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
Women
s Rights Movement - Historical Photos -1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Women's Rights Movement - Historical Photos is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s in Italy, it belong to album of women rights, protests, manifestation for th...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Luca Carboni - Vintage Autographed Photograph - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Luca Carboni - Vintage Autographed Photograph is a vintage photo, realized in the 1980s.
Signature and dedication by the singer Luca Carboni: "Agli amici di Foto Music con affetto L...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Moving City - Photo - 1962
Located in Roma, IT
The Moving City is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1962.
Good conditions and aged.
The photo shows flats being erected in Norilsk. Note how they are being built on pi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Captivated Audience by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Captivated Audience
by Arthur Steel
SURREY 1979
All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold.
paper size - 16 x 12" / 41 x 31 cm
signed a...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Rome Historical Photo - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Rome Historical photo in black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1930s. It belongs to historical album including photo of historical events and places, all meticulously captur...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Eden-Roc Pool
1976 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Eden-Roc Pool' 1976 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Guests round the swimming pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976.
Paper Size 24x20 inches /...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Saint-Tropez Boucherie Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Saint-Tropez Boucherie
A boucherie or butcher’s shop on Rue des Commercants in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1971.
30x40 inches / 76 x 102 cm paper size
Estate St...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Leisure In Antibes 1969 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Leisure In Antibes
A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tows a waterskiier, in the sea off the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera, August 1969.
60x40” / 101x...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Conca dei Marini Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Conca dei Marini
A busy bay in Conca dei Marini, on the Amalfi coast in Italy, August 1984.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Pho...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Inish Turbot Coast
1978 Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Located in London, GB
'Inishturbot Coast' 1978
by Alain Le Garsmeur
Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
The West-facing coastline of Inishturbot island, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland, 1978.
Pa...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
New Yorker Hotel, New York - Photo - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
New Yorker Hotel, New York is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including hist...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Girls with Ice Cream - Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Girls with ice cream is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1970s.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments, p...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Skiline View of New York - Photo - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Skiline view of New York is a black and white vintage photo, realized in mid 20th Century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including histor...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Pop And Society Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pop And Society, 1968.
1968: From left to right; singer Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness and Mick Jagger (of the Rolling Stones) sit on a sofa under a large gilt f...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hotel Sports Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Sports
Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958.
30x20” / 76x51 cm - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aaron...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Palm Trees and the Mountain - Photo - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The palm trees and the mountain is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Abaco Islander - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Abaco Islander
Author Chester Thompson at work in his coconut grove on the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas, March 1986. His ancester Wyannie Malone settled on the islands in 1783, foun...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
India Blue
contemporary fine art colour photography - limited edition signed
By Tim Graham
Located in London, GB
' India Blue ' Limited Edition, Signed Oversize Archival Pigment print
Huge and exquisite, intensely vivid Archival Pigment print - signed and numbered by photographer on front - th...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vintage Skiline View of New York - Photo - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Skiline view of New York is a black and white vintage photo, realized in mid 20th Century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including histo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Post-War Life, 1946
Located in New York, NY
The first Chelsea Arts Ball after the war, documented for Life Magazine by photojournalist George Rodger, 1946.
George Rodger
Post-War Life
1946 (printed later)
Edition of 25
Estate...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Acrylic, Silver Gelatin
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...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Morningside Heights, New York - Photo - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Morningside Heights, New York is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid-20th Century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including h...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Lech Ice Bar 1960 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lech Ice Bar
The Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960. The Hotel Pfefferkorn and Hotel Tannbergerhof are in the background.
30x30” / 76x76 cm - paper size
Estate S...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Beach At Saint Tropez 1977 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beach At Saint Tropez
Sunbathers on the beach at St. Tropez, France, 1977.
30x40” / 76x101 cm - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printe...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marina Piccola 1954 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marina Piccola
Canzone del Mare at the Marina Piccola, Capri, Italy, 1954.
40x30” / 76x101 cm - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Print...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Colourful Crew 1970 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Colourful Crew
A group of colourfully dressed holidaymakers on a yacht, Bermuda, June 1970.
40x30” / 76x101 cm - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by S...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Snowmass Gathering
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snowmass Gathering
Two women, wearing brightly-coloured skiwear, stand in the foreground of a group of people attending a party in Snowmass Village, in Pitkin County, Colorado, in A...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Masked dancers in the 1970s - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Masked dancers in the 1970s. is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historica...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Puerto Ricans - American Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Puerto Ricans - American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th Century in a series of American life in the 20th Century.
W...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress and Singer Loretta Goggi - Photo- 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Showgirl Loretta Goggi during "Happy Circus". Rome, 24.11.1981.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Candice Bergen - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Candice Bergen - Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized by an anonymous artist in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Queen In Concert by Martyn Goddard Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Queen In Concert
Freddie Mercury and Queen in concert
By Martyn Goddard Signed Limited Edition
All prints are signed and numbered by the artist.
Paper size 16x20 inches
printe...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Cidade do Interior do Brasil - Photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cidade do interior do Brasil is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century.
Good conditions and aged.
The photo depicts Diamantina, a Brazilian municipality in t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Bahamas Speed Week
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bahamas Speed Week
The Bahamas Speed Week in Nassau, 1963.
40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
James Dean Liz Taylor Round Up
Limited Edition silver gelatin print
Located in London, GB
''James Dean Liz Taylor Round Up' 1956 GALERIE Limited Edition silver gelatin print
A gorgeous candid shot of the movie and style icons James Dean with Elizabeth Taylor on the set ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Photo of Painting - Vintage Photo - 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
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Baths of Caracalla - Vintage Photo - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Baths of Caracalla is a vintage black and white photograph realized by an anonymous artist in the early 20th Century.
Good conditions except for some foxing.
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons
Funk In Tuscany
1969 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Funk In Tuscany' 1969 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Italian fashion designer, model, and socialite, Marta Marzotto (1931 - 2016), playing a James Brown album on an Itali...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color
Leonard Bernstein - Photo- 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Leonard Bernstein is a photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vinyl Blondie by Martyn Goddard Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Vinyl Blondie
By Martyn Goddard Signed Limited Edition
Debbie Harry of Blondie licking a white label vinyl record which she had kissed. New York 1978 (Photo by Martyn Goddard)
Al...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion II
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion II
Guests of American publisher Hugh Hefner enjoying themselves at a party being held at the ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Old Days - Historical Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Racing At Baden Baden
1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Racing At Baden Baden' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Spectators dine in the open air as the horses go by at Baden Baden racecourse, ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Slim And Sphynx
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim and Sphynx
Circa 1964: New York DJ Slim Hyatt at work in Shepheard's night club whose decor recreates a famous Cairo bar.
40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size
Estate...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion III
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion III
Guests of American publisher Hugh Hefner enjoying themselves at a party being held at the...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion IV
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion IV
Guests of American publisher Hugh Hefner enjoying themselves at a party being held at the ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Porto Ercole Harbour
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Porto Ercole
Yachts moored to a pontoon in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, 1980.
40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Monaco Grand Prix
1977 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Monaco Grand Prix'
Left to right: princesses Stephanie, Caroline and Grace (1929 - 1982) of Monaco applaud as Prince Rainier III (1923 - 2005) pre...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Tennis In The Bahamas - Estate Stamped
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.
Gorge...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Breakfast At Tiffanys
Huge Oversize Limited Edition silver gelatin print
Located in London, GB
'Breakfast At Tiffanys' Huge Oversize Limited Edition silver gelatin print
Belgian-born actor Audrey Hepburn (1929 – 1993), during a shoot for the promotion of her film BREAKFAST...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Kate Blonde by BATIK
By BATIK
Located in London, GB
Kate Blonde
by BATIK
BATIK is an increasingly collectable pop artist currently living and working in London. The artist is purposely elusive with their true identity, sex and age ...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
La Barranca
1971 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'La Barranca'
Bandleader Teddy Stauffer (1909 - 1991) at La Barranca, Warren Avis' villa in Acapulco, January 1971.
Paper size 20 x 30 inches / 51 x 76 cm
Estate Stamped Collect...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Catch Up by the Pool
1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Catch Up by the Pool' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph L...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Franco Carraro and Primo Nebiolo - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Franco Carraro and Primo Nebiolo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper
Poolside Pairs
1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside Pairs' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace) and Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Lins...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
The Old Days Photo - Horse - Vintage photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days Photo - Horse is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to a historical album including historical moments, royal families, a...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Claudio Martelli - Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Claudio Martelli - Vintage Photograph is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1980s.
Good conditions.
Claudio Martelli is an Italian pol...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Verbier Vacation
Slim Aarons Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Verbier Vacation' 1964 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Holiday-makers take the sun on a mountain top in Verbier, 1964.
Slim Aarons Chromogenic C print
Printed Later
Slim Aar...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Snow Round The Pool
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Snow Round The Pool'
Bathers having a winter dip in a pool at Vail, Colorado, March 1964.
A gorgeous scene; a couple of bathers enjoy a dip, the turquoise waters of the swimming ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
St. Peter in Vatican - Vintage Photo - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
St. Peter in Vatican is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Second Half 20th Century.
A beautiful view of the "Eternal City" and in the foreground the Michelangelo's dome....
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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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