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
"The Rolling Stones Playing Cricket 1968" 20" x 24" in Ed 3/25 by Michael Joseph
Located in Culver City, CA
"The Rolling Stones Playing Cricket 1968" 20" x 24" in Ed 3/25 by Michael Joseph
Medium: C-Print
Comes in black frame
Printed later
British rock band The Rolling Stones is photogr...
Category
20th Century Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons
Snowmass Gathering
- Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Snowmass Gathering
1968 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Two women, wearing brightly-coloured skiwea...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
Vintage Photograph Cibachrome 1981 Beijing China Lingerie Shop Color Photo Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Mat measures 20 X 26 sight measures 13 X 19.5 This one has no mat.
Mark Abrahamson is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1944. Mark completed a BA at Whitman...
Category
1980s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
Laszlo Willinger, "Lana Turner", original photo from original negative, signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original photograph from the original negative, shot by Laszlo Willinger c. 1939, and printed in the 1980's. This photograph depicts American actress and pin-up mod...
Category
1930s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Inferna
Print on Hahnemüle Paper, Red Orange Black Portrait, by Abi Polinsky
Located in New York, NY
Inferna by Abi Polinsky
Print on Hahnemüle Photo Rag paper.
2022
L 30" x H 40"
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Unframed. Signed limited edition of 5 for each size.
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30" x 40" - small
45" x 60" - large
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons, Sugarbush Ice Bar
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Sugarbush Ice Bar
1969
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
An outdoor bar at Sugarbush, a mountain resort in Vermont, March 1969.
Estate stamped and hand numbered editio...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Lambda
Frida with Idol by Nickolas Muray, 1939, Carbon Pigment Print, Photography
Located in Denton, TX
Frida with Idol by Nickolas Muray depicts Mexican painter Frida Kahlo posing while holding a green stone carved idol in her hand. She stands in front o...
Category
20th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Carbon Pigment
Sunbathing in Capri, Catherine Wilke
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Sunbathing in Capri, Catherine Wilke,
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity fr...
Category
1980s Modern Photography
Materials
Lambda
Italy in 1956 - Sirmione Lago di Garda Castello Scaligero - Italy
Located in Cologne, DE
A moment in time
In 2021, a gallery from Brussels contacted us. There, a photographic collection had been kept in tin boxes for decades, consisting of 6x6 glass slides in color.
Th...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Color
Norman Parkinson
Celia Hammond in Goggles for Queen Magazine, 1964
Located in New York, NY
Celia Hammond is photographed by Norman Parkinson wearing goggles and a headdress made of silk chiffon for Queen magazine in 1964. Hammond became a favorite model of Parkinson's and ...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mick Jagger Goats Head Soup Album Art Version
By David Bailey
Located in London, GB
David Bailey
Mick Jagger Goats Head Soup Album Art Version, 1973
Archival Inkjet on paper
Signed by the artist, on verso
Image: 101 x 148 cm
Sheet: 111 x 158 cm
Edition of 10 + 2 AP
Category
1970s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Christmas Swim
- Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Christmas Swim
1954 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, ...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
Fishermen at Seine, Paris, France 1950s, 12, 2 X 16, 7 cm
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 1950.
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
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Brooklyn Two, NY, 2010
By Bill Phelps
Located in Hudson, NY
Through light and shadow, a gaze, a mindset, Bill Phelps fourth solo show at the Robin Rice Gallery VISITOR inspires the imagination. About life, about being, eye and heart his great...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons,
C.Z. Guest With Her Great Dane
Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American socialite C.Z. Guest (Mrs Winston F.C. Guest) (1920 - 2003) with a large Great Dane dog, at her Grecian temple pool on the ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, Palm Beach, Flo...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
Guns N
Roses Appetite for Destruction 40x60 Signed Photography Cassette Tape
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
* SPECIAL 1STDIBS PRICE
A contemporary photograph of Guns N' Roses iconic "Appetite for Destruction" cassette tape.
This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The M...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
"Syrens No 2" Landscape Nude Photography 24" x 36" in Ed. 1/15 by Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Syrens No 2" Landscape Nude Photography 24" x 36" in Ed. 1/15 by Larsen Sotelo
Not framed. Ships in a tube
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Comes with COA issued by the artist.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Color Rock
Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American
Located in Surfside, FL
Hatay is a visual artist, photographer, healer and a former Rock and Roll photojournalist.
the yellow photocopied poster/info sheet is not included.
Born in Scotland of a Hungarian...
Category
20th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Color
Thanksgiving Day, Ledyard, Connecticut - Family, Meal, Mirror, Dinner, Interior
By Jack Delano
Located in Denton, TX
Thanksgiving Day, Ledyard, Connecticut by Jack Delano is a black and white photograph of a family eating their Thanksgiving meal, seen through the reflection of a mirror, with pies s...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Syrens No 2" Black
White Photography 40" x 60" in Ed. 1/3 by Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Syrens No 2" Black & White Photography 40" x 60" in Ed. 1/3 by Larsen Sotelo
Not framed. Ships in a tube
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Comes with COA issued by the artist.
A...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
"Air Jordan" 40x50 Nike, Michael Jordan, Pop Art 1stDibs Exclusive
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Air Jordan" is an acrylic photomosaic artwork by Destro. The first release in a series mosaic works called "Icons". Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$400 Sale Price
20% Off
Galope and Galope Dos. From Motion Series
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Cohete's ritual with movement and the male dancer formations, inhabits his black and white theater-like habitat. Like light; always in motion.
The harsh lights and shadows in the wa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Suriname, People, Women, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 24, 5 x 24 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
Pink Hawaiian Scenes 1957 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Hawaiian Scenes
1957
A couple aboard a yacht in Hawaii, USA, 1957
by Toni Frissell
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Archival pigment print
unframed
(framing available ...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Terry O
Neill
Brigitte Bardot Hands On Hips
Located in New York, NY
Brigitte Bardot, Hands on Hips, 1971
Silver gelatin print
72 x 48 inches
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 50
with certificate of authenticity.
Brigitte Bardot ...
Category
1970s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ecuador, Man, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 24, 1 x 23, 1 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, Palm Tree, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 23, 5 x 17, 2 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
"Twisted Words" Nude Photography 42" x 30" in Edition 1/7 by Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Twisted Words" Nude Photography 42" x 30" in Edition 1/7 by Larsen Sotelo
Not framed. Ships in a tube
Giclee (Archival Ink) print on 310G Platine Fibre Cotton Rag w/satin finish
S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Disco, Bill Bernstein Set of Four Photographs
By Bill Bernstein
Located in New York, NY
Bill Bernstein
Disco
c. 1970
Set of four Photographs
These iconic images not only document the people and places of the golden age of disco, but also capture the spirit and intensit...
Category
1970s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
NEW Slim Aarons
Lilly Pulitzer And Florence
Flo
Pritchet
Mid-century Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American fashion editor Florence 'Flo' Pritchett Smith (left) and American fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer at a poolside luncheon, Palm Beach, Florida, 1961.
Slim Aarons
Lilly Puli...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
Milton Greene, "Bowler Hat II" from the Black Sitting, original vintage photo
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original vintage photograph by Milton Greene in 1956. This photograph depicts Hollywood Icon Marilyn Monroe, who was a close friend and business partner of the artist. This piece is a part of Greene's series entitled "The Black Sitting...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Rolling Stones Colour Out of Our Heads
By David Bailey
Located in London, GB
David Bailey
Rolling Stones Colour Out of Our Heads, 1968
Archival Inkjet on paper
Signed by the artist, on verso
Image: 50.8 x 50.8 cm
Sheet: 58...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Private Island, Philippines
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Private Island
1973
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Mary Lau Toda's private island in the Ph...
Category
1970s Modern Photography
Materials
Lambda
Paul and Linda McCartney
By Henry Diltz
Located in Missouri, MO
Paul and Linda McCartney, 1971
Henry Diltz (American, b. 1938)
Photo Print
Laid to Foamcore Board
17 x 11 inches (image)
20 x 16 inches (overall)
Hand-signed Lower Right
Titled and D...
Category
1970s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Color
Slim Aarons
Beauty and the Beast
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a tiger skin rug in the trophy room at socialite Laddie Sanford's home in Palm Beach, Florida, 1959.
Slim Aarons
Beauty and the Beast
19...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson
Fiona Campbell-Walter for Vogue, July 1951
Located in New York, NY
Fiona Campbell-Walter (later Baroness Thyssen) on an English beach wearing an Estrava coat with a raffia hat from Eaton. British Vogue, July 1951
Fiona Campbell-Walter for Vogue, Ju...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons
La Canzone Del Mare
1958 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
La Canzone del Mare in Capri, Italy, July 1958.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 102 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printed in 2025
Limit...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Philadelphia, PA
By Don Donaghy
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, titled, and dated in blue ink on print margin.
American street photographer Don Donaghy (1936 - 2008 b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), was a fourth-generation native of Philad...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Heart - Desert Flower
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Desert Flower is a project created by Guilherme Licurgo in collaboration with the iconic Martha Graham Dance Company, using the dancers, Graham technique, and original costumes. Imag...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Portrait of Madonna, Color Digital Pigment Print by Alan Herr
By Alan Herr
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alan Herr, American (1954 - )
Title: Madonna
Medium: Digital Print Photograph, Signed in Marker
Size: 19 x 13 inches
Category
1980s Modern Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Slim Aarons
Harriet De Rosiere in Cannes
Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Harriet De Rosiere in Cannes
1958
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
CAPTION: Viscountess Harriet de Rosiere ...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Lambda
Rome, Men, Street Photography, Black and White, Italy, 1950s, 23, 4 x 17, 1 cm
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 1950.
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
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Marilyn on the Roof - Marilyn Monroe Ambassador Hotel New York City Skyline
By Ed Feingersh
Located in Brighton, GB
American actress and the original Blonde Bombshell Marilyn Monroe smiles as she looks out at New York City.
Monroe is photographed leaning over the edge of the high-class Ambassado...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Extraction of Marble Blocks - Vintage Photo - 1910s
Located in Roma, IT
Extraction of Marble Blocks is a Silver Salt print realized in the 1910s.
From Alinari archive.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1910s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$179 Sale Price
25% Off
Transportation of Marble Blocks - Vintage Photo - 1910s
Located in Roma, IT
Transportation of Marble Blocks is a Silver Salt print realized in the 1910s.
From Alinari archive.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1910s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$179 Sale Price
25% Off
Transportation of Marble Blocks - Vintage Photo - 1910s
Located in Roma, IT
Transportation of Marble Blocks is a Silver Salt print realized in the 1910s.
From Alinari archive.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1910s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$170 Sale Price
25% Off
Saint Tropez Beach - Topless Sunbathing Nude Portrait French Riviera Beaches
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Saint Tropez Beach - Topless Sunbathing Nude Portrait French Riviera Beaches by Slim Aarons
16 x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
E...
Category
20th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
Transportation of Marble Blocks - Vintage Photo - 1910s
Located in Roma, IT
Transportation of Marble Blocks is a Silver Salt print realized in the 1910s.
From Alinari archive.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1910s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$179 Sale Price
25% Off
Transportation of Marble Blocks - Vintage Photo - 1910s
Located in Roma, IT
Transportation of Marble Blocks is a Silver Salt print realized in the 1910s.
From Alinari archive.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1910s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$179 Sale Price
25% Off
Transportation of Marble Blocks - Vintage Photo - 1910s
Located in Roma, IT
Transportation of Marble Blocks is a Silver Salt print realized in the 1910s.
From Alinari archive.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1910s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$179 Sale Price
25% Off
Transportation of Marble Blocks - Vintage Photo - 1910s
Located in Roma, IT
Transportation of Marble Blocks is a Silver Salt print realized in the 1910s.
From Alinari archive.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1910s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$179 Sale Price
25% Off
Venice - Gondolas on Waterfront, Italy, 1950s, 17, 3 x 11, 5 cm
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 1950.
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
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Authorization for the Fiera of S. Giustino in Chieti - 1789
Located in Roma, IT
Authorization for the Fiera of S. Giustino in Chieti realized in 1789.
Written in the Italian language.
Good conditions.
Category
1780s Modern Photography
Materials
Paper
$269 Sale Price
25% Off
Mil Besos Eva Maria Garrido Garcia Yerbabuena Outskirts of Sevilla Spain
Located in New York, NY
From a small edition of 25, this stunning selenium toned silver gelatin print was realized by the esteemed Colombian fine artist/ photographer Ruven Afanador in 2007. Inspired by the lyrical poetry of Federico García Lorca...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ingressi di Milano. viale Giustiniano 5, Interior Architecture Photography
Located in Los Angeles, CA
36 x 50 cm, 14.2 x 19.7 in. (unframed)
Inkjet Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Paper
Edition of 15
The photographer
Matthew Billings is a Berlin-based photographer and video artist who...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Norman Parkinson
Montgomery Clift in New York, 1952
Located in New York, NY
American actor Montgomery Clift photographed in New York for British Vogue, November 1952.
Montgomery Clift in New York, 1952
Silver gelatin print
Estate stamped and numbered editio...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Autographed Portrait of Dieter Borsche - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed portrait of Dieter Borsche is a beautiful b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the smoking German actor with big pier...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Sunbathing Antibes, 1976 - Hotel du Cap Eden Roc French Riviera Nude
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Sunbathing Antibes, 1976 - Hotel du Cap Eden Roc French Riviera Nude by Slim Aarons
16 x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
Sunbathin...
Category
20th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
Beach At Saint Tropez 1977 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beach At Saint Tropez
Sunbathers on the beach at St. Tropez, France, 1977.
60x40” / 152 x 101 cm - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Pri...
Category
1970s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Barbara Mullen
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Barbara Mullen, 1960
C print
40 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
Irish-American fashion model Barbara Mullen photographed with dogs b...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
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.