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Black and White Photography For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: 1960s
Brigitte Bardot Bathing
Located in Austin, TX
Lovely capture of Brigitte Bardot posing while taking a bath. Brigitte Bardot is a French animal rights activist and former actress and singer. Famous for portraying sexually emanci...
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1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Mother Teresa, Calcutta, India
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Ken Heyman ...
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1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Ecuador, Indigenous, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 29 x 22, 4 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...
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1960s Modern Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Paul Simon 1968
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Barrie Wentzell
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1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

'Sun Beams into Grand Central Station' Limited Edition Photograph 16 X 12
Located in San Rafael, CA
Beams of sunlight streaming through the windows at Grand Central Station, New York City, circa 1930. (Photo by Hal Morey/Getty Images) As an authorized Get...
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1930s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Bob Mick and Pete - Limited Estate Print Framed
Located in London, GB
Marley Jagger Tosh Framed Estate Print. Bob Marley, Mick Jagger and Peter Tosh pose backstage at a Rolling Stones concert at the Palladium in New York, U...
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1970s Modern Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

David Bowie With Lou Reed And Iggy Pop - Limited Edition Estate Print
Located in London, GB
David Bowie With Lou Reed And Iggy Pop - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print David Bowie, Lou Reed & Iggy Pop during a press conference at the Dorchester Hotel...
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1970s Modern Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Craig- Signed limited edition nude print, Black white Contemporary, Man in bed
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Craig - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 1998 - Edition of 5 This image was captured on film. The negative was scanned creating a digital file which was then print...
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1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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

Slim Aarons Estate Print - Lucky For Some 1949
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Lucky For Some 1949: Sicilian-born gangster Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano (1897 – 1962) walking down a street in his native Sicily, followed by local children mimicking his posture. Whilst in prison between 1936 and 1946, he founded the Crime Syndicate of Mafia families and reorganised crime in America. (Photo by Slim Aarons) silver gelatin print paper size 16 x 16" inches / 40 x 40 cm unframed printed later edition size 150 only certificate of authenticity supplied numbered in ink & blind embossed stamped Slim Aarons signature on front Authorised and issued by the Slim Aarons Archive & Estate c/o The Getty Archive London England and produced utilizing the original transparency. b/w black and white 1940 40s fashion...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Lovers 2
Located in Lenox, MA
Ormond Gigli Lovers 2 Gelatin Silver Print Printed by artist 17.5" x 20.5" Unique: $2500 Provenance: Printed by the artist, from the artist's studio Signature: Signed en verso Addit...
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Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Hong Kong, Man, Collector, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 30 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...
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1960s Modern Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Monica Vitti - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Monica Vitti is a vintage black and white photo of the italian actres, realized in 1960s. L'agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA) Monica Vitti is born in Rome on November 3, 1931. Admitted in 1950 to the Academy of Dramatic Art (where she will return in 1986 as a teacher), and graduated in 1953, she immediately tackles the scenes in L'avaro di Molière (1954), The island of the parrots of S. Tofano (1954), They founded a city of C. Meano (1954), Mother Courage and her children of B. Brecht (1954). Between 1956 and 1959 she also participated in television broadcasts and acted in numerous adaptations of famous theatrical texts. She made her film debut playing secondary parts in Laugh, Laugh, Laugh! by E. Anton, 1955; A mink coat by G. Pellegrini, 1956; Le dritte di M. Amendola, 1958. Dubbing actress of Il scido di M. Antonioni (1957), she meets the director who, after having directed her to the theater in I am a camera by J. Van Druten (1957) and in Secret Scandals by Antonioni and E. Bartolini (1957), he calls her as the protagonist in L'avventura (1960), a film with which V. is a leading actress. Always led by Antonioni, from now on she will play suffering characters who embody a profound crisis of feelings. Apart from a brief television parenthesis (a transposition of the short story The White Nights by F. Dostoevskij, directed by V. Cottafavi), La notte (1961), L'eclisse (1962) and Deserto rosso (1963) belong to a happy partnership with Antonioni (who will be revived episodically for the production of The Mystery of Oberwald [1980], a courageous experiment of intertwining cinema and electronic techniques, propitiated by the exhumation of a play by J. Cocteau, L'aigle à deux têtes). In the second half of the Sixties, however, the producers showed that they preferred her as an actress endowed with caricatural flair, fine humor, vitalistic exuberance, communicative immediacy; and audiences pay her a growing success, not always corresponding to the quality of her filmography or the variety of her interpretations, among which are the very convincing ones in Modesty Blaise...
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1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Kiss Performing
Located in Toronto, ON
Rock N Roll Photograph - Black & White Hand Signed by Lynn Goldsmith About the Artist: Lynn Goldsmith's imagery is in numerous collections: The Smithsonian, The Polaroid Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the permanent collection of Museum Folkwang. She is a multi-awarded portrait photographer whose work has appeared on and between the covers of Life, Newsweek, Time, Rolling Stone, People, Elle, The New Yorker, etc. Her subjects have varied from entertainment personalities to sports stars, from film directors to authors, from the extra-ordinary to the ordinary man on the street. Her forty years of photography have not only been an investigation into the nature of the human spirit, but also into the natural wonders of our planet. Twelve books of her photography have been published. She has been on The New York Times Best Seller list...
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1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Eric Clapton, 1976
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Lynn Goldsmith Limited Edition of 20 ...
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1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Lorin Maazel Vintage Photo - Vintage Photo 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
The Director Lorin Maazer at the "Teatro alla Scala" in Milan, 1980s. Very good conditions.
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1980s Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Dolly Parton and Mick Jagger hugging
Located in Austin, US
IN STOCK AND AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPPING Signed limited edition archival print of Country music star Dolly Parton hugging rock star Mick Jagger of ...
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Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Portrait of Rose Fitzgerald - Vintage Photo by Ron Galella - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Rose Fitzgerald is a b/w photograph by Ron Galella taken in the 1960s. Print on Baryta paper. Stamp of the photographer and stereotype on the back. In perfect conditions...
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1960s Modern Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Actor, choreographer, dancer Geoffrey Holder signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Actor, choreographer, director, costume designer, dancer Geoffrey Holder, 1963, nude, signed on the recto in ink and on the verso in pen...
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1960s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Semana Santa Pilgrims, Seville, Spain
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Ken Heyman Limited Edition of ? ...
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1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Reportage from Albania - Tirana - Vintage Photograph - Late 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Reportage from Albania - Tirana - Photograph is a color photograph realized in the Late 1980s. Good conditions. the landscape of Albania through the art of photography is captured ...
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1970s Modern Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Marilyn Monroe
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Lawrence Schiller. ""Marilyn Monroe"" is a nude, figurative vintage silver gelatin photograph in black and white by American Post-War artist Lawrence Schiller. Lawrence Schiller only remembers the 60s in this way: Fast. As in: Blur. Which is, for those who lived through it, as accurate a description as one is likely to find about the decade that began with optimism and ended in chaos. It was ten years of turmoil and exploration. And through this turbulent and tumultuous decade, it often seemed that whenever a headline-making news event occurred, Lawrence Schiller was there. Schiller was not just lucky to be in the right place at the right time; he was prescient. He was there to cover the event, to add to it, to help us see it, to aid its meaning and its depth. ""It was a time in which things happened awfully fast,"" Schiller says of the decade. ""It was a wild, wild period; an uncontrolled period. I don’t think you had any sense of perspective in the 60s. You had to wait and look back at it, because it was a period in which things were happening that had no rhyme or reason to it. But by the end of the ‘60s I had covered so many stories, had so many magazine covers, I had somehow become part of that decade’s history. And I already had my eye on the future."" When Lawrence Schiller got the assignment from the French magazine, Paris Match to photograph Marilyn Monroe on the 20th Century Fox set of Something’s Got to Give, he thought nothing of it. It wasn’t to be a private, studio shoot. He wasn’t going to set up lights, create backgrounds, or use a tripod. Just another assignment, he figured. Monroe by then was firmly established as a figment in the imagination of most young men. The orphan Norma Jean had recreated herself as the blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe. She’d appeared in twenty-nine films by the time Schiller photographed her in black and white and color in May, 1962. The world was unprepared for the moment when Marilyn jumped in the swimming pool in a flesh-colored bikini and came up out of the water au natural. She was all smiles and in her element: the sex goddess...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Mexico, Ruins, Mitla, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 17, 1 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, and the USSR in the 1960s.In the invitation to an exhibition of her works in 2003, one reads: "Hanna Seidel, observing the world through her camera lens, could capture everyday situtations in a unique manner."A touring exhibition containing 100 selected photographs entitled "From Rio Grande to Cape Horn" was organised by the Commerzbank and Lufthansa in 1965 and had its opening in the Cologne branch of the bank, Unter Sachsenhausen. At the time, the press described the works as being of "enchanting beauty and dignity."The exhibition of 1965 was curated by Hanna Seidel. Vintageprints offered for collectors come from this selection, each work is unique and exists only once, created as a unique print for the exhibition. Title: Mexico...
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1960s Modern Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Vintage Print - Legend
By Malcolm Lubliner
Located in Surfside, FL
Malcolm Lubliner was in the right place at the right time. The artist had been working and teaching in Southern California for a number of years before he became a full-time photographer in 1968. Entrenched in Los Angeles’s burgeoning art scene, Lubliner was hired as a contract photographer for the publishing workshop Gemini G.E.L. to document its behind-the-scenes activities. He would later become the official photographer for the Art and Technology Program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), which paired artists with technology companies in the region. Lubliner’s collection of negatives, contact sheets, and prints—newly catalogued as part of the special collections at the Getty Research Institute—showcases some of the 20th century’s most notable artists and demonstrates his insight into their artistic processes. Lubliner photographed the technical and collaborative efforts that went into producing iconic works such as Jasper Johns’s Numerals, Claes Oldenburg’s Giant Ice Bag, and Frank Stella’s Protractor series, while also creating intimate portraits of the individual artists as the driving forces behind them. He captured artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Irwin, Richard Serra, John Altoon, and Sam Francis at work both at Gemini and in their own studios. Also present in many of the photographs are staff members of Gemini, including Kenneth Tyler and Stanley Grinstein. An equally important part of the collection are Lubliner’s photographs of social events that were held by Los Angeles’s prominent art collectors and dealers. Accomplished and rising artists alike mingled and celebrated with the art world’s movers and shakers, such as Leo Castelli, Betty Asher, and Maurice Tuchman, establishing partnerships that would help define their careers. EDUCATION 1962 MFA Degree, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, Ca Received a California State Teaching Credential EXHIBITION HISTORY, SOLO 2013 The Automotive Landscape, St. Mary’s College Art Gallery, Moraga, CA 2011 Anxious Landscape, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA. 2011 Pacific Party Time, Craig Krull Gallery and Getty Foundation, Los Angeles, CA 2010 Garden of Arbitrary Volition, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2008 Tableaus, City Hall Rotunda, Walnut Creek, CA 2007 Portraits of American Artists, The 8 Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2003 Significant Places, Fresno Museum of Art, Fresno, CA 2003 Significant Places, Bedford Gallery, City Council Chambers, Walnut Creek, CA 2001 Significant Places, Point of View, College of Marin, Kentfield, CA 2001 Osceola Gallery Emeryville, CA 1999 Sixteen Tableaus, Berlex Corporation. The Richmond Art Museum 1995 Sixteen Tableaus, The Collectors Gallery, Oakland Museum of California Oakland, CA 1995 Sixteen Tableaus, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa 1988 Introductions 1988, Vision Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1988 Mitzie Landau Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA 1975 Automotive Research, The Comsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA EXHIBITION HISTORY, GROUP 2014 Pilot Project at the Richmond Art Center Annual Members Show, June 14 to August 22 2013 Me Two, Self portrait, Syracuse University permanent collection, Syracuse, NY 2009 Seduction of Duchamp, Slaughterhouse Space, Healdsburg, CA 2009 Glimpses in Time, National Competition, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland CA 2009 Anxious Landscape, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2008 Banned and Recovered, African American Museum, Oakland, CA 2006 The 8 Gallery, Inaugural exhibition, San Francisco, CA 2006 Rush Creek Editions Gallery, Inaugural exhibition, Santa Fe, NM 2006 Transmissions Gallery, Berkeley CA 2005 The Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Center, Walnut Creek, CA 2003 Grabado sin Fronteras, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA , Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA and Estamperia of Quito Ecuador. 2002 Crocker Art Museum, Crocker-Kingsley 73rd Biennial Exhibition Sacramento,CA 1997 Oakland Museum of California, “In Front of the Lens” Photographers Portraits and Self Portraits, Oakland, CA 1996 Photographing The L.A. Art Scene 1955-1975, Group exhibition at The Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles 1994 Living in Balance, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA 1993 36th Annual Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua, N.Y. 1993 Third Annual Juried Exhibition, Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center, East Hills, N.Y. 1993 4th Annual Art Equinox, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana. 1993 Portraits in Black and White, ZYZZYVA benefit, Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1993 Long Beach Arts 89th Open Exhibition, Long Beach, CA 1993 Fort Worth Arts Festival, Fort Worth, TX 1989 A Special Photographers Co., Group Exhibition, London, GB 1988 The Print Club, 64th Annual International Competition, Philadelphia, PA 1985 SNAP Photographic Competition, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery San Francisco, CA 1981 L.A. As Seen By L.A. Artists, Invitational Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1981 Architecture de Tour, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France 1967 California Dreamin’, Los Angeles County Museum, Barnsdall Park. Los Angeles, CA 1980 Otis Art Institute Alumni Invitational, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA 1971 Art and Technology, Photographic documentation of the U.S. Arts entry at the Osaka Worlds Fair, sponsored by The Los Angeles County Museum of Art AWARDS AND GRANTS 2006 Vallejo Artist’s Guild, Vallejo, CA – First and second cash prizes 1997 Miranda Leonard Purchase Grant, Gift of four photographs to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 1994 California Exposition & State Fair, AWARD, Sacramento, CA 1975 Ohio Silver Gallery National Open Exhibition, PURCHASE AWARD, Ohio Silver Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1962 All City Competition, AWARD, LA County Museum of Art, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS The Lafayette Library and Learning Center, Lafayette, CA. The National Portrait Gallery, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA The Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco Arts Commission Oakland Museum of California The Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Fresno Museum of Art The California Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA. David Packard...
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20th Century Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Mother Teresa, Calcutta, India
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Ken Heyman Born in New York City in 1930, Ken Heyman first became interested in photography in high school. Later, during his student days at Columbia College-which were interrupted by a two-year stint in the army-his skill as a photographer grew, but still regarded photography as no more than a hobby. Then two events in college helped to direct him toward his career in photography. First, he sent off selections of his work to two national photography annuals and was pleased, indeed surprised, when both indicated they were eager to print his pictures-and did. But perhaps more important was his becoming a student of the distinguished anthropologist Margaret Mead...
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1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

La Cave de Luis Candela by Gleb Derujinsky, 1957, Fashion Photography
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Selected from the Derujinsky: Around The World Portfolio, shot in the famous restaurant La Cave de Luis Candela in Madrid for Harper's Bazaar Artist: Gleb Derujinsky Title: La Cave...
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1950s Other Art Style Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Colombia, Buenaventura, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 17, 4x 22, 1 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...
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1960s Modern Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Untitled from “Women Are Beautiful”
Located in Tulsa, OK
Garry Winogrand Untitled from “Women Are Beautiful”, c. 1970, printed 1981 Signed in pencil on verso; numbered in unknown hand in pencil on verso G...
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Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Untitled from "Sirague City"
By Vilem Kriz
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed and dated in ink on image. Dated and stamped on verso. 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. Toned gelatin silver print.
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1970s Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Santorini
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 ...
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1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Tom Petty #6 Concert Photo by Richard E. Aaron
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Title: Tom Petty #6 Photo Artist: Richard E. Aaron Estate Edition: Hand numbered with estate chop mark in the margin, signature stamp on verso, archival pi...
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1970s Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

On Top of The World - Villa Prince Rainier, Eze-sur-Mer, MONTE-CARLO SERIES
Located in Cody, WY
This is a UNIQUE print in large scale silver gelatin print photography, mounted on disband and framed in a black frame same as in the image featured here. The image showing the showroom is to show the scale of the work "In Situ". The image on the showroom image is of another work no longer available. TITLE: On Top of The World - Villa Prince Rainier, Eze-sur-Mer, France (THE MONTE CARLO SERIES). 1980-2011 Image size: 30 x 45 1/4 in. Framed size: 43 5/8 x 57 7/8 x 2 1/4 inches Unique Print in silver gelatin print mounted on disband and framed THE MONTE-CARLO SERIES (1980), Early works from 1980, Executed in 2011. Shot in abandoned 19th century villas in and around Monaco and Monte-Carlo between 1980 and 1982, the photographs feature young women in the artist's intimate circle of friends playfully posing in eccentric vintage attire...
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1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Menagerie (Geese), (Mengarie [Oies])
Located in London, GB
Unique silver gelatin contact print Provenance: The Estate of Dora Maar
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Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Trinità dei Monti, Rome, 1962 - Contemporary Black & White Photography
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork # 1 on 5 sold in perfect condition Limited Edition of 5 + 2 AP Artwork printed on baryta paper 310 grs museum quality pigment inks, limited edition of 7 copies in total Brussels Art Edition is the custodian of the archives of the great Italian photographer Fabrizio La Torre...
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1960s Photorealist Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Prince #2 Photo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Title: Prince #2 Photo   1985, Purple Rain Tour.  Artist: Richard E. Aaron Year: 1985 Estate Edition: Hand numbered with estate chop mark in the margin, signature stamp on verso, ...
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1980s Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Pete Townshend, The Who, Classic Rock Photography by Jeffrey Mayer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pete Townsends’s trademark windmill style guitar playing is captured while The Who tours in support of their seminal album ‘Who’s Next” in Forest Hills, New York, 1971.  Artist: Jef...
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1970s Performance Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Stanley Crouch, Jose Torres
Located in Surfside, FL
Stanley Crouch (L) and Jose Torres (R) the boxer.
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1980s Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Candidate for U.S. Vice Presidency - Vintage Photograph - 1944
Located in Roma, IT
Candidate for U.S. Vice Presidency Acknowledges Ovation is a black and white photo realized in 1944. In acknowledgement of the ovation accorded senator Harry S. Truman by cheering delegates a the Democratic Party...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Dance Study: Shannon Chain #3
Located in Lawrence, NY
# 14 of 24 Signed, dated and numbered Howard Schatz gave up a career as a retinal surgeon and a clinical professor to follow his passion for photography. Schatz first established a following in the 1990s with two collections of underwater photography, Water Dance and Pool Light...
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1990s American Modern Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Paris Opera Ballet dancer Patrick DuPond nude for 'After Dark', signed
Located in Senoia, GA
Nude portrait study of Paris Opera Ballet dancer Patrick DuPond for 'After Dark' magazine, 1983. This is a vintage silver gelatin photograph made by...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons, Poolside Gaze
Located in New York, NY
Kaufmann Desert House, 1970 C print Estate edition of 150 Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, and ac...
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1970s Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Portuguese Boy, Portugal
Located in Lenox, MA
Ormond Gigli Portuguese Boy, Portugal (1952) Vintage Gelatin Silver Print Printed by Artist 11 3/4" x 8 1/2" Unique: $3000 Signature: Hand-signed by artist, signed en verso Provena...
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Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Eric Clapton, Classic Rock Photography 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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1960s Performance Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

The two booksellers, Roma 1968 - Contemporary Black & White Photography
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork # 1 on 5 sold in perfect condition Limited Edition of 5 + 2 AP The two booksellers, Rome (1968), both very elegant in jackets and ties, on their way to put their cart of b...
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1960s Photorealist Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

'Sun Beams into Grand Central Station' Limited Edition Photograph 16 X 20
Located in San Rafael, CA
Beams of sunlight streaming through the windows at Grand Central Station, New York City, circa 1930. (Photo by Hal Morey/Getty Images) As an authorized Get...
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1930s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

'Tennis Legends' 1980 Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
'John McEnroe' 1981 Silver Gelatin Print by Watfiord / Mirror Group Archives. Wimbledon 3rd Day: John McEnroe. June 1981 The famous tennis star icon won at the All England Club championships that year, finally beating his long term rival Bjorn Borg...
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1980s Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

King of the Night, 1999
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Cy DeCosse, King of the Night, 1999. Platinum palladium print. Signed, editioned, titled and dated on print verso. Signed on print recto. Edition of 50 which has been sold out for ye...
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Late 20th Century Black and White Photography

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Platinum

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Park Avenue 1953 - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Park Avenue A view of neatly arranged office and apartment blocks along Park Avenue in New York City. Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre based print Printed Later Slim Aarons Esta...
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Il passo sospeso del pedone, Roma 1962 - Contemporary Black & White Photography
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork # 1 on 5 sold in perfect condition Limited Edition of 5 + 2 AP The passo sospeso del pedone. Hesitant gait of the pedestrian who faces snow and car traffic in Piazza San S...
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1960s Photorealist Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Taglia corta, Roma 1962 - Contemporary Black & White Photography
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork # 1 on 5 sold in perfect condition Limited Edition of 5 + 2 AP Taglia corta. Around the Castel Sant'Angelo, the winter pruning of the trees. Artwork printed on baryta pape...
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1960s Photorealist Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Aspettando il fumo bianco, Roma 1968 - Contemporary Black & White Photography
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork # 1 on 5 sold in perfect condition Limited Edition of 5 + 2 AP Artwork printed on baryta paper 310 grs museum quality pigment inks, limited edition of 7 copies in total Br...
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1960s Photorealist Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

#19, 1970s Nightclubs of Chicago South Side - Rare Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
A camera is a window through which a photographer interacts with the world, and it's up to the operator to decide whether his camera will be a barrier or a mirror between he and his subjects. In the 1970s, Michael Abramson chose the latter path when he brought his camera to Pepper's Hideout on Chicago's South Side. Following in the footsteps of his acknowledged influence Gyula Halász, a Hungarian photographer better known as Brassaï who became the pre-eminent chronicler of the Paris nightlife he loved so much, Abramson initiated himself into the nightlife of Chicago's predominantly black neighbourhoods. He was very much a part of the scene he documented on film, drinking, laughing, and dancing with his subjects into small hours and becoming as much a part of the atmosphere as the locals who frequented the same nightspots he did. - Joe Tangari (Numero Group, 2009) This series won Abramson a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1978 and launched his career as a photojournalist. Eventually the project resulted in a hardbound book, Light: On the South Side, including the Grammy and Mojo nominated album, featuring Chicago blues...
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1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Vintage Contact Sheet Jaffa, Tel Aviv circa 1940s
Located in Surfside, FL
A rare British Mandate Palestine, early state of Israel era, Black and White photography contact sheet. these were from a photo collection that included Robert Capa and other Magnum photographers. I do not know who this is by. It has VW written on the back and each one has a Volkswagen Beatle car on it. it might be early advertising memorabilia...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Pearly Kid - London, (Pearly Kid, Londres)
Located in London, GB
Stamped with artist's estate ink stamp and numbered 1/5 on reverse Modern silver gelatin print Printed on 15 3/4 x 11 3/4 inch paper From an edition of 5 Provenance: The Estate of D...
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Early 20th Century Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Lunch Time (1955) - Giant Oversize Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Lunch Time (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Limited Estate Stamped (Photo by Michael Webb/Getty Images) Five British models eating lunch in their swi...
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1960s Modern Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Woman & Child Walking in Sunlight, Bali
Located in Toronto, ON
Hand Signed by Ken Heyman Limited Edition of ? Born in New York City in 1930, Ken Heyman first became interested in photography in high school. Later, during his student days at Columbia College-which were interrupted by a two-year stint in the army-his skill as a photographer grew, but still regarded photography as no more than a hobby. Then two events in college helped to direct him toward his career in photography. First, he sent off selections of his work to two national photography annuals and was pleased, indeed surprised, when both indicated they were eager to print his pictures-and did. But perhaps more important was his becoming a student of the distinguished anthropologist Margaret Mead...
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1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

The Pop Artists: Andy Warhol on Throne
Located in Toronto, ON
In 1964, Heyman was invited by Basic Books Publishing to collaborate on the subject of Pop art. In the fall of 1964, Heyman spent three days photographing such artists as Andy Warhol...
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1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Harry Benson 'Ali in Training' Limited Edition Photographic Print, 30 x 30
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 ...
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1960s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper

Paul McCartney [Mirror]
Located in London, GB
David Bailey Paul McCartney [Mirror], 1967 Silver Gelatin Print Signed by the artist, on verso Image: 43.1 x 43.1 cm Sheet: 50.8 x 60.9 cm Edition of 25
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1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, 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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