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Item Ships From: New York
"King Olobor"- Majestic Lion in Africa
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The superstar of Masai Mara, Olobor resting on a hill top in all his glory. This is the second year I photographed this majestic creature, and he gets more beautiful every time I see...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Photographic Paper
Norman Parkinson 'Wenda and Ostriches'
By Norman Parkinson
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Wenda and Ostriches
1951 (printed later)
C print
40 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
Wenda Parkinson wearing knee-buttoned jeans and ...
Category
1950s Modern New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Reflections
By Paul Dempsey
Located in East Hampton, NY
Dye Sublimation Print
Water
Dock
Reflection
16x24 on metal -
20x30 on metal -
About the artist:
A computer programmer and Webmaster by trade, Paul describes himself as a fine art ...
Category
2010s Land New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
Simon
By Mark & Kristen Sink
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 1.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Terry O'Neill, Raquel Welch Poolside
By Terry O'Neill
Located in New York, NY
Raquel Welch Poolside
1970 (printed later)
Silver Gelatin Print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 50
American actress Raquel Welch relaxes at her home in Beverly Hills, 1970s.
...
Category
1970s Modern New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (Three Elbows)
By Blake Little
Located in New York, NY
This black and white photograph is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Untitled (Three Elbows)
1991
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
Gelatin silver print (Edition of 25)
...
Category
1990s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
New Orleans, LA
By David Saxe
Located in Hudson, NY
David Saxe - “Photography has always been the simple act of looking and being inspired to strip the unnecessary elements from the scene and frame the image down in a way to discover...
Category
2010s Modern New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
No, No, No, or, Photographer's Favorite
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 7.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is prod...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Darkroom (Berlin), #1
By Jonathan VanDyke
Located in New York, NY
Darkroom (Berlin), #1
2014
Signed and numbered, verso
Gelatin silver print (Edition of 4 + 2 AP’s)
14 x 11 inches
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
NEW Slim Aarons 'Palm Beach Easter Egg Hunt' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Children pose with baskets of toy eggs during the annual Easter egg hunt at the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1960.
Slim Aarons
Easter Egg Hunt
1960
Fiber Print
Estate ...
Category
1960s Modern New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
untitled (Paul)
By Frank Yamrus
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print (Edition of 15)
Signed, dated, and numbered, verso
From the series, "Rapture"
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Please note that...
Category
1990s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Agave Attenuata
By Robert Voit
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print (Edition of 8 + 2 APs)
Signed and numbered, verso
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Inspired by Karl Blossfeldt’s “The Alphabet of Plants (Original Forms of Art)” from 1928, Robert Voit playfully repurposes the obsessive indexicality of natural history images in his series, "The Alphabet of New Plants." These close-up photographs of artificial...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ugolino's Youngest
By Jan Rattia
Located in New York, NY
Ugolino’s Youngest
2021
Signed and numbered on label, verso
Archival pigment print (Edition of 5 + 1 AP)
12 x 18 inches
$1,400
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Stepwell
By Oliver Klink
Located in New York, NY
Piezography archival ink print
Signed and numbered, recto
Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity
15 x 15 inches
(Edition of 15)
22 x 22 inches
(Edition of 7)
32 x 32 inches
...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
"Birthday Gloves" figurative, photography, black and white
By Horst P. Horst
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A framed photograph by Horst P. Horst titled "Birthday Gloves" , photo is matted under glass in a gold trim frame.
Category
20th Century New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
Boy with Hair Sticking Up #2
By Steven Klein
Located in New York, NY
1987
Gelatin silver print
Signed in black ink, recto
14 x 11 inches, sheet size
10 x 10 inches, image size
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Steven K...
Category
1980s Other Art Style New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Blue #2
Located in New York, NY
Mercedes Jelinek (b. 1985) is an American artist and photographer living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Specializing in black and white photography, Jelinek often transforms the photog...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Inkjet, Paper
Winter Stroll - Limited Editions of 15, Nature Photography
By Dorte Verner
Located in New York, NY
This black and white fine art print features a dramatic shot of a winter stroll, in Frijsenborg forest, Jutland, Denmark. This photo was shot by travel photographer Dorte Verner’s, w...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
untitled (Greg)
By Frank Yamrus
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print (Edition of 15)
Signed, dated, and numbered, verso
From the series, "Rapture"
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Please note that...
Category
1990s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Renucula
By Mark & Kristen Sink
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 1.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sarah & Archer, Los Angeles, CA, 2015
By Robin Rice
Located in Hudson, NY
This listing is for the unframed photograph.
The Robin Rice Gallery proudly announces SUMMERTIME Salon 2019, an annual photography exhibit featuring gallery artists as well as a fe...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
CBGB Photograph New York, 1982 (East Village 1980s)
By Fernando Natalici
Located in NEW YORK, NY
CBGB, The Birthplace of Punk - captured by heralded New York underground photographer Fernando Natalici: Manhattan, c.1982
Archival Inkjet Print.
Dimensions: 11 x 14 inches (full fr...
Category
1970s Street Art New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Inkjet
October 15, 2009
By Ion Zupcu
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print mounted to archival board
Signed and numbered, verso
15 x 15 inches
(Edition of 15)
30 x 30 inches
(Edition of 5)
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Great Dune
By Paul Dempsey
Located in East Hampton, NY
Snow Fence on Dunes in the Hamptons
Black & White Photography
Printed to order
edition of 10
Title: Great Dune
Year: 2018
Medium: Photography (printed on metal)
Size: 20" x 30" (lar...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
Kriss Kross, Contemporary Photograph by David Ogburn
Located in Long Island City, NY
David Ogburn, American (1942 - ) - Kriss Kross, Year: 1993, Medium: Gelatin Silver Print, Image Size: 7.5 x 9.5 inches, Size: 8 x 10 in. (20.32 x 25.4 cm)
Category
1990s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
James Brown, Contemporary Photograph by David Ogburn
Located in Long Island City, NY
David Ogburn, American (1942 - ) - James Brown, Year: 1993, Medium: Gelatin Silver Print, Image Size: 7.5 x 9.5 inches, Size: 8 x 10 in. (20.32 x 25.4 cm)
Category
1990s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Doug E. Fresh, Contemporary Photograph by David Ogburn
Located in Long Island City, NY
David Ogburn, American (1942 - ) - Doug E. Fresh, Medium: Gelatin Silver Print, signed and titled in marker on verso, Image Size: 9.5 x 7.5 inches, Size: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.32 ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Janet Jackson and Chuck Brown, Contemporary Photograph by David Ogburn
Located in Long Island City, NY
David Ogburn, American (1942 - ) - Janet Jackson and Chuck Brown, Medium: Gelatin Silver Print, Image Size: 7.25 x 9.75 inches, Size: 8 x 10 in. (20.32 x 25.4 cm)
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Janet Jackson and Patti Labelle, Contemporary Photograph by David Ogburn
Located in Long Island City, NY
David Ogburn, American (1942 - ) - Janet Jackson and Patti Labelle, Medium: Color Photograph, Image Size: 8.5 x 8.25 inches, Size: 11 x 8.5 in. (27.94 x 21.59 cm)
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Anthony, Contemporary Photograph on foam board by Nick Havholm
Located in Long Island City, NY
Nick Havholm, American (1968 - ) - Anthony, Year: 1998, Medium: Photograph mounted to 1/2 inch foam board, signed, titled, numbered in marker on verso, Edition: 2/4, Size: 60 x 4...
Category
1990s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Gymnast: Miami Beach
By David Saxe
Located in Hudson, NY
David Saxe - “Photography has always been the simple act of looking and being inspired to strip the unnecessary elements from the scene and frame the image down in a way to discover...
Category
Early 2000s Modern New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
And His Dog, Brazil, 1997
By Barnaby Hall
Located in Hudson, NY
ABOUT
After 30 years of only exhibiting fine art photography, the Robin Rice Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition featuring a selection of her gallery photographers and t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Haute Couture - Shalom Harlow backstage at Christian Lacroix
By Bruno Bisang
Located in New York City, NY
Haute Couture - Shalom Harlow backstage at Christian Lacroix
Category
20th Century Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
BB King New York c.1979 (BB King darkroom photograph)
By Fernando Natalici
Located in NEW YORK, NY
BB King by Fernando Natalici:
A classic image of Blues great BB King captured circa late 1970s, by legendary New York underground photographer & art designer Fernando Natalici.
Med...
Category
1970s Pop Art New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Painting and Sculpture, Shepherd Gallery
By Bruce Cratsley
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print
Signed, titled and dated, verso of mount
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Over the course of more than two decades, Bruce Crats...
Category
1990s Contemporary New York - 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 New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogravure
Flash
Located in New York, NY
Artist: Elena Kosharny
Medium: Fine Art Photography Print, Signed and Numbered from an edition of 10, Bali, 2017
Dimensions: 30 x 45 in, 76.2 x 114.3 cm
Category
2010s New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
A Bed to Lie In
By Aubrey Roemer
Located in New York, NY
A Bed to Lie In, 2016
Lifejacket Swatches from Lesvos, Emergency Blanket Wrapped Artwork, 55 Digital Negatives, tape
118 x 188 inches (300 x 300 cm)
‘A Bed ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Mixed Media
Nathan Noland, Mario Kart DS, The Star Cup, Wynn Las Vegas
By Matthew Pillsbury
Located in New York, NY
Full title: "Nathan Noland, Mario Kart DS, The Star Cup, Wynn Las Vegas, Monday, July 31st, 2006, 0:34-0:52 a.m."
Archival pigment print (Edition of 20)
Si...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Long Bay Beach (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Long Bay Beach
1958 (printed later)
Fiber print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Anne Bindon of Paget East paddli...
Category
1950s Modern New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Lambda
Balmain and Lanvin, Long Stem Roses
By Gleb Derujinsky
Located in New York, NY
Balmain and Lanvin, Long Stem Roses
1957
Archival pigment print
Estate stamped, signed and numbered by Andrea Derujinsky with certificate of authenticity
Groundbreaking fashion pho...
Category
1950s New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Call, Washington, DC
Located in New York, NY
Ed. of 3, includes black frame with white mat.
Vincent Ricardel is a photographic artist whose career has spanned the editorial, commercial and fine art worlds of photography. Throughout his career, he has blended his earlier photojournalistic style into his later work, creating a signature brand of photography that reflects his unique perspective. Vincent’s images have been published worldwide. His work is also displayed in numerous private collections throughout the United States and abroad.
With a background rooted in photojournalism, Vincent’s work retains a documentary nature, capturing moments that provoke curiosity and often find amusement in life’s unintentional comedy. His artistic vision has earned him recognition and accolades among his audience.
“The Call” was made in 1990. The image of a woman talking on a pay telephone...
Category
1990s New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Aaron
By Pedro Slim
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print (Edition of 10)
Signed and dated in pencil, l.r.
Titled in pencil, l.l.
14 x 11 inches, sheet
8 x 8 inches, image
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, locat...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Daniel", New York, NY, 1995
By Jose Picayo
Located in Hudson, NY
This photograph is printed on Japanese Paper.
The price is for an unframed photograph.
11" X 14" Edition of 25.
The Robin Rice Gallery is pleased to announce, 25 Years of Polaroi...
Category
1990s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Lucybelle Crater and her 15 year old son's friend
By Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Located in New York, NY
From a portfolio of ten gelatin silver prints from original Meatyard negatives (1959-71)
Printed April 1974
Edition of 130
Credit stamp, verso
7 x 7 inches, image
15 x 12 inches, mount
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
An optician by trade, Ralph Eugene Meatyard was a self-described “dedicated amateur” photographer. He pursued his own vision to produce an exquisitely enigmatic, widely admired body of work. Meatyard began taking photographs in 1950, roaming the backwoods and towns in Kentucky, experimenting with framing, multiple exposures, and blurring to produce haunting, abstracted images of natural and manmade environments. In the late 1950s, he began incorporating monstrous, oversized latex masks...
Category
1970s American Modern New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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,...
Category
1980s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Worker Drinking (Thirst), 1950's black and white photograph by Yakov Khalip
By Yakov Khalip
Located in New York, NY
Worker Drinking (Thirst), 1950's black and white photograph by Yakov Khalip
Worker Drinking (Thirst)
1950
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil, verso
Other various inscriptions and...
Category
1950s Modern New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Post
By Michael Crouser
Located in New York, NY
Toned gelatin silver print
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, recto
14 x 11 inches, sheet
(Edition of 25)
20 x 16 inches, sheet
(Edition of 25)
24 x 20 inches, sheet
(Edition of 15)
40 x 30 inches, sheet
(Edition of 15)
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Michael Crouser's series, "Mountain Ranch," is a ten-year look at the disappearing world of cattle ranching...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
untitled (Jeffrey)
By Frank Yamrus
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print (Edition of 15)
Signed, dated, and numbered, verso
From the series, "Rapture"
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Please note that...
Category
1990s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Future Champions
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 7.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is prod...
Category
1990s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
NEW Slim Aarons 'Three Sisters' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Shoppers on the pavement outside a Three Sisters boutique in Florida, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons
Three Sisters
1955
Fiber Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 1...
Category
1950s Modern New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Hodge-Podge
By Jim Dingilian
Located in East Quogue, NY
Small bleached found abstract photographic artwork by Jim Dingilian. Offered framed in plexiglass.
Frame size: 5 x 6.25 inches
Paper size: 3 3/8 x 4.75 inches
Jim Dingilian makes ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
$289 Sale Price
24% Off
Aline with Butterfly, Denver, CO, 2014
By Kristen Hatgi
Located in Hudson, NY
Each year, Robin Rice celebrates a Salon style exhibition to showcase her gallery artists and invite new ones.
With Robin’s extensive experience as a gallery curator, all Robin Rice Gallery...
Category
2010s Modern New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Varnish, Pigment
Integrity
By Ejaz Khan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Most certainly, this is one of the most intense wild mustang pictures I have ever taken. The one horse bit the ear and neck of the leading horse as they raced forward. This immediate...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Plexiglass
$3,600
NEW: Slim Aarons 'Dixieland Jam in Rome' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
An impromptu concert in Rome with American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong (1901 - 1971), Earl 'Fatha' Hines (1905 - 1983) on piano and Jack Teagarden (1905 - 1964) on trom...
Category
1950s Modern New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Modern Prefab
By Ion Zupcu
Located in New York, NY
Toned gelatin silver print
Signed and numbered in pencil, verso
15 x 15 inches
(Edition of 10)
30 x 30 inches
(Edition of 3)
From the series, "American Homes"
This artwork is offe...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cycle World International Motorcycle Show
By Yvette Marie Dostatni
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print
16 x 20 inches, sheet
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
About the artist:
Yvette Marie Dostatni is a Chicago native who has been...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Domestic Pig (Sus scrofa domestica)
By Henry Horenstein
Located in New York, NY
Sepia-toned gelatin silver print
Signed and numbered, verso
20 x 24 inches, sheet
(Edition of 35)
26 x 39 inches, sheet
(Edition of 15)
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
“Horenstein’s creatures are decontextualized. They appear without the backdrop of the natural landscape, outside even the artificial world of the zoo or aquarium, and devoid of their true color. As a consequence, the images are truly arresting; and in both a literal and a metaphorical sense, we see these animals as we have never seen them before. We notice details, and Horenstein focuses our vision on the unexpected: the foot of an elephant, the eye of an octopus, the hair on the back of a gibbon’s head, the pattern of feathers on a bird’s neck. He plays with scale: the rear end and tail of a rhinoceros occupy the entire picture frame. We see these as if through a magnifying glass. His pictures challenge us to look more closely, to ask questions and make connections. We think about form and function: the relationship between an elephant’s foot, a horse’s hoof, and our own toes. We ponder modes of sensing and communication: the signals that hold together a school of fish. Examining these photographs, we become scientists and discoverers.
“In some respects, Horenstein’s work continues a centuries-old tradition of natural history illustration in the realm of photography. In natural history illustration, animals are often presented in shallow space with limited landscape, sometimes even against a blank page, in order to promote close examination and study of detail. But as much as these photographs promote scientific inquiry, they are more than scientific illustration. Animals were the subjects of our first art and our first metaphors; and freed from the constraints of space and time, many of Horenstein’s creatures remind us of the lost magical connection between the ‘animal world’ and our own. They are unsettling and they mesmerize. They transcend and transgress familiar boundaries between subject and object. Who is observing whom? The Komodo dragon looks at us with piercing eyes. We’re transfixed by the gaze of the harbor...
Category
1990s Other Art Style New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Terry O'Neill 'Brigitte Bardot, Les Petroleuses' (signed)
By Terry O'Neill
Located in New York, NY
Brigitte Bardot, Les Petroleuses
1971
Silver gelatin print
edition of 50
24 x 20 inches
Signed and numbered edition of 50
rare
Brigitte Bardot on the set of the film ‘Les Petroleu...
Category
1970s Modern New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (Unfixed #1648)
By Bill Armstrong
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
20 x 24 inches
(Edition of 10)
30 x 36 inches
(Edition of 5)
40 x 48 inches
(Edition of 5)
This artwork is offer...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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The New York photographer tells us how an encounter with the then-13-year-old boxer led to a decade-long project that saw them both go pro.
John Dolan’s Photographs Capture the Art and Soul of a Wedding Day
In a new book compiling 30 years' worth of images, the photographer reveals that it's the in-between moments that make a wedding special.