20th Century Black and White Photography

As indicated in The Warhol Diaries, May 1, 1982, Warhol traveled to Louisville, Kentucky and Churchill Downs to experience the Kentucky Derby with Jon Gould, Richard Weisman & Cather...

Karsh is a master 20th Century photographer. Karsh is known for his portraits of authors, scientists, artists, statesmen, musicians, and other dis...

Marilyn Monroe In A Bikini (1951) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images) American actress Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962) posing on a rooftop circa 1951. ...

Bob Dylan at Newport Folk Festival in 1963. This was Dylan's first night playing at Newport the Festival. This is a rare Silver Gelatin print m...

Gelatin silver print Signed and numbered, verso 14 x 11 inches, sheet (Edition of 15) This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. In Close Relations, noted p...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. This photograph was from a session for After Dark magazine and was selected and signed by Jack Mitchell as one of his favorites. Jack’s artist statement on his work for the magazine: “After Dark was a magazine of entertainment, theater and the arts. It was a popular magazine, with a gay slant, enjoyed by many gay men, and some broad minded women and men. As well as (I learned years later) many closeted male youngsters. The magazine was ahead of its time, as advertisers were reluctant to place ads in an essentially gay magazine at that time. Today they swarm like bees to place their own hot ads in gay publications. I had been photographing on assignment for Dance Magazine well before After Dark was created. Being a friend of William (Bill) Como, the Editor, and being gay, I was called into service, for the life of the publication, to photograph many of the handsome young men and women, who were featured in After Dark. Needless to say, this was enjoyable work for me, Because, mixed in with the hot-looking young guys and gals sent to my studio were some famed performers like Debbie Reynolds, Giancarlo Giannini, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Natalie Wood, Placido Domingo, Sergio Franco...

Haute Couture - Yasmeen Ghauri at Christian Lacroix

This print forms part of Frank Herrmann's 2021 "Icons of the 1960's" publication of the best of his work from the decade that keeps on giving. Contact sheet Paper size 44 x 35” Ima...

This photograph, taken in Naples in 1954, depicts a group of street musicians performing in what appears to be an urban setting. The scene is lively and intimate, featuring a woman i...

Ormond Gigli Neff, 1954 Gelatin Silver Print 13.5" x 10.5" Unique: $6500 Provenance: Printed by the artist, from the artist's studio Signature: Signed en verso ORMOND GIGLI Born Ne...

Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance issued by Christie’s. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation num...

Staging Pictures: Early Polaroids focuses on Stivers' working Polaroid prints, shot with a Hasselblad Polaroid back for instant proofing of lighting and composition of his subjects. ...

Signed original print by the artist! This very important work exudes a sense of alienation with a surreal edge to the composition. The artists work and this work in particular is fea...

'Marilyn Monroe, 1962' by American photographer, Lawrence Schiller. Archival digital pigment, AP 3/5. Image: 12.5 x 19 in. / Paper: 16 x 20 in. From the set of the film 'Something's ...

'Washington Monument Aglow' is a black and white photographic print on Hahnemuhle paper in a limited edition of 10 by Michael Ormerod. Featured in the 2024 posthumous solo exhibiti...

This stunning black and white image features French actress, singer, dancer, and fashion model, who later became an animal rights activist, Brigitte Bardot. She was one of the best-k...

"In March 1969, talented music writer Stanley Booth and I visited Macon, Georgia and Muscle Shoals, Alabama, on assignment for Rolling Stone. Among other southern music royalty, we hung out with Phil Walden of Redwal Music, the Macon music company Phil started with Otis Redding. At Redwal we were taken into the recording studio where we were introduced to the Allman Brothers; the band was in the studio rehearsing. This was very, very early in the career of the Allman Brothers; the band had only recently been shaped into its new form by Walden. From left to right: Berry Oakley, Duane Allman...

Albert Watson Charlotte Flossaut in Sombrero, New Mexico, 1988 Archival pigment print 76 x 61 cm (29 7/8 x 24 in.) Edition of 25 plus 2 AP Albert Watson was born 1942 in Edinburgh, ...

Kennedy Holiday (1959) (Photo By Phillip Harrington) 21 August 1959. John F. Kennedy sailing on the Victura with Jackie and friends Additional ...

Portrait of a seated elderly woman by Imogen Cunningham (American, 1883). Presented in a new white mat. Tag from the studio of Imogen Cunningham affixed ...

From a portfolio of ten gelatin silver prints from original Meatyard negatives (1959-71) Printed April 1974 Edition of 130 Credit stamp, verso 7 x 7 inches, image 15 x 12 inches, mount This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. “Meatyard searched continually for a non-objective art that would be wordless poetry, spontaneous music without sound. The ‘Motion-Sound’ pictures of his later years brought Meatyard’s passion for music and, paradoxically, the silence of Zen Buddhism together in photography. In creating the series, he focused the camera on a natural scene (or one containing plain rural architecture) and then moved it slightly. The result of this action is an image that suggests sound while abstracting natural forms. The landscapes of the ‘Motion-Sound’ series are in stark contrast to the evocative, more traditional views of the Red River Gorge that Meatyard was executing during the same years.” —Judith Keller, Ralph Eugene Meatyard (London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2002), p. 122 An optician by trade, Ralph Eugene Meatyard was a self-described “dedicated amateur” photographer. He pursued his own vision to produce an exquisitely enigmatic, widely admired body of work. Meatyard began taking photographs in 1950, roaming the backwoods and towns in Kentucky, experimenting with framing, multiple exposures, and blurring to produce haunting, abstracted images of natural and manmade environments. In the late 1950s, he began incorporating monstrous, oversized latex masks...

'The Ramones perform at CBGB,' 1977 by famed American photographer, Allan Tannenbaum. Archival pigment print, 10 x 15 inch photo on 17 x 22 inch on the finest satin photo paper, Ed. ...

Bruno Bisang Haute Couture Karen Mulder with Gianfranco Ferré at Dior 16 x 20 inches 40 x 50 cm Edition of 7 23 x 31 inches 60 x 80 cm Edition of 5 3...

Signed limited edition print of Debbie Harry, lead singer of US band Blondie, photographed by Brian Aris in London in 1978 wearing an Andy Warhol "Bad" t-shirt. Brian Aris limited e...

Willy Ronis (Paris, France, August 14, 1910 - Paris, September 12, 2009) was a French photographer who portrayed post-war Paris and Provence during his lifetime. Ronis' father was a ...

16 x 20" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Finnish ballet dancer Mikko Nissinen (now Artistic Director of Boston Ballet) performing in 1992. It is signed by Jack Mitchell on the r...

This comical portrait of Louis Armstrong features the musician in a chef's hat, cooking spaghetti with a quirky expression.Louis Armstrong was an American trumpeter, composer, singer...

This work is unique. Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Art...

This work is unique. Stamped on the reverse by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso. The work comes with an Authentication Letter from th...

A photograph by Lawrence Schiller. “Robert Kennedy, San Diego” is a figurative photograph, vintage silver gelatin photograph in black and white by American artist Lawrence Schiller. The artwork is signed on the verso. Lawrence Schiller only remembers the 60s in this way: Fast. As in: Blur. Which is, for those who lived through it, as accurate a description as one is likely to find about the decade that began with optimism and ended in chaos. It was ten years of turmoil and exploration. And through this turbulent and tumultuous decade, it often seemed that whenever a headline-making news event occurred, Lawrence Schiller was there. Schiller was not just lucky to be in the right place at the right time; he was prescient. He was there to cover the event, to add to it, to help us see it, to aid its meaning and its depth. "It was a time in which things happened awfully fast," Schiller says of the decade. "It was a wild, wild period; an uncontrolled period. I don’t think you had any sense of perspective in the 60s. You had to wait and look back at it, because it was a period in which things were happening that had no rhyme or reason to it. But by the end of the ‘60s I had covered so many stories, had so many magazine covers, I had somehow become part of that decade’s history. And I already had my eye on the future." When Lawrence Schiller got the assignment from the French magazine, Paris Match to photograph Marilyn Monroe on the 20th Century Fox set of Something’s Got to Give, he thought nothing of it. It wasn’t to be a private, studio shoot. He wasn’t going to set up lights, create backgrounds, or use a tripod. Just another assignment, he figured. Monroe by then was firmly established as a figment in the imagination of most young men. The orphan Norma Jean had recreated herself as the blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe. She’d appeared in twenty-nine films by the time Schiller photographed her in black and white and color in May, 1962. The world was unprepared for the moment when Marilyn jumped in the swimming pool in a flesh-colored bikini and came up out of the water au natural. She was all smiles and in her element: the sex goddess...

David Bailey Mick in Fur Hood, 1964 Platinum Palladium print on paper Signed by the artist, on verso Image: 49.5 x 49.5 cm Sheet: 59.7 x 68.6 cm Edition of 25 + 1 AP

Albert WATSON (*1942, Scotland) Maria Von Hartz, New York City, 1986 1996 Silver gelatin print Image 61 x 51 cm (24 x 20 1/8 in.) Edition of 10, plus 2 AP Print Only Albert Watson...

Valencia, Spain, 1952 - Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography) Signed, inscribed with title and dated on accompanying artist’s label Silver gelatin print, printed later Availa...

Art Shay's true love was street photography. It is evidently clear in this shot entitled "The Three, Maybe Four, Ages of Women" with the young mannequin bride, the middle aged women...

Large and wonderful B & W photograph by American photographer Andreas Feininger (1906-1999). Photograph is of a gorilla rib cage. Printed in 1951, it measures 8ft. 10 in. x 10ft. Photograph is attached to linen and can be rolled for easy storage and shipping. Feininger was born in Paris, France, the eldest son of Julia Berg, a German Jew, and the American painter and art educator Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956). His paternal grandparents were the German violinist Karl Feininger (1844–1922) and the American singer Elizabeth Feininger, (née Lutz), who was also of German descent. His younger brother was the painter and photographer T. Lux Feininger (1910–2011) In 1908 the Feininger family moved to Berlin, and in 1919 to Weimar, where Lyonel Feininger took up the post of Master of the Printing Workshop at the newly formed Bauhaus art school.[2] Andreas left school at 16, in 1922, to study at the Bauhaus; he graduated as a cabinetmaker in April 1925. Afterwards he studied architecture, initially at the Staatliche Bauschule Weimar (State Architectural College, Weimar) and later at the Staatliche Bauschule Zerbst. (Zerbst is a city in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, about 20 km from Dessau, where the Bauhaus moved to in 1926.) The Feininger family moved to Dessau with the Bauhaus. In addition to continuing his architectural studies in Zerbst, Andreas developed an interest in photography and was given guidance by neighbour and Bauhaus teacher László Moholy-Nagy. In 1936, he gave up architecture and moved to Sweden, where he focused on photography. In advance of World War II, in 1939, Feininger immigrated to the U.S. where he established himself as a freelance photographer. In 1943 he joined the staff of Life magazine, an association that lasted until 1962. Feininger became famous for his photographs of New York...

Marilyn On The Roof (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Ed Feingersh/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) American actress Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962) leans over the bal...

Visually gripping black and white vintage original photograph of Marilyn Monroe, posed in dramatic shadow surrounded by a fur stole. -- One-of-a-kind original vintage press print f...

Black and white glamour shot of silent film actress Evelyn Brent posed in a fur coat. Brent made more than two dozen silent films, including three for director Josef von Sternberg. ...

Bill Owens Portfolio A selection of fifteen photographs from the series, Suburbia Edition of 15 Each photograph is signed and numbered in pencil with artist stamp in black ink on pri...

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, writer, voice actor and film producer. A pioneer of the American animation industry...

This work is unique. Dated 'SEP 27 1978' on the reverse. Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Andy...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. This photograph was from a se...

ALADDIN SANE REMASTERED BLACK & WHITE NEGATIVE * 24 x24" inches limited edition of 50 ONLY * unsigned but numbered and stamped by the Archive printed later 2020 Taken by Duffy during the second of Five Sessions with David Bowie – Duffy...

This is a unique work. Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation inventory number. The work comes with a Certificate of Provenance from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Provenance: Estate of the Artist to The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to Hedges Projects...

Dean Rounds Up Taylor (1956) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo Cineclassico/Alamy Archives) GIANT Elizabeth Taylor Rock Hudson James Dean 1956. Directed by George Stevens...

Ballerina Split (1970) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Alamy) Side view of a prima ballerina, standing in a split, with a row of 8 backing da...

'Woman on Road with Police on Bikes Behind' is a black and white photographic print on Hahnemuhle paper in an edition of 10 by Michael Ormerod. Featured in the 2024 posthumous solo...

David Ogburn, American (1942 - ) - Phyllis Hyman, Medium: Gelatin Silver Print, Image Size: 9.5 x 7.5 inches, Size: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.32 cm)

These were from a show of her work. Influenced by Surrealism and Dada Photographs these are images of old children's dolls in various states of decay. These bear the influence of Ha...

Kurt Cobain 1996 Jarvis Cocker, Pulp photographed by Kevin Westenberg for NME Magazine in Paris in July 1996. by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition Kevin Westenberg is famed...

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 President John F. Kennedy. Her popularity as First Lady was due to her devotion to historical preservation of the White House, her fashion sense, and her devotion to her children, which endeared her to the American public. During her lifetime, Jackie was regarded as an international fashion icon. Her ensemble of a pink Chanel...

Dolly Parton photographed in New York City in September, 1976. Estate Stamped by photographer David Gahr.

Loose print. Hand printed by artist. No damage. Mint condition. Signed and titled in pencil with notations No markings on verso.

Rare early print. Printed by Bert Stern 1958 Stamped on Verso

Albert WATSON (*1942, Scotland) Christy Turlington, Luxor, Egypt, 1987 1987 Archival pigment print Image 142 x 107 cm (55 7/8 x 42 1/8 in.) Edition of 10; Ed. no. 9/10 Print only ...

Marcus Leatherdale (1952 - 2022) Silver gelatin print with copper leaf mount 1987 Titled: High Priest. From the Demigod series. Hand signed and dated and bears artist studio stamp verso. Provenance: Greathouse Gallery (with label & information verso) Edition: 1 of 10. Dimensions mage measures 12" x 5", total measurements are 24" x 13" Marcus Leatherdale was a Canadian portrait photographer. Marcus Andrew Leatherdale was born on 18 September 1952, in Montreal, Canada, to Jack Leatherdale, a veterinarian, and Grace Leatherdale, a homemaker. He attended the San Francisco Art Institute. Leatherdale arrived in New York City in 1978, where he attended the School of Visual Arts. started his career in New York City during the early eighties, setting up a studio on Grand Street. Leatherdale first served as Robert Mapplethorpe office manager for a while and was photographed in the nude by the master, grabbing a rope with his right hand and holding a rabbit in his left. Thereafter he worked as an assistant curator to Sam Wagstaff. He soon became a darling of the then vibrant club scene and the fashionable media: Interview, Details, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Elle Decor presented his work. Later on he was featured in artsy publications as Artforum, Art News, and Art in America. Leatherdale was the Cecil Beaton of downtown New York, He photographed a not-yet-famous club kid named Madonna in her ripped jeans and his denim vest. The performance artist Leigh Bowery was majestic in a tinseled mask, a corset and a merkin. Andy Warhol was a Hamlet in a black turtleneck. Susanne Bartsch, the nightlife impressaria, was a towering presence in red leather. He documented the New York City lifestyle, the extraordinary people of Danceteria and Club 57 where he staged his first exhibits in 1980. Leatherdale was an acute observer of the New York City of the nineteen eighties. His models were the unknown but exceptional ones – like Larissa, Claudia Summers or Ruby Zebra – or well known artists – like Madonna, Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, Winston Tong and Divine, Trisha Brown, Lisa Lyon, Andrée Putman, Kathy Acker and Sydney Biddle Barrows, otherwise known as the Mayflower Madam, Jodie Foster, and fellow photographer John Dugdale. He Married Claudia Summers, theirs was not a traditional marriage, but they were best friends, and he was Canadian, so it made life easier if they wed. His boyfriend for a time was Robert Mapplethorpe, whose photography studio Mr. Leatherdale also managed. He and Mapplethorpe were a striking pair, dressed like twins in leather and denim, their faces as if painted by Caravaggio, and they often photographed each other. Jean-Michel Basquiat was often hanging out there, playing his bongo drums; so were friends like Cookie Mueller, the doomed, gimlet-eyed author and Details magazine contributor who was for a time Mapplethorpe’s and Ms. Summers’ drug dealer, and Kathy Acker, the performance artist and novelist. For quite a while Leatherdale remained in Mapplethorpe's shadow, but was soon discovered as a creative force in his own right by Christian Michelides, the founder of Molotov Art Gallery in Vienna. Leatherdale flew to Vienna, presented his work there and was acclaimed by public and press. This international recognition paved his way to museums and permanent collections such as the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Australian National Gallery in Canberra, the London Museum in London, Ontario, and Austria's Albertina. He was included in the MoMA exhibit New York/New Wave along with Kenny Scharf, William Burroughs, John Crash Matos, Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Lawrence Weiner and Stephen Sprouse. Above all, his arresting portraits of New York City celebrities in the series Hidden Identities aroused long-lasting interest amongst curators and collectors. In 1993, Leatherdale began spending half of each year in India's holy city of Banaras. Based in an ancient house in the centre of the old city, he began photographing the diverse and remarkable people there, from the holy men to celebrities, from royalty to tribals, carefully negotiating his way among some of India's most elusive figures to make his portraits. From the outset, his intention was to pay homage to the timeless spirit of India through a highly specific portrayal of its individuals. His pictures include princesses and boatmen, movie stars and circus performers, and street beggars and bishops, mothers and children in traditional garb. Leatherdale explored how essentially unaffected much of the country was by the passage of time; and it has been remarked upon that this approach is distinctly post-colonial. In 1999, Leatherdale relocated to Chotanagpur (Jharkhand) where he focusing upon the Adivasis. Later Serra da Estrela in the mountains of central Portugal became his second home base. Leatherdale's matte printing techniques, which adapt nineteenth-century processes and employ half black, half sepia colorations, reinforce the timelessness of his subjects. Tones and matte surfaces effectively differentiate his portraits from the easy slickness of fashion photography. In 2019, Mr. Leatherdale compiled his work from 80s in a book entitled “Out of the Shadows”, written with Claudia Summers. During his time in New York City, he dated Robert Mapplethorpe, whose photography studio Leatherdale managed. His partner of two decades, Jorge Serio, died in July 2021 Major exhibitions 1980 Urban Women, Club 57, NYC 1980 Danceteria, NYC 1981 Stilvende, NYC 1982 The Clock Tower, PS1, NYC 1982 544 Natoma Gallery, San Francisco 1982 Eiko And Koma, Stilvende, NYC 1983 Form And Function Gallery, Atlanta 1983 Galerie in der GGK Wien, Vienna, Austria 1983 The Ring, Vienna (organized by Molotov) 1983 London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada 1984 Performance, Greathouse Gallery, NYC 1984 Social Segments, Grey Art Gallery, NYU 1984 Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn 1985 Ritual, Greathouse Gallery, NYC 1985 Artinzer, Munich 1985 Leatherdale/Noguchi, Gallery 291, Atlanta 1985 Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia 1986 Poison Ivy, Greathouse Gallery, NYC 1986 Wessel O’Connor Gallery, Rome 1986 Hidden Identities, Michael Todd Gallery, Palladium, NYC 1987 Demigods, Greathouse Gallery, NYC 1987 Collier Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona 1987 Tunnel Gallery, NYC 1988 Claus Runkel Fine Art Ltd., London, UK 1988 Madison Art Center, Madison 1989 Wessel-O’Connor Gallery, NYC 1989 Summer Night Festival, Onikoube, Sendai 1990 Bent Sikkema Fine Art, NYC 1990 Fahey-Klein Gallery, Los Angeles 1990 Faye Gold Gallery, Atlanta 1990 Mayan Theatre, Los Angeles 1991 Runkel Hue-Williams Gallery, London 1991 Galerie Michael Neumann, Düsseldorf 1991 Arthur Rogers Gallery, New Orleans 1992 Arthur Rogers, NYC 1992 Galerie Del Conte, Milwaukee 1993 Galerie Bardamu, NYC 1996 Fayf Gold Gallery, Atlanta 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Bridgewater/Lustberg, NYC 1998 Rai Krishna Das...

JJ Holding Head as Hair Flies While Dancing with JudiJupiter Studio 54, NY, NY 1977 Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso Gelatin silver print 20 x 16 inches (Edition of 5 + ...

Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Man Ray, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1980. Published and printed ...

11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of actor and filmmaker Warren Beatty, photographed the year he wrote, produced, directed and starred in 'Heaven Can Wait', 1978. Signed by ...

Nirvana contact sheet print by Chris Cuffaro taken in Los Angeles, California for Creem Magazine on July 22nd, 1991. Large format 32" x 24" print - signed and marked as an Artist Pr...