Fashion in Black and White by the Photographer Robert Jean Chapuis, Paris

Original fashion photograph by photographer Robert Jean Chapuis, Paris, signed, representing a girl in a yellow sweater, circa 1970s. Measures: Withou...

Photo by Jean Pierre Bourgeois, French photographer, photo on aluminium, 1980s. Measures: H: 66 cm, W: 100 cm, D: 0.2 cm.      

Photo by Jean Pierre Bourgeois, French photographer, photo on aluminium, 1980s. Measures: H: 66 cm, W: 100 cm, D: 0.2 cm.     

"Print Philippe Vogelenzang - The Neck" White wooden frame clear glass Dimensions : Lengh: 104 / Height: 124 / Depth :6 cm.    

Jan Saudek, Czech Photographer, "The Bath" Title: "The Bath" #320 Model print Finished May 18, 1894 Signed lower right Measurement: 39.5 cm x 30 cm The photograph is not framed ...

A fantastic vintage framed black and white photo. A chic 70s fashion shot of a girl with her chimney broom. Nothing says fashion like a good chimney broom....

Black and white original gelatin silver print signed by the Japanese photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki, who is primarily known for his provocative images that combine fine art and photog...

Robert Frank Untitled from the Americans, 1958, Beats Culture, Black & White. Photogravure print, mid-century, France,wax tissue mounted on conservation matboard. Influenced by the work of Jakob Tuggener and Bill Brandt, as well as Walker Evans, Frank, a native of Switzerland, Frank was fascinated by documentary photography and the notion and image of "America." Frank secured a Guggenheim fellowship in 1955 to do something new and unconstrained by commercial diktats. "The Americans" was first published in 1958 in France, before its first run in the US in 1959. The photographs were shocking and notable for their distanced view of both high and low strata of American society, creating a complicated portrait of a period that was, then and now, considered to be a skeptical portrait of post-WWII American values but also deeply empathetic and profoundly evocative of ubiquitous loneliness. Frank found a tension in the gloss of American culture and wealth over race and class differences, which gave his photographs a clear contrast to those of most contemporary American photojournalists, as did his use of unusual focus, low lighting and cropping that deviated from accepted photographic techniques. Shortly before the book was published in France, Frank returned to the US (1957) and met Jack Kerouac on the sidewalk outside a party. They started chatting. Frank showed him some of his photographs. Kerouac immediately told Frank "Sure, I can write something about these pictures." Kerouac would write the introduction to the American edition of the book, published two years later. Sociologist Howard S...