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Black and White Photography For Sale
Period: 1970s
Period: 1980s
The Dealmaker Rupert Murdoch by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
The Dealmaker Rupert Murdoch
Mr. Murdoch’s office Bouverie Street, London, 1981 (photo Arthur Steel) Arthur recalls: “I was invited to Mr. Murdoch’s office for a meeting and throug...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
David Byrne Talking Heads photograph CBGB 1977 (Talking Heads CBGB 1977)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
David Byrne Talking Heads photograph CBGB 1977 by Fernando Natalici:
Medium: Silver gelatin print. 1977.
11 x 14 inches.
Good overall vintage condition; minor signs of handling; well preserved.
Hand signed on the reverse from an edition of 4 AP's.
About Talking Heads:
At the start of their career, Talking Heads were all nervous energy, detached emotion, and subdued minimalism. When they released their last album about 12 years later, the band had recorded everything from art-funk to polyrhythmic worldbeat explorations and simple, melodic guitar pop. Between their first album in 1977 and their last in 1988, Talking Heads became one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the '80s, while managing to earn several pop hits. While some of their music can seem too self-consciously experimental, clever, and intellectual for its own good, at their best Talking Heads represent everything good about art-school punks. Talking Heads 77, And they were literally art-school punks. Guitarist/vocalist David Byrne, drummer Chris Frantz, and bassist Tina Weymouth...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Led Zeppelin in Front of Plane, NY 1973
By Bob Gruen
Located in Toronto, ON
Open and Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints
Hand Signed by Bob Gruen
8" x 10" Unframed
Open Edition
11" x 14" Unframed
Open Edition
16" x 20" Unframed
Open Edition
20" x 24" U...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
A Scene of the Film Au revoir les Enfant - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
A Scene of the Film Au revoir les Enfants is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1987.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Patti Smith Horses vinyl 1st Pressing (Robert Mapplethorpe Patti Smith)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Patti Smith Horses Vinyl Record Album, 1975: US 1st Pressing featuring original photography by Robert Mapplethorpe.
Produced by John Cale.
Cover: Very Good to overall vintage condit...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Offset
Municipal Villa - Vintage Poster After Mimmo Jodice - 1980s
By Mimmo Jodice
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage poster realized by Galleria Rondanini (Rome, Italy) in offset technique, in occasion of the Exhibition of the photographer Mimmo Jodice.
Very good condition.
Category
1980s Black and White Photography
Materials
Offset
Jackie Kennedy, Black and White Photography, ca. 1970s
Located in Cologne, DE
Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was an American socialite, writer, and photographer who became First Lady of the United States as the wife of P...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
A Scene of the Film Au revoir les Enfant - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
A Scene of the Film Au revoir les Enfants is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1987.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Well Heeled by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Well Heeled
by Arthur Steel
WELL HEELED WESTMINSTER BRIDGE LONDON, 1973
“I’d just acquired a 19mm lens for my Leica flex SL9 and was keen to explore it’s ability to focus very ...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
A Scene of the Film Au revoir les Enfant - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
A Scene of the Film Au revoir les Enfants is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1987.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
A Scene of the Film Au Revoir les Enfant - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
A Scene of the Film Au revoir les Enfants is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1987.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
A Scene of the Film Au revoir les Enfant - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
A Scene of the Film Au revoir les Enfants is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1987.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
A Scene of the Film Au revoir les Enfant - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
A Scene of the Film Au revoir les Enfants is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1987.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Barack Obama, Occidental College, No. 29" Lisa Jack, President Photography
Located in New York, NY
Lisa Jack
Barack Obama, Occidental College No. 29, 1980
Signed, dated, and numbered on the reverse
Gelatin silver print
Sight 21 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches
Edition 4/50
Provenance:
M&B, Lo...
Category
1980s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Barack Obama, Occidental College, No. 34" Lisa Jack, President Photography
Located in New York, NY
Lisa Jack
Barack Obama, Occidental College, No. 34, 1980
Signed, dated, and numbered on the reverse
Gelatin silver print
12 x 17 3/4 inches
Edition 4/75
Provenance:
M&B, Los Angeles...
Category
1980s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Portrait of Tommy Hawkins with Python
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Kenn Duncan (1928-1986). Portrait of Tommy Hawkins with Python, 1973. Photographic period print measuring 11 x 14 inches. Titled and dated on verso by the ...
Category
1970s American Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Figurative photography , Contemporary Portrait, Sensual Black White - Morgane 2
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘ Morgane 2 ‘ who was captured on film i...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Pigment, Pigment, Black and White, Photograp...
Star Wars, Sience Fiction Filmstill, 1977
Located in Cologne, DE
The original Star Wars trilogy, formerly marketed as the Star Wars Trilogy (and colloquially referred to as the 'original trilogy'), is the first set of three films produced in the S...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Patti Smith & Lou Reed, Ocean Club, NYC 1976
By Bob Gruen
Located in Toronto, ON
Open and Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints
Hand Signed by Bob Gruen
8" x 10" Unframed
Open Edition
11" x 14" Unframed
Open Edition
16" x 20" Unframed
Open Edition
20" x 24" U...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vivienne Westwood by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Vivienne Westwood
by Arthur Steel
The Pirate Collection of 1981 was Westwood and McLaren’s first catwalk show. This offered a romantic look which burst onto the London fashion sce...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Figurative photo, Nude fine art print, Contemporary black white Analogue - Katia
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘ Katia ‘ who was captured on film in 20...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Pigment, Pigment, Black and White, Photograp...
Portrait of Man in Headband
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Kenn Duncan (1928-1986). Portrait of Man in Headband, ca. 1973. Photographic period print measuring 11 x 14 inches. Studio stamp on verso. The print was us...
Category
1970s American Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Steaks, " 1970s NY Time Square photograph (New York street photography)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
In 1978, photographer Fernando Natalici, the creative mind behind the graphic design for iconic venues like CBGB and the Mudd Club, spent twenty-four hours shooting the raw scenery of Times Square and 42nd Street.
"Natalici's shots candidly recall a Times Square of flashing marquee lights, electric sexual energy and wild lawlessness. His photographs resuscitate a New York of yesteryear in all of its chiaroscuro, with it all of the dark tenets of urban life that are today masked beneath a glossy veil of uniformity." (Jessica Dailey, Curbed NY, July 29th 2014)
Archival Ink Jet Print
13 x 19 inches
Hand signed & titled in ink on the verso from a limited edition of 10
Excellent condition.
Obtained directly from artist.
About Fernando Natalici
New York based photographer Fernando Natalici is best known for his iconographic documentation of the downtown Manhattan art scene of the mid/late 70's and early 80's. Natalici’s portfolio includes sought after images of a young Patti Smith, Blondie, Talking Heads, Keith Haring, The Ramones and more. As an Art Director, Fernando has played a key role in creating memorable visuals for historic NY venues such as CBGB's, The Mudd Club, Area and Danceteria.
Fernando’s work was recently featured in the Jeffrey Deitch curated show “Area” at The Hole Gallery NYC, with his film stills from "Unmade Beds" & "The Foreigner"- two of the most significant underground films of the 1970’s New York Punk scene, recently exhibited at The Museum of The Moving Image.
Recent Exhibits & Publications
The Museum of The Moving Image (New York, 2015)
The Hole Gallery NYC (New York, 2014)
The Chelsea Hotel (New York 2013)
New York University Tisch School of The Arts (2013)
Toby Mott, Showboat (Dashwood Books, 2016)
Jim Jarmusch: Music, Words & Noise (2015)
Another Magazine (London, 2014)
Black Book (2014)
Curbed NY (2014)
Photography Now (2013)
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Category
1970s Street Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Inkjet
"Barack Obama, Occidental College, No. 15" Lisa Jack, President Photography
Located in New York, NY
Lisa Jack
Barack Obama, Occidental College, No. 15, 1980
Signed, dated, and numbered on the reverse
Gelatin silver print
Sight 21 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches
Edition 7/50
Provenance:
M&B, L...
Category
1980s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Catfight V by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Catfight V
by Arthur Steel
Catfight – Female Bikini Mud Wrestlers, Hollywood Tropicana, Los Angeles 1985 – Set of 6 prints.
Arthur recalls:
“I was in Los Angeles with the British c...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Upper Glasses by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
The Upper Glasses
by Arthur Steel
Royal Ascot members enclosure 1977
Ascot Racecourse is a British racecourse, located in Ascot, Berkshire, England, which is used for thoroughbr...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Stonehenge by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Stonehenge
STONEHENGE SALISBURY WILTSHIRE 1977
All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold.
paper size - 24 x 19" / 61 x 48 cm
signed a...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Andy Warhol Superstar Candy Darling Iconic ‘After Dark’ magazine cover shot
Located in Senoia, GA
Andy Warhol superstar Candy Darling ‘After Dark’ this is the iconic cover shot, vintage 11 x 14" silver gelatin photograph, 1971, the actual photo scanned for the magazine cover. Sig...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
John Lennon and Elton John, Record Plant, NYC 1974
By Bob Gruen
Located in Toronto, ON
Open and Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints
Hand Signed by Bob Gruen
8" x 10" Unframed
Open Edition
11" x 14" Unframed
Open Edition
16" x 20" Unframed
Open Edition
20" x 24" U...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Figurative photo, nude print, Black white, Large, Contemporary- Morning
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘ Morning ‘ who was captured on film in ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
Debbie Harry, NYC, 1976
By Bob Gruen
Located in Toronto, ON
Open and Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints
Hand Signed by Bob Gruen
8" x 10" Unframed
Open Edition
11" x 14" Unframed
Open Edition
16" x 20" Unframed
Open Edition
20" x 24" U...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
George Best by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
George Best
by Arthur Steel
George Best – Just released from Ford Prison, 1985 (photo Arthur Steel) Arthur recalls: “I photographed George Best having his first bath following his...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Toilet / Fountain
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Dated 'Mar 9 1982' (on the reverse).
Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The And...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mick Jagger by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Mick Jagger
by Arthur Steel
FORTY LICKS MICK JAGGER THE ROLLING STONES LONDON 1977 (photo Arthur Steel) Mick Jagger wearing the famous Forty Licks t-shirt, aged 34.
Arthur rec...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Original Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph of Poet Allen Ginsberg in Yoga Pose
By Jan Herman
Located in Surfside, FL
Jan Herman, journalist, writer and photographer is an old-school journalist who got his start in San Francisco’s counterculture scene in the 1960s. A Brooklyn native and Queens College graduate.
While working at City Lights Books as the poet-publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti's assistant, Jan Herman founded Nova Broadcast Press and the little magazine San Francisco Earthquake (1967-1971), which published Beat, post-Beat and Fluxus writers and artists. Chief among them were William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Allen Ginsberg, Carl Weissner, Wolf Vostell, Norman O. Mustill, Mary Beach, Claude Pélieu, Ferlinghetti, Ed Sanders...
Category
1980s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Ant Chelsea by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
The Ant Chelsea
Anthony Paul Fawcett is a British writer, art critic, and a former personal assistant to John Lennon and Yoko Ono from 1968 until 1970.
‘If you’re a millionaire po...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Crossing the Suez Canal, Yom Kippur War by Micha Bar-Am, 1973
By Micha Bar-Am
Located in Dallas, TX
Crossing the Suez Canal, Yom Kippur War by Micha Bar-Am presents a brief moment of joy amidst a dark time. Two men smile while riding in a car, with other men looking onward with a b...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Uproar by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Uproar
by Arthur Steel
Landseer Lion Trafalgar Square London, 1970
All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold.
paper size - 24 x 19" / ...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6: Tights in Shimotakaido" – Daido Moriyama
Located in Zurich, CH
DAIDO MORIYAMA (*1938, Japan)
"How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6: Tights in Shimotakaido"
1987/2021
Silver gelatin print, later print
Sheet 34 x 26.5 cm (13 3/8 x 10 3/8 in.)
not p...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
A Kray Wedding by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
A Kray Wedding
by Arthur Steel
Gangland Killer Ronnie Kray stares into Arthur Steel’s camera during his four minute wedding ceremony to Elaine Kray inside Broadmoor Hospital in 198...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Super Mac by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Super Mac
Super Mac – John McEnroe, Wimbledon Tennis Championships 1984
All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold.
paper size - 24 x 1...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Drum Major Kirk by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Drum Major Kirk
by Arthur Steel
Drum Major Kirk, Senior Drum Major of The Coldstream Guards.1970
The Voice That Keeps No.10 On Its Toes [Published 15/05/1970] There’s not much d...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bea with a whip at The Other Side
By Nan Goldin
Located in New York, NY
Nan Goldin
Bea with a whip at The Other Side
1973
Gelatin silver print
14 x 11 inches; 36 x 28 cm
Edition of 100
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in graphite (lower right verso)
...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Fallen Angel by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Fallen Angel
by Arthur Steel
Fallen Angel – London, 1982
All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold.
paper ...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Hung Parliament by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Hung Parliament
by Arthur Steel
Hung Parliament – Margaret Thatcher hanging wallpaper,Kent, 1975
Margaret Thatcher (Known as The Iron Lady) hangs wallpaper at her country retrea...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Horseshoes by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Horseshoes
by Arthur Steel
IRELAND 1981
All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold.
paper size - 54 x 37 " / 137 x 94 cm
signed and n...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Protective Pooch by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Protective Pooch
by Arthur Steel
Great Britain, 1975
All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold.
paper size - 54 x 41 " / 137 x 104 cm...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Italian Priest by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Italian Priest
by Arthur Steel
St. Peter’s Basiica, Rome, 1971
All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold.
paper size - 44 x 33.5 " / ...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Some Los Angeles Apartments - Artist Book published in a limited edition of 3000
By Ed Ruscha
Located in New York, NY
Ed Ruscha
Some Los Angeles Apartments, 1970
Softback monograph with stiff wraps
Second Edition Limited Edition of 3000 (the first edition in 1968 was 700)
Not Signed
7 × 5 1/2 inches...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Lithograph, Offset, Mixed Media, Paper
Catfight III by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Catfight III
by Arthur Steel
Catfight – Female Bikini Mud Wrestlers, Hollywood Tropicana, Los Angeles 1985 – Set of 6 prints.
Arthur recalls:
“I was in Los Angeles with the British...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Artillery Barrage, Suez Canal, Yom Kippur War by Micha Bar-Am, 1973
By Micha Bar-Am
Located in Dallas, TX
Artillery Barrage, Suez Canal, Yom Kippur War by Micha Bar-Am depicts soldiers amidst a battle. The men are laying on the ground, ducking for cover in the...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Family Planning by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Family Planning
by Arthur Steel
Family Planning – Shaftsbury Ave, London, 1975
All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold.
paper size ...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Leonard Cohen, NYC, 1974
By Bob Gruen
Located in Toronto, ON
Open and Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints
Hand Signed by Bob Gruen
8" x 10" Unframed
Open Edition
11" x 14" Unframed
Open Edition
16" x 20" Unframed
Open Edition
20" x 24" U...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Parking Wars by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Parking Wars
by Arthur Steel
LONDON 1978
All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold.
paper size - 44 x 33.5 " / 112 x 85 cm
signed an...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Joe Strummer and Gaby, NYC, 1981
By Bob Gruen
Located in Toronto, ON
Open and Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints
Hand Signed by Bob Gruen
8" x 10" Unframed
Open Edition
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Open Edition
16" x 20" Unframed
Open Edition
20" x 24" U...
Category
1980s Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Where Art Thou II by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Where Art Thou II
The Tate Gallery London, 1970 (photo Arthur Steel)
School boys study the famous ‘Blue spot’ painting by artist Bernard Cohen.
Arthur re...
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1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Where Art Thou by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Where Art Thou
The Tate Gallery London, 1970 (photo Arthur Steel)
School boys study the famous ‘Blue spot’ painting by artist Bernard Cohen.
Arthur reca...
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Crash Call by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Crash Call
by Arthur Steel
WIMBLEDON, LONDON 1975
All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold.
paper size - 54 x 41 " / 137 x 104 cm
s...
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