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
Amalfi Cathedral - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Amalfi Cathedral - 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
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes 1969
A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tows a waterskier, in the sea off the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Rivi...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Funk In Tuscany
Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Funk In Tuscany'
Italian fashion designer, model, and socialite, Marta Marzotto (1931 - 2016), playing a James Brown album on an Italian Brionvega Radiofonograph RR126 stereo syst...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Poolside Friendship
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Poolside Friendship
Nelda Linsk (left, in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk with guests by the pool at ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Palazzo Rufolo, Ravello - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Palazzo Rufolo, Ravello- 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
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
Towers - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Towers-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
Relief - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Relief - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century.
Good conditions, aged.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Magi
s Adoration, Ravenna - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Magi's Adoration, Ravenna - Vintage Photo -Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century.
Information on the rear.
Good conditions, aged with foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons Estate Print - New England Skiing 1955 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in New Hampshire, 1955.
Paper size 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons,
Playboy Party
Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests of American publisher Hugh Hefner, December 1961.
Slim Aarons
Playboy Party
1961 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of aut...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
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 ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Medieval Relief - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Medieval 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
Pan and Apollo, Gallery of Parma - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Pan and Apollo, Gallery of Parma - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century by Anderson.
Information is written on the lower in Italian.
Good condit...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Photograph of a Painting by Beppe Guzzi - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Photograph of a Painting by Beppe Guzzi is a black and white vintage photo realized by an anonymous artist in the 20th Century.
Good conditions except for some minor fixings.
The a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons
Keep Your Cool
1978 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Keep Your Cool' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank ‘Brandy’ Brandstetter
in a swimming pool at Acapulco.
Paper size 6...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Freedomland
1979 Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Located in London, GB
'Freedomland' 1979
by Alain Le Garsmeur
Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Women cyclists riding through the streets of downtown Las Vegas, New Mexico, USA, 1979.
Paper size ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Roman Arch - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Arch - 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
Tennis In The Bahamas
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Tennis In The Bahamas'
Two women stand talking to a man on the edge of a tennis court in the Bahamas, circa 1957. Behind the main group stand a second group of people talking.
Pap...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Buckingham Palace Guards - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
The Buckingham Palace guards is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1960s.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments, places, families, ar...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons,
Saint-Tropez
Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Two young women, one wearing a kaftan, stepping onto a yacht on the waterfront at Saint-Tropez, France, August 1971.
Slim Aarons
Saint-Tropez
1971
C print (Printed later)
Estate si...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons,
Curling At St. Moritz
Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Curlers on a rink, or curling sheet, in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
Slim Aarons
Curling At St. Moritz
1963
C print (Printed later)
Estate signature stamped and hand numbere...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Vintage Photo of a Painting by Giuseppe Raggio - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of a Painting by Giuseppe Raggio is a vintage photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
The photo belongs to Albumen of historical painting, photographs, meticu...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Baptistery of Parma - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Baptistery of Parma - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century by Alinari.
Information is written on the lower in Italian.
Good conditions, aged...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ravello Cathedral - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Ravello Cathedral- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century realized by Anderson.
Information is written on the lower in Italian.
Good conditions, ag...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Barbados Bliss
1976 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Barbados Bliss'
Ava Marshall relaxes with a book amongst the bougainvillea in Barbados, April 1976.
A sumptuous scene of relaxation in an exquisite...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Airline
s Office - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Airline's office- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century by Donald Chapman.
Stamped on the rear.
Good conditions, aged with foxing.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Parma Cathedral - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Parma Cathedral - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century by Alinari.
Information is written on the lower in Italian.
Good conditions, aged with fo...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Baptistery of Parma - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Baptistery of Parma - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century by Alinari.
Information is written on the lower in Italian.
Good conditions, aged...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Cathedral - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cathedral- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century.
Good conditions, aged.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Decorative Relief - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Decorative Relief -Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century.
Information is written on the lower in Italian.
Good conditions, aged with foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Gallery of Parma - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Gallery of Parma - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century by Anderson.
Information is written on the lower in Italian.
Good conditions, aged with ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ravello Campania Cathedral - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Ravello Campania Cathedral- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the early 20th century.
Information is written on the lower in Italian.
Good conditions, aged with foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Art Museums in America- Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Art Museums in America- American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the Mid-20th Century in a series on American life in the 20th Cen...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Homeless Families - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
The Homeless Families is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1960s.
The photo depicts the homeless families who have found accommodation in the school.
Good conditions an...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons,
Esther Williams
Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Swimmer and movie star Esther Williams by the pool in Florida, 1955.
Slim Aarons
Ester Williams
1955 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certi...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Twiggy In Pink Tights On Swing 1967 Limited Estate Print
By David Steen
Located in London, GB
Twiggy – at David Steen’s Home, Surrey
Lesley Lawson (born 19 September 1949) is an English model, actress, and singer widely known by the nickname Twiggy. She was a British cultura...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
The Mountain Valley - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
The Mountain Valley is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1960s.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments, ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Roman Historical Arch - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Historical Arch- 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
S. Francesco Church - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
S. Francesco Church- 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
Ravello Cathedral, Rome - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Ravello Cathedral, Rome- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the early 20th century.
Good conditions, aged with foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of a Child - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a Child 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 histori...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Milan Cathedral - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Milan Cathedral- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized by Zuecca Uno in the early 20th century.
Good conditions, aged with foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ravello Cathedral, Rome - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Ravello Cathedral, Rome- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the early 20th century by Anderson's Photo.
Stamped on the rear.
Good conditions, aged with foxing.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sun Worship
1981 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Sun Worship' 1981
Bianca Volpato sunning herself at Capri in a lilac coloured bikini.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
National Museum of Rome-Faun with Bacchus-Vintage Photograph-Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
National Museum of Rome-Faun with Bacchus is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to a historical album including historical moments, roy...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Groucho Marx - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Groucho Marx is a black and white photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Fiumicino Airport- Chilean Immigrants 1975 - Vintage Photograph - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo- Fiumicino Airport- Chilean Immigrants 1975 is a black and white vintage photo.
It belongs to a historical album including historical moments, royal families, and p...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons,
Caracalla Therme
Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A woman experiences the Caracalla Therme spa in Baden-Baden, September 1990.
Slim Aarons
Caracalla Therme
1990 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
w...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Stan Laurel - Vintage Autographed Photograph - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Stan Laurel - Vintage Autographed Photograph is a vintage photo, realized in the 1940s.
Hand-signed by the actor Stan Laurel and his friend and colleague Oliver Hardy the most famo...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons,
Gioacchino And Gian Nicola Fiilippi
Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Gioacchino and Gian Nicola Fiilippi pose before a display of antlers mounted on the wall behind them in San Marino, in September 1982. One carries a shotgun over his shoulder while o...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Vogue Dive 1944 Toni Frissell Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Vogue Dive 1944
A Vogue fashion shoot featuring a model jumping on a diving board wearing a bright 1940's yellow floral bikini, Florida USA 1944
by Toni Frissell
30 x 20" inches...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ancient Relief - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient 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
Historical Photo - China - Vintage Photograph - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - China is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
It belongs to a historical album including historical moments, royal families, and po...
Category
Mid-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
Roman Arch - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Arch- 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
Transportation of Marble Blocks - Vintage Photo - 1910s
Located in Roma, IT
Transportation of Marble Blocks is a Silver Salt print realized in the 1910s.
From Alinari archive.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons
Keep Your Cool
Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Keep Your Cool' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank ‘Brandy’ Brandstetter in a swimming pool at Acapulco.
Paper size 40...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marylin Monroe Black and White Photograph Female Iconic Pop Americana Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Marilyn Monroe NYC 1954 Seven Year Itch" is a photograph printed in 1990 from the 1954 original negative. It is signed by the artist George Zimbel ...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons
Palm Springs Life
1970 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Palm Springs Life' 1970
Nelda Linsk (left, in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk with guests by the pool at the Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, January 1970. At far lef...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Modern figurative photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Modern figurative photography available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add figurative photography created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Slim Aarons, Mark Shaw, Alain Le Garsmeur, and Terry O'Neill. Frequently made by artists working with Digital Print, and Paper and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Modern figurative photography, so small editions measuring 0.79 inches across are also available. Prices for figurative photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $22 and tops out at $115,000, while the average work sells for $1,800.
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