Photographers
A photographer is a person who creates an image of the world using a camera. Given that nowadays, everyone takes photographs with their smartphones, it is necessary to distinguish this mass flow of images from the work of fine art photographers who have an artistic intention and aim to create original artworks.
Thus we consider an fine art photograph to be a work that is created with artistic intention and includes a reflection on ideas and technique. Art photography must be an original work by an artist who recognises their role in the creation by signing their name. The concept of an original work is also linked to the limited edition. Generally, the fewer copies are made, the higher the price of each photograph.
All the photographic processes are based on two fundamental requirements, first of all the ability to capture an image and then capacity to fix image onto a support, rendering it visible. It took a lot of experimentation in order achieve this. The very first photograph dates from 1826 and was taken by the French inventor Nicéphore Niépce. This photograph shows an image of his house and it took ten hours of exposure time to capture it. It was over ten years until the first photograph representing a human being was taken in 1838. It is an image of the Pont Neuf in Paris on which we can distinguish two passerbys. This photograph is the work of a former student of Nicéphore Niépce: Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre. Daguerre gave his name to a new technique which consists of fixing a negative image onto a silver plate: the daguerreotype.
The next major breakthroughs were the replacement of the glass plate with dry gel on paper or film which allowed for a wider diffusion of photography and the appearance of colour photography at the beginning of the 20th century. All these techniques can be grouped together under the term analog photography. In the mid 20th century the invention of digital photography revolutionised the medium. It was a technical and artistic revolution, photographers could now see on a screen the image they had just captured and could adjust their shots accordingly and they could also take advantage of the infinite possibilities offered by computer retouching.
Photography is often broken down and classified into different groups including: fashion photography, nude photography, conceptual photography, colour photography, black and white photography, street art photography, and so on.
Some of the greatest photographers in history include: Robert Mapplethorpe, Li Wei, Bert Stern, Robert Doisneau, Henri Cartier Bresson, Vivian Maier, Philippe Ramette, Bernard Pras, Steve McCurry, Richard Avedon, David LaChapelle, Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton and Martin Parr.
Discover the styles & movements
Reinhard Gorner
Admont Abbey, library Hall, Austria
Reinhard Gorner
Photography - 127 x 132 cm Photography - 50 x 52 inch
€6,000
Wren library, Cambridge
Reinhard Gorner
Photography - 127 x 159 x 2 cm Photography - 50 x 62.6 x 0.8 inch
€6,000
Saint Peter's Abbey Library
Reinhard Gorner
Photography - 127 x 190 x 2 cm Photography - 50 x 74.8 x 0.8 inch
€8,100
Trinity College Library - The Long Room IV
Reinhard Gorner
Photography - 127 x 157 x 2 cm Photography - 50 x 61.8 x 0.8 inch
€6,000
Open Space II - City Library, Stuttgart
Reinhard Gorner
Photography - 127 x 159 x 2 cm Photography - 50 x 62.6 x 0.8 inch
€6,000
George Peabody Library II, Baltimore USA
Reinhard Gorner
Photography - 158 x 127 x 2 cm Photography - 62.2 x 50 x 0.8 inch
€6,000
Library of the Abbey in Waldsassen, Bavaria
Reinhard Gorner
Photography - 152 x 160 x 3 cm Photography - 59.8 x 63 x 1.2 inch
€8,100
Milich'sche Library I, Görlitz
Reinhard Gorner
Photography - 127 x 130 cm Photography - 50 x 51.2 inch
€6,000
Emre
Good Boy Jeff - Green patina (1)
Emre
Sculpture - 60 x 30 x 30 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 11.8 x 11.8 inch
€18,000
Thomas Louvagny
Bright Night 2
Thomas Louvagny
Photography - 60 x 45 x 3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 17.7 x 1.2 inch
€650
Motel Bathroom 1
Thomas Louvagny
Photography - 45 x 60 x 3 cm Photography - 17.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€650
Motel Bathroom 2
Thomas Louvagny
Photography - 45 x 60 x 3 cm Photography - 17.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€650
Rika Maja Duevel
One day at a Time
Rika Maja Duevel
Painting - 75 x 115 x 1.5 cm Painting - 29.5 x 45.3 x 0.6 inch
€1,770
Breathe It In
Rika Maja Duevel
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€1,210
Stretching Away from the Present
Rika Maja Duevel
Painting - 70 x 70 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.6 inch
€1,770
My Searchlight
Rika Maja Duevel
Painting - 70 x 70 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.6 inch
€1,770
Complimentary Connection
Rika Maja Duevel
Painting - 70 x 70 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.6 inch
€1,766
The path continues
Rika Maja Duevel
Painting - 118 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 46.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,847
Complimentary Turmoil
Rika Maja Duevel
Photography - 47 x 45 x 2 cm Photography - 18.5 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,370
Valentin Zaharia
Forest magic (shroom) - limited edition of 21
Valentin Zaharia
Photography - 100 x 67 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 26.4 x 0.4 inch
€845
Time traveling - limited edition of 22
Valentin Zaharia
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0 inch
€449
Enter Sandman, dream no. 2 - limited edition of 21
Valentin Zaharia
Photography - 90 x 59 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.2 x 0.4 inch
€674
Enter Sandman, dream no. 1
Valentin Zaharia
Photography - 90 x 59 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.2 x 0.4 inch
€544
Door to serenity - limited edition of 23
Valentin Zaharia
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€269
Seagull in White Sky - limited edition of 10
Valentin Zaharia
Photography - 101 x 152 x 0.1 cm Photography - 39.8 x 59.8 x 0 inch
€899
The old prince - limited edition of 33
Valentin Zaharia
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
€799
Peter Neusser
Chinesischer Turm, München
Peter Neusser
Photography - 122 x 87 cm Photography - 48 x 34.3 inch
€3,200
Allianz-Auditorium, München
Peter Neusser
Photography - 87 x 122 x 0.1 cm Photography - 34.3 x 48 x 0 inch
€3,200
Flat Iron Building, New York
Peter Neusser
Photography - 122 x 87 cm Photography - 48 x 34.3 inch
€3,200
Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg
Peter Neusser
Photography - 122 x 87 cm Photography - 48 x 34.3 inch
€3,200
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Peter Neusser
Photography - 87 x 122 x 0.1 cm Photography - 34.3 x 48 x 0 inch
€3,200
Wien, Österreich
Peter Neusser
Photography - 100 x 130 x 0.1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 51.2 x 0 inch
€5,200
Shanghai, China
Peter Neusser
Photography - 100 x 130 x 0.1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 51.2 x 0 inch
€5,200
Dubai
Peter Neusser
Photography - 100 x 130 x 0.1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 51.2 x 0 inch
€5,200 €4,160
Shulan Wang
Eternal sleeping
Shulan Wang
Photography - 30 x 45 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,400
The reduction in self-awareness
Shulan Wang
Photography - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,200
Being and nothingness
Shulan Wang
Photography - 45 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€1,200
Have a soft dream with the moon
Shulan Wang
Photography - 45 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€1,000
Feng Wang
Alexandra Haasz
Polyphonic correlations
Alexandra Haasz
Painting - 75 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,905
Rotas of life - Serie pattern
Alexandra Haasz
Photography - 60 x 60 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 inch
€1,560
Nature - The Sator of life
Alexandra Haasz
Photography - 60 x 60 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 inch
€1,690
One hundred twelve
Alexandra Haasz
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,797
Kevin Krag
Long live the king
Kevin Krag
Photography - 121.9 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 48 x 32 x 0.1 inch
€4,836
Something got me started
Kevin Krag
Photography - 121.9 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 48 x 32 x 0.1 inch
€4,836
Raining in your bedroom
Kevin Krag
Photography - 81.3 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32 x 48 x 0.1 inch
€4,836
Too much confusion
Kevin Krag
Photography - 81.3 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32 x 48 x 0.1 inch
€4,836
I want you again
Kevin Krag
Photography - 81.3 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32 x 48 x 0.1 inch
€4,836
Gustave Le Gray
Samuel Bourne
The Taj Mahal from the River, Agra
Samuel Bourne
Photography - 50.8 x 76.2 cm Photography - 20 x 30 inch
€220