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November Clouds, Mont St. Michel, France. 2000, LTD silver gelatin print
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"November Clouds, Mont St. Michel, France. 2000" is a limited edition, silver gelatin print by Michael Kenna. The photograph is hand-made by the artist, signed and numbered, and mat...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Squeeze Me, Los Angeles, CA
Located in New York, NY
Ed. of 3, includes black frame with white mat. Vincent Ricardel is a photographic artist whose career has spanned the editorial, commercial and fine...
Category

1990s Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

PAURA E FEDE - Fotografia in bianco e nero di Ferdinando Alfieri
Located in Napoli, IT
Iscritto dal 1997 all'Ordine dei giornalisti pubblicisti, qualifica in fotografia nel 1998, Mostra fotografica personale al Pan (palazzo delle arti) Napoli marzo 2016 (con pubblicazi...
Category

1970s Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Male Nude Desert Landscape Study
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Roy Dean (1925-20020. Male Nude Study, ca. 1975-80. Original period print with artist studio stamp on verso. Print measures 5.25 x 9 inches; 13 x 17 inches framed. Roy Dean was bor...
Category

1970s Realist Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Mexican Revolution Portrait (1)
Located in Columbia, MO
Artist Unknown Mexican Revolution Portrait (1) 1972 Lithograph (poster) reproduction of original photograph c. 1917 24 x 14 inches 26.5 x 20.5 (framed)
Category

20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Lithograph, Silver Gelatin

Rio sem cor #9, Geometria Carioca series, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2019
Located in New York City, NY
JOAQUIM NABUCO Geometria carioca, Rio sem cor 8, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2018 72 x 48 inches Edition of 15 Archival Pigment Print Mounted and Framed (B...
Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

"Wet Leather I" A Sultry, Sensual Silver Gelatin Photograph of Seaweed
Located in Morgan Hill, CA
"Wet Leather I" is a darkroom silver gelatin photograph by Monterey, CA based artist Rachell Hester. This sensual photo measuring 10"w x 7" h features a menagerie of local kelp found...
Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin

'Sanctuary' - Ebenizer Creek southern photography, trees, swamp
Located in Atlanta, GA
This listing is for a framed print - printed on off-white paper in a natural wood frame measuring 44 by 30 inches. Edition of 10, additional sizes are available. Cecilia Montalvo & ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

DER DEUSCHER VOLKE - Photograph on baryta paper, Nino La Rocca , Italy 1987
Located in Napoli, IT
Analog photograph on baryta paper in black and white titled "Der Deuscher Volke" , the photo depicts the German Parliament and the Berlin Wall before the fall . The photograph is by ...
Category

1980s Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Male Nude Beach Study
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Roy Dean (1925-20020. Male Nude Study, ca. 1975-80. Origina; period print with artist studio stamp on verso. Print measures 2.25 x 4 3/8 inches; 9 x 12 inches framed. Roy Dean was ...
Category

1970s Realist Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

The Nanny
Located in New York, NY
Ed. 5/10, includes white frame. This work part of Christophe von Hohenberg's ongoing series of minimal, dreamlike images captured on the beaches of America’s Northeastern shoreline....
Category

2010s Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
Ed. 3/20, estate-stamped. Includes black frame. Milton H. Greene was one of the earliest and best photographers working in the early days of color photography. Aside from his outsta...
Category

1970s Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Untitled, Senegalese model
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Victor Arimondi (1942-2001). Portrait of Senegalese Model, ca. 1975. Period print measures 8.5 x 11.5 inches; 17 x 20 inches frames. Artist studio stam...
Category

1970s Realist Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Limited Edition Photographic Art Print "Preparing"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A limited edition (out of 25) black and white photographic print. Framed with a black or white box frame and floated to the backboard. The dimensions of 33.5 x 45 cm is that of the p...
Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Giclée

Sunbrella
Located in New York, NY
Ed. 1/5, includes white frame. With his passion for formal technique and composition, internationally renowned photographer Nathan Coe’s works exude a deep reverence for the classic...
Category

2010s Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Beastie Boys by Jake Chessum framed signed 9x12" print
Located in Austin, US
Framed, 9x12" signed open edition print of The Beastie Boys by Jake Chessum Jake recalls ” This was from April 1994. I flew from London to shoot at Mike D’s backyard and around G-So...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Giclée

ARCHITECTURE - Photograph on baryta paper, Bob De Masi, Italy 1970s
Located in Napoli, IT
Black and white photograph on baryta paper, title "Architecture" 1970s - Bob De Masi, with frame
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1970s Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

'Peony no.2' cotton canvas scroll, floral photography, Limited edition 2 of 5
Located in London, GB
'Peony no.2' 2023 97×120 cm printed on organic cotton canvas, limited edition of 5 + 1AP Canvas fixed on bamboo fixtures, to be and hanged as a scroll. Photograph is signed and ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Still-life Photography

Materials

Fabric, Organic Material, Wood, Cotton Canvas

Shades of Glass (No. 1) - Abstract Black and White Photogram
Located in Vienna, AT
Ulrike Königshofer Shades of Glass (No. 1) 2020 Photogram 33,9 x 25 cm Unique copy On Ulrike Königshofer´s series “Shades of Glass”: The photogram series "Shades of Glass" displays ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Photogram

Shades of Glass (No. 2) - Abstract Black and White Photogram
Located in Vienna, AT
Ulrike Königshofer Shades of Glass (No. 2) 2020 Photogram 32,2 x 23,2 cm Unique copy On Ulrike Königshofer´s series “Shades of Glass”: The photogram series "Shades of Glass" display...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Photogram

Mexican Revolution Portrait (2)
Located in Columbia, MO
Artist Unknown Mexican Revolution Portrait (2) 1972 Lithograph (poster) reproduction of original photograph c. 1917 24 x 14 inches 26.5 x 20.5 (framed)
Category

20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Lithograph, Silver Gelatin

BOYS - Photograph on baryta paper, Fabio Donato, Italy 2010
Located in Napoli, IT
Black and white photograph on baryta paper, title "The Boys" - Fabio Donato, with frame Fabio Donato, a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, was born in 1947. A photograph...
Category

2010s Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

The Queen Adjusts Stockings
Located in New York, NY
Ed. 2/5, includes black frame. Alison Jackson is a British artist who explores celebrity culture as created by the media and publicity industries. Jackson makes works about celebrit...
Category

Early 2000s Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Girl Running, Haiti, 1980 (framed)
Located in New Orleans, LA
⁠Photographer, director, and producer James Hayman has photographed all around the world. "No matter where I might be, or who I might be speaking with,...
Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Digital

Portriat of Tom Petchlsig
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Victor Arimondi (1942-2001). Portrait of Tom Petchlsig, ca. 1975. Period print measures 8 x 10 inches; 16 x 20 inches frames. Artist studio stamp on ve...
Category

1970s Realist Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Shadows & Light, Florence (framed)
Located in New Orleans, LA
⁠Photographer, director, and producer James Hayman has photographed all around the world. "No matter where I might be, or who I might be speaking with,...
Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Digital

Sky & Water, Anguilla (framed)
Located in New Orleans, LA
⁠Photographer, director, and producer James Hayman has photographed all around the world. "No matter where I might be, or who I might be speaking with,...
Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Digital

Prayer, Paris, 2021 (framed)
Located in New Orleans, LA
⁠Photographer, director, and producer James Hayman has photographed all around the world. "No matter where I might be, or who I might be speaking with,...
Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Digital

Boy on Beach, Anguilla (framed)
Located in New Orleans, LA
⁠Photographer, director, and producer James Hayman has photographed all around the world. "No matter where I might be, or who I might be speaking with,...
Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Digital

Man Sleeping, Oaxaca, 1976 (framed)
Located in New Orleans, LA
⁠Photographer, director, and producer James Hayman has photographed all around the world. "No matter where I might be, or who I might be speaking with,...
Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Digital

"Noble Grace" Contemporary Wild Horse Photograph, 40.5" x 30"
Located in Westport, CT
This black and white contemporary photograph by Tori Gagne captures a close-up view of a wild horse. An edition size of 50, this photograph is available as a metal sublimation print ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Metal

"Barack Obama, Occidental College, No. 29" Lisa Jack, President Photography
Located in New York, NY
Lisa Jack Barack Obama, Occidental College No. 29, 1980 Signed, dated, and numbered on the reverse Gelatin silver print Sight 21 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches Edition 4/50 Provenance: M&B, Lo...
Category

1980s Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

The Clash by Janet Macoska, framed 20x24" signed limited edition print
Located in Austin, US
Signed limited edition print of Bassist Paul Simonon and lead singer Joe Strummer of British punk rock band The Clash backstage at the Agora Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio on February 13, 1979, by Janet Macoska Framed, signed limited edition number 2/25 Frame measures 32" x 25" x 1" Recently framed with an 8ply mat, in new, perfect condition Since 1974, Janet Macoska has been capturing rock’s greatest on film. Among the publications who have used her photos are Rolling Stone, People, Vogue, American Photo, Creem, MOJO, NY Times and London Times. VH1, Bravo, A&E and the BBC regularly use Macoska’s vast archive in their “rockumentaries.” Her work is in the permanent collection of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, The Smithsonian Museum of American History, The National Portrait Gallery in London and in Hard Rock Cafe restaurants, hotels and casinos all around the planet. David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, The Clash, DEVO, Heart, Hall and Oates...
Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Chris Cornell by Jake Chessum, framed 9x12" print
Located in Austin, US
Framed, 9x12" signed open edition print of Chris Cornell from Soundgarden and Audioslave by Jake Chessum Jake recalls the session: ” This was a brief and friendly shoot at the Toron...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Giclée

Snoop Dogg by Jake Chessum, framed 9x12" print
Located in Austin, US
Framed, 9x12" signed open edition print of Snoop Dogg by Jake Chessum Jake recalls the session: “I photographed Snoop at Milk studios in LA. Everybody on the shoot was so excited to...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Giclée

Sunbeams - underwater black & white nude photograph - print on aluminum 36x24"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater B&W photograph of a young naked woman wrapped in air bubbles and sunbeams. There were five grand-pianos at her house, a pool on the third floor, and a sad man on the bott...
Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Metal

Portrait of Man in Headband
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Kenn Duncan (1928-1986). Portrait of Man in Headband, ca. 1973. Photographic period print measuring 11 x 14 inches. Studio stamp on verso. The print was us...
Category

1970s American Realist Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

"Barack Obama, Occidental College, No. 34" Lisa Jack, President Photography
Located in New York, NY
Lisa Jack Barack Obama, Occidental College, No. 34, 1980 Signed, dated, and numbered on the reverse Gelatin silver print 12 x 17 3/4 inches Edition 4/75 Provenance: M&B, Los Angeles...
Category

1980s Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Portrait of Tommy Hawkins with Python
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Kenn Duncan (1928-1986). Portrait of Tommy Hawkins with Python, 1973. Photographic period print measuring 11 x 14 inches. Titled and dated on verso by the ...
Category

1970s American Realist Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

The Call, Washington, DC
Located in New York, NY
Ed. of 3, includes black frame with white mat. Vincent Ricardel is a photographic artist whose career has spanned the editorial, commercial and fine art worlds of photography. Throughout his career, he has blended his earlier photojournalistic style into his later work, creating a signature brand of photography that reflects his unique perspective. Vincent’s images have been published worldwide. His work is also displayed in numerous private collections throughout the United States and abroad. With a background rooted in photojournalism, Vincent’s work retains a documentary nature, capturing moments that provoke curiosity and often find amusement in life’s unintentional comedy. His artistic vision has earned him recognition and accolades among his audience. “The Call” was made in 1990. The image of a woman talking on a pay telephone...
Category

1990s Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

"Barack Obama, Occidental College, No. 15" Lisa Jack, President Photography
Located in New York, NY
Lisa Jack Barack Obama, Occidental College, No. 15, 1980 Signed, dated, and numbered on the reverse Gelatin silver print Sight 21 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches Edition 7/50 Provenance: M&B, L...
Category

1980s Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled (from the "Women Are Beautiful" portfolio)
Located in New York, NY
This print is from the artist's "Women Are Beautiful" portfolio, published in 1981. This 11 x 14 inch print is framed is a silver metal frame measu...
Category

1960s Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Andrew Unangst, Archival 'Andy Warhol with Red Campbell's Soup', 2020
Located in New York, NY
The archival photographic pop-art print, ‘Andy Warhol with Red Campbell’s Soup' is an edition of 23 and was created in 1985 by photographer Andrew Unangst. Taken in New York City, Un...
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper

Andrew Unangst 'Archival Portrait of Andy Warhol' Photographic Print, 1985/2017
Located in New York, NY
The archival ‘Portrait of Andy Warhol’ in black and white is a large-scale photographic pop-art print. This print is an edition of 15 and the photo was taken in 1985 by photographer ...
Category

2010s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Seaweed Man, Santa Monica, CA
Located in New York, NY
Ed. of 5, includes black frame with white mat. "Seaweed Man" was taken during a scheduled fashion shoot. The model spontaneously placed seaweed across his face, creating an unexpected mysterious scene. Vincent Ricardel...
Category

1990s Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Curves Ahead
Located in New York, NY
AP 1/2, includes white frame. With his passion for formal technique and composition, internationally renowned photographer Nathan Coe’s works exude a deep reverence for the classics...
Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Ghost Board
Located in New York, NY
Ed. of 10, includes black frame. A New York City native, Andrew Blauschild took up photography at just twelve years old. Dividing his time between New York City and the East End of ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Bruce Springsteen
Located in New York, NY
Ed. 5/25, signed in pencil on verso. Includes black frame with white mat. Herb Ritts regularly photographed the most famous celebrities of the 1980s and 1990s. For an August 1992 co...
Category

1990s Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Marcel Proust
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol Marcel Proust, ca. 1976 Acetate positive acquired directly from Chromacomp, Inc. Andy Warhol's printer in the 1970s. Accompanied by Letter of Provenance from the representative of Chromacomp, Andy Warhol's printer Frame included: Elegantly framed in a museum quality white wood frame with UV plexiglass. Measurements: Frame: 17.75 x 14.75 x 1.5 inches Photograph: 10.75 x 7.75 inches This unique photographic positive acetate is of the 19th and early 20th century French novelist Marcel Proust, who's chef d'oeuvre A la recherche du temps perdu inspired some Warhol titles. Warhol would transfer the acetate to a transparency, allowing an image to be magnified and projected onto a screen. Warhol created a silkscreen painting of Marcel Proust and sent this acetate to his printer, Chromacomp, Inc. for consideration as a silkscreen multiple, which was never made. This acetate was brought by Warhol to Eunice and Jackson Lowell, owners of Chromacomp,Inc. a fine art printing studio in New York City. During the 1970s and 1980s, it was the premier atelier for fine art limited edition silkscreen prints; indeed, Chromacomp was the largest studio producing fine art prints in the world for artists such as Andy Warhol, Leroy Neiman, Erte, Robert Natkin, Larry Zox, David Hockney and many more. All of the plates were done by hand and in some cases photographically. Warhol had considered creating limited edition prints with Chromacomp of his famous portrait of Proust based upon this photographic image. The original painting was commissioned by art dealer Marie-Louise Jeanneret for a group of Italian collectors and avid Proust enthusiasts, Warhol's original four acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen works were based on a famous 1895 photograph of the French novelist captured by Otto Wegener. Marcel Proust, the distinguished French novelist, literary critic, and essayist, achieved renowned for his monumental 1908 seven-volume novel In Search of Lost Time. The literary masterpiece delved into the intricacies of memory, time and the profound complexity of the human experience. Proust's literary genius revolutionized the landscape of literature, leaving an enduring impact on the Parisian cultural scene at the turn of the century. About 50 years later, Andy Warhol emerged as a visionary artist who challenged artistic conventions, exploring themes that resonated with Proust's own ideas. Warhol, a trailblazer in his own right, delved into philosophical reflections on consumerism, mass production and the nature of fame. His artistic endeavors mirrored Proust's explorations, albeit through a contemporary lens, as he sought to redefine the boundaries of art and popular culture. About Andy Warhol: Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? —Andy Warhol Andy Warhol’s (1928–1987) art encapsulates the 1960s through the 1980s in New York. By imitating the familiar aesthetics of mass media, advertising, and celebrity culture, Warhol blurred the boundaries between his work and the world that inspired it, producing images that have become as pervasive as their sources. Warhol grew up in a working-class suburb of Pittsburgh. His parents were Slovak immigrants, and he was the only member of his family to attend college. He entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in 1945, where he majored in pictorial design. After graduation, he moved to New York with fellow student Philip Pearlstein and found steady work as a commercial illustrator at several magazines, including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and the New Yorker. Throughout the 1950s Warhol enjoyed a successful career as a commercial artist, winning several commendations from the Art Directors Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. He had his first solo exhibition at the Hugo Gallery in 1952, showing drawings based on the writings of Truman Capote; three years later his work was included in a group show at the Museum of Modern Art for the first time. The year 1960 marked a turning point in Warhol’s prolific career. He painted his first works based on comics and advertisements, enlarging and transferring the source images onto canvas using a projector. In 1961 Warhol showed these hand-painted works, including Little King (1961) and Saturday’s Popeye (1961), in a window display at the department store Bonwit Teller; in 1962 he painted his famous Campbell’s Soup Cans, thirty-two separate canvases, each depicting a canned soup of a different flavor. Soon after, Warhol began to borrow not only the subject matter of printed media, but the technology as well. Incorporating the silkscreen technique, he created grids of stamps, Coca-Cola bottles, shipping and handling labels, dollar bills, coffee...
Category

1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Film

Moet Blade
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Mapplethorpe (1946 - 1989) helped elevate photography to be considered fine art in the 1970s thanks to his uncompromising images rich in contrast, from beautiful to brutal and elegant to uninhibited. Mapplethorpe’s career was as glittering as it was controversial. Feted and vilified in equal measure, he ran a successful commercial studio (for portraiture and fashion photography) while simultaneously producing some of the most contentious (and beautiful!) images of the 20th century. His depictions of gay sexuality (including S&M and bondage) provoked a fierce backlash both at the time of their creation and well into the 1990s and beyond. This unique polaroid dates from when Mapplethorpe began to focus on pure photography, abandoning the collages of the first chapter of his career. It is also a foreshadowing of his curiosity and pursuit of New York's S&M scene. This unique polaroid features an opened bottle of Moët-Chandon with a sharp blade emerging from the neck. Typical of Mapplethorpe, there is his signature balance of formalist qualities, foreboding references, with a touch of sexuality and violence. Mapplethorpe's style is instantly recognizable: simple forms set against neutral backgrounds, a razor-sharp focus, and opulent, tonal gradations ranging from inky, velvety black to luminous silver-white. Although this is a unique polaroid, its sibling is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. We believe that our example is superior to the two; the label is mostly concealed which intensifies the shapes and composition. Robert Mapplethorpe mounted over fifty solo exhibitions during his lifetime, including numerous museum shows in the USA, Europe, and Japan. Since his death, his work has continued to be exhibited and acquired by major international art institutions. Questions about this artwork? Contact us. "Untitled" (Moet Blade) USA, 1972 Unique polaroid. Annotated 'PD 708' in pencil in an unknown hand on the verso. Original stamp from Mertens Framers. 4.5”H 3.4”W (image) 15"H 8"W (framed) Very good condition. Detailed condition report by request Provenance: Xavier Hufkens...
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1970s American Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Polaroid

Truth Before Power
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Jenny Holzer (b. 1950) is a multi-disciplinary American artist best known for her text-based public art projects. She was the first woman to represent the United States at the 1990 V...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

Iron Lady
Located in New York, NY
Ed. of 10, includes white frame. "Iron Lady" is part of Nathan Coe's Double Exposure series. Coe was inspired to create his double exposures while flying over Nantucket and seeing h...
Category

2010s Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Nicola (Nicky) Weymouth
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol Nicola (Nicky) Weymouth, ca. 1976 Acetate positive, acquired directly from Chromacomp, Inc. Andy Warhol's printer in the 1970s. Accompanied by a Letter of Provenance from the representative of Chromacomp Unique Frame included: Elegantly framed in a museum quality white wood frame with UV plexiglass: Measurements: Frame: 18 x 15.5 x 1.5 inches Acetate: 11 x 8 inches This is the original, unique photographic acetate positive taken by Andy Warhol as the basis for his portrait of Nicky Weymouth, that came from Andy Warhol's studio, The Factory to his printer. It was acquired directly from Chromacomp, Inc. Andy Warhol's printer in the 1970s. It is accompanied by a Letter of Provenance from the representative of Chromacomp. This is one of the images used by Andy Warhol to create his iconic portrait of the socialite Nicola Samuel Weymouth, also called Nicky Weymouth, Nicky Waymouth, Nicky Lane Weymouth or Nicky Samuel. Weymouth (nee Samuel) was a British socialite, who went on to briefly marry the jewelry designer Kenneth Lane, whom she met through Warhol. This acetate positive is unique, and was sent to Chromacomp because Warhol was considering making a silkscreen out of this portrait. As Bob Colacello, former Editor in Chief of Interview magazine (and right hand man to Andy Warhol), explained, "many hands were involved in the rather mechanical silkscreening process... but only Andy in all the years I knew him, worked on the acetates." An acetate is a photographic negative or positive transferred to a transparency, allowing an image to be magnified and projected onto a screen. As only Andy worked on the acetates, it was the last original step prior to the screenprinting of an image, and the most important element in Warhol's creative process for silkscreening. Warhol realized the value of his unique original acetates like this one, and is known to have traded the acetates for valuable services. This acetate was brought by Warhol to Eunice and Jackson Lowell, owners of Chromacomp, a fine art printing studio in NYC, and was acquired directly from the Lowell's private collection. During the 1970s and 80s, Chromacomp was the premier atelier for fine art limited edition silkscreen prints; indeed, Chromacomp was the largest studio producing fine art prints in the world for artists such as Andy Warhol, Leroy Neiman, Erte, Robert Natkin, Larry Zox, David Hockney and many more. All of the plates were done by hand and in some cases photographically. Famed printer Alexander Heinrici worked for Eunice & Jackson Lowell at Chromacomp and brought Andy Warhol in as an account. Shortly after, Warhol or his workers brought in several boxes of photographs, paper and/or acetates and asked Jackson Lowell to use his equipment to enlarge certain images or portions of images. Warhol made comments and or changes and asked the Lowells to print some editions; others were printed elsewhere. Chromacomp Inc. ended up printing Warhol's Mick Jagger Suite and the Ladies & Gentlemen Suite, as well as other works, based on the box of photographic acetates that Warhol brought to them. The Lowell's allowed the printer to be named as Alexander Heinrici rather than Chromacomp, since Heinrici was the one who brought the account in. Other images were never printed by Chromacomp- they were simply being considered by Warhol. Warhol left the remaining acetates with Eunice and Jackson Lowell. After the Lowells closed the shop, the photographs were packed away where they remained for nearly a quarter of a century. This work is exactly as it was delivered from the factory. Unevenly cut by Warhol himself. This work is accompanied by a signed letter of provenance from the representative of Chromacomp, Andy Warhol's printer for many of his works in the 1970s. About Andy Warhol: Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? —Andy Warhol Andy Warhol’s (1928–1987) art encapsulates the 1960s through the 1980s in New York. By imitating the familiar aesthetics of mass media, advertising, and celebrity culture, Warhol blurred the boundaries between his work and the world that inspired it, producing images that have become as pervasive as their sources. Warhol grew up in a working-class suburb of Pittsburgh. His parents were Slovak immigrants, and he was the only member of his family to attend college. He entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in 1945, where he majored in pictorial design. After graduation, he moved to New York with fellow student Philip Pearlstein and found steady work as a commercial illustrator at several magazines, including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and the New Yorker. Throughout the 1950s Warhol enjoyed a successful career as a commercial artist, winning several commendations from the Art Directors Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. He had his first solo exhibition at the Hugo Gallery in 1952, showing drawings based on the writings of Truman Capote; three years later his work was included in a group show at the Museum of Modern Art for the first time. The year 1960 marked a turning point in Warhol’s prolific career. He painted his first works based on comics and advertisements, enlarging and transferring the source images onto canvas using a projector. In 1961 Warhol showed these hand-painted works, including Little King (1961) and Saturday’s Popeye (1961), in a window display at the department store Bonwit Teller; in 1962 he painted his famous Campbell’s Soup Cans, thirty-two separate canvases, each depicting a canned soup of a different flavor. Soon after, Warhol began to borrow not only the subject matter of printed media, but the technology as well. Incorporating the silkscreen technique, he created grids of stamps, Coca-Cola bottles, shipping and handling labels, dollar bills, coffee labels...
Category

1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Film

Audrey Hepburn with Dove (Signed)
Located in New York, NY
Ed. 44/50, hand-signed and numbered by Terry O'Neill. Includes black frame with white mat. Terry O’Neill CBE is one of the world’s most collected photographers with work hanging in ...
Category

1960s Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Madonna NYC '83 (hand signed and numbered 1/1 on both the front and the back)
Located in New York, NY
Richard Corman Madonna NYC '83 (hand signed and numbered 1/1 by the photographer on the front and the back), 2010 Black and white photographic print on archival pigment paper Hand signed, titled and numbered 1/1 on the front as well as the back (signed twice) Frame included: framed in a museum quality black wood frame with UV plexiglass Madonna '83 is a 36 square inch photograph on archival pigment paper, numbered 1 of 1 by the legendary photographer Richard Corman, who began his career as Richard Avedon's apprentice. The work is signed, titled and numbered 1/1 (unique) on both the front of the photograph, as well as the back of the frame. It is elegantly framed in a museum quality black wood frame with UV plexiglass. Measurements: Frame: 37.5 x 37.5 x 2 inches Photograph: 35.5 x 35.5 inches This photograph was taken during Richard Corman's historic photoshoot with Madonna in the early 1980s, and it was reprinted in 2010. Richard Corman's famous photographs of Madonna during that period have been reproduced in books, magazines, tv clips and newspapers - and are considered the most iconic images ever taken of Madonna. We are incredibly honored to be exclusively offering this iconic photograph for the very first time -- in honor of Madonna's 65th birthday. Here, Madonna is just a natural beauty, youthful, confident, vulnerable, natural, and extraordinarily poised. The photograph was taken while she was on the cusp of superstardom, but still anxious, striving, going on casting calls, and waiting for her big break. As Richard Corman explains, she is shown sitting amidst the rubble of the back yard of her Lower East side apartment. In his own words, photographer Richard Corman describes how this famous sitting came about: My mother was Cis Corman, a renowned casting director in New York City. In the summer of 1982 she was casting The Last Temptation of Christ for Martin Scorsese and called me to say they had just tested a girl for the part of the Virgin Mary. She said, “You must meet this girl — she’s an original.” I was 28 and had just finished an apprenticeship with Richard Avedon and was looking for interesting people to shoot. So I got this girl’s number and called. It was Madonna. At the time she was living in Alphabet City [Lower East Side of Manhattan], and she suggested I go to her apartment and chat about what I wanted to do. I had to call her from a phone booth across the street, because the neighborhood was full of drug dealers, and they didn’t let people just walk in and out. There was a group of kids outside the building, on the stoop, in the hallways, and when I said I was there for Madonna the seas parted. I looked up the staircase, and I saw this girl leaning over the edge of the banister, and even from three stories below I could see these catlike eyes just looking down. I knew at that moment that she had something special — I really did. She had her best friend and neighbor, Martin, with her — he later died of AIDS—and we sat and talked. She served me a cup of coffee on a silver tray with three pieces...
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2010s Pop Art Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment, Permanent Marker, Black and White

Three Little Black Dresses
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...
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1960s Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

"Lilly" Photography on Wood 30"x26" inch Ed. 1/3 by VLADIMIR CLAVIJO-TELEPNEV
Located in Culver City, CA
"Lilly" Photography on Wood 30"x26" inch Ed. 1/3 by VLADIMIR CLAVIJO-TELEPNEV Author's direct print on wood Vladimir Clavijo-Telepnev was born in 1962 in Moscow, in the family of ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Wood, Pigment

Flowers, The Self Representation of Light, Unique Luminogram, Drawn by Light
Located in London, GB
#473 FLOWERS, 2016 Luminogram, Silver Gelatin Print Print size: 30.5 x 40.6 cm Framed: 49 x 58 cm Frame with the classic museum style mount board and black frame/ Print can be shipped unframed - options available with more shipping prices available - please message us for more info/ This is a Unique piece Series: The Self Representation of Light Signed and dated in pen on verso, Certificate of Authenticity provided The Luminograms are made from the most simple of procedures - directing light onto silver gelatin photo paper. However, it is that simplicity that allows Jackson to adapt his own way of thinking into the making of the finished piece. As he says, it's as close as he can get in photography to painting. "I don't really see photography and pottery or painting or music to really be different to each other. Some are more immediate, some are more subtle. Music seems to be able to control emotions, photography seems to create a satisfying pleasure from just a tonal flat surface. Same with painting. One of the biggest mysteries for me is why all these things manage to control us in some way." - Michael G Jackson...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Black and White Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Photogram, Silver G...

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