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Period: Late 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 Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Ink, Photographic Paper, Giclée
$460 Sale Price
20% Off
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 Late 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.
...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Photographs 1960–2024. Book
signed Gelatin silver print ‘Untitled, Elba, 1980
By Ralph Gibson
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 Late 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.
...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"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/...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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
Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, 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 Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
Photographs 1960–2024. Book
signed Gelatin silver print ‘Sardegna, 1980
By Ralph Gibson
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 Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Car Abrasion
By Brett Weston
Located in Carmel, CA
Excellent hand printed photograph by the master Brett. Signed and dated in pencil.
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"David", New York, NY, 1996
By Jose Picayo
Located in Hudson, NY
This photograph is printed on Japanese Paper.
The price is for an unframed photograph.
11" X 14" Edition of 25.
The Robin Rice Gallery is pleased to announce, 25 Years of Polaroi...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"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 Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
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
Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"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 ...
Category
Photorealist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, 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 Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Old Cadillac
By Brett Weston
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 Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage 20X24 Format Polaroid Signed Surrealist Photograph Eve Sonneman Photo
By Eve Sonneman
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 Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Color, Polaroid
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...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
"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 Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
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 Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Dye Transfer
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 Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Surf
By Ted Adams
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...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,000
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 Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
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...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
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 Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Moon Over (After Ansel Adams), Abstract Black
White Photo by Bill Clark
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...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
$719 Sale Price
20% Off
Water Series #1, Connecticut
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed by Paul Caponigro
Framed in metal with plexiglass.
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"New Woman Magazine, Princess", New York, NY, 1992
By Jose Picayo
Located in Hudson, NY
This photograph is printed on Japanese Paper.
The price is for an unframed photograph.
11" X 14" Edition of 25.
The Robin Rice Gallery is pleased to announce, 25 Years of Polaroi...
Category
Contemporary Late 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 Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
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...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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 Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Inkjet
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 Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, 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...
Category
American Impressionist Late 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...
Category
Surrealist Late 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 ...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper
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...
Category
Abstract Impressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Paint
Wood Sign
By Brett Weston
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed by Brett Weston.
Signed in pencil on recto.
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
9/11 - Twin Towers in Angelic Light, Architecture
Located in Miami, FL
Since its construction, Mitchell Funk has been chronicling the Twin Towers, of the World Trade Center. More specifically, he has been recording how light affects and transforms the two giant monoliths. Like us all, Mitchell was inspired by the formidable presence of the two buildings. Living in Brooklyn Heights with great views of lower Manhattan gave him a special advantage and opportunity to assemble some of the most iconic Twin Tower images ever taken.
To Mitchell Funk, the Twin Towers, of the World Trade Center were the perfect synthesis of commerce and art. Most modern architecture is simply functional. Minoru Yamasaki's Twin Towers were in fact something quite radical. They were a steel and glass expression of Minimalism on the grandest scale in human history. Everything in the towers was stripped down to its essential quality with nothing extraneous added ….. except light. The way the buildings reflected light made them unique and inspired Mitchell to record them in color for 32 years. Although, the exterior was actually made of a very reflective blue/grey stainless steel the warm light of daybreak and sunset could change their color and transform them from buildings into and mystical monumental sculptures. With the help of the sun as a key player, Mitchell’s images of the Twin Towers progress from the mystical to the spiritual as they reflect the sun’s intense golden energy. Under these conditions, one could argue, that the Twin Tower housed the same type of divine energy as the adjacent churches.
In the wake of the 9/11 tragedy, one could interpret Twin Tower sunset images differently. A sunset can be a symbol for the end of the day or simply The End.
The 1969 image “Dead End” is a visual prognostication. The North Tower is under construction in the background and in the foreground, Mitchell has framed it between two street signs that read Dead End.
In Mitchell’s Twin Tower photographs, he is not taking a tourist picture that says “here I am on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade...
Category
American Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chrysler Building Blue Zoom, New York Skyline, Abstract Photography
Located in Miami, FL
With an upward zoom and a slow exposure, Photographer Mitchell Funk reimagines one of the world's most iconic landmarks. The photograph is a lyrical evocation of a normally cold stre...
Category
Abstract Impressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Darkness Below - Abstract Marine Scene in Cobalt Blue with Colorful Accents
Located in Miami, FL
Viktor Schreckengost paints an ocean scene and moon with precise attention. The painting is part document and part flat abstraction. The uniqueness in this work is how Schreckengos...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Acrylic
Brooklyn Bridge Abstraction with Romantic Out of Focus Floral Colors
Located in Miami, FL
The romantic merges with the classic in Mitchell Funk's 1970s interpretation of the Brooklyn Bridge. With a long lens, Funk incorporates the emotionally joyful colors of out-of-focu...
Category
Romantic Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Clouds Above the Moon - Planet of the Apes 04 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Clouds above the Moon - Planet of the Apes 04 - 1999
58x56cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Signature labe...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Old Freemont Street Neon, Las Vegas
Located in Miami, FL
This is the quintessential image of a bygone era. Old Las Vegas is captured with glowing neon signs set against a dramatic desert sunset. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Color Abstract Art Landscape Photography Large C Print Photo Terry Evans
By Terry Evans
Located in Surfside, FL
TERRY EVANS (American b. 1944)
"Between Kearny and Salina," June 13, 1990
Color photograph (chromogenic print, C Print) on photo paper, dated and hand signed in margin in pencil L/R...
Category
American Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
New York City Abstract Multiple Exposure Kaleidoscope Reds Blues, Architecture
Located in Miami, FL
In-camera Multiple Exposure using colored gels and negative color.
Eye-popping and optically stimulating interpretation of New York skyscapers.
Signed and dated on lower right, num...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Mindscreen 02 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Mindscreen 02 (Night on Earth) - 1999
58x56cm,
Edition of 10.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist,
based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Taos Mission, New Mexico- San Francisco de Asis, Mystical Negative Color
Located in Miami, FL
Taos Mission, New Mexico San Francisco de Asis in Negative Color -
The work is Signed dated and numbered lower right, 2/15, Printed Later, and Unframed Printed on Hahnemühle Fine ...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Multiple Exposure of the Chrysler Building in Bright Colors
Located in Miami, FL
Bathed in bright, bold colors, "Multiple Exposure of the Chrysler Building, 1971" represents a pioneering use of multiple exposure in color photography. In fact, Mitchell Funk inve...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Lipstick Building, Citicorp New York Multiple Exposure
Located in Miami, FL
In Camera Multiple Exposure of two iconic New York Landmarks merge together in a harmony of soft colors and overlapping shapes . Signed and dated on ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
White Paint Splatters - Large Scale Abstract Textural Photograph
By Bill Clark
Located in Soquel, CA
White Paint Splatters - Large Scale Textural Photograph
Detailed macro photo by Bill Clark (American, 20th Century). Clark has taken a photograph of heavily painted concrete, with w...
Category
Photorealist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
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Untitled, Painted Photograph, Landscape Nobuyoshi Araki
Located in Surfside, FL
Acrylic paint embellished silver gelatin print, signed on back and dedicated by the artist, "FOR JOHN". Photograph depicting a red and yellow oval organic mass at center surrounded ...
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Silver Gelatin
"Home Movies", Lobby Card, USA 1979
Located in Cologne, DE
Home Movies - Wie du mir, so ich dir, USA 1979, Cast: Mary Davenport, Gerrit Graham, Vincent Gardenia.
The lobby cards would have been displayed inside th...
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Color
Limited Edition Japanese Photography, #189 Yunoyani Village, Nigata Prefecture
Located in New york, NY
The photograph Toshio Shibata, #189 Yunoyani Village, Nigata Prefecture, 1989 by Japanese photographer Toshio Shibata is hand-signed (on recto) by the photographer. The 13" x 19" pri...
Category
Conceptual Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Pigment, Arc...
Blue Space Light - Planet of the Apes 07 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blue Space Light - Planet of the Apes 07 - 1999
58x56cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature ...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Psychedelic and Surrealist Dali - Original Gelatin Silver Photography, SIGNED
By Marc Lacroix
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc LACROIX (1927-2007)
Psychedelic Dalí, 1971
Original silver gelatin photography
Signed in ink
Numbered on 15 copies
On silver print paper 50.5 x 61 cm (c. 19.7 x 24 inch)
INFO...
Category
Surrealist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Surface Area - Planet of the Apes 02 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Surface Area - Planet of the Apes 02 - 1999
58x56cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature labe...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Day for Night - Planet of the Apes 01 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Day for Night - Planet of the Apes 01 - 1999
58x56cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature lab...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Flora - Planet of the Apes 08 - 21st Century, Polaroid, Abstract
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Flora - Planet of the Apes 08 - 1999
58x56cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label and C...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"Mystic Sunset" Explosion of Shapes
Colors, Mixed Media Photography
Located in Detroit, MI
"Mystic Sunset" belies the title of sunset, which usually conjures images of the quiet settling of the day. This abstract explodes with action and flashing colors of white and yello...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Photographic Film
Rapture (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Rapture (29 Palms, CA) - 2022
48x46cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival Print, based on the Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 218829.
Signature label and Certificate...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper
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