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
War in Algeria - Manifestation- Historical Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Manifestation- Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photograph realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical events and poli...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sharp Suited The Jam by Martyn Goddard Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Sharp Suited The Jam
By Martyn Goddard Signed Limited Edition
Songwriter Paul Weller, drummer Rick Buckler and bassist Bruce Foxton of The Jam.
All prints ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
The Old Days - Shepherd - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Shepherd is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and poli...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Flannery’s Grocery Store
1984 Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Located in London, GB
'Flannery’s Grocery Store' 1984
by Alain Le Garsmeur
Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Men outside a corner store in downtown Lexington, Kentucky, USA, August, 1984.
Paper...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
The Old Days - A Belgian Woman of the Peasant Class - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - A Belgian Woman of the Peasant Class is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical mome...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Beauty Queen Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beauty Queen
Cosmetics queen Helena Rubinstein (1870 – 1965), third from right, at her Park Avenue, New York apartment with her husband Prince Archil Gourielli Tchkonia, enjoying co...
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1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi - Historical Photo -1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi on the set of a movie.
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo of Prison - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo of Prison is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Brigitte Bardot
(Limited Edition)
Located in London, GB
'Brigitte Bardot' by Jim Gray
French actor Laurent Terzieff giving Brigitte Bardot a piggy-back ride on the windy beach at North Berwick, Scotland, in a...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Italian Actress Lea Massari - Photo- 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Lea Massari on the set of a movie.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of David Taylor - Historical Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of David Taylor - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photograph realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical ev...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Alitalia - Historical Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Alitalia - Historical Photos is a vintage photograph realized in the 1970s.
This photo belongs to a precious testament album of Italian airline.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
War in Algeria - Historical Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
War in Algeria - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photograph realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical events and p...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Women at work - Historical Photos -1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Women at work - Historical Photos is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s in Italy, it belongs to an album of women rights, protests, manifestation for their ri...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Women
s Rights Movement - Historical Photo -1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Women's Rights Movement - Historical Photos is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s in Italy, it belongs to an album of women rights, protests, manifestation fo...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons El Venero - Marbella 1967 Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1967.
Gorgeous print measuring a very large 40 x 30" inches / ca 101 x 76 cm's.
(printed on a 40 x 30"...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Puerto Ricans School - American Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Puerto Ricans School- 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 Centu...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Alitalia - Historical Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Alitalia - Historical Photos is a vintage photograph realized in the 1970s.
This photo belongs to a precious testament album of Italian airline.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
War in Algeria - Historical Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
War in Algeria- Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photograph realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical events and pol...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Balilla Boys Training during Fascism - Vintage b/w Photo - 1934 c.a.
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo from the Fascist period. "La fotografica" photo reportage agency - Torino.
By Studio Gherlone.
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Hellenistic Columns and Tourist - The Old Days - The Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Hellenistic Columns and Tourist - The Old Days is a black and white vintage photo, silver salt print, realized in the Early 20th Century.
It belongs to ...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Women Working -Women
s Rights Photos - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Women Working -Women's Rights Photos is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s in Italy, it belongs to album of women rights, protests, manifestation for their ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ex Libris - Ada Balbi - Libertà, Supremo Bene! - Etching - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Ada Balbi - Libertà, Supremo Bene! is an Artwork realized by Alberto Helios Gagliardo in Mid 20th Century.
Etching.
Good conditions.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Etching
8 March Street -Women
s Rights Photos - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
8 March Street -Women's Rights Photos is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s in Italy, it belong to album of women rights, protests, manifestation for their r...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Carnival Parade - Vintage Photo by Ari Gomes - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Carnival Parade is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th Century, by Ari Gomes.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album in...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Audrey Hepburn In Pink Rome 1955 Limited Estate Print
Located in London, GB
Belgian-born British actress Audrey Hepburn photographed wearing a Givenchy afternoon cocktail dress
from the Spring/Summer 1955 collection...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
The Carnival Parade - Vintage Photo by Ari Gomes - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Carnival Parade is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th Century, by Ari Gomes.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Natale Rusconi
1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Natale Rusconi'
Natale Rusconi riding a Hotel Cipriani motor launch with the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore on San Giorgio Maggiore island beyond, in Venice, Italy, in September 1...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Piglet Tramway - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Piglet tramway is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1970s
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments, pl...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Jean-Louis Tixier - Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Jean-Louis Tixier is a black and white vintage photograph realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical events and political issues ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Life in Italy in 1960s - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Life in Italy in the 1960s is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the cultural and artistic events in Italy in t...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Louis Armstrong and His Wife - Historical Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Louis Armstrong is a photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Silver Gelatin Street Photograph London Street John Benton Harris Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Framed 17 x 13. Image 12.5 x 8.5
John Benton-Harris (born 1939) is an American born British photographer and educator.
Benton-Harris was born in the Bronx, New York City. He recei...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cesare Marchi - Photo - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Cesare Marchi is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Life in Italy in 1960s - Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Life in Italy in the 1960s is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the cultural and artistic events in Italy in t...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days - Ducks - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Ducks is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and politic...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons Estate Print -Tennis Guests 1955
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tennis Guests
1955: Michael Canfield and Jacqueline Bouvier enjoying ‘tennis week’ at the Newport Casino. Original Publication: From ‘A Wonderful Time’.
Paper size 16 x 20" inches...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Woman In Meadow - Life in Italy - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman In Meadow - Life in Italy 1960 is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the1960s in Italy.
Good conditions an aged.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Riders - Photo- Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Riders is a vintage black and white photograph, realized in the early 20th Century.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons
Funk In Tuscany
1969 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Funk In Tuscany' 1969
Italian fashion designer, model, and socialite, Marta Marzotto (1931 - 2016), playing a James Brown album on an Italian Brionvega Radiofonograph RR126 stereo...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Opening Exhibition - Life in Italy in 1960s - Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Opening Exhibition- Life in Italy in the 1960s is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the cultural and artistic...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Abercorns On Windermere
1980 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Abercorns On Windermere' 1980 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
James and Alexandra Hamilton, the 5th Duke and Duchess of Abercorn holiday on Windermere Island in the Baha...
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1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color
Self - Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
' Self '
by Justin Creedy Smith 1997
Creedy Smith, Justin; English Photographer.
– Self portrait (silhouette with skull of an ox outside Ulan-Bator, Mongolia).
Photo, August 1997...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Saint Kitts and Nevis
1984 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Saint Kitts and Nevis' 1984 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Horseback riding at the Rawlins Plantation inn, Saint Kitts and Nevis, West Indies, March 1984.
Produced from...
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1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
The State of Things - Photo - 1982
Located in Roma, IT
The State of Things is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1982.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Reno Crossing
1979 Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Located in London, GB
'Reno Crossing' 1979
by Alain Le Garsmeur
Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
APPROACHING RENO CITY ON AN AMTRAK TRAIN, NEVADA, USA, 1979.
Paper size : 10 x 12 inches / 25 x ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Old Days Photo - The Boat - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old days Photo - The Boat 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 h...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Dukes of Windsor in Paris - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Dukes of Windsor is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 1970s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical moment and political events,...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days - Interior - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Interior is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and poli...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons
Jean Serpieri
Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Jean Serpieri'
Madame Jean Serpieri sits in the ballroom of the Tour La Reine near Athens, wearing a gown that belonged to the wife of Otto, the first king of modern Greece, Decem...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Penthouse Pool
Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Penthouse Pool'
Young women by the Canellopoulos penthouse pool, Athens, July 1961.
Paper size 20 x 20 inches / 51 x 51 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Equestrian Entrance
Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Equestrian Entrance'
1957 Madame de la Haye-Jousselin on her horse at the gates to her chateau in Normandy.
Paper size 20 x 20 inches / 51 x...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fred Bongusto - Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Fred Bongusto- Vintage Photograph is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Alfredo Antonio Carlo Buongusto (6 April 1935 – 8 November 2019), ...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portraits - Photo- Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portraits is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
Good conditions.
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20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Snowmasss Village
Colorado (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Snowmasss Village'
Women in colourful hats at an apres ski party in Snowmass Village, in Pitkin County, Colorado, in March 1968.
A stylish and fashionable dressed group of skiers...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vintage Photo of Painting - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of Painting is a vintage silver salt photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Photo of 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 except for some discoloration.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Exhibition - Life in Italy - Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Exhibition - Life in Italy in 1960s is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the cultural and artistic events in ...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Kaufmann Desert House - Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Kaufmann Desert House
Set to become another true Slim Aarons Classic - it's better known cousins 'Poolside Gossip' and 'Desert House Party' (also l...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vintage Photo of Painting by F. Gioli - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of Painting by F. Gioli is a vintage photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
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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