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![Photography, Sans 1, Lucien Hervé](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/276724_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Antropofauna Ii, Manolo Millares](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/256750_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Sans Titre, Jean-François Spricigo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177451_1_grid.jpg)
Sans Titre
Jean-François Spricigo
Photography - 27.5 x 27.5 x 1 cm Photography - 10.8 x 10.8 x 0.4 inch
$2,915
![Photography, Dassault flamant triptyque, Studio Cui Cui](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2008668_1_grid.jpg)
Dassault flamant triptyque
Studio Cui Cui
Photography - 35 x 75 x 2 cm Photography - 13.8 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,670
![Photography, BNFalaise - Photographie argentique - Paris, Jules Gorce](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1788939_1_grid.jpg)
BNFalaise - Photographie argentique - Paris
Jules Gorce
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$561
![Photography, Little Buddha, Robert Curran](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/843435_1_grid.jpg)
Little Buddha
Robert Curran
Photography - 105.4 x 86.4 x 2.5 cm Photography - 41.5 x 34 x 1 inch
$2,500
![Photography, Hearts, Zoobs Ansari](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/586998_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, La Fleur de Daniele, Veronica Mecchia](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2113569_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, White Type E, Cédric Marcadier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2008836_1_grid.jpg)
White Type E
Cédric Marcadier
Photography - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,233
![Photography, Portrait of Sabau (too much pressure), Andrei Cristian Petrescu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/424800_1_grid.jpg)
Portrait of Sabau (too much pressure)
Andrei Cristian Petrescu
Photography - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$3,924
![Print, Âne, Guillaume Piot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/248302_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Temporal Disorder - 19, Radu Corneliu Sarion](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1788579_1_grid.jpg)
Temporal Disorder - 19
Radu Corneliu Sarion
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$561
![Painting, Sans titre, Maurice Sage](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/126082_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, The Threat / La Menace, Phil Skolle](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1137672_1_grid.jpg)
The Threat / La Menace
Phil Skolle
Photography - 100 x 157 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 61.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,110
![Print, Sans titre, Éric Duyckaerts](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/89335_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Le Plongeon #1, Samzaï](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/685269_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Première Pierre, Patrice Killoffer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/608040_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Keanu Reeves Signed Limited Edition Photograph, Markus Klinko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1553097_1_grid.jpg)
Keanu Reeves Signed Limited Edition Photograph
Markus Klinko
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$4,400
![Painting, Venus Cast, Lyubena Fox](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/414784_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Expo 92, Marcel Marti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/340021_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sans titre, Gerardo Delgado](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/110374_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les precieux, Faso](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/467038_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Frank Sinatra In Miami, Terry O'Neill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1682466_1_grid.jpg)
Frank Sinatra In Miami
Terry O'Neill
Photography - 61 x 86 x 0.1 cm Photography - 24 x 33.9 x 0 inch
$13,341
![Print, Sin título, Javier Pagola](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/223777_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Rya forest, Anders Nils](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/352336_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Succession, David Yarrow](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178679_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Black Flag, Santiago Sierra](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2135630_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Bateau à sec sur le lac Baïkal, Christophe Gibourg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1972524_1_grid.jpg)
Bateau à sec sur le lac Baïkal
Christophe Gibourg
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$841
![Print, 2 femmes, Viviane Scemama](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1142112_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, John Lennon, More Popular Than Jesus, Harry Benson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2077641_1_grid.jpg)
John Lennon, More Popular Than Jesus
Harry Benson
Photography - 53.3 x 61 x 5.1 cm Photography - 21 x 24 x 2 inch
$4,600
![Photography, Silhouette IX, Deana Nastic](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1675914_1_grid.jpg)
Silhouette IX
Deana Nastic
Photography - 101 x 76 x 1 cm Photography - 39.8 x 29.9 x 0.4 inch
$5,942
![Photography, Angy Moray, Sergio de Luz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1476156_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Kaleidospeakly, Emilie Gafner](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/14210_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Congregations Beth Hamedrash and Holche Josher Wizaner, Manhattan/NYC, Petra Wunderlich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/5990_1_grid.jpg)
Congregations Beth Hamedrash and Holche Josher Wizaner, Manhattan/NYC
Petra Wunderlich
Photography - 60 x 75 x 3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
$9,305
![Painting, Home staging, Maria Lundgren](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/409306_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Keith & Hummingbird, RCA Studios, Hollywood, Gered Mankowitz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2077614_1_grid.jpg)
Keith & Hummingbird, RCA Studios, Hollywood
Gered Mankowitz
Photography - 63.5 x 48.3 x 5.1 cm Photography - 25 x 19 x 2 inch
$2,200
![Photography, Rio no color #6, Joaquim Nabuco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1583535_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Patterning, Raphaël Groux](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/871992_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Je peux jouer avec toi ?, Dam](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/636492_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Stateless (Beige Edition), David De la Mano](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/397621_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Lovecraft, Mark Carpenter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/377274_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Coeur Brisé, Petite Poissone](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2145709_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Carolyn Carlson 4, Claude Lê Anh](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1149846_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Detected Dictionnary (Wolfsschädel), Stefan à Wengen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/112717_1_grid.jpg)
Detected Dictionnary (Wolfsschädel)
Stefan à Wengen
Painting - 30 x 25 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.8 x 1.6 inch
$3,363
![Photography, Still II, Raena Abellla](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2110545_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Icons - Fight of the Century - End of Fight - Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali, 1971, Silver Gelatin Print, Catherine Ursillo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1251672_1_grid.jpg)
Icons - Fight of the Century - End of Fight - Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali, 1971, Silver Gelatin Print
Catherine Ursillo
Photography - 50.8 x 61 cm Photography - 20 x 24 inch
$3,000
![Print, Joyeux Noël et un bon 1980, Michael Lechner](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/629559_1_grid.jpg)
Joyeux Noël et un bon 1980
Michael Lechner
Print - 37.5 x 28 x 1 cm Print - 14.8 x 11 x 0.4 inch
$336
![Fine Art Drawings, Amazing Spiderman, Mike McKone](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/31437_1_grid.jpg)
Amazing Spiderman
Mike McKone
Fine Art Drawings - 44 x 28 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.3 x 11 x 0.4 inch
$2,466
![Fine Art Drawings, Void #07, Agathe Toman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/825732_1_grid.jpg)
Void #07
Agathe Toman
Fine Art Drawings - 120 x 67 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 47.2 x 26.4 x 0.2 inch
$6,727
![Photography, Two Women on the Subway, New York City, Walker Evans](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/634446_1_grid.jpg)
Two Women on the Subway, New York City
Walker Evans
Photography - 28.6 x 27.9 cm Photography - 11.25 x 11 inch
$5,000
![Photography, Kate Moss, Michel Haddi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2085357_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Rush Live at Concord Pavillion, Jérôme Brunet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2077845_1_grid.jpg)
Rush Live at Concord Pavillion
Jérôme Brunet
Photography - 45.7 x 58.4 x 5.1 cm Photography - 18 x 23 x 2 inch
$2,100
![Photography, Big Doll, C Lacroix Tribute (8), André Rau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1967586_1_grid.jpg)
Big Doll, C Lacroix Tribute (8)
André Rau
Photography - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$11,099
![Painting, No One Is an Island, Tao Mao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/642714_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Sans Titre, Chen Zhen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/515819_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Bar le Soleil (Ménilmontant), Amadou Gaye](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2146504_1_grid.jpg)
Bar le Soleil (Ménilmontant)
Amadou Gaye
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$448
![Fine Art Drawings, Sans titre 1, Charles Durand](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1931538_1_grid.jpg)
Sans titre 1
Charles Durand
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 39 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 15.4 inch
$392
![Print, Passe de cape, Yves Duffour](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/653370_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, De la série "The Other Place", Vajid Amini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/444987_1_grid.jpg)
De la série "The Other Place"
Vajid Amini
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$6,166
![Photography, Série : Lalibela, près du ciel - écrit sur la peau, Ethiopie, Cristina García Rodero](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/444915_1_grid.jpg)
Série : Lalibela, près du ciel - écrit sur la peau, Ethiopie
Cristina García Rodero
Photography - 120 x 80 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 inch
$17,377
![Photography, Dégrafage, Emeline Blanquet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/721305_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Marins, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/362673_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Mains sur la tête, Marc Held](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/317350_1_grid.jpg)
Mains sur la tête
Marc Held
Photography - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$22,422
![Photography, Ki no kioku (Memory of tree), Ibuta-ji, Matsusaka city, Mie prefecture, 2023-11, N°11, Teddy Peix](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2171830_1_grid.jpg)
Ki no kioku (Memory of tree), Ibuta-ji, Matsusaka city, Mie prefecture, 2023-11, N°11
Teddy Peix
Photography - 28 x 20 x 0.01 cm Photography - 11 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$437
![Photography, Greeting from Paris, Milena Jovicevic](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2127187_1_grid.jpg)
Greeting from Paris
Milena Jovicevic
Photography - 32 x 45 x 0.3 cm Photography - 12.6 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
$392 $373
![Photography, Gabi, Sibylle Bergemann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2083476_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Yves Kelin/ Pierre Descargues - Zone de sensibilité, Pierre Descargues](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1476009_1_grid.jpg)
Yves Kelin/ Pierre Descargues - Zone de sensibilité
Pierre Descargues
Photography - 20 x 30 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 inch
$392
![Photography, Letters, Miki Kato](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/432705_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Potato with Nails, Andrei Roiter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2088984_1_grid.jpg)
Potato with Nails
Andrei Roiter
Photography - 27.94 x 35.56 x 2.54 cm Photography - 11 x 14 x 1 inch
$500
![Photography, Leaf Veins III, Charles Brabin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1066827_1_grid.jpg)
Leaf Veins III
Charles Brabin
Photography - 30 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$232
![Photography, DSC07031-2, Alex Silver](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2010588_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, House in Mud, Santiago Sierra](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1918719_1_grid.jpg)
House in Mud
Santiago Sierra
Photography - 21 x 30 x 1.5 cm Photography - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
$5,606
![Photography, La pell 1.1., Jordi Rosado](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1885749_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Brutal 2, Francesco Romero](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/421668_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Nins, Adolf Gil](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/769173_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Skeme and Lava - N.Y.C Legends, Big Daddy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/680880_1_grid.jpg)
Skeme and Lava - N.Y.C Legends
Big Daddy
Photography - 20 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$280
![Painting, Le Roi du Silence, Julien Gorgeart](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2136620_1_grid.jpg)
Le Roi du Silence
Julien Gorgeart
Painting - 52 x 78 x 1 cm Painting - 20.5 x 30.7 x 0.4 inch
$6,502
![Photography, Untitled (foliage), Mikael Siirilä](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1118841_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Tiim, Donald Mitchell](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/547009_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Bes a l'aigua, Robert Llimós](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/367446_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Bivalva, LN Le Cheviller](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/693624_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Mirella Petteni, Oslo, F.C. Gundlach](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1750839_1_grid.jpg)
Mirella Petteni, Oslo
F.C. Gundlach
Photography - 59.7 x 50.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.5 x 19.75 x 0.1 inch
$7,900
![Photography, Ray of light ,C Chaplin, Tigi Van Gil](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1803390_1_grid.jpg)
Ray of light ,C Chaplin
Tigi Van Gil
Photography - 110 x 120 x 2 cm Photography - 43.3 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$8,969
![Photography, Dance Moods - Lacina Coulibaly, Antoine Tempé](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/673386_1_grid.jpg)
Dance Moods - Lacina Coulibaly
Antoine Tempé
Photography - 60 x 50 x 4 cm Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$4,260
![Print, Spjutmo, Yaya Herman Dune](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/28291_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, A corps ouvert, Daria Nelson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1758543_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Seize the moment, Xuchan Xu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/970686_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Tokyo, Christer Stromholm](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1984575_1_grid.jpg)
Tokyo
Christer Stromholm
Photography - 28.5 x 20.5 x 1 cm Photography - 11.2 x 8.1 x 0.4 inch
$4,000
![Photography, Beach 33, Marc Harrold](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1721208_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Paul Mc Cartney of The Beatles at George V Hotel, Roger Kasparian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/597036_1_grid.jpg)
Paul Mc Cartney of The Beatles at George V Hotel
Roger Kasparian
Photography - 100 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$4,281
![Print, Interior de la Iglesia de Espejo (Cordoba) en septiembre de 1937, Equipo Realidad](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/183817_1_grid.jpg)
Interior de la Iglesia de Espejo (Cordoba) en septiembre de 1937
Equipo Realidad
Print - 69 x 71 cm Print - 27.2 x 28 inch
$336
![Print, Sans titre, Laurent Le Deunff](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/301570_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Tetris, DaSilva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1940070_1_grid.jpg)
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!