Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.
$2,113
Road to Nowhere, Utah USA – Black-and-White Photograph, Limited Edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 11648 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Craig, contemporary, wildlife, black & white photography, Elephant
Located in München, BY
Edition of 5 more sizes on request signed and numbered Craig, one of the last Big Tuskers in Amboseli, Kenya Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His p...
Archival Pigment
$2,113
Pink Granite Coast, France – Monumental Boulder, Limited Edition Photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21117 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
The Sun is Longing for the Sea, Limited Edition Japanese Photography
By Hiroshi Yamazaki
Located in New york, NY
The Sun is Longing for the Sea, 1978, by Japanese artist Hiroshi Yamazaki is a photograph from a limited edition portfolio of masters of Japanese photography. The photograph is signe...
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Arc...
$2,113
Frosted Trees in Silence, Minimalist Winter Landscape, Limited Edition Photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 26013 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,466
Path Through the Frosted Forest, Limited Edition Black-and-White Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 26012 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$4,110
Black Stone Beach – Long Exposure Waterscape, Black and White Fine Art Photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 5 // Gallery ID: 21082 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,701
Minimalist Winter Tree, Limited-Edition Black-and-White Fine Art Landscape Print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 26008 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$1,691Sale Price|20% Off
Five Minimalist Winter Trees in Snow, Black and White Fine Art Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 26002 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,113
Eiffel Tower – Paris, Limited-Edition Black-and-White Fine Art Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 11830 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,113
Into the Nothing, Austria – Limited Edition Black and White Long Exposure Jetty
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21351 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Golden Gate Bridge, California, USA, Limited Edition Black and White Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 11652 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$1,409
Cold Foggy Winter Morning – Minimalist Black and White Winter Landscape Photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21344 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,113
Minimal Coastal Landscape Photograph of Palm Trees, Mallorca, Black and White
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21107 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,935
Black and White Frosted Tree Panorama, Minimalist Winter Landscape Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 26009 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Antelope Canyon Abstract Landscape Print in Monochrome, Limited Edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 11874 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,113
Sea Breakers, France – Limited Edition – Black and White Fine Art Seascape Photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 11452 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Frosted Winter Tree Austria, Minimalist Black and White Fine Art Landscape Photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 26003 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$1,715
Laurisilva of Madeira - analogue black and white nature photography, Limited 10
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
' Laurisilva of Madeira' 2026 Limited edition of 10 Photograph shot using mid-century large format film camera Linhof. Printed on archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper. Signe...
Film, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Giclée
$2,113
Winter Storm Over a Minimalist Wooden Pier, Limited Edition Waterscape Photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 11591 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,254Sale Price|20% Off
Lotus Flowers on Still Water, Vietnam – Minimalist Black and White Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21037 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Zebras Tanzania, Africa Archival Pigment Print, Framed, Edition of 10
Located in New York City, NY
This photograph by Araquém Alcântara offers a luminous testament to Brazil's untamed beauty, rendered with the masterful clarity and profound sensitivity that define his celebrated b...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Lerici 256 - Polaroid Coastal Landscape Photograph, Limited Edition 3 of 10
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
Lerici '25 is an original black and white Polaroid photograph captured on SX-70 film along the Ligurian coastline of Italy. The image is part of a limited edition of 10, hand-signed ...
Polaroid
$1,691Sale Price|20% Off
Place to Linger Winter – Minimalist Black and White Landscape Photography Print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 25039 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Karst Limestone Cliffs Reflected in Calm Water, Ha Long Bay Black & White Photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21366 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$60Sale Price|20% Off
Sieff-Ina a Contrejour Vintage Black and white photography
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This evocative poster reproduces Ina, en contre-jour, a celebrated photograph by renowned French photographer Jeanloup Sieff, known for his poetic, sensual, and psychologically charg...
Offset
$2,600
Black and White Photography, Wall Street, New York City, Limited Edition, 19x13
Located in New york, NY
Leonard Freed's photographic career is punctuated by epic documentary photo essays with many works from New York City. Wall Street is one of the photographer's iconic 1950s images. ...
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigme...
$1,878Sale Price|20% Off
Mystical Forest Clearing, Madeira, Limited Black-and-White Landscape Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21360 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$1,503Sale Price|20% Off
Ancient Laurisilva Forest, Madeira — Museum-Quality Limited Edition B&W Print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 21035 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$1,127Sale Price|20% Off
ONE WAY, Miami Beach, Florida, USA - Monochrome Photograph - Limited Edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 11823 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Vintage Pres Photograh of Liza Minnelli by Lars Looschen - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Gelatin silver print, realized in the early 1970s. A striking vintage press photograph depicting Liza Minnelli in a glamorous close-up portrait, captured during the period when she ...
Photographic Paper
Halong Bay, Vietnam – Limited-Edition Minimalist Black and White Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21367 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Lost Venice: Awnings, Contemporary Print, Signed, 2010+
By Sarah Hadley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This image is from Sarah Hadley's series Lost Venice. Each photograph is hand printed on Canson Baryta Paper, and is signed and editioned by the artist. Sarah Hadley is a Los Angel...
Archival Pigment
$2,348Sale Price|20% Off
Morning Light in the Mountains – Limited Edition Black-and-White Panoramic Photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21040 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
World-Class Yachts in Motion, Black and White, Vertical, Design-Inspired
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Velsheda in Pursuit" As the J-Class racing yacht Velsheda chased Ranger across the sea, the billowing sails created a stark contrast with the water below. This image is in the p...
Archival Pigment
$1,503Sale Price|20% Off
Minimalist Waterscape with Lotus Flowers, Black and White Photograph, Vietnam
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21348 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,348
Seven Sister, White Chalk Cliffs – Limited Ed. Landscape Print – Black & White
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21372 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$1,503Sale Price|20% Off
Waterfall into the Ocean, Gásadalur, Faroe Islands – Black and White Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21354 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,231
St. Nectans Glen, Waterfall, England, monochrome photograph waterscape limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21370 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$3,999
Office Party, New York, Gelatin Silver Photograph, Signed, 1966, 16x20 Inches
Located in New york, NY
Office Party, New York City, 1966 by Leonard Freed is a gelatin silver photograph, 16 x 20in, signed verso (on back) by the photographer. Photographer F...
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Rjukandefossen Waterfall, Norway — Limited Black and White Fine Art Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21373 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
God's Country by Anouk Krantz 2021
By Anouk Krantz
Located in Chicago, IL
God's Country (B&W) 2021 ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT Unframed Sizes: 30 x 45 in (76.2 x 114.3 cm) - Edition of 10 + 2 AP (Artist Proofs) 40 x 60 in (101.6 x 152.4 cm) - Edition of 10 + 2...
Archival Pigment, Silver Gelatin
$2,348
Sea Cliffs Panorama, Faroe Islands, monochrome large photography limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21355 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$816
Mujer De Santiago by James Sparshatt. Photographic Print on Brushed Aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
A woman of Santiago de Cuba. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They have a strength of ch...
Metal
$1,503Sale Price|20% Off
Frozen Landscape – Minimalist Winter Landscape Photograph – Limited Edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21345 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,066Sale Price|20% Off
Lotus Flower Panorama, Vietnam – Black and White Long Exposure Waterscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21379 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,113
Minimalist Black-and-White Beach Huts Photograph, France, Limited Edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 11962 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Onca Pintada 7, Amazon, Brazil
Located in New York City, NY
This photograph by Araquém Alcântara offers a luminous testament to Brazil's untamed beauty, rendered with the masterful clarity and profound sensitivity that define his celebrated b...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
$2,400
Woman Protestor, 1960s, Washington, Signed Gelatin Silver Photograph, 14x11
Located in New york, NY
American photographer Leonard Freed enjoyed documentary storytelling and as a "concerned photographer" his photography demonstrated humanitarian concerns. Woman Protestor, March on Washington, 1963 by Leonard Freed, is a 14" x 11" gelatin silver photograph, signed and stamped on verso (back of photo) by the estate, Brigitte Freed (wife of the photographer). The photo is in Leonard Freed's book “This Is the Day: The March on Washington'' (p. 50). The photographer travelled to New York, Washington, D.C., and throughout the South, capturing the daily lives of African-Americans. Documenting the 1960s Civil Rights Movement from the East Coast to the Deep South, Freed’s photo essay culminated in the book Black in White America, which contributed to Freed's becoming a well-known documentary photographer of 20th Century America. After Freed’s death in 2006 his widow, Brigitte Freed was inspired to compile a book on the March on Washington from her late husband’s archive because she heard then-Senator former President Barack Obama remark to an audience of civil rights activists, “I stand here because you walked.” The March on Washington series is a powerful visual testimony, capturing protests that culminated in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream'' speech, delivered at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. Provenance: Freed estate *** Artist’s Bio: Leonard Freed (1929-2006) was an American photographer from Brooklyn, New York. His "Black in White America" series made him known as a documentarian, a social documentary photographer. Freed worked as a freelance photographer from 1961 onwards and as a Magnum photographer Freed traveled widely abroad and, in the US, photographing African Americans (1964-65), events in Israel (1967-68, 1973), and the New York City police department (1972-79). Freed's coverage of the American civil rights...
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Tuk, Tuk, Lambro 550 Print, Limited Edition, Signed, 60 x 107 cm
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21365 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$1,878Sale Price|20% Off
Illumination, Lake Gosau, Austria, Limited Edition Black-and-White Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 15 // Gallery ID: 11026 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on th...
Digital Pigment
Vida Na Agua, Brazil
Located in New York City, NY
This photograph by Araquém Alcântara offers a luminous testament to Brazil's untamed beauty, rendered with the masterful clarity and profound sensitivity that define his celebrated b...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Two Wild Horses on Sable Island Nuzzling, Calming, Vertical, Ethereal
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Caress" Signs of affection on Sable Island between the horses include nuzzling, like in this image here. The print series Discovering the Horses of Sable Island...
Archival Pigment
$1,033Sale Price|20% Off
Ploumanac’h Lighthouse, Brittany, France, Limited Edition Black-and-White Photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 25012 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Morning Light in the Mountains — Black and White Limited Edition Panorama Photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21025 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Christmas Tree, Winter Landscape, monochrome landscape limited print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9. Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the reverse, signed and...
Digital Pigment
$2,705
Profile Portrait of a Woman in Kenya Wearing Tribal Jewelry, Iconic, Vertical
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Trimmed in Grace" A young Rendille woman wears the traditional adornments of her culture with honor and pride in this iconic, award-winning portrait. The print series Desert Son...
Archival Pigment
'Eyed Birtch' - black and white polaroid still life photography
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Eyed Birtch' 2024 A photograph captured with a Polaroid camera. Printed on the finest archival paper, these limited edition photographs are designed to withstand the test of time, ...
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Giclée
$1,127Sale Price|20% Off
Brassica Napus – Tree Avenue Landscape, France B&W Photograph Minimalist
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 11983 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$3,500
Handcuffed, New York, 1978 Black and White Iconic Photograph, Signed, 14x11
Located in New york, NY
For several years in the 1970s Leonard Freed worked alongside members of the New York police department, documenting the gritty reality of life on the beat...
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin