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![Print, Quatre-vingt-dix 2, Miquel Barceló](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/310012_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Seal N°2, L'Atlas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/376689_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Aquaplaning, Antoine Josse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/759591_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Brigitte Bardot (Harley Davidson), Just Jaeckin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/43382_1_grid.jpg)
Brigitte Bardot (Harley Davidson)
Just Jaeckin
Photography - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
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![Painting, Le Secret des Bois, Antoine Josse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1071150_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans titre, Jean-Pierre Pincemin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/401734_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Follow the line 3, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1198221_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Champigny sur Marne 1957, Willy Ronis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1699521_1_grid.jpg)
Champigny sur Marne 1957
Willy Ronis
Photography - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
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![Photography, Brune sur le Pantheron 1959, Willy Ronis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1699443_1_grid.jpg)
Brune sur le Pantheron 1959
Willy Ronis
Photography - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
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![Photography, Project for a Public Building's Packaging, Christo and Jeanne-Claude](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/672570_1_grid.jpg)
Project for a Public Building's Packaging
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Photography - 54 x 70 x 0.2 cm Photography - 21.3 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
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![Painting, Extrait poussière des sens E_S, Feng Kaixuan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/663396_1_grid.jpg)
Extrait poussière des sens E_S
Feng Kaixuan
Painting - 39 x 49 x 1 cm Painting - 15.4 x 19.3 x 0.4 inch
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![Painting, Black and White, Dana Gordon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/389765_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Composition pour les JO, Ben](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/150235_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Onyx, Liora](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/734037_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, La montée des eaux (2), Fabienne Cresens](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1801518_1_grid.jpg)
La montée des eaux (2)
Fabienne Cresens
Photography - 100 x 100 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 inch
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![Painting, Small Sign No 31 - Black and White Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste Noir et Blanc), Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/639945_1_grid.jpg)
Small Sign No 31 - Black and White Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste Noir et Blanc)
Gina Vor
Painting - 24 x 17 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0 inch
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![Fine Art Drawings, Small Sign No 28 - Black and White Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste Noir et Blanc), Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/639015_1_grid.jpg)
Small Sign No 28 - Black and White Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste Noir et Blanc)
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 17 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0 inch
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![Fine Art Drawings, Small Sign No 2 - Black and White Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste Noir et Blanc), Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/556570_1_grid.jpg)
Small Sign No 2 - Black and White Minimalist Abstract (Abstrait Minimaliste Noir et Blanc)
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 17 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Photographie de Marilyn Monroe, George Barris](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1930644_1_grid.jpg)
Photographie de Marilyn Monroe
George Barris
Photography - 28 x 37 x 1 cm Photography - 11 x 14.6 x 0.4 inch
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![Painting, Black Hole 18, Liora](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/532616_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La douceur de l'air, Antoine Josse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/827688_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Untitled Portrait of Female, Man Ray](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/476278_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled Portrait of Female
Man Ray
Photography - 25.7 x 26 x 0.3 cm Photography - 10.13 x 10.25 x 0.1 inch
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![Photography, Une femme sur un toit brûlant, Sylvia Galmot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/131971_1_grid.jpg)
Une femme sur un toit brûlant
Sylvia Galmot
Photography - 60 x 80 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
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![Painting, Borders, JonOne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/960312_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Paris, le Vert Galant, Willy Ronis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1699464_1_grid.jpg)
Paris, le Vert Galant
Willy Ronis
Photography - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
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![Painting, Three Guardian Angels, Kirill Postovit](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/903642_1_grid.jpg)
Three Guardian Angels
Kirill Postovit
Painting - 100 x 90 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 35.4 x 0.6 inch
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![Painting, Envie d’ailleurs, Marie-Odile Wagner](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/696513_1_grid.jpg)
Envie d’ailleurs
Marie-Odile Wagner
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
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![Photography, La pudeur, Jean-Michel Landon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1373022_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, La montée des eaux, Fabienne Cresens](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/463009_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Follow, Edgar Nabla](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/567096_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Elles, Nef](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1201980_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Spells & Gris-Gris I, Arman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/633888_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, See, Nef](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1251270_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Goliath, Christophe Charbonnel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/58286_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Pomegranates II, Donald Sultan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/458839_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Aiguille du midi, Eric Bouvet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1926324_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, The old mustache, Samuel Cueto](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1116429_1_grid.jpg)
The old mustache
Samuel Cueto
Photography - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
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![Photography, Mischievous, Samuel Cueto](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1115844_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Medication, Samuel Cueto](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1115754_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Puro... alegria, James Sparshatt](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/61552_1_grid.jpg)
Puro... alegria
James Sparshatt
Photography - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
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![Fine Art Drawings, The farmer, Paul Richard Mason](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/316936_1_grid.jpg)
The farmer
Paul Richard Mason
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 24 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 9.4 x 0 inch
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![Print, Zodiac 5 - Gemini, Vasil Angelov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/708411_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Alain Delon et Mireille Darc (1974), Francis Apesteguy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/61697_1_grid.jpg)
Alain Delon et Mireille Darc (1974)
Francis Apesteguy
Photography - 52 x 35 x 1 cm Photography - 20.5 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
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![Print, Naufrage de Méduse 3, Arman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/188587_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mike Todd's Nightmare, Pure Evil](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/172162_1_grid.jpg)
Mike Todd's Nightmare
Pure Evil
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.8 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.5 inch
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![Fine Art Drawings, Vision 12, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/834750_1_grid.jpg)
Vision 12
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
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![Painting, Le temps des sourires (triptyque), Antoine Josse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/816753_1_grid.jpg)
Le temps des sourires (triptyque)
Antoine Josse
Painting - 100 x 66 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 26 x 1.2 inch
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![Painting, Dessine moi un petit Prince, Antoine Josse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/784065_1_grid.jpg)
Dessine moi un petit Prince
Antoine Josse
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
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![Fine Art Drawings, Storm Series Horizontal 43, Jaanika Peerna](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/693912_1_grid.jpg)
Storm Series Horizontal 43
Jaanika Peerna
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 92 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 36.2 inch
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![Fine Art Drawings, Storm Series Horizontal 40, Jaanika Peerna](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/678273_1_grid.jpg)
Storm Series Horizontal 40
Jaanika Peerna
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 92 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 36.2 inch
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![Fine Art Drawings, Storm Series Horizontal 8, Jaanika Peerna](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/667335_1_grid.jpg)
Storm Series Horizontal 8
Jaanika Peerna
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 91.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 36 inch
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![Print, Polychrome 18, Joan Hernández Pijuan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/604272_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Tight chickens, Samuel Cueto](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1116441_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, M338, Jesús Perea](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/698589_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Nero III, Afro Basaldella](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/675303_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Fulles 2, Joan Hernández Pijuan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/604275_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, L'Enfer me ment (39), Richard Laillier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/56664_1_grid.jpg)
L'Enfer me ment (39)
Richard Laillier
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 15 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
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![Print, Silex 3, Raoul Ubac](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/399295_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Silex 1, Raoul Ubac](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/398956_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, San Clemente, Raymond Depardon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1921095_1_grid.jpg)
San Clemente
Raymond Depardon
Photography - 30 x 44 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.3 x 0.4 inch
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![Photography, Contrôle des papiers, Jean-Michel Landon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/974952_1_grid.jpg)
Contrôle des papiers
Jean-Michel Landon
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
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![Print, M241, Jesús Perea](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/698619_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled (ID 1294), Fieroza Doorsen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/693888_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Gravure pour 10, Vassily Kandinsky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/632547_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Black Hole 6, Liora](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/412267_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Venice, Giovanni Korompay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/670326_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Sentint l'aire, Teresa Riba](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/215506_1_grid.jpg)
Sentint l'aire
Teresa Riba
Fine Art Drawings - 130 x 100 cm Fine Art Drawings - 51.2 x 39.4 inch
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![Photography, Sarah Moon Portfolio, printed and bound, 10 Gelatin Silver Prints, Sarah Moon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/537913_1_grid.jpg)
Sarah Moon Portfolio, printed and bound, 10 Gelatin Silver Prints
Sarah Moon
Photography - 54 x 41.3 x 5.1 cm Photography - 21.25 x 16.25 x 2 inch
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![Print, Sans titre, Jean Messagier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/221791_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Mont Charvin, Eric Bouvet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1926321_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Totem 1, Bruno Roudil](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/878310_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Institut II, Michaël Brack](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/685869_1_grid.jpg)
Institut II
Michaël Brack
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 26 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 10.2 x 0 inch
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![Painting, Earth 288, Angel Patchamanov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/624264_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Landscape hiver, Li Dongfeng](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/579177_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Amélie Nothomb, Akiza](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/969672_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Die Olympischen Ringe (The Olympic Rings), Leni Riefenstahl](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/845772_1_grid.jpg)
Die Olympischen Ringe (The Olympic Rings)
Leni Riefenstahl
Photography - 49.8 x 37.5 x 0.3 cm Photography - 19.625 x 14.75 x 0.1 inch
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![Painting, Senza titolo #8, Emanuele Ravagnani](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/645297_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Lone Wool, Akiza](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/568824_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Grape Sculpture, Irena Tone](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1220451_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Marilyn Monroe Contact Strip, Ed Feingersh](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/897318_1_grid.jpg)
Marilyn Monroe Contact Strip
Ed Feingersh
Photography - 101 x 76 cm Photography - 39.8 x 29.9 inch
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![Photography, Chris Martin Coldplay, Kevin Westenberg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/882513_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mademoiselle 6, Ghislaine Ferreira](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/537367_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, L.In the sky with gooses, Fabrice Dimier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1255395_1_grid.jpg)
L.In the sky with gooses
Fabrice Dimier
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.3 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.1 inch
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![Painting, WD01, Gauthier Bruel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/575364_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Asiatic, Hush](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/420531_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Rise, Yevgeniy Repiashenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1744845_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Majestueuse féline, Mathieu Pujol](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1908780_1_grid.jpg)
Majestueuse féline
Mathieu Pujol
Photography - 75 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 23.6 x 0 inch
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![Print, Euro liquidated, Zevs](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/60293_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, 100-197 14 (NG69), Nicolas Galtier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/274309_1_grid.jpg)
100-197 14 (NG69)
Nicolas Galtier
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
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![Painting, N°100-80 11 (NG56), Nicolas Galtier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/272893_1_grid.jpg)
N°100-80 11 (NG56)
Nicolas Galtier
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
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![Painting, The Rain, Kirill Postovit](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1165641_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, La basilique Saint-Marc et et Campanile, Venise, Charles Malle](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/593622_1_grid.jpg)
La basilique Saint-Marc et et Campanile, Venise
Charles Malle
Fine Art Drawings - 48 x 62 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.9 x 24.4 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Far, Edgar Nabla](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/980013_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!