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Item Ships From: Bay Area
Bert Hardy
Mercedes Racer
Limited Edition Photograph by Getty, 20x24
Located in San Rafael, CA
Argentinian race car driver Juan Fangio (1911 - 1995) in his Mercedes at Le Mans, June 1955. The race saw the death of Mercedes team mate Pierre Levegh and 80 spectators. Original Pu...
Category
1950s Modern Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Michael Ochs
Brigitte Bardot
Limited Edition Photographic Print, 20 x 30
By Michael Ochs
Located in San Rafael, CA
Brigitte Bardot with cigarette in hand by photographer Michael Ochs, originally taken in 1962. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
As an authorized Getty Images Gallery partner, we...
Category
1960s Modern Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Woman With Flag, Mexico City
By Tina Modotti
Located in Carmel, CA
From a Portfolio printed by Mother Jones. Authorized copy. Stunning reproduction. Limited Edition. Certification of Authenticity.
Embossed with stamp stating from the original negat...
Category
1920s Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Platinum
Picasso, President de la Comida, Frejus
By Lucien Clergue
Located in Carmel, CA
Excellent Condition, Framed upon purchase,
Purchased from Photography West Gallery, Carmel CA.
Print by artist
1988 Copyright
The silver metalframe is 20.25" x 16.25"
Category
1960s Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Spectral (Kings Road) - unique solarized gelatin silver artist print
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In Kings Road (2022) Mona Kuhn lyrically reconsiders the realms of time and space within the midcentury architectural elements of the iconic Schindler House in Los Angeles. Built by Austrian architect Rudolph M. Schindler in 1922, the house was both a social and design experiment and an avant-garde hub for intellectuals and artists in the 1920s and ’30s.
The body of works incorporates chromogenic color prints, reflecting vignettes and materials of the building's emotional architecture, juxtaposition with unique solarized gelatin silver prints capturing traces of an ethereal human presence.
Spectral (2022)
Kings Road: A Rudolph Schindler House
30" x 40" / 76cm x 102cm /edition of 12
15" x 20" / 38cm x 56cm / edition of 12
limited edition solarization photograph printed by the artist + accompanied by signed artist certificate:
artist signature label (8x10")
signed/editioned/dated/titled by the artist + stamped for authenticity
label is placed centered on verso of the mounted print
__________________
About the artist
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art.
For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Stanley/Barker Editions published Kuhn's Bushes & Succulents in 2018. In 2021, Thames & Hudson published a career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn's most recent publication Kings Road (2022) with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum traveling exhibition shown in Europe and the US.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris; The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London; Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland; Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and Australian Centre for Photography. Mona Kuhn lives and works in Los Angeles.
__________________
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Mona Kuhn: Y Tu Desnudo será Un Gran Poema, Museum of Contemporary Art, Malaga, Spain
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Lianzhou Museum of Photography, China
2024
Mona Kuhn: The Schindler House, A Love Affair, Galerie XII...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Pacific Diver
Limited Edition Photograph by Getty Images 16 x 16
Located in San Rafael, CA
Circa 1950: Swimmer diving into rough water lashing against rocky cliffs at Acapulco, the Riviera of Mexico. (Photo by Evans/Three Lions/Getty Images)
As ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Realm (Kings Road) - unique solarized gelatin silver artist printed photograph
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In Kings Road (2022) Mona Kuhn lyrically reconsiders the realms of time and space within the midcentury architectural elements of the iconic Schindler House in Los Angeles. Built by Austrian architect Rudolph M. Schindler in 1922, the house was both a social and design experiment and an avant-garde hub for intellectuals and artists in the 1920s and ’30s.
The body of works incorporates chromogenic color prints, reflecting vignettes and materials of the building's emotional architecture, juxtaposition with unique solarized gelatin silver prints capturing traces of an ethereal human presence.
Realm (2022)
Kings Road: A Rudolph Schindler House
30" x 40" / 76cm x 102cm /edition of 12
15" x 20" / 38cm x 56cm / edition of 12
true size solarized gelatin silver print
printed at artist darkroom in Los Angeles (10 days handling time)
original photograph accompanied by signed artist certificate:
artist signature label (8x10")
signed/editioned/dated/titled by the artist + stamped for authenticity
label is placed centered on verso of the mounted print
__________________
About the artist
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art.
For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Stanley/Barker Editions published Kuhn's Bushes & Succulents in 2018. In 2021, Thames & Hudson published a career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn's most recent publication Kings Road (2022) with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum traveling exhibition shown in Europe and the US.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris; The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London; Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland; Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and Australian Centre for Photography...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Michael Ochs
Brigitte Bardot
Archival Photograph by Getty, 20 x 16
By Michael Ochs
Located in San Rafael, CA
Brigitte Bardot with cigarette in hand by photographer Michael Ochs, originally taken in 1962. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
As an authorized Getty Images Gallery...
Category
1960s Modern Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Ali in Training
by R. McPhedran, Archival Photograph by Getty, 20x16
Located in San Rafael, CA
American heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali throws bare-handed punches in the ring while in training for his fight against Brian London, London, England, August 1966. (Photo by R. McPhed...
Category
1960s Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Reg Lancaster
Francoise Hardy
Limited Edition Photographic Print, 20x30
By Reg Lancaster
Located in San Rafael, CA
1969: French singer, Francoise Hardy sitting on a motorbike. (Photo by Reg Lancaster/Express/Getty Images)
As an authorized Getty Images Gallery partner, we offer premium quality pr...
Category
1950s Modern Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Harry Benson
Ali in Training
Limited Edition Photographic Print, 30 x 30
By Harry Benson
Located in San Rafael, CA
American Heavyweight boxer Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali), training in his gym, 21st May 1965. (Photo by Harry Benson/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
As an authorized Getty ...
Category
1960s Modern Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Reg Lancaster
Birkin and Gainsbourg
Limited Edition Photographic Print, 30x40
By Reg Lancaster
Located in San Rafael, CA
By photographer Reg Lancaster, English actress Jane Birkin and French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, at home in Paris, 1969.
As an authorized Getty Images Gallery partner, we ...
Category
1960s Modern Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Hungry Elephant
Archival Photographic Print by Getty, 20x16
Located in San Rafael, CA
An elephant named Mae West accepts an apple from a passing tram driver while taking her morning exercise along Gray's Inn Road, London, 16th December 1936. Mae is helping to publicis...
Category
1930s Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Portrait of Miss N. (Evelyn Nesbit)
Located in Carmel, CA
Photogravure from Camera Work Issue #1
Great Condition
Loose attached by tape - see pictures.
Over matted.
Was framed upon purchase in 80's
Category
Late 19th Century Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Harry Benson
Ali in Training
Limited Edition Photographic Print, 40 x 40
By Harry Benson
Located in San Rafael, CA
American Heavyweight boxer Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali), training in his gym, 21st May 1965. (Photo by Harry Benson/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
As an authorized Getty ...
Category
1960s Modern Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Kirk Hutton
Commissionaire
s Dog
Archival Photographic Print by Getty, 20x16
Located in San Rafael, CA
A hotel commissionaire talking to a small dachshund dog in Piccadilly Circus, London. Original Publication: Picture Post - 2 - In The Heart of the Empire - pub. 1938 (Photo by Kurt H...
Category
1930s Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Victoria, Portrait of a beautiful woman
Located in Carmel, CA
Framing available.
A stunning powerful photograph. Tom Millea was known for his exceptional platinum printing.
Loose print.Signed.
8x12" pigment print
Category
1970s Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Platinum
Cheetah Who Shops
Archival Photograph by Getty, 20x16
Located in San Rafael, CA
American silent film actress Phyllis Gordon (1889 - 1964) window-shopping in Earls Court, London with her four-year-old cheetah who was flown to Britain from Kenya. (Photo by B C Par...
Category
1930s Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Pacific Diver
Limited Edition Photograph by Getty Images 24 x 24
Located in San Rafael, CA
Circa 1950: Swimmer diving into rough water lashing against rocky cliffs at Acapulco, the Riviera of Mexico. (Photo by Evans/Three Lions/Getty Images)
As ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Michael Caine Throwing a Punch
Limited Edition Photograph by Archetti, 20x16
By Stephan C Archetti
Located in San Rafael, CA
English actor Michael Caine, throwing a punch, August 1965. (Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images).
As an authorized Getty Images Gallery partner, we offer premium quality...
Category
1960s Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Cheetah Who Shops
Archival Photograph by Getty, 30x40
Located in San Rafael, CA
American silent film actress Phyllis Gordon (1889 - 1964) window-shopping in Earls Court, London with her four-year-old cheetah who was flown to Britain from Kenya. (Photo by B C Par...
Category
1930s Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Head of David Bowie
Limited Edition Photographic Print by Getty, 30x40
Located in San Rafael, CA
British pop singer David Bowie in concert at Earl's Court, London during his 1978 world tour. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)
As an authorized Getty Images Gallery partner,...
Category
1960s Modern Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Ali in Training
by R. McPhedran, Limited Edition Photograph Print, 20x30
Located in San Rafael, CA
American heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali throws bare-handed punches in the ring while in training for his fight against Brian London, London, England, August 1966. (Photo by R. McPhed...
Category
1960s Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Harry Benson
Ali in Training
Limited Edition Photographic Print, 20 x 20
By Harry Benson
Located in San Rafael, CA
American Heavyweight boxer Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali), training in his gym, 21st May 1965. (Photo by Harry Benson/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
As an authorized Getty ...
Category
1960s Modern Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Reg Lancaster
Yves Saint Laurent
Limited Edition Photographic Print, 20x16
By Reg Lancaster
Located in San Rafael, CA
April 7, 1965: Yves Saint-Laurent, ex-wonder boy of Dior, working at his own fashion house in Paris. (Photo by Reg Lancaster/Express/Getty Images)
As an authorized Getty Images Gall...
Category
1960s Modern Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Nun in the Shadows, Costa Rica
Located in Carmel, CA
A abstract image of a nun at a art deco building.
Taken at San Jose Costa Rica Airport.
Hand printed by artist.
Silver gelatin photograph, dry mounted on board.
Available in other si...
Category
Early 2000s Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$240 Sale Price
60% Off
Peter Ruck
Shaken Not Stirred
Archival Photograph by Getty 30x30
Located in San Rafael, CA
An iconic image by the photographer Peter Ruck. Roger Moore, downs a Martini, July 17th, 1968. Moore had recently been awarded his second Bravo Otto award for most popular television...
Category
1960s Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Hungry Elephant
Archival Photographic Print by Getty, 30x40
Located in San Rafael, CA
An elephant named Mae West accepts an apple from a passing tram driver while taking her morning exercise along Gray's Inn Road, London, 16th December 1936. Mae is helping to publicis...
Category
1930s Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Brave (Kings Road) - unique solarized gelatin silver artist print
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In Kings Road (2022) Mona Kuhn lyrically reconsiders the realms of time and space within the midcentury architectural elements of the iconic Schindler House in Los Angeles. Built by Austrian architect Rudolph M. Schindler in 1922, the house was both a social and design experiment and an avant-garde hub for intellectuals and artists in the 1920s and ’30s.
The body of works incorporates chromogenic color prints, reflecting vignettes and materials of the building's emotional architecture, juxtaposition with unique solarized gelatin silver prints capturing traces of an ethereal human presence.
Brave (2022)
Kings Road: A Rudolph Schindler House
30" x 40" / 76cm x 102cm /edition of 12
15" x 20" / 38cm x 56cm / edition of 12
limited edition solarization photograph printed by the artist + accompanied by signed artist certificate:
artist signature label (8x10")
signed/editioned/dated/titled by the artist + stamped for authenticity
label is placed centered on verso of the mounted print
__________________
About the artist
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art.
For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Stanley/Barker Editions published Kuhn's Bushes & Succulents in 2018. In 2021, Thames & Hudson published a career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn's most recent publication Kings Road (2022) with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum traveling exhibition shown in Europe and the US.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris; The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London; Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland; Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and Australian Centre for Photography. Mona Kuhn lives and works in Los Angeles.
__________________
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Mona Kuhn: Y Tu Desnudo será Un Gran Poema, Museum of Contemporary Art, Malaga, Spain
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Lianzhou Museum of Photography, China
2024
Mona Kuhn: The Schindler House, A Love Affair, Galerie XII...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Martha Graham 2
By Imogen Cunningham
Located in Carmel, CA
Rondal Partridge Silver Gelatin Estate Print
Embossed Imogen Cunningham signature on mat, labeled on verso.
Dry mounted outer dimensions 16x20"
Category
Mid-20th Century Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Peter Ruck
Shaken Not Stirred
Archival Photograph by Getty 16x16
Located in San Rafael, CA
An iconic image by the photographer Peter Ruck. Roger Moore, downs a Martini, July 17th, 1968. Moore had recently been awarded his second Bravo Otto award for most popular television...
Category
1960s Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Cheetah Who Shops
Archival Photograph by Getty, 20x24
Located in San Rafael, CA
American silent film actress Phyllis Gordon (1889 - 1964) window-shopping in Earls Court, London with her four-year-old cheetah who was flown to Britain from Kenya. (Photo by B C Par...
Category
1930s Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Grace (Kings Road) - unique solarized gelatin silver artist print
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In Kings Road (2022) Mona Kuhn lyrically reconsiders the realms of time and space within the midcentury architectural elements of the iconic Schindler House in Los Angeles. Built by Austrian architect Rudolph M. Schindler in 1922, the house was both a social and design experiment and an avant-garde hub for intellectuals and artists in the 1920s and ’30s.
The body of works incorporates chromogenic color prints, reflecting vignettes and materials of the building's emotional architecture, juxtaposition with unique solarized gelatin silver prints capturing traces of an ethereal human presence.
Grace (2022)
Kings Road: A Rudolph Schindler House
30" x 40" / 76cm x 102cm /edition of 12
15" x 20" / 38cm x 56cm / edition of 12
limited edition solarization photograph printed by the artist + accompanied by signed artist certificate:
artist signature label (8x10")
signed/editioned/dated/titled by the artist + stamped for authenticity
label is placed centered on verso of the mounted print
__________________
About the artist
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art.
For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Stanley/Barker Editions published Kuhn's Bushes & Succulents in 2018. In 2021, Thames & Hudson published a career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn's most recent publication Kings Road (2022) with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum traveling exhibition shown in Europe and the US.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris; The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London; Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland; Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and Australian Centre for Photography. Mona Kuhn lives and works in Los Angeles.
__________________
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Mona Kuhn: Y Tu Desnudo será Un Gran Poema, Museum of Contemporary Art, Malaga, Spain
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Lianzhou Museum of Photography, China
2024
Mona Kuhn: The Schindler House, A Love Affair, Galerie XII...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Wallace Nutting Antique Hand Colored Photograph c.1910 Pencil Signed
By Wallace Nutting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Wallace Nutting Antique Hand Colored Photograph
Photo dimensions 75" wide x 9.5" high
The frame measures 14" wide x 18" high
The pho...
Category
Early 20th Century Photorealist Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Native American Girl Death Valley
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed Platinum Photograph.
Tom Millea was well known for his printing. He loved Death Valley and even made a portfolio of it.
This is a loose print.
Category
1990s Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Platinum
Bert Hardy
Mercedes Racer
Limited Edition Photographic Print by Getty, 20x16
Located in San Rafael, CA
Argentinian race car driver Juan Fangio (1911 - 1995) in his Mercedes at Le Mans, June 1955. The race saw the death of Mercedes team mate Pierre Levegh and 80 spectators. Original Pu...
Category
1950s Modern Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Untitled 20259 - silver gelatin print - male bodybuilder figure
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Casado - Untitled 20259, Unique silver gelatin print.
image = 14 5/8 x 22 or 37 x 55.9 centimeters / ppr 20 x 24 horizontal
Each photographic print from John Casado is sold as ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ali in Training
by R. McPhedran, Authentic Getty Photograph Print, 20x24
Located in San Rafael, CA
American heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali throws bare-handed punches in the ring while in training for his fight against Brian London, London, England, August 1966. (Photo by R. McPhed...
Category
1960s Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Peter Ruck
Shaken Not Stirred
Archival Photograph by Getty 20x20
Located in San Rafael, CA
An iconic image by the photographer Peter Ruck. Roger Moore, downs a Martini, July 17th, 1968. Moore had recently been awarded his second Bravo Otto award for most popular television...
Category
1960s Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Tiger Lady
Archival Photograph by Getty Images 16 X 16
Located in San Rafael, CA
March 16, 1971: Air Stewardess Cynthia Robertson models the new uniform for National Airlines. A synthetic tiger skin number, the new uniform will be worn by over 1000 stewardesses....
Category
1970s Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Ansel Adams, Photographer
By Imogen Cunningham
Located in Carmel, CA
Rondal Partridge Silver Gelatin Estate Print
Embossed Imogen Cunningham signature on mat, labeled on verso.
Dry mounted outer dimensions 16x20"
Category
1950s Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Joseph McKeown
Need for Speed
Grand Prix Archival Photograph by Getty 20x24
By Joseph McKeown
Located in San Rafael, CA
July 17, 1954: Argentinian racer Juan Manuel Fangio (1911 - 1995) chalks up a win for the Mercedes team at the French Grand Prix in Reims. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7209 -...
Category
1950s Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Pacific Diver
Limited Edition Photograph by Getty Images 20 x 20
Located in San Rafael, CA
Circa 1950: Swimmer diving into rough water lashing against rocky cliffs at Acapulco, the Riviera of Mexico. (Photo by Evans/Three Lions/Getty Images)
As ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Tiger Lady
Archival Photograph by Getty Images 20x20
Located in San Rafael, CA
March 16, 1971: Air Stewardess Cynthia Robertson models the new uniform for National Airlines. A synthetic tiger skin number, the new uniform will be worn by over 1000 stewardesses....
Category
1970s Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Jorena Pettway sorting peas inside her smokehouse. Gee
s Bend Alabama
By Marion Post Wolcott
Located in Carmel, CA
Historical important photograph by one of the greatest woman photographers.
In great condition. Matted to 16x20.
Marion Post Wolcott
Jorena Pettway sorting peas inside her smokehouse...
Category
1930s Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$2,400 Sale Price
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Bald Man Dan
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed Platinum Photograph.
Tom Millea was well known for his printing. He loved Death Valley and even made a portfolio of it.
This is a loose print.
Category
1980s Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Platinum
Circus trio / tumbling family / children three framed phoos
By Nina Dietzel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Three framed contemporary black and white photographs featuring tumbling children, from when the artist visited a Romanian family circus during her travels.
Dietzel’s diverse proje...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
John Minihan
Yves Saint Laurent
Limited Edition Photographic Print, 20 x 16
Located in San Rafael, CA
By photographer John Minihan, Yves Saint Laurent, French designer with two fashion models, Betty Catroux (left) and Loulou de la Falaise, outside his 'Riv...
Category
1960s Modern Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Circus No. 1 / tumbling family/children - framed
By Nina Dietzel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Contemporary black and white photograph featuring tumbling children, from when the artist visited a Romanian family circus during her travels.
Dietzel’s diverse projects include ph...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
Circus No. 2 / gymnastics family/children - framed
By Nina Dietzel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Gymnastics boy tumbling in this contemporary black and white photograph featuring children from when the artist visited a Romanian family circus during her European travels.
Dietze...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
Reg Lancaster
Francoise Hardy
Limited Edition Photographic Print, 30x40
By Reg Lancaster
Located in San Rafael, CA
1969: French singer, Francoise Hardy sitting on a motorbike. (Photo by Reg Lancaster/Express/Getty Images)
As an authorized Getty Images Gallery partn...
Category
1950s Modern Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Reg Lancaster
Birkin and Gainsbourg
Limited Edition Photographic Print, 20x16
By Reg Lancaster
Located in San Rafael, CA
By photographer Reg Lancaster, English actress Jane Birkin and French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, at home in Paris, 1969.
As an authorized Getty Images Gallery partner, we ...
Category
1960s Modern Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Woman Reflecting in the Window
By Michael Andreas Russ
Located in San Francisco, CA
This photograph "Woman Reflecting in the Window" c.1980 is an original gelatin silver print by famous German photographer and artist Michael Andreas Russ, born 1945. The photograph size is 7.15 x 9.35 inches. It is in excellent condition.
About Michael Andreas Russ.
Michael Andreas Russ (born January 1945 in Berlin) is an German/American photographer, photo designer and film director. Russ' career as a photographer began in New York in the late 1960s where he photographed his fellow acting students. Self-taught, he eventually moved to his own studio off Union Square, Manhattan and connected with the local underground art scene. Photograph by Russ was published on the cover of “Art Direction Magazine of Visual Communication” with a Gertrude Stein quotation: “The composition in which we live makes the art which we see and hear” In his early years Russ focused on men's fashion magazines and erotic sequential photographic scenes for Playboy Press books. He eventually experimented with distinctive photographic techniques, turning 35mm black and white film into chemically toned, masked, solarized and hand colored, one of a kind silver gelatin prints. These 'TinTones' as Russ would call them eventually became the trademark of his work. They were published in popular fashion and lifestyle magazines and brought him international recognition in the art world. His work was published in major fashion, lifestyle and avant-garde magazines, GUNNARS, Mode International, Mode Avant Guarde, PHOTO Magazine, Zoom (photography magazine), as well as German Playboy (magazine), Photo Reporter and cover art to IL Magazine. He also contributed sequential 'sujets de chambre' to Vogue magazine His erotic postcard edition "The Compagnie" became part of the permanent collection of the Musée des arts décoratifs de Paris, an annex to the Louvre museum.
Selected Exhibitions.
1980: Musee des Arts Decoratifs (Louvre Annex, Paris). "Postcard edition The Compagnie"
1983: China Club...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Face
By Michael Andreas Russ
Located in San Francisco, CA
This photograph "face" c.1980 is an original gelatin silver print by famous German photographer and artist Michael Andreas Russ, born 1945. The photograph size is 10 x 14.75 inches, framed is 17.15 x 21 inches. It is framed in a wooden maple frame. It is in excellent condition.
About Michael Andreas Russ.
Michael Andreas Russ (born January 1945 in Berlin) is an German/American photographer, photo designer and film director. Russ' career as a photographer began in New York in the late 1960s where he photographed his fellow acting students. Self-taught, he eventually moved to his own studio off Union Square, Manhattan and connected with the local underground art scene. Photograph by Russ was published on the cover of “Art Direction Magazine of Visual Communication” with a Gertrude Stein quotation: “The composition in which we live makes the art which we see and hear” In his early years Russ focused on men's fashion magazines and erotic sequential photographic scenes for Playboy Press books. He eventually experimented with distinctive photographic techniques, turning 35mm black and white film into chemically toned, masked, solarized and hand colored, one of a kind silver gelatin prints. These 'TinTones' as Russ would call them eventually became the trademark of his work. They were published in popular fashion and lifestyle magazines and brought him international recognition in the art world. His work was published in major fashion, lifestyle and avant-garde magazines, GUNNARS, Mode International, Mode Avant Guarde, PHOTO Magazine, Zoom (photography magazine), as well as German Playboy (magazine), Photo Reporter and cover art to IL Magazine. He also contributed sequential 'sujets de chambre' to Vogue magazine His erotic postcard edition "The Compagnie" became part of the permanent collection of the Musée des arts décoratifs de Paris, an annex to the Louvre museum.
Selected Exhibitions.
1980: Musee des Arts Decoratifs (Louvre Annex, Paris). "Postcard edition The Compagnie"
1983: China Club...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
German Actor Frank Horst, Hamburg 1989
By Michael Andreas Russ
Located in San Francisco, CA
This photograph titled "Frank Horst, Hamburg 1989" is an original gelatin silver print by famous German photographer and artist Michael Andreas Russ, born 1945. It is signed, titled...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
John Minihan
Yves Saint Laurent
Limited Edition Photographic Print, 20 x 24
Located in San Rafael, CA
By photographer John Minihan, Yves Saint Laurent, French designer with two fashion models, Betty Catroux (left) and Loulou de la Falaise, outside his 'Riv...
Category
1960s Modern Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Hungry Elephant
Archival Photographic Print by Getty, 20x24
Located in San Rafael, CA
An elephant named Mae West accepts an apple from a passing tram driver while taking her morning exercise along Gray's Inn Road, London, 16th December 1936. Mae is helping to publicis...
Category
1930s Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Block Party. NYC
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed photograph.
Entered in a local county fair in 2000 won 1st prize.
Singed in pencil on recto & verso.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Gerry Cranham
Sundial Hat
Archival Photograph by Getty Images 20x24
By Ed Feingersh
Located in San Rafael, CA
British dancer Rosemary Andree wearing a sunhat with a clock face design on a summer's day at the Roehampton Pool. (Photo by Gerry Cranham/Getty Images)
As an authorized Getty Image...
Category
1950s Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Gerry Cranham
Sundial Hat
Archival Photograph by Getty Images, 20x16
Located in San Rafael, CA
British dancer Rosemary Andree wearing a sunhat with a clock face design on a summer's day at the Roehampton Pool. (Photo by Gerry Cranham/Getty Images)
As an authorized Getty Image...
Category
1950s Contemporary Bay Area - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
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