Skip to main content

Figurative Photography

1,209
to
427
9,710
7,447
7,742
12,901
6,767
5,297
2,289
1,707
1,535
1,346
1,258
1,220
1,178
829
816
Figurative Photography For Sale
Large Vintage Photo Print Digital Photograph Some People of Kuwait, Arabic Woman
Located in Surfside, FL
SOME PEOPLE OF KUWAIT, 2000, Color iris print, on heavy rag photo paper signed on verso and inscribed "OK to print', from small edition of just 10. images 40 x 26 ¾", full margins; printed by Muse X. This was a series about Kuwaiti, Arab woman or men dressed in Burka's from up close it appears completely abstract from a bit of a distance an image emerges. Jack Butler was a Professor of Art at California State University Los Angeles from 1988 to 2010. He received his Master of Arts degree from California State University Los Angeles in 1972 and earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from UCLA in 1979. He was a dedicated teacher from 1971 to 2010 and taught at numerous educational institutions including California State University Los Angeles, the University of California, Riverside, UCLA Extension, Pasadena City College, East Los Angeles College, Los Angeles Southwest College and was a visiting instructor at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. He has participated in approximately one hundred exhibitions during that time including sixteen solo exhibitions. His work has been shown at such institutions as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fahey / Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Art, Gallery Min in Tokyo, Japan, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Osaka, Japan, Photo-Tableau in Paris, France, the Photographers Gallery in London England, the Kansas City Art Institute, The Friends of Photography Ansel Adams Center, the Laguna Beach Art Museum, the Long Beach Museum of Art, Sala Arcs Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, the California Museum of Photography, the Center of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, the Corcoran Gallery, Boston Mass., and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and was represented by the former Sherry Frumkin Gallery. He has been published in numerous books and catalogs. These include publications from such seminal exhibitions as “ Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph 1960-1980”, “Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946”, “Photography and Language” and “Attitudes: Photography in the Seventies” as well as having a catalog of his work published by Min Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. Recent publications include catalogs from the exhibition "Transfictions" at the Fisher Gallery USC and the exhibition "COLA 2004" at Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery as well as “The Polaroid Years, Instant Photography and Experimentation”, The Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College 2013. During his career he has been involved in numerous workshops and lectures and has curated numerous exhibitions. He has participated in a Distinguished Artists Forum, 20x24 Polaroid Project in 1989 and was supported the by Polaroid Corporation to work on the 20x24 Polaroid camera in New York Studio in 1990 and again in 1998. Polaroid Corporation was also instrumental in assisting with the production of his project Hot Rod "Kulture / Culture.” He was also a recipient of a SECA Award from the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1980, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (major individual grant) in 1981 and received a City of Los Angeles Individual Artists Fellowship (COLA Grant) in 2004. His work is included in such collections as the Los Angeles County Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Art, California Museum of Photography, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts UCLA, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture, Seattle Art Museum, the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art, Japan, the Graham and Susan Nash Collection, the Aaron Spelling Collection as well as numerous other private collections. Going back to the 1840s, the earliest days of photography, people like Fox Talbot, Hippolyte Bayard and Oscar Gustave Rejlander were manipulating images and producing work that they referred to as Art or “Light Drawings”. Moving on to the 1920s and 30s we discover people such as Kurt Schwitters, Christian Schad, Hana Hoch, Raoul Haussmann, Man Ray, John Heartfield, Max Ernst, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, Hans Bellmer, Andre Breton, Herbert Bayer and William...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Piglet Tramway - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
 Piglet tramway is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1970s Good conditions and aged.  It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments, pl...
Category

1970s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Slim Aarons 'Beach Backgammon' Mid-century Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Beach Backgammon 1957 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. CAPTION: Backgammon on the beach at the Hotel Exc...
Category

1960s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Gucci Pooch in Venice' Mid-century Photography
Located in New York, NY
Gucci Pooch 1978 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate edition of 150 Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. A woman carrying h...
Category

1960s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Plastic Head: Vintage Greedo Action Figure, rare, vintage, collectable, comic
Located in London, GB
Plastic Head: Vintage Greedo Action Figure - 1978 Greedo has to be one the most memorable characters from the Star Wars franchise. He is a bounty hunter and a member of the Rodian sp...
Category

2010s Pop Art Figurative Photography

Materials

Plastic, Archival Ink

Israeli Contemporary Photography by Emil Farber - A Chick
Located in Paris, IDF
Semi Gloss Paper 325 g Edition of 5 Emil Farber is an Israeli filmmaker and photographer born in 1997 who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He loves capturing street scenes and di...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Mexico - Vintage Photo - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Mexico  is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the second half 20th Century. Good conditions and aged.  It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Plastic Head: Vintage LION-O Action Figure, rare, vintage, collectable, comic
Located in London, GB
Plastic Head: Vintage LION-O Action Figure - 1985 As a kid, I never watched this show myself, but I do remember my brother having the toy sword of Omens. I have a fond memory of that...
Category

2010s Pop Art Figurative Photography

Materials

Plastic, Archival Ink

Slim Aarons 'Venetian Play, Orson Welles'
Located in New York, NY
Venetian Play, 1952 Silver gelatin print Estate edition of 150 Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate ...
Category

1950s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons 'Lido Life, Venice' Mid-century Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Lido Life, Venice 1957 C print Signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate. A waiter serves fruit to bathers, ...
Category

1950s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolier'
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Venice Gondolier 1957 C-Print Signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate A gondolier on the Grand Ca...
Category

1950s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Beach Backgammon' Mid-century Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Beach Backgammon 1957 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. CAPTION: Backgammon on the beach at the Hotel Exc...
Category

1960s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Terry O'Neill 'Paul McCartney at Ringo Starr’s Wedding'
Located in New York, NY
Paul McCartney at Ringo Starr’s Wedding, 1961 Silver gelatin print 40 x 30 inches Estate signature stamped numbered edition of 50 Paul McCartney plays the piano at the Ringo Starr’s...
Category

1960s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons 'Hotel Excelsior, Venice' Midcentury Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Hotel Excelsior, Venice 1957 C-Print Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate CAPTION: The ...
Category

1950s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons 'Family Pool' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
circa 1960: Mrs A Watson Armour III (Jean Schweppe) with friends and family enjoying the pool on their estate at Lake Forest, Illinois. A Wonderful Time - Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Family Pool 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 Lake Forest, Vintage Poolside Glamour, Vintage Sport, Swimming, Vintage Holiday, 60s, vintage Illinois...
Category

1960s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Israeli Contemporary Photography by Emil Farber - Fille Fumé
Located in Paris, IDF
Semi Gloss Paper 325 g Edition of 5 Emil Farber is an Israeli filmmaker and photographer born in 1997 who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He loves capturing street scenes and di...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Israeli Contemporary Photography by Emil Farber - Goran
Located in Paris, IDF
Semi Gloss Paper 325 g Edition of 5 Emil Farber is an Israeli filmmaker and photographer born in 1997 who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He loves capturing street scenes and di...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Slim Aarons 'Kennedy and Friends'
Located in New York, NY
1953: Senator John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Shirley Rogan Ellis and Betty LoSavio at Montego Bay Airport, Jamaica. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate ...
Category

1950s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Israeli Contemporary Photography by Emil Farber - The Road to Kazbegi
Located in Paris, IDF
Semi Gloss Paper 325 g Edition of 5 Emil Farber is an Israeli filmmaker and photographer born in 1997 who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He loves capturing street scenes and di...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Israeli Contemporary Photography by Emil Farber - Muay Thai
Located in Paris, IDF
Semi Gloss Paper 325 g Edition of 5 Emil Farber is an Israeli filmmaker and photographer born in 1997 who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He loves capturing street scenes and di...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Israeli Contemporary Photography by Emil Farber - Bangkok
Located in Paris, IDF
Semi Gloss Paper 325 g Edition of 5 Emil Farber is an Israeli filmmaker and photographer born in 1997 who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He loves capturing street scenes and di...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Israeli Contemporary Photography by Emil Farber - La Mujer
Located in Paris, IDF
Semi Gloss Paper 325 g Edition of 5 Emil Farber is an Israeli filmmaker and photographer born in 1997 who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He loves capturing street scenes and di...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Israeli Contemporary Photography by Emil Farber - Untitled
Located in Paris, IDF
Semi Gloss Paper 325 g Edition of 5 Emil Farber is an Israeli filmmaker and photographer born in 1997 who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He loves capturing street scenes and di...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Israeli Contemporary Photography by Emil Farber - Smoke of Love
Located in Paris, IDF
Semi Gloss Paper 325 g Edition of 5 Emil Farber is an Israeli filmmaker and photographer born in 1997 who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He loves capturing street scenes and di...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Israeli Contemporary Photography by Emil Farber - Forest Portal
Located in Paris, IDF
Semi Gloss Paper 325 g Edition of 5 Emil Farber is an Israeli filmmaker and photographer born in 1997 who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He loves capturing street scenes and di...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

'El Venero' SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print
Located in London, GB
'El Venero' SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print Giant Estate Stamped Limited Edition Print by Slim Aarons El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1967....
Category

1970s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

C Print

Yacht Holiday (Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Tanned bodies on the deck of Dino Pecci Blunt's yacht in Marbella, 1967 Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aaro...
Category

1960s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Champs Elysees Paris horizontal
Located in PARIS, FR
The champs Elyses in Paris by night
Category

2010s Figurative Photography

Materials

C Print

Afghan Girl with Hands on Face by Steve McCurry, 1984, Digital C-Print
Located in Dallas, TX
Afghan Girl with Hands on Face by Steve McCurry presents a powerful portrait. A young girl with piercing green eyes stares off in the distance. She wears a red scarf around her head ...
Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

The Carnival Parade - Vintage Photo by Ari Gomes - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Carnival Parade  is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th Century, by Ari Gomes. Good conditions and aged.  It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album i...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Nonconformist by Zack Whitford - Contemporary Portrait Photography
Located in Chicago, IL
Nonconformist Punakha, Butan - 2015 There is a profound depth to humanity that gets unleashed when we’re having fun. The lightheartedness that it inspires allows us to break down ba...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Estate Edition - On The Slopes Of Sugarbush
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - On The Slopes Of Sugarbush - Estate Stamped Edition Limited to 150 only Three skiers inspecting their skis on the slopes of the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort in Warren, Vermont, USA, circa 1960. The Sugarbush resort is one of the largest ski resorts in New England (Photo by Slim Aarons). This photograph epitomises the travel style and glamour of the period's wealthy and famous, beautifully documented by Aarons. In his words, he loved to photograph 'attractive people in attractive places, doing attractive things'. A beautiful and classic Slim Aarons C-Type photograph (unframed). Limited edition to 150 only numbered and stamped by The Slim Aarons Estate on verso. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Gorgeous print measuring 20 x 30" inches / ca 50.8 x 76.2 cm’s paper size. Stamped by the Estate on right and numbered in ink on left - limited edition to 150 only. Produced utilising the original transparency held at archive source. FRAMING: Please note that this piece is unframed – however, we offer a full framing service. If you would like this piece framed, please contact us for a quote. We ship regularly using Fedex Express services and shipping to all international locations. Keywords skiing in the 60s 1960 skiing in USA winter in Vermont sunny day in the slopes dark blue light blue white snow skiing clothes blue and white woo;;en hats blue trousers white jumpers...
Category

1960s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

C Print, Color

Zen Beauty - Contemporary black and white photography of Flower series - medium
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This photography is part of a series of zen like beauty of Flowers art photography. In 3 sizes. This piece: Print size: 30 x 37.5 in. Image dimensions are 22 x 30 in. Matted in ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Kennedy, John Jr. on Reflective Tabletop, 1963
Located in New York, NY
John Jr. on Reflective Tabletop 1963, nb_149 -- This photo of John Junior, taken when he was three, was a favorite of Jackie’s; in a letter to Mark, Jackie wrote “they really should ...
Category

1960s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Giclée

Audrey Hepburn Supine Reading, Sitting up, 1953
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn, r8_10 -- Informal portrait of Audrey Hepburn. This image is an out take from the photo shoot for the December 7, 1953 issue of Life magazine. Image size is 22" x 22" (for 24" x 36" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper. Each print is Estate stamped on the back and signed and numbered by David Shaw, and accompanied by a letter of authenticity. Lead time is four to six weeks, but we often receive them sooner. *Please note this image is available in several sizes. Prices increase as editions sell out. A black and white photograph of Audrey Hepburn sitting and reading...
Category

1950s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Giclée

Three for One
Located in New York, NY
Photographed and printed by William Wegman in 1995, the aptly named "Three for One" is a chromogenic print on photo paper, signed by the photographer, titled, dated and numbered (ver...
Category

20th Century Figurative Photography

Materials

C Print

Spring - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 17" x 23.5"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A sophisticated underwater nude photograph of a beautiful young woman wearing a veil of air bubbles. Original gallery quality print signed by the artist. Digital archival pigment p...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Keep Your Cool'
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Keep Your Cool, 1978 Chromogenic Lambda print 40 x 30 inches Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity. Carmen Alvarez enjoying a...
Category

1970s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

A Young Bride - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, abstract
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A Young Bride - 2020 60x50cm, Edition of 10. Giclée Print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta, based on a Fuji Peel Apart Instant Film (not mounted). Signed on back with Certificate. ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid

Designer Coco Chanel Sewing in Paris, 1962 by Douglas Kirkland
Located in Chicago, IL
Size: 20" x 24" Edition Size: 24 Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Will be shipped unframed. Please inquire for framing options. Mademoiselle Chanel at work. Douglas Kirkla...
Category

1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Surfing Brothers
Located in New York, NY
Freddie and Howard Cushing surfing with friends at Bailey's Beach (the Spouting Rock Beach Association) in Newport. Their father introduced the sport to the club in the 1930's. Esta...
Category

1960s American Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Johnny Depp at Home By Zack Whitford - Contemporary Portrait Photography
Located in Chicago, IL
Johnny At Home Johnny Depp in a relaxed state at his home. Archival pigment print Edition size: 25 (in each size) Available in 3 print sizes: 16" x 20" 20" x 24" 30" x 40...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

An Uncomfortable Bride - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, abstract
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
An Uncomfortable Bride - 2020 60x50cm, Edition of 10. Giclée Print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta, based on a Fuji Peel Apart Instant Film (not mounted). Signed on back with Certi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

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

Andy Warhol and Sean McKeon
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance issued by Christie’s. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation num...
Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

The Infinite Conversation after Maurice Blanchet
Located in New York, NY
The Infinite Conversation after Maurice Blanchet 2023 Archival pigment on canvas 150 x 150 cm / 59 x 59 inches Signed, titled and dated on verso Edition of 1 Lee Wells (b.1971) is...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Canvas

Querelle
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance issued by Christie’s. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation num...
Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Unidentified Man on Phone
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FL05.03030Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance issued by Christie’s. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foun...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Large Vintage Photo Print Digital Photograph Some People of Kuwait, Arabic Woman
Located in Surfside, FL
SOME PEOPLE OF KUWAIT, 2000, Color iris print, on heavy rag photo paper signed on verso and inscribed "OK to print', from small edition of just 10. images 40 x 26 ¾", full margins; printed by Muse X. This was a series about Kuwaiti, Arab woman or men dressed in Burka's from up close it appears completely abstract from a bit of a distance an image emerges. Jack Butler was a Professor of Art at California State University Los Angeles from 1988 to 2010. He received his Master of Arts degree from California State University Los Angeles in 1972 and earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from UCLA in 1979. He was a dedicated teacher from 1971 to 2010 and taught at numerous educational institutions including California State University Los Angeles, the University of California, Riverside, UCLA Extension, Pasadena City College, East Los Angeles College, Los Angeles Southwest College and was a visiting instructor at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. He has participated in approximately one hundred exhibitions during that time including sixteen solo exhibitions. His work has been shown at such institutions as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fahey / Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Art, Gallery Min in Tokyo, Japan, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Osaka, Japan, Photo-Tableau in Paris, France, the Photographers Gallery in London England, the Kansas City Art Institute, The Friends of Photography Ansel Adams Center, the Laguna Beach Art Museum, the Long Beach Museum of Art, Sala Arcs Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, the California Museum of Photography, the Center of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, the Corcoran Gallery, Boston Mass., and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and was represented by the former Sherry Frumkin Gallery. He has been published in numerous books and catalogs. These include publications from such seminal exhibitions as “ Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph 1960-1980”, “Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946”, “Photography and Language” and “Attitudes: Photography in the Seventies” as well as having a catalog of his work published by Min Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. Recent publications include catalogs from the exhibition "Transfictions" at the Fisher Gallery USC and the exhibition "COLA 2004" at Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery as well as “The Polaroid Years, Instant Photography and Experimentation”, The Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College 2013. During his career he has been involved in numerous workshops and lectures and has curated numerous exhibitions. He has participated in a Distinguished Artists Forum, 20x24 Polaroid Project in 1989 and was supported the by Polaroid Corporation to work on the 20x24 Polaroid camera in New York Studio in 1990 and again in 1998. Polaroid Corporation was also instrumental in assisting with the production of his project Hot Rod "Kulture / Culture.” He was also a recipient of a SECA Award from the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1980, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (major individual grant) in 1981 and received a City of Los Angeles Individual Artists Fellowship (COLA Grant) in 2004. His work is included in such collections as the Los Angeles County Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Art, California Museum of Photography, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts UCLA, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture, Seattle Art Museum, the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art, Japan, the Graham and Susan Nash Collection, the Aaron Spelling Collection as well as numerous other private collections. Going back to the 1840s, the earliest days of photography, people like Fox Talbot, Hippolyte Bayard and Oscar Gustave Rejlander were manipulating images and producing work that they referred to as Art or “Light Drawings”. Moving on to the 1920s and 30s we discover people such as Kurt Schwitters, Christian Schad, Hana Hoch, Raoul Haussmann, Man Ray, John Heartfield, Max Ernst, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, Hans Bellmer, Andre Breton, Herbert Bayer and William...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Poolside Party #1 (Naiades Series 1)
Located in New York, NY
Poolside Party #1 (Naiades Series 1) 2023 Unique Archival pigment 150 x 150 cm / 59 x 59 inches Edition of 1 Signed, titled and dated on verso Lee Wells (b.1971) is a conceptual a...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Canvas, Archival Pigment

Carmen Sevilla, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Spanish actress and singer Carmen Sevilla. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons Carmen Sevilla Chromogenic Lambda print 1957, Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Com...
Category

1950s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Untitled from the series Reimagining Materiality
Located in New York, NY
24" x 36" Hahnmühle paper matt fibre 200gr. Archival digital pigment print, unframed. Edition of 5 +2AP
Category

2010s Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Bruno Bischofberger in Vienna
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance issued by Christie’s. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation num...
Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Carmen Sevilla, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Spanish actress and singer Carmen Sevilla. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons Carmen Sevilla Chromogenic Lambda print 1957, Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Com...
Category

1950s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

BASQUIAT photographs: set of 3 works (Nicholas Taylor Basquiat photograph)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat New York 1979: A set of 3 rare, early Jean-Michel Basquiat photographs by Basquiat Gray bandmate, Nicholas Taylor of Gray. A ...
Category

1980s Pop Art Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Inkjet

Poolside Party #30 (Naiades Series 1)
Located in New York, NY
Poolside Party #30 (Naiades Series 1) 2023 Archival pigment on canvas 60 x 60 cm / 24 x 24 inches Edition of 5 Signed, titled and dated on verso Lee Wells (b.1971) is a conceptual ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Canvas, Archival Pigment

Lee Wells 'The Three Graces, Poolside Party #62'
Located in New York, NY
Poolside Party #62 (Naiades Series 1) 2023 Archival pigment on canvas 150 x 150 cm / 59 x 59 inches Signed, titled and dated on verso Edition of 1 Lee Wells (b.1971) is a conceptual...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Canvas, Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Kings of Hollywood'
Located in New York, NY
Film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) enjoy a joke at a New Year's party held at R...
Category

1950s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Plastic Head: RARE Vintage Batman Doll - 1988, rare, vintage, collectable, comic
Located in London, GB
Plastic Head: RARE Vintage Batman Doll - 1988: This figure was my big brothers when we were kids. Batman was a significant part of my childhood, from the ...
Category

2010s Pop Art Figurative Photography

Materials

Plastic, Archival Ink

Find Figurative Photography for Your Home or Office

Life becomes art in figurative photography. Shared moments are captured and history is recorded in images of people and their lives.

Figurative photography is often used to describe a kind of photography in which people are the subject. Early black and white photography of people can be a glimpse into a past century — witness the celebrated work of photographers such as Ansel Adams or lesser-known artists like Berenice Abbott, for example. The cultural and social standards of the time are captured in these figurative photographs.

Mid-century photos might show the life and fashions of the day, sometimes with the shared thread of humanity, joy and love. Indeed, figurative photographs can be a source of inspiration and wonder, speaking of common life experiences and beauty. Vintage photos of celebrities and iconic actors can be valuable keepsakes as snapshots of a bygone era.

Just as if you were bringing paintings, prints or drawings into your space as part of the decor, there are many ways to arrange your figurative photography. Large photos can be statement pieces in a room. Smaller photographs can be placed on bookcases or on compact wall spaces to add an artistic element to a living room or a bedroom.

Find a collection of figurative photography on 1stDibs today.

Recently Viewed

View All