Conceptual Black and White Photography
CONCEPTUAL STYLE
In 1967, artist Sol LeWitt wrote that in “Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.” He was giving a name to an art movement that had emerged in the 1960s in which artists were less focused on their medium being something traditionally “artistic” and instead engaged in using any object, movement, form, action or place to express an idea.
LeWitt’s work was featured alongside an assemblage of notes, drawings and outlines by other artists in “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” a groundbreaking show at New York City’s School of Visual Arts curated by Mel Bochner, another leading exponent of Conceptualism. Building on radical 20th-century statements, like Fountain (1917) by French artist Marcel Duchamp, Conceptual artists around Europe and North and South America were not interested in the commercial art scene and rather directly challenged its systems and values.
Stretching into the 1970s, this movement has also been called Post-Object art and Dematerialized art. Conceptual art reflected a larger era of social and political upheaval. Pieces associated with the style range from Roelof Louw’s Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) — a work of installation art that sees fresh oranges stacked into a pyramid from which visitors are allowed to take one orange away — to On Kawara’s “Today” series, which saw the Japanese artist carefully painting a date in white acrylic on canvases consisting of a single color from 1966 to his death in 2014. Artists such as Ed Ruscha, who created the Twentysix Gasoline Stations book — a collection of photos of gas stations that is widely said to be the first modern artists’ book — made photography a major platform for Conceptual art, as did Bruce Nauman, who burned one of Ruscha's books and then photographed it for his own.
Conceptual art’s legacy of questioning artistic authorship, ownership and how to work with complex ideas of space and time had a significant influence on the decades of culture that followed, and it continues to inform art today.
The collection of Conceptual photography, paintings and sculptures on 1stDibs includes artworks by John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth and others.
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Style: Conceptual
Artist: Savannah Spirit
Savannah Spirit, Film Strip
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Erotica to save our souls.
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
ARTSY: May 28, 2019: The Photographers Fighting Instagram’s Censorship of Nude Bodies, by Kelsey Ables. ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Film Strip, Classic Silver Gelatin Black & White Nude Photography
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist,...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Savannah Spirit, End of an Era (Black and White Nude Photography B&W)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this self portrait, Savannah Spirit turns the tradition of black and white female portraiture back on itself. The muse is the artist, and the lens is her own.
Spirit believes th...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Never Let a Snake Bite You Twice' Black and White Nude Classical Silver Gelatin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Through her artwork and curation, Spirit takes on technology and social media censors who operate on the assumption that any unclothed body is pornography.
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
"We are unique beauty, we are strong, we are equal, we are body-positive, we are elegant, we are powerful, we are vulnerable. We are our own muses."
Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage pinup...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'Topaz' Black and White Nude Classical Silver Gelatin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Through her artwork and curation, Spirit takes on technology and social media censors who operate on the assumption that any unclothed body is pornography.
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
Savannah Spirit
Topaz
20” x 26”
Silver gelatin print
1/1
"We are unique beauty, we are strong, we are equal, we are body-positive, we are elegant, we are powerful, we are vulnerable. We are our own muses."
Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage pinup...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'Be the Woman You Needed When You Were Younger' Black+White Nude Silver Gelatin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Through her artwork and curation, Spirit takes on technology and social media censors who operate on the assumption that any unclothed body is pornography.
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
"We are unique beauty, we are strong, we are equal, we are body-positive, we are elegant, we are powerful, we are vulnerable. We are our own muses."
Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage pinup...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Savannah Spirit, Feeling Hollywood (Black and White Nude Photography)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit
Feeling Hollywood
30 x 20 inches
Signed by artist
Other editions:
Feeling Hollywood (Freedom for the Artist)
40 x 28 inches
Signed by artist
Latest press
ARTSY: Ma...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Savannah Spirit The Bottom Line (Black and White Nude Photography B&W)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Through her artwork and curation, Spirit takes on technology and social media censors who operate on the assumption that any unclothed body is pornography.
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
Edition 3/3 $2200
Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Topaz' Black and White Nude Classical Silver Gelatin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Through her artwork and curation, Spirit takes on technology and social media censors who operate on the assumption that any unclothed body is pornography.
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
Savannah Spirit
Topaz
11” x 14”
Silver gelatin print
1/1
"We are unique beauty, we are strong, we are equal, we are body-positive, we are elegant, we are powerful, we are vulnerable. We are our own muses."
Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage pinup...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'Lux' Black and White Nude Classical Silver Gelatin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Through her artwork and curation, Spirit takes on technology and social media censors who operate on the assumption that any unclothed body is pornography.
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
"We are unique beauty, we are strong, we are equal, we are body-positive, we are elegant, we are powerful, we are vulnerable. We are our own muses."
Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage pinup...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Savannah Spirit Eye of the Sun (Black and White Nude Photography, B&W Nude)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this self portrait, Savannah Spirit turns the tradition of black and white female portraiture back on itself. The muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own.
Spirit believes th...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
I Am My Own Muse (Black and White Nude Photography, Self-Portraiture)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist,...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Be the Woman You Needed When You Were Younger, solarized Silver Gelatin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Through her artwork and curation, Spirit takes on technology and social media censors who operate on the assumption that any unclothed body is pornography.
#Contemporary black and white nude photography by Savannah Spirit
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
"We are unique beauty, we are strong, we are equal, we are body-positive, we are elegant, we are powerful, we are vulnerable. We are our own muses."
Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Savannah Spirit, Hold Onto Power (Black and White Nude Photography B&W)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this self portrait, Savannah Spirit turns the tradition of black and white female portraiture back on itself. The muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own.
Through her artistic, social and curatorial projects, Spirit also takes on technology and social media censors, who assume that the unclothed body of a human, especially of those who identify as female, is pornography that must be controlled. Her artwork asserts that a woman is her own muse.
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
Press
FORBES: Savannah Spirit Wants to Trigger Your Trump
VICE: Erotic Art Fights Trump with Scenes of Female Pleasure
BULLETT: The Art Show Fighting Fascism with Erotica
HUFFINGTON POST: Artists Are Resisting Trump's Misogyny with Erotic Art
DAZED: The Erotic Show Taking on Donald Trump
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
Published:
City Journal
Huffington Post
The Color Theory Expert
Snap
The Nation
Global Yodel
THE magazine
Live Mag!
The Villager
Ravelin
D/Railed Magazine
Open Letr
Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage pinup...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Be the Woman You Needed When You Were Younger, solarized' Silver Gelatin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Through her artwork and curation, Spirit takes on technology and social media censors who operate on the assumption that any unclothed body is pornography.
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
"We are unique beauty, we are strong, we are equal, we are body-positive, we are elegant, we are powerful, we are vulnerable. We are our own muses."
Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage pinup...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Savannah Spirit, Shadow of a Doubt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit
Shadow of a Doubt
30 x 30 inches
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
Edition 1 of 5
Signed by artist
Latest press
ARTSY...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Savannah Spirit Feeling Hollyweird (Black and White Nude Photography, B&W)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Savannah Spirit, God is a Woman
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit
God is a Woman
30 x 30 inches
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
Edition 1 of 5
Signed by artist
Latest press
ARTSY: May 28, 2019: The Photographers Fi...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Savannah Spirit, Feeling Hollywood
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit
Feeling Hollywood
40 x 28 inches
Edition of 5
Signed and numbered by artist to order.
Latest press
ARTSY: May 28, 2019: The Photographers Fighting Instagram’s Censo...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Nipple Detail (Black and White Nude Photography, B&W Nude)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit
We The Nipple
30 x 30 inches
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
Edition of 5
Signed by artist
Erotica to save our souls.
Latest press
ARTSY: May 28, 2019: The Photographers Fighting Instagram’s Censorship of Nude Bodies, by Kelsey Ables. First artist featured: Savannah Spirit.
In this self portrait, Savannah Spirit turns the tradition of black and white female portraiture back on itself. The muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own.
Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Her artwork asserts that a woman is her own muse. Through her artistic, social and curatorial projects, Spirit also takes on technology and social media censors, who assume that the unclothed body of a human—especially a female human—is by definition, pornography, in need of control.
Press
FORBES: Savannah Spirit Wants to Trigger Your Trump
VICE: Erotic Art Fights Trump with Scenes of Female Pleasure
BULLETT: The Art Show Fighting Fascism with Erotica
HUFFINGTON POST: Artists Are Resisting Trump's Misogyny with Erotic Art
DAZED: The Erotic Show Taking on Donald Trump
Internal:
Savannah Spirit, Black and White Photography, Black and White Nude...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Nipple Detail (Black and White Nude Photography, B&W Nude)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit
We The Nipple
30 x 30 inches
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
Edition 1 of 5
Signed by artist
Latest press
ARTSY: May 28, 2019: The Photographers Fighting Instagram’s Censorship of Nude Bodies, by Kelsey Ables. First artist featured: Savannah Spirit.
In this self portrait, Savannah Spirit turns the tradition of black and white female portraiture back on itself. The muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own.
Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Her artwork asserts that a woman is her own muse. Through her artistic, social and curatorial projects, Spirit also takes on technology and social media censors, who assume that the unclothed body of a human—especially a female human—is by definition, pornography, in need of control.
Press
FORBES: Savannah Spirit Wants to Trigger Your Trump
VICE: Erotic Art Fights Trump with Scenes of Female Pleasure
BULLETT: The Art Show Fighting Fascism with Erotica
HUFFINGTON POST: Artists Are Resisting Trump's Misogyny with Erotic Art
DAZED: The Erotic Show Taking on Donald Trump
Erotica to save our souls.
Internal:
Savannah Spirit, Black and White Photography, Black and White Nude...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
My Body My Choice
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Press
FORBES: Savannah Spirit Wants to Trigger Your Trump
VICE: Erotic Art Fights Trump with Scenes of Female Pleasure
BULLETT: The Art Show Fighting Fascism with Erotica
HUFFINGTON...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Savannah Spirit Human Abacus (Black and White Nude Photography B&W)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Savannah Spirit, Shadow of a Doubt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit
Shadow of a Doubt
24 x 24 inches
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
Edition 2 of 5
Signed by artist
Latest press
ARTSY...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Nipple Detail (Black and White Nude Photography, B&W Nude)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit
We The Nipple
30 x 30 inches
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
Edition of 5
Signed by artist
Erotica to save our souls.
Latest press
ARTSY: May 28, 2019: The Photographers Fighting Instagram’s Censorship of Nude Bodies, by Kelsey Ables. First artist featured: Savannah Spirit.
In this self portrait, Savannah Spirit turns the tradition of black and white female portraiture back on itself. The muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own.
Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Her artwork asserts that a woman is her own muse. Through her artistic, social and curatorial projects, Spirit also takes on technology and social media censors, who assume that the unclothed body of a human—especially a female human—is by definition, pornography, in need of control.
Press
FORBES: Savannah Spirit Wants to Trigger Your Trump
VICE: Erotic Art Fights Trump with Scenes of Female Pleasure
BULLETT: The Art Show Fighting Fascism with Erotica
HUFFINGTON POST: Artists Are Resisting Trump's Misogyny with Erotic Art
DAZED: The Erotic Show Taking on Donald Trump
Internal:
Savannah Spirit, Black and White Photography, Black and White Nude...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
I Am My Own Muse (Black and White Nude Photography, Self-Portraiture)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist,...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Savannah Spirit End of an Era (Black and White Nude Photography B&W)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this self portrait, Savannah Spirit turns the tradition of black and white female portraiture back on itself. The muse is the artist, and the lens is her own.
Spirit believes th...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Savannah Spirit Black Mirror I (Black and White Nude Photography B&W)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Edition 1/3.
"We are unique beauty, we are strong, we are equal, we are body-positive, we are elegant, we are powerful, we are vulnerable. We are our own muses."
Exhibition History:
Woman
March 31st – May 1st, 2018
Undercurrent Projects...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Savannah Spirit, Laced
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit
Laced
30 x 40 inches
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
Edition 1 of 5
Signed by artist
Latest press
ARTSY: May 28, 2019: The Photographers Fighting In...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Savannah Spirit Hold Onto Power (Black and White Nude Photography B&W)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this self portrait, Savannah Spirit turns the tradition of black and white female portraiture back on itself. The muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own.
Spirit believes th...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Savannah Spirit, Reach
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit
Reach
24 x 24 inches
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
Edition 1 of 5
Signed by artist
Latest press
ARTSY: May 28, 2019: The Photographers Fighting In...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Human Abacus
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Press
FORBES: Savannah Spirit Wants to Trigger Your Trump
VICE: Erotic Art Fights Trump with Scenes of Female Pleasure
BULLETT: The Art Show Fighting Fascism with Erotica
HUFFINGTON...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Savannah Spirit Staying Abreast (Black and White Nude Photography B&W)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Savannah Spirit Staying Abreast
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit
Staying Abreast
31 x 24 inches
Signed by artist
In this self portrait, Savannah Spirit turns the tradition of black and white female portraiture back on itself. The ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Conceptual black and white photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Conceptual black and white photography available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Savannah Spirit, Miroslav Tichy, Jennifer Greenburg, and Samuel Field. Frequently made by artists working with Archival Pigment Print, and Pigment Print and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Conceptual black and white photography, so small editions measuring 3.31 inches across are also available. Prices for black and white photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $278 and tops out at $46,412, while the average work sells for $3,000.