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Black and White Photography For Sale
Artist: Andy Warhol
Artist: Terry O'Neill
Photograph of Robin Williams at a Thrift Store in the Village
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Robin Williams thrift-store shopping in the Village, April 17, 1979, photographed by Andy Warhol. Illustrated in The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol. Edited by Pat Hackett, Warner Books, 1991. Beginning his career in stand-up, Robin Williams made it big in the late 1970s co-starring in the comedy series Mork & Mindy. He went on to have a successful career starring in films like Popye, Good Morning, Vietnam, Dead Poets Society, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Good Will Hunting...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Andy Warhol, Photograph of Grace Jones Eating Cake, 1986
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Photograph of Grace Jones eating cake at the wedding of Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger in Hyannis Port, Maine in April 1986, taken by Andy Warho...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Henry Geldzahler and Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Jean-Michel Basquiat first attracted attention for with graffiti work on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the late 1970s. Basquiat first met Andy Warhol in 1980. At this point, Pat Hackett had been working for Warhol for about a decade already. This was also the year Hackett and Warhol published Popism: The Warhol Sixties. As two valuable additions to The Factory, Hackett and Basquiat most likely spent a good amount of time together. Henry Geldzahler...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Bianca Jagger Posing for Press Photographers
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Like her former husband Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, Bianca Jagger enjoyed the nightlife New York City had to offer. Known in the 1970s and 80s as a jet-setting socialite assoc...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

John Stockwell and Bianca Jagger
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Like her former husband Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, Bianca Jagger enjoyed the nightlife New York City had to offer. Known in the 1970s and 80s as a jet-setting socialite assoc...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Andy Warhol, Photograph of Henry Geldzahler circa 1979
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Illustrated in The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol. Edited by Pat Hackett, Warner Books, 1991. Henry Geldzahler was the first curator of 20th cen...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Grace Jones and Andre Leon Talley at Studio 54
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Grace Jones is a musician and former model. A former star of the Studio 54 disco scene, she is known for her androgynous appearance, bold features, and subversive antics, making her one of the biggest pop stars of the 1980s. Andre Leon Talley...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Bianca Jagger in black coat in Hotel Room
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Like former-husband Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, Bianca Jagger enjoyed the nightlife New York City had to offer. Known in the 1970s and 80s as a jet-setting socialite associate...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Mick Jagger (serving tea in Montauk)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Mick Jagger gained fame as the lead singer and one of the founding members of the Rolling Stones, along with Keith Richards. This is a unique work. Image dimensions: 10 x 8 in. Fra...
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1970s Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Photograph of a Male Model at The Factory
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Portrait of a male model photographed by Andy Warhol at The Factory at 860 Broadway circa the late 1970s or early 1980s. This is a unique work. Image dimensions: 10 x 8 in. Framed di...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Martha Graham, Liza Minnelli and others at Halston fashion show
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Martha Graham, Liza Minnelli, Bob Colacello, Victor Hugo and others in the crowd at a Halston fashion show photographed by Andy Warhol in 1979....
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Heather Watts
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Heather Watts joined the New York City Ballet in 1970 at the age of 17, and was made a principal dancer in 1979. She is a contributing editor at Vanity F...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper

Glamorous Couple
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Paloma Picasso and her husband Raphael Lopez Sanchez (aka Rafael Lopez-Cambil). Paloma Picasso is a jewelry, fashion, and perfume designer and the daughter of the artist Pablo Picass...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Victor Hugo, Mary Richardson, and a Woman at Halston Fashion Show
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work. Image dimensions: 8 x 10 in. Framed dimensions: 16.5 x 18 in. Work is framed to archival standards by Handmade Frames of Brooklyn, New York. Stamped on the r...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Jane Fonda
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Illustrated in Contact Warhol: Photography Without End. Edited by Peggy Phelan and Richard Meyer. MIT Press, 2018. The two-time Oscar-winning actress Jane Fonda...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

John McEnroe and Catherine Guinness
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Illustrated in The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol. Edited by Pat Hackett, Warner Books, 1991. Image dimensions: 8 x 10 in. Framed dimensions: 16.5 x 1...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper

Julian Schnabel
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Julian Schnabel is a contemporary artist and filmmaker. His paintings are in the collections of The Met, MOMA, The Whitney, MOCA, and Tate Modern. He directed the 2007 film The Diving Bell...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Andy Warhol, Photograph of Halston and Lesley Frowick circa 1980
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Roy Halston Frowick, known as Halston, was a fashion designer whose aesthetic made an impact on 1970s disco culture. Through design, art, fame, and nightlife, Halston and Warhol beca...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Liza Minnelli, Martha Graham and Kathleen Turner
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Illustrated in Contact Warhol: Photography Without End. Edited by Peggy Phelan and Richard Meyer. MIT Press, 2018. The daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli, Liza Minnelli ...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Nelson Lyon and Sylvia Miles
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work. Image dimensions: 8 x 10 in. Framed dimensions: 16.5 x 18 in. Work is framed to archival standards by Handmade Frames of Brooklyn, New York. Stamped on the r...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Photograph of James Curley and Ian Falconer
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work. Image dimensions: 8 x 10 in. Framed dimensions: 16.5 x 18 in. Work is framed to archival standards by Handmade Frames of Brooklyn, New York. Stamped on the ...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Bianca Jagger in Montauk
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Bianca Jagger at Andy Warhol's Montauk estate, circa 1975. Like then-husband Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, Bianca Jagger enjoyed the nightlife New York City had to offer. Known ...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Photograph of Gay Talese
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Gay Talese is a former journalist for The New York Times and Esquire magazine who helped define literary journalism in the 1960s. Image dimensions: 8 x 10 in. Framed dimensions: 16...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Alba Clemente and Julian Schnabel
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Illustrated in The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol. Edited by Pat Hackett, Warner Books, 1991. Julian Schnabel was a regular at The Factory and was so close to Warhol and the ot...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Truman Capote (with the birthday cake "he made")
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Depicting Truman Capote holding a birthday cake "he made." Truman Capote was an acclaimed 20th-century American novelist. His most influential works include Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Andy Warhol, Photograph of Pat Hackett Peeling a Banana, circa 1986
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Pat Hackett is a writer and editor, as well as a frequent collaborator, friend, and confidante of Andy Warhol. She edited and wrote the introduction to The...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Andy Warhol, Photo Booth Strip of Bobby Short, circa 1960s
Located in Santa Monica, CA
The musician Bobby Short is known for his interpretations of American standards by such composers as Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, and George and Ira Gers...
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1960s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Mr. Winters, the Caretaker of the Montauk Estate
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work. Image dimensions: 10 x 8 in. Framed dimensions: 18.5 x 16 in. Work is framed to archival standards by Handmade Frames of Brooklyn, New York. Illustrated in The Andy Warhol...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

John Lennon, London
Located in Westwood, NJ
Terry O’Neill’s candid photojournalistic portraits of creative and political luminaries have included Brigitte Bardot, The Beatles, Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra,...
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20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Tama Janowitz
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Tama Janowitz is a novelist who is considered among the literary "brat pack" of the 1980s along with Bret Easton Ellis. This is a unique work. Image ...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Photograph of Blue Jeans with designs by Haring, Scharf and Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Depicting blue jeans with hand-drawn designs in Sharpie marker by Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, and Kenny Scharf. This is a unique work. Image dimensions: 8 x 10 in. Framed dimensions:...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Andy Warhol, Photograph of Diana Vreeland and Martha Graham, 1980
Located in Santa Monica, CA
As Editor-in-Chief, Diana Vreeland brought Vogue to the forefront of international fashion magazines. Richard Avedon said of Vreeland at her memorial, “Diana lived for imagination ru...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Photograph of William S. Burroughs at the Chelsea Hotel
Located in Santa Monica, CA
William S. Burroughs was an influential American writer and poet and a central figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s. He is perhaps best known for his 1959 novel Naked Lunch...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Joan Collins at The Factory
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Joan Collins is an English actress known for her role as Alexis Colby in the 1980s soap opera Dynasty, for which she won a Golden Globe. This is a unique...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Photograph of Halston in kitchen
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Roy Halston Frowick, known as Halston, was a fashion designer whose aesthetic made an impact on 1970s disco culture. Through design, art, fame, and nightlife, Halston and Warhol beca...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Ginger Rogers & Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Ginger Rogers was an American actress, dancer, and singer most famous for her roles opposite Fred Astaire. She appeared on stage, as well as on radio and...
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1980s Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper

Photograph of Ashford Simpson and Diana Ross
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Diana Ross is the former lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes, after which she went on to have a successful career as a solo singer-songwriter, music producer, and actress. ...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Liza Minnelli, Halston and Martha Graham
Located in Santa Monica, CA
The daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli, Liza Minnelli became a successful actress and singer, winning an Academy Award in 1973 for her role in Cabaret. Liza entered Warho...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Diana Vreeland Wearing a Cowboy Hat
Located in Santa Monica, CA
As Editor-in-Chief, Diana Vreeland brought Vogue to the forefront of international fashion magazines. Richard Avedon said of Vreeland at her memorial, “Diana lived for imagination ru...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Leo Castelli
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Leo Castelli remains an extremely prominent figure in the art world. He started his career in the late 1930s by opening a gallery of surrealist art in Par...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Andy Warhol, Photograph of Willie Shoemaker, circa 1977
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Willie, aka Bill, Shoemaker was an American jockey. Inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1958, he held the world record for jockey victories for 29 years. ...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Andy Warhol, View from The Factory at 860 Broadway Looking Down at Union Sq West
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Illustrated in The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol. Edited by Pat Hackett, Warner Books, 1991. A photograph by Andy Warhol from The Factory at 860 Broadway looking down at the p...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Andy Warhol, Photograph of Jacqueline Bisset and Alexander Godunov, circa 1984
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Jacqueline Bisset is an English actress who has starred opposite Frank Sinatra, Steve McQueen, Dean Martin, Alan Alda, and Paul Newman. She was involved in a nine-year romantic partnership with Alexander...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Unidentified Man Wearing a Wig, possibly Thomas Ammann
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Unidentified man, possibly Thomas Ammann - a Swiss art collector and a close friend of Andy Warhol. He was the early impetus behind an Andy Warhol catalogue...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Egon von Furstenberg and Victor Hugo
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Born to German aristocracy, Prince Egon von Fürstenberg was a socialite, banker, and a fashion and interior designer who was married to fashion de...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Andy Warhol, Photograph of Joseph Kosuth circa 1985
Located in Santa Monica, CA
The artist Joseph Kosuth is known as an early leader of the conceptual art movement in the 1960s. One of his most famous works is One and Three Chairs, which is in the collection of ...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Tina Turner (backstage at a Rolling Stones concert)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work. Image dimensions: 10 x 8 in. Framed dimensions: 18.125 x 16.625 in. Work is framed to archival standards by Handmade Frames of Brooklyn, New York. Stamped on ...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Photograph of a Young Waiter in Paris
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work. Image dimensions: 10 x 8 in. Framed dimensions: 18.125 x 16.625 in. Work is framed to archival standards by Handmade Frames of Brooklyn, New York. Stamped on ...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Andy Warhol, Photograph of Fred Hughes Reclining on a Sofa, 1986
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Illustrated in The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol. Edited by Pat Hackett, Warner Books, 1991. Fred Hughes was Andy Warhol's business manager for more than 25 years. During his ...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Brigid Berlin with a Woman and a Man
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work. Image dimensions: 8 x 10 in. Framed dimensions: 16.5 x 18 in. Work is framed to archival standards by Handmade Frames of Brooklyn, New York. Stamped on the r...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Joseph Beuys
Located in Santa Monica, CA
The German artist Joseph Beuys was influential in the Fluxus movement of the 1960s. His conceptual, performance-based art practice often involved components of sculpture and installa...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Woman and a Man
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work. Image dimensions: 8 x 10 in. Framed dimensions: 16.5 x 18 in. Work is framed to archival standards by Handmade Frames of Brooklyn, New York. Stamped on the r...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Suzie Frankfurt and a Woman
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work. Image dimensions: 8 x 10 in. Framed dimensions: 16.5 x 18 in. Work is framed to archival standards by Handmade Frames of Brooklyn, New York. Illustrated in The Andy Warhol...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Quentin Crisp
Located in Santa Monica, CA
An English expat living in New York City, Quentin Crisp came to prominence following the publication of his 1968 autobiography, The Naked Civil Servant. ...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Joseph Beuys
Located in Santa Monica, CA
The German artist Joseph Beuys was influential in the Fluxus movement of the 1960s. His conceptual, performance-based art practice often involved components of sculpture and installa...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper

Andy Warhol, Photograph of Bob Colacello and Jon Gould at the Arc du Triomphe
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Jon Gould and Andy Warhol met in 1980 when Warhol was 51 and Gould was a 27-year-old movie executive living in Los Angeles. Biographies of Warhol show he tried to impress Gould with glamorous outings at Studio 54 and expensive gifts, including a Rolex watch. Bob Colacello...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Sausages
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work. Image dimensions: 10 x 8 in. Framed dimensions: 18 x 16.5 in. Work is framed to archival standards by Handmade Frames of Brooklyn, New York. Stamped on the re...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Kenny Scharf and Michel Roux
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Image dimensions: 8 x 10 in. Framed dimensions: 16.5 x 18 in. Work is framed to archival standards by Handmade Frames of Brooklyn, New York. Stamped on verso by Andy Warhol Foundat...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Shop Black and White Photography

There’s a lot to love about black and white photography.

The unique and timeless quality of a black and white photograph accentuates any room. Some might argue that we’re naturally drawn to color photography because it’s the world we know best. This is a shared belief, particularly in the era of camera-phone photography, editing apps and the frenetic immediacy of sharing photos on social media. But when we look at black and white photography, we experience deep, rich shadows and tonal properties in a way that transfixes us. Composition and textures are crisp and engaging. We’re immediately drawn to the subjects of vintage street photography and continue to feel the emotional impact of decades-old photojournalism. The silhouettes of mountains in black and white landscape photography are particularly pronounced, while portrait photography and the skylines of urban cityscapes come to life in monochrome prints.

When decorating with fine photography, keep in mind that some color photographs may not be suitable for every space. However, you can be more daring with black and white photos. The gray tones are classic, sophisticated and generally introduce elegance to any corner of your home, which renders black and white prints amazingly versatile.

Black and white photography adapts to its surroundings like a chameleon might. A single large-scale black and white photograph above the sofa in your living room is going to work with any furniture style, and as some homeowners and designers today are working to introduce more muted tones and neutral palettes to dining rooms and bedrooms, the integration of black and white photography — a hallmark of minimalist decor — is a particularly natural choice for such a setting.

Another advantage to bringing black and white photography into your home is that you can style walls and add depth and character without worrying about disrupting an existing color scheme. Black and white photographs actually harmonize well with accent colors such as yellow, red and green. Your provocative Memphis Group lighting and bold Pierre Paulin seating will pair nicely with the black and white fine nude photography you’ve curated over the years.

Black and white photography also complements a variety of other art. Black and white photos pair well with drawings and etchings in monochromatic hues. They can also form part of specific color schemes. For example, you can place black and white prints in colored picture frames for a pop of color. And while there are no hard and fast rules, it’s best to keep black and white prints separate from color photographs. Color prints stand out in a room more than black and white prints do. Pairing them may detract attention from your black and white photography. Instead, dedicate separate walls or spaces to each.

Once you’ve selected the photography that best fits your space, you’ll need to decide how to hang the images. If you want to hang multiple photos, it’s essential to know how to arrange wall art. A proper arrangement can significantly enhance a living space.

On 1stDibs, explore a vast collection of compelling black and white photography by artists such as Mark Shaw, Jack Mitchell (a photographer you should know), Berenice Abbott and David Yarrow.

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