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Bowling Ball Beach - Black and White - Nature Photography - Contemplative
By David Burdeny
Located in New York City, NY
Edition of 5
Category
2010s Minimalist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lost in Abstraction 7, China (B&W Photography)
By Alexandre Manuel
Located in New York City, NY
Alexandre Manuel
Lost in Abstraction 7, China, 2019
20x20 in (50x50cm) - Edition of 10
Archival Pigment Print
Image size 20x20inches (50x50cm)
Framed size: 28x28inches (70x70cm)
Mou...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Roma May 2014 01bn, Black and White Figurative Photograph
By Luca Artioli
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Luca Artioli has always been fascinated by Roman Statues. As a child, he wandered through the Imperial Forum creating dialogues between them. For young Luca the statues were alive. T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Roma 2021 M Vaticani 41invbn, Black and White Figurative Photograph
By Luca Artioli
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Luca Artioli has always been fascinated by Roman Statues. As a child, he wandered through the Imperial Forum creating dialogues between them. For young Luca the statues were alive. T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
The Norton
Located in New York, NY
Ed. 1/5, includes white frame.
As part of Coe's newest 2024 series photographed at the Norton Gallery of Art in Palm Beach, this brand new body of work builds upon Coe's signature s...
Category
2010s Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Shorelines I
By Alessandro Puccinelli
Located in New York City, NY
60 x 40 inches
Edition of 5
Archival Pigment Print
UNFRAMED
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Pigment
Wireframe, Japan
By David Burdeny
Located in New York City, NY
Edition of 5
Category
Early 2000s Minimalist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Portrait of Nude Man
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Victor Arimondi (1942-2001). Portrait, ca. 1975. Period print measures 11 x 14 inches. Artist studio stamp on verso.
Victor Arimondi (November 8, 1942 – July 24, 2001) was an Italian American photographer and model who lived and worked in Europe before moving to the United States in the late 1970s. His early fashion photography, his portraits of Grace Jones and other artists, and his male nudes photographed in New York and San Francisco captured the pre-AIDS culture of the 1970s and early 1980s.
Arimondi's nudes were collected in several books, including David Leddick's award-winning[1] The Male Nude, (New York: Taschen 1998, 2005 and 2015). The photographer's later work documented homeless individuals in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood and the toll of the AIDS epidemic on the city. His photographs, featured in several posthumous exhibitions, also are in the collections of Sweden's museum of modern art, Moderna Museet, and San Francisco's GLBT Historical Society.
Biography
Arimondi was born Vittorio Maria Tevitti to his unwed mother, Alessandra Calligaris, in Bologna, Italy on November 8, 1942. His mother struggled financially, which left an impression on her only child. In 1948, she temporarily left him at a children's boarding school and orphanage in Italy to move to Sweden for a job. There she met and married Bruno Arimondi, who adopted her son. The family returned to Naples, Italy in 1952 where Victor graduated from high school.[1]
In 1960, Arimondi returned to Sweden to study at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, although he did not graduate. Meanwhile, he worked at several blue collar jobs, including as a mailman, before he gave up on traditional full-time work to pursue what he considered more essential— a life of creative expression. He created costume-like clothing for himself and friends and at age 19 became a fashion model.
Even as a teenager, the Italian born photographer who spent his 20s and 30s primarily based in Sweden, noted that he preferred fantasy to the trials of real life.[1] That conflict, and his passion for beauty as well as his sexual energy, were major factors in his life and his work.[2]
From 1965 through 1972 Arimondi worked as model in London, Milan, Germany, New York and Stockholm, appearing in catalogs and fashion magazines including Vogue , Harper's Bazaar and Esquire and on the runway in several Valentino fashion shows.
In 1972 he decided to try working on the other side of the lens as a photographer to better express his creativity.[2]
Arimondi moved to New York in 1979 and continued to build his photography portfolio.
Portrait of Bearded Man, New York City, 1979
Two years later, in 1981, he moved to San Francisco where he lived and worked for twenty years until his death of AIDS at age 58 on July 24, 2001.
The year he moved to San Francisco, Arimondi opened a photo gallery in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood for a short time. When he struggled financially, he gave up on trying to earn a living through commercial fashion photography and closed the gallery.[3]
Arimondi returned to modeling for the financial benefits, though he did so on less of an international scale than in his early years.
He continued to create photographic portraits of the denizens of the San Francisco gay and arts cultures, to shoot male nudes and publish his work in magazines, and he began to compose and photograph evocative still lifes using his own photographic images. Many of them touched on the death of dozens of his former photography models from AIDS.
Arimondi was in the midst of a new photography project that brought together his background as a fashion photographer and his more recent social documentary work when he died several months after he learned he was HIV-positive.[4] The project featured his former colleague, haute couture cover model Ivy Nicholson,[5] who he found living homeless in San Francisco. Several of the haunting portraits he took of her were later included in a noted group exhibit at SF Camerawork.
Art
Arimondi's early photography in the 1970s in Stockholm included portraits of the stars of Sweden's fashion, theater and dance worlds. His first two photography exhibits were in Stockholm and met with mixed reviews. But as he matured as a photographer and tapped into his fashion world contacts, Arimondi landed a number of commercial fashion jobs, including shooting for the Italian designer Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A.'s I.Magnin department store ad that ran in Vogue.
Marlboro Man Nude, New York City,1980.
He also shot other artists and models for his own portfolio, including Grace Jones, the Norwegian actress, Liv Ullmann, and the American writer, Norman Mailer.
Arimondi's aesthetic vision was focused on fantasy and drama, and he prided himself on pushing limits.[6]
Although less well-known than his San Francisco contemporary...
Category
1970s Realist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Morris Rosenfeld "Venturer" Original Photograph
Located in San Francisco, CA
Morris Rosenfeld: 1885-1968. Well listed American photographer. Famous for photos of sail boats, yachts and other seafaring vessels. He has an auction high of $5250 for a single phot...
Category
1940s Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ribeirinho Rio Solimoes the Amazon Forest, Brazil (Photography)
By Araquém Alcântara
Located in New York City, NY
Araquém Alcântara
Ribeirinho Rio Solimoes the Amazon Forest, Brazil, 2011
70 x 105 cm
27.5 x 41 inches
Edition of 10
Also available:
100 x 150cm
40 x 60 inches
Edition of 10
120 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Crying Child in Stroller, Vintage Print - Female Street Photographer
By Vivian Maier
Located in Miami, FL
Female Street Photographer Vivian Maier captures a riveting moment of a child consumed in grief. The physiological and psychological anguish dominates her...
Category
1950s American Realist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
American 4th July, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
By Elaine Mayes
Located in Surfside, FL
Vintage black and white silver gelatin print, 1978, American 4th July.
Elaine Mayes, born 1936, is an American photographer and a retired professor at New York University's Tisch Sc...
Category
1970s Realist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Wagon Wheel" acrylic with fiber based paper by photographer Greg Lotus
By Greg Lotus
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Wagon Wheel" acrylic with fiber based paper by fashion photographer Greg Lotus. Black and white image of a female nude covered by perfectly posit...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Paper
Lioness, South Africa (Wildlife Africa)
By Araquém Alcântara
Located in New York City, NY
Araquém Alcântara
Lioness, South Africa, 2008
70 x 105 cm
27.5 x 41 inches
Edition of 10
100 x 150cm
40 x 60 inches
Edition of 10
120 x 180 cm
47 x 71 inches
Edition of 10
Archiv...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
"Ivy" acrylic with fiber based paper by photographer Greg Lotus
By Greg Lotus
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Ivy" acrylic with fiber based paper by fashion photographer Greg Lotus. Female nude covered with shadows of ivy plant. Black and white. From an e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Paper
Roma May 2014 37bn. Black and White Figurative Photograph
By Luca Artioli
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Luca Artioli has always been fascinated by Roman Statues. As a child, he wandered through the Imperial Forum creating dialogues between them. For young Luca the statues were alive. T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
"Marvin Gaye at the Recording Session for
Let
s Get it On
" photo by Jim Britt
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Marvin Gaye at the Recording Session for 'Let's Get It On'" black and white framed photograph hand signed by Jim Britt. This image is in the collection of the Smithsonian Portrait G...
Category
1970s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Palazzo Altemps 45bn, Black and White Figurative Photograph
By Luca Artioli
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Luca Artioli has always been fascinated by Roman Statues. As a child, he wandered through the Imperial Forum creating dialogues between them. For young Luca the statues were alive. T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Roma 2021 C Fori 23bn, 2021. Black and White Figurative Photograph
By Luca Artioli
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Luca Artioli has always been fascinated by Roman Statues. As a child, he wandered through the Imperial Forum creating dialogues between them. For young Luca the statues were alive. T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Rider. Black and White Limited Edition Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist explores the intersection between submission and domination with this set of photographs.For this series the artist explores the moment when nature in animal form intertwi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Mursi RoadBlock, Omo River Valley, Ethiopia
By Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Title: Mursi RoadBlock, Omo River Valley, Ethiopia, 2001.
Printed later 2005
Sheet size: 20 in. H x 24 in. W
Image size: 14.8 in. H x 22. In W
A signed, original print.
Unframed
Cyr...
Category
Early 2000s Other Art Style Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Roma May 2014 17, Black and White Figurative Photograph
By Luca Artioli
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Luca Artioli has always been fascinated by Roman Statues. As a child, he wandered through the Imperial Forum creating dialogues between them. For young Luca the statues were alive. T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Candy Darling, Long Island Beach
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Kenn Duncan, American Photographer 1928 -1986.
14 x 11 in Photographer Laura Rubin
Minor soiling and creasing in corners.
Photographs from the archive of After Dark and Danc...
Category
1970s Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Roma 2020 A 177bn, Black and White Figurative Photograph
By Luca Artioli
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Luca Artioli has always been fascinated by Roman Statues. As a child, he wandered through the Imperial Forum creating dialogues between them. For young Luca the statues were alive. T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Roma 2020 A 173partbn, Black and White Figurative Photograph
By Luca Artioli
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Luca Artioli has always been fascinated by Roman Statues. As a child, he wandered through the Imperial Forum creating dialogues between them. For young Luca the statues were alive. T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Musei Vaticani 24bn, Black and White Figurative Photograph
By Luca Artioli
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Luca Artioli has always been fascinated by Roman Statues. As a child, he wandered through the Imperial Forum creating dialogues between them. For young Luca the statues were alive. T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Roma 2020 A 09bn, Black and White Architecture Photograph
By Luca Artioli
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Luca Artioli has always been fascinated by Roman Statues. As a child, he wandered through the Imperial Forum creating dialogues between them. For young Luca the statues were alive. T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Black and White
Coconuts, Framed Black and White Nature Photography
By Iran Issa-Khan
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Coconuts by Iran Issa-Khan
Black and white archival pigment print
Image size: 19 in. H x 23 in. W
Frame size: 36 in. H x 40 in. W
Dated and signed by the artist.
2000
Born in Tehran and raised in Europe and the United States, Iran, Issa-Khan began her photography career in the late 1970s studying with William Minor, Jr. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Issa-Khan photographed Paulina Porizkova...
Category
Early 2000s Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rue Mouffetard. Black and White Photograph. Fashion in Paris
By Uwe Ommer
Located in Miami Beach, FL
1964, Uwe Ommer, a young 20-year-old photographer who recently arrived from Cologne, lives in a small room on Boulevard St-Marcel. Every weekend, he goes to the market on rue Mouffetard...
Category
1960s Modern Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Black and White
Arena Tres, From the series Acto Uno. Male Nude Limited Edition Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Cohete's ritual with movement and the male dancer formations, inhabits his black and white theater-like habitat. Like light; always in motion.
The harsh lights and shadows in the wa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Supporters of George McGovern for President
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
George Stanley McGovern (July 19, 1922 – October 21, 2012) was an American historian, author, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the ...
Category
20th Century Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
ID No. 6 The Melancholic. Limited edition photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
In this early photographic series, Dubravka Lazić turns her lens toward a subject rarely treated with such a quiet dignity: domestic cats. Shot in 2005, these portraits mimic the fo...
Category
2010s Abstract Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Los Carpinteros Cuban Art Photograph Tuneles Populares Silver Gelatin Photo
By Los Carpinteros
Located in Surfside, FL
Los Carpinteros (Cuban, 1992-present).
Silver gelatin print photograph, large format.
From the series "Tuneles Populares" (The People's Tunnels)
1999
Edition 1/5
Provenance: Bliss Fi...
Category
1990s Conceptual Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ed Koch
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
Ed Koch at the waterfront greeting a passenger ship.
Category
1980s Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jerusalem 1967 Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Western Wall Kotel Hamaaravi
By Richard Gordon
Located in Surfside, FL
Richard Gordon was born in Chicago in 1945. He studied Political Science at the University of Chicago and did not begin photographing until he worked at a photography studio in 1965....
Category
1960s American Realist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Naomi Campbell, Paul Rowland Vintage Portrait Silver Gelatin Print
By Paul Rowland
Located in Surfside, FL
Paul Rowland-
He is the one, that everybody knows about, Paul Rowland. A genius in the modeling industry, president of Ford Models New York, owner of Women Model Management & Suprem...
Category
1990s Post-Minimalist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Les Acrobates VI. Limited edition Photograph
By Uwe Ommer
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This series was part of a calendar, and pays tribute to the art of the circus and its artists.
The diversity of German photographer Uwe Ommer, who frequently works with aesthetic nu...
Category
1990s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Gordon Parks, Alan King and Genevieve Young Vintage Silver Gelatin photo
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
At a media party with Gordon Parks, Alan King and Genevieve Young.
Veteran Village Voice photographer Fred W. McDarrah
Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat ...
Category
1970s Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Espiral. Male Nude. Black and White Limited Edition Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Vignette of a dancer creating shapes and folds in the sunlight. Rocket's favorite lighting source.
The harsh lights and shadows in the warm Florida weather led Ricky Rocket to explo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Framed Little Buddha sepia phothograh, Archival Pigment Print
By Robert Curran
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Little Buddha by Robert Curran
Image size: 24 x 16 inches
Framed 41.5 x 34 x 1 inches
Archival pigment print/ signed by the artist
1998
Robert was born in Manhattan and moved to...
Category
1990s Modern Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Paper, Archival Pigment
Herbert
Mercedes Matter
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
Mercedes Matter née Carles (1913 – December 2001) was an American painter and draughtswoman. Her father was the American modernist painter Arthur Beecher Carles who had studied with ...
Category
20th Century Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Acto Uno, From the series Acto Uno. Male Nude Limited Edition Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Cohete's ritual with movement and the male dancer formations, inhabits his black and white theater-like habitat. Like light; always in motion.
The harsh lights and shadows in the wa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Esperanza. Espiral series. Male Nude. B&W Limited Edition Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Vignette of a dancer creating shapes and folds in the sunlight. Rocket's favorite lighting source.
The harsh lights and shadows in the warm Florida weather led Ricky Rocket to explo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Set II, B&W Hands Photographs. From the Series Chiromorphose
By Nico Baixas / Gos-com-fuig
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This work explores the sculptural capacities of the hands. Stripping them from their symbolism or the functions for which they are normally used, Nico Baixas explored them like someo...
Category
2010s Aesthetic Movement Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Manhattan Parade Mets Championship 1969 Photo
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
Veteran Village Voice photographer Fred W. McDarrah
Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off-Broadwa...
Category
1960s Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled 2. From The series Horse and Dancer. B&W Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
For this series the artist explores the moment when nature in animal form intertwines with the human form, there you can learn true balance. -In this series the artist studies the ba...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Caballero. From The series Horse and Dancer. Male Nude photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
For this series the artist explores the moment when nature in animal form intertwines with the human form, there you can learn true balance. -In this series the artist studies the ba...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Black and White
Untitled 2. Limited Edition Black and White Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
For this black-and-white photography series, he used elements such as water (emotions) to narrate a story. He worked with the color white in the fabrics to communicate clarity and re...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Black and White
Set of 4 Photographs intervened by the artists.
By Cristian Hunter
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This artwork was created by the artistic duo Hunter & Gatti (2010–2023). These works are part of the archive managed and exhibited by Cristian Hunter.
The artist's technique consists...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Black and White, Archival Pigment
Les Acrobates III. Limited Edition Photograph
By Uwe Ommer
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This series was part of a calendar, and pays tribute to the art of the circus and its artists.
The diversity of German photographer Uwe Ommer, who frequently works with aesthetic nu...
Category
1990s Contemporary Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Cuerpos. From the Cerros, series. Nudes. Limited Edition B&W Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
In this series the artist documents how in the roar of the hills, these two bodies intertwine and connect with each other, forming mountains of desire.
The harsh lights and shadows ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Gabriel García Márquez Portrait
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Gabriel García Márquez, Portrait by Hernan Diaz
Signed by Hernan Diaz C. 1994@
Provenance Writer Estate.
Archival Pigment print
Image size: 15.5 H. x 11.5 W in.
Frame size: 25 H x 2...
Category
1990s Other Art Style Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vejer de la Frontera #18, Silver Gelatin Print, 1977
By Jed Fielding
Located in Surfside, FL
Framed and signed, black and white, 1970's, silver gelatin print by street photographer Jed Fielding.
An internationally recognized street photographer, Jed Fielding has made photog...
Category
1970s Realist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Yann Le Gac
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Jack Mitchell (September 13, 1925 – November 7, 2013) was an American photographer. He photographed American artists, dancers, film and theatre performers, musicians and writers.[1] His portraiture, lighting skill, and ability to capture dancers in what he termed "moving stills" made him one of the most important dance photographers of the 20th century.
He photographed the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for three decades, producing a body of work that includes over ten thousand images. He was the official photographer of the American Ballet Theatre for a decade and also photographed dancers for other top ballet companies in the US and Canada.
His work appeared in major newspapers and on the cover of major magazines, including over 160 covers of Dance Magazine. Arts Magazine called him the first photographer to treat creative individuals as characters outside of their works. Smithsonian called him the benchmark by which other dance photographers assessed their own work.
Early life
Mitchell was born in Key West in 1925, and he was raised there and in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, where his family moved in 1931.[2][3] His father worked for the railroad.[2] He became interested in photography, and when he was twelve his parents bought him a Kodak Baby Brownie for $54.[2][3][4]
Career
By age 15 he had met Florida's licensing standards to obtain a press pass, by age 16 he was working as a commercial photographer,[1][5] and his first published photograph was of Veronica Lake, who was visiting Florida while on a war bonds tour.[2]
Mitchell was an Army photographer during World War II, working in Italy.[2] In 1946, after returning home from the army, he set up his first studio in New Smyrna Beach.[1]
In 1949, when he was 24, at the invitation of Ted Shawn, he visited Jacob's Pillow Dance and became interested in dance photography, which became a specialty.[2][5] He moved his studio to New York City in 1950.[6] He was the American Ballet Theatre's official photographer.[2] Starting in the 1961 he spent decades photographing the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, producing over 10,000 images of the company;[2][5] Ailey's biographer Jennifer Dunning credited Mitchell's work for "help[ing] to sell the company early on".[5] Mitchell also photographed dancers of the Boston Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Pennsylvania Ballet, Houston Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet.[6]
Mitchell shot over 160 covers for Dance Magazine;[2] his 168th cover was published in July 2003.[4] His term for what he was attempting to capture with dance photography was "moving stills."[5] He was known as a lighting expert.[2][5]
Mitchell also photographed other artists, entertainers, musicians, and writers, including John Lennon and Yoko Ono just a month before Lennon was murdered.[2] Other subjects included Leonard Bernstein, David Byrne, Truman Capote, Anthony Quinn, Jack Nicholson, Patti LuPone, Keith Haring, Neil Simon, Angela Lansbury, Twyla Tharp, Ned Rorem, Leontyne Price, Alfred Hitchcock, Spalding Gray, Ann Reinking, Andy Warhol, and Natalie Wood.[2] He spent a decade photographing Gloria Swanson.[5] His work appeared in The New York Times, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Life, Newsweek, People, Rolling Stone, Time, Vanity Fair and Vogue, among others.[2][4][6]
Mitchell was the subject of a 2006 documentary, My Life is Black and White, directed by Craig Highberger.[2] His books include Icons & Idols (1998), for which Edward Albee wrote the foreword,[2][4] and a book of his Alvin Ailey photography...
Category
1970s Surrealist Florida - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Man in Denim
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Victor Arimondi (1942-2001). Portrait, ca. 1975. Period print measures 9 x 12 inches. Artist studio stamp on verso.
Victor Arimondi (November 8, 1942 – July 24, 2001) was an Italian American photographer and model who lived and worked in Europe before moving to the United States in the late 1970s. His early fashion photography, his portraits of Grace Jones and other artists, and his male nudes photographed in New York and San Francisco captured the pre-AIDS culture of the 1970s and early 1980s.
Arimondi's nudes were collected in several books, including David Leddick's award-winning[1] The Male Nude, (New York: Taschen 1998, 2005 and 2015). The photographer's later work documented homeless individuals in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood and the toll of the AIDS epidemic on the city. His photographs, featured in several posthumous exhibitions, also are in the collections of Sweden's museum of modern art, Moderna Museet, and San Francisco's GLBT Historical Society.
Biography
Arimondi was born Vittorio Maria Tevitti to his unwed mother, Alessandra Calligaris, in Bologna, Italy on November 8, 1942. His mother struggled financially, which left an impression on her only child. In 1948, she temporarily left him at a children's boarding school and orphanage in Italy to move to Sweden for a job. There she met and married Bruno Arimondi, who adopted her son. The family returned to Naples, Italy in 1952 where Victor graduated from high school.[1]
In 1960, Arimondi returned to Sweden to study at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, although he did not graduate. Meanwhile, he worked at several blue collar jobs, including as a mailman, before he gave up on traditional full-time work to pursue what he considered more essential— a life of creative expression. He created costume-like clothing for himself and friends and at age 19 became a fashion model.
Even as a teenager, the Italian born photographer who spent his 20s and 30s primarily based in Sweden, noted that he preferred fantasy to the trials of real life.[1] That conflict, and his passion for beauty as well as his sexual energy, were major factors in his life and his work.[2]
From 1965 through 1972 Arimondi worked as model in London, Milan, Germany, New York and Stockholm, appearing in catalogs and fashion magazines including Vogue , Harper's Bazaar and Esquire and on the runway in several Valentino fashion shows.
In 1972 he decided to try working on the other side of the lens as a photographer to better express his creativity.[2]
Arimondi moved to New York in 1979 and continued to build his photography portfolio.
Portrait of Bearded Man, New York City, 1979
Two years later, in 1981, he moved to San Francisco where he lived and worked for twenty years until his death of AIDS at age 58 on July 24, 2001.
The year he moved to San Francisco, Arimondi opened a photo gallery in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood for a short time. When he struggled financially, he gave up on trying to earn a living through commercial fashion photography and closed the gallery.[3]
Arimondi returned to modeling for the financial benefits, though he did so on less of an international scale than in his early years.
He continued to create photographic portraits of the denizens of the San Francisco gay and arts cultures, to shoot male nudes and publish his work in magazines, and he began to compose and photograph evocative still lifes using his own photographic images. Many of them touched on the death of dozens of his former photography models from AIDS.
Arimondi was in the midst of a new photography project that brought together his background as a fashion photographer and his more recent social documentary work when he died several months after he learned he was HIV-positive.[4] The project featured his former colleague, haute couture cover model Ivy Nicholson,[5] who he found living homeless in San Francisco. Several of the haunting portraits he took of her were later included in a noted group exhibit at SF Camerawork.
Art
Arimondi's early photography in the 1970s in Stockholm included portraits of the stars of Sweden's fashion, theater and dance worlds. His first two photography exhibits were in Stockholm and met with mixed reviews. But as he matured as a photographer and tapped into his fashion world contacts, Arimondi landed a number of commercial fashion jobs, including shooting for the Italian designer Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A.'s I.Magnin department store ad that ran in Vogue.
Marlboro Man Nude, New York City,1980.
He also shot other artists and models for his own portfolio, including Grace Jones, the Norwegian actress, Liv Ullmann, and the American writer, Norman Mailer.
Arimondi's aesthetic vision was focused on fantasy and drama, and he prided himself on pushing limits.[6]
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