Abstract 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
Magnetic radiation 01 (Abstract photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Magnetic radiation 01 (Abstract photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Magnetic Radiation series, Janiak reveals the hidden world of magnetism by photographing ferrofl...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Gravity - Liquid 21 (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Gravity - Liquid 21 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Gravity Liquid series, Janiak creates visual representations of the idea that form cannot exist wi...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Morphogenetic field - AB negative blood (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Morphogenetic field - AB negative blood (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Morphogenetic fields series, Janiak examines the visible manifestation of the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Dissolve #201901 (Abstract photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 4.5mm Matt Plexiglas - Unframed
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hanging system + keyhole option.
Edition: 1/3 + AP
Paul Snell combines traditional ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Syd # 33.85S_151.16E (Abstract Photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Syd # 33.85S_151.16E (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 4.5mm Plexiglas - Unframed.
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hanging system + keyhole option.
Available on...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Intersect # 201801
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 4.5mm Plexiglas - Unframed.
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hanging system + keyhole option.
Available on request 5-6 week turnaround.
Edition: 2/3.
...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Gravity - Liquid 58 (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Gravity - Liquid 58 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Gravity Liquid series, Janiak creates visual representations of the idea that form cannot exist wi...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled 201 (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 201 (Abstract Photography)
C print - Unframed.
Richard Caldicott is most well known for this earlier work series which used Tupperware containers as the subject for his ph...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Magnetic radiation 02 (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Magnetic radiation 02 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Magnetic radiation series, Janiak reveals the hidden world of magnetism by photographing ferrofl...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Hover # 201913 (Abstract photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Hover # 201913 (Abstract photography)
Chromogenic Print face-mounted 3mm matt plexiglas - Unframed.
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hanging system + keyhole option.
Available on ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Gravity - Liquid 02 (Large) (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Gravity - Liquid 02 (Large) (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Gravity, Liquid series, Janiak creates visual representations of the idea that form cannot...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Magnetic radiation 14 (Large) (Abstract photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Magnetic radiation 14 (Large) (Abstract photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Magnetic Radiation series, Janiak reveals the hidden world of magnetism by photographing...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Loops 1 (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Loops 1 (Abstract photography)
Black and white photogram. Unframed.
Tenesh Webber is a Canadian artist who works in abstract black and white photography. She lives and works in the...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Black and White, Photogram
EM-46 Ratnasambhava (Abstract Photography)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
EM-46 Ratnasambhava (Abstract Photography)
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Each work in the series began its evolution as a scanned image of a Buddhist thangka—a spiritual painting of a Buddhist deity—which was then blurred and stretched until all that remained was a distilled image of color and form. These reduced images were then printed onto canvases, resulting in what Kane refers to as elemental “representations of the light bodies of the Buddhas.”
Bill Kane...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
Trace # 201904 (Abstract photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Trace # 201904 (Abstract photography)
Chromogenic Print face-mounted 3mm matt plexiglas - Unframed.
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hanging system + keyhole option.
Available on ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
View (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
View (Abstract Photography)
Unique - Photography/painting, mixed media - Unframed. Signed by the Artist at the back.
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
Artworks are of the highest a...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Wood Panel
Gravity - Liquid 51 (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Gravity - Liquid 51 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 2/2.
In his Gravity Liquid series, Janiak creates visual representations of the idea that form cannot exist wi...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled 153 (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 153 (Abstract photography)
C print - Unframed.
Richard Caldicott is most well known for this earlier work series which used Tupperware containers as the subject for his ph...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Magnetic radiation 14 (Medium) (Abstract photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Magnetic radiation 14 (Medium) (Abstract photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5
In his Magnetic Radiation series, Janiak reveals the hidden world of magnetism by photographing...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
EMDL-6 (Abstract Photography)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
EMDL-6 (Abstract Photography)
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of ph...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
EM-3 Vajrayogini (Abstract Photography)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
EM-3 Vajrayogini (Abstract Photography)
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Each work in the series began its evolution as a scanned image of a Buddhist thangka—a spiritual painting of a Buddhist deity—which was then blurred and stretched until all that remained was a distilled image of color and form. These reduced images were then printed onto canvases, resulting in what Kane refers to as elemental “representations of the light bodies of the Buddhas.”
Bill Kane...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
$6,933 Sale Price
13% Off
Passing Through 1 (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Passing Through 1 (Abstract photography)
Silver Gelatin Print - Unframed.
Tenesh Webber is a Canadian artist who works in abstract black and white photography. She lives and works ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
EM-117 Asanga 6 (Abstract Painting)
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
EM-117 Asanga 6 (Abstract Painting)
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
Bleed # 202021 (Abstract photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Bleed # 202021 (Abstract photography)
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 3mm Matte Plexiglas - Unframed.
Available on request 5-6 week turnaround.
Edition: 1/3.
Paul Snell combines tra...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
$6,603 Sale Price
20% Off
Division (Abstract photography)
Located in London, GB
Division (Abstract photography)
Silver Gelatin Print - Unframed.
Tenesh Webber is a Canadian artist who works in abstract black and white photography. She lives and works in the Ne...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bleed # 202041 (Abstract Photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Bleed # 202041 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 3mm Matte Plexiglas - Unframed.
Available on request - 4 week turnaround.
Backed with extruded polystyrene, co...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Magnetic radiation 99 (Medium) (Abstract photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Magnetic Radiation series, Janiak reveals the hidden world of magnetism by photographing ferrofluids. A ferrofluid is a liquid substance magne...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Magnetic radiation 99 (Large) (Abstract photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Magnetic Radiation series, Janiak reveals the hidden world of magnetism by photographing ferrofluids. A ferrofluid is a liquid substance magne...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Bleed # 202020
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 3mm Matte Plexiglas - Unframed.
Available on request - 4 week turnaround.
Backed with extruded polystyrene, concrete, acrylic, enamel and pigments (5...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Brooklyn Bridge, Lights of New York, Abstract Photography, Giclee Large Print
By Hatice Besun
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Brooklyn Bridge" Abstract, Expressionist, Photography, Giclee Print, Ltd.Ed.
Creator: Hatice Besun
Creation year: 2025
Dimension: 24 x 36"
External Dimension( with white border) He...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Bleed # 202053 (Abstract photography)
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 3mm Matte Plexiglas - Unframed.
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hanging system + keyhole option.
Available on request 5-6 week turnaround.
Edition: 3...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Untitled 2322: still life photograph w/ white cast foot, antler, bone
potatoes
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an archival pigment print depicting an abstracted still life printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308 gsm by artist Paul Cava. It is from the "Table Top" series, which is one of t...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
EM-36 Padmasambhara 2
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Each work in ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
Bleed # 202031
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 3mm Matte Plexiglas - Unframed.
Available on request - 4 week turnaround.
Backed with extruded polystyrene, concrete, acrylic, enamel and pigments (5...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Bleed # 202009
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 3mm Matte Plexiglas - Unframed.
Available on request - 4 week turnaround.
Backed with extruded polystyrene, concrete, acrylic, enamel and pigments (5...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Bleed # 202025
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
Chromogenic Print Face-mounted 3mm Matte Plexiglas - Unframed.
Available on request - 4 week turnaround.
Backed with extruded polystyrene, concrete, acrylic, enamel and pigments (5...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Untitled 176
Located in London, GB
C print - Unframed.
Richard Caldicott is most well known for this earlier work series which used Tupperware containers as the subject for his photographs.
As he describes : "Tupper...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled 201
Located in London, GB
C print - Unframed.
Richard Caldicott is most well known for this earlier work series which used Tupperware containers as the subject for his photographs.
As he describes : "Tupper...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
French Contemporary Photo by Olivier Attar - Neptune
Located in Paris, IDF
Subligraphy (CHROMALUX) on aluminium
120 x 80 cm - 47,2 x 31,5 in = $2800
Ed.1/15
Possibility of frame with additional costs
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Digital
Mute # 201706
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
This work is framed 8mm face and 65mm depth.
Chromogenic print face-mounted 8 mm plexiglass.
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hanging system + keyhole option.
Edition: 1/3.
Paul...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
$3,521 Sale Price
20% Off
EM-12 Red Tara
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Each work in ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
EM-39 Medicine Buddha 3
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Each work in ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
EM-46 Ratnasambhava
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Each work in ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
EMDL-1
By Bill Kane
Located in London, GB
Pigment on canvas - Unframed.
Edition of 3.
The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Each work in the series began its evolution as a scanned image of a Buddhist thangka—a spiritual painting of a Buddhist deity—which was then blurred and stretched until all that remained was a distilled image of color and form. These reduced images were then printed onto canvases, resulting in what Kane refers to as elemental “representations of the light bodies of the Buddhas.”
Bill Kane...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Canvas, Pigment
$8,667
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson - Leaving NYC, Nov 26, 2012, II
Located in Atlanta, GA
Edition 1 of 1
Archival print, sintra mount, polished acrylic.
Spencer Sloan is a mixed-media artist whose recent work, digitally manipulating paparazzi photographs into abstraction...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Water Reflection, Abstract Color Photography by Geoffrey Baris, Blue, Black
Located in New York, NY
Water Reflection, Abstract Color Photography by Geoffrey Baris
Archival pigment print on museum fine art paper
Edition of 7
Includes certificate of authenticity. Signed and numbered...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
$1,260 Sale Price
31% Off
Thought is the Architect of Reality
By Tina West
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 25.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is prod...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Beach Day, Maui, Hawaii
Located in New York City, NY
David Burdeny
Beach Day, Maui, Hawaii, 2011
Archival Pigment Print
Signature Label
Print only. Ask us for framing options.
Also available in 50 x 50 inches Edition of 3
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Shadows and Marbles, Cushing, ME Vintage Print
Located in Carmel, CA
Gelatin Silver Print, signed, titled, and dated on verso in pencil.
Great Condition.
Matted to 16x20"
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$2,000 Sale Price
33% Off
Photon 01 (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Photon 01 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Photon series, Janiak explores the intrinsic duality of light. The photons we interpret as light exist in a ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Chance/Fall (4)
Located in London, GB
C Print - Unframed
As the title suggests, Chance/Fall emanates from Caldicott’s improvised method.
This abstract composition with overlapping and drifting layers of shimmering colo...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Mute # 201705
By Paul Snell
Located in London, GB
This work is framed 8mm face and 65mm depth.
Chromogenic print face-mounted 8 mm plexiglass.
Available on request 5-6 week turnaround.
Backed with Dibond and C-channel hanging syst...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
$3,521 Sale Price
20% Off
Morphogenetic field - Dandelion (Pissenlit) (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Morphogenetic field - Dandelion (Pissenlit) (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Morphogenetic fields series, Janiak examines the visible manifestation of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Gravity Bulle d
air 05 (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Gravity Bulle d'air 05 (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Gravity Bulles d'air series, Janiak creates visual representations of the idea that form canno...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Morphogenetic field - AB negative blood (Abstract Photography)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Morphogenetic field - AB negative blood (Abstract Photography)
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5.
In his Morphogenetic fields series, Janiak examines the visible manifestation of the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Magnetic radiation 14 (Medium)
By Seb Janiak
Located in London, GB
Chromogenic print. Edition 1/5
In his Magnetic Radiation series, Janiak reveals the hidden world of magnetism by photographing ferrofluids. A ferrofluid is a liquid substance magnet...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Floating Future Seven
Located in BARCELONA, ES
In my work, I explore the tension and interaction between inner experience and physical form, with notions of depth and spatiality playing a central role. My artworks embody thoughts...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Acrylic Polymer, Platinum
"Red for Love 11" Photography 24" x 37" inch Edition of 11 by Tetiana Kalivoshko
Located in Culver City, CA
"Red for Love 11" Photography 24" x 37" inch Edition of 11 by Tetiana Kalivoshko
"The Red One - That Is Love"
"The Red One - That Is Love" is a thought-provoking art series by Tetia...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital Pigment
Estuary, Shark Bay, Western Australia
Located in New York City, NY
David Burdeny
Estuary, Shark Bay, Western Australia, 2016
Archival Pigment Print
Signature Label
Print only. Ask us for framing options.
Also avail...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Save Me - Abstract Expressionist Art Photography
Located in Zürich, CH
Der Foto-Künstler, Roger Reist, reflektiert die Welt um uns herum und in seinen Bildern auf zauberhafte Weise: "Die gesellschaftlichen Muster zu erkennen, diese anhand von meinen Bil...
Category
2010s Abstract Photography
Materials
Black and White
$2,063 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract 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 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, red, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Mitchell Funk, Paul Snell, Michael Banks, and Seb Janiak. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Pigment Print 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 photography, so small editions measuring 0.5 inches across are also available. Prices for 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 $50 and tops out at $36,000, while the average work sells for $3,359.