Original Photography for Sale

What is art photography?

The emergence of photography became one of the turning points in the art of the 19th century and all of modernity. Thanks to the daguerreotype technology, new opportunities for documenting reality opened up. This became a challenge for fine art, which acquired new forms, changed its tasks and purpose. And over time, photography itself underwent similar transformations.

Photo art appeared chronologically later than documentary photography, which developed from the middle of the 19th century. Art photos do not seek to capture objective reality, but are the result of modeling, staging, or a single captured moment. Their purpose is to convey a certain idea, concept, mood, character, atmosphere, aesthetics, or all at the same time, using visual means and images. The technical capabilities of the camera were not always used to reproduce events, places or people. In the hands of photo artists, it was a new tool for creating a picture without using traditional artistic methods, that is, paints, brushes, canvas, etc. At the beginning of its development, art photo copied images of more ordinary art, turning to classical drawings as a source of inspiration. Such photographs resembled the original paintings in their composition and details, repeating them almost exactly. Already later, a separate, self-sufficient direction was formed. In the process of its development, any photo art work increasingly strived for conceptuality and achieved separation from its artistic component.

Famous photo art works

The best contemporary photographers are often at the intersection between documentary and aesthetics or idealism, which are inherent in art. Art photos can be different. So, the best work of the American photojournalist William Eugene Smith Tomoko and Mother in the Bath (1971) is definitely not imagined as a photo for sale. Spooky, but infinitely alive and true in its all-encompassing honesty. Or the photo of the outstanding French photojournalist and photo artist Marc Riboud The Painter of the Eiffel Tower (1951). The picture is full of expression and carelessness with which a worker paints a metal beam at a height of several tens of meters. A photography artist can also turn to landscape subjects. Ansel Adams’s artistic beautiful wildlife photography The Tetons and the Snake River (1942) demonstrates how well perspective is used to create the impression of looking straight ahead, as if we were there. Famous photography art is revealed to the viewer in all its diversity.

Where is the best place to post original photographs for sale? If the photo artist does not work with glossy publications, magazines or collections, any photo art website, exhibition in a gallery or other cultural institution will be a platform on which to put a photo for sale.

There are even cases when a passer-by can purchase photographs from their author literally on the street. But why make it so complicated? Today, the best choice for artists is to sell art photography online. Therefore, there is no need to go to an exhibition or look for stands in parks, on the website of our gallery you can buy art photography in various formats.

Photography artists

Famous art photographers are distinguished by their personal unique style. Modernity is rich in talented or even genius artists whose original photography is a real work of art. Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) is one of the pioneers and an active fighter for the affirmation of photography as an independent form of art. His works had a significant impact on the formation of the aesthetics of photo art. But it’s all a classic. More extraordinary are the photos taken by Guy Bourdin (1928-1991). They are full of eroticism, bright colors and provocative angles. Richard Avedon (1923-2004) is also an outstanding photographer. His works are full of aesthetics and charm. Fashion photography guru Irwin Penn (1917-2009) is considered one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. Cindy Sherman (1954) is the author of popular staged photos, and Annie Leibovitz (1949) is known as a true portrait legend. Each of these artists left behind a huge legacy and influenced the further development of photography.

Photos for sale

Where is the best place to post original photographs for sale? If the photo artist does not work with glossy publications, magazines or collections, any photo art website, exhibition in a gallery or other cultural institution will be a platform on which to put a photo for sale.

There are even cases when a passer-by can purchase photographs from their author literally on the street. But why make it so complicated? Today, the best choice for artists is to sell art photography online. Therefore, there is no need to go to an exhibition or look for stands in parks, on the website of our gallery you can buy art photography in various formats.