Modern Black and White Photography
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Terry O'Neill 'Brigitte Bardot, Les Petroleuses' (signed)
Located in New York, NY
Brigitte Bardot, Les Petroleuses
1971
Silver gelatin print
edition of 50
24 x 20 inches
Signed and numbered edition of 50
rare
Brigitte Bardot on the set of the film ‘Les Petroleu...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Portrait of Gene Pitney with his Mother - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Gene Pitney with his Mother is a vintage photographic print on matt single-coated paper.
Photograph from United States unknown agency, printed from 6 x 6 film
Excellent...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Rock Covers Paper #9, Big Sur
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
Hand-crafted by world-renowned large format film photographer Bob Kolbrener. This image is available in the following sizes: 10x20 ($2,500) - 15x30 ($3,200) - 20x40 ($6,500). Please ...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bob Marley 1975
Located in London, GB
© Michael Putland
Bob Marley
Bob Marley at the Island Records office, London, July 1975.
Bob Marley was a legendary Jamaican singer, songwriter, and global icon known for populari...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Frida in front of the Unfinished Unity Panel, New Workers School, NY
Located in Denton, TX
Frida in front of the Unfinished Unity Panel by Lucienne Bloch is a black and white portrait of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, posing in front of Diego Rivera's half painted mural.
I...
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Three Boys on a Swing, Pitt St. N.Y. - Black and White Photograph, Children
Located in Denton, TX
Three Boys on a Swing, Pitt St. N.Y. by Walter Rosenblum is a black and white photograph documenting three children playing on a swing set in a city park.
Gelatin Silver Print
10.5 ...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
48x36 " Marlon Brando" Photomosaic Pop Fine Art Exhibition Print
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Brando" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro.
Exhibition Poster from series "The ICONS" The first release in a series mosaic works called "Icons".
Destro has created large prints w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Frida with Granizo, Version 2, Coyoacan - Limited Edition Black and White Photo
Located in Denton, TX
Frida with Granizo, Version 2, Coyoacan by Nickolas Muray is a limited edition platinum print featuring Mexican painter Frida Kahlo with her arm wrapped around her pet deer.
Edition...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Slim Aarons 'King of Jazz'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
King of Jazz
1949 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
1949: Photographers taking pictures of A...
Category
1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dior, Felicite Gown, 1953.
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Dior, Felicite Gown, 1953. Image size is 10" x 15" (for 11" x 17" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper. Each print is...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Self-Portrait (Oscar, BAFTA, Tony Award, Labour Party) (27% OFF LIST PRICE)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Glenda Jackson
Self-Portrait (Oscar, BAFTA, Tony Award, Labour Party)
Black & White Photograph on Photographic Paper
Year: 1980s
Image Size: 4.5 x 3.5 i...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Ravishing Rampling Charlotte Limited Estate Signature Edition Oversize
Located in London, GB
Ravishing Rampling 1966
Limited Edition Estate Signature Stamped print
The exquisitely beautiful young Charlotte Rampling at The Pair of Shoes, a casino in London, 7th September 19...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Triking, Linas, France, 1999
By Bill Phelps
Located in Hudson, NY
We are excited to announce the grand opening of “Indian Summer” at La Plage in Sag Harbor. This exhibition will include Fine Art + Photography from the Robin Rice Gallery including Rice’s own fine art photography. The show will be on exhibit beginning Friday October 9th, with an opening reception Saturday October 10th 2020 from 5pm to 8pm.
Car, Fashion, Motorcycle, Portrait, Sepia, Water, Woman, Vintage...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Kelp, Baja California
By Brett Weston
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This mounted silver gelatin print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount beneath the image. Numbered "#8" along with "100" in an unknown hand on the back of the mount.
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Edie Sedgewick 'Superstar'
Located in New York, NY
Edie Sedgewick 'Superstar'
1966 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
Signed and numbered by the artist
11 x 14 in - 25 + 5 AP - $ 8,000
16 x 20 in - 30...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
John Lennon & Andy Warhol, NYC
By Bob Gruen
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol and John Lennon, NYC, 1972
Silver gelatin print
40 x 50 inches
Signed and numbered edition of 75
John Lennon and Andy Warhol talking at The Record Plant, NYC. April 13, ...
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cardin Hat Over Paris
Located in New York, NY
Cardin Hat Over Paris, 1960
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
British model Celia Hammond wearing a pink coat by French fashion designer Pierre Cardin for Q...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Kennedy, Jackie and John Jr. with Clipper, 1963
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Jackie and John Jr. with Clipper, nb_143 -- Photographed in 1963, this image of Jackie and John-John on the beach with Clipper, the family dog, shows a warm and happy time with no hi...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Cloud and Mountain, Marion Lake, Southern Sierra
By Ansel Adams
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This vintage silver gelatin photograph, printed in the late 1920s on Kodak Vitava Athena paper, is signed in pencil beneath the image with a typeset title centered in the lower margi...
Category
1920s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"60x48" FRIDA KAHLO Photomosaic Pop Art Archival Fine Art Photography Print
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Frida is a photomosaic artwork by Destro. The first release in a series mosaic works called "Icons".
Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smaller i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ruth Neumann, Kowloon Victoria Harbor, Hong Kong
Located in New York, NY
Ruth Neumann, Kowloon Victoria Harbor, Hong Kong
1957
Archival pigment print
Estate stamped, signed and numbered by Andrea Derujinsky with certificate ...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dior, Two Girls in dresses by DIor's new designer Yves St. Laurent, BW, 1958
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Dior, Two Girls in dresses by DIor's new designer Yves St. Laurent, BW, 1958 Image size is 10" x 10" (for 11" x 17" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper. Each print is Estate stamped on the back and signed and numbered by David Shaw, and accompanied by a letter of authenticity. Lead time is four to six weeks, but we often receive them sooner. *Please note this image is available in several sizes. Prices increase as editions sell out.
Fashion photography of two models in Dior dresses by Yves St. Laurent. The model on the left is wearing a dress with a sheer overlay with dots. She is also wearing black gloves and a veil with flowers. The model on the right is wearing a dress with a sheer overlay with dots. She is holding a masquerade mask. She has flowers on her head. This is an interior shot of a dining room. There is a large stone dining table...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
50x40 " Marilyn Monroe" Photomosaic Pop Fine Art Photography Photograph
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Marilyn" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro.
Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smaller images.
Archival photographic paper
Unsigned
Framing op...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Free Fallin" Photography 40" x 60" in Edition 1/3 by Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Free Fallin" Photography 40" x 60" in Edition 1/3 by Larsen Sotelo
Not framed. Ships in a tube
Comes with COA
Available sizes:
Edition of 15: 24" x 36" inch
Edition of 7: 30" ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Boy with Chalked Numbers, NYC by Harold Feinstein, 1956, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Denton, TX
Boy with Chalked Numbers, NYC by Harold Feinstein is a 14 x 11 inch gelatin silver print, and is edition 3/200. This photograph features a boy sitting on the ground, surrounded by nu...
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (Cowboy on Horseback)
Located in Denton, TX
Signed in pencil on mount margin.
Toned gelatin silver print.
Framing not included.
Western photographer, Bank Langmore, traveled extensively with cattle drives...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bubbles, Adirondacks, NY, 2010
Located in Hudson, NY
Each year, Robin Rice celebrates a Salon style exhibition to showcase her gallery artists and invite new ones.
With Robin’s extensive experience as a gallery curator, all Robin Rice...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Flights , Scotland , 2015
Located in Hudson, NY
In his latest show, Benjamin Heller invites us to enter a poetic space of echo and convergence. As a photographer, sculptor, and performer, movement is key in this body of work, that is punctuated by self portraits selected from the series "The Long Walk: Analog Narratives". This series features pieces collected over an extended period of time spent traveling. It is a window to the interior landscapes he seeks to find reflected in the world, to contain a sense of this intimate vastness. All of the images can be viewed as variations on a self-portrait.
The places of intimacy and sense of vastness contained in the photographs can convey a sense of transport that enhances the viewer's visual experience. The "echoes" we find in the show reside in multiplicities of human and physical forms, rolling natural curves, and animals in flight; all intended to provide a resonance with the contours of earth, water, and wind. The result is an array of images captivating in themselves, but also given new meaning in the context of Robin Rice's skillful curatorial arrangement. Her intuitive placement creates a graphic narrative for the viewer to follow and decipher, encouraged by the convergence of the poetic titles of the works.
Traces of poetry, sculpture, the lines of the body, lived experience are also evoked in Heller's photographs, in movement and action. He also finds inspiration in photographer Duane Michals' framing of expressive narratives, and in Sally Mann's felt sense of powerful physical presence. Photographer Miranda Penn Turin, in reviewing the exhibition, said "I can almost hear a soundtrack, and it's the sound of wind".
The invitational image is entitled "Fall," a graceful figure, suspended in a glowing arc, light streaming upwards, eyes closed in rapture. This light sits in contrast to the infinite shadow of the black background, conjuring a certain atmosphere. Heller believes that it is shadows that allow the viewer to reside in the experience – this image does just that. These imagined environments speak to our converging lives and the echoed moments we experience, embodying for each viewer, just what Benjamin Heller connects with while photographing.
Another view of self portraiture at the front sign in desk, is an image reading, "and the soul wanted to move," between the keys of a typewriter. This show is a mirror of a desire to move. The black & white images capture simultaneously this movement and stillness, asking us to pause between the natural forces that rise and fall. Heller employs multiple-exposure and a fixed 4x5...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Patsy Pulitzer (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Patsy Pulitzer leaning against a seaplane belonging to the Everglades Flying Service, at Palm Beach, Florida, 1955.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Lambda
Ted Williams 'Dr. Martin Luther King'
By Ted Williams
Located in New York, NY
Ted Williams
Dr. Martin Luther King, 1964
Silver gelatin print
16 x 20 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition
with certificate of authenticity
Dr. Martin Luther King makes a sp...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Lemon Glow" Black & White Photography 36" x 24" in Ed. 1/15 by Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Lemon Glow" Black & White Photography 36" x 24" in Ed. 1/15 by Larsen Sotelo
Not framed. Ships in a tube
Giclee (Archival Ink) print on 310G Platine Fibre Cotton Rag w/satin finish...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Patsy Pulitzer (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Patsy Pulitzer rummaging in her bag on the seat of an open car Palm Beach, Florida, 1955.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the e...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Lambda
Doud Creek and Surf, Garrapata
By Morley Baer
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This silver gelatin print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount with stamp, title and numbering on the back of the mount.
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
48x64 " Hollywood Sign" Photomosaic Pop Fine Art Photography Unsigned
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Hollywood Sign" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro.
This image is made up of 100's of smaller images of Hollywood related imagery.
Archival photographic paper
Framing options ava...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Saguaro National Park, 1962.
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
The black-and-white photo from 1962 shows a desert scene in Saguaro National Park, dominated by towering saguaro cacti. In the foreground, a person is standing beside a large saguaro...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Frida Kahlo - Black and White Portrait, Celebrity, Woman, Artist, Painter
Located in Denton, TX
Frida Kahlo by Nickolas Muray is a black and white portrait of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo leaning against a wall, with a dark scarf wrapped around her shoulders.
Paper size: 20...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Disco, Bill Bernstein Set of Four Photographs
By Bill Bernstein
Located in New York, NY
Bill Bernstein
Disco
c. 1970
Set of four Photographs
These iconic images not only document the people and places of the golden age of disco, but also capture the spirit and intensit...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ravishing Rampling (1966) Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
Ravishing Rampling (1966)
(Photo By Phillip Harrington)
'60s icon Charlotte Rampling at The Pair of Shoes, a casino in London, 7th September 1966.
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Size: 16x20''
Printed Later from Archive Source
Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Edition of 100
NOTE OTHER SIZES OF THIS IMAGE AVAILABLE
10 x 12''
12 x 16''
16 x 20''
20 x 24''
20 x 30''
FRAMING AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
About the Artist:
Phillip A. Harrington was born in 1920 and grew up in Holland, Michigan. He developed an interest in photography at an early age, joining the high school camera club at 16. At the age of 19, Harrington moved to New York City to study at the Clarence. H. White school of photography, a prestigious institution with graduates such as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
"Star Trio" by Darlene Hammond
Located in London, GB
"Star Trio" by Darlene Hammond
1953: EXCLUSIVE Married American actors Lauren Bacall (L) and Humphrey Bogart (1899 - 1957) pose with American actor Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962) at t...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Naples 1954, Street music
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
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...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Tidal Rocks, Garrapata Rock Ledge
By Morley Baer
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This silver gelatin print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount with Baer's studio stamp, numbering, title and date in pencil on the back of the mount.
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Digging for Clams on Black Beach' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Digging for Clams on Black Beach (Slim Aarons Estate Edition), 1960 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda print
Mrs Hans Estin watches her children digging for clams at low...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Lambda
Lingerie with Maid, 1952.
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Lingerie with Maid -- Photographed in 1952 at the Coronet Theatre as part of an ad campaign, Mark Shaw shot this lingerie model in various poses. Image size is 40" x 40" (for 44" x 4...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Beaton, Edith Sitwell, Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1981. Published and pri...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Juan Manuel Fangio, Grand Prix of Monaco
Located in Denton, TX
Gelatin silver print
Paper size: 11 x 14 in., Image size: 8 1/4 x 12 in.
Signed in ink on print by Jesse Alexander
Jesse Alexander was considered one of the greatest race car photog...
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Groom Kissing His Bride
By Diane Arbus
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is one of the most influential and daring photographers of the 20th century.
Arbus is best known for her unique form of documentary portraiture. She explored the uncanny, the marginalized, and the idiosyncratic characters who defied mid-century conformity. Her work has influenced some of the most renowned photographers of our time including Nan Goldin.
While her career launched in the fashion world, it was years after quitting commercial photography (circa 1956) that she found her voice as an artist. With camera in hand, she followed her fascination with the eccentric individuals and oddities of New York City. Ultimately rejecting her affluent, sheltered upbringing and the mainstream fashion industry to create her own definitions of beauty.
Arbus’ portraits were considered incredibly provocative for their bold representations of sexuality, chaos, and grit. She fully immersed herself within the queer and alternative communities she documented, engaged with a curious balance of mystery and homage.
Shot in 1966, "Groom Kissing His Bride" is a prime example of her uncanny ability to capture even the most traditional moments (a wedding) through a lens of surrealism.
Love and tension confront each other as the groom kisses the bride with an attacking passion. Her likeness disappears behind his embrace and their newlywed bodies merge together. This work also contains Arbus’ visual trademarks – a black and white palette, a square crop, and a hard flash that flattens the aesthetic wonderland of New York.
Today, Arbus' work is celebrated in many major museum collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Institute of Chicago, National Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo), and Centre Pompidou (Paris).
"Groom Kissing his Bride, NYC"
USA, 1966
Gelatin-silver print
Printed by Neil Selkirk
Stamped 'A Diane Arbus photograph...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Grace Jones at Bond’s, New York
By Ron Galella
Located in New York, NY
Ron Galella (1931)
Grace Jones at Bond’s, New York
1980
11 x 14 inches
Silver Gelatin Print
Edition of 20
Signed, dated, titled by the artist.
Described by a nickname of Paparazzo E...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Rue Mouffetard. Fashion. Black and White Photograph
By Uwe Ommer
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Rue Mouffetard, 1954
Archival pigment print
Size: 20 x 16 inches.
Edition 12
Unframed
Printed later.
1964, Uwe Ommer, a young 20-year-old photographer who recently arrived from Co...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
St. Sebastian - Vintage Photo Detail - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
St. Sebastian is an original photograph taken in Verona" Ciciv Museum- Anderson, Roma", realized by an Anonymous photographer.
Titled with the detailed description in Italian on the ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"50x40" FRIDA KAHLO Photomosaic Pop Art Archival Fine Art Photography Print
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Frida is a photomosaic artwork by Destro. The first release in a series mosaic works called "Icons".
Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smaller i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Kennedy, Family Sailing Nantucket Sound, Front of Boat, 1959
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
The Kennedy Family Sailing on Nantucket Sound, nb_036_037 -- The Kennedy Family sailing on Nantucket Sound. Image size is 13.75" x 20" (for 17" x 22" paper size). All Mark Shaw print...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Norman Parkinson 'Rachel Fitzgerald on BBC, 1953'
Located in New York, NY
Model Rachel Fitzgerald for Vogue’s ‘Export Book’ story featuring BBC, June 1953.
Rachel Fitzgerald on BBC, 1953
Silver gelatin print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on ve...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons, Backgammon by the Pool (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Backgammon by the Pool, 1957
Silver gelatin print
Estate edition of 150
Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary Beth-Turner play backgammon by a swimming pool in Palm ...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Lambda
Kennedys, Jackie and Caroline in Baby Carriage, Wide
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Jackie and Caroline Baby Carriage, Wide 2c_17_04a. Image size is 22" x 32" (for 24" x 36" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuhle photo ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Victoire Fixing Shoe
Located in New York, NY
From creator of poetic images to compelling storyteller, Jerry Schatzberg has, over the past three decades, excelled in both the realms of photography and filmmaking. Published in Vo...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Weegee "A Trip to Mars"
By Weegee
Located in Toronto, Ontario
While many first associate Weegee (aka Arthur Fellig) with New York City crime scenes, perhaps a broader and more consistent theme is that of spectacle and/or urban entertainment.
The origins of his nick-name and reputation date back to the 1930s when he became the first New York City press photographer to obtain permission to install a police radio in his car. Following the city's first responders and documenting their duties, Weegee had unprecedented access to New York’s fires, crimes, debaucheries and of course, murders.
During the first decade of his career these unflinching urban tragedy or crime images paid Weegee's bills, but as he became more financially independent he was more inspired to pursue photographs on his own agenda. While his oeuvre is vast, Weegee was especially drawn to entertainment: nightlife, circuses, the theatre, showgirls, city thrills, the cinema etc.
Some of Weegee's most dynamic and tender (and under-appreciated!) images are related to simply having fun (in a crowd). He was not confined to one neighbourhood or demographic. He captured action, faces and events from Coney Island to the Bowery and Greenwich Village, to Times Square and Harlem.
In “A Trip To Mars,” Weegee depicts a multi-generational group crowding around a large telescope...
Category
1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Prosperity on the Corner
By John Albok
Located in Denton, TX
Vintage Silver Gelatin Print.
Title, date and signature on mat margin
1980 stamp in black ink twice on mount verso
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
San Francisco from Telegraph Hill
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This matte silver gelatin print bears the "Estate of William E. Dassonville" stamp on the back of the sheet.
Printed on Dassonville's proprietary "Charcoal Black" paper.
Category
1920s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Modern black and white photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Modern 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 purple, blue, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Mark Shaw, Slim Aarons, Kevin Westenberg, and Terry O'Neill. Frequently made by artists working with Silver Gelatin Print, and Digital 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 Modern black and white photography, so small editions measuring 0.63 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 $22 and tops out at $152,896, while the average work sells for $1,500.