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Black and White Photography For Sale
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Kids with Flags
By Ruth Orkin
Located in Dallas, TX
Open Edition
Blind stamp on print margin.
Signed by Estate, titled, dated and copyright date in pencil on artist stamp.
Paper size: 20 x 16 in.
Ruth Orkin (1921 - 1985) was an Ameri...
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lost In The Fog. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Lost In The Fog / Rio De Janeiro, 2010 by Guilherme Licurgo
Archival Pigment Print
Image size: 23 in. H x 35 in. W
Edition of 10 + 2AP
Unframed
Guilh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment
Condesa, Artist Self Portraits. Black and white Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Condesa by Paola Dávila
Photograph printed analogically on 255 gr baryta fiber photographic paper. turned to selenium.
Image size: 18.3 cm H x 18.3 cm W.
Paper size: 25 cm H x 20 cm ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
TBD – Marianne Maric, Body, Woman, Girl, Night, Photography, Summer, Artwork
Located in Zurich, CH
Marianne Marić
TBD
Silver gelatin print
Sheet 80 x 120 cm (31 1/2 x 47 1/4 in.)
Edition of 5, plus 2 AP; Ed. no 1/5
Print only
Marianne Marić looks at...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Beauty Salon
Located in New York, NY
In her latest series "IMAGE CITIES," the artist explores the ever-closer integration of photographic images and the built environment. This succession of glossy depictions expresses ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tina Chow Dancing
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation inventory number.
The work comes wi...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
John Lennon and Paul McCartne
By David Bailey
Located in Santa Monica, CA
David Bailey
John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Signed in pencil on verso
Silver Gelatin Print
18x18 image, 20x24 inch paper, 30x30 matted, Frame 32x32
Category
20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ron and Mariette, From the Ibiza Series, Diptych
By Mikael Kenta
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Ron and Mariette, Diptych
From the "Ibiza" Series
Archival Pigment Print with a 1.57-inch white border.
Overall size: 62.99 in. H x 94.4 in. W
Individual Image Size: 62.99 in. H x 47...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Black and White
Self Touches #10. Black and White Male Nude Photograph
By Koray Erkaya
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Self Touches #10, 2013 by Koray Erkaya
From the series of Self Touches
Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta Paper
Image size: 24 in. H x 16 in. W (60 cm H x 40 cm W)
Edition of 7
All about nar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bailarín II. The Bailarín, series. Male Nude dancer. Black & White photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Bailarín II by Ricky Cohete
From the "Bailarín" series
Small size: 30 in H x 20 in W.
Edition of 13
Unframed
All prices are quoted as "initial price" and may change due to current s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Black and White
Folded Moon, large 3/20 - detailed, photography, shaped tondo wall relief
Located in Bloomfield, ON
As a child, Ryan Van Der Hout owned a telescope and was fascinated by the sight of the moon in the night sky. This iconic image of the moon as viewed from earth is re-imagined when V...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Mirror, Plexiglass, Digital
Edie Beale
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation inventory number and initialed Tim Hunt (“T.J.H.”).
The work comes with a Certificate of Provenance from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist to The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to Hedges Projects...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Flamenco Dancers in Spain
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Dated 'Jan 24 1983' (on the reverse).
Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The An...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marilyn Monroe
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Lawrence Schiller. ""Marilyn Monroe"" is a nude, figurative vintage silver gelatin photograph in black and white by American Post-War artist Lawrence Schiller. Lawrence Schiller only remembers the 60s in this way: Fast. As in: Blur. Which is, for those who lived through it, as accurate a description as one is likely to find about the decade that began with optimism and ended in chaos. It was ten years of turmoil and exploration. And through this turbulent and tumultuous decade, it often seemed that whenever a headline-making news event occurred, Lawrence Schiller was there. Schiller was not just lucky to be in the right place at the right time; he was prescient. He was there to cover the event, to add to it, to help us see it, to aid its meaning and its depth. ""It was a time in which things happened awfully fast,"" Schiller says of the decade. ""It was a wild, wild period; an uncontrolled period. I don’t think you had any sense of perspective in the 60s. You had to wait and look back at it, because it was a period in which things were happening that had no rhyme or reason to it. But by the end of the ‘60s I had covered so many stories, had so many magazine covers, I had somehow become part of that decade’s history. And I already had my eye on the future.""
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, or 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
Mid-20th Century Post-War Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Chet Baker, 1953 - Bob Willoughby (Portrait Photography)
Located in London, GB
Chet Baker, 1953 - Bob Willoughby (Portrait Photography)
Archival pigment print
Printed on 20 x 24 inch paper
From an edition of 25
Also available in al...
Category
1950s Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Chestnut Vendor, Depression by John Albok, 1933, Silver Gelatin Print
By John Albok
Located in Dallas, TX
Chestnut Vendor, Depression by John Albok depicts a man selling chestnuts on the street. The man looks down at his hands as he cracks open the chestnut. To his left sits a bowl of ch...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Santa María, Artist Self Portraits. Black and white Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Santa María by Paola Dávila
Photograph printed analogically on 255 gr baryta fiber photographic paper turned to selenium.
Image size: 18.3 cm H x 18.3 cm W.
Paper size: 25 cm H x 20 ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper
Elizabeth (“Pussy”) Paepcke, Aspen, Colorado
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation inventory number and initialed Tim ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Oaxaca, Artist Self Portraits. Black and white Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Oaxaca by Paola Dávila
Photograph printed analogically on 255 gr baryta fiber photographic paper. turned to selenium.
Image size: 18.3 cm H x 18.3 cm W.
Paper size: 25 cm H x 20 cm W...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper
Fran Lebowitz
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation inventory number.
The work comes wi...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Boy Street Shower
By Morris Engel
Located in Dallas, TX
No Edition
Signed in black ink on print margin by Morris Engel
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on print verso by Morris Engel.
Gelatin silver print, 13 x 10 in.
Morris Engel was born in Brooklyn, New York on April 8, 1918. He attended Abraham Lincoln High School and joined the Photo League in 1936 where he met Aaron Siskind and Paul Strand who became major influences in his life. He worked on the paper PM, and then enlisted in the Navy, where he was a combat photographer. He later did many magazine picture stories in the late 40’s. He also made films, and his classic film, LITTLE FUGITIVE was released in 1953. He shot several more features, and later worked with video...
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Harlem (Three Cowboys)
By John Albok
Located in Dallas, TX
John Albok
Harlem (Three Cowboys), 1938
Vintage gelatin silver print, 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.
Titled in pencil on mount margin.
Signed and dated by John Albok in pencil, artist stamp in bl...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Santa María, Artist Self Portraits Black and white Photograph. Triptych
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Santa Maria by Paola Dávila
Photograph printed analogically on 255 gr baryta fiber photographic paper. turned to selenium.
Image size: 18.3 cm H x 18.3 cm W.
Paper size: 25 cm H x 20...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper
Oaxaca, kitchen. Artist Self Portraits. Black and white Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Oaxaca (Cocina) by Paola Dávila
From the series places
Photograph printed analogically on 255 gr baryta fiber photographic paper. turned to selenium.
Image size: 18.3 cm H x 18.3 cm ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper
Midtown High View, New York City, USA
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 45
Signed, titled, dated, print date, numbered and artist stamp by Michael Kenna
Sepia toned gelatin silver print
Michael Kenna's black and white photographs are powerful...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
La Casa de Daniel, Artist Self Portraits. Black and white Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
La Casa de Daniel by Paola Dávila
Photograph printed analogically on 255 gr baryta fiber photographic paper. turned to selenium.
Image size: 18.3 cm H x 18.3 cm W.
Paper size: 25 cm ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper
Bryan Ferry and Bob Feiden
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation inventory number.
The work comes wi...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Easter Sunday in Harlem, 1940
By Weegee
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Weegee (Hungary, b. 1899-1968)
Easter Sunday in Harlem, 1940, printed 1940
Photographer's credit stamp on verso
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
Paper 14 x 11 inches; Image 13 1/4 x 10 1...
Category
20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
TBD – Marianne Maric, Body, Woman, Girl, Night, Photography, Summer, Artwork
Located in Zurich, CH
Marianne Marić
TBD
Silver gelatin print
Sheet 80 x 120 cm (31 1/2 x 47 1/4 in.)
Edition of 5, plus 2 AP; Ed. no 1/5
Print only
Marianne Marić looks at...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Watergate Hotel, Washington, DC
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation inventory number and initialed Tim ...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Gulfstream I
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Dated 'Apr 23 1982' (on the reverse).
Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The An...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Divine and Stephen Aronson
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation inventory number.
The work comes wi...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Toilet/Fountain
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts inventory number written on verso and initialed Tim Hunt...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dianne Brill and her sister Morri Brill
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Dated 'Apr 06 1984' (on the reverse).
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundati...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bianca Jagger
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Ar...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Nell Campbell
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation inventory number and initialed Tim ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Grace Jones and Steve Rubell
By Andy Warhol
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Andy Warhol. "Grace Jones and Steve Rubell" is a Post-War silver gelatin print by American Pop Artist Andy Warhol. The artwork is unsigne...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Carmen Dell'Orefice and Unidentified Man
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation inventory number.
The work comes wi...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Airplane Engine
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Dated 'Apr 26 1982' (on the reverse).
Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The An...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
City Skyline in Spain
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Dated 'Jan 24 1983' (on the reverse).
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundati...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Perry King
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation inventory number.
The work comes wi...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Julian Schnabel
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation inventory number and initialed Tim ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Schoolchildren in Spain
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Dated 'Jan 24 1983' (on the reverse).
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundati...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Myself as a Pilot V. 2:0
By Anne Noggle
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed, titled and dated by Anne Noggle
Gelatin silver print
8 3/4 x 12 1/2 in.
Anne Noggle (1922 - 2005) was a former World War II military pilot, who in her forties started her ca...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Nude in Tub
By Ferenc Berko
Located in Dallas, TX
Ferenc Berko
Nude in Tub, ca. 1940-1949
Gelatin silver print, 13 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.
Signed in pencil and misc. notations in black ink on print verso by Ferenc Berko
Category
1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Interior Tabletop with Porcelain in Spain
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Dated 'Jan 24 1983' (on the reverse).
Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The An...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Shadow, São Paulo. From the Mundo do Sambras series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Shadow / São Paulo, 2010 by Guilherme Licurgo
From the São Paulo series.
Archival Pigment Print
Image size: 35 in. H x 23 in. W
Edition of 10 + 2 AP
Mundo da Sombras Series
"Our natural disposition is to think of photographs as snapshots, the capture of a fleeting moment. However, Guilherme Licurgo has frequently toyed with this understanding, producing images which instead condense time into a singular frame".
Other sizes are available. All Prices are quoted as "initial price".
Please note that prices and availability may change due to current sales.
____________
Guilherme Licurgo was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1983 and is currently residing and working in São Paulo, Brazil. Invited to model for Terry Richardson for his book, "Terry Richardson Rio Cidade Maravilhosa" in 2008, Guilherme went to study Photography at the Panamericana School of Art. He discovered his real passion behind the lens, creating images. He has been working as a photographer ever since. He has worked for many Brazilian and International brands/ magazines, including: Lancaster Paris, Architecture Beauty Culture Design, Roberto Cavalli, Wonderland, Martha Graham Dance Company, EMI Records, Greenpeace, PIRELLI, at PIRELLI CALENDAR...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Andy Warhol Getting Cast of Face for the Lewis Allen "No Man Show" Robot
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Dated 'Dec 9 1980' (on the reverse).
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundatio...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Andy Warhol Getting Cast of Face for the Lewis Allen "No Man Show" Robot
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation inventory number.
The work comes wi...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Barbara Walters with Vernon Jordan
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation inventory number.
The work comes wi...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Adam Ant
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation inventory number.
The work comes wi...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bailarin I. The Bailarín, series. Male Nude dancer. Black & White photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Bailarín I by Ricky Cohete
From the "Bailarín" series
Small size: 30 in H x 20 in W.
Edition of 13
Unframed
All prices are quoted as "initial price" and may change due to current s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Black and White
Divine and Chef
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation inventory number and initialed Tim ...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jewish Cemetery, Prague
By Vaclav Chochola
Located in Dallas, TX
Vaclav Chochola
Jewish Cemetery, Prague, 1959
Gelatin silver print, 11 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.
Signed, dated and misc. notations on print verso by Vaclav Chochola
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Andre Balazs
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation inventory number.
The work comes wi...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Larissa
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Ar...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mother and Child by Keith Carter, 2016, Archival Pigment Print, Photography
Located in Dallas, TX
This black and white photograph by Keith Carter features a mother holding her child with their backs facing the viewer. They are both dressed ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Heckscher Foundation - Free Dance Instruction, Isadora Duncan Dance
By John Albok
Located in Dallas, TX
John Albok
Heckscher Foundation - Free Dance Instruction, Isadora Duncan Dance, 1937
Vintage gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 in.
Signed in pencil, titled, dated and artist stamp in bla...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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