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Untitled (Touching) – Lina Scheynius, Black and White, Woman, Body, Nude, Female
Located in Zurich, CH
LINA SCHEYNIUS (*1981, Sweden) Untitled (Touching) 2021 Fibre-based silver gelatin print Sheet 90 x 60 cm (35 3/8 x 23 5/8 in.) Edition of 3, plus 2 AP; Ed. no. 1/3 Print only Touc...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Schism - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Schism - 2021 40x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL2021-1083. Not mo...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones, Rock Photography Print by Jeffrey Mayer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Artist: Jeffrey Mayer Limited Edition: Signed and hand numbered in the margin, archival pigment print on 100% cotton paper with a Baryta finish. Authorized worldwide release of 100 ...
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1970s Performance Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

154.03.11 by Klaus Kampert - Nude photography, female body, cube
Located in Paris, FR
154.08.11 is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Klaus Kampert. It belongs to the series "Dancing the Cubes". In order to resemble typographic characters, Klaus Kampe...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

David Bowie and Elizabeth Taylor by Terry O'Neill - rare signed artist proof
Located in Austin, TX
Rare, signed artist proof print of David Bowie and Elizabeth Taylor by Terry O'Neill David Bowie and actress Elizabeth Taylor meet for the first time at George Cukor’s house in Beve...
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Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Nude Mountain - Black & White Photo, Nude Female Torso in Montana Mountain Scene
Located in Chicago, IL
A nude female reclines on her side as photographer Kirill Polevoy captures her beauty juxtaposed against the rugged Montana mountains. This large fo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

UNRAVELED
Located in Los Angeles, CA
EVE UNRAVELED ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT Edition of 20 30x45 inches Named one of LensCultures top 50 Emerging Artist, Marjorie Salvaterra’s images reveal “a fine line between sanity a...
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2010s Surrealist Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Portrait
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Victor Arimondi (1942-2001). Portrait, ca. 1975. Period print measures 11 x 14 inches. Artist studio stamp on verso. Victor Arimondi (November 8, 1942 – July 24, 2001) was an Italian American photographer and model who lived and worked in Europe before moving to the United States in the late 1970s. His early fashion photography, his portraits of Grace Jones and other artists, and his male nudes photographed in New York and San Francisco captured the pre-AIDS culture of the 1970s and early 1980s. Arimondi's nudes were collected in several books, including David Leddick's award-winning[1] The Male Nude, (New York: Taschen 1998, 2005 and 2015). The photographer's later work documented homeless individuals in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood and the toll of the AIDS epidemic on the city. His photographs, featured in several posthumous exhibitions, also are in the collections of Sweden's museum of modern art, Moderna Museet, and San Francisco's GLBT Historical Society. Biography Arimondi was born Vittorio Maria Tevitti to his unwed mother, Alessandra Calligaris, in Bologna, Italy on November 8, 1942. His mother struggled financially, which left an impression on her only child. In 1948, she temporarily left him at a children's boarding school and orphanage in Italy to move to Sweden for a job. There she met and married Bruno Arimondi, who adopted her son. The family returned to Naples, Italy in 1952 where Victor graduated from high school.[1] In 1960, Arimondi returned to Sweden to study at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, although he did not graduate. Meanwhile, he worked at several blue collar jobs, including as a mailman, before he gave up on traditional full-time work to pursue what he considered more essential— a life of creative expression. He created costume-like clothing for himself and friends and at age 19 became a fashion model. Even as a teenager, the Italian born photographer who spent his 20s and 30s primarily based in Sweden, noted that he preferred fantasy to the trials of real life.[1] That conflict, and his passion for beauty as well as his sexual energy, were major factors in his life and his work.[2] From 1965 through 1972 Arimondi worked as model in London, Milan, Germany, New York and Stockholm, appearing in catalogs and fashion magazines including Vogue , Harper's Bazaar and Esquire and on the runway in several Valentino fashion shows. In 1972 he decided to try working on the other side of the lens as a photographer to better express his creativity.[2] Arimondi moved to New York in 1979 and continued to build his photography portfolio. Portrait of Bearded Man, New York City, 1979 Two years later, in 1981, he moved to San Francisco where he lived and worked for twenty years until his death of AIDS at age 58 on July 24, 2001. The year he moved to San Francisco, Arimondi opened a photo gallery in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood for a short time. When he struggled financially, he gave up on trying to earn a living through commercial fashion photography and closed the gallery.[3] Arimondi returned to modeling for the financial benefits, though he did so on less of an international scale than in his early years. He continued to create photographic portraits of the denizens of the San Francisco gay and arts cultures, to shoot male nudes and publish his work in magazines, and he began to compose and photograph evocative still lifes using his own photographic images. Many of them touched on the death of dozens of his former photography models from AIDS. Arimondi was in the midst of a new photography project that brought together his background as a fashion photographer and his more recent social documentary work when he died several months after he learned he was HIV-positive.[4] The project featured his former colleague, haute couture cover model Ivy Nicholson,[5] who he found living homeless in San Francisco. Several of the haunting portraits he took of her were later included in a noted group exhibit at SF Camerawork. Art Arimondi's early photography in the 1970s in Stockholm included portraits of the stars of Sweden's fashion, theater and dance worlds. His first two photography exhibits were in Stockholm and met with mixed reviews. But as he matured as a photographer and tapped into his fashion world contacts, Arimondi landed a number of commercial fashion jobs, including shooting for the Italian designer Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A.'s I.Magnin department store ad that ran in Vogue. Marlboro Man Nude, New York City,1980. He also shot other artists and models for his own portfolio, including Grace Jones, the Norwegian actress, Liv Ullmann, and the American writer, Norman Mailer. Arimondi's aesthetic vision was focused on fantasy and drama, and he prided himself on pushing limits.[6] Although less well-known than his San Francisco contemporary...
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1970s Realist Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Ben Hogan: Golf Master Letting it Fly
By Morgan Fitz
Located in Austin, TX
Retro 1960s photograph depicting golf legend Ben Hogan at the Masters. Ben Hogan was an American professional golfer who is generally considered to be one of the greatest players i...
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1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment

Skin and Bones IV - 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude Photography, Contemporary, B&W
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Skin and Bones IV - 2018, 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Interweave, Big Sur California Nude Breast
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed silver gelatin photograph by the artist. From film photography. Available in other sizes.
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2010s Realist Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Temple Lake, Kyoto, Honshu, Japan
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential amon...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Magnolia Blossom
Located in New York, NY
This supremely elegant photograph illustrates why Imogen Cunningham’s botanical pictures are a keystone of modernist photography. In the 1920s, Cunnin...
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1920s Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Sun Beams Into Grand Central Station (1930) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Sun Beams Into Grand Central Station (1930) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Hal Morey/Getty Images) Beams of sunlight streaming through the windows ...
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1930s Modern Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Tangled I
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment

Lovers in a Doorway
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Larry Fink (American, born 1941). "Lovers in Doorway" - late 20th century, silver gelatin photograph print, signed "Larry Fink" to lower right and numbered ...
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1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Elizabeth Taylor Sitting in Boat
Located in Austin, TX
This black and white capture features Elizabeth Taylor sitting with dog in a boat from the movie scene "Lassie Come Home", circa 1943. Lassie Come Home is a 1943 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ...
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1940s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Just Looking II by B A T I K signed limited edition POP ART Audrey Hepburn
Located in London, GB
Just Looking II by B A T I K signed limited edition POP ART print Paper Size Oversize 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm Signed & numbered by artist on front Archival Pigment print L...
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2010s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

Mobile by Alexander Calder (O'Keeffe at Abiquiu), Myron Wood Photograph
Located in Denver, CO
This stunning black and white photograph by renowned photographer Myron Wood captures the iconic mobile by Alexander Calder at Georgia O'Keeffe's Abiquiu home in April 1980. The imag...
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1980s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Photographic Film

Coney Island Baby #2 by Drew Carolan - 1980's Fashion Photography
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Model, actress and writer Veronica Webb photographed by Drew Carolan - Coney Island, May, 1987. Veronica is wearing Azzedine Alaïa. A NYC native, Drew loved Coney Island as a kid; so when he started shooting photographs professionally, naturally he returned to one of his favorite New York locations for several projects. Archival pigment print from an edition of 30, printed on 100% cotton fine art paper with a satin baryta finish, signed and numbered in the lower margin by the artist. Dew Carolan: In the early 1980’s Drew Carolan apprenticed with several top photographers including Richard Avedon, Gilles Bensimon and Bruce Weber before starting his own photography business. Soon after he made a transition into directing music videos. Drew’s photography is also in the permanent collection of the Design Museum of London and his work has hung in museum exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, London, Beijing and Dubai. He has also shown in Paris and extensively in New York and California galleries. His photographs have appeared in the pages of ROLLING STONE, SPIN, INTERVIEW, NEW YORK TIMES, LA TIMES, VOGUE, GQ and numerous international magazines and books. Additionally, he has directed award winning music videos for groups like LIVING COLOUR, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, B-52’s ZIGGY MARLEY, HEAVY D, GEORGE BENSON, URGE OVERKILL, DINOSAUR Jr...
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1980s Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Babe in the Woods"- Black & White Fine Art Nude Portrait
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Shot in the woods, Long Island, NY. Photos are available in a variety of print mediums. Custom size, frame and printing options are available (including dye-sublimated aluminum, fac...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Metal

Evening Yucca Plant and Palm Bark signed limited Oversize Print
Located in London, GB
Evening Yucca Plant and Palm Bark signed limited Oversize Print by Stuart Möller 2022 signed limited Oversize Print Limited to 10 only this size ...
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2010s Modern Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Amelia Earhart Flight over Washington D.C.
Located in Austin, TX
After appearing before a Senate Committee on air safety, Amelia took off in the Department of Commerce's new safety plane for a flight over Washington D.C.. 1936. Amelia Earhart was...
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1930s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment

Blinded - Polaroid, Black and White, Women, 21st Century, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Blinded - 2020 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-916. Not mount...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Equestrian Portrait, Classic, Black Horse with Bridle, Reins, and Bonnet
Located in US
"Black Diamond" This award-winning image is a fashion-inspired portrait of an elite horse wearing the attire of his discipline. The print series Equus: Light & Form focuses on the...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Velvet
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Velvet - 2020, 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-859. Not ...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Paper, Black and White, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Orchid Offerings, But That Pagoda, Bak Ninh, Vietnam
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential amon...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Dr. Albert Einstein Lectures
Located in Austin, TX
Albert Einstein giving a lecture at a podium, 1946. Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern ...
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1940s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Dinner Jazz
Located in London, GB
Dinner Jazz American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong enjoys a plate of spaghetti in Rome. Paper size 48 x 48" inches / 121 x 121 cm Estate ...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Styrofoam - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Styrofoam - 2021 80x60cm, Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2021-1078. Not mo...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Topless blonde with pearls
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed silver gelatin photograph on mat paper. Loose print.
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2010s Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Terry O'Neill, Kate Moss Unitard (co-signed)
Located in New York, NY
Kate Moss Unitard, 1993 Silver Gelatin Print 30 x 30 inches Edition of 50 Cosigned by Terry O'Neill and Kate Moss Portrait of English fashion model Kate Moss, 1993. Terry O'Neill ...
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1990s Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Morning Mists, Pyin U Lwin, Myanmar, Limited Edition photograph, SGP
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"Morning Mists, Pyin U Lwin, Myanmar" is a silver gelatin, limited edition photograph by Michael Kenna. Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean comp...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Give Me Fierce
Located in Austin, TX
Carly Anne Amos, in collaboration with Globe Photos, brings you a new collection of gorgeous twists to classic icons from our archives. Carly Anne is a streetwear designer (The Colo...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Hot Air Balloon Scene from "The Wizard of Oz"
By Eric Carpenter
Located in Austin, TX
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Widely considered to be one of the greatest films in cinema history, it is the best-known and most commercially successful adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz...
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1930s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment

Eric B.
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Eric B. from the Follow the Leader album cover session. Shot in Lower Manhattan in NYC in April 1988. The Eric B. is wearing custom made suits form Dapper Dan of Harlem. Edition Det...
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1980s Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Kate Moss at 16
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of Kate Moss by Jake Chessum, taken when she was an unknown 16 year old model, just starting her career. Jake recalls, "I had heard of Kate as she was...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Wooden fishing Hut on Stilts, black and white 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...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

69YK #15 – Nobuyoshi Araki, Japanese Photography, Nude, Black and White, Art
Located in Zurich, CH
Nobuyoshi ARAKI (*1940, Japan) 69YK #15, 2009 Gelatin silver print 50.8 x 60 cm (20 x 23 5/8 in.) Print only Nobuyoshi Araki (Tokyo, 1940) is a Tokyo-based photographer. Araki completed his studies at Chiba University’s Department of Photography, Painting and Engineering with a focus on the study of film and photography. His photographic project Satchin earned him the prestigious Taiyo Award in 1964, shortly after he had joined the advertising agency Dentsu, where he worked until 1972. At Dentsu he met his wife Yoko, to whom he paid homage in Sentimental Journey, a photographic record of their honeymoon published in 1971. Eros and thanatos (sex and death) has been a central theme in Araki’s work; an abiding fascination with female genitalia and women’s bodies in Japanese bondage...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Katharine Hepburn in Coat
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white studio portrait of actress Katharine Hepburn in a coat for her role in "Stage Door", circa 1937. Katharine Hepburn was an American actress whose career as a Hollywoo...
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1930s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Kate Moss Frontal Nude 3 – Albert Watson, Nude, Photography, Black&White, Woman
Located in Zurich, CH
Albert WATSON (*1942, Scotland) Kate Moss, Frontal Nude III, 1993 Chromogenic print Sheet 243 x 183 cm (95 5/8 x 72 in.) Edition of 5; Ed. no 2/5 Print only Albert Watson was born 1...
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1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Atlantic Coast, monchrome photograph, minimalist landscape, 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...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

The Eiffel Tower (1929) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
The Eiffel Tower (1929) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Alamy) Eiffel Tower built in 1889 seen from Trocadero wrought iron doors Paris France, circa 1929. Additional Information: Unframed Paper Size: 40x30'' Printed Later Silver Gelatin Fibre Print NOTE OTHER SIZES OF THIS IMAGE AVAILABLE 10 x 12'' 12 x 16'' 16 x 20'' 20 x 24'' 20 x 30'' 30 x 40'' FRAMING AVAILABLE ON REQUEST About the Artist: H. Armstrong ROBERTS (1883-1947) is an artist born in 1883 The oldest auction result ever registered on the website for an artwork by this artist is a photography sold in 2012. ACTORS ON SET, Bette Davis, Ladies Fashion...
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1920s Modern Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Deborah Kerr in Fur Hat
Located in Austin, TX
This black and white portrait features Deborah Kerr posed in a large white fur hat. Deborah Kerr was a Scottish-born film, theatre and television actress. During her international f...
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1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Jean Shrimpton and Terence Stamp Hand Signed Framed Print
Located in London, GB
Jean Shrimpton and Terence Stamp photo by Terry O’Neill 1963 A close cropped portrait of British actor Terence Stamp and model Jean ‘The Shrimp’ Shrimpt...
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1960s Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

'Las Vegas Luxury' 1954 Slim Aarons Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Las Vegas Luxury' 1954 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Austrian actress Mara Lane enjoys waiter service in the pool at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954. (Photo by Slim Aarons) ...
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Father/Son I
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel for our multi-faceted but brie...
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1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Skating Waiter by Horace Abrahams
Located in London, GB
"Skating Waiter" by Horace Abrahams 8th January 1938: A waiter skates across the ice at St. Moritz carrying a tray of drinks for his customers. Unframed Paper Size: 60" x 40'' (in...
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1930s Modern Black and White Photography

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Black and White

Cardin Hat Over Paris 1960 (printed later) Limited Estate Print
Located in London, GB
Cardin Hat over Paris, 1960 Silver Print 20 × 24 inches paper size 17.5 x 9' inches image size Edition of 21 only Printed 2023 certificate of authenticity by Norman Parkinson Archi...
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1960s Modern Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Fallen Tree, monchrome photograph, minimalist landscape, 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...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Digital Pigment

48x36 "Dr Dre The Chronic Cassette" Photomosaic Pop Art Photography Unsigned
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Dr Dre The Chronic Cassette" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro. This image is made up of 100's of smaller images of Dr Dre imagery. Archival photographic paper Framing options a...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Trouble me
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Trouble me - 2020, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proof Archival Print, based on the Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-842. Not mounted. K...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Paper, Black and White, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Flooded Mall London
Located in London, GB
A man crossing a stretch of floodwater with the help of two chairs after a storm caused flooding in the Mall, London. (Photo by H. F. Davis/Getty Images Archive London England) Pa...
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1930s Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Robert Plant 1993 - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print (1993)
Located in London, GB
Robert Plant - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print Press Shoot April 24 1993 New York (photo Kevin Westenberg) NB All prints are signed and numbered by the artist. Unframed...
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1990s Modern Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - 2023 50x49cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist I...
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1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Study 8, France
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential amon...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Francoise Hardy (1969) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Francoise Hardy (1969) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Reg Lancaster/Express/Getty Images) 1969: French singer, Francoise Hardy sitting on a m...
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1960s Modern Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

James Dean Covered in Mud
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white action shot of actor James Dean on the set of Giant, covered in mud, and laughing. Giant is a 1956 American epic Western drama film directed by George Stevens, from ...
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1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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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