Contemporary Black and White Photography
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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Style: Contemporary
Morning Sun, Single Tree, Dolomites, limited edition, landscape photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Single tree in the cornfield at sunrise, Seiser Alm, Italy. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and number...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Westside
Located in Kansas City, MO
Anthony Rea
Westside
Year: 2024
Archival Pigment Print on
Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag
Framed Size: 13 x 13 x 0.25 inches
COA provided
*Ready to hang; matted and framed in a minimal black...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Elvis Presley Rocking Out on Stage
By Charles Trainor
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning black and white capture of Elvis "The King" Presley performing on stage.
Elvis Presley, also known simply as Elvis, was an American singer, musician, and actor. He is rega...
Category
1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Pedal Boat, black and white, long exposure, fine art seascape photography print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of auth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Way of the Hare 3
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Beth Moon is an American-born photographer. She has gained international recognition for her large-scale, richly toned platinum prints.
This portfolio focuses on totem-like beliefs ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Passage of the Squirrel
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Beth Moon is an American-born photographer. She has gained international recognition for her large-scale, richly toned platinum prints.
This portfolio focuses on totem-like beliefs ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Contemporary Japanese Photography, Ginzan Spa by Issei Suda, Signed Ed 28/100
By Issei Suda
Located in New york, NY
The photograph "Ginzan Spa, Yamagata, August 1976 from Fushikaden," is by Japanese photographer Issei Suda. The print is hand-signed by the photographer on ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...
Caddo Stillness, Mill Pond, Caddo Lake, Texas
Located in Dallas, TX
"I like to go back to a place. Seasons change. Light, which is theater, changes. Nature is tumultuous, and our contact with it makes life happen.” - David H. Gibson
David H. Gibso...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Female Nude, Black and White Portrait Photography, Kate #3 by Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Kate #3, 2002 by American photographer Leonard Freed is in the photographer's series "Kate." This is an 11" x 14" gelatin silver photograph signed verso (back of photo) by the Freed ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Johnny Cash Smoking and Playing at Folsom Prison
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white capture of singer Johnny Cash smoking while visiting Folsom Prison circa 1968.
This listing is for a limited edition archival print.
What's included:
- Limited Edi...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Female Nude, Contemporary Black and White Photography, Kate by Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Kate, from the Kate series, Garrison, New York, 2002 by American photographer Leonard Freed is an 11” x 14” gelatin silver photograph signed verso (on back of photo) by the estate.
...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Thelonious Monk in New York
Located in Austin, TX
This awesome capture features Thelonious Monk at the piano, Minton's Playhouse, New York, N.Y., circa Sept. 1947.
Thelonious Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer. He had a...
Category
1940s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Equestrian Portrait, Classic, Black Horse with Bridle, Reins, and Bonnet
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Black Diamond"
This award-winning image is a fashion-inspired portrait of an elite horse wearing the attire of his discipline.
The print series Equus: Light & Form focuses on the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mists O’er The Loch by James Sparshatt Palladium Platinum Print with Float Frame
Located in Coltishall, GB
A frozen morning in the highlands of Scotland and the sun battles to emerge from the mists.
James Sparshatt’s black and white landscapes have an ethereal beauty. They are moments w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Reverie
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Pride - Jennifer Lopez Portrait Intervened by the artists. From the Blue series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Series titled "BLUE", where they keep questioning the fashion photography industry by creating a new visual identity of their images moving them away from their origin, as a vehicle ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Oil, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Black and White
Stormy Weather, Palm Springs
By Arthur Tress
Located in New York, NY
Stormy Weather
Palm Springs, 1995
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in black ink, recto
Gelatin silver print (Edition of 50)
20 x 16 inches (50.8 x...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (Olancha) - Stranger than Paradise - analog C-Print based on a Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Olancha) - 2006,
38x37cm.
Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Arti...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Black and White
Located in New York, NY
Toned gelatin silver print (Edition of 25)
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Dave Anderson is an award-winning, cross-media storyteller best known for his work behind the lens. His photography and films have been exhibited, published, screened, and lauded across the planet. Anderson’s work has been profiled on numerous media outlets ranging from “Good Morning America” to "The New York Times" to "The New Yorker," where Vince Aletti...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Superstition Mountain, Apache Junction, Arizona
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Dobrowner presents landscapes with sublime complexity – imagery poised between permanence and flux, his images at once capturing seemingly eternal geological formations and the ever-...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Nepenthes Tomoriana
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Printed in rich platinum/palladium, these intricate and formal portraits depict the delicate but dangerous nature of carnivorous plants.
"The poetic sensibility of nature seems to h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Platinum
Who I am - Contemporary, Polaroid, Nude, 21st Century, Joshua Tree
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Who I am
2019, 20x20 cm, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, not mounted.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2019 - 749...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
A King's time, contemporary, wildlife, black and white photography, Lion
Located in München, BY
Edition of 12
more sizes on request
A Portrait of big majestic male lion lying in the sun.
Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His photographs are amo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Summer Solstice - blooms, black and white photography, Limited edition of 5
Located in London, GB
'Summer Solstice' 2024
Photographed using large format 4x5 film camera, that captures incredible detail and the light dynamics of peonies and agrostemma flowers in water reflecting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Black and White
In the net of life and time (Chicks and Chicks...)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
In the Net of Life and Time (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2017
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Artist inventory 2...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Desert Living (California Dreaming) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Desert Living (California Dreaming) - 2017
20x24m,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Save me - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Save me - 2020
20x25cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2020-909.
Not moun...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Pull II - 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude, Photography, Contemporary, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Pull II - 2017
20x20cm,
Edition 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, not mounted.
Signature label and certificate.
Artist inventory PL2017-487.
Ki...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Martin Luther King, Los Angeles, 1963 by Julian Wasser
Located in Chicago, IL
Martin Luther King speaking at a civil rights rally in central Los Angeles in 1963. Julian Wasser took this photo for TIME Magazine. Years later former president Barack Obama purchas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
John Huston, Black and White Photograph of 1950s Film Director of The Misfits
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
A black and white photograph from 1956 that captures John Huston, celebrated film director during the filming of The Misfits featuring Marilyn Monroe.
John Huston, 1956 by Burt Glin...
Category
1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Voyeur, Photography, Limited Edition, Museum, Shade, People, Nude
Located in München, BY
Voyeur
Edition of 25
signed and numbered by the artist
A shadow play of a sculpture in the museum.
JJK is a pseudonym for one of the world's most successful photo artists.
In his s...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jamie Lee Curtis, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography, Portrait
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Combined Edition 25
Also available in 50 x 60 cm/ 20 x 24 inch
and as combined Edition 10 in
76 x 101 cm / 30 x 40 inch
101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch
Portrait of the American actress,...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Patience, contemporary, wildlife, black and white photography, Lion
Located in München, BY
Edition of 7
more sizes on request
A Portrait of big majestic male lion lying in the sun.
Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His photographs are amon...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Animal nitrate - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Animal nitrate - 2021
40x50cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2022-2007.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
These days - Contemporary, Nude, Men, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
These days - 2021 -
50x50cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2020-1006. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Sunday relaxing, Santa Barbara, USA, Limited Photograph by Gerald Berghammer
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 20. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity included. Printed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Temple Lake, Kyoto, Honshu, Japan
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is a master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential amon...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
SPQR ( Rome ) - monochromatic timeless urban vignette of Italy's Eternal City
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
details of an almost monochromatic and timeless urban vignette captured in Rome, Italy, photographed with a large format camera to allow epic scale print sizes with incredible image ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
Bayou Dreaming by James Sparshatt. 34” x 24” Archival print. Wooden frame
Located in Coltishall, GB
Just after dawn on the Henderson swamp in Louisiana, with only alligators and storks for company, the hanging moss and primeval cypress trees in calm magnificence.
James Sparshatt’s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Archival Paper
Five Figs
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Archival Pigment Print on Glass Plate Backed with 24kt Gold Leaf, Framed by the Artist
GOLDEN STARDUST
The Element ‘Gold, (Au) can only be made in the nuclear reactor of stars.
I...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Gold Leaf
Golling Falls, Waterfall, Landscape, Limited Edition, monochrome fine art print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Sophia Loren Quirky Portrait
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white quirky portrait of actress Sophia Loren smiling with her hands on the sides of her face.
Sophia Loren is an Italian actress, active in her native country and the Uni...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Mr. Harlem, Photograph of African American Life New York City 1960s
Located in New york, NY
The image capturing African-American life in Harlem in the 1960s, Mr. Harlem, 1963 by Leonard Freed, is a 14” x 11” black-and-white photograph from the photographer's book Black in W...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Santorini
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Chemistry Set
Located in Austin, TX
Retro 1960s photograph featuring an abstract shot of scientific apparatus in a chemistry lab.
This listing is for a limited edition archival print.
Wh...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Notre Dame, Paris, France, black and white minimalism landscape art photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art minimalist cityscape - landscape photography. Notre Dame Cathedral the soul and the heart of Paris. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sacha - Figurative photo, Black white, Nude Women, Analogue, Sexy model in Car
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘Sacha and Pearl ‘ who was captured on f...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
Recall, from the Exit Art/The First World Portfolio
Located in New York, NY
LORNA SIMPSON
Recall, from the Exit Art/The First World Portfolio, 1998
Silkscreen on Felt
30 × 22 inches
Hand signed and numbered 17/50 on the front
Unframed
This impressive silkscr...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Felt, Screen
Happy Tights by JJK, Photography, Limited Edition, nude, women, legs
Located in München, BY
Happy Tights
Edition of 25
signed and numbered by the artist
Crossed legs of a woman with Velvet tights
JJK is a pseudonym for one of the world's most successful photo artists.
In ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Paris, France, Portrait, Black and White Photography, Young Woman in Love
Located in New york, NY
A young woman at a popular cafe-bar, Le Pick-Clops, in the Marais in Paris is the subject of Heartbreak, 1990 by Roberta Fineberg.
Drawn to street photography for her early work, R...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Matthew Barney, Cremaster 5, Gellert Bath House, Budapest. B&W Photograph.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Photographer Michael James O'Brien documented with beautiful and unique images the final part of Matthew Barney's lyric opera cycle about a tragic love story set in romantic Budapest...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood's Glamour Icon
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
This black and white pinup style portrait features blonde actress and film icon Marilyn Monroe. Captured by celebrity photographer Frank Worth this sexy image features the actress se...
Category
1940s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Humming Bird Flying
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Element ‘Gold, (Au) can only be make in the nuclear reactor of stars.
It came to our planet when the Earth was first forming, as dust from catastrophic astronomical events –sta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Gold Leaf
Intersect, Photography, Limited Edition
Located in München, BY
Limited Edition of 7
Framed size 49 x 69 cm
All works are Archival Pigment prints, floating in an all black wooden frame behind museums glass.
More sizes on request.
Sara Punt...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Waterfall, monochrome photograph, long exposure waterscape, limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver at the 30th Annual Boomtown Party
Located in Austin, TX
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver at the 30th Annual Boomtown Party
Arnold Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American actor, producer, businessman, retired bodybuilder, and former...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Selfie @ Altitude - Belgium 2017 - Limited Edition # 1/5 Fine Art Photography
Located in Brussels, BE
This is # 1/5 Fine Art Print Limited Edition 70 cm x 100 cm
VADOR THE SPACE SHOW is the first exhibition of photographs by Stefan Darte which is currently...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment
Elevate - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Elevate - 2022
40x50cm,
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2022-2014.
Not mounted.
Kirsten Thys van den Audenae...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Contemporary black and white photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary 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. If you’re looking to add black and white photography created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, red, orange, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Tyler Shields, Ian Sanderson, Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde, and David Yarrow. Frequently made by artists working with Pigment Print, and Archival 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 Contemporary black and white photography, so small editions measuring 1.5 inches across are also available.