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NEON Lighting Noir Swimming - Vibrant Photograph by Pico Garcez
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
Category

2010s Realist Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Cotton, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Forest at the bottom of the Slagheaps - Landscape - Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
"Forest at the bottom of the Slagheaps", Walbrzych, Silesia, Poland, 1978 Silver Gelatin Print, Signed and dated in pencil on verso Printed in 2008 by the Photographer, hand printed darkroom print. 17 3/10 × 12 1/5 in 44 × 31 cm 50 x 37 cm paper size with white border , 44 x 31 cm (image size) "My fascination started when I first saw industrial centres of Upper and Lower Silesia,’ says Cała. ‘The landscape was terrifying and beautiful at the same time. It did not change for the whole period from the 19th century to the end of communism in Poland." - Michal Cala Exhibition frame as seen on additional picture available upon request - please contact gallery for further details or purchase unframed print with a free shipping worldwide. About the Artist: "Cala become relatively well known in Poland but he is still little known in the West, despite the fact that his work bears comparison with masters such as Bill Brandt and Robert Frank." - Bill Kouwenhoven, British Journal of Photography, 2007 Michal Cala was born in Toruń, Poland in 1948 and studied aircraft construction in Warsaw at the University of Technology in the early 1970's. From 1974 to 1983 he worked as an engineer in various companies in Silesia, and began photographing in the area. In 1977, he moved to Tychy in Upper Silesia, where he co-founded the photographers' association KRON and become a member of the ZPAF - the Union of Polish Art Photographers. Relatively unknown outside of his native country, his work is in several museum collections in Poland; in the Silesian Museum of Katowice, the Silesian Library in Katowice, the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, the Coal Mining Museum in Zabrze as well as local government building in Duisburg in the Ruhr (Germany) and MAST Foundation (Bologna) and various international private collections. His work has received much acclaim and won numerus awards; among which are the Grand Prix at the Polish Landscape...
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1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Kyungbok Palace 2
Located in Seoul, SO
Lamda print mounted to on Dibond aluminum in artist's frame Solo Exhibition 2020 DEAN PROJECT at Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary 2020, DEAN PROJECT ...
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Early 2000s Landscape Photography

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Lambda

Twin Greek Temples (Night), After Dark in Central Park in New York City
By Roberta Fineberg
Located in New york, NY
A contemporary black-and-white photograph by Roberta Fineberg who captures the San Remo building and New York City skyline after dark from the urban oasis Central Park. Focusing on the beaux-arts building towers or twin Greek temples...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...

Vibrant Swimming Motion Paris France by Photographer Pico Garcez
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paris France - Vibrant aqua blue. Photography Edition Print. Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from chil...
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2010s Realist Landscape Photography

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Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Pink Umbrellas in the Snow, New York City, Fine Art Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed dated, numbered lower left recto 3/15 , other sizes available, unframed, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Mitchell Funk is a "Color Photographer Pioneer"....
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Inkjet, Photographic Paper

RT 370 PA.
Located in Cragsmoor, NY
This is an early work when i first began to go digitally and with a new Nikon. I lived in the country at the time and wanted to challenge myself with taking accurate landscapes that ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper

NEON Swimming - Vibrant Noir Abstract Photography
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
NEON Swimming - Vibrant Noir Abstract Photography. Swimming Pool - Bright Orange and Black Noir. Photography. Edition Print. This Photography work 23.5 inches by 35.5 inches. Pico...
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2010s Realist Landscape Photography

Materials

Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Untitled (from the series A Bee in the Rose)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Erica Martin captures a fly in a moment of stillness, perched on top of a flower. While flies are commonly associated with filth and decay, they are also essential to floral blooms a...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Nova Car - Marfa Texas - Vintage Car Photograph
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
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2010s Realist Landscape Photography

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Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Prayer Flags Bhutan - Abstract Photography
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
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2010s Realist Landscape Photography

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Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Smiling Beach
By Klaus Leidorf
Located in New York, NY
Flying with his own plane, one hand of the wheel and the other with his camera, Klaus shoots these amazing aerials. None have been manipulated or color corrected.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Plexiglass, C Print

Ship at the Dock - 1960's San Francisco Maritime Black & White Photograph
By Gene Wright
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful black and white photograph of the ship "Balclutha" in dock, with Coit Tower in the background by famed San Francisco photographer Gene Wright (American, 20th Century). Im...
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1960s Realist Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

High Sierra Mustangs - 40x30 Black and White Photography of Wild Horses
By Shane Russeck
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary black and white photograph of Wild Mustangs. "They represent the ultimate expression of American freedom" Edition of 50. Signed by Shane. Framing available....
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21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Once Upon a Time in the West 30x60 Photography of Wild Horse Mustang Horses Art
By Shane Russeck
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary photograph of a American Wild Mustang. "They represent the ultimate expression of American freedom" 30x60 Edition of 12. Signed by artist. Framing available...
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21st Century and Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

City Market
Located in Kansas City, MO
Erin Rockers City Market Year: 2024 Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag Framed Size: 13 x 13 x 0.25 inches COA provided *Ready to hang; matted and framed in a minimal b...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Cornucopia Fall Festival
Located in Kansas City, MO
Shannon Maltbie-Davis Bird’s Eye View of KC Year: 2024 Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag Framed Size: 13 x 13 x 0.25 inches COA provided *Ready to hang; matted and fr...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Temple
Located in Kansas City, MO
Don Porter Temple Year: 2024 Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag Framed Size: 13 x 13 x 0.25 inches COA provided *Ready to hang; matted and framed in a minimal black fra...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Burr Oaks
Located in Kansas City, MO
Paula Newton Burr Oaks Year: 2024 Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag Framed Size: 13 x 13 x 0.25 inches COA provided *Ready to hang; matted and framed in a minimal blac...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Fog
Located in Kansas City, MO
Jarrett Redd Fog Year: 2024 Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag Framed Size: 13 x 13 x 0.25 inches COA provided *Ready to hang; matted and framed in a minimal black fra...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Plaza
Located in Kansas City, MO
Paul Middleton Plaza Year: 2024 Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag Framed Size: 13 x 13 x 0.25 inches COA provided *Ready to hang; matted and framed in a minimal black...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Kaw Point
Located in Kansas City, MO
Don Porter Kaw Point Year: 2024 Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag Framed Size: 13 x 13 x 0.25 inches COA provided *Ready to hang; matted and framed in a minimal black ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Crossroads
Located in Kansas City, MO
Erin Rockers Crossroads Year: 2024 Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag Framed Size: 13 x 13 x 0.25 inches COA provided *Ready to hang; matted and framed in a minimal bl...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Bird’s Eye View of KC
Located in Kansas City, MO
Shannon Maltbie-Davis Bird’s Eye View of KC Year: 2024 Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag Framed Size: 13 x 13 x 0.25 inches COA provided *Ready to hang; matted and fr...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Westport
Located in Kansas City, MO
Paul Middleton Westport Year: 2024 Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag Framed Size: 13 x 13 x 0.25 inches COA provided *Ready to hang; matted and framed in a minimal bl...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Observation Park
Located in Kansas City, MO
Anthony Rea Observation Park Year: 2024 Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag Framed Size: 13 x 13 x 0.25 inches COA provided *Ready to hang; matted and framed in a minim...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Along the Bus Route Street
Located in Kansas City, MO
Paula Newton Along the Bus Route Street Year: 2024 Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag Framed Size: 13 x 13 x 0.25 inches COA provided *Ready to hang; matted and framed ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Cabazon Dinosaurs (Drive to the Desert)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Cabazon Dinosaurs (Drive to the Desert) - 2000 44x59cm, Edition 5/5. Analog C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #155.05. Not mount...
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1990s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

36x48 Black and White Photography, Cougar Photograph, Mountain Lion Art
By Shane Russeck
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary photograph of a Mountain Lion. 36x48 Printed on archival paper using archival inks Framing available. Inquire for rates. SERIES CURRENTLY BEING SHOT "Wil...
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21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Inuksuks on Anchor Bay
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Anchor Bay in Chesterfield, Michigan is the location for this metallic print of a photographic image by Deborah Benedic. Deborah created these stone inuksuks one afternoon on her nei...
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2010s Realist Landscape Photography

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Mixed Media

"Once Upon a Time in the West" 30x60, Wild Horse Photography, Mustang Photograph
By Shane Russeck
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary photograph of an American Wild Mustang. "They represent the ultimate expression of American freedom" 30x60 Unsigned print Framing available. Inquire for rat...
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21st Century and Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Located in Kansas City, MO
Richard Klopfenstine Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art Year: 2024 Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag Framed Size: 13 x 13 x 0.25 inches COA provided *Ready to hang; ma...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Under the Buck O’Neil Bridge
Located in Kansas City, MO
Jeff Burk Under the Buck O’Neil Bridge Year: 2024 Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag Framed Size: 13 x 13 x 0.25 inches COA provided *Ready to hang; matted and framed ...
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2010s Street Art Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Ancient Laurisilva Forest, bent Tree, black and white photography, landscape
By Gerald Berghammer
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography print. Bent tree in fog in the fairy forest on the island of Madeira, Portugal. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, title...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Black and White, Digital, Giclée, Archival...

TILLMAN
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....
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2010s Pop Art Landscape Photography

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Paper, Lithograph

Black Rocks and a few Stones, black and white fine art photography, landscape
By Gerald Berghammer
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Black and White, Digital, Giclée, Archival...

Cypress Hill, Tree, Tuscany, black and white fine art photography, landscape
By Gerald Berghammer
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and White Fine Art landscape photography. Famous group of cypress trees in autumn on the hills of Tuscany, Italy. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 5. Signed, titled, date...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Black and White, Digita...

Palm Trees at the Beach, Mallorca, black and white photography, art landscape
By Gerald Berghammer
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions ...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Black and White, Digital, Archival Pigment...

Mont Saint Michel, Impression Cloud, France, black and white art photography
By Gerald Berghammer
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Black and White, Digital, Giclée, Archival...

Golling Falls, waterfall, black and white art photography, waterscape, landscape
By Gerald Berghammer
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Black and White, Digital, Giclée, Archival...

Antelope Canyon, Page, Arizona, USA, black and white art photography, landscape
By Gerald Berghammer
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Antelope Canyon sandstone formation detail, Page, Arizona, USA. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gera...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Black and White, Digita...

Puente de Triana - Sevilla- Spain
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
1. TÍTULO PUENTE DE TRIANA Sevilla, 2023 MEDIDAS: 167X80 CM Papel Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Sangre 2 cm 1/7 + COPIA DE AUTOR
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Handmade Paper

Klockelefall, Waterfall, Mountain stream, black and white photography, landscape
By Gerald Berghammer
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Waterfall detail from the beautiful Klockelefall, Pitztal, Austria. Archival pigment ink print as part of a...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Black and White, Digital, Giclée, Archival...

Ancient Laurel Cloud Forest, bent Tree, black and white photography, landscape
By Gerald Berghammer
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity included. Printed ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Black and White, Digital, Giclée, Archival...

SOMBRA - Sevilla- Spain
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Maestranza de Sevilla, 2023 MEDIDAS: 100x76 CM Papel Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Sangre 2 cm 1/7 + COPIA DE AUTOR
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Handmade Paper

FERRETERIA - Sevilla- Spain
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
5. TÍTULO FERRETERIA Sevilla, 2023 MEDIDAS: 120X95 CM Papel Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Sangre 2 cm 1/7 + COPIA DE AUTOR
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Handmade Paper

PUERTA NUMERO 6 - Sevilla- Spain
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
3. TÍTULO PUERTA NUMERO 6 Maestranza de Sevilla, 2023 MEDIDAS: 100x74,85 CM Papel Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Sangre 2 cm 1/7 + COPIA DE AUTOR
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Handmade Paper

ANTIGUA ESTACIÓN - Sevilla- Spain
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
2. TÍTULO: ANTIGUA ESTACIÓN Sevilla, 2023 MEDIDAS: 100X84,65 CM Papel Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Sangre 2 cm 1/7 + COPIA DE AUTOR
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Handmade Paper

CATALINA - Sevilla- Spain
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
6. CATALINA Sevilla, 2023 MEDIDAS:70x43,8 CM Papel Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Sangre 2 cm 1/7 + COPIA DE AUTOR
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Handmade Paper

Italian Stone Pines, Tuscany, Italy, black and white photography, art landscape
By Gerald Berghammer
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Ha...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Black and White, Digital, Giclée, Archival...

Vintage René Magritte press photograph
By René Magritte
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Rare René Magritte press photograph published on the occasion of a 1990 Magritte exhibition held at the world famous Pace/Macgill gallery New York. Silver-gelatin print. 8x10 inches...
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1990s Surrealist Landscape Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Lenox Lounge (New York City), Sally Davies
By Sally Davies
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Sally Davies (1956) Title: Lenox Lounge (New York City) Year: 2022 Medium: Inkjet print on archival paper Edition: 24, plus proofs Size: 24 x 36 i...
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2010s Pop Art Color Photography

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Inkjet

Signed limited edition Landscape photo , Contemporary, Countryside - Woodingdean
By Ian Sanderson
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘ Woodingdean 1 ‘ who was captured on fi...
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1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...

UNTITLED (HOUSE IN THE ROAD)
By Gregory Crewdson
Located in Aventura, FL
Digital c-print. Hand signed by the artist on a label affixed to the reverse. Edition of 10. Frame size approx 53 x 65 inches, Certificate of Authenticity Included. Artwork in Ex...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

in the style of Richard Prince Cowboy photograph (Vintage Cibachrome print)
By Richard Prince
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Vintage darkroom Cowboy photograph In the style of Richard Prince circa late 1980s: A superbly rendered vintage darkroom photograph, surrealistically exploring the mythology of the American cowboy set amidst blazing skies. Rendered much in the manner of Richard Prince cowboys...
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1980s Surrealist Landscape Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Black and White Wild Horse Photography, Mustangs "Gangs All Here" 90x40 , Signed
By Shane Russeck
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary photograph of a American Wild Mustangs. "They represent the ultimate expression of American freedom" Printed in Photo Rag using only archival ink. 40x90 Edi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Untitled (The Last Picture Show) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Contempoary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (The Last Picture Show), 2005 38x36cm, Edition 2/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the original SX-70 Polaroid. Inventory No. 781.02. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. LIFE’S A DREAM (The Personal World of Stefanie Schneider) by Mark Gisbourne Projection is a form of apparition that is characteristic of our human nature, for what we imagine almost invariably transcends the reality of what we live. And, an apparition, as the word suggests, is quite literally ‘an appearing’, for what we appear to imagine is largely shaped by the imagination of its appearance. If this sounds tautological then so be it. But the work of Stefanie Schneider is almost invariably about chance and apparition. And, it is through the means of photography, the most apparitional of image-based media, that her pictorial narratives or photo-novels are generated. Indeed, traditional photography (as distinct from new digital technology) is literally an ‘awaiting’ for an appearance to take place, in line with the imagined image as executed in the camera and later developed in the dark room. The fact that Schneider uses out-of-date Polaroid film stock to take her pictures only intensifies the sense of their apparitional contents when they are realised. The stability comes only at such time when the images are re-shot and developed in the studio, and thereby fixed or arrested temporarily in space and time. The unpredictable and at times unstable film she adopts for her works also creates a sense of chance within the outcome that can be imagined or potentially envisaged by the artist Schneider. But this chance manifestation is a loosely controlled, or, better called existential sense of chance, which becomes pre-disposed by the immediate circumstances of her life and the project she is undertaking at the time. Hence the choices she makes are largely open-ended choices, driven by a personal nature and disposition allowing for a second appearing of things whose eventual outcome remains undefined. And, it is the alliance of the chance-directed material apparition of Polaroid film, in turn explicitly allied to the experiences of her personal life circumstances, that provokes the potential to create Stefanie Schneider’s open-ended narratives. Therefore they are stories based on a degenerate set of conditions that are both material and human, with an inherent pessimism and a feeling for the sense of sublime ridicule being seemingly exposed. This in turn echoes and doubles the meaning of the verb ‘to expose’. To expose being embedded in the technical photographic process, just as much as it is in the narrative contents of Schneider’s photo-novel exposés. The former being the unstable point of departure, and the latter being the uncertain ends or meanings that are generated through the photographs doubled exposure. The large number of speculative theories of apparition, literally read as that which appears, and/or creative visions in filmmaking and photography are self-evident, and need not detain us here. But from the earliest inception of photography artists have been concerned with manipulated and/or chance effects, be they directed towards deceiving the viewer, or the alchemical investigations pursued by someone like Sigmar Polke. None of these are the real concern of the artist-photographer Stefanie Schneider, however, but rather she is more interested with what the chance-directed appearances in her photographs portend. For Schneider’s works are concerned with the opaque and porous contents of human relations and events, the material means are largely the mechanism to achieving and exposing the ‘ridiculous sublime’ that has come increasingly to dominate the contemporary affect(s) of our world. The uncertain conditions of today’s struggles as people attempt to relate to each other - and to themselves - are made manifest throughout her work. And, that she does this against the backdrop of the so-called ‘American Dream’, of a purportedly advanced culture that is Modern America, makes them all the more incisive and critical as acts of photographic exposure. From her earliest works of the late nineties one might be inclined to see her photographs as if they were a concerted attempt at an investigative or analytic serialisation, or, better still, a psychoanalytic dissection of the different and particular genres of American subculture. But this is to miss the point for the series though they have dates and subsequent publications remain in a certain sense unfinished. Schneider’s work has little or nothing to do with reportage as such, but with recording human culture in a state of fragmentation and slippage. And, if a photographer like Diane Arbus dealt specifically with the anomalous and peculiar that made up American suburban life, the work of Schneider touches upon the alienation of the commonplace. That is to say how the banal stereotypes of Western Americana have been emptied out, and claims as to any inherent meaning they formerly possessed has become strangely displaced. Her photographs constantly fathom the familiar, often closely connected to traditional American film genre, and make it completely unfamiliar. Of course Freud would have called this simply the unheimlich or uncanny. But here again Schneider almost never plays the role of the psychologist, or, for that matter, seeks to impart any specific meanings to the photographic contents of her images. The works possess an edited behavioural narrative (she has made choices), but there is never a sense of there being a clearly defined story. Indeed, the uncertainty of my reading here presented, acts as a caveat to the very condition that Schneider’s photographs provoke. Invariably the settings of her pictorial narratives are the South West of the United States, most often the desert and its periphery in Southern California. The desert is a not easily identifiable space, with the suburban boundaries where habitation meets the desert even more so. There are certain sub-themes common to Schneider’s work, not least that of journeying, on the road, a feeling of wandering and itinerancy, or simply aimlessness. Alongside this subsidiary structural characters continually appear, the gas station, the automobile, the motel, the highway, the revolver, logos and signage, the wasteland...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Marfa Texas Water Tower - Photography by Pico Garcez
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
Category

2010s Realist Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Inkjet, Cotton

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