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"Contradiction", abandoned, factory, salon, hair dryer, vintage, photograph
Located in Franklin, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Contradiction” is a 18 x 12 inch black and white photograph of a salon style, vintage hair dryer in an abandoned factory. With sa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
Raquel Welch
By Eva Sereny
Located in Austin, TX
Modern edition, C-Type print estate stamped and authenticated on reverse by a representative of the Eva Sereny archive.
American film star and sex symbol Raquel Welch...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
"Colorado" - Black & White Landscape Photograph of the Rocky Mountains and River
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Colorado," is currently framed and matted by a high-end Los Angeles based frame shop, with a sealed back, archival materials and museum plexiglass. This black and white aerial photograph of the Rocky Mountains...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sewing Scissors
Located in Westwood, NJ
Richard Kagan, born in Philadelphia, followed a circuitous path to become a photographer. Beginning with street photography using a meterless Asahi Pentax as a student at Temple Univ...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Canyon, Person, Black and White, USA 1960s, 23, 1 x 18, 2 cm
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 1950.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photogr...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
"Grizzly Shores" 40x60 - Black and White Photography Grizzly Bear, Unsigned Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Grizzly Shores"
Unsigned
Printed on archival paper using archival ink.
Framing available. Inquire for rates.
Shane Russeck has built a reputation for capturing America's lands...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Warhol's America Black and White Print (1982), 2020
Located in New York, NY
The 'Andy Warhol American Flag' is an archival pigment black and white photographic print on paper, an exclusive photograph of the beloved pop-art icon Andy Warhol, created by Christ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Mattia
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Inchoy by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
The steady gaze of Inchoy and child.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to captur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Cigar Lady B/W; Old Havana, Cuba- Photograph
Located in Miami, FL
H-Allen Benowitz is a self-taught photographer, born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, and a graduate from the Interboro Institute of Business in Manhattan, migrated to Miami, FL in the 19...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Automotive Paint, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Paris, Decorative Art Exhibition 1925 Art Deco Sculpture - B and W Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
This exceptional and singular silver gelatin black-and-white photograph, taken by Press Agency in Paris in 1925, captures a defining moment from the International Exhibition of Moder...
Category
1920s Art Deco Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
Jerusalem, Israel Western Wall Ed of 5 Vintage Silver gelatin Photograph Print
By Mikael Levin
Located in Surfside, FL
Photo Image taken in black & white of Western Wall (Wailing Wall) Kotel Hamaaravi in Jerusalem Israel. Hand signed, dated and titled. From very small edition of just 5 prints.
(American-Israeli) Born in New York City, Mikael Levin grew up in Israel, the United States and France. He attended Williams College and received a B.A. in Film and Photography from Hampshire College in 1976 before studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. Levin's first published project was Silent Passage (1985), a series of romantic, reflective landscape photographs inspired by a pond in Sweden. This was followed by several other series, including Les Quatre Saisons du Territoire, a study of the changes in land use in western France; Borders, which focused on the political, practical, and conceptual transformation of national borders in contemporary Europe; and War Story, Levin's reconstruction of the journey his father, the war correspondent Meyer Levin, made while traveling with the photographer Eric Schwab during World War II. Meyer Levin wrote of these experiences in In Search (1950), which described his view of the final battles of World War II and the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45. Levin photographed sites his father and Schwab had visited as they appear today. These photographs and passages from the elder Levin's writings formed an installation work at ICP in 1997, and were also published as a book. Levin's most recent project, Common Places: Cultural Identity in the Urban Environment, considers the relationship between the past and present in the urban environments of four European cities: Katrineholm, Cambrai, Erfurt, and Thessaloniki.
Although inflected differently in each series, Mikael Levin's photographs have in common their interest in the emotional, intellectual, and historical significance of landscape. His work ignites landscape's capacity simultaneously to recall and overwrite the events of the past, especially in works such as War Story and Common Places. His photographs represent a new approach to landscape photography that reinvigorates this traditional genre.
Lisa Hostetler
Handy et al. Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography Collection, New York: Bulfinch Press in association with the International Center of Photography, 1999
Mikael Levin has been exhibited widely in the US and in Europe, including solo exhibitions at the Jewish Museum, Paris, 2010, the Berardo Museum, Lisbon, 2009, the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, 2003, the International Center of Photography, New York, 1997, and Fundación Mendoza, Caracas, 1980. His work was included in the Venice Biannual in 2003. Judaic, Judaica.
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2018 Marquee Projects...
Category
Early 2000s Post-Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Iconics by Fabrizio La Torre - Set # 2 - Roma - 1956 - Vintage Photographs
Located in Brussels, BE
Artworks sold in perfect condition : Set # 2 composed of 5 Gallery Print 30x40 cm
This is an exceptional offer that we are presenting today. For almost four years, here on 1stdibs, a...
Category
1950s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Two Callas
Located in New York, NY
This supremely elegant photograph illustrates why Imogen Cunningham’s botanical pictures are a keystone of modernist photography. In the 1920s, Cunnin...
Category
1920s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Reflection of a Giant, animal, wildlife, b/w photography, elephant
Located in München, BY
Edition 12
Signed and numbered on front and on a Certificate of Authenticity
Available in different sizes and editions.
A big elephant bull in Ngorongoro crater is drinking. A mirro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Trafic jam in Bangkok -Thailand 1957 - Large size Black & White Fine Art Print
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork # 3 on 5 sold in limited edition in perfect condition
Trafic Jam in Bangkok
This photo was made in 1957 and printed later, the negative was digitized during the artist's lif...
Category
1950s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sutton Place, New York
By Brett Weston
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed and dated on the front of the mount. Printed later in the artist's career.
Category
1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Frida with Granizo by Nickolas Muray, 1939, Platinum Print, Photography
Located in Denton, TX
Frida with Granizo by Nickolas Muray is a black and white portrait of Mexican surrealist painter Frida Kahlo with her pet fawn, Granizo.
Platinum Print
Image size: 11 x 10.5 in.
Pa...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
New York, New York, Go Magazine
Located in New York, NY
Ed. of 21, estate-stamped. Includes black frame with white mat.
Norman Parkinson was the preeminent fashion photographer in Great Britain from the late 1930s until his death in 1990...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Joan and Quintana Roo (Frame 27a.)
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes free shipping for unframed prints and a 14 day return policy.
Joan Didion by Julian Wasser
20 x 16 inch gelatin silver print
Edition 3 of 15
Signed on verso by Julian Wasser
*Please inquire for international shipments. Quotes will be provided at cost via FedEx.
Description -
Julian Wasser started his career in photography in the Washington DC bureau of the Associated Press where he met and accompanied the famous news photographer Weegee – who would become a lasting influence on him. In the mid-60s Wasser moved to Los Angeles as a contract photographer for TIME, LIFE, and FORTUNE magazines and becoming internationally known as the go to guy for getting candid but memorably composed photographs. (His iconic images of Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston; Marcel Duchamp and Eve Babitz; and a young Jodie Foster are already classics.)
In 1968 TIME Magazine assigned Wasser to go to the home of the young writer Joan Didion whose book Slouching Towards Bethlehem was becoming a literary sensation. “I’d read her fiction,” said Wasser. “and she didn’t miss a thing. She was such a heavyweight person.”
Wasser shot Didion at her rented house on Franklin Avenue in Hollywood, where she lived with her husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, and their daughter, Quintana Roo. “It was a nice, cozy house,” Wasser remembers. “And she was a very easy person to talk to...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
"Lounging Sailor", Orlando, FL
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition 1 of 20.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is p...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Princess of Monaco Grace Kelly
Located in New York, NY
Milton H. Greene
Grace Kelly
1955 (printed later)
All archival pigment prints, signed on reverse by the Estate
American actress and then Princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly for an Ameri...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jane March (Limited Edition of 25) - 20x24 In. - 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
"I Love You Anna" Photography 47" x 31" inch Edition of 3 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"I Love You Anna" Photography 47" x 31" inch Edition of 3 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
Av...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Balancing the Orb, Rhodes, Greece
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed by artist. Loose print.
Cannot be rolled.
Framing and matting available for an additional fee.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Edie Sedgewick 'Superstar'
Located in New York, NY
Edie Sedgewick 'Superstar'
1966 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
Signed and numbered by the artist
11 x 14 in - 25 + 5 AP - $ 8,000
16 x 20 in - 30...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled - Woman's Back In Bikini Bottom At Beach
By Herb Ritts
Located in Carmel, CA
Unsigned. Authenticated original Herb Ritts
Print Notations on Verso
Silver Gelatin Photograph
Over Matted In Corners
Category
1980s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$3,500 Sale Price
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Frank Sinatra - Reading the funnies
Located in Chicago, IL
Frank Sinatra at home in Hoboken New Jersey. Circa 1939. Relaxing in bed reading the cartoons from the newspaper. Photo taken by Nancy Sinatra Senior.
G...
Category
1930s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Kate Moss Contact Sheet (horizontal), Marrakech – Albert Watson, Nude, Woman, BW
Located in Zurich, CH
Albert WATSON (*1942, Scotland)
Kate Moss Contact Sheet (horizontal), Marrakech, 1993
Chromogenic print
Sheet 218,4 x 152,4 cm (86 x 60 in.)
Edition of 5; plus 1 AP; AP1
print only
...
Category
1990s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
C Print
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Jacques Lipchitz Bronze Sculpture Photo Signed
Located in Surfside, FL
Adolph Studly, Swiss born American photographer. His work is kept in the Photographic Archive at The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. He was known for his gallery photograp...
Category
1940s Modern Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Jackie Kennedy, Black and White Photography, ca. 1960
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
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Frank Sinatra Heading Home - Estate Stamped
Located in Chicago, IL
Heading Home – Frank Sinatra circa 1953 getting into his Cadillac. Hollywood, CA.
Giclee 300gsm smooth archival rag paper and archival ink
Each fine print is numbered and embossed ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Children of Sheffield
By Bill Brandt
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed by the artist and numbered on the front of the print. 11/25. Printed in 1982.
Category
20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Ali" Muhammad Ali Portrait 60x40 Photomosaic Photography Pop Art Unsigned
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Ali" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro. The first release in a series mosaic works called "Icons". Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smaller im...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
Wavering - underwater nude black & white photograph - archival pigment 24x18"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white photograph of a beautiful naked model on her knees at the bottom of the pool.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print on paper signed by the ar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Pulqueria, Mexico, 1926
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Museo De Arte Moderno, Mexico Bosque De Chapultepec, Exposicion Inaugural El Dia 20 De Septiembre De 1964’ stamp on verso with artist, title, collection, EW birth/death date, number,...
Category
20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Window Shopping" Photography 30" x 24" inch Edition 2/7 by Brendan North
Located in Culver City, CA
"Window Shopping" Photography 30" x 24" inch Edition 2/7 by Brendan North
Available sizes:
Edition of 15: 20" x 16" inch
Edition of 7: 30" x 24" inch
Edition of 3: 50" x 40" ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
Gay couple (Victor Hugo and unidentified man)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This is a unique photographic work taken by Andy Warhol of Victor Hugo and and unidentified man.
Image dimensions: 10 x 8 in.
Framed dimensions: 18.125 x 16.625 in.
Work is framed ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Aline with Butterfly, Denver, CO, 2014
Located in Hudson, NY
Each year, Robin Rice celebrates a Salon style exhibition to showcase her gallery artists and invite new ones.
With Robin’s extensive experience as a gallery curator, all Robin Rice Gallery...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Varnish, Pigment
Chanel Vertical, 1990
By Todd Burris
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print.
Edition 1 of 15.
CURRENT EXHIBITION - runs through September 4th, 2016. Any framed photographs purchased during the show will be available after September 4th. If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production.
Shipping time depends on method of shipping.
Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph.
ABOUT: Since the early ‘90s, gallerist Robin Rice and designer Antony Todd...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Silver Gelatin
Cracked Paint
By Brett Weston
Located in Buffalo, NY
Signed and dated on the front of the mount. Limited edition of 35. Number 17 of 35. From the “Twenty Photographs, 1970-1977” Portfolio.
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Man 's World" Photography 27.5" x 20" inch Edition 2/15 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Man 's World" Photography 27.5" x 20" inch Edition 2/15 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
Ol...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Seraphim II" Nude Photography 40" x 32" in Ed. 1/3 by Aaron Mcpolin
Located in Culver City, CA
"Seraphim II" Nude Photography 40" x 32" in Ed. 1/3 by Aaron Mcpolin
Medium: Archival Giclee Print
Available sizes:
Edition of 15 20 x 16 inch
Edition of 7 30 x 24 inch
Edition of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Women" Black & White Photography 27.5" x 20" in Edition 2/15 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Women" Black & White Photography 27.5" x 20" in Edition 2/15 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Nude in Tub - Body, Water, Woman
By Ferenc Berko
Located in Denton, TX
Ferenc Berko
Nude in Tub, ca. 1940-1949
Gelatin silver print, 13 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.
Signed in pencil and misc. notations in black ink on print verso by Ferenc Berko
Category
1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Tiana Hair in the Wind
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Each image is hand-printed by the artist on archival paper
Signed
Edition 4/17
Ask about other sizes
Renée Jacobs is one of the most celebrated photograp...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Swim, Bear Lake, Utah, 1998
Located in Hudson, NY
Each year, Robin Rice celebrates a Salon style exhibition to showcase her gallery artists and invite new ones.
With Robin’s extensive experience as a gallery curator, all Robin Rice Gallery endeavors are superbly managed. Whether working with corporate clients, interior designers or established collectors, the Robin Rice Gallery guides patrons throughout the selection process, inspiring them to build a stylish collection or striking décor. The Robin Rice Gallery offers a bevy of styles that Robin has procured with her own signature school of artists.
Figurative, black and white, water, swim, swimming, lake, Bear lake...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Peony no.2' cotton canvas scroll, floral photography, Limited edition 4 of 5
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
"Peony no.2" – Edition 4 of 5
Cotton Canvas Scroll Floral Fine Art Photography
Soft as breath and grounded in timeless stillness, “Peony no.2” is a meditation on fragility, presenc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Still-life Photography
Materials
Fabric, Organic Material, Wood, Cotton Canvas
Frank Sinatra - Live from the Rustic Cabin
Located in Chicago, IL
Live from the Rustic Cabin – Frank Sinatra circa 1938. Performing at the Rustic Cabin. Likely taken in rehearsals or during a live performance. Photo by Nancy Sinatra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Sunflower I
By Cy DeCosse
Located in Westwood, NJ
With a varied career as both an artist and art director, Cy has collaborated with many of America’s best photographers. His works are close, intimate portraits of almost infinite dep...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Platinum
$4,000
John Kennedy + John Lennon, Contemporary Art, Photography, 21st Century
By Gisela Faure
Located in Mexico City, MX
John Kennedy + John Lennon
Photography digital collage
Edition of 7
Framed in black wood
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Form I
Located in New York, NY
Ed. 10/10
Additional sizes available upon request.
Phoebe Fitz is a Miami-based artist specializing in underwater photography. Her images are a meditation on presence and embodim...
Category
2010s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$3,300
Hong Kong, Couple, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 29, 9 x 23, 8 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
"Trotting Horse", 1997, Kansas City
By Pete Kelly
Located in Hudson, NY
In "Trotting Horse", Pete Kelly uses the familiar form of a horse and abstracts it monochromatically. The resulting image is reminiscent of a cave wall ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Entering Metropolis
By Peter Liepke
Located in Westwood, NJ
"Entering Metropolis" is one of 36 featured works which make up the series Above & Beyond. This homage to New York City is an evocative tribute to Peter Liepke's ado...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Portrait of Helmut Newton, Monte-Carlo 1995 (3 OF 5), Helmut Newton and Big Nude
Located in Cody, WY
Portrait of Helmut Newton, Reach for the Stars, Monte-Carlo 1995. Shot in 1995 - Executed in 2006
EDITION OF 5 Silver Gelatin Print mounted ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Clam - Signed limited edition animal fine art print, Black and white still life
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Clam - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, Sepia tone - Edition of 5
This image was captured on film in 1984.
The negative was scanned creating a digital file which...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
Jackie Kennedy, Black and White Photography, ca. 1960
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
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet Nude for After Dark, Signed
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Artist/Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet (real name Isabelle Collin Dufresne) nude, 1971. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print recto. Comes...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,575 Sale Price
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Groom Kissing His Bride
By Diane Arbus
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is one of the most influential and daring photographers of the 20th century.
Arbus is best known for her unique form of documentary portraiture. She explored the uncanny, the marginalized, and the idiosyncratic characters who defied mid-century conformity. Her work has influenced some of the most renowned photographers of our time including Nan Goldin.
While her career launched in the fashion world, it was years after quitting commercial photography (circa 1956) that she found her voice as an artist. With camera in hand, she followed her fascination with the eccentric individuals and oddities of New York City. Ultimately rejecting her affluent, sheltered upbringing and the mainstream fashion industry to create her own definitions of beauty.
Arbus’ portraits were considered incredibly provocative for their bold representations of sexuality, chaos, and grit. She fully immersed herself within the queer and alternative communities she documented, engaged with a curious balance of mystery and homage.
Shot in 1966, "Groom Kissing His Bride" is a prime example of her uncanny ability to capture even the most traditional moments (a wedding) through a lens of surrealism.
Love and tension confront each other as the groom kisses the bride with an attacking passion. Her likeness disappears behind his embrace and their newlywed bodies merge together. This work also contains Arbus’ visual trademarks – a black and white palette, a square crop, and a hard flash that flattens the aesthetic wonderland of New York.
Today, Arbus' work is celebrated in many major museum collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Institute of Chicago, National Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo), and Centre Pompidou (Paris).
"Groom Kissing his Bride, NYC"
USA, 1966
Gelatin-silver print
Printed by Neil Selkirk
Stamped 'A Diane Arbus photograph...
Category
1960s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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