Modern Black and White Photography
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Erwin Blumenfeld, Solarized Nude, Electa Editrice, 1981 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite heliogravure after Erwin Blumenfeld (1897–1969), titled Solarized Nude, originates from the 1981 folio Erwin Blumenfeld, Electa Editrice Portfolios. Published by Grupp...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Offset
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
"Audrey Hepburn" by Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Audrey Hepburn" by Bert Hardy
1st May 1950: Belgian born actress Audrey Hepburn (1929 - 1993) leaning on an ornate urn in Kew Gardens. Original Publicatio...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Dali is painting medusas head on Galas forehead
Located in Cologne, DE
An amazing item, with numerous stamps and notes on the back showing its active life as a press photo. The quality is fair due to decades in use. But it is absolutly unique.
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"A Cheeky Little Wine" by Thurston Hopkins
Located in London, GB
"A Cheeky Little Wine" by Thurston Hopkins
16th August 1952: A workman savours a glass of red wine in a Paris bistro. Original Publication: Picture Post ...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Dali in Port Ligat, 1964
Located in Cologne, DE
Philippe Halsman
Dali in Port Ligat, 1964
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Crowning Glory" by Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Crowning Glory" by Bert Hardy
Premium Rates Apply. An elegant Parisian spends the morning in a Champs Elysees cafe. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5343 - Sunday Morning In Th...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Chinchilla Glamour
Silver Gelatin Print
By George Mayer
Located in London, GB
'Chinchilla Glamour' Silver Gelatin Print
George Mayer
Exquisite, very large 40x40" inches / 101 x 101 cm Silver Gelatin resin Print.
Certificate of authenticity provided.
Stampe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Guggenheim Museum" by Keystone
Located in London, GB
"Guggenheim Museum" by Keystone
A night time view of The Guggenheim Museum, New York, circa 1959, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Unframed
Paper Size: 20" x 24'' (inches)
Printed 2...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Backlighted Tree, Fort Davis, Texas
Located in Dallas, TX
"I like to go back to a place. Seasons change. Light, which is theater, changes. Nature is tumultuous, and our contact with it makes life happen.” - David H. Gibson
David H. Gibson ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marilyn Monroe, unique print of 1988 from original negative
Located in Cologne, DE
Ed Feingersh photographed Marilyn Monroe for Redbook magazine in March 1955 for a story which would follow Monroe through her daily routine, the photography to be candid and shot wit...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Marilyn Getting Ready To Go Out" by Ed Feingersh
By Ed Feingersh
Located in London, GB
"Marilyn Getting Ready To Go Out" by Ed Feingersh
Actress Marilyn Monroe gets ready to go see the play "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" playfully applying her make up and Chanel No. 5 Perfum...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Betty Slade Dives" by Fox Photos
Located in London, GB
"Betty Slade Dives" by Fox Photos
England's champion woman diver, Betty Slade, doing a back dive from the springboard, during training at Wood Green baths.
Unframed
Paper Size: 40"...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Drive-In Coffee Shop - New York Coffee Shop Photograph Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Drive-In Coffee Shop - New York Coffee Shop Photograph Silver Gelatin Print
A nighttime landscape photograph of the New York scenery, this is of a coffee shop that is illuminated by...
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Paris, Seine, Fisher in the morning, 1955
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1955.
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 photograph...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Rainy Time Square (1953) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
Rainy Time Square (1953) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Alamy)
Two silhouetted women at bus stop under umbrellas in Time Square,
Manhattan,...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Marilyn On The Roof (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Ed Feingersh
Located in London, GB
Marilyn On The Roof (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Ed Feingersh/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
American actress Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962) leans over the bal...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Italian Hats by Hulton Archive
Located in London, GB
"Italian Hats" by Hulton Archive
Models wearing a collection of Italian designed hats for winter 1956/7 and spring 1957, at the fifth Men's Fashion Festival, San Remo, Italy.
Unfra...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
"Personality Girl" by Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Personality Girl" by Bert Hardy
19th June 1954: Jocelyn Wardrop-Moore skiing in Glencoe, Scotland who has been nominated as one of six Picture Post 'Personality Girls'. She plays principal clarinet in the Royal Academy of Music...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Cary Grant And Grace Kelly In
To Catch A Thief" by Paramount
By Paramount Pictures
Located in London, GB
"Cary Grant And Grace Kelly In 'To Catch A Thief" by Paramount
Cary Grant and Grace Kelly publicity portrait for the film 'To Catch A Thief', 1955.
Unframed
Paper Size: 16"x 12'' (...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Marianne Faithfull 1964 Decca Studios in London Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Marianne Faithfull poses during a photoshoot in London in 1966. Faithful was discovered by the manager of the Rolling Stones Andrew Loog Oldham and became one of the lead female arti...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Helpful Dog" by General Photographic Agency
Located in London, GB
"Helpful Dog" by General Photographic Agency
Teddy the Dog holds onto child actor Jackie Lucas (1919 - 1983) by the tail of his golfing jacket as he tries to play a ball, which is floating in a river. A publicity still for the unreleased Mack Sennett comedy short, 'Rough and Ready', directed by William Campbell...
Category
1920s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Paris 1952 , Arc de Triomphe
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
This is a black-and-white photograph of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France, taken in 1952. The image shows the monumental arch, a symbol of French national pride and history, locat...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Marilyn In Grand Central Station" by Ed Feingersh
By Ed Feingersh
Located in London, GB
"Marilyn In Grand Central Station" by Ed Feingersh
Actress Marilyn Monroe takes the subway in Grand Central Station on March 24, 1955 in New York City, New York.
Unframed
Paper Si...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Backgammon By The Pool Essentials Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Backgammon By The Pool
1959
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary-Beth Turner playing backgammon by a swimming po...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Union Jack Trunks" by Michael Webb
By Michael Webb
Located in London, GB
"Union Jack Trunks" by Michael Webb
Two models in Union Jack swimwear posing in Trafalgar Square to promote tourism to Gibraltar, 23rd October 1969.
Unframed
Paper Size: 40" x 40''...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Venezuela, Woman, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 29, 4 x 24 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
"Rainy Embankment" by Fox Photos
Located in London, GB
"Rainy Embankment" by Fox Photos
August 1929: A man standing alone on a rain-drenched pavement on the River Thames Embankment, London.
Unframed
Paper Size:...
Category
1920s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Patti Smith
By Keith Green
Located in East Hampton, NY
Patti Smith, musician, poet. The bohemian New York poet and punk-rock artist
11X14
B&W, Silver Gelatin - Fiber Based Print
Signed and numbered by artist - Keith Green
Captured in New...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Black White And Gray - signed limited edition - fine art abstract landscape
By Tim Graham
Located in London, GB
Very large and exquisite, intensely vivid Archival Pigment print - signed and numbered by photographer on front - this paper size - edition of 10 only this size.
40x30" inches / 101...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dean Rounds Up Taylor (1956) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Dean Rounds Up Taylor (1956) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo Cineclassico/Alamy Archives)
GIANT Elizabeth Taylor Rock Hudson James Dean 1956.
Directed by George Stevens...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Cable Car Ride in San Francisco, 1960s
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
This black-and-white photograph captures the classic charm of San Francisco’s iconic cable cars. Taken in the 1960s, the image shows a boy hanging from the side of the cable car as i...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Marilyn Monroe, 4 Days in New York, 1955
Located in Cologne, DE
Ed Feingersh photographed Marilyn Monroe for Redbook magazine in March 1955 for a story which would follow Monroe through her daily routine, the photography to be candid and shot wit...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$2,463 Sale Price
20% Off
A Scene from the Movie "Crimes of the Heart" - Vintage b/w Photo - 1986
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Sissi Spacek, Diane Keaton and Jessica Lange in a scene from the Movie "Crimes of the Heart".
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$133 Sale Price
24% Off
Gondolier at the Rialto Bridge, Venice, 1950s
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
This black-and-white photograph captures a gondolier working along the Grand Canal in Venice, with the famous Rialto Bridge in the background. The gondolier, dressed in traditional a...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Venetian Afternoon, 1950s
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
This black-and-white photograph beautifully captures the essence of Venice’s Grand Canal in the 1950s. The image shows a row of gondolas gently floating on the canal, with their dist...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"I Awate You" Black
White Photography 24.5 x 17.5" in Ed 1/24 by Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
"I Awate You" Black
White Photography 24.5 x 17.5" in Ed 1/24 by Larsen Sotelo
Not framed. Ships in a tube
Giclee (Archival Ink) print on 310G Platine Fibre Cotton Rag w/satin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Jerry Schatzberg, Carmen Exits Taxi
Located in New York, NY
Jerry Schatzberg
Carmen Exits Taxi, 1959
archival pigment print
20 x 24"
ed. of 20
$10,500
40 x 40"
ed. of 15
$18,000
From creator of poetic images to compelling storyteller, Jerry...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"1966 World Cup Final" by Bentley Archive
Located in London, GB
"1966 World Cup Final" by Bentley Archive
1966 World Cup Final at Wembley, England 4 v West Germany 2 a,e,t, England's Geoff Hurst scores 4th goal as W...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
James Dean (1955) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Roy Schatt
Located in London, GB
James Dean (1955) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(photo via A.F. Archive/Alamy Archives)
1955
James Dean (1931 - 1955)
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Size: 16x20''
Printed...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Nude Studies - Edition griffelkunst
Located in Cologne, DE
With a socially critical eye and Berlin humor, the prints by Heinrich Zille (1858 - 1929) capture the milieu of the "little people" around 1900. The fact that the famous artist was a...
Category
1890s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Andres: Arches Nationalpark, Utah, 1966
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
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 are d...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"1st Class Travel" by Fox Photos
Located in London, GB
"1st Class Travel" by Fox Photos
September 1934: Mrs C Wylds behind the wheel with her pet pig at Terling in Essex.
Unframed
Paper Size: 16" x 20'' (inches)
Printed 2022
Silver Ge...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Dasha
Mari - Summer Opium - limited edition
By Dasha
Mari
Located in London, GB
Dasha & Mari - Models In Hats - limited edition
20x20" inches oversize C print - numbered and stamped limited to 100 only.
Sumptuous, sensual with erotic undertones, this is a beaut...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jeanloup Sieff - Intimode - Les Dessous de la mode
Located in Cologne, DE
From a Portfolio with 26 exclusive works of Jeanloup Sieff, limited to 200 copies.
The photograph of Jeanloup Sieff has been produced as Collotype under the direct commandment of the...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photogravure
Agave II Night Garden
Signed Limited Edition GIANT Oversize print
Located in London, GB
' Agave II Night Garden ' Signed Limited Edition GIANT Oversize print
by Stuart Möller
limited edition to 3 only this size - signed
Gorgeous archival pigment print measuring a ...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Derby Spectator (1923) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Derby Spectator (1923) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Photo by (Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
A spectator looking through binoculars at the Derby horse races, Epsom, Surrey, June ...
Category
1920s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
"Hepburn At Paris" by Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Hepburn At Paris" by Bert Hardy
Belgian-born US actress Audrey Hepburn (1929 - 1993) in a street at Paris during the filming of 'Funny Face' Original Publication: Picture Post - 85...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Bergman
s Picture" by Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Bergman's Picture" by Bert Hardy
30th May 1953: Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman (1915 - 1982) takes a photograph in a break from filming 'Visit To Italy', in Naples. Original Public...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Marilyn Monroe, unique print of 1988 from original negative
Located in Cologne, DE
Ed Feingersh photographed Marilyn Monroe for Redbook magazine in March 1955 for a story which would follow Monroe through her daily routine, the photography to be candid and shot wit...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Race Order" by Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Race Order" by Bert Hardy
Maserati racing cars in the pit during a road race at at St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, May 1947. Original publication: Pict...
Category
1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Untitled #26 (Boat Central Park), 2017 - Limited Edition Silver Gelatin print
Located in Brighton, GB
Untitled #26 (Boat Central Park) from the series New York by Giacomo Brunelli is a Silver Gelatin print in a limited edition of 10 in this size.
Brunelli shoots uniquely on black an...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
"Terry Thomas" by Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Terry Thomas" by Bert Hardy
25th September 1954: English actor-comedian Terry Thomas (1911 - 1990), real name Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens, demonstrates ho...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Boat Bearers" by Gerry Cranham
Located in London, GB
"Boat Bearers" by Gerry Cranham
30th July 1938: Two swimsuited girls are carrying their canoe on their heads.
Unframed
Paper Size: 20" x 24'' (inches)
Printed 2022
Silver Gelatin ...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Water Skiing (1950) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Gorgeous Joan (1931) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Alamy)
A woman in white two-piece bathing suit water skiing cir...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Flood of the Seine River in Paris, 1930s, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A rare, unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Agence Meurisse, Paris, circa 1930. The flood of the Seine River at Port de la Tournelle.
Features:
Original silv...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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
Liza Minnelli iconic picture, unknown date
Located in Cologne, DE
Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and choreographer. Known for her commanding stage presence and powerful alto singing voice, Minnelli i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Park Stones" by Roger Jackson
Located in London, GB
"Park Stones" by Roger Jackson
11th January 1967: Top British pop group the Rolling Stones taking a stroll through London's Green Park, they are, from left to right, Mick Jagger, Bi...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Calm Sea - Giant Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Calm Sea
A view of the sea at dusk.
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all over the world,
Stuart Möller is a fine art photographer w...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Visitor At No 10 Snowman By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Visitor At No 10 Snowman
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 54 x 41" / 137 x 104 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1968 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
edition of 20
note other print sizes...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Modern black and white photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Modern black and white photography available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add black and white photography created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of purple, blue, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Mark Shaw, Slim Aarons, Kevin Westenberg, and Terry O'Neill. Frequently made by artists working with Silver Gelatin Print, and Digital Print and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Modern black and white photography, so small editions measuring 0.63 inches across are also available. Prices for black and white photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $22 and tops out at $152,896, while the average work sells for $1,500.