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Black and White Photography For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: Early 1900s
Gelatin silver print of Exterior of Building by Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso. Pro...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Gelatin silver print of Truman Capote by Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso. Pro...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Gelatin silver print of Mannequins in Lingerie Store Window by Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso. Pro...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Gelatin silver print of Construction Workers by Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso. Pro...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Man Ray, Juliet - 1932/1991, Silver Gelatin Print, Dada, Surrealist, Modern Art
Located in Hamburg, DE
Man Ray (1890-1976) Juliet, 1945/1991 Medium: Silver Gelatin Print (posthumous print) Dimensions: 30.5 x 24 cm Stamped: "Copie d'une épreuve originale - ADAGP Man Ray Trust" Conditio...
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20th Century Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Vintage Silver Gelatin Signed Photograph Samuel Gottscho Garden Flowers Photo NY
Located in Surfside, FL
Vintage hand signed and stamp signed with the photographers stamp and numbered photo of trilliums. Samuel Herman Gottscho (February 8, 1875 - January 28, 1971) was an American architectural, landscape, and nature photographer. Samuel Gottscho was born in Brooklyn in New York City. He acquired his first camera in 1896 and took his first photograph at Coney Island. From 1896 to 1920 he photographed part-time, specializing in houses and gardens, as he particularly enjoyed nature, rural life, and landscapes. After attending several architectural photograph exhibitions, Gottscho decided to perfect and improve his own work and sought out several architects and landscape architects. After twenty-three years as a traveling lace and fabric salesman, at an age when most people would have given up their youthful dreams, Gottscho became a professional commercial photographer at the age of 50. His son-in-law William Schleisner joined Gottscho in his business in 1935. During this time his photographs appeared in and on the covers of American Architect and Architecture, Architectural Record. His portraits and architectural photography regularly appeared in articles in the New York Times. His photographs of private homes in the New York and Connecticut suburbs often appeared in home decoration magazines. From the early 1940s to the late 1960s, he was a regular contributor to the Times of illustrated articles on wildflowers. the meticulous, adoring pictures of New York City architecture and interiors that he took at his creative peak in the late 1920's and early 30's are finding a new audience, placing him more firmly in the ranks of the great architectural photographers of his day, like Ezra Stoller, Julius Shulman and Ken and Bill Hedrich. the Museum of the City of New York, which has one of the largest archives of Gottscho's work, showed about 150 of his best city scenes in an exhibition called "The Mythic City: Photographs of New York...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Last Bus In London by Bert Hardy - Limited Edition silver gelatine print
Located in London, GB
Last Bus In London by Bert Hardy Limited Edition silver gelatine print A couple saying goodbye on a bus in Shaftesbury Avenue in London, July 1953 . Original Publication: Picture Post - 6576 - Known Your Piccadilly - pub. 4th July 1953 (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Archive London England) Paper size 12x16 inches / 31 x 41 cm Produced utilising the original negative Numbered and stamped by the Getty Archive London Limited edition to 300 only Silver gelatine fibre based baryta paper print Certificate of authenticity included printed 2024 Ships securely from London. Other sizes and Framing available on request. Bert Hardy Bert Hardy Albert William Thomas Hardy (19 May 1913 – 3 July 1995) was an English documentary and press photographer known for his work published in the Picture Post magazine between 1941 and 1957. Life and work Born in Blackfriars, Bert Hardy rose from humble working class origins in Southwark, London. The eldest of seven children, he left school at age 14 to work for a chemist who also processed photos. His first big sale came in 1936 when he photographed King George V and Queen Mary in a passing carriage during the Silver Jubilee celebrations, and sold 200 small prints of his best view of the King. His first assignment, at age 23, was to photograph Hungarian actor Sakall at the Mayfair Hotel. Hardy freelanced for The Bicycle magazine, and bought his first small-format 35 mm Leica. He signed on with the General Photographic Agency as a Leica photographer, later founding his own freelance firm, Criterion. General Photographic Agency General Photographic Agency a Fleet Street, London agency, sold photos at least between 1880-1950. Picture Post and World War II In 1941, Hardy was recruited by the then editor Tom Hopkinson of the leading picture publication of the 1930s to the 1950s, Picture Post. Founded in 1938 and funded by publisher Edward Hulton, the magazine's first editor was Hungarian émigré Stefan Lorant (1901–97) assisted by Hopkinson, who took over as editor from 1940. The picture-centric, left-leaning and reasonably-priced publication was highly successful and circulation soon rose to over a million. Hardy's photographer colleagues included Felix H. Man (aka Hans Baumann...
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Birds, Mexico by George Krause, Silver Gelatin Print, Black and White Photograph
Located in Dallas, TX
Birds, Mexico by George Krause is a 13.5 by 18.75 inch silver gelatin print. This photograph features birds sitting on a fence. The photograph is signed and dated in pencil on print ...
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20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Naomi Campbell, Palm Springs
Located in Zurich, CH
Albert Watson Naomi Campbell, Palm Springs, California, 1989 Archival pigment print 76 x 61 cm (29 7/8 x 24 in.) Edition of 25 plus 2 artist's proofs Albert Watson was born 1942 in...
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1980s Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Austrian Sound Space Architect Bernhard Leitner Photo Lithograph Hand Signed Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Bernhard Leitner, (Austrian, 1938) From a portfolio "Sound : Space" "Ton : Raum" Self published by artist in 1975/1976, Limited edition of 50 Hand signed in pencil by artist. Acc...
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1970s Modern Black and White Photography

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Screen

Parituras
Located in New York, NY
Ed. of 10, includes black frame. As a young boy, Aldo Sessa studied painting and drawing at the De Ridder Atelier and worked at his father’s printing press in Argentina. As Sessa’s ...
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1980s Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Terry O'Neill 'Brigitte Bardot Hands On Hips'
Located in New York, NY
Brigitte Bardot, Hands on Hips 1971 Silver gelatin print 34 x 24 inches Co-signed and numbered edition of 50 Brigitte Bardot on the set of the film ‘Les Petroleuses’ a.k.a. ‘The Le...
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1970s Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Church Gate Station, Bombay, India, 1995 - Sebastião Salgado
Located in London, GB
Church Gate Station, Bombay, India, 1995 Sebastião Salgado International Shipping Available Stamped with photographer’s copyright blind stamp Si...
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1990s Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Fiona Apple vintage silver gelatin print by Chris Cuffaro
Located in Austin, US
Fiona Apple, 8”x10” Hand-printed darkroom print, made at the time of the shoot in 1996, and stored flat in a temperature-controlled environment. The print...
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Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Signed limited edition Landscape photo , Contemporary, Countryside - Woodingdean
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘ Woodingdean 1 ‘ who was captured on fi...
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1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...

Subway 30, Kids, 1980s, NYC, Black & White Photograph, Subway, Limited Ed.
Located in Riverdale, NY
John Conn New York City Subway photographs. These limited edition fine art photographs were originally taken between 1975 and 1982. Each black and white photograph is signed and nu...
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1970s Realist Black and White Photography

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Ink, Archival Paper

David Bowie, Diamond Dog Contact Sheet
Located in New York, NY
David Bowie, Diamond Dog Contact Sheet, 1974 Silver gelatin print 48 x 72 inches Estate signature stamped edition of 50 English singer, musician and actor David Bowie photographed f...
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1970s Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Nun, Subway, Black and White Limited Edition Photograph, NYC, 1970s, 1980s
Located in Riverdale, NY
John Conn’s New York City Subway limited edition fine art photographs were originally taken between 1975 and 1982. Each black and white photograph is signed and numbered. Edition ...
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1980s American Realist Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Carre Otis at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles
Located in Zurich, CH
Albert Watson Carre Otis at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, 1990 Archival pigment print 107 x 142 cm (42 1/8 x 55 7/8 in.) Edition of 10 plus 2 artist's proofs Print only Albert W...
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1990s Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Morrissey 1994 vintage silver gelatin print by Chris Cuffaro
Located in Austin, US
Morrissey, 8”x10” Hand-printed darkroom print, made at the time of the shoot in 1994, and stored flat in a temperature-controlled environment. The print is in perfect new condition ...
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Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Silver gelatin print of Dog by Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso. Pro...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Bert Hardy Gorbals Boys 1948 - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Gorbals Boys (1948) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Bert Hardy/Getty Images Archive London) Possibly Bert Hardy's most famous image. Two boys in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. The Gorbals tenements were built quickly and cheaply in the 1840s, providing housing for Glasgow's burgeoning population of industrial workers. Conditions were appalling; overcrowding was standard and sewage and water facilities inadequate. The tenements housed about 40,000 people with up to eight family members sharing a single room, 30 residents sharing a toilet and 40 sharing a tap. By the time this photograph was taken 850 tenements had been demolished since 1920. Redevelopment of the area began in the late 1950s and the tenements were replaced with a modern tower block complex in the sixties. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4499 - The Forgotten Gorbals - pub. 1948 Additional Information: Unframed Paper Size: 20 x 16'' inches / 51 x 41 cm Printed 2024 Silver Gelatin Fibre Print Limited edition issued and stamped on front by the Getty Archive London Edition size 300 only NOTE OTHER SIZES OF THIS IMAGE AVAILABLE 10 x 8'' 10 x 12'' 12 x 16'' 16 x 20'' 20 x 24'' FRAMING AVAILABLE ON REQUEST Bert Hardy Albert William Thomas Hardy (19 May 1913 – 3 July 1995) was an English documentary and press photographer known for his work published in the Picture Post magazine between 1941 and 1957. Life and work Born in Blackfriars, Bert Hardy rose from humble working class origins in Southwark, London. The eldest of seven children, he left school at age 14 to work for a chemist who also processed photos. His first big sale came in 1936 when he photographed King George V and Queen Mary in a passing carriage during the Silver Jubilee celebrations, and sold 200 small prints of his best view of the King. His first assignment, at age 23, was to photograph Hungarian actor Sakall at the Mayfair Hotel. Hardy freelanced for The Bicycle magazine, and bought his first small-format 35 mm Leica. He signed on with the General Photographic Agency as a Leica photographer, later founding his own freelance firm, Criterion. General Photographic Agency General Photographic Agency a Fleet Street, London agency, sold photos at least between 1880-1950. Picture Post and World War II In 1941, Hardy was recruited by the then editor Tom Hopkinson of the leading picture publication of the 1930s to the 1950s, Picture Post. Founded in 1938 and funded by publisher Edward Hulton, the magazine's first editor was Hungarian émigré Stefan Lorant (1901–97) assisted by Hopkinson, who took over as editor from 1940. The picture-centric, left-leaning and reasonably-priced publication was highly successful and circulation soon rose to over a million. Hardy's photographer colleagues included Felix H. Man (aka Hans Baumann...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Laura Young, Mauritius
Located in Zurich, CH
Albert Watson Laura Young, Mauritius, 1985 Archival pigment print 76 x 61 cm (29 7/8 x 24 in.) Edition of 25 plus 2 AP. Ed. no. 1/10. Albert Watson was born 1942 in Edinburgh, Scotl...
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1980s Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Callot Swallow-Tail Dress
Located in Zurich, CH
Irving Penn (1917 – 2009, USA) Callot Swallow-Tail Dress 1977/1978 Platinum Palladium Print on Bienfang Mounted on Aluminium, framed 51,7 x 45,8 cm (20 1/3 x 17 3/4 in.) Edition 9/...
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1970s Black and White Photography

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Platinum

Morrissey vintage silver gelatin print by Chris Cuffaro
Located in Austin, US
Morrissey, 8”x10” Hand-printed darkroom print, made at the time of the shoot in 1994, and stored flat in a temperature-controlled environment. The print is in perfect new condition ...
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Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

BABY- Black and white photography Italy 1970s
Located in Napoli, IT
Beautiful b/w photo depicting a little Peruvian girl
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1970s Photorealist Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Terry O'Neill, The Rolling Stones
Located in New York, NY
The Rolling Stones 1963 (printed later) Silver gelatin print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 50 with certificate of authenticity from he Terry O'Neill estate Terry O’Neill CB...
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1960s Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Eve Arnold - Marylin Monroe Casino II, Photography 1960, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Marilyn Monroe on the set of ‘The Misfits’, Reno, Nevada, 1960. All available sizes and editions: 20" x 24", Edition of 25 + 3 Artist Proofs 24" x 34", Edition of 25 + 3 Artist Proo...
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1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Cotton, Paper

Eve Arnold - Marylin Monroe, Photography 1960, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Marilyn Monroe on the set of ‘The Misfits’, Reno, Nevada, 1960. All available sizes and editions: 24" x 20", Edition of 25 + 3 Artist Proofs 34" x 24", Edition of 25 + 3 Artist Proo...
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1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Cotton, Paper

John Lennon and Yoko Ono Dakota Building vintage print by Allan Tannenbaum
Located in Austin, US
Vintage darkroom print of John Lennon and Yoko Ono taken outside the Dakota Building on November 21st 1980. This print is an original, hand printed da...
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Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Gelatin silver print of Victor Hugo in Bathroom by Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso. Pro...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Silver gelatin photo booth strip of four images of Richard Rheem by Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso. Pro...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Boy with Chalked Numbers, NYC by Harold Feinstein, 1956, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Dallas, TX
Boy with Chalked Numbers, NYC by Harold Feinstein is a 14 x 11 inch gelatin silver print, and is edition 3/200. This photograph features a boy sitting on the ground, surrounded by nu...
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20th Century Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Charlotte Flossaut in Prada Jacket, Milan, Italy
Located in Zurich, CH
Albert Watson Charlotte Flossaut in Prada Jacket, Milan, Italy, 1988 Archival pigment print 76 x 61 cm (29 7/8 x 24 in.) Edition of 25, plus 2 AP Albert Watson was born 1942 in Edin...
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1980s Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Silver gelatin photo booth strip of four images of Sandra Brant by Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance. Provenance: From the Estate of the Artist, to The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, to Hedges Projects. Image rights: The purch...
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1960s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Gelatin silver print of Halston Poolside at The Beverly Hills Hotel by Andy Warh
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso. Pro...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Marilyn Monroe Throws the First Pitch - Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Monroe Throws the First Pitch 1958 Frank Worth Marilyn Monroe with Ralph Edwards on a baseball diamond, throwing the first pitch to start a game in 1958. Marilyn Monroe was an Am...
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Gelatin silver print of Utrecht Paints by Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso. Pro...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Gelatin silver print of Billboard in Paris by Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso. Pro...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Eve Arnold - Audrey Hepburn in Paris, Photography 1968, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
American Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm X in Chicago, Illinois in 1961. All available sizes and editions: 24" x 20", Edition of 25 + 3 Artist Proofs 34" x 24", Ed...
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1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Cotton, Paper

Eve Arnold -Marlene Dietrich at the Columbia Records, 1952, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
American Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm X in Chicago, Illinois in 1961. All available sizes and editions: 24" x 20", Edition of 25 + 3 Artist Proofs 34" x 24", Ed...
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1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Cotton, Paper

Charlotte Flossaut in Sombrero
Located in Zurich, CH
Albert Watson Charlotte Flossaut in Sombrero, New Mexico, 1988 Archival pigment print 76 x 61 cm (29 7/8 x 24 in.) Edition of 25 plus 2 AP Albert Watson was born 1942 in Edinburgh, ...
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1980s Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Eve Arnold - Charlotte Stribling (also known as Fabulous), 1950, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
All available sizes and editions: 24" x 20", Edition of 25 + 3 Artist Proofs 34" x 24", Edition of 25 + 3 Artist Proofs "Eve Arnold, born in 1912 to Russian-immigrant parents in Ph...
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1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Cotton, Paper

Gelatin silver print of Shoes by Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso. Pro...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Gelatin silver print of Bathroom by Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso. Pro...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Eve Arnold - Marylin Monroe Casino, Photography 1960, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Marilyn Monroe on the set of ‘The Misfits’, Reno, Nevada, 1960. All available sizes and editions: 24" x 20", Edition of 25 + 3 Artist Proofs 34" x 24", Edition of 25 + 3 Artist Proo...
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1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Cotton, Paper

Austrian Sound Space Architect Bernhard Leitner Photo Mechanical Print Signed
Located in Surfside, FL
Bernhard Leitner, (Austrian, 1938) From a portfolio "Sound : Space" "Ton : Raum" Self published by artist in 1975/1976, Limited edition of 50 Hand signed in pencil by artist. Acc...
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1970s Modern Black and White Photography

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Screen

Cafe Culture by Bert Hardy Limited Edition Giant Oversize Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
"Cafe Culture" by Bert Hardy A waiter serving clients on the terrace of a cafe on the Champs-Elysees, Paris, June 1951. Original publication: Picture Post - 5343 - Sunday Morning I...
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography

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Black and White

The Dance of Zlatio Zlatev, Original Silver Gelatin Photograph, Bulgaria 1989
By Jacko Vassilev
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jacko Vassilev, Bulgarian ( born 1951 - ) Title: The Dance of Zlatio Zlatev, Ex Pilot Medium: Original Silver Gelatin Print Edition: 19/50 Year: 1989 Story behind the photograph: The photograph seen above was taken of Zlatio Zlatev who had served for Bulgaria’s King Boris III as his top pilot. When the Communists took the power in Bulgaria, he was offered to work for the new government as a bomber pilot. He refused to work for the new regime and was stamped as an "anticommunist element". Due to his refusal Zlatio was sent to forced labor political camp where he spent nearly 15 years and fell victim to the totalitarian side of communism. During that time in Bulgaria there were over 50 political camps where they claimed, "The Brain of the Nation was destroyed"! When Bulgaria become free state from Communism in 1989 a National Celebration was held in the political camp honoring all the people who lost their lives there and granted the survivors as National Heroes! On that day Jacko Vassilev was privileged to witness the celebration of Zlatio and this photograph was HIS DANCE OF FREEDOM!!!! After the dance, Jacko walked to him and wanted to share his deep emotions of capturing this special moments and told him: "Zlatio, your hands are likes a wings in the air." And he answered: "My wings..... They broke them, but not the Spirit"! Artist Bio: I was born in communist Bulgaria. As a boy, I had dreamed of freedom and a simple life. In my late twenties I put my dreams to the test and attempted to escape the Bulgarian regime. I tried to pass the barbed wire fences guarded by border patrols, but I was caught, beaten and tossed into a slave labor camp. Instead of building up hate, the harsh conditions in the camp built my strength. I learned how to survive. My body suffered, but my mind became clearer. My photography was my artistic expression of the world around me however the communist dictatorship considered it anti-communist propaganda and I had to keep my treasures hidden underground. After the communist regime fell, I traveled around Europe and accomplished my dream of becoming a published photographer in Paris and later moved to the USA. The willingness to confront even the most difficult obstacle in life strongly informs my work to this day. There is a thread of optimism that connects the people I’ve portrayed, even when they are shown in the most vulnerable moments. There is no difference between myself and them, they are photographers of life, and I am the countryman...
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1980s Expressionist Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Vintage Silver Gelatin Signed Photograph Samuel Gottscho Garden Flowers Photo NY
Located in Surfside, FL
Vintage hand signed and stamp signed with the photographer's stamp and numbered photo of starflower. Samuel Herman Gottscho (February 8, 1875 - January 28, 1971) was an American arch...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Lisa Kauffmann
Located in Zurich, CH
Albert Watson Lisa Kauffmann, 1986 Archival pigment print 76 x 61 cm (29 7/8 x 24 in.) Edition of 25 plus 2 AP. Ed. no. 23/25. Albert Watson was born 1942 in Edinburgh, Scotland. H...
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1980s Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Mike, Miami Beach, Florida 1998
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing. Edition 1 of 25. If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is p...
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1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

The Rolling Stones I - black and white photography
Located in New York, NY
This photo was taken a few minutes before the Stones appeared on 'Thank Your Lucky Stars' at ATV studios in Birmingham in 1963. This was their first TV appearance and Phillip caught ...
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1960s Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Gelatin silver print with two images from Gay Pride Parade by Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso. Pro...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Serra Pelada, Brazil, 1986 - Sebastião Salgado (Black and White Photography)
Located in London, GB
Serra Pelada, Brazil, 1986 Sebastião Salgad International Shipping Available Stamped with photographer’s copyright blind stamp Signed, inscribed on reverse Undertaking projects of...
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1980s Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Eve Arnold - Paul Newman at The Actors Studio, Photography 1955, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
A model in Harlem, New York City in 1968. All available sizes and editions: 20" x 24", Edition of 25 + 3 Artist Proofs 24" x 34", Edition of 25 + 3 Artist Proofs "Eve Arnold, born ...
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1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Cotton, Paper

Eve Arnold - Drew Beyfuss in New York City, Photography 1956, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
American Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm X in Chicago, Illinois in 1961. All available sizes and editions: 24" x 20", Edition of 25 + 3 Artist Proofs 34" x 24", Ed...
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1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Cotton, Paper

Gelatin silver print of Dinner Table in Spain by Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso. Pro...
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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.

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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.

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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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