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Item Ships From: Continental US
Before Swimming Leith Victoria
By Soo Burnell
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: "I wanted to photograph the pools to show the beauty of the architecture, while minimizing the modern elements. I love the geometry of the tiles, the lines on the b...
Category
2010s Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Nude
By Carla Sutera Sardo
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...
Category
2010s Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Lost (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog, Portrait
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lost (Suburbia) - 2004
40x50cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Signature label with Certificate.
Artist Inventory # 1670.
Not mounted...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Slim Aarons 'Carmen Meyrink-Veiga'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Carmen Meyrink-Veiga, 1986
Chromogenic lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Carmen Meyrink-Veiga amid her Brazilian...
Category
1980s Modern Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Endless Options
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: "As a self-portrait artist, I use the observation of my surroundings, personal experiences, and my own personal growth to create conceptual images. I am a highly positive person and this positivity often reflects in my work delivering images with a strong message on personal growth, self-love, and empowerment. I want my images to give hope and teach people to appreciate themselves, to love, dream, and believe that everything is possible if we believe it is. My images often feature simple backgrounds, saturated colors, and characteristic props like flowers, plants, origami, or balloons. creating dreamlike images both rich aesthetically and in meaning." - Fares Micue...
Category
2010s Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Raindancer - archival pigment print - 35х24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A young beautiful woman is dancing under the rain. Her dress is all wet. Some strange fishes are reflected in the window behind her.
Original gallery quality print signed by the art...
Category
2010s Photorealist Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Blue Jungle
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: "As a self-portrait artist, I use the observation of my surroundings, personal experiences, and my own personal growth to create conceptual images. I am a highly positive person and this positivity often reflects in my work delivering images with a strong message on personal growth, self-love, and empowerment. I want my images to give hope and teach people to appreciate themselves, to love, dream, and believe that everything is possible if we believe it is. My images often feature simple backgrounds, saturated colors, and characteristic props like flowers, plants, origami, or balloons. creating dreamlike images both rich aesthetically and in meaning." - Fares Micue...
Category
2010s Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Renée's Dream XIII (Days of Heaven) - Landscape, Horse, Polaroid, 21st Century
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Renée's Dream XIII (Days of Heaven). Part of the 29 Palms, CA project - 2006
20x20cm,
Edition of 10
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and certificate.
Artist...
Category
1990s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
When we were friends (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
When we were friends (Suburbia) - 2004, 28x37cm,
Edition of 10, digital C-Print based on an expired Polaroid.
Signature label with Certificate, unmounted.
The project "Suburbia" wa...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Pussyfooting (Dee Hartford), Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Actress Dee Hartford, wife of film producer Howard Hawks, sips a Pussyfoot - a mixture of Jamaican fruit juices, 1958.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certifica...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Premonicion. From The series Danza de las Naranjas. Color Figurative Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Premonicion, 2023 by Ricky Cohete
From the series danza de las naranjas
Color Archival Pigment print
Image size: 24 in. H x 36 in. W
Edition of 10
Unframed
________________________...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Young Duke (Chicks and Chicks)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Young Duke (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2017
20x24 cm,
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Edition of 10 Artist inventory 20047.
Signature label and Certificate....
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Winter Blues
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: "As a self-portrait artist, I use the observation of my surroundings, personal experiences, and my own personal growth to create conceptual images. I am a highly positive person and this positivity often reflects in my work delivering images with a strong message on personal growth, self-love, and empowerment. I want my images to give hope and teach people to appreciate themselves, to love, dream, and believe that everything is possible if we believe it is. My images often feature simple backgrounds, saturated colors, and characteristic props like flowers, plants, origami, or balloons. creating dreamlike images both rich aesthetically and in meaning." - Fares Micue...
Category
2010s Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Caballeros de Oro. The series danza de las naranjas. Figurative Color photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Caballeros de Oro, 2023 by Ricky Cohete
From the series danza de las naranjas
Color Archival Pigment print
Image size: 24 in. H x 36 in. W
Edition of 10
U...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Untitled - part 8 - Beachshoot starring Radha Mitchell
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boccia VIII (Beachshoot) - 2005
30,7x30cm,
sold out Edition of 68, Artist Proof 4/5
Lambda Print, based on a Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label,
artist Inventory # 1467.
Not...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Childhood Memories (Stay) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Film,
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Childhood Memories (Stay) from the Ryan Gosling's memory sequence, 2006,
50x50cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, matte surface, based on the Polaroid. ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Lucia at 14 (40x51cm)- Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Figurative, Childhood
By Cristina Fontsare
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lucia at Fourteen (2018)
40x51 cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Giclée Print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta,
based on a Fuji Instant Film (not mounted)
Once / Cristina Fonts...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Penny Lane (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Penny Lane (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2017
20x24cm, Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Artist inventory 21327B.
Signature...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Shape of Water Coral
By Carla Sutera Sardo
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...
Category
2010s Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Calliope (50x50cm) - Contemporary, Polaroid, 21 Century, Color, Mystical
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Calliope (Haley and the Birds) - 2013
50x50cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
Stefanie ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Klosters, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Klosters, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers pass by the Hote...
Category
1960s Realist Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Daisy and Austin in front of Trailer (Till Death Do Us Part) - analog, vintage
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Daisy and Austin in front of Trailer (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005
128x126cm,
Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the origina...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Mermaids - a book of underwater nude and ocean wildlife photographs
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
The book “Mermaids” has the best of Alex Sher’s underwater photography for eight years (2010-2018). It blends human erotics with the beauty of the ocean wildlife - transforming the c...
Category
2010s Photorealist Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Magazine Paper
Split - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 17x24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater photograph of female knees and feet
Original gallery quality print on archival metallic paper signed by the artist.
Paper size: 18" x 24"
Image size: 17.2" x 23.5"
Limite...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Hotel Olden, Gstaad, Estate Edition, Urban Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s urban photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features people carrying their skis past the Hotel Olden in Gstaad, 1961.
This is an estate stamped...
Category
1960s Realist Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Burn to Shine, limited edition photograph, archival pigment, signed and numbered
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Burn to Shine, limited edition photograph, archival pigment, signed and numbered
From Tom Chambers' series Animal Visions
All my life I have held a fas...
Category
2010s Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Way of the Hare
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Beth Moon is an American-born photographer. She has gained international recognition for her large-scale, richly toned platinum prints.
This portfolio focuses on totem-like beliefs ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Platinum
Paddling
By Anne Menke
Located in New York, NY
THIS PIECE IS AVAILABLE FRAMED. Please reach out to the gallery for additional information.
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Photographer Anne Menke occupies the unique realm where high fashion meets bohemian travel and a free spirit. Her editorial work exudes a sense of glamour often amidst a backdrop of far flung, exotic locales. Menke has photographed couture on the mountains of Peru and beauty contests on the plains of Mongolia. Her eye for the authentic-- somehow she's an insider wherever she goes-- has informed her campaigns for clients including Tommy Hilfiger, Nine West...
Category
2010s Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Her-Untitled 6. Abstract figurative Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Her-Untitled 6, 2018 by Ying Chen
From the Her series
Archival pigment print
Image size: 24 in. H x 20 in. W
Edition of 5 + 1AP
Unframed
This is a photo contemporary collage projec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Swimmer, #2248, Horst P. Horst Homage, Mixed media Collage on Paper.
By Natasha Zupan
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Swimmer, #2248 by Natasha Zupan
Mixed-media collage on paper
Dimensions: 13 in. H x 9.84 in. W
One of a kind
Signed lower right on recto by the artist
2018
__________________________...
Category
2010s Modern Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Photographic Paper
Stefanie Schneider Minis - Untitled No 2 - Beachshoot - featuring Radha Mitchel
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Minis
'Untitled #2' (Beachshoot) featuring Radha Mitchell, 2005
signed and signature brand on verso
Lambda digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid
Polaroi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Plexiglass, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
If I could fly (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
If I could fly (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2017
50x50cm, Edition of 10.
Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Artist inventory 20058.
Signature label and Certificate.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Astro Butterflies
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Cameron Burns is a freelance 3D artist who primarily works in the music industry. He loves to create photo realistic and surreal art t...
Category
2010s Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Turbine - monumental scale photograph of iconic aerospace location
By Christian Stoll
Located in San Francisco, CA
Turbine by Christian Stoll
48 x 57 inches (122 x 145cm)
signed edition of 7
34 x 40 inches (86 x 102cm)
signed edition of 25
archival fine art pigment print
signed + numbered...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Meeting in front of Church (Sidewinder)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Meeting in front of Church (Sidewinder) - 2007
Edition 2/5,
each 30x37cm, installed 30x160cm.
4 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on the 4 oirginal Polaroids.
Ce...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Sundial
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Tropico Photo is the collaborative work of Forrest Aguar and Michelle Norris. Forrest loves pairing shapes and lines to create captiva...
Category
2010s Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Porcelain - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 24" x 35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater photograph of a two naked young women on neutral black background.
Porcelain, aside from being an exquisite material, is the name of an exquisite photo series. The se...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Disappearing Corner
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Tropico Photo is the collaborative work of Forrest Aguar and Michelle Norris. Forrest loves pairing shapes and lines to create captiva...
Category
2010s Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Double Take Blue Green - Framed Vibrant Pop Photography Art in Beverly Hills
By Marco Pittori
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marco Pittori creates vibrant artworks that pay homage to the mesmerizing images of Brad Elterman and the mythic culture of 1970’s Hollywood. By using li...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Light Blue Lingerie (Wastelands)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Light Blue Lingerie - however - (Wastelands) - 2003
57x56cm,
Edition 4/5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on a Polaroid, Artist inve...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Dancing Mermaid - underwater photograph - archival pigment print
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater photograph of a beautiful topless model dancing in the pool.
Original gallery quality print signed by the artist.
Digital archival pigment print on archival paper wit...
Category
2010s Photorealist Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
In Bloom - Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid, Painting
By Lisa Toboz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
In Bloom - 2020
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proof, 50x40cm
Digital Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemühle photo rag paper.
Signature label and certificate.
Not mounted.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Lunar Sea - Contemporary, Figurative, Woman, Polaroid, Photograph, 21st Century
By Lisa Toboz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Lunar Sea'
2019, Edition 1/10 plus 2 Artist Proof, 20x24cm.
Art Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper.
Signature label and certificate.
Not mounted.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Taking Turns (Till Death Do Us Part) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude, Photograph
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Taking Turns (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2006
20x24cm,.
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper
Bathtime II (29 Palms, CA) analog, not mounted, 58x56cm
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bathtime II (29 Palms, CA) - 1999,
58x56cm,
Edition 2/10.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist inventory num...
Category
1990s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Sunglasses - 21st Century, Figurative Photography, Contemporary, Color
By Tao Ruspoli
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sunglasses - 2016 -
Edition of 10, 20x30cm, 2016,
Print on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free.
Signature label and Certificate.
Published in Tao Ruspoli's Monogra...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
"Traces of Tears" (Cyndi Lauper) - record cover shoot
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Traces of Tears (Cyndi Lauper)
from the 'Bring Ya to the Brink' record shoot in 2009
20x20cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival Print based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Porcelain - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 43" x 64"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater photograph of a two naked young women on neutral black background.
Porcelain, aside from being an exquisite material, is the name of an exquisite photo series. The se...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Porcelain II - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 43x64"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
"Porcelain II" captures a young naked woman floating in dark waters, their pale form creating ethereal ripples against the black backdrop. This underwater fine art photograph showcas...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Crow Burial II (Sidewinder)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Crow Burial II (Sidewinder) 20 x 20 cm, 2005,
Edition 4/10, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid,
Artist Inventory 3505.04, not mounted
Stefanie Schneider...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Dancer - Contemporary, nude, portrait, figurative, Polaroid, photograph, expired
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Dancer (Stay), 2006, 37x36cm,
Edition of 2/5, Lambda Print, based on a Stefanie Schneider expired Polaroid photograph
Certificate and Signature label
artist Inventory Nr. 5315.10...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Polaroid
Dust Bowl Blues (Heavenly Falls)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dust Bowl Blues (Heavenly Falls)
2016, 20x24cm, Edition 2/10,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory number...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Ryan Gosling - Stay
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Ryan Gossling' (Stay) - 2006,
20x20cm, Edition of 2/10,
digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label
artist Inventory No. 2447.02
Not mounted.
Stefanie Schneider:
Torsten Scheid, “Fotografie, Kunst, Kino. Revisited.”, FilmDienst 3/2006, page 11-13
Photography Art Cinema. Revisited
Stay expands a traditional connection through new facets
Interwoven between the media of photography and film is a veritable mesh-work of technical, motific, metaphorical and personal interrelationships. Extending from photo-film which, as in La Jetée by Chris Marker (France, 1962) is a montage of single, unmoving photographs all the way to the portrayal of photographic motifs in Hollywood cinema―most recently in Memento (USA, 2000) and One hour photo (USA, 2002)―is the range of filmic-photographic interactions on the one hand, and from the adaption of modes of cinematic production to the imitation of film stills on the other. For instance, with the legendary Untitled Film Stills (1978) of the American artist Cindy Sherman, who later made her debut as a film director with Office Killer (USA, 1997) and thereby, like many others, changed sides: Wim Wenders, Robert Frank and Larry Clark are doubtlessly the most successful of these photographic-filmic border crossers. This brief survey provides only a vague indication of the dimensions of this intermedial field, which in fact extends much further and is constantly being cultivated.
Also as a motif in film, photography has experienced a historical transformation: Photographers were once considered to be technicians who mastered a craft but never achieved the status of artists. Photographer-figures were caught in the allure of beautiful appearance, incapable of penetrating to the actual essence of things. Such depth was reserved for literature or painting. When photography in film touched upon the sphere of art, then most often as its contrasting model, as the metaphor for a superficial access to the world. Coming to mind are Fred Astaire as a singing fashion photographer in Stanley Donen’s musical film Funny Face (USA, 1957), or the restless lifestyle-photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni’s genre-classic Blow up (GB, 1966). For the doubting Thomas, only that exists which can be photographed. He ultimately enters the world of fantasy and thereby the field of art only unwillingly, when he becomes entangled in the world of his images. The last of his detail-enlargements shows only the photographic grain and has lost all connection to reality. The photograph looks as if it had been painted by Bill, the painter who is both friend and antagonist to the protagonist.
Photography as Art
It was first around the end of the last century that numerous filmmakers discovered photography as a genuine art form. In The Bridges of Madison County (USA, 1995) a sensitive Clint Eastwood stands, camera in hand, on the threshold of artistic status, and in Smoke (USA, 1994) a tobacco merchant ripens into a philosopher through his involvement in photography. Finally, in John Water’s parody of the art market, Pecker (USA, 1998), a provincial tom-fool is hyped into celebrated stardom amid the New York art scene because of his blurred snapshots. This film about a postmodern Kaspar Hauser in photographic art (with clear parallels to Richard Billingham, the British shooting star of the nineteen-nineties), not only takes into account the exponentially expanded significance of photography in the art market, but also attributes to photography an extreme degree of conformity to the “operating system” of the visual arts. This admittedly ironic equation of photography and the visual arts is new. It is repeated with much more earnestness in Lisa Chollondencko’s High Art (USA) from the same year. Artistic photography has finally become established in a cinematic context.
Stay
Stay (USA, 2005) could have fitted in seamlessly here. Considering that the films High Art and Pecker establish photography as an ideal art form at the end of the millennium, director Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland) takes a step backward; he revives an anti-technical, intuitive concept of art, including the customary clichés about madness and genius. This choice documents less an anachronistic notion of art (especially considering that painting is currently experiencing a Renaissance) than instead the appraisal that paintings are more suitable for representing the free objectification of the mind. Stay is not an artist-film but rather a psycho-thriller in which the borders between dream and reality become blurred.
The psychiatrist Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor) has saved his girlfriend, the artist Lila (played by Naomi Watts) from committing suicide. Now he is attempting to keep another patient, the art student Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Polaroid
Porcelain and Тurquoise - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment 43x60"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater photograph of a naked young women diving next to the bright turquoise dress she just took off.
Original gallery quality archival pigment p...
Category
2010s Photorealist Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Stefanie Schneider Minis - Jules and Jim (29 Palms, CA)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Minis
'Jules and Jim' (Reneé's Dream - 29 Palms, CA), 2007
signed and signature brand on verso
Lambda digital Color Photographs base...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Plexiglass, Photographic Paper, Color, Polaroid, Lambda
Fragmented-Untitled 2. Abstract Figurative B & W limited edition photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Fragmented-Untitled 2, 2021 by Ying Chen
From the Fragmented series
Archival pigment print
Image size: 80 in. H x 60 in. W
Edition of 5 + 1AP
Unframed
This series title is “Fragmen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Red Shoes - Stage of Consciousness - starring Radha Mitchell - Artist Proof 2/2
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Red Shoes' (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007,
20x24cm, sold out Edition of 10, Artist Proof 2/2,
digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label,
artist Inve...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid
Accident I (Stay) analog, 128x125cm, starring Ryan Gosling, Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A piece of art from the movie 'Stay' by Stefanie Schneider
Stefanie created the art for both main actors Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling in the movie 'Stay' directed by Marc Forster. S...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
