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Black and White Photography For Sale
Style: Impressionist
Style: Pop Art
Andy Warhol, Photograph of Halston and Lesley Frowick circa 1980
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Roy Halston Frowick, known as Halston, was a fashion designer whose aesthetic made an impact on 1970s disco culture. Through design, art, fame, and nightlife, Halston and Warhol beca...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Photograph of Robin Williams at a Thrift Store in the Village
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Robin Williams thrift-store shopping in the Village, April 17, 1979, photographed by Andy Warhol.
Illustrated in The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol. Edited by Pat Hackett, Warner Books, 1991.
Beginning his career in stand-up, Robin Williams made it big in the late 1970s co-starring in the comedy series Mork & Mindy. He went on to have a successful career starring in films like Popye, Good Morning, Vietnam, Dead Poets Society, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Good Will Hunting...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Andy Warhol, Photograph of Joseph Kosuth circa 1985
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
The artist Joseph Kosuth is known as an early leader of the conceptual art movement in the 1960s. One of his most famous works is One and Three Chairs, which is in the collection of ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Photograph of a Young Waiter in Paris
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Image dimensions: 10 x 8 in.
Framed dimensions: 18.125 x 16.625 in.
Work is framed to archival standards by Handmade Frames of Brooklyn, New York.
Stamped on ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jean-Michel Basquiat photograph 1979 (Nick Taylor of Gray)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Photograph of Jean Michel Basquiat, New York, 1979:
This rare Basquiat photograph was taken from Nicholas Taylor’s well-documented portfolio exploring his friendship with Jean-Michel Basquiat - a friendship which began when both collaborated on the historic New York No Wave band, “GRAY” in the late 1970s; before the two briefly lived together in the East Village. Selections from Taylor's portfolio were most notably exhibited as part of the Basquiat retrospective at London's Barbican in 2017 and have been featured in numerous noteworthy publications on Basquiat.
Gelatin Silver Print. 1979.
11 x 14 inches.
Edition of 4 A/P's. Signed, dated and numbered 1/4 in pencil on the recto.
Some minor surface waves; otherwise very good overall vintage condition.
Provenance: Obtained directly from artist.
Lot 180 is an authorized dealer rep of Nick Taylor...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
John Stockwell and Bianca Jagger
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Like her former husband Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, Bianca Jagger enjoyed the nightlife New York City had to offer. Known in the 1970s and 80s as a jet-setting socialite assoc...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Liza Minnelli, Martha Graham and Kathleen Turner
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Illustrated in Contact Warhol: Photography Without End. Edited by Peggy Phelan and Richard Meyer. MIT Press, 2018.
The daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli, Liza Minnelli ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Photograph of Ashford Simpson and Diana Ross
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Diana Ross is the former lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes, after which she went on to have a successful career as a solo singer-songwriter, music producer, and actress.
...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Andy Warhol, Photograph of Pat Hackett Peeling a Banana, circa 1986
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Pat Hackett is a writer and editor, as well as a frequent collaborator, friend, and confidante of Andy Warhol. She edited and wrote the introduction to The...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Dennis Hopper and Gerry Rothberg
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Dennis Hopper was an actor and artist, notable for his roles in classic American films such as Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now, and Blue Velvet.
Image dimensions: 10 x 8 in.
Framed dime...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
Alba Clemente and Julian Schnabel
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Illustrated in The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol. Edited by Pat Hackett, Warner Books, 1991.
Julian Schnabel was a regular at The Factory and was so close to Warhol and the ot...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Tama Janowitz
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Tama Janowitz is a novelist who is considered among the literary "brat pack" of the 1980s along with Bret Easton Ellis.
This is a unique work.
Image ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Photograph of Blue Jeans with designs by Haring, Scharf and Warhol
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Depicting blue jeans with hand-drawn designs in Sharpie marker by Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, and Kenny Scharf.
This is a unique work.
Image dimensions: 8 x 10 in.
Framed dimensions:...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Photograph of James Curley and Ian Falconer
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Image dimensions: 8 x 10 in.
Framed dimensions: 16.5 x 18 in.
Work is framed to archival standards by Handmade Frames of Brooklyn, New York.
Stamped on the ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Andy Warhol, Photograph of a Room Service Tray in Paris, 1980
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Image dimensions: 8 x 10 in.
Framed dimensions: 16.5 x 18 in.
Work is framed to archival standards by Handmade Frames of Brooklyn, New York.
This is a unique work.
Work comes w...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Julian Schnabel
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Julian Schnabel is a contemporary artist and filmmaker. His paintings are in the collections of The Met, MOMA, The Whitney, MOCA, and Tate Modern. He directed the 2007 film The Diving Bell...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Truman Capote (with the birthday cake "he made")
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Depicting Truman Capote holding a birthday cake "he made." Truman Capote was an acclaimed 20th-century American novelist. His most influential works include Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Andy Warhol, View from The Factory at 860 Broadway Looking Down at Union Sq West
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Illustrated in The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol. Edited by Pat Hackett, Warner Books, 1991.
A photograph by Andy Warhol from The Factory at 860 Broadway looking down at the p...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Leo Castelli
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Leo Castelli remains an extremely prominent figure in the art world. He started his career in the late 1930s by opening a gallery of surrealist art in Par...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Catherine Guinness and Andy Warhol
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Image dimensions: 8 x 10 in.
Framed dimensions: 16.5 x 18 in.
Work is framed to archival standards by Handmade Frames of Brooklyn, New York.
This is a unique work.
Stamped on the re...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Jackson Backwards", Black & White Photograph Portrait w Sunglasses, 13/25
By Graham Nash
Located in Soquel, CA
Whimsical & edgy archival digital photograph, limited edition giclee by Graham Nash (American, b. 1942) of his young son Jackson backwards with hoodie and Mickey Mouse sunglasses. (Graham Nash is seen in reflection of sunglasses.) #13/25 Titled, signed and dated '89. Stamp and signed on verso. Condition: Excellent. Unframed. Image size: 22"33"H x 18"W. Size including border: 24.33"H x 22.25"W.
While best known as a founding member of the rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash, and (sometimes) Young, Nash also developed a parallel career as a photographer, collector, and pioneer of digital imaging. Nash's photographs include revealing portraits of family and friends, images of life on the road, still lifes and landscapes, street photographs, bad credit people, and a unique series of self-portraits which often shows him reflected in windows and mirrors. His photography establishes Nash as a masterful visual artist with a keen eye for moments and scenes not immediately available to the common eye.
In 2006, fifty years of Graham Nash's photographic images were shown in his first solo museum exhibition, Eye to Eye: Photographs by Graham Nash, at San Diego's Museum of Photographic Arts. MoPA Director Arthur Ollman...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Paper
Jon Gould in leather jacket
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Jon Gould and Andy Warhol met in 1980 when Warhol was 51 and Gould was a 27-year-old movie executive living in Los Angeles. Biographies of Warhol show he tri...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Photograph of William S. Burroughs at the Chelsea Hotel
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
William S. Burroughs was an influential American writer and poet and a central figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s. He is perhaps best known for his 1959 novel Naked Lunch...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Halston in a Limo
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Illustrated in The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol. Edited by Pat Hackett, Warner Books, 1991.
Roy Halston Frowick, known as Halston, was a fa...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Unidentified Man Wearing a Wig, possibly Thomas Ammann
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Unidentified man, possibly Thomas Ammann - a Swiss art collector and a close friend of Andy Warhol. He was the early impetus behind an Andy Warhol catalogue...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sausages
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Image dimensions: 10 x 8 in.
Framed dimensions: 18 x 16.5 in.
Work is framed to archival standards by Handmade Frames of Brooklyn, New York.
Stamped on the re...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
John Stockwell and Bianca Jagger
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Like her former husband Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, Bianca Jagger enjoyed the nightlife New York City had to offer. Known in the 1970s and 80s as a jet-setting socialite assoc...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Photograph of a Male Model at The Factory
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Portrait of a male model photographed by Andy Warhol at The Factory at 860 Broadway circa the late 1970s or early 1980s.
This is a unique work.
Image dimensions: 10 x 8 in.
Framed di...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Joseph Beuys
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
The German artist Joseph Beuys was influential in the Fluxus movement of the 1960s. His conceptual, performance-based art practice often involved components of sculpture and installa...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
Contrast - Personal Computer Series
By Samuel Field
Located in Cambridge, GB
Photographed at the Cambridge Centre for Computing History, home to 800 Historic Computers. This collection is a fabulous reminder of Computers passed through our lives and have been...
Category
2010s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin
Photograph of Halston in kitchen
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Roy Halston Frowick, known as Halston, was a fashion designer whose aesthetic made an impact on 1970s disco culture. Through design, art, fame, and nightlife, Halston and Warhol beca...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bianca Jagger Posing for Press Photographers
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Like her former husband Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, Bianca Jagger enjoyed the nightlife New York City had to offer. Known in the 1970s and 80s as a jet-setting socialite assoc...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Quentin Crisp
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
An English expat living in New York City, Quentin Crisp came to prominence following the publication of his 1968 autobiography, The Naked Civil Servant. ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Richard Weisman at Joe Kennedy Rally
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Image dimensions: 8 x 10 in.
Framed dimensions: 16.125 x 18.625
Work is framed to archival standards by Handmade Frames of Brooklyn, New York.
Stamped on the ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ron Galella
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Dubbed "Paparazzo Extraordinaire" by Newsweek and "the Godfather of the U.S. paparazzi culture" by Time magazine and Vanity Fair, Ron Galella pioneered the industry for candid celebr...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Valentine Guinness
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Image dimensions: 10 x 8 in.
Framed dimensions: 18 x 16.5 in.
Work is framed to archival standards by Handmade Frames of Brooklyn, New York.
Stamped on the r...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lester Persky
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Lester Persky was a television, theater, and film producer most notable for producing the 1979 film Hair, based on the Broadway anti-war rock-musical of the same name.
Image dimens...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Photograph of Andy Warhol with Liza Minnelli and Nell Carter
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Liza Minnelli is an actress and singer, winning an Academy Award in 1973 for her role in Cabaret. Liza entered Warhol’s social circle during the 70’s when...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Andy Warhol, Photograph of Bob Colacello and Jon Gould at the Arc du Triomphe
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Jon Gould and Andy Warhol met in 1980 when Warhol was 51 and Gould was a 27-year-old movie executive living in Los Angeles. Biographies of Warhol show he tried to impress Gould with glamorous outings at Studio 54 and expensive gifts, including a Rolex watch.
Bob Colacello...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Liza Minnelli, Halston and Martha Graham
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
The daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli, Liza Minnelli became a successful actress and singer, winning an Academy Award in 1973 for her role in Cabaret. Liza entered Warho...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Photograph of Pat Hackett Peeling a Banana
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Pat Hackett is a writer and editor, as well as a frequent collaborator, friend, and confidante of Andy Warhol. She edited and wrote the introduction to The...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Francesco Clemente at Cafe Roma
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Illustrated in The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol. Edited by Pat Hackett, Warner Books, 1991.
This is a unique work.
Image dimensions: 8 x 10 in.
Framed dimensions: 16.125 x 18....
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Andy Warhol, Photo Booth Strip of Bobby Short, circa 1960s
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
The musician Bobby Short is known for his interpretations of American standards by such composers as Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, and George and Ira Gers...
Category
1960s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Photograph of Fred Hughes Seated at a Table
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Fred Hughes was Andy Warhol's business manager for more than 25 years. During his time with Warhol, Hughes ran The Factory and was also the publisher of In...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jello Biafra photograph The Dead Kennedys (Rock photography)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jello Biafra, New York, 1986 by celebrated downtown photographer Fernando Natalici.
Jello Biafra – Dead Kennedy’s – Leader of the semianl early...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Tina Turner (backstage at a Rolling Stones concert)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Image dimensions: 10 x 8 in.
Framed dimensions: 18.125 x 16.625 in.
Work is framed to archival standards by Handmade Frames of Brooklyn, New York.
Stamped on ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Joseph Beuys
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
The German artist Joseph Beuys was influential in the Fluxus movement of the 1960s. His conceptual, performance-based art practice often involved components of sculpture and installa...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Egon von Furstenberg and Victor Hugo
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Born to German aristocracy, Prince Egon von Fürstenberg was a socialite, banker, and a fashion and interior designer who was married to fashion de...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Andy Warhol, Photograph of Fred Hughes Reclining on a Sofa, 1986
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Illustrated in The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol. Edited by Pat Hackett, Warner Books, 1991.
Fred Hughes was Andy Warhol's business manager for more than 25 years. During his ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Andy Warhol, Photograph of Diana Vreeland and Martha Graham, 1980
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
As Editor-in-Chief, Diana Vreeland brought Vogue to the forefront of international fashion magazines. Richard Avedon said of Vreeland at her memorial, “Diana lived for imagination ru...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Timothy Hutton
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Image dimensions: 10 x 8 in.
Framed dimensions: 18.5 x 16 in.
Work is framed to archival standards by Handmade Frames of Brooklyn, New York.
This is a unique work.
Stamped twice ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Andy Warhol in Paris, Black & White Silver Gelatin Photo by Christopher Makos
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Christopher Makos, American (1948 - )
Title: Andy Warhol in Paris
Year: 1981 (printed 1989)
Medium: Gelatin Silver Print, signed, stamped and numbered verso
Edition: 15/3...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Andy Warhol, Photograph of Henry Geldzahler Lighting a Cigar circa 1981
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Henry Geldzahler was the first curator of 20th century art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In 1969, he curated a landmark exhibition called New York Painting and Sculp...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Andy Warhol, Photograph of Jacqueline Bisset and Alexander Godunov, circa 1984
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Jacqueline Bisset is an English actress who has starred opposite Frank Sinatra, Steve McQueen, Dean Martin, Alan Alda, and Paul Newman. She was involved in a nine-year romantic partnership with Alexander...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Janis Joplin photograph Detroit 1968 (60s rock photography Leni Sinclair)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Janis Joplin photograph Detroit, 1968 - This very natural, in the moment image of Rock legend, Janis Joplin was shot by legendary Detroit photographer & c...
Category
1960s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Fernando Natalici Al Goldstein New York 1979
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Al Goldstein by heralded New York underground photographer Fernando Natalici
Silver Gelatin Print, c.1979.
11x14 inches.
Hand signed & dated on the verso from an edition of 2.
Some minor residue or fading to edges and minor signs of handling; otherwise in very good condition for its age.
Al Goldstein:
If Hugh Hefner strove to put a sleek, air-brushed image on sexual freedom in the 1960s, rival publisher Al Goldstein was the polar opposite. Unabashedly abrasive and foul-mouthed, the cigar-chomping, a larger than life Goldstein called his explicit magazine Screw.
When he co-founded Screw in 1968, the American legal system was embroiled in a battle over what constitutes obscenity. Goldstein never envisioned himself as a champion of free speech, but fought for what he said were his own prurient interests.
The porn magazine's scathing, scatological editorials railed against religious leaders and the government for justifying war while imprisoning erotic magazine...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Christopher Makos, "Andy Warhol Snowmobiling, " Gelatin Silver Print, 1983
Located in Long Island City, NY
This gelatin silver print was created by American photographer Christopher Makos. Makos is well known for his relationships with icons like Andy Warhol, Tennessee Williams, and John ...
Category
1990s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Photograph of Vik Muniz New York, 1987
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Vik Muniz, New York, NY, 1987 by Fernando Natalici
Within this exquisite portrait of a young Vik Muniz, Natalici cuts, then reconstructs the original film negative to allow one side...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Inkjet
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.
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