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Black and White Photography For Sale
Style: Modern
Style: Photorealist
Kent, England - Black and White Photograph, Nude, Park, Bench, People
Located in Denton, TX
Kent, England by Elliott Erwitt is a black and white photograph featuring a group of nude people standing in a park, with their backs facing the camera.
G...
Category
1960s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$7,500 Sale Price
21% Off
Cindy Sherman - UNTITLED #414 (CLOWNS. 2003) Limited Skate Modern Photography
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Cindy Sherman - UNTITLED #414 (CLOWNS. 2003)
Date of creation: 2022
Medium: Digital print on Canadian maple wood
Edition: 50
Size: 80 x 20 cm (each skate)
Condition: In mint conditio...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Wood, Maple, Screen
64x48 " Marlon Brando" Photomosaic Pop Fine Art Photography Signed
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Brando" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro.
This image is made up of 100's of smaller images of Marlon Brando.
Archival photographic paper
Framing options available
Signed editio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$920 Sale Price
20% Off
Harry Benson 'Ali in Training' Limited Edition Photographic Print, 30 x 30
By Harry Benson
Located in San Rafael, CA
American Heavyweight boxer Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali), training in his gym, 21st May 1965. (Photo by Harry Benson/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
As an authorized Getty ...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Jacques Lipchitz Bronze Sculpture Photo Signed
Located in Surfside, FL
Adolph Studly, Swiss born American photographer. His work is kept in the Photographic Archive at The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. He was known for his gallery photograp...
Category
1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Joe Dallesandro Andy Warhol Trash promo photo
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Jack Mitchell, American Photographer (1925-2013).
Joe Dallesandro, ca. 1973.
11 x 14 inches; 12 x 15 inches framed.
Period print from artist's studio. The image was intended for ...
Category
1970s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Print Silver Gelatin Signed Photograph Brazilian Actress Sonia Braga
Located in Surfside, FL
signed in ink and with photographer stamp verso and hand written title.
Sonia Braga
Sônia Maria Campos Braga is a Brazilian-American actress. She is known in the English-speaking world for her Golden Globe Award nominated performances in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) and Moon over Parador (1988). She also received a BAFTA Award nomination in 1981 for Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (first released in 1976). For the 1994 television film The Burning Season, she was nominated for an Emmy Award and a third Golden Globe Award. Her other television credits include The Cosby Show (1986), Sex and the City (2001), American Family (2002), and Alias (2005).
Braga was the first Brazilian to present a category at the Oscars. She was announced by Goldie Hawn as one of the most glamorous actresses in the world, before appearing with Michael Douglas, who announced the result of the best short film. Braga competed for many prestigious awards in the United States. For her performance in The Burning Season (1994) she was nominated for the third time for the Golden Globe for best supporting actress. In 1995, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for The Burning SeasonDuring the 1980s, Braga had relationships with Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth...
Category
1970s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Dramatic White and Black Roses Platinum Palladium Print Photograph
By Tom Ferguson
Located in Surfside, FL
16.5x20.5, 7.5x9.5 actual image
Born in 1957 at Kalamazoo and raised in Detroit, MI, Tom Ferguson has photographed still lifes, flowers, botanicals, collage, city-scapes and landscapes. He works in platinum, palladium, cyanotype, gum, silver gelatin and other alternative processes. He is also a fine commercial photographer. This is similar in feel to Karl Blossfeldt and Irving Penn.
He moved to Los Angeles in 1976, and currently lives in Simi Valley.
Category
1990s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Just JAZZ
By Karol Kallay
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
The photography on photo paper is stamped on the back by the author, certificate of origin will be added. Done in NY 1968 for a book about NY.
Category
Mid-20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$428 Sale Price
88% Off
Terry O'Neill 'Brigitte Bardot Spain' (Signed)
Located in New York, NY
Brigitte Bardot, Spain, 1971
Silver gelatin print
20 x 16 inches
Signed and numbered edition of 50
(rare)
Brigitte Bardot on the set of ‘Les Petroleuses’ a.k.a. ‘The Legend of Fren...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Frida with Granizo by Nickolas Muray, 1939, Silver Gelatin Print, Photography
Located in Denton, TX
Frida with Granizo by Nickolas Muray is a portrait of Frida Kahlo with her pet deer, Granizo. She places her hand lovingly on the deer while looking towards the viewer, with a cigare...
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dead Tree, Sunset Crater National Monument, Arizona
By Ansel Adams
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This vintage silver gelatin print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount, with image number "11" in the lower left corner. Portfolio Two stamp with print #11 and set #A in red...
Category
1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Hong Kong, Couple, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 29, 9 x 23, 8 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Hangyaku No
Located in New York, NY
“Ink Stories”, which was introduced at Nyari’s very first solo gallery exhibit, consists of large-scale nude photographs that explore the concept of self-identity and female empowerm...
Category
2010s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pho...
$18,400
Terry O'Neill 'The Beatles'
Located in New York, NY
Terry O'Neill
The Beatles, Backyard of Abbey Road Studios
1963 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
signed and numbered edition 47 of 50
with certificate of authenticity
Terry O'Nei...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Norman Parkinson 'Golfing at Le Toque'
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Golfing at Le Toque
1939 printed later
Silver gelatin print
40 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and numbered on verso
A woman in a white suit hitting a golf ball in a sa...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Feminist Protesting Vietnam War
Located in Surfside, FL
Feminist T. Grace Atkinson Being Arrested As She Demonstrates Against Richard Nixon's War in Vietnam
October 23, 1972
Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off-Broadway actors, troubadours, politicians, agitators and social protests.
Fred captured Jack Kerouac frolicking with women at a New Year’s bash in 1958, Andy Warhol adjusting a movie-camera lens in his silver-covered factory, and Bob Dylan offering a salute of recognition outside Sheridan Square near the Voice’s old office.
Not just a social chronicler, McDarrah was a great photo-journalist.
For years, McDarrah was the Voice's only photographer and, for decades, he ran the Voice’s photo department, where he helped train dozens of young photographers, including James Hamilton, Sylvia Plachy, Robin Holland and Marc Asnin. His mailbox was simply marked "McPhoto."
An exhibit of McDarrah’s photos of artists presented by the Steven Kasher Gallery in Chelsea was hailed by The New York Times as “a visual encyclopedia of the era’s cultural scene.”
artists in their studios, (Alice Neel, Philip Guston, Stuart Davis, Robert Smithson...
Category
20th Century American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Ecuador, Rio Pastaza, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 23, 2 x 23, 2 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Alberto Giacometti in his studio in Paris 1963
Located in Cologne, DE
The photographer Wolfgang Kühn photographed Alberto Giacometti in November 1963 in his studio in Paris in the 14th arrondissement at the address rue Hippolyte-Maindron. The appointment was arranged by the gallery owner Aimé Maeght. 17 photographs were made. In 1990 copies of them were deposited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In 2010, the Center of International Sculpture of the Wilhelm...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Terry O'Neill 'Brigitte Bardot Hands On Hips'
Located in New York, NY
Brigitte Bardot, Hands on Hips
1971
Silver gelatin print
24 x 20 inches
Signed and numbered edition of 50
Brigitte Bardot on the set of the film ‘Les Petroleuses’ a.k.a. ‘The Legen...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Person, Canyon, Utah, Black and White Photography, USA, 1960s, 16, 6 x 23, 4 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
Eiffel Tower, Street Photography, Black and White, France 1950s, 17, 7 x 13 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
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Moulin Rouge; Dancing; Black and White; Paris, 1950s, 17, 6 x 12, 7 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
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Hank Aaron, Atlanta, Georgia
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 25
Signed and numbered.
AVAILABLE SIZES:
11 x 14 in., Edition of 25
16 x 20 in., Edition of 25
24 x 36 in., Edition of 25
36 x 54 in., Edition of 25
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cardin Hat Over Paris
Located in New York, NY
Cardin Hat Over Paris, 1960
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
British model Celia Hammond wearing a pink coat by French fashion designer Pierre Cardin for Q...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Soho Waiters Race'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Soho Waiters Race, 1955, Printed Later
Waiters carrying half bottles of champagne set off on the annual waiters' race from Soho Square to Greek Street, i...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Duesseldorf planetarium and Shipping Museum, Germany 1937 Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Figurative photograph nude fine art print, Contemporary black white - Sandrine
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 ‘ Sandrine ‘.
Signed by Ian Sanderson ...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
Sun, shadows, buildings Koenigsplatz square Munich, Germany 1937, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been miss...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Summer in the 1930s
Located in Cologne, DE
Summer in the 1930s
Captured in 1936 by German photographer Heinz Pollmann, this evocative image shows a young woman peacefully paddling across a lake in a classic Klepper folding k...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Reg Lancaster 'Birkin and Gainsbourg' Limited Edition Photographic Print, 20x30
Located in San Rafael, CA
By photographer Reg Lancaster, English actress Jane Birkin and French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, at home in Paris, 1969.
As an authorized Getty Images Gallery partner, we ...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Oasis Abbey Road joiner print by Jill Furmanovsky
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print by Jill Furmanovsky of Oasis.
This stunning joiner image comprises of photographs taken by Jill Furmanovsky during the recording sessions forDig Out You...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Oasis Wonderwall portrait by Jill Furmanovsky
Located in Austin, TX
Signed, limited edition print of Oasis, Liam and Noel Gallagher by Jill Furmanovsky. Taken in London, September 1995 during a break in filming the Wonderwall video
Signed and numbe...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Oasis portrait, San Francisco 1995 by Jill Furmanovsky
Located in Austin, TX
Signed, limited edition print of Oasis by Jill Furmanovsky. Taken during their Definitely Maybe Tour in 1995 with San Francisco as a backdrop
Signed and numbered by Jill Furmanovsky...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Würzburg, Germany 1935, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Twiggy – at David Steen’s Home, Surrey, 1967 Limited Estate Print
By David Steen
Located in London, GB
Twiggy – at David Steen’s Home, Surrey,
Lesley Lawson (born 19 September 1949) is an English model, actress, and singer widely known by the nickname Twiggy. She was a British cultu...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Oasis Slane Castle by Jill Furmanovsky
Located in Austin, TX
Signed, limited edition print of Oasis, Liam and Noel Gallagher by Jill Furmanovsky. Taken on stage performing at Slane Castle in 1995 as the support for REM.
Signed and numbered b...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Liam and Noel Gallagher of Oasis by Jill Furmanovsky
Located in Austin, TX
Silhouette portrait of Liam and Noel Gallagher of Oasis taken in London in September of 1995 by Jill Furmanovsky during a break in the making of the Wonderwall video.
Signed and n...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Oasis at Knebworth by Jill Furmanovsky
Located in Austin, TX
Signed, limited edition print of Oasis, Liam and Noel Gallagher by Jill Furmanovsky. Taken on stage at Knebworth Park during their iconic gigs in August 1996.
Noel Gallagher talking...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Liam Gallagher Oasis Slane Castle 1995 by Jill Furmanovsky
Located in Austin, TX
Signed, limited edition print of Liam Gallagher by Jill Furmanovsky. Taken on stage performing with Oasis at Slane Castle in 1995 as the support for REM. Liam argued with the crowd r...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Liam Gallagher Oasis hotel bed by Jill Furmanovsky
Located in Austin, TX
Signed, limited edition print of Liam Gallagher of Oasis by Jill Furmanovsky. Taken relaxing in his hotel room in Rhode Island whilst Oasis were touring the USA in March 1996.
"I lo...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Liam and Noel Gallagher backstage Oasis at Wembley by Jill Furmanovsky
Located in Austin, TX
Signed, limited edition print of Oasis, Liam and Noel Gallagher by Jill Furmanovsky. Taken backstage before the gig at Wembley Stadium in July 2000.
Signed and numbered by Jill Furm...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Norman Parkinson 'Wenda and Ostriches'
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Wenda and Ostriches
1951 (printed later)
C print
40 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
with certificate of authenticity from the Norman ...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Floating Horse, Saddle Shop Lake Worth, FL
By David Saxe
Located in Hudson, NY
David Saxe - “Photography has always been the simple act of looking and being inspired to strip the unnecessary elements from the scene and frame the image down in a way to discover...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Eifeltower, Paris, 1955
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1955.
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 photograph...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$407 Sale Price
30% Off
Princess of Monaco Grace Kelly
Located in New York, NY
Milton H. Greene
Grace Kelly
1955 (printed later)
All archival pigment prints, signed on reverse by the Estate
American actress and then Princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly for an Ameri...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mother with Sons, 3rd Ward, Houston, TX
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, titled, dated and print type in pencil on print verso
Vintage gelatin silver print
Earlie Hudnall, who is one of the most notable African American photographers living today, has extensively documented the African American neighborhoods in Houston, Texas.
After serving as a Marine in Vietnam, he enrolled at Texas Southern University, where he studied art under the direction of John Biggers, who became a great friend and mentor. During his time at TSU, he was hired to be a photographer for the Model Cities Program, part of Lyndon Johnson...
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Terry O'Neill 'Sean Connery as Bond' (Sheriff)
Located in New York, NY
Terry O'Neill
Sean Connery as Bond
1971 (printed later)
silver gelatin print
20 x 16 inches
Estate signature stamped and numbered edition of 50
with certificate of authenticity
Scot...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Edie Sedgewick 'Superstar'
Located in New York, NY
Edie Sedgewick 'Superstar'
1966 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
Signed and numbered by the artist
11 x 14 in - 25 + 5 AP - $ 8,000
16 x 20 in - 30...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Terry O'Neill 'The Beatles at Wembley' (signed)
Located in New York, NY
The Beatles
silver gelatin print
16 x 20 inches
edition of 50
Signed and numbered edition of 50
with certificate of authenticity
Paul McCartney and John Lennon rehearse for a TV spe...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ted Williams 'Dr. Martin Luther King'
By Ted Williams
Located in New York, NY
Ted Williams
Dr. Martin Luther King, 1964
Silver gelatin print
16 x 20 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition
with certificate of authenticity
Dr. Martin Luther King makes a sp...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lunch at Quien Sabe Wagon
Located in Denton, TX
Signed in pencil on mount margin.
Toned gelatin silver print.
Framing not included.
Western photographer, Bank Langmore, traveled extensively with cattle drives, photographing cowbo...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$2,100 Sale Price
30% Off
Fulham Football Fan's Fashion silver gelatin limited edition print
Located in London, GB
5th January 1957: Two young Fulham football fans Freda and Frank Hearn dressed in their club's colours of black and white, wait to board an 'Ipswich Sp...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
In the Halls of Justice
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carrie Mae Weems
In the Halls of Justice
Edition 3/25
Limited edition
Signature
Signed, verso
Steeped in African American history, Carrie Mae Weems makes alternately searing and te...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pictorialist Photography, "Pensive Woman"
Located in Rochester, NY
Pictorialist photograph of a young woman. Silver print in the original oak frame. Inscribed on reverse R.S. Paddock, Early 20th century.
Pictorialism is the name given to an interna...
Category
1910s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Lemon Glow" Black & White Photography 36" x 24" in Ed. 1/15 by Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Lemon Glow" Black & White Photography 36" x 24" in Ed. 1/15 by Larsen Sotelo
Not framed. Ships in a tube
Giclee (Archival Ink) print on 310G Platine Fibre Cotton Rag w/satin finish...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Juan Manuel Fangio, Grand Prix of Monaco
Located in Denton, TX
Gelatin silver print
Paper size: 11 x 14 in., Image size: 8 1/4 x 12 in.
Signed in ink on print by Jesse Alexander
Jesse Alexander was considered one of the greatest race car photog...
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Refugee Children - Vintage b/w Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Refugee Children- Vintage b/w Photo realized by Peter Tatiner in 1980. Copyright by Agenzia Gamma, Paris.
In the photo: Border Cambodia Thailand Refugee children on 28 January 1980,...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Nude Studies - Edition griffelkunst
Located in Cologne, DE
With a socially critical eye and Berlin humor, the prints by Heinrich Zille (1858 - 1929) capture the milieu of the "little people" around 1900. The fact that the famous artist was a...
Category
1890s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Architectural Gelatin SIlver Print Vellum Photograph Mark Citret Vintage Photo
By Mark Citret
Located in Surfside, FL
Mark Citret, American, b. 1949.
"Third Story Arches", Fort Point, 1998
Silver gelatin print hand signed and editioned 1/45 in pencil along lower edge.
Published: "Along the Way" Mark Citret, Published Custom & Limited Editions, San Francisco, 1999. Plate #23.
Dimensions: Image area measures 8.25"h x 6.25"w., Frame measures 17.5 x 14.5
Mark Citret was born in 1949 in Buffalo, New York, and grew up in San Francisco. He began photographing seriously in 1968 and received both his BA and MA in Art from San Francisco State University.
He has worked on many photographic projects over the course of his career and continues to do so. From 1973 to 1975 he lived in and photographed Halcott Center, a farming valley in New York's Catskill Mountains. In the mid to late 1980s, he produced a large body of work with the working title of "Unnatural Wonders", which is his personal survey of architecture in the national parks. He spent four years, 1990 to 1993, photographing "Coastside Plant", a massive construction site in the southwest corner of San Francisco. Since he moved to his current home in 1986, he has been photographing the ever-changing play of ocean and sky from the cliff behind his house. Currently, he is in the midst of a multi-year commission from the University of California San Francisco, photographing the construction of their 43 acre Mission Bay life-sciences campus. He has taught photography at the University of California Berkeley Extension since 1982 and the University of California Santa Cruz Extension since 1988, and for organizations such as the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Ansel Adams Gallery, and Santa Fe Workshops.He was included in the Weston Gallery exhibition NIGHT VISION: PHOTOGRAPHING IN THE DARK works by: Berenice Abbott, Wynn Bullock, Mark Citret, Harold Davis, Robert Frank, Ernst Haas, Chip Hooper, Rolfe Horn, Dale Johnson, Robb Johnson, Michael Kenna, André Kertész, Bob Kolbrener, Paul Kozal, Sally Mann and Jerry Uelsmann and PATTERNS IN ARCHITECTURE works by Ansel Adams, Brett Weston, Edward Weston, Oliver Gagliani, Pirkle Jones...
Category
1990s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Vellum, 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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