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Black and White Photography For Sale
"La Pace Tre Le Statue 4" Photography 39 x 29.5 in Ed of 4 by Lukas Dvorak
By Lukas Dvorak
Located in Culver City, CA
"La Pace Tre Le Statue 4" Photography 39 x 29.5 in Ed of 4 by Lukas Dvorak
39" x 29.5" inch
Pigment print on Epson Fine ART paper
2024
Ships rolled in a tube
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
A House on a Hill, Hollywood CA
By Diane Arbus
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Diane Arbus
A House on a Hill, Hollywood CA, 1963
Signed by Doon Arbus & Neil Selkirk (printer)
Gelatin silver print
Image: 14-3/4" x 14-1/2", Paper: 20" x 16", Mat: 24" x 20"
19/75
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Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Peony no.3 - analogue black and white floral photography, limited edition of 15
Located in London, GB
'Peony’ photographed in London, United Kingdom 2023.
It is a still life black and white film photograph, made with a large format 4x5 Linhof camera.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée
Woman Protestor, March on Washington, African-American Civil Rights Photography
Located in New york, NY
Woman Protestor, March on Washington, 1963 by Leonard Freed, is a 14" x 11" gelatin silver photograph, signed and stamped on verso (back of photo) by the estate, Brigitte Freed (wife of the photographer). The photo is in Leonard Freed's book “This Is the Day: The March on Washington'' (p. 50).
Leonard Freed enjoyed documentary storytelling and as a "concerned photographer" his work demonstrated humanitarian concerns. The photographer travelled to New York, Washington, D.C., and throughout the South, capturing the daily life of African-Americans. Documenting the 1960s Civil Rights Movement from the East Coast to the Deep South, Freed’s photo essay culminated in the book Black in White America, which contributed to Freed's becoming one of the well-known documentary photographers of 20th Century America.
After Freed’s death in 2006 his widow, Brigitte Freed was inspired to compile a book on the March on Washington from her late husband’s archive when she heard then-Senator former President Barack Obama remark to an audience of civil rights activists, “I stand here because you walked.”
The March on Washington series is a powerful visual testimony, capturing protests that culminated in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream'' speech, delivered at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
Provenance: Freed archive.
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Artist’s Bio:
Leonard Freed (1929-2006) was an American photographer from Brooklyn, New York. His "Black in White America" series made him known as a documentarian, a social documentary photographer. Freed worked as a freelance photographer from 1961 onwards and as a Magnum photographer Freed traveled widely abroad and, in the US, photographing African Americans (1964-65), events in Israel (1967-68, 1973), and the New York City police department (1972-79). Freed's coverage of the American civil rights...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Black Leftovers, Wavebreaker, minimalism photograqph, limited edtion seascape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Gorbals Boys (1948) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
Gorbals Boys (1948) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Bert Hardy/Getty Images Archive London)
Possibly Bert Hardy's most famous image.
Two boys in the Gorbals area of Glasgow.
The Gorbals tenements were built quickly and cheaply in the 1840s, providing housing for Glasgow's burgeoning population of industrial workers.
Conditions were appalling; overcrowding was standard and sewage and water facilities inadequate.
The tenements housed about 40,000 people with up to eight family members sharing a single room,
30 residents sharing a toilet and 40 sharing a tap.
By the time this photograph was taken 850 tenements had been demolished since 1920.
Redevelopment of the area began in the late 1950s and the tenements were replaced with a modern tower block complex in the sixties. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4499 - The Forgotten Gorbals - pub. 1948
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Size: 20 x 16'' inches / 51 x 41 cm
Printed 2024
Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Limited edition issued and stamped on front by the Getty Archive London
Edition size 300 only
NOTE OTHER SIZES OF THIS IMAGE AVAILABLE
10 x 8''
10 x 12''
12 x 16''
16 x 20''
20 x 24''
FRAMING AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
Bert Hardy Albert William Thomas Hardy (19 May 1913 – 3 July 1995)
was an English documentary and press photographer
known for his work published in the Picture Post magazine between 1941 and 1957.
Life and work Born in Blackfriars, Bert Hardy rose from humble working class origins in Southwark, London.
The eldest of seven children, he left school at age 14 to work for a chemist who also processed photos.
His first big sale came in 1936 when he photographed King George V and Queen Mary in a passing carriage during the Silver Jubilee celebrations, and sold 200 small prints of his best view of the King.
His first assignment, at age 23, was to photograph Hungarian actor Sakall at the Mayfair Hotel.
Hardy freelanced for The Bicycle magazine, and bought his first small-format 35 mm Leica.
He signed on with the General Photographic Agency as a Leica photographer,
later founding his own freelance firm, Criterion.
General Photographic Agency General Photographic Agency a Fleet Street, London agency, sold photos at least between 1880-1950.
Picture Post and World War II In 1941,
Hardy was recruited by the then editor Tom Hopkinson of the leading picture publication of the 1930s to the 1950s, Picture Post.
Founded in 1938 and funded by publisher Edward Hulton, the magazine's first editor was Hungarian émigré Stefan Lorant (1901–97) assisted by Hopkinson, who took over as editor from 1940. The picture-centric, left-leaning and reasonably-priced publication was highly successful and circulation soon rose to over a million.
Hardy's photographer colleagues included Felix H. Man (aka Hans Baumann...
Category
1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin 1970 signed limited edition
Located in London, GB
Led Zeppelin
photographer Jorgen Angel
Artist(s): Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin
Location: Copenhagen
Date: 28th February 1970
Era: The 1970's
printed this year
Edition: hand signed Li...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
160.07.11 by Klaus Kampert (Tribute to Modigliani series) - nude photography
Located in Paris, FR
160.07.11 is a limited-edition black & white photograph by contemporary artist Klaus Kampert from the series entitled Tribute to Modigliani. In this series, Klaus Kampert pays tribut...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Terry O'Neill Bruce Springsteen on the Sunset Strip, Los Angeles, 1975
Located in Chicago, IL
This photo captures a 25-year-old Bruce Springsteen just after his visit to Tower Records. Springsteen was in LA promoting his new album, Born to Run, 1975. The album was Springsteen...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Matriarch, Dominica by Paul Nicklen - Contemporary Wildlife Photography - Whale
By Paul Nicklen
Located in Chicago, IL
Matriarch
Dominica, 2019
Edition of 20: 24” x 36” (61 x 91.4 cm) - $3,500
Edition of 15: 31” x 46.5” (78.7 x 118.1 cm)
Edition of 10: 40” x 60” (101.6 x 152.4 cm)
Edition of 7: 60” ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Artist/Sculptor Olaf Gravesen with his work, Signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Artist Olaf Gravesen photographed with one of his nail head sculptures, 1974. Signed on the verso by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from ...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$980 Sale Price
34% Off
Musing - Contemporary, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Musing - 2019
48x46cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL219-659.
Not mounted.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Polaroid
Bruce Springsteen
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of Bruce Springsteen's hands playing his Fender Telecaster, taken by Timothy White, Malibu, CA, 1991
20x20" image on 24x24" paper, limited edition numbe...
Category
Late 20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Coyote Vine
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In 1834, William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) saw that silver salts darkened in the sun and invented a photographic process he called “photogenic drawing” — in which images were made...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Joshua Tree, USA, black and white photography, limited edition, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Ha...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Man Ray, Composition, Man Ray, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
By Man Ray
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Man Ray, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1980. Published and printed ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
Ponder - Contemporary, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Nude, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Ponder - 2019
20x20cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL219-673.
N...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Black and White, C Print, Polaroid
Bucking Bronco - Black and White Monochrome Large Photographic Print
Located in Brighton, GB
'Bucking Bronco' is a black and white photographic print by Michael Ormerod.
Featured in the 2024 posthumous solo exhibition, 'Michael Ormerod: Vanishing Point'.
Michael Ormerod w...
Category
20th Century American Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Photographic Paper
Blumenfeld, Composition, Erwin Blumenfeld, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Paper Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches. Notes: From the folio, Erwin Blumenfeld, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Offset
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Westport
Located in Kansas City, MO
Paul Middleton
Westport
Year: 2024
Archival Pigment Print on
Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag
Framed Size: 13 x 13 x 0.25 inches
COA provided
*Ready to hang; matted and framed in a minimal bl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$298 Sale Price
40% Off
All my most Beautiful
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
All my most Beautiful - 2016,
20x20cm.
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label with certificate.
Artist inventory PL...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Golden Retriever Photographic Society ‘Hud, NYC 2011’ Archival pigment print
By Bruce Weber
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth, signed, dated and editioned by artist verso; studio stamped verso, 14 x 17 in.. Hardcover in slipcase, 11 x 14 in., 3,69 kg (8.12 l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
DOUGLAS JULEFF Vintage 1950s Photograph of "Beefcake" model GENE STAGGS #2
Located in Glenford, NY
Rare early 1950s Original Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph by DOUGLAS JULEFF - also known as DOUG OF DETROIT - of bodybuilder and model GENE STAGGS. This is #2 of two images of Stag...
Category
1950s Post-War Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Arbus, Composition, Diane Arbus, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
By Diane Arbus
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Diane Arbus, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1979. Published by Unite...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
50x40 " Andy Warhol" Photomosaic Pop Fine Art Photography Photograph
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Andy" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro.
Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smaller images.
Archival photographic paper
Signed edition of 150
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
Guy with Beatbox - Playboy T-Shirt and Street Music in America (Large Print)
Located in Brighton, GB
Guy with Beatbox - Playboy T-Shirt and Street Music in America (Large Print) by Michael Ormerod is a black and white photographic print on Hahnemuhle paper in a limited edition of 10...
Category
20th Century American Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Unbreakable Bond, Dominica by Cristina Mittermeier
Located in Chicago, IL
Unbreakable Bond
Dominica, 2019
20 x 30 in / Edition of 6 - $4,500
Also available:
32 x 48 in / Edition of 6 - $7,500
40 x 60 in / Edition of 6 - $10,500
50 x 75 in / Edition of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
She Disappeared into Complete Silence (AD7809) - large scale abstract photograph
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the series 'She Disappeared into Complete Silence' (2014) Mona Kuhn takes a new direction into abstraction.
She turns to a highly austere and restrained reductionist geometry and distilled formal purity, connecting the interior to the exterior, the visible to the hidden. These reflections cause one to linger, as they merge to create a dynamic equilibrium of tension, spaces and rythms.
AD7809 (She Disappeared into Complete Silence)
60" x 45" / 152cm x 114cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
40" x 30" / 102cm x 76cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
limited edition photograph is printed under artist supervision and accompanied by a signed artist certificate:
artist signature labels are 8x10 in size, signed, editioned, dated and titled by the artist, and stamped for authenticity label
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About the artist
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art.
For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Mona Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Kuhn's monograph titled Bushes and Succulents has been published by Stanley/Barker Editions, with a debut at Jeu de Paume in Paris, in 2019. A stunning career retrospective of Mona Kuhn's works has been published by Thames & Hudson, Spring 2021. Kuhn's forthcoming publication Kings Road, will be published and released by Steid this Fall 2021.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris; The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London; Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland; Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and Australian Centre for Photography. Mona Kuhn lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Solo Exhibitions
2021
Mona Kuhn: Works, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Mona Kuhn: Works, Flowers Gallery, London
Mona Kuhn: Works, Galerie XII, Los Angeles + Paris + Shanghai
Mona Kuhn: 835 Kings Road, Art, Design and Architecture Museum, Santa Barbara
2020
Still Light, Jardin du Bra'haus, Montée du Château, Clervaux, Luxembourg
Mona Kuhn: Early Depictions, Flowers Gallery, London
Mona Kuhn: Intimate, UP Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2019
Bushes and Succulents, Euqinom Gallery, San Francisco
Mona Kuhn: She Disappeared, Jackson Fine Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Spectral (Kings Road) - unique solarized gelatin silver artist print
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In Kings Road (2022) Mona Kuhn lyrically reconsiders the realms of time and space within the midcentury architectural elements of the iconic Schindler House in Los Angeles. Built by Austrian architect Rudolph M. Schindler in 1922, the house was both a social and design experiment and an avant-garde hub for intellectuals and artists in the 1920s and ’30s.
The body of works incorporates chromogenic color prints, reflecting vignettes and materials of the building's emotional architecture, juxtaposition with unique solarized gelatin silver prints capturing traces of an ethereal human presence.
Spectral (2022)
Kings Road: A Rudolph Schindler House
30" x 40" / 76cm x 102cm /edition of 12
15" x 20" / 38cm x 56cm / edition of 12
limited edition solarization photograph printed by the artist + accompanied by signed artist certificate:
artist signature label (8x10")
signed/editioned/dated/titled by the artist + stamped for authenticity
label is placed centered on verso of the mounted print
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About the artist
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art.
For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Stanley/Barker Editions published Kuhn's Bushes & Succulents in 2018. In 2021, Thames & Hudson published a career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn's most recent publication Kings Road (2022) with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum traveling exhibition shown in Europe and the US.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris; The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London; Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland; Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and Australian Centre for Photography. Mona Kuhn lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Solo Exhibitions
2025
Mona Kuhn: Y Tu Desnudo será Un Gran Poema, Museum of Contemporary Art, Malaga, Spain
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Lianzhou Museum of Photography, China
2024
Mona Kuhn: The Schindler House, A Love Affair, Galerie XII...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Lunch on Fifth Avenue, 1960 - Black and White Portrait of Audrey Hepburn
Located in Brighton, GB
Taken from the world’s largest photographic archive, (Hulton Archive and Getty Images), the Getty Images Gallery collection features an extraordinary time capsule of the last century...
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White
'Aspens, California' Unique Triptych. Black and White Trees Nature Wild Forest
Located in Penzance, GB
'Aspens, California'
Master Edition (Unique artwork, 1 of 1). Archival photographic triptych .
Hand signed and numbered. Unframed.
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Late afternoon light in Yosemit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
A Flower Outside CBGB OMFUG
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
14 x 11 inches, sheet size
(Edition of 5 + 2 APs)
20 x 16 inches, sheet size
(Edition of 5 + 2 APs)
From the series...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Fifth Avenue Broadway Flatiron Building balck and white photograph limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Fifth Avenue, Broadway, New York City - no. 11777
Black and White Fine Art cityscape photography. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by arti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
James Dean Pushing Porsche at Car Rally
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white action shot of actor James Dean loading his Porsche on to a trailer at a car rally.
James Dean was an American actor. He is remembered as a cultural icon of teenage...
Category
1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Reflections 24x36 Black & White Photography, Kodiak Bear Photograph Grizzly
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary photograph of a Kodiak Bear.
This was shot on Kodiak Island in 2019.
24x36
Unsigned print
Archival pigment paper - Kodak Luster
Archival Inks
Signed and nu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Locals Only" 40x60 Fine Art Photography of Mountain Lion, Cougar Unsigned Print
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Image title: "Locals Only"
This is a contemporary photograph of 2 North American Mountain Lions.
40x60
Printed on archival paper using archival ink
Framing available. Inquire for...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Out of reach -Contemporary, Polaroid, Black and White, Women, 21st Century, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Out of reach - 2020
20x25cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label and certificate.
Artist inventory PL2020-9475
No...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Polaroid, Color, C Print, Archival Paper
Monica Bellucci, N°1, South of France
Located in München, BY
Edition of 10
Portrait of the young Monica Bellucci.
Fashion and fine art embrace each other in the photography of Jacques Olivar (b. 1941), where th...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Limited edition nude art print, Analogue, Sensual Charismatic woman - Heather
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘Heather'
Limited edition of 5
Signed by...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
Muhammad Ali Sitting on a Million Dollars, Photograph by Howard Bingham
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Howard Bingham, American (1939 - 2016)
Title: Muhammad Ali Sitting on a Million Dollars
Medium: Gelatin Silver Print Photograph, signed by Bingham and autographed by Ali in m...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Earle and Carolyn Brown at the Stevenson's in Brewster" Cy Twombly
By Cy Twombly
Located in New York, NY
Cy Twombly
Earle and Carolyn Brown at the Stevenson's in Brewster, 1955
Identified and inscribed on the reverse by the sitter Carolyn Brown
Photograph on paper
8 x 8 inches
Provenance
Gift of the artist
Estate of Carolyn Brown, New York 2025.
Cy Twombly gained fame for his art that combined cultural, historical, and poetic elements—particularly those from classical antiquity—with abstract shapes and his distinctive script. Born Edwin Parker Twombly, Jr. on April 25, 1928, in Lexington, Virginia, he began his artistic journey under the guidance of Pierre Daura and Marion Junkin at Washington and Lee University. This initial training was complemented by his formative experiences at the Arts Students League of New York and Black Mountain College, where he established enduring friendships with influential figures like Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, and Merce Cunningham.
A pivotal moment for Twombly was his 1952 trip to Italy and North Africa with Rauschenberg, funded by a grant from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. This journey allowed Twombly to engage deeply with the rich cultural history that would inform his future artistic endeavors, leading to the creation of significant early pieces.
Twombly made his way back to Italy in 1957 and 1958, during which he presented his first solo exhibition in Italy at Galleria La Tartaruga, owned by Plinio De Martiis. In 1959, he married Luisa Tatiana...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Dancers Silhouette, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph, Dancers Silhouette, 1971. It is signed on the print verso in pencil by Jack Mitchell. This is a print that was published by a newspaper or ...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$320 Sale Price
36% Off
White Andalusian Horse - Limited Edition Oversize Silver Gelatin Print
By Baldur Tryggvason
Located in London, GB
'White Andalusian Horse' by Baldur Tryggvason
A beautiful close up image of a white Andalusian horse dramatically silhouetted against a black backgro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Signed limited edition nude fine art print, Contemporary black white - Sandrine
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘ Sandrine ‘ who was captured on film in...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
Fourteen Trees, Higashikawa, Hokkaido, Japan
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential amon...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
she
Located in Cologne, DE
Beautiful vintage nude photo created by the East German Photographer Sigurd Rosenhain, who lived and worked in Leipzig.
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
DOUGLAS JULEFF Vintage 1950s Photograph of "Beefcake" model AL WALCH #2
Located in Glenford, NY
Rare early 1950s Original Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph by DOUGLAS JULEFF - also known as DOUG OF DETROIT - of body beautiful model AL WALCH. Photograph is an excellent example o...
Category
1950s Post-War Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Black and White Photography Set of Nine
Located in Cambridge, GB
A set of nine black and white photographs by Richard Heeps. They can be hung in a grid, or spaced out throughout your interior.
Richard Heeps, primarily known as a colour photographe...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Sur Le Toit
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Each image is hand-printed by the artist on archival paper
Signed
Edition of 17/ 3AP
Ask about other sizes
Renée Jacobs is one of the most celebrated pho...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Chinchilla Glamour' Silver Gelatin Print
By George Mayer
Located in London, GB
'Chinchilla Glamour' Silver Gelatin Print
George Mayer
Exquisite, very large 40x40" inches / 101 x 101 cm Silver Gelatin resin Print.
Certificate of authenticity provided.
Stampe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Frozen Landscape Winter Trees Nature
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art winter ice landscape photography print. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Eartha Kitt Stunning Smile
Located in Austin, TX
This elegant and glamorous black and white studio portrait features Eartha Kitt smiling to the camera with her back turned.
Eartha Kitt was an American singer, actress, dancer, act...
Category
1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York City, Harlem, Children, Black and White Limited Edition Photography
Located in New york, NY
Children, Harlem, New York, USA 1963 by Leonard Freed is a 19" x 13" signed and numbered archival pigment print in an edition of 10. Signed by the estate, Freed's widow Brigitte Freed, on back of photograph. Available: 7/10. Provenance: Freed archive.
Provenance: Freed Estate
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Artist’s Bio:
Leonard Freed (1929-2006) was an American photographer from Brooklyn, New York. His "Black in White America" series made him known as a documentarian. Freed worked as a freelance photographer from 1961 onwards and as a Magnum photographer Freed traveled widely abroad and, in the US, photographing African Americans (1964-65), events in Israel (1967-68, 1973), and the New York City police department...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Digital, Digital Pigmen...
Elizabeth Taylor On The Set Of Giant - Oversize Limited Print
By Frank Worth
Located in London, GB
Elizabeth Taylor with Sunglasses for "Giant" 1955
by Frank Worth
This iconic and elegant portrait captured by celebrity photographer Frank Worth features actress Elizabeth Taylor o...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Black and White: Mary Jane Russell, Le Pavillion
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print
Signed in pencil, verso
11 x 14 inches, sheet size
9.75 x 12.5 inches, image size
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Lillian Bassm...
Category
1950s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
American Composer David Del Tredici, multiple exposure nude with his music.
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of composer David Del Tredici, photographed nude - an extremely unusual multiple exposure with his music, in 1973. Signed by Jack Mitchell ...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,200 Sale Price
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Who I am - Contemporary, Polaroid, Nude, 21st Century, Joshua Tree
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Who I am
2019, 20x20 cm, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, not mounted.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2019 - 749...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Fencer Front, Nude, Fine Art Photography
Located in München, BY
Unique Piece
Original Polaroid
Framed and Passepartout
Evocative, sensual and voluptuous, Marc Lagrange's work celebrates beauty and pleasure.
With a predilection for nudes and port...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Roy's Cafe (California Badlands) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Landscape
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Roy's Cafe (California Badlands) - 2010
20x24cm,
Edition 2/10,
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 10905.
Not m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Beaton, Marlon Brando, Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1981. Published and pri...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
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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