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Art Subject: Night
Snow Moon and Cloud, New York City, Contemporary Night Photography
Located in New york, NY
Commonly referred to as the Snow Moon because of snowfall typical in February, the bright orb illuminated the night sky in New York City. The Snow Moon was the second full moon of 20...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Gaia Diptych #128b - Limited Edition Black and White Photographic print
Located in Brighton, GB
Gaia Diptych #128b by Jaume Llorens is a 24cm x 18cm Black and White Photographic print on Premio Kozo 180gsm White Paper by Awagami Factory. This size in a limited edition of 10 + 2...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital, Black and White
Racetrack - desert landscape panorama under mesmerizing starry night sky
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Racetrack by Frank Schott
24 x 40 inches (56 x 102cm)
edition of 25
signed
48 x 88 inches (122 x 224cm)
edition of 7
signed
archival quality fine art pigment print
limited art ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée
Gaia Diptych 116 - Limited Edition Black and White Photographic print
Located in Brighton, GB
Gaia Diptych #116 by Jaume Llorens is a 24cm x 18cm Black and White Photographic print on Premio Kozo 180gsm White Paper by Awagami Factory. This size is a limited edition of 10 + 2 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Digital
Moon ( from the artist's Lunar Series)
By Ted Kincaid
Located in New Orleans, LA
An image from Kincaid lunar series. An edition of 10
Over the course of three decades, Ted Kincaid has systematically subverted the notion of an objective photographic record and examined the play between painting and photography. Kincaid has created multiple series...
Category
2010s Landscape Photography
Materials
Film, Digital
Rainy Time Square (1953) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
Rainy Time Square (1953) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Alamy)
Two silhouetted women at bus stop under umbrellas in Time Square,
Manhattan,...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
As seen in Apple TV series "Dark Matter" Screaming Mike by Jack Perno
By Jack Perno
Located in Chicago, IL
As seen in Apple TV+ series "Dark Matter"
Screaming Mike
"This is the only image where Photoshop has been implemented. I had an illustrator friend who, for ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
White Castle, Route #1, Rahway, NJ
By George Tice
Located in Westwood, NJ
George Tice was born in 1938 in Newark, NJ, the state in which his ancestors had lived for generations earlier. He joined a camera club when he was fourteen, and is largely a self ta...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
The Star
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 22.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is prod...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
'A boat under the moon' Photography 64" x 44" framed by Karim
Located in Carmel, CA
Edition of 3
1/3
The photograph comes with a certificate of authenticity and a letter of appraisal.
Karim - 'A boat under the moon' Photography on paper. framed.
Karim is a very u...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Elephant and Stars
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 35
Signed, titled, dated and numbered.
Paper size: 20 x 16 in., Image size: 15 x 15 in.
Keith Carter is an American photographer who is known for his dreamlike black and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Racetrack (framed) - desert landscape panorama under mesmerizing night sky
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Racetrack by Frank Schott ( framed )
"Modern Gallery Frameless"
highly detailed photographic capture of the mesmerizing night sky above the California desert
"Modern Gallery Framele...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Plexiglass, Giclée
Gaia Diptych 125 - Limited Edition Black and White Photographic print
Located in Brighton, GB
Gaia Diptych #125 by Jaume Llorens is a 24cm x 18cm Black and White Photographic print on Premio Kozo 180gsm White Paper by Awagami Factory. This size is a limited edition of 10 + 2 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Digital
Skyline, Rio de Janeiro
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 45
Signed, titled, negative date, print date and numbered.
Sepia toned gelatin silver print
Michael Kenna's black and white photographs are powerful and alluring. His...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Huangshan Mountains, Study 46, Anhui, China
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 45
Signed, titled, negative date, print date, and numbered by Michael Kenna
Sepia toned gelatin silver print, 8 x 7 3/4 in.
Michael Kenna's black and white photographs ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Racetrack - large scale desert landscape panorama under mesmerizing night sky
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
highly detailed photographic capture of the mesmerizing night sky above the California desert
Racetrack by Frank Schott
48 x 88 inches (122 x 224cm)
signed edition of 7
24 x 40 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Gaia Diptych #107 - Black and White Photographic print
Located in Brighton, GB
Gaia Diptych #107 by Jaume Llorens is a 24cm x 18cm Black and White Photographic print on Premio Kozo 180gsm White Paper by Awagami Factory. This size from a limited edition of 10 + ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Digital
Gaia Diptych 106 - Limited Edition Black and White Photographic print
Located in Brighton, GB
Gaia Diptych #106 by Jaume Llorens is a 24cm x 18cm Black and White Photographic print on Premio Kozo 180gsm White Paper by Awagami Factory. This size from a limited edition of 10 + ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Digital
Racetrack (mounted) - desert landscape panorama under mesmerizing night sky
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Racetrack by Frank Schott (2011)
a highly detailed black & white photograph capturing the mesmerizing night sky above California's desert landscape
32 x 60 inches / 81 x 152cm
moun...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Golden Gate Bridge, Study 16, San Francisco, California, USA. 2009
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential among ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Landscape #41
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Sometimes there is a hazy, almost tropical light that falls over the Bay Area. The moisture in the air falls on the landscape and makes it appear as a series of two-dimensional plane...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Royal Fireworks Display For Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
Located in Roma, IT
See PA Story
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ROYAL PIREWORK DISPLAY FOR WEDDING
Jันly 28th 1981 PAP 196577-181 (61-W)
London, Tuesday, PA:
The firework display in Hyde Fark, London tonight, to colobrate to...
Category
1980s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Wonder Valley (Sidewinder) - super-8, analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wonder Valley (Sidewinder) - 2005
20x57cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival Print based on the Super-8 footage.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist Inventory No ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
David Burdeny - Moonrise, Japan 2006, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
David Burdeny (b. 1968. Winnipeg, Canada) graduated with a Masters in Architecture and Interior Design and spent the early part of his career practicing in his field before establish...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Until the Veil was Torn
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In Home By Nightfall, Angela Bacon-Kidwell photographs a lone road surrounded by stretches of a seemingly infinite smokey landscape bathed in gauzy light. Ultimately speaking of tran...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Late Summer Evening, Ontario, 1927
By Amy Friend
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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fingernail Moon Setting Behind Safford Peak
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Artist Statement
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dune
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel for our multi-faceted but brie...
Category
1990s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sunrise Over Lone Pine, limited edition photograph, signed, archival ink
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Sunrise Over Lone Pine, limited edition photograph, signed, archival ink
"The Eastern Sierra Nevada has always been a major inspiration for me - and a reason why I started photographing the landscapes of the Desert Southwest. Owens Valley, the Alabama Hills and specifically the town of Lone Pine was one of the first areas I spent time exploring when I first arrived in California (30+ years ago). The sight and majesty of Lone Pine Peak and Mount Whitney...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Landscape #43
Located in Sante Fe, NM
"I make the images by first creating drawings on clear mylar. These drawings are then laid on top of light sensitive paper in the darkroom and then the paper is exposed to light. For images with layered landscapes, multiple drawings are placed on the paper which is then exposed at intervals and a drawing removed at the end of each interval. The stars are created by exposing the paper to light through a mask with small holes poked into it. The darkroom aspect of the process creates a photogram negative, which I then scan and invert into a positive image digitally. The final images are pigment prints on archival rag paper." -- Vanessa Marsh
Vanessa Marsh was born in Seattle, Washington, and currently works in Oakland, California. Marsh first became interested in Photography when her mother gave her a Nikon E series camera in 9th grade. She earned her MFA in 2004 from California College of the Arts. Marsh has exhibited widely including the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, Dolby Chadwick Gallery...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Moonrise, Clouds, and Star Trails, Lake Tsomoriri, Ladakh, India
By Linda Connor
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Printed onto direct positive Printing Out Paper and then gold-toned.
Linda Connor's imagery of ancient and sacred places explores the relationship between nature, civilization and s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Gold
Summer Solstice
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Austin’s minimal and atmospheric landscapes are portraits of the sun while it traverses the sky on a specific day at a specific time.
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Highway 41
Located in Sante Fe, NM
My art may be difficult to categorize, and I’m not entirely sure I understand where it comes from myself, but most pieces seem to represent the intersection of my life experiences, a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Board, Archival Pigment
Landscape #38
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Sometimes there is a hazy, almost tropical light that falls over the Bay Area. The moisture in the air falls on the landscape and makes it appear as a series of two-dimensional plane...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
December 21, 1889
By Linda Connor
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Linda Connor: Lick Observatory
These celestial images are made from glass plate negatives that belong to the archive of the Lick Observatory in San Francisco. These images were mad...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
July 4, 1899
By Linda Connor
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Linda Connor: Lick Observatory
These celestial images are made from glass plate negatives that belong to the archive of the Lick Observatory in San Francisco. These images were mad...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Six Quarter Moons
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Photographer Mark Klett is best known for cool, impersonal images of desert landscapes in the American Southwest, taken from a similar vantage points and under similar lighting condi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
357 at dusk
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Photographer Mark Klett is best known for cool, impersonal images of desert landscapes in the American Southwest, taken from a similar vantage points and under similar lighting condi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Nocturne
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The past several years of my life have been colored by change, both positive and adverse: a new partner; a new child; loved ones that have fallen ill at an early age; friends and fam...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rising Sun, Wakasa, Hokkaido, Japan. 2007
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Kenna is master of contemporary photography. Known for clean compositions, long exposures and minimalist aesthetics, Kenna’s signature style remains highly influential am...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Substance and the Void
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Austin’s minimal and atmospheric landscapes are portraits of the sun while it traverses the sky on a specific day at a specific time.
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
James Sparshatt Mists O’er The Loch Large Archival Print with Wooden Frame, 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
A frozen morning in the highlands of Scotland and the sun battles to emerge from the mists.
James Sparshatt’s black and white landscapes have an ethereal beauty. They are moments w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Wood
March 8, 1936
By Linda Connor
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Linda Connor: Lick Observatory
These celestial images are made from glass plate negatives that belong to the archive of the Lick Observatory in San Francisco. These images were mad...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Monument
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Antony Zega (1962-2019). Monument, ca. 1985. Photographic print, 10 x 10 inches. Mounted to acid free matting board measuring 16 x 20 inches. Unsigned. Estate stamp on verso.
Category
1980s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Untitled, Amusement Park
By Robert Frank
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the back of the print, lower right. Exhibited Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, 1985.
Category
20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Brassaï Original Black & White Photograph of a Street Fair
By Brassaï
Located in New York, NY
BRASSAI (Hungarian–French, 1899-1984)
Street Fair on the Place d'Italie, 1931
Medium: Sheet-fed Gravure
Printing Date: 1970's
Printed in the USA
Image: 10 1/2 x 8 inches
Framed: 14 1/2 x 12 inches
Although his real nameis Gyula Halasz, he took the name Brassai from his birthplace, and it means someone who comes from Brasov. He used the name all his adult life and is known throughout the world as Brassai.
He was of Hungarian ethnic origins. Brasov in Transylvania has been a part of Romania since the end of the First World War, and that region is still largely populated by ‘Romanain-Hungarians.’ Two of these became well known in the film industry: Bela Lugosi and Gabriel Pascal. When the Austro-Hungarian Empire was dismantled after the War, most of its territories were distributed amongst a number of nations. It was at this time that Transylvania returned to its earlier identity as part of Romania.
Brassai had served in the Austro-Hungarian cavalry for the last year of the War, 1917-1918. After he settled in Paris in 1924, Brassai never returned to his homeland, remaining in exile for the rest of his life. His parents continued to live in Brasov but joined him for long visits in Paris.
In 1949 Brassai became a French citizen, having been a stateless person since 1947. He fell in love with a French woman, Gilberte Boyer, and they married in 1948. Gilberte worked closely with her husband as he pursued his photographic career, helping him develop prints in his dark-room, and often writing descriptions of the subjects and personalities. It was also in 1949 that a book with 207 photographs of Picasso’s sculptures was published, with photographs by Brassai. He and Picasso became friends and the latter asked him to photograph his work for this volume. Brassai was a frequent visitor to Picasso’s studio and there he took several portraits of the artist.
Brassai has become one of the leading photographers of the twentieth century with collectors all over the world seeking his work. In an era which produced several brilliant and inspired photographers, not least Brassai’s friend Man Ray, he was able to capture a quality of magic in the atmosphere, bordering on the supernatural. Many of his pictures were taken at night or in fog, a frequent condition in Paris in the early part of the twentieth century. Even his day time photographs capture a moment of eerie transition between the mundane and the surreal. He is on the doorstep of another world where time stands still. Light becomes spectral as if it is the breath of an invisible power. Figures seem set in amber. Wet cobbles seem to slither and flow. A Master of capturing the ordinary, Brassai saw things as they were but transmuted the scene through his use of the lens into something outside the ordinary.
Brassai was a familiar figure prowling round Paris after dark with his camera and tripod and heavy bag of glass photographic plates. He was sometimes accompanied by Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, or Leon Paul...
Category
1930s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogravure
Leslie & Ella on the Hudson, Wednesday, May 31st, 9:26-9:47 p.m.
Located in New York, NY
Pigmented ink print (Edition of 20)
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, recto
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Pigment
Moon Hunter
Located in New York City, NY
Available sizes:
32x47in ed.20
40x60in ed.15
47x71in ed.10
Archival Pigment Print
Unframed
Ask us for framing options.
Björn Persson is an internationally renowned artist based i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
General Store - 29 Palms, CA
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
General Store (29 Palms, CA), 2007, 38x49cm, Edition 4/5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, matte surface,
based ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Vasquez Rocks IV, Agua Dulce, CA - Contemporary Pigment Print (Black+White)
Located in Gilroy, CA
Framed Print: 17" x 21" x 1.25"
Edition 1/25
"Vasquez Rocks III, Agua Dulce, CA" is a contemporary pigment print by Southern California artist Edward Alfano. This work features a st...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Pigment
PETAVIUS_LANGRENUS_MER DES CRIS - Héliogravure of the Moon's Surface
Located in London, GB
Héliogravure after photographs by Loewy and Puiseux depicting the Moon’s surface, from Atlas Photographique de la Lune.
[Published: Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, 1899].
The finest a...
Category
1890s Naturalistic Black and White Photography
Materials
Other Medium
POSIDONIUS_ATLAS_CORNE BORÉALE. - Héliogravure of the Moon's Surface
Located in London, GB
Héliogravure after photographs by Loewy and Puiseux depicting the Moon’s surface, from Atlas Photographique de la Lune.
[Published: Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, 1899].
The finest a...
Category
1890s Naturalistic Black and White Photography
Materials
Other Medium
A Glossary of Troubles
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 10.
CURRENT EXHIBITION - runs through September 11th, 2016. Any framed photographs purchased during the s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Pigment
Kihti, Finland (Dark tide)
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Finnish photographer Pentti Sammallahti depicts nature, eroded and broken down by civilization, but does not put man and the environment in opposite camps. He sees an equal relations...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Damen and Division Street circa 1949, Photo Signed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Framing options available.
Art Shay
Damen and Division Street, 1949
silver gelatin print, printed circa 2016
20h x 16w in
50.80h x 40.64w cm
ASY8337
“Art Shay’s photography shakes ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Two Moons
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Photographer Mark Klett is best known for cool, impersonal images of desert landscapes in the American Southwest, taken from a similar vantage points and under similar lighting condi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Seven Moons
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Photographer Mark Klett is best known for cool, impersonal images of desert landscapes in the American Southwest, taken from a similar vantage points and under similar lighting condi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Full Moon with Ring, Sand Tank Mountains, AZ
By Mark Klett
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Influenced by late nineteenth-century expeditionary photographers such as Timothy O'Sullivan, who documented the "unexplored" territories of the West, Mark Klett visually explores th...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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