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
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
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
Ruhr area, Essen, 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
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
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
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
Daniel Brhl by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Daniel Brhl
2003
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
Early 2000s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Family Planning by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Family Planning
by Arthur Steel
Family Planning – Shaftsbury Ave, London, 1975
All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold.
paper size ...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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
Erykah Badu by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Erykah Badu
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
Kevin Westenberg, Pete Doherty, 2008. Signed Limited Edition.
Located in London, GB
Pete Doherty, by Kevin Westenberg, 2008
Archival Pigment Print, Signed Limited Edition
Print size 152 x 101 cm
signed
numbered
edition size 3 only th...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Italian Priest by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Italian Priest
by Arthur Steel
St. Peter’s Basiica, Rome, 1971
All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold.
paper size - 44 x 33.5 " / ...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Eat-in kitchen in Germany, 1950s
Located in Cologne, DE
Eat-in kitchen in Germany
Back Information: Deutschland Wohnküche 50er Jahre (Germany eat-in kitchen 50s)
Keywords: Germany; West Germany; family; narrow; parents; father; mother; ov...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
John F. Kennedy Election campaign 1960
Located in Cologne, DE
Born in Cologne in 1922, died in Hamburg in 2004.
Apprenticeship as a machinist from 1937, then studied engineering (not completed due to the war). Served in the war and imprisoned....
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Big Ben Big Bang By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Big Ben Big Bang
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 24 x 19" / 61x48 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1960 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of 50
note other print sizes an...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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 st...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Björn Borg by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Björn Borg
by Arthur Steel
Björn Borg, the rock star of tennis – Wimbledon Tennis Championships, London, 1973 (photo Arthur Steel)
Borg-Mania Plea to Girls – Lovesick fans of Swedi...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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
Early 2000s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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 1980s.
Good conditions.
the landscape of Albania through the art of photography is captured ...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Pete Doherty by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Pete Doherty
2009
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
Early 2000s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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
Parking Wars by Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Parking Wars
by Arthur Steel
LONDON 1978
All prints are hand signed limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold.
paper size - 44 x 33.5 " / 112 x 85 cm
signed an...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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
Tightrope Walkers- Vintage b/w Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Tightrope Walkers- Vintage b/w Photo realized in the Late 1980s.
With the handwriting on the rear.
Good conditions.
The photograph is captured aesthetically, in an interesting mom...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Michael Stipe by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Michael Stipe
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Henry Grossman, Bobby Kennedy, Election campaign, 1968
Located in Cologne, DE
Henry Grossman, Bobby Kennedy (Robert Francis Kennedy (1925–1968)), Election campaign, 1968, Vintage
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Tyre Repairs By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Tyre Repairs
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 54 x 41" / 137 x 104 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1970 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
edition of 20
note oth...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
In the Halls of Justice
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carrie Mae Weems
In the Halls of Justice
Edition 3/25
Limited edition
Signature
Signed, verso
Steeped in African American history, Carrie Mae Weems makes alternately searing and te...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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
Sunset, Big Sur
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This silver gelatin print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount with title, date and numbering in pencil on the back of the mount. Likely printed c. 1970.
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sex Flower - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Sex Flower
A pink hibiscus flower photographed following rain.
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all over the world,
Stuart Möller ...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Incidental Sculpture by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
Incidental Sculpture
Wire nd tags are bent and shaped by the sea and embedded in the sand on a beach.
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grow...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Radiohead by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Radiohead
2001
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
Nude
By Gyula Pap
Located in Denton, TX
Bauhaus I Portfolio
Ed. 33/70
Signed and artist stamp.
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,400 Sale Price
22% Off
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
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
Torcello’s Cathedral Detail - Original Photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Torcello’s Cathedral detail is a b/w photographic print on Cardboard,
Edition, Alinari 18288- Venezia- "Isola di Torcello Duomo. Un dettaglio del gran mosaico nella parte di fondo (...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Chimney Pots By Arthur Steel
By Arthur Steel
Located in London, GB
Chimney Pots
By Arthur Steel
Paper size: 24 x 19" / 61x48 cm
Silver Gelatin Print
1960 (printed later)
unframed
hand signed
limited edition of 50
note other print sizes and fr...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Dinner Jazz 1949
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dinner Jazz
American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong enjoys a plate of spaghetti in Rome.
Paper size 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm
Estate St...
Category
1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
The Prodigy by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
The Prodigy
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
Foliage I - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Foliage I
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 are often chara...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
NEW: Slim Aarons 'Dixieland Jam in Rome' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
An impromptu concert in Rome with American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong (1901 - 1971), Earl 'Fatha' Hines (1905 - 1983) on piano and Jack Teagarden (1905 - 1964) on trom...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Unforgiven - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Unforgiven
Rocks and cacti near a coastline.
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 phot...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Park Avenue 1953 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Park Avenue
A view of neatly arranged office and apartment blocks along Park Avenue in New York City.
Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre based print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Esta...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Istan Petal - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Istan Petal
A Bougenvillia petal floats on the surface of a swimming pool.
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all over the world,
Stu...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Opera House - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Opera House
A view of the Sydney Opera House Australia.
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all over the world,
Stuart Möller is a fin...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Palm Blue House - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Palm Blue House
A tall palm tree stretches above the shell of a blue coloured house near Galle, Sri Lanka.
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having ...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Coup De Trique
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
A waitress serves coffee to a couple outside the Cafe De Coup De Trique near Le Mans, France, July 1955. In the foreground is an MG TF sports car. Original p...
Category
1950s 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.