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.
Find a collection of modern paintings, sculptures, prints and other fine art on 1stDibs.
to
184
2,258
1,388
431
1,020
479
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
3
21
4,867
685
2
7
56
433
153
1,987
867
427
235
160
1
12,364
5,576
1,517
732
430
419
109
71
47
16
9
7
5
3,041
1,711
799
4,212
2,183
1,838
1,524
1,428
958
628
617
569
534
386
361
359
353
345
313
306
304
286
285
2,039
1,361
1,327
1,327
897
1,323
349
303
243
218
79
1,774
2,815
2,426
Style: Modern
Marilyn Monroe, unique print of 1988 from original negative
Located in Cologne, DE
Ed Feingersh photographed Marilyn Monroe for Redbook magazine in March 1955 for a story which would follow Monroe through her daily routine, the photography to be candid and shot wit...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
San Marco Church, Venice - Vintage Photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
San Marco Church, Venice photograph is an original black and white photograph taken in the San Marco church in Venice, realized by Osvaldo Böhm.
Si...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Well Heeled 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
#inthesky Series: Palm Springs #2
By James Bacchi
Located in East Hampton, NY
Palm Springs
#inthesky
22”x17” photographic prints on archival paper
Each limited to an edition of 7
$1100 unframed
#inthesky
A mobile photography essay that began in 2015. This ong...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Mixed Media
Venice - Canale Grande with Rialto Bridge
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 1950.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photogr...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Billy Bob Thornton by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Billy Bob Thornton
2022
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, arti...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lend Me Your Ear Daffy And Joyful 1960 By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Lend Me Your Ear Daffy And Joyful 1960
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 44 x 33.5" / 112 x 85 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1960 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of 30
...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Seaplane At Palm Beach 1955
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Seaplane At Palm Beach
Patsy Pulitzer leaning against a seaplane belonging to the Everglades Flying Service, at Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Stacey Keach
By Nik Wheeler
Located in Cologne, DE
American Film Actor Stacy Keach at Home in Malibu
American actor and star of TV series Mike Hammer, Stacy Keach, at home he shares with with third wife Jil...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jeanloup Sieff - Intimode - Les Dessous de la mode
Located in Cologne, DE
From a Portfolio with 26 exclusive works of Jeanloup Sieff, limited to 200 copies.
The photograph of Jeanloup Sieff has been produced as Collotype under the direct commandment of the...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photogravure
Frankfurt, Germany 1935, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Ruhr area, Mülheim, Germany 1947
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1947.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photograph...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$418 Sale Price
30% Off
Reg Lancaster 'Birkin and Gainsbourg' Limited Edition Photographic Print, 20x16
Located in San Rafael, CA
By photographer Reg Lancaster, English actress Jane Birkin and French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, at home in Paris, 1969.
As an authorized Getty Images Gallery partner, we ...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Harold E. Malde Vintage Black & White Photograph of Southwestern Adobe Church
Located in Denver, CO
This vintage black-and-white photograph by Harold E. Malde (1923–2007) beautifully captures the timeless architecture of an adobe church set against a striking Southwestern landscape...
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
Cologne, Germany 1935, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Algeria, historical photograph - Mid-20 Century
Located in Roma, IT
Algeria, historical photograph is an original black and white vintage photograph realized by an Anonymous photographer.
With the stamp of copyri...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress Laura Belli - B/w Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian actress Laura Belli in a scene from "Gamma", by Salvatore Nocita.
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$71 Sale Price
25% Off
Theodor Heuss (1884-1963)
Located in Cologne, DE
Theodor Heuss (1884-1963)
Back Information: BRD
Photographer: Rolf Gillhausen (May 31, 1922 in Cologne, died February 22, 2004 in Hamburg) was a German reportage photographer and jo...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Venice - Ponte dei Sospiri 1954
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1954.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photograph...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sinead O’Connor by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Sinead O’Connor
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of worl...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Spectators At Lord's 1955 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Spectators At Lord's
Spectators at a cricket match between the public schools of Eton and Harrow at Lord’s Cricket Ground, London, 1955.
Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre based pri...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Chimney Pots by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Chimney Pots
by Arthur Steel
London, 1967
All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold.
paper size - 54 x 41 " / 137 x 104 cm
signed and...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bjorn Borg By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Bjorn Borg
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 24 x 19" / 61x48 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of 50
note other print sizes and frami...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Fallen Angel by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Fallen Angel
by Arthur Steel
Fallen Angel – London, 1982
All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold.
paper ...
Category
1980s 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
Che Guevara
Located in Cologne, DE
Osvaldo Salas, widely recognized as one of the world’s great press photographers, was born in Havana, Cuba in 1914. At the age of fourteen, he left Havan...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Rolling Stones by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Rolling Stones
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and m...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
John And Cynthia Lennon by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
John And Cynthia Lennon
by Arthur Steel
St. Moritz, Switzerland, 1965
All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced on...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Florence - Ponte Vecchio Italy 1954
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1954.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photograph...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$502 Sale Price
30% Off
Würzburg, Germany 1935, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
The English Actor Simon Ward - B/w Photo - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Actor Simon Ward in "Young Winston" a 1972 Film by Richard Attenborough.
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Würzburg, Germany 1935, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Henry Rollins by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins in deep water,
Tokyo,
1997
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying im...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ian McCulloch, Echo and the Bunnymen by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Ian McCulloch, Echo and the Bunnymen
1998
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
Super Mac by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Super Mac
Super Mac – John McEnroe, Wimbledon Tennis Championships 1984
All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold.
paper size - 24 x 1...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Freight worker at Hamburg harbor, Germany 1937, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
The Script by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
The Script
2012
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
Visitor At No. 10 Downing Street by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Visitor At No. 10 Downing Street
Arthur recalls:
“I had been on a late shift for the Newspaper and clocked off at around 1a.m. in the morning. As I drove home, I took the route down Whitehall. To my astonishment, as I drove past Downing Street there were three policeman rolling a enormous snowball. Needless to say, I quickly pulled my car over and grabbed my camera. I trudged through the snow and managed to get a shot of the three officers rolling the giant ball...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Coldplay by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Coldplay
Los Angeles
2005
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, a...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Frankfurt, Germany 1935, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Cologne, Germany 1935, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Würzburg, Germany 1935, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Limestone Walls by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Limestone Walls
by Arthur Steel
Insheer, the Arran Islands, 1966
All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold.
paper size - 44 x 33.5 " ...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Retro Hotel Lobby of the 1970ies, Limited Edition, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
Walter Rudolph: Since the early 1970s, the tourist photographer, together with his wife, supplied picture series over more than 25 years to the internationally active picture agencie...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Color
Jarvis Cocker by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Jarvis Cocker
1996
Jarvis Cocker, Pulp photographed by Kevin Westenberg for NME Magazine in Paris in July 1996.
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is fa...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Guru"
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print from 1998, photo by Erich Andres, ca 1965,
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one o...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Robert Smith by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Robert Smith
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
Paul Weller by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Paul Weller
1997
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
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Black Leaf - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Black Leaf
Banana Leaf.
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 ...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cologne, Germany 1935, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Würzburg, Germany 1935, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Würzburg, Germany 1935, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Frankfurt, Germany 1935, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Würzburg, Germany 1935, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Cologne, Germany 1935, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Eifeltower, Paris, 1955
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1955.
Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photograph...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$418 Sale Price
30% Off
Cologne, Germany 1935, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Kevin Keegan By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Kevin Keegan
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
Thom Yorke by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Thom Yorke
2006
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
Early 2000s 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.