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Black and White Photography For Sale
Wicca - 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wicca - 2019
20x24cm.
Edition of 7, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid,
not mounted.
Signature label and certificate.
Artist inventory PL2019-460.
K...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print, Polaroid, Color, Archival Paper
Beach Huts Panorama, black and white photograph, landscape, limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art panorama - landscape photography. Beach Huts, Panorama, Pier, Runner, France. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Sophie- Signed limited edition nude print, Black white, Naked woman, Portrait
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Sophie - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 1995 - Edition of 10
A classical approach, sensual not sexual
This image was captured on film.
This print that is bein...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Black and White, Photographic Film, Pi...
Actor Robert La Tourneaux, 'Cowboy' from 'Boys in the Band' nude for After Dark
Located in Senoia, GA
Actor Robert La Tourneaux, "Cowboy" from "Boys in the Band" on Broadway, and in the motion picture, photographed nude in 1970 for After Dark magazi...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Snow covered Central Park, New York, USA, black and white photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art cityscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited ed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Why don't you find out for yourself (Bombay Beach) - Polaroid, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Why don't you find out for yourself (Bombay Beach) - 2023
50x50cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and certificate.
A...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Old wrought Iron Bridge, Venice, monochrome photograph, limited edition print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
Category
Early 2000s 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
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Pont Neuf, Paris, France, black and white photography, landscape, fine art print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Trollkonufingur Monolith, Faroe Islands, monochrome photo, limited edition print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art winter landscape photography print. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity inclu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Abandoned Cars, junkyard, California, USA, black and white landscape photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Classic US car in a junkyard in California, USA. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Triggered, New York City, Black-and-White Photography of a Female Nude
Located in New york, NY
The subject, a nude, is shot from the female gaze. As a woman artist Roberta Fineberg enjoys working with life models for both her art and photography. The title of the photograph, Triggered, references both the cable release used to release the shutter of the camera to make the image and the volatility of human moods and emotions.
Triggered, 1994 by Roberta Fineberg is 14" x 11" a gelatin silver print in an edition of 5 with 2 artist's proofs. Signed, dated, titled by the artist. Available: 3/5
Provenance: RF Studio
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Artist's Bio:
As a visual artist, Roberta Fineberg (RF) focuses on the themes of serendipity, inventiveness, and the development of ideas for her photography, video, installations, works on paper, and painting. Drawn to experimentation, she explores diverse mediums and concepts such as the ephemeral (Butterfly Series), stolen moments (documentary photography), play, timelessness, the enduring, and the significance of matter.
RF, living in New York City, began her career as an editorial photographer while studying in Paris. In France she contributed both photography and writing to publications, landing a column (photos and text) with The Saturday Review while exhibiting photographs in public spaces. Roberta Fineberg’s freelance photography appeared in Le Monde, Jeune Afrique, Paris Match, L’Officiel Femme, Ms, Weltwoche, Vanguardia, among others with images licensed through stock agencies. Photographs were selected for cover art at W.W. Norton, St. Martin’s Press, Harcourt, Bookspan, Simon & Schuster, etc. Print Regional Design Annual New York (2003) awarded her for book jacket photography for If Wishes Were Horses. In 1997 Macmillan published City Riders: A Story of Riding and Friendship her first book of black-and-white photographs and a story about three teenage girls in the 1990s who rode horses at the now-defunct Claremont Riding Academy and oldest stable in New York City.
In 2023, RF created an interactive installation, works on paper on the female body, in a public space. In July 2022, Fineberg’s Double Helix was included in a Sotheby’s auction in New York City and exhibited in the preview show Contemporary Discoveries. Selected exhibitions include Time Gallery New York (2022), Phyllis Harriman Gallery New York studio shows (2020, 2022), CADAF online art fair (2020), Gallery122 New York pop-up group...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin
156.04.11, Torsi series by Klaus Kampert - Black and White nude photography
Located in Paris, FR
156.04.11 is a limited-edition black & white photograph by contemporary artist Klaus Kampert from the series entitled Torsi. In this series the model is stripped of identity. The pos...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Waterfall, Ireland, black and white photograph, limited edition print, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Waterfall, monochrome photograph, long exposure waterscape, limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fashion, Equestrian, Single White Horse with Braided Tail Against Black Backdrop
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Align III"
This award-winning image features the braided tail of a white horse.
The print series Equus: Light & Form focuses on the details of some of the world’s most elite jump...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Bridges of Venice, Italy, black and white, fine art, photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and White Fine Art Photography. Small stone bridge and a canal in Venice with boats. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Cer...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Guy with Beatbox - Black and White Monochrome Photographic Print
Located in Brighton, GB
'Guy with Beatbox' is a black and white photographic print on Hahnemuhle paper in a limited edition of 10 by Michael Ormerod.
Featured in the 2024 posthumous solo exhibition, 'Mich...
Category
20th Century American Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Pavillon de Flore, Tree Avenue, Louvre, monochrome photograph, limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and White Fine Art landscape photography. Way through the tree avenue to the Pavillon de Flore at the Louvre in Paris, France. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
12-Meter Yacht Racing Yacht, Atlantic Ocean, Action, Movement, Sailboat
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Sunkissed"
In this award-winning, best-selling image, the billowing white sail of the boat KZ-3 appears all the more impressive from an aerial perspective while framed against the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Last Comes the Raven
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Beth Moon is an American-born photographer. She has gained international recognition for her large-scale, richly toned platinum prints.
This portfolio focuses on totem-like beliefs ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Summer 85 - Limited edition nude photo, Graphic, Sensual woman, Contemporary
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘ Summer 85 '
Young topless woman sunbath...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
Melt with You - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Melt with You' part of the series 'Hands down' - 2019
50x50cm,
Edition of 7 and 2 Artist Proofs available.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Apertura and Apertura II, Diptych. From the Bailarín Series
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Apertura and Apertura II, Diptych by Ricky Cohete
From the Bailarín Series
Overall size: 30 in H x 40 in W.
Individual size: 30 in H x 20 in W.
Edition of 13
Unframed
Expansion an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Victorias Secret, Empire State Building, New York City, black & white photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art cityscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity includ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Female Nude in Yoga Pose, Black and White Photograph of Woman, Kate #10
Located in New york, NY
Kate #10, 2002 by Leonard Freed is an 8" x 10" hand printed. Signed by the photographer black and white photograph, stamped "vintage" by the Freed estate. Model and yogini Kate remai...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Male model 'Brahm' multiple exposure for After Dark, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. This photograph was from a se...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Foggy Morning, single Tree, black & white gelatin silver art photography, framed
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Limited Edition 3/9
Silver Gelatin Prints, Selenium Toned, Printed 2019
Signed, numbered, dated by Artis.
Handmade wood frame, da...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Madeira Peaks, Sunrise, Shadow Mountains, black and white photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Ha...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Wood Pier, lake, storm, long exposure, black and white, photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Surreal Black & White Tiger in a Dark Pool of Water in the Jungle of India
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Tiger's Retreat"
A Royal Bengal tiger cools off in a dark pool of water in the jungle of India in this iconic capture of one of the most incredible animals roaming the Earth.
Ex...
Category
2010s Minimalist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lakeside wooden Jetty, black and white long exposure art landscape photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Jetty with benches on a rainy day at the beautiful Wallersee in Salzburg, Austria. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fremont East District, Las Vegas, USA, black and white photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art cityscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited ed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
BOMBHEAD (SMALL FORMAT)
By Bruce Conner
Located in New York, NY
1989/2002, pigmented inkjet print, 14 1/8 x 11 inches (image size: 11 x 8/5/8 inches), edition of 12, signed by Jean Conner, the artist's widow, on verso; accompanied by a photo-certificate from the Conner Family Trust
BOMBHEAD was originally conceived as a newspaper and photocopy collage by Bruce Conner in 1989. This edition of BOMBHEAD was scanned using the original negatives of a portrait of Bruce Conner by Edmund Shea and a photo of an atomic bomb explosion taken from the National Archives, Library of Congress. A separate large format edition with hand-coloring was produced the same year. The image was digitally edited by Conner and Donald Farnsworth...
Category
Early 2000s Black and White Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Esplanade, Beach, France, black and white photograph, limited edition landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ancient Laurisilva Forest, old tree, Portugal, fine art landscape photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prin...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Golden Gate, CA, USA, black and white gelatin silver art photography, framed
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white analog fine art cityscape - landscape photography, Gerald Berghammer. Limited Edition 1/9. Silver Gelatin Print, Selenium Toned, Printed 2017. Signed, numbered, dated...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Digital Pigment
Male model Gary Cook, multiple exposure nude, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. This photograph was from a se...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Glacial Stream, Iceland, long exposure, landscape photograph, limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Nineteen Trees, Austria, panorama, art black and white photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art panorama landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity included....
Category
2010s Abstract Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment
Award Winning Beach, Scotland, fine art black and white photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pink Granite Coast, Rock, monochrome photograph, limited edition landscape print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Huge Rock on the pink granite coast beach in Brittany, France. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Geral...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
DOUGLAS JULEFF Vintage 1950s Beefcake Photograph of VIC SEIPKE & JIM PARK
Located in Glenford, NY
COLD WINTER SUPER SPECIAL...$960... Framed.
Rare 1950s Iconic Original Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph by DOUGLAS JULEFF - also known as DOUG OF DETROIT - of popular physique model...
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1950s Post-War Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Statue of Liberty, Black and White, Photography, USA, 1960s, 18 x 23.3 cm
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 1950.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photogr...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Hot Air Balloon, Championship, minimalist black and white photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Ha...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Gathering Clouds, Casoli, Abruzzo, Italy
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Abruzzo, located in southern Italy, is known as the ‘green region of Europe’ because of the system of parks and nature reserves covering more than one-third of its territory. It has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Black Line, Groyne, Sylte, Germany, black and white, art photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Orchid
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Mapplethorpe's (1946-1989) place in the canon was earned from his incredible output of images that ranged from beautiful to brutal.
Mapplethorpe boldly showcased the beauty ...
Category
1980s Post-Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Paper, Silver Gelatin
Rocks on the Shore, monochrome photograph, limited edition landscape, print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Rocks on the shore of the beautiful sandy beach on the French Atlantic coast. Archival pigment ink print as...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Frozen Willow Tree, minimalist photograph, winter landscape, limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art winter landscape photography print. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity inclu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Woodstock, Visitors
Located in Cologne, DE
From Wikipedia: Woodstock was a music festival held between August 15–18, 1969, which attracted an audience of more than 400,000. Billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music", it was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm near White Lake in Bethel, New York, 43 miles (70 km) southwest of Woodstock.
Over the sometimes rainy weekend, 32 acts performed outdoors. It is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history, as well as the definitive nexus for the larger counterculture generation. Rolling Stone listed it as number 19 of the 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll.
The event was captured in the Academy Award-winning 1970 documentary film Woodstock, an accompanying soundtrack album, and Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock", which commemorated the event and became a major hit for both Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Matthews Southern Comfort...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
84x48 "Triple Elvis by Warhol" Photomosaic Pop Fine Art Photography
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"TRIPLE ELVIS BY ANDY WARHOL" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro.
Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smaller images.
Archival photographic paper ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Palm Beach, Palms, Florida, USA, black and white photograph, limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and White Fine Art Large Format Photography. Palm trees, beach, morning mood, Florida, USA. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by arti...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Are we human (or are we dancers)? - Polaroid, Women, 21st Century, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Are we human (or are we dancers)? - 2020
50x50cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inven...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Bejart Ballet dancer Jorge Donn, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Bejart Ballet dancer Jorge Donn, 1979. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes directly from the Jac...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Co-signed Raquel Welch on the cross 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 Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Esplanade, Beach Huts, monochrome photograph, limited edition landscape print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Ha...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Joni Mitchell 1983 vintage 8x10" Print by Norman Seeff
By Norman Seeff
Located in Austin, TX
Original vintage 8x10” work print from Norman Seeff of Joni Mitchell. Hand printed in 1983 at the time of the photoshoot, signed on the back by Norman Seeff and also featuring his studio stamp.
In excellent condition having been stored flat in a climate controlled room
These Norman Seeff vintage...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
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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