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Black and White Photography For Sale
Cara II-Signed limited edition nude fine art print, Contemporary photo, Model
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Cara II - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, Edition of 5
This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm , Acid-free and l...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Ar...
Alas, Acto Uno, Series. Male Nude Limited Edition Black and White Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Cohete's ritual with movement and the male dancer formations, inhabits his black and white theater-like habitat. Like light; always in motion.
The harsh lights and shadows in the wa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Arnold Schwarzenegger Flexing - Oversize Limited Print
By Arthur Gordon
Located in London, GB
Arnold Schwarzenegger Flexing
by Arthur Gordon
A Vintage 1976 image depicting a young Arnold Schwarzenegger, the champion bodybuilder who was Mr. Olympia a staggering seven times. ...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
David Bowie With Lou Reed And Iggy Pop - Limited Edition Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
David Bowie With Lou Reed And Iggy Pop - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
David Bowie, Lou Reed & Iggy Pop during a press conference at the Dorchester Hotel...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled
based on an original Polaroid, 20th Century, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (29 Palms, CA), 1999, 20x24cm,
Edition 1/10, Photograph printed on Velvet Watercolor,
based on a Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature label, not mounted
Artist Inventory Num...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 691.
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 691.
Fallow deer; doe; galloping; and kid; jumping.
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887
Image size 7 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches
Inv...
Category
1880s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Surrender - Polaroid, Contemporary, Women, 21st Century, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Surrender - 2020
50x50cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proof
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and certificate.
Artist inventory PL2020-900.
Not mounted.
Ki...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
New Look (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Kurt Hutton
Located in London, GB
New Look (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Kurt Hutton/Getty Images)
A model wearing a black cocktail dress and a black velvet wide-brimmed hat, designed by Ronald Paterson...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Feminist Protesting Vietnam War
Located in Surfside, FL
Feminist T. Grace Atkinson Being Arrested As She Demonstrates Against Richard Nixon's War in Vietnam
October 23, 1972
Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat ...
Category
20th Century American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Last Bus In London by Bert Hardy - Limited Edition silver gelatine print
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
Last Bus In London by Bert Hardy
Limited Edition silver gelatine print
A couple saying goodbye on a bus in Shaftesbury Avenue in London, July 1953 .
Original Publication: Picture Post - 6576 - Known Your Piccadilly - pub. 4th July 1953
(Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Archive London England)
Paper size 12x16 inches / 31 x 41 cm
Produced utilising the original negative
Numbered and stamped by the Getty Archive London
Limited edition to 300 only
Silver gelatine fibre based baryta paper print
Certificate of authenticity included
printed 2024
Ships securely from London.
Other sizes and Framing available on request.
Bert Hardy
Bert Hardy
Albert William Thomas Hardy (19 May 1913 – 3 July 1995) was an English documentary and press photographer known for his work published in the Picture Post magazine between 1941 and 1957.
Life and work
Born in Blackfriars, Bert Hardy rose from humble working class origins in Southwark, London. The eldest of seven children, he left school at age 14 to work for a chemist who also processed photos. His first big sale came in 1936 when he photographed King George V and Queen Mary in a passing carriage during the Silver Jubilee celebrations, and sold 200 small prints of his best view of the King. His first assignment, at age 23, was to photograph Hungarian actor Sakall at the Mayfair Hotel. Hardy freelanced for The Bicycle magazine, and bought his first small-format 35 mm Leica. He signed on with the General Photographic Agency as a Leica photographer, later founding his own freelance firm, Criterion.
General Photographic Agency
General Photographic Agency a Fleet Street, London agency, sold photos at least between 1880-1950.
Picture Post and World War II
In 1941, Hardy was recruited by the then editor Tom Hopkinson of the leading picture publication of the 1930s to the 1950s, Picture Post. Founded in 1938 and funded by publisher Edward Hulton, the magazine's first editor was Hungarian émigré Stefan Lorant (1901–97) assisted by Hopkinson, who took over as editor from 1940. The picture-centric, left-leaning and reasonably-priced publication was highly successful and circulation soon rose to over a million. Hardy's photographer colleagues included Felix H. Man (aka Hans Baumann...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Paris, Les Halles Food Market, 1930s, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Press Agency Keystone View Co, Paris, circa 1930. In Paris, we discover a view of the famous Les Halles Food Market.
Fe...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Foundry - Black and White Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
High contrast photo by Peter Stackpole (American, 1913-1997). The photo shows a hot bar of metal on a large machine, about to be worked. The metal is g...
Category
1930s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
$1,080 Sale Price
20% Off
Francesca- Signed limited edition nude print, Black white, Woman profile portrait
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Francesca - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 5
This image was captured on film in 1986.
The negative was scanned creating a digital file which was then...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Phot...
"Featherstep IV" Nude Photography 20" x 16" inch Edition 1/15 by Aaron Mcpolin
Located in Culver City, CA
"Featherstep IV" Nude Photography 20" x 16" inch Edition 1/15 by Aaron Mcpolin
Medium: Archival Giclee Print
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Comes with COA issued by the artist
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
No Way - black and white nude photograph - print on aluminum 39" x 62"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A black and white photograph of a perfect woman's buttocks and her handcuffed hands giving a finger.
Original digital print on aluminum plate signed by the artist.
Limited edition o...
Category
2010s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
$4,960 Sale Price
20% Off
Wreck with Shattered Window
By Peter Hujar
Located in New York, NY
This early print of this image was made in 1980. It is titled, signed and stamped on verso, by the Executor of the Hujar Estate.
Category
1970s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Rome, Women, Street Photography, Black and White, Italy 1950s, 12.9 x 17.2 cm
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 1950.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photogr...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Marlon Brando, Libertyville, Illinois, 1950 - Silver Gelatin Print
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
On assignment for Life Magazine in 1950, Art Shay photographed Marlon Brando at his family farm in Libertyville, Illinois, just north of Chicago. Looking straight into Art's lens, Brando is innocent of the fame that is about to become his world. He went on to a career spanning sixty years including winning two Oscars for Best Actor. This photograph is unframed. Contact the gallery for framing options.
Art Shay
Brando Portrait, 1950
silver gelatin print
20h x 16w in
50.80h x 40.64w cm
ASY12088
“Art Shay’s photography shakes you up, sets you down gently, pats you on the head and then kicks you in the ass.”
Roger Ebert
“[Shay’s work] ranks with some of the greats of the 20th century.”
Ellen & Richard Sandor, Renowned photo collectors
“I’ve admired Art Shay’s work for almost forty years, and he keeps getting better. He can do anything with a camera, but what he mostly does is capture real moments and transform them into visual poetry. His work continues to be an inspiration to me.”
William Friedkin, Director of French Connection
“Art Shay is one of our finest photographers. His work over the past fifty years has artfully captured the beauty, humor, and pathos of America.”
Studs Terkel
“Art Shay is one of the best photojournalists I know. I’ve been a fan of his work since the early 1950s - before the launch of playboy magazine.”
Hugh Hefner
“Algren, Terkel, Royko, they gave us a voice. Art Shay gave us a face.”
Tony Fitzpatrick, Chicago Artist
“Art Shay is America’s Cartier-Bresson.”
Thomas Dyja, author of The Third Coast
“Chicago’s Art Shay in many ways is to American photography what Nelson Algren was to American writing: that rare and absolutely necessary citizen who’s blessed with a cold eye, a clear head, and a warm heart. What is it about Chicago that keeps giving us men like this?”
Russell Banks, Novelist
“The best images of Simone de Beauvoir and her times have been passed down to us by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gisele Freund, Robert Doisneau, Georges Brassai, and in America, the Chicago-based Art Shay, all world-class photographers.”
Christophe Loviny, Art Editor, Paris
“Art Shay is the best photo-journalist Chicago ever produced.”
Arthur Siegel, photographer; IIT Institute of Design President
“I have one of Art Shay’s pictures over my desk. It reminds me every morning of my Chicago roots. Arts photos, like me, have the Chicago accent, which may be to say he’s telling you the truth. I think it takes a realist to see the humor in things. I know it takes a realist to see the depths of tragedy. Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.”
David Mamet
Category
1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lionheart, Lion, animal, wildlife, black and white photography, africa
Located in München, BY
Edition of 12
More sizes on request
Portrait of a beautiful and majestic male Lion.
Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His photographs are among the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
British Aeronaut EWC Perry circa 1910, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography by ROL
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is a rare and captivating original silver gelatin black-and-white photograph, dating to around 1910, created by the renowned Press Agency ROL in Paris. The image features the pi...
Category
1910s Art Deco Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
Dee Dee Ramone on Balcony with Guitar
By Keith Green
Located in East Hampton, NY
Iconic photo of DeeDee Ramone at the Chelsea Hotel in NYC
Dee Dee Ramone on the Balcony 1993 by Keith Green
Chelsea Hotel
Silver Gelatin Print
Rock n Roll Photography
50 and 4 pr...
Category
1990s 85 New Wave Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Herd of American Bison Walking Across the Plains of Yellowstone National Park
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"On the Move"
From the story of their survival to their hulking, unmistakable physiques, the American bison is one of the rarified animals that has become larger than life in cultu...
Category
2010s Minimalist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ballerina Silhouette, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph, Ballerina Silhouette, 1971. It is signed on the print verso in pencil by Jack Mitchell. This is a print that was published by a newspaper o...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$400 Sale Price
20% Off
Spectator Tennis (1938) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
Spectator Tennis (1938) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Alamy)
1st December 1938.
Spectators watching a tennis match at a country club.
Addi...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
3499 - Black and white analogue female portrait, limitd edition 4 of 20
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'3499'
It is a black and white portrait film photograph.
Giclée print on Hahnemühle photo rag Baryta 308 Gsm fine art paper.
The photograph is signed front and back and comes wit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Wanaka Lake Tree, Study 2, Otafo, New Zealand, black and white photograph
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Wanaka Lake Tree, Study 2, Otafo, New Zealand is a black and white photograph by Michael Kenna. The (silver gelatin) print is signed and numbered.
Michael Kenna is master of cont...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Diana -
Stare
Located in Norwich, GB
David Koppel served his photographic apprenticeship in the rough-and-tumble world of the Fleet Street paparazzi in 1980’s London when his skills captured the very essence of the Me Decade that gave birth to the celebrity culture of today.
Koppel’s classic photographs of Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton & the Royal Family appeared in every major newspaper and magazine and marked him out as that rarity amongst press photographers: the artist with a camera.
Building on the reputation gained through the photographs for the book Still Waters, his black-and-white portraits of ordinary people now rank among the many famous names in his portfolio.
Koppel also went one better and in 2002 bought the St Giles St Gallery , bringing the best of local and international contemporary art and photography to Norwich, including the works of Sir Peter Blake, Terry O’Neill, David Bailey, Maggie Hambling, Storm Thorgersson, Tim Woolcock...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Sacred Baobab of Nianing, Senegal
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
*22x30" editions and 24x36" editions are platinum prints. Editions with a width of 60" or greater are archival pigment prints*
Baobabs are one of Africa’s natural wonders: they can ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Platinum
Disney Concert Hall I, Photography, Limited Edition, Architecture, Los Angeles
Located in München, BY
Disney Concert Hall I
Edition of 25
signed and numbered by the artist
The Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, USA.
JJK is a pseudonym for one of the world's most successful photo a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Berlin Kiss by Harry Benson
By Harry Benson
Located in Woodmere, OH
Harry Benson was born near Glasgow, Scotland. The photographer was assigned to travel with the Beatles on their first American tour in 1964. His iconic photograph shows the band in a gleeful pillow fight in a hotel room. Benson has photographed every U.S. president from Eisenhower to Barack Obama. He was feet away when Bobby Kennedy was assassinated; in the room when Nixon resigned; with Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Meredith march; and with Coretta Scott King...
Category
1990s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Airplane Beechcraft AT-7 Navigator, Arizona, USA, b&w art photography, print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and White Fine Art landscape photography - Airplane Beechcraft AT-7 Navigator on an airfield in Arizona, USA. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Ariane- Signed limited edition print, Black white, Woman on the beach high heels
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Ariane - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 10
Signed + numbered by artist with certificate of authenticity, unframed
This print that is being offered is...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment
Poppy Bunch - Black and White floral photography, Limited edition 2 of 20
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Poppy Bunch’
London, United Kingdom 2024.
It is a still life black and white film photograph, made with a large format 4x5 Linhof camera.
The photograph is signed front and back...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Giclée
Portrait of a Young Woman Wearing Traditional Tribal Jewelry, Africa, Fashion
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Mindisayo's Gaze"
In this best-selling image, a young women in the Rendille tribe of Northern Kenya wears the unique jewelry and ornamentation of this culturally-rich region.
The...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cary Grant in the Rain, 1957 - Cary Grant Portrait Black and White Photograph
Located in Brighton, GB
Cary Grant in the Rain, 1957 - Cary Grant Portrait Black and White Photograph
Classic American actor Cary Grant poses elegantly and with panache, even in the rain.
16" x 20" print ...
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin
James Dean - American Cultural Icon Hollywood Actor Silver Gelatin Photograph
Located in Brighton, GB
James Dean - American Cultural Icon Hollywood Actor Silver Gelatin Photograph
The iconic American actor James Dean poses for a photograph at a dinner. He wears a tuxedo and has a so...
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Frozen beach #6
- black and white analogue landscape photography
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Frozen beach #6' 2023
A photograph captured with a Polaroid camera that showcases the winter landscape of Lithuania in black and white.
Printed on the finest archival paper, these...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Realm (Kings Road) - unique solarized gelatin silver artist printed photograph
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In Kings Road (2022) Mona Kuhn lyrically reconsiders the realms of time and space within the midcentury architectural elements of the iconic Schindler House in Los Angeles. Built by Austrian architect Rudolph M. Schindler in 1922, the house was both a social and design experiment and an avant-garde hub for intellectuals and artists in the 1920s and ’30s.
The body of works incorporates chromogenic color prints, reflecting vignettes and materials of the building's emotional architecture, juxtaposition with unique solarized gelatin silver prints capturing traces of an ethereal human presence.
Realm (2022)
Kings Road: A Rudolph Schindler House
30" x 40" / 76cm x 102cm /edition of 12
15" x 20" / 38cm x 56cm / edition of 12
true size solarized gelatin silver print
printed at artist darkroom in Los Angeles (10 days handling time)
original photograph accompanied by signed artist certificate:
artist signature label (8x10")
signed/editioned/dated/titled by the artist + stamped for authenticity
label is placed centered on verso of the mounted print
__________________
About the artist
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art.
For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Stanley/Barker Editions published Kuhn's Bushes & Succulents in 2018. In 2021, Thames & Hudson published a career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn's most recent publication Kings Road (2022) with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum traveling exhibition shown in Europe and the US.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris; The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London; Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland; Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and Australian Centre for Photography...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Amira, Adonia and Abriana, Black River Falls, Wisconsin
Located in London, GB
Signed on archival label
Silver halide print
Accompanied by Magnum Photos COA
Available in two sizes:
Paper size: 17 x 24 inches, edition of 5
Paper size: 39 x 49 inches, edition o...
Category
2010s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
East River Drive
Located in Austin, TX
East River Drive by Norman Parkinson. Robin Miller and Pippa Diggle photographed on the South Street Viaduct beneath Manhattan Bridge for Go Magazine, 1960
...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Great Grey Owl, limited edition photograph, signed, Platinum/Palladium Print
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Great Grey Owl, limited edition photograph, signed, Platinum/Palladium Print
My fascination with birds of prey began eight years ago. There have been nesting owls on my family’s lan...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Mountain Side, Ladakh, India
By Linda Connor
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Linda Connor's imagery of ancient and sacred places explores the relationship between nature, civilization and spirituality. Appropriately, her subject matter is often in spiritual c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Bath #1 - In Celebration of Pride Month
By David Levy
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
David Levy created this vintage silver gelatin photograph in 1995. The image was t...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$318 Sale Price
46% Off
Oak Seed #5
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn...” Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the dirt.
This is where life begins.
The journey starts in darkness.
Trees often inspire the gaze u...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Platinum
Dahlia buds - analogue black and white floral photography, limited edition 5
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Dahlia buds’ photographed in London, United Kingdom 2024.
It is a still life black and white film photograph, made with a large format 4x5 Linhof camera.
Giclée print on Hahnemühl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
The Games we played (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Games we played (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
50x50cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 artist proofs.
Archival C-Print print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label, art...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"Tennis Leap" by Douglas Miller
Located in London, GB
"Tennis Leap" by Douglas Miller
22nd August 1932: Three young competitors leaping over the boundary between two tennis courts at the Essex Junior Champ...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Landslide - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Landslide - 2021
20x25cm,
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2022-2013.
Not mounted.
Kirsten Thys van den Aude...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Lily
23 - organic cotton canvas scroll on bamboo, Limited edition of 5
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
Lily '23
97×120 cm printed on organic cotton canvas, limited edition of 5 + 1AP
Canvas fixed on bamboo fixtures, to be and hanged as a scroll.
Photograph is signed and stamped at ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Organic Material, Wood, Cotton Canvas, Archival Pigment
"Glimpses of Their Garden #23", Abstract, Botanical, Black and White Photograph
Located in Franklin, MA
Hogan Seidel’s "Glimpses of Their Garden #23" is an abstract botanical photograph printed as an 11 x 17 inch silver gelatin image on 13 x 19 inch paper. This signed limited edition o...
Category
2010s Abstract Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper
Andres: Children playing street soccer, Barcelona 1957.
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Erich Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photographers, who used a Leica. His images today...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Disney Concert Hall II, Photography, Limited Edition, Architecture, Los Angeles
Located in München, BY
Disney Concert Hall II
Edition of 25
signed and numbered by the artist
The Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, USA.
JJK is a pseudonym for one of the world's most successful photo ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Neck Study, Nude Portrait
Located in Carmel, CA
Gelatin silver print, printed later
signed in pencil, stamped photographer's copyright credit, stamped title and date, and stamped 'Printed for the/Center for Photographer Art/Collec...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Touch of Dew: Lisa Fonssagrives, New York
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print
Signed in pencil, verso
16 x 20 inches, sheet size
14 x 18.25 inches, image size
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Lillian Bassma...
Category
1960s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
New York City, Black-and-White Landscape Photography, Empire
By Hank Gans
Located in New york, NY
Empire, 2014 by Hank Gans, is a 19” x 13” black-and-white landscape photograph of New York City captured while Gans was on assignment as a still photographer...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Black and White, Digital, Pigment, Archiva...
$1,200 Sale Price
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Four ocean pearls - Agrostemma still life photography, Limited edition of 5
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Four ocean pearls'
Photographed using large format 4x5 film camera, that provides increadible detail and light dynamics of Agrostemma flowers.
From limited edition of 5.
The phot...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Film, Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée
Minimal Landscape of a Sand Dune in Namibia, Black and White Photography
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Sanctuary"
This award-winning, best-selling image highlights the surreal relationships within mother nature.
The print series Dunes: Landscapes Evolving documents the magnificent...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Heaven sent, black and white, animal, Africa, Photography, Cheetah
Located in München, BY
Edition of 7
more sizes on request
A Cheetah family is sitting in the savannah and look out for prey.
Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His photogra...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Paris, Decorative Art Exhibition 1925, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Press Agency, Paris in 1925.
International Decorative Arts Exhibition in Paris, 1925, French newspaper pavilion. L'Intr...
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1920s Art Deco Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
Tree and Mountain, Suizenji Joju-en Garden, Dumamoto, Kyushi, Japan
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Edition 41 of 45
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains hig...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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There’s a lot to love about black and white photography.
The unique and timeless quality of a black and white photograph accentuates any room. Some might argue that we’re naturally drawn to color photography because it’s the world we know best. This is a shared belief, particularly in the era of camera-phone photography, editing apps and the frenetic immediacy of sharing photos on social media. But when we look at black and white photography, we experience deep, rich shadows and tonal properties in a way that transfixes us. Composition and textures are crisp and engaging. We’re immediately drawn to the subjects of vintage street photography and continue to feel the emotional impact of decades-old photojournalism. The silhouettes of mountains in black and white landscape photography are particularly pronounced, while portrait photography and the skylines of urban cityscapes come to life in monochrome prints.
When decorating with fine photography, keep in mind that some color photographs may not be suitable for every space. However, you can be more daring with black and white photos. The gray tones are classic, sophisticated and generally introduce elegance to any corner of your home, which renders black and white prints amazingly versatile.
Black and white photography adapts to its surroundings like a chameleon might. A single large-scale black and white photograph above the sofa in your living room is going to work with any furniture style, and as some homeowners and designers today are working to introduce more muted tones and neutral palettes to dining rooms and bedrooms, the integration of black and white photography — a hallmark of minimalist decor — is a particularly natural choice for such a setting.
Another advantage to bringing black and white photography into your home is that you can style walls and add depth and character without worrying about disrupting an existing color scheme. Black and white photographs actually harmonize well with accent colors such as yellow, red and green. Your provocative Memphis Group lighting and bold Pierre Paulin seating will pair nicely with the black and white fine nude photography you’ve curated over the years.
Black and white photography also complements a variety of other art. Black and white photos pair well with drawings and etchings in monochromatic hues. They can also form part of specific color schemes. For example, you can place black and white prints in colored picture frames for a pop of color. And while there are no hard and fast rules, it’s best to keep black and white prints separate from color photographs. Color prints stand out in a room more than black and white prints do. Pairing them may detract attention from your black and white photography. Instead, dedicate separate walls or spaces to each.
Once you’ve selected the photography that best fits your space, you’ll need to decide how to hang the images. If you want to hang multiple photos, it’s essential to know how to arrange wall art. A proper arrangement can significantly enhance a living space.
On 1stDibs, explore a vast collection of compelling black and white photography by artists such as Mark Shaw, Jack Mitchell (a photographer you should know), Berenice Abbott and David Yarrow.
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