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
Norah Jones by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Norah Jones
2016
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
‘Fallen Angel’ by Arthur Steel Limited Edition
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
‘Careless Whispers’
by Arthur Steel
Paper size: 50 x 40 inches / 127 x 101 cm
Framing options available.
Tara Joyce pokes her tongue out at some youn...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jeff Buckley by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Jeff Buckley
2022
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists a...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Guy The Gorilla Regent's Park London By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Guy The Gorilla Regent's Park London
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 44 x 33.5" / 112 x 85 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of 30
no...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Print Silver Gelatin Signed Photograph Sidney Janis, Conrad Janis, NYC
Located in Surfside, FL
signed in ink and with photographer stamp verso and hand written title.
Sidney Janis (July 8, 1896 – November 23, 1989) was a wealthy clothing manufacturer and art collector who ope...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Jerry Schatzberg, Carmen Exits Taxi
Located in New York, NY
Jerry Schatzberg
Carmen Exits Taxi, 1959
archival pigment print
20 x 24"
ed. of 20
$10,500
40 x 40"
ed. of 15
$18,000
From creator of poetic images to compelling storyteller, Jerry...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Stonehenge Model By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Stonehenge Model
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 54 x 41" / 137 x 104 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of ...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Grey Wave - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Grey Wave
A single wave at dusk.
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all over the world,
Stuart Möller is a fine art photographer whos...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tom Kelley : Surfer Girl
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Surfer Girl c. 1950's
C print
30 x 38inches
Edition of 25
Photographs are printed on Archival Hahnemühle paper (luster)
estate signed and numbered in the border
Caption: ...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
High Roller by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
High Roller
by Arthur Steel
ALEXANDRA PALACE 1966. Mr Arthur Bird tries to get a return on his investment at the Casino.
All prints are hand signed lim...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Report from Albania - Skanderbeg Mausoleum - Vintage Photograph - Late 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Albania - Skanderbeg Mausoleum - Photograph is a vintage photograph in color.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Alan Rickman by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Alan Rickman
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-cl...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Wooden Lectern - Original Photographic Print - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Wooden Lectern is a b/w photographic print on cardboard.
The stamp of Foto Bohm applied on the rear.
the artwork represents the Wooden Lectern of San ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Restaurant in Algeria, the Vintage Photograph - Mid-20 century
Located in Roma, IT
Restaurant in Algeria, the Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized by an Anonymous photographer.
With the stamp of copyright "ASSOCIATED PRESS" on the r...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Iris By Justin Pumfrey
Located in London, GB
Iris
By Justin Pumfrey
Archival pigment print
Paper size: 20x24" / 51 x 61 cm
edition of 20
unframed
note other print sizes and framing options are available,
please enquire f...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Capucine 1957
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Capucine
French actress Capucine fanning herself at a New Years Eve party held at Romanoffs in Beverly Hills.
Paper size 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm
Estate Stamped Collection ...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Robert Plant by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Robert Plant
1993
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists a...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Italian Priest By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Italian Priest
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 44 x 33.5" / 112 x 85 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of 30
note other print sizes ...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
NEW Slim Aarons 'Pulitzer Pool Party' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests relax by the swimming pool at Lilly Pulitzer's pool party, Palm Beach, Florida, April 1961. Lilly Pulitzer is seen at centre (wearing headscarf) on the lap of her husband, Pet...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Keith Richards by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Keith Richards
1998
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists ...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dido by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Dido
2004
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and movie ...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Erykah Badu by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Erykah Badu
2022
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Kevin Westenberg, Billy Bob Thornton 2001 Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Billy Bob Thornton 2001 Signed Limited Edition
By Kevin Westenberg
Archival Pigment Print, Signed Limited Edition
Print size 24 x 30 inches / 61 x 76 cm
signed
numbered
edition s...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Pete Doherty by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Pete Doherty
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and movi...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fidel Castro - Vintage Press Print - 1986
Located in Roma, IT
Fidel Castro - Vintage press print, Sepia Photo realized in 1986.
Anniversary Salute -On the occasion of the anniversary in July of 1986 in the city of S...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Pause - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
The Pause - Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized by the Agency of "Team Editorial Services
With the copyright and the stamp of Agency and two other ...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Italian Protests - Avanti Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Italian protests on immigration, vintage photograph is an original black and white photograph realized by an anonymous photographer.
With the hand-note on the rear.
Good conditions...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Elephant And Castle
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
8th January 1949: The Elephant and Castle in the London Borough of Southwark, South London.
(Photo Bert Hardy)
A beautiful Limited Edition (ed size 300) silver gelatin fibre dark...
Category
1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
John Mcenroe By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
John Mcenroe
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 44 x 33.5" / 112 x 85 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1980 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of 30
note other print sizes and...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Michael Stipe by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Michael Stipe
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and mov...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Agave - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Agave
Agave succulent.
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all over the world,
Stuart Möller is a fine art photographer whose images a...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Norman Parkinson 'Montgomery Clift in New York, 1952'
Located in New York, NY
American actor Montgomery Clift photographed in New York for British Vogue, November 1952.
Montgomery Clift in New York, 1952
Silver gelatin print
Estate stamped and numbered editio...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Norman Parkinson 'Celia Hammond in Goggles for Queen Magazine, 1964'
Located in New York, NY
Celia Hammond is photographed by Norman Parkinson wearing goggles and a headdress made of silk chiffon for Queen magazine in 1964. Hammond became a favorite model of Parkinson's and ...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Byzantine Tile - Original Photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Torcello’s Cathedral is a b/w photographic print on Cardboard.
the artwork represents Byzantine tile representing two lions.
O.Bohm 3813 Torcello - Duomo Formella bizantina con Le...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Baby Bugatti Tourer by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Baby Bugatti Tourer
by Arthur Steel
Baby Bugatti Tourer – Vintage car auction, Alexandra Palace, 1975
All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced on...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sylva Koscina - Vintage Photo - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sylva Koscina - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Sylva Koscina is considered one of the be...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sophia Loren - Oversize Archival Pigment Print
Located in London, GB
Sophia Loren - Venice 1955
Oversize Archival Pigment Print
Absolutely Exquisite HUGE 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size print.
Unframed.
Produced on authentic Hahnemühle p...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Drum Major Kirk by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Drum Major Kirk
by Arthur Steel
Drum Major Kirk, Senior Drum Major of The Coldstream Guards.1970
The Voice That Keeps No.10 On Its Toes [Published 15/05/1970] There’s not much danger of anyone oversleeping at 10 Downing Street these days. Not with this fellow going full blast. Senior Drum Major of the Coldstream Guards is the chap who shouts the orders for troops rehearsing for the Queen’s Birthday Parade on Horse Guards Parade...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sting by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Sting
1992
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and movie...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rooftops View - Vintage b/w Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Rooftops View - Vintage b/w Photo realized in the 1970s. Copyright by Inno Munto.
With the handwriting on the rear.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Brett Anderson by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Brett Anderson
by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Brett in the dressing room, Suede.
1996
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Original Estate Print - Las Vegas Luxury 1954 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Las Vegas Luxury
Austrian actress Mara Lane enjoys waiter service in the pool at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954.
Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre based print
Printed Later
Sl...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Careless Whisper By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Careless Whisper
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 16 x 13" / 41 x 33 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1980 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of 50
note other print sizes an...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
David Gilmour by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
David Gilmour
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and mo...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marisa Pavan and Jean-Pierre Aumont - Vintage Photo - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Marisa Pavan and Jean-Pierre Aumont - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Red Hot Chili Peppers by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Red Hot Chili Peppers
1992
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, ...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Paul Weller by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Paul Weller
2022
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists an...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Red Hot Chili Peppers by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Red Hot Chili Peppers
1992
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrify...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Stonehenge by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Stonehenge
STONEHENGE SALISBURY WILTSHIRE 1977
All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold.
paper size - 24 x 19" / 61 x 48 cm
signed a...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Where Art Thou by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Where Art Thou
The Tate Gallery London, 1970 (photo Arthur Steel)
School boys study the famous ‘Blue spot’ painting by artist Bernard Cohen.
Arthur reca...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Short Back And Sidespin by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Short Back And Sidespin
by Arthur Steel
London 1983
Punk Martin Gale is so potty about Snooker he’s let it go to his head.
All prints are hand signed ...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Thinkers by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
The Thinkers
by Arthur Steel
The Thinkers – The National Gallery London circa 1968. A female art lover admires’The Thinker’, a famous bronze...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Horseshoes by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Horseshoes
by Arthur Steel
IRELAND 1981
All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold.
paper size - 54 x 37 " / 137 x 94 cm
signed and n...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Picture Frame Westminster Bridge by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Picture Frame Westminster Bridge
by Arthur Steel
WESTMINSTER BRIDGE LONDON 1969
All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints ...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
A Kray Wedding by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
A Kray Wedding
by Arthur Steel
Gangland Killer Ronnie Kray stares into Arthur Steel’s camera during his four minute wedding ceremony to Elaine Kray insid...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Blackpool Railings - Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
July 14, 1951. Two women chatting on the railings in Blackpool. The picture was taken by Bert Hardy using a single-focus box camera. The women are former Tiller Girls Pat Wilson...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bono by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Bono
2022
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and movie ...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vintage Signed Silver Gelatin Photograph Paul Georges Studio Painting Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Paul Georges with Painting Jan 6, 1967
Photographer is Fred McDarrah
Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off-Broadway actors, troubadours, politicians, agitators and social protests.
Fred captured Jack Kerouac frolicking with women at a New Year’s bash in 1958, Andy Warhol adjusting a movie-camera lens in his silver-covered factory, and Bob Dylan offering a salute of recognition outside Sheridan Square near the Voice’s old office.
Not just a social chronicler, McDarrah was a great photo-journalist.
For years, McDarrah was the Voice's only photographer and, for decades, he ran the Voice’s photo department, where he helped train dozens of young photographers, including James Hamilton, Sylvia Plachy, Robin Holland...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Depeche Mode by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Depeche Mode
London
1990
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, art...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Def Leppard by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Def Leppard
Joe Elliott, Def Leppard on stage
1983
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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.
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