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Item Ships From: New Mexico
Somewhere in Kazmierz, limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment ink
By Richard Tuschman
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Somewhere in Kazmierz, a limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment ink
“Once Upon A Time In Kazimierz is a novella told in staged photographs. It portrays an episode in t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Big in Bucket
By Hiroshi Watanabe
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Sarumawashi, literally "monkey dancing" evolved over a 1000-year history in Japan. Ancient Japanese chronicles refer to it as a form of religious ritual designed to protect the horse...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Seven Horses, Iti Maunga, Easter Island. 2001
By Michael Kenna
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential among ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Divination by Shadow
By Rachel Phillips
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Each Cabinet Card is unique, and the image above details the front and back of the card. A handmade display stand made by the artist is also available for $100 – please inquire if in...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper
Convertibile
By Rachel Phillips
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Edition of 8
Fixed is a series of photographs made by Rachel Phillips' alter-ego Madge Cameron:
Until this project, Madge Cameron (b. 1935) had always seen photography as a sep...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Encaustic, Wood Panel
Divination by Phillips
By Rachel Phillips
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Each Cabinet Card is unique, and the image above details the front and back of the card. A handmade display stand made by the artist is also available for $100 – please inquire if in...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper
Divination by Mirror
By Rachel Phillips
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Each Cabinet Card is unique, and the image above details the front and back of the card. A handmade display stand made by the artist is also available for $100 – please inquire if in...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper
Divination by Wind
By Rachel Phillips
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Each Cabinet Card is unique, and the image above details the front and back of the card. A handmade display stand made by the artist is also available for $100 – please inquire if in...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper
The Macallan 129, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Macallan 129, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
For much of my adult life, photography has provided me a forum to communicate my past & present, my humor & ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Divination by Palm
By Rachel Phillips
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Each Cabinet Card is unique, and the image above details the front and back of the card. A handmade display stand made by the artist is also available for $100 – please inquire if in...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper
Adrift #10
By Magda Biernat
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Adrift is a project that uses a visual language as a means of polar comparison. By pairing photographs of Antarctic icebergs and empty In~upiat Eskimo hunting cabins, it offers a res...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Adrift #24
By Magda Biernat
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Adrift is a project that uses a visual language as a means of polar comparison. By pairing photographs of Antarctic icebergs and empty In~upiat Eskimo hunting cabins, it offers a res...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Adrift #08
By Magda Biernat
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Adrift is a project that uses a visual language as a means of polar comparison. By pairing photographs of Antarctic icebergs and empty In~upiat Eskimo hunting cabins, it offers a res...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Four Lemons
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Element ‘Gold, (Au) can only be make in the nuclear reactor of stars.
It came to our planet when the Earth was first forming, as dust from catastrophic astronomical events –sta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Gold Leaf
$1,400
Adrift #21
By Magda Biernat
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Adrift is a project that uses a visual language as a means of polar comparison. By pairing photographs of Antarctic icebergs and empty In~upiat Eskimo hunting cabins...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Adrift #28
By Magda Biernat
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Adrift is a project that uses a visual language as a means of polar comparison. By pairing photographs of Antarctic icebergs and empty In~upiat Eskimo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Adrift #18
By Magda Biernat
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Adrift is a project that uses a visual language as a means of polar comparison. By pairing photographs of Antarctic icebergs and empty In~upiat Eskimo hunting cabins...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Adrift #04
By Magda Biernat
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Adrift is a project that uses a visual language as a means of polar comparison. By pairing photographs of Antarctic icebergs and empty In~upiat Eskimo hunting cabins, it offers a res...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Adrift #1
By Magda Biernat
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Adrift is a project that uses a visual language as a means of polar comparison. By pairing photographs of Antarctic icebergs and empty In~upiat Eskimo hunting cabins, it offers a res...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Straws no.3, San Francisco, 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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
A Reticent Crown
By David Trautrimas
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In the Wake of the Bind – 2016
We often speak of old, neglected buildings in anthropomorphic terms as having “good bones”. As such, the specter of death already haunts the languag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
When the Place You Know Isn
t the Place You Know
By David Trautrimas
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In the Wake of the Bind – 2016
We often speak of old, neglected buildings in anthropomorphic terms as having “good bones”. As such, the specter of death already haunts the languag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Our Little Dancing Girl, Evelyn, Age 9
By Amy Friend
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In the Dare alla Luce series, I initially responded to a collection of vintage photographs, retrieved from a variety of sources both personal and anonymous. Through hand-manipulated ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tempest
By Ken Rosenthal
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The past several years of my life have been colored by change, both positive and adverse: a new partner; a new child; loved ones that have fallen ill at an early age; friends and fam...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,000
Niagara 1949
By Amy Friend
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In the Dare alla Luce series, I initially responded to a collection of vintage photographs, retrieved from a variety of sources both personal and anonymous. Through hand-manipulated ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Measuring, limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment ink
By Richard Tuschman
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Measuring, limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment ink
“Once Upon A Time In Kazimierz is a novella told in staged photographs. It portrays an episode in the life of a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Glengoyne 116, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Glengoyne 116, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered.
For much of my adult life, photography has provided me a forum to communicate my past & present, my humor & con...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Last Bough
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
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Clouds Touch Stone
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
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Six Pears
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Element ‘Gold, (Au) can only be make in the nuclear reactor of stars.
It came to our planet when the Earth was first forming, as dust from catastrophic astronomical events –sta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Gold Leaf
$1,700
Oval BA
By Mitch Dobrowner
Located in Sante Fe, NM
2015 STORMS Release
The Earth is an ever-changing ecosystem. It existed well before we were here and will hopefully be here well beyond the time we leave it. It’s real, at times bea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Storm Approaching Silo
By Mitch Dobrowner
Located in Sante Fe, NM
New 2015 Storms Release
The Earth is an ever-changing ecosystem. It existed well before we were here and will hopefully be here well beyond the time we leave it. It’s real, at times...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Macallan 120, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Macallan 120, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
For much of my adult life, photography has provided me a forum to communicate my past & present, my humor & c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Macallan 393, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Macallan 393, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
For much of my adult life, photography has provided me a forum to communicate my past & present, my humor & c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Macallan 101, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Macallan 101, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
For much of my adult life, photography has provided me a forum to communicate my past & present, my humor & c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Macallan 333, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Macallan 333, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
For much of my adult life, photography has provided me a forum to communicate my past & present, my humor & ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Redly
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The subject is the conflation of woman and home. In the previous “Anonymous Women: Draped” photographic series, a lone woman is hidden in a vignette within the drapery, where she per...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$1,500
Rosy
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The subject is the conflation of woman and home. In the previous “Anonymous Women: Draped” photographic series, a lone woman is hidden in a vignette within the drapery, where she per...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$1,500
Glenlivet 122, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbed
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Glenlivet 122, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbed
For much of my adult life, photography has provided me a forum to communicate my past & present, my humor & concer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hadrian
s Wall, Northumberland, England
By Edward Ranney
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Edward Ranney is an internationally recognized photographer who has photographed the natural and man-altered landscape for over forty years.
In 1980 Edward Ranney was awarded a grant from The Northern Arts Council of Great Britain to photograph throughout Cumbria, in Northern England, and to exhibit a selection of the resulting work at the Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery. The work extended into 1981, and the exhibition took place in 1982. This selection of photographs favors views of the open spaces of the hills, or fells, of Cumbria and Northumberland including Hadrian’s Wall, the fortified earthwork delimiting the northernmost Roman occupation of the British Isles.
Born in 1942, educated at Yale University, internationally recognized landscape photographer Edward Ranney is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including NEA grants (1974 and 1982), a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1977), and Fulbright Fellowships (1964 and 1993). His work is represented in public and private collections alike including The Museum of Modern Art, New York and San Francisco, The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe and Houston, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and The Art Institute of Chicago. His photographic monographs...
Category
20th Century Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Wastwater from Whinn Rigg, Cumbria, England
By Edward Ranney
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Edward Ranney is an internationally recognized photographer who has photographed the natural and man-altered landscape for over forty years.
In 1980 Edward Ranney was awarded a grant from The Northern Arts Council of Great Britain to photograph throughout Cumbria, in Northern England, and to exhibit a selection of the resulting work at the Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery. The work extended into 1981, and the exhibition took place in 1982. This selection of photographs favors views of the open spaces of the hills, or fells, of Cumbria and Northumberland including Hadrian’s Wall, the fortified earthwork delimiting the northernmost Roman occupation of the British Isles.
Born in 1942, educated at Yale University, internationally recognized landscape photographer Edward Ranney is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including NEA grants (1974 and 1982), a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1977), and Fulbright Fellowships (1964 and 1993). His work is represented in public and private collections alike including The Museum of Modern Art, New York and San Francisco, The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe and Houston, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and The Art Institute of Chicago. His photographic monographs...
Category
20th Century Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Rain Curtian
By Mitch Dobrowner
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Earth is an ever-changing ecosystem. It existed well before we were here and will hopefully be here well beyond the time we leave it. It’s real, at times beautifully surreal, pow...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cumbria, England
By Edward Ranney
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Edward Ranney is an internationally recognized photographer who has photographed the natural and man-altered landscape for over forty years.
In 1980 Edward Ranney was awarded a grant from The Northern Arts Council of Great Britain to photograph throughout Cumbria, in Northern England, and to exhibit a selection of the resulting work at the Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery. The work extended into 1981, and the exhibition took place in 1982. This selection of photographs favors views of the open spaces of the hills, or fells, of Cumbria and Northumberland including Hadrian’s Wall, the fortified earthwork delimiting the northernmost Roman occupation of the British Isles.
Born in 1942, educated at Yale University, internationally recognized landscape photographer Edward Ranney is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including NEA grants (1974 and 1982), a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1977), and Fulbright Fellowships (1964 and 1993). His work is represented in public and private collections alike including The Museum of Modern Art, New York and San Francisco, The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe and Houston, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and The Art Institute of Chicago. His photographic monographs...
Category
20th Century Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Landspout
By Mitch Dobrowner
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Earth is an ever-changing ecosystem. It existed well before we were here and will hopefully be here well beyond the time we leave it. It’s real, at times beautifully surreal, pow...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Funnel–Cornfield, limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment ink
By Mitch Dobrowner
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Funnel–Cornfield, limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment ink
The Earth is an ever-changing ecosystem. It existed well before we were here and will hopefully be here we...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Prom Gown #1
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Rite of Passage
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 addr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Daybreakers
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Animal Visions
All my life I have held a fascination with the animal kingdom, which began in my childhood growing up on a farm and extended into my adult years. On some inexplicab...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vineyard Blush
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Marwari: Indigenous Spirits
In my eyes horses represent that which is beautiful and sacred in nature. In particular, the noble Marwari horses from India have captured my attentio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ring of Fire
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Dreaming in Reverse
Twenty-five years ago I traveled freely throughout the Mexican countryside where I relished a warm, welcoming, and slow-paced style of living. I was heartened...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Impossible Intentions
By Tom Chambers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Illumination Series
Renaissance artists affirmed the transformational nature of light in their classical paintings. Taddeo Gaddi and Giotto di Bondone of the Renaissance period painted breathtaking frescoes in which light created dramatic effects. Artists, such as these masters, inspired me to create photomontages that highlight the aesthetic power of light. Following recent travels in Italy, I was awed by the metaphysical nature of Tuscan light...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Glow Sticks no. 2
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, scho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
File Tabs no. 1
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, scho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bear
s Claw, limited edition photograph, signed and numbered , archival ink
By Mitch Dobrowner
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Dobrowner presents landscapes with sublime complexity – imagery poised between permanence and flux, his images at once capturing seemingly eternal geological formations and the ever-...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Monument Valley, limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment ink
By Mitch Dobrowner
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Monument Valley, limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment ink. The 14x20 in. and 20x30 in. editions are one collective edition of 40.
Dobrowner presents landscapes wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Zebra #1, Los Angeles, CA
By Brad Wilson
Located in Sante Fe, NM
From the start, there was something immensely challenging and inspiring about working with animals. Up to that point, I had spent my career photographing subjects I largely controlle...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rope Out, limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment ink
By Mitch Dobrowner
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Rope Out, limited edition photograph, signed, archival pigment ink
Dobrowner presents landscapes with sublime complexity – imagery poised between permanence and flux, his images at...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Landscape Photography Square Series: "Estancia House"
By Cody S. Brothers
Located in New York, NY
In expressing his narrative of “The Western Abandon” Cody concentrates his focus on abandoned farms, crumbling homes, neglected churches, aging cemeteries, forgotten cars and other o...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
4" x 5" Landscape B&W Photography:
Chama House
By Cody S. Brothers
Located in New York, NY
Cody works almost entirely with infrared film, using a range of different cameras, from a 4x5, a 6x17 panoramic, to a pinhole. The analog captures are then scanned and output as blac...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Laminate, C Print, Digital
"Kauai, Tranquility", Abstract Landscape, Lavender, Green, Blue, Print, 2020
By Patty deGrandpre
Located in Franklin, MA
Patty deGrandpre’s “Kauai, Tranquility” is an 8 x 8 inch unique digital abstract inkjet print represented on 12 x 12 inch Red River UltraPro photo paper and is part of her “Pieces and Pictures” series. Lavender, olive green, light turquoise blue and grey are the choice colors in this playful print depicting the coastline and landscape of Kauai, Hawaii’s Garden...
Category
2010s Abstract New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Color, Digital
"Broken Television 305", Abstract, Yellow, Pink, Red, Photo, Digital Print
By Patty deGrandpre
Located in Franklin, MA
Patty deGrandpre’s “Broken Television 305” is a vivid 4.5 x 5 inch abstract unique inkjet digital print. Simple strata of bright yellows and deep rose pink tones are interrupted by a...
Category
2010s Abstract New Mexico - Photography
Materials
Digital, Color
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