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Item Ships From: Tri-State Area
Jerry Schatzberg - Geoffrey Holder on Stage, Photography 1963, Printed After
By Jerry Schatzberg
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Geoffrey Holder, Geoffrey Holder on Stage"
Available Sizes:
11" x 14" $6,000.00 Edition of 25 + 5 AP
16" x 20" $8,000.00 Edition of 25 + 5 AP
20" x 24" $10,000.00 Edition o...
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jerry Schatzberg - Footsteps in the Snow, Photography 1973, Printed After
By Jerry Schatzberg
Located in Greenwich, CT
Available Sizes:
16" x 20" $8,000.00 Edition of 30 + 4 AP
20" x 24" $10,000.00 Edition of 20 + 4 AP
30" x 40" $16,500.00 Edition of 20 + 4 AP
40" x 60" $20,000.00 Edition of 12...
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Contemporary photograph by Hunter Barnes of boy with horse at local rodeo
By Hunter Barnes
Located in New York, NY
This work is an artist proof, archival silver gelatin, handprinted by the artist and signed on verso.
Directly acquired from the artist.
The framing is 100% archival, with the use of only acid frame materials.
Glazing, Optium non glare museum plexi.
Hand carved wooden hand finished frame.
Hunter Barnes is a documentary photographer whose work captures aspects of culture and communities ignored by the mainstream and often misrepresented in the modern American narrative.
Hunter trained in photochemistry and traditional photographic techniques. At a young age, he began a nomadic life on the road. In his early twenties, Hunter self published his first book, Redneck Roundup, documenting the dying communities of the Old West. Other projects followed: four years spent with the Nez Perce tribe; months with a serpent handling congregation in the Appalachain mountains; bikers, lowriders, and street gangs...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lion King
By Joachim Schmeisser
Located in New York, NY
Ed. 3/10, museum archival print. Includes black frame.
For years, Joachim Schmeisser has been photographing the last giants of Africa at close range, creating exceptionally intimate...
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Haute Couture - Naomi Campbell at Guy Laroche Fashion
By Bruno Bisang
Located in New York City, NY
Haute Couture - Naomi Campbell at Guy Laroche
Category
20th Century Contemporary Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 365.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 365.
Head spring, a flying pigeon interfering.
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887 (image size 8 x 14.25 inches)
Inventor, pho...
Category
1880s Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Parituras
Located in New York, NY
Ed. of 10, includes black frame.
As a young boy, Aldo Sessa studied painting and drawing at the De Ridder Atelier and worked at his father’s printing press in Argentina. As Sessa’s ...
Category
1980s Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jerry Schatzberg - A Star is Born in Traffic, Photography 1954, Printed After
By Jerry Schatzberg
Located in Greenwich, CT
Available Sizes:
11" x 14" $6,000.00 Edition of 25 + 5 AP
16" x 20" $8,000.00 Edition of 20 + 4 AP
20" x 24" $10,000.00 Edition of 20 + 4 AP
30" x 40" $16,000.00 Edition of ...
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Zhangjiajie VI, China
By Alexandre Manuel
Located in New York City, NY
Alexandre Manuel
Zhangjiajie VI, China, 2018
12x12 inches Edition of 10
Silver Gelatin Print
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Flannery
By Guadalupe Laiz
Located in New York, NY
Ed. 1/12, includes black frame.
Guadalupe Laiz is an international artist, photographer and explorer born and raised in Argentina. Guadalupe’s main focus for the past ten years has ...
Category
2010s Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$23,400
Nova Car - Marfa Texas - Vintage Car Photograph
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
Category
2010s Realist Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
$2,450 Sale Price
30% Off
Elaine's Kitchen - Andy Warhol and Elaine, New York, 1976
By Jonathan Becker
Located in New York, NY
Elaine's Kitchen - Andy Warhol and Elaine, New York, 1976
X
Photographed by Jonathan Becker
Contemporary
44" x 44.5" Archival Pigment Print
Edition Nº 1 of 9
Certificate of Origin...
Category
1970s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marion Anderson and Leonard Bernstein, Lewisohn Stadium, NYC by Ruth Orkin
By Ruth Orkin
Located in Denton, TX
Marion Anderson and Leonard Bernstein, Lewisohn Stadium, NYC by Ruth Orkin depicts a man and a woman performing onstage. Marion Anderson stand with her arms behind her back, her face...
Category
20th Century Modern Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 319.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion.
Plate 319. Heaving 75-lb. rock.
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887 (image size 5.25 x 15.125 inches)
Inventor, photographer, entre...
Category
1880s Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 60.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 60.
Running at a half-mile gait (shoes).
14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887 (image size 9.375 x 12.625 inches)
Inventor, phot...
Category
1880s Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
John Lennon and Sean Lennon, Hit Factory, NYC, 1980
By Bob Gruen
Located in Toronto, ON
Open and Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints
Hand Signed by Bob Gruen
8" x 10" Unframed
Open Edition
11" x 14" Unframed
Open Edition
16" x 20" Unframed
Open Edition
20" x 24" U...
Category
1980s Other Art Style Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vietnam 5 - Black and White Photography - Plexiglas
By Alexandre Manuel
Located in New York City, NY
Edition of 5
Alexandre Manuel explores the natural tension between absence and presence, the man and his place in nature and between the evolution of the landscape and the permanenc...
Category
2010s Minimalist Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Plexiglass
Beastie Boys and DJ Hurricane, NJ 1987
By Bob Gruen
Located in Toronto, ON
Open and Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints
Hand Signed by Bob Gruen
8" x 10" Unframed
Open Edition
11" x 14" Unframed
Open Edition
16" x 20" Unframed
Open Edition
20" x 24" U...
Category
1980s Other Art Style Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Queen, MSG, NYC 1977
By Bob Gruen
Located in Toronto, ON
Open and Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints
Hand Signed by Bob Gruen
8" x 10" Unframed
Open Edition
11" x 14" Unframed
Open Edition
16" x 20" Unframed
Open Edition
20" x 24" U...
Category
1990s Other Art Style Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled, NUDE
By Yoshihiko Ueda
Located in New York, NY
Yoshihiko Ueda
Untitled, NUDE , 1985
Gelatin silver print
10 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches (image)
11 x 9 1/2 inches (sheet)
27 5/8 x 22 1/2 inches (frame)
Edition 1 of 25
Signed recto
Black ...
Category
1980s Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
John Lennon and Andy Warhol, Record Plant, NYC, 1972
By Bob Gruen
Located in Toronto, ON
Open and Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints
Hand Signed by Bob Gruen
8" x 10" Unframed
Open Edition
11" x 14" Unframed
Open Edition
16" x 20" Unframed
Open Edition
20" x 24" U...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Martha Graham with Madonna & Calvin Klein at New York City Center, October 1990
By Jonathan Becker
Located in New York, NY
Martha Graham at New York City Center after her final onstage bow - backstage with Madonna and Calvin Klein, October 1990
"Martha was my godmother, and she was posing." - JB
Photog...
Category
1990s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Roy Hanes, Time Square, NYC; From Jazz Katz: The Sounds of New York
By Jimmy & Dena Katz
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, titled, and dated by Jimmy Katz
Archival pigment print, 17 x 22 in.
Series: Jazz Katz: The Sounds of New York
Jimmy Katz, born in New York City in 1957, received his B.A. in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dizzy Gillespie & Roy Haynes, Washington, DC
Located in New York, NY
Ed. of 5, 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. Throu...
Category
1980s Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Remedy (June School) Positive (framed)
By Wendy Small
Located in New York, NY
40"x32" photogram, created in four unique 20"x 16"prints positioned together to make a symmetrical pattern. The black and white imagery of wildflowers and leaves incorporate delicat...
Category
2010s Abstract Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogram, Photographic Paper
Pink Legs I
By Leandro Franco
Located in New York City, NY
Leandro Franco
Pink Legs I, 2020
48 x 40 inches
120 x 100 cm
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of 13
UnFramed
Fashion Photography - Portrait - Black and white
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Joan Jett, LA 1978
By Bob Gruen
Located in Toronto, ON
Open and Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints
Hand Signed by Bob Gruen
8" x 10" Unframed
Open Edition
11" x 14" Unframed
Open Edition
16" x 20" Unframed
Open Edition
20" x 24" U...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Louvre, Statue I
Located in New York City, NY
Edition of 9.
Signature label. Framed work.
A prominent French architectural photographer, Jean-Christophe Ballot’s body of work concerns itself with space: be it cities with urb...
Category
Early 2000s Old Masters Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rod Stewart, NYC 1973
By Bob Gruen
Located in Toronto, ON
Open and Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints
Hand Signed by Bob Gruen
8" x 10" Unframed
Open Edition
11" x 14" Unframed
Open Edition
16" x 20" Unframed
Open Edition
20" x 24" U...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dark Sun No. 20
Located in New York, NY
For the past 30 years Barbara Jaffe has used her 4x5 inch view camera and a variety of black & white and expired pos/neg Polaroid films to create photographs that are a tribute to th...
Category
1990s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dark Sun No. 58
Located in New York, NY
For the past 30 years Barbara Jaffe has used her 4x5 inch view camera and a variety of black & white and expired pos/neg Polaroid films to create photographs that are a tribute to th...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Butterfly Shadows 1
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Delicate movements of shadow trying to catch the light like a butterfly tries to catch the wind. Giclée Fine Art Archival Fiber Print, Resin Encapsulated, Custom Double Shadow Box Fr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Resin, Wood Panel, Photographic Paper
$4,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Weir Dam, Sullivan County, Tennessee (#2312)
By Toshio Shibata
Located in New York, NY
8 x 10 inch (image size) gelatin silver contact print, on an 11 x 14 inch sheet
Edition 10. Signed and stamped on verso.
Framing additional.
Larger sizes available - please inqui...
Category
1990s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Wm. F. and Pat Buckley at The New York Public Library, 19 May 1988
By Jonathan Becker
Located in New York, NY
Wm. F. and Pat Buckley at The New York Public Library, 19 May 1988
"Pinnacles of New York society"
Photographed by Jonathan Becker
Contemporary
18" x 18.5" Archival Pigment Print, ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Gloves
By Tyler Shields
Located in New York City, NY
Available Sizes:
18 x 18 Edition of 3
30 x 30 Edition of 3
45 x 45 Edition of 3
60 x 60 Edition of 3
Los Angeles-based photographer Tyler Shields seeks “beauty in chaos,” capturing...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Pete Townshend, NYC 1973
By Bob Gruen
Located in Toronto, ON
Open and Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints
Hand Signed by Bob Gruen
8" x 10" Unframed
Open Edition
11" x 14" Unframed
Open Edition
16" x 20" Unframed
Open Edition
20" x 24" U...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Haute Couture - Helena Christensen at Balmain
By Bruno Bisang
Located in New York City, NY
Bruno Bisang
Haute Couture
Helena Christensen at Balmain Fashion, 1998
16 x 20 inches
40 x 50 cm
Edition of 7
23 x 31 inches
60 x 80 cm
Edition of 5
35 x 47 inches
90 x 120 cm
E...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Smoke Stacks Variation
By Tom Baril
Located in New York, NY
Photogravure from the Tom Baril 'Manhattan' Portfolio.
Edition of 75, signed by the artist on bottom right.
Framing: acid free, archival framed, cotton rag mat.
Glazing: Optium museum plexi.
A graduate of New York’s School of Visual Arts, Tom Baril spent over fifteen years as Robert Mapplethorpe’s master printer. His subjects include urban architecture, seascapes and meticulously detailed botanical and nature photographs. Baril’s work demonstrates a command of technique that results from his extensive experience as a master printer. Baril developed a unique toning process that enriches the color and opulence of his photographs.
Tom Baril is inspired by the nature studies of modernist photographers such as Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham and Karl Blossfeldt. A similar attentiveness to the clarity of line, form, pattern and texture characterizes Baril’s still lifes. In composing the seascapes, Baril employs the traditional box camera obscura, better known as the pinhole camera...
Category
Early 2000s Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogravure
John Lennon and Elton John, Record Plant, NYC 1974
By Bob Gruen
Located in Toronto, ON
Open and Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints
Hand Signed by Bob Gruen
8" x 10" Unframed
Open Edition
11" x 14" Unframed
Open Edition
16" x 20" Unframed
Open Edition
20" x 24" U...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Robert Plant, NYC 1974
By Bob Gruen
Located in Toronto, ON
Open and Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints
Hand Signed by Bob Gruen
8" x 10" Unframed
Open Edition
11" x 14" Unframed
Open Edition
16" x 20" Unframed
Open Edition
20" x 24" U...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Chrysler Building at Night
By Tom Baril
Located in New York, NY
Photogravure from the Tom Baril 'Manhattan' Portfolio.
Edition of 75, signed by the artist on bottom right.
Framing: acid free, archival framed, cotton rag mat.
Glazing: Optium muse...
Category
Early 2000s Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogravure
Day 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 Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Paper, Inkjet
$13,225
Haute Couture - Karen Mulder at Christian Lacroix I
By Bruno Bisang
Located in New York City, NY
Haute Couture - Karen Mulder at Christian Lacroix I
Category
20th Century Contemporary Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Day 63
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 Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Paper, Inkjet
John Lennon, NYC 1974
By Bob Gruen
Located in Toronto, ON
Open and Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints
Hand Signed by Bob Gruen
8" x 10" Unframed
Open Edition
11" x 14" Unframed
Open Edition
16" x 20" Unframed
Open Edition
20" x 24" Unframed
Limited Edition of 150
30" x 40" Unframed
Limited Edition of 75
Bob Gruen is one of the most well-known and respected photographers in rock and roll. From John Lennon to Johnny Rotten; Muddy Waters to the Rolling Stones; Elvis to Madonna; Bob Dylan to Bob Marley; Tina Turner to Debbie Harry, he has captured the music scene for over forty years in photographs that have gained worldwide recognition.
Shortly after John Lennon moved to New York in 1971, Bob became John and Yoko's personal photographer and friend, making photos of their working life as well as private moments. In 1974 he created the iconic images of John Lennon wearing a New York City t-shirt and, standing in front of the Statue of Liberty making the peace sign - two of the most popular of Lennon's images.
Bob has worked with major rock acts such as Led Zeppelin, The Who, David Bowie, Tina Turner, Elton John, Aerosmith, Kiss & Alice Cooper. He toured extensively with the emerging punk and new wave bands including the New York Dolls, Sex Pistols, Clash, Ramones, Patti Smith Group and Blondie.
His "Sid Vicious with Hot Dog" photo was acquired in 1999 by The National Portrait Gallery, London, for their permanent collection and his John Lennon NYC...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Leonard Cohen, NYC, 1974
By Bob Gruen
Located in Toronto, ON
Open and Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints
Hand Signed by Bob Gruen
8" x 10" Unframed
Open Edition
11" x 14" Unframed
Open Edition
16" x 20" Unframed
Open Edition
20" x 24" U...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
untitled
Located in New York, NY
Untitled gelatin silver print from the artist's early street photography. Signed and numbered (2 from an edition of 6) verso.
Category
Early 2000s Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Bruce Springsteen at the Palladium, 1976
By Allan Tannenbaum
Located in White Plains, NY
'Bruce Springsteen at the Palladium,' 1976 by famed American photographer, Allan Tannenbaum. Archival pigment print, 10 x 15 in. (image) on 17 x 22 in. (paper), Ed. of 50.
This black and white photograph captures musician Bruce Springsteen leaning back on fans from railing, between audience and pit, at a performance at The Palladium in NYC on October, 1976. From the artists' 4th hardcover book 'Grit and Glamour: The Street Style, High Fashion, and Legendary Music of the 1970s,' published in 2016. This image was taken during Tannenbaum's tenure at The SoHo Weekly News in New York City from 1973 to 1982 where he served as Chief Photographer and Photo Editor.
Allan Tannenbaum's career in photography spans more than four decades. Born in Passaic, New Jersey, in 1945, he received a B.A. in Art from Rutgers University in 1967, where he photographed for The Targum – the campus newspaper – and made films for his art courses. Gravitating to the nascent art scene in the SoHo district of Manhattan in 1972, Tannenbaum worked as a taxi driver and bartender while looking for work as a photographer. In 1973, when the SoHo Weekly News commenced publication, Tannenbaum became the Photo Editor and Chief Photographer. The newspaper started out as an eight-page free paper, but soon became a popular newsstand seller that rivaled the established Village Voice. Tannenbaum relentlessly covered the art world, music scene, politics, show business, and nightlife until 1982 when the SoHo News folded.
Tannenbaum has also done documentary and feature photography in places like Thailand, Indonesia, Palau, Jordan, Bahrain, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Brazil, Israel, Iceland, and Mexico. He has covered numerous political campaigns, nominating conventions and news stories in the U.S. such as the Oklahoma City bombing and the Columbine massacre. His work has appeared in many photo books and exhibitions, as well as appearing regularly in NEWSWEEK, TIME, LIFE, ROLLING STONE, PARIS MATCH, and STERN. His photographs have graced the covers of TIME three times, and NEWSWEEK five times. He now works as an international photojournalist contributing to various noted publications including Time, Life, and Newsweek. He is the author of three books of his photography, including New York in the 70s (Feierabend, 2003), New York (Feierabend, 2004), and John and Yoko: A New York Love Story...
Category
1970s Photorealist Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Pigment
Zhangjiajie I, China
By Alexandre Manuel
Located in New York City, NY
Alexandre Manuel
Zhangjiajie I, China, 2018
12x12 inches Edition of 10
Silver Gelatin Print
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bruce Springsteen, Toronto 1984
By Bob Gruen
Located in Toronto, ON
Open and Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints
Hand Signed by Bob Gruen
8" x 10" Unframed
Open Edition
11" x 14" Unframed
Open Edition
16" x 20" Unframed
Open Edition
20" x 24" U...
Category
1980s Other Art Style Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Elaine's Kitchen - Andy Warhol and Elaine, New York, 1976
By Jonathan Becker
Located in New York, NY
Elaine's Kitchen - Andy Warhol and Elaine, New York, 1976
Photographed by Jonathan Becker
Contemporary
14" x 14.5" Platinum & Palladium Print
Edition Nº 1 of 3
Certificate of Origin
Signed and Titled by the Photographer in Edition and Emboss-stamped in the Margin/Recto
Printing & Edition Notes along with Copyright Stamp and Applicable Providence on Verso
Printed by hand at the photographer's studio in the traditional Platinum & Palladium process on 100% cotton rag paper. Platinum & Palladium prints are known for their unrivaled longevity and unparalleled subtlety.
Print cost includes wrapping/packing/crating for shipment in double-tubing.
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Jonathan Becker
(Steven Kasher Gallery bio by Mark Rozzo)
Literate flair, acute visual intuition, love of mischief and spontaneity, and global wanderlust: These are among the hallmarks of the work of Jonathan Becker, whose photography spans four decades and includes iconic portraits (often for Vanity Fair) of a multiplicity of subjects, including Robert Mapplethorpe, Martha Graham, Madonna, Elia Kazan, Prince Charles, Eudora Welty, André Leon Talley, Ai Weiwei, Diana Vreeland and Jack Kevorkian.
Becker - whose work was first published in Andy Warhol’s Interview in 1973 - was born in 1954 and raised in New York City. In the mid-1970s, he moved for a year to Paris, where he was mentored by his hero, Brassaï. Upon return to New York, Becker drove a cab, toting his camera and parking to complete magazine assignments. A 1981 exhibition of Becker’s work at New York’s Rentschler Gallery included a series of arresting images of patrons taken inside the kitchen at Elaine’s, the storied hangout on New York’s Upper East Side. This exhibition, curated by art director Bea Feitler brought Becker to the attention of Frank Zachary, editor-in-chief of Town & Country. Zachary invited Becker to work for the magazine, where the young photographer further developed his passion for journalistic portraiture alongside Slim Aarons, who, after Brassaï, became Becker’s guiding light.
Becker was then enlisted by Bea Feitler to contribute portraits to the prototype of Vanity Fair’s 1983 re-launch. His participation led to a highly prolific association with the magazine as Contributing Photographer, continuing to this day. Becker has also contributed portraits and reportage to The New Yorker, Vogue, W, The Paris Review, amongst truly most major publications. In complement to his editorial work, Becker has accepted a limited number of private and family portrait commissions each year, some accompanied by privately published books, and in the course of his three-years-long project for the Rockefeller Foundation, Becker documented its vast array of philanthropic grant recipients on four continents abroad.
Six trade books comprised entirely of Becker’s photographs have been published including Bright Young Things...
Category
1970s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Haute Couture - Dior
By Bruno Bisang
Located in New York City, NY
Bruno Bisang
Haute Couture
Dior, 1998
16 x 20 inches
40 x 50 cm
Edition of 7
23 x 31 inches
60 x 80 cm
Edition of 5
35 x 47 inches
90 x 120 cm
Editon of 3
Color Gloss Resin Coa...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Aerosmith Group Shot, Boston, 1973
By Bob Gruen
Located in Toronto, ON
Open and Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints
Hand Signed by Bob Gruen
8" x 10" Unframed
Open Edition
11" x 14" Unframed
Open Edition
16" x 20" Unframed
Open Edition
20" x 24" U...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Haute Couture - Karen Mulder at Chanel II
By Bruno Bisang
Located in New York City, NY
Haute Couture - Karen Mulder at Chanel II
Category
20th Century Contemporary Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cone 8, San Francisco
By Nenad Samuilo Amodaj
Located in Hudson, NY
This item is available unframed or framed, They are in edition of 20 in he 16" x 20" paper size.
Amodaj created the Hoop and Ball series of photographs in June 2010 with dancer and author Shawnrey Notto. The photographs were based on an earlier series of drawings Nenad made of Notto wearing parts of the deconstructed wedding dress during his figure drawing study in Michael Markowitz’s 23rd Street studio in San Francisco.
The hoop skirt serves as an augmentation device, a skeletal extension meant to alter the visual perception of the human form. To realize the full associative power of the hoop, Amodaj created a counter-shape to the hoop, a white sphere (the Ball) made from plaster strips, to match the cloth texture and placed it in a dynamic relationship with his model.
Notto improvised the poses from Nenad’s drawings in constant slow motion. The whole project was done in two 3-hour sessions with no rehearsals and no replays. The minimalistic setting, uniform lighting, and central vantage point shift perception from a trivial reality to a metaphysical one. The intent was to induce the spectator to spontaneously alternate between the three aspects: the human form, the symbolic function of the skirt, and the geometry of the cone and sphere. The spontaneity of dynamic poses and the imperfections of a handheld camera balance this sparse imagery.
The exhibition presents a selection of 15 photographs from a project collection of over a hundred. Most of the series are gelatin-silver prints from a 35 mm film, with a few exceptions for large-scale digital color prints.
Amodaj was influenced by the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher's typologies of industrial buildings and František Drtikol’s nudes. In the spirit of Becher’s “typologies,” Amodaj’s Hoop and Ball series of photographs explores endless mutations of the hoop skirt architecture, a clothing item with a curios geometric form that can be classified as a “flexible cone.” It is a form that appears both in nature and in artifice: flowers, bells, horns, nuclear power plants...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Group of Two Southeast Asian Landscapes
By Anne Sager
Located in Astoria, NY
Anne Sager (American, 1930-2024), Group of Two Southeast Asian Landscapes, Black and White Photograph, signed lower right, clear frame. Image: 5.75" H x 4" W; frame: 12.25" H x 5.25"...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Haute Couture - Yasmeen Ghauri backstage at Yves Saint Laurent
By Bruno Bisang
Located in New York City, NY
Haute Couture - Yasmeen Ghauri backstage at Yves Saint Laurent
Category
20th Century Contemporary Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
John Lennon, NYC 1974
By Bob Gruen
Located in Toronto, ON
4" x 5" Unframed
Closed Edition Photograph
MAGNUM Photography
Hand Signed by Bob Gruen
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Digital
Ai Weiwei in his studio, Beijing, 12 May 2007
By Jonathan Becker
Located in New York, NY
Ai Weiwei in his studio, Beijing, 12 May 2007
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Photographed by Jonathan Becker
Contemporary
44" x 44.5" Archival Pigment Print
Edition Nº 1 of 9
Certificate of Origin
Signed and ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
St. George's Hotel, Brooklyn, NY
By Lois Conner
Located in New York, NY
17 x 29.5 inch hand-pulled photogravure
Image size 9 x 23 inches
Signed, titled, dated and editioned on recto
Edition 40
Category
1990s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogravure
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