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Ex Libris
Vassilia Kouboulis
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
€350
Commuter train interior
Jason DeBose
Photography - 58 x 87 x 2 cm Photography - 22.8 x 34.3 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
Man in the Mirror, Miami Beach
Andy Sweet
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€1,650
New Year's Eve TV, Miami Beach
Andy Sweet
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€1,650
New Year's Balloons, Miami Beach
Andy Sweet
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€1,650
Coast of Bengal Bay I
Garik Avanesian
Photography - 34 x 60 x 5 cm Photography - 13.4 x 23.6 x 2 inch
€770
For those who love the rain
Elena Raceala
Photography - 61 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.1 inch
€1,080
Long day's journey into tomorrow
Elena Raceala
Photography - 91.4 x 61 cm Photography - 36 x 24 inch
€1,200
The Woman of the Sea
Mario Pascual Cámara
Photography - 42.87 x 51 cm Photography - 16.9 x 20.1 inch
€1,000
Surrounded by light
Elena Raceala
Photography - 61 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.1 inch
€950
Street in Paris 3
Shengqi Tang
Photography - 30 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
€650
Street in Paris 1
Shengqi Tang
Photography - 30 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
€650
Nomadas on the beach II
Shengqi Tang
Photography - 20 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€650
De la série: immobile (standing still)
Pawel Jaszczuk
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€900
Something is wrong
Jan Brunclík
Photography - 80 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€1,250
Dharamshala's Lanscapes
Anaiis Lee
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.3 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
€1,200
Absorbés par le temps - 18
Clara Cena
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
€580
Jet d'oiseaux sur Beaubourg
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
€120
Bon dimanche
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€240
Le photographe
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
€700
My world is all Pink
Vava Venezia
Photography - 70 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,200
Why not to go to Cuba?
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€190 €143
Ligne 6 Rame Retour
Yves Bordes Lapeyre
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
€540
Ballerina III
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€195
Blues d'Eiffel
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€290
Sortie d’école, Kampala, Ouganda
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€1,200
La pêche miraculeuse d’Argungu, Nigeria
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€1,200
Prisonniers de la jacinthe, Kisumu, Kenya
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€850
Race. From the Manifesto series
Guilherme Licurgo
Photography - 88.9 x 58.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 35 x 23 x 0.1 inch
€1,931
Pêcheurs de l’ombre
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€300
L'Arbre des Sages
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€190
Damas, mosquée des Omeyyades (cours)
Michel Eisenlohr
Photography - 50 x 60 cm Photography - 19.7 x 23.6 inch
€1,000
Palmyre, arc monumental
Michel Eisenlohr
Photography - 50 x 60 cm Photography - 19.7 x 23.6 inch
€1,000
Surf the Channel 6
Raynald Najosky
Photography - 20 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€600
Surf the Channel 7
Raynald Najosky
Photography - 20 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€600
Surf the Channel 3
Raynald Najosky
Photography - 20 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€600
The Splash (medium)
Jesus Torio
Photography - 59.4 x 83.1 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.4 x 32.7 x 0.1 inch
€1,300
Givenchy aux Champs Elysées
Pierre Boulat
Photography - 30.5 x 40.5 x 1 cm Photography - 12 x 15.9 x 0.4 inch
€1,000
Souvenir lointain de son parfum
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
€120
008- Série Les petits peuples de Sibérie
Jacques Langevin
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
€1,200
007-Les petits peuples de Sibérie
Jacques Langevin
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
€1,200
006- Les petits peuples de Sibérie
Jacques Langevin
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
€1,200
005- Les petits peuples de Sibérie
Jacques Langevin
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
€1,200
002-Les petits peuples de Sibérie
Jacques Langevin
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
€1,200
001- Les petits peuples de Sibérie
Jacques Langevin
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
€1,200
Algerie-Les Touaregs_Sahara. Tassili N'Ajjer
Nadia Ferroukhi
Photography - 50 x 75 x 2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
Répression, place Tian'anmen, Pékin, Chine
Jacques Langevin
Photography - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€500
Lecture d'Opéra
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€115
New York 46
Jean-François Mollière
Photography - 58 x 58 x 1 cm Photography - 22.8 x 22.8 x 0.4 inch
€1,840
Mom it hurts
O'kiins Howara
Photography - 70 x 50 x 0.5 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
€850
Mehreen - Pakistan
Sarah Caron
Photography - 34 x 49 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13.4 x 19.3 x 0 inch
€1,300
L'homme pressé
Clara Cena
Photography - 80 x 80 x 0.2 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
€1,000
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Mozarts in Vienna
Tinatin Chkhikvishvili
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
€1,400
Citizens in Colour
Julia Whitehead
Painting - 35 x 45 x 4 cm Painting - 13.8 x 17.7 x 1.6 inch
€1,394
Le plongeon/2
Jean-Jacques Venturini
Painting - 89 x 116 x 4 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 1.6 inch
€2,500
Everyday life Photography for Sale
In the 1830s, Nièpce discovered how to print images onto metal plates. When he died in 1833, Louis Daguerre, followed by Francois Arago, continued to develop his research, resulting in the invention of the daguerreotype which consisted of an image printed onto a silver plate when exposed to the light. Together they had invented photography.
The first ever photographs began to appear. Initially used for research purposes, photography started to spread as daguerreotype studios opened everywhere. Portrait photography immortalized the faces of the upper middle classes and were later used to capture all members of society. Celebrities were also a popular subject choice and many photographers specialized in taking their portraits, as Jean-Loup Sieff did all throughout his career almost a century after the invention of photography.
In the beginning, taking a portrait or even the simplest of family photos required a great deal of preparation and time in the studio. However, key technological developments brought about the invention of more compact cameras including the Leica and later the digital single-lens reflex, which meant shorter exposure times and made it easier to produce a greater number of photographs.
These advances also helped contribute to the development of the genre of everyday life photography, which became more popular at the end of the Second World War and focused at first on photographing wealthy or urban families. Families, couples, communities... artists were interested in everyday moments (marriage, lovers kissing, children's games). The simplest of moments in life were seen as the most important and were immortalized in film as testaments to the beauty of human life.
Some of the great photographers made a name for themselves in the genre. Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, David Goldblatt, Martin Parr and Vivian Maier are only a few of the artists associated with everyday life photography.
Vivian Maier is an American photographer who was born in 1926 in New York. A professional nanny in Chicago, she spent her spare time photographing the world around her and produced around 150,000 photos. Having remained anonymous throughout her artistic life, her genius and photographic accomplishments were finally recognized publicly in 2007.
Cofounder of the Magnum Photographic Cooperative in 1947 alongside David Seymour and Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson was a pioneer of photojournalism but also an excellent photographer in a more artistic sense. He revolutionized photography by working with incredibly lightweight equipment. He didn't use a tripod or a darkroom and treasured a sense of immediacy when taking photographs. He believed that “above all else, the camera is a sketchbook". Henri Cartier-Bresson's photographic technique is unique and unmistakably recognizable. He never photographed with flash and only worked with natural light, something which was highly characteristic of everyday life photography. Often in the same black and white image, the subjects coexist together but are not centred. His framing, focus and depth of field all help us to see the simple beauty of everyday life that he so exquisitely enhances.
Artsper has a range of everyday life photographs for you to discover, including works from Cartier-Bresson as well as many other artists, whose photos reveal the precious moments of the everyday lives of people from around the world.
What does everyday life photography consist of?
Everyday life photography is a type of photography that captures moments from normal, daily life, such as urban street scenes, everyday objects, or children playing.
What are examples of everyday life photography?
Examples of everyday life photography include photojournalistic pictures of a town or city, or snapshots of found or everyday objects.
What is mundane photography?
Mundane photography has the same meaning as everyday life photography, meaning photography that captures images of day-to-day, mundane or banal life.