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Black and White Photography For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1920s
Frank Sinatra in Tbird
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
In this photograph, Frank Sinatra is captured glancing over his shoulder at his friend, photographer Frank Worth, while sitting in his classic Ford Thunderbird.
Frank Sinatra was a...
Category
1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Louis Armstrong: Legendary Musician with Big Smiles
Located in Austin, TX
This portrait features jazz legend Louis Armstrong up close, posed with a big smile.
Louis Armstrong was an American trumpeter, composer, singer, and occasional actor who was one o...
Category
1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Elizabeth Taylor Behind the Scenes
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
This iconic and elegant portrait captured by celebrity photographer Frank Worth features actress Elizabeth Taylor on the set of the film "Giant" for her role as character Leslie Benedict. This black and white half-length shot features the actress in a white bikini top behind the scenes...
Category
1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Marlon Brando and Bob Hope Fight Over Oscar
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
This black-and-white comedic image features Bob Hope and Marlon Brando "fighting" over an Oscar in 1954.
Bob Hope was a British-American comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, and ...
Category
1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Digital
Marilyn Smiling
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Second in its series, this awesome black and white capture features Marilyn Monroe in her Hollywood prime - captured in a silk dress and fur stole.
A classic image of the Hollywood...
Category
1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Grace Kelly: Classic Portrait of Elegance
By Bud Fraker
Located in Austin, TX
This elegant full-length studio portrait features the 'Princess of Grace', Grace Kelly. This image captures the star in a tulle skirt, sitting on steps inside of a photo studio.
Gra...
Category
1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Capucine (Slim Aarons estate edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Capucine
1957
Fiber print
40 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly f...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
An Anxious Wait Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
An Anxious Wait
1951
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
2nd April 1951: American actress, Gloria Swanson, anxiously awaits the results of the Best Actress award at a cafe on West 52nd Street, New York. On her left is her fellow nominee and the eventual winner, Judy Holliday...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Luxury Dining Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Luxury Dining
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Diners in a grand ballroom during a fashion show, circa 1955.
unframed
Silver gelatin print
printed 2023
20×2...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Soho Waiters’ Race Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Soho Waiters’ Race
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Waiters carrying half bottles of champagne set off on the annual waiters’ race from Soho Square to Greek Street, in London...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Kennedy And Friends Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Kennedy And Friends
1953
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
1953: Senator John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963), Shirley Rogan Ellis and Betty LoSavio at Montego Bay Airpor...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Rome - Via Appia 1954
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
New England Skiing Starters Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing Starters
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A young skier prefers to carry his skis down the slope in New Hampshire, 1955
unframed
Silver g...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Carlton Hotel Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Carlton Hotel
1955
by Slim Aarons
printed 2023
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A Cadillac with Florida plates parked outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, circa 1955....
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
New England Skiing Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Two female skiers outside the Carroll Reed Ski Service Shop and Check Room in...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
New England Skiing Essentials Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing Essentials
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A couple prepare for a day’s skiing in New Hampshire, 1955.
unframed
Silver gelatin print
pr...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Eton Vs Harrow Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing Starters
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A young skier prefers to carry his skis down the slope in New Hampshire, 1955
unframed
Silver g...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
New York Apartments Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New York Apartments
1953
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
1953: A block of apartments on Park Lane in New York. The building is stepped so that the design include...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
New England Skiing Essentials Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A skier carrying his boots in New Hampshire, 1955.
unframed
Silver gelatin print
printed 2023
20×20″ - p...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
New Year At Romanoff’s Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New Year At Romanoff’s
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 – 1960), Van Heflin (1910 – 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 – 1...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Luxury Dining Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Seaplane At Palm Beach
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Patsy Pulitzer (nee Patsy Bartlett) leaning against a seaplane belonging to the Everglades Flying Ser...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
New England Skiing Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
two women recline on improvised sunbeds in New Hampshire, 1955.
unframed
Silver gelatin print
printed 2...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bad Luck Gloria Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bad Luck Gloria
1951
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
American actor Jose Ferrer (1912 – 1992) commiserates with Gloria Swanson after losing out in the contest for the Best Actress oscar, while the winner, Judy Holliday...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
French Polo Crowd Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
French Polo Crowd
1950
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A group of spectators at a polo match, France, circa 1950.
unframed
Silver gelatin print
printed 2023
16 ...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
New England Skiing Essentials Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked ‘Ski Instructors Only’ in New Hampshire, 1955.
unframed
Si...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Director And Star Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Director And Star
1952
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
1952: Orson Welles (1915 – 1985) in Venice during a break from filming ‘Othello’ which he directed and sta...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Las Vegas Luxury Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Las Vegas Luxury
1954
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Austrian actress Mara Lane enjoys waiter service in the pool at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954.
unframe...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Modelling For Saks Fifth Avenue Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Modelling For Saks Fifth Avenue
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A young woman modelling for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot, circa 1955.
unframed
Silver ...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Style 'Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell
1960 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Model Gr...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (artichokes) by Ida Lansky, ca. 1950, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
By Ida Lansky
Located in Dallas, TX
Untitled (artichokes) by Ida G. Lansky features a detail shot of whole and cut up artichokes. The produce is lit dramatically from the side, emphasizing it's intricate details.
Untitled (artichokes) by Ida G. Lansky is an 8 x 10 inch vintage silver gelatin print. This photograph includes the artist's stamp in black ink on print verso.
Ida G. Lansky was born in 1910 in Toronto, Canada. She pursued many careers in her lifetime including Nursing, Art, and Library Science. In 1928 she moved to New York City and later attended New York University, The Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn, NY and Cornell University. In 1942 she received a B.S. in Public Health Nursing.
Ida Lansky moved to Hawaii in 1945 and married Irving Lansky. She then moved to Nor- man, Oklahoma and then to Denton, Texas where she studied art and was mother to two children, Ellen and Michele.
From 1954 - 1959 she was in the Visual Art studies program at Texas Women’s University in Denton with an emphasis on photography. She studied under Carlotta...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (artichokes) by Ida Lansky, ca. 1950, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
By Ida Lansky
Located in Dallas, TX
Untitled (artichokes) by Ida G. Lansky features a detail shot of whole and cut up artichokes. The tones of this photograph are reversed, creating an abstract image from a common object. The produce is lit dramatically from the side, emphasizing it's intricate details.
Untitled (artichokes) by Ida G. Lansky is an 8 x 10 inch vintage silver gelatin print. This photograph includes the artist's stamp in black ink on print verso.
Ida G. Lansky was born in 1910 in Toronto, Canada. She pursued many careers in her lifetime including Nursing, Art, and Library Science. In 1928 she moved to New York City and later attended New York University, The Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn, NY and Cornell University. In 1942 she received a B.S. in Public Health Nursing.
Ida Lansky moved to Hawaii in 1945 and married Irving Lansky. She then moved to Nor- man, Oklahoma and then to Denton, Texas where she studied art and was mother to two children, Ellen and Michele.
From 1954 - 1959 she was in the Visual Art studies program at Texas Women’s University in Denton with an emphasis on photography. She studied under Carlotta Corpron...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
JFK with Jackie and Caroline in the Doorway of his Georgetown Home
By Jacques Lowe
Located in New York, NY
This photograph of JFK, Jackie O, and Caroline Kennedy taken by Jacques Lowe is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ballerina
By Weegee
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Arthur Felling, better known as Weegee (1899-1968) is America's premiere photojournalist and one of the last century's most influential photographers.
He would become famous, beyond...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Patsy Pulitzer, Private Transport
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Patsy Pulitzer, Private Transport
1955
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Patsy Pulitzer rummag...
Category
1950s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Tom Kelley 'Dorothy Dandridge'
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Dorothy Dandridge on the microphone
c. 1950's
C print
28 x 22 inches
Edition of 50
Photographs are printed on Archival Hahnemühle paper (luster)
estate signed and number...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Paris, Decorative Art Exhibition 1925, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Press Agency, Paris 1925.
International Decorative Arts Exhibition in Paris, 1925, French n...
Category
1920s Art Deco Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lyon International Autumn Fair, 1927, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photography. The International Autumn Fair in Lyon, France, March 19, 1927.
Still a lot of people at the entrance of The Internation...
Category
1920s Art Deco Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Hats on the Beach, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Memphis, TN
"Hats on the Beach." This fashion photograph features two models playing checkers on the beach in coordinating swimsuits and monochrome hats. Robinson was a fr...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Audubon Park Swimming Pool, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Memphis, TN
Originally a graphic artist, he picked up the camera in New Orleans, honed his craft there photographing his life, friends, and street scenes, and eventually decided to pursue a care...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Faubourg du Temple in Paris, 1926, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph. The rue du Faubourg du Temple, view of one of the busiest streets in Paris, in 1926.
Features:
Original Silver Gelatin Pr...
Category
1920s Art Deco Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Kings of Hollywood
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) enjoy a joke at a New Year's party held at R...
Category
1950s Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Kings of Hollywood'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) enjoy a joke at a New Year's cocktail party ...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Orpheus #1 - Balanchine Ballet with Francisco Moncion and Nicholas Magallanes
Located in Glenford, NY
George Platt Lynes 1950 Photograph #1 of Balanchine Ballet ‘Orpheus’.
George Platt Lynes rare original vintage 1950 silver gelatin photograph of nude dancers Francisco Moncion and Nicholas Magallanes in George Balanchine's iconic mid-20th Century ballet Orpheus. Stamped on verso in dark blue ink at upper center, "GEORGE PLATT LYNES/145 EAST 52 STREET NEW YORK”. Photo shoot took place in NYC on March 21, 1950. Costumes and Set by ISAMU NAGUCHI. Photo is 7 5/8 x 9 1/4 inches, soft satin finish in excellent condition.
This photograph is one from a collection of 14 different poses in this series of nude photographs of Moncion and Magallanes in Orpheus by Platt Lynes. Complete collection is available on request. Photographs from this celebrated series are in the 20th Century collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), Museum of Modern Art (MOMA, NYC), and the Columbus Museum.
George Platt Lynes (1907–1955), was a gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s through the early 1950s. From age eighteen, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate community in Paris when he became acquainted with the salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. He began photographing authors like Stein, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, and Colette and soon established himself as one of the premier fashion photographers in the Condé Nast stable, documenting the ballet companies of George Balanchine/Lincoln Kirstein, and pursuing a private obsession with seductive images of young male nudes rarely published in his lifetime.
Orpheus represents a major 20th Century artistic collaboration between composer Igor Stravinsky, choreographer George Ballanchine, and artist/designer Isamu Naguchi. Orpheus is a thirty-minute neoclassical ballet composed by Igor Stravinsky in collaboration with choreographer George Balanchine in Hollywood, California in 1947. The work was commissioned by Ballet Society, later renamed New York City Ballet, which Balanchine founded with Lincoln Kirstein. Sets and costumes were created by Isamu Noguchi. Noguchi’s lyre harp from the production became the symbol of the New York City Ballet.
Francisco Moncion (July 6, 1918 – April 1, 1995) was a charter member of the New York City Ballet. Over the course of his forty year career, choreographers George Balanchine, and Jerome Robbins in the New York City Ballet created 22 major roles for Moncion including the Dark Angel...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
View of Prague - Original Gelatin Silver Photograph
By Josef Sudek
Located in Paris, FR
Josef Sudek
View of Prague
Original gelatin silver print
14 x 9 cm (c. 5.5 x 3.5 in)
Authenticated on the back by the workshop stamp (see picture)
Excellent condition
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Nature Photography Achromatic Black and White Landscape Water Rapids Cali Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Rapids (Yosemite National Park, CA" is an original black and white photograph created by Thomas Ferderbar. This piece is printed using archival inkjet printing. It is signed by the ...
Category
1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
The Windsors (Slim Aarons)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
The Windsors, 1953
Fiber print
The Duke (1894 - 1972) and Duchess of Windsor (1896 - 1986) dancing at the Waldorf Astoria, Park Avenue, New York.
Slim Aarons (1916-200...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Herb Scharfman 1952 Marciano Walcott Silver Gelatin
Located in San Francisco, CA
Herb Scharfman: 1912-1998. Famous sports illustrated photographer who took some of the most famous Photographs of rocky Marciano fights. This. Silver gelatin print measures 14 inches...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Flea Market in Paris, 1927, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph. On April 12, 1927, the iconic "Foire a la Ferraille" a very well-known outdoor flea market in Paris.
Features:
Original s...
Category
1920s Art Deco Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Decorative Art Exhibition 1925 in Paris, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Press Agency, Paris 1925.
International Decorative Arts Exhibition in Paris, 1925, a view from the River Seine.
Feature...
Category
1920s Art Deco Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
1927 International Autumn Fair in Lyon France Silver Gelatin B and W Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photography, The International Autumn Fair in Lyon, France, 19th of March 1927.
A view of the parking lot at the International Autum...
Category
1920s Art Deco Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Patsy Pulitzer, Private Transport
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Patsy Pulitzer, Private Transport
1955
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Patsy Pulitzer rummag...
Category
1950s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Audrey Hepburn at Home, Heron Day Bed, Looks Down, 1954
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn, r18_4 -- Audrey Hepburn at home. This image is an out take from the photo shoot for the cover of the April 19, 1954 international issue of Life magazine. Image size i...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Palm Beach Fashion (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Palm Beach Fashion
1955 (printed later)
Fiber print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Mrs. Guilford Dudley, JR. wears a De De Johnson lace dress as she walks her Dandie Dinmont...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Lambda
Paris, Decorative Art Exhibition 1925, Mallet Stevens Concrete Tree Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Press Agency, Paris 1925.
International Decorative Arts Exhibition in Paris, October 1925, The Collector Pavilion. On t...
Category
1920s Art Deco Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
BREAKING WAVES AND GOLDEN GATE San Francisco
By Pirkle Jones
Located in Carmel, CA
BREAKING WAVE AND GOLDEN GATE (1952) is a vintage silver gelatin photograph by Pirkle Jones.
The photograph depicts the spray of a wave breaking on the rocks in the San Francisco Bay...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Waterski Jumper
By Weegee
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Arthur Felling, better known as Weegee (1899-1968) is America's premiere photojournalist and one of the last century's most influential photographers.
He would become famous, beyond...
Category
1950s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Style 'Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell
1960 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Model Gr...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Patsy Pulitzer (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Patsy Pulitzer rummaging in her bag on the seat of an open car Palm Beach, Florida, 1955.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the e...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Lambda
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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The New York photographer tells us how an encounter with the then-13-year-old boxer led to a decade-long project that saw them both go pro.
John Dolan’s Photographs Capture the Art and Soul of a Wedding Day
In a new book compiling 30 years' worth of images, the photographer reveals that it's the in-between moments that make a wedding special.
Sebastião Salgado Takes Us on a Close-Up Journey to Amazônia
The famed Brazilian photographer tells us about the seven years he spent immersed in the Amazon rain forest.