Modern Figurative Photography
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Portrait of Rocco Mortelliti - Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Rocco Mortelliti is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sacred Art of Italy - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Sacred Art of Italy- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized by Zuecca Uno in the early 20th century.
Stamped on the rear.
Good conditions, aged with foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Donatello, Siena Cathedral - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Donatello, Siena Cathedral- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the early 20th century.
Good conditions with foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Peacock Relief - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Peacock Relief- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the early 20th century.
Good conditions with foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
St. Giulia Church in Brescia - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
St. Giulia Church in Brescia- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized by U. Vecchi in the early 20th century.
Stamped of on the rear.
The title is Hand-written in th...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Inauguration of the Science Palace in Rome - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Inauguration of the Science Palace in Rome is a vintage photograph in black and white realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vase with Relief - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Vase with Relief- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the early 20th century.
Good conditions.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Photo of a Statue by Girolamo Santacroce - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of a Statue by Girolamo Santacroce is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Cathedral in Ferrara - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Cathedral in Ferrara- Vintage Photo is a silver salt print that was made in the early 20th century.
The title is on the lower, in the Italian language.
Good conditions.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Downtown Las Vegas
1979 Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Located in London, GB
'Downtown Las Vegas' 1979
by Alain Le Garsmeur
Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
A group of friends drive through the streets of downtown Las Vegas, New Mexico, USA, 1979.
Paper size : 40x30 inches / 101 x 76 cm
Limited edition
Edition Size 5 only this paper size
Printed 2021
certificate of authenticity provided
All prints are on archival photographic papers and limited edition per paper size offered.
Total editions per image 100 only.
10x12 inches edition size 25
12x16 inches edition size 20
20x16 inches edition size 20
20x24 inches edition size 15
30x20 inches edition size 8
40x30 inches edition size 5
60x40 inches edition size 5
72x48 inches edition size 2
Alain Le Garsmeur was born in France in 1943 and after assisting the likes of Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin and Donald Silverstein became a prolific editorial documentary photographer for publications which included Fiagaro Magazine, The Independent, Newsweek and the The Observer as well as The Sunday Times.
See photo Bio for more details.
1970s 1970 70s USA Retro Vintage Car Friends Youth Blue Wheels Record shop Vegas Quirky Fashion...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Slim Aarons
Sea Drive
1967 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Sea Drive' 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
1967. Film producer Kevin McClory takes his wife Bobo Sigrist and their family for a drive in an ‘Amphicar’ across the harbour at ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Nice Pool
1955 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Nice Pool' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
1955. American writer C.Z. Guest (Mrs. F.C. Winston Guest, 1920 – 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudle...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
La Pologne - Vintage Photo by Alfred Plauzeau - 1908
Located in Roma, IT
La Pologne is a vintage photograph realized by Alfred Plauzeau in 1908.
Monogrammed.
Good conditions.
Category
Early 1900s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$336 Sale Price
30% Off
Venetian Medieval Art - Vintage b/w Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Venetian medieval art is an original photograph taken in Venice, realized by an Anonymous photographer.
With the description on the rear.
Very Good conditions.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Iva Zanicchi - Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Photo of Iva Zanicchi a Portrait is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Cityscape - Photograph after Painting - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Cityscape - Photograph after Painting is a vintage black and white photographof an artwork realized in the 1960s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the cultural and a...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
View of Rome - Vintage Photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
View Of Rome is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the early 20th Century as reprint of an image of the late 19th century. With the hand-note in pencil on the rear.
Go...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons
Celebrity Cruise
1965 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Celebrity Cruise'
circa 1965: British comedian Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980) holidays with Princess Margaret (1930 - 2002, right) on the Aga Khan's yacht on ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
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
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons
Nice Pool
- Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Nice Pool'
1955. American writer C.Z. Guest (Mrs. F.C. Winston Guest, 1920 – 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of their Grecian temple pool on the o...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Queen Elizabeth - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elizabeth is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
View of the Ancient Tivoli - Silver Salt Photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
View of the Ancient Tivoli - Silver Salt Photograph is a Silver salt photograph on paper, with the title on the lower realized in the Early 20th Century.
Good conditions, with some ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Christ and The Apostles - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Christ and The Apostles Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century.
Good conditions, aged with foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
National Museum Corridor , Florence - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
National Museum Corridor, Florence - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century.
Good conditions, aged with foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ancient Views of Johor Photograph - Original Albumen Prints - 1890s
Located in Roma, IT
Views of Johor photograph is a set of 5 original vintage albumen prints on single cardboard: 25 x 34 cm.
Size of photos: 2 of 10.5. x 15, 8 x 11 and on the rear 21.5 x 27.5 cm.
Go...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Painting - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Painting- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the mid-20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Walter Matthau and Roberto Benigni - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Walter Matthau and Roberto Benigni - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Painting - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Painting- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the mid-20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Meeting - Vintage Photo - Mid- 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Meeting- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the mid-20th century.
Good conditions.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Desert House Party 1970 Official Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Desert House Party, 1970
A poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, in Palm Springs, January 1970. Featured in the group are: industrial d...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vintage Photo of Painting - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of Painting is a vintage photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
The photo belongs to Albumen of historical painting, photographs, meticulously captured.
Good...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Girl - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Girl- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the 1970s.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
S. Giovanni in Laterano, Rome - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
S. Giovanni in Laterano, Rome - Vintage Photo is a colored photograph of the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - Duke of Windsor
s Coffin - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Duke of Windsor's Coffin is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1970s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical moment ...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Piazza del Popolo - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Piazza del Popolo - Vintage Photo is a colored photograph of the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Rome, Bird Eye View of Santa Maria Maggiore - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Rome, bird eye view of Santa Maria Maggiore - Vintage Photo is a colored photograph of the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Trajan
s Forum, Rome - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Trajan's Forum, Rome - Vintage Photo is a colored photograph of the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Final Judgment , Florence - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Final Judgment, Florence - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century realized by Alinari.
Good conditions, aged with foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Old Days Photo - Sister - Photograph - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old days Photo - Sister is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including his...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Church of St. Chiara Naples - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Church of St. Chiara Naples - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century realized by Alinari.
Good conditions, aged with foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Rudolf Nureyev - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Rudolf Nureyev- Vintage Photograph is a black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Neil Young - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Neil Young is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Donald Leas - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Donald Leas
Mr and Mrs Donald Leas with their Rolls Royce and two pet dogs outside The Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Florida. 1968
48x48" inches / 122 x 122 cm paper size
Estate...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Neo-Classical Pool
1984 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
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Satin Seduction
Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Satin Seduction'
1955: Film star Diana Dors (Diana Fluck) (1931 – 1984) in blonde bombshell pose on a satin-covered bed.
60 x 60" inches / 152 x 152 cm paper size
Estate Stam...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
China Canton Fluss - Vintage Photograph - 1893
Located in Roma, IT
China Canton Fluss 23 Juli 1893 is a vintage black and white photograph.
It is part of a journey to Asia performed by prince Franz Ferdinand von Osterreich Este (1863-1914) , heir t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Revolution in Teheran - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo is a vintage photo, realized in the 1970s.
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Princess Caroline Of Monaco
1981 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Princess Caroline Of Monaco' 1981 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Prrincess Caroline of Monaco in the winter-garden room of her house on ...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Palm Springs Party
Slim Aarons Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Palm Springs Party' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
A poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kau...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ancient Views of Johor and Singapore - Original Albumen Print - 1880s/1890s
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Views of Johor and Singapore photographs is a set of 12 original vintage albumen prints on single cardboard: 25 x 34 cm.
Size of photos: Various sizes 12x8, 8.5 x11, 8.5x10...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Marina Piccola 1954 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marina Piccola, 1954
Canzone del Mare at the Marina Piccola, Capri, Italy, 1954.
30x20” / 76x51 cm - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Horses - Photo- late 19th Century.
Located in Roma, IT
Horses is a vintage black and white photograph of an artwork, realized in the late 19th Century.
Good conditions with cut aways.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
National Museum of Rome-Faun - Vintage Photograph - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
National Museum of Rome-Faun is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
It belongs to a historical album including historical moments, royal families, an...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Botteghe Oscure - Disappeared Rome - b/w Photograph - 1936
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photo representing a piazza (square) close to Via delle Botteghe Oscure. The square no longer exists in Rome, probably because it has ...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Column - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Column - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century.
Information on the rear in Italian
Good conditions, aged.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Palazzo Schifanoia - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Palazzo Schifanoia - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century, realized by Anderson.
Information in Italian on the lower.
Good conditions, aged with...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Susan Sarandon Michel Piccoli in Atlantic City - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Susan Sarando and Michel Piccoli in Atlantic City is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1980.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Derby Spectator
Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
Derby Spectator
A spectator looking through binoculars at the Derby horse races, Epsom, Surrey, June 1923. (Photo by Hulton / Getty Archive)
Silver gelatin fibre print
10 x 12" p...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Door of the Cathedral - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Door of the Cathedral - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century.
Good conditions, aged with foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Brunch At Brennans 1960 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Brunch At Brennans
Sunday brunch at Brennan’s restaurant, New Orleans.
30x30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
P...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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