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Item Ships From: Manhattan
Profil sur Argeut, 1941
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer
One of less than 10 prints made in this size and signed
Category
1940s Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (Two Models with horse), 1975
By Chris von Wangenheim
Located in New York, NY
One of less than 10 prints made
Category
1970s Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Graig Right Profile
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by her love for nature, Griet Van Malderen (Belgium, 1970), a self-taught wildlife photographer from Flanders in Belgium, has been explorin...
Category
2010s Photorealist Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Photogram, Archival Pigment, Pigment
Dominance
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by her love for nature, Griet Van Malderen (Belgium, 1970), a self-taught wildlife photographer from Flanders in Belgium, has been explorin...
Category
2010s Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Photogram, Pigmen...
Too Close
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by her love for nature, Griet Van Malderen (Belgium, 1970), a self-taught wildlife photographer from Flanders in Belgium, has been explorin...
Category
2010s Photorealist Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Photogram, Pigmen...
Graig Left Profile
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by her love for nature, Griet Van Malderen (Belgium, 1970), a self-taught wildlife photographer from Flanders in Belgium, has been explorin...
Category
2010s Photorealist Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Photogram, Pigmen...
Beauty
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by her love for nature, Griet Van Malderen (Belgium, 1970), a self-taught wildlife photographer from Flanders in Belgium, has been explorin...
Category
2010s Photorealist Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment,...
Big Brother
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by her love for nature, Griet Van Malderen (Belgium, 1970), a self-taught wildlife photographer from Flanders in Belgium, has been explorin...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment,...
"Connoisseur Magazine, Armani", New York, NY, 1988
By Jose Picayo
Located in Hudson, NY
This photograph is printed on Japanese Paper.
The price is for an unframed photograph.
11" X 14" Edition of 25.
The Robin Rice Gallery is pleased to announce, 25 Years of Polaro...
Category
1980s Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Untitled (17), black and white photographic portrait by Diane Arbus
By Diane Arbus
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (17), black and white photographic portrait by Diane Arbus
Untitled (17)
1970-71/1990
Estate stamped and signed by Doon Arbus for the Estate of Diane Arbus, verso; Also ti...
Category
1970s Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Royalty - Lioness emerging from the shadows of the African savannah
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by her love for nature, Griet Van Malderen (Belgium, 1970), a self-taught wildlife photographer from Flanders in Belgium, has been explorin...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Pigment, Archival P...
From the darkness - A Lioness gaze in the wilderness of Africa
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by her love for nature, Griet Van Malderen (Belgium, 1970), a self-taught wildlife photographer from Flanders in Belgium, has been explorin...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Paper, Black and ...
Untitled (Buffaloes), Black and White Photograph by David Wojnarowicz
By David Wojnarowicz
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (Buffaloes), Photograph by David Wojnarowicz
1988/1994
Estate stamp in black ink, vesro
Also initialed “TWR” and numbered in black ink, vesro
Platinum print (Edition of 10...
Category
1980s Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Curious
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by her love for nature, Griet Van Malderen (Belgium, 1970), a self-taught wildlife photographer from Flanders in Belgium, has been exploring Africa’s wild places for the pas...
Category
2010s Photorealist Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Photogram, Pigmen...
Boys Band
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by her love for nature, Griet Van Malderen (Belgium, 1970), a self-taught wildlife photographer from Flanders in Belgium, has been exploring Africa’s wild places for the pas...
Category
2010s Photorealist Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pigment, Archival...
Concentrated
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by her love for nature, Griet Van Malderen (Belgium, 1970), a self-taught wildlife photographer from Flanders in Belgium, has been exploring Africa’s wild places for the pas...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pigment, Archival...
Intimate
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by her love for nature, Griet Van Malderen (Belgium, 1970), a self-taught wildlife photographer from Flanders in Belgium, has been exploring Africa’s wild places for the pas...
Category
2010s Photorealist Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Photogram, Pigmen...
Zenitude
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by her love for nature, Griet Van Malderen (Belgium, 1970), a self-taught wildlife photographer from Flanders in Belgium, has been exploring Africa’s wild places for the pas...
Category
2010s Photorealist Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Photogram, Pigment, Archival Pigment
On the Hunt
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by her love for nature, Griet Van Malderen (Belgium, 1970), a self-taught wildlife photographer from Flanders in Belgium, has been exploring Africa’s wild places for the pas...
Category
2010s Photorealist Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Photogram, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Protector of Odin
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pho...
The Flower & The Willow
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pho...
Kiss of my Kettlingr
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Arc...
Scarface
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by her love for nature, Griet Van Malderen (Belgium, 1970), a self-taught wildlife photographer from Flanders in Belgium, has been exploring Africa’s wild places for the pas...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digita...
Next Generation
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by her love for nature, Griet Van Malderen (Belgium, 1970), a self-taught wildlife photographer from Flanders in Belgium, has been exploring Africa’s wild places for the pas...
Category
2010s Photorealist Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Pigment
Zebra Kili
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by her love for nature, Griet Van Malderen (Belgium, 1970), a self-taught wildlife photographer from Flanders in Belgium, has been exploring Africa’s wild places for the pas...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Photogram, Pigmen...
Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, New York
By Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Print
Signed by the photographer
Pratt Institute is a private university in Brooklyn, New York which was founded in 1887 and is primarily know...
Category
1950s Modern Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Model Shelly Napier in Schiaparelli with Brancusi Sculptures, MOMA, New York
By Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Located in New York, NY
This photograph was likely taken during the Museum of Modern Art’s 10th Anniversary Exhibition, which also celebrated the museum’s new home at 11 West 53rd Street. Pictured with the model are “Bird in Space...
Category
1930s Modern Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Le Fox-Terrier du Pont de Arts
By Robert Doisneau
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer
Category
1950s Modern Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Princess of Monaco Grace Kelly
Located in New York, NY
Milton H. Greene
Grace Kelly
1955 (printed later)
All archival pigment prints, signed on reverse by the Estate
American actress and then Princess of Monaco...
Category
1950s Modern Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tyke and Tom, On the Way to Long Pond, Adirondack Park
By Bruce Weber
Located in New York, NY
Tyke and Tom, On the Way to Long Pond, Adirondack Park
1988
Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil, verso
Gelatin silver print.
10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
Contact galle...
Category
1980s Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Tom, Bear Pond, Adirondack Park [Tom on Log]
By Bruce Weber
Located in New York, NY
Tom, Bear Pond, Adirondack Park [Tom on Log]
1988
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil, verso
Gelatin silver print (Edition of 3)
10 x 8 inches ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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American Girl in Italy
By Ruth Orkin
Located in New York, NY
This print is stamped by the photographer's estate.
Ruth Orkin was born in Massachussetts but grew up in Hollywood, where her mother was a silent film actress. Orkin was given a ca...
Category
1950s Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Susie B&W, 1989 New York, NY
By Jose Picayo
Located in Hudson, NY
Each year, Robin Rice celebrates a Salon style exhibition to showcase her gallery artists and invite new ones.
With Robin’s extensive experience as a gallery curator, all Robin Rice...
Category
1980s Modern Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dolce Vita: Roumina & Luca Vellani for British GQ, Rome
Located in New York, NY
11x14 inches / 28x36 cm Edition of 25 + 3 Artist’s Proofs
20x30 inches / 51x76 cm Edition of 15 + 3 Artist’s Proofs
30x40 inches / 76x102 cm Edition of 15 + 3 Artist’s Pro...
Category
1990s Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Archival Pigment
Keith Richards, Rivers Flow, British GQ, New York
Located in New York, NY
11x14 inches / 28x36 cm Edition of 12 + 3 Artist’s Proofs
20x30 inches / 51x76 cm Edition of 9 + 3 Artist’s Proofs
30x40 inches / 76x102 cm Edition of 9 + 3 Artist’s Proof...
Category
1990s Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Archival Pigment
Antonio Banderas, Dreamer II, British Elle, North Carolina
Located in New York, NY
11x14 inches / 28x36 cm Edition of 12 + 3 Artist’s Proofs
20x30 inches / 51x76 cm Edition of 9 + 3 Artist’s Proofs
30x40 inches / 76x102 cm Edition of 9 + 3 Artist’s Proof...
Category
1990s Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Archival Pigment
Heath Ledger, One Too Many, Premiere
Located in New York, NY
11x14 inches / 28x36 cm Edition of 12 + 3 Artist’s Proofs
20x30 inches / 51x76 cm Edition of 9 + 3 Artist’s Proofs
30x40 inches / 76x102 cm Edition of 9 + 3 Artist’s Proof...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Archival Pigment
Jimmy Choo, Milan
Located in New York, NY
11x14 inches / 28x36 cm Edition of 12 + 3 Artist’s Proofs
20x30 inches / 51x76 cm Edition of 9 + 3 Artist’s Proofs
30x40 inches / 76x102 cm Edition of 9 + 3 Artist’s Proof...
Category
2010s Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Archival Pigment
Masked Ball, Grazia, Lake Como
Located in New York, NY
11x14 inches / 28x36 cm Edition of 12 + 3 Artist’s Proofs
20x30 inches / 51x76 cm Edition of 9 + 3 Artist’s Proofs
30x40 inches / 76x102 cm Edition of 9 + 3 Artist’s Proof...
Category
2010s Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Archival Pigment
Naeem Khan + McLaren III, New York
Located in New York, NY
11x14 inches / 28x36 cm Edition of 12 + 3 Artist’s Proofs
20x30 inches / 51x76 cm Edition of 9 + 3 Artist’s Proofs
30x40 inches / 76x102 cm Edition of 9 + 3 Artist’s Proof...
Category
2010s Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Archival Pigment
The Kiss, East Hampton
By Priscilla Rattazzi
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the Photographer
Category
Early 2000s Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled
By Chuck Close
Located in New York, NY
1967/printed 1999
Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil, recto
Iris print (Edition of 100)
30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 55.9 cm), sheet
20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm), image
Contact ga...
Category
1960s Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital
Gerri (Sailor), New York, NY, 1992
By Jose Picayo
Located in Hudson, NY
Each year, Robin Rice celebrates a Salon style exhibition to showcase her gallery artists and invite new ones.
With Robin’s extensive experience as a gallery curator, all Robin Rice...
Category
1990s Modern Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Fish Circle, Para, Brazil, 2011
By Steve Miller
Located in Hudson, NY
Each year, Robin Rice celebrates a Salon style exhibition to showcase her gallery artists and invite new ones.
With Robin’s extensive experience as a gallery curator, all Robin Rice...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Participant at Transpitt Transgender conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
By Mariette Pathy Allen
Located in New York, NY
Participant at Transpitt Transgender conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1991
Signed and numbered, verso
Selenium-toned gelatin silver print (Edition of 3)
20 x 16 inches
Cont...
Category
1990s Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ramona and Cindy
By Mariette Pathy Allen
Located in New York, NY
Ramona and Cindy
Signed and numbered, verso
Selenium-toned gelatin silver print (Edition of 3)
16 x 20 inches
Contact gallery for price.
This work is offered by ClampArt in New Y...
Category
1980s Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marilyn with Nikon (Close Up)
By Bert Stern
Located in New York, NY
Photographed in 1962 and created as a digital pigment print in 2012, Bert Stern's Marilyn with Nikon (Close Up) is hand-signed, titled and numbered by the photographer, (recto); and ...
Category
20th Century Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Marilyn Monroe, Crucifix
By Bert Stern
Located in New York, NY
This digital pigment print is from The Last Sitting, commissioned by Vogue Magazine in 1962 and printed in 2013. Signed and numbered by the photographer with copyright stamp (verso) ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
LE JARDIN
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
Print is also available in a Medium size : 40'' x 56'' and is priced at : $14,000. It is a black and white photographic print, with uniquely handmade puncture designs by the artist, set in a black shadow box frame.
The new series “Punctured Ink” incorporates works from Nyari’s ongoing, portrait project titled “Ink Stories”.
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin, Nyari proposes the idea that self-empowerment and reconciliation with one’s traumas can be linked to the act of greeting one’s “own skin” or inventing their own story.
Nyari has now elevated these intimate photographs in her new Punctured Ink series through the process of puncturing botanical-like references into the surface of each image (thus making each one of a kind). Her inspiration to physically puncture the previously pristine photographic prints stemmed from a childhood memory that occurred while she was living in Finland: “I remembered my parents had this big pad of paper next to the home phone in Finland and I would use my mother’s sewing needles to poke patterns into the paper”.
This nostalgic memory in combination with the longing to apply her physical, painterly abilities resulted in the choice to transform these photographs via puncturing the paper. Unlike painting or drawing on the surface of each print, the raised, brail like holes created leave a permanent result, just as a tattoo does on one’s skin. While the surface of an artwork, like skin, is typically preserved and or avoided, Nyari follows in the subject’s footsteps by purposely destroying the pristine surface in order to create a new narrative. The act taps into a long history of tribal scarification which signified a right of passage, permitting the individual to transcend their past traumas and transforming their evolved selves. This notion grounds all of her works.
In addition, Nyari’s choice to puncture nature-based patterns into each portrait also has its own significance. She stated that when “talking about scarification and getting over trauma, to me, nature is one of the most healing and beautiful elements.”
As Nyari is emphasizing through her photographs, when you add a personal story onto the skin, it is a whole new layer that often becomes biographical. It translates a story to the audience of one’s past, future and wishes. While this concept existed in her previous photographic series, now, through puncturing the surface of each, Nyari is adding another layer of permanence onto her works’ meaning, therefore becoming, as she calls it “ink cubed”.
————————————————————————————————————————————
Born in 1979 in Helsinki, and raised in Finland and Germany, Nyari came to New York City at the age of seventeen. While here, she studied at the School of Visual Arts where she not only began to model but found her passion for photography. Using inspiration from masters such as Helmut Newton and Cindy Sherman, Nyari’s work employs and explores the traditional ideal of beauty and gender to portray sexuality from a predominately female perspective. She utilizes technical elements such as gestures, nudity, the subject’s gaze, objects and more to link this connection of the empowered feminine identity. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries throughout the United States and Europe and through such exposure, she has received multiple prestigious awards including the first-place winner of the International Photography Awards in 2010, Beauty Pro Category. Her 225-page Monograph titled “Femme Fatale: Female Erotic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Archi...
DANDELION
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
Print is also available in a Large size: 63'' x 50'' and is priced at: $16,000. A black and white photographic print, with uniquely handmade puncture designs by the artist, set in a black shadow box frame.
The new series “Punctured Ink” incorporates works from Nyari’s ongoing, portrait project titled “Ink Stories”.
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin, Nyari proposes the idea that self-empowerment and reconciliation with one’s traumas can be linked to the act of greeting one’s “own skin” or inventing their own story.
Nyari has now elevated these intimate photographs in her new Punctured Ink series through the process of puncturing botanical-like references into the surface of each image (thus making each one of a kind). Her inspiration to physically puncture the previously pristine photographic prints stemmed from a childhood memory that occurred while she was living in Finland: “I remembered my parents had this big pad of paper next to the home phone in Finland and I would use my mother’s sewing needles to poke patterns into the paper”.
This nostalgic memory in combination with the longing to apply her physical, painterly abilities resulted in the choice to transform these photographs via puncturing the paper. Unlike painting or drawing on the surface of each print, the raised, brail like holes created leave a permanent result, just as a tattoo does on one’s skin. While the surface of an artwork, like skin, is typically preserved and or avoided, Nyari follows in the subject’s footsteps by purposely destroying the pristine surface in order to create a new narrative. The act taps into a long history of tribal scarification which signified a right of passage, permitting the individual to transcend their past traumas and transforming their evolved selves. This notion grounds all of her works.
In addition, Nyari’s choice to puncture nature-based patterns into each portrait also has its own significance. She stated that when “talking about scarification and getting over trauma, to me, nature is one of the most healing and beautiful elements.”
As Nyari is emphasizing through her photographs, when you add a personal story onto the skin, it is a whole new layer that often becomes biographical. It translates a story to the audience of one’s past, future and wishes. While this concept existed in her previous photographic series, now, through puncturing the surface of each, Nyari is adding another layer of permanence onto her works’ meaning, therefore becoming, as she calls it “ink cubed”.
————————————————————————————————————————————
Born in 1979 in Helsinki, and raised in Finland and Germany, Nyari came to New York City at the age of seventeen. While here, she studied at the School of Visual Arts where she not only began to model but found her passion for photography. Using inspiration from masters such as Helmut Newton and Cindy Sherman, Nyari’s work employs and explores the traditional ideal of beauty and gender to portray sexuality from a predominately female perspective. She utilizes technical elements such as gestures, nudity, the subject’s gaze, objects and more to link this connection of the empowered feminine identity. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries throughout the United States and Europe and through such exposure, she has received multiple prestigious awards including the first-place winner of the International Photography Awards in 2010, Beauty Pro Category. Her 225-page Monograph titled “Femme Fatale: Female Erotic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Pigme...
VENATION
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
Print is also available in a large size: 63'' x 50'' and is priced at: $16,000 Each work is a one-of-a-kind, unique piece that is hand punctured. The work also comes with a black floating frame.
The new series “Punctured Ink” incorporates works from Nyari’s ongoing, portrait project titled “Ink Stories”.
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin, Nyari proposes the idea that self-empowerment and reconciliation with one’s traumas can be linked to the act of greeting one’s “own skin” or inventing their own story.
Nyari has now elevated these intimate photographs in her new Punctured Ink series through the process of puncturing botanical-like references into the surface of each image (thus making each one of a kind). Her inspiration to physically puncture the previously pristine photographic prints stemmed from a childhood memory that occurred while she was living in Finland: “I remembered my parents had this big pad of paper next to the home phone in Finland and I would use my mother’s sewing needles to poke patterns into the paper”.
This nostalgic memory in combination with the longing to apply her physical, painterly abilities resulted in the choice to transform these photographs via puncturing the paper. Unlike painting or drawing on the surface of each print, the raised, brail like holes created leave a permanent result, just as a tattoo does on one’s skin. While the surface of an artwork, like skin, is typically preserved and or avoided, Nyari follows in the subject’s footsteps by purposely destroying the pristine surface in order to create a new narrative. The act taps into a long history of tribal scarification which signified a right of passage, permitting the individual to transcend their past traumas and transforming their evolved selves. This notion grounds all of her works.
In addition, Nyari’s choice to puncture nature-based patterns into each portrait also has its own significance. She stated that when “talking about scarification and getting over trauma, to me, nature is one of the most healing and beautiful elements.”
As Nyari is emphasizing through her photographs, when you add a personal story onto the skin, it is a whole new layer that often becomes biographical. It translates a story to the audience of one’s past, future and wishes. While this concept existed in her previous photographic series, now, through puncturing the surface of each, Nyari is adding another layer of permanence onto her works’ meaning, therefore becoming, as she calls it “ink cubed”.
————————————————————————————————————————————
Born in 1979 in Helsinki, and raised in Finland and Germany, Nyari came to New York City at the age of seventeen. While here, she studied at the School of Visual Arts where she not only began to model but found her passion for photography. Using inspiration from masters such as Helmut Newton and Cindy Sherman, Nyari’s work employs and explores the traditional ideal of beauty and gender to portray sexuality from a predominately female perspective. She utilizes technical elements such as gestures, nudity, the subject’s gaze, objects and more to link this connection of the empowered feminine identity. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries throughout the United States and Europe and through such exposure, she has received multiple prestigious awards including the first-place winner of the International Photography Awards in 2010, Beauty Pro Category. Her 225-page Monograph titled “Femme Fatale: Female Erotic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Pigment, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment, Plexiglass, Archiva...
PATRONNE
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
Print is also available in Medium size: 50'' x 40'' and is priced at $13,000. A black and white photographic print, with uniquely handmade puncture designs by the artist, set in a black shadow box frame.
The new series “Punctured Ink” incorporates works from Nyari’s ongoing, portrait project titled “Ink Stories”.
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin, Nyari proposes the idea that self-empowerment and reconciliation with one’s traumas can be linked to the act of greeting one’s “own skin” or inventing their own story.
Nyari has now elevated these intimate photographs in her new Punctured Ink series through the process of puncturing botanical-like references into the surface of each image (thus making each one of a kind). Her inspiration to physically puncture the previously pristine photographic prints stemmed from a childhood memory that occurred while she was living in Finland: “I remembered my parents had this big pad of paper next to the home phone in Finland and I would use my mother’s sewing needles to poke patterns into the paper”.
This nostalgic memory in combination with the longing to apply her physical, painterly abilities resulted in the choice to transform these photographs via puncturing the paper. Unlike painting or drawing on the surface of each print, the raised, brail like holes created leave a permanent result, just as a tattoo does on one’s skin. While the surface of an artwork, like skin, is typically preserved and or avoided, Nyari follows in the subject’s footsteps by purposely destroying the pristine surface in order to create a new narrative. The act taps into a long history of tribal scarification which signified a right of passage, permitting the individual to transcend their past traumas and transforming their evolved selves. This notion grounds all of her works.
In addition, Nyari’s choice to puncture nature-based patterns into each portrait also has its own significance. She stated that when “talking about scarification and getting over trauma, to me, nature is one of the most healing and beautiful elements.”
As Nyari is emphasizing through her photographs, when you add a personal story onto the skin, it is a whole new layer that often becomes biographical. It translates a story to the audience of one’s past, future and wishes. While this concept existed in her previous photographic series, now, through puncturing the surface of each, Nyari is adding another layer of permanence onto her works’ meaning, therefore becoming, as she calls it “ink cubed”.
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Born in 1979 in Helsinki, and raised in Finland and Germany, Nyari came to New York City at the age of seventeen. While here, she studied at the School of Visual Arts where she not only began to model but found her passion for photography. Using inspiration from masters such as Helmut Newton and Cindy Sherman, Nyari’s work employs and explores the traditional ideal of beauty and gender to portray sexuality from a predominately female perspective. She utilizes technical elements such as gestures, nudity, the subject’s gaze, objects and more to link this connection of the empowered feminine identity. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries throughout the United States and Europe and through such exposure, she has received multiple prestigious awards including the first-place winner of the International Photography Awards in 2010, Beauty Pro Category. Her 225-page Monograph titled “Femme Fatale: Female Erotic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Paper...
FLEURS SAUVAGES
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
Print is also available in a small size : 50'' x 40'' and is priced at : $13,000. Each work is a one of a kind, unique piece that is hand punctured. The work also comes with a black floating frame.
The new series “Punctured Ink” incorporates works from Nyari’s ongoing, portrait project titled “Ink Stories”.
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin, Nyari proposes the idea that self-empowerment and reconciliation with one’s traumas can be linked to the act of greeting one’s “own skin” or inventing their own story.
Nyari has now elevated these intimate photographs in her new Punctured Ink series through the process of puncturing botanical-like references into the surface of each image (thus making each one of a kind). Her inspiration to physically puncture the previously pristine photographic prints stemmed from a childhood memory that occurred while she was living in Finland: “I remembered my parents had this big pad of paper next to the home phone in Finland and I would use my mother’s sewing needles to poke patterns into the paper”.
This nostalgic memory in combination with the longing to apply her physical, painterly abilities resulted in the choice to transform these photographs via puncturing the paper. Unlike painting or drawing on the surface of each print, the raised, brail like holes created leave a permanent result, just as a tattoo does on one’s skin. While the surface of an artwork, like skin, is typically preserved and or avoided, Nyari follows in the subject’s footsteps by purposely destroying the pristine surface in order to create a new narrative. The act taps into a long history of tribal scarification which signified a right of passage, permitting the individual to transcend their past traumas and transforming their evolved selves. This notion grounds all of her works.
In addition, Nyari’s choice to puncture nature-based patterns into each portrait also has its own significance. She stated that when “talking about scarification and getting over trauma, to me, nature is one of the most healing and beautiful elements.”
As Nyari is emphasizing through her photographs, when you add a personal story onto the skin, it is a whole new layer that often becomes biographical. It translates a story to the audience of one’s past, future and wishes. While this concept existed in her previous photographic series, now, through puncturing the surface of each, Nyari is adding another layer of permanence onto her works’ meaning, therefore becoming, as she calls it “ink cubed”.
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Born in 1979 in Helsinki, and raised in Finland and Germany, Nyari came to New York City at the age of seventeen. While here, she studied at the School of Visual Arts where she not only began to model but found her passion for photography. Using inspiration from masters such as Helmut Newton and Cindy Sherman, Nyari’s work employs and explores the traditional ideal of beauty and gender to portray sexuality from a predominately female perspective. She utilizes technical elements such as gestures, nudity, the subject’s gaze, objects and more to link this connection of the empowered feminine identity. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries throughout the United States and Europe and through such exposure, she has received multiple prestigious awards including the first-place winner of the International Photography Awards in 2010, Beauty Pro Category. Her 225-page Monograph titled “Femme Fatale: Female Erotic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Adhes...
EFFECT PAPILLON
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
Print is framed and total size is 50 x 40. The work is framed in a a black floating frame with conservation acrylic.
Print is also available in a large size : 63'' x 50'' and is priced at : $16,000 Each work is a one of a kind, unique piece that is hand punctured. The work also comes with a black floating frame.
The new series “Punctured Ink” incorporates works from Nyari’s ongoing, portrait project titled “Ink Stories”.
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin, Nyari proposes the idea that self-empowerment and reconciliation with one’s traumas can be linked to the act of greeting one’s “own skin” or inventing their own story.
Nyari has now elevated these intimate photographs in her new Punctured Ink series through the process of puncturing botanical-like references into the surface of each image (thus making each one of a kind). Her inspiration to physically puncture the previously pristine photographic prints stemmed from a childhood memory that occurred while she was living in Finland: “I remembered my parents had this big pad of paper next to the home phone in Finland and I would use my mother’s sewing needles to poke patterns into the paper”.
This nostalgic memory in combination with the longing to apply her physical, painterly abilities resulted in the choice to transform these photographs via puncturing the paper. Unlike painting or drawing on the surface of each print, the raised, brail like holes created leave a permanent result, just as a tattoo does on one’s skin. While the surface of an artwork, like skin, is typically preserved and or avoided, Nyari follows in the subject’s footsteps by purposely destroying the pristine surface in order to create a new narrative. The act taps into a long history of tribal scarification which signified a right of passage, permitting the individual to transcend their past traumas and transforming their evolved selves. This notion grounds all of her works.
In addition, Nyari’s choice to puncture nature-based patterns into each portrait also has its own significance. She stated that when “talking about scarification and getting over trauma, to me, nature is one of the most healing and beautiful elements.”
As Nyari is emphasizing through her photographs, when you add a personal story onto the skin, it is a whole new layer that often becomes biographical. It translates a story to the audience of one’s past, future and wishes. While this concept existed in her previous photographic series, now, through puncturing the surface of each, Nyari is adding another layer of permanence onto her works’ meaning, therefore becoming, as she calls it “ink cubed”.
————————————————————————————————————————————
Born in 1979 in Helsinki, and raised in Finland and Germany, Nyari came to New York City at the age of seventeen. While here, she studied at the School of Visual Arts where she not only began to model but found her passion for photography. Using inspiration from masters such as Helmut Newton and Cindy Sherman, Nyari’s work employs and explores the traditional ideal of beauty and gender to portray sexuality from a predominately female perspective. She utilizes technical elements such as gestures, nudity, the subject’s gaze, objects and more to link this connection of the empowered feminine identity. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries throughout the United States and Europe and through such exposure, she has received multiple prestigious awards including the first-place winner of the International Photography Awards in 2010, Beauty Pro Category. Her 225-page Monograph titled “Femme Fatale: Female Erotic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Digit...
Marilyn with Chinchilla Coat
By Bert Stern
Located in New York, NY
As one of the iconic images from The Last Sitting, commissioned by Vogue Magazine, Marilyn with Chinchilla Coat was created in 2011 from the negative ...
Category
20th Century Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Marilyn with Sequin Gloves
By Bert Stern
Located in New York, NY
As one of the iconic images from The Last Sitting, commissioned by Vogue Magazine, Marilyn with Sequin Gloves was created in 2011 from the negative Bert Stern shot in 1962. It is a ...
Category
20th Century Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
L'ARTISTE
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
Print is also available in a large size : 50'' x 40'' and is priced at : $13,000. A black and white photographic print, with uniquely handmade puncture designs by the artist, set in a black shadow box frame.
The new series “Punctured Ink” incorporates works from Nyari’s ongoing, portrait project titled “Ink Stories”.
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin, Nyari proposes the idea that self-empowerment and reconciliation with one’s traumas can be linked to the act of greeting one’s “own skin” or inventing their own story.
Nyari has now elevated these intimate photographs in her new Punctured Ink series through the process of puncturing botanical-like references into the surface of each image (thus making each one of a kind). Her inspiration to physically puncture the previously pristine photographic prints stemmed from a childhood memory that occurred while she was living in Finland: “I remembered my parents had this big pad of paper next to the home phone in Finland and I would use my mother’s sewing needles to poke patterns into the paper”.
This nostalgic memory in combination with the longing to apply her physical, painterly abilities resulted in the choice to transform these photographs via puncturing the paper. Unlike painting or drawing on the surface of each print, the raised, brail like holes created leave a permanent result, just as a tattoo does on one’s skin. While the surface of an artwork, like skin, is typically preserved and or avoided, Nyari follows in the subject’s footsteps by purposely destroying the pristine surface in order to create a new narrative. The act taps into a long history of tribal scarification which signified a right of passage, permitting the individual to transcend their past traumas and transforming their evolved selves. This notion grounds all of her works.
In addition, Nyari’s choice to puncture nature-based patterns into each portrait also has its own significance. She stated that when “talking about scarification and getting over trauma, to me, nature is one of the most healing and beautiful elements.”
As Nyari is emphasizing through her photographs, when you add a personal story onto the skin, it is a whole new layer that often becomes biographical. It translates a story to the audience of one’s past, future and wishes. While this concept existed in her previous photographic series, now, through puncturing the surface of each, Nyari is adding another layer of permanence onto her works’ meaning, therefore becoming, as she calls it “ink cubed”.
————————————————————————————————————————————
Born in 1979 in Helsinki, and raised in Finland and Germany, Nyari came to New York City at the age of seventeen. While here, she studied at the School of Visual Arts where she not only began to model but found her passion for photography. Using inspiration from masters such as Helmut Newton and Cindy Sherman, Nyari’s work employs and explores the traditional ideal of beauty and gender to portray sexuality from a predominately female perspective. She utilizes technical elements such as gestures, nudity, the subject’s gaze, objects and more to link this connection of the empowered feminine identity. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries throughout the United States and Europe and through such exposure, she has received multiple prestigious awards including the first-place winner of the International Photography Awards in 2010, Beauty Pro Category. Her 225-page Monograph titled “Femme Fatale: Female Erotic Photography...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Plexi...
PHANTASMA
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
Print is also available in a large size : 56'' x 74'' and is priced at : $19,000. A black and white photographic print, with uniquely handmade puncture designs by the artist, set in a black shadow box frame.
The new series “Punctured Ink” incorporates works from Nyari’s ongoing, portrait project titled “Ink Stories”.
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerment. The series joins six women together, each who have faced adversity, to demonstrate the creation of a strengthened self-image through tattoos. By highlighting the intricate woven threads of ink on each woman’s skin, Nyari proposes the idea that self-empowerment and reconciliation with one’s traumas can be linked to the act of greeting one’s “own skin” or inventing their own story.
Nyari has now elevated these intimate photographs in her new Punctured Ink series through the process of puncturing botanical-like references into the surface of each image (thus making each one of a kind). Her inspiration to physically puncture the previously pristine photographic prints stemmed from a childhood memory that occurred while she was living in Finland: “I remembered my parents had this big pad of paper next to the home phone in Finland and I would use my mother’s sewing needles to poke patterns into the paper”.
This nostalgic memory in combination with the longing to apply her physical, painterly abilities resulted in the choice to transform these photographs via puncturing the paper. Unlike painting or drawing on the surface of each print, the raised, brail like holes created leave a permanent result, just as a tattoo does on one’s skin. While the surface of an artwork, like skin, is typically preserved and or avoided, Nyari follows in the subject’s footsteps by purposely destroying the pristine surface in order to create a new narrative. The act taps into a long history of tribal scarification which signified a right of passage, permitting the individual to transcend their past traumas and transforming their evolved selves. This notion grounds all of her works.
In addition, Nyari’s choice to puncture nature-based patterns into each portrait also has its own significance. She stated that when “talking about scarification and getting over trauma, to me, nature is one of the most healing and beautiful elements.”
As Nyari is emphasizing through her photographs, when you add a personal story onto the skin, it is a whole new layer that often becomes biographical. It translates a story to the audience of one’s past, future and wishes. While this concept existed in her previous photographic series, now, through puncturing the surface of each, Nyari is adding another layer of permanence onto her works’ meaning, therefore becoming, as she calls it “ink cubed”.
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Born in 1979 in Helsinki, and raised in Finland and Germany, Nyari came to New York City at the age of seventeen. While here, she studied at the School of Visual Arts where she not only began to model but found her passion for photography. Using inspiration from masters such as Helmut Newton and Cindy Sherman, Nyari’s work employs and explores the traditional ideal of beauty and gender to portray sexuality from a predominately female perspective. She utilizes technical elements such as gestures, nudity, the subject’s gaze, objects and more to link this connection of the empowered feminine identity. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries throughout the United States and Europe and through such exposure, she has received multiple prestigious awards including the first-place winner of the International Photography Awards in 2010, Beauty Pro Category. Her 225-page Monograph titled “Femme Fatale: Female Erotic Photography...
Category
2010s Contemporary Manhattan - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Plexi...
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