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Item Ships From: Florida
Joe D'Allesandro
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Kenn Duncan (1928-1986). Portrait of Joe D'Allesandro, ca. 1973. Photographic period print measuring 11 x 14 inches. Measures 12 x 15 inches framed. Studio...
Category
1970s American Realist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Joe Dallesandro Andy Warhol Trash promo photo
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Jack Mitchell, American Photographer (1925-2013).
Joe Dallesandro, ca. 1973.
11 x 14 inches; 12 x 15 inches framed.
Period print from artist's studio. The image was intended for ...
Category
1970s Photorealist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Black Dancer Darryl Robinson (male nude)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Roy Blakey (1930-2024). Portrait of Darryl Robinson, ca. 1972.
Original photographic print on paper, image measures 11 x 14 inches. Framed measurement 12 x 15 inches.
Studio stam...
Category
1970s Realist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Lovers, San Francisco.
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Fisher Ross. Untitled, ca. 1975-80. Gelatin Silver print, sheet measures 8 x 10 inches; 17 x 21 inches framed. Artist studio stamp on verso. Excellent cond...
Category
1970s Realist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Grace Jones for After Dark
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Victor Arimondi (1942-2001). Portrait of Grace Jones, 1975. Period print measures 8 x 11.75 inches; 10.25 x 13 inches framed. Artist studio stamp on ve...
Category
1970s Realist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of John Tattos (male nude)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Roy Blakey (b.1930). Portrait of John Tattos, 1974. Original photographic print on paper, image measures 8.75 x 13 inches, sheet measures 12 x 16 inches. Me...
Category
1970s Realist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$700 Sale Price
22% Off
Apertura and Apertura II, Diptych. From the Bailarín Series
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Expansion and light come together here to capture the opening of the expulsion.
The harsh lights and shadows in the warm Florida weather led Ricky Rocket to explore photography. The...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Untitled, Senegalese model
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Victor Arimondi (1942-2001). Portrait of Senegalese Model, ca. 1975. Period print measures 8.5 x 11.5 inches; 17 x 20 inches frames. Artist studio stam...
Category
1970s Realist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$1,200 Sale Price
33% Off
Portrait of Ron Dennis (male nude dancer) original A Chorus Line cast member
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Roy Blakey (b.1930). Portrait of Ron Dennis, ca. 1972.
Mr. Dennis was immortalized in 1975 as the original Richie "Gimme The Ball" Walters in A Chorus Line, after making his Broadw...
Category
1970s Realist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bodice of a Man and Man in Tunic. From The Blanco - Black and White Series
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
For this black-and-white photography series, he used elements such as water (emotions) to narrate a story. He worked with the color white in the fabrics to communicate clarity and re...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Joe Dallesandro Andy Warhol Trash promo photo
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Jack Mitchell, American Photographer (1925-2013).
Joe Dallesandro, ca. 1973.
11 x 14 inches; 12 x 15 inches framed.
Period print from artist's studio. The image was intended for ...
Category
1970s Realist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Silver Gelatin Photograph Hand Signed Photo Pablo Picasso Lucien Clergue
By Lucien Clergue
Located in Surfside, FL
Lucien Clergue (FRENCH, 1934 - 2014)
Gelatin silver photographic print depicting Pablo Picasso titled "Mougins".
Jacqueline et Pablo Picasso écoutant Manitas de Plata, circa 1968.
H...
Category
20th Century Modern Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Shanghai #3. Nude Portrait Black and White Photograph
By David Jay
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Through David Jay’s photography, context evaporates, and we as the viewer are left to engage the subjects, trade places, and for a moment, live behind their eyes. We recognize our sh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Diablo Dos. From The Nostalgic Series
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Channeling the energy of “water-signs” in astrology, he captures these mysterious men thru a romantic lens. The embrace of the shadows and the light mixed with the gaze of their bodi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Black and White
Cerro II. Cerros series. Male Nudes Black and White limited edition photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
In this series the artist documents how in the roar of the hills, these two bodies intertwine and connect with each other, forming mountains of desire.
The harsh lights and shadows ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Naomi Campbell, Paul Rowland Vintage Portrait Silver Gelatin Print
By Paul Rowland
Located in Surfside, FL
Paul Rowland-
He is the one, that everybody knows about, Paul Rowland. A genius in the modeling industry, president of Ford Models New York, owner of Women Model Management & Supreme Management and photographer. Paul Rowland has more, than 20 years experiences in the industry.
Paul Rowland was born in Arkansas in the USA. He left his home town and moved to New York City with the dream to become a painter. Not long after this he founded Women Management and Supreme Models. Paul Rowland founded Women Management in 1989. In his more than 15 years of professional experience, he has made transformation from model to founder of his own agency, and is credited for establishing a unique roster of talent known for personality and accessibility previously unseen in the business.
He participated in the exhibition at Art Basel in 2008
In Fashion Photo features an exclusive collection of more than 250 contemporary works of photographic art by more than 35 of the world‟s leading icons in fashion photography. Representing more than 15 countries in five continents, some of the most globally esteemed names from the fashion photo world exhibited their work, including Slim Aarons, Miles Aldridge, Olivia Beasley, Michael Dweck, Arthur Elgort, Charles Frèger, Erwan Frotin, Alice Hawkins, Steve Hiett...
Category
1990s Post-Minimalist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn with Harp. Paris, Silver Gelatin print. Printed later.
By Horst P. Horst
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This artwork presents a mesmerizing interplay between the human form and musical elegance. Lisa Fonssagrives is seated, gracefully woven into the strings of a grand harp. The black-a...
Category
1940s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled From the 'Serendipia' series, Black and white nude photograph
By Mauricio Velez
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Mauricio Velez's photographs seeks to refine the viewer's sensitivity and perception of art and the human body, elevating these elements to an aesthetic realm that can inspire, distu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
French Contemporary Collotype Photograph Black White Photo Andre Naggar
By Andre Naggar
Located in Surfside, FL
Photos pictured of information cards after the images of the black and white photos are not included.
La Chute D'Icare (The Fall of Icarus) is a original, black and white photograp...
Category
1990s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogravure
Grace Jones for After Dark
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Victor Arimondi (1942-2001). Portrait of Grace Jones, 1975. Period print measures 8.5 x 11.25 inches; 10 x 13 inches framed. Artist studio stamp on ver...
Category
1970s Realist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$3,500 Sale Price
41% Off
Half Angels Half Demons - Zebra #26, Black and White Photography
By Mauricio Velez
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Mauricio Velez's photographs seeks to refine the viewer's sensitivity and perception of art and the human body, elevating these elements to an aesthetic realm that can inspire, distu...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Arco. Espiral, series. Male Nude. Limited Edition Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Vignette of a dancer creating shapes and folds in the sunlight. Rocket's favorite lighting source.
The harsh lights and shadows in the warm Florida weather led Ricky Rocket to explo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Diablo Uno. From The Nostalgic Series
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Channeling the energy of “water-signs” in astrology, he captures these mysterious men thru a romantic lens. The embrace of the shadows and the light mixed with the gaze of their bodi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Untitled, Black and white nude limited edition photograph
By Mauricio Velez
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Mauricio Velez's photographs seeks to refine the viewer's sensitivity and perception of art and the human body, elevating these elements to an aesthetic realm that can inspire, distu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Untitled From the 'Serendipia' series, Black and White nude photograph
By Mauricio Velez
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Mauricio Velez's photographs seeks to refine the viewer's sensitivity and perception of art and the human body, elevating these elements to an aesthetic realm that can inspire, distu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Untitled From the 'Serendipia' series, Black and white nude photograph
By Mauricio Velez
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Mauricio Velez's photographs seeks to refine the viewer's sensitivity and perception of art and the human body, elevating these elements to an aesthetic realm that can inspire, distu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Coconuts, Framed Black and White Nature Photography
By Iran Issa-Khan
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Coconuts by Iran Issa-Khan
Black and white archival pigment print
Image size: 19 in. H x 23 in. W
Frame size: 36 in. H x 40 in. W
Dated and signed by the artist.
2000
Born in Tehran and raised in Europe and the United States, Iran, Issa-Khan began her photography career in the late 1970s studying with William Minor, Jr. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Issa-Khan photographed Paulina Porizkova...
Category
Early 2000s Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cerro and Cuerpos II, Diptych. From the Cerros Series
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
In this series the artist documents how in the roar of the hills, these two bodies intertwine and connect with each other, forming mountains of desire.
The harsh lights and shadows ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Mainbocher Corset. Paris. Printed later
By Horst P. Horst
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This captivating black-and-white photograph, titled Mainbocher Corset by Horst P. Horst, masterfully blends elegance and geometry. The composition features a woman seen from behind, ...
Category
1940s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Male Nude Beach Study
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Roy Dean (1925-20020. Male Nude Study, ca. 1975-80. Origina; period print with artist studio stamp on verso. Print measures 2.25 x 4 3/8 inches; 9 x 12 inches...
Category
1970s Realist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bailarín II. The Bailarín, series. Male Nude dancer. Black & White photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Expansion and light come together here to capture the opening of the expulsion.
The harsh lights and shadows in the warm Florida weather led Ricky Rocket to explore photography. The...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Black and White
Portriat of Tom Petchlsig
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Victor Arimondi (1942-2001). Portrait of Tom Petchlsig, ca. 1975. Period print measures 8 x 10 inches; 16 x 20 inches frames. Artist studio stamp on ve...
Category
1970s Realist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$700 Sale Price
22% Off
Set of 6 Photographs intervened by the artists.
By Hunter & Gatti
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Hunter & Gatti wanted to pay tribute to the neo-expressionist Jane-Michel Basquiat's legacy by merging the celebrity portraits they had made in the past for fashion editorials and ca...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Black and White, Archival Pigment
Acto Tres, Acto Uno, series. Male Nude Black and White Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Cohete's ritual with movement and the male dancer formations, inhabits his black and white theater-like habitat. Like light; always in motion.
The harsh lights and shadows in the wa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Men and Boots. Sepia Limited Edition Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Channeling the energy of “water-signs” in astrology, he captures these mysterious men thru a romantic lens. The embrace of the shadows and the light mixed with the gaze of their bodi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
NYC Cabbie and Fare Vintage Silver Gelatin Photo Black White Street Photograph
By Ryan Weideman
Located in Surfside, FL
14" x 18" sight size. 24.5 x 28 mat size.
Ryan Weideman NYC taxi cab driver street photography (the good old fashioned days of yellow cabs pre Uber and Lyft). Ryan Weideman graduated with an MFA from the California College of Arts & Crafts, In 1980 he moved to New York to pursue street photography. Influenced by the other photographers of the period including Lee Friedlander and Mark Cohen...
Category
1990s American Realist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Alas Tres, Acto Uno, Series. Male Nude Black and White Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Cohete's ritual with movement and the male dancer formations, inhabits his black and white theater-like habitat. Like light; always in motion.
The harsh lights and shadows in the wa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Yann Le Gac
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Jack Mitchell (September 13, 1925 – November 7, 2013) was an American photographer. He photographed American artists, dancers, film and theatre performers, musicians and writers.[1] His portraiture, lighting skill, and ability to capture dancers in what he termed "moving stills" made him one of the most important dance photographers of the 20th century.
He photographed the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for three decades, producing a body of work that includes over ten thousand images. He was the official photographer of the American Ballet Theatre for a decade and also photographed dancers for other top ballet companies in the US and Canada.
His work appeared in major newspapers and on the cover of major magazines, including over 160 covers of Dance Magazine. Arts Magazine called him the first photographer to treat creative individuals as characters outside of their works. Smithsonian called him the benchmark by which other dance photographers assessed their own work.
Early life
Mitchell was born in Key West in 1925, and he was raised there and in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, where his family moved in 1931.[2][3] His father worked for the railroad.[2] He became interested in photography, and when he was twelve his parents bought him a Kodak Baby Brownie for $54.[2][3][4]
Career
By age 15 he had met Florida's licensing standards to obtain a press pass, by age 16 he was working as a commercial photographer,[1][5] and his first published photograph was of Veronica Lake, who was visiting Florida while on a war bonds tour.[2]
Mitchell was an Army photographer during World War II, working in Italy.[2] In 1946, after returning home from the army, he set up his first studio in New Smyrna Beach.[1]
In 1949, when he was 24, at the invitation of Ted Shawn, he visited Jacob's Pillow Dance and became interested in dance photography, which became a specialty.[2][5] He moved his studio to New York City in 1950.[6] He was the American Ballet Theatre's official photographer.[2] Starting in the 1961 he spent decades photographing the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, producing over 10,000 images of the company;[2][5] Ailey's biographer Jennifer Dunning credited Mitchell's work for "help[ing] to sell the company early on".[5] Mitchell also photographed dancers of the Boston Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Pennsylvania Ballet, Houston Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet.[6]
Mitchell shot over 160 covers for Dance Magazine;[2] his 168th cover was published in July 2003.[4] His term for what he was attempting to capture with dance photography was "moving stills."[5] He was known as a lighting expert.[2][5]
Mitchell also photographed other artists, entertainers, musicians, and writers, including John Lennon and Yoko Ono just a month before Lennon was murdered.[2] Other subjects included Leonard Bernstein, David Byrne, Truman Capote, Anthony Quinn, Jack Nicholson, Patti LuPone, Keith Haring, Neil Simon, Angela Lansbury, Twyla Tharp, Ned Rorem, Leontyne Price, Alfred Hitchcock, Spalding Gray, Ann Reinking, Andy Warhol, and Natalie Wood.[2] He spent a decade photographing Gloria Swanson.[5] His work appeared in The New York Times, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Life, Newsweek, People, Rolling Stone, Time, Vanity Fair and Vogue, among others.[2][4][6]
Mitchell was the subject of a 2006 documentary, My Life is Black and White, directed by Craig Highberger.[2] His books include Icons & Idols (1998), for which Edward Albee wrote the foreword,[2][4] and a book of his Alvin Ailey photography...
Category
1970s Surrealist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Diane K, Pharrell B&W, Toni Garnn II. Photo intervened by the artists.
By Hunter & Gatti
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Hunter & Gatti wanted to pay tribute to the neo-expressionist Jane-Michel Basquiat's legacy by merging the celebrity portraits they had made in the past for fashion editorials and ca...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Black and White, Archival Pigment
Portrait of Man in Denim
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Victor Arimondi (1942-2001). Portrait, ca. 1975. Period print measures 9 x 12 inches. Artist studio stamp on verso.
Victor Arimondi (November 8, 1942 – July 24, 2001) was an Italian American photographer and model who lived and worked in Europe before moving to the United States in the late 1970s. His early fashion photography, his portraits of Grace Jones and other artists, and his male nudes photographed in New York and San Francisco captured the pre-AIDS culture of the 1970s and early 1980s.
Arimondi's nudes were collected in several books, including David Leddick's award-winning[1] The Male Nude, (New York: Taschen 1998, 2005 and 2015). The photographer's later work documented homeless individuals in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood and the toll of the AIDS epidemic on the city. His photographs, featured in several posthumous exhibitions, also are in the collections of Sweden's museum of modern art, Moderna Museet, and San Francisco's GLBT Historical Society.
Biography
Arimondi was born Vittorio Maria Tevitti to his unwed mother, Alessandra Calligaris, in Bologna, Italy on November 8, 1942. His mother struggled financially, which left an impression on her only child. In 1948, she temporarily left him at a children's boarding school and orphanage in Italy to move to Sweden for a job. There she met and married Bruno Arimondi, who adopted her son. The family returned to Naples, Italy in 1952 where Victor graduated from high school.[1]
In 1960, Arimondi returned to Sweden to study at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, although he did not graduate. Meanwhile, he worked at several blue collar jobs, including as a mailman, before he gave up on traditional full-time work to pursue what he considered more essential— a life of creative expression. He created costume-like clothing for himself and friends and at age 19 became a fashion model.
Even as a teenager, the Italian born photographer who spent his 20s and 30s primarily based in Sweden, noted that he preferred fantasy to the trials of real life.[1] That conflict, and his passion for beauty as well as his sexual energy, were major factors in his life and his work.[2]
From 1965 through 1972 Arimondi worked as model in London, Milan, Germany, New York and Stockholm, appearing in catalogs and fashion magazines including Vogue , Harper's Bazaar and Esquire and on the runway in several Valentino fashion shows.
In 1972 he decided to try working on the other side of the lens as a photographer to better express his creativity.[2]
Arimondi moved to New York in 1979 and continued to build his photography portfolio.
Portrait of Bearded Man, New York City, 1979
Two years later, in 1981, he moved to San Francisco where he lived and worked for twenty years until his death of AIDS at age 58 on July 24, 2001.
The year he moved to San Francisco, Arimondi opened a photo gallery in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood for a short time. When he struggled financially, he gave up on trying to earn a living through commercial fashion photography and closed the gallery.[3]
Arimondi returned to modeling for the financial benefits, though he did so on less of an international scale than in his early years.
He continued to create photographic portraits of the denizens of the San Francisco gay and arts cultures, to shoot male nudes and publish his work in magazines, and he began to compose and photograph evocative still lifes using his own photographic images. Many of them touched on the death of dozens of his former photography models from AIDS.
Arimondi was in the midst of a new photography project that brought together his background as a fashion photographer and his more recent social documentary work when he died several months after he learned he was HIV-positive.[4] The project featured his former colleague, haute couture cover model Ivy Nicholson,[5] who he found living homeless in San Francisco. Several of the haunting portraits he took of her were later included in a noted group exhibit at SF Camerawork.
Art
Arimondi's early photography in the 1970s in Stockholm included portraits of the stars of Sweden's fashion, theater and dance worlds. His first two photography exhibits were in Stockholm and met with mixed reviews. But as he matured as a photographer and tapped into his fashion world contacts, Arimondi landed a number of commercial fashion jobs, including shooting for the Italian designer Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A.'s I.Magnin department store ad that ran in Vogue.
Marlboro Man Nude, New York City,1980.
He also shot other artists and models for his own portfolio, including Grace Jones, the Norwegian actress, Liv Ullmann, and the American writer, Norman Mailer.
Arimondi's aesthetic vision was focused on fantasy and drama, and he prided himself on pushing limits.[6]
Although less well-known than his San Francisco contemporary...
Category
1970s Realist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Tillman (huge hand signed lithograph)
By Robert Longo
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on on Arches wove paper from Men in the Cities portfolio. Hand signed and numbered by Robert Longo. Published by Wolfryd-Selway Fine Art, New York, with their blindstamp....
Category
2010s Pop Art Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
$36,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Diane K, B&W Photo intervened by the artists. From The IWMYAS series.
By Hunter & Gatti
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Hunter & Gatti wanted to pay tribute to the neo-expressionist Jane-Michel Basquiat's legacy by merging the celebrity portraits they had made in the past for fashion editorials and ca...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Acrylic, Black and White, Archival Pigment, Oil Pastel
Untitled, From the series Acto Uno. Male Nude Limited Edition B&W Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Cohete's ritual with movement and the male dancer formations, inhabits his black and white theater-like habitat. Like light; always in motion.
The harsh lights and shadows in the wa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Portrait
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Victor Arimondi (1942-2001). Portrait, ca. 1975. Period print measures 11 x 14 inches. Artist studio stamp on verso.
Victor Arimondi (November 8, 1942 – July 24, 2001) was an Italian American photographer and model who lived and worked in Europe before moving to the United States in the late 1970s. His early fashion photography, his portraits of Grace Jones and other artists, and his male nudes photographed in New York and San Francisco captured the pre-AIDS culture of the 1970s and early 1980s.
Arimondi's nudes were collected in several books, including David Leddick's award-winning[1] The Male Nude, (New York: Taschen 1998, 2005 and 2015). The photographer's later work documented homeless individuals in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood and the toll of the AIDS epidemic on the city. His photographs, featured in several posthumous exhibitions, also are in the collections of Sweden's museum of modern art, Moderna Museet, and San Francisco's GLBT Historical Society.
Biography
Arimondi was born Vittorio Maria Tevitti to his unwed mother, Alessandra Calligaris, in Bologna, Italy on November 8, 1942. His mother struggled financially, which left an impression on her only child. In 1948, she temporarily left him at a children's boarding school and orphanage in Italy to move to Sweden for a job. There she met and married Bruno Arimondi, who adopted her son. The family returned to Naples, Italy in 1952 where Victor graduated from high school.[1]
In 1960, Arimondi returned to Sweden to study at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, although he did not graduate. Meanwhile, he worked at several blue collar jobs, including as a mailman, before he gave up on traditional full-time work to pursue what he considered more essential— a life of creative expression. He created costume-like clothing for himself and friends and at age 19 became a fashion model.
Even as a teenager, the Italian born photographer who spent his 20s and 30s primarily based in Sweden, noted that he preferred fantasy to the trials of real life.[1] That conflict, and his passion for beauty as well as his sexual energy, were major factors in his life and his work.[2]
From 1965 through 1972 Arimondi worked as model in London, Milan, Germany, New York and Stockholm, appearing in catalogs and fashion magazines including Vogue , Harper's Bazaar and Esquire and on the runway in several Valentino fashion shows.
In 1972 he decided to try working on the other side of the lens as a photographer to better express his creativity.[2]
Arimondi moved to New York in 1979 and continued to build his photography portfolio.
Portrait of Bearded Man, New York City, 1979
Two years later, in 1981, he moved to San Francisco where he lived and worked for twenty years until his death of AIDS at age 58 on July 24, 2001.
The year he moved to San Francisco, Arimondi opened a photo gallery in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood for a short time. When he struggled financially, he gave up on trying to earn a living through commercial fashion photography and closed the gallery.[3]
Arimondi returned to modeling for the financial benefits, though he did so on less of an international scale than in his early years.
He continued to create photographic portraits of the denizens of the San Francisco gay and arts cultures, to shoot male nudes and publish his work in magazines, and he began to compose and photograph evocative still lifes using his own photographic images. Many of them touched on the death of dozens of his former photography models from AIDS.
Arimondi was in the midst of a new photography project that brought together his background as a fashion photographer and his more recent social documentary work when he died several months after he learned he was HIV-positive.[4] The project featured his former colleague, haute couture cover model Ivy Nicholson,[5] who he found living homeless in San Francisco. Several of the haunting portraits he took of her were later included in a noted group exhibit at SF Camerawork.
Art
Arimondi's early photography in the 1970s in Stockholm included portraits of the stars of Sweden's fashion, theater and dance worlds. His first two photography exhibits were in Stockholm and met with mixed reviews. But as he matured as a photographer and tapped into his fashion world contacts, Arimondi landed a number of commercial fashion jobs, including shooting for the Italian designer Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A.'s I.Magnin department store ad that ran in Vogue.
Marlboro Man Nude, New York City,1980.
He also shot other artists and models for his own portfolio, including Grace Jones, the Norwegian actress, Liv Ullmann, and the American writer, Norman Mailer.
Arimondi's aesthetic vision was focused on fantasy and drama, and he prided himself on pushing limits.[6]
Although less well-known than his San Francisco contemporary...
Category
1970s Realist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Hotel Bondi #2. Nude Photograph
By David Jay
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Through Jay’s photography, context evaporates, and we as the viewer are left to engage the subjects, trade places, and for a moment, live behind their eyes.
David Jay's work gives a unique and intimate perspective on how we define beauty. A confrontation between the perception of beauty and the transitory nature of existence, Jay’s subjects, muses, and warriors, reside within the unseen domain of the human narrative.
Hotel Bondi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Coconuts and The Leaf (Diptych), Framed black and white nature photographs
By Iran Issa-Khan
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Coconuts and The Leaf (Diptych)by Iran Issa-Khan
Black and white archival pigment print
Overall size:
Image size: 19 in. H x 46 in. W
Frame size: 36 in. H x 80 in. W
Individual size:...
Category
Early 2000s Naturalistic Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Lady Bunny, Wigstock, NYC, Girlfriend Series. Black and White Portrait Photo
By Michael James O’Brien
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Men, Women, and Drag, draws inspiration from his diverse roles as a photographer, poet, and activist. His work often intersects with themes of identity, social justice, and cultural ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Roller Coaster. Aerial Landscape Triptych Black and White Photograph
By Jill Peters
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jill Peters finds her inspiration in the quickly changing architectural landmarks of her youth, like the demolished Miami Herald building, an abandoned roller coaster...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment
Peter Beard - Elephant's Embryo, Uganda, Platinum Print- Unsigned
By Peter Beard
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Elephant's Embryo, Uganda
Aributed to Peter Beard/Unsigned
The original photograph "unsigned" but documented by its inclusion in "Peter Beard - Fifty Years of Portraits, The End of the Game...
Category
1960s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Kale & Coles de Bruselas. From The Bodegones series. Still life photography.
By Dora Franco
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The bodegones are a pictorial interpretation based on a research project of the famous chef Juan Carlos Franco, on old food recipes of different periods in history. The photographer ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Frida Kahlo en la casa azul, Coyoacán, Mexico. Platinum edition. B&W Portrait
By Leo Matiz
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Matiz managed to create intimate portraits, in which Frida seemed happy to surrender to her lens. The result was dynamic portraits of Khalo, a wonderful example of both the photograp...
Category
1940s Other Art Style Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Black and White
Large Silver Gelatin Russian Photograph Potsdam Conference Winston Churchill
By Samariy Gurariy
Located in Surfside, FL
Potsdam conference meeting depicting Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill and Harry Truman (not visible) at the conference table, gelatin silver print, date of printing unknown,
16-1/2" x 22-3/4" sheet, date of printing unknown.
Provenance: acquired from the estate of photographer Samariy Gurariy...
Category
20th Century Realist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
JACKIE AND CAROLINE, HYANNIS PORT, MASSACHUSETTS, SUMMER 1961
By Jacques Lowe
Located in Aventura, FL
Jacques Lowe stamp and various inscriptions on print verso. Sheet size 11 x 13.9 inches. Image size approx 9 x 13 inches. Frame size approx 18.5 x 22.5 inches. Certificate of authen...
Category
1960s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Paper, Silver Gelatin
$4,125 Sale Price
25% Off
Centre Line, Acto Uno, Series. Male Nude Black and White Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Cohete's ritual with movement and the male dancer formations, inhabits his black and white theater-like habitat. Like light; always in motion.
The harsh lights and shadows in the wa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Roman Statue Study 7 and 9. Diptych. Nude figurative photograph. Framed
By Luca Artioli
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Touching the skin of the past is an extraordinary collection of Roman Statues captured with the ICM technique in order to make the marble skin like a truly human body. 'Touching the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Male Nude Desert Landscape Study
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Roy Dean (1925-20020. Male Nude Study, ca. 1975-80. Original period print with artist studio stamp on verso. Print measures 5.25 x 9 inches; 13 x 17 inches fr...
Category
1970s Realist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Alas Dos, Acto Uno, Series. Male Nude Limited Edition Black and White Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Cohete's ritual with movement and the male dancer formations, inhabits his black and white theater-like habitat. Like light; always in motion.
The harsh lights and shadows in the wa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Pigment, Archival Pigment
An insipid notion #177.
By Javier Rey
Located in Miami Beach, FL
An insipid notion (The astonished world) is a collection of unreal experiences caused by the feeling of late and inexperienced love, and the inability to fully k...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Abstract Female Nude
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful abstract photo depicting female nude, Signed N. Scott. Image measures 10 x 12 inches; 19.25 x 21.25 inches framed and matted. Excellent condition.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$320 Sale Price
20% Off
Man Curve, Four. Motion Series. Male Nude Black and White Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Through his exploration of bodily movement, with modern and ballet dancers, and with particular attention to the male physique, the artist has focused on the curves and lines of thei...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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