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Black and White Photography For Sale
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Men on the moon, UNIVAC 494 - Vintage Photograph - Early 1970's
Located in Roma, IT
Men on the moon, UNIVAC 494 is an original photograph realized by an Anonymous photographer.
Typed notes on the rear, the description in Italian.
Stamp of Bert Brandt and Associate...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Philippe", New York, NY, 1994
By Jose Picayo
Located in Hudson, NY
This photograph is printed on Japanese Paper.
The price is for an unframed photograph.
11" X 14" Edition of 25.
The Robin Rice Gallery is pleased to announce, 25 Years of Polaro...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Cluster - 20
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
(a) (h)
Mohan Lal Mazumder
Untitled
Archival Print on Hahnemuhles
Photo Rag Bright White,
Museum Quality Paper
310 GSM ; 36 x 24 inches ; 2009
(b) (c)
Mohan Lal Mazumder
Untitled
Ar...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Cluster - 12
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
(a) (b) & (c)
Mohan Lal Mazumder
Untitled
Archival Print on Hahnemuhles Photo
Rag Bright White,
Museum Quality Paper
310 GSM ; 20 x 30 inches ; 2009 (each)
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Equilibres
Located in New York, NY
Peter Fischli / David Weiss
Equilibres
1984–85/2006
Limited-edition book with photograph in linen-bound portfolio
Photograph: 12 1/4 x 9 1/8 inches; 31 x 23 cm
Book: 9 1/4 x 7 3/4 x 7/8 inches; 24 x 20 x 2 cm
Portfolio: 15 x 11 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches; 38 x 29 x 4 cm
Edition of 60
Photograph signed and numbered in ink (lower verso)
Book signed and numbered in graphite on title page
For Equilibres, the well-known series of photographs from the mid-1980s, Peter Fischli and David Weiss balanced everyday household items on top of each other in an absurd equilibrium. The Equilibres photographs anticipate Fischli and Weiss...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Linen, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment
Hippocampus Barbouri (female), Platinum Iridium Print, Photography, Contemporary
Located in Munich, DE
"Creatures of the seven seas"
Series of 16 images plus cover page.
Limited Editions of 5 on Arches Platinum Rag handmade by the artist himself.
Edition 1 + 2 only available as compl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Mussolini Meeting - Vintage Photo - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
'Mussolini Meeting' is a b/w photographic print on glazed paper. Stamp of agency Trampus, Paris and cliché applied on the back. Meeting between Benito Mussolini and Kurt Alois von Schuschnigg, realized in Venice on 23 April of 1937.
Very good conditions.
In the photo, Mussolini meets the Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg outside the station of Santa Lucia...
Category
1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Spectral Device No. 10
Located in Sante Fe, NM
At nearly the same time that photography was invented, the practice of Spiritualism was being born in the "burned-over district" of New York. Central to its belief was the practice o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Alba Clemente
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work is unique.
Image dimensions: 8 x 10 in.
Framed dimensions: 15.125 x 17.125 in.
Published in Contact Warhol: Photography Without End.
Stamped twice on the reverse by both Th...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cluster - 18
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
(a) (b) (c) (d)
Mohan Lal Mazumder
Untitled
Archival Print on Hahnemuhles
Photo Rag Bright White,
Museum Quality Paper
310 GSM ; 36 x 24 inches ; 2009 & 2010
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Portrait of Walter Lutz, German meteorologist - Vintage B/W photo by ANSA- 1970s
By ANSA
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Walter Lutz, German meteorologistis is a vintage photograph realized by an Anonymous photographer.
With the description typing script on the rear.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Spectral Device No. 3
Located in Sante Fe, NM
At nearly the same time that photography was invented, the practice of Spiritualism was being born in the "burned-over district" of New York. Central to its belief was the practice o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Zoe and Charlie Brown (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Zoe and Charlie Brown (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2016
Edition of 10, 20x24cm.
Archival C-Print, based on an expired Polaroid.
Signature and Certificate.
Artist inv...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid, Archival Paper, Color
CNEN Nuclear Research Center of the Trisaia - Vintage B/W photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
CNEN nuclear research center of the Trisaia is a vintage photograph realized by an Anonymous photographer.
With the description on the rear.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Collection of two vintage photos by Studio Bonte - Photo 1903 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photo portrait of a young beautiful elegant woman, taken by Studio Bonte - Gand, 1903. On the back of the photo is hand written "Magdeleine - October 1903". V...
Category
Early 1900s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Amanda in Red & Pink – Emma Summerton, Fashion, Woman, Erotic, Red, Lips, Skirt
Located in Zurich, CH
EMMA SUMMERTON (*1970, Australia)
Amanda in Red & Pink, 2016
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle paper
Sheet 160 x 120 cm (63 x 47 1/4 in.)
Edition of 3, plus 2 AP; Ed. no. 1/3
print only
Emma Summerton (*1970 Australia) graduated from the National Art School in Sydney, where she studied fine arts majoring in Photography. Summerton moved to London in 1998, where she worked as an assistant to artist Fiona Banner while starting her career as a photographer. Her breakthrough as a professional photographer came with the collaboration with Terry de Havilland in 2004/2005, from which her first solo exhibition, titled Landed at the Christophe Guye Galerie shows from August 29 to November 23 2019 a large selection of the most important works. Since then Summerton has established herself as one of the most talented photographers to emerge in the mid 2000's. Her in-depth technical knowledge coupled with her eye for detail and love for fashion have made her images not only unique but very distinctive, setting her apart from other photographers working in the industry today.
Summerton's work revolves around the themes of fashion, love, desire and intimacy. Her Polaroid works are part of a project Summerton started in 1999 as a series of Self Portraits, firstly as visual love letters to her then partner and also in an attempt to re-find her voice with photography. ‘My mother was a dressmaker, and in school, she would make me dresses to wear to dances based on drawings I made,’ she says. Back then, costumes were an access point to unleash Summerton’s imagination. In her ‘Polaroid experiments’, as she calls them, costumes again became a vehicle for her to express her inner life.
Summerton’s Editorial Clients include: Italian, British, American, German, Australian, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese Vogue’s, i-D, Self Service, Dazed & Confused, The Last magazine,10 and Big Magazine.
Info: Amanda Seyfried, Givenchy by Ricardo Tisci (clothing), Van Cleef, Arpels & Martin Katz...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The British Antarctic Expedition (1910-13)
Located in London, GB
The British Antarctic Expedition (1910-13)
(photo by Herbert Ponting)
Scott’s Last Expedition, the ‘Terra Nova’ at the Icefoot Ross Island
British Antarctic Expedition South Pole
...
Category
1910s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Portrait of Painter Carlo Ferrari - Original Original Photograph - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original photo on yellowish paper realized in 1870 by an Anonymous Artist of the XIX century.
Included original passepartout: 32.5 x 26.5 cm.
The state of preservat...
Category
1870s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Jacques Lipchitz Bronze Sculpture Photo Signed
Located in Surfside, FL
Adolph Studly, Swiss born American photographer. His work is kept in the Photographic Archive at The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. He was known for his gallery photographs of works by artists represented primarily by the Buchholz gallery, Curt Valentin, and Stephen Radich Galleries. Artists whose work he shot include Max Beckmann, Francis Bacon, Chaim Soutine, Allan Kaprow, Clyfford Still, Georges Braque, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Georges Rouault. He worked with Louis H. Dreyer, the pre-eminent architecture photographer in New York City.
Chaim Jacob Lipchitz, 1891-1973, was born in Lithuania and came of age in Paris during the early 20th century, where he was active in the avante-garde community of Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Diego Rivera, Chaim Soutine, and Juan Gris. Art historian H. H. Arnason, who ranked Lipchitz with Picasso and Marc Chagall, wrote, "Lipchitz, as a pure sculptor, is ...unquestionably one of the greatest sculptors of this century."
The architect Philip Johnson asked Lipchitz to make a wall sculpture to be placed on the brick chimney over a fireplace of a guest house owned by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III on West 53rd Street in New York. Lipchitz decided to develop the piece from his Pegasus designs and call it Birth of the Muses in honor of the Rockefellers' interest in the arts. In 1950 he completed the work as a bronze relief five feet high. It was installed as planned and later was acquired by Lincoln Center. He participated in the Flight portfolio...
Category
1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Collection of two vintage photos by Studio Orlay de Karwa - Photo 1900 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage photos. Collection of two vintage black and white photo portraits of a young beautiful and elegant woman, taken by Studio Orlay de Karwa in Rome. Years 1900/1910. Some foxin...
Category
Early 1900s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Barn with Birds ( Black and White Sepia Toned Pigment Print of a Winter Scene)
Located in Hudson, NY
Barn with Birds, 2018
pigment print on watercolor paper, signed dated and numbered on face
13" X 16 1/4" edition #4/25 $1,500.00
21 x 27 inches framed - $1650
This Black and White ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Spectral Device No. 7
Located in Sante Fe, NM
At nearly the same time that photography was invented, the practice of Spiritualism was being born in the "burned-over district" of New York. Central to its belief was the practice o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Carl Orff Composing - Original Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Interesting B/W Photograph of Carl Orff composing, after the "Carmina Burana" success. cm 15.2 x 10.6. Not legible Signature in front, under the photo. Perfect condition.
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Terra Nova In McMurdo Sound (1910-13)
Located in London, GB
The Terra Nova In McMurdo Sound (1910-13)
(photo by Herbert Ponting)
Scott’s Last Expedition, the ‘Terra Nova’ at the Icefoot Ross Island
British Antarctic Expedition South Pole
Herbert George Ponting (1870-1935), 1910-13
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Additional information :
Paper Size 20×30"
Archival Pigment Print
Printed later
Singed in Plate
NOTE OTHER SIZES OF THIS IMAGE AVAILABLE
10 x 12" inches
12 x 16"
20 x 16"
20 x 24"
FRAMING AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
Ice Boat...
Category
1910s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Diamonds are forever
Located in New York City, NY
Leandro Franco
Diamonds are forever, 2020
48 x 40 inches
120 x 100 cm
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of 10
Framed
Fashion Photography - Portrait...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
"Animal Locomotion, Plate 531", Collotype by Eadward Muybridge, 1887
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eadweard Muybridge, British/American (1830 - 1904)
Title: Animal Locomotion, plate 531
Year: 1887
Medium: Collotype
Image Size: 8.5 x 13 inches
Frame Size: 20 x 24 inches
Category
1880s Naturalistic Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Moon child - black and white portrait and nature multi exposure photograph
Located in New York, NY
Finnish Photographer Christoffer Relander’s We Are Nature series blurs the line between the natural world and the human form to such a degree that it is impossible to tell where one ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Arrigoni collection, Esposizione Musicale Milanese - Photographic - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
The Arrigoni collection, Esposizione Musicale Milanese, is a photographic albumen print applied on cardboard.
The print is made by coeval enlargement and applied on cardboard witho...
Category
1880s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Man Curve, One. Motion Series. Male Sepia Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Man Curve One by Ricky Cohete
From Motion series
Sepia Archival Pigment print
Medium 36"x24"
Ed of 10 + 1AP
Throughout his exploration of the movement of the body, with modern and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Contemporary Modern Photography "Soldier Monument" 21st C
Located in San Francisco, CA
Contemporary Modern Photography "Soldier Monument" 21st C
Pencil signed (illegibly - see pics)
A man stands barefoot in front of a monument of a soldier
Phot...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi - Ancient Albumen Print - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Albumen Portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi is an albunen photographic print made by Giovanni Puppo in Milan around 1870.
Dim: 14,5 x 11
Header of photographer on the lower edge on the...
Category
1870s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Man Back, One. Motion Series. Male Sepia Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Man Back One by Ricky Cohete
From Motion series
Sepia Archival Pigment print
Medium 36"x24"
Ed of 10 + 1AP
Throughout his exploration of the movement of the body, with modern and b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
The American Director John Huston - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The American Director John Huston.
Category
1980s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Heart Lollipop
Located in New York City, NY
Leandro Franco
Heart Lollipop, 2021
16 x 12 inches (Photograph size)
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of 20
Framed
Suggested framed size 24 x 20 inches.
Ask us about framing details ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Phil, Front 2015
By Jose Picayo
Located in Hudson, NY
This listing is for the unframed photograph.
The Robin Rice Gallery proudly announces SUMMERTIME Salon 2019, an annual photography exhibit featuring gallery artists as well as a fe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Washington Square Arch (New York City Sepia Toned Print on Watercolor Paper)
Located in Hudson, NY
Washington Square Arch
pigment print on watercolor paper
18 x 13, edition of 25 $1500
24 x 20, edition of 25 $2500
50x40, edition of 25, $6,500
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Pigment
Herbert Von Karajan - Original Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photograph of one of the biggest conductor of all the times after Kleiber and Bernstein, Herbert Von Karajan. cm 17.5 x 11.5. Overleaf: "As...
Category
1980s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Garibaldi - Original Albumen Print - 1874
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Garibaldi by Lodovico Tuminello is an albumen print applied on grey cardboard.
Exellent condition, print cm 16,5 x 11. Dry stamp by photogr...
Category
1870s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Edgar Evans (1910-13)
Located in London, GB
Edgar Evans (1910-13)
(photo by Herbert Ponting)
Scott’s Last Expedition, the ‘Terra Nova’ at the Icefoot Ross Island
British Antarctic Expedition South Pole
Herbert George Ponti...
Category
1910s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Men Legs, One. Motion Series. Male Sepia Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Men Legs One by Ricky Cohete
From Motion series
Sepia Archival Pigment print
Medium 36"x24"
Ed of 10 + 1AP
Throughout his exploration of the movement of the body, with modern and b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Jon Gould in Aspen
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work is unique.
Dated 'JAN 04 1984' verso.
Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Andy Warhol Fou...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Fire Extinguisher
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Stamped on verso by the Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Image dimensions: 10 x 8 in.
Framed dimensions: 18 x 16 in.
Work comes with a Cer...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Moon at Sunrise
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Photographer Mark Klett is best known for cool, impersonal images of desert landscapes in the American Southwest, taken from a similar vantage points and under similar lighting condi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Terra Nova In McMurdo Sound (1910-13)
Located in London, GB
The Terra Nova In McMurdo Sound (1910-13)
(photo by Herbert Ponting)
Scott’s Last Expedition, the ‘Terra Nova’ at the Icefoot Ross Island
British Antarctic Expedition South Pole
...
Category
1910s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Mussolini In Uniform Of Army - Vintage Photograph 1937
Located in Roma, IT
'Mussolini In Uniform Of Army' is a b/w photographic print on glazed paper, the stamp of agency Trampus, Paris and cliché applied on the back, here Mussolini is in the uniform of the...
Category
1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Who will be forgotten, Brno, CZ
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 25
Signed, titled, dated and numbered.
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Neiman Marcus, Derek #4", New York, NY, 1995
By Jose Picayo
Located in Hudson, NY
This photograph is printed on Japanese Paper.
The price is for an unframed photograph.
11" X 14" Edition of 25.
The Robin Rice Gallery is pleased to announce, 25 Years of Polaroi...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The British Antarctic Expedition (1910-13)
Located in London, GB
The British Antarctic Expedition (1910-13)
(photo by Herbert Ponting)
Scott’s Last Expedition, the ‘Terra Nova’ at the Icefoot Ross Island
British Antarctic Expedition South Pole
...
Category
1910s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Man Curve, Two. Motion Series. Male Sepia Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Man Curve Two by Ricky Cohete
From Motion series
Sepia Archival Pigment print
Medium 36"x24"
Ed of 10 + 1AP
Throughout his exploration of the movement of the body, with modern and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Folding Man, One. Motion Series. Male Sepia Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Folding man One by Ricky Cohete
From Motion series
Sepia Archival Pigment print
Medium 36"x24"
Ed of 10 + 1AP
Throughout his exploration of the movement of the body, with modern an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Captain Oates (1910-13)
Located in London, GB
Captain Oates (1910-13)
(photo by Herbert Ponting)
Scott’s Last Expedition, the ‘Terra Nova’ at the Icefoot Ross Island
British Antarctic Expedition South Pole
Herbert George Ponting (1870-1935), 1910-13
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Additional information :
Paper Size 30×40"
Archival Pigment Print
Printed later
NOTE OTHER SIZES OF THIS IMAGE AVAILABLE
10 x 12" inches
12 x 16"
20 x 16"
20 x 24"
FRAMING AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
Ice Boat...
Category
1910s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
The Passing Storm
Located in Santa Monica, CA
8 x 8 in.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Butterfly Mind - black and white portrait and nature multi exposure photograph
Located in New York, NY
Finnish Photographer Christoffer Relander’s We Are Nature series blurs the line between the natural world and the human form to such a degree that it is impossible to tell where one ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Folding man. Two. Motion Series. Male Sepia Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Folding man Two by Ricky Cohete
From Motion series
Sepia Archival Pigment print
Medium 36"x24"
Ed of 10 + 1AP
Throughout his exploration of the movement of the body, with modern an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Man Curve, Three. Motion Series. Male Sepia Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Man Curve Three by Ricky Cohete
From Motion series
Sepia Archival Pigment print
Medium 36"x24"
Ed of 10 + 1AP
Throughout his exploration of the movement of the body, with modern an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Portraits of Women and Children in Nagasaki - Albumen Print 1870/1890
Located in Roma, IT
Portraits Women and Children in Nagasaki is a lot of four hand-inked Albumen print with aniline applied on a single cardboard.
Very good conditions. Cardboard cm 26 x 34; Print cm 9...
Category
1880s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Mid Day Suns
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Photographer Mark Klett is best known for cool, impersonal images of desert landscapes in the American Southwest, taken from a similar vantage points and under similar lighting condi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The British Antartic Expedition (1910-13)
Located in London, GB
The Castle Berg (1910-13)
(photo by Herbert Ponting)
Scott’s Last Expedition, the ‘Terra Nova’ at the Icefoot Ross Island
British Antarctic Expedition South Pole
Herbert George P...
Category
1910s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
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Chip Hooper Photography
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