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Art Subject: Face
Head in the Stars
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Staging Pictures: Early Polaroids focuses on Stivers' working Polaroid prints, shot with a Hasselblad Polaroid back for instant proofing of lighting and composition of his subjects. ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

El Beso
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing. If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase...
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1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Sylvana Mangano (ITA), at the Museum of Modern Art, USA 1956
Located in Toronto, ON
Archival Pigment Print on Cotton Rag Paper Including COA Printed by Eve Arnold's own bespoke printer Danny Pope
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Latent Light
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In the Dare alla Luce series, I initially responded to a collection of vintage photographs, retrieved from a variety of sources both personal and anonymous. Through hand-manipulated ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Marilyn Monroe "Some Like It Hot", USA, 1958
Located in Cologne, DE
Norma Jeane Mortenson or better known as Marilyn Monroe – iconic, beautiful and maybe the most known Hollywood Stars of the 20th century. Born and raised in Los Angeles, USA, she spe...
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography

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Black and White

Some Eyes Have Seen by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
John met this Wodaabe girl who was carrying her young child in a remote market village called Sakabal in the far north of Niger’s Maradi province. Like many Wodaabe women, she had ma...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Pure Wodaabe by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of a young Wodaabe man from a town called Bororo in Niger. Bororo is often regarded as the ‘capital city’ of his people. The name Bororo is also commonly used to describe ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

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C Print

Kolode by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Rendille girl in Kenya A return to Kenya. On this trip John took a different approach to lighting. Building makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets held up by four ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Eture by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Rendille girl A return to Kenya. On this trip John took a different approach to lighting. Building makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets held up by four war...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Lesirte by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Samburu warrior from Kenya A return to Kenya. On this trip John took a different approach to lighting. Building makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets held up by f...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

John Kenny Pitali Large Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount, 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
Sometimes a more practical hair arrangement is needed for warriors and braids are rolled into a net that is tied to keep the hair firm. Once the hair is long, a warrior will only sha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Ikulme by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
This elder from a Rendille community in northern Kenya wears a typical bright coloured fabric wrapped around his body. It is essentially the same as the blanket-like ‘shuka’ worn by ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Rendille mother and child by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait with Acrylic mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Like the Maasai, Rendille women and their children keep their hair very short. This mother, however, leaves a tuft of hair remaining on the front of her child which has been bleached...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

John Kenny Ekerun Large Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Turkana elder in Northern Kenya John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

"Woman" Photography on paper 52" x 42" framed
Located in Carmel, CA
The photograph comes with a certificate of authenticity and a letter of appraisal. Lucile - 'Women' Photography on paper. framed.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

La Vieja Guajira by James Sparshatt. 20 x 20” photo printed direct on aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
The old country girl from the Escambray mountains. I was hiking in the mountains, close to Trinidad, when I met the family. They invited me in and we chatted about our different live...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Metal

La Vieja Guajira by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photo printed direct on aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
The old country girl from the Escambray mountains. I was hiking in the mountains, close to Trinidad, when I met the family. They invited me in and we chatted about our different live...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Metal

La Romera by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photograph printed direct on aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
On a musical and pleasure seeking pilgrimage… during Las Romerias de Mayo festival in Holguín. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Metal

La Romera by James Sparshatt. 20 x 20” photograph printed direct on aluminium.
Located in Coltishall, GB
On a musical and pleasure seeking pilgrimage… during Las Romerias de Mayo festival in Holguín. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Metal

El Finquero by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photograph printed direct on aluminium.
Located in Coltishall, GB
A tobacco farmer from the Viñales valley. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They have a s...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Metal

El Finquero by James Sparshatt. 20 x 20” photograph printed direct on aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
A tobacco farmer from the Viñales valley. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They have a s...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Metal

El Revolucionario by James Sparshatt. 20 x 20” photo printed direct on aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
El revolucionario – a gentleman of Old Havana. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They hav...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Metal

El Revolucionario by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photo printed direct on aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
El revolucionario – a gentleman of Old Havana. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They hav...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Metal

Mujer De Santiago by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photo printed direct on aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
A woman of Santiago de Cuba. The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cubans that saw the dramatic changes of 1959 as young adults. They have a strength of ch...
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21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Metal

El Tabaquero by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photograph printed direct on aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
A tobacco farmer from the Viñales valley in Cuba. In 1959 residents of Cuba were faced with a stark choice: stay on their island home and live as a “revolutionary” or leave. Some believed wholeheartedly in the new beginning, some were willing to be carried along and some abandoned everything they had and chose exile. The Buena Vista social club...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Metal

Assaita by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2008
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young man of the Afar culture in the town of Assaita. Many men spend the afternoons in loud debate in mud buildings and courtyards. Often with fistfuls of miraa leaves (ghat) and...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Fula Nomad at Golondi by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
The man was sat in the shade during a huge village market in a place called Golondi in Niger. We drank the salty, sweet tea that the nomads of the Sahel and...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Fire of the Himbaby John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Himba women have a devotion to red ochre powder and butter fat that exceeds even the Hamer of the Omo valley in Ethiopia. They apply huge amounts to almost their entire bodies inclu...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Ltiriyan by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met Ltiriyan at the water wells in Laisamis, part of the Rendille lands of Northern Kenya. He was with nine or ten Rendille warriors relaxing in the heat of the day, and they happily sat around and talked with me through my guide for an hour or so before preparing their camels to head off into the desert again. Ltiriyan was the most outspoken of the young warriors...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Himba Child ll by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Himba child from Namibia John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Himba Woman by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and his subjects in their day to day attire. The C-t...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Nambuele by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2012
Located in Coltishall, GB
Nambuele illustrates the hair craft of the Mumuhuila of southern Angola, whose women take an obsessive pride in their hairstyle. Although it may change as a girl enters different st...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

At the Heart of Huile by John Kenny - C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Young Mumuhuile woman from the Huile region of southern Angola. John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with na...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

My co-worker was always jealous of my blonde hair, 2013
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Category

2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Studying piano is one of my favorite hobbies, 2012
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Category

2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

El Beso by James Sparshatt. Palladium Platinum Photo with Float Frame 2004
Located in Coltishall, GB
A fleeting touch of the lips on a tango dance floor James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people lost in the rhythm of the moment. The...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Platinum

El Beso by James Sparshatt. Palladium Platinum Photograph 2004
Located in Coltishall, GB
A fleeting touch of the lips on a tango dance floor James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people lost in the rhythm of the moment. The...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Platinum

Armonía by James Sparshatt. Palladium Platinum Photograph 2001
Located in Coltishall, GB
A moment of harmony… male with female, African with Hispanic… joined together in the dance that is Cuba. James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and int...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Platinum

Las manos by James Sparshatt. Palladium Platinum Photograph 2001
Located in Coltishall, GB
Dancers during the Romerias de Mayo festival in Holguin Cuba. James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people los...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Platinum

Reflecciones by James Sparshatt. Palladium Platinum Photo with Float Frame 2000
Located in Coltishall, GB
A moment of self-reflection in the School of Spanish Dance in the Gran Teatro of Havana. James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Platinum

Nancy and Frank: Time for a duet Dad?
By Ed Thrasher
Located in Chicago, IL
Frank relaxes between takes in Hollywood, CA with his daughter Nancy in 1964, while Nancy was filming "Get Yourself a College Girl". She often tried to visit her father who was recor...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Archival Pigment

El Descanso by James Sparshatt. Palladium Platinum Photograph 2000
Located in Coltishall, GB
Each day the students at the School of Spanish Dance in Havana strut and twirl and leap across boards tin dance studios hat have seen better days. The da...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Platinum

Las Palmas by James Sparshatt. Palladium Platinum Photograph 2000
Located in Coltishall, GB
Dancer in the School of Spanish Dance in the Gran Teatro in Old Havana. James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people lost in the rhyt...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Platinum

Son Morena Son by James Sparshatt. Palladium Platinum Photograph 2002
Located in Coltishall, GB
The all-female Cuban group Morena Son playing in Holguin. James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people lost in the rhythm of the mome...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Platinum

Son Morena Son by James Sparshatt. Palladium Platinum Print with Float Frame2002
Located in Coltishall, GB
The all-female Cuban group Morena Son playing in Holguin. James Sparshatt’s photographs of music and dance capture the emotion and intensity of people lost in the rhythm of the mome...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Materials

Platinum

Tuareg Warrior by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Tuareg warrior from Mali. John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and his subjects in thei...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Konbaki by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2008
Located in Coltishall, GB
Konbaki – a portrait from a Fula woman from Niger in Africa. John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natur...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Fula Shepherd by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
This young Fula shepherd, much younger than is perhaps suggested in this photograph, was walking through a small village with his animals in the searing midday heat of Niger. He was ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Hausa and Fula Cultures Collide by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait with mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
John met this young Fula girl as she was walking across the barren, sandy monotones of Niger’s Sahel. She was wearing an amazingly intricate arrangement of beads and a carefully craf...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Amongst the Camels by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Tuareg man 80 kilometres north of Timbuktu in the desert camp of Essakane. He was wearing a beautiful red metallic turban characteristic of the Tuareg from this part of Northern Ma...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Tuareg Vision of Intensity by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait with Acrylic mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
In January 2009 John Kenny went to the Festival of the Desert in Mali. The gathering of Tuareg musicians was, at the time, an annual event held in Essakane – about 100kms into the Sahara from Timbuktu, This striking Tuareg man was walking through the beautiful white sand dunes with his camels. He was on his way to join groups of Tuareg watching the setting sun from the top of the dunes and to join in preparations for the next days camel racing...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Lines that Lead to Perfection by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait with mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Ydaco is from the Betammaribe culture in Benin. He lives in a small village in the Atakora mountains. His cheek bones provide the perfect surface for the beautifully intricate scarif...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Fula Shepherd Boy by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
John met this young Fula shepherd as he was dragging three uncooperative goats towards a dusty livestock market in a remote part of Niger. As a Fula nomad this young boy would spend...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Amuria by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of a beautiful young Turkana woman photographed on the banks of Lake Turkana. John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Mursi traditions by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Mago National Park in southern Ethiopia is home to the Mursi, one of the most well known tribes of the Omo valley. The area is inhospitable to outsiders, because of the heat, humidi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Kedenye by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
Elder with a tale to tell John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a remarka...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Gumatoo by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
John Kenny met this Gabbra woman on the road to Kolal in Northern Kenya in 2019. John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sh...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Lopayok by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Turkana warrior John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to capture a remarkabl...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Lesirte by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Samburu warrior from Kenya A return to Kenya. On this trip John took a different approach to lighting. Building makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets held up by f...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Kolode by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
A Rendille girl in Kenya A return to Kenya. On this trip John took a different approach to lighting. Building makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets held up by four ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

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