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Black and White Photography For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 1970s
Well Heeled By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Well Heeled
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 64 x 48.5" / 162.5 x 123 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of 10
note other print sizes a...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jackie Kennedy; Paris; France, 1975, 30, 7 x 20, 1 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was an American socialite, writer, and photographer who became First Lady of the United States as the wife of P...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Rupert Murdoch By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Rupert Murdoch
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 54 x 41" / 137 x 104 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of 20...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Crash Call Phone Box By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Crash Call Phone Box
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 34 x 26" / 86x66 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of 50
note other print sizes...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Ant Anthony Fawcett By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
The Ant Anthony Fawcett
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 54 x 41" / 137 x 104 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
edition of 20
note other print sizes a...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Stonehenge Model By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Stonehenge Model
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 54 x 41" / 137 x 104 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of ...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Margaret Thatcher Hung Parliament By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Margaret Thatcher Hung Parliament
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 54 x 41" / 137 x 104 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of 20
note...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Stonehenge Model By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Stonehenge Model
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 54 x 41" / 137 x 104 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of ...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Italian Priest By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Italian Priest
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 44 x 33.5" / 112 x 85 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of 30
note other print sizes ...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Thatcher Decorating Ironing Lady By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Thatcher Decorating Ironing Lady
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 54 x 41" / 137 x 104 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of 20
note ot...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bjorn Borg By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Bjorn Borg
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 24 x 19" / 61x48 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of 50
note other print sizes and frami...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Crop Margaret Thatcher Decorating Ironing Lady By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Crop Margaret Thatcher Decorating Ironing Lady
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 34 x 26" / 86x66 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of 5...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Drum Major Kirk By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Drum Major Kirk
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 34 x 26" / 86 x 66 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of 50
note other print sizes and...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Rolls Royces Baby Bugatti Bug 26 By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Rolls Royces Baby Bugatti Bug 26
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 54 x 41" / 137 x 104 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of 20
note ot...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jimmy Connors By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Jimmy Connors
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 44 x 33.5" / 112 x 85 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of 30
note other print sizes an...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Short Back And Sidespin Snooker Hairstyle By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Short Back And Sidespin Snooker Hairstyle
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 54 x 41" / 137 x 104 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of 20...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Parking Wars Traffic Warden By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Parking Wars Traffic Warden
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 54 x 41" / 137 x 104 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of 20
note other ...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Margaret Thatcher Apeeling To The People By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Margaret Thatcher Apeeling To The People
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 44 x 33.5" / 112 x 85 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of 3...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Tyre Repairs By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Tyre Repairs
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 54 x 41" / 137 x 104 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
edition of 20
note oth...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Upper Glasses By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
The Upper Glasses
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 54 x 41" / 137 x 104 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
edition of 20
not...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Uproar Landseer Lion By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Uproar Landseer Lion
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 54 x 41" / 137 x 104 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
edition of 20
note other print sizes and ...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Where Art Thou Bernard Cohn Dot Painting 2 By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Where Art Thou Bernard Cohn Dot Painting 2
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 24 x 19" / 61x48 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of 50
n...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Where Art Thou Bernard Cohn Dot Painting By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Where Art Thou Bernard Cohn Dot Painting
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 24 x 19" / 61x48 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of 50
n...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Fruta Prohibida
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Manuel Alvarez Bravo. Fruta Prohibida, 1976. Vintage gelatin silver print. Signed and annoted "mexico' by the artist in pencil on verso lower right margi...
Category
1970s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sunflower Vase, Millerton, NY
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Paul Caponigro. Sunflower Vase, Millerton, NY, 1970, printed 1992. Gelatin silver print
Category
1970s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Klaus Nomi
Located in New York, NY
Klaus Nomi, 1979
Archival pigment print
image size: 36 x 36 inches
Signed and numbered
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, known principally for his f...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Freddie Mercury: Queen Frontman on Stage
Located in Austin, TX
This black-and-white action shot features Queen frontman Freddie Mercury singing in a white leotard.
Freddie Mercury was a British singer-songwriter, record producer, and lead voc...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Jackie Kennedy; leaving plane; 24, 1 x 18 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was an American socialite, writer, and photographer who became First Lady of the United States as the wife of P...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Jackie Kennedy in Car, Paris, France, 20 x 30, 5 cm, 1974
Located in Cologne, DE
Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was an American socialite, writer, and photographer who became First Lady of the United States as the wife of P...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Original Vintage Print - Woman in Bikini - Unique Piece
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Original Miroslav Tichý b/w Photography.
Woman in Bikini. 17.5cm x 10.5cm
Unique Vintage Print on paper with the artist's drawing on it.
Miroslav Tichý was a photographer who from ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Pinhole
Steve Mass, the owner of the Mudd Club
Located in New York, NY
Steve Mass, the owner of the Mudd Club
Archival pigment print
24 x 24 inches
Signed and numbered
edition of 15
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, ...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Arnold Schwarzenegger Flexing
By Arthur Gordon
Located in Austin, TX
A Vintage 1976 image depicting a young Arnold Schwarzenegger, the champion bodybuilder who was Mr. Olympia a staggering seven times. Schwarzenegger would become the biggest action mo...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Jackie Kennedy, leaving the Hospital, Paris, France, 30 x 20, 5 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was an American socialite, writer, and photographer who became First Lady of the United States as the wife of P...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Andy Warhol and Truman Capote at Studio 54
By Adam Scull
Located in Austin, TX
Incredible capture of Turman Capote and Andy Warhol at NYC's legendary disco, Studio 54, 1978.
Studio 54 is a former disco nightclub, currently a Broadway theatre, located at 254 ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sammy Davis Jr. with wife
Located in Cologne, DE
Samuel George Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American singer, dancer, actor, comedian, film producer and television director.
At age three, Davis began his caree...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
David Byrne (Talking Heads)
Located in New York, NY
David Byrne (Talking Heads)
Archival pigment print
image size: 36 x 36 inches
Signed and numbered
edition of 15
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City,...
Category
1970s American Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Steve Mass, the owner of the Mudd Club
Located in New York, NY
Steve Mass, the owner of the Mudd Club
Archival pigment print
14 x 14 inches
Signed and numbered
edition of 15
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, ...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Colette (Victorian Punk)
Located in New York, NY
Colette (Victorian Punk)
Archival pigment print
36 x 36 inches
Signed and numbered
edition of 15
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, known princip...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Klaus Nomi
Located in New York, NY
Klaus Nomi, 1979
Archival pigment print
image size: 24 x 24 inches
Signed and numbered
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, known principally for his f...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Herkules Farnese, National Museum, Neapel
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Fratelli Alinari (19th century): View of the back figure of Hercules Farnese in the large hall in the National Archaeological Museum, Museo Nazionale, Naples, c. 1880, albumen paper ...
Category
19th Century Black and White Photography
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photo of Ibram Lassaw Modernist Sculpture (Photograph)
By John Reed
Located in Surfside, FL
Galaxy in Ursa Major with Zabriskie Gallery stamp and Ibram Laassaw stamp verso.
The Photographer is John Reed. An East Hampton Photographer who shot Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Larry Rivers, Philip Guston, Conrad Marca-Relli, Syd Solomon, and James Brooks amongst other art luminaries.
This is for the original vintage photograph. I believe the inscription is in the hand of Ibram Lassaw some also bear the photographers stamp.
Lassaw was born in Alexandria, Egypt, of Russian Jewish émigré parents, he went to the U.S. in 1921. His family settled in Brooklyn, New York. He became a US citizen in 1928. He first studied sculpture in 1926 at the Clay Club and later at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York. He made abstract paintings and drawings influenced by Kandinsky, Sophie Tauber Arp...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cybill Shepherd, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Memphis, TN
Cybill Shepherd was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and after winning a beauty pageant, became an enormously successful model. Shepherd had an All-America...
Category
1970s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photo of Ibram Lassaw Modernist Sculpture (Photograph)
By John Reed
Located in Surfside, FL
Spaceloom XXIII
The Photographer is John Reed. It bears his stamp verso. An East Hampton Photographer who shot Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Larry Rivers, Philip Guston, Conrad Marca-Relli, Syd Solomon, and James Brooks amongst other art luminaries.
This is for the original vintage photograph. I believe the inscription is in the hand of Ibram Lassaw some also bear the photographers stamp.
Lassaw was born in Alexandria, Egypt, of Russian Jewish émigré parents, he went to the U.S. in 1921. His family settled in Brooklyn, New York. He became a US citizen in 1928. He first studied sculpture in 1926 at the Clay Club and later at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York. He made abstract paintings and drawings influenced by Kandinsky, Sophie Tauber Arp...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photo of Ibram Lassaw Modernist Sculpture (Photograph)
By John Reed
Located in Surfside, FL
The Photographer is John Reed. An East Hampton Photographer who shot Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Larry Rivers, Philip Guston, Conrad Marca-Relli, Syd Solomon, and James Brooks amongst other art luminaries.
This is for the original vintage photograph. I believe the inscription is in the hand of Ibram Lassaw some also bear the photographers stamp.
Lassaw was born in Alexandria, Egypt, of Russian Jewish émigré parents, he went to the U.S. in 1921. His family settled in Brooklyn, New York. He became a US citizen in 1928. He first studied sculpture in 1926 at the Clay Club and later at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York. He made abstract paintings and drawings influenced by Kandinsky, Sophie Tauber...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dans le Quartier Hongrois de Mea Shearim, Jerusalem Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
By Frederic Brenner
Located in Surfside, FL
Meah Shearim photograph of Torah scholars. Rabbis in Jerusalem. Photo of Hungarian quarter.
Frédéric Brenner (born 1959) is a French photographer known for his documentation of Jewish communities around the world. His work has been exhibited internationally, among others, at the International Center of Photography in New York, the Musée de l'Élysée in Lausanne, Rencontres d'Arles in Arles, the Brooklyn Museum in New York, and the Joods Historisch Museum in Amsterdam.
Brenner was born in Paris and grew up in France. In 1981, Brenner received a B.A. in French Literature and Social Anthropology from the Paris-Sorbonne University. He went on to study at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and received a M.A. in Social Anthropology, also awarded by the Sorbonne.
Brenner is the recipient of the Niépce Prize and his book Diaspora: Homelands in Exile won the 2004 Visual Arts Award from the Jewish Book Council.
At age 19, Brenner began photographing Orthodox Jews in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem. Initially, he believed this was "authentic Judaism," but his approach quickly evolved into an exploration of the multiplicities of dissonant identities.
In 1981, Brenner began photographing Jewish communities around the world, exploring what it means to live and survive with a portable identity and how Jews adopted the traditions and manners of their home countries and yet remained part of the Jewish people. He spent 25 years chronicling the diaspora of the Jews across the world from Rome to New York, India to Yemen, Morocco to Ethiopia, Sarajevo to Samarkand. Brenner has published five books and directed three films. His work has been shown in museums and galleries around the world. He has been represented by Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York since 1990.
Brenner’s opus Diaspora: Homelands in Exile was published as a two-volume set of photographs and texts by HarperCollins in 2003 and appeared in four foreign editions. Diaspora was also a major exhibition, which opened in New York at the Brooklyn Museum in 2003 and traveled to nine other cities in America, Europe and Mexico. In reviewing the book, The New Yorker wrote: “Brenner's work—elegiac, celebratory, irreverent—transcends portraiture, representing instead a prolonged, open-ended inquiry into the nature of identity and heritage.” NPR's Robert Siegel has described Brenner's work as "a celebration of the diversity and complexity of diaspora."
In 2006, Brenner founded This Place, a collective photography project aimed at recontextualizing Israel from multiple perspectives. The photographers working on this project include Wendy Ewald, Martin Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Jungjin Lee...
Category
1970s Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ivan Karp
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol
Portrait of Ivan Karp, ca. 1975
Acetate negative acquired directly from Chromacomp, Inc. Andy Warhol's printer in the 1970s. Accompanied by a Letter of Provenance and Au...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Macaroni factory, Neapel
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Fratelli Alinari (19th century): Maccheroni factory Insight into pasta production with drying pasta lines in the sun and workers, Naples, c. 1880, albumen paper print
Technique: alb...
Category
19th Century Black and White Photography
Warhol Superstar Joe Dallesandro, iconic 'rough trade' pose for After Dark
Located in Senoia, GA
Warhol superstar Joe Dallesandro photographed nude for After Dark magazine, 1970, shortly after starring in Andy Warhol's 'Trash'. Vintage 11 x 14 inch silver gelatin exhibition phot...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Macaroni vendors, Neapel
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Fratelli Alinari (19th century): Pasta vendors with stalls along the street proudly presenting their pasta, c. 1880, albumen paper print
Technique: albumen paper print
Inscription:...
Category
19th Century Black and White Photography
Robert Moog, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Memphis, TN
Musician and Inventor Robert Moog is seen in this photograph from January 7, 1970. Trained in physics, electrical engineering, and engineering ...
Category
1970s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Marisa Berenson, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Memphis, TN
Marisa Berenson, was related on her mother’s side to the great couturier Schiaparelli and through her father to the distinguished art historian Bernard Berenson. A celebrated fashion...
Category
1970s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Lily Tomlin, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Memphis, TN
Writer and performer Lily Tomlin made her name in the NBC comedy show Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In as Ernestine, the telephone operator with an answer for e...
Category
1970s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
David Byrne (Talking Heads)
Located in New York, NY
David Byrne (Talking Heads)
Archival pigment print
image size: 48 x 48 inches
Signed and numbered
edition of 10
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City,...
Category
1970s American Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Girl With A Gun, Patti Astor East Village photo 1977 (The Foreigner)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
"Girl With A Gun"
Actress and legendary downtown NY scenester Patti Astor, photographed on the set of "The Foreigner" by celebrated New York underground photographer Fernando Natalic...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Warhol Superstar Joe Dallesandro, iconic nude for After Dark, signed by Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Warhol superstar Joe Dallesandro the iconic nude portrait taken during the photo session for After Dark magazine, 1970, shortly after starring in Andy Warhol's 'Trash'. Vintage 11 x ...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Warhol Superstar Joe Dallesandro, iconic portrait for After Dark, signed by Jack
Located in Senoia, GA
Warhol superstar Joe Dallesandro the iconic portrait taken during the photo session for After Dark magazine, 1970, shortly after starring in Andy Warhol'...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Klaus Nomi
Located in New York, NY
Klaus Nomi, 1979
Archival pigment print
image size: 14 x 14 inches
Signed and numbered
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, known principally for his f...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Nineteenth century silhouette of a gentleman: Captain Adams, 20th Regiment
Located in London, GB
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Silhouette (circa 1870)
Captain Adams, 20th Regt
Gouache, pen, and ink
52 x 44 ...
Category
1870s Black and White Photography
Materials
Gouache, Pen, Ink
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.
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