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Art Subject: Nature
Phragmites Panorama, black and white, long exposure, waterscape, photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Phragmites Panorama Study 1, Hungary - no. 18106 // Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography.
Archival pigment ink prin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
ALJ #7- abstract floral still life contemporary landscape color photography
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. With multiplied ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
June Breeze (hand-printed botanical cyanotype, 18 x 36 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This long narrow monotype was made by carefully arranging hundreds of individual blades of fresh-cut native Californian wild grass. The species of tall marsh grass is called Gray Rus...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
$480 Sale Price
20% Off
Misty Agapanthus 3 ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. This is a cyanotype, a kind of lensless photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist altered the ratio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
$240 Sale Price
20% Off
Red Sky
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered, verso
20 x 24 inches
30 x 40 inches
40 x 53 inches
(Total edition of 15)
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Please note that prices increase as editions sell.
In 1999, Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber transplanted themselves to New York City, bringing an urban feel to their photos. In the series, "Some Other Place" (2000-2002), neighborhood sidewalks, city parks, and forays into the wilderness were reconstructed, but with a darker sensibility than their earlier series. Nix and Gerber’s subdued color palette and increasingly complex compositions also reflect this change.
Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber have been making art collaboratively for over sixteen years. Originally from the American Midwest, now based in Brooklyn, they construct meticulously detailed model environments and photograph the results. For the last decade they have found inspiration in their urban surroundings, imagining a future mysteriously devoid of mankind. Their miniature fake landscapes and interiors reflect a love of science fiction and dystopian entertainment (think “Blade Runner,” “Planet of the Apes,” “Logan’s Run...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Flowering Eucalyptus III ( 30 x 21.5 inch hand-printed botanical cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though this may look like a woodcut or screen print, it is a kind of photography. Cyanotypes are a 19th century alternative (cameraless) photographic process. This monotype was print...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Misty Agapanthus Diptych ( Two 24 x 18" cyanotypes)
Located in Oakland, CA
Although these look like screen prints or woodcuts, they are a form of 19th-century photography, cyanotypes. The normal color is dark blue. However, this unique celadon color that ca...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
$400 Sale Price
20% Off
Botanic Garden Palm Leaves, Handmade Tropical Still Life Cyanotype in Blue
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype of a beautiful palm leave.
Details:
+ Title: Tropical Palm Branches
+ Year: 2024
+ Edition Size: 20
+ Stamped and Certificate of Authenticity provided
+ Measurements : 70x100 cm (28x 40 in.), a standard frame size
+ All cyanotype prints are made on high-quality Italian watercolor paper
* Frame is for illustrative purposes only. Artwork shipped carefully rolled and packaged in a tube.
WHAT IS A CYANOTYPE?
The cyanotype (a.k.a. sun-print) process is one of the oldest in the history of photography, dating back to the 1840's.
Cyanotypes were then made famous by Anna Atkins, considered the first female photographer. Inspired by nature, we feel the need to look back at a craft that is handmade, analogue, and using an all-natural light source: the sun.
Our cyanotypes are made by coating high-quality Italian watercolor paper with a light-sensitive emulsion. We then expose it in direct sunlight for several minutes using a photo negative to get the best image quality. Finally, the print is washed and fixed with water to stop the reaction and prevent fading.
What you get is an amazing, royal blue image...
Category
2010s Baroque Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Monotype, Handmade Paper
Botanical Garden
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered, verso
40 x 52 inches
48 x 65 inches
(Total edition of 15)
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Please note tha...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Long beach - black and white coastal photography, limited edition of 10
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Long beach'
Embark on a serene journey to the West Coast with this evocative 4x5 analogue black and white film photograph, offering a glimpse of Long Beach in San Francisco.
Captu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Misty Agapanthus 2 ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. This is a cyanotype, a kind of lensless photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist altered the ratio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
$240 Sale Price
20% Off
June Wild Grass (hand-printed botanical cyanotype, 18 x 36 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This long narrow monotype was made by carefully arranging hundreds of individual blades of fresh-cut native Californian wild grass. The species of tall marsh grass is called Gray Rus...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
$440 Sale Price
26% Off
Water No.2 - water light flare photography, Limited edition of 10
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Water No.2' 2022
From a limited edition of 10.
Printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag fine art paper.
The photograph is signed front and back and comes with a Certificate of Authenticit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Giclée
Vintage Pressed Flowers in Blue, Botanical Nordic Style, Traditional Cyanotype
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
Details:
+ Title: Vintage Pressed Flowers Nº1
+ Year: 2021
+ Edition Size: 20
+ St...
Category
2010s Baroque Still-life Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Other Medium, Monotype
Green Willow II (24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. This is a cyanotype, a kind of lensless photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist altered the ratio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
$280 Sale Price
20% Off
Foggy Iris Diptych (two 24 x 18" cyanotypes)
Located in Oakland, CA
NOTE: It is impossible to buy this pair of works and ALSO the very similar "Foggy Iris Triptych" because two of the works in the triptych are these two here. The price is lower for p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Midnight Magnolia Triptych (Three 24 x 18 inch cyanotypes)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are three separate 24 x 18-inch hand-printed photographs using the 170-year-old cyanotype process.
Unframed, side by side, they span 24 x 54 inches”.
Once matted and framed ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
$680 Sale Price
20% Off
Midnight Magnolia Diptych (Two 24 x 18 inch cyanotypes)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are two 24 x 18-inch hand-printed photographs using the 170-year-old cyanotype process. They are actually negatives (a reversal of the dark and light tones) of the original pho...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
$480 Sale Price
20% Off
Celadon Agapanthus (16 x 12 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. This is a cyanotype, a kind of lensless photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist altered the ratio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Spring Clover I (hand-printed botanical cyanotype, 14 x 24 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This long narrow blue and white monotype was made by carefully arranging hundreds of individual flowers of fresh-cut Dutch clover growing wild. This unique print is the same size as ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Cali 180722-125 (Americana, California, Desert, Palm Trees, 40% OFF LIST PRICE)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Lord Fauntleroy
Cali 180722-125
Pigment Print
Year: 2018
Visible Size: 13 x 13 inches
Framed: 20.5 x 20.5 inches
Signed: On Label
Edition: 7
COA provided
*White frame with standard ...
Category
2010s American Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Pigment
Misty Poppies (20 x 14 inch cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are the silhouettes of the native Californian Matilija Poppy also known as giant tree poppies and Coulter's Poppy. They grow over 4 feet tall and appear each year in summer. Al...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Misty Evening Poppies (20 x 14 inch cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are the silhouettes of the native Californian Matilija Poppy also known as giant tree poppies and Coulter's Poppy. They grow over 4 feet tall and appear each year in summer.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
$160 Sale Price
20% Off
Nest IV
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Portraits of found nests. Price includes frame.
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
White Horse in Moonlight
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Evening
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Picture done during a nostalgic evening. Could be also delivered framed, smaller size as well, price upon request, signed by the author. Limited to 5.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$186 Sale Price
83% Off
Misty June Wildflowers ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
The flowers use in this unique monotype are called Coronaria Alba in Latin or by their common name Rose Campion. They grow 2 feet tall with velvety gray-green leaves and white petals...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
$240 Sale Price
20% Off
Green Willow I (24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. This is a cyanotype, a kind of lensless photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist altered the ratio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
$280 Sale Price
20% Off
ALJ #7- abstract floral still life contemporary landscape color photography
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. With multiplied ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Bay Laurel Diptych (Hand-printed cyanotype, 40 x 52 inches combined)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are two separate 40 x 26 inch cyanotypes (unique monotypes) made using the same tree branches flipped over facing the opposite direction, the result being a symmetrical mirror ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Monotype, Photogram, Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper
Silver Eucalyptus Diptych (two 24 x 18" cyanotypes)
Located in Oakland, CA
The pale gray-green of this pair of monotypes calls to mind the celadon glaze of Japanese pottery. Each was made using freshly-cut branches from eucalyptus trees which grow in the w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Four Agapanthus Flowers ( 30 x 22 inch hand-printed botanical cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Agapanthus are also known as "The Lily of the Nile". The crisp silhouettes of the giant agapanthus blooms were hand-printed using living fresh cut agapanthus flowers from the artist'...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Meyer’s Ranch
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Titled and dated with artists reference number and stamped on the back of the mount and signed by Cole Weston. This piece was loaned to Art in Embassies...
Category
1930s Still-life Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Deep Inside III #1, 2018 - Limited Edition Giclee Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Deep Inside III #1 is a Giclée Print on Cotton paper print which is available in this size in a limited edition of 10 + 2 Artist Proofs.
Capturing the limpid liquid forms of water ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color
Camel Graffiti - American Desert Landscape Photography
By Morgan Silk
Located in Brighton, GB
Camel Graffiti is an archival inkjet print by contemporary photographer Morgan Silk.
Camel Graffiti by Morgan Silk is available in this size of 17" x 24" in a limited edition of 25...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Inkjet
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...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Di...
Dives Blue Whale - Signed limited nature fine art print, Color underwater photo
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Dives Blue Whale - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 2018 - Edition of 5
Sri Lanka - One second in the blue….
This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm , Acid-free and lignin-free paper, Museum quality paper for highest age resistance and a popular alternative to analogue baryta paper). The inks used are also known for their longevity.
Signed + numbered by artist with certificate of authenticity.
Archival pigment print available sizes ( Image size , the white margin is not counted) :
50 x 75 cm / 19,68 x 29,52 in. - Edition of 5
70 x 105 cm / 27,55 x 41,33 in - Edition of 5
Olivier Borde...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Moonlight Magnolia (8.5 x 11" hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a hand-printed photograph using the 170-year-old cyanotype process. This is a negative (reversal of the dark and light tones) of the original photograph of a branch of a magn...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Cloud Mural
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This grand mural unveils a mesmerizing Baroque-style etching that commands attention with its celestial drama. The expansive sky serves as a vast canvas, adorned with flowing circula...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Renaissance Still-life Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Ink
"The Abby Garden", Penzance, Cornwall, UK, 2010
By Robin Rice
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition 1 of 20.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Day and Night Forest Diptych (Two 18 x 24 inch cyanotypes)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are two 18 x 24-inch hand-printed photographs of the fog in early morning light in the woods in northern California near San Francisco using the antique cyanotype process. Thei...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
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 Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
"XXX" Southern, trees, landscape, dark, nocturne, light photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
This listing is for an unframed print.
Born in Buffalo, NY, Atlanta-based photographer Shannon Davis has lived in the South longer than anywhere else. She’s asked locals, “How long ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sunflowers by Jan Van Leeuwen, 1995, Cyanotype, Still Life Photography
Located in Denton, TX
Sunflowers by Jan Van Leeuwen presents two sunflowers, slightly dried and wilted, bathed in a deep saturated blue.
Sunflowers by Jan Van Leeuwen is a 16 x 12 inch cyanotype print. ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Other Medium
STILL LIFE by Hans Withoos
By Hans Withoos
Located in New York City, NY
HANS WITHOOS (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
STILL LIFE
40 x 60 inches - Edition of 9
Fine art inkjet print on special paper rag, on Dibond
Mounted and Framed
Hans Withoos career s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Horse in winter by Hans Withoos
By Hans Withoos
Located in New York City, NY
Fine art inkjet print on special paper rag
Ask us for framing options
Hans Withoos career spans more than twenty years worldwide. After graduating from the Art Academy. He specializ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Color, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Pigeons Photography Black and White, Photographic-paper, Signed
By Karol Kallay
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Signed, Karol Kállay, black&white photography, done in Bratislava, probably in the 50ies/60ies.
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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 Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Contemporary minimalist still-life photo on premium paper "Glass by the blue"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary minimalist still-life image, documenting a fleeting moment of calm, was taken by French artist Natalya Mougenot during her journey through Italy. A single glass of ...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Reeds
. Blue white shore ocean beach cottage minimalist nature drawing
Located in Penzance, GB
'Omvetya IV (Reeds, Winter's Morn)'
Original Artwork. Unframed
______________
Crisp winter shadows, cast over weather and sea worn stone, the reeds are whispering softly in the morn...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Photogram
Silverton, Colorado
By Ansel Adams
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed and numbered on the front of the mount by Ansel Adams. Stamped and titled on the back of the mount. From Portolio VI-4; 55/110. Printed in 1974.
Category
1970s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Mission 16th and Dolores, San Francisco in Jell-O
By Liz Hickok
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"I create glowing, jellied scale models of urban sites, transforming ordinary physical surroundings into something unexpected and ephemeral. Lit from below, the molded shapes of the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
C Print
Misty Agapanthus ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. This is a cyanotype, a kind of lensless photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist altered the ratio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
Botanical Composition Cyanotype of Vintage Pressed Flowers, White and Blue
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
Details:
+ Title: Vintage Pressed Flowers Nº2
+ Year: 2023
+ Edition Size: 20
+ Stamped and Certificate of Authenticity p...
Category
2010s Baroque Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Monotype
Camelback Mountain, Scottsdale in Jell-O
By Liz Hickok
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"I create glowing, jellied scale models of urban sites, transforming ordinary physical surroundings into something unexpected and ephemeral. Lit from below, the molded shapes of the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Rooting - black and white still life photography, limited edition of 20
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
Rooting explores the quiet persistence of life as climbing plants stretch and anchor themselves against a textured wall. The fine tendrils of the roots, illuminated by soft light, cr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bounty
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered, verso
42 x 25 inches
50 x 32 inches
70 x 40 inches
84 x 48 inches
(Total edition of 15)
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Please note that prices increase as editions sell.
With the series, "Lost" (2003-2004), Nix and Gerber continue their investigation of the constructed landscape, this time examining feelings of isolation and loneliness. Like much of their previous work, this group of photographs...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled - Contemporary, Photograph, 21st Century
By Josey Cary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled
2019, 20x24cm, Edition of 1/10.
Digital C-Print based a Polaroid Film and Fire.
Hand-signed and numbered by the artist on the back with Certificate.
Not mounted.
Josey Car...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
La Défense 1 - Signed limited edition architectural print, Black white, City Paris
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
La Défense 1 - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 2004 - Edition of 5
This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gs...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment, Giclée, Pigment, Phot...
Homage to Wilson A. Bentley #4
By Yuji Obata
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes framing, free shipping and 14-day returns.
Yuji Obata
Homage to Wilson A. Bentley #4, 2005 - 2006
19 x 13 inch archival pigment print
Edition 3 of 10
Signed and editioned on verso
*Please note there is some wear and tear on the frame as noted in the additional images. The listing is priced accordingly. If you would like the piece to be reframed please contact us and we will provide a discounted rate with our framer here in New York or at our Los Angeles location.
Yuji Obata was born in Japan in 1962. He attended the Nihon University College of Art and currently resides in Tokyo. He has won numerous photography prizes in Japan, and his work was first shown outside of Japan in 2010 with Danziger Projects at Pulse Miami.
In 2003, Obata was compelled to photograph winter scenes in Japan as he stood in front of Pieter Bruegel's painting "The Hunters in the Snow" in Vienna's Museum of Art History. Upon returning to Japan, he traveled to the country's northernmost island, Hokkaidō, known for its cold and snowy winters. As he worked there photographing ice skaters at a middle school rink and a local speed skating team, his enchantment with images of winter deepened. Traveling around different regions of the island in winter, he began noticing the varied qualities of the snow itself, and finally became fascinated with the unique challenge of photographing snowflakes.
Obata drew inspiration from the story and works of W.A. Bentley, an American farmer and photographer who adapted a camera and microscope to photograph a single snow crystal for the first time in 1885. Bentley went on to photograph more than 5,000 snowflakes in his lifetime, and his technique was so successful that it continues to be used today.
Like Bentley, Obata was obsessed with the challenge of doing something no one had done before – in his case photographing snowflakes in freefall rather than on a flat surface without digital or any other manipulation. It took Obata five years to achieve but his breakthrough resulted in the capture of pictures that allow the snowflakes to relate to each other in space and size, creating dynamic compositions and scenes. Obata chose the location to shoot the series, in the mountains of Hokkaidō, based on its history as the place where Dr. Ukichiro Nakaya did research that led to his invention of artificial snow.
His most recent book "Wintertale" gathers his photographs of winter...
Category
Early 2000s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
