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Black and White Photography For Sale
Period: 1990s
Period: 18th Century
Moscow, Russia (Boy playing accordion on street)
Located in Sante Fe, NM
This print is currently featured in our exhibition, Warm Regards, and will be available to ship after the show closes June 24th, 2017.
Pentti Sammallahti is a benchmark figure in co...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Moscow, Russia (Boy playing accordion on street)
Located in Sante Fe, NM
This print is currently featured in our exhibition, Warm Regards, and will be available to ship after the show closes June 24th, 2017.
Pentti Sammallahti is a benchmark figure in co...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ivolginski, Buryatia, Siberia (Monks)
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Finnish photographer Pentti Sammallahti depicts nature, eroded and broken down by civilization, but does not put man and the environment in opposite camps. He sees an equal relations...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Druridge Bay, England, 1998
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Pentti Sammallahti is a benchmark figure in contemporary Finnish photography. His works depict nature eroded and broken down by civilization, but he does not put man and the environm...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Evan Dando - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Evan Dando - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Evan Dando, frontman of American band The Lemonheads, photographed in a cemetery in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Cover shoot ...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Alek Wek, New York 1996
Located in München, BY
Total Edition of 15
signed and numbered
Also available in:
90 x 120 cm / 35.4 x 47.2 in
120 x 160 cm / 47.2 x 63 in
Portrait of Supermodel Alek Wek.
Thierry...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Medicine Ball Front
By Luke Smalley
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print (Edition of 15)
Stamped and numbered, verso
20 x 16 inches, sheet
From the series, "Gymnasium."
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York Cit...
Category
1990s Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sophia Loren, 21st Century, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Edition 25
Also available in 101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch, Edition 10
Black and white portrait of the Italian actress Sophia Loren waring sunglasses and sits in a director's chair.
...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mark Wahlberg Smoking #1, 21st Century, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Edition 25
Also available in 101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch, Edition 10
Black and white portrait of the smoking model, actor and singer Mark Wahlberg.
Fr...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dune
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel for our multi-faceted but brie...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ferris Wheel from the Tuileries
By Lynn Saville
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Lynn Saville. Ferris Wheel from the Tuileries, 1999. Photographic print. Edition 5/25. Image measures 12.5 x 18 inches. Sheet is larger. Measures 21.5 x 27 framed. Signed, titled and...
Category
1990s Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Tabboo! Wigstock Portrait, NYC. Limited edition B&W photograph.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
“They will roll down the rugs or sprawl carefully on coaches. Their make-up will be perfect. They will take back the night.”
- Chi Chi Valenti, Take Back the Night
Men, Women, and ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Oasis 1995 - signed limited edition
Located in London, GB
Catalogue No: OA056JF
Artists: Oasis, Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher
Location: Slane Castle, Ireland
Date: 22nd July 1995
Era: The 1990's
Edition: hand signed Limited Edition
17/50
Print type: Giclée Print
Paper type: Archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag
printed this year
Oasis performing at Slane Castle in 1995 as the support for REM. Fourteen years later they would headline the festival.
paper size 61 x41 cm / 24 x 16 inches
© Jill Furmanovsky
Slane Castle, Ireland. 22 July 1995
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity
'I feel blessed to have photographed so many extraordinary musicians over my 50-year career. Their music formed a soundtrack to my life and has inspired my work. This exhibition at Proud is homage to their magical gifts. ‘No Music No Life’ says it all.' Jill Furmanovsky
Her legacy is profound.' Gail Buckland (guest curator and author of 'Who Shot Rock & Roll - Brooklyn Museum)
'She reveals you to yourself.' Nile Rodgers (Chic)
'Through the honesty of Jill’s work, we are brought closer to the frailty and humanity of celebrity.' (Neville Brody, designer of The Face Magazine)
'Jill is one of my favourite photographers of all time.' Jools Holland
Jill Furmanovsky body of work exudes at its heart her love of music and unique ability to capture its vibrancy and spirit throughout her career. Her intimate and candid shots of Oasis reflect her close relationship with the band during their zenith.
Rockarchive founder, Jill Furmanovsky, was born and brought up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Her parents moved to London in 1965 when she was eleven. As a teenager, she became a Beatles fan and often stood outside Abbey Road Studio hoping to catch sight of them. Her first rock shot was of Paul McCartney and two school friends taken on a Kodak Instamatic outside of his home in St. John’s Wood.
Jill studied textile and then graphic design at the Central School of Art and Design in London. In January 1972, whilst on a two-week block course in photography, she had a lucky break when she was offered a job as in-house photographer for premier rock venue, The Rainbow Theatre. From then on, she took live shots and features for the music press of the day of the 1970’s and 80’s, including NME, Melody Maker, Sounds, Smash Hits and The Face. In the 1990s Jill became the main photographer for Oasis.
Jill has won many awards for her music photography including The Jane Bown...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Roses in Pitcher, Photograph by David Hamilton
Located in Long Island City, NY
David Hamilton was a British photographer and film director best known for his photography of young women and girls. In addition to he composed photographs of flowers, men, landscape...
Category
1990s Post-Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Keith Richards - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print (1998)
Located in London, GB
Keith Richards - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print
Album Cover
August 26, 1998
Berlin
(photo Kevin Westenberg)
NB All prints are signed and...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Banya- Signed limited edition still life print, Black white photo, Dog, Animal
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Banya - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 1998 - Edition of 5
A Basset Hound with her friend in a French café
This image was captured on film.
The negative was ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Pi...
Drinking water from a pothole downstream from Uranium mine, 5/23/92
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Photographer Mark Klett is best known for cool, impersonal images of desert landscapes in the American Southwest, taken from a similar vantage points and under similar lighting condi...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Kabuki Starshine, Wigstock, NYC. Girlfriend Series. B&W Portrait Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
“Nobody wakes up looking like Dietrich or Garbo” - Kabuki Starshine
Men, Women, and Drag, draws inspiration from his diverse roles as a photographer, poet, and activist. His work of...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Dorian Corey, Wigstock, NYC. Girlfriend Series. B&W Portrait Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
“If two people remember your name, then you’ve left a mark. If you shoot an arrow and it goes real high, hooray for you.” - Dorian Corey.
Men, Women, and...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Lavinia Co-op, NYC. Girlfriend Series. Black and White Portrait Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Men, Women, and Drag, draws inspiration from his diverse roles as a photographer, poet, and activist. His work often intersects with themes of identity, social justice, and cultural ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Butch Chanel: John, Robert and Michael, Portrait NYC. Limited edition B&W photo
Located in Miami Beach, FL
“He left Phoenix in the morning, in the early dawning moments when the world is purple; and he saw on the highway, bands of spectral birds clustered on the pavement searching for God...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Lena by reflecting pool, Muley Pt., 7/14/96
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Photographer Mark Klett is best known for cool, impersonal images of desert landscapes in the American Southwest, taken from a similar vantage points and under similar lighting conditions as 19th-century photographs by the likes of seminal surveyors William Henry Jackson and Timothy O’Sullivan. These photos consider changes in landscape, history, culture, aesthetics, technology, representation, and perception. Klett has collaborated with several artists, including Byron Wolfe...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Inkjet
April Light, Cypress Creek, Wimberley, Texas
Located in Dallas, TX
"I like to go back to a place. Seasons change. Light, which is theater, changes. Nature is tumultuous, and our contact with it makes life happen.” - David H. Gibson
David H. Gibson ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Female Nude from Numbered Nudes Series multiple exposure signed exhibition print
Located in Senoia, GA
5040 1 2 1991 2/20. This is a vintage gelatin silver print, selenium toned, made by hand by master photographer Jack Mitchell and signed both on the recto and verso. Chosen by the p...
Category
1990s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jarvis Cocker Paris 1996 - Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Jarvis Cocker
Paris Olympia
NME Cover Shoot
(photo Kevin Westenberg)
NB All prints are signed and numbered by the artist.
Unframed
Signed and numb...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Jimmy James, Los Angeles, 21st Century, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Edition 25
Also available in 101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch, Edition 10
Black and white portrait of singer songwriter Jimmy James.
From personality portraits and advertising campaign...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Nude with White Line
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Blur by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Blur
Damon Albarn,
London,
1999.
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class mus...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Don't Tell Mamma #1. Black and white lips photograph
By Koray Erkaya
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This is a series of black and white nude photographs that began with analog photography between 1992 and 2005, followed by a transition period to digital photography. Erkaya is curre...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ben - Signed limited edition fine art print, Black white photo, Homoerotic
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Ben - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 1996 - Edition of 5
This image was captured on film.This print that is being offered is a high-quality Archival Pigment prin...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Pi...
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...
Category
1990s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Indian Club I
By Luke Smalley
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print
Stamped and numbered, verso
11 x 14 inches, sheet
5 x 7 inches, image
(Edition of 15)
16 x 20 inches, sheet
11.5 x 16 inches, image
(Edition of 15)
From the s...
Category
1990s Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
L' Amour- Signed limited edition contemporary print, Black White Photo, Oversize
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
L' Amour - Signed limited edition archival pigment print , 1993 - Edition of 5
This image was captured on film.
The negative was scanned creating a digital file which was the...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Pi...
Reel to Reel, Stretham
By Samuel Field
Located in Cambridge, GB
Photographed in the British Recording Studio that in the 1980's recorded music by Julian Cope of the Teardrop Explodes and the Stranglers. It was the he...
Category
1990s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin
Italian sculptor Gio Pomodoro, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Italian sculptor Gio Pomodoro, 1999. Signed on the print recto by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a c...
Category
1990s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Belomorsk, White Sea, Russia
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Finnish photographer Pentti Sammallahti depicts nature, eroded and broken down by civilization, but does not put man and the environment in opposite camps. He sees an equal relations...
Category
1990s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
1991 "Gate" Large Scale Signed Vintage Silver gelatin Print Photograph
By Zeke Berman
Located in Surfside, FL
Gate Taught Version 1991. Large format silver gelatin photo. signed and dated.
Zeke Berman’s still lifes are fabrications derived from the material of ordinary and intimate experience, reconstituted to satisfy the demands of improvised play, monocular vision, and the special characteristics of photographic description. They are concerned with the pictorial aspect of sculpture and the provisional nature of realistic indication. In the central tradition of still-life art, they aim to establish an unsuspected order in the congregation of unremarkable things.
Since the late 1970's Zeke Berman has been making singular, studio-based photographs. These works reflect his long standing interest in visual cognition, optics and
the intersection between sculpture, photography and drawing. The formal range of his work and his sculptural use of materials is varied, original and idiosyncratic. Berman’s work has been collected and exhibited in museums such as The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan, Whitney, Art Institute of Chicago and LA
County Museum. His work was featured in the first New
Photography Exhibition, 1984, at MoMA. Awards include Guggenheim, NEA and NYFA Arts Fellowships. Berman lives and works in New York City.
from MOMA A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio examines the ways in which photographers and other artists using photography have worked and experimented within their studios, from photography’s inception to the present. Featuring both new acquisitions and works from the Museum’s collection that have not been on view in recent years, A World of Its Own brings together photographs, films, and videos by artists such as Berenice Abbott, Uta Barth, Zeke Berman, Karl Blossfeldt, Constantin Brancusi, Geta Brătescu, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank, Jan Groover, Barbara Kasten, Man Ray, Bruce Nauman, Paul Outerbridge, Irving Penn, Adrian Piper...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Rolling Stones - signed Limited Edition print (1998)
Located in London, GB
Rolling Stones - signed Limited Edition print
Album Cover Shoot
August 25 1998
Berlin
(photo Kevin Westenberg)
NB All prints are signed and numb...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Soundgarden - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print (1996)
Located in London, GB
Soundgarden - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print
Personal Work
May 16 1996 New York
(photo Kevin Westenberg)
NB All prints are signed and numbered by the artist.
Unframed
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Edition limited to 10 only this size
Printed 2020
This size image: 30 x 40" / 76 x 101 cm
About the image:
Soundgarden was an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1984 by singer and rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto. Matt Cameron...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Jane March (Limited Edition of 25) - 30"x40" Celebrity Photography
Located in New York, NY
This fine art print features actress and model Jane March, posed topless on the rooftop of the Hotel Le Bristol in Paris in 1992. This risqué iconic b...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Horses - Signed limited edition nature print, Black and white photo, Landscape
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Horses , Limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 5
This image was captured on film. The negative was scanned creating a digital file which was then printed on Hahnem...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Arc...
Head in the Stars
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Staging Pictures: Early Polaroids focuses on Stivers' working Polaroid prints, shot with a Hasselblad Polaroid back for instant proofing of lighting and composition of his subjects. ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Two Hundred and Seven Sheep, Rakaia Valley, Canterbury, New Zealand. 2013
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential among ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mata Tea Plantation, Rwanda, 1991 - Sebastião Salgado (Black and White)
Located in London, GB
Mata Tea Plantation, Rwanda, 1991
Sebastião Salgado
International Shipping Available
Stamped with photographer’s copyright blind stamp Signed, inscribed on reverse
Undertaking pro...
Category
1990s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Eddie Vedder - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Eddie Vedder - Signed Limited Edition Print.
Eddie Veder, lead singer of American band Pearl Jam.
Seattle, Washington.
Melody Maker Magazine.
July 19...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Entering a Narrow Cave, Salt Creek, Utah, 5/9/90
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Influenced by late nineteenth-century expeditionary photographers such as Timothy O'Sullivan, who documented the "unexplored" territories of the West, Mark Klett visually explores th...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Branch Lyric, Cypress Creek, Wimberley, Texas
Located in Dallas, TX
"I like to go back to a place. Seasons change. Light, which is theater, changes. Nature is tumultuous, and our contact with it makes life happen.” - David H. Gibson
David H. Gibson is a lifelong photographer whose first contact with the medium was in his father's darkroom before he could read. Gibson received a B.A. from Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana, and an M.A. at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. His early work in theater lighting...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Clover Flower, black and white, still life photograph, signed, numbered
By James Pitts
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Clover Flower, black and white, still life photograph, signed, numbered
James Pitts, based in Santa Fe New Mexico, delicate still lifes are crafted as exquisite hand-coated platinu...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Ellen Kogan performing a tribute to Ruth St. Denis, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Ellen Kogan performing a tribute to Ruth St. Denis choreography in 1994, signed by Jack Mitchell, taken for The New York Times. This is an 8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph t...
Category
1990s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Luke listening to his stereo, Cathedral Valley, Utah, 4/23/94
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Influenced by late nineteenth-century expeditionary photographers such as Timothy O'Sullivan, who documented the "unexplored" territories of the West, Mark Klett visually explores th...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Swan Song, Prague, Czech Republic. 1990
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Edition 14 of 45
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains hig...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Mezzo-soprano opera singer Marilyn Horne, 1991. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print recto. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archi...
Category
1990s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Barcelona - Signed limited edition still life, Black white, City floor
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Barcelona - Signed limited edition archival pigment print , Edition of 5
Photograph realised on the Passeig de Gracia at the heart of Barcelona - Spain
This image was captured on...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Black and White, Photographic Film, Pi...
Artist William Wegman and his beloved dog Fay, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of artist William Wegman and his beloved dog Fay, 1995. Signed by Jack Mitchell on print verso. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archi...
Category
1990s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mr. Universe
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Staging Pictures: Early Polaroids focuses on Stivers' working Polaroid prints, shot with a Hasselblad Polaroid back for instant proofing of lighting and composition of his subjects. ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bowie on Stage - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Bowie on Stage - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
David Bowie on stage in Los Angeles
December 1996
(photo Kevin Westenberg)
NB All prints are signed and numbered by the ar...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Paul Weller - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print (1997)
Located in London, GB
Paul Weller - Signed Limited Edition Oversized Print
NME Cover Shoot
June 18 1997
London
(photo Kevin Westenberg)
NB All prints are signed and numbered by the artist.
Unframed
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Edition limited to 10 only this size
Printed 2020
This size image: 30 x 40" / 76 x 101 cm
About the image:
Paul John Weller is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Weller achieved fame with the punk rock/new wave/mod revival band the Jam. He had further success with the blue-eyed soul music of the Style Council...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
The Rouge, Study 109, Dearborn, Michigan, USA
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Edition 3 of 45
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains high...
Category
1990s Contemporary 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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