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Period: 1980s
Princess Caroline Of Monaco 1981 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Princess Caroline Of Monaco 1981 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Princess Caroline of Monaco in the winter-garden room of her house on the palace grounds, Monte Carlo, Monaco, August 1...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Peace Pants by Drew Carolan - Punk Fashion Photography
By Drew Carolan
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Peace punks embraced the ethos including the peace sign which to many was strictly for hippies. Not the case during the greed of the Reagan 1980’s. Selected from the Drew Carolan’s m...
Category
1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Protest
Survive
By Drew Carolan
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Selected from the Drew Carolan monograph MATINEE All Ages On The Bowery. Shot against a white seamless on the corner of Bleecker St. and Bowery in New York City in the early 1980's w...
Category
1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Man Ray, Cover Project for the Album, Photographs 1920–1934, 1980 (after)
By Man Ray
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite heliogravure after Man Ray (1890–1976), titled Cover Project for the Album, Photographs 1920–1934, originates from the 1980 folio Man Ray, Electa Editrice Portfolios. ...
Category
Surrealist 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
Polo Party 1981 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Polo Party 1981 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Paul Butler, patriarch of one of America’s foremost polo families, with his son, daughter, grandchildren and son-in-law, Palm Beach, Apr...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Portrait of Diego Armando Maradona - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph depicting Diego Armando Maradona.
Very good condition.
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Conca dei Marini 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Conca dei Marini 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
A quiet bay in Conca dei Marini, on the Amalfi coast in Italy, August 1984
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Sta...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Conca dei Marini 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Conca dei Marini 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
American socialite Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest (aka C. Z. Guest, 1920 – 2003) with a poodle and a Great Dane at her ocean-front estat...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Neo-Classical Pool 1985 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Neo-Classical Pool 1985 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Mrs T. Dennie Boardman and her children Samuel Jay and Sarah climbing the steps from the pool at the home of Boardman’s parents ...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Skiing In Seefeld 1985 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiing In Seefeld 1985 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
A group of men and women go cross-country skiing in Seefeld, Austria, 1985.
40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size
Estate S...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Drinks At Gstaad 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Drinks At Gstaad 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Models from Parisian jeweller M. Gerard enjoying drinks on the terrace of The Palace Hotel in Gstaad, Switzerland, 1984.
30 x 40"...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Saint Kitts and Nevis 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Saint Kitts and Nevis 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Horseback riding at the Rawlins Plantation inn, Saint Kitts and Nevis, West Indies, March 1984
16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm ...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Decking By The Sea 1988 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Decking By The Sea 1988 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
People sunbathing on a deck overlooking the sea at Angra dos Reis, Brazil, January 1988
12 x 16" inches / 30 x 41 cm paper size...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Conca dei Marini 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Conca dei Marini 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
American socialite Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest (aka C. Z. Guest, 1920 – 2003) with a poodle and a Great Dane at her ocean-front estat...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Abaco Holiday 1986 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Abaco Holiday 1986 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
College student Jan Woods relaxes in a hammock at the Abaco Inn on Elbow Cay, one of the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas, March 1986
30...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tropical Mustique 1989 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tropical Mustique 1989 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Pierre Vincent Marais holidays with friends on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines, February 1989
20 x 24" inches / 51 x 61...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Beach Near Portinatx 1989 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beach Near Portinatx 1989 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Holidaymakers seen through the trees, at a beach near Portinatx, Ibiza, Spain, 1989
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 102 cm paper size...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ardizzone’s House 1985 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Ardizzone’s House 1985 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Overlooking Ardizzone’s House, on the water’s edge in Portofino, Italy, July 1985.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size
...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
John and Yoko Kimonos Bed Laugh, NYC, 1980
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Allan Tannenbaum
"John and Yoko Kimonos Bed Laugh, NYC, 1980"
C-Print
Paper size: 10 7/8 x 13 7/8 Inches
Image Size: 8 5/8 x 13 7/8
Edition Number: From ...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
$1,749 Sale Price
30% Off
Mary Nash Portrait, 12/25
By Graham Nash
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous archival digital photograph, limited edition giclee by Graham Nash (American, b. 1942) of an abstracted photogpah of his mother Mary Nash. #12/25. Titled, signed and dated '89. Stamp and signed on verso. Condition: Excellent. Unframed. Image size: 22"50"H x 15.25"W. Size including border: 24.33"H x 22.50"W.
The original photo is in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum. Graham said about this photo, "This is a photo I took of my mother Mary when I was 11, in 1953. She was 33. It was the first image I took where I realized that it's possible that I see differently than most people. Normally my mother would be making the bed, or cooking breakfast — mother stuff. I'd never seen my mother in this contemplative mood. I'd never seen her either looking into her future or wondering if her life had been what she wanted or thinking about her past. I don't know. I only know that that's an incredible moment in my mother's existence."
While best known as a founding member of the rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash, and (sometimes) Young, Nash also developed a parallel career as a photographer, collector, and pioneer of digital imaging. Nash's photographs include revealing portraits of family and friends, images of life on the road, still lifes and landscapes, street photographs, bad credit people, and a unique series of self-portraits which often shows him reflected in windows and mirrors. His photography establishes Nash as a masterful visual artist with a keen eye for moments and scenes not immediately available to the common eye.
In 2006, fifty years of Graham Nash's photographic images were shown in his first solo museum exhibition, Eye to Eye: Photographs by Graham Nash, at San Diego's Museum of Photographic Arts. MoPA Director Arthur Ollman...
Category
Realist 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Laid Paper
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
C Print Color Photo Mississippi Juke Joint Photograph African American Americana
By Birney Imes
Located in Surfside, FL
BIRNEY IMES, Mississippi, b. 1951
"Riverside Lounge, Shaw, 1986"
Dimensions: Chromogenic print, 14" x 16.5" sight. Framed 21" x 25".
Birney Imes (born 1951) is an American photogra...
Category
American Realist 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
New Year
s Kiss
Located in London, GB
A police officer kissing a young woman, who is wearing an overcoat, during the New Year celebrations in Trafalgar Square, London, England, 1st January 1985.
(Photo by Dunsmore/Dail...
Category
1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Presences - Vintage Offset Print by Franco Fontana - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Presenze is a vintage poster after a photograph realized by Franco Fontana in 1981.
Offset print. Rondanini Galleria D'arte Contemporanea - Roma.
Titled at the bottom.
Excellent ...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Offset
John Lennon
Yoko Ono, Central Park, 1980
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Allan Tannenbaum
"John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Central Park, 1980"
Ink jet print
Paper size: 13 x 19 Inches
Image Size: 8.5 x 13
Edition Number: From the second edition of 200
Editions:
First edition of 200 (C-print Colors, Silver gelatin print - Black & white) 1988
Second edition of 200 - Ink Jet Print (Giclee) - 2000
Third edition of 50 - C-Print & Silver gelatin print - 2007 - 2008
Signed, Numbered, Titled & dated in pencil by the artist.
Condition: In Excellent Condition
Provenance: All of our Allan Tannenbaum prints come from The Williams Gallery (via William Back) which was the exclusive representative of Allan Tannenbaum from 1980 to 2006.
About the John Lennon collection: In November 1980...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Inkjet
$1,199 Sale Price
20% Off
John Lennon Cigarette Break, New York City, 1980
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Allan Tannenbaum
"John Lennon Cigarette Break, New York City, 1980"
Inkjet print
Paper size: 13 x 19 Inches
Image Size: 8.5 x 12 7/8
Edition Number: From the second edition of 200
Editions:
First edition of 200 (C-print Colors, Silver gelatin print - Black & white) 1988
Second edition of 200 - Ink Jet Print (Giclee) - 2000
Third edition of 50 - C-Print & Silver gelatin print - 2007 - 2008
Signed, Numbered, Titled & dated in pencil by the artist
Condition: In Excellent Condition
Provenance: All of our Allan Tannenbaum prints come from The Williams Gallery (via William Back) which was the exclusive representative of Allan Tannenbaum from 1980 to 2006
About the John Lennon collection: In November 1980...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Inkjet
$1,199 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of Diego Armando Maradona - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph depicting Diego Armando Maradona wearing the Napoli shirt.
Very good condition.
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Martha Graham, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rudolf Nureyev
Located in Surfside, FL
Celebration of Martha Graham (1986).
Category
1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Roberta Kimmel Cohn (1937-2015)
By Naomi Savage
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Roberta Kimmel Cohn (1937-2015)
Toned sliver gelatin print, c. 1981
Unsigned (Signed and dedicated on the sketchbook page) see photo
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 13 1/4 x 10 5/8 ...
Category
American Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
This Vintage Photo shows the Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni in the early 1980s.
Good condition.
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Autographed Portrait of Gianluigi Di Franco - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed portrait of the singer Gianluigi Di Franco.
Photograph by Alberto Greco.
Very good condition.
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Brian, White Flower and House - Vintage Poster After D. Prince - 1980
By Douglas Prince
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Poster realized in occasion of Prince's exhibition at Galleria Rondanini in Rome.
Very good conditions.
Category
1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Offset
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Villa Del Balbianello
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Villa Del Balbianello
Italian mountain climber and explorer Guido Monzino (1928-1988) and four people relaxing on th...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sunbathing On Capri 1980 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sunbathing On Capri
Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers – along with Elisabetta Catalano, Charlotte Ticken and Pamela Grupas – on the island of Capri, Italy, in August 1980...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Annevoie
1980 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Annevoie'
1980, Jean and Christiane de Montpellier d'Annevoie float across the moat of their home, Annevoie, Belgium.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Coll...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled from "On The Acropolis"
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes free shipping in the US and a 14-day return policy. All prints are made to order and will arrive in mint condition directly from Tod Papageorge...
Category
1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
Autographed Portrait of Lena Biolcati - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed photograph of the POP singer Lena Biolcati.
Excellent condition.
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bistro, Paris, France, Photograph of Young Woman, Cities, Limited Edition
Located in New york, NY
A black-and-white image shot on film by Roberta Fineberg becomes an abstract chiaroscuro portrait of a young Parisan woman in elegant clothing -- ...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Portrait of Diego Armando Maradona - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph depicting Diego Armando Maradona wearing the Napoli shirt.
Very good condition.
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
John Lennon with Yoko, NYC 1980
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Allan Tannenbaum
"John Lennon with Yoko, NYC 1980"
Silver Galtein Print
Paper size: 13 7/8 x 10 3/4 Inches
Image Size: 11 1/4 x 7 1/2
Edition Number: From the first edition of 200
Editions:
First edition of 200 (C-print Colors, Silver gelatin print - Black & white) 1988
Second edition of 200 - Ink Jet Print (Giclee) - 2000
Third edition of 50 - C-Print & Silver gelatin print - 2007 - 2008
Signed, Numbered, Titled & dated in ink by the artist
Condition: In Excellent Condition
Provenance: All of our Allan Tannenbaum prints come from The Williams Gallery (via Williamam Back) which was the exclusive representative of Allan Tannenbaum from 1980 to 2006
About the John Lennon collection: In November 1980...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,399 Sale Price
30% Off
Portrait of Diego Armando Maradona - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph depicting Diego Armando Maradona.
Very good condition.
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Diego Armando Maradona and Andrea Carnevale - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph depicting Diego Armando Maradona wearing the Napoli shirt.
Very good condition.
Copyright by Olympia Foto Martinuzzi.
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Diego Armando Maradona - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph depicting Diego Armando Maradona wearing the Napoli shirt.
Very good condition.
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
John Lennon
Yoko Ono 1980
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Allan Tannenbaum
"John Lennon & Yoko Ono 1980"
Inkjet print
Paper size: 19 x 13 Inches
Image Size: 12 7/8 x 8 5/8
Edition Number: From the second edition of 200
Editions:
First edition of 200 (C-print Colors, Silver gelatin print - Black & white) 1988
Second edition of 200 - Ink Jet Print (Giclee) - 2000
Third edition of 50 - C-Print & Silver gelatin print - 2007 - 2008
Signed, Numbered, Titled & dated in pencil by the artist.
Condition: In Excellent Condition
Provenance: All of our Allan Tannenbaum prints come from The Williams Gallery (via William Back) which was the exclusive representative of Allan Tannenbaum from 1980 to 2006
About the John Lennon collection: In November 1980, on the eve of John Lennon's untimely murder by a lone gunman, photographer Allan Tannenbaum had unique and total access to John and Yoko...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Inkjet
$1,199 Sale Price
20% Off
The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet - Vintage photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet.
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Untitled from "On The Acropolis"
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes free shipping in the US and a 14-day return policy. All prints are made to order and will arrive in mint condition directly from Tod Papageorge...
Category
1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
Portrait of Diego Armando Maradona - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph depicting Diego Armando Maradona wearing the Napoli shirt.
Very good condition.
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Diego Armando Maradona - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph depicting Diego Armando Maradona wearing the Napoli shirt.
Very good condition.
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Love scene by the wayside: horses in North Jutland, Denmark around 1985.
Located in Cologne, DE
The photo shows two horses facing each other over a wooden fence in a rural setting, seemingly captured around the late 20th century. The vibrant brown coats of the horses stand out ...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Color
Slim Aarons
The Lure Of Lamu
1987 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'The Lure Of Lamu'
The resort of Kiwayu Mlango wa Chanu in the Lamu Archipelago of Kenya, February 1987. The resort is run by Governors' Camp of the Masai Mara.
40 x 30" inches /...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Godley
creme- Signed limited edition still life fine art print, Sexy Model
By Geoff Halpin
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Godley & creme - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 5
London, 1983
Tinted Black & White Art print
This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Autographed Portrait of Tiffany - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Tiffany Darwish, realized in 1980s.
Excellent condition.
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Street Fest - Euro Disney Resort - Vintage Photograph - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Street Fest - Euro Disney Resort is a colour vintage photo, realized in 1990s.
Street Fest - Euro Disney Resort will fill the streets of Festival Disney with music and entertainment...
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Porch Peas
1983 Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Located in London, GB
'Porch Peas'
by Alain Le Garsmeur
Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Two African American women shelling peas on a porch in Savannah, Georgia, USA, 1983.
Paper size : 40x30...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Portrait of Diego Armando Maradona - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph depicting Diego Armando Maradona wearing the Napoli shirt.
Very good condition.
Copyright by Olympia Foto Martinuzzi.
Category
Contemporary 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons
Neo-Classical Pool
Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Neo-Classical Pool'
Mrs. T Dennie Boardman and her children Samuel Jay and Sarah climbing the steps from the pool at the home of Boardman’s parents in Palm Beach, Florida, 1985.
...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Comte d
Arcangues
1986 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Comte d'Arcangues'
1986, Michel, Comte d'Arcangues, against a wall of Sevres and Compagnie des Indes porcelains at his chateau d'Arcangues, Biarritz, France.
30 x 20" inches / 7...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Porto Ercole
1980 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Porto Ercole'
Private boats in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980.
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Blue Seas
1984 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Blue Seas'
August 1984: Holidaymakers' yachts find a quiet haven off the Mediterranean island of Cavallo, Corsica.
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Col...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Tullio Abbate
1983 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Tullio Abbate'
Tullio Abbate, of Abbate Boats, at the back of yacht as it is moored at a property on the shores of Lake Como, Italy, in June 1983.
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm ...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Man Walking Past Parking Lot, 1989 - Black and White Photographic Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Man Walking Past Parking Lot is a Black and White Photographic Print on Hahnemuhle Paper in an Edition of 10 in this size of 24" x 34".
States of America is the photographic legacy of one of the UK’s leading photographic talents whose untimely death in 1991 ended prematurely the highly promising career of a distinctive and powerful photographic voice.
Michael Ormerod was born in Cheshire in 1947. He lived in Newcastle, but spent many years travelling America. Fascinated by the American image, and following in the footsteps of Robert Frank, Ormerod took to the American West to find a washed out dream of capitalism. His images capture a strange juxtaposition of an American beauty tainted by a hidden sense of menace and corruption.
The photographs are understated, but show an unseen America, where the industrial heartland is decaying, highways stand empty and towns are deserted. The subjects of Ormerod’s work are the disenfranchised. A teenager cycles through her neighbourhood wearing a Halloween-style hockey mask, a Native American man stands in a graveyard, their expressions are unreadable.
The work subverts traditional American icons. A white picket fence is staved in, a huge billboard for Miss Teen Dakota USA stands next to an empty highway. Inverting the famous Hollywood sign, Ormerod photographs a Texaco sign...
Category
Modern 1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White
