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St Louis Ladies
Alain Le Garsmeur
Photography - 51 x 61 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 24 x 0 inch
€875
The Deam - In the Dollhouse - Size S
Dina Goldstein
Photography - 51 x 41 x 1 cm Photography - 20.1 x 16.1 x 0.4 inch
€1,700
Vue sur rue, Alcúdia
Christelle Yambayisa
Photography - 105 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 41.3 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,900
Polo Party - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76.2 x 101.6 cm Photography - 30 x 40 inch
€3,300
Des verres et des cendres
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 30 x 45 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
€950
Vagabondages 2
Carlos Arriagada
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€1,700
Aus dem Gruppenbuch der Christiane P. - Wir Thälmannpioniere
Matthias Leupold
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€900
108, de la série Baltique
Irène Jonas
Photography - 18 x 27 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.1 x 10.6 x 0 inch
€900
Aura (Identity Claims Series)
Imanol Marrodán
Photography - 30 x 53.3 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 21 x 0 inch
€1,000
Femme à l'enfant (Namibie)
Alastair Mc Naughton
Photography - 28.5 x 20 cm Photography - 11.2 x 7.9 inch
€100
Upper Glasses Royal Ascot
Arthur Steel
Photography - 48 x 61 x 1 cm Photography - 18.9 x 24 x 0.4 inch
€1,825
Birthday pop cakes in the 18th century
David Carey
Photography - 18 x 9 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.1 x 3.5 x 0 inch
€99
Les mariés japonais du pont des arts
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€300
Pearl in the Oyster
Fatimah Hossaini
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.3 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
€3,500
Hillary Drawing
Alison Jackson
Photography - 114.3 x 83.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 45 x 33 x 0.1 inch
€7,725
L'Escalier
Christophe Battifero
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.5 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch
€580
Children Shuttle
Hugo Gus Babey
Photography - 70 x 120 x 0.2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
€1,000
Sunderbans n°1/9
Giulio Di Sturco
Photography - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€3,500
Sci sull'acqua Venezia
Vittorio Pavan
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€650
Le grand saut
Joost Wensveen
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
€1,550
Rain Chinatown
Leandro Frutos
Photography - 45 x 30 x 0.3 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€536
Serie "Anna. Moscow" 2001
Stanley Greene
Photography - 10.8 x 8.9 x 1 cm Photography - 4.3 x 3.5 x 0.4 inch
€500
City Palace. Udaipur. Inde.
Olivier Perrin
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
€750
Every single incident weighs tons (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)
Stefanie Schneider
Photography - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
€550
Purple Cadillac
Frederic Pasquini
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
€903
That beach
Corinne Dubreuil
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
€1,500
Tornando con le spese, Novembre 1955 - New York
Fabrizio La Torre
Photography - 60 x 42 x 0.5 cm Photography - 23.6 x 16.5 x 0.2 inch
€1,650
Les amoureux du pavillon Baltard désaffecté
Pierre Boulat
Photography - 36 x 24 x 0.3 cm Photography - 14.2 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
€1,000
Bleu Léman | Vevey Suisse
Gwenaël Bollinger
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
€780
Magic Comes To Lurline Bay
Anthony Horth
Photography - 76.2 x 50.8 x 2 cm Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.8 inch
€845
HRH Princess Elizabeth With HRH The Prince of Wales
Cecil Beaton
Photography - 76.2 x 76.2 cm Photography - 30 x 30 inch
€1,200
Loulou Cassis
Bernard Biancotto
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
€600
Portrait of Indian Women
Alejandra Leon
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€800
Urban blur VII
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,890
The Basketball game
Paul Almasy
Photography - 69.5 x 49.6 x 1 cm Photography - 27.4 x 19.5 x 0.4 inch
€875
La combi
Muriel Bordier
Photography - 100 x 190 x 0.5 cm Photography - 39.4 x 74.8 x 0.2 inch
€5,500
Bicicletas, Crianças e Outras Alegrias
Geraldo Pestalozzi
Photography - 29.7 x 42 cm Photography - 11.7 x 16.5 inch
€500
Ibrid Cracovia
Alessandra Bisi
Photography - 47 x 35 x 1.5 cm Photography - 18.5 x 13.8 x 0.6 inch
€330
A Widow in Her Bedroom, 55th St, NYC
Diane Arbus
Photography - 35.6 x 27.9 cm Photography - 14 x 11 inch
€36,695
The Long and Winding Road - Inde, Rajasthan. Sandstorm.
Fabrice Dimier
Photography - 37 x 37 cm Photography - 14.6 x 14.6 inch
€1,200
Chemin Faisant "Le poirier" (1)
Bertrand Desprez
Photography - 30 x 30 x 2.5 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1 inch
€300
Run DMC- Back to the source
OverSide
Photography - 70 x 50 x 0.5 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
€350
Cambodge, Prey Nup, Bantei Prey, jeune fille
Eric Benard
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€650
Corvée d'eau, Tchétchénie
Françoise Spiekermeier
Photography - 50 x 75 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 inch
€1,500
Portrait of Winnipeg (Life is like a box of chocolates)
Diana Thorneycroft
Photography - 61 x 76 cm Photography - 24 x 29.9 inch
€3,380
1999-New Orleans - Black and White Photograph of Woman on New Orleans Street Car
Jean-Luc Fievet
Photography - 100.3 x 149.9 cm Photography - 39.5 x 59 inch
€3,766
Une beauté thaïlandaise aux cheveux longs devant sa table de maquillage
The opium smoking white elephant
Photography - 50 x 40 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 inch
€800
Projection view (Palms and yellow boom)
Vincent Lamouroux
Photography - 134 x 93.5 x 1 cm Photography - 52.8 x 36.8 x 0.4 inch
€8,500
Mostar Bridge
Ludovic Careme
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€1,350
Paranoïd #11
David De Beyter
Photography - 30 x 41 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 16.1 x 0.1 inch
€350
Women in Lounge Chairs, Miami Beach
Andy Sweet
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€1,650
Shall we dance ?
Sabyl Ghoussoub
Photography - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€800
Reliquaire pour un culte de venus 28e version
Jean-Jacques Lebel
Photography - 45 x 30 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 inch
€350
Lirio roto, Obra del Grupo Danza del Alma, Cuba
Sonia Almaguer
Photography - 24 x 32 x 2 cm Photography - 9.4 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
Lagos la dingue
Thomas Hoeffgen
Photography - 40 x 103 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 40.6 x 0 inch
€2,000
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Holding your hands
Katharina Hormel
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
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.