shot in Polaroid film, Cibachrome, C Print and chromogenic prints. His art has been acquired by some of the most important museums worldwide, including the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, MoMA in New York, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Museum of Modern Art in Norman, Oklahoma, National Gallery in Beijing, Australian National Gallery in Melbourne, University of Texas in Austin, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris. Fontana has photographed for advertising campaigns for brands such as Fiat, Volkswagen, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, Snam, Sony, Volvo, Versace, Canon, Kodak, Robe di Kappa, Swissair, and has been a magazine photographer for publications including Time, Life, Vogue (USA and France), Venerdì di Repubblica, Panorama, and with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and The New York Times.
Fontana's first book, Skyline, was published in 1978 in France by Contrejour and in Italy by Punto e Virgola with a text by Helmut Gernsheim. Fontana is the art director of the Toscana Foto Festival.
He has received numerous awards, such as the 1989 Tokyo Photographer Society of Japan - The 150 Years of Photography - Photographer Award.
Fontana is especially interested in the interplay of colours. His early innovations in colour photography in the 1960s were stylistically disruptive. According to art critic Giuliana Scimé, Fontana "destroyed all the structures, practices, and technical choices within the Italian tradition." Fontana uses 35mm cameras, and as noted by Iwan Zahar, deploys distant viewpoints with telephoto lenses to flatten contours in a landscape of crops and fields into bands of intense, saturated colour. This is an effect that Franco Lefèvre has described as 'dialectical landscapism'. Of his use of colour in his 2019 retrospective exhibition Sintesi ('Synthesis') at Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, curator Diana Baldon has observed; “His bold geometric compositions are characterised by shimmering colours, level perspectives and a geometric-formalist and minimal language, By adopting this approach during the 1960s, Fontana injected a new vitality into the field of creative colour photography for then multicolour was not in fashion in art photography., The way Fontana shoots, dematerializes the objects photographed, which loose three-dimensionality and realism to become part of an abstract drawing”.
Aside from the rural landscape Fontana has applied his graphic sensibility to other subjects: city architecture, portraiture, fashion, still-life and the nude. He was included in the exhibition of the Helmut Newton Collection along with Brassaï, Diane Arbus, Franco Fontana, Horst P. Horst, Irving Penn, June Newton, Just Loomis, Man Ray, Mark Arbeit...
Category
1980s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Dye Transfer
The Scream - photograph of an underwater reflection - archival print 43"x63"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An abstract composition capturing the dramatic interplay between vibrant crimson and stark white elements. The photograph presents a swirling vortex of deep red textures that dominat...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$1,280 Sale Price
20% Off
Cloud Study V - large scale photograph of dramatic cloudscape in the summer sky
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large-scale original art photography from a series of dramatic cloud atlas and abstract sky scapes observations above the Pacific Ocean.
CLOUD STUDY V by Frank Schott
40 x 32 inch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée, Archival Ink
Barely There
By Niko Christian
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Niko (aka c-nik) is a multidisciplinary artist, currently based on a pixel in a city that never sleeps, quietly working to create peace from chaos in surreal arcs ...
Category
2010s Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Self Medicate
By Niko Christian
Located in New York, NY
THIS PIECE IS AVAILABLE FRAMED. Please reach out to the gallery for additional information.
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Niko (aka c-nik) is a multidisciplinary artist, currently based on a pixel in a city that never sleeps, quietly working to create peace from chaos in surreal arcs of light, life...
Category
2010s Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Familiar Marks, Unfamiliar Places Number 11
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This wall-hanging artwork titled "Familiar Marks, Unfamiliar Places Number 11" is an original artwork by Kelly Knaga made of photography, digital print, an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Digital
Painted Concrete - Large Scale Textural Photograph
By Bill Clark
Located in Soquel, CA
Painted Concrete - Large Scale Textural Photograph
Detailed macro photo by Bill Clark (American, 20th Century). Clark has taken a photograph of concr...
Category
1990s Photorealist Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
$920 Sale Price
20% Off
Bent Sound - underwater portrait of Njomza Vitia - archival pigment print 35x50"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
"Bent Sound" - An ethereal underwater fine art photograph that captures the intersection of music and movement through a portrait of singer Njomza Vitia. This submerged portrait tran...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$1,100 Sale Price
21% Off
Seascape IV (Homage to Mark Rothko) - large format abstract seascape photograph
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale abstract photograph of muted color monochromatic water surface and horizon
SEASCAPE IV by Frank Schott
an homage to Mark Rothko
70 x 56 inche...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
ATARI Imperatore 2020 Photograph of Epic Landscape in Italy Abruzzo
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
ATARI Imperatore by Frank Schott
from a series of photographic observances capturing urban textures and color palettes
30 x 46.25 inches / 76cm x 118cm
edition of 25
signed
48 x ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée
$1,520 Sale Price
20% Off
Flora Fauna Series Vintage Color Photograph Abstract Flower Fuji Crystal Photo
By Jeffrey Rothstein
Located in Surfside, FL
FLORA & FAUNA SERIES, c.1998, Fuji crystal archive paper. Hand-signed on verso.
Photographer Jeffrey Rothstein focuses on different elements within Nature for his subject matter, ra...
Category
1990s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Surprise - underwater photograph - series REFLECTIONS - archival pigment 35x62"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
“Surprise” is a part of Alex Sher’s popular series REFLECTIONS - underwater photographs that could be almost mistaken for abstract paintings as they bring up recollections of masterpieces by Picasso...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Flow II (framed) - epic scale photograph of abstract liquid water cloudscapes
By Christian Stoll
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photography of mesmerizing color compositions of liquid cloudscape painting in water, hypnotizing abstract liquidscapes from the body of works titled 'Flow'
Flow II by C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Plexiglass, Inkjet, Giclée
Abstract Landscape #24
By Daniel Mansur
Located in New York City, NY
Daniel Mansur
Abstract Landscape #24
Canvas Fine Art - Framed
Archival Pigment Print
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Archival Pigment
Italian Vintage Dye Transfer Photograph Franco Fontana Color Varsavia Photo
By Franco Fontana
Located in Surfside, FL
Franco Fontana (Italian, born 1933)
Title: Varsavia, (Warsaw, Poland streetscape with buildings)
1977
Medium: dye-transfer
Dimensions: Frame 28.5 x 20.5. Sight 20 x 13.
Provenance: Monique Goldstrom Gallery
Franco Fontana (Italian, 1933) is an Italian photographer. He is best known for his Minimalist abstract colour landscapes. He was influenced by Minimalism and Abstract Expressionism.
Franco Fontana was born in 1933 in Modena. He started taking photographs in the 1950s when he was working as a decorator in a furniture showroom. In 1961 he joined a local amateur club in Modena. The experience would be a turning point in his career, and Fontana went on to have his first solo exhibition in 1965 at the Società Fotografica Subalpina, Turin and at the Galleria della Sala di Cultura in Modena in 1968. Since then he has participated in more than 400 group and solo exhibitions including the exhibit Lines, Spheres and Glyphs at Robert Klein Gallery with works by photographers: Franco Fontana, Mario Giacomelli, Ernst Haas, Gyorgy Kepes and Aaron Siskind. Franco Fontana is considered one of the most relevant photographers of our time, In 1963 he exhibited his work at the Biennale of Color in Vienna, and in 1968 he held his first solo exhibition in Modena. Fontana often pares landscapes down to their essential elements, producing flat, geometric compositions reminiscent of the color field abstract expressionist paintings of Mark Rothko Ad Reinhardt and Barnett Newman, by underexposing his transparencies. Contrasting blue skies with green or yellow grass and the rigid lines of buildings with the softness of puffy clouds, he makes color and texture his primary subjects. He has also shot in Polaroid film. His art has been acquired by some of the most important museums worldwide, including the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, MoMA in New York, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Museum of Modern Art in Norman, Oklahoma, National Gallery in Beijing, Australian National Gallery in Melbourne, University of Texas in Austin, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris. Fontana has photographed for advertising campaigns for brands such as Fiat, Volkswagen, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, Snam, Sony, Volvo, Versace, Canon, Kodak, Robe di Kappa, Swissair, and has been a magazine photographer for publications including Time, Life, Vogue (USA and France), Venerdì di Repubblica, Panorama, and with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and The New York Times.
Fontana's first book, Skyline, was published in 1978 in France by Contrejour and in Italy by Punto e Virgola with a text by Helmut Gernsheim. Fontana is the art director of the Toscana Foto Festival.
He has received numerous awards, such as the 1989 Tokyo Photographer Society of Japan - The 150 Years of Photography - Photographer Award.
Fontana is especially interested in the interplay of colours. His early innovations in colour photography in the 1960s were stylistically disruptive. According to art critic Giuliana Scimé, Fontana "destroyed all the structures, practices, and technical choices within the Italian tradition." Fontana uses 35mm cameras, and as noted by Iwan Zahar, deploys distant viewpoints with telephoto lenses to flatten contours in a landscape of crops and fields into bands of intense, saturated colour. This is an effect that Franco Lefèvre has described as 'dialectical landscapism'. Of his use of colour in his 2019 retrospective exhibition Sintesi ('Synthesis') at Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, curator Diana Baldon has observed; “His bold geometric compositions are characterised by shimmering colours, level perspectives and a geometric-formalist and minimal language, By adopting this approach during the 1960s, Fontana injected a new vitality into the field of creative colour photography for then multicolour was not in fashion in art photography., The way Fontana shoots, dematerializes the objects photographed, which loose three-dimensionality and realism to become part of an abstract drawing”.
Aside from the rural landscape Fontana has applied his graphic sensibility to other subjects: city architecture, portraiture, fashion, still-life and the nude. He was included in the exhibition of the Helmut Newton Collection along with Brassaï, Diane Arbus, Franco Fontana, Horst P. Horst, Irving Penn, June Newton, Just Loomis, Man Ray, Mark Arbeit...
Category
1970s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Dye Transfer
Alice - photograph of an underwater reflection - archival print 35" x 49"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
“Alice” is a part of Alex Sher’s popular series Reflections - underwater photographs that could be almost mistaken for abstract paintings as they bring up recollections of masterpiec...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Airfield - large scale aerial observation of aeronautical facility
By Erik Pawassar
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph morphing into a mesmerizing abstract tapestry, a highly detailed aerial photograph, on closer observation morphing into an abstract pictorial tapestry of deser...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Geister XII / ghost ship - contemporary photograph
By Nina Dietzel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Geister or 'Ghost Ship' series from Nina Dietzel. Stunning on own, or paired with other images from the series. Surface mounted to polished plexiglass so that the photograph appears ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
Aquairium Mind Screen (Stay) - Polaroid, analog, Contemporary, Coney Island
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie created the art for both main actors Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling in the movie 'Stay' directed by Marc Forster. She also created the art for several dream sequences and the ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
I Feel Right Hanging On Your Highlights
By Niko Christian
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Niko (aka c-nik) is a multidisciplinary artist, currently based on a pixel in a city that never sleeps, quietly working to create peace from chaos in surreal arcs ...
Category
2010s Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Rebirth I, III, and II. Abstract. Black and White Print
By Shine Huang
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Rebirth I, III, and II Triptych, 2018 by Shine Huang
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle fine art paper.
Overall size: 20 in. H x 48 in. W
Individual size: 20 in. H x 16 in. W
Editi...
Category
2010s Minimalist Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Carrara I - large format photograph of iconic Italian marble quarry
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Signed large scale original photograph of the Mediterranean marble quarries in Carrara, Italy, iconic material source of classic Italian art and architecture, captured with a large format camera to allow epic scale print sizes with incredible image details
Carrara I...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
Leaf No. 7C3
By Edward Bateman
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Our world is immersed in light, but its physical essence is chemical. Digital photographic processes can record that illumination, but they cannot touch the wet, chemical essence whi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Roiling", Contemporary, Landscape, Ocean, Blue, Cyanotype, Photograph, 2020
By Marie Craig
Located in Franklin, MA
Marie Craig's 'Roiling’ is an original deep blue photograph of ocean waves partially obscured with fern leaves. This piece was created using...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photogram, Canvas, Linen, Color Pencil
Eternal Recurrence #17. Large limited edition color photograph
By Natasha Zupan
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Zupan combines images from old masters, alchemical prints, contemporary artists, and bits from magazines and newspapers to create overlapping, intersecting worlds of transparencies a...
Category
2010s Pop Art Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color
Dondi, Zephyr, Charlie Ahearn Heroin Kills graffiti photograph: Bronx, NY 1981
By Charlie Ahearn
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Dondi White, Zephyr & Charlie Ahearn ‘Heroin Kills' Subway Art Photograph 1981. A rare, historic, early 1980s Bronx, New York graffiti photograph by Charlie Ahearn of Wild Style fame...
Category
1980s Street Art Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Inkjet
In Memory Of #10 (Abstract Monoprint)
By Birgit Blyth
Located in Hudson, NY
Unique chromoskedasic monoprint on photographic paper
22 x 18 inches framed
This contemporary, abstract style chromoskedasic monoprint was created by experimental photographer Birgi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Monoprint
Falling
By Anne Arden McDonald
Located in Sante Fe, NM
These are tiny paintings, made with a few grains of developer and a drop of water
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Heart 03
By Kim Holtermand
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: Danish photographer Kim Høltermand photographed the Herning Art Museum in Jutland, Denmark. He is known for his moody, quiet photos that show public spaces before t...
Category
2010s Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sonata (Deconstructivism) - Contemporary, Expired Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sonata (Deconstructivism) - 2015
- about the narrative potential of images.
20x24cm, Edition of 10,
digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid,
Artist Inventory 20273.
Signature label ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
