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Black and White Photography For Sale
Style: Old Masters
Style: Conceptual
William S Burroughs, by Robert Mapplethorpe
Located in London, GB
Gelatin silver print 9 3/4 x 7 7/8 in 24.9 x 20.1 cm Printed by Radar Publikationen and Edition K.L.A.G. credit stamps verso. Photographers credit stamp verso.
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20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Surrealist Fake Limb Prosthetic Factory Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
These are vintage prints from the 1980's. The last photo shows a gallery or museum label from an accompanying piece (there were three sequence shots in this series) but is not on thi...
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1980s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Surrealist Fake Limb Prosthetic Factory Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
These are vintage prints from the 1980's. The last photo shows of a label from an accompanying piece (there were three sequence shots in this series) but is not on this piece. They l...
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1980s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Tacita Dean, Aerial View of Teignmouth Electron - Contemporary Photography
Located in Hamburg, DE
Tacita Dean (British, born 1965) Aerial View of Teignmouth Electron, Cayman Brac 16th of September 1998, 2000 Medium: Gelatin silver print on paper Dimensions: 21 x 26 cm (8 1/4 x 10...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Film Strip, Classic Silver Gelatin Black & White Nude Photography
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist,...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin, Black and White

1964 Renault Dauphine
Located in New York, NY
Christopher Williams is a conceptual artist and fine art photographer This image is from the series of pictures of a 1964 automobile on its side ...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Savannah Spirit, Film Strip
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Erotica to save our souls. Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. ARTSY: May 28, 2019: The Photographers Fighting Instagram’s Censorship of Nude Bodies, by Kelsey Ables. ...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Savannah Spirit, End of an Era (Black and White Nude Photography B&W)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this self portrait, Savannah Spirit turns the tradition of black and white female portraiture back on itself. The muse is the artist, and the lens is her own. Spirit believes th...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Savannah Spirit, Feeling Hollywood (Black and White Nude Photography)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit Feeling Hollywood 30 x 20 inches Signed by artist Other editions: Feeling Hollywood (Freedom for the Artist) 40 x 28 inches Signed by artist Latest press ARTSY: Ma...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Closure
Located in London, GB
'Closure' London, United Kingdom 2018 Limited edition of 20. John Gibson 'Hylas Surprised by the Naiades' According to Greek mythology, Hylas was the beautiful son of King Thiodom...
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2010s Old Masters Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper, Giclée

'Never Let a Snake Bite You Twice' Black and White Nude Classical Silver Gelatin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Through her artwork and curation, Spirit takes on technology and social media censors who operate on the assumption that any unclothed body is pornography. Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. "We are unique beauty, we are strong, we are equal, we are body-positive, we are elegant, we are powerful, we are vulnerable. We are our own muses." Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage pinup...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

#189 Yunoyani Village, Nigata Prefecture, Japanese Photography Limited Edition
Located in New york, NY
The photograph Toshio Shibata, #189 Yunoyani Village, Nigata Prefecture, 1989 by Japanese photographer Toshio Shibata is hand-signed (on recto) by the photographer. The 13" x 19" pri...
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1980s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Pigment, Arc...

'Be the Woman You Needed When You Were Younger' Black+White Nude Silver Gelatin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Through her artwork and curation, Spirit takes on technology and social media censors who operate on the assumption that any unclothed body is pornography. Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. "We are unique beauty, we are strong, we are equal, we are body-positive, we are elegant, we are powerful, we are vulnerable. We are our own muses." Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage pinup...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

'Topaz' Black and White Nude Classical Silver Gelatin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Through her artwork and curation, Spirit takes on technology and social media censors who operate on the assumption that any unclothed body is pornography. Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Savannah Spirit Topaz 20” x 26” Silver gelatin print 1/1 "We are unique beauty, we are strong, we are equal, we are body-positive, we are elegant, we are powerful, we are vulnerable. We are our own muses." Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage pinup...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Water Music Series #5023 : landscape photography
Located in New York, NY
Landscape photography by fine art and documentary photographer Holly Gordon. Holly Gordon is one of the many treasures that Long Island has to offer, co...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Savannah Spirit Feeling Hollyweird (Black and White Nude Photography, B&W)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze ...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Closure
Located in London, GB
'Closure' London, United Kingdom 2018 Limited edition of 20. John Gibson 'Hylas Surprised by the Naiades' According to Greek mythology, Hylas was the beautiful son of King Thiodom...
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2010s Old Masters Black and White Photography

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Giclée, Photographic Paper

Pablo Neruda - b/w photo - 1962
Located in Roma, IT
Pablo Neruda Vintage Photo, b/w photo is realized in 1962. With the stamp of " Scarmiglia, Roma" Good conditions, consumed margins.
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1960s Old Masters Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Savannah Spirit The Bottom Line (Black and White Nude Photography B&W)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Through her artwork and curation, Spirit takes on technology and social media censors who operate on the assumption that any unclothed body is pornography. Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Edition 3/3 $2200 Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Savannah Spirit, Shadow of a Doubt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit Shadow of a Doubt 30 x 30 inches Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Edition 1 of 5 Signed by artist Latest press ARTSY...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

My Body My Choice
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Press FORBES: Savannah Spirit Wants to Trigger Your Trump VICE: Erotic Art Fights Trump with Scenes of Female Pleasure BULLETT: The Art Show Fighting Fascism with Erotica HUFFINGTON...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Untitled, MT Inv. No 9-1-56 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 9-1-56 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 28,4 x 19,5 cm (11 1/8 x 7 5/8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, practically reinventing photography from scratch, reconstitutes pictorialism along with it, and not as a distortion of the medium but as something like its essence. What counts for him is not only the image - just one moment in the photographic process - but also the chemical activity of the materials, which is never entirely stable or complete, and the delimitation of the results via cropping and framing. Marginal and exceptionally voyeuristic, in his methods Tichý could be described as an “art brut photographer” yet he is also marked by classical influences. Though his images are produced with poor-quality equipment and carelessly shot, they offer an idiosyncratic and almost hallucinatory vision of a fantastical, eroticised reality. With his endless return to the same subject and the volume and regularity of his production, Tichý’s work draws many parallels to certain practices of conceptual art during the same period. – Art, Black and White...
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Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Palm Springs 1
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Further to Fly is a series of Wet Plate Collodion Photograms that continues in my practice of using drawings on mylar layered with light-sensitive materials in the darkroom to create...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Photogram

'Lux' Black and White Nude Classical Silver Gelatin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Through her artwork and curation, Spirit takes on technology and social media censors who operate on the assumption that any unclothed body is pornography. Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. "We are unique beauty, we are strong, we are equal, we are body-positive, we are elegant, we are powerful, we are vulnerable. We are our own muses." Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage pinup...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Palm Springs 7
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Further to Fly is a series of Wet Plate Collodion Photograms that continues in my practice of using drawings on mylar layered with light-sensitive materials in the darkroom to create...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

Materials

Photogram

Palm Springs 8
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Further to Fly is a series of Wet Plate Collodion Photograms that continues in my practice of using drawings on mylar layered with light-sensitive materials in the darkroom to create imagined landscapes. The illustrations used in the series are based on reference shots I took in Palm Springs...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Photogram

Savannah Spirit, God is a Woman
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit God is a Woman 30 x 30 inches Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Edition 1 of 5 Signed by artist Latest press ARTSY: May 28, 2019: The Photographers Fi...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

East of Lancaster, CA by Robbert Flick, 1981, Silver Gelatin Print, Photography
By Robbert Flick
Located in Dallas, TX
East of Lancaster, CA by Robbert Flick is a 16 x 20 in silver gelatin print. This print features 49 small images of black and white landscapes presented in a grid. Each image measures 1 5/8 x 2 1/8 inches. This print is from Robbert Flick's Sequential Views series from his America Roads Portfolio. It is signed, titled and dated by Robbert Flick. Robbert Flick, Professor Emeritus, is a Southern California artist who uses photography as his primary medium. He has been exhibiting his photographs for over 50 years and his work has been shown and collected by numerous private and public venues both nationally and internationally. He is the recipient of multiple fellowships and in 2001 was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts. The retrospective Robbert Flick: Trajectorieswas shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2004 accompanied by a comprehensive exhibition catalog co-published by LACMA and Steidl. In 2016 Nazraeli Press published “Robbert Flick LA Diary”. He is represented by ROSE Gallery in Santa Monica and Robert Mann...
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1980s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Savannah Spirit, Hold Onto Power (Black and White Nude Photography B&W)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this self portrait, Savannah Spirit turns the tradition of black and white female portraiture back on itself. The muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Through her artistic, social and curatorial projects, Spirit also takes on technology and social media censors, who assume that the unclothed body of a human, especially of those who identify as female, is pornography that must be controlled. Her artwork asserts that a woman is her own muse. Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Press FORBES: Savannah Spirit Wants to Trigger Your Trump VICE: Erotic Art Fights Trump with Scenes of Female Pleasure BULLETT: The Art Show Fighting Fascism with Erotica HUFFINGTON POST: Artists Are Resisting Trump's Misogyny with Erotic Art DAZED: The Erotic Show Taking on Donald Trump Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Published: City Journal Huffington Post The Color Theory Expert Snap The Nation Global Yodel THE magazine Live Mag! The Villager Ravelin D/Railed Magazine Open Letr Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage pinup...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

'Topaz' Black and White Nude Classical Silver Gelatin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Through her artwork and curation, Spirit takes on technology and social media censors who operate on the assumption that any unclothed body is pornography. Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Savannah Spirit Topaz 11” x 14” Silver gelatin print 1/1 "We are unique beauty, we are strong, we are equal, we are body-positive, we are elegant, we are powerful, we are vulnerable. We are our own muses." Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage pinup...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Savannah Spirit Human Abacus (Black and White Nude Photography B&W)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. ...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

'Be the Woman You Needed When You Were Younger, solarized' Silver Gelatin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Through her artwork and curation, Spirit takes on technology and social media censors who operate on the assumption that any unclothed body is pornography. Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. "We are unique beauty, we are strong, we are equal, we are body-positive, we are elegant, we are powerful, we are vulnerable. We are our own muses." Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage pinup...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Savannah Spirit Eye of the Sun (Black and White Nude Photography, B&W Nude)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this self portrait, Savannah Spirit turns the tradition of black and white female portraiture back on itself. The muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes th...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Be the Woman You Needed When You Were Younger, solarized Silver Gelatin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Through her artwork and curation, Spirit takes on technology and social media censors who operate on the assumption that any unclothed body is pornography. #Contemporary black and white nude photography by Savannah Spirit Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. "We are unique beauty, we are strong, we are equal, we are body-positive, we are elegant, we are powerful, we are vulnerable. We are our own muses." Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-3-11 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-3-11 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 22,9 x 17,1 cm (9 x 6 3/4 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, pract...
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Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Blomberg 1, Laser cut archival pigment ink print, signed, numbered, framed
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Blomberg 1, Laser cut archival pigment ink print, signed, numbered, framed Ideas of home and dislocation have always been compelling to me as the child of immigrant parents who arri...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Untitled, MT Inv. No 2-070 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 2-070 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 18,1 x 13,2 cm (7 1/8 x 5 1/4 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, practically reinventing photography from scratch, reconstitutes pictorialism along with it, and not as a distortion of the medium but as something like its essence. What counts for him is not only the image - just one moment in the photographic process - but also the chemical activity of the materials, which is never entirely stable or complete, and the delimitation of the results via cropping and framing. Marginal and exceptionally voyeuristic, in his methods Tichý could be described as an “art brut photographer” yet he is also marked by classical influences. Though his images are produced with poor-quality equipment and carelessly shot, they offer an idiosyncratic and almost hallucinatory vision of a fantastical, eroticised reality. With his endless return to the same subject and the volume and regularity of his production, Tichý’s work draws many parallels to certain practices of conceptual art during the same period. – Art, Black and White...
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Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-8-73 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-8-73 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 29,3 x 19,7 cm (11 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, practically reinventing photography from scratch, reconstitutes pictorialism along with it, and not as a distortion of the medium but as something like its essence. What counts for him is not only the image - just one moment in the photographic process - but also the chemical activity of the materials, which is never entirely stable or complete, and the delimitation of the results via cropping and framing. Marginal and exceptionally voyeuristic, in his methods Tichý could be described as an “art brut photographer” yet he is also marked by classical influences. Though his images are produced with poor-quality equipment and carelessly shot, they offer an idiosyncratic and almost hallucinatory vision of a fantastical, eroticised reality. With his endless return to the same subject and the volume and regularity of his production, Tichý’s work draws many parallels to certain practices of conceptual art during the same period. – Art, Black and White...
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Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-6-88 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-6-88 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 17 x 10,3 cm (6 3/4 x 4 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, practic...
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Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 10-1-96 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 10-1-96 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 17,9 x 11,2 cm (7 x 4 3/8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, prac...
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Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 11-1-120 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 11-1-120 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 17,9 x 13 cm (7 x 5 1/8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, pract...
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Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Nipple Detail (Black and White Nude Photography, B&W Nude)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit We The Nipple 30 x 30 inches Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Edition of 5 Signed by artist Erotica to save our souls. Latest press ARTSY: May 28, 2019: The Photographers Fighting Instagram’s Censorship of Nude Bodies, by Kelsey Ables. First artist featured: Savannah Spirit. In this self portrait, Savannah Spirit turns the tradition of black and white female portraiture back on itself. The muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Her artwork asserts that a woman is her own muse. Through her artistic, social and curatorial projects, Spirit also takes on technology and social media censors, who assume that the unclothed body of a human—especially a female human—is by definition, pornography, in need of control. Press FORBES: Savannah Spirit Wants to Trigger Your Trump VICE: Erotic Art Fights Trump with Scenes of Female Pleasure BULLETT: The Art Show Fighting Fascism with Erotica HUFFINGTON POST: Artists Are Resisting Trump's Misogyny with Erotic Art DAZED: The Erotic Show Taking on Donald Trump Internal: Savannah Spirit, Black and White Photography, Black and White Nude...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Braunschweig 1, Laser cut archival pigment ink print, signed, numbered, framed
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Braunschweig 1, Laser cut archival pigment ink print, signed, numbered, framed Ideas of home and dislocation have always been compelling to me as the child of immigrant parents who...
Category

2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-236 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-236 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 16,8 x 11,8 cm (6 5/8 x 4 5/8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, practically reinventing photography from scratch, reconstitutes pictorialism along with it, and not as a distortion of the medium but as something like its essence. What counts for him is not only the image - just one moment in the photographic process - but also the chemical activity of the materials, which is never entirely stable or complete, and the delimitation of the results via cropping and framing. Marginal and exceptionally voyeuristic, in his methods Tichý could be described as an “art brut photographer” yet he is also marked by classical influences. Though his images are produced with poor-quality equipment and carelessly shot, they offer an idiosyncratic and almost hallucinatory vision of a fantastical, eroticised reality. With his endless return to the same subject and the volume and regularity of his production, Tichý’s work draws many parallels to certain practices of conceptual art during the same period. – Art, Black and White...
Category

Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 4-089 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 4-089 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 20,6 x 12,3 cm (8 1/8 x 4 7/8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, pr...
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Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-5-64 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-5-64 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 18 x 11,7 cm (7 1/8 x 4 5/8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, pra...
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Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 6-9-23 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 6-9-23 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 23 x 16,5 cm (9 x 6 1/2 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, practic...
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Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-437 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-437 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 11,8 x 20,4 cm (4 5/8 x 8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, prac...
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Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-10-51 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-10-51 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 16 x 8,4 cm (6 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, pra...
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Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-3-74 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-3-74 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 29,7 x 22,5 cm (11 3/4 x 8 7/8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, practically reinventing photography from scratch, reconstitutes pictorialism along with it, and not as a distortion of the medium but as something like its essence. What counts for him is not only the image - just one moment in the photographic process - but also the chemical activity of the materials, which is never entirely stable or complete, and the delimitation of the results via cropping and framing. Marginal and exceptionally voyeuristic, in his methods Tichý could be described as an “art brut photographer” yet he is also marked by classical influences. Though his images are produced with poor-quality equipment and carelessly shot, they offer an idiosyncratic and almost hallucinatory vision of a fantastical, eroticised reality. With his endless return to the same subject and the volume and regularity of his production, Tichý’s work draws many parallels to certain practices of conceptual art during the same period. – Art, Black and White...
Category

Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No. 11-1-170 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No. 11-1-170 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 19,2 x 11,6 cm (7 1/2 x 4 5/8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý...
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Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 2-059 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 2-059 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 19,6 x 12,5 cm (7 3/4 x 4 7/8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, practically reinventing photography from scratch, reconstitutes pictorialism along with it, and not as a distortion of the medium but as something like its essence. What counts for him is not only the image - just one moment in the photographic process - but also the chemical activity of the materials, which is never entirely stable or complete, and the delimitation of the results via cropping and framing. Marginal and exceptionally voyeuristic, in his methods Tichý could be described as an “art brut photographer” yet he is also marked by classical influences. Though his images are produced with poor-quality equipment and carelessly shot, they offer an idiosyncratic and almost hallucinatory vision of a fantastical, eroticised reality. With his endless return to the same subject and the volume and regularity of his production, Tichý’s work draws many parallels to certain practices of conceptual art during the same period. – Art, Black and White...
Category

Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-185 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-185 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 14,9 x 10,4 cm (5 7/8 x 4 1/8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, practically reinventing photography from scratch, reconstitutes pictorialism along with it, and not as a distortion of the medium but as something like its essence. What counts for him is not only the image - just one moment in the photographic process - but also the chemical activity of the materials, which is never entirely stable or complete, and the delimitation of the results via cropping and framing. Marginal and exceptionally voyeuristic, in his methods Tichý could be described as an “art brut photographer” yet he is also marked by classical influences. Though his images are produced with poor-quality equipment and carelessly shot, they offer an idiosyncratic and almost hallucinatory vision of a fantastical, eroticised reality. With his endless return to the same subject and the volume and regularity of his production, Tichý’s work draws many parallels to certain practices of conceptual art during the same period. – Art, Black and White...
Category

Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 10-1-54 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 10-1-54 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 23,4 x 14,5 cm (9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, practically reinventing photography from scratch, reconstitutes pictorialism along with it, and not as a distortion of the medium but as something like its essence. What counts for him is not only the image - just one moment in the photographic process - but also the chemical activity of the materials, which is never entirely stable or complete, and the delimitation of the results via cropping and framing. Marginal and exceptionally voyeuristic, in his methods Tichý could be described as an “art brut photographer” yet he is also marked by classical influences. Though his images are produced with poor-quality equipment and carelessly shot, they offer an idiosyncratic and almost hallucinatory vision of a fantastical, eroticised reality. With his endless return to the same subject and the volume and regularity of his production, Tichý’s work draws many parallels to certain practices of conceptual art during the same period. – Art, Black and White...
Category

Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-431 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-431 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 15 x 9,8 cm (5 7/8 x 3 7/8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, pra...
Category

Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-11-31 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-11-31 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 18 x 13 cm (7 1/8 x 5 1/8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, prac...
Category

Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 10-1-167 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 10-1-167 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 17,7 x 17,8 cm (7 x 7 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, practically reinventing photography from scratch, reconstitutes pictorialism along with it, and not as a distortion of the medium but as something like its essence. What counts for him is not only the image - just one moment in the photographic process - but also the chemical activity of the materials, which is never entirely stable or complete, and the delimitation of the results via cropping and framing. Marginal and exceptionally voyeuristic, in his methods Tichý could be described as an “art brut photographer” yet he is also marked by classical influences. Though his images are produced with poor-quality equipment and carelessly shot, they offer an idiosyncratic and almost hallucinatory vision of a fantastical, eroticised reality. With his endless return to the same subject and the volume and regularity of his production, Tichý’s work draws many parallels to certain practices of conceptual art during the same period. – Art, Black and White...
Category

Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

I Am My Own Muse (Black and White Nude Photography, Self-Portraiture)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist,...
Category

2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

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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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