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Ayrton Senna Podium Brésil. F1
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$905
Arrivée de l'American Circus
José Nicolas
Photography - 60 x 40 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
$1,357
Palmeraie de Fay Largeau
José Nicolas
Photography - 52 x 84 x 1 cm Photography - 20.5 x 33.1 x 0.4 inch
$1,696
Vallée du Jabron
José Nicolas
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,131
Vallée du Jabron
José Nicolas
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,357
Au pas de l'éphémère
Marie-Fa Lazzari
Photography - 48 x 33 x 1 cm Photography - 18.9 x 13 x 0.4 inch
$537
Deconstructed Beauty - Belvedere Palace
Magda Von Hanau
Photography - 81.3 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32 x 48 x 0.1 inch
$4,000
Div-Ine V
Magda Von Hanau
Photography - 81.3 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32 x 48 x 0.1 inch
$2,500
Div-Ine II
Magda Von Hanau
Photography - 81.3 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32 x 48 x 0.1 inch
$2,500
Div-Ine I
Magda Von Hanau
Photography - 81.3 x 121.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32 x 48 x 0.1 inch
$2,500
Phénomènes, Untitled (volcanic eruption #2)
Marina Gadonneix
Photography - 29 x 22.4 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.4 x 8.8 x 0.1 inch
$158
Série: Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$2,827
Série : Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$2,827
Série : Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$2,827
Série : Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$2,827
Série : Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$2,827
Série : Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$2,827
Couple de grue cendré. Parc de Tarangire. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$905
S… like Self Portrait v.3.3..... a 5 Ply Work
LosOtros Mj Tom
Painting - 100 x 355 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 139.8 x 0.4 inch
$4,524
Les trois ponts
Georgii Vinogradov
Photography - 20 x 38 x 0.2 cm Photography - 7.9 x 15 x 0.1 inch
$565
Sandrah # 2
Andreas Sundgren
Photography - 140 x 105 x 0.1 cm Photography - 55.1 x 41.3 x 0 inch
$3,441
Paulina #1
Andreas Sundgren
Photography - 140 x 140 x 0.1 cm Photography - 55.1 x 55.1 x 0 inch
$3,441
Du premier pas
Marie-Fa Lazzari
Photography - 48 x 33 x 1 cm Photography - 18.9 x 13 x 0.4 inch
$362
A letter to my lost childhood
Solomon Jamy Brown
Photography - 100 x 70 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
$2,827
Lewis Hamilton. MacLaren. Espagne. 1
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,696
Tirages sur papier photo: dépliant X _ 2000
Gottfried Jäger
Photography - 60 x 50 x 3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$16,963
Tirages sur papier photo: deux photos XI_ 1986
Gottfried Jäger
Photography - 60 x 50 x 3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$16,963
Tirages sur papier photo: deux photos V, 1988
Gottfried Jäger
Photography - 60 x 50 x 3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$16,963
Tirages sur papier photo: XXIII 1986
Gottfried Jäger
Photography - 60 x 50 x 3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$16,963
Tirages sur papier photo: dépliant X
Gottfried Jäger
Photography - 60 x 50 x 3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$16,963
Tirages sur papier photo: 2011-III-1-2
Gottfried Jäger
Photography - 60 x 50 x 3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$16,963
Tirages sur papier photo: 1986-XI-1993
Gottfried Jäger
Photography - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$16,963
Photo 111110.4
Gottfried Jäger
Photography - 70 x 70 x 3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$7,916
La Nioulargue voile de Saint Tropez. France 6
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,470
La Nioulargue voile de Saint Tropez. France
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,470
Grain sur les grandes voiles d'Antibes. France
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,470
Les grandes Voile d'Antibes. France
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,470
Les grandes voiles d'Antibes. France. Voile
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,470
Mika Hakkinen. Monaco. F1. Tout prêt des rails
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,583
Ayrton Senna. Brésil 1994.
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,583
Ayrton Senna. Imola. 1994
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,696
Alain Prost Ferrari. Spa Francorchamps. Belgique
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,696
Repos du Zèbre. Parc de Tarangire. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$905
Poules et poulailler. Sénégal
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$905
Couple de Rhinocéros Blanc. Cratère du Ngorongoro. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$905
Girafe et ses poursuivants. Parc de Tarangire. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$905
Les trois grâce. Parc du Serengeti. Tanzanie.
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$905
Seul dans la savane. Parc du Ngorongoro. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$905
Couple d’Éléphant. Parc de Tarangire. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$905
Grue cendré. Kenya
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$905
Tigre du Bengale. Inde
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$905
Girafe et girafon. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$905
Ayrton Senna. Brésil 1994. F1
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$905
Un instant relatif
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 30 x 50 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.8 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$769
Temporal Disorder - 7
Radu Corneliu Sarion
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$565
Temporal Disorder - 6
Radu Corneliu Sarion
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$565
Temporal Disorder - 16
Radu Corneliu Sarion
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$565
Naomi Campbell
Thierry Le Gouès
Photography - 80 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$6,729
Fragmented-Untitled 2
Ying Chen
Photography - 203.2 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 80 x 60 x 0.1 inch
$4,000
Doucement elles se réveillent
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$396
Mon amie la brume
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 13 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 5.1 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$396
Pêcheur de brumes
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 13 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 5.1 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$396
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!