Contemporary Black and White Photography
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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Style: Contemporary
"Day Off 2" Photography 30" x 24" inch Edition of 15 by Olha Stepanian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Day Off 2" Photography 30" x 24" inch Edition of 15 by Olha Stepanian
Printed on Epson Professional Paper
Signed and numbered by the artist
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
Av...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Lightning Strike
Located in Kansas City, MO
Kay Tibbs
Lightning Strike
Year: 2024
Archival Pigment Print on
Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag
Framed Size: 13 x 13 x 0.25 inches
COA provided
*Ready to hang; matted and framed in a minimal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
III, Photography, Limited Edition
Located in Munich, DE
Limited Edition of 10
Framed size 27 x 37 cm
All works are Archival Pigment prints, floating in an all black wooden frame behind museums glass.
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Sara Punt...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Longest Braid, Photography, Limited Edition
Located in Munich, DE
Limited Edition of 3
Framed size 70 x 100 cm
All works are Archival Pigment prints, floating in an all black wooden frame behind museums glass.
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Sara Punt...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Back Line, Photography, Limited Edition
Located in Munich, DE
Limited Edition of 7
Framed size 49 x 69 cm
All works are Archival Pigment prints, floating in an all black wooden frame behind museums glass.
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Sara Punt's wo...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Shade, Photography, Limited Edition
Located in Munich, DE
Limited Edition of 3
Framed size 70 x 100 cm
All works are Archival Pigment prints, floating in an all black wooden frame behind museums glass.
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Sara Punt's w...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rimon, Photography, Limited Edition
Located in Munich, DE
Limited Edition of 10
Framed size 27 x 37 cm
All works are Archival Pigment prints, floating in an all black wooden frame behind museums glass.
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Sara Punt's w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Embrace, Photography, Limited Edition
Located in Munich, DE
Limited Edition of 10
Framed size 27 x 37 cm
All works are Archival Pigment prints, floating in an all black wooden frame behind museums glass.
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Sara Punt's w...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Third Eye, Photography, Limited Edition
Located in Munich, DE
Limited Edition of 7
Framed size 49 x 69 cm
All works are Archival Pigment prints, floating in an all black wooden frame behind museums glass.
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Sara Punt's wo...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Intersect, Photography, Limited Edition
Located in Munich, DE
Limited Edition of 7
Framed size 49 x 69 cm
All works are Archival Pigment prints, floating in an all black wooden frame behind museums glass.
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Sara Punt...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Seen, Photography, Limited Edition
Located in Munich, DE
Limited Edition of 7
Framed size 49 x 69 cm
All works are Archival Pigment prints, floating in an all black wooden frame behind museums glass.
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Sara Punt's wo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sculpted, Photography, Limited Edition
Located in Munich, DE
Limited Edition of 7
Framed size 49 x 69 cm
All works are Archival Pigment prints, floating in an all black wooden frame behind museums glass.
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Sara Punt...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Needle, Photography, Limited Edition
Located in Munich, DE
Limited Edition of 7
Framed size 49 x 69 cm
All works are Archival Pigment prints, floating in an all black wooden frame behind museums glass.
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Sara Punt...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Holding My Dark, Photography, Limited Edition
Located in Munich, DE
Limited Edition of 7
Framed size 49 x 69 cm
All works are Archival Pigment prints, floating in an all black wooden frame behind museums glass.
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Sara Punt...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mercer Street
By Todd Burris
Located in Hudson, NY
Black and white, fashion, model, street, mercer st, NYC, New York, New York City Photography, woman, model, fashion photography, B&W, black and white photography, Todd Burris,
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 2 of 25
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production.
Shipping time depends on method of shipping.
Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph
This exhibition is a visual dance of contradictions. Whimsical and sophisticated. Stylistic and simple. Studied and carefree. That’s what emerges when you take a photojournalist by study, fashion photographer by trade and fine artist by instinct and leave him alone with his camera and a muse. Burris’ work is influenced by his early career spent working with fashion photographer Bill King and inspired by the decisive moment made known by the Henri Cartier Bresson. He defies the confines of either discipline. It is not fashion photography, which is by nature produced, but rather purely spontaneous.
Todd left the world of fashion photography after building his own career in Milan and New York to go to LA and find his niche. He embraced his fascination with flea markets and penchant for discarded items that wouldn’t ever be chosen because they were trendy but because they were interesting. Burris packed his 1979 white Pontiac station wagon with his finds. When he came upon a stage that fit the props, he called on his muses and created a visual story on the spur of a moment.
The collection of black and white images conveys a sense of effervescence and Élan. It includes photographs from Burris' time in Los Angeles as well as earlier experimental work in Milan and New York City.
Anything but superficial, the invitational image, "Paget #1" challenges the traditional symmetry of beauty. We see a dramatic close up of a woman’s face, her intense eyes framed by the stark contrast between her porcelain skin and jet black hair. The lighting is such that her face is divided by shadow, one half dark and mysterious, the other half light and classically beautiful. The effect is deeply engaging. The viewer doesn’t know when the photo was taken but you want to know more.
In “Mercer Street...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Look in the mirror by JJK, Photography, Limited Edition
Located in Munich, DE
Edition of 25
signed and numbered by the artist
A women looks in to a plastic of a cow. This photo was taken in a Museum in Berlin.
JJK is a pseudonym for one of the world's most s...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Poppy bloom - Black and White analogue floral photography, Limited edition of 20
Located in London, GB
'Poppy Bloom’
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Gloriosa - black and white floral photography, limited edition of 20
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
Venice - Signed limited edition landscape print, Black white, Contemporary Archi
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Venice , Limited edition archival pigment print , 2002 - Edition 2/5.
This image was captured on film. The negative was scanned creating a digital file which is then printed o...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Film, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Arc...
Mercedes Drip
Located in Toronto, ON
Limited Edition Archival Photograph of 50 Hand Signed by John Migicovsky
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Afternoons - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Afternoons - 2024 -
40x50cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label with certificate.
inventory PL2024-030.
Not m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Polaroid, Color, C Print
Graffiti
Located in Toronto, ON
Limited Edition Archival Photograph of 50 Hand Signed by John Migicovsky
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
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Photographic Paper
James Dean on Sunset Blvd
Located in Toronto, ON
Limited Edition Archival Photograph of 50 Hand Signed by John Migicovsky
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
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Photographic Paper
Corvair
Located in Toronto, ON
Limited Edition Archival Photograph of 50 Hand Signed by John Migicovsky
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
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Mack Truck by John Migicovsky
Located in Toronto, ON
Limited Edition Archival Photograph of 50 Hand Signed by John Migicovsky
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
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Man Playing Croquet
Located in Toronto, ON
Limited Edition Archival Photograph of 50 Hand Signed by John Migicovsky
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
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Sonny
Located in Kansas City, MO
Emily Evans Sloan
Sonny
Year: 2024
Archival Pigment Print on
Hahnemuehle Baryta Rag
Framed Size: 13 x 13 x 0.25 inches
COA provided
*Ready to hang; matted and framed in a minimal bl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Breeze - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Breeze - 2024 -
20x20cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label with certificate.
inventory PL2024-039.
Not mount...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper
Midtown New York, 2020
Located in Toronto, ON
Limited Edition Platinum Palladium Print of 10
Hand Signed by John Migicovsky
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
David Yarrow Photograph / Testarossa / Vintage Car
By David Yarrow
Located in Greenwich, CT
Testarossa - edition of 12, signed by artist
We have worked with some expensive props over the years and as our creative visions become more expansive and ambitious, there will no d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
David Yarrow Photograph / Ferrari II / Staged Wolves Series, Vintage Car
By David Yarrow
Located in Greenwich, CT
Ferrari II - edition of 12, signed by artist
In the 1950s, the Californian Dream made Route 66 the most famous road in the world. The route of flight for the American Middle Class, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rolls on Rodeo
Located in Toronto, ON
Limited Edition Archival Photograph of 50 Hand Signed by John Migicovsky
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
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The Blues... the worst ole feelin I most ever had
Located in Toronto, ON
Limited Edition Archival Photograph of 50
Hand Signed by John Migicovsky
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
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Photographic Paper
Calla by JJK, Photography, Limited Edition, Flower, Calla, analog, 4x5 inch
Located in Munich, DE
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
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 and back and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Carefully placed in a secure cardboard package and shipped with an insured express delivery service.
Please feel free to contact if you have any questions.
About the artist:
Ugne Pouwell is a fine art photographer originally from Lithuania. Today she makes most of her creative work in London, United Kingdom.
Her main focus is black-and-white landscape and floral photography. Mainly using a large format 4x5 Linhof camera to express the timeless beauty of the subject in focus. Many of the influences come from 20th-century photography. She processes her work from start to finish: film processing, scanning and printing.
Her work is mainly printed on the world's oldest paper-producing houses Hahnemühle and Awagami and some more exclusive work on organic linen and cotton fabrics. Paper and canvas choices are mainly based on organic feeling also adding more special feeling to her work.
2016 Ugne finished her studies at the University of Westminster Photography and Digital Imaging Technologies. She continued her practice by applying scientific knowledge to her everyday work in fine art photography.
Awards:
2023 Black Spider Awards, Honourable mention in Still Life
2022 Black Spider Awards, Honourable mention in Still Life
2022 IPA International Photography Awards, Honourable mention in Analogue / Film Fine Art
2021 Mono Visions...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Vintage Hudson II
Located in Toronto, ON
Limited Edition Archival Photograph of 50
Hand Signed by John Migicovsky
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Original Flo's Diner
Located in Toronto, ON
Limited Edition Archival Photograph of 50
Hand Signed by John Migicovsky
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
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Time Out
Located in Toronto, ON
Limited Edition Archival Photograph of 50
Hand Signed by John Migicovsky
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
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Icons & people: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Ralph Abernathy, Sammy Davis Jr.
By Guy Crowder
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a growing selection of photography by different photographers, curated in early 2019, of iconic figures as well as ordinary people going about their life in a different momen...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Walking Detroit, the Sixties
Located in Toronto, ON
Limited Edition Archival Photograph of 50
Hand Signed by John Migicovsky
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
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Sunset Blvd Lot I
Located in Toronto, ON
Limited Edition Platinum Palladium Print of 10
Hand Signed by John Migicovsky
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Hudson I
Located in Toronto, ON
Limited Edition Platinum Palladium Print of 10
Hand Signed by John Migicovsky
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Eglinton Grand
Located in Toronto, ON
Limited Edition Archival Photograph of 50
Hand Signed by John Migicovsky
Additional Information:
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
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The Seventh Inning Stretch, Spring Training
Located in Toronto, ON
Limited Edition Archival Photograph of 50
Hand Signed by John Migicovsky
Additional Information:
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
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Sunset Blvd Lot II
Located in Toronto, ON
Limited Edition Platinum Palladium Print of 10
Hand Signed by John Migicovsky
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Guitar Shop, Sunset Blvd
Located in Toronto, ON
Limited Edition Platinum Palladium Print of 10
Hand Signed by John Migicovsky
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Escaping self, Photography, Limited Edition
Located in Munich, DE
Limited Edition of 3
Framed size 70 x 100 cm
All works are Archival Pigment prints, floating in an all black wooden frame behind museums glass.
More sizes on request.
Sara Punt's w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vintage Hudson III
Located in Toronto, ON
Limited Edition Archival Photograph of 50
Hand Signed by John Migicovsky
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Hudson IV
Located in Toronto, ON
Limited Edition Platinum Palladium Print of 10
Hand Signed by John Migicovsky
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Calla by JJK, Photography, Limited Edition, Flower, analog, 4x5 inch
Located in Munich, DE
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
Outline, Photography, Limited Edition
Located in Munich, DE
Limited Edition of 3
Framed size 70 x 100 cm
All works are Archival Pigment prints, floating in an all black wooden frame behind museums glass.
More sizes on request.
Sara Punt's w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Genie, Photography, Limited Edition
Located in Munich, DE
Limited Edition of 5
Framed size 49 x 69 cm
All works are Archival Pigment prints, floating in an all black wooden frame behind museums glass.
More sizes on request.
Sara Punt's wo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Nature limited edition print, Floral, Contemporary, Black - Cactus
By Sam Thomas
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Cactus - Limited edition pigment print - Limited Editions of 5
Close-up of a cactus plant in backlighting.
This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Ph...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Pigment, A...
Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood
By Henry Diltz
Located in Mount Pleasant, SC
Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood on the lear jet in 1979 during the New Barbarians tour.
Signed and titled by Henry Diltz
Category
20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Manhattan, Skyscraper, New York City, USA, black & 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
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Black and White, Digita...
Limited Edition Black and White Photograph - " Highway Palms" 20 x 24
By Howard Lewis
Located in White Plains, NY
Limited Edition Black and White Photograph - " Highway Palms" 17 x 22. Taken on a road trip on highway 41 which runs through the Everglades National Park and Preserves in Florida,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Miss Guy, Wigstock, Tompkins Square, New York City
Located in New York, NY
This black and white portrait of a young RuPaul, taken by Paula Gately Tillman in 1988, is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Miss Guy, Wigstock, Tompkins Square, New York City
1992...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Gloriosa - black and white floral photography, limited edition of 20
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
Archival Paper, Giclée, Photographic Paper, Photographic Film
Contemporary black and white photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary 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 blue, red, orange, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Tyler Shields, Ian Sanderson, Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde, and David Yarrow. Frequently made by artists working with Pigment Print, and Archival Pigment 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 Contemporary black and white photography, so small editions measuring 1.5 inches across are also available.