1980s Color Photography

Pellicano Pool by Slim Aarons Holidaymakers relax beside the swimming pool of Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty...

Savannah Skateboard by Alain Le Garsmeur A man shows his balance skateboarding down the street in downtown Savannah, Georgia, USA, 1983. Paper size 20 x 24 inches / 50 x 60 cm Print...

Signed limited edition print of John Lennon and Yoko Ono during the filming of a video to promote their new album, "Double Fantasy", New York City, November 26, 1980, taken by Allen Tannenbaum. Filming began in Central Park, then moved to a gallery on SoHo for scenes where they would arrive in a white bedroom, first in street clothes and later in kimonos, strip, and make love. Allan Tannenbaum is an esteemed photojournalist and fine art photographer. His documentation of New York art, music, and nightlife has become iconic, particularly his definitive coverage of the burgeoning 1970s punk...

August 1984: Topless swimmers on a rocky promontory of the Mediterranean island of Cavallo, Corsica. Slim Aarons Island Paradise 1984 C print (Printed l...

Richard Heeps 'Ordinary Places' Series, captures Britain on the brink of change. It was Richard's first colour series and it achieved much success with an exhibition at the Photograp...

This late-1980s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an aerial view of sunbathers and parasols at La Fontelina beach, at the base of the Faraglioni rocks o...

Lisa Klausner (American, 1955-) 1983 "Collins Avenue" Signed bottom right Frame: 28" X 32" Image: 14" X 18.5" This is printed on paper in pastel deco colors and appears to be a photo based color print. It might be hand tinted. She had a show "Lisa Klausner — “Seaside Oddities,' painted photographs at Barbara Gillman Gallery. She was one of Miami Beach’s first gallery owners, the woman who brought Andy Warhol to South Beach and brought Art Basel to Miami Beach. She was involved in artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapping Biscayne Bay islands in hot pink. She loaned art for “Miami Vice.” She dealt with some of the world’s most important contemporary artists, including but not limited to, James Rosenquist, Herman Leonard and Nam June Paik. Lisa Klausner born in Northeast Ohio, Shaker heights. After college, she lived in South Florida and then New York City, where she worked as a photographer. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine and is in the permanent collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum. This is from the Miami Vice period when she lived and worked in Miami Beach, South Beach Art Deco district. “It was a desert,” said Lisa Klausner, 31, a photographer who was one of the first of the deco converts to move to Ocean Drive in 1981. She lived in the Cardozo...

Artist: Jeffrey Mayer Limited Edition: Signed and hand numbered in the margin, archival pigment print on 100% cotton paper with a Baryta finish. Authorized worldwide release of 100 ...

Titty Twister Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist Plastic breasts on display for sale in Amsterdam. JJK is a pseudonym for one of the world's most successful photo arti...

No Transport Problems 1982 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Mrs Woolworth Donahue with car and bicycles on her motor yacht, ‘Hartline’. 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 102 cm paper size Estat...

Afghan Girl by Steve McCurry is a 24 x 20 inch digital C-print on Fujiflex Crystal Archive Supergloss paper. One of Steve McCurry's most iconic images, this photograph features a you...

Tullio Abbate, of Abbate Boats, at the back of yacht as it is moored at a property on the shores of Lake Como, Italy, in June 1983. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authe...

Archival Pigment Print Captured in 1986, printed in 2026 Image size: 12.8 x 18 in. Paper size: 17 x 22 in. Signed and titled in pencil on print verso Open Edition Michael O’Brien is...

This late 1980s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Courchevel restaurant chefs Jean Jacob (left) of 'Le Bateau Ivre', Michel Rochedy (centre) of 'Le C...

'Galloping Horses' Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print Horse Racing at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, August, 1984. Note all prints are limited edition Archival P...

Andy Warhol Unique Polaroid Photograph of Heart-shaped Candy Box of Chocolates, Banal Objects Becoming Pop Art, Food as Love!

This early-1980s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Italian mountain climber and explorer Guido Monzino (1928-1988) and four people relaxing on the t...

Andy Warhol Diptych Featuring a Pair of Unique Polaroids Photographs of Pink Ballet Slippers, Banal Objects becoming Pop Art, Dance as Art

Edition 10 Also available in 40 x 50 cm / 16 x 20 inch, Edition 25 Portrait of actress and singer Grace Jones wearing a fur cap. From personality portraits and advertising campaig...

A solitary figure harvests wheat under a darkening sky, embodying resilience against nature's elements... "It had been raining all morning but the clouds suddenly parted and we had 3...

The Lure Of Lamu by Slim Aarons The resort of Kiwayu Mlango wa Chanu in the Lamu Archipelago of Kenya, February 1987. The resort is run by Governors’ Camp of the Masai Mara. (Photo ...

Hand Signed by Lynn Goldsmith Limited Edition of 20 ...

This mid-1980s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Roberta Droulers sitting with her daughters, Nathalie and Virginie, in the lobby of the Villa D'Este on...

A large scale Cibachrome photograph. An abstract work from the series titled, "Fairfax Ladies," (the historic old Jewish neighborhood of Los Angeles) produced 1983. The subject was ...

Beautiful landscape photograph of the Oregon coast, mounted on a heavy white mat by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Signed "CJB" in the lower ...

Giant Women Signs by Michael Ormerod is a stunning Colour Print on Hahnemuehle Paper in an Edition of 20 in this size of 20" x 24". States of America: The...

Portofino 1985, The most exclusive fishing village in Italy, Portofino, on Italy’s Ligurian coast. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition...

Ski Expedition (1981) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized (Photo by Alamy Archives) Skier descends into a dangerous canyon on the trans-Himalayan expedition, 21st March 1981. ...

'Porch Peas' by Alain Le Garsmeur Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print Two African American women shelling peas on a porch in Savannah, Georgia, USA, 1983. Paper size : 40x30...

Andy Warhol Polaroid Photograph Diptych Featurning Men's Shoes, Banal Objects becoming Pop Art, Fashion Inspiration

August 1980: In Spanish style riding clothes from l to r; TRH Princess Rajwa Ali, Princess Basma Ali and Prince Bin Ali. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons Estate Editi...

Cortina d'Ampezzo by Slim Aarons Isa Genolini and Maria Antonia in the main street of Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, March 1982. (Photo by Slim Aarons) Limited edition estate stamped pr...

Conca dei Marini 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A quiet bay in Conca dei Marini, on the Amalfi coast in Italy, August 1984 40 x 30" inches / 102 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stam...

Nan Goldin (b. 1953) is unquestionably one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. A successor to Diane Arbus and William Egglestone, her aesthetic and creative ap...

This early-1980s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an aerial view of a parasols shading customers at cafes and restaurants in the Piazza Umberto, on the...

Flowers would appear interspersed throughout every decade of Andy Warhol’s illustrious career. He penned drawings of flowers as early as the 1950s, studying floral compositions and v...

Wonderful color photograph of the gnarled trunk of a Coast Live Oak tree by California artist Deborah Eddy (American, b. 1943). Titled "Tree I" on the ma...

This early-1980s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features US restaurateurs Gilda Cioffi, owner of Mama Gilda in Palm Beach, Guy Avventuiero and his wife, of Gi...

Afghan Girl, Peshawar, Pakistan, 1984 - Steve McCurry (Colour Portrait) Signed and affixed with photographer's edition label and numbered on reverse Digital c-type print Printed o...

SEASONS (1981) This is for the single print listed here. (not the outside folder or title sheet) Title: Sony Walkman Radio. This one is hand signed and dated verso. Seasons explores the seasons of Man, Woman, Child, Civilization, Nature and Technology. First digital artwork purchased by the Metropolitan Museum. Date: 1980-1981 Medium: vintage color photocopy print. “I worked at The Metropolitan Museum in 1981, when they acquired [Lesley’s] SEASONS portfolio. We knew we wanted it, even though we didn’t have a category for it.” David Kiehl, Curator of Prints and Special Collections The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. Lesley Schiff (born 1951) is an American fine artist. Schiff studied painting at the Art Institute Chicago before developing her signature practice using color laser printers to create images. Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Mead Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other major museums, corporate and private collections globally. Lesley Schiff revolutionized the photocopier from being an office tool to just another instrument in the artist's arsenal. Rather than addressing the tool in her work, Schiff instead uses the photocopier like a paintbrush to realize her vision. Once a painter, Schiff says: “I never intended to stop painting. I just decided to start painting with a modern tool. Working with the color laser printer keeps you in your culture. It's like America. Plugged in. Electronic. Direct." Painting with light, Schiff's body of work outlines a cycle of life: man, woman, child, civilization, nature, technology. More recent works challenge the viewer to understand the concept of eye-levels and perspectives, reinventing the way we see. Schiff's work was the Metropolitan Museum of Art's first digital acquisition, and most recently, was featured at the Whitney Museum of American Art in "Experiments in Electrostatics". She uses a color laser printer “like a paintbrush” to create her art. She has said about her work and her tool: “I never intended to stop painting. I just decided to start painting with a modern tool. Working with the color laser printer keeps you in your culture. It's like America. Plugged in. Electronic. Direct—but no matter how hi-tech my tools become, I’m a painter, but instead of painting with oils, I paint with light. The Whitney Museum will show Lesley Schiff's pioneering SEASONS portfolio in its entirety. Many prominent collections acquired SEASONS as their first digital artwork. She participated in the Punk Art show in the 1970's. Her work kind of relates to Fluxus and Dada. Leslie Schiff moved from Chicago to New York in the early 1970s. Much of her art involves collage and the Xerox photocopy machine. Her images are rooted in her personal psyche and have an intuitive meaning that is not always easily understood. In exhibitions, Xerox sheets are combined and displayed decoratively on the wall. Schiff has also created books; and made video and sound tapes. She was included in the seminal New York/New Wave 1981 exhibition show at MoMA PS1 along with Jean-Michel Basquiat, William S.Burroughs, David Byrne, Larry Clark, Crash (John Matos), Ronnie Cutrone, Brian Eno, Nan Goldin, Keith Haring, Ray Johnson, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Mapplethorpe, Kenny Scharf, Steven Sprouse, Andy Warhol and Lawrence Weiner. She did a “visual biography,” comprised of portraits of Bob Dylan—depicted at different ages, from his 20s to his 60s—illustrations of his lyrics, and images of iconic objects like his sunglasses and harmonica. Schiff collaborated with Matthew Carter...

Count Simone Rucellai (1984) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant (Photo by Slim Aarons) Count Simone Rucellai stands holding a crash helmet while posing beside a motorcycle in Florenc...

Dalton Bank, vintage interior photograph from Richard Heeps' series, Ordinary Places. The square scene in the artwork is of a home in a state of renovation, the distinctive open blac...

Pittsburgh: A Look Back - Photographs from the 1980’s I came back to live in Pittsburgh in 1975. I could see the city was changing and evolving into what would ultimately be calle...

'Unghia Marina' A group of people stand on a terrace, at the Unghia Marina on the island of Capri, Italy, in September 1989. Trees dot the side of the marina while a flagpole rises...

This mid-1980s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Mrs T. Dennie Boardman and her children Samuel Jay and Sarah climbing the steps from the pool at the ho...

Hand Signed by Lynn Goldsmith Limited Edition of 20 ...

Olivier Coquelin Olivier Coquelin and Lahaina Kameha in Haiti, February 1981. 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Print...

This mid-1980s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the curved beachside pool at the Hotel du Palais Biarritz, Biarritz, France. This is an estate-stamped...

DJ Lovebug, Grandmaster Caz, Busy Bee at the Celebrity Club: Harlem, New York, 1980 by Charlie Ahearn, director of Wild Style (1982): A seminal early Hip Hop photograph featured as part of the exhibition: New York, New Music 1980-86: Museum of the City of New York (2021). Medium: Archival Inkjet Print on heavy-weight paper. Overall dimensions: 16 x 22 inches (Image size: 14 x 20 inches). Hand signed & numbered on the verso, from a limited edition of 10. Excellent overall condition. Provenance: Obtained directly from artist. Artist Bio: Charlie Ahearn, best known as the director of the classic hip-hop film Wild Style (1982), arrived in New York in 1973 to attend the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. Later he was joined by his twin brother, John Ahearn, and they became part of the artists' group Colab (aka Collaborative Projects, Inc). Ahearn showed his early films in an abandoned Time Square massage parlour that Colab had taken over on the corner of 7th Avenue and 41st Street (where Ahearn also lived from 1981 to 1993). Colab's 1981 art show - titled, "The Times Square Show" - is famous for introducing Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring among many others. In 1982, Ahearn directed Wild Style - universally hailed as the first hip-hop movie. Wild Style immortalized the birth of an underground hip-hop scene changing the face of music, fashion, art & popular culture forever. Ahearn's recent silkscreen paintings depicting hip hop culture’s seminal years were exhibited at PPOW Gallery in New York in 2017 and Beyond The Streets (2019 & 2020); with selections of his photography and film work most recently exhibited at MFA Boston...

Sign by Empty Footpath is a Photographic Color Print on Hahnemuehle Paper in this size of 20" x 24" in an edition of 20. Michael Ormerod was a British photographer with a distinct a...

Girl Blowing Bubble Gum, Wall, South Dakota by Michael Ormerod is a stunning Color Print on Hahnemuhle Paper in an Edition of 20 in this size. Sta...

This photograph of famed operatic soprano Leontyne Price was taken in 1980 during an album cover session. One of Mitchell's most beautiful color photogr...

A solitary figure harvests wheat under a darkening sky, embodying resilience against nature's elements... “It had been raining all morning but the clouds suddenly parted and we had ...

Combined Edition 25 Also available in 50 x 60 cm/ 20 x 24 inch and as combined Edition 10 in 76 x 101 cm / 30 x 40 inch 101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch Portrait of Dame Elizabeth Rosem...

This late 1980s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Courchevel restaurant chefs Jean Jacob (left) of 'Le Bateau Ivre', Michel Rochedy (centre) of 'Le C...

Ordinary Places Sixteen Piece Installation, British vintage interior photography by Richard Heeps. Richard Heeps 'Ordinary Places' Series...

Motley Crue Bubble Bath - Signed and Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print Motley Crue in a bubble bath, 1986. (photo Mick Rock). All prints are number...

Wine Glass I Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist A colorful picture of a wine glass made in the 80s and shot on analog film. JJK is a pseudonym for one of the world's m...

Barone Bettino Ricasoli 1983 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Winemaker Barone Bettino Ricasoli poses holding up a wine glass beside a table, on which stands three bottles of wine and a...

' Cola Café ' Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print Children wait outside a cafe with Pepsi Cola sign in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Central America, 1981. Note all prints are limit...