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Item Ships From: Continental US
It Takes Two
By Anne Menke
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST:
Photographer Anne Menke occupies the unique realm where high fashion meets bohemian travel and a free spirit. Her editorial work exudes a sense of glamour often amidst a backdrop of far flung, exotic locales. Menke has photographed couture on the mountains of Peru and beauty contests on the plains of Mongolia. Her eye for the authentic-- somehow she's an insider wherever she goes-- has informed her campaigns for clients including Tommy Hilfiger, Nine West...
Category
2010s Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Untitled (Suburbia) featuring Radha Mitchell, analog
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Suburbia), 2004, Edition of 3/3, 50x60cm, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid, not mounted, signature label and Certificate, artist Inventory No...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Oldsmobile (Americana, Rusty, Classic Car, Timeless Ride, 30% OFF LIST PRICE)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Lord Fauntleroy
Oldsmobile (Americana, Rusty, Classic Car, Timeless Ride)
2024
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag 315gsm
Size: 24 x 24 in...
Category
2010s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Archival Pigment
The Deep - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Figurative, Portrait
By Clare Marie Bailey
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Deep (2019)
Edition of 10 - 40 x 40 cm
Digital C-Print based on a on a Polaroid,
Signed on back and certificate.
Not mounted.
Clare Marie Bailey
Works and Lives: UK
Clare M...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Renée
s Dream XIII (Days of Heaven) - Landscape, Horse, Polaroid, 21st Century
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Renée's Dream XIII (Days of Heaven). Part of the 29 Palms, CA project - 2006
20x20cm,
Edition of 10
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and certificate.
Artist...
Category
1990s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Man Curve, One. Motion Series. Male Sepia Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Through his exploration of bodily movement, with modern and ballet dancers, and with particular attention to the male physique, the artist has focused on the curves and lines of thei...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Starfall - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 26x35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater nude photograph of a young beautiful golden hair woman on black background. Her body is partially covered with a golden scarf leaving uncovered beautiful buttocks.
Origi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$720 Sale Price
20% Off
Boy with Silver Mask (Stay)
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Boy with Silver Mask (Stay) - 2006
37x36cm,
Edition of 30,
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label
artist Inventory #5606.
Not mounted.
Torsten ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Niño con Máscara. Portrait. Limited Edition Color Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Exploring color in the darkness, inspired by the Italian and Dutch renaissance. He brings hints of the fauna of his native South American vibrant and passionate colors. Bringing them...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Verde. Color Limited Edition Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Exploring color in the darkness, inspired by the Italian and Dutch renaissance. He brings hints of the fauna of his native South American vibrant and passionate colors. Bringing them...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Haley and the Bird Man (Haley and the Birds) - Polaroid, 21st Century, analog
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Haley and the Bird Man (Haley and the Birds) - 2013
105x100cm,
Edition of 5,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Crystal Fuji Archive Paper, matte surface,
based on a P...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Pristine - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 35х50"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater photograph of a young naked woman in a pool.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print signed by the author.
Limited edition of 24
Paper size: 36 x 52"
Image...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$1,120 Sale Price
20% Off
Double Take Blue Green - Framed Vibrant Pop Photography Art in Beverly Hills
By Marco Pittori
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marco Pittori creates vibrant artworks that pay homage to the mesmerizing images of Brad Elterman and the mythic culture of 1970’s Hollywood. By using li...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Portal - Contemporary, Figurative, Woman, Polaroid, Photograph, 21st Century
By Lisa Toboz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Portal' 2019, Edition 1/10 plus 2 Artist Proof, 20x20cm.
Art Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper, not mounted. Signature label and certificate.
Lisa T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Homesteading (Heavenly Falls) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Color
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Homesteading (Heavenly Falls)
2016, 50x50cm, Edition 2/10,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist inventory number: 19655.02
Not mounted
S...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Man jumping our of the water, One. Sepia Limited Edition Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Through his exploration of bodily movement, with modern and ballet dancers, and with particular attention to the male physique, the artist has focused on the curves and lines of thei...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hotel Olden, Gstaad, Estate Edition, Urban Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s urban photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features people carrying their skis past the Hotel Olden in Gstaad, 1961.
This is an estate stamped...
Category
1960s Realist Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Emergence - Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid, Figurative, 21st Century, Landscape
By Lisa Toboz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Emergence
2019, Edition 1/10 plus 2 Artist Proof, 20x24cm.
Digital Print based on a Polaroid photograph on Hahnemühle photo rag paper.
Signature label and certificate.
Not mounted....
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Minnie And Dru Montagu, Dominican Republic, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Minnie And Dru Montagu, Dominican Republic, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
This 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Minnie and Dru...
Category
1970s American Realist Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
All the others in me (New York) Performance photography color portrait
By Maria José Arjona
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The body, in opposition to this language system and ironically living it, speaks through organs, plays with images, sounds, smells, textures, mixtures, everything reacts, absorbs and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Black and White, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Red Sadhu, Rajasthan, India
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Red Sadhu, Rajasthan, India" 1998, is a photograph (Cibachrome) by American artist Lisa Kristine, b.1965. It is hand signed, titled and dated in pencil by the ar...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Other Medium
Creation of Man- Staged Chiaroscuro Photograph of Birth Scene Black+Blue+Orange
By Natalie Lennard
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Creation of Man" is part of international artist Natalie Lennard's series Birth Undisturbed.
“The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5000 species of mammals on the planet. The birth-giving woman is the central agent in the ancient drama of bringing forth new life.” — Ina May Gaskin.
Every year we celebrate a natural birth, a story that takes place in the most primitive surroundings. Mary, giving birth to the Son of God in a stable, that infamous image portrayed recurrently in our culture, familiar to even the non-religious. Yet how is it that beyond Julius Garibaldi’s 1891 painting...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Satin Paper, Digital
Young Dragonflies
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
edition 1/5
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of ge...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Infinity Man, One. Sepia. Limited Edition Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
For this series, he used elements such as water (emotions) to narrate a story. He worked with the color Blanco in the fabrics to communicate clarity and rebirth. Cohete frequently p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Minnie And Dru Montagu, Dominican Republic, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Minnie And Dru Montagu, Dominican Republic, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
This 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Minnie and Dru...
Category
1970s American Realist Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Domino Players, Lawn, TX - Cowboys, Bar, Western, Texas, Games
By Chris Regas
Located in Denton, TX
Domino Players, Lawn, TX by Chris Regas is a black and white gelatin silver print of cowboys playing dominos at the back of a bar.
Gelatin Silver Print
8 1/2 x 11 3/8 in.
Signed on ...
Category
1970s Modern Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Thinking Man. Sepia Limited Edition Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Channeling the energy of “water-signs” in astrology, he captures these mysterious men thru a romantic lens. The embrace of the shadows and the light mixed with the gaze of their bodi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Wrong Number - Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid, Photograph, 21st Century
By Lisa Toboz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Wrong Number', 2017, Edition 1/10 plus 2 Artist Proof, 20x24cm,
Digital Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemühle photo rag paper, not mounted .
Signature label and certifi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Minnie And Dru Montagu, Dominican Republic, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Minnie And Dru Montagu, Dominican Republic, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
This 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Minnie and Dru...
Category
1970s American Realist Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Because
By Molly McCall
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Molly’s current photographic work explores themes of memory, the passage of time, a sense of place, and the natural world, using both painting and photography. Her unique silver gela...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ghost Story - Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid, Painting
By Lisa Toboz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Ghost Story - 2021
50x40cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proof.
Archival Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemühle photo rag paper.
Signature label and certificate.
Not mou...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Pink POP Rox
By Michelle Kappeler
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: The goal of this shoot was to introduce more color to my body of work using unique shaped candies as props.
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Michelle Kappeler is a New York base...
Category
2010s Modern Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
A Likeness - Contemporary, Figurative, Woman, Polaroid, Photograph, 21st Century
By Lisa Toboz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'A Likeness' from the Dwell Series, 2017, Edition 1/10 plus 2 Artist Proof, 20x24cm.
Art Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper, not mounted. Signature lab...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Nash (Americana, Rusty, Classic Cruiser, Retro, Timeless, 30% OFF LIST PRICE)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Lord Fauntleroy
Nash (Americana, Rusty, Classic Cruiser, Retro, Timeless)
2024
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag 315gsm
Size: 24 x 24 in...
Category
2010s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Archival Pigment
Girl from the Nant - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Figurative, Portrait
By Clare Marie Bailey
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Girl from the Nant (2018) Edition of 10 - 40 x 40 cm - Digital C-Print based on a on a SX-70 Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on back and certificate.
Artist:
The image was partly insp...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Out of the Shadow
By Molly McCall
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Molly’s current photographic work explores themes of memory, the passage of time, a sense of place, and the natural world, using both painting and photography. Her unique silver gela...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bettina Graziani with a small yacht, Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, Estate Ed.
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
French fashion model Bettina Graziani wading in the shallow waters of Costa Smeralda, pulling a small yacht behind her, in Sardinia, Italy, 1964.
Visual description: This iconic photograph features a woman in a green bikini swimsuit and yellow hair wrap leading a small boat with a red and white sail and sunfish logo. In the background is a bright white villa and small sculptural trees, in crisp contrast to the sparkling water turquoise pool. The bright red diagonal strips of the boat's sail draw the eye down and across the picture to figure, who creates small waves as she wades through the blue water towards the right edge of the picture plane, creating an overall satisfying sense of cheerful motion and activity.
Slim Aarons
Bettina Graziani
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Certificate of Authenticity included.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
60 x 60 inches
$5100
48 x 48 inches
$4500
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 x 20 inches
$2500
16 x 16 inches
$2150
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Photograph is unframed
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). *
Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Internal: Slim Aarons French Fashion Model, Vintage European Glamour, Vintage Sport, Swimming, Boating, Vintage Holiday...
Category
1960s Realist Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
My Furry Valentine 1
By Amanda Pratt
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS PIECE: Amanda Pratt is known and admired for the energetic, inspiring brand of whimsy she brings to photography. Countless clients have benefitted from her technical preci...
Category
2010s Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Paper
Winter Sun
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I present unspoken stories which illustrate fleeting moments in time and which are intended to evoke a mood in the viewer. These mythical illustrations might address the fragility of...
Category
2010s Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slow Motion - underwater nude photo - print on aluminum 12 x 8"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater black and white photograph of a naked young woman in a pool.
Original print on aluminum plate with solid black backboard. The artwork needs no additional framing: it can...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
Garage
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Blackmon's images offer a fantastic and surreal commentary on contemporary American family life while referencing a 19th Century Flemish painting – they are intricate tableaux, combi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Falling Stars - Contemporary, Figurative, Woman, Polaroid, 21st Centur
By Lisa Toboz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Falling Stars - 2021
Archival C-Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper, not mounted.
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Signature label and certificat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Alfa (Americana, Rusty, Legendary, Italian, 30% OFF LIST PRICE)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Lord Fauntleroy
Alfa (Americana, Rusty, Legendary, Italian)
2024
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag 315gsm
Size: 24 x 24 inches (60.96 x...
Category
2010s Modern Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Archival Pigment
$677 Sale Price
31% Off
Marble Cave (blue) - underwater nude photograph - print on aluminum 36х24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A beautiful and mysterious underwater photograph of a young naked woman relaxing on her back in her pool. This is a monochrome photograph close to black and white with some aquati...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
$1,760 Sale Price
20% Off
Her-Untitled 1. Digital Collage Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This is a photo contemporary collage project based on modern art. Greatly influenced by natural figures and artificial textures. I love to collect black and white photos of female po...
Category
20th Century Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Palmar. From the Viva series. Male Limited Edition Color Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Exploring color in the darkness, inspired by the Italian and Dutch renaissance. He brings hints of the fauna of his native South American vibrant and passionate colors. Bringing them...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Cold Song II - underwater photograph - print on aluminum 17 x 24
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater photograph of a man diving in a pool, leaning toward a flower. A very bright photograph with plenty of sun and positivity.
Original digital print on aluminum plate signed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
$700 Sale Price
50% Off
Into the Light - Contemporary, Figurative, Woman, Polaroid, Photograph, 21st
By Lisa Toboz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Blinding' (The Dwell), 2017, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proof, 20x24cm,
Digital Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemühle photo rag paper, not mounted .
Signature label an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Burning II - Gestures - analog C-Print, printed by the Artist - 40x40cm
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Burning II' (Gestures)
38 x 37cm, Edition 3/5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label
arti...
Category
Early 2000s Outsider Art Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Acapulco Lunch
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A long afternoon lunch at Acapulco. Among the guest are (from left to right) film star Douglas Fairbanks Junior (1909 - 2000), couturiers Oscar de la Renta, and standing behind him E...
Category
1960s Realist Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Pool at Night (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Pool at Night (Suburbia) 2004, 50x50cm, Edition of of 10, digital C-Print based on an expired Polaroid.
Signature label with Certificate, unmounted.
The project "Suburbia" was shot...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"Reservoir Dogs" - 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 s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Beau Simmons - Hands Of The West, Photography 2025, Printed After
Located in Stamford, CT
Series: The Western Collection
Archival Pigment Print
Unframed Sizes:
40" x 32" - $6,250.00
60" x 48" - $9,500.00
75" x 60" - $12,250.00
Framed Sizes:
47" x 39" - $7,750.00
67" x 5...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ryan Gosling - Stay
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Ryan Gossling' (Stay) - 2006,
20x20cm, Edition of 2/10,
digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label
artist Inventory No. 2447.02
Not mounted.
Stefanie Schneider:
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 star of the nineteen-nineties), not only takes into account the exponentially expanded significance of photography in the art market, but also attributes to photography an extreme degree of conformity to the “operating system” of the visual arts. This admittedly ironic equation of photography and the visual arts is new. It is repeated with much more earnestness in Lisa Chollondencko’s High Art (USA) from the same year. Artistic photography has finally become established in a cinematic context.
Stay
Stay (USA, 2005) could have fitted in seamlessly here. Considering that the films High Art and Pecker establish photography as an ideal art form at the end of the millennium, director Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland) takes a step backward; he revives an anti-technical, intuitive concept of art, including the customary clichés about madness and genius. This choice documents less an anachronistic notion of art (especially considering that painting is currently experiencing a Renaissance) than instead the appraisal that paintings are more suitable for representing the free objectification of the mind. Stay is not an artist-film but rather a psycho-thriller in which the borders between dream and reality become blurred.
The psychiatrist Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor) has saved his girlfriend, the artist Lila (played by Naomi Watts) from committing suicide. Now he is attempting to keep another patient, the art student Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Polaroid
Led Zeppelin Photo #C7 Jimmy Page - Never seen shot of Jimmy In San Francisco
By Jeffrey Mayer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Photograph of Jimmy Page playing his classic '69 Gibson Les Paul, shot at Kezar Stadium in 1973.
About The Print:
Archival pigment print on 100% cotton paper with a satin baryta fin...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pointe - underwater photograph - print on aluminum 11"x8"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This elegant underwater photograph captures a ballet dancer in pointe shoes and flowing white tutu, suspended in deep teal waters. The rich contrast between the pristine white costum...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
$480 Sale Price
20% Off
Loading Zone, Color Photograph, Archival Pigment Ink Print, signed and numbered
By Julie Blackmon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Loading Zone is from Julie Blackmon's ongoing series Domestic Vacations.
Domestic Vacations: The Dutch proverb "a Jan Steen household" originated in the 17th century and is used to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Temporary Shelter - Contemporary, Figurative, Woman, Polaroid, 21st Century
By Lisa Toboz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Temporary Shelter - 2020
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proof
Digital C-Print based on a mixed-media collage of an original Polaroid on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper.
Signature label and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Portal - Contemporary, Figurative, Woman, Polaroid, 21st Century
By Lisa Toboz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Portal - 2020
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proof
Digital C-Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper,.
Signature label and certificate.
Not mounted.
Lisa Tob...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Mirror Image - Contemporary, Figurative, Woman, Polaroid, 21st Century
By Lisa Toboz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Mirror Image - 2020
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proof
Digital C-Print based on a mixed-media collage of an original Polaroid on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper.
Signature label and certi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
