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
Vintage Photo Detail of St Mark's Cathedral by Osvaldo Bohm - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo Detail of St Mark's Cathedral - Venice is a b/w photographic print on Cardboard.
The artwork represents an Angel in S.Marco of Venice.
The stamp Osvaldo Bohm on the ...
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Early 20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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
Cathedral of Murano - Ancient Silver Salt Photograph - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cathedral of Murano - Ancient Silver Salt Photograph is a vintage photo realized in the 1860s.
Applied by gluing on a white paper.
Good Conditions and aged margins with some cut an...
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Late 19th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Well Heeled London by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Well Heeled
by Arthur Steel
WELL HEELED WESTMINSTER BRIDGE LONDON, 1973
“I’d just acquired a 19mm lens for my Leica flex SL9 and was keen to explore it’s ability to focus very close-up. Platform shoes were all the rage at the time and I took one of the girls from the office to Westminster Bridge and lay on the pavement to get this shot framing Queen Elizabeth Tower...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Roman Temple - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Roman temple vintage photograph was realized by an Anonymous photographer.
Good conditions.
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
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Photographic Paper
A Scene of the Film Au revoir les Enfant - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
A Scene of the Film Au revoir les Enfants is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1987.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Terry O'Neill 'Brigitte Bardot Hands On Hips' (signed)
Located in New York, NY
Brigitte Bardot, Hands on Hips, 1971
Silver gelatin print
edition of 50
24 x 20 inches
Signed and numbered edition of 50
rare
cosigned also available in 24 x 34 inches for $30,000
...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Robert Plant by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Robert Plant
Robert Plant, New York, 1993
by Kevin Westenberg- Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-cl...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Somerset Maugham
By Herbert List
Located in Cologne, DE
Herbert List: Somerset Maugham, Vintage
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Portrait of Anna Magnani - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Portrait of Anna Magnani is a vintage b/w photographic print on single-coated paper, realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Anna Magnani w...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
A Scene of the Film Au revoir les Enfant - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
A Scene of the Film Au revoir les Enfants is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1987.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Portrait of Anna Magnani - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Portrait of Anna Magnani is a vintage b/w photographic print on single-coated paper, realized in The Mid-20th Century
Good conditions.
Anna Magnani was born in Rome, Italy...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
NEW Slim Aarons 'Palm Beach Fox Hunt' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Hunt followers on horseback among a pack of dogs during a fox hunt, Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons
Palm Beach Fox Hunt
1955
Fiber Print
Estate signature stamped and h...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Flying High
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
The British actress Valerie Hobson in a Tiger Moth aeroplane during a flying lesson. Original Publication: Picture Post – 4490 – Valerie Hobson Learns to Fl...
Category
1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
In the Office - Vintage Photograph by Enrico Giuseppe Moneta - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
In the Office - Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized by Enrico Giuseppe Moneta
With the copyright and the stamp of the artist on the rear.
Good con...
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1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Portrait of Anna Magnani - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Portrait of Anna Magnani is a vintage b/w photographic print on single-coated paper, realized in The Mid-20th.
Good conditions.
Anna Magnani was born in Rome, Italy (...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Coldplay by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Coldplay
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 s...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Grey Wave by Stuart Möller
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 f...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore
Located in New York, NY
Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore, 1964
Silver gelatin print
Signed and numbered edition of 50
English actress Honor Blackman on a beach, circa 1964. Splashes on the surf, in Miami ...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'Sexy Scot' Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Print
By Bob Haswell
Located in London, GB
'Sexy Scot' by Bob Haswell
British actor Sean Connery lounges on a sofa with a cigarette. He is in London during filming of the thriller ‘Woman of Straw’ with Gina Lollobrigida, 28t...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'Leaf II' Hand Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
'Leaf II' Hand Signed Limited Edition
Stuart Möller
Beautiful Archival Pigment Print of large banana leaves.
40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 paper size - signed and numbered by the arti...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Shipyard Football Game QE2 Queen Elizabeth By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Shipyard Football Game QE2 Queen Elizabeth
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 54 x 41" / 137 x 104 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1960 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of 2...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bob, Mick and Pete, 1978 - Oversize Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
Bob, Mick and Pete, by Michael Putland, 1978
Limited Estate Edition
Bob Marley, Mick Jagger and Peter Tosh backstage after the Rolling Stones concert at th...
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Murano Mosaic - Vintage Photo Detail by Osvaldo Bohm - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Murano mosaic is an original photograph taken in Murano, Italy, realized by Osvaldo Böhm.
Titled on the lower, with the description.
Signed on the plate...
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Early 20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
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Photographic Paper
NEW: Slim Aarons 'Safari Party at Romanoff's' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests at a fancy dress party held at the Romanoff Restaurant in Hollywood, Los Angeles in 1950.
Slim Aarons
Safari Party at Romanoff's, 1950
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stampe...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dark Wave I - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Dark Wave I
A single wave at night.
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 ...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Digging For Clams - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Digging For Clams
Mrs Hans Estin watches her children digging for clams at low tide on Black Beach, Massachusetts Bay, circa 1960.
Slim Aarons archival pigment print
Printed Later...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Forum Romanum - Photograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Forum Romanum is a Vintage silver salt Photograph in black and white realized in the late 19th Century.
Good condition, aged with some folding.
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Black and White Photography
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Photographic Paper
'Naughty But Nice' *HUGE* 60 x 40" Silver Gelatin (Signed Limited Edition)
Located in London, GB
'Naughty But Nice' by Christopher Simon Sykes
The impossibly cool, Keith Richards during the Rolling Stones' 1975 Tour of the Americas.
The fas...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
60x40 "Dr Dre The Chronic Cassette" Photomosaic Pop Art Photography Unsigned
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Dr Dre The Chronic Cassette" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro.
This image is made up of 100's of smaller images of Dr Dre imagery.
Archival photographic paper
Framing options a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Aristotle Onassis - Vintage b/w Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Aristotele Onassis - Vintage b/w Photo realized in the 1960s.
Stamped on the rear.
Good conditions.
With the handwriting on the rear.
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Silver Gelatin Signed Photograph Samuel Gottscho Garden Flowers Photo NY
Located in Surfside, FL
Vintage hand signed and stamp signed with the photographers stamp and numbered photo of Moccasin Flower.
Samuel Herman Gottscho (February 8, 1875 - January 28, 1971) was an American architectural, landscape, and nature photographer.
Samuel Gottscho was born in Brooklyn in New York City. He acquired his first camera in 1896 and took his first photograph at Coney Island. From 1896 to 1920 he photographed part-time, specializing in houses and gardens, as he particularly enjoyed nature, rural life, and landscapes.
After attending several architectural photograph exhibitions, Gottscho decided to perfect and improve his own work and sought out several architects and landscape architects. After twenty-three years as a traveling lace and fabric salesman, at an age when most people would have given up their youthful dreams, Gottscho became a professional commercial photographer at the age of 50. His son-in-law William Schleisner joined Gottscho in his business in 1935. During this time his photographs appeared in and on the covers of American Architect and Architecture, Architectural Record. His portraits and architectural photography regularly appeared in articles in the New York Times. His photographs of private homes in the New York and Connecticut suburbs often appeared in home decoration magazines. From the early 1940s to the late 1960s, he was a regular contributor to the Times of illustrated articles on wildflowers. the meticulous, adoring pictures of New York City architecture and interiors that he took at his creative peak in the late 1920's and early 30's are finding a new audience, placing him more firmly in the ranks of the great architectural photographers of his day, like Ezra Stoller, Julius Shulman and Ken and Bill Hedrich. the Museum of the City of New York, which has one of the largest archives of Gottscho's work, showed about 150 of his best city scenes in an exhibition called "The Mythic City: Photographs of New York...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Italian Actress Agostina Belli - B/w Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Actress Agostina Belli during "Vanità", a TV show by Giorgio Capitani.
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Elephant - Limited Edition - Oversize print
Located in London, GB
Elepahnt
by Justin Creedy Smith 2001
The legs of an elephant in the the temple area of Siem Reap (Siem Reap province, Cambodia).
Photo, 02.12.2001.
Exquisite giant oversize 40 ...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Two Vintage Views of the Ghetto in Rome by Studio Vasari - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Views of Ghetto in Rome is a lot of two photographic prints on gelatin bromide hard paper. Information about pictures are printed on the front: "307. ROMA- Avanzi del Portico di Otta...
Category
1920s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Women in Uniform in Lines - Vintage B/W photo - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Women in uniform in lines is an original black and white photograph realized by an Anonymous photographer in 1930s in Italy during Fascism.
With the stamp of "Gherlone", Torino" on t...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
A Scene from the Movie "Crimes of the Heart" - Vintage b/w Photo - 1986
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Sissi Spacek, Diane Keaton and Jessica Lange in a scene from the Movie "Crimes of the Heart".
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Night view Rio De Janeiro - Vintage b/w Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Night view Rio De Janeiro - Vintage b/w Photo realized in the 1970s. Copyright by press Agency Credit Photo, N. Drei.
With some handwriting on the rear.
Stamped on the rear.
Good ...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Milton Greene, Marlene Dietrich, original vintage photograph, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Milton Greene
Marlene Dietrich
Original vintage photograph on photographic paper, taken from the original negative
Photo taken in NY in 1952, Printed in 1979 as dated on the verso
Ha...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Reportage from Albania - Tirana - Original Photograph - Late 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Reportage from Albania - Tirana - Photograph is a color photograph realized in the Late 1970s.
Good conditions.
the landscape of Albania through the art of photography is captured ...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
M. Dumas - Photograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
M. Dumas, silver salt b/w print is a vintage silver salt Photograph realized in the 19th Century.
On the rear" Le Meme Sujet" Edition 3 fr, Emile Adan, Les de...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Downpour in Rome 1989 - Photograph - 1989
Located in Roma, IT
Downpour in Rome 1989 Vintage photograph is in black and white on paper realized by Ansa Agency of Rome in the 1989.
Good condition, with some folding and foxing.
With the copyrigh...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
In Memory of Santa Croce
By Daniel Poensgen
Located in Kansas City, MO
Daniel Poensgen
Title: In Memory of Santa Croce
Medium: 2-Part Photograph on Agfa Paper
Year: 1986-1987
Digned, dated and inscribed
Size: 7.6 × 5.1 on 8.2 ...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White
‘The Iron-ing Lady’ Margaret Thatcher by Arthur Steel Limited Edition
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
‘The Iron-ing Lady’
by Arthur Steel
Paper size: 40 x 26 inches / 102 x 66 cm
Framing options available.
Dennis and Margaret Thatcher (Known as The Iron Lady...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Robert Smith by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Robert Smith
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
Audrey Atomic by BATIK
By BATIK
Located in London, GB
Audrey Atomic
by BATIK
Pop Artwork of the iconic Audrey Hepburn during filming of Breakfast At Tiffany's.
BATIK is an increasingly collectable pop artist currently living and wor...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Winston Churchill - Vintage b/w Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Winston Churchill - Vintage b/w Photo realized in the 1960s. Copyright by Associated Press Photo.
With the Stamped on the rear.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Catfight Female Mud Wrestlers 5 By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Catfight Female Mud Wrestlers 5
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...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Signed Silver Gelatin Photograph Dapper Lord Snowdon Photo Suit & Tie
Located in Surfside, FL
Lord Snowdon
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, agi...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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
Ernest Hemingway - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Ernest Hemingway - Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in 1950s.
Good conditions.
A historical moment of the past through the art of photography ...
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography
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Photographic Paper
Reportage from Albania - Children in Durazzo - Vintage Photograph - Late 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Reportage from Albania - children of Durazzo - Photograph is a color photograph realized in the Late 1980s.
Good conditions.
the landscape of Albania through the art of photography...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Reportage from Albania - Tirana - Vintage Photograph - Late 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Reportage from Albania - Tirana - Photograph is a color photograph realized in the Late 1970s.
Good conditions.
the landscape of Albania through the art of photography is captured ...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Fulham Football Fan's Fashion silver gelatin limited edition print
Located in London, GB
5th January 1957: Two young Fulham football fans Freda and Frank Hearn dressed in their club's colours of black and white, wait to board an 'Ipswich Sp...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pulitzer On The Beach - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pulitzer On The Beach
Patsy Pulitzer at Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955.
Photo by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre based print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edi...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Smiling Catherine The Duchess of Cambridge - signed limited edition
Located in London, GB
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge arrives with Prince William, Duke of Cambridge to meet young entrepreneurs during a reception at the Heart, Spire Building on day 1 of their official visit to Poland on July 17, 2017 in Warsaw.
by Official Getty Images Royal Photographer Chris Jackson...
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2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Lucky For Some 1949
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lucky For Some
1949: Sicilian-born gangster Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano (1897 – 1962) walking down a street in his native Sicily, followed by local children mimicking his posture. Whils...
Category
1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Parade in San Paolo - Vintage b/w Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Parade in San Paolo- Vintage b/w Photo realized by Octales Gonzales in the 1970s. Copyright by Agenzia JB.
Very Good conditions.
With the Stamped on the re...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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.