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Art Subject: Plant
Calla by JJK, Photography, Limited Edition, Flower, Calla, analog, 4x5 inch
Located in München, BY
Edition of 25
signed and numbered by the artist
This still-life picture of the flower "Calla" was shot on analog 4x5 inch film in the 80s.
JJK is a pseudonym for one of the world's...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Black and White
Tree - Signed limited edition fine art print, Sexy, Contemporary, Sensual Model
By Geoff Halpin
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Tree - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 5
South West France , 2015
Monochrome Art Print
This print that is being offered is a high-quality Archival Pigment print which has been printed on fiber based paper, Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm which is a premium quality paper that is acid-free and lignin-free.
Overall, this Archival Pigment print is a stunning piece of art that is sure to impress. The combination of high-quality paper and inks ensures that the print will remain in pristine condition for many years, making it a great investment for any art collector or enthusiast.
Signed + numbered by artist with certificate of authenticity
Please note. There are three sizes of this print; each is an edition of five (5) making the total that can be printed as fifteen (15). This will include any custom sizes requested.
Available sizes ( Image size , the white margin is not counted):
23 x 52 cm / 9,05 x 20,74" - Edition of 5
34 x 75 cm / 13,38 x 29,53" - Edition of 5
54x 120 cm / 21,26 x 47,24" - Edition of 5
Geoff Halpin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Ar...
Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - 2023
20x20cm.
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist I...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - 2023
20x20cm.
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist I...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Black Hellebore on Black - Floral photography, Limited edition of 20
Located in London, GB
'Black Hellebore on Black'
From limited edition of 20.
London, United Kingdom 2023.
It is a still life black and white film photograph, made with a large format 4x5 Linhof camera...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée
Ramunes - floral film photography on cotton canvas, Limited edition of 5
Located in London, GB
'Ramunes' 2024
Cotton canvas print from limited edition of 5.
(Does not come with streatch bars, only canvas print)
Black and white floral film photography. Made using a large fo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Still-life Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Cotton Canvas, Ink, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper,...
'Into The Beyond'. Wild nature mountain panorama sky snow forest landscape white
Located in Penzance, GB
'Into the Beyond'
Limited edition archival photograph. Unframed, hand signed and numbered
_________________
Painted pools of light dance across the richly layered mountainscape of t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Dolomites No.3, Analogue Black and White Mountain Photography, Ltd. 10
Located in London, GB
Dolomites No.3
Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy
2024
It is a black and white film photograph of Dolomite mountains, made using a 4x5 Large format camera Linhof. Ugne Pouwell does all th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Film, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Giclée
White Flowers in a Bottle
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
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 intellectual and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
#00102 Carex spp. Unique handmade photogram, gum bichromate, frame included
Located in Sante Fe, NM
#00102 Carex spp. Unique handmade photogram, gum bichromate, frame included.
This image is a unique photogram and is printed using Rives BFK, gouache, gum arabic, kitakata and ink...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogram
Lily '23 black and white analogue floral photography edition of 20
Located in London, GB
'Lily '23'
Lily was photographed using a large format 4x5 black and white film.
From Limited edition of 20.
Printed on archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper. Signed both fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Film, Charcoal, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Cortina D'Ampezzo No.3, Analogue Black and White Dolomite Photography, Ltd. 20
Located in London, GB
Cortina D'Ampezzo No.3, 2024
It is a black and white film photograph of Dolomite mountains, made using a 4x5 Large format camera Linhof. Ugne Pouwell does all the processing and pri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Film, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Gloriosa - black and white floral photography, limited edition of 10
Located in London, GB
'Gloriosa’
London, United Kingdom 2024.
It is a still life black and white film photograph, made with a large format 4x5 Linhof camera.
The photograph is signed front and back an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Palm Springs 13
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Further to Fly is a series of Wet Plate Collodion Photograms that continues in my practice of using drawings on mylar layered with light-sensitive materials in the darkroom to create...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogram
Black Hellebore No.4 - black and white floral photography, Limited edition 20
Located in London, GB
'Black Hellebore No.4’
London, United Kingdom 2024.
It is a still life black and white film photograph, made with a large format 4x5 Linhof camera.
The photograph is signed front...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Bosque Húmedo Tropical II Nuquí, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist looks for a path between tangled branches. Reconfiguring a personal archive of diverse Colombian landscapes, experimenting with a variety of printing materials to reconstr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Into the Mystic, black and white, animal, Africa, Photography, Lion
Located in München, BY
Edition of 12
more sizes on request
A female lion is sitting on a rock (Kopje) in the Serengeti.
Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His photographs a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Snow covered Central Park, New York, USA, black and white photography, cityscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art cityscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited ed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Black and White, Digital...
Black Hellebore No.3 - analogue black and white floral photography
Located in London, GB
'Black Hellebore No.3’
London, United Kingdom 2024.
It is a still life black and white film photograph, made with a large format 4x5 Linhof camera.
The photograph is signed front...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Sunflower, Winthrop, MA
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This vintage silver gelatin print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount.
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Orchid in Bent Black Sculpey on Steel, fine art photography, still life
By James Pitts
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Orchid in Bent Black Sculpey on Steel, fine art photography, still life
"Flowers" is an ongoing series in which Pitts collects various flora and backdrops to set the stage for his l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Black Hellebore - analogue black and white floral photography
Located in London, GB
'Black Hellebore’
London, United Kingdom 2024.
It is a still life black and white film photograph, made with a large format 4x5 Linhof camera.
The photograph is signed front and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Brian, White Flower and House - Vintage Poster After D. Prince - 1980
By Douglas Prince
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Poster realized in occasion of Prince's exhibition at Galleria Rondanini in Rome.
Very good conditions.
Category
1980s Figurative Photography
Materials
Offset
Colombia, Palmtrees, Beach, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 24, 4 x 24, 1 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Making Leaves - In Celebration of Pride Month
By Arthur Tress
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
Tress uses a bed, the juxtaposition of two rakes and a scattering of fallen leaves ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cortina D'Ampezzo No.2, Analogue Black and White Landscape Photography, Ltd. 20
Located in London, GB
Cortina D'Ampezzo No.2, 2024
It is a black and white film photograph of Dolomite mountains, made using a 4x5 Large format camera Linhof. Ugne Pouwell does all the processing and pri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Film, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Prehistoric Rain Forest, Oregon
By Geir Jordahl
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Geir Jordahl – American (1957- )
Title: Prehistoric Rain Forest, Oregon
Year: 1988
Medium: Silver Gelatin photograph using infrared film
Sight size: 8 x 19.75 inches.
Framed size: 16.25 x 26.25 inches
Signature: Signed on the mount
Edition: 50. This one: 2/50. (Fewer than 50 were actually printed)
Condition: Very good
Frame: Framed in original metal frame. Frame in fair condition
This photograph depicts a lush area in Oregon with many ferns and trees as well as a painted dinosaur head...
Category
1980s Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bosque Húmedo Tropical II Nuqui, From the Series Bosques. B&W Photography
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist looks for a path between tangled branches. Reconfiguring a personal archive of diverse Colombian landscapes, experimenting with a variety of printing materials to reconstr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Black and White Photography
Materials
Pigment, Black and White
Cilento, Olive Trees, Italy
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
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Delphinium in cut - abstract analogue floral photography, limited edition of 20
Located in London, GB
'Delphinium in cut'
30x30 cm Limited edition of 20.
Black and white abstract expression analogue photography, composed and exposed using 4x5 large format camera Linhof.
Giclée ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée
Heather - Contemporary, Nude, 21st Century, Polaroid, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Heather, 2018, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs
Based on an original Polaroid, Digital C-print, not mounted.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2018-475
Kir...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
'Leaf II' Hand Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
'Leaf II' Hand Signed Limited Edition
Stuart Möller
Beautiful Archival Pigment Print of large banana leaves.
40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 paper size - signed and numbered by the arti...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Chaseberry Leaf
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
In 1834, William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) saw that silver salts darkened in the sun and invented a photographic process he called “photogenic drawing” — in which images were made...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Temple Lotus Flowers, Ayutthaya, Thailand
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
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Delphinium in cut - abstract analogue floral photography, limited edition 2 of 5
Located in London, GB
'Delphinium in cut'
100x100 cm Limited edition 2 of 5.
Printed on Hahnemühle photo rag Baryta 308 Gsm fine art paper, these limited edition photographs are designed to withstand ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Black and White Pho...
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée
Heaven sent, black and white, animal, Africa, Photography, Cheetah
Located in München, BY
Edition of 7
more sizes on request
A Cheetah family is sitting in the savannah and look out for prey.
Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His photogra...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Kemio, Finland (Children laying in hammock in lush garden)
Located in Sante Fe, NM
This print is currently featured in our exhibition, Warm Regards, and will be available to ship after the show closes June 24th, 2017.
Pentti Sammallahti is a benchmark figure in co...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lean on Me, contemporary, black and white, animal, Africa, Photography, Cheetah
Located in München, BY
Edition of 7
more sizes on request
A Cheetah mum and her child are on a termite mould to look for prey.
Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His photog...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lily No.2 black and white analogue floral photography edition of 20
Located in London, GB
'Lily No.2'
Lily was photographed using a large format 4x5 black and white film.
From Limited edition of 20.
Printed on archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper. Signed both fr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Film, Charcoal, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Palm in the Sky
Located in New York, NY
It doesn’t matter if it’s Bermuda, Hawaii or Costa Rica, if there are palm trees and crystal clear water you’re daydreaming of hopping on the next flight out. However, your daily lif...
Category
2010s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Two Protea
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
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 intellectual and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Beskydy : Czech Mountains - Original Gelatin Silver Photograph, 1956
By Josef Sudek
Located in Paris, IDF
Josef Sudek
Beskydy : Czech Mountains, 1959
Original gelatin silver print
11.5 x 14 cm (c. 4.3 x 6.7 in)
Dated and titled on the back
Signed on the back by Petr Helbich (the assista...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Fallen - analogue black and white forest photography, limited edition of 20
Located in London, GB
'Fallen'
London, United Kingdom 2023
From limited edition of 20.
The photograph is signed front bottom right corner and comes with a certificate of authenticity, signed date of p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Film, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Kopa - Black and white landscape photography of Baltic dunes, Limited edition 10
Located in London, GB
'Kopa' 2021
Black and white film photograph of Blatic dunes in winter.
Limited edition 10.
Printed on archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper. Signed both front and back with ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée, Film, Photographic Film, Black and White
Floral Study 246: still life black & white photograph w/ abstract flowers, large
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an archival pigment print depicting an abstracted still life printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308 gsm by artist Paul Cava. It is from the "Flora" series, which is one of three...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Queen Elizabeth Oak
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
All photographs are platinum/palladium prints. These metals are hand coated on 100% rag cotton water color paper with natural deckled edges and contact printed. Since platinum, like ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Platinum
Sottunga, Finland (Winter Landscape)
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Pentti Sammallahti was born in 1950 in Helsinki, Finland. Sammallahti was surrounded by works from his grandmother, Hildur Larsson, who was a photographer in the early 1900s. Sammallahti has been photographing the world around him with a poetic eye since the age of eleven. At the age of nine, he visited "The Family of Man...
Category
1970s Minimalist Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Palms (Ghost Town) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Landscape
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palms (Ghost Town) - 2020
Sketches of a downtown disappearing.
20x20cm,
Edition of 7, plus 2 Artist proofs.
Digital silver gelatin print based on a Polaroid.
Signed on back with ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Polaroid, Silver Gelatin
Baltic Pine - Limited Edition Black and White Analogue Forest Photograph
Located in London, GB
Amidst a dense, unyielding forest, twisted branches reach out like silent expressions of resilience. The Baltic pine, shaped by time and the elements, bends but does not break, adapting with a quiet defiance. Even in a harsh and limiting environment, where the sky is veiled in mist and the trees stand in rigid order, nature carves its own path—unruly, untamed, and free. The gnarled limbs, stretching in unpredictable directions, embody an organic rebellion, proving that even within constraint, there is movement, there is voice, there is becoming. Freedom is not the absence of boundaries, but the refusal to be defined by them.
Limited edition of 20
Photographed in Lithuania, Giruliai forest using a 4x5 large format camera...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Giclée
Moreton Bay Fig
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
All photographs are platinum/palladium prints. These metals are hand coated on 100% rag cotton water color paper with natural deckled edges and contact printed. Since platinum, like ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Platinum
Koylia, Finland (Two Kittens Playing in a Field)
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Pentti Sammallahti was born in 1950 in Helsinki, Finland. Sammallahti was surrounded by works from his grandmother, Hildur Larsson, who was a photographer in the early 1900s. Sammallahti has been photographing the world around him with a poetic eye since the age of eleven. At the age of nine, he visited "The Family of Man...
Category
1970s Minimalist Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled Sequence (Stranger than Paradise) - Polaroid, Landscape Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Cowboys and Angels) - 2005
75x100cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
artist Inventory N...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Orchid Paphiopedilum and Orchid Paphiopedilum Callosum, B&W Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist looks for a path between tangled branches. Reconfiguring a personal archive of diverse Colombian landscapes, experimenting with a variety of printing materials to reconstr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Wild elephant babies playing III, animal, wildlife, black and white photography
Located in München, BY
Edition of 15
more sizes on request
A black and white image of wild elephant babies playing together in the tall grass in Amboseli National Park in Keny...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Kopa - black and white landscape view of Baltic dunes
Located in London, GB
'Kopa'
Black and white film photograph of Blatic dunes in winter.
Klaipeda, Lithuania 2021
Limited edition 20.
Signed from and back with certificate of authenticity.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Queen Anne's Lace
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
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 intellectual and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - 2004
20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 355...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Sterling Silver Rose
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
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 intellectual and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
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