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
Brooklyn One, NY, 2009
By Bill Phelps
Located in Hudson, NY
The Robin Rice Gallery announces the new exhibition VISITOR by photographer Bill Phelps.
Through light and shadow, a gaze, a mindset, Bill Phelps fourth solo show at the Robin Rice ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Madame Gilles and her Husband - Vintage Photo - 1935
Located in Roma, IT
Madame Gilles and her Husband is a black and white photo realized in 1935 ca.
The artwork is depicted in a well-balanced composition.
Good Conditions.
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Photograph Cibachrome 1981 Beijing China Lingerie Shop Color Photo Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Mat measures 20 X 26 sight measures 13 X 19.5 This one has no mat.
Mark Abrahamson is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1944. Mark completed a BA at Whitman...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
Lake Tahoe Trip 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lake Tahoe Trip 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Young women canoeing on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, 1959.
40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Cadillac at the Carlton Hotel
Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A Cadillac with Florida plates parked outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, circa 1955, printed later.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Giulietta Masina - Golden Age of Italian Cinema - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Giulietta Masina - Golden Period of Italian Cinema is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Giulietta Masina is considered one of the best It...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Curling At St. Moritz 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Curling At St. Moritz 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Curlers on a rink, or curling sheet, in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
20 x 16" inches / 51 x 41 cm paper size
Estate...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marina Piccola 1954 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marina Piccola 1954 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Canzone del Mare at the Marina Piccola, Capri, Italy, 1954.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection E...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Deck Dwellers 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Deck Dwellers 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
General view looking down on sunbathers on the deck of the yacht ‘Traveler II’, off the coast of Exuma in the Bahamas, April 1967.
3...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons
Polo Prince
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
August 1985: Prince Charles playing polo for the 'Diables Blues' at Cowdray Park in Sussex.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Terry O
Neill,
Elton John, Dodger Stadium
Located in New York, NY
Elton John and his Airplane, Los Angeles, CA
1975 (printed latter)
C-print
Posthumous estate signature stamped edition of 50 with certificate of authenticity
Wearing a custom LA Do...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
The Actor Cary Grant - Vintage Photo - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Lightly damaged (Folds on the angles).
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Art Museums in The U.S. - Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Art Museums in The U.S. - 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 C...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Arch - Vintage Photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Arch is an original Vintage b/w photograph after a painting of the late 19th Century realized in the Early 20th Century.
Good conditions.
The artwork represents the master of t...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Beach Samba, New York
Located in Hudson, NY
Edition #8/15
This is the framed price listed. The photograph is also available unframed in the two additional editioned paper sizes listed.
In her most recent collection of photo...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore
Located in New York, NY
Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore, 1964
Silver gelatin print
Signed and numbered edition of 50
English actress Honor Blackman on a beach, circa 1964. Splashes on the surf, in Miami ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Snowmass Picnic - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snowmass Picnic - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
A stand-up fondue picnic for fashionable skiers at Snowmass-at-Aspen, Colorado which has more than fifty miles of trails and snowfields....
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bowling - American Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bowling - 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 Century.
With th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Giulietta Masina - Golden Age of Italian Cinema - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Giulietta Masina - Golden Period of Italian Cinema is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 20th Century.
Good conditions.
Giulietta Masina is considered one of the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Giulietta Masina - Golden Age of Italian Cinema - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Giulietta Masina - Golden Age of Italian Cinema is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Giulietta Masina is ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Functional Art- American Vintage Photograph - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Functional Art- American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th century in a series of America...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Low-Cost Vacations for American Wage Earners - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Low-Cost Vacations for American Wage Earners- 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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Middle-Class Family - American Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Middle-class Family- 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 Centur...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Fighting Police, Historical Photograph - Mid-20 Century
Located in Roma, IT
The fighting Police, Historical Photograph is an original vintage photograph realized by an Anonymous photographer.
With the stamp of copyright ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Leonard Bernstein - Original B/W Photograph - Early 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Leonard Bernstein is a beautiful black and white vintage photo portraying Leonard Bernstein, most likely in the early 1980s.
In good conditions.
The famous American con...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Exercises and Female Games during Fascism in Italy- Vintage b/w Photo - 1934 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo from the Fascist period. Photo by Studio Gherlone, Torino.
Very good condition.
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ormond Gigli
Girls in the Windows
By Ormond Gigli
Located in New York, NY
Ormond Gigli
Girls in the Window, 1960 (printed later)
Color coupler print
44 x 44 inches
Signed, dated and numbered edition 22/45
Ormond Gigli: The Visionary Behind the "Girls in...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Large Vintage Print Silver Gelatin Signed Photograph Terminal Patient Bird Cover
Located in Surfside, FL
Man in Wheel Chair , Titled Terminal patient, Bird Cover
Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off-B...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Women
s Rights Movement - Historical Photo -1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Women's Rights - 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 r...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
La Parabola de los Ciegos, Brueghel
By Lluis Barba
Located in Atlanta, GA
Lluis Barba’s epic, digitally manipulated images juxtapose iconic paintings from art history with photographs of modern tourists, celebrities, spectators of varied economic backgroun...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Photographic Paper
Dining Al Fresco On Capri (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Italian artist and actress Domiziana Giordano, Italian author Francesca Sanvitale (1928 - 2011), Dino Trappetti and Umberto Terrelli dining al fresco on a terrace overlooking the wat...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
The 17th-century Ishak Pasha Palace, Province, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey 1988
Located in Cologne, DE
The photo showcases the historic Ishak Pasha Palace (İshak Paşa Sarayı), built in the 17th century near Doğubeyazıt in the province of Ağrı, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey. The image, like...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color
Catherine Wilke
Capri (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Catherine Wilke'
Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers on the island of Capri, 1980.
Gorgeous print measuring a large 30 x 20 inches / ca 76 x 51 cm's.
Estate Stamped C...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Verbier View
Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiers admire the view across a valley of clouds at Verbier, 1964.
Verbier View
1963
C-Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authentic...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Phil Hill, Ferrari. 1561F2, Nurburgring, Germany
Located in Denton, TX
No Edition
Signed in black ink on print margin by Jesse Alexander
Gelatin silver print
Paper size: 14 x 11 in. Image size: 9 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.
"Soon-to-be World Champion Phil Hill is in his first Grand Prix drive for Ferrari. The car is a single seater Formula Two machine, and he is seen rushing downhill through the infamous "Fuchsröhre" section of the Ring. The image is unusual for several reasons: it was taken with a Rolleiflex camera...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
A Midsummer Night
s Dream
By Bert Stern
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an offset photolithograph, originally shot by Bert Stern in 1967, and printed at a later date. It was photographed for the New York City Ballet production by George Ballachine, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" starring Arthur Mitchell...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Nice Pool 1955 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped 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 ocean...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Cannes Watersports at the Carlton
Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Holidaymakers waterskiing from the pier of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958.
Cannes Watersports at the Carlton
1958
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with cert...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Snowmass Picnic - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snowmass Picnic - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
A stand-up fondue picnic for fashionable skiers at Snowmass-at-Aspen, Colorado which has more than fifty miles of trails and snowfields....
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
El Venero 1967 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
El Venero 1967
El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
North By North West
Located in London, GB
NORTH BY NORTHWEST, Cary Grant, 1959/ Everett Collection.
A beautiful archival pigment print -
Large 20 x 16" inches / 51 x 41 cm's
(paper size)
(The Everett Collection )
...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Barbados Bliss 1976 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Barbados Bliss 1976 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Ava Marshall relaxes with a book amongst the bougainvillea in Barbados, 1976
16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm paper size
Estate Stamp...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Verbier Skier 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Verbier Skier 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
A blonde skier on the slopes at Verbier, February 1964.
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ocean Club 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Ocean Club 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Versailles Gardens at the Ocean Club, Nassau with terraced steps leading from a swimming pool to a 14th century French cloisters.
20 x ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2006
By Bill Phelps
Located in Hudson, NY
The Robin Rice Gallery announces the new exhibition VISITOR by photographer Bill Phelps.
Through light and shadow, a gaze, a mindset, Bill Phelps fourth solo show at the Robin Rice ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Three Boys on a Swing, Pitt St. N.Y. - Black and White Photograph, Children
Located in Denton, TX
Three Boys on a Swing, Pitt St. N.Y. by Walter Rosenblum is a black and white photograph documenting three children playing on a swing set in a city park.
Gelatin Silver Print
10.5 ...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Children - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Children - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph of the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Photograph Cibachrome Tibetan Monk Chengdu China Portrait Photo Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Mat measures 20 X 26 sight measures 13 X 19.5
Mark Abrahamson is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1944. Mark completed a BA at Whitman College in Walla Wa...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
Vintage Signed Silver Gelatin Photograph Beat Poet Peter Orlovsky Beatnik Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Peter Orlovsky reads poem disrobed at Judson Memorial Church. Behind him is Allen Ginsberg - December 6th, 1964. (by Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village, New York City.)
Phot...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ormond Gigli
Girls in the Windows
By Ormond Gigli
Located in New York, NY
Ormond Gigli
Girls in the Window, 1960 (printed later)
Color coupler print
37 x 37 inches
AP 4/8
Signed, numbered and dated by the artist
Ormond Gigli: The Visionary Behind the "Gir...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Hamptons Tennis Club 1955 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
The Hamptons 1955
by Toni Frissell
Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
A scene at a tennis club in The Hamptons USA 1955.
30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size
Archival...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Beggars Banquet Classic" Photography 24" x 20" in Ed. 4/30 by Michael Joseph
Located in Culver City, CA
"Beggars Banquet Classic" Photography 24" x 20" in Ed. 4/30 by Michael Joseph
Medium: C-Print
Comes in black frame
Size framed: 29 x 28 inch
Michael Joseph is a photographer best k...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Mini Car Mini Skirt 1966 Brigitte Bardot Giant Oversize by Michael Webb
By Michael Webb
Located in London, GB
"Mini Car Mini Skirt" 1966
by Michael Webb
Brigitte Bardot during a break from filming, 'Two Weeks in September' in Whitehall, 1960's Swinging London. Leaning against a mini she is ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White
Slim Aarons
Christmas Swim
(Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, on a lilo in a swimming pool decorated for Christmas, Hollywood, 1954. The Hollywood sign can be seen in the distance.
Estate stamped...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
The Temple of Dawn II, Bangkok, Thailand
Located in New York, NY
The Temple of Dawn II, Bangkok, Thailand
1957
Archival pigment print
Edition of 5
Estate stamped, signed and numbered by Andrea Derujinsky with certificate of authenticity
The entir...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rodeo
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 60
Signed and numbered in pencil on verso.
Harold “Doc” Edgerton was born in 1903, in Fremont, Nebraska. During his summers as a teenager, he worked in his uncle’s photo studio. After high school, Edgerton went on to MIT where he would earn his PhD in electrical engineering...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Medieval Column - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Medieval Column- 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
Kennedy, Family Sailing Nantucket Sound, 1959
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
JFK with Extended Family Sailing nb_041a -- The Kennedy Family sailing on Nantucket Sound. Image size is 10" x 15" (for 11" x 17" paper size). All Mark...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Giclée
Slim Aarons
Lake Tahoe Couple
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A couple at a swimming pool near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959. The line on the bottom of the pool marks the state line between Nevada and California.
Estate stamped and hand numbere...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
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