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Item Ships From: USA
Vivienne II (Desert Nudes) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Women
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Vivienne II (Desert Nudes) - 2016
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 18...
Category
1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"Lambs Ear/Comfort", Contemporary, Botanical, Black and White Photograph
By Vicki McKenna
Located in Franklin, MA
Vicki McKenna’s “Lamb’s Ears/Comfort” is a 8 x 10 inch (image size), 14 x 16 inch (matted), handcrafted, platinum/palladium photographic print. The contemporary black and white botan...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Black and White
"Saint Olaf Church II", Contemporary Landscape, Black and White Photograph
By Rebecca Skinner
Located in Franklin, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Saint Olaf Church II” is a 14 x 11 inch contemporary black and white photograph of an abandoned, weathered wooden church with peeling paint and boarded windows und...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
Marilyn Monroe nude in pool, 1962 by Lawrence Schiller
By Lawrence Schiller
Located in Chicago, IL
When Lawrence Schiller got the assignment from the French magazine Paris Match to photograph Marilyn Monroe on the 20th century Fox set of Something’s Got To Give, he thought nothing of it. It wasn’t to be a private, studio shoot. He wasn’t going to set up lights, create backgrounds, use a tripod. Just another assignment, he figured. Monroe by then was firmly established as a figment in the imagination of most young men. The orphan Norma Jean had recreated herself as the blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe. She’d appeared in twenty-nine films by the time Schiller photographed her in black and white and color in May 1962. The world was unprepared for the moment when Marilyn jumped in the swimming pool in a flesh-colored bikini and came up out of the water au natural. She was all smiles and in her element: the sex goddess...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Kings Of Hollywood, Beverly Hill, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper...
Category
1950s Realist USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Lambda
Film noir actress Veronica Lake at a party with Andy Warhol and Candy Darling
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Film noir actress Veronica Lake at a cocktail party at Jack Mitchell's Manhattan apartment, with Andy Warhol and Candy Darling. Veronica ...
Category
1960s Pop Art USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Moon Rise, Cuandixia, Beijing, China
By Michael Kenna
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential amon...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ripples - underwater black
white nude photograph - archival pigment print
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater nude black and white photograph of a perfect female torso wrapped in sunlight.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print on archival paper signed by the artist, fur...
Category
2010s Photorealist USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$640 Sale Price
20% Off
Blinded - Polaroid, Black and White, Women, 21st Century, Nude
By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blinded - 2020
50x50cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2020-916.
Not mount...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Three Boys on a Swing, Pitt St. N.Y. - Black and White Photograph, Children
Located in Denton, TX
Three Boys on a Swing, Pitt St. N.Y. by Walter Rosenblum is a black and white photograph documenting three children playing on a swing set in a city park.
Gelatin Silver Print
10.5 ...
Category
1930s Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Barn Owl XVI
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
My fascination with birds of prey began eight years ago. There have been nesting owls on my family’s land in the United Kingdom as far as I can remember. I have heard them calling to...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Somber Woman, 1992 - Nude Female, Seated and Veiled, Black and White Photograph
By Doug Birkenheuer
Located in Chicago, IL
A quiet solitude is evident in Doug Birkenheuer's photograph entitled "Somber Woman". Her nakedness is veiled in a sheer black cloth, her eyes downcast. The piece is framed in a he...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Portrait of a Wild Horse on Sable Island, Fashion-Inspired, Vertical, Equestrian
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Wind Blown"
Drawn to the timeless, ethereal beauty that unfolds moment to moment during visits to Sable Island and her horses, Drew's images feature the unforgettable nature of wil...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Gaudi Cathedral, Barcelona, Spain, Child on Swing, Black and White Photography
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
Burt Glinn's The Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Swing, 1959, is a gelatin silver print, 20 x 16, signed and stamped print, authenticated by the estate. A young girl swings carefree agai...
Category
1950s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Lily Pads Book
Print Set
By Roman Loranc
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on front of mount. Titled, dated and numbered on back of mount. Traces original book is accompanied by an original print featured in the volume. The Lily Pad print is a hand-p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Co-signed Raquel Welch on the cross by Terry O
Neill
By Terry O
Neill
Located in Austin, TX
Co-signed by both Raquel Welch and photographer Terry O'Neill, 20x24" silver gelatin print.
Actress Raquel Welch in a photo conceived by photographer Terry O'Neill after Welch noted that she was afraid that the press would "crucify" her for her film choices, taken on the Fox Lot in the late 1960s. Originally deemed too scandalous for promotional use at the time, the photo wasn't published until 30 years later, on the cover of The Sunday Times...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$11,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Jay and Jed Johnson, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of twin brothers Jay and Jed Johnson photographed for 'After Dark' magazine on June 8, 1970. Signed by J...
Category
1970s Pop Art USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,350 Sale Price
46% Off
Cecil Beaton, Pablo Picasso, from Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1981 (after)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite heliogravure after Sir Cecil Beaton (1904–1980), titled Pablo Picasso, from the folio Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1981, originates from the 1981 edition ...
Category
1980s Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Entirely Herself
Located in New York, NY
David L. Raines masterfully crafts light to create his works. Based in New York City, Raines works with his subjects to bring their stories to life through his eyes. Focusing on the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Balance - underwater nude b&w photograph - archival pigment 24х16"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white nude photograph of young woman and her reflection in the water surface.
Original digital archival pigment print signed by the artist.
Limited edition o...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$640 Sale Price
20% Off
Tuileries Garden in Paris under the Snow 1926 Silver Gelatin B and W Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph. The Tuileries Garden in Paris under the snow, France, 26th of January 1926.
The Parisians braved the cold at the end of ...
Category
1920s Art Deco USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Men Legs, One. Motion Series. Male Nude Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Through his exploration of bodily movement, with modern and ballet dancers, and with particular attention to the male physique, the artist has focused on the curves and lines of thei...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ten Balloons, Albuquerque, New Mexico, limited edition, silver gelatin print
By Michael Kenna
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"Ten Balloons, Albuquerque, New Mexico" is a limited edition, silver gelatin print by Michael Kenna. The photograph is signed and numbered and comes matted to 20x16 in.
Michael Ke...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Policemen in Paris, 1930, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
By Wide World Photos
Located in Atlanta, GA
A rare, original silver gelatin black-and-white photograph by Wide World Photos for The New York Times in Paris. The image depicts a quintessential street scene from circa 1930, feat...
Category
1930s Art Deco USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slyvie
s Lounge, Nude with Sofa
By Kim Weston
Located in Carmel, CA
Retired negative!!
Framed beautifully in wood & museum glass frame.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$800 Sale Price
33% Off
Debbie Harry, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography, Portrait
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
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 American singer, son...
Category
1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jack Harte #3218-1
Located in New York, NY
Jack Harte #3218-1
Stamped and numbered in black ink, inscribed in pencil, verso
Vintage silver print
6.875 x 4.875, sheet
6.5 x 4.5 inches, image
This work is offered by CLAMP in...
Category
20th Century Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
All-White Horse Swimming Underwater with Surreal Light, Equestrian
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Prism"
In this image, the forever-shifting surface of the sea refracts the light in novel ways. This crystalline layer gives way to the darker waters beneath, creating the perfect...
Category
2010s Minimalist USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jerry Schatzberg - Rolling Stones, Stones in Drag, 1966, Printed After
By Jerry Schatzberg
Located in Stamford, CT
Available Sizes:
8" x 10" $6,000.00 Edition of 25 + 5 AP
11" x 14" $8,000.00 Edition of 25 + 5 AP
16" x 20" $10,000.00 Edition of 20 + 4 AP
30" x 40" $18,500.00 Edition o...
Category
2010s USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Egg Study 5. Still Life . Black and White Silver Gelatin Print
By Shine Huang
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Shine Huang uses everyday objects to create mysterious and impressive images. Huang focuses on adapting historical photographic processes into contemporary art. Many of his images ar...
Category
2010s Minimalist USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
France
By Edouard Boubat
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Edouard Boubat
1923-1999
France, 1959/Printed later
Signed in ink on recto; signed, titled and dated in pencil on verso
Gelatin Silver Print
Mat 20 x 16 inches; Paper 16 x 12 inches;...
Category
1950s USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Paris, Les Halles Food Market, 1930s, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
By Press Agency Keystone View Co.
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 USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Southern Oaks
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
All photographs are platinum/palladium prints. These metals are hand coated on 100% rag cotton water color paper with natural deckled edges and contact printed. Since platinum, like ...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Platinum
$2,800
Jamie
By Mark
Kristen Sink
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 1.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production.
Shipping time depends on method of shipping.
Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph.
ABOUT:
For the last two years Mark and Kristen have collaborated using one of the earliest photographic methods, collodion wet plate to create ambrotypes on glass and tintypes on aluminum. They use a 1860 style view camera to create one-of-a-kind images, which become windows into an intimate, romantic, and beautiful world of faces, still lives, nudes, and landscapes. In this demanding process, the collodion coated tin or glass plates are immersed in a silver nitrate solution, and then they must be exposed in the camera and developed while still wet. Serendipitous flaws and beautiful imperfections are an inevitable part of this imprecise hands-on process.
This show includes a combination of 24 tintypes and ambrotypes, which are 8x10 and smaller in size. Their intimate sizes ask the viewers to look closer and spend more time with these photographs to fully appreciate their power. — A welcome antidote to today's nonstop, ¬instantaneous imagery. Paradoxically, this intersection of past and present gives these pieces an unmistakably contemporary feel. The two collaborators deliberately play up the ambiguity of time.
The nudes (some recalling E.J. Bellocq's alluring portraits of New Orleans prostitutes in 1912) are suffused with freshness and sensuality, even eroticism at times, with nearly all of them coming off as refined rather than crass.
Fredrick Scott...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Henry Rollins photograph New York City, 1987
By Fernando Natalici
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Henry Rollins Black Flag photograph NYC 1987:
Medium: Archival Ink Jet Print.
11 x 14 inches including borders.
Hand signed from a limited edition of 10.
New York based photographer Fernando Natalici is best known for his iconographic documentation of the downtown Manhattan art scene of the mid/late 70's and early 80's. Natalici’s portfolio includes sought after images of a young Patti Smith, Blondie, Talking Heads, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, The Ramones and more. As an Art Director, Fernando has played a key role in creating memorable visuals for historic NY venues such as CBGB's, The Mudd Club, Area and Danceteria.
Fernando’s photo archive and art design were recently featured in two highly regarded New York shows: “Area” at The Hole Gallery NYC (2014) & “Downtown New York Film” at The Museum of The Moving Image (2015).
Recent Publications & Exhibits
Jim Jarmusch: Music, Words & Noise (2015)
Another Magazine (London, 2014)
Black Book (2014)
Curbed NY (2014)
The Museum of The Moving Image (New York, 2015)
The Hole Gallery NYC (New York, 2014)
The Chelsea Hotel (New York 2013)
New York University Tisch School of The Arts
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Henry Rollins, is an American musician, actor, writer, television and radio host, and comedian.
After performing in the short-lived Washington, D.C. band State of Alert in 1980, Rollins fronted the California hardcore punk band Black Flag from August 1981 until mid-1986. Following the band's breakup, Rollins established the record label and publishing company 2.13.61 to release his spoken word albums, and formed the Rollins Band, which toured with a number of lineups from 1987 until 2003, and during 2006.
Since Black Flag disbanded, Rollins has hosted numerous radio shows, such as Harmony in My Head on Indie 103, and television shows such as The Henry Rollins Show, MTV's 120 Minutes, and Jackass. He had recurring dramatic roles in the second season of Sons of Anarchy, in the final seasons of the animated series The Legend of Korra as Zaheer, and has also had roles in several films. Rollins has campaigned for various political causes in the United States, including promoting LGBT rights, World Hunger Relief, the West Memphis...
Category
1980s Pop Art USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Inkjet
"It Never Rains in LA" Nude Photography 27" x 18" in Ed. 1/24 by Larsen Sotelo
By Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
"It Never Rains in LA" Nude Photography 27" x 18" 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 finis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Surrender - Polaroid, Contemporary, Women, 21st Century, Nude
By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde
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 USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Twilight Tree, Higashi Kagura, Hokkaido, Japan
By Michael Kenna
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed, numbered and dated in pencil on recto; Signed, titled, and dated with artist's copyright stamp on verso
Gelatin Silver Print
Edition of 25
Category
Early 2000s USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
British Aeronaut EWC Perry circa 1910, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography by ROL
By Press Agency 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 USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
High Sierra Mustangs 36x48 Black
White Photography Wild Horses, Unsigned
By Shane Russeck
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary black and white photograph of Wild Mustangs.
"They represent the ultimate expression of American freedom"
Framing available. Inquire for rates.
Shane Russec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
New York City Ballet principal dancer Patricia McBride, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of New York City Ballet principal dancer Patricia McBride, 1976. Signed on the print recto by Jack Mitchell...
Category
1960s Pop Art USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (Brian and Carl Morphed) - Two Nude figures, Black and White Photograph
By Doug Birkenheuer
Located in Chicago, IL
Two nude males lie on a bare wood floor. The angle of the photograph suggests that their bodies have melded into one. The artist uses traditional photography methods shooting the i...
Category
1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled
based on an original Polaroid, 20th Century, Contemporary
By Stefanie Schneider
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 USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
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 USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Pigment, Archival Pigment
"Babe Bows Out" Nat Fein, Baseball, Babe Ruth, Sports Photography, American
Located in New York, NY
Nat Fein
Babe Bows Out, 1948
Signed lower right
Gelatin silver print on paper
Image size: 16 x 20 inches
Mat size: 22 1/2 x 24 3/4 inches
Nat Fein (1914–2000) was a prominent Ameri...
Category
1940s Realist USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Paper, Silver Gelatin
Groom with the White Arabian, CA, Black and White Nude Male with Horse Tress
By Arthur Tress
Located in New York, NY
Groom with the White Arabian, CA, Black and White Nude Male with Horse Tress
1996
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in ink, recto
Gelatin silver print (Edition of 50)
14.75 x 1...
Category
1990s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Backside, -Male Nude Torso, Black and White Photograph, Matted and Framed
By Doug Birkenheuer
Located in Chicago, IL
The gorgeous muscular physique of the nude male in Doug Birkenheuer's photograph titled "Backside" is highlighted with the play of light and shadows. Th...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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 USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Feminist Protesting Vietnam War
By Fred McDarrah
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 USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
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 USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Malcolm X Funeral Vintage silver gelatin gelatin photograph
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
The funeral of Malcolm XFred W. McDarrah, 1926-2007
Veteran Village Voice photographer Fred W. McDarrah
Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the...
Category
1960s USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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 USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
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 USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Platinum
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 USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
$1,080 Sale Price
20% Off
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 USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Games we played (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women
By Stefanie Schneider
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 USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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 USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Wanaka Lake Tree, Study 2, Otafo, New Zealand, black and white photograph
By Michael Kenna
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 USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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...
Category
1920s Art Deco USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
"Glimpses of Their Garden #23", Abstract, Botanical, Black and White Photograph
By Hogan Alexander Seidel
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 USA - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper
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