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Item Ships From: California
Renée
s Dream - Jules and Jim X - 29 Palms, CA
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Jules and Jim X' (Renée's Dream) from the 29 Palms, CA series - 2007
50x49cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signat...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Honey, I love you (Till Death do us Part) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Honey, I love you (Till Death do us Part) - 2007
20x24cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist In...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Fall (The Last Picture Show)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fall (The Last Picture Show) - 2006,
50x49cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inv...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Mafia Wife in Training, Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
By Caitlin Fowler
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
‘Mafia Wife in Training’ Vanessa does housework. Photographed at the Georgian Terrace Hotel. 2018, 20x20cm, Edition 1/10, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid photographs, Certificate and Signature label, not mounted
'I have often found a companion in the camera, a partner that allows me a way to communicate how I see things in my mind. The element of chance, the imperfections, the saturated colors, all give each unique Polaroid a surreal, dreamy quality that I only experience otherwise in my dreams.’
Coming from a background as a model and actress, getting behind the camera feels like a natural step in the creative process for Caitlin Fowler...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Reinventing oneself, I - Polaroid, Contemporary, Color, 21st Century
By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Reinventing oneself, I - 2019,
20x20cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label with certificate.
Artist inventory ...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Porcelain II - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 23x35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
"Porcelain II" captures a young naked woman floating in dark waters, their pale form creating ethereal ripples against the black backdrop. This underwater fine art photograph showcas...
Category
2010s Naturalistic California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
$720 Sale Price
20% Off
Hot Spring - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 25"x35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater nude photograph of a beautiful young woman on red background.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print on archival paper signed by the artist.
Limited edition of 1...
Category
2010s Photorealist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$720 Sale Price
20% Off
Peace Pants by Drew Carolan - Punk Fashion Photography
By Drew Carolan
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Peace punks embraced the ethos including the peace sign which to many was strictly for hippies. Not the case during the greed of the Reagan 1980’s. Selected from the Drew Carolan’s m...
Category
1980s California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Protest
Survive
By Drew Carolan
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Selected from the Drew Carolan monograph MATINEE All Ages On The Bowery. Shot against a white seamless on the corner of Bleecker St. and Bowery in New York City in the early 1980's w...
Category
1980s California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hereafter (The Last Picture Show)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hereafter (The Last Picture Show) - 2005,
50x49cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label.
Artis...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Porcelain II - underwater nude photograph - print on paper 16" х 24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
"Porcelain II" captures a young naked woman floating in dark waters, their pale form creating ethereal ripples against the black backdrop. This underwater fine art photograph showcas...
Category
2010s Naturalistic California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Irresistible (Strange Love) - Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Irresistible (Strange Love) - 2007 -
48x60cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and certificate.
Artist Inventory N...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Levitate (Bombay all Day) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women, 21st Century
By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Levitate (Bombay all Day) 2019
20x20cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid,
not mounted.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist ...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Matilda (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Matilda (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2019
50x49cm,
Edition of 10. plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory 22234.
Sign...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Blue Fall - underwater photograph - archival pigment print 17x22"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
"Blue Fall" exemplifies contemporary underwater fine art photography, merging surrealism with dynamic motion capture. In this ethereal composition, a figure ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$640 Sale Price
20% Off
Blue Pool (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog, Portrait
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blue Pool (Suburbia) 2004
50x49cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
The project "Subur...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Bubble Dance- underwater photograph - print on paper 18” x 24”
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This striking underwater fine art photograph captures a naked figure partially draped in vivid red fabric, surrounded by a constellation of air bubbles. The predominantly monochromat...
Category
2010s Photorealist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$560 Sale Price
20% Off
Bent Mirror - underwater nude photo - print on aluminum 8 x 12"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater black and white photograph of a topless young female dancer in the pool.
Original print on aluminum plate with solid black backboard. The artwork needs no additional fram...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
$480 Sale Price
20% Off
Poolside Entertaining, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. The ...
Category
1970s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Happiness (Suburbia) - with Radha Mitchell - Contemporary, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Happiness (Suburbia) - 2004
28x37cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signature label with Certificate,
Not mounted.
Artist Inventory # 1706.
The works of S...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Poolside Entertaining, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. The ...
Category
1970s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Poolside Entertaining, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. The ...
Category
1970s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Poolside Entertaining, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. The ...
Category
1970s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Poolside Chic, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. The ...
Category
1970s Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Dusting (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dusting (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
with Heather Megan Christie
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certif...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
A Gift - Contemporary, Figurative, Woman, Polaroid, Photograph, 21st Century
By Lisa Toboz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Gift -
40x50cm.
Edition 1/10 plus 2 Artist Proof.
Archival Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemühle photo rag paper.
Signature label and certificate.
Not mounted.
abo...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Nebula - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Abstract, 21st Century, Mermaid, Bl
By Josey Cary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Nebula #1, 2014, 10x15", Edition of 3/10.
digital C-Print, based on an edited Polaroid Spectra film.
Hand-signed and numbered by the artist on the back.
Not mounted.
Exhibitions:
B...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Gilded Beauty - observation on iconic French master paintings and gilded frames
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
a series of large scale observations on French master paintings and their opulent gilded frames
GILDED BEAUTY by Frank Schott
40 x 32 inches...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Dancing Flowers - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment 47" x 35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This ethereal underwater photograph captures a topless female figure draped in flowing turquoise tulle, suspended against a dramatic black backdrop. Vibrant magenta flowers float at ...
Category
2010s Photorealist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
David Bowie by Jeffrey Mayer - Ziggy Stardust #1 - Color Concert Photo
By Jeffrey Mayer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Concert photo of David Bowie and the Spider from Mars’ from their ground breaking Ziggy Stardust tour that garnered positive press and critical acclaim....
Category
1970s Performance California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, Archival Pigment
Three Girls II (The Last Picture Show)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Three Girls II (The Last Picture Show) - 2006,
50x49cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label.
...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper
Friday Fishing - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 23x17"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This evocative underwater fine art photograph captures a figure gracefully enveloped in fishing net beneath crystalline turquoise waters. The composition features luminous aquamarine...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Slow Motion (blue) - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment 23.5" x 16"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A beautiful and mysterious underwater photograph of a young naked woman slowly falling down through the pool water. Her strong body drops a bizarre shadow on the bottom of the pool ...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
"Free Fallin" Photography 18" x 27" in Edition of 24 by Larsen Sotelo
By Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Free Fallin" Photography 18" x 27" in Edition of 24 by Larsen Sotelo
Not framed. Ships in a tube
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Comes with COA
Available sizes:
Edition of 24...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Small Town Love - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Portrait, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Small Town Love' (Last Picture Show), 2006, 20x20cm, Edition 3/10.
Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No 1029.15,
not mounted
...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Conversation, Morrocco (Morocco)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Conversation, Morrocco (Morocco)" c.1998, is a photograph by American artist Lisa Kristine, b.1965. It is stamp signed and titled on the back. The photograph siz...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Other Medium
Porcelain III - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 43" x 64"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater photograph of a naked young woman on neutral black background.
Porcelain - aside from being an exquisite material - is the name of my project. The premise of the proj...
Category
2010s Naturalistic California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$1,520 Sale Price
20% Off
Bent Mirror - underwater photograph - print on paper 17 x 23.5"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white photograph of a topless young female dancer in the pool.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print on archival paper signed by the artist, furnis...
Category
2010s Photorealist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Memories of Green I, triptych, analog, hand printed, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Memories of Green I, triptych, - 2003
Edition of 5,
each 58x56cm, installed with gaps 58x178cm,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Porcelain II - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 35x52"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
"Porcelain II" captures a young naked woman floating in dark waters, their pale form creating ethereal ripples against the black backdrop. This underwater fine art photograph showcas...
Category
2010s Naturalistic California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
$1,040 Sale Price
35% Off
Skywhale (Stay) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Contemporary, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay'. Featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie's ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Wasted Sunset Smoggy Purple - Vibrant Palm Tree Pop Photography Art
By Marco Pittori
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marco Pittori has always worked with photography. He uses either his own or licensed photographs, such as photographs from the renowned Los Angeles photographer Brad Elterman. "Brad’s photos provide a rare, often raunchy glimpse into a rock and roll history where it seems Brad is always at the right place at the right time, camera ready.” Pittori collects and edits the images, adding additional points of interest throughout the photograph. Marco Pittori was born 1978. He lives and works in Switzerland and has been exhibiting internationally since 1999.
This artwork is a colorful depiction of the palm-lined streets of Los Angeles. This mixed media artwork has been created through a combination of screen printing and painting. Convenient local Los Angeles shipping and affordable international shipping also available. A certificate of authenticity issued by Artspace Warehouse is included.
Pittori's work has been collected and exhibited internationally since 1999. Some of his public collectors include the Ramones Museum in Berlin, the Bank of Baselland, and the Gunter Sachs Collection.
Public Works / Collections
2013 Sammlung Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank, Liestal
2013 Sammlung Migros Bank, Base
2012 Ramones Museum, Berlin
2012 Sammlung Arthur Cohn
2011 Nachlass Sammlung Gunter Sachs
2008 / 2010 Rist management, Switzerland
2006 Gruner AG, Basel
2006 Psychiaterische services, Liestal, Switzerland
2005 Bank of Baselland, Liestal, Switzerland
2004 / 2007 Birshof clinic, Münchenstein, Switzerland
2003/2004/2005 Kantonalbank Baselland, Liestal, Switzerland
2002 / 2004 Cantonal Hospital, Liestal, Switzerland
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2012 Sichtbar Hamburg, kuratiert von Cosma Shiva Hagen
2011 Arlesheim Apartments
2010 Galerie Eulenspiegel "Cafe Dallas", Basel, Switzerland
2007 Galerie Louise Grossenbach, Winterthur, Switzerland
2004 / 2006 Coop, Muttenz, Switzerland
2002 / 2004 Cantonal Hospital, Liestal, Switzerland
2002 Castle fields estate, Basel, Switzerland
1999 Pathologie, Basel, Switzerland
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2013 Gallery Lumas, Zurich, Vienna, Munich
2013 Cultural Association Muttenz, Switzerland
2013 Peach Editions, New York
2013 Galerie Hamburg Kennedy, New York
2012 Galerie Eulenspiegel "Nude Hollywood", Basel, Switzerland
2011 Galerie Zero, Art Plan-B Project, Berlin, Germany
2011 Kunst und Stadthalle Zug, "Pop Art in Zug", Switzerland
2011 Galerie Ohne Titel, Winterthur, Switzerland
2011 Artspace Warehouse, Basel Junction L.A., Los Angeles
2010 Gallery Lumas, New York
2010 Kunstwarenhaus, Zurich, Switzerland
2010 Workshop Wolfensberger, Atelier Exhibition with Dominique Lämmli, Celcile Wick, Samuel Burri, Switzerland
2010 International Symposium on lithography, Tidaholm, Sweden
2010 "pop art train" with Sam Shaw...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Mermaids - a book of underwater nude and ocean wildlife photographs
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
The book “Mermaids” has the best of Alex Sher’s underwater photography for eight years (2010-2018). It blends human erotics with the beauty of the ocean wildlife - transforming the c...
Category
2010s Photorealist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Magazine Paper
$80 Sale Price
20% Off
Young Duke (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - Polaroid, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Young Duke (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2017
20x24cm,
Edition of 10.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Artist inventory 22245.
Signature label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
The 'Chicks and Chicks' series is part of my Desert Living Project, which encompasses all aspects of organic...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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 California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
10 to Midnight - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Figurative, Portrait
By Clare Marie Bailey
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
10 to Midnight (The Visit Series) - 2018
Edition of 10 - 40 x 40 cm -
Archival C-Print based on the original 600 Polaroid, not mounted.
Signed on back and certificate.
The Visit ...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Hot Spring - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 16.6x23.5"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater nude photograph of a beautiful young woman on red background.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print on archival paper signed by the artist.
Limited edition of 1...
Category
2010s Photorealist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Kelp Mermaid - underwater ocean nude photograph - archival pigment print 24x35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater ocean photograph of a naked girl swimming in kelp forest. Her beautiful body is surrounded with kelp trees. The photograph was taken in Pacific Ocean near the Palos Ver...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Headless (Stay) featuring Ewan McGregor
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Headless (Stay) - 2006
featuring Ewan McGregor
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #5084.
Not mounted.
Torsten Scheid, “Fotografie, Kunst, Kino. Revisited.”, FilmDienst 3/2006, page 11-13
Photography Art Cinema. Revisited
Stay expands a traditional connection through new facets
Interwoven between the media of photography and film is a veritable mesh-work of technical, motific, metaphorical and personal interrelationships. Extending from photo-film which, as in La Jetée by Chris Marker (France, 1962) is a montage of single, unmoving photographs all the way to the portrayal of photographic motifs in Hollywood cinema―most recently in Memento (USA, 2000) and One hour photo (USA, 2002)―is the range of filmic-photographic interactions on the one hand, and from the adaption of modes of cinematic production to the imitation of film stills on the other. For instance, with the legendary Untitled Film Stills (1978) of the American artist Cindy Sherman, who later made her debut as a film director with Office Killer (USA, 1997) and thereby, like many others, changed sides: Wim Wenders, Robert Frank and Larry Clark are doubtlessly the most successful of these photographic-filmic border crossers. This brief survey provides only a vague indication of the dimensions of this intermedial field, which in fact extends much further and is constantly being cultivated.
Also as a motif in film, photography has experienced a historical transformation: Photographers were once considered to be technicians who mastered a craft but never achieved the status of artists. Photographer-figures were caught in the allure of beautiful appearance, incapable of penetrating to the actual essence of things. Such depth was reserved for literature or painting. When photography in film touched upon the sphere of art, then most often as its contrasting model, as the metaphor for a superficial access to the world. Coming to mind are Fred Astaire as a singing fashion photographer in Stanley Donen’s musical film Funny Face (USA, 1957), or the restless lifestyle-photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni’s genre-classic Blow up (GB, 1966). For the doubting Thomas, only that exists which can be photographed. He ultimately enters the world of fantasy and thereby the field of art only unwillingly, when he becomes entangled in the world of his images. The last of his detail-enlargements shows only the photographic grain and has lost all connection to reality. The photograph looks as if it had been painted by Bill, the painter who is both friend and antagonist to the protagonist.
Photography as Art
It was first around the end of the last century that numerous filmmakers discovered photography as a genuine art form. In The Bridges of Madison County (USA, 1995) a sensitive Clint Eastwood stands, camera in hand, on the threshold of artistic status, and in Smoke (USA, 1994) a tobacco merchant ripens into a philosopher through his involvement in photography. Finally, in John Water’s parody of the art market, Pecker (USA, 1998), a provincial tom-fool is hyped into celebrated stardom amid the New York art scene because of his blurred snapshots. This film about a postmodern Kaspar Hauser in photographic art (with clear parallels to Richard Billingham, the British shooting...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
"Flower Thrower" - Limited Edition Fine Art Print
By Plastic Jesus
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This entire series was inspired by a piece of graffiti by the street artist Banksy in the UK. Nick Stern - who ironically has been called the Banksy of Los Angeles and goes by the street name "Plastic Jesus" -decided to set himself the challenge to recreate the original Banksy...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Love (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - Contemporary, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Love (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2018
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artis...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
On the Rocks - Contemporary, Figurative, Woman, Polaroid, Photograph, Landscape
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
On the Rocks II (Long Way Home), 1999
58x56cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist,
based on the Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature la...
Category
1990s Pop Art California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Vera Sola (Bombay Beach), 21st Century, Portrait Photography, Contemporary
By Tao Ruspoli
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Vera Sola' (Bombay Beach) - 2018
Edition of 10, 30x20cm,
Archival C-Print.
Signature label and Certificate.
not mounted.
Tao Ruspoli (born 7 November 1975) is an Italian-Ameri...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
NINE-ONE-ONE ( Porsche 911 ) - framed detailed photograph of crashed automobile
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
9-1-1 by Frank Schott
28 x 39 inches / 74cm x 102cm framed
signed edition of 25
archival fine art pigment print artist signed + numbered certificate of authenticity framed "Moder...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Acrylic Polymer, Archival Paper, G...
Palm Beach Idyll, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a couple sunbathing by the sea at Palm Beach, Florida.
This is an estate stamped and hand ...
Category
1950s American Realist California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Letter E ( 27 x 40" / 68 x 102cm )
By Christian Stoll
Located in San Francisco, CA
LETTER E by Christian Stoll
large scale conceptual photography playing with viewer's perspective
incredible details in this body of work, a series of environmental stills playing w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Melissa - 21st Century, Figurative Photography, Contemporary, Color
By Tao Ruspoli
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Melissa - 2018
Edition of 10,
20x30cm.
Archival C-Print.
Signature label and Certificate.
Tao Ruspoli (born 7 November 1975) is an Italian-American filmmaker, photographer, and musician.
He is the second son of occasional actor and aristocrat Prince Alessandro Ruspoli, 9th Prince of Cerveteri and Austrian-American actress Debra Berger. Tao was born in Bangkok, Thailand and raised in Rome and Los Angeles. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy.
Movie maker magazine singled out Ruspoli as one of the 10 Young Filmmakers To Watch in its spring 2008 issue. His feature narrative debut, Fix, was one of 10 feature films to screen in competition at the 2008 Slamdance Film Festival and soon afterward at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival where Ruspoli was awarded the Heineken Red Star Award for "most innovative and progressive filmmaker." Fix also won the Festival Award for Best Film at the 2008 Brooklyn Film Festival, Vail Film Festival and the 2008 Twin Rivers Media Festival, as well as other prizes at several international festivals. His most well-known documentary is Just Say Know, a personal discussion of his family's drug addiction. His other films include Flamenco: A Personal Journey, a feature length documentary about the flamenco way of life as it is lived by Gypsies in the south of Spain. He has directed a number of other short documentaries, including El Cable (also about Flamenco), and This Film Needs No Title: A Portrait of Raymond Smullyan (a portrait of the renowned logician, mathematician and concert pianist Raymond Smullyan). Tao founded LAFCO in 2000. The Los Angeles Filmmakers Cooperative, is a bohemian collective of filmmakers and musicians who work out of a converted school bus. Through LAFCO, Tao has produced several films and helped dozens of filmmakers to make their first films and discover the wonders of digital media. His producing credits include the feature film Camjackers, which he also acted in and co-edited. Camjackers won the best editing award at the 44th Ann Arbor Film Festival. Tao is an accomplished flamenco guitar...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
Gilded Beauty - observation on iconic French master paintings and gilded frames
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
From a series of observations on French master paintings and their opulent gilded frames
GILDED BEAUTY by Frank Schott
60 x 48 inches / 152c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Intertwining of Hands - 21st Century, Figurative Photography, Contemporary, Nude
By Tao Ruspoli
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
"Intertwining of hands and feet" - 2018
Edition of 10,
20x30cm,
Archival C- Print, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free,
Signature label and Certificate....
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
The Letter P of HOPE ( 27 x 40" / 68 x 102cm )
By Christian Stoll
Located in San Francisco, CA
LETTER P by Christian Stoll
large scale conceptual photography playing with viewer's perspective
incredible details in this body of work, a series of environmental stills playing w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
