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
Bowie As Ziggy - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Bowie And Ronson On Stage - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
Portrait of David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust, 1973 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate.
Editio...
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1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bowie Beverly Hills - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Bowie Beverly Hills - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
David Bowie, Beverly Hills, 1972. (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate.
Edition size varies accord...
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1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lou Reed Transformer - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Lou Reed Transformer - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
The iconic Transformer album cover portrait of Lou Reed, 1972 (photo Mick Rock).
All p...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Tipper Gore, Democratic Fundraiser 1992 Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Tipper Gore at Democratic Fund Raiser 10/1/1992
Photographer is Fred McDarrah
Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, it's 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 and Marc Asnin. His mailbox was simply marked "McPhoto."
An exhibit of McDarrah’s photos of artists presented by the Steven Kasher Gallery in Chelsea was hailed by The New York Times as “a visual encyclopedia of the era’s cultural scene.”
artists in their studios, (Alice Neel, Philip Guston, Stuart Davis, Robert Smithson, Jasper Johns, Franz Kline), actors (Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro on the set of “Taxi Driver”), musicians (Janis Joplin, Alice Cooper, Bob Dylan) and documentary images of early happenings and performances (Yayoi Kusama, Charlotte Moorman, Al Hansen, Jim Dine, Nam June Paik). The many images of Andy Warhol include the well-known one with his Brillo boxes at the Stable Gallery in 1964. Woody Allen, Diane Arbus, W. H. Auden, Francis Bacon, Joan Baez, Louise Bourgeois, David Bowie, Jimmy Breslin, William Burroughs, John Cage, Leo Castelli, Christo, Leonard Cohen, Merce Cunningham, William de Kooning, Jim Dine, Mark di Suvero, Marcel Duchamp, Bob Dylan, Federico Fellini, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Indiana, Mick Jagger, Jasper Johns, Kusama, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Nam June Paik, Elvis Presley, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Robert Rauschenberg, Lou Reed, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko, Ed Ruscha, Robert Smithson, Susan Sontag, Andy Warhol, and others.
McDarrah’s prints have been collected in depth by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington. His work is in numerous public and private collections.
Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Gore (née Aitcheson; born August 19, 1948) is an American social issues advocate who was the second lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. She is the estranged wife of Al Gore, the 45th vice president of the United States, from whom she separated in 2010.
In 1985, Gore co-founded the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), which advocated for labeling of record covers of releases featuring profane language, especially in the heavy metal, punk and hip hop genres. Throughout her decades of public life, she has advocated for placing advisory labels on music (leading critics to call her a censor), mental health awareness, women's causes, children's causes, LGBT rights and reducing homelessness.
Gore co-founded the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) with Susan Baker...
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1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Print Silver Gelatin Signed Photograph Friedl Dzubas New York Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a photo of Friedl Dzubas (Abstract Expressionist) at Castelli Gallery, signed in ink and with photographer stamp verso and hand written title..
Over a 50-year span, McDarra...
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Reg Lancaster 'Yves Saint Laurent' Limited Edition Photographic Print, 20x24
Located in San Rafael, CA
April 7, 1965: Yves Saint-Laurent, ex-wonder boy of Dior, working at his own fashion house in Paris. (Photo by Reg Lancaster/Express/Getty Images)
As an authorized Getty Images Gall...
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1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Karstadt-Haus at Hermannplatz, Berlin, 1937, Mauritius Publishing
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Heinz Pollmann. His are an unparalleled and intriguing insight into the working and everyday life of the time. I...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
American Girl in Italy
By Ruth Orkin
Located in Denton, TX
Open Edition
Blind stamp on print margin.
Signed by Ruth Orkin Estate, titled, dated and copyright date in pencil on artist stamp.
Gelatin silver print
Paper size: 11 x 14 in., Image size: 8 3/4 x 13 1/4 in.
Ruth Orkin (1921 - 1985) was an American photojournalist and filmmaker. Orkin photographed many celebrities and eminent personalities amongst the likes of Einstein, Marlon Brando, Alfred Hitchcock, Doris Day, and Tennessee Williams. She travelled the world on assignments from magazines such as LIFE and Look, and her most celebrated photograph from those travels is “An American Girl in Italy...
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bird Girl, San Francisco
Located in Hudson, NY
Amodaj created the Hoop and Ball series of photographs in June 2010 with dancer and author Shawnrey Notto. The photographs were based on an earlie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Havana, Cuba. (Woman on Train)
By David Saxe
Located in Hudson, NY
David Saxe - “Photography has always been the simple act of looking and being inspired to strip the unnecessary elements from the scene and frame the image down in a way to discover what is not apparent on the surface. My photographs are as much about me as what I am seeing:
In Southern California, 2010 is a perfect example of this process of seeing. When I first noticed this scene, it was a simple mural of a whale on a wall. After looking at it for a while I realized that by eliminating the sky and foreground from the image the whale now had an undulating rhythm and movement.
In another image Restaurant Hostess, Palm Beach, FL 2012, I would go to this restaurant every week and sit in the bar behind the reception area. One day, I turned around and saw the back of a woman. Through this process of deductive framing, the image became one of dark shadows rhythmically trickling down her back interwoven with the tattoo of the lizard.
David Saxe was born in Montreal, Québec, Canada in 1943 and studied fine art at l’ecole des Beaux Arts in Montreal. He started taking pictures in 1970, after being influenced by the work of Robert Frank, and Henri Cartier Bresson. About 10 years ago, he decided to take a workshop with Constantine Manos...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
In an Iron Foundry, Washington, Pennsylvania, 1941
By Jack Delano
Located in Denton, TX
Titled and dated in black ink on print margin.
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on print verso.
Jack Delano, born Jacob Ovcharov, moved from his native Russian to New York in 192...
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Hoop and Ball, 2010
Located in Hudson, NY
Each year, Robin Rice celebrates a Salon style exhibition to showcase her gallery artists and invite new ones.
With Robin’s extensive experience as a gallery curator, all Robin Rice...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Inside St Stephen's" by Benjamin Stone
Located in London, GB
"Inside St Stephen's" by Benjamin Stone
circa 1925: Inside St Stephenfs Tower, Westminster Palace, showing the 23 ft diameter clock-face of Big Ben, named ...
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1920s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Shooting Party" by Reg Speller
Located in London, GB
"Shooting Party" by Reg Speller
10th October 1936: A woman takes aim with her shotgun during a shooting party at Borthwicks Farm, Hatfield, Hertfordshire. The group are perfectly fr...
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1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"It's The Pits" by Ronald Startup
Located in London, GB
"It's The Pits" by Ronald Startup
13th September 1953: Mechanics in the pitstop at the Monza Grand Prix in Italy. Original Publication: Picture Post ...
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Two-Horned Hat" by Sasha
Located in London, GB
"Two-Horned Hat" by Sasha
5th November 1929: Lady Castlerosse modelling the medieval-style costume and wimple she will wear to the Galaxy Ball Pageant, held at London's Park Lane Ho...
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1920s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Queen Of Soho" by Thurston Hopkins
Located in London, GB
"Queen Of Soho" by Thurston Hopkins
Model Andria Loran (right) greets a friend, 21st July 1956. Loran works in Soho, London as a model and has been voted 'Que...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Terry Thomas" by Bert Hardy
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
"Terry Thomas" by Bert Hardy
25th September 1954: English actor-comedian Terry Thomas (1911 - 1990), real name Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens, demonstrates ho...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Falaise Collection" by John Chillingworth
Located in London, GB
"Falaise Collection" by John Chillingworth
An outfit designed for the English market by Maxime de la Falaise. The model wears a pale tangerine sweater and tie with apricot red taper...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Dominion Monarch" by Harry Todd
Located in London, GB
"Dominion Monarch" by Harry Todd
The 26,263 ton Shaw Savill liner Dominion Monarch dwarfs the surrounding houses in Saville Road from her dry dock at the King George V docks in Lond...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"On Target" by George W. Hales
Located in London, GB
"On Target" by George W. Hales
18th July 1966: A beret by Simone Mirman is modelled by Caroline Dalgetty at the Incorporated Society of London Fashion D...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Maserati Bumper" by Thurston Hopkins
Located in London, GB
"Maserati Bumper" by Thurston Hopkins
The bumper of an Italian Maserati sports car at the Paris Motor Show. Original Publication: Picture Post - 8703 - Fashion Kings Of The Car Worl...
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Elizabeth Taylor At Home" by Earl Theisen
By Earl Theisen
Located in London, GB
"Elizabeth Taylor At Home" by Earl Theisen
LOS ANGELES - CIRCA 1947: Actress ElizabethTaylor helps at the dinner table at home circa 1947 in Los Angeles, California.
Unframed
Paper...
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1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Dublin Crowd" by Walshe
Located in London, GB
"Dublin Crowd" by Walshe
After signing the Treaty establishing the Free State, Irish politician and Sinn Fein leader Michael Collins (1890 - 1922) addresses the Dublin crowd at College Green...
Category
1910s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Taylor Reclines" by Baron
Located in London, GB
"Taylor Reclines" by Baron
American actress Elizabeth Taylor reclining in bed.
Unframed
Paper Size: 60"x 40'' (inches)
Printed 2022
Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"New England Skiing" by Slim Aarons
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing
A skier carrying his boots in New Hampshire, 1955.
Paper Size: 40" x 40'' (inches)
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printed in ...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
"Juan Manuel Fangio" by Evening Standard
Located in London, GB
"Juan Manuel Fangio" by Evening Standard
Argentinian racing driver Juan Manuel Fangio in a Ferrari at Silverstone racetrack.
Unframed
Paper Size: 30" x...
Category
1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"The Big Smoke" by Central Press
Located in London, GB
"The Big Smoke" by Central Press
2nd February 1971: Seagulls drift above the waters of the Thames while in the background, the billowing chimneys of Batters...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Ascari At Silverstone" by Express
Located in London, GB
"Ascari At Silverstone" by Express
25th August 1949: Italian motor racing driver Alberto Ascari (left) approaching Stowe Corner in a Ferrari during the ...
Category
1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Dukeries District" by Topical Press Agency
Located in London, GB
"Dukeries District" by Topical Press Agency
A German Opel racer leaving Welbeck Abbey, the seat of the dukes of Portland in Nottinghamshire, during the Prince Henry...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Throbbing Gristle In Culver City" by Suzan Carson
By Suzan Carson
Located in London, GB
"Throbbing Gristle In Culver City" by Suzan Carson
Singer and bassist Genesis P-Orridge (Neil Megson) of Throbbing Gristle performs onstage at the V...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Gerde's Folk City" by John Kobal Foundation
Located in London, GB
"Gerde's Folk City" by John Kobal Foundation
Gerde's Folk City.
Unframed
Paper Size: 20" x 24'' (inches)
Printed 2022
Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Flooded Mall" by H. F. Davis
Located in London, GB
"Flooded Mall" by H. F. Davis
British-American actress Liz Taylor (Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor) sitting on a bed and clinging to the headboard in the film Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. 1958
...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Taylor, Todd And Family" by Stanley Sherman
Located in London, GB
"Taylor, Todd And Family" by Stanley Sherman
A young woman modelling an outfit consisting of a three-quarter-length dress, high heeled shoes, hat and ...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"World Cup Victory" by Central Press
Located in London, GB
"World Cup Victory" by Central Press
England captain Bobby Moore (1941 - 1993) holds up the Jules Rimet trophy as he is carried on the shoulders of his team-mates after their 4-2 vi...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Long Live The King" by Hulton Archive
Located in London, GB
"Long Live The King" by Hulton Archive
21st June 1911: Workmen putting up decorations at the Royal Exchange to celebrate the Coronation of King George ...
Category
1910s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
Bette Davis Eyes (1932) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
Bette Davis Eyes (1932) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(photo by Pictorial Press / Alamy Archives)
1932,
Portrait of actress Bette Davis.
Addi...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Peek-A-Boo Beatles (1965) - Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
Peek-A-Boo Beatles (1937) - Silver Gelatin Print
(Photo by R. McPhedran/Express/Getty Images)
14th June 1965: The British rock group The Beatles stand in a window at Twickenham Fil...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Dublin Crowd (1920) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Dublin Crowd (1920) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Walshe/Getty Images)
After signing the Treaty establishing the Free State, Irish politician and Sinn Fein leader Michael Collins (1890 - 1922) addresses the Dublin crowd at College Green...
Category
1920s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Brigands Hideout, Madrid
Located in New York, NY
Brigands Hideout, Madrid
1957
Archival pigment print
Estate stamped, signed and numbered by Andrea Derujinsky with certificate of authenticity
Groundbreaking fashion photographer Gleb Derujinsky invigorated the fashion industry with his glamorous, exotic, and often unconventional photographs. Gleb Derujinsky's career as a fashion photographer took hold in the golden age of European haute couture, when Balenciaga and Pierre Balmain were at the top of their game and Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld were designing their first runway shows. Although air travel was still reserved for the happy few, Derujinsky convinced his editors Carmel Snow and Diana Vreeland to send him around the world to photograph beautiful models like Carmen Dell Orefice and his future wife, Ruth Neumann draped in expensive gowns juxtaposed against rough desert dunes or a glittering ocean at sunset. His ideas were revolutionary and they gave rise to the mystique and glamour that is now pervasive in fashion. Derujinsky was the quintessential Renaissance man photographer, award-winning cinematographer and commercial director, inventor, WWII veteran, world traveler, jewelry designer, musician, ski instructor, Ferrari America race-car driver, and champion glider pilot. His passion for photography started at the tender age of six, by ten, he had built a photo enlarger, and as a teenager, he became the youngest member of the Camera Club of New York. His photographs appeared in major lifestyle magazines and extensively in Harper's Bazaar from 1950 to 1970
Derujinsky’s best fashion photographs are typified by the frisson between high fashion in the 1950s and 1960s with the dynamism of locations and urban scenarios." Louis Vuitton Fashion Photography...
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Ali" Muhammad Ali Portrait 60x40 Photomosaic Photography Pop Art Signed
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Ali" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro. The first release in a series mosaic works called "Icons". Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smaller im...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$920 Sale Price
20% Off
84x48 "Triple Elvis by Warhol" Photomosaic Pop Fine Art Photography
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"TRIPLE ELVIS BY ANDY WARHOL" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro.
Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smaller images.
Archival photographic paper ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$1,160 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled (artichokes) by Ida Lansky, ca. 1950, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
By Ida Lansky
Located in Denton, TX
Untitled (artichokes) by Ida G. Lansky features a detail shot of whole and cut up artichokes. The produce is lit dramatically from the side, emphasizing it's intricate details.
Untitled (artichokes) by Ida G. Lansky is an 8 x 10 inch vintage silver gelatin print. This photograph includes the artist's stamp in black ink on print verso.
Ida G. Lansky was born in 1910 in Toronto, Canada. She pursued many careers in her lifetime including Nursing, Art, and Library Science. In 1928 she moved to New York City and later attended New York University, The Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn, NY and Cornell University. In 1942 she received a B.S. in Public Health Nursing.
Ida Lansky moved to Hawaii in 1945 and married Irving Lansky. She then moved to Nor- man, Oklahoma and then to Denton, Texas where she studied art and was mother to two children, Ellen and Michele.
From 1954 - 1959 she was in the Visual Art studies program at Texas Women’s University in Denton with an emphasis on photography. She studied under Carlotta...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Abstract Expressionist Hyman Bloom Photo Collage Assemblage Photograph
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a unique original collage, decoupage style of Jiri Kolar, This is an exceptional artwork which was part of a collaboration between Hyman Bloom and fellow artist and his very ...
Category
1990s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Terry O'Neill 'The Beatles'
Located in New York, NY
Terry O'Neill
The Beatles, 1963, Printed Later
Silver gelatin print
signed and numbered edition 48 of 50
with certificate of authenticity
Terry O'Neill CBE (1938-2019) was an eminen...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Style 'Inga Lindgren And Poodles'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Inga Lindgren And Poodles
1956 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Venice Beach, CA.
By David Saxe
Located in Hudson, NY
David Saxe - “Photography has always been the simple act of looking and being inspired to strip the unnecessary elements from the scene and frame the image down in a way to discover what is not apparent on the surface. My photographs are as much about me as what I am seeing:
In Southern California, 2010 is a perfect example of this process of seeing. When I first noticed this scene, it was a simple mural of a whale on a wall. After looking at it for a while I realized that by eliminating the sky and foreground from the image the whale now had an undulating rhythm and movement.
In another image Restaurant Hostess, Palm Beach, FL 2012, I would go to this restaurant every week and sit in the bar behind the reception area. One day, I turned around and saw the back of a woman. Through this process of deductive framing, the image became one of dark shadows rhythmically trickling down her back interwoven with the tattoo of the lizard.
David Saxe was born in Montreal, Québec, Canada in 1943 and studied fine art at l’ecole des Beaux Arts in Montreal. He started taking pictures in 1970, after being influenced by the work of Robert Frank, and Henri Cartier Bresson. About 10 years ago, he decided to take a workshop with Constantine Manos...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Patsy Pulitzer, Seaplane At Palm Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Patsy Pulitzer, Seaplane At Palm Beach
Chromogenic print, 1955
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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 trilliums.
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
'New York Skyline' signed Oversize print
Located in London, GB
New York Skyline
by Stuart Möller
The skyline of New York City, 2014.
The magnificent skyline of the iconic city of New York.
Beautiful mint condition Limited Edition signed Pri...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Soho Waiters' Race (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Soho Waiters' Race (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images)
Waiters carrying half bottles of champagne set off on the annual...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
'Eton vs Harrow' Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Limited Edition Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Eton Vs Harrow (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
A view of spectators on the pitch at a cricket match ...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Austrian Sound Space Architect Bernhard Leitner Photo Lithograph Hand Signed Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Bernhard Leitner, (Austrian, 1938)
From a portfolio "Sound : Space" "Ton : Raum"
Self published by artist in 1975/1976,
Limited edition of 50
Hand signed in pencil by artist.
Acc...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Screen
Frida Biting Her Necklace by Lucienne Bloch, 1933, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Denton, TX
Frida Biting Her Necklace by Lucienne Bloch is a black and white portrait of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Frida playfully bites her necklace as she poses for her portrait.
Gelatin ...
Category
20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Carmen and the Cathedral, Notre Dame, Paris
Located in New York, NY
Carmen and the Cathedral, Notre Dame, Paris
1957
Archival pigment print
Edition of 5
Estate stamped, signed and numbered by Andrea Derujinsky with certificate of authenticity
The entire Gleb Derujinsky Collection available exclusively at IFAC Arts on 1stdibs.
Groundbreaking fashion photographer Gleb Derujinsky invigorated the fashion industry with his glamorous, exotic, and often unconventional photographs. Gleb Derujinsky's career as a fashion photographer took hold in the golden age of European haute couture, when Balenciaga and Pierre Balmain were at the top of their game and Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld were designing their first runway shows. Although air travel was still reserved for the happy few, Derujinsky convinced his editors Carmel Snow and Diana Vreeland to send him around the world to photograph beautiful models like Carmen Dell Orefice and his future wife, Ruth Neumann draped in expensive gowns juxtaposed against rough desert dunes or a glittering ocean at sunset. His ideas were revolutionary and they gave rise to the mystique and glamour that is now pervasive in fashion. Derujinsky was the quintessential Renaissance man photographer, award-winning cinematographer and commercial director, inventor, WWII veteran, world traveler, jewelry designer, musician, ski instructor, Ferrari America race-car driver, and champion glider pilot. His passion for photography started at the tender age of six, by ten, he had built a photo enlarger, and as a teenager, he became the youngest member of the Camera Club of New York. His photographs appeared in major lifestyle magazines and extensively in Harper's Bazaar from 1950 to 1970
Derujinsky’s best fashion photographs are typified by the frisson between high fashion in the 1950s and 1960s with the dynamism of locations and urban scenarios." Louis Vuitton Fashion...
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Frida and Diego with Hat - Black and White Photograph, Portrait, Couple, Artists
Located in Denton, TX
Frida and Diego with Hat by Nickolas Muray is a black and white portrait of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. Frida stan...
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20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Colette (Victorian Punk)
Located in New York, NY
Colette (Victorian Punk)
Archival pigment print
14 x 14 inches
Signed and numbered
edition of 10
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, known princip...
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1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Notre Dame Cathedral and Ile de la Cité, Silver Gelatin B and W Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
A unique original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Press Agency ROL, Paris. February 1929, Notre Dame Cathedral and the Ile de la Cité.
Features:
Original silver gelatin ...
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1920s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Guggenheim Museum Architecture Photo Alloway
Located in Surfside, FL
Lawrence Alloway Museum Director Jan 28 1964
Photographer - 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 and Marc Asnin. His mailbox was simply marked "McPhoto."
An exhibit of McDarrah’s photos of artists presented by the Steven Kasher Gallery in Chelsea was hailed by The New York Times as “a visual encyclopedia of the era’s cultural scene.”
artists in their studios, (Alice Neel, Philip Guston, Stuart Davis, Robert Smithson, Jasper Johns, Franz Kline), actors (Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro on the set of “Taxi Driver”), musicians (Janis Joplin, Alice Cooper, Bob Dylan) and documentary images of early happenings and performances (Yayoi Kusama, Charlotte Moorman, Al Hansen, Jim Dine, Nam June Paik). The many images of Andy Warhol include the well-known one with his Brillo boxes at the Stable Gallery in 1964. Woody Allen, Diane Arbus, W. H. Auden, Francis Bacon, Joan Baez, Louise Bourgeois, David Bowie, Jimmy Breslin, William Burroughs, John Cage, Leo Castelli, Christo, Leonard Cohen, Merce Cunningham, William de Kooning, Jim Dine, Mark di Suvero, Marcel Duchamp, Bob Dylan, Federico Fellini, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Indiana, Mick Jagger, Jasper Johns, Kusama, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Nam June Paik, Elvis Presley, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Robert Rauschenberg, Lou Reed, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko, Ed Ruscha, Robert Smithson, Susan Sontag, Andy Warhol, and others.
McDarrah’s prints have been collected in depth by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington. His work is in numerous public and private collections.
Lawrence Reginald Alloway was an English art critic and curator who worked in the United States from 1961. In the 1950s, he was a leading member of the Independent Group in the UK and in the 1960s was an influential writer and curator in the US. He first used the term "mass popular art" in the mid-1950s and used the term "Pop Art" in the 1960s to indicate that art has a basis in the popular culture of its day and takes from it a faith in the power of images.
Alloway started writing reviews for the British periodical ArtReview, then styled Art News and Review in 1949 and for the American periodical Art News in 1953. In Nine Abstract Artists (1954) he promoted the Constructivist artists that emerged in Britain after the Second World War: Robert Adams, Terry Frost, Adrian Heath, Anthony Hill, Roger Hilton, Kenneth Martin, Mary Martin, Victor Pasmore, and William Scott.
In 1961, through his contacts with the American painter Barnett Newman, Alloway was offered a lecturer position at Bennington College in Vermont. He and his wife, the realist painter Sylvia Sleigh...
Category
1960s 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.
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