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Black and White Photography For Sale
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Frank Sinatra - Sitting at Desk - Estate
Located in Chicago, IL
Sitting at Desk – circa 1945. Frank Sinatra at home in Toluca Lake. Note the portrait of FDR on the wall. Sinatra said after meeting him “He’s the greatest man alive today and here’s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
New York City, 1977 - Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography)
Located in London, GB
New York City, 1977 - Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography)
Signed, inscribed with title and dated on accompanying artist’s label
Silver gelatin print, printed later
Availabl...
Category
1970s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Desert Hell, Kuwait, 1991 - Sebastião Salgado (Black and White Photography)
Located in London, GB
Desert Hell, Kuwait, 1991 - Black and White Photography
Sebastião Salgado
Stamped with photographer's copyright blind stamp
Signed, inscribed on reverse
Silver gelatin print
20 x 24 ...
Category
1990s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Killer Tension, Alaska by Paul Nicklen
By Paul Nicklen
Located in Chicago, IL
Killer Tension
Alaska, United States, 2015.
24 x 36 in / 61 x 91.4 cm / Edition of 20
31 x 46.5 in / 78.7 x 118.1 cm / Edition of 20 - $7,500
40 × 60 in / 101.6 x 152.4 cm / Edition...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Surfing Florida Style - Black and White Photograph, Car, Beach, Ocean, Teenager
Located in Denton, TX
Surfing Florida Style by Al Satterwhite depicts a young man surfing on the water. He holds a rope attached to a car, which tows him through the w...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Girl with Flag - Black and White Photograph, Black Artist, Child, Portrait
Located in Denton, TX
Girl with Flag by Earlie Hudnall, Jr., is a black and white portrait of a young African American girl holding a small American flag. The girl is dressed in white, and looks over her ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Muhammad Ali looking in the mirror while training at 5th Street Gym. Miami Beach
By Neil Leifer
Located in Santa Monica, CA
NEIL LEIFER’s photography career has spanned over 50 years since becoming a professional while still in his teens. Beginning in 1960, his pictures regularly appeared in every major national magazine, including the Saturday Evening Post, Look, LIFE, Newsweek, Time and, most often, Sports Illustrated.
Leifer eventually became a staff photographer for Sports Illustrated before leaving in 1978 to become a staffer for Time magazine. In 1988 he was made a contributing photographer at LIFE magazine and spent the next two years dividing his time between Time and LIFE. When Leifer left Time Inc. in 1990, his photographs had appeared on over 200 Sports Illustrated, Time, and People covers—at that point, the most ever published of one photographer’s work in Time Inc. history. Neil Leifer is the 2006 recipient of the prestigious Lucie Award for Achievement in Sports Photography. In 2008 he was honored for his outstanding contribution to Time Inc. journalism with The Britton Hadden Lifetime Achievement Award.
Leifer has published 16 books, 9 of which have been collections of his sports photographs. Sports, his 1978 Abrams book, is considered by many to be the quintessential sports photography book. His two most recent, Ballet in the Dirt and Guts and Glory—both published by TASCHEN, showcase the very best of Leifer’s professional baseball and football photographs...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Johnny Depp in concert by Zack Whitford - Contemporary Portrait Photography
Located in Chicago, IL
Los Angeles 2012 - Johnny Depp on stage at the Staples Center in concert with Aerosmith.
Limited edition graphic on Archival Canson Platine Fibre Rag pape...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Kentucky
By Andy Warhol
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...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Juan Manuel Fangio, Maserati 250F, Reims, France
Located in Denton, TX
No Edition
Signed in ink on print margin by Jesse Alexander
Gelatin silver print
Paper size: 11 x 14 in. Image size: 7 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.
"Fangio is exiting a slow corner and looks ov...
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sade (Nude) – Albert Watson, Black & White, Celebrity, Fashion, Sade, Nude, Art
Located in Zurich, CH
Albert WATSON (*1942, Scotland)
Sade (Nude), 1992
Archival pigment print
142 x 107 cm (55 7/8 x 42 1/8 in.)
Edition of 10, plus 2 AP
Print only
Drake purchased a series of Albert's ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Three Boys on a Swing, Pitt St. N.Y. - Black and White Photograph, Children
Located in Denton, TX
Three Boys on a Swing, Pitt St. N.Y. by Walter Rosenblum is a black and white photograph documenting three children playing on a swing set in a city park.
Gelatin Silver Print
10.5 ...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lone Rock, Pacific Ocean
By Chip Hooper
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed, dated and editioned. Signed, titled, editioned and dated on back of mount on artist copyright stamp. Available in 20 x 24, 26 x 32 and 44 1/2 x 56 inches (largest size includ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Frida in front of the Unfinished Unity Panel, New Workers School, NY
Located in Denton, TX
Frida in front of the Unfinished Unity Panel by Lucienne Bloch is a black and white portrait of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, posing in front of Diego Rivera's half painted mural.
I...
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Haunted – Roger Ballen, Black and White, Staged, Lightbox, Venice Biennale
By Roger Ballen
Located in Zurich, CH
Roger Ballen
Haunted, from the series 'The Theatre of Apparitions', 2013
One sided Texflex Lightbox, Powder coated Ferro Black
Lightbox 100 x 86 x 9 cm (39 3/8 x 33 7/8 x 3 1/2 in.)
...
Category
2010s Black and White Photography
Materials
Textile, LED Light
Divine and Stephen Aronson
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation inventory number.
The work comes wi...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Halston Holding American Flag at Warhol's Montauk Estate
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Dated 'Jul 6 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
Pat Hackett with conjoined twins banana
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Pat Hackett is a writer and editor, as well as a frequent collaborator, friend, and confidante of Andy Warhol. She edited and wrote the introduction to The...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
KISS (BLACK & WHITE)
Located in Chicago, IL
Archival inkjet print on Hahnemühle fine art matte paper
Edition size: 11
Paper size: 16 x 20 inches
Sold Matted with 3" white mat
Also, available in 11" x 14&q...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
INNOCENCE
Located in Chicago, IL
Archival digital print on Hahnemühle fine art matte paper.
Edition size: 11
Paper size: 16 x 20 inches
Sold Matted with 3" white mat
Also, available in 11" x 1...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Greta Garbo
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Clarence Sinclair Bull was one of the great masters of the Hollywood portrait. As head of the stills department at MGM for over thirty years, he helped to pioneer the art and craft o...
Category
1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Whiteout
Located in Storrs, CT
"Whiteout" is a part of Christopher Kennedy's "Trees Revered" series.
"This particular tree is deep in a huge field in Pennsylvania and so seldom seen by anyone but the wildlife. I...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Stirling Moss, Jaguar Pits
Located in Denton, TX
Signed in black ink on print margin by Jesse Alexander
Paper size: 16 x 20 in. Image size: 11 3/4 x 17 1/4 in.
Jesse Alexander was considered one of the greatest race car photograp...
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Boy with Chalked Numbers, NYC by Harold Feinstein, 1956, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Denton, TX
Boy with Chalked Numbers, NYC by Harold Feinstein is a 14 x 11 inch gelatin silver print, and is edition 3/200. This photograph features a boy sitting on the ground, surrounded by nu...
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Le Baiser – Marianne Maric, Body, Woman, Nude, Kiss, Sculpture, Paris, Artwork
Located in Zurich, CH
Marianne MARIĆ (*1982, France)
Le Baiser, 2015
Silver gelatin print
Image 62 x 92 cm (24 3/8 x 36 1/4 in.)
Sheet 92 x 108 cm (36 1/4 x 42 1/2 in.)
Edition of 5, plus 2 AP; Ed. no. 5/...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
69YK #7 – Nobuyoshi Araki, Japanese Photography, Nude, Black and White, Art
Located in Zurich, CH
Nobuyoshi ARAKI (*1940, Japan)
69YK #7, 2009
Gelatin silver print
50.8 x 60 cm (20 x 23 5/8 in.)
Print only
Nobuyoshi Araki (Tokyo, 1940) is a Tokyo-based photographer. Araki completed his studies at Chiba University’s Department of Photography, Painting and Engineering with a focus on the study of film and photography. His photographic project Satchin earned him the prestigious Taiyo Award in 1964, shortly after he had joined the advertising agency Dentsu, where he worked until 1972. At Dentsu he met his wife Yoko, to whom he paid homage in Sentimental Journey, a photographic record of their honeymoon published in 1971. Eros and thanatos (sex and death) has been a central theme in Araki’s work; an abiding fascination with female genitalia and women’s bodies in Japanese bondage...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Willie Nelson, Spicewood, Texas - Black and White Portrait, Country Musician
Located in Denton, TX
Willie Nelson, Spicewood, Texas by Michael O'Brien is a black and white portrait of the adored country singer, songwriter and guitarist. This portrait features the side profile of Wi...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jane Fonda in hair and makeup at The Factory
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Dated 'MAY 03 1982' (on the reverse).
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundati...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled 3, Nude. Limited Edition Black and White Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Black and White Photograph
Archival Pigment print
Medium Ed of 10
Blanco: For this black and white photography series, he used elements such as water (emotions) to narrate a story....
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Elaine Irwin Mellencamp, unairbrushed with Gold Paint, For Pirelli 1998
By Bruce Weber
Located in London, GB
The Pirelli Calendar, known and trade-marked as "The Cal", is an annual trade calendar which has been published by the UK subsidiary of the Italian tyre manufacturing company Pirelli...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Gold
Young Navajo at Baseball - Black and White Monochrome Photographic Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Young Navajo at Baseball by Michael Ormerod is available as an 8" x 10" black and white photographic print on Hahnemuhle paper from a limited edition of 10 prints.
Featured in the ...
Category
20th Century American Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Rockefeller Center (skate) - Vintage Print, New York City, Ice Skaters, Winter
By John Albok
Located in Denton, TX
Rockefeller Center (skate) by John Albok is a vintage print of an ice skating rink in the Rockefeller Center in New York City. Many people are skating in the background, while a figu...
Category
1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Boy with Bee
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 50
Signed, titled, dated and numbered by Keith Carter
Gelatin silver print
Paper size: 20 x 16 in., Image size: 15 x 15 in.
Keith Carter is an American photographer who i...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
TV Chicago
Located in Zurich, CH
Balthasar BURKHARD (1944–2010, Switzerland)
TV Chicago, 1977
Silver gelatin print on Baryta paper, artist's wooden frame
Sheet 108 x 132 cm (42 1/2 x 52 in.)
From an edition of 5
A G...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bowie, 'The Finger' – Albert Watson, Black & White, Pop, Music, David Bowie
Located in Zurich, CH
Albert WATSON (*1942, Scotland)
Bowie, 'The Finger', 1996
Archival pigment print
Sheet 76 x 61 cm (29 7/8 x 24 in.)
Edition of 25, plus 2 AP; AP2/2 (last available edition)
Albert Watson print...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sombrero, Madrid (hat with film)
By Chema Madoz
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 15
Toned gelatin silver print
Chema Madoz is one of the most important contemporary Spanish photographers, who is greatly known for his monochromatic, surreal still-lifes...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Halston, Dolly Parton & Andy Warhol at Studio 54
By Andy Warhol
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...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Querelle
By Andy Warhol
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...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Male Nude Model in Bathtub
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
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 Ar...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Truman Capote (with the birthday cake "he made")
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Depicting Truman Capote holding a birthday cake "he made." Truman Capote was an acclaimed 20th-century American novelist. His most influential works include Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Albert Einstein
By Yousuf Karsh
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Karsh is a master 20th Century photographer. Karsh is known for his portraits of authors, scientists, artists, statesmen, musicians, and other dis...
Category
1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ma'ah, British Columbia by Paul Nicklen - Contemporary Wildlife Photography
By Paul Nicklen
Located in Chicago, IL
Ma’ah
British Columbia, Canada, 2011
24 × 36 in / 61 × 91.4 cm / Edition of 20 - $3,500
31 × 46.5 in / 78.7 × 118.1 cm / Edition of 15
40 × 60 in / 101.6 × 152.4 cm / Edition of 10
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Versailles, 1975 - Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography)
Located in London, GB
Versailles, 1975 - Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography)
Signed, inscribed with title and dated on accompanying artist’s label
Silver gelatin print, printed later
Available i...
Category
Late 20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled, From the series Acto Uno. Male Nude Limited Edition B&W Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled, by Ricky Cohete
From the series "Acto Uno"
Archival Pigment print
Small size: 20 in H x 30 in W.
Edition of 13 + 1AP
Unframed
2020
Black and White Photograph
All prices a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Keith Peterson
By Andy Warhol
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...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Rascals, Third Ward, Houston, TX
Located in Denton, TX
No edition
Gelatin silver print
Paper size: 20 x 16 in., Image size: 15 x 15 in.
Signed, titled and dated in pencil on print verso by Earlie Hudnall
Earlie Hudnall, who is one of the most notable African American photographers...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Surf Wagon, St. Petersburg Beach, FL - Black and White Photograph, Documentary
Located in Denton, TX
Surf Wagon, St. Petersburg Beach by Al Satterwhite is a black and white photograph featuring a group of teenagers sitting on top of a car filled with surfboards.
Archival Pigment P...
Category
1960s Post-Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Running Man, L’Uomo Vogue, San Francisco – Albert Watson, Black and White, Print
Located in Zurich, CH
ALBERT WATSON (*1942, Scotland)
Running Man, L’Uomo Vogue, San Francisco
1992/2015
Chromogenic print from a polaroid positive face mounted to acrylic (Diase...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled, Madrid (Sandals w/ Grass)
By Chema Madoz
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 15
Signed, dated and numbered.
Chema Madoz is one of the most important contemporary Spanish photographers, who is greatly known for his monochromatic, surreal still-life...
Category
1980s Surrealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Gabriel García Márquez Portrait
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Gabriel García Márquez, Portrait by Hernan Diaz
Signed by Hernan Diaz C. 1994@
Provenance Writer Estate.
Archival Pigment print
Image size: 15.5 H. x 11.5 W in.
Frame size: 25 H x 2...
Category
1990s Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
France, Paris, 1952 - Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography)
Located in London, GB
France, Paris, 1952 - Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography)
Signed, inscribed with title and dated on accompanying artist’s label
Silver gelatin print, printed later
Availabl...
Category
Late 20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Photograph of Robin Williams at a Thrift Store in the Village
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Robin Williams thrift-store shopping in the Village, April 17, 1979, photographed by Andy Warhol.
Illustrated in The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol. Edited by Pat Hackett, Warner Books, 1991.
Beginning his career in stand-up, Robin Williams made it big in the late 1970s co-starring in the comedy series Mork & Mindy. He went on to have a successful career starring in films like Popye, Good Morning, Vietnam, Dead Poets Society, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Good Will Hunting...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Untitled (Touching) – Lina Scheynius, Black and White, Woman, Body, Nude, Female
Located in Zurich, CH
LINA SCHEYNIUS (*1981, Sweden)
Untitled (Touching)
2021
Fibre-based silver gelatin print
Sheet 90 x 60 cm (35 3/8 x 23 5/8 in.)
Edition of 3, plus 2 AP; Ed. no. 1/3
Print only
Touc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Christy Turlington, Luxor, Egypt, 1987 – Albert Watson, Celebrity, Fashion, Art
Located in Zurich, CH
Albert WATSON (*1942, Scotland)
Christy Turlington, Luxor, Egypt, 1987
1987
Archival pigment print
Image 142 x 107 cm (55 7/8 x 42 1/8 in.)
Edition of 10; Ed. no. 9/10
Print only
...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Kiss, 3rd Ward, Houston, Texas
Located in Denton, TX
No Edition
Gelatin silver print
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on print verso by Earlie Hudnall, Jr.
Paper size: 16 x 20 in., Image size: 13 x 19 in.
Earlie Hudnall, who is one of the most notable African American photographers living today, has extensively documented the African American neighborhoods in Houston, Texas.
After serving as a Marine in Vietnam, he enrolled at Texas Southern University, where he studied art under the direction of John Biggers, who became a great friend and mentor. During his time at TSU, he was hired to be a photographer for the Model Cities Program, part of Lyndon...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, USA - black and white photograph, architecture
Located in Denton, TX
Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, USA by Michael Kenna is a limited edition black and white photograph depicting an aerial view of a city street at night.
Edition of 45
Signed, tit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Henry Geldzahler and Jean-Michel Basquiat
By Andy Warhol
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...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Mick Jagger Grimacing
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
From The Jon Gould Collection of Andy Warhol Photographs
Each unsigned photo is unique and blind embossed with “Andy Warhol” in the lower right corner
Provenance: Gift of the Artist to Jon Gould, by descent to Jay Gould
The Jon Gould Collection of Andy Warhol Photographs includes hundreds of unique silver gelatin prints gifted by Warhol to Gould during their relationship. Upon Jon Gould’s death in 1986 at the age of 33 from complications of AIDS, the Collection passed to his family from whom the works are now available exclusively through Hedges Projects. The Jon Gould Collection of Andy Warhol Photographs features scores of heroic portraits of Gould along with other notable subjects such as Mick Jagger...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
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.
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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