Abstract Still-life Photography
ABSTRACT STYLE
Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.
Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.
Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.
Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.
Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.
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Style: Abstract
Path #2 multi color blur abstract floral photo composition
Located in New York, NY
This floral photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century.
Belgian photo...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
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Digital Pigment
Songs For Dead Heroes # 9 abstract pastel color floral landscape photo montage
Located in New York, NY
This pastel color abstract floral landscape photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the ...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
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Digital Pigment
Songs For Dead Heroes # 6 soft color floral abstract landscape photo composition
Located in New York, NY
This abstract floral landscape photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
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Digital Pigment
Everyday Life. Cyanotype
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The photos from the series Let Me Tell You a Story show, each one individually, certain themes through strongly narrative visual units. Each photograph is dedicated to a specific rep...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
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Archival Paper
Bloody Hands. Cyanotype photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The photos from the series Let Me Tell You a Story show, each one individually, certain themes through strongly narrative visual units. Each photograph is dedicated to a specific rep...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
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Archival Paper
The Donkeys. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The exploration of the concept of play as an artistic impulse presents playful, almost "baroque-written"photographs that are the result of a repeated (recycled) notion of play. Start...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
A Fairy and Rabbits. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The exploration of the concept of play as an artistic impulse presents playful, almost "baroque-written"photographs that are the result of a repeated (recycled) notion of play. Start...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Lily in Charcoal
abstract expressionism photography edition of 20
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Lily in Charcoal' 2023
From raw energy to sublime. 'Lily in Charcoal' is an expression piece combining an abstract charcoal drawing with a live lily emerging from a gash. The charc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Photography
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Paper, Photographic Film, Charcoal, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Fish (Stay) - Contemporary, Expired, Polaroid, Photograph
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fish (Stay) - 2006,
20x24cm, Edition 4/5.
Archival C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, matte surface, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and cer...
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Early 2000s Abstract Still-life Photography
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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Changing Moods 8- Floral landscape pink dominant contemporary abstract photo
Located in New York, NY
Belgian photographer Isabelle Menin creates portraits of flowers that are not only gorgeous in form and color, but also uniquely expressive. Fresh blossoms and withering blooms melt ...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
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Photographic Paper
Istan Petal
Oversize Archival Pigment print Framed in white
Located in London, GB
' Istan Petal ' Oversize Archival Pigment print Framed in white
A Bougenvillia petal floats on the surface of a swimming pool.
(photo Stuart Möller)
Archival Pigment Print sign...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
New Rome #7- Floral landscape soft pastel color contemporary photograph framed
Located in New York, NY
This abstract floral landscape photography has dominant pastel blue, pink and white colors.
Belgian photographer Isabelle Menin creates portraits of flowers that are not only gorgeo...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
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Photographic Paper
White Books Photography Fine Art Print Limited Edition
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
The item White Books could be also delivered framed. I like the color, the quietness of the situation when I took the picture. Edition of 15, signed by the...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Photography
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Photographic Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
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Changing Moods 2- Floral landscape orange color contemporary abstract photo
Located in New York, NY
Belgian photographer Isabelle Menin creates portraits of flowers that are not only gorgeous in form and color, but also uniquely expressive. Fresh blossoms and withering blooms melt ...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Song for dead heroes #2 dark color abstract floral landscape photo composition
Located in New York, NY
This abstract floral landscape photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Changing Moods pink 2- Floral landscape pink color contemporary abstract photo
Located in New York, NY
Belgian photographer Isabelle Menin creates portraits of flowers that are not only gorgeous in form and color, but also uniquely expressive. Fresh blossoms and withering blooms melt ...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Eugene 8 - Floral landscape white dominant contemporary abstract color photo
Located in New York, NY
Belgian photographer Isabelle Menin creates portraits of flowers that are not only gorgeous in form and color, but also uniquely expressive. Fresh blossoms and withering blooms melt ...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Lily in Charcoal no.3
abstract expressionism photography edition 5 of 20
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Lily in Charcoal no.3' 2023
From raw energy to sublime. 'Lily in Charcoal No.3' is an expression piece combining an abstract charcoal drawing with a live lily emerging from a gash....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Film, Charcoal, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Song for Dead Heroes #5 bright floral abstract landscape photo
Located in New York, NY
This abstract floral landscape photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Serenity. Cyanotype
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The photos from the series Let Me Tell You a Story show, each one individually, certain themes through strongly narrative visual units. Each photograph is dedicated to a specific rep...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
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Archival Paper
Water element 2 - Signed limited edition abstract pigment print, Blue dark
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Large scale photograph by Michael Banks - Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo RAG Baryta 315 gsm )
Water element 2 - Limited ...
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Early 2000s Abstract Still-life Photography
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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Di...
Water element 3 - Signed limited edition abstract pigment print, sun reflections
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Large scale photograph by Michael Banks - Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo RAG Baryta 315 gsm )
Water element 3 - Limited Editions of 5 , signed + nu...
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Early 2000s Abstract Still-life Photography
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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Di...
A Hippopotamus. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The exploration of the concept of play as an artistic impulse presents playful, almost "baroque-written"photographs that are the result of a repeated (recycled) notion of play. Start...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Doe and Fawn. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The exploration of the concept of play as an artistic impulse presents playful, almost "baroque-written"photographs that are the result of a repeated (recycled) notion of play. Start...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Academy. Cyanotype photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The photos from the series Let Me Tell You a Story show, each one individually, certain themes through strongly narrative visual units. Each photograph is dedicated to a specific rep...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
A Raccoon. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The exploration of the concept of play as an artistic impulse presents playful, almost "baroque-written"photographs that are the result of a repeated (recycled) notion of play. Start...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Deer, Doe, Fawn. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The exploration of the concept of play as an artistic impulse presents playful, almost "baroque-written"photographs that are the result of a repeated (recycled) notion of play. Start...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Wolf. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The exploration of the concept of play as an artistic impulse presents playful, almost "baroque-written"photographs that are the result of a repeated (recycled) notion of play. Start...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Diptych: Bloody Hands and Serenity. Cyanotype photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The photos from the series Let Me Tell You a Story show, each one individually, certain themes through strongly narrative visual units. Each photograph is dedicated to a specific rep...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
"M&M MMDH" Pop Art Photography 40" x 62" inch Edition 1/8 by Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"M&M MMDH" Pop Art Photography 40" x 62" inch Edition 1/8 by Giuliano Bekor
Original fine art photography by Giuliano Bekor
Signed and numbered by the artist
Comes with COA issu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Metal
A Dinosaur Lake. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The exploration of the concept of play as an artistic impulse presents playful, almost "baroque-written"photographs that are the result of a repeated (recycled) notion of play. Start...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
A Homestead. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The exploration of the concept of play as an artistic impulse presents playful, almost "baroque-written"photographs that are the result of a repeated (recycled) notion of play. Start...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
A Tortoise. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The exploration of the concept of play as an artistic impulse presents playful, almost "baroque-written"photographs that are the result of a repeated (recycled) notion of play. Start...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Horse and Apples. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The exploration of the concept of play as an artistic impulse presents playful, almost "baroque-written"photographs that are the result of a repeated (recycled) notion of play. Start...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
A Mouse. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The exploration of the concept of play as an artistic impulse presents playful, almost "baroque-written"photographs that are the result of a repeated (recycled) notion of play. Start...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
I Jump Over Obstacles, 2025. Cyanotype photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The photos from the series Let Me Tell You a Story show, each one individually, certain themes through strongly narrative visual units. Each photograph is dedicated to a specific rep...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
A Badger. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The exploration of the concept of play as an artistic impulse presents playful, almost "baroque-written"photographs that are the result of a repeated (recycled) notion of play. Start...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Fairy, 2025. Cyanotype photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The photos from the series Let Me Tell You a Story show, each one individually, certain themes through strongly narrative visual units. Each photograph is dedicated to a specific rep...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Friends, 2025. Cyanotype photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The photos from the series Let Me Tell You a Story show, each one individually, certain themes through strongly narrative visual units. Each photograph is dedicated to a specific rep...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
A Panda. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The exploration of the concept of play as an artistic impulse presents playful, almost "baroque-written"photographs that are the result of a repeated (recycled) notion of play. Start...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Eugene 7 - Floral landscape white dominant contemporary abstract color photo
Located in New York, NY
Belgian photographer Isabelle Menin creates portraits of flowers that are not only gorgeous in form and color, but also uniquely expressive. Fresh blossoms and withering blooms melt ...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
A Tiger. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The exploration of the concept of play as an artistic impulse presents playful, almost "baroque-written"photographs that are the result of a repeated (recycled) notion of play. Start...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
A Horse. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The exploration of the concept of play as an artistic impulse presents playful, almost "baroque-written"photographs that are the result of a repeated (recycled) notion of play. Start...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Bears. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The exploration of the concept of play as an artistic impulse presents playful, almost "baroque-written"photographs that are the result of a repeated (recycled) notion of play. Start...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Trip to Egypt. Cyanotype
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The photos from the series Let Me Tell You a Story show, each one individually, certain themes through strongly narrative visual units. Each photograph is dedicated to a specific rep...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
The Horse and Reptile Eye. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The exploration of the concept of play as an artistic impulse presents playful, almost "baroque-written"photographs that are the result of a repeated (recycled) notion of play. Start...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Lions. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The exploration of the concept of play as an artistic impulse presents playful, almost "baroque-written"photographs that are the result of a repeated (recycled) notion of play. Start...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
A Fox. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The exploration of the concept of play as an artistic impulse presents playful, almost "baroque-written"photographs that are the result of a repeated (recycled) notion of play. Start...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
A Fox on a Rock. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The exploration of the concept of play as an artistic impulse presents playful, almost "baroque-written"photographs that are the result of a repeated (recycled) notion of play. Start...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Lily in Charcoal
abstract expressionism photography edition 4 of 20
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Lily in Charcoal' 2023
From raw energy to sublime. 'Lily in Charcoal' is an expression piece combining an abstract charcoal drawing with a live lily emerging from a gash. The charc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Film, Charcoal, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Agave - monochrome abstraction, from limited edition of 20
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
Black and white fine art photograph capturing the sculptural elegance of an agave plant. The interplay of light and shadow emphasizes the organic geometry of the plant’s serrated edg...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Photography
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Giclée
Songs For Dead Heroes # 9 abstract pastel color floral landscape photo montage
Located in New York, NY
This pastel color abstract floral landscape photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
The Blue Fire Bird. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The exploration of the concept of play as an artistic impulse presents playful, almost "baroque-written"photographs that are the result of a repeated (recycled) notion of play. Start...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Lily in Charcoal no.2
abstract expressionism photography edition of 20
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Lily in Charcoal no.2' 2023
From raw energy to sublime. 'Lily in Charcoal No.2' is an expression piece combining an abstract charcoal drawing with a live lily emerging from a gash....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Film, Charcoal, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Shadow of Her Former Self
By David Sokosh
Located in Hudson, NY
Shadow of Her Former Self
Photograph of Found Objects Printed in Cyanotype
Panel is 10 x 8 inches, 12 x 10 inches framed
Wire backing, ready to hang
Signed, verso (lower right)
Sok...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
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Other Medium
Lenka. Cyanotype photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The photos from the series Let Me Tell You a Story show, each one individually, certain themes through strongly narrative visual units. Each photograph is dedicated to a specific rep...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Eugene 3- Floral landscape white dominant contemporary abstract color photo
Located in New York, NY
Belgian photographer Isabelle Menin creates portraits of flowers that are not only gorgeous in form and color, but also uniquely expressive. Fresh blossoms and withering blooms melt ...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
1977 "Boat, Barn, Truck" Still Life Black
White Photograph
Located in Arp, TX
Tricia Sample
Boat, Barn, Truck
1977
Matte black and white photo
12.5" x9.5" Frame measures 16.25"x19.25"
Gallery label on reverse from the Friends of Photography Gallery
Friends of Photography was a nonprofit organization started by Ansel Adams and others in 1967 to promote photography as a fine art. During its existence the organization held at least 330 photography exhibitions at its galleries in Carmel and San Francisco, California, and it published a lengthy series of monographs under the name Untitled. Among those who were featured in their exhibitions and publications were well-known photographers Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Ruth Bernhard, Harry Callahan, Roy DeCarava, Lee Friedlander, Emmet Gowin, Mary Ellen Mark, Barbara Morgan, Aaron Siskind, Paul Strand, Brett Weston, Edward Weston and Minor White, as well as then newly starting photographers such as Marsha Burns, William Garnett, Richard Misrach...
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1970s Abstract Still-life Photography
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Photographic Paper
Bowl of Cherries (Contemporary Blue and White Cyanotype Still Life Photo)
By David Sokosh
Located in Hudson, NY
Bowl of Cherries
Contemporary Still Life Cyanotype Photograph of a bowl of cherries
Image is 20 x 16 inches, paper size is 24 x 18 inches, ed of 5
Unframed
David Sokosh is a storyteller with a unique ability to internalize, synthesize, and recollect. If one of his tenderly photographed stills lifes was a tiny window into the workings of his mind, then on the other side you would discover a trove of collected treasures. Vintage teacups...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
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Archival Paper
Cuts
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Cuts'
London, United Kingdom 2022
Limited edition of 20.
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Film, Photographic Paper
Abstract still-life photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract still-life 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 still-life 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, red, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Isabelle Menin, Michael Banks, Lucille Khornak, and Stuart Möller. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Photographic 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 Abstract still-life photography, so small editions measuring 0.5 inches across are also available. Prices for still-life 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 $187 and tops out at $14,600, while the average work sells for $3,107.