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Item Ships From: Continental US
Persephone V ( 24" x 19" )
By Erik Pawassar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Persephone V by Erik Pawassar 24 x 19 inches (61 x 48cm) edition of 25 signed 40 x 31 inches (102 x 79cm) edition of 25 signed 62 x 48 inches (157 x 122cm) edition of 7 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Pigment, Archival Pigment

Golden State I -study of a desert botanical phenomenon California s super bloom
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Golden State I by Frank Schott a photography study of a rare desert botanical phenomenon, California's "superbloom", a rare desert botanical phenomen...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Giclée

Donkey Basketball
By Luke Smalley
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print Stamped and numbered, verso 20 x 24 inches (Edition of 10) 30 x 40 inches (Edition of 5) This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Please n...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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C Print

Capitol Wrestling - Color Group Portrait, Sports, Athletes, Locker Room
By Neal Slavin
Located in Denton, TX
Capitol Wrestling by Neal Slavin is a color group portrait featuring 8 men posing in a locker room, wearing little clothes except red and black underwear and matching shoes. The Capi...
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1970s Modern Continental US - Color Photography

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Digital Pigment

The wish.
By Maggie Taylor
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
In 1981 Maggie Taylor (b. 1961) began to photograph while she was a student at Yale University majoring in philosophy. She primarily took photographs of suburban landscapes and stran...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Continental US - Color Photography

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Digital Pigment

Ochre Room, Havana, Cuba
By David Burdeny
Located in New York City, NY
Ochre Room, Havana, Cuba, 2014 Edition of 10 + 2AP Archival Pigment Print Framed “These works present my abiding interest in the thresholds that divide and connect the sea to land. ...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Social Call, Estate Edition Photograph, Acapulco
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1972—Charley Weaver makes a poolside phone call under a white fringe umbrella on a cream rotary phone at Las Brisas in Acapulco, Mexico. She wears a yello...
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1970s Realist Continental US - Color Photography

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Lambda

Warriors. From Searching a Mother Series. Photomontage
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color

New York City, Portrait Photograph, Artist Louise Bourgeois in her Studio
By Jean-Michel Voge
Located in New york, NY
A unique print of Louise Bourgeois, in her studio, New York City, 1992 by Jean-Michel Voge. This is a 17" x 23" archival pigment print on Japanese Awagami handmade paper in an editio...
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1990s Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Arc...

Karine - 21st Century, Portrait Photography, Contemporary, Color
By Tao Ruspoli
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Karine - 2018 Edition of 10, 30x20cm. Archival Print. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. Tao Ruspoli (born 7 November 1975) is an Italian-American filmmaker, phot...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Color, Photographic Paper, C Print

Still Life with Shells. Flowers. Digital Collage Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
As an artist, He is fascinated by the opulence and richness of still life of the golden age of Dutch painting in the 17th c. These works, of course, symbolize mortality and the temporal nature of material goods. In his still life, He built these images with the same symbolic references but with the best quality, you can get. By playing with light and dark, He captures the beauty of every flower and each object down to the smallest detail. In addition to photography, he uses high-resolution scans to achieve extreme detail. He use photography as a base, but in the end, he arrive at an image that nobody could actually shoot as a photograph.He is not a photographer in the traditional sense, but he does take many pictures and he needs a lot of layers. In his still life of flowers and objects, he creates a balance between objects and living materials with light and shadow and the best quality. He created the photographic illusion of a painting from the golden age in a new tech way by scanning every object individually and combining these with photographs that he took. The construction takes a lot of time and months of post-production. In his work, everything has to be perfect. It’s like a movie. The light and color have to be right. (It is quite obsessive work.) He loves the idea of “the impossible image” – the idea of there being no limits and of using the photograph as the basis for an image that’s in his head. Zoltan Gerliczki...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Continental US - Color Photography

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Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment

Rose-Colored Dream - 60x72cm, Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid, Interior
By Lisa Toboz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Rose-Colored Dream - 2018, 60x72cm, Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proof, 20x24cm, Digital Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemühle photo rag paper, not mounted. Signed on ...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid

Imaginary Landscape 3
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Igor Vitomirov has over 15 years experience of working in photography. He loves nature and people and expressing their interactions with different emotions. Igor's...
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2010s Continental US - Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Carrara II (framed) - large format photograph of iconic Italian marble quarry
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Signed large scale original photograph with "frameless" glass face mounting of the Mediterranean marble quarries in Carrara, Italy, iconic material source of classic Italian art and ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Plexiglass, Giclée, Archival Pigment

Jimi Hendrix classic color by Gered Mankowitz
By Gered Mankowitz
Located in Austin, TX
Jimi Hendrix “Classic Color” 1967 by Gered Mankovitz Available is the following sizes, signed and numbered by Gered Mankowitz. 16x20” - Edition 50 20x24" - Edition 50 30x40” - Edit...
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Late 20th Century Photorealist Continental US - Color Photography

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C Print

Dished
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Demise The subject is the conflation of woman and home. The woman is camouflaged among her domestic objects, activities, and obsessions. The still-life narratives co...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Dima and Sergey
By Michal Chelbin
Located in New York, NY
Signed and numbered, verso This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. “The Black Eye” continues Michal Chelbin’s exploration of the world of athletes and perfor...
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Early 2000s Continental US - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons, Great Harbour Cay Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A horseshoe beach on Great Harbour Cay, Bahamas, March 1973. Slim Aarons Great Harbour Cay 1973 C print (Printed later) Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 wit...
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1970s Modern Continental US - Color Photography

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C Print

Magic Mountain III (Memories of Green)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Magic Mountain III (Memories of Green) - 2003 Edition of 10, 58x56cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper. based on an expired Polaroid, Artist...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Aerial View of Surfboard on the Sand on Oahu, Color Photography, Horizontal
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Cast in Sand" In this iconic image, a lone surfboard sits on the velvety-smooth sand on Oahu, while the water's imprint helps to create this minimal composition. The print serie...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Travis Cantrell, 21st Century, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Edition 25 Portrait of Travis Cantrell. From personality portraits and advertising campaigns to magazine layouts and fine art work, Greg Gorman has developed a unique style in his profession. His distinctive use of light in his black and white portraits is one of the identifying aspects of a Gorman photograph. Gorman’s strength has been photographing motion picture and music personalities. His work has been used in film advertising and publicity campaigns as well as album and CD covers. Some of the motion picture celebrities that he has photographed include Ben Affleck, Lauren Bacall, Alec Baldwin, Antonio Banderas, Kim Basinger, Marlon Brando, Pierce Brosnan, Kevin Costner, Bette Davis, Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Andy Garcia, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Dustin Hoffman, Sophia Loren, Al Pacino, Barbra Streisand, Kiera Knightley, Clive Owen, Jennifer Lopez and John Travolta. In the music field, Mr. Gorman has worked with Elton John, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Morrissey, John Mayer, Bette Midler, Grace Jones and Frank Zappa to name a few. A partial list of the films that he has generated graphics and publicity for include “The Hurt Locker”, “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “King Arthur”, “Tootsie”, “The Big Chill”, “Bull...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Shades of Pale - abstract photograph of painterly details of blue toned wall
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Shades of Pale (Wallscape) by Frank Schott from a series of photographic observances capturing urban textures and wallscape color palettes 48 x 66 inches / 122cm x 168cm edition o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

Daydream 01-2
Located in New York, NY
THIS PIECE IS AVAILABLE FRAMED. Please reach out to the gallery for additional information. ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Minjin Kang and Mijoo Kim are a creative duo, who have been inspirin...
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2010s Continental US - Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Slim Aarons, Algarve Hotel Pool Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests in the pool at the Algarve Hotel, the Algarve, Portugal, 1970 Slim Aarons Algarve Hotel Pool 1970. (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with ...
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1970s Modern Continental US - Color Photography

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C Print

Hidden Valley (Till Death Do Us Part)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hidden Valley (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005 78x77cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid Signature label and Certificate. artist Inventor...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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Photographic Paper, Color Pencil, C Print, Polaroid, Archival Paper

A fine romance.
By Maggie Taylor
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
In 1981 Maggie Taylor (b. 1961) began to photograph while she was a student at Yale University majoring in philosophy. She primarily took photographs of suburban landscapes and stran...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Continental US - Color Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

Tutus no. 3, Half Moon Bay, California
By Thomas Jackson
Located in Sante Fe, NM
“The hovering installations featured in this ongoing series of photographs are inspired by self-organizing, "emergent" systems in nature such as termite mounds, swarming locusts, sch...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Gasoline III (Stranger than Paradise) - 20th Century, Contemporary, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Gasoline III (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 Edition 10, 120x120cm, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid, Not mounted, Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No. 271.01 Exhibition photos from the solo show 'Rough Cuts' at the Susanne Vielmetter gallery, LA Projects. The works of Stefanie Schneider evoke Ed Ruscha's obsession with the American experience, the richness of Georgia O'Keefe's deserts and the loneliness of Edward Hopper's haunting paintings. So how exactly did this German photographer become one of the most important artists of the American narrative of the 20th and 21st century? In this captivating artwork, we are drawn into the enigmatic world captured by Stefanie Schneider, where a solitary man, lost in his own thoughts, embarks on a journey while engulfed in a cloud of smoke...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Sunrise Along a Remote Stretch of Beach, Color Photography, Horizontal
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Blush" During Drew's journey to photograph the icons of the American West, this stretch of coast in Oregon presented one of the most beautiful sunrises he had ever seen. Inspired...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Endless Summer No 11
By Jessica Nugent
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Jessica C. Nugent is a photographer from California known for her contemporary images of nature. She uses her graphic design background to create an emotional conn...
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2010s Continental US - Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Dancing Fabric, Orange on Purple
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Neal Grundy is a freelance photographer with almost 20 years experience. He studied at Falmouth College of Arts in Cornwall, UK. Neal is adept in a range of lens b...
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2010s Continental US - Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Dancing Fabric, Purple and Red
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Neal Grundy is a freelance photographer with almost 20 years experience. He studied at Falmouth College of Arts in Cornwall, UK. Neal is adept in a range of lens b...
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2010s Continental US - Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Wild West II - large scale photograph of iconic landscape of American West
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Wild West II by Frank Schott 27 x 40 inches / 68cm x 102cm edition of 25 signed 48 x 71 inches / 122cm x 180cm edition of 7 signed archival museum quality fine art pigment print limited art edition published by Edition EKTAlux artist signed + numbered certificate of authenticity ________________________ Frank Schott grew up in Germany and attended the prestigious Academy of Arts in Cologne, studying under Professor Arno Jansen, who was an early influence. Moving to California in 1998, Schott's work has evolved to include the epic landscapes and deserts of the American West as well as architectural, conceptual and more formal environments from both home and his travels. Influenced by a number of photographic peers and precursors such as Candida Höfer, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, Ed Rusha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée

Massimo Listri Castello di Rivoli
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Castello di Rivoli 2007 Chromogenic print Edition of 5 Italian, b. 1954, Florence, Italy, based in Florence, Italy Massimo Listri travels his native Italy and the world with his ca...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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C Print

The bird watchers.
By Maggie Taylor
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
In 1981 Maggie Taylor (b. 1961) began to photograph while she was a student at Yale University majoring in philosophy. She primarily took photographs of suburban landscapes and stran...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Continental US - Color Photography

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Digital Pigment

Welcome to my office.
By Maggie Taylor
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
In 1981 Maggie Taylor (b. 1961) began to photograph while she was a student at Yale University majoring in philosophy. She primarily took photographs of suburban landscapes and stran...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Continental US - Color Photography

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Digital Pigment

Time will tell.
By Maggie Taylor
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
In 1981 Maggie Taylor (b. 1961) began to photograph while she was a student at Yale University majoring in philosophy. She primarily took photographs of suburban landscapes and stran...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Continental US - Color Photography

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Digital Pigment

Tulle - large format abstract photograph of mesmerizing haute couture fabric
By Christian Stoll
Located in San Francisco, CA
TULLE by Christian Stoll an epic scale photograph of mesmerizingly tactile fashion textile details 40 x 30 inches / 122cm x 76cm signed edition of 25 64 x 48 inches / 163cm x 122cm...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Transmission lines, Atacama Desert, Chile, 17 July, 2017
By Jamey Stillings
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Transmission lines, Atacama Desert, Chile, 17 July, 2017, limited edition, Ariel color photograph, limited edition, signed ATACAMA: Renewable Energy and Mining in the High Desert of Chile CHANGING PERSPECTIVES: Renewable Energy and the Shifting Human Landscape is a long-term aerial and ground-based photography project documenting global renewable energy development. Chile is the world's leading copper exporter and the second-largest lithium producer. We use Chilean copper...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

When there s nobody worth talking to.
By Maggie Taylor
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
In 1981 Maggie Taylor (b. 1961) began to photograph while she was a student at Yale University majoring in philosophy. She primarily took photographs of suburban landscapes and stran...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Continental US - Color Photography

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Digital Pigment

"Clouds #7" (2024) By Tal Paz-Fridman, Limited Photo Print, 36 x 24 in
By Tal Paz-Fridman
Located in Denver, CO
Explore the exclusive limited editions of Tal Paz-Fridman's collection, with each captivating piece available in four select sizes. Limited to just 10 editions each, you can choose f...
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2010s Continental US - Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Pegasus
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Atlas Shrugged 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Not Mounted.
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1990s Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color

Pegasus
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The Mystic - Circle of Magic (29 Palms, CA)- Polaroid, Figurative, Woman
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Mystic - Circle of Magic (29 Palms, CA), - 2009 Edition 3/5 , 37x47cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on a Polaroid, Artist i...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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Metal

Dreaming with open eyes.
By Maggie Taylor
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
In 1981 Maggie Taylor (b. 1961) began to photograph while she was a student at Yale University majoring in philosophy. She primarily took photographs of suburban landscapes and stran...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Continental US - Color Photography

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Digital Pigment

Dreamer Pool
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: Beauty, elegance and fierce attitude defines Elena’s eye-catching work. She is known for her high impact colorful portraits. Her style is permeated with the passion for highly aesthetic, strong and elegant imagery, with saturated colors and play of light. Diving into her world means opening the doors of a minimalist and stylized world in which sublime female models play freely to the camera. ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Originally from Russia, Elena Iv...
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2010s Continental US - Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Elephant in the room.
By Maggie Taylor
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
In 1981 Maggie Taylor (b. 1961) began to photograph while she was a student at Yale University majoring in philosophy. She primarily took photographs of suburban landscapes and stran...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Continental US - Color Photography

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Digital Pigment

Hemisphere II (framed) - large scale abstract photograph of liquid cloudscapes
By Christian Stoll
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale glass mounted photography of mesmerizing color compositions of liquid cloudscape painting in water, hypnotizing abstract liquidscapes f...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Plexiglass, Giclée

Welcome to the water planet.
By Maggie Taylor
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
In 1981 Maggie Taylor (b. 1961) began to photograph while she was a student at Yale University majoring in philosophy. She primarily took photographs of suburban landscapes and stran...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Continental US - Color Photography

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Digital Pigment

Vanilla.
By Maggie Taylor
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
In 1981 Maggie Taylor (b. 1961) began to photograph while she was a student at Yale University majoring in philosophy. She primarily took photographs of suburban landscapes and stran...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Continental US - Color Photography

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Digital Pigment

H2O ll -large format photograph of sun reflections on pool water surface
By Erik Pawassar
Located in San Francisco, CA
mesmerizing light reflections of glistening sunlight on turquoise aquamarine water surface, an homage to the iconic pool reflections paintings by artist David Hockney H2O ll by Erik Pawassar 27 x 40 inches (69 x 102cm) signed edition of 25 48 x 72 inches (122 x 183cm) signed edition of 7 archival quality fine art pigment print limited art edition published by Edition EKTAlux artist signed + numbered certificate of authenticity ________________________ About the artist Erik Pawassar's work focuses on the beauty of the disregarded or mundane object. The subjects for his striking and captivating visuals are typically set in the most ordinary environments, drawing the viewer into a charged but serene experience based on composition, palette and formal lines. Saturated in color, the nominal subjects gather a haunting and mesmerizing quality, creating a poignant pretext for the making of a formal color photograph. Decisively capturing the traces left by humanity, Pawassar's images are filled with a sense of universal nostalgia and pay homage to the passage of time and the extinguished moment, referencing documentary and street photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastian Salgado...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Giclée, Archival Pigment

Rolando. From The series Buscando Papá. Photomontage
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper

Empire State
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Minjin Kang and Mijoo Kim are a creative duo, who have been inspiring and influencing each other since their Master's thesis back in academia. Collectively, they p...
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2010s Continental US - Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Engulfment - Cartagena 9. From the series Engulfment. Framed
By Javier Rey
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The first encounter I had with the abyss, was arriving to a place that does not exist, a point suspended in time where I am without being. An unreal world expands in front of me, eve...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Living in a Dream (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Living in a Dream (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No. 9781. Not mounted. on offer is a piece from the movie "Till Death do us Part" Stefanie Schneider’s Till Death Do Us Part or “There is Only the Desert for You.” BY DREW HAMMOND Stefanie Schneider’s Til Death to Us Part is a love narrative that comprises three elements: 1. A montage of still images shot and elaborated by means of her signature technique of using Polaroid formats with outdated and degraded film stock in natural light, with the resulting im ages rephotographed (by other means) enlarged and printed in such a way as to generate further distortions of the image. 2. Dated Super 8 film footage without a sound track and developed by the artist. 3. Recorded off-screen narration of texts written by the actors or photographic subjects, and selected by the artist. At the outset, this method presupposes a tension between still and moving image; between the conventions about the juxtaposition of such images in a moving image presentation; and, and a further tension between the work’s juxtaposition of sound and image, and the conventional relationship between sound and image that occurs in the majority of films. But Till Death Do Us Part also conduces to an implied synthesis of still and moving image by the manner in which the artist edits or cuts the work. First, she imposes a rigorous criterion of selection, whether to render a section as a still or moving image. The predominance of still images is neither an arbitrary residue of her background as a still photographer—in fact she has years of background in film projects; nor is it a capricious reaction against moving picture convention that demands more moving images than stills. Instead, the number of still images has a direct thematic relation to the fabric of the love story in the following sense. Stills, by definition, have a very different relationship to time than do moving images. The unedited moving shot occurs in real time, and the edited moving shot, despite its artificial rendering of time, all too 2009often affords the viewer an even greater illusion of experiencing reality as it unfolds. It is self-evident that moving images overtly mimic the temporal dynamic of reality. Frozen in time—at least overtly—still photographic images pose a radical tension with real time. This tension is all the more heightened by their “real” content, by the recording aspect of their constitution. But precisely because they seem to suspend time, they more naturally evoke a sense of the past and of its inherent nostalgia. In this way, they are often more readily evocative of other states of experience of the real, if we properly include in the real our own experience of the past through memory, and its inherent emotions. This attribute of stills is the real criterion of their selection in Til Death Do Us Part where consistently, the artist associates them with desire, dream, memory, passion, and the ensemble of mental states that accompany a love relationship in its nascent, mature, and declining aspects. A SYNTHESIS OF MOVING AND STILL IMAGES BOTH FORMAL AND CONCEPTUAL It is noteworthy that, after a transition from a still image to a moving image, as soon as the viewer expects the movement to continue, there is a “logical” cut that we expect to result in another moving image, not only because of its mise en scène, but also because of its implicit respect of traditional rules of film editing, its planarity, its sight line, its treatment of 3D space—all these lead us to expect that the successive shot, as it is revealed, is bound to be another moving image. But contrary to our expectation, and in delayed reaction, we are startled to find that it is another still image. One effect of this technique is to reinforce the tension between still and moving image by means of surprise. But in another sense, the technique reminds us that, in film, the moving image is also a succession of stills that only generate an illusion of movement. Although it is a fact that here the artist employs Super 8 footage, in principle, even were the moving images shot with video, the fact would remain since video images are all reducible to a series of discrete still images no matter how “seamless” the transitions between them. Yet a third effect of the technique has to do with its temporal implication. Often art aspires to conflate or otherwise distort time. Here, instead, the juxtaposition poses a tension between two times: the “real time” of the moving image that is by definition associated with reality in its temporal aspect; and the “frozen time” of the still image associated with an altered sense of time in memory and fantasy of the object of desire—not to mention the unreal time of the sense of the monopolization of the gaze conventionally attributed to the photographic medium, but which here is associated as much with the yearning narrator as it is with the viewer. In this way, the work establishes and juxtaposes two times for two levels of consciousness, both for the narrator of the story and, implicitly, for the viewer: A) the immediate experience of reality, and B) the background of reflective effects of reality, such as dream, memory, fantasy, and their inherent compounding of past and present emotions. In addition, the piece advances in the direction of a Gesammtkunstwerk, but in a way that reconsiders this synaesthesia as a unified complex of genres—not only because it uses new media that did not exist when the idea was first enunciated in Wagner’s time, but also because it comprises elements that are not entirely of one artist’s making, but which are subsumed by the work overall. The totality remains the vision of one artist. In this sense, Till Death Do Us Part reveals a further tension between the central intelligence of the artist and the products of other individual participants. This tension is compounded to the degree that the characters’ attributes and narrated statements are part fiction and part reality, part themselves, and part their characters. But Stefanie Schneider is the one who assembles, organizes, and selects them all. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THIS IDEA (above) AND PHOTOGRAPHY This selective aspect of the work is an expansion of idea of the act of photography in which the artistic photographer selects that which is already there, and then, by distortion, definition or delimitation, compositional and lighting emphasis, and by a host of other techniques, subsumes that which is already there to transform it into an image of the artist’s contrivance, one that is no less of the artist’s making than a work in any other medium, but which is distinct from many traditional media (such as painting) in that it retains an evocation of the tension between what is already there and what is of the artist’s making. Should it fail to achieve this, it remains, to that degree, mere illustration to which aesthetic technique has been applied with greater or lesser skill. The way Til Death Do Us Part expands this basic principle of the photographic act, is to apply it to further existing elements, and, similarly, to transform them. These additional existing elements include written or improvised pieces narrated by their authors in a way that shifts between their own identities and the identities of fictional characters. Such characters derive partially from their own identities by making use of real or imagined memories, dreams, fears of the future, genuine impressions, and emotional responses to unexpected or even banal events. There is also music, with voice and instrumental accompaniment. The music slips between integration with the narrative voices and disjunction, between consistency and tension. At times it would direct the mood, and at other times it would disrupt. Despite that much of this material is made by others, it becomes, like the reality that is the raw material of an art photo, subsumed and transformed by the overall aesthetic act of the manner of its selection, distortion, organization, duration, and emotional effect. * * * David Lean was fond of saying that a love story is most effective in a squalid visual environment. In Til Death Do Us Part, the squalor of the American desert...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Stories will be told.
By Maggie Taylor
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
In 1981 Maggie Taylor (b. 1961) began to photograph while she was a student at Yale University majoring in philosophy. She primarily took photographs of suburban landscapes and stran...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Continental US - Color Photography

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Digital Pigment

Inside the Magic
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: "As a self-portrait artist, I use the observation of my surroundings, personal experiences, and my own personal growth to create conceptual images. I am a highly po...
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2010s Continental US - Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Stellar stories.
By Maggie Taylor
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
In 1981 Maggie Taylor (b. 1961) began to photograph while she was a student at Yale University majoring in philosophy. She primarily took photographs of suburban landscapes and stran...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Continental US - Color Photography

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Digital Pigment

Only on Thursdays.
By Maggie Taylor
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
In 1981 Maggie Taylor (b. 1961) began to photograph while she was a student at Yale University majoring in philosophy. She primarily took photographs of suburban landscapes and stran...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Continental US - Color Photography

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Digital Pigment

HOPE ( framed ) - 4 individual conceptual photographs spelling motivational word
By Christian Stoll
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale conceptual environmental still life photographs playing with viewer's perspective creating individual letters from found objects spelling the word HOPE H-O-P-E by Christian Stoll Incredible details in this body of work: focusing in on this epic photograph work, you will find yourself lost in the artwork's details. Reminiscent of the appropriation artwork of Vik Muniz, Christian Stoll arranges everyday objects to spell letters of the alphabet. Only at close inspection does the viewer realize he/she is looking at an actual photograph, created in camera rather than with digital manipulation. _________________________ Artwork can be installed vertically, horizontally, square or across multiple walls 4 individual photographs individual artwork size 24 x 24 inches (61 x 61cm) horizontal artwork composition 24 x 96 inches (61 x 244cm) vertical artwork...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Continental US - Color Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Plexiglass, Archiv...

Spode Blue Italian with Lime, limited edition, archival photograph, signed
By JP Terlizzi
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Spode Blue Italian with Lime,, limited edition, archival photograph, signed and numbered. The Good Dishes integrates memory, legacy, and metaphor ...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

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