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Item Ships From: New York City
Massimo Listri
Venaria Reale XIII Torino
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Venaria Reale XIII Torino, 2018
C-print
Signed, titled, dated and numbered edition of 5 on artist's label on verso.
The photographer is based in Florence, and is fascinated how h...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Palazzo d
Avalos I, Napoli
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Palazzo d'Avalos I, Napoli, 2016
C-print
Signed, titled, dated and numbered edition of 5 on artist's label on verso.
39.5 x 47.5 inches
47.5 x 59 inches
71 x 88.5 inches
Framing o...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Ursula Pacelli in Venice (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Ursula Pacelli
1957 (printed later)
Chromogenic print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Ursula Pacelli poses at th...
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Carmen Sevilla in Madrid (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Carmen Sevilla
1957 (printed later)
Chromogenic print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Spanish actress and singer...
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Pussyfooting 2 (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Pussyfooting 2
1958
Chromogenic print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Actress Dee Hartford, wife of film produce...
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons
Karen Kopseng Davis at Casa de Campo
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Karen Kopseng Davis
1977 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
American-born opera...
Category
1970s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons
Christian de Sica And Elsa Martinelli in Gstaad
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Christian de Sica and Elsa Martinelli
1977 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
I...
Category
1970s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Alexandra Redo in Mazatlán (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Alexandra Redo
1984
Chromogenic print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Alexandra Redo reclining among Mayan statues...
Category
1980s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Joan Collins Relaxes - (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Film star Joan Collins relaxes with her pink poodle on her pink bed.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aaron...
Category
1950s Realist New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Massimo Listri
Venaria Reale XIII Torino
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Venaria Reale XIII Torino, 2018
C-print
Signed, titled, dated and numbered edition of 5 on artist's label on verso.
39.5 x 47.5 inches edition of 5
47.5 x 59 inches edition o...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons, Look No Shoes (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Look No Shoes, 1964
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
1964: Mrs A Atwater Kent Jr dressed in a simple shift dress is crossing the road barefoot in the rain. A Wonderful...
Category
1960s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Helen Dzo Dzo, Palm Springs (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur, 1970
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and other guests at the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, Ca...
Category
1970s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons
Sunbathing In Burgenstock
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Coral Beach, Bermuda, 1977.
C print
estate edition of 150
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Lilian Ha...
Category
1970s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Sun Worship (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Sun Worship
1958
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Bianca Volpato sunning herself at Capri in a lilac colour...
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Joan Collins Relaxes - (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Film star Joan Collins relaxes with her pink poodle on her pink bed.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aaron...
Category
1950s Realist New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Massimo Listri
Venaria Reale XIII Torino
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Venaria Reale XIII Torino, 2018
C-print
Signed, titled, dated and numbered edition of 5 on artist's label on verso.
The photographer is based in Florence, and is fascinated how h...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons
Catherine Wilke Relaxing
(Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Catherine Wilke Relaxing
1980
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Catherine Wilke...
Category
1960s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons
Donna Stefanella
(Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Donna Stefanella
1984
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Donna Stefanella Vanni ...
Category
1980s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons
Skiing In St. Moritz, Palace Hotel
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Skiing In St. Moritz
1983
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Countess Jan Bonde in the Palace H...
Category
1970s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons
Beauty and the Beast
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a tiger skin rug in the trophy room at socialite Laddie Sanford's home in Palm Beach, Florida.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition o...
Category
1950s Realist New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Look No Shoes (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Look No Shoes, 1964
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
1964: Mrs A Atwater Kent Jr dressed in a simple shift dress is crossing the road barefoot in the rain. A Wonderful...
Category
1960s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Ted Williams
Dr. Martin Luther King
By Ted Williams
Located in New York, NY
Ted Williams
Dr. Martin Luther King, 1964
Silver gelatin print
16 x 20 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition
with certificate of authenticity
Dr. Martin Luther King makes a speech at the ‘Illinois Rally for Civil Rights’ at Soldier Field in Chicago, IL, US, June 21, 1964. The same day of the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Ted Williams (1925-2009) first heard jazz on the radio as a youngster in the 1930s in Wichita, Kansas. The sounds of Earl Hines, Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway...
Category
1960s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons
Capucine
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Capucine, 1957
Fiber print
30 x 20 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainl...
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Statue Outside of Medicine Man
s House
By Sasha Bezzubov
Located in New York, NY
Sasha Bezzubov’s photographic approach has developed through diverse series that address the contemporary condition and explore the nature of the document. Sasha Bezzubov uses a lar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Black and White Photography by Cuban Photographer René Peña, Self Portrait
By Rene Peña
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Limited Edition Series Photograph. Black and White Photography by Cuban Photographer René Peña, Self Portrait
René Peña (Rene de Jesus Pena Gonzalez) is a self-taught photographer born in Havana, Cuba in 1957. His photography is characterized by stark contrasts, between black and white, subject and background, subject and object. His work often focuses on the duality between human inability to escape institutionalization and human desire for individualism. His interest in contrast is also reflected in his place of residence: Peña currently inhabits the Cerro neighborhood of Cuba which is home to a mostly poor African-Caribbean population, despite having been an enclave of Havana's richest families in the 19th century.
René Peña graduated from the Higher pedagogic Institute of Foreign Languages, University of Havana with a specialization in English in 1983. In the late 1980s he entered the national world of photography and since 1990 became leader of the new trends of Cuban photography, first by handling interiors and domestic situations in modern-day Cuba and later making studies of his own body in aspects such as negritude, sexual ambiguity and the influence of consumerism through self-portraits. He conceives his series on the basis of a conceptual, formal and structurally different analysis of all the parameters established up to the present, going from a brutal expressionism to a distinct homoeroticism, with strong mystic elements, trends from experimental painting, and a certain theatrical dramatization.
He has had important solo shows and participated in group exhibitions in Cuba, the United States, Venezuela, Canada, France and Germany. His work is part of important collections, not only national but also at world level, such as the National Museum of Fine Arts, Cuba; the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba; Reinhard Schultz Collection, Germany; photographic archive Tuscany, Italy; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, USA; Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA; collection of the province of Hainuat, Belgium; and Lehigh University Pennsylvania...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Chalet Costi (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Chalet Costi
1968
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Skiers outside t...
Category
1960s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons
Alison Cain in Capri
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Alison Cain in Capri
1989
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
US fashion model Alison Cain with ...
Category
1980s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons
Capucine
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Capucine, 1957
Fiber print
30 x 20 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainl...
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons
Peggy Guggenheim at Palazzo Venier Dei Leoni, Venice
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
September 1978: Peggy Guggenheim (1898 - 1979) in the Palazzo Venier Dei Leoni, Venice. The palace houses her private art collection, including Picasso's 'On the Beach', pictured to ...
Category
1970s Realist New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Massimo Listri
Venaria Reale XIII Torino
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Venaria Reale XIII Torino, 2018
C-print
Signed, titled, dated and numbered edition of 5 on artist's label on verso.
The photographer is based in Florence, and is fascinated how h...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Black
White, Blue
Bucket
Self Portrait by Cuban Photographer René Peña
By Rene Peña
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Limited Edition Series by Cuban Photographer Rene Pena. Black and White.
René Peña (Rene de Jesus Pena Gonzalez) is a self-taught photographer born in Havana, Cuba in 1957. His phot...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Sin Título, Self Portrait by René Peña
By Rene Peña
Located in Brooklyn, NY
René Peña (Rene de Jesus Pena Gonzalez) is a self-taught photographer born in Havana, Cuba in 1957. His photography is characterized by stark contrasts, between black and white, subject and background, subject and object. His work often focuses on the duality between human inability to escape institutionalization and human desire for individualism. His interest in contrast is also reflected in his place of residence: Peña currently inhabits the Cerro neighborhood of Cuba which is home to a mostly poor African-Caribbean population, despite having been an enclave of Havana's richest families in the 19th century.
René Peña graduated from the Higher pedagogic Institute of Foreign Languages, University of Havana with a specialization in English in 1983. In the late 1980s he entered the national world of photography and since 1990 became leader of the new trends of Cuban photography...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons, French Stately Home
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
French Stately Home
1956
C print
40 x 40 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
The...
Category
1960s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Jean Michel Basquiat, Smoking
By William Coupon
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1987
Silver Gelatin print
image size: 36 x 36 inches
Signed
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, known principally for his forma...
Category
1980s 85 New Wave New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jean-Michel Basquiat
By William Coupon
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat
1987 (printed later)
Archival pigment print
36 x 36 inches
Signed and numbered edition of 40
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, ...
Category
1980s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ted Williams
Louis Armstrong
By Ted Williams
Located in New York, NY
Ted Williams
Louis Armstrong
1962 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
40 x 60 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition 25
with certificate of authenticity
Louis Armstrong on-sta...
Category
1960s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ted Williams
Duke Ellington
By Ted Williams
Located in New York, NY
Ted Williams
Duke Ellington
1960 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
40 x 60 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition 25
with certificate of authent...
Category
1960s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ted Williams
Billie Holliday
By Ted Williams
Located in New York, NY
Ted Williams
Billie Holiday
1948 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
40 x 60 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition 25
with certificate of authenticity
Billie Holiday on-stage...
Category
1960s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons
Sunbathing In Burgenstock
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Sunbathing In Burgenstock
1955
C print
estate edition of 150
Lilian Hanson, sunbathing by a pool at the Brgenstock Resort in Can...
Category
1970s Realist New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Deterioration Series 117
By Robert Farber
Located in New York, NY
Robert Farber
Deterioration Series 117
1979-2013 (printed later)
Archival pigment print
60 x 40 inches
signed and numbered edition of 5 on the verso
This image is part of Robert Fa...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Deterioration Series 133
By Robert Farber
Located in New York, NY
Robert Farber
Deterioration Series 133
1979-2013 (printed later)
Archival pigment print
60 x 40 inches
signed and numbered edition of 5 on the verso
This image is part of Robert Fa...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Deterioration Series 147
By Robert Farber
Located in New York, NY
Robert Farber
Deterioration Series 147
1979-2013 (printed later)
Archival pigment print
60 x 40 inches
signed and numbered edition of 5 on the verso
This image is part of Robert Fa...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Deterioration Series 103
By Robert Farber
Located in New York, NY
Robert Farber
Deterioration Series 103
1979-2013 (printed later)
Archival pigment print
60 x 40 inches
edition of 5
This image is part of Robert Farber’s Deterioration Series which...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Deterioration Series 130
By Robert Farber
Located in New York, NY
Robert Farber
Deterioration Series 130
1979-2013 (printed later)
Archival pigment print
60 x 40 inches
signed and numbered edition of 5 on the verso
This image is part of Robert Fa...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Deterioration Series 126
By Robert Farber
Located in New York, NY
Robert Farber
Deterioration Series 126
1979-2013 (printed later)
Archival pigment print
60 x 40 inches
signed and numbered edition of 5 on the verso
This image is part of Robert Fa...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Administrator, Kabul, 2002
By Sean Hemmerle
Located in New York, NY
12"x12"
In Sean Hemmerle’s poignant photographic series “THEM”, a portrait series of Iraqis and Afghans.
Each subject is portrayed frontally with no direction from the artist, allowing the individuals photographed to (re)present themselves. After witnessing the 9/11 attacks Hemmerle felt another response to these events was necessary and travelled to Afghanistan and Iraq where he shot a series of portraits. His resulting images are compassionate studies of people under attack by his own government.
The past five days out of Kabul were enlightening. Initially, the purpose of my adventure was to photograph the battlefields, minefields, and remaining architecture of a country surviving more than 20 consecutive years of warfare. A Mujahideen soldier who had served in the north under Ahmad Shah...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Photographer, Bagdad, Afghanistan, 2002
By Sean Hemmerle
Located in New York, NY
12"x12"
In Sean Hemmerle’s poignant photographic series “THEM”, a portrait series of Iraqis and Afghans.
Each subject is portrayed frontally with no direction from the artist, al...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Shepherd, Baglan, 2003
By Sean Hemmerle
Located in New York, NY
12"x12"
In Sean Hemmerle’s poignant photographic series “THEM”, a portrait series of Iraqis and Afghans.
Each subject is portrayed frontally with no direction from the artist, al...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Zen Zebra - animal photography, color photography
By Alice Zilberberg
Located in New York, NY
In this series, Zilberberg creates animal montages as an expression of self-therapy, drawing attention to mindfulness and nature conservation. As an...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Feed, 20"x30" photograph
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
20"x30" C-Print photograph, edition of 5, unframed
signed and editioned on the reverse
This photograph is from Stephen Mallon's series: "Prelude" - which features beautiful and stunning photographs of the “Prelude F.L.N.G.,”* the “largest offshore floating facility ever built.” This seemingly abstract photograph depicts the yellow and silver framework of scaffolding and piping, with figures of workers on various levels to project the massive scale the construction.
The Prelude is 1,600 feet long and displaces 600,000 tons of water. Designed to process natural gas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Feed, 40"x60" photograph
By Stephen Mallon
Located in New York, NY
photograph, edition of 5, unframed
signed and editioned on the reverse
This photograph is from Stephen Mallon's series: "Prelude" - which features beautiful and stunning photographs...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Snow Monkeys
By Miho Suzuki
Located in New York, NY
photograph, edition of 25 (16"x20") framed
signed on reverse
Miho Suzuki was born in Tokyo. She studied theater art in Georgia, received a B.A. in Media Arts in New Jersey and M...
Category
Contemporary New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Capote at Home
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Capote at Home
1958
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
American author Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) relaxes with a book and a cigarette at his apartment in Br...
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Style
Inga Lindgren And Poodles
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Inga Lindgren And Poodles
1956 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity...
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons
Man Ray in Paris
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Man Ray in Paris
1956
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
American surrealist artist and photographer Man Ray (1890 - 1976) with some examples of his work at his Left Ban...
Category
1970s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Style
Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell
1960 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certif...
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Pygmy Women on the Way to Fish in the River, Northern Gabon
By Sasha Bezzubov
Located in New York, NY
This photograph is available at 30"40" in a limited edition of 5, signed on reverse by the artist. available unframed
A stunning photograph taken in the Republic of Gabon, that capt...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Style
Saks Fifth Ave
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Jean Patchett For Saks Fifth Avenue
1955 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
A young woman mod...
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mt. Rushmore
By Edie Winograde
Located in New York, NY
available as: 16"x20" and 23"x 29" edition of 10
Edie Winograde developed a passion for photographing her surroundings as a rural Northern Californian teenager, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Textured Self Portrait by Cuban Photographer René Peña
By Rene Peña
Located in Brooklyn, NY
René Peña (Rene de Jesus Pena Gonzalez) is a self-taught photographer born in Havana, Cuba in 1957. His photography is characterized by stark contrasts, between black and white, subject and background, subject and object. His work often focuses on the duality between human inability to escape institutionalization and human desire for individualism. His interest in contrast is also reflected in his place of residence: Peña currently inhabits the Cerro neighborhood of Cuba which is home to a mostly poor African-Caribbean population, despite having been an enclave of Havana's richest families in the 19th century.
René Peña graduated from the Higher pedagogic Institute of Foreign Languages, University of Havana with a specialization in English in 1983. In the late 1980s he entered the national world of photography and since 1990 became leader of the new trends of Cuban photography, first by handling interiors and domestic situations in modern-day Cuba and later making studies of his own body in aspects such as negritude, sexual ambiguity and the influence of consumerism through self-portraits. He conceives his series on the basis of a conceptual, formal and structurally different analysis of all the parameters established up to the present, going from a brutal expressionism to a distinct homoeroticism, with strong mystic elements, trends from experimental painting, and a certain theatrical dramatization.
He has had important solo shows and participated in group exhibitions in Cuba, the United States, Venezuela, Canada, France and Germany. His work is part of important collections, not only national but also at world level, such as the National Museum of Fine Arts, Cuba; the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba; Reinhard Schultz Collection, Germany; photographic archive Tuscany, Italy; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, USA; Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA; collection of the province of Hainuat, Belgium; and Lehigh University Pennsylvania...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary New York City - Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
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