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Period: Early 2000s
Sit-Up
By Luke Smalley
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print
Stamped and numbered, verso
20 x 24 inches
(Edition of 10)
30 x 40 inches
(Edition of 5)
50 x 60 inches
(Edition of 3)
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Please note that prices increase as editions sell.
Luke Smalley was an American artist known for his photographic work, which pairs a coolly minimalist aesthetic with a retro nostalgia. Images from his early in his career were inspired by fitness manuals and yearbooks c. 1910. This is not surprising since Smalley graduated with a degree in sports medicine from Pepperdine University and worked for a number of years as a model and personal trainer. Smalley shot the bulk of his photographs in his home state of Pennsylvania, using real high school athletes as models.
“Exercise at Home” is Luke Smalley’s second major body of work. Shot in and around the tiny Pennsylvania town the artist called home, Smalley revisits themes of adolescent growing pains acted out under the guise of earnest athleticism. Teenagers engage in simple yet strange competitions meant to establish their standings amongst one another. Two youths practice boating safety...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
$2,500
"Recital" - Framed color photograph
Located in East Quogue, NY
Contemporary color figurative photograph by Anthony Goicolea, titled "Recital." Offered framed.
Image size: 8 x 10 inches
Frame size: 12 x 15 inches
As you view Anthony Goicolea's ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Light Blue Lingerie (Wastelands)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Light Blue Lingerie - however - (Wastelands) - 2003
57x56cm,
Edition 4/5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on a Polaroid, Artist inventory Number 1179.04.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
For sale is a piece from the Wastelands series.
Schneider harnesses the unpredictable chemical mutations of expired Polaroid film, where bursts of color erupt across the surface, destabilizing the photograph's traditional allegiance to reality. These vivid distortions draw her characters into ethereal, trance-like dreamscapes. Like fleeting sequences from a vintage road movie, Schneider’s images shimmer with a transitory quality, dissolving before any definitive conclusions can be drawn. Their ephemeral essence is conveyed through subtle gestures and enigmatic motives. Refusing to yield to the constraints of reality, Schneider’s work keeps alive a delicate interplay of dream, desire, fact, and fiction, blurring the boundaries between them with poetic ambiguity.
Stefanie Schneider’s work echoes the heart of American art, channeling the cinematic nostalgia of Ed Ruscha’s roadscapes, the stark sensuality of Georgia O’Keeffe’s deserts, and the haunting solitude of Edward Hopper...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
American Cowboy Head and Torso, Salton Sea, California - American Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
A classic American icon, the roadside giant Cowboy "Muffler Man", captured on Richard Heeps' road trip between Mecca and the Salton Sea. Part of a series of pictures by Richard Heeps...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Fly me to the Moon (Cyndi Lauper) -
Bring Ya to the Brink
record cover shoot
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fly Me to the Moon (Cyndi Lauper)
from the 'Bring Ya to the Brink' Cyndi Lauper record Album) - 2009,
50x50cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Childhood Memories - 21st Century, Polaroid, Contemporary, Color, Ocean, Dog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Childhood Memories (Stay), from Ryan Gosling's memory sequence - 2006
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, matte surface, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature la...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Boy Running (Point Dume) - analog, color, expired, Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boy Running (Point Dume) - 2000
Sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 1/2.
100x133cm.
Analog C-Print, hand printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label a...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"Bring Ya to the Brink" Cyndi Lauper - based on a Polaroid Original
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bring Ya to the Brink (Cyndi Lauper record Album) - 2016,
50x49cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate....
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Lipstick (Sidewinder) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Contemporary, Women, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lipstick (Sidewinder) - 2005
20 x 24 cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid,
signature label and certificate.
Artist Inventory 3045.
Not mounted.
sidewinder
...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Everything put Together (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Everything put Together (Suburbia) - 2004,
50x50cm, Edition of 1/10,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Signature label with Certificate,
Not mounted.
The project "Suburbia" ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Lila Running (Stay) - featuring Naomi Watts - Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay', featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie Sc...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Bubble Dreams Bursting (Cyndi Lauper) - record cover shoot
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bubble Dreams Bursting (Cyndi Lauper) from the 'Bring Ya to the Brink' record Album) - 2009
50x49cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Sig...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Meeting in front of Church (Sidewinder)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Meeting in front of Church (Sidewinder) - 2007
Edition 2/5,
each 30x37cm, installed 30x160cm.
4 analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on the 4 oirginal Polaroids.
Ce...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Boccia II (Beachshoot ) with Radha Mitchell -Polaroid, Contemporary, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boccia II (Beachshoot) - 2005
38x36cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 14...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Lost (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lost (Suburbia) - 2004
40x50cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Signature label with Certificate.
Artist Inventory # 1670.
Not mounted...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Wonder Valley (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, 21st Century, expired, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wonder Valley (29 Palms, CA) - 2009
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature Label.
Artist inventor...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Accident II (Stay) with Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Accident III (Stay) -2006
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 5339. ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Bourbon (Suburbia) featuring Louis Ferreira, analog, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bourbon (Suburbia) - 2004
Edition of 2/5,
60x80cm.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist
based on the Polaroid,
mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection.
Artist Inventor...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
Floaties #4 (Beachshoot) - Polaroid, Vintage, analog, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Floaties #4 (Beachshoot) - 2005
20x20cm,
sold out Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature label,
artist Inventory # ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Coney Island (Stay) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Coney Island Aquarium (Stay) - 2006
20x20cm,
sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 1/2.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Accident II (Stay) with Ewan McGregor and Ryan Gosling - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Accident II (Stay) -2006
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 5444.
...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Boccia VI (Beachshoot ) with Radha Mitchell -Polaroid, Contemporary, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boccia VI (Beachshoot) - 2005
38x36cm, Edition of 10.
Digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 1467.
Not mounted.
featuring Cami...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Car Wash - Contemporary, Landscape, Cityscape, expired, Polaroid, analog, Blue
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Car Wash (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
A...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
Revelation (Stage of Consciousness) - 20x24cm, starring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Revelation (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inv...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper
"Only you fit ..." 2004 signed original photoengraving 1 Cuban artist 30x22in
Located in Miami, FL
Juan Carlos Alom (Cuba, 1964)
'Sólo tú cabes en la palma de mi mano' (only you fit in the palm of my hand), 2004
Photoengraving on paper
30 x 22.1 in. (76 x 56 cm.)
Edition of 99
ID:...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photogravure
Crash
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Ryan McGinley (b. 1977) is arguably the most renowned photographer of his generation. At 25 years old, he was the youngest artist to ever have a solo show at the Whitney (2003).
Ove...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
$4,750
White Picket Fence (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
White Picket Fence (The Last Picture Show) - 2006,
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature labe...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Swim - Signed limited edition contemporary print, Color pool, Sensual model
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Swim - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, Edition of 5
This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm , Acid-free and lign...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Poor Richard Head, Salton Sea, California - Roadside America Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
A classic American icon, the roadside giant "Muffler Man", captured on Richard Heeps' road trip between Mecca and the Salton Sea. Part of a series of pictures by Richard Heeps featur...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
San Rafael, Artist Self Portrait. Black and white Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Water is constant in the artist's visual investigation, for her water is no longer the stage in which the body's memory bursts, but rather the environment and protagonist, constant o...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
It
s gonna be ok (Till Death do us Part) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
It's gonna be ok (Till Death do us Part) - 2008
40x48cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inve...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
From Now On (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
From Now On (The Last Picture Show) - 2005,
50x49cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label.
Art...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Pursuit of Happiness - including the book
A Half Forgotten Dream
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Pursuit of Happiness (29 Palms, CA) - 2009
including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Pink Gloves, Goodwood, Chichester - Feminine fashion, color photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
This stylish artwork, 'Pink Gloves' taken at the glamorous retro event Goodwood Revival, perfectly captures feminine sophistication with a vintage vibe.
Th...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Loading the Gun (Wastelands) hand printed analog C-Print, based on a Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Loading the Gun (Wastelands) - 2003
57x56cm,
Edition of 5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on the Polaroid, Artist inventory Number...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Francesca Woodman - Original Limited Edition Photograph by Angelo Cricchi
Located in Roma, IT
Francesca Woodman is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist and photographer Angelo Cricchi in 2008.
Original Digital Photograph.
Hand...
Category
Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Flight of Stairs II - featuring Naomi Watts - Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay', featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie Sc...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Renée
s Dream - Jules and Jim X - 29 Palms, CA
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Jules and Jim X' (Renée's Dream) from the 29 Palms, CA series - 2007
50x49cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signat...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Fall (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fall (The Last Picture Show) - 2006,
50x49cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inv...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Honey, I love you (Till Death do us Part) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Honey, I love you (Till Death do us Part) - 2007
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist In...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Hereafter (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hereafter (The Last Picture Show) - 2005,
50x49cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label.
Artis...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Blue Pool (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blue Pool (Suburbia) 2004
50x49cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
The project "Subur...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$420 Sale Price
40% Off
Nightwalker – Roger Ballen, Black and White, Staged, Lightbox, Venice Biennale
By Roger Ballen
Located in Zurich, CH
Roger Ballen
Nightwalker, from the series 'The Theatre of Apparitions', 2009
One sided Texflex Lightbox, Powder coated Ferro Black
Lightbox 100 x 100 x 9 cm (39 3/8 x 39 3/8 x 3 1/2 ...
Category
Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Textile, LED Light
Dusting (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dusting (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
with Heather Megan Christie
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certif...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Happiness (Suburbia) - with Radha Mitchell - Contemporary, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Happiness (Suburbia) - 2004
28x37cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signature label with Certificate,
Not mounted.
Artist Inventory # 1706.
The works of S...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Three Girls II (The Last Picture Show)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Three Girls II (The Last Picture Show) - 2006,
50x49cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label.
...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper
A Dazzling Beauty #2 – Miles Aldridge, Woman, Nude, Fashion, Erotic, Dinner, Art
Located in Zurich, CH
MILES ALDRIDGE (*1964, Great Britain)
A Dazzling Beauty #2
2008
Chromogenic print
Image 67.5 x 101.5 cm (26 5/8 x 40 in.)
Sheet 77.5 x 111.5 cm (30 1/2 x 43 7/8 in.)
Edition of 10, ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Memories of Green I, triptych, analog, hand printed, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Memories of Green I, triptych, - 2003
Edition of 5,
each 58x56cm, installed with gaps 58x178cm,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Skywhale (Stay) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay'. Featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie's ...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Japan, Contemporary Japanese Photography, Children, Hands and Feet
Located in New york, NY
The baby in the image is one of Japanese artist Yoshihiko Ueda's children and reveals the photographer's eye for artful composition. The photograph "Hands and Feet" by Ueda is an arc...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...
Headless (Stay) featuring Ewan McGregor
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Headless (Stay) - 2006
featuring Ewan McGregor
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #5084.
Not mounted.
Torsten Scheid, “Fotografie, Kunst, Kino. Revisited.”, FilmDienst 3/2006, page 11-13
Photography Art Cinema. Revisited
Stay expands a traditional connection through new facets
Interwoven between the media of photography and film is a veritable mesh-work of technical, motific, metaphorical and personal interrelationships. Extending from photo-film which, as in La Jetée by Chris Marker (France, 1962) is a montage of single, unmoving photographs all the way to the portrayal of photographic motifs in Hollywood cinema―most recently in Memento (USA, 2000) and One hour photo (USA, 2002)―is the range of filmic-photographic interactions on the one hand, and from the adaption of modes of cinematic production to the imitation of film stills on the other. For instance, with the legendary Untitled Film Stills (1978) of the American artist Cindy Sherman, who later made her debut as a film director with Office Killer (USA, 1997) and thereby, like many others, changed sides: Wim Wenders, Robert Frank and Larry Clark are doubtlessly the most successful of these photographic-filmic border crossers. This brief survey provides only a vague indication of the dimensions of this intermedial field, which in fact extends much further and is constantly being cultivated.
Also as a motif in film, photography has experienced a historical transformation: Photographers were once considered to be technicians who mastered a craft but never achieved the status of artists. Photographer-figures were caught in the allure of beautiful appearance, incapable of penetrating to the actual essence of things. Such depth was reserved for literature or painting. When photography in film touched upon the sphere of art, then most often as its contrasting model, as the metaphor for a superficial access to the world. Coming to mind are Fred Astaire as a singing fashion photographer in Stanley Donen’s musical film Funny Face (USA, 1957), or the restless lifestyle-photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni’s genre-classic Blow up (GB, 1966). For the doubting Thomas, only that exists which can be photographed. He ultimately enters the world of fantasy and thereby the field of art only unwillingly, when he becomes entangled in the world of his images. The last of his detail-enlargements shows only the photographic grain and has lost all connection to reality. The photograph looks as if it had been painted by Bill, the painter who is both friend and antagonist to the protagonist.
Photography as Art
It was first around the end of the last century that numerous filmmakers discovered photography as a genuine art form. In The Bridges of Madison County (USA, 1995) a sensitive Clint Eastwood stands, camera in hand, on the threshold of artistic status, and in Smoke (USA, 1994) a tobacco merchant ripens into a philosopher through his involvement in photography. Finally, in John Water’s parody of the art market, Pecker (USA, 1998), a provincial tom-fool is hyped into celebrated stardom amid the New York art scene because of his blurred snapshots. This film about a postmodern Kaspar Hauser in photographic art (with clear parallels to Richard Billingham, the British shooting...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Teenage Kicks C-type Limited Edition Oversize
By Jamie Beeden
Located in London, GB
'Teenage Kicks' C-type Limited Edition
by Jamie Beeden, personal work.
A portrait of a young girl at a club in Tufnell Park, London 2003.
Jamie's body of work includes varied maga...
Category
Modern Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Cuban Artist Original Hand Signed photoengraving 30x22 in. n1
Located in Miami, FL
Juan Carlos Alom (Cuba, 1964)
'Sólo tu cabes en la palma de mi mano', 2004
photoengraving on paper
30 x 22.1 in. (76 x 56 cm.)
Edition of 106
ID: ALO1...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photogravure
Small Town Love - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Portrait, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Small Town Love' (Last Picture Show), 2006, 20x20cm, Edition 3/10.
Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No 1029.15,
not mounted
...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Alphabet Soup (Till Death do us Part) - mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Alphabet Soup (Till Death do us Part) - 2005,
128x127cm,
Edition 2/5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist. based on the Polaroid.
Artist Inventory No. 9283.02.
Mounted o...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
Mafia Wife in Training, Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
‘Mafia Wife in Training’ Vanessa does housework. Photographed at the Georgian Terrace Hotel. 2018, 20x20cm, Edition 1/10, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid photographs, Certificate and Signature label, not mounted
'I have often found a companion in the camera, a partner that allows me a way to communicate how I see things in my mind. The element of chance, the imperfections, the saturated colors, all give each unique Polaroid a surreal, dreamy quality that I only experience otherwise in my dreams.’
Coming from a background as a model and actress, getting behind the camera feels like a natural step in the creative process for Caitlin Fowler...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Womb - Contemporary, Figurative, Woman, 21st Century, Polaroid, photograph, life
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Womb #02 - 2006,
56x55cm, Edition 2/5,
Analog C-Print, printed by hand by the artist on Fuji Archive Crystal Paper.
Based on a Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label
artist In...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Boccia III (Beachshoot ) with Radha Mitchell -Polaroid, Contemporary, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boccia III (Beachshoot) - 2005
38x36cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 1467.
Not mounted.
featuring C...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
La Casa de Daniel, Artist Self Portraits. Black and white Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Water is constant in the artist's visual investigation, for her water is no longer the stage in which the body's memory bursts, but rather the environment and protagonist, constant o...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Santa María, Artist Self Portraits. Black and white Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Water is constant in the artist's visual investigation, for her water is no longer the stage in which the body's memory bursts, but rather the environment and protagonist, constant o...
Category
Contemporary Early 2000s Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
