Modern Photography
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Pietro Martire Church - - Vintage Photo - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Pietro Martire Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously ...
Category
1920s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Lounging In Verbier - Super Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Holidaymakers in sun loungers on the slopes at Verbier, Switzerland, February 1964.
Size 72 x 48" inches / 183 x 122 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim ...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Giovanni e Paolo Church - Vintage Photo- 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Giovanni e Paolo Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulousl...
Category
1920s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Dasha
Mari - Lady
By Dasha
Mari
Located in London, GB
Dasha & Mari - Lady
30x30" inches oversize C print - numbered and stamped limited to 100 only.
Sumptuous, sensual with erotic undertones, this is a beautiful fine art image from th...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
Paris, Demonstration on Blvd St Germain, 1947 Silver Gelatin B and W Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin black and white photograph by the Associated Press, Paris. It shows a demonstration on Boulevard Saint Germain in June 1947.
Features:
Original silver gela...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marilyn Monroe, unique print of 1988 from original negative
Located in Cologne, DE
Ed Feingersh photographed Marilyn Monroe for Redbook magazine in March 1955 for a story which would follow Monroe through her daily routine, the photography to be candid and shot wit...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Via dei Sediari and Sant
Andrea della Valle - b/w Photograph - 1936
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photo of the typical streets in Rome city centre, in particular it is taken from Via dei Sediari, looking at the street and its beaut...
Category
1930s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Poolside Pairs
1970 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside Pairs' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace) and Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Lins...
Category
1970s Modern Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
"Natalia Makarova " vintage "Serge Lifar " collection
Located in CANNES, FR
"Natalia Makarova " is an gelatin print , silver bromide, numbered and signed photograph
offered to " serge Lifar " by Max Waldman . Artist proof .
Ser...
Category
1970s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$4,596 Sale Price
48% Off
Flooded Mall (1934) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Flooded Mall (1934) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by H. F. Davis/Getty Images)
A man crossing a stretch of floodwater with the help of two chairs after a storm caused floodi...
Category
1930s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
$880 Sale Price
20% Off
"Terry Thomas" by Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Terry Thomas" by Bert Hardy
25th September 1954: English actor-comedian Terry Thomas (1911 - 1990), real name Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens, demonstrates ho...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White
Ava (1950) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Ava (1950) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(photo by Pictorial Press / Alamy Archives)
1950,
Portrait of the actress Ava Gardner circa.
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Size: 1...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
La Fenice - Italian Opera House Black and White Photograph
Located in Brighton, GB
La Fenice - Italian Opera House Black and White Photograph
A nighttime view of the opera house La Fenice in Venice. The interior, with its rich and splendid decor and design, made i...
Category
20th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin
"Boat Bearers" by Gerry Cranham
Located in London, GB
"Boat Bearers" by Gerry Cranham
30th July 1938: Two swimsuited girls are carrying their canoe on their heads.
Unframed
Paper Size: 20" x 24'' (inches)
Printed 2022
Silver Gelatin ...
Category
1930s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White
Joan Crawford - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Joan Crawford - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(Photo by Pictorial Press / Alamy Archives)
Joan Crawford (1905-1977) US film actress.
Additional Information:
Unframed
Pa...
Category
1930s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Tee Off (1939) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
Tee Off (1939) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Alamy)
6th April 1939.
A man playing golf teeing-off golf ball from tee with driver outdoor.
...
Category
1930s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Portofino Villa, 1977 - Aerial View Italian Landscape Countryside Swimming Pool
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Portofino Villa, 1977 - Aerial View Italian Landscape Countryside Swimming Pool by Slim Aarons
16 x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
...
Category
20th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
Naughty But Nice
Limited Edition Silver Gelatin print
Located in London, GB
'Naughty But Nice' by Christopher Simon Sykes
Guitarist and Rock and Roll Legend, Keith Richards looks elegantly wasted during the Rolling Stones Tou...
Category
20th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Bardot" by Reg Lancaster
Located in London, GB
"Bardot" by Reg Lancaster
French actress and sex symbol Brigitte Bardot stage name of Camille Javal, dancing in a scene from the film 'Two Weeks In September' with Mike Sarne.
Unf...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White
"The Giant Leeches" Vintage Poster in Custom Walnut Floating Frame
Located in London, GB
"The Giant Leeches" by Bernard L Kowalski
Attack of the Giant Leeches originally titled as The Giant Leeches is an independently made 1959 black-and-white science fiction-horror film, produced by Gene Corman and directed by Bernard L. Kowalski. It stars Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers and Jan Shepard. The screenplay was written by Leo Gordon. The film was released by American International Pictures on a double bill with A Bucket of Blood. Later, in some areas in 1960, Leeches played on a double bill with the Roger Corman film House of Usher...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White
A Quiet Moment at the Sagrada Família, Barcelona, 1960s
Located in Cologne, DE
This vibrant photograph captures a moment in front of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona during the 1960s. The majestic basilica, with its intricate towers reaching into the sky, stand...
Category
1980s Modern Photography
Materials
Color
Sandrine - Figurative photograph nude fine art print, Contemporary black white
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘ Sandrine ‘ who was captured on film in...
Category
1990s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
"WA66" Abstract Nude Photography 50" x 40" in Edition of 10 by Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"WA66" Abstract Nude Photography 50" x 40" in Edition of 10 by Giuliano Bekor
Wild Above series.
Title of artwork WA66
Year: 2012
Medium: Photography
Print size: 50x40 Inches trim b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Eiffel Tower Leg - Parisian Architecture Black and White Photograph
Located in Brighton, GB
Eiffel Tower Leg - Parisian Architecture Black and White Photograph
A vertiginous view of one of the legs of the Parisian landmark, the Eiffel Tower - la Tour Eiffel.
16" x 20" pr...
Category
20th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Coldplay - signed Limited Edition Oversize print
Located in London, GB
Coldplay - signed Limited Edition Oversize print
COLDPLAY VIDEO BLUE APRIL 23 2005 LOS ANGELES BAND VIDEO STILLS
Exquisite print of the superband Coldplay during a video shoot
unframed
signed and numbered by the artist.
limited to 10 only this size.
About the artist :
Kevin Westenberg is famed -
for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and movie stars for over 25 years. His technique of lighting, colour and composition has helped to produce his own unique visual style.
Shortly after receiving an Architecture degree he moved to London where he’s been based since 1983. Westenberg is self-taught and learned his trade working for the UK inkies “New Musical Express” and “Melody Maker” mainly throughout the late 80’s and 90’s documenting amongst others all the UK ‘Britpop’ bands.
The breakthrough came in 1993-1994 with the release of Sting’s Ten Summoner’s Tales and Mary J Blige’s Share My World. These two album covers changed the perception of the work worldwide and thus began a run of 20 years of commissions and choice opportunities.
For the last 25 years, his musical heritage includes portraits of Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Coldplay, White Stripes, Jane...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons,
Caribe Hilton Beach
Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A woman reclining in a hammock hung between palm trees on the beach at the Caribe Hilton in San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 1956.
Slim Aarons
Caribe Hilton
1956. (printed later)
C pri...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
Penthouse Pool 1961 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Penthouse Pool
Young women by the Canellopoulos penthouse pool, Athens, July 1961.
40 x 40” / 101 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aa...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sunbathing in Capri, Catherine Wilke, 1980
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Sunbathing in Capri, Catherine Wilke
1980
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Catherine Wilke...
Category
1980s Modern Photography
Materials
Lambda
"Ride At The Fair" by General Photographic Agency
Located in London, GB
"Ride At The Fair" by General Photographic Agency
1924: The rollercoaster ride at the fair at Wembley exhibition, London.
Unframed
Paper Size: 12" x 16'' (inches)
Printed 2022
Sil...
Category
1920s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White
Social Call
Slim Arons ESTATE EDITION
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Social Call' by Slim Aarons
SLIM AARONS ESTATE EDITION PRINT
Numbered in ink to 150 only and emboss stamped on front.
Charley Weaver at the Las Brisas ...
Category
1970s Modern Photography
Materials
Aluminum
John Lennon 1971
Located in London, GB
© Michael Putland
John Lennon
John Lennon at home in the white room, Ascot, UK July 1971
John Lennon was a legendary British musician, songwriter, and peace activist, best known a...
Category
1970s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sophia Loren - Oversize Archival Pigment Print
Located in London, GB
Sophia Loren - Venice 1955
Oversize Archival Pigment Print
Absolutely Exquisite HUGE 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size print.
Unframed.
Produced on authentic Hahnemühle p...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Women
s Rights Movement - Historical Photo -1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Women's Rights Movement - Historical Photos is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s in Italy, it belongs to an album of women rights, protests, manifestation fo...
Category
1970s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Chorus Formation" by Sasha
Located in London, GB
"Chorus Formation" by Sasha
14th February 1933: The Albertina Rasch chorus girls who are appearing in 'Wild Violets'.
Unframed
Paper Size: 24" x 20'' (in...
Category
1930s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White
Ecuador, Mother, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 26, 3 x 22, 7 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Bolivia, Door, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 23.7 x 24, 5 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Virna Lisi - Golden Period of Italian Cinema - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Virna Lisi - Golden Period of Italian Cinema is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the mid-20th Century.
Good conditions.
Virna Lisi Born on November 8, 1936, she beg...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
30x50 “Cosmic Cliffs” James Webb Telescope Space Photography NASA Photo Fine Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The WEBB imagery is of the most important imagery every taken.
The finest museum quality WEBB images available.
Printed on archival paper using archival inks.
30x50
Edition of 150
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
The Who Pete Townshend 1981
Located in London, GB
© Michael Putland
The Who Pete Townshend
Pete Townshend of The Who leaping on stage during 1981 UK Tour
Pete Townshend is the innovative guitarist an...
Category
1980s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jazz Dancers (1949) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Jazz Dancers (1949) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Charles Hewitt/Picture Post /Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
A series of images showing Britis...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Antigua Beach Club (1960) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Antigua Beach Club (1960) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
The beach club at the Mill Reef Club on Antigua in the West Indies,
1960.
Addi...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Queen Elizabeth - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elizabeth - Vintage Photo realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$155 Sale Price
35% Off
James Deann At A Car Rally - Oversize Limited Print
By Frank Worth
Located in London, GB
James Dean At A Car Rally 1955 (colorised)
by Frank Worth
paper size 40 x 60 inches / 101 x 152 cm
edition of 6 only in this size
Archival pigment print
unframed
Note other si...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mojave Desert, California, Black and White, USA 1960s, 16.0 x 23, 7 cm
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 1960.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photogr...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Family Pool (1960) - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Family Pool (1960) - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Mrs A Watson Armour III (Jean Schweppe) with friends and family enjoying the pool on their estate at Lake F...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Eddie Vedder - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Eddie Vedder - Signed Limited Edition Print.
Eddie Veder, lead singer of American band Pearl Jam.
Seattle, Washington.
Melody Maker Magazine.
July 19...
Category
1990s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
"Sheltering From Rain" by Fox Photos
Located in London, GB
"Inside St Stephen's" by Fox Photos
February 1928: People sheltering from the rain under the portico of the National Gallery in London. The church of St-Martin-in-the-Fields can be ...
Category
1920s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Swan In A Car" by Fox Photos
Located in London, GB
"Swan In A Car" by Fox Photos
6th April 1936: A tame swan named Leila is given a lift in the back of a car.
Unframed
Paper Size: 30" x 40'' (inches)
Printed 2022
Silver Gelatin Fi...
Category
1930s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame", Lobby Card, USA 1939
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1939) featuring Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, and Maureen O'Hara. This vintage cinema memor...
Category
1930s Modern Photography
Materials
Color
Che Guevara with his daughter
Located in Cologne, DE
Osvaldo Salas, widely recognized as one of the world’s great press photographers, was born in Havana, Cuba in 1914. At the age of fourteen, he left Havan...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Postcard - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Postcard is a postcard realized in 1940s.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments, places, families, artworks,...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Paper, Postcard
Rainy Embankment
London (Limited Edition) Oversize
Located in London, GB
A man standing alone on a rain-drenched pavement on the River Thames Embankment, London. August 1929.
(Photo By Fox Photos/ The Getty Images Photographic Archives London, England)
...
Category
1920s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Untitled #27 (Man Umbrella), New York, 2017 - Limited Edition Silver Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Untitled #3 (Man's Raincoat) from the series New York by Giacomo Brunelli is a Silver Gelatin print in a limited edition of 10 in this size.
Print prices increase as the edition sel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Solace Book + Poppy Bud 40x32cm Print - Ugnė Pouwell Signed Collector Bundle Set
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
Released in spring 2025, Solace is a 192-page hardback by Ugnė Pouwell presenting a composed sequence of black-and-white still life, abstract studies, landscapes and portraits, inter...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cafe De Flore (1948) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Cafe De Flore (1948) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper S...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Nude Montage
By D.M. Brandt
Located in Cologne, DE
Vintage, Montage, signed, Number 1977/2
Category
1970s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$837 Sale Price
30% Off
Brando On The Waterfornt (1954) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
Brando On The Waterfront (1954) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(photo by Glasshouse Images / Alamy Archives)
1954,
Marlon Brando on-set of the Film,
On the Waterfront.
...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Official Limited Estate Edition - Pool By The Sea Antibes
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pool By The Sea by Slim Aarons 1969
Guests and white umbrellas / parasols around the swimming pool at the infamously glamorous Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, ...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Carly Simon 1972
Located in London, GB
© Michael Putland
Carly Simon
Carly Simon, London 1972she kissed my cheek, I did not wash for a week!
Carly Simon is an acclaimed American singer-songwriter known for her introspe...
Category
1970s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Women
s Rights Movement - Historical Photo -1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Women's Rights Movement - Historical Photos is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s in Italy, it belongs to an album of women rights, protests, manifestation fo...
Category
1970s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Modern photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Modern 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, red, orange, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Kevin Westenberg, Slim Aarons, Howard Schatz, and Terry O'Neill. Frequently made by artists working with Archival Pigment Print, 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 Modern photography, so small editions measuring 4 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 $44 and tops out at $75,000, while the average work sells for $2,150.