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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
Fairy Forest Madeira Portugal limited signed
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Fairy Forest Study 1, Portugal - no. 21299 Printed on Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the back and signed, numbered and accompanied by a letter of authentic...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Fishing Hut on Stilts Panorama, black and white photograph, limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white seascape photography. Fishing huts on stilts over water, with fishing nets hanging from the st...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment, Archival Pigment

Lymantria Mathura - Insect Photograph Pink Brown Moth Wings, 2018
Located in Kent, CT
In this hyper-detailed archival pigment print on watercolor paper, a moth with distinctive markings and a soft pink abdomen and lower wings is dramatic against a solid white backgrou...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

The San Remo Central Park New York monochrome limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
The San Remo Study 2, New York City, USA - no. 18078 Black and white fine art cityscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Ge...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Bea with a whip at The Other Side
Located in New York, NY
Nan Goldin Bea with a whip at The Other Side 1973 Gelatin silver print 14 x 11 inches; 36 x 28 cm Edition of 100 Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in graphite (lower right verso) ...
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1970s Contemporary Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Strike a Pose - Contemporary, Polaroid, Color, Women, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Strike a Pose' (Bombay Beach) 2019, 20x20cm, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on the back and ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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

Wallscape V ( 40 x 32" / 102 x 81cm )
Located in San Francisco, CA
WALLSCAPE V by Frank Schott from a series of photographic observances capturing urban textures and wallscape color palettes 40 x 32 inches / 102cm x 81cm edition of 25 signed 60 x...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Dancing on Ice Skyscraper New York, USA black and white photography landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Dancing on Ice, New York City, USA 2016 - no. 11787 Black and white fine art cityscape - landscape photography. Ice Skating, Central Park, New York City, USA. Archival pigment ink pr...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Jetty on calm Lake long exposure waterscape limited edition fine art print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Jetty on calm Lake Study 2, Austria - no. 21214 Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

161.05.11 by Klaus Kampert - Fine art nude photography, woman s body, aesthetic
Located in Paris, FR
161.05.11 is a work by contemporary photographer Klaus Kampert, from the 'On Body Forms' series. 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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Archival Pigment

Pause -Contemporary, Polaroid, Black and White, Women, 21st Century, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Pause - 2020 40x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-949. N...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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

Cantelmo Castle. Popoli, Abruzzo, Italy
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Abruzzo, located in southern Italy, is known as the ‘green region of Europe’ because of the system of parks and nature reserves covering more than one-third of its territory. It has one of the highest biodiversity indexes in Europe, and one of the richest areas of flora in the world. In Abruzzo, Michael Kenna found a cultural identity that elsewhere, for the most part, has been lost to globalization and instant communication. Kenna photographed medieval ruins, ancient villages and a countryside rich in traditional cultivation. As curator Vincenzo de...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Wild West Panorama, Monument Valley, USA black and white photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and White Fine Art landscape panorama photography - Wild West Panorama, Monument Valley, Utah, USA. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbe...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Wild Things (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
48x47cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #9309 Not mounted. Stefanie Schneider's...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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

Eve Arnold - Marilyn Monroe in the Waldorf Astoria Ballroom, 1956, Printed After
Located in Stamford, CT
Marilyn Monroe in the Waldorf Astoria Ballroom in New York City, 1956. All available sizes and editions: 20" x 24", Edition of 25 + 3 Artist Proofs 24" x 34", Edition of 25 + 3 Arti...
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1960s Contemporary Photography

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Cotton, Paper

Wooden Pegs in the Lake, color photography, limited edition, seascape, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Color fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limit...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment

Golden Gate Overlook, San Francisco, USA - black and white landscape photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white cityscape photography. Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, partially obscured by fog, viewed from a rocky shoreline. Archival pigment ink print, ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Bucky the Sheep - black and white photography - landscape - limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white landscape photography. A sheep standing on grassy land near the Atlantic Ocean with hills on a small island. Archival pigment ink print, edition o...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment

Harness Racing, Beach, black and white photograph, limited edition landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white minimalist landscape photography. Harness racing on a deserted sand beach near the ocean on a rainy day. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Hot Air Balloon, Championship, monochrome landscape, limited edition, print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white minimalist landscape photography. Three hot air balloons flying above a wheat field, Waldviertel, Austria. Archival pigment ink print as part of ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Bent Palm - Beach - Florida - USA
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

Poppy No.3 - Analogue black and white floral photography, Limited edition of 10.
Located in London, GB
'Poppy No.3’ Photographed in London, United Kingdom 2023. It is a still life black and white film photograph, made with a large format 4x5 Linhof camera. Giclée print on Hahnemühl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Film, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Giclée

Cypress Trees, Avenue, Tuscany, black and white fine art photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white fine art photography. Landscape of rolling hills with a winding dirt road flanked by tall, slender cypress trees. Archival pigment ink print, edi...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Tape Collection, AILA Blue - Contemporary Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
AILA Blue, from the Heidler & Heeps Tape Collection - The B Sides. The Heidler & Heeps collaborations are creative representations of Natasha Heidler and Richard Heeps’, personal pas...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Fairy Forest in the Fog - Large Scale Photograph - Limited Edition Landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Fairy Forest in the Fog Study 1, Portugal - no. 21303 Prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the back and signed and n...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Cypress Tree, Field, Panorama - Tuscany - black and white landscape photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white landscape panorama photography. Rolling hills and a small group of tall, slender cypress trees on a hill, with a cloudy sky. Archival pigment ink...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment

Sophia Loren, 21st Century, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography
Located in München, BY
Edition 25 Also available in 101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch, Edition 10 Black and white portrait of the Italian actress Sophia Loren waring sunglasses and sits in a director's chair. ...
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1990s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Kristine DeBell - Vintage Photo by Helmut Newton - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Kristine DeBell is a  vintage photo, realized by Helmut Newton in the 1970s. The artwork represent fashion model and actress in 1970s. 
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1970s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Paper

Ancient Laurisilva Forest, mystical Tree - fine art black and white photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. 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

Tree Calm Sea Panorama - large color photograph landscape - limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Tree by the Calm Sea Panorama Study 1, Portugal - no. 21300 Prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the back and signed...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Golden Gate Bridge, Marshalls Beach, black and white landscape art photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art cityscape - landscape photography. Marshall's Beach view of Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, USA. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 8. Signed, title...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, black and white photography, art cityscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white cityscape photography. A Venetian waterfront featuring a curved paved walkway, gondolas, and historic buildings. Archival pigment ink print, edit...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Italian Stone Pines Tuscany monochrome photograph limieted edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Italian Stone Pines Study 4, Tuscany - no. 21067 Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer p...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Tulle no. 46, Nantucket, MA
Located in Sante Fe, NM
“The hovering installations featured in this ongoing series of photographs are inspired by self-organizing, "emergent" systems in nature such as termite mounds, swarming locusts, sch...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Snow covered - Central - USA - fine art cityscape photography - limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Snow covered Central Park 2, New York City, USA - no. 11870 // limited edition of 9 All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Baryt...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Bay of Poets - Mediterranean landscape on cotton canvas, limited edition 3 of 5
Located in London, GB
'Bay of Poets' 2024 Cotton canvas print. A timeless monochrome Mediterranean landscape, captured with a large-format 4x5 film camera and developed in the artist’s studio. Printed ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Cotton Canvas

Rosa Wichuraiana, France, black and white fine art photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white Photography. A wall with closed wooden shutters, a blooming rose growing over the wall, and a small stool on the ground. Archival pigment ink pri...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Abstract Waterscape, Waterfall, Mountain Stream
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Trees in the Golden Field, USA, Limited Edition Photograph by Gerald Berghammer
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Color fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuehle ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Rag Paper, Archival Pigment

Frozen Farmland, minimalist black and white photograph, limited edition print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Frozen Farmland Study 1, Austria - no. 21329 // Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Upper Belvedere Palace, Panorama, Vienna - black and white landscape photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white photo. Historic building with classical architecture, surrounded by a large open courtyard with water basin and trees. Archival pigment ink print...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Kristine DeBell - Vintage Photo by Helmut Newton - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Kristine DeBell is a  vintage photo, realized by Helmut Newton in the 1970s. The artwork represent fashion model and actress in 1970s. 
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1970s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Paper

Ancient Laurisilva Forest Madeira, black and white panorama photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white minimalist landscape photography. Two windswept trees on a flat landscape, grayscale photo with foggy background. Archival pigment ink print as p...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, black and white cityscape fine art photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white photography. Two gondolas docked at a pier on a calm body of water with the cityscape of Venice, Italy. Archival fine art pigment print, Limited ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Black and White, Digita...

Twenty Cherry Trees, Avenue, Austria, black and white art photography landscapes
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. 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 Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment

Twenty Cherry Trees - Avenue - black and white photography - limited landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white landscape panorama photography. A row of leafless cherry trees standing along a horizon over an open field. Archival pigment ink print as part of...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Voyeurism for Playboy by Helmut Newton - Vintage Photograph - 1991
Located in Roma, IT
Voyeurism for Playboy is a black and white photograph realized by Helmut Newton. Black and white photograph.  From the series "Voyeurism " realized by Newton for Playboy magazine.
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1990s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Paper

Santa Maria della Salute, Gondola, Venice, monochrome photograph, limited print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Basilica Study 2, Venice - no. 11388 // Black and white fine art long exposure cityscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Nizza - framed large photograph of summer beach scene in South of France
Located in San Francisco, CA
observation of a Mediterranean beach scene in Nice, France, on a hazy summer day Nizza by Frank Schott white wood gallery frame ( 1 inch face 2 1/2 inch deep ) 27 x 41 inches (68....
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigme...

L ascension, Paris
Located in München, BY
Edition of 7 Also available in 73 x 100 cm / 28.7 x 43.3 in, Edition of 3, price on request A very beautiful and naked woman is stepping up a circular staircase in an apartment in P...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment

Untitled I, Half Angels Half Demons. Male Nude Color photograph
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

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Archival Pigment, Color

Petit Minou Lighthouse, black and white photograph, seascape, limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Petit Minou Lighthouse Study 1, France - no. 21181 Black and white fine art long exposure landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Ge...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

The Mystery of Mouth, Photography, Story teller, Red lips, hat
Located in München, BY
Edition of 3 More sizes on request. A woman with a black hat and a black pullover. The lips are painted deep red. Tyler Shields is an American Photographer, screenwriter, director ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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C Print

"Weed + Grub 2"- Archival Pigment Ink Photography
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This selection is an intimate grouping of portraits of celebrities and tastemakers in the burgeoning cannabis industry. I’ve paired these with select portraits evoking the feeling of...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Ink

Georgianna, Paris 1994
Located in München, BY
Total Edition of 15 signed and numbered Also available in: 90 x 120 cm / 35.4 x 47.2 in 120 x 160 cm / 47.2 x 63 in Thierry Le Gouès, born in Britta...
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1990s Contemporary Photography

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Black and White

Mystical Tree, foggy, Fanal, Madeira - black and white landscape photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Single mystical tree in morning fog on madeira island in Portugal. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 5. All G...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Green Hills in Morning Light, large format photography, limited landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color Tuscany landscape photography. Landscape with rolling hills, a single tree, a huge cloud, and a field of dry grass. Archival pigment ink print as part of a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Wild Things (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wild Things (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005, 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inven...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

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

Trees on the Roof Abandoned House, black and white photograph limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Trees on the Roof Study 1, Norway - no. 21239 // Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer ...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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Digital Pigment

Voyeurism for Playboy by Helmut Newton - Vintage Photograph - 1991
Located in Roma, IT
Voyeurism for Playboy is a black and white photograph realized by Helmut Newton. Black and white photograph. From the series "Voyeurism " realized by Newton for Playboy magazine.
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1990s Contemporary Photography

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Photographic Paper

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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