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Silence de Lumière
Sinden Collier
Photography - 51 x 41 x 0.1 cm Photography - 20.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
€1,600
Rhythmogramm 183 A
Heinrich Heidersberger
Photography - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€1,350
Hilton Falls - 13309
Simeon Posen
Photography - 25.4 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Photography - 10 x 12 x 2 inch
€864
Rockies - 152101
Simeon Posen
Photography - 25.4 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Photography - 10 x 12 x 2 inch
€864
Hector Falls - 121702
Simeon Posen
Photography - 25.4 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Photography - 10 x 12 x 2 inch
€864
Watkin's Glen - 121302
Simeon Posen
Photography - 15.2 x 17.8 x 5.1 cm Photography - 6 x 7 x 2 inch
€864
Wilson Falls - 14501
Simeon Posen
Photography - 25.4 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Photography - 10 x 12 x 2 inch
€864
Midway Lights - 99127
Simeon Posen
Photography - 25.4 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Photography - 10 x 12 x 2 inch
€864
Midway Lights - 13914
Simeon Posen
Photography - 25.4 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Photography - 10 x 12 x 2 inch
€864
99102- Midway Lights
Simeon Posen
Photography - 25.4 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Photography - 10 x 12 x 2 inch
€864
99101 - Midway Lights
Simeon Posen
Photography - 25.4 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Photography - 10 x 12 x 2 inch
€864
02751- Midway Lights
Simeon Posen
Photography - 25.4 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Photography - 10 x 12 x 2 inch
€864
Aus dem Gruppenbuch der Christiane P. - „Es Gibt Nur Eine Wahrheit.“
Matthias Leupold
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€900
Kara et ses oreilles
Fatoumata Diabaté
Photography - 100 x 66 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 26 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
Under The Moon's Pale Light
Sinden Collier
Photography - 41 x 51 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16.1 x 20.1 x 0 inch
€1,600
Quand je ferme les yeux
Sinden Collier
Photography - 51 x 41 x 0.1 cm Photography - 20.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
€1,600
Thoughts Beyond
Sinden Collier
Photography - 41 x 51 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16.1 x 20.1 x 0 inch
€1,600
Boîte n°42, de la série "Les Bouquinistes"
Irène Jonas
Photography - 40 x 60 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 inch
€1,000
Le rêveur, de la série "Les Bouquinistes"
Irène Jonas
Photography - 45 x 30 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 inch
€850
L'Arbre du Lac
Sinden Collier
Photography - 41 x 61 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16.1 x 24 x 0 inch
€1,600
Femme au temple
Raynald Najosky
Photography - 56 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 22 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,100
Rhythmogramm Klangfläche
Heinrich Heidersberger
Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0 inch
€8,400
Rhythmogramm Verzeichnis Nr: 03782_000_253
Heinrich Heidersberger
Photography - 24 x 18 x 0.1 cm Photography - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0 inch
€5,800
Yseult - Paris - L'Olympia - Concert d'IBEYI - série photo noir et blanc
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
€600
Nadege - Paris - Bibliothèque François Mitterand - série photo noir et blanc danse et architecture
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
€578
Liliboy - La pause - Nord-sur-Erdre - Festival La Nuit de l'Erdre - Groupe Deluxe 2019 - série photo noir et blanc
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
€578
Leron Thomas trompettiste - Nantes - Stéréolux - Concert de GUTS - série photo noir et blanc
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
€578
Jimmy Jay - Saint-Herblain - La Carrière - Festival Hip Opsession 2013 - série photo concert noir et blanc
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
€578
IBEYI - Deux minutes avant la scène - Paris - L'Olympia - série photo concert noir et blanc
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
€600
IBEYI & JR - Paris - L'Olympia - série photo concert noir et blanc
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
€600
Coste Hôtel Dieu - Nantes - série photo noir et blanc danse et architecture
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
€578
Bob Marley at Berkshire Music Glen, (III)
Michael Grecco
Photography - 40.6 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 20 x 2 inch
€2,878
Bob Marley at Berkshire Music Glen, (II)
Michael Grecco
Photography - 40.6 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 20 x 2 inch
€2,878
Dwight Yoakam - San Antonio, Texas
Michael Grecco
Photography - 50.8 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Photography - 20 x 16 x 2 inch
€2,878
The Cramps lead guitarist Poison Ivy (II)
Michael Grecco
Photography - 50.8 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Photography - 20 x 16 x 2 inch
€2,878
Femmes au bord du Gange
Alastair Mc Naughton
Photography - 19 x 51 cm Photography - 7.5 x 20.1 inch
€100
Jongleur aux oiseaux
Alastair Mc Naughton
Photography - 24.5 x 34 cm Photography - 9.6 x 13.4 inch
€100
Opera house seagull
Alastair Mc Naughton
Photography - 24.5 x 34 cm Photography - 9.6 x 13.4 inch
€50
Umbrella Silhouette II (S)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 57.2 x 76.2 cm Photography - 22.5 x 30 inch
€4,797
Deluxe - Le saut final - Nantes - Salle de concert Stéréolux 2019 - série photo noir et blanc
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
€578
Bob Marley at Berkshire Music Glen, 1978
Michael Grecco
Photography - 40.6 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 20 x 2 inch
€2,878
Charles X - La coopérative de Mai - Clermont-Ferrand 2016 - Les Nuits Zébrées de Nova
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
€570
Member of Human League, Susan Sulley - Boston, MA
Michael Grecco
Photography - 40.6 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 20 x 2 inch
€2,878
Malcolm X during his visit to enterprises owned by Black Muslims.
Eve Arnold
Photography - 40.6 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 12 x 2 inch
€2,255
USA. NYC. Marilyn Monroe.
Eve Arnold
Photography - 30.5 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Photography - 12 x 16 x 2 inch
€2,255
USA. Marilyn Monroe (USA). Actress & singer
Eve Arnold
Photography - 30.5 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Photography - 12 x 16 x 2 inch
€2,255
USA. Illinois. Bement. US actress Marilyn Monroe during a public appearance.
Eve Arnold
Photography - 30.5 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Photography - 12 x 16 x 2 inch
€2,255
Mikhail Baryshnikov, American Ballet Theatre - NYC
Eve Arnold
Photography - 40.6 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 12 x 2 inch
€2,255
Spain. Mallorca. Anthony QUINN and Anna KARINA on the set of Guy Green's The Magus.
Eve Arnold
Photography - 30.5 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Photography - 12 x 16 x 2 inch
€2,255
New York, Model, Drusilla Dru Beyfus.
Eve Arnold
Photography - 30.5 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Photography - 12 x 16 x 2 inch
€2,255
Sylvana Mangano (ITA), at the Museum of Modern Art, USA
Eve Arnold
Photography - 30.5 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Photography - 12 x 16 x 2 inch
€2,255
GB. Shepperton. Film Set Becket, Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton
Eve Arnold
Photography - 30.5 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Photography - 12 x 16 x 2 inch
€2,255
John and Angelica Huston (USA). 1968
Eve Arnold
Photography - 40.6 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 12 x 2 inch
€2,255
USA. NYC. Black is Beautiful.
Eve Arnold
Photography - 30.5 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Photography - 12 x 16 x 2 inch
€2,255
USA. New York. American actress Marlene Dietrich.
Eve Arnold
Photography - 40.6 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 12 x 2 inch
€2,255
James Brown; singer, being interviewed after a concert in the Apollo in Harlem where the slogan Black is Beautiful was introduced.
Eve Arnold
Photography - 40.6 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 12 x 2 inch
€2,255
Charlotte Stribling. USA. New York City USA.
Eve Arnold
Photography - 40.6 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 12 x 2 inch
€2,255
USA. Nevada and California. The Misfits, a film by John HUSTON. 1960 III
Eve Arnold
Photography - 40.6 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 12 x 2 inch
€2,255
USA. Arizona. James Stewart on the set of The flight of the phoenix.
Eve Arnold
Photography - 40.6 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 12 x 2 inch
€2,255
Rhythmogramm Triennale
Heinrich Heidersberger
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€11,000
Martin Scorsese - 2006
Michael Grecco
Photography - 40.6 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 20 x 2 inch
€2,878
Lucy Liu - Holmby Hills, CA 1999
Michael Grecco
Photography - 40.6 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 20 x 2 inch
€2,878
Joaquin Phoenix - Los Angeles, CA 2002
Michael Grecco
Photography - 40.6 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 20 x 2 inch
€2,878
Black and white
Before the arrival of photography – with the exception of some etchings and lithographs – all the images we consumed were in colour. Quite simply, because no one would ever have thought to do anything else – why paint in black and white when colour was so readily available?
Yet despite this, today many photographers still choose to work in black and white – such as Pauline Théon, Kadir Von Lohuizen or Joh Lowenstein – even though their photos are taken in colour by the camera itself. Is the black and white trend a fleeting effect of fashion, or a symbolic return to the roots of the photography movement? Black and white photography has something that colour photos, despite recent innovations and the extraordinary quality of images today, cannot quite access. The use of black and white lends significant force to the composition: the contrasts, the shadows and the figures all stand out more strongly. People simply feel differently when faced with a colour photo versus a black and white image.
Colour is a distraction of sorts, a disturbance: colour is a nuisance.
And yet, some photographers still prefer colour to black and white, whilst others merge touches of colour with otherwise monochrome compositions. But in the end, all agree that both styles impose a totally different way of looking at a photo: from researching the shot to post production work, when artists develop or retouch the image. The use of colour is therefore something of a process in its own right, relating to two different ways of viewing the world and showing it others. The question, then, is what is being told, and why is it being in the way that it is?
The symbolic value of putting black and white together is a good starting point for reflecting on the fascination that they generate even today. There could not be a more fascinating, more striking ambivalence than when black, the 'colour' of darkness and burnt coal, considered a non-colour, is placed alongside white – representing light, and the result of all the colours merged together.
The problem faced by photographers today is that black and white still carry strong connotations of the past, of an era before the popularisation of colour and its massive cultural recovery amongst the press and photo journalists. In fact, it is rare now that contemporary subjects are photographed in colour, but we still associate black and white images with a retro feel.
So what does contemporary art have to say about it all? Discover Artsper's selection of black and white works: on the border of past and present, of the real and the imaginary… let us guide you!