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![Photography, Eartha Kitt On Stage, Harry Hammond](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/898893_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, L'assise, Âme Sauvage](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/722142_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ensemble au sommet, Âme Sauvage](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/599157_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Arcane I- Le Bateleur, Richard Laillier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/573207_1_grid.jpg)
Arcane I- Le Bateleur
Richard Laillier
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 20 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.2 inch
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![Photography, Serie Vera y Victoria, Mar Sáez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/230881_1_grid.jpg)
Serie Vera y Victoria
Mar Sáez
Photography - 50 x 70 x 3 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
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![Painting, Moments intenses, Âme Sauvage](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/631245_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le chemin, Âme Sauvage](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/599142_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, La porte vers l'inconnu, Âme Sauvage](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/505088_1_grid.jpg)
La porte vers l'inconnu
Âme Sauvage
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Une ville sous la neige, Âme Sauvage](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/500234_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Shoot again (910), Yves Cham](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170940_1_grid.jpg)
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![Photography, Botanical Studies - The B-Sides - No. 14, Matthias Conrad](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180925_1_grid.jpg)
Botanical Studies - The B-Sides - No. 14
Matthias Conrad
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Botanical Studies - The B-Sides - No. 13, Matthias Conrad](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180923_1_grid.jpg)
Botanical Studies - The B-Sides - No. 13
Matthias Conrad
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Botanical Studies - The B-Sides - No. 12, Matthias Conrad](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180921_1_grid.jpg)
Botanical Studies - The B-Sides - No. 12
Matthias Conrad
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Botanical Studies - The B-Sides - No. 11, Matthias Conrad](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180920_1_grid.jpg)
Botanical Studies - The B-Sides - No. 11
Matthias Conrad
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Botanical Studies - The B-Sides - No. 10, Matthias Conrad](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180917_1_grid.jpg)
Botanical Studies - The B-Sides - No. 10
Matthias Conrad
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Botanical Studies - The B-Sides - No. 09, Matthias Conrad](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180916_1_grid.jpg)
Botanical Studies - The B-Sides - No. 09
Matthias Conrad
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Botanical Studies - The B-Sides - No. 08, Matthias Conrad](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180914_1_grid.jpg)
Botanical Studies - The B-Sides - No. 08
Matthias Conrad
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Botanical Studies - The B-Sides - No. 05, Matthias Conrad](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180910_1_grid.jpg)
Botanical Studies - The B-Sides - No. 05
Matthias Conrad
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Botanical Studies - The B-Sides - No. 02, Matthias Conrad](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180897_1_grid.jpg)
Botanical Studies - The B-Sides - No. 02
Matthias Conrad
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Botanical Studies - The B-Sides - No. 01, Matthias Conrad](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180890_1_grid.jpg)
Botanical Studies - The B-Sides - No. 01
Matthias Conrad
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
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![Photography, The squares - Botanical study #87, Matthias Conrad](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2134498_1_grid.jpg)
The squares - Botanical study #87
Matthias Conrad
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Chanel Paris, Bart Van Leeuwen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2069694_1_grid.jpg)
Chanel Paris
Bart Van Leeuwen
Photography - 63.5 x 81.3 x 5.1 cm Photography - 25 x 32 x 2 inch
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![Photography, Enfant des rues Cotonou, Philippe De Poulpiquet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1010304_1_grid.jpg)
Enfant des rues Cotonou
Philippe De Poulpiquet
Photography - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
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![Photography, Mer de Glace, Eric Bouvet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/985920_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Sur les Quais, Yves Bordes Lapeyre](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/967077_1_grid.jpg)
Sur les Quais
Yves Bordes Lapeyre
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
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![Painting, Courte pause 7, Flo Jaouen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/466741_1_grid.jpg)
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![Photography, La parisienne vaut bien une messe, Sylvia Galmot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/131947_1_grid.jpg)
La parisienne vaut bien une messe
Sylvia Galmot
Photography - 50 x 30 cm Photography - 19.7 x 11.8 inch
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![Photography, Cliff Richard, Harry Hammond](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/898926_1_grid.jpg)
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![Photography, Saint Laurent Ovation à la fin de sa collection, Pierre Boulat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1681911_1_grid.jpg)
Saint Laurent Ovation à la fin de sa collection
Pierre Boulat
Photography - 24.5 x 30.1 x 0.2 cm Photography - 9.6 x 11.9 x 0.1 inch
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![Photography, Larguez les amarres !, Pierre Gély-Fort](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1258746_1_grid.jpg)
Larguez les amarres !
Pierre Gély-Fort
Photography - 45 x 80 x 0.2 cm Photography - 17.7 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
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![Photography, Noce dans le Berry, la nuit de noce., Pierre Boulat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1226409_1_grid.jpg)
Noce dans le Berry, la nuit de noce.
Pierre Boulat
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
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![Photography, Marie Chantal en manteau d'ocelot, Pierre Boulat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1020369_1_grid.jpg)
Marie Chantal en manteau d'ocelot
Pierre Boulat
Photography - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
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![Print, Guernika New Age _ tribute to Picasso, Bze Bzeland](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/680202_1_grid.jpg)
Guernika New Age _ tribute to Picasso
Bze Bzeland
Print - 30 x 90 x 0.1 cm Print - 11.8 x 35.4 x 0 inch
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![Print, Parfums de révolte, Yves Hayat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/505082_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Frozen Fickle Fiction Made More Baby Kiss, Daniel Erban](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/294100_1_grid.jpg)
Frozen Fickle Fiction Made More Baby Kiss
Daniel Erban
Fine Art Drawings - 56 x 76 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 29.9 inch
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![Fine Art Drawings, Violent delights, violent ends, Daniel Erban](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/294097_1_grid.jpg)
Violent delights, violent ends
Daniel Erban
Fine Art Drawings - 56 x 76 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 29.9 inch
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![Fine Art Drawings, Dot, dot, dot... ... ... 6/10, JP Malot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/688041_1_grid.jpg)
Dot, dot, dot... ... ... 6/10
JP Malot
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 inch
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![Photography, Untitled (Solarized Landscape), Maurice Tabard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/538117_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled (Solarized Landscape)
Maurice Tabard
Photography - 28.6 x 22.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.25 x 9 x 0.1 inch
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![Photography, Untitled (Solarized Double Exposure), Maurice Tabard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/538114_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled (Solarized Double Exposure)
Maurice Tabard
Photography - 28.6 x 21 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.25 x 8.25 x 0.1 inch
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![Photography, Untitled (Solarized Double Exposure), Maurice Tabard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/538111_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled (Solarized Double Exposure)
Maurice Tabard
Photography - 28.6 x 21 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.25 x 8.25 x 0.1 inch
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![Painting, L'infini, le regard vers le monde, Babs](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/479644_1_grid.jpg)
L'infini, le regard vers le monde
Babs
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
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![Photography, Untitled, Maurice Tabard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/476275_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, David Gilmour & Jacques Boumendil à la caméra_'Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii', Jacques Boumendil](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1068351_1_grid.jpg)
David Gilmour & Jacques Boumendil à la caméra_'Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii'
Jacques Boumendil
Photography - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
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![Painting, Amazone - Moudjibath, YZ (Yzeult)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/58986_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Treehouse next to waterfall, Peter de Boer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/584037_1_grid.jpg)
Treehouse next to waterfall
Peter de Boer
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Vertige métaphysique, Michel Narbonne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/549673_1_grid.jpg)
Vertige métaphysique
Michel Narbonne
Painting - 58 x 58 x 2 cm Painting - 22.8 x 22.8 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, La naissance des haricots, Michel Narbonne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/549658_1_grid.jpg)
La naissance des haricots
Michel Narbonne
Painting - 58 x 58 x 2 cm Painting - 22.8 x 22.8 x 0.8 inch
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![Painting, Ce matin j'ai le cafard, Michel Narbonne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/549646_1_grid.jpg)
Ce matin j'ai le cafard
Michel Narbonne
Painting - 58 x 58 x 2 cm Painting - 22.8 x 22.8 x 0.8 inch
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![Photography, Paysages Irlandais 2, Arnault Joubin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/50849_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Paysages Irlandais 3, Arnault Joubin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/50848_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Paysages Irlandais 15, Arnault Joubin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/50847_1_grid.jpg)
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![Photography, Paysage Naturel 7, Arnault Joubin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/50839_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Paysage Naturel 9, Arnault Joubin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/50838_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Paysage Naturel 13, Arnault Joubin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/50837_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Untitled, Sang Hwa CHUNG](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1726569_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, connexion, Shérazade (Sher) Auclair](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1268754_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, The Midnight Symphony, Kirill Postovit](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1074690_1_grid.jpg)
The Midnight Symphony
Kirill Postovit
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 34 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 13.4 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Tender, Edgar Nabla](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/979989_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Pasolini - Dans l'infamie des temps, Ernest Pignon-Ernest](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/508733_1_grid.jpg)
Pasolini - Dans l'infamie des temps
Ernest Pignon-Ernest
Print - 100 x 71 cm Print - 39.4 x 28 inch
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![Sculpture, Le refus du combat, Dominique Mückli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/428130_1_grid.jpg)
Le refus du combat
Dominique Mückli
Sculpture - 26.5 x 26.5 x 26.5 cm Sculpture - 10.4 x 10.4 x 10.4 inch
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![Painting, Cherry Blossom No. 16, Elizabeth Becker](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/703608_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Wild Rose No. 7, Elizabeth Becker](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/703554_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Cherry Blossom No. 15, Elizabeth Becker](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/703518_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Untitled (structure), Jim Kazanjian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/68473_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Amazon de fer, Jurictus](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/612264_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, La prisonnière, Marie Dorigny](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2165537_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Death Valley, États-Unis, Stephane Cormier Cormier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1061805_1_grid.jpg)
Death Valley, États-Unis
Stephane Cormier Cormier
Photography - 47 x 47 x 1 cm Photography - 18.5 x 18.5 x 0.4 inch
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![Photography, Nice, le plongeoir, La Réserve, bateau en direction de la Corse, Patrice CLEMENT](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1050624_1_grid.jpg)
Nice, le plongeoir, La Réserve, bateau en direction de la Corse
Patrice CLEMENT
Photography - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
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![Painting, The Tea At Fife O'Clock (Alice In Wonderland), Kirill Postovit](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/740691_1_grid.jpg)
The Tea At Fife O'Clock (Alice In Wonderland)
Kirill Postovit
Painting - 200 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 78.7 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
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![Print, Cairn 2, Gérard Titus-Carmel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/401554_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Cairn 5, Gérard Titus-Carmel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/401527_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Shadows’s city: Berlin, Udo Roosen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2116725_1_grid.jpg)
Shadows’s city: Berlin
Udo Roosen
Photography - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
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![Photography, Nous sommes tous des enfants - 2, Jean Valera](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/659058_1_grid.jpg)
Nous sommes tous des enfants - 2
Jean Valera
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.3 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
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![Photography, Nous sommes tous des enfants, Jean Valera](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/659055_1_grid.jpg)
Nous sommes tous des enfants
Jean Valera
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.3 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
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![Fine Art Drawings, The dominating personality of my banker, Daniel Erban](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/397927_1_grid.jpg)
The dominating personality of my banker
Daniel Erban
Fine Art Drawings - 56 x 76 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 29.9 inch
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![Fine Art Drawings, Looking for my centre, Jose Ladrón de Guevara](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/688680_1_grid.jpg)
Looking for my centre
Jose Ladrón de Guevara
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 130 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 51.2 inch
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![Photography, Virginie Ledoyen, Franck Leclerc](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1967712_1_grid.jpg)
Virginie Ledoyen
Franck Leclerc
Photography - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
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![Photography, Tchéky Karyo, Franck Leclerc](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1967667_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Charles Aznavour, Franck Leclerc](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1967655_1_grid.jpg)
Charles Aznavour
Franck Leclerc
Photography - 60 x 50 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
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![Photography, Stanley, Franck Leclerc](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1967613_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Dustin Hoffman 3, Arnaud Baumann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2166267_1_grid.jpg)
Dustin Hoffman 3
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Asie, Sylvie Schambill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/447309_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, La pluie, Marie Dorigny](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2165534_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!