1980s Black and White Photography

This black and white portrait of a young RuPaul, taken by Paula Gately Tillman in 1988, is offered by CLAMP in New York City. Miss Guy, Wigstock,...

An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘ Up in the Air ‘ who was captured on fi...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Broadway actresses Amy Irving, Laura Dean, Glenn Close, Christine Rose, Lisa Banes, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chris...

Bone Idle by Arthur Steel Bone Idle – Gracious the bloodhound, Sussex, 1986 All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold. paper size - 16 ...

Film director Blake Edwards with his wife Julie Andrews, 1986. This is a vintage gelatin silver print, selenium toned, made by hand by master photographe...

Rock singer and frontman Freddie Mercury (Frederick Bulsara, 1946 - 1991), of the popular British group Queen, has his moustache groomed. (Photo by Steve Wood...

Photo Milo Ackerman of the Descendents shot at Mi Casita on January 14, 1983. Edition Details: Archival pigment print on 100% cotton fine art paper, signed and numbered in the margi...

Franci & Michelle - Platinum Palladium print over pure 24 carat Gold leaf on vellum paper - Edition 1 of 5 , plus 2 AP ( Small Size ) Photographic reproduction on handmade sens...

Tightrope Walkers- Vintage b/w Photo realized in the Late 1980s. With the handwriting on the rear. Good conditions. The photograph is captured aesthetically, in an interesting mom...

Brighton 27 - Platinum palladium on vellum with silver leafs Signed and numbered edition of 8 plus 2 AP with certificate of authenticity, unframed. The rarity of this type of p...

This black and white portrait of a young RuPaul, taken by Paula Gately Tillman in 1988, is offered by CLAMP in New York City. RuPaul, Peachtree S...

Vintage gelatin silver print (Edition of 100) Signed and numbered, verso 11 x 14 inches, sheet This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Duane Michals is one...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of artist Yoko Ono photographed with her artwork at her Dakota apartment in New York City, 1989. Signed by ...

This work was acquired directly from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The work is in pristine condition and has never been framed. This is a unique work which comes w...

Child With a Bucket - Vintage b/w Photo realized in the 1970s. Copyright by Rizzoli Press, Milan In the photo: Child with a bucket in African stadium – In the realm of the higher m...

Akio Morita - Vintage b/w Photo realized in the 1970s. With the handwitting on the rear. Good conditions.

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of John Lennon and Yoko Ono photographed November 2, 1980, the last comprehensive photo session of Lennon's life. Signed by Jack Mitchell o...

Rio de Janeiro Garden of Glory - Vintage b/w Photo realized in the 1970s. Copyright by Trindade. With the handwriting on the rear. Good conditions.

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Alexander Godunov, 1981. Signed on the print verso by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitch...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Judith Jamision in "Sophisticated Ladies" on Broadway in 1980. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print recto. Comes directly from the Jack ...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of artist Eric Fischl at work in his studio in 1986. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Arc...

Protective Pooch By Arthur Steel Paper size: 54 x 41" / 137 x 104 cm Silver Gelatin Print 1980 (printed later) unframed hand signed limited edition of 20 note other print sizes ...

16 x 20" vintage silver gelatin photograph, multiple exposure female nude. Titled, numbered, dated, and signed by Jack Mitchell on the recto. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Ar...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Film, Television, and Broadway Star Gregory Hines, photographed in 1980. Comes directly from the Jack Mitc...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Metropolitan Opera sopranos Shirley Verrett and Grace Bumbry, photographed January 6, 1982. Comes direct...

This gelatin silver print was created by American photographer Christopher Makos. Makos is well known for his relationships with icons like Andy Warhol, Tennessee Williams, and John ...

The drugs offered by VEB is an original black and white photograph realized by an anonymous photographer With the note in five languages on the rear. Good conditions. 200 differe...

Short Back And Sidespin by Arthur Steel London 1983 Punk Martin Gale is so potty about Snooker he’s let it go to his head. All prints are hand signed ...

Horseshoes by Arthur Steel IRELAND 1981 All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold. paper size - 54 x 37 " / 137 x 94 cm signed and n...

A Kray Wedding by Arthur Steel Gangland Killer Ronnie Kray stares into Arthur Steel’s camera during his four minute wedding ceremony to Elaine Kray insid...

16x20" vintage silver gelatin photograph of painter Lowell Nesbitt with superimposed projection of one of his paintings, 1982. Signed on the print verso by Jack Mitchell. Comes direc...

John Mcenroe By Arthur Steel Paper size: 44 x 33.5" / 112 x 85 cm Silver Gelatin Print 1980 (printed later) unframed hand signed limited edition of 30 note other print sizes and...

This depicts a chair in the manner of Mexican surrealist modernist Pedro Friedeberg with a dried flowers. It is a hand signed, titled and dated vintage silver gelatin print photograph. and bears the artists studio stamp verso. Naomi Siegler Savage (1927 – 2005) was an American woman photographer. A native of Princeton, New Jersey, Naomi Savage was the niece of artist Man Ray. She first studied photography under Berenice Abbott at the New School for Social Research in 1943, following this with studies in art, photography, and music at Bennington College from 1944 until 1947. The next year she spent in California with her uncle, studying his techniques. When she returned to New York in 1948, she combined her love of music with her skill in photography by taking portraits of the best known composers of day: Aaron Copland, John Cage, Virgil Thomson, etc. (over 30 in all). In 1950 she married the architect and sculptor David Savage, with whom she moved to Paris, living there for some years. During her career Savage received an award from the Cassandra Foundation in 1970, and a photography fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1971. In 1976 she received the silver award from the Art Directors Club. Later in life, Savage returned to live in Princeton, where she died. Savage was heavily influenced by her uncle, the avant garde artist Man Ray, prompting her to experiment with the medium of photography, combining traditional techniques with more unusual processes, including some of her own design. She worked extensively with photogravure and photoengraving, transforming these mechanical printing techniques to be used for aesthetic effects rather than duplication. Unlike many photographers, Savage considered the metal plate that photographs are etched on to be a work of art in its own right. She pioneered the use of using the photographic metal plate to produce a three dimensional form with a metallic surface. Savage explored variations in color and texture in her work often by using inked and intaglio relief prints. Many of her works were created by combining media such as collage, negative images, texture screening, multiple exposure, photograms, solarization, toning, laser printing on metallic foils. Her works focus on a variety of subject matter and imagery, which has included portraits, landscapes, human figures, mannequins, masks, toys, kitchen utensils, dental and ophthalmological equipment. Her approach represents an involvement with "process as medium," and an interest in art as image manipulation, a pursuit shared by contemporaries like Robert Heinecken, Betty Hahn, and Bea Nettles. She has experimented extensively with photogravure and photoengraving, employing these mechanical printing techniques for aesthetic effects rather than duplication. Savage uses inked and intaglio relief prints to explore variations in color and texture, and considers the metal plate on which the photograph has been etched to be a work of art in its own right. She has also combined media--collage, negative images, texture screening, multiple exposure, photograms, solarization, toning, printing on metallic foils--and made laser color prints. Several of her pieces are owned by the Museum of Modern Art, and she is represented as well in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the International Center for Photography, the Fogg Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Madison Art Center. A photo engraved mural depicting the life of Lyndon Baines Johnson is a centerpiece of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum. A collection of her papers relating to the life of Man Ray is held by the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution. She was included in the show Making Space at MoMA in 2017. It shone a spotlight on the stunning achievements of women artists between the end of World War II (1945) and by Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, and Joan Mitchell; the radical geometries by Lygia Clark, Lygia Pape, and Gego; and the reductive abstractions of Agnes Martin, Anne Truitt, and Jo Baer; the fiber weavings of Magdalena Abakanowicz, Sheila Hicks, and Lenore Tawney; and the process-oriented sculptures of Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, and Eva Hesse. The exhibition also featured treasures such as collages by Anne Ryan, photographs by Gertrudes Altschul, Naomi Savage, Ruth Asawa, Carol Rama, and Alma Woodsey Thomas...

16x20" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Suzanne Farell and Joseph Duell performing 'Slaughter on 10th Avenue', 1986. Signed on the print recto by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly fr...

Franci - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 5 This image was captured on film in 1986. The negative was scanned creating a digital file which was then prin...

George Michael By Martyn Goddard Signed Limited Edition George Michael of Wham! In a Chinese Government Limo, at the Forbidden City, Beijing during a tour of Hong Kong & China 1985...

Careless Whisper By Arthur Steel Paper size: 16 x 13" / 41 x 33 cm Silver Gelatin Print 1980 (printed later) unframed hand signed limited edition of 50 note other print sizes an...

Rooftops View - Vintage b/w Photo realized in the 1970s. Copyright by Inno Munto. With the handwriting on the rear. Good conditions.

Vintage Photo. The Italian actress and singer Loretta Goggi during "Il bello della diretta".

Vintage Photo. The Actress Agostina Belli during "Vanità", a TV show directed by Giorgio Capitani.

Vintage Photo. The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet.

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of actor and comedian Robin Williams, photographed in 1984. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the verso. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. Jack Mitchell, (1925-2013) bulging photographic portfolio of actors, writers, painters, musicians and especially dancers describes a pictorial history of the arts in the late 20th century. Mr. Mitchell, who took hundreds of pictures for The New York Times, was both a portraitist and a capturer of complex motion. An expert in lighting, he worked mostly, though not entirely, in black and white, and he was known — by his subjects, by the magazine and newspaper editors he worked for, and by critics — as someone who could make a photograph reveal character. Jack Mitchell was the official photographer for the American Ballet Theater, and he chronicled the work of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for more than thirty years. When he retired in 1995, he had fulfilled more than 5,000 assignments in black and white, and nearly a thousand in color. He photographed more than 160 covers for Dance magazine, and his photos have appeared in Time, Life, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Vogue and many other publications. Mitchell’s photographs are in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, among others. The 2019 USPS Black Heritage postage stamp honoring American performer Gregory Hines...

This Vintage Photo shows the Italian Singer Fiorella Mannoia.

This Vintage Photo shows the Actress Isabella Goldman.

Vintage Photo. The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet in a scene from the movie "Amore vuol dir gelosia", by Mauro Severino. Lightly damaged.

Vintage Photo. The Italian Film Producer Vittorio Cecchi Gori.

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of playwright Tina Howe, photographed in NYC in 1983. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print recto. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Arc...

This black and white photograph by Paula Gately Tillman is offered by CLAMP in New York City. Tish and Snooky, Founders of Manic Panic, St. Mark’...

Parade in San Paolo- Vintage b/w Photo realized by Octales Gonzales in the 1970s. Copyright by Agenzia JB. Very Good conditions. With the Stamped on the re...

Akio Morita - Vintage b/w Photo realized in the 1970s. With the handwriting on the rear. Good conditions.

George Best Bath By Arthur Steel Paper size: 44 x 33.5" / 112 x 85 cm Silver Gelatin Print 1980 (printed later) unframed hand signed limited edition of 30 note other print sizes...

Tightrope Walkers- Vintage b/w Photo realized in the Late 1980s. With the handwriting on the rear. Good conditions. The photograph is captured aesthetically, in an interesting mom...

Cherry Blossom - Vintage b/w Photo realized in the mid-20th Century. Copyright by Rizzoli Press, Milan In the photo: In Japan cherry trees. With th...

16 x 20" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Artist Frank Stella in his studio with recent work, 1987. It is signed by Jack Mitchell on the recto and in pencil on the verso. Comes d...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Modernist Realism Painter Philip Pearlstein in his Manhattan studio with recent work, 1986. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print recto. ...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of photorealist painter Chuck Close photographed with his work in 1981. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the verso. Comes directly from the Jack...

Vintage Portrait of Monica Vitti is a vintage b/w photograph realized in the 1970s bu Associated Press. Good condition. Monica Vitti is born in Rome on November 3, 1931. Admitted in...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of famed sculptor Louise Bourgeois in her Manhattan studio with recent work in 1982, signed by Jack Mitchell on the verso. Comes directly f...

Rebecca Wright, Burton Taylor & Russell Sultzbach in Joffrey Ballet's 'Dream', one of Mitchell's most impressive multiple exposures on one piece of film,...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Neil Simon, photographed in 1981. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate o...