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
Poolside Poodle Slim Aarons Limited Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Poodle
1970
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Josep...
Category
1970s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
40x50 " Hollywood Sign" Photomosaic Pop Fine Art Photography Unsigned
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Hollywood Sign" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro.
This image is made up of 100's of smaller images of Hollywood related imagery.
Archival photographic paper
Framing options ava...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lili Livi
1960 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Lili Livi'
Lili Livi poses by Lake Como, Italy, circa 1960. Lili is the daughter Madame Camilo Livi.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to ...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Bahamas Windsurfing
1983 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Bahamas Windsurfing'
Windsurfing off Lyford Cay in the Bahamas, April 1983.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aaro...
Category
1980s Modern Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Tennis In San Diego California 1956 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Tennis In San Diego' California 1956
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped
A man and a woman playing tennis on a court surrounded by palm trees, San Diego, California, Octobe...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
CZ
s Dogs
1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'CZ's Dogs'
Premium Rates Apply. circa 1955: Mrs F C Winston Guest (1920 - 2003) (aka Cee Zee Guest) with her dogs in front of the Grecian temple pool on her ocean-front estate, Vil...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
3C from The Last Photos
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This photograph of Marilyn Monroe was shot by photographer, George Barris, in 1962 at the North Hollywood home of Barris' close friend. Taken only two weeks before her death, this p...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Woodstock, Visitors
Located in Cologne, DE
From Wikipedia: Woodstock was a music festival held between August 15–18, 1969, which attracted an audience of more than 400,000. Billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music", it was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm near White Lake in Bethel, New York, 43 miles (70 km) southwest of Woodstock.
Over the sometimes rainy weekend, 32 acts performed outdoors. It is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history, as well as the definitive nexus for the larger counterculture generation. Rolling Stone listed it as number 19 of the 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll.
The event was captured in the Academy Award-winning 1970 documentary film Woodstock, an accompanying soundtrack album, and Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock", which commemorated the event and became a major hit for both Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Matthews Southern Comfort...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
El Venero 1967 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
El Venero 1967
El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Sunbathing in Capri, Catherine Wilke
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
Madonna And Child
Oversize Limited Edition Signed Print
Located in London, GB
' Madonna And Child ' Oversize Limited Edition Signed Print
by Stuart Möller
edition of 10 only this size.
unframed.
A Summer scene taken during the hottest day ever recorded in S...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hamptons Tennis Club 1955 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Hamptons Tennis Club
by Toni Frissell
Girlfriends watch the tennis at a tennis club in The Hamptons in 1955.
Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
20x16" inches / 51 x 41 cm ...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Lillian Crawford
1970 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Lillian Crawford' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Lillian Crawford, the wife of actor Lee Kinsolving, in Palm Beach, May 1970.
40 x 60" inches / 102 x 152 cm paper ...
Category
1970s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tina Onassis
1958 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Tina Onassis' 1958
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print - Oversize
1958: Athina Livanos Onassis (Tina Onassis) the first wife of Greek shipowne...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
The Old Days - Historical Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons
Jamaica Sea Sailing
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Jamaica Sea Sailing, 1953
Fiber print
Estate edition of 150
Signature stamped and hand numbered with Certificate of authenticity
1953: Two men sailing their yacht 'Eel II' in Jamaic...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Gravitas 21 From the series Gravitas by Tulio Pinto and Eduardo Rezende
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Tulio Pinto
Eduardo Rezende Gravitas explores the poetic tension between matter and body through the collaboration of sculptor Túlio Pinto and photographer Eduardo Rezende. The...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Canvas
The Old Days - Historica - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families,...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Old Days Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Days Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
It belongs to historical album including historical moment, royal families, and political...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Gravitas 20. From the series Gravitas by Tulio Pinto and Eduardo Rezende
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Tulio Pinto
Eduardo Rezende Gravitas explores the poetic tension between matter and body through the collaboration of sculptor Túlio Pinto and photographer Eduardo Rezende. The...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
Canvas, Archival Pigment
Frank Sinatra
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original photograph shot by Milton Greene circa 1950s. It depicts one of the most well known and influential musical artists of the 20th century, Frank Sinatra...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bowling - American Vintage Photograph - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bowling - American Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the U.S in the mid-20th Century in a series of American life in the 20th Century.
With th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
War in Algeria - Demonstration - Historical Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
War in Algeria - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photograph realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical events and p...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Minneapolis Three, MN, 2016
By Bill Phelps
Located in Hudson, NY
The Robin Rice Gallery announces the new exhibition VISITOR by photographer Bill Phelps.
Through light and shadow, a gaze, a mindset, Bill Phelps fourth solo show at the Robin Rice ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Portrait of Monica Seles - Photograph - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Black and white vintage photograph realized in 1990s.
Very good condition.
Category
1990s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Laszlo Willinger, "Mary Martin", original photograph from original negative
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original vintage photograph printed from the original negative, shot by Laszlo Willinger c. 1940's. It depicts the late movie and Broadway star, Mary Martin...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
A Midsummer Night
s Dream
By Bert Stern
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an offset photolithograph, originally shot by Bert Stern in 1967, and printed at a later date. It was photographed for the New York City Ballet production by George Ballachine, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" starring Arthur Mitchell...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Rockefeller Center (skate) - Vintage Print, New York City, Ice Skaters, Winter
By John Albok
Located in Denton, TX
Rockefeller Center (skate) by John Albok is a vintage print of an ice skating rink in the Rockefeller Center in New York City. Many people are skating in the background, while a figu...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
What
s It All About from The Last Sitting
By Bert Stern
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original chromogenic print that was hand developed from the original negative by Bert Stern. This photo is part of The Last Sitting portfolio, taken six weeks before...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sailor, Istanbul, 1994
Located in Hudson, NY
Each year, Robin Rice celebrates a Salon style exhibition to showcase her gallery artists and invite new ones.
With Robin’s extensive experience as a gallery curator, all Robin Rice...
Category
1990s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Kiss
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original photograph from the original negative, shot by Clarence Sinclair Bull in 1929 and printed later for the John Kobal Collection. It is part of a portfolio of...
Category
1920s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Carnations 10:48AM, Paris
Located in Hudson, NY
The Robin Rice Gallery is pleased to present Flowers, a photographic exhibition by Leonardo Pucci. Flowers is Pucci’s second solo exhibition at the Robin Rice Gallery. Paralleling hi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fui Feliz. From The Janela do Tempo series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Janela do Tempo is a visual meditation on impermanence and transformation — an ode to the fleeting nature of urban life. In a city where change is the only constant, Eduardo Rezende ...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
Canvas, Archival Pigment
Kate Moss At 16 - signed limited edition print
By Jake Chessum
Located in London, GB
An Unknown Kate Moss At 16
by Jake Chessum 1990
limited edition
edition size 20 only this size
printed 2024
Archival pigment print
numbered and signed by the artist
unframed ...
Category
1990s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Acapulco Rocks 1950 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Acapulco Rocks 1950 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
A view of a rocky outcrop on the coast at, Acapulco, Mexico, 1950.
30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collect...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Old days Photo - The Villa - Vintage Photo - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Old days Photo - The Villa is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album includin...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Old days Photo - Gathering - Vintage Photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old days Photo - Gathering is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Gravitas 19 From the series Gravitas by Tulio Pinto and Eduardo Rezende
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Tulio Pinto
Eduardo Rezende Gravitas explores the poetic tension between matter and body through the collaboration of sculptor Túlio Pinto and photographer Eduardo Rezende. The...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
Canvas, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Poolside Backgammon
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Marbella Backgammon
1970
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A group of people playing backgammon...
Category
1970s Modern Photography
Materials
Lambda
Sem Luz. From The Janela do Tempo series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Janela do Tempo is a visual meditation on impermanence and transformation — an ode to the fleeting nature of urban life. In a city where change is the only constant, Eduardo Rezende ...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
Canvas, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Cushing And Neri
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Cushing and Neri
1973
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. ...
Category
1970s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons
El Venero
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Dining Al Fresco in Capri
1980 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Italian artist and actress Domiziana Gio...
Category
1980s Modern Photography
Materials
C Print
Beaumaris Yachts, Beaumaris, Wales, 2009
By Pete Kelly
Located in Hudson, NY
Each year, Robin Rice celebrates a Salon style exhibition to showcase her gallery artists and invite new ones.
With Robin’s extensive experience as a gallery curator, all Robin Rice...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Photography
Materials
Wood, Wax, Pigment
Black Leaf
Hand Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
'Black Leaf' Hand Signed Limited Edition Print
Stuart Möller
Beautiful Archival Pigment Print of a banana leaf in Sri Lanka.
40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm ...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Portrait Charles Henri Ford by Cecil Beaton (circa 1937) - Original Vintage
By Cecil Beaton
Located in Cologne, DE
Portrait: Charles Henri Ford by Cecil Beaton (ca. 1937) - Vintage
In this striking black-and-white portrait, Charles Henri Ford stands poised against a backdrop of blooming elderflow...
Category
1930s Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Laszlo Willinger, "Hedy Lamarr", original photograph
Located in Chatsworth, CA
An original vintage photograph, shot by Laszlo Willinger in the 1940's. It depicts Austrian-born American film actress, Hedy Lamarr. Lamarr was known for...
Category
1940s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons
Poolside Backgammon
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Poolside Backgammon
1972
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obreg...
Category
1970s Modern Photography
Materials
Lambda
Women
s Rights Movement - Historical Photo -1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Women's Rights Movement - Historical Photos is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s in Italy, it belongs to an album of women rights, protests, manifestation fo...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Mother with Sons, 3rd Ward, Houston, TX
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, titled, dated and print type in pencil on print verso
Vintage gelatin silver print
Earlie Hudnall, who is one of the most notable African American photographers living today, has extensively documented the African American neighborhoods in Houston, Texas.
After serving as a Marine in Vietnam, he enrolled at Texas Southern University, where he studied art under the direction of John Biggers, who became a great friend and mentor. During his time at TSU, he was hired to be a photographer for the Model Cities Program, part of Lyndon Johnson...
Category
20th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Iva Zanicchi in Sanremo Festival 84 - Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Iva Zanicchi a Portrait is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Leaning Tower of Pisa: Italy original vintage poster 1958 - Land of Your Dreams
Located in London, GB
Pisa, Italy – Land of Your Dreams
EPT, Agaf Firenze, Italy (1958)
40x25inches
Original poster
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Visionaire. From The Billboard series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The Billboard series by photographer Eduardo Rezende unfolds as a visual dialogue between art and urban architecture — a fusion that challenges the monotony of metropolitan life. Kno...
Category
2010s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Harbour Isle Beach Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Harbour Isle Beach
Holidaymakers on the beach at Harbour Isle in the Bahamas, March 1973.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped ...
Category
1970s Modern Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
"Darling" Black
White Photography 60" x 40" in Ed. 2/3 by Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Darling" Black & White Photography 60" x 40" in Ed. 1/3 by Larsen Sotelo
Not framed. Ships in tube.
Giclee (Archival Ink) print on 310G Platine Fibre Cotton Rag w/satin finish
Sig...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Frida with Granizo, Version 2, Coyoacan - Limited Edition Black and White Photo
Located in Denton, TX
Frida with Granizo, Version 2, Coyoacan by Nickolas Muray is a limited edition platinum print featuring Mexican painter Frida Kahlo with her arm wrapped around her pet deer.
Edition...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Photography
Materials
Platinum
"Joan Crawford" by Thurston Hopkins
Located in London, GB
"Joan Crawford" by Thurston Hopkins
American actress Joan Crawford (1906 - 1977) asks her assistant to bite off a loose thread from her dress at the Dorchester Hotel...
Category
1950s Modern Photography
Materials
Black and White
Devil in the Flesh - Film of Marco Bellocchio - 1986
Located in Roma, IT
Devil in the Flesh - Film of Marco Bellocchio is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1986.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons
Relaxing in Lech
1960 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Relaxing in Lech'
A group of people sitting in the sun at the Gasthof Post hotel in the Austrian ski resort of Lech, 1960.
40 x 60" inches / 102 x 152 cm paper size
Estate St...
Category
1960s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Field Girls
1985 Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Located in London, GB
'Field Girls' 1985
by Alain Le Garsmeur
Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Mennonite girls working in fields, Spanish Lookout Settlement, Belize, Central America, June 1985.
P...
Category
1980s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Hats And Braces
1985 Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Located in London, GB
'Hats And Braces' 1985
by Alain le Garsmeur
Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Young Mennonite men from Orthodox communities in a horse-drawn buggy , Belize, Central America, J...
Category
1980s Modern Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
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.