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![Photography, Große Arnspitze, Peter Neusser](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1183968_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, The Mist, Shulan Wang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1182642_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, The eye of the earth, Shulan Wang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1182639_1_grid.jpg)
The eye of the earth
Shulan Wang
Photography - 30 x 45 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,200
![Photography, Endless life, Shulan Wang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1182633_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Have a soft dream with the moon, Shulan Wang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1182627_1_grid.jpg)
Have a soft dream with the moon
Shulan Wang
Photography - 45 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€1,000
![Photography, Being and nothingness, Shulan Wang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1182489_1_grid.jpg)
Being and nothingness
Shulan Wang
Photography - 45 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€1,200
![Photography, Moonshine, Shulan Wang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1182480_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, La fille du roi de Birmanie réfugiée au Siam, The opium smoking white elephant](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/806421_1_grid.jpg)
La fille du roi de Birmanie réfugiée au Siam
The opium smoking white elephant
Photography - 60 x 40 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
€800
![Photography, Svyatibor, Mihaela Ivanova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/693459_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans titre 3, Michel Cadoret](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/280720_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Moonrise III, Miguel Winograd](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2141137_1_grid.jpg)
Moonrise III
Miguel Winograd
Photography - 109.2 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 43 x 36 x 0.1 inch
€1,940
![Photography, Sol Mallorca, Miguel Winograd](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2141062_1_grid.jpg)
Sol Mallorca
Miguel Winograd
Photography - 109.2 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 43 x 36 x 0.1 inch
€1,940
![Photography, Moonrise II, Miguel Winograd](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2139647_1_grid.jpg)
Moonrise II
Miguel Winograd
Photography - 109.2 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 43 x 36 x 0.1 inch
€1,940
![Photography, Look at me, Olha Stepanian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2137709_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Desvelando Gaudí 010, Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1966401_1_grid.jpg)
Desvelando Gaudí 010
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 53 x 40 cm Photography - 20.9 x 15.7 inch
€600
![Photography, Desvelando Gaudí 08, Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1966206_1_grid.jpg)
Desvelando Gaudí 08
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 53 x 40 cm Photography - 20.9 x 15.7 inch
€600
![Photography, Young girl in New York, Hervé Pezzini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1567749_1_grid.jpg)
Young girl in New York
Hervé Pezzini
Photography - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€399
![Photography, Valeria Mazza - Halston 1998, Anthony Horth](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1536375_1_grid.jpg)
Valeria Mazza - Halston 1998
Anthony Horth
Photography - 29.7 x 21 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€1,455
![Photography, Sarah 10, Anthony Horth](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1536369_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Sarah 9, Anthony Horth](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1536366_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Sarah 8, Anthony Horth](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1536363_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Sarah 7, Anthony Horth](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1536360_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Sarah 6, Anthony Horth](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1536357_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Sarah 5, Anthony Horth](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1536354_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Sarah 4, Anthony Horth](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1536351_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Sarah 3, Anthony Horth](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1536348_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Sarah 2, Anthony Horth](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1536342_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Sarah, Anthony Horth](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1534671_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Chivor, Miguel Winograd](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1329516_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Páramo Chingaza, Miguel Winograd](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1139565_1_grid.jpg)
Páramo Chingaza
Miguel Winograd
Photography - 110 x 91.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 43.3 x 36.2 x 0.1 inch
€1,940
![Photography, Laguna Chingaza, Pigment Prints, Miguel Winograd](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1094937_1_grid.jpg)
Laguna Chingaza, Pigment Prints
Miguel Winograd
Photography - 110 x 91.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 43.3 x 36.2 x 0.1 inch
€1,940
![Photography, Reflection, Cyrille Charro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1088928_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Conscience, Cyrille Charro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1088892_1_grid.jpg)
Conscience
Cyrille Charro
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,500
![Photography, Reagan and the queen, Ian Bradshaw](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/87163_1_grid.jpg)
Reagan and the queen
Ian Bradshaw
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€1,300
![Photography, Down on East River, Karol Kállay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/811389_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Hide and seek, Mihaela Ivanova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/799077_1_grid.jpg)
Hide and seek
Mihaela Ivanova
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€550
![Photography, It’s nice and quiet…, Mihaela Ivanova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/799074_1_grid.jpg)
It’s nice and quiet…
Mihaela Ivanova
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€530
![Photography, Shabla, Mihaela Ivanova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/799071_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Pulse, Mihaela Ivanova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/798624_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Fall, Mihaela Ivanova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/797658_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Estuary 1, Margaret Neill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/705168_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Retiro in May, Mihaela Ivanova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/703737_1_grid.jpg)
Retiro in May
Mihaela Ivanova
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€530
![Photography, Arod, Mihaela Ivanova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/703734_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Pigeon monument, Mihaela Ivanova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/697362_1_grid.jpg)
Pigeon monument
Mihaela Ivanova
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€550
![Print, Gravure 2, Brigitte Touvron](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/687816_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Steamer series 1, Margaret Neill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/651519_1_grid.jpg)
Steamer series 1
Margaret Neill
Fine Art Drawings - 66 x 101.6 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 40 inch
€2,836
![Painting, Suck it, Miss Fuck](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/628815_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Maiol, Nymphs. Photograph intervened by the artists., Hunter & Gatti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/622884_1_grid.jpg)
Maiol, Nymphs. Photograph intervened by the artists.
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 29.5 x 21.7 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.6 x 8.5 x 0.1 inch
€1,048
![Photography, Daytona, Playboy Dallas I. Photograph intervened by the artists., Hunter & Gatti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/622782_1_grid.jpg)
Daytona, Playboy Dallas I. Photograph intervened by the artists.
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 29.5 x 21.7 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.6 x 8.5 x 0.1 inch
€1,048
![Photography, Linger, Mihaela Ivanova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173499_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Blackbird singing in the dead of night, Mihaela Ivanova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1989699_1_grid.jpg)
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Mihaela Ivanova
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€530
![Photography, Dendara, Mihaela Ivanova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1940091_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Old man with new hat, Mihaela Ivanova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1940085_1_grid.jpg)
Old man with new hat
Mihaela Ivanova
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€550
![Photography, Small talks II, Mihaela Ivanova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1900047_1_grid.jpg)
Small talks II
Mihaela Ivanova
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€530
![Photography, Father and son, Mihaela Ivanova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1823205_1_grid.jpg)
Father and son
Mihaela Ivanova
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
€650
![Photography, If I was your girlfriend, Mihaela Ivanova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1798824_1_grid.jpg)
If I was your girlfriend
Mihaela Ivanova
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
€650
![Photography, L'homme du passé, Tanguy Mendrisse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1737846_1_grid.jpg)
L'homme du passé
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€170
![Photography, Sled. Photograph intervened by the artists, Hunter & Gatti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1726359_1_grid.jpg)
Sled. Photograph intervened by the artists
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 50.8 x 39.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20 x 15.5 x 0.1 inch
€3,687
![Photography, Ceremony II, Photograph intervened by the artists, Hunter & Gatti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1726347_1_grid.jpg)
Ceremony II, Photograph intervened by the artists
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 54.6 x 44.5 x 0.3 cm Photography - 21.5 x 17.5 x 0.1 inch
€3,396
![Photography, Ceremony. Photograph intervened by the artists, Hunter & Gatti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1726344_1_grid.jpg)
Ceremony. Photograph intervened by the artists
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 44.5 x 54.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 17.5 x 21.5 x 0.1 inch
€3,396
![Photography, Men II, Michel Birot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/153931_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, La trêve, Jean-Pierre Fleury](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1363377_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Empreintes, Jean-Pierre Fleury](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1363302_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Double vue, Jean-Pierre Fleury](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1363299_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Reflets de Ville, Jean-Pierre Fleury](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1320261_1_grid.jpg)
Reflets de Ville
Jean-Pierre Fleury
Photography - 150 x 100 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 inch
€3,760
![Photography, Hommage à Brassai - Portrait craché, Jean-Pierre Fleury](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1320252_1_grid.jpg)
Hommage à Brassai - Portrait craché
Jean-Pierre Fleury
Photography - 100 x 100 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 inch
€2,460
![Photography, Birds, Mihaela Ivanova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1233660_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Shadowfax, Mihaela Ivanova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1233654_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Asfaloth, Mihaela Ivanova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1155333_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Voiture la nuit, Alain Daussin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1125786_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Queen lady, Samuel Cueto](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1115358_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Dragon, Samuel Cueto](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1115349_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Silence 2, Samuel Cueto](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1115271_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, WhatEyeAm IV, Emanuele Cucuzza](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/864006_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, WhatEyeAm XI, Emanuele Cucuzza](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/860397_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Lévitation Effect 003, Jean-Claude Byandb](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/804750_1_grid.jpg)
Lévitation Effect 003
Jean-Claude Byandb
Photography - 60 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0 inch
€610
![Print, Egypte, James Bohary](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/635490_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Paris Déchiré, Julie Peiffer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/242758_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Apples, Evgeny Chernyakovsky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2054931_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Lagerfeld above Logo, Fall/Winter 2006, Le Grand Palais Paris, Simon Procter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1987830_1_grid.jpg)
Lagerfeld above Logo, Fall/Winter 2006, Le Grand Palais Paris
Simon Procter
Photography - 240 x 178 x 5 cm Photography - 94.5 x 70.1 x 2 inch
€22,000
![Painting, Encre #3, Timothy Archer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1224606_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, American Comander, Karol Kállay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1206516_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Manhattan Rhythm, Karol Kállay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1206513_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, On the downtown shore, Karol Kállay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1206405_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Newport, Karol Kállay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1206402_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, A Shrimpton Look, John French](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/898944_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Paris Model, John French](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/896871_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Pattern Model, John French](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/896865_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Collisions 11, Ditno 83](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/782043_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Demain, mon rêve d'aujourd'hui, Paris, Julie Peiffer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/717804_1_grid.jpg)
Demain, mon rêve d'aujourd'hui, Paris
Julie Peiffer
Photography - 50 x 45 cm Photography - 19.7 x 17.7 inch
€550
![Photography, Gypsy - L'Ombre de Toi - Meme, Paris, Julie Peiffer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/715998_1_grid.jpg)
Gypsy - L'Ombre de Toi - Meme, Paris
Julie Peiffer
Photography - 80 x 80 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 inch
€910
![Photography, 11h53 - 6,09, Crue de la Seine - Paris 2016, Julie Peiffer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/710670_1_grid.jpg)
11h53 - 6,09, Crue de la Seine - Paris 2016
Julie Peiffer
Photography - 50 x 50 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 inch
€710
![Photography, Où est Charlie ? V, Tanguy Mendrisse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/664095_1_grid.jpg)
Où est Charlie ? V
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0 inch
€125
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!