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Item Ships From: Tri-State Area
Slim Aarons 'Mara Lane at the Sands' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Austrian actress Mara Lane lounging by the pool in a red and white striped bathing costume at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954.
Slim Aarons
Mara Lane at the Sands
Chromogenic Lambd...
Category
1950s Realist Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Lambda
Untitled #9 from Ruven Afanador "Sombra" series, silver gelatin print 2/5
By Ruven Afanador
Located in New York, NY
Untitled #9 from Ruven Afanador "Sombra" series, silver gelatin print 2/5
This work is featured in Afanador's 2004 book 'Sombra" which combines elegant, erotic portraits and nudes of...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Eves #7
Located in New York, NY
This Large Color Photograph by Alex Korolkovas was created in collaboration with jeweler and sculptor Jacques Jarrige for Valerie Goodman gallery.
Sa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Villa Cetinale, Siena, Italy, May 2012
By Jonathan Becker
Located in New York, NY
Villa Cetinale, Siena, Italy, May 2012
A moment at a storied property where centuries of history pile on
Photographed by Jonathan Becker
Contemporary
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Platinum
Meagan Rose
By Mark & Kristen Sink
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 1.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production.
Shipping time depends on method of shipping.
Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph.
ABOUT:
For the last two years Mark and Kristen have collaborated using one of the earliest photographic methods, collodion wet plate to create ambrotypes on glass and tintypes on aluminum. They use a 1860 style view camera to create one-of-a-kind images, which become windows into an intimate, romantic, and beautiful world of faces, still lives, nudes, and landscapes. In this demanding process, the collodion coated tin or glass plates are immersed in a silver nitrate solution, and then they must be exposed in the camera and developed while still wet. Serendipitous flaws and beautiful imperfections are an inevitable part of this imprecise hands-on process.
This show includes a combination of 24 tintypes and ambrotypes, which are 8x10 and smaller in size. Their intimate sizes ask the viewers to look closer and spend more time with these photographs to fully appreciate their power. — A welcome antidote to today's nonstop, ¬instantaneous imagery. Paradoxically, this intersection of past and present gives these pieces an unmistakably contemporary feel. The two collaborators deliberately play up the ambiguity of time.
The nudes (some recalling E.J. Bellocq's alluring portraits of New Orleans prostitutes in 1912) are suffused with freshness and sensuality, even eroticism at times, with nearly all of them coming off as refined rather than crass.
Fredrick Scott...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Santorini
By Karin Rosenthal
Located in New York, NY
Karin Rosenthal
Santorini, 1981
Gelatin silver print
10h x 10w in
Category
1980s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
My love
By Floria Gonzales
Located in New York, NY
Floria González
My love, 2010
Digital photography printed on cotton paper
29.5 x 28 in
(74.93h x 71.12w cm)
2/6
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Paper, Digital
David Drebin - Sleepless In San Francisco, Photography 2010, Printed After
By David Drebin
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Dream Scapes
All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph:
30" X 72"- Edition of 10
40" X 96"- Edition of 7
40" X 96" - Edition of 3; Lightbox
"Drebin’s D...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
C Print
David Drebin - Capri Selfie, Photography 2016, Printed After
By David Drebin
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: FEMME FATALE
All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph:
30" X 45"- Edition of 10
48" X 72"- Edition of 7
48" X 72" - Edition of 3; Lightbox
In a unique...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
C Print
David Drebin - All Aboard, Photography 2018, Printed After
By David Drebin
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: FEMME FATALE
All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph:
30" X 37.5"- Edition of 10
48" X 60"- Edition of 7
48" X 60" - Edition of 3; Lightbox
After gra...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
C Print
One of the Boys
Located in New York, NY
Alvin Baltrop
One of the Boys
1977/2005
Blind stamped, l.r.
Titled and numbered in pencil, verso
Gelatin silver print (Edition of 20)
14 x 11 inches, sheet
Contact gallery for pr...
Category
1970s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
David Drebin - All Aboard, Lightbox, Photography 2018, Printed After
By David Drebin
Located in Greenwich, CT
Since this item will be shipped directly from the publisher, the seller can only provide specific information to buyers at the actual point of sale. Please message the seller to requ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
C Print
Tyler Shields - The Bunny In The Window, Photography 2021, Printed After
By Tyler Shields
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Provocateur
Chromogenic Print on Kodak Endura Luster Paper
All available sizes and editions:
15" x 20"
23" x 30"
45" x 60"
54" x 72"
63" x 84"
Editions of 3 + 2 Artist Proofs...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print
Tyler Shields - Hat Woman, Photography 2021, Printed After
By Tyler Shields
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Provocateur
Chromogenic Print on Kodak Endura Luster Paper
All available sizes and editions:
15" x 20"
22.5" x 30"
30" x 40"
45" x 60"
56" x 72"
63" x 84"
Editions of 3 + 2 A...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled (Gabby)
By Catherine Opie
Located in New York, NY
Catherine Opie
Untitled
1989
Signed, dated, and inscribed in pencil, verso
Vintage gelatin silver print
7 x 7 inches, image
Contact gallery for price.
Category
1980s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Tyler Shields - Heir To The Throne, Photography 2015, Printed After
By Tyler Shields
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Decadence
Chromogenic Print on Kodak Endura Luster Paper
Available Sizes:
22.5" x 30"
30" x 40"
45" x 60
54" x 72"
63" x 84"
Edition of 3 + 2 Artist Proofs
Tyler Shields is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print
Tyler Shields - Dauphine, Photography 2015, Printed After
By Tyler Shields
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series : Decadence
Chromogenic Print on Kodak Endura Luster Paper
Available Sizes:
22.5" x 30"
30" x 40"
45" x 60
54" x 72"
63" x 84"
Edition of 3 + 2 Artist Proofs
Tyler Shields is...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print
Tyler Shields - Let Them Drink Champagne, Photography 2015, Printed After
By Tyler Shields
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Decadence
Chromogenic Print on Kodak Endura Luster Paper
Available Sizes:
22.5" x 30"
30" x 40"
45" x 60
54" x 72"
63" x 84"
Edition of 3 + 2 Artist Proofs
Tyler Shields is ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
C Print
Tyler Shields - Lovers, Photography 2018, Printed After
By Tyler Shields
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Provocateur
Chromogenic Print on Kodak Endura Luster Paper
All available sizes and editions:
15" x 20"
22.5" x 30"
45" x 60"
56" x 72"
63" x 84"
Editions of 3 + 2 Artist Proo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
C Print
Tyler Shields - The Cat, Photography 2018, Printed After
By Tyler Shields
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Provocateur
Chromogenic Print on Kodak Endura Luster Paper
All available sizes and editions:
22.5" x 30"
30" x 40"
45" x 60"
56" x 72"
63" x 84"
Editions of 3 + 2 Artist Proo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
C Print
Tyler Shields - Pull, Photography 2012, Printed After
By Tyler Shields
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Provocateur
Chromogenic Print on Kodak Endura Luster Paper
All available sizes and editions:
18" x 18"
30" x 30"
45" x 45"
60" x 60"
70" x 70"
Editions of 3 + 2 Artist Proofs...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print
Tyler Shields - The Great Princess, Photography 2015, Printed After
By Tyler Shields
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Decadence
Chromogenic Print on Kodak Endura Luster Paper
Available Sizes:
22.5" x 30" Edition of 3 + 2 Artist Proofs
30" x 40" Edition of 3 + 2 Artist Proofs
45" x 60" E...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled (Figure in Grass)
By Jimmy DeSana
Located in New York, NY
Jimmy DeSana
Untitled (Figure in Grass)
1972/1991
Offset print (Edition of 50)
11 x 14 inches
Category
1970s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Offset
Untitled (Abstracted Torso)
By Jimmy DeSana
Located in New York, NY
Jimmy DeSana
Untitled (Butt)
1972/1991
Offset print (Edition of 50)
11 x 14 inches
Category
1970s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Offset
Untitled (Butt)
By Jimmy DeSana
Located in New York, NY
Jimmy DeSana
Untitled (Butt)
1972/1991
Offset print (Edition of 50)
11 x 14 inches
Category
1970s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Offset
Kirk Bond #3267-2
Located in New York, NY
Bruce of Los Angeles (Bruce Bellas) black and whiter male physique photograph of Kirk Bond #3267-2 nude in a cowboy hat holding a whip.
Stamped and numbered in black ink, verso
V...
Category
1960s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Grand Hôtel de Milan, black and white portrait by Helmut Newton
By Helmut Newton
Located in New York, NY
Grand Hôtel de Milan, black and white portrait by Helmut Newton
Grand Hôtel de Milan
2002
Signed, l.l.
Digital print
10.5 x 8 inches
Helmut Newton was a German-Australian photog...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Digital
Seated Nude, Nude Portrait Photograph by David Halliday
By David Halliday
Located in New York, NY
David Halliday sepia toned gelatin silver print titled "Seated Nude"
1996
Signed, dated, and numbered, l.r.; Also blind stamped, recto
Sepia toned gelatin silver print (Edition of...
Category
1990s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Tattooed Torso, black and white male nude photography by Charles Gatewood
Located in New York, NY
Tattooed Torso, black and white male nude photography by Charles Gatewood.
Charles Gatewood was a groundbreaking photographer known for capturin...
Category
1970s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Torso, black and white photograph of a man's torso by Victor Carnuccio
Located in New York, NY
Torso, black and white photograph of a man's torso by Victor Carnuccio
1991
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
Gelatin silver print (Edition of 25)
14 x 11 inches, sheet
1...
Category
1990s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Danish National Gymnastic Team (Untitled #1), Male Physique Photograph Queer
By Anderson & Low
Located in New York, NY
Danish National Gymnastic Team (Untitled #1), Male Physique Photograph Queer
Toned gelatin silver print (Edition of 25)
Signed and numbered, verso
Between 1998 – 2002, Anderson & L...
Category
1990s Other Art Style Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jean-Michel Basquiat Hawaii 1984 (Basquiat photograph)
By Paige Powell
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat photograph 1984/2014:
This intimate photo of Jean-Michel Basquiat was taken during his stay on a ranch in Hana on the island of Maui in 1984. He was working in ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Craig Blanchette
By George Dureau
Located in New York, NY
George Dureau (1930-2014)
Craig Blanchette
1992
Signed and titled, recto
Gelatin silver print
14 x 11 inches, sheet
Contact gallery for price.
Category
1990s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Domestic Bliss
By AdeY
Located in New York, NY
This is a color photograph by AdeY offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Domestic Bliss
2015
15.75 x 11.8 inches
(Edition of 5)
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Horizon" Contemporary Queer LGBTQ Portraiture and Landscape Photography by AdeY
By AdeY
Located in New York, NY
"Horizon" Contemporary Queer LGBTQ Portraiture and Landscape Photography by AdeY
Horizon
2016
Signed and numbered, verso
Archival pigment print (Edition of 3 + 2 APs)
29.5 x 39.4...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Breaking the Rules Again
Located in New York, NY
Ed. 1/5, includes white frame with signature label.
Photographed in Palm Beach in 2019, the original black and white edition of Nathan Coe's most collected work, "Breaking the Rules...
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Orpheus in Hades
By George Platt Lynes
Located in New York, NY
This photograph by George Platt Lynes in offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Orpheus in Hades
c. 1936-7
Studio stamp in ink, verso
Vintage gelatin silver print
9 x 7 inches (22.9 ...
Category
1930s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
2nd Marine Division, Saipan
Located in New York, NY
This is a black and white photograph by Peter Stackpole taken in 1944 - this work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
1944/1970s
Signed in pencil, l.r.; Also signed in pencil, ve...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Voyeur
By Arthur Tress
Located in New York, NY
This is a black and white photograph by Arthur Tress of a nude male figure.
The Voyeur
c. 1970s
Signed, titled, and numbered in black ink, recto
Gelatin silver print (Edition of 2...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bubbly
By Ellen von Unwerth
Located in New York, NY
Ed. 2/3, signed, titled, dated, numbered in ink. Includes black frame.
Ellen von Unwerth is a director and photographer who started out working as a fashion model. She was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and began modeling at the age of 20. After being noticed by a photographer on the street, she moved to Paris to begin a career as a fashion model. During her years as a model, she started to feel that the industry was missing an element of freedom.
After receiving a camera as a gift from her boyfriend, she began to take her own pictures, which eventually led to an improvised photo-shoot in Africa of her model colleagues. Von Unwerth developed a passion for photography after seeing the published photos of her colleagues. She became famous for her work when she was hired by Guess to shoot an up-and-coming model named Claudia Shchiffer. This photo-shoot created a huge demand for her services in the industry. Since then, von Unwerth has gone on to photograph numerous celebrities and entertainers and has worked for leading magazines like Vogue, Interview, Vanity Fair, The Face, L’Uomo Vogue...
Category
1990s Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
José Pete Martinez with Straw Hat, Male Nude Photography George Platt Lynes
By George Platt Lynes
Located in New York, NY
This is a photograph by George Platt Lynes depicting a nude male form with a straw hat.
Category
1930s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Val (Bruce is King/Female Nude)
By Mark Morrisroe
Located in New York, NY
Val (Bruce is King/Female Nude)
1982
Signed, dated, and inscribed in red ink, recto
Chromogenic print (negative sandwich) retouched with ink
20 x 16 inches, sheet
Contact gallery...
Category
1980s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
C Print
'Lady on Raft', Framed Black & White Photograph, Female Figure
By Tran Huy Hoan
Located in Rye, NY
The themes in Tran Huy Hoan’s work are contradictions within themselves. His work is both innocent and erotic. Each subject is attractive yet affecting. Hoan’s style is at once influ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Marilyn Monroe
By Bert Stern
Located in New York, NY
This digital pigment print from The Last Sitting, commissioned by Vogue Magazine, was created in 1962/2010. Hand-signed by the photographer (recto), with signature, date, and copyrig...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Inked In Kyoto
Located in New York, NY
Reka Nyari’s erotically charged photographs engage cultural narratives surrounding gender and sexuality. A master at the art of storytelling, Nyari’s newest series, GEISHA INK, documents Ginzilla, a dramatically-posed young woman whose naked body is lavishly-adorned with tattoos.
A champion of feminine fortitude, Nyari has long been fascinated with the art of capturing women without pretense. Recognizing strength in the vulnerability of the nude female form, she chooses most often to photograph women...
Category
2010s Photorealist Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographi...
Seraphim
By Drew Tal
Located in New York, NY
With his works included in the permanent collection at the Norton and the New Britain Museum, Drew Tal’s successful career has been nothing but a soaring ascension into the global ar...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Photogram, Archival P...
Damasked
By Reka Nyari
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 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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Photogram
Beyond the veil
By Reka Nyari
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 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...
Category
2010s Photorealist Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pho...
Yaa-sama Tears
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 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...
Category
2010s Photorealist Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographi...
Beauty of Atatori
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 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...
Category
2010s Photorealist Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pho...
The Cure for Life
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 Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Photogram, Archival Pi...
GAIA
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
Print is also available in a Medium size: 50'' x 40'' and is priced at $13,000. It is a black and white photographic print, with uniquely handmade puncture designs by the artist, set...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Plexi...
THUONG NGAN (FOREST GODDESS)
By Reka Nyari
Located in New York, NY
Print is also available in a 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 Photography...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Plexi...
FILLE DE REVE
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”.
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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...
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