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Bird Master circus series exotic daguerreotype reproduction
Located in Lafayette, LA
exotic daguerreotype reproduction
In the bustling world of 1890s circus sideshows, there was a reserved and stoic figure who commanded the attention of audiences with his awe-inspir...
Category
2010s Surrealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Mohammad Reza Shah - Black and White Photo - Original Photograph - Early 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Mohammad Reza Shah, King of Iran Saluting is an original photograph realized to document a historical moment of a ceremony while Shah in the front i...
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1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Photographie n°1, edition limitée
Located in PARIS, FR
This photography was created by Alexandre Onimus. It is printed by a famous printer in Paris. It was shot using the wet Collodion technique.
The artist: Alexandre Onimus is a contem...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Black and White Photography
Materials
Color
Planetary Kaleidoscope, Photo Mosaic Collage Space Photograph, Feminist Aviator
By Vera Simons
Located in Surfside, FL
This one depicts fragmented space photos radiating outward and is titled Planetary Kaleidoscope
SIMONS, Vera (1920 - 2012)
Vera Habrecht Simons, was a Ger...
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1970s Dada Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bridalveil Falls, Pacific House California Waterfall
Located in Carmel, CA
Actually Palladium photograph - no pull down for it!
Hand printed by artist
Corner mounted
Out dimensions 15x25"
Edition 14/25
Larger Size 20x36" Edition 2/15 Printed 2014
Category
2010s Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Palm Blue House - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Palm Blue House
A tall palm tree stretches above the shell of a blue coloured house near Galle, Sri Lanka.
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having ...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Removal of Self #56" Photography 16" x 20" inch Edition 1/1 by Ben Cope
By Ben Cope
Located in Culver City, CA
"Removal of Self #56" Photography 16" x 20" inch Edition 1/1 by Ben Cope
2011
Photo on deconstructed paper
16” x 20” inch
Ben Cope is a Georgia native graduating from Columbus Sta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Pigment
Water Running Free - Abstract Water Ripples
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand Printed Platinum Photograph
Australian Artist
Beautiful Blacks and Creamy Whites
Category
2010s Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Sammy Davis Jr., smoking, unknown date
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
Late 20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Jeffrey Cook
Located in New Orleans, LA
George Valentine Dureau (1930 - 2014) was active/lived in Louisiana. George Dureau is known for Male nude figure, genre, portrait.
Category
Late 20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (girl spinning)
Located in Helsinki, FI
Mikael Siirilä
Helsinki, Finland, 2020
Handmade silver gelatin print. The fibre-based photograph is tea-toned, stamped, signed and numbered in pencil o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Moon Reflections - black and white contemporary photograph (made with food!)
Located in New York, NY
This one-of-a-kind abstract handmade photograph is extra special, as it was made while testing out some "ICP Friendly" (International Center of Photography) materials - which are ac...
Category
2010s Abstract Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Photogram, Silver Gelatin
With the Fishes- abstract black and white contemporary photograph (made w/food!)
Located in New York, NY
This one-of-a-kind abstract handmade photograph is extra special, as it was made while testing out some "ICP Friendly" (International Center of Photography) materials - which are ac...
Category
2010s Abstract Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Photogram, Silver Gelatin
Chrysler Building Through Window
By Tom Baril
Located in New York, NY
Photogravure from the Tom Baril 'Manhattan' Portfolio.
Edition of 75, signed by the artist on bottom right.
Framing: acid free, archival framed, cotton rag mat.
Glazing: Optium museum plexi.
A graduate of New York’s School of Visual Arts, Tom Baril spent over fifteen years as Robert Mapplethorpe’s master printer. His subjects include urban architecture, seascapes and meticulously detailed botanical and nature photographs. Baril’s work demonstrates a command of technique that results from his extensive experience as a master printer. Baril developed a unique toning process that enriches the color and opulence of his photographs.
Tom Baril is inspired by the nature studies of modernist photographers such as Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham and Karl Blossfeldt. A similar attentiveness to the clarity of line, form, pattern and texture characterizes Baril’s still lifes. In composing the seascapes, Baril employs the traditional box camera obscura, better known as the pinhole camera...
Category
Early 2000s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogravure
Smoke Stacks Variation
By Tom Baril
Located in New York, NY
Photogravure from the Tom Baril 'Manhattan' Portfolio.
Edition of 75, signed by the artist on bottom right.
Framing: acid free, archival framed, cotton rag mat.
Glazing: Optium museum plexi.
A graduate of New York’s School of Visual Arts, Tom Baril spent over fifteen years as Robert Mapplethorpe’s master printer. His subjects include urban architecture, seascapes and meticulously detailed botanical and nature photographs. Baril’s work demonstrates a command of technique that results from his extensive experience as a master printer. Baril developed a unique toning process that enriches the color and opulence of his photographs.
Tom Baril is inspired by the nature studies of modernist photographers such as Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham and Karl Blossfeldt. A similar attentiveness to the clarity of line, form, pattern and texture characterizes Baril’s still lifes. In composing the seascapes, Baril employs the traditional box camera obscura, better known as the pinhole camera...
Category
Early 2000s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogravure
Chrysler Building from Madison Avenue
By Tom Baril
Located in New York, NY
Photogravure from the Tom Baril 'Manhattan' Portfolio.
Edition of 75, signed by the artist on bottom right.
Framing: acid free, archival framed, cotton rag mat.
Glazing: Optium muse...
Category
Early 2000s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogravure
Chrysler Building at Night
By Tom Baril
Located in New York, NY
Photogravure from the Tom Baril 'Manhattan' Portfolio.
Edition of 75, signed by the artist on bottom right.
Framing: acid free, archival framed, cotton rag mat.
Glazing: Optium muse...
Category
Early 2000s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogravure
59th Street Bridge
By Tom Baril
Located in New York, NY
Photogravure from the Tom Baril 'Manhattan' Portfolio.
Edition of 75, signed by the artist on bottom right.
Framing: acid free, archival framed, cotton rag mat.
Glazing: Optium muse...
Category
Early 2000s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogravure
George Barris, "In Her Car Montage, " photolithograph, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Photographed in her car at the Hollywood Hills home of Tim Leimert, this black and white photolithograph was created from the original negatives in 1962 and printed in 1987. Publishe...
Category
Mid-20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Rough Waters (aka Don't Look Down) - black-and-white contemporary photograph
Located in New York, NY
"Rough Waters (aka Don't Look Down)" - Unique silver gelatin print (mixed process photogram). Made with ice, flowers, sand, glitter, and more. BRAND NEW, printed on Fomatone MG 133, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Photogram, Silver Gelatin
Higbee Beach I
Located in Maplewood, NJ
HEIDI NIEMALA PHOTOGRAPHY
Heidi Niemala is a New York-based fashion photographer best known for her timeless images. Her work has been described as “tran...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Octopus Vulgaris ( Special Edition)
Located in VALLAURIS, FR
While also available as a platinum print on Arches Platinum Rag (56 x 76 cm), this larger version (63 x 99 cm) of Schlegel's famous "Octopus Vulgaris" is a true prowess. It is printed on 30 gsm Japanese Hand-made Gampi paper. Taking into account the thinness of the paper and the fact that the platinum salt emulsion is embedded into its fiber during the printing process, this is a real feat of technical strength.
Considered as the most archival process of all; its perfectly matte tonal range goes from a cool, slightly purple black to split tones of brown and warm black, to a very warm brown.
Sold framed with a museum glass measuring 85 x 115 cm
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The ocean has always been one of the most mysterious places on earth. In the past many legends and myths have evolved around monsters living in the deep sea. As a child many of us used to fantasize about underwater monsters like giant colossal squids having so much power that they were able to take down ships.
By looking at Jan C. Schlegel his pictures, you can get a small glimpse of the richness and diversity of our oceans. When we think of fish, we usually perceive them as food and think of salmon or tuna.
The photographs reveal much more than what could be imagined and are truly a special tribute to all the different kind of species living underneath the surface. There are sea horses that look like dragons with galaxies on their skin, flounders with their perfect flat form and their ability to turn invisible or even squids that will remind you of aliens from another planet. Using platinum printing as a process allows Jan C. Schlegel to create a deepness in his pictures that makes every small detail and structure visible for the human eye. It gives you the impression of being able to feel the animal just by looking at the pictures. This series celebrates the art of nature...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Mary Pickford Douglas Fairbanks at Walpi First Mesa Hopi Village 1920 Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks at Walpi First Mesa Hopi Village 1920 Photograph
Original Sepia toned Silver gelatin photographic print by Charles Roshe (British, 1885-1974).
Provenance: Mary Pickford, Elizabeth (Bess) Huggins.
Image 10.75"H x 13.75"W
He was Mary Pickford's favorite cinematographer and a personal friend, shooting all of the films in which she starred from 1918 to 1927, before they had a falling out during production of Coquette (1929). He was the first cinematographer to receive an Academy Award, along with Karl Struss, for Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), and won again for The Yearling (1946), with Leonard Smith and Arthur Arling. He was also nominated four times.
Walpi, pueblo (village), Navajo county, northeastern Arizona, U.S., on the edge of a high mesa in the Hopi Indian Reservation. It comprises a group of angular stone houses of two to three stories crowded on a narrow tip of the steep-walled mesa at an elevation of 6,225 feet (1,897 metres). The original pueblo (founded c. 1700) was on a lower part of the mesa, but following the Pueblo Rebellion, the inhabitants moved to the top as a defensive measure against Spanish retaliation. Walpi is known for an antelope ceremony and for snake dances, held during odd years in August and generally closed to non-Hopi spectators. Shitchumovi (Sichomivi) pueblo is adjacent and Hano is nearby.
Pickford was the first Canadian to win an Oscar. She was also the second to win best actress and the first for a role in a film with sound. She was one of the founding members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
In 1919 Pickford took the lead in organizing the United Artists Corporation with Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks. In 1920, after the dissolution of her first marriage (1911–19) to actor Owen Moore, she married Fairbanks (divorced 1936). Pickford’s popularity continued unabated in Pollyanna (1920), Little Lord...
Category
1920s Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Junkin’ at Thompson Grocery
Located in Nashville, TN
Tennessee-native photographer Bill Steber has documented blues culture in Mississippi for the last 20 years. He chronicles the state's blues musicians, juk...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Deacon Allen Moore
Located in Nashville, TN
Tennessee-native photographer Bill Steber has documented blues culture in Mississippi for the last 20 years. He chronicles the state's blues musicians, juk...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Italian Actress and Singer Loretta Goggi - Vintage b/w Photo - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian actress and singer Loretta Goggi during "Il bello della diretta".
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
NEON Swimming - Vibrant Noir Abstract Photography
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
NEON Swimming - Vibrant Noir Abstract Photography.
Swimming Pool - Bright Orange and Black Noir. Photography. Edition Print.
This Photography work 23.5 inches by 35.5 inches.
Pico...
Category
2010s Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
David Bowie and William Burroughs, framed signed print by Terry O'Neill
Located in Austin, US
Ready to ship immediately. Free domestic US shipping.
David Bowie and William Burroughs in Los Angeles, February 1974, signed Terry O'Neill, 8x10" print, custom framed with non-glar...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Mexico, Man, Handcraft, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 24, 2 x 24 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 Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Guatemala, Market, Black and White Photography, ca. 1960s, 24 x 24 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, and the USSR in the 1960s.In the invitation to an exhibition of her works in 2003, one reads:
"Hanna Seidel, observing the world through her camera lens, could capture everyday situtations in a unique manner."A touring exhibition containing 100 selected photographs entitled "From Rio Grande to Cape Horn...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Aizuwakamatsu City, Fukushima, Japan
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In many respects, Pentti Sammallahti is a modern-day nomad, an itinerant photographer who records lands and peoples as he comes upon them. One of the most distinguishing elements of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Chrysler View - Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Chrysler View
Signed Limited Edition
Stuart Möller
paper size - 60x40 inches / 152 x 101 cm
Signed and numbered by artist on the front
Limited to only 3 this size
Unframed
Bo...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
La Furia del Mantón. Black and white photograph of flamenco by James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
Flamenco dancers use facial expressions, hand movements and gestures to convey emotions. Their dress is dramatic and enhances these movements often with the sweep and swirl of the flamenco shawl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Guatemala, Women, Black and White Photography, ca. 1960s, 17, 2 x 23, 1 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 Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
David Bowie 1978
Located in Austin, US
David Bowie live on stage in Canada by John R Rowlands.
Signed limited edition 17x22" print, number 17/25
Hand signed and number by the artist.
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hiking on the woods, Guilford CT. Unique piece.
Located in New York, NY
Guilford, CT. Is a piece from Black and White Paintings, signed on the verso. Pencil, ink, Indian ink, and enamel on Archival inkjet print. Is a unique piece.
After meticulously p...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Enamel
"Removal of Self #60" Photography 16" x 20" inch Edition 1/1 by Ben Cope
By Ben Cope
Located in Culver City, CA
"Removal of Self #60" Photography 16" x 20" inch Edition 1/1 by Ben Cope
2011
Photo on deconstructed paper
16” x 20” inch
Ben Cope is a Georgia native graduating from Columbus Sta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Pigment
Chrysler View - Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Chrysler View
Signed Limited Edition
Stuart Möller
paper size - 24 x 20" / 60 x 51 cm
Signed and numbered by artist on the front
Limited to only 20 this size
Unframed
Born in...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Queen Elizabeth II - Vintage Photograph
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elizabeth II is a vintage black and white photograph.
Good conditions though a little blurry.
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Hong Kong, Women, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 24 x 24 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 Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Untitled (Grand Piano/Bat)
By Chema Madoz
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 5
Toned gelatin silver print
54 3/4 x 46 3/4 in.
Frame Included.
Chema Madoz is one of the most important contemporary Spanish photographers, who is greatly known for his...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Street Photography Bruce Cratsley Photo Silver Gelatin Print Photograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Bruce Cratsley, American (1944-1998)
Vintage gelatin silver print
Connections
A surrealist image of a mannequin in a store window with nude Roman figurines, a light study.
Hand signed, titled and dated 1987 verso
image (each): 15 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches, matted to 24 X 20 inches
Provenance: From the collection of AGFA Graphics Corporation
David Bruce Cratsley (1944 - 1998) was an American photographer specialized in still lifes, portraits of friends, and life in New York City. He had a reputation of master of light and shadow.
Bruce Cratsley attended Swarthmore College, graduating in 1966, and then, in the early 1970s, The New School for Social Research, studying under Lisette Model.
Cratsley worked for many years as a gallerist at Marlborough Gallery before quitting in 1986 to become a full-time photographer. As "Bruce Cratsley", he exhibited in various New York galleries, like: Laurence Miller Gallery, Howard Greenberg Gallery and Witkin Gallery. Cratsley was represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery, a dealer of fine art photography based in SoHo. He was photographed by Elsa Dorfman...
Category
1980s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson in India - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Lyndon B. Johnson is a black and white photo realized in 1961.
The photo depicts the Vice-President Johnson in India in 1961. On the left the wife ...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Lake, MO, 2017
Located in New York, NY
Lake, MO 2017. Is a piece that belongs to a larger series of photo paintings consisting of about 52 total. This piece is made with; ink, and enamel on...
Category
2010s Post-Minimalist Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Corn on the Cob
Located in Nashville, TN
Early fascinations with photography and science have inspired Don Dudenbostel throughout his extensive career. As a young student interested in Science, Dudenbostel was always trying...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bear and Horse
Located in Nashville, TN
Early fascinations with photography and science have inspired Don Dudenbostel throughout his extensive career. As a young student interested in Science, Dudenbostel was always trying...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Games we played (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Games we played (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 artist proofs.
Archival C-Print print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label, art...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Djebel Amour - Vintage Photograph - Mid-20 Century
Located in Roma, IT
Djebel Amour, the vintage photograph is an original vintage photograph realized by an Anonymous photographer.
With the typed note of a short description i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
President J. F. Kennedy in London - Vintage Photograph - 1961
Located in Roma, IT
The President J. F. Kennedy in London is a black and white photo realized in 1961.
The artwork depicts the American President Kennedy in London, in ...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Cornet
Located in Nashville, TN
Early fascinations with photography and science have inspired Don Dudenbostel throughout his extensive career. As a young student interested in Science, Dudenbostel was always trying...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
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...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Artichoke
Located in Nashville, TN
Early fascinations with photography and science have inspired Don Dudenbostel throughout his extensive career. As a young student interested in Science, Dudenbostel was always trying...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
James and Fighting Cock
Located in Nashville, TN
Early fascinations with photography and science have inspired Don Dudenbostel throughout his extensive career. As a young student interested in Science, Dudenbostel was always trying...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Grandpa Jones (Early 70s)
Located in Nashville, TN
Early fascinations with photography and science have inspired Don Dudenbostel throughout his extensive career. As a young student interested in Science...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pears
Located in Nashville, TN
Early fascinations with photography and science have inspired Don Dudenbostel throughout his extensive career. As a young student interested in Science...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Onions
Located in Nashville, TN
Early fascinations with photography and science have inspired Don Dudenbostel throughout his extensive career. As a young student interested in Science...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Clock 2
Located in Nashville, TN
Early fascinations with photography and science have inspired Don Dudenbostel throughout his extensive career. As a young student interested in Science, Dudenbostel was always trying...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ralph Stanley and Curley Ray Cline
Located in Nashville, TN
Early fascinations with photography and science have inspired Don Dudenbostel throughout his extensive career. As a young student interested in Science, Dudenbostel was always trying...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Shop Black and White Photography
There’s a lot to love about black and white photography.
The unique and timeless quality of a black and white photograph accentuates any room. Some might argue that we’re naturally drawn to color photography because it’s the world we know best. This is a shared belief, particularly in the era of camera-phone photography, editing apps and the frenetic immediacy of sharing photos on social media. But when we look at black and white photography, we experience deep, rich shadows and tonal properties in a way that transfixes us. Composition and textures are crisp and engaging. We’re immediately drawn to the subjects of vintage street photography and continue to feel the emotional impact of decades-old photojournalism. The silhouettes of mountains in black and white landscape photography are particularly pronounced, while portrait photography and the skylines of urban cityscapes come to life in monochrome prints.
When decorating with fine photography, keep in mind that some color photographs may not be suitable for every space. However, you can be more daring with black and white photos. The gray tones are classic, sophisticated and generally introduce elegance to any corner of your home, which renders black and white prints amazingly versatile.
Black and white photography adapts to its surroundings like a chameleon might. A single large-scale black and white photograph above the sofa in your living room is going to work with any furniture style, and as some homeowners and designers today are working to introduce more muted tones and neutral palettes to dining rooms and bedrooms, the integration of black and white photography — a hallmark of minimalist decor — is a particularly natural choice for such a setting.
Another advantage to bringing black and white photography into your home is that you can style walls and add depth and character without worrying about disrupting an existing color scheme. Black and white photographs actually harmonize well with accent colors such as yellow, red and green. Your provocative Memphis Group lighting and bold Pierre Paulin seating will pair nicely with the black and white fine nude photography you’ve curated over the years.
Black and white photography also complements a variety of other art. Black and white photos pair well with drawings and etchings in monochromatic hues. They can also form part of specific color schemes. For example, you can place black and white prints in colored picture frames for a pop of color. And while there are no hard and fast rules, it’s best to keep black and white prints separate from color photographs. Color prints stand out in a room more than black and white prints do. Pairing them may detract attention from your black and white photography. Instead, dedicate separate walls or spaces to each.
Once you’ve selected the photography that best fits your space, you’ll need to decide how to hang the images. If you want to hang multiple photos, it’s essential to know how to arrange wall art. A proper arrangement can significantly enhance a living space.
On 1stDibs, explore a vast collection of compelling black and white photography by artists such as Mark Shaw, Jack Mitchell (a photographer you should know), Berenice Abbott and David Yarrow.
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