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Black and White Photography For Sale
Style: Pop Art
Style: Post-War
Debbie Harry photograph, New York, 1976 (Unmade Beds Blondie)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Debbie Harry East Village, 1976 by celebrated New York photographer Fernando Natalici. Cooler than cool, this classic "Blondie" photo was capture...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Artist/Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet and friends Jason McCoy and Ron Caran
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Artist/Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet, with friends Jason McCoy and Ron Caran, 1971, nude, photographed in 1971 in New York City. Comes d...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Debbie Harry photograph East Village 1977 (The Foreigner)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Cooler than cool... Debbie Harry, New York, 1977, photographed on the set of "The Foreigner" by celebrated New York underground photographer Fernando Natalici. The Foreigner (direct...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print, Digital

Turquoise Atomic - Signed limited edition Pop Art - Brigitte Bardot
Located in London, GB
Turquoise Atomic - Oversize Signed limited edition - Pop Art - Brigitte Bardot by the London based contemporary pop art image creator and artist, BATIK. Measures 30 x 30" inches ...
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2010s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Adagio dancers Luis Villanueve and Zinaida Yeviko, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Adagio dancers Luis Villanueve and Zinaida Yeviko, 1975, signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes directly from the Jack Mitch...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Andy Warhol, Photograph of Caroline Kennedy and Peter Beard
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Andy Warhol, Jed Johnson, Monique Van Vooren, Steve Rubell, Michael Goldstein, Susan Blond, Caroline Kennedy, Peter Beard, Grace Jones, Francesco Scavullo, Sean Byrnes, and Margrit Ramme at the premiere party for "Bobby Deerfield" at Tavern on the Green in New York City on September 18, 1977. Illustrated in The Andy Warhol Diaries...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Jon Gould Shirtless Sunbathing in Jeans in Cape Cod
Located in Santa Monica, CA
From The Jon Gould Collection of Andy Warhol Photographs Each photo is unique and blind embossed “Andy Warhol” in the lower right corner Provenance: Gift of the Artist to Jon Goul...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Keith Haring with Painted Elephant Statue at 22 East 33rd Street
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance issued by Christie’s. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation num...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Farrah Fawcett Photo Shoot
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A set of two photographs by Andy Warhol. “Farrah Fawcett Photo Shoot” is a set of two silver gelatin prints by American Pop Artist Andy Warhol. The artw...
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Late 20th Century Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Nude Model
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work is unique. Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Keith Peterson
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work was acquired directly from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The work is in pristine condition and has never been framed. This is a unique work which comes w...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Photograph of Debbie Harry (Blondie), 1985
Located in Santa Monica, CA
The singer, songwriter, and actress Debbie Harry is an icon of 1980s punk and new wave. The lead singer of the new wave band Blondie, named for Harry's sign...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Warhol Superstar Jackie Curtis 'Women in Revolt' signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Andy Warhol transvestite Superstar Jackie Curtis photographed in 1970, the year began filming "Women in Revolt". Signed by Jack Mitchell...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Debbie Harry Driving
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work was acquired directly from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The work is in pristine condition and has never been framed. This is a unique work which comes w...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

B&D Fashion, Studio 54, 1979
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 110 Signed and numbered by the artist. Dustin Pittman, a third-generation photographer from the Adirondack Mountains, began his journey as a production assistant on the f...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Henry Geldzahler and Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Jean-Michel Basquiat first attracted attention for with graffiti work on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the late 1970s. Basquiat first met Andy Warhol in 1980. At this point, Pat Hackett had been working for Warhol for about a decade already. This was also the year Hackett and Warhol published Popism: The Warhol Sixties. As two valuable additions to The Factory, Hackett and Basquiat most likely spent a good amount of time together. Henry Geldzahler...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

"Modernismo M5" Pop Art Photography 48"x48" in Edition 2/12 by Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"Modernismo M5" Pop Art Photography 48"x48" in Edition 2/12 by Giuliano Bekor Title of artwork: M5 Year: 2012 Printed on a high-quality museum-grade archival photo paper. Not framed...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Paper

BASQUIAT photograph by Nick Taylor of Gray (Basquiat Gray)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Rare 1979 Photograph of Jean Michel Basquiat This rare Basquiat photograph was taken from Nicholas Taylor’s well-documented portfolio exploring his friendship with Jean-Michel Basqui...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Jon Gould in Sweater in Cape Cod
Located in Santa Monica, CA
From The Jon Gould Collection of Andy Warhol Photographs Each photo is unique and blind embossed “Andy Warhol” in the lower right corner Provenance: Gift of the Artist to Jon Goul...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Basquiat photograph 1979 (Basquiat Gray)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Rare 1979 Photograph of Jean Michel Basquiat: This rare Basquiat photograph was taken from Nicholas Taylor’s well-documented portfolio exploring hi...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

BB King New York c.1979 (BB King darkroom photograph)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
BB King by Fernando Natalici: A classic image of Blues great BB King captured circa late 1970s, by legendary New York underground photographer & art designer Fernando Natalici. Med...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Actress Debbie Reynolds 'What Becomes A Legend Most?' Blackglama session photo
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Debbie Reynolds photographed by Jack Mitchell for the "What Becomes A Legend Most?" Blackglama fur ad cam...
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1990s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Nick Caturano and Carol Amink, nude, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. This photograph was from a se...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Flutist Ransom Wilson, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Flutist Ransom Wilson in 1977. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes directly from th...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Dancer Keith McDaniel, nude, signed by Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. This photograph was from a session for After Dark magazine and was selected and signed by Jack Mitchell as one of his favorites. Jack’s artist statement on his work for the magazine: “After Dark was a magazine of entertainment, theater and the arts. It was a popular magazine, with a gay slant, enjoyed by many gay men, and some broad minded women and men. As well as (I learned years later) many closeted male youngsters. The magazine was ahead of its time, as advertisers were reluctant to place ads in an essentially gay magazine at that time. Today they swarm like bees to place their own hot ads in gay publications. I had been photographing on assignment for Dance Magazine well before After Dark was created. Being a friend of William (Bill) Como, the Editor, and being gay, I was called into service, for the life of the publication, to photograph many of the handsome young men and women, who were featured in After Dark. Needless to say, this was enjoyable work for me, Because, mixed in with the hot-looking young guys and gals sent to my studio were some famed performers like Debbie Reynolds, Giancarlo Giannini, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Natalie Wood, Placido Domingo, Sergio Franco...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Jimi Hendrix photograph Detroit, 1968
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jimi Hendrix, Detroit, 1968, photographed by legendary music photographer Leni Sinclair, 2016's Kresge Foundation's Eminent Artist. Hand signed, titled & dated in ink within the low...
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1960s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Inkjet

Tina Turner on Nightclub Balcony
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work was acquired directly from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The work is in pristine condition and has never been framed. This is a unique work which comes w...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Grace Jones Eating Cake
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Photograph of Grace Jones eating cake at the wedding of Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger in Hyannis Port, Maine in April 1986, taken by Andy Warho...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Madonna Look-alike Contest at Macy's
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work was acquired directly from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The work is in pristine condition and has never been framed. This is a unique work which comes w...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Girl With A Gun Patti Astor East Village, 1977 (Amos Poe The Foreigner)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
"Girl With A Gun": Actress and legendary downtown NY scenester Patti Astor, photographed on the set of "The Foreigner" by celebrated New York underground p...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print, Digital

Aretha Franklin photograph Detroit 1980
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Aretha Franklin photograph by Leni Sinclair The 'queen of soul,' Aretha Franklin shot in Motown by legendary Detroit photographer Leni Sinclair, 2016's Kresge Foundation's Eminent Artist of the year (see The Guardian UK Photo Section, Jan. 28, 2016) Archival inkjet print Dimensions: 11 x 14 inches including borders (image: 9x 12 inches) Hand signed, titled & dated in ink on the lower margins. Very good condition. Acquired directly from artist. Lot 180 is an authorized primary dealer rep of Leni Sinclair About Leni Sinclair Sinclair is a recognized leader of the 1960s-70s counter cultural movement in Detroit, which she amply documented through vivid and dramatic photography...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Inkjet

Musicians and friends Itzak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Musicians and friends Itzak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman photographed at Perlman's apartment in ...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Musicians and friends Itzak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Musicians and friends Itzak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman photographed at Perlman's apartment in ...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Writer/performer Spalding Gray, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of writer/performer Spalding Gray, 2002 signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a c...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Artist Robert Rauschenberg in his studio, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Artist Robert Rauschenberg in his studio, 1977. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. Ja...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Debbie Harry photograph (on the set of Unmade Beds), New York, 1976
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Debbie Harry Photograph: NYC, 1976: Debbie Harry East Village, 1976 by celebrated New York photographer Fernando Natalici. Cooler than cool, this classic "Blondie" photo was captured...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams
Located in Senoia, GA
8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams photographed January 20, 1966. This is a print tha...
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1960s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

John Lennon and Yoko Ono photographed November 2, 1980. Signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of John Lennon and Yoko Ono photographed November 2, 1980, the last comprehensive photo session of Lennon's life. Signed by Jack Mitchell o...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

John Lennon and Yoko Ono photographed November 2, 1980. Signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of John Lennon and Yoko Ono photographed November 2, 1980, the last comprehensive photo session of Lennon's life. Signed by Jack Mitchell o...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Obie-winning Broadway stage actress Gloria Foster, photographed in New York City
Located in Senoia, GA
8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Obie Award-winning Broadway (and Off-Broadway) stage actress Gloria Foster, photographed in New York City, 1966. This is a print that was...
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1960s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Dancer/Choreographer Paul Taylor studio portrait
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Paul Taylor studio portrait taken April 3, 1964. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certif...
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1960s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

MET Opera Soprano Shirley Verrett, studio portrait signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Metropolitan Opera Soprano Shirley Verrett. studio portrait signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. C...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Beverly Sills and Michele Molese in New York City Opera's 'Tales of Hoffmann'
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Beverly Sills and Michele Molese in New York City Opera's 'Tales of Hoffmann' in 1972. Comes directly...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

"ELM15" Black & White Photography 40" x 40" inch Ed. 1/8 by Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"ELM15" Black & White Photography 40" x 40" inch Ed. 1/8 by Giuliano Bekor Title of artwork: Echos of Tomorrow ELM15 The Mermaid Year: 2008 Printed on a high-quality museum-grade ar...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Paper

Andy Warhol In Aspen, Gelatin Silver Print by Christopher Makos, 1983
Located in Long Island City, NY
This gelatin silver print was created by American photographer Christopher Makos. Makos is well known for his relationships with icons like Andy Warhol, Tennessee Williams, and John ...
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1990s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

New World Order Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
New World Order by BATIK Satirical pop art artwork featuring Vladimir Putin, VP J.D. Vance, Donald Trump and Elon Musk in WW2 war rooms. BATIK is a London based fine artist and im...
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2010s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

Thelonious Monk photograph Detroit, 1967 (Jazz photography)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Thelonious Monk by photographer Leni Sinclair: A very cool, well-defined photo of Jazz legend, Thelonious Monk shot in 1967 by legendary Detroit photographer Leni Sinclair, this year's Kresge Foundation's Eminent Artist of 2016 (See The Guardian UK Photo Section, Jan. 28, 2016) Archival Inkjet Print. 11x14 inches. Hand signed, titled & dated in ink on the lower margins. Very Good overall condition. Acquired directly from artist. Lot 180...
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1960s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Inkjet

Artist and Musician Yoko Ono photographed at her Dakota apartment in NYC
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of artist and musician Yoko Ono photographed at her Dakota apartment in 1990. Comes directly from the Jack ...
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1990s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Jerry Hall and Grace Jones
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Grace Jones began her career as a model, working for fashion houses such as Yves Saint Laurent and Kenzo and appearing on the covers of Elle and Vogue. She began her music career as ...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Halston, Dolly Parton & Andy Warhol at Studio 54
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work is unique. Stamped on the reverse by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso. The work comes with an Authentication Letter from the Andy Warhol Authentication Board, Inc. Provenance: Gift of the Artist to Pat Hackett to Hedges Projects...
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Late 20th Century Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Edie Beale at 860 Broadway
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work. Little Edie visits The Factory and is photographed by Warhol. An image from this photoshoot is later published in Andy Warhol's Exposures. Stamped on verso b...
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Late 20th Century Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Robert Kennedy, San Diego
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Lawrence Schiller. “Robert Kennedy, San Diego” is a figurative photograph, vintage silver gelatin photograph in black and white by American artist Lawrence Schiller. The artwork is signed on the verso. 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

San Francisco Ballet dancer Mikko Nissinen, nude study for Dance magazine cover
Located in Senoia, GA
San Francisco Ballet principal dancer Mikko Nissinen photographed for the cover of Dance Magazine, January 3, 1992.. This is a vintage silver gela...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Unmade Beds & The Foreigner 1976/1977 (40 film stills) Fernando Natalici
Located in NEW YORK, NY
The Foreigner & Unmade Beds behind the scenes photographs by celebrated New York underground photographer Fernando Natalici: Director of both "The Foreigner'" and "Unmade Beds" Amos Poe's iconic films were connected heavily to the birth of American punk, the New York New Wave...
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1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Querelle
Located in Santa Monica, CA
From The Jon Gould Collection of Andy Warhol Photographs Each photo is unique and blind embossed “Andy Warhol” in the lower right corner Provenance: Gift of the Artist to Jon Goul...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Andy Warhol with Clown Nose in Zurich
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work was acquired directly from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The work is in pristine condition and has never been framed. This is a unique work which comes w...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Jean-Michel Basquiat photograph 1979 (Nick Taylor of Gray)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Photograph of Jean Michel Basquiat, New York, 1979: This rare Basquiat photograph was taken from Nicholas Taylor’s well-documented portfolio exploring his friendship with Jean-Michel Basquiat - a friendship which began when both collaborated on the historic New York No Wave band, “GRAY” in the late 1970s; before the two briefly lived together in the East Village. Selections from Taylor's portfolio were most notably exhibited as part of the Basquiat retrospective at London's Barbican in 2017 and have been featured in numerous noteworthy publications on Basquiat. Gelatin Silver Print. 1979. 11 x 14 inches. Edition of 4 A/P's. Signed, dated and numbered 1/4 in pencil on the recto. Some minor surface waves; otherwise very good overall vintage condition. Provenance: Obtained directly from artist. Lot 180 is an authorized dealer rep of Nick Taylor...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Tina Turner (backstage at a Rolling Stones concert)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work. Image dimensions: 10 x 8 in. Framed dimensions: 18.125 x 16.625 in. Work is framed to archival standards by Handmade Frames of Brooklyn, New York. Stamped on ...
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1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Shop Black and White Photography

There’s a lot to love about black and white photography.

The unique and timeless quality of a black and white photograph accentuates any room. Some might argue that we’re naturally drawn to color photography because it’s the world we know best. This is a shared belief, particularly in the era of camera-phone photography, editing apps and the frenetic immediacy of sharing photos on social media. But when we look at black and white photography, we experience deep, rich shadows and tonal properties in a way that transfixes us. Composition and textures are crisp and engaging. We’re immediately drawn to the subjects of vintage street photography and continue to feel the emotional impact of decades-old photojournalism. The silhouettes of mountains in black and white landscape photography are particularly pronounced, while portrait photography and the skylines of urban cityscapes come to life in monochrome prints.

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Black and white photography adapts to its surroundings like a chameleon might. A single large-scale black and white photograph above the sofa in your living room is going to work with any furniture style, and as some homeowners and designers today are working to introduce more muted tones and neutral palettes to dining rooms and bedrooms, the integration of black and white photography — a hallmark of minimalist decor — is a particularly natural choice for such a setting.

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