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Contemporary Photography

CONTEMPORARY STYLE

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.

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Style: Contemporary
Gondola, San Giorgio Maggiore - panorama citsycape - Venice - limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color cityscape panorama photo. Gondolas docked along a pier with blurred motion, against foggy San Giorgio Maggiore in the back. Archival pigment ink print as p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

Wild Things (Till Death do us Part) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wild Things (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 48x47cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Untitled I and VIII, Diptych, From the Half Angels Half Demons series. Male Nude
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The angel is a being that religion has bequeathed us as a sign of purity, innocence, and goodness, from the same source, we have been sold to the devil as the form that represents ev...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Hoarfrosted Lonely Tree Frozen Field - black and white large scale landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Digital pigment ink print, edition of 5. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity included. Printed with 4cm white border. International award win...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Bent Palm, Beach, Florida, USA, black and white minimalist landscape - limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white minimalist landscape Photography. A leaning palm tree on a beach with calm waters and a distant shoreline. Archival pigment ink print as part of ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Ploumanac h Lighthouse, Architecture Photography, Brittany, France - limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white landscape photograph of a tall lighthouse on a rocky coast, with a small bridge and large rocks in foreground. Digital pigment ink print, edition...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment

Sun loungers on the Beach, panorama landscape - color photography, limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color panorama landscape photography. Empty beach with blue lounge chairs, umbrellas, and gazebos on sand under a cloudy sky. Archival pigment ink print as part ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Retoni, seascape, fishing stilt house, panorama - color photography, seascape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color seascape photography. A rustic house on stilts with a crane and fishing nets, situated on rocks in the water, under a cloudy sky. Archival pigment ink prin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

The Real Mermaid - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 23.4x35"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater nude photograph of a model swimming in the pool. "There were five grand pianos at her house, a pool at the third floor, and a sad man on the bottom of that pool me. I jus...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

Pedal Boat Color - minimalist photography - waterscape - landscape - limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color minimalist waterscape photography. A row of colorful children's pedal boats with slides on stilts in calm water, above a cloudy sky. Archival pigment ink p...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Divine Nude No.42 by Ronald Martinez - Fine art photography, Renaissance, woman
Located in Paris, FR
Divine Nude No.42 is a limited-edition photograph by French contemporary artist Ronald Martinez. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 2 dimensions: ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print

Sea Cliffs Panorama - long exposure seascape - Faroe Islands, limited photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color Photography. Cliffs and green hills along a body of water, with distant islands or landmasses in the background under a cloudy sky. All Gerald Berghammer p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

The Enigma Machine, Bletchley Park - British history color photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Richard Heeps photographed Bletchley Park in partnership with Hertfordshire University and Bletchley Park Trust, to document Alan Turing’s historic past at Bletchley. He was privileg...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Pedal Boat - Balaton - long exposure waterscape photography - limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white long exposure waterscape photography. Five pedal boats on a platform over water, with a cloudy sky in the background. Digital pigment ink print, e...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Briccole minimalist seascape, foggy morning Venice, Italy - limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color photo. Rusty metal poles with spherical tops standing in calm water, with a foggy, minimal skyline and a pier in the background. Archival pigment ink print...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Cobbolds Point Panorama seascape, wavebreaker England - limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white minimalist photography. A curved stone jetty extending into a calm body of water, with a tall navigation marker at the end. Archival pigment ink ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

Cypress Tree on a Hill with a Cross - Tuscany - limited landscape editon photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color minimalist landscape photography. A small group of tall, slender cypress trees on a dry, barren hilltop against a cloudy sky. Archival pigment ink print as...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Tree by the calm sea panorama - minimalist landscape - Portugal - limited photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color Landscape Photography. A lone tree with green leaves growing beside a paved road, with the ocean and a clear blue sky. Archival pigment ink print as part of...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Divine Nude No.2 by Ronald Martinez - Fine art photography, Renaissance, woman
Located in Paris, FR
Divine Nude No.2 is a limited-edition photograph by French contemporary artist Ronald Martinez. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 2 dimensions: *...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print

Coconut Boat Panorama, minimalist beach landscape, Vietnam - photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color photography. Several colorful coconut boats pulled up on a sandy beach with sparse green vegetation, calm sea, and cloudy sky. Archival pigment ink print as...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Male Nude V from the 29 Palms, CA series - Polaroid, 20th Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Male Nude V (29 Palms, CA) - 1999, 20x20cm, sold out Edition of 10, this is Artist Proof 1/2. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label....
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1990s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Karma, Milan - Italian bookshop street photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Karma, street photography from Richard Heeps series, A Short History of Milan. 'A Short History of Milan' began in November 2018 for a special project featured at the Affordable Art...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Hidden Beach and Green Hills, La Hong Bay, Vietnam - Seascape Photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color fine art seascape photography. Rugged mountains with greenery, reflected in calm water, with misty peaks and a small beach. Archival pigment ink print as pa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Mulafossur Waterfall, Gasadalur village, Faroe Islands - color landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color Photography. Coastal landscape featuring a high plateau with a waterfall cascading into the ocean, partially obscured by fog. Pigment ink print, limited edi...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

Three Pink Lotus Flower Panorama, Mekong Delta, Vietnam - large color photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity included. Printed with 4cm white border. More Sizes: 15.8 x 31....
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Ha Long Bay Panorma, seascape, limestone rocks, Vietnam - landscape photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
The sea narrows through limestone cliffs in hazy light with mountains in the background. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Divine Nude No.19 by Ronald Martinez - Fine art photography, Renaissance, body
Located in Paris, FR
Divine Nude No.19 is a limited-edition photograph by French contemporary artist Ronald Martinez. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 2 dimensions: ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print

Steps - underwater photograph - print on paper 21" x 18"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A light and very becoming underwater photograph of a girl walking down the steps of a swimming pool. The light blue photograph shows no swimsuit neither nudity. The crystalline wate...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Sun loungers on the Beach - landscape - umbrellas - shore - limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color minimalist landscape photography. Empty beach with striped lounge chairs and blue umbrellas on sandy shore, overcast sky. Archival pigment ink print as par...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

Seawater Canyon Panorama, Green Cliffs, La Hong Bay - seascape photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color landscape photography. Lush green cliffs surrounding a calm, emerald waterway with misty atmosphere. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

ONE WAY, Miami Beach, Florida, USA - monochromo photograph - limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Ha...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Retoni, seascape, fishing hut, panorama - large color photography, seascape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color seascape photography. A small wooden fishing hut on stilts on a rocky jetty extending into calm water with a muted, foggy sky. Archival pigment ink print a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

Sun loungers on the Beach - minimalist sea landscape, Italy - limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color Landscape Photography. Beach chairs and canopies on a sandy beach with a pathway leading to the water, overcast sky. Digital pigment ink print, edition of 7...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

Cobbolds Point Panorama - long exposure seascape - minimalist photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white minimalist seascape photography. A concrete breakwater with a single arrow marker at the end of the calm sea. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

New York City, Black and White Street Photography, Wall Street 1950s
Located in New york, NY
Wall Street, 1955-56 is a 19" x 13" limited edition print (9/9 available) by American photographer Leonard Freed. The work is signed verso (back of photo) by Brigitte Freed (wife of ...
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1950s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigme...

Retoni, Fishermans hut in the middle of nowhere - panorama color photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color long exposure seascape photography. A small house on stilts stands over calm water on a foggy day, with a light sky. Archival pigment ink print as part of ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Napoleon Bonaparte II - interior photograph of elegant French palace villa
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large scale photograph of elegant interior view of the French revolutionary ballroom in the Villa Napoleone in Elba, Tuscany. Napoleon Bonaparte II (2025) by Frank Schott 48 x 72 i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment

Steps - underwater photograph - archival pigment print 43" x 35"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This ethereal underwater fine art photograph captures a figure suspended above submerged pool steps, rendered in soft aquamarine and pearl tones. The crystalline water creates a drea...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Unión 2 and Errabundeo Cordoba 7. Nude in a landscape color photo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Errabundeo Series Though each love is experienced as unique and though the subject rejects the notion of repeating it elsewhere later on, he sometimes discovers in himself a kind of...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Dark Hedges, tree avenue, mystical forest - monochrome landscape Ireland
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Dark Hedges, majestic avenue of beech trees in Northern Ireland. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and n...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

Myth #7. From The Myths of Human Erectness series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The Myths of Human Erectness explores the human body as both subject and object, interrogating the myths surrounding masculinity, erectness, and human supremacy. The male figure emer...
Category

2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Divine Nude No.45 by Ronald Martinez - Fine art photography, Renaissance, woman
Located in Paris, FR
Divine Nude No.45 is a limited-edition photograph by French contemporary artist Ronald Martinez. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 2 dimensions: ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print

Wild Things (Till Death do us Part) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wild Things (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 50x50cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Joshua Tree Panorama, National Park, California, USA - monochroma landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Ha...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

El Nene. From The series Guerreros. Photomontage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From The series Guerreros One-of-a-kind Photomontage on archival paper Unframed The root of these unique photographic works by the artist Celso Castro occurred when the artist retur...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color

Lotus Flower - Panorama - Vietnam - long exposure - waterscape - photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity included. Printed with 4cm white border. More Sizes: 15.8 x 31.5 ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

Tulip Fields 01 by Bernhard Lang - Aerial abstract photography, Netherlands
Located in Paris, FR
Aerial Views, Tulip Fields 01 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 4 di...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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C Print

Top of the Cliffs - single Person - England - minimalist landscape photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Top of the Cliffs Study 1 - England - no. 21378 >> Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. >> Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. >> Certificate of authenticity include...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Vetyver Pool, Poovar, Kerala - Tropical Palm Print Indian Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Vetyver Pool, photograph from Richard Heeps India series, The Ambassador's Window. On a journey through India, a pilgrimage from Kerala in the South, to his Grandfather's birthplace ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Rjukandefossen Waterfall Forest Norway
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Rjukandefossen Waterfall Study 1, Norway - no. 21373 Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity included. Pri...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Door - Lariat Motel, Nevada - Cinematic Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
From Richard Heeps Dream in Color series a cinematic scene, a doorway in a motel in Nevada on an American road trip. Warm evening sunlight glows casting shadows across the picture. ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Seven Sister, White Chalk Cliffs, limited panorma
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Seven Sisters Panorama Study 1, England - no. 21372 Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. Prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuehle Photo Ra...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Cobbolds Point, Groyne, England, limited minimalist seascape photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Cobbolds Point Study 1, England - no. 21362 Digital pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity included. Printed with ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Myth #4. From The Myths of Human Erectness series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The Myths of Human Erectness explores the human body as both subject and object, interrogating the myths surrounding masculinity, erectness, and human supremacy. The male figure emer...
Category

2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Grammia Virgo Female - Coral Red Black Peach Moth Insect Patterned Wings, 2007
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary, hyper-detailed archival pigment print on watercolor paper, a coral red moth with black markings on its wings and abdomen and pale peach on its upper wings is dr...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Rice Farmer with water Buffalo, colorful landscape, Vietnam - limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color landscape photography. A farmer wearing a conical hat guides a water buffalo through a flooded rice field. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Jose. From The series Guerreros. Photomontage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From The series Guerreros One-of-a-kind Photomontage on archival paper Unframed The root of these unique photographic works by the artist Celso Castro occurred when the artist retur...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color

Mystical Forest Clearing, Madeira, Portugal, landscape photograph limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Skogafoss gigantic waterfall, Iceland. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

Lerici 251 - Polaroid Coastal Landscape Photograph, Limited Edition of 20
Located in London, GB
Lerici '25 is an original black and white Polaroid photograph captured on SX-70 film along the Ligurian coastline of Italy. The image is part of a limited edition of 20, hand-signed ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Polaroid

Nothing to hide - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Nothing to Hide' part of the series 'A girl called N.' - 2019 20x20cm, Edition 2/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid, not mounted. Signature label and c...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Contemporary photography for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary 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, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Stefanie Schneider, Tyler Shields, Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde, and Richard Heeps. Frequently made by artists working with Pigment Print, and Archival 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 Contemporary photography, so small editions measuring 0.4 inches across are also available.

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