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Lazy man with dog
Sven Svensøn
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$437
Phare de Pontusval
Philippe Grincourt
Photography - 34 x 51 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13.4 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$179
L'ile aux vaches
Philippe Grincourt
Photography - 34 x 51 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13.4 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$179
Les Amiets
Philippe Grincourt
Photography - 34 x 51 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13.4 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$179
Beg ar Groas
Philippe Grincourt
Photography - 34 x 51 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13.4 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$179
Menhir Men Marz
Philippe Grincourt
Photography - 34 x 51 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13.4 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$179
La bigoudène
Philippe Grincourt
Photography - 34 x 51 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13.4 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$179
Dijon, the gargoyle
Fabien Olart
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$504
Paris, boat on Seine river
Fabien Olart
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$504
The Air We Breathe
Jordana Ozier Lafontaine
Photography - 10 x 15 cm Photography - 3.9 x 5.9 inch
$291
Dent D’Hérens
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Weisshorn – Panorama
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Weisshorn Panoramique
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Zinalrothorn – Weisshorn
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$4,529
Dents du Midi
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 80 x 120 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$4,065
Dent du Midi – Forteresse et Cathedrale
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 80 x 120 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$4,065
Cîme de l’Est
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 180 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 70.9 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Dents du Midi
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 132 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 52 x 0.4 inch
$4,529
Dents du Midi et Mont-Blanc
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 80 x 160 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 63 x 0.4 inch
$4,645
Dents du Midi panoramique
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 80 x 160 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 63 x 0.4 inch
$4,645
Lever de soleil sur les Dents du Midi
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 70 x 210 x 1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 82.7 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Les Dents du Midi
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 135 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 53.1 x 0.4 inch
$4,529
Dents du Midi
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 135 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 53.1 x 0.4 inch
$4,529
Weisshorn – King of my castle
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Panorama 4000 de Zermatt
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Dent Blanche, Pointe de Zinal
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 135 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 53.1 x 0.4 inch
$4,529
Grand Cornier – Dent Blanche
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 135 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 53.1 x 0.4 inch
$4,529
Dent Blanche
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 135 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 53.1 x 0.4 inch
$4,529
Dent Blanche
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 135 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 53.1 x 0.4 inch
$4,529
Dent Blanche et Grand Cornier
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$4,529
Dent Blanche
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 135 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 53.1 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$4,529
Dent Blanche Zermatt
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 135 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 53.1 x 0.4 inch
$4,529
Dent Blanche – Obergabelhorn
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 135 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 53.1 x 0.4 inch
$4,529
La Dent Blanche et son ombre
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 80 x 160 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 63 x 0.4 inch
$4,645
Sommet du Cervin
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 80 x 160 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 63 x 0.4 inch
$4,645
Dent Blanche panoramique
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 80 x 160 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 63 x 0.4 inch
$4,645
Panorama des Combins
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Grand Combin – Le Pleureur – La Sâle
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Grand Combin
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Combin – Cervin – Mont Rose
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 60 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
$4,645
Vallée des Combins
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Pizzo Bianco – Bernina
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$4,529
Pizzo Bianco – Scerscen
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Pizzo Bianco
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$4,529
Storm on Mont-Blanc
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Mont Blanc
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 135 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 53.1 x 0.4 inch
$4,529
Massif du Mont-Blanc
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 135 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 53.1 x 0.4 inch
$4,529
Les Drus et le Massif du Mont-Blanc
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$3,832
Les 4 Monts
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 80 x 120 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$4,065
Aiguilles de Chamonix et Mont-Blanc
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 60 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
$4,645
Massif du Mont-Blanc panorama
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 60 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
$4,645
Eiger – Jungfrau
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Eiger Monch Jungfrau panoramique
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Eiger – Mittellegi
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 80 x 120 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$4,065
Eiger – Mönch – Jungfrau
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 70 x 210 x 1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 82.7 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Face nord de l’Eiger
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Obergabelhorn
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Obergabelhorn
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Mont Rose – Obergabelhorn
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Montagnes du Valais
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 70 x 210 x 1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 82.7 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Zinalrothorn – Cervin – Obergabelhorn
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Cervin – Ober – Dent d’Hérens
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 135 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 53.1 x 0.4 inch
$4,529
Obergabelhorn – Matterhorn
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 135 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 53.1 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$4,529
Obergabelhorn
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 135 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 53.1 x 0.4 inch
$4,529
Ober Gabelhorn
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 90 x 135 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 53.1 x 0.4 inch
$4,529
Ober Gabelhorn
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 80 x 120 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$4,065
Matterhorn – Obergabelhorn
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Eiger – Mittellegi
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$4,529
Matterhorn North Face
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 150 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Matterhorn – The Hat
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Aiguille sans nom et les Drus
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$5,226
Barre des Ecrins et Dome des Ecrins
Thomas Crauwels
Photography - 70 x 105 x 1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 x 0.4 inch
$3,484
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!