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Period: 20th Century
Green Abstracted Ikat Photograph
By Janet Van Arsdale
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning green abstract photograph reminiscent of Ikat fabric by Janet Van Arsdale (American, 20th Century). Signed in pencil lower left corner. Presented in black frame with double ...
Category

Abstract 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Ink, Photographic Paper, Giclée

Christmas Traffic - American Christmas Tree Traffic Landscape Photograph
Located in Brighton, GB
Christmas Traffic - American Christmas Tree Traffic at Night with Car Lights by Slim Aarons 16" x 16" print on 16" x 20" paper. Limited Edition Estat...
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American Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

C Print, Digital, Photographic Paper, Color

Italian Vintage Dye Transfer Photograph Franco Fontana Color Landscape Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Franco Fontana (Italian, born 1933) Title: Landscape 1987 Edition 6/15 Medium: dye-transfer Dimensions: Frame 21.5 x 27.5. Sight 12 x 20. Provenance: Monique Goldstrom Gallery Franco Fontana (Italian, 1933) is an Italian photographer. He is best known for his Minimalist abstract colour landscapes. He was influenced by Minimalism and Abstract Expressionism. Franco Fontana was born in 1933 in Modena. He started taking photographs in the 1950s when he was working as a decorator in a furniture showroom. In 1961 he joined a local amateur club in Modena. The experience would be a turning point in his career, and Fontana went on to have his first solo exhibition in 1965 at the Società Fotografica Subalpina, Turin and at the Galleria della Sala di Cultura in Modena in 1968. Since then he has participated in more than 400 group and solo exhibitions including the exhibit Lines, Spheres and Glyphs at Robert Klein Gallery with works by photographers: Franco Fontana, Mario Giacomelli, Ernst Haas, Gyorgy Kepes and Aaron Siskind. Franco Fontana is considered one of the most relevant photographers of our time, In 1963 he exhibited his work at the Biennale of Color in Vienna, and in 1968 he held his first solo exhibition in Modena. Fontana often pares landscapes down to their essential elements, producing flat, geometric compositions reminiscent of the color field abstract expressionist paintings of Mark Rothko Ad Reinhardt and Barnett Newman, by underexposing his transparencies. Contrasting blue skies with green or yellow grass and the rigid lines of buildings with the softness of puffy clouds, he makes color and texture his primary subjects. He has also shot in Polaroid film, Cibachrome, C Print and chromogenic prints. His art has been acquired by some of the most important museums worldwide, including the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, MoMA in New York, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Museum of Modern Art in Norman, Oklahoma, National Gallery in Beijing, Australian National Gallery in Melbourne, University of Texas in Austin, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris. Fontana has photographed for advertising campaigns for brands such as Fiat, Volkswagen, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, Snam, Sony, Volvo, Versace, Canon, Kodak, Robe di Kappa, Swissair, and has been a magazine photographer for publications including Time, Life, Vogue (USA and France), Venerdì di Repubblica, Panorama, and with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and The New York Times. Fontana's first book, Skyline, was published in 1978 in France by Contrejour and in Italy by Punto e Virgola with a text by Helmut Gernsheim. Fontana is the art director of the Toscana Foto Festival. He has received numerous awards, such as the 1989 Tokyo Photographer Society of Japan - The 150 Years of Photography - Photographer Award. Fontana is especially interested in the interplay of colours. His early innovations in colour photography in the 1960s were stylistically disruptive. According to art critic Giuliana Scimé, Fontana "destroyed all the structures, practices, and technical choices within the Italian tradition." Fontana uses 35mm cameras, and as noted by Iwan Zahar, deploys distant viewpoints with telephoto lenses to flatten contours in a landscape of crops and fields into bands of intense, saturated colour. This is an effect that Franco Lefèvre has described as 'dialectical landscapism'. Of his use of colour in his 2019 retrospective exhibition Sintesi ('Synthesis') at Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, curator Diana Baldon has observed; “His bold geometric compositions are characterised by shimmering colours, level perspectives and a geometric-formalist and minimal language, By adopting this approach during the 1960s, Fontana injected a new vitality into the field of creative colour photography for then multicolour was not in fashion in art photography., The way Fontana shoots, dematerializes the objects photographed, which loose three-dimensionality and realism to become part of an abstract drawing”. Aside from the rural landscape Fontana has applied his graphic sensibility to other subjects: city architecture, portraiture, fashion, still-life and the nude. He was included in the exhibition of the Helmut Newton Collection along with Brassaï, Diane Arbus, Franco Fontana, Horst P. Horst, Irving Penn, June Newton, Just Loomis, Man Ray, Mark Arbeit...
Category

Abstract 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Dye Transfer

Untitled 110/3
Located in London, GB
C Print. Unframed. Richard Caldicott is most well known for this earlier work series which used Tupperware containers as the subject for his photographs. This work is edition 7/15. ...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

C Print

Aerial view, Muhammad Ali victorious over Cleveland Williams, Color Photography
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Aerial view of Muhammad Ali victorious after round 3 knockout of Cleveland Williams during fight at Astrodome, November 14, 1966 24 x 20 in. (61 x 51 cm) Archival Digital C-Print ...
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20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Photographs 1960–2024. Book signed Gelatin silver print ‘Untitled, Elba, 1980
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Limited Art Edition (No. 1–100), with the gelatin silver print Untitled (Elba, 1980), numbered and signed by Ralph Gibson. Edition of 100. Gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 in., in portf...
Category

Abstract 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Blue Space Dark - Planet of the Apes 6 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blue Space Dark - Mindscreen 09 (Night on Earth) - 1999 58x56cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. ...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

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

"I Love Lucy", Lobby Card, USA 1951
Located in Cologne, DE
Original black-and-white lobby card for the TV show "I Love Lucy" (1951) featuring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a charming domestic sce...
Category

Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Color

"How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6: Tights in Shimotakaido" – Daido Moriyama
Located in Zurich, CH
DAIDO MORIYAMA (*1938, Japan) "How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6: Tights in Shimotakaido" 1987 Silver gelatin print Sheet 25.4 x 30.5 cm (12 x 12 in.) Frame 44 x 50.5 x 3 cm (17 3/...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Storefront
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This vintage silver gelatin print is signed and dated in pencil mount recto, and again mount verso. Printed in 1961 for inclusion in "Fifteen Photographs" (edition of 50). Mounted to...
Category

Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Storefront
Storefront
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract Photo Abstraktes Foto - German Realism
Located in London, GB
GERHARD RICHTER b. 1932 Born in Dresden 1932 (German) Title: Abstract Photo Abstraktes Foto, 1989 Technique: Hand Signed, Dated and Numbered Black an...
Category

20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin

"David", New York, NY, 1996
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 Polaroi...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Car Abrasion
Located in Carmel, CA
Excellent hand printed photograph by the master Brett. Signed and dated in pencil.
Category

20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

"Angel Heart" Lobby Card, USA 1987
Located in Cologne, DE
Angel Heart, USA 1987, Director: Alan Parker, Cast: Robert de Niro, Mickey Rourke, The lobby cards would have been displayed inside the cinemas at the time of the film's release. An...
Category

Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Color

Guggenheim Museum - American Architecture Museum Black and White Photograph
Located in Brighton, GB
Guggenheim Museum - American Architecture Museum Black and White Photograph The recognisable Guggenheim Museum was designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and is now a UN...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin

"The Hunchback of Notre Dame", Lobby Card, USA 1939
Located in Cologne, DE
Original black-and-white lobby card for the film "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1939) featuring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a ...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Color

"The Hunchback of Notre Dame", Lobby Card, USA 1939
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1939) featuring Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, and Maureen O'Hara. This vintage cinema memor...
Category

Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Color

"Humoresque", Lobby Card, USA 1946
Located in Cologne, DE
Original black-and-white lobby card for the film "Humoresque" (1946) featuring John Garfield and Oscar Levant. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a somber moment between ...
Category

Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Color

"The Pride and the Passion", Lobby Card, USA 1957
Located in Cologne, DE
Original color lobby card for the film "The Pride and the Passion" (1957) featuring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, and Sophia Loren. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a grou...
Category

Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Color

"Desert Attack, aka Ice Cold in Alex", Lobby Card, USA 1958
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "Desert Attack" (1958) featuring John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle, and Harry Andrews. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a dramati...
Category

Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Color

"Angel Heart" Lobby Card, USA 1987
Located in Cologne, DE
Angel Heart, USA 1987, Director: Alan Parker, Cast: Robert de Niro, Mickey Rourke, The lobby cards would have been displayed inside the cinemas at the time of the film's release. An...
Category

Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Color

Blue Print - Abstract, Black and White, Bauhaus, Modern Art, Woman Artist
Located in Denton, TX
Blue Print by Ida Lansky is an abstract black and white photograph, composing of white lines and geometric shapes against a black background. Approx. 9/5 x 7/5 in. Gelatin Silver Pr...
Category

Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Photographs 1960–2024. Book signed Gelatin silver print ‘Sardegna, 1980
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Limited Art Edition (No. 101–200), with the gelatin silver print Untitled (Sardegna, 1980), numbered and signed by Ralph Gibson. Edition of 100 Gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 in., in ...
Category

Abstract 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Tranquility - Abstract, Black and White, Bauhaus, Modern art, Woman artist
Located in Denton, TX
Tranquility by Ida Lansky is an abstract black and white photograph, composing of a bench against a backlit window. 9.5 x 7.5 in. Gelatin Silver Print Artist stamp on print verso I...
Category

Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Old Cadillac
Located in Buffalo, NY
Signed and dated on the front of the mount. Limited edition of 35. Number 14 of 35. From the “Twenty Photographs, 1970-1977” Portfolio.
Category

Abstract 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Wherever You Look, You See The Chrysler Building: Weehawken
Located in Miami, FL
In 1995, wherever you looked, you could see the Chrysler Building. In this image, from the Weehawken, New Jersey vantage point, the iconic spire of the Chrysler Building peeks its he...
Category

Post-Impressionist 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

"Old Room, New Room" - Minimalist Interior Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"Old Room, New Room" - Minimalist Interior Photograph Minimalist photograph of a red wall with a tile floor by Shirley McWilliams (American, 20th ...
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Photorealist 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Jacques Lipchitz Bronze Sculpture Photo Signed
Located in Surfside, FL
Adolph Studly, Swiss born American photographer. His work is kept in the Photographic Archive at The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. He was known for his gallery photograp...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Flora Fauna Series Vintage Color Photograph Abstract Flower Fuji Crystal Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
FLORA & FAUNA SERIES, c.1998, Fuji crystal archive paper. Hand-signed on verso. Photographer Jeffrey Rothstein focuses on different elements within Nature for his subject matter, ra...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print

The Hamptons 1955 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
The Hamptons 1955 by Toni Frissell Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition A beach scene in The Hamptons USA 1955. 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size Archival pigment pr...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Door of Deception - Nude With Rocks Surf, Double Exposure
Located in Carmel, CA
Vintage Mint Condition Platinum Photograph Fabulous image in the true style of Uelsmann
Category

20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Abstract Metal Shape in Rocky Landscape - Esoteric Art Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Metal Shape in Rocky Landscape - Esoteric Art Photograph Photo depicting a curved, metallic sculpture resting on a rocky ground by Y. Y. Meru (American b. 1923 d. 2009.) Th...
Category

Other Art Style 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Metal

"Humoresque", Lobby Card, USA 1946
Located in Cologne, DE
Original black-and-white lobby card for the film "Humoresque" (1946) featuring John Garfield and Oscar Levant. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a serious moment between...
Category

Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Color

"Desert Attack, aka Ice Cold in Alex", Lobby Card, USA 1958
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "Desert Attack" (1958) featuring John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle, and Harry Andrews. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a dramati...
Category

Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Color

"Desert Attack, aka Ice Cold in Alex", Lobby Card, USA 1958
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "Desert Attack" (1958) featuring John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle, and Harry Andrews. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a tense s...
Category

Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Color

"Desert Attack, aka Ice Cold in Alex", Lobby Card, USA 1958
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "Desert Attack" (1958) featuring John Mills and Sylvia Syms. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a tense scene between the characters port...
Category

Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Color

"Angel Heart", Lobby Card, USA 1987
Located in Cologne, DE
Angel Heart, USA 1987, Director: Alan Parker, Cast: Robert de Niro. The lobby cards would have been displayed inside the cinemas at the time of the film's release. Angel Heart is a...
Category

Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Color

Dondi, Zephyr, Charlie Ahearn Heroin Kills graffiti photograph: Bronx, NY 1981
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Dondi White, Zephyr & Charlie Ahearn ‘Heroin Kills' Subway Art Photograph 1981. A rare, historic, early 1980s Bronx, New York graffiti photograph by Charlie Ahearn of Wild Style fame...
Category

Street Art 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Inkjet

Italian Vintage Dye Transfer Photograph Franco Fontana Color Landscape Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Franco Fontana (Italian, born 1933) Title: Los Angeles, California 1979 Edition 6/15 Medium: dye-transfer Dimensions: Frame 21.5 x 29.25. Sight 13 x 19.5 Provenance: Monique Goldstrom Gallery Franco Fontana (Italian, 1933) is an Italian photographer. He is best known for his Minimalist abstract colour landscapes. He was influenced by Minimalism and Abstract Expressionism. Franco Fontana was born in 1933 in Modena. He started taking photographs in the 1950s when he was working as a decorator in a furniture showroom. In 1961 he joined a local amateur club in Modena. The experience would be a turning point in his career, and Fontana went on to have his first solo exhibition in 1965 at the Società Fotografica Subalpina, Turin and at the Galleria della Sala di Cultura in Modena in 1968. Since then he has participated in more than 400 group and solo exhibitions including the exhibit Lines, Spheres and Glyphs at Robert Klein Gallery with works by photographers: Franco Fontana, Mario Giacomelli, Ernst Haas, Gyorgy Kepes and Aaron Siskind. Franco Fontana is considered one of the most relevant photographers of our time, In 1963 he exhibited his work at the Biennale of Color in Vienna, and in 1968 he held his first solo exhibition in Modena. Fontana often pares landscapes down to their essential elements, producing flat, geometric compositions reminiscent of the color field abstract expressionist paintings of Mark Rothko Ad Reinhardt and Barnett Newman, by underexposing his transparencies. Contrasting blue skies with green or yellow grass and the rigid lines of buildings with the softness of puffy clouds, he makes color and texture his primary subjects. He has also shot in Polaroid film, Cibachrome, C Print and chromogenic prints. His art has been acquired by some of the most important museums worldwide, including the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, MoMA in New York, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Museum of Modern Art in Norman, Oklahoma, National Gallery in Beijing, Australian National Gallery in Melbourne, University of Texas in Austin, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris. Fontana has photographed for advertising campaigns for brands such as Fiat, Volkswagen, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, Snam, Sony, Volvo, Versace, Canon, Kodak, Robe di Kappa, Swissair, and has been a magazine photographer for publications including Time, Life, Vogue (USA and France), Venerdì di Repubblica, Panorama, and with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and The New York Times. Fontana's first book, Skyline, was published in 1978 in France by Contrejour and in Italy by Punto e Virgola with a text by Helmut Gernsheim. Fontana is the art director of the Toscana Foto Festival. He has received numerous awards, such as the 1989 Tokyo Photographer Society of Japan - The 150 Years of Photography - Photographer Award. Fontana is especially interested in the interplay of colours. His early innovations in colour photography in the 1960s were stylistically disruptive. According to art critic Giuliana Scimé, Fontana "destroyed all the structures, practices, and technical choices within the Italian tradition." Fontana uses 35mm cameras, and as noted by Iwan Zahar, deploys distant viewpoints with telephoto lenses to flatten contours in a landscape of crops and fields into bands of intense, saturated colour. This is an effect that Franco Lefèvre has described as 'dialectical landscapism'. Of his use of colour in his 2019 retrospective exhibition Sintesi ('Synthesis') at Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, curator Diana Baldon has observed; “His bold geometric compositions are characterised by shimmering colours, level perspectives and a geometric-formalist and minimal language, By adopting this approach during the 1960s, Fontana injected a new vitality into the field of creative colour photography for then multicolour was not in fashion in art photography., The way Fontana shoots, dematerializes the objects photographed, which loose three-dimensionality and realism to become part of an abstract drawing”. Aside from the rural landscape Fontana has applied his graphic sensibility to other subjects: city architecture, portraiture, fashion, still-life and the nude. He was included in the exhibition of the Helmut Newton Collection along with Brassaï, Diane Arbus, Franco Fontana, Horst P. Horst, Irving Penn, June Newton, Just Loomis, Man Ray, Mark Arbeit...
Category

Abstract 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Dye Transfer

Surf
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing. Edition of 25. 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. Ted Adams’ first solo show at the Robin Rice Gallery juxtaposes surrealism with the documentary art form. What differentiates Mr. Adams’ work from traditional photojournalism is his keen eye for capturing the irony in the events that unfold before our eyes. It is the found objects in everyday life to which Adams is most attuned. He creates a subtle mood and visual mystery that conveys meaning not only from the image itself but also through imagining what exists just beyond the frame. "I see photography as a way of cropping the world—selectively taking things out of context—which often results in stripping the meaning out of the original subject matter, or at least making the image open to interpretation. It’s the opposite of traditional photojournalism whose intention is to create ‘narrative’ and context rather than discard them." While he has exhibited artistic photography in a variety of genres, in the past five years he turned his artistic eye inward to reflect a more autobiographical tone. While some people compare his work to that of Robert Frank, Adams finds himself more and more influenced by Larry Clark whose career was built on pictures drawn from his own life and drug-addled friends rather than a specific documentary mission. The unique presentation of this collection of twenty-three silver gelatin prints enhances the voyeuristic sensibility of Mr. Adams’ work. Each photograph is jewel box in size, measuring 4" x 6" to invite the viewer in to make an intimate appraisal. The craftsmanship of the wide, dark wood frames hearkens back to late 19th-century Shaker design—yet the aesthetic is boldly contemporary, providing a strong backdrop to draw the viewer’s gaze directly to the subject matter. This artisanship extends to the printing where Adams exhibits his skills in traditional darkroom processes. He shoots mostly with Leica and Nikon 35mm film cameras...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Space Field, Digital Iris Print Muse X Large Photograph on Heavy Paper
Located in Surfside, FL
These are from the 1990s printed at Muse X and never framed. they are unsigned and unnumbered but from a very small edition. they are quite beautiful. Victor Raphael was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1950. He studied art and theater at California State University Northridge and graduated from UCLA. He has exhibited throughout the nation and abroad. In 1996, his work was among the 50 best examples of Polaroid photography included in Polaroid 50: Art and Technology, an international touring exhibition commemorating the company’s 50th anniversary. He works in a wide range of media spanning painting, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, and digital technology. He creates complex and beautiful images that expand conventional views of time and space. For the past three decades, Raphael has produced a unique body of work by merging traditional media such as painting, photography and printmaking with modern electronic media, including video, digital printing and interactive technologies. In addition to his central themes of the exploration of the cosmos and aspects of travel–through space or time–and their visual records, the artist has developed an important body of paintings, in which water, for instance, and its protean and timeless qualities, form an important part. His photography process of digitally manipulating NASA photographs of planets and other natural celestial phenomena into Polaroid prints, and next altering them by hand with metallic paints and gold and metal leaf. Education: University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., 1973, Magna Cum Laude California State University, Northridge, 1968-1970 SELECTED ONE AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, From Lead Into Gold Oregon Jewish Museum, The Heavens Spread Out Like A Prayer Shawl Skirball Cultural Center, Illuminated Reflections: A Bill Aron and Victor Raphael Collaboration. Cypress College, Victor Raphael & Clayton Spada Collaboration: From Zero to Infinity Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, Jean-Pierre Hebert & Victor Raphael: Illuminated Collaboration Cypress College, Paris Polaroids: Art In The City Of Lights Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Victor Raphael: Envisioning Space (20-year survey with catalogue) Santa Monica College, Space Fields, Abstractions and Jackson Pollock 1980-1991 (catalogue) Richard Green Gallery...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

Vintage 20X24 Format Polaroid Signed Surrealist Photograph Eve Sonneman Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
This is from a show at Sidney Janis Gallery and is from the estate of Joan Sonnabend. Eve Sonneman (born in Chicago on 1946) is an American photographer and artist. She did a series ...
Category

Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Color, Polaroid

Untitled 109 (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 109 (Abstract Photography) C print. Unframed. Richard Caldicott is most well known for this earlier work series which used Tupperware containers as the subject for his pho...
Category

Abstract 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

C Print

Rupture III. Digital Collage Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The Anatomy of Rupture examines the body as a site where internal pressures—emotional, psychological, and mnemonic—break open into visible form. Through sculptural silhouettes fractu...
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20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

"New Woman Magazine, Princess", New York, NY, 1992
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 Polaroi...
Category

Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Untitled 111
Located in London, GB
C Print. Unframed. Richard Caldicott is most well known for this earlier work series which used Tupperware containers as the subject for his photographs. As he describes: "Tupperwa...
Category

Minimalist 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

C Print

Moon Over (After Ansel Adams), Abstract Black White Photo by Bill Clark
Located in Soquel, CA
"Moon Over", an abstract black & white photograph after Ansel Adams by Bill Clark (American, 20th Century). Signed "Bill Clark" and dated "1996" lower right. Titled "Moon Over" lower...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

SoHo Fire Escapes Manhattan 1984 (Soho Manhattan photograph)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
SoHo Fire Escapes, New York, 1984 by Fernando Natalici: The simplicity & grace of iconic New York architecture rendered timeless by the snap of the camera. A window into a street photographer's decisive moment. A window into, not only the New York of 'then', but the hidden poetry of urban architecture... Archival Inkjet Print. Approximately 12 x 18 inches (image size: approx 12 x 17in.). Hand signed from an edition of 20. Obtained directly from artist. Excellent condition. New York based photographer Fernando Natalici is best known for his iconographic documentation of the downtown Manhattan art scene of the mid/late 70's and early 80's. Natalici’s portfolio includes sought after images of a young Patti Smith, Blondie, Talking Heads, Keith Haring, The Ramones and more. As an Art Director, Fernando has played a key role in creating memorable visuals for historic NY venues such as CBGB's, The Mudd Club, Area and Danceteria. Soho Building Architecture, A Brief History The SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District comprises about 500 buildings, many of which are characterized by their cast-iron facades. Development of the district began in the late 18th century. The population surged after the War of 1812, and some homes from this era still remain. The latter half of the 19th century saw the district evolve into a center of commerce and entertainment, and the majority of the cast-iron buildings the district is known for were constructed during this period. The use of cast-iron allowed for ornate facades that were a much cheaper alternative to granite and marble. However, an increase of industrial production along with rising crime and “immorality” steadily drove residents out of the area. The district began to decline in the early 20th century, leaving many spaces vacant for decades and leading some to refer to the area as Hell’s Hundred Acres. 

It was not until the late 1960s that artists became attracted to the area because the large, unoccupied loft spaces made affordable studios. Many of those who moved into the area lived in their workspaces, even though it was illegal to do so, and the area was not sufficiently equipped for residential life, lacking basic necessities. At the same time, the entire landscape of SoHo was threatened by plans to build the Lower Manhattan Expressway (LOMEX) - a proposed ten-lane elevated highway that would require the demolition of much of SoHo and Little Italy. Artists in the area collaborated with other preservation advocates in the first, unsuccessful attempt to designate SoHo as a historic district for its architectural significance. Although that failed, they also formed Artists Against the Expressway and ultimately helped defeat the plans for LOMEX, which saved the architecture in the area. The “SoHo Effect” has become a model for repurposing an industrial district for mixed use, both commercial and residential, while preserving much of the existing structural integrity. Today SoHo is known for its unique cast-iron architecture, desirable loft living...
Category

Street Art 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Inkjet

Eyes, Chicago by György Kepes, 1940, Silver Gelatin Print, Photography
Located in Denton, TX
Untitled #42 (Eyes, Chicago), by György Kepes is a 4 1/2 x 3 5/8 inch gelatin silver print mounted on 16 1/4 x 13 1/4 inch paper. This photograph is signed and dated in pencil on mou...
Category

Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Eiffel Tower in Jackson Pollock Drip Lighting - Paris France
Located in Miami, FL
When the Eiffel Tower was conceived in 1886, it was to be a symbol of aesthetic avant-garde thinking. In 1994, Photographer Mitchell Funk pays homage to Gustave Eiffel's spirit of ...
Category

Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Chrysler Building Art Deco Skyscraper
Located in Miami, FL
Architecture becomes an abstract design statement as seen thru the lens of Mithcell Funk Striking graphic design with found elements is a signature style of Mitchell Funk. He brings ...
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Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Paper

Klosters Ski Scene 1954 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Klosters Scene 1954 Two skiers ski down a snow covered hill in Klosters Switzerland 1954 by Toni Frissell 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Archival pigment print unframed...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Photography

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Archival Pigment

Vintage 42nd Street Traffic Frenzy New York City in the 1970 s
Located in Miami, FL
Does anyone remember Nedicks? What New York looked like in the 1970s. Veteran photographer Mitchell Funk captures 42nd Street at night with a parade of glowing marquees framed by t...
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American Impressionist 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Chrysler Building: The Smokestack and the Skyscraper
Located in Miami, FL
Before Long Island City blossomed into a landscape of high-rise residential development, it was a gritty industrial area. One of the iconic images of the LIC was four monumental smo...
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Surrealist 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

New York City Street Starbursts over Mid-Town Manhattan -Abstract Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Streetlights on Manhattans' Sixth Avenure transform into a starburst of kaleidoscope color through an act of creativity from Photographer Mitchell Funk. The emanating light is a m...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Paint Wood Sign
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed by Brett Weston. Signed in pencil on recto.
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20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Water Series #1, Connecticut
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed by Paul Caponigro Framed in metal with plexiglass.
Category

20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Chrysler Building in Colorful Multiple Exposure - A Triumph of Color and Design
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering Color Photographer Mitchell Funk experiments with multiple in-camera exposures of the Chrysler Building, producing a triumph of color and design in motion. No less than t...
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Abstract Impressionist 20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Rupture II. Digital Collage Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The Anatomy of Rupture examines the body as a site where internal pressures—emotional, psychological, and mnemonic—break open into visible form. Through sculptural silhouettes fractu...
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20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Rupture I. Digital Collage Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The Anatomy of Rupture examines the body as a site where internal pressures—emotional, psychological, and mnemonic—break open into visible form. Through sculptural silhouettes fractu...
Category

20th Century Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

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