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Art Subject: Portrait
Fula Shepherd by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
This young Fula shepherd, much younger than is perhaps suggested in this photograph, was walking through a small village with his animals in the searing midday heat of Niger. He was ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Wodaabe Maiden by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Wodaabe maiden from Niger. John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and his subjects ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Sojourn of the Songbirds
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Beth Moon is an American-born photographer. She has gained international recognition for her large-scale, richly toned platinum prints. This portfolio focuses on totem-like beliefs ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Platinum

Karepo Nawa by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met this young Himba girl near to a place called Etengwa in the far north of Namibia. We trekked a few kilometres in the midday heat, over a rocky hill to a small village within wh...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Nambuele by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2012
Located in Coltishall, GB
Nambuele illustrates the hair craft of the Mumuhuila of southern Angola, whose women take an obsessive pride in their hairstyle. Although it may change as a girl enters different st...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Her Dream IV
Located in Sante Fe, NM
From Zoë Zimmerman’s series, ‘Her Dream’. Zoë is a Taos, New Mexico based studio photographer utilizing metaphor to subvert the Everyday and provoke the ...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Pure Wodaabe by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of a young Wodaabe man from a town called Bororo in Niger. Bororo is often regarded as the ‘capital city’ of his people. The name Bororo is also commonly used to describe ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Nakini by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Turkana girl John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a remarkable l...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Beauty in the Sahel by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Wodaabe girl on route to local village market in Niger. She is dressed in the traditional dark cloth of the nomadic Wodaabe, which beautifully compliments the colourful beads...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

The Fairground by John Kenny. Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Turkana elder photographed by John Kenny in Kenya. John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Playwright Tennessee Williams, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams photographed January 20, 1966. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes di...
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1960s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Patti Smith
Located in London, GB
David Bailey Patti Smith, 1978 Archival Inkjet on paper Edition of 15 Signed by the artist, on verso Image: 36.83 x 47.76 cm Sheet: 42 x 59.4 cm
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1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Pigment

Sammy Davis Jr., smoking, unknown date
Located in Cologne, DE
Samuel George Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American singer, dancer, actor, comedian, film producer and television director. At age three, Davis began his caree...
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Late 20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White

El Barbudo by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36" Photographic Print on Brushed Aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
The bearded one… in Old Havana. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They have a strength of...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Metal

Italian-American tenor actor Sergio Franchi
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Italian-American tenor/actor Sergio Franchi photographed for a feature article, 1973. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives wi...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

La Dama del Callejón by James Sparshatt. Palladium Platinum Print - Float Frame
Located in Coltishall, GB
Every Sunday afro-Cubans gather in the Callejon de Hammel to play the drums and sing the harsh vocals of rumba. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cuban...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Platinum

El Campesino by James Sparshatt. 20" x 20" photograph on Brushed Aluminiu
Located in Coltishall, GB
The Viñales valley in western Cuba is a place of stunning beauty where perhaps the finest tobacco leaves in the world are grown. The tobacco farmers live hard but proud lives. The S...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Metal

Passage of the Squirrel
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Beth Moon is an American-born photographer. She has gained international recognition for her large-scale, richly toned platinum prints. This portfolio focuses on totem-like beliefs ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Platinum

Eture by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Rendille girl A return to Kenya. On this trip John took a different approach to lighting. Building makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets held up by four war...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Way of the Hare 2
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Beth Moon is an American-born photographer. She has gained international recognition for her large-scale, richly toned platinum prints. This portfolio focuses on totem-like beliefs ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Platinum

Listening to the Sky
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Beth Moon is an American-born photographer. She has gained international recognition for her large-scale, richly toned platinum prints. This portfolio focuses on totem-like beliefs ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Platinum

Assile Medium by John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Assile was photographed at a weekly market in Key Afar in the Omo valley. Key Afar is on a hillside near the mountains, and attracts hundreds of Hamer, Banna and Tsemai in an immensely colourful gathering of people. The market is divided between livestock with men trading goats and cattle and a separate section with women selling grain, nuts, containers, head stools...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Blackpool Railings
Located in London, GB
July 14, 1951. Two women chatting on the railings in Blackpool. The picture was taken by Bert Hardy using a single-focus box camera. The women are former Tiller Girls Pat Wilson...
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1950s Modern Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Hip Hop - Young boy posing, portrait, Texas, black and white, Black photographer
Located in Denton, TX
Hip Hop by Earlie Hudnall, Jr. is a portrait of a young shirtless boy posed against a wall, wearing baggy pants and a silver chain. Gelatin Silver Print 14 x 11 in. Signed, titled and dated in pencil on verso Growing up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Earlie Hudnall, Jr. learned the importance of community and culture and photography. His father was an amateur photographer, and his grandmother kept the family albums filled with valuable snapshots. After returning from his tour-of-duty in Vietnam, Earlie Hudnall moved to Houston to study at Texas Southern University. There, he continued his interest in photography. While studying art, he met one of his most significant mentors, John Biggers, the painter and muralist that depicted African American life in the South. He had impressed Earlie to make art that was drawn from his own experiences. His images capture communities much like the one in his home- town of Hattiesburg. Earlie’s strongest work was made in Houston. Earlie Hudnall’s images have been widely published. And his photographs are included in many major museum collections in the United States and Europe, including the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Art Institute Chicago and the National Gallery in Washington, DC. Artists have been influenced by Hudnall’s work, including James Laxton, the Cinematographer of the 2017 Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Moonlight. Also, Tyler Mitchell...
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1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

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...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Robert Patti, New York 1969 “Vertical II”
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition fine art print of Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, taken in New York by celebrated photographer and filmmaker, Norman Seeff in 1969. This Patty Smith...
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Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Mursi traditions by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Mago National Park in southern Ethiopia is home to the Mursi, one of the most well known tribes of the Omo valley. The area is inhospitable to outsiders, because of the heat, humidi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Otjitando by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and his subjects in their day to day attire. The C-t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Tuareg Warrior by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Tuareg warrior from Mali. John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and his subjects in thei...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Amongst the Camels by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Tuareg man 80 kilometres north of Timbuktu in the desert camp of Essakane. He was wearing a beautiful red metallic turban characteristic of the Tuareg from this part of Northern Ma...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Korohan by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Wodaabe man in Niger in 2009. John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and his subjects in ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

John Kenny Tuareg Vision of Intensity Small Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic
Located in Coltishall, GB
In January 2009 John Kenny went to the Festival of the Desert in Mali. The gathering of Tuareg musicians was, at the time, an annual event held in Essakane – about 100kms into the Sahara from Timbuktu, This striking Tuareg man was walking through the beautiful white sand dunes with his camels. He was on his way to join groups of Tuareg watching the setting sun from the top of the dunes and to join in preparations for the next days camel racing...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Ayoni and child by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Ayoni and her child – a smiling Turkana mother. John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows h...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

James Lewin - This Land is Our Story, 2025, Printed After
Located in Stamford, CT
Available sizes: 18” x 26” - Edition of 8 28” x 40” - Edition of 8 38” x 55” - Edition of 6 48” x 69” - Edition of 6 "Wildlife fine art photographer and conservationist, James Lewin...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Native American Girl Death Valley
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed Platinum Photograph. Tom Millea was well known for his printing. He loved Death Valley and even made a portfolio of it. This is a loose print.
Category

1990s Black and White Photography

Materials

Platinum

The Ol Neighborhood
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In the Dare alla Luce series, I initially responded to a collection of vintage photographs, retrieved from a variety of sources both personal and anonymous. Through hand-manipulated ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Junior Skier (New England Skiing) 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Junior Skier (New England Skiing)' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A freckled member of the Junior Skiing Program in North Conway, New Hampshire, 1955. Silver Gelatin Fib...
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Artist William Wegman and his beloved dog Fay, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of artist William Wegman and his beloved dog Fay, 1995. Signed by Jack Mitchell on print verso. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archi...
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1990s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Samburu Shepherd by John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face
Located in Coltishall, GB
Every Friday the highest mountain pass in northern Kenya comes alive as its normally wind-battered and deserted shacks become the focus of a market. It is the only place in West Samburu where Pokot and Samburu tribal groups are able to meet in a tense and uneasy truce. From a cliff top, looking out over northern Kenya’s rugged scenery, a nervous Samburu trader pointed at small moving objects...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Tired Photography Mexico Signed Karol Kállay
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Photography done for the publication Mexico/ Volk und Welt Berlin, 1967, signed on the back by the author.
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1960s Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Silent Dreams by James Sparshatt. 54x66cm Framed Silver Gelatin Photograph Print
Located in Coltishall, GB
A moment of calm amongst busy patterns and fabrics. Resting before it all comes to life. The Carnaval of Olinda, on the north east coast of Brazil, is a week of high energy and exub...
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21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Sara Galiza as Morte
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In the series “Comedy of Double Meaning’ Japanese photographer Hiroshi Watanabe photographs members of a Venetian theatrical troupe, the Pantakin Company, dressed as Pulcinella, Inna...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Of course we all wanted to look like Peggy Castle at the Wagons West Party, 2015
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Fledgling
Located in Sante Fe, NM
From Zoë Zimmerman’s series, ‘Her Dream’. Zoë is a Taos, New Mexico based studio photographer utilizing metaphor to subvert the Everyday and provoke the ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Farthest East by John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Fulani girl in Ethiopia. The Fulani have a nomadic lifestyle that sees them moving across the Sahel from Mali in the West to Ethiopia in the East. John Kenny’s work is all...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Michele Modesto Casarin as Arlecchino
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In the series “Comedy of Double Meaning’ Japanese photographer Hiroshi Watanabe photographs members of a Venetian theatrical troupe, the Pantakin Company, dressed as Pulcinella, Inna...
Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

16 x 20" Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams signed by Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
16 x 20" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams, photographed in 1966, numbered 5/12. It is signed by Jack Mitchell in pencil on th...
Category

1960s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Keith Richards 1982
Located in London, GB
© Michael Putland Leonard Cohen London 1974 Leonard Cohen was a renowned Canadian singer-songwriter and poet, celebrated for his deep, haunting voice and profound lyrics that delv...
Category

1980s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Divination by Shadow
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Each Cabinet Card is unique, and the image above details the front and back of the card. A handmade display stand made by the artist is also available for $100 – please inquire if in...
Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper

Aristotle Onassis - Vintage b/w Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Aristotele Onassis - Vintage b/w Photo realized in the 1960s. Stamped on the rear. Good conditions. With the handwriting on the rear.
Category

1960s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Our Little Dancing Girl, Evelyn, Age 9
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In the Dare alla Luce series, I initially responded to a collection of vintage photographs, retrieved from a variety of sources both personal and anonymous. Through hand-manipulated ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Afar Woman of Assaita. By John Kenny C-type Print with Acrylic Face Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
The town of Assaita is in the fiercely hot lowlands of the Rift Valley at the very north eastern edges of Ethiopia, near to Djibouti. Unlike Ethiopia’s highlands, which are renowned for their long history of orthodox Christianity...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

CONTRASTS - Black and white photograph on photographic paper
Located in Napoli, IT
Black and white analog photograph on photographic paper, author unknown
Category

1970s Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

El Finquero by James Sparshatt - Silver Gelatin Print with Wooden Frame, 2004
Located in Coltishall, GB
A tobacco farmer from the Viñales valley. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They have a s...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Morrissey by Kevin Cummins
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition silver gelatin print of English singer and songwriter Morrissey, of English rock band, The Smiths, photographed in Dunham Massey, Greater Manchester on Septemb...
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Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

John Lennon and Yoko Ono photographed November 2, 1980. Signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of John Lennon and Yoko Ono photographed November 2, 1980, the last comprehensive photo session of...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Huston Brando On Set (Silver Gelatin Print)
Located in London, GB
'Huston & Brando On Set' 1967 Director John Huston and actor Marlon Brando on the set of 'Reflections In A Golden Eye,' 1967. The two iconic movie stars on the set of the film in w...
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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Sky Dance - underwater black white photograph - archival pigment print 24"x35"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white photograph of a female dancer in the pool. Original gallery quality print signed by the artist. Digital archival pigment print on archival paper with ...
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2010s Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Konbaki by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2008
Located in Coltishall, GB
Konbaki – a portrait from a Fula woman from Niger in Africa. John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natur...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Glimpses by John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young woman of the Afar culture John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and in their day to...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

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