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![Painting, Tournesols, Qiongfei Zhang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1060515_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Mirage Ligérien I, Dominique Jullien](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/914889_1_grid.jpg)
Mirage Ligérien I
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 13 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 5.1 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€350
![Photography, Mouillage, Dominique Jullien](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/746817_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Frayer, Dominique Jullien](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/702897_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ozzy Osburne, Riccardo Buonafede](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/658923_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sezione della Mole, Riccardo Buonafede](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/657276_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Legami, Riccardo Buonafede](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/657273_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Untitled, Elio Marcucci](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/515420_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, memories of the last winter, Elena Raceala](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142743_1_grid.jpg)
memories of the last winter
Elena Raceala
Photography - 200.7 x 133.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 79 x 52.5 x 0.1 inch
€650
![Photography, Famille Barberini, Rome, 1986, Patrick Faigenbaum](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2141849_1_grid.jpg)
Famille Barberini, Rome, 1986
Patrick Faigenbaum
Photography - 60.8 x 50.2 cm Photography - 23.9 x 19.8 inch
€1,500
![Photography, Urbasa 18/03/2022 ((Identity Statements Series), Imanol Marrodán](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1972506_1_grid.jpg)
Urbasa 18/03/2022 ((Identity Statements Series)
Imanol Marrodán
Photography - 40 x 109 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 42.9 x 0.1 inch
€2,300
![Photography, Abstraction urbaine #6, Guillaume Chevallard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1784829_1_grid.jpg)
Abstraction urbaine #6
Guillaume Chevallard
Photography - 70 x 50 x 4 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
€1,200
![Photography, Grand Canyon in Sepia, Jarmila Kostliva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1681287_1_grid.jpg)
Grand Canyon in Sepia
Jarmila Kostliva
Photography - 96 x 62 x 0.2 cm Photography - 37.8 x 24.4 x 0.1 inch
€631
![Print, 06 - 16 - 1961 - A-B-C, Pierre-Emmanuel Chatiliez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/160633_1_grid.jpg)
06 - 16 - 1961 - A-B-C
Pierre-Emmanuel Chatiliez
Print - 200 x 220 x 1 cm Print - 78.7 x 86.6 x 0.4 inch
€3,000
![Painting, Untitled 34, Ghylan Safadi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/936681_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Banana leaves #3, Ed Reddon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/922002_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Tour Eiffel brume, Jean-Michel Berts](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/855330_1_grid.jpg)
Tour Eiffel brume
Jean-Michel Berts
Photography - 150 x 110 x 2 cm Photography - 59.1 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
€6,950
![Painting, Sonate Hivernale, Maria Teresa Bertina](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/702123_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Genesis, Richard Unglick](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/623547_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, L'Envers, Christelle Yambayisa](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2182636_1_grid.jpg)
L'Envers
Christelle Yambayisa
Photography - 70 x 105 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 x 0.8 inch
€1,900
![Photography, Retranchement, Christelle Yambayisa](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2182634_1_grid.jpg)
Retranchement
Christelle Yambayisa
Photography - 70 x 105 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 x 0.8 inch
€1,900
![Photography, Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii, Roger Waters, Jacques Boumendil](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2146564_1_grid.jpg)
Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii, Roger Waters
Jacques Boumendil
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€800
![Photography, La vie en transit, Gauthier Bouret](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2138796_1_grid.jpg)
La vie en transit
Gauthier Bouret
Photography - 50 x 75 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch
€750
![Photography, Chroniques du Métro : Stalingrad, Gauthier Bouret](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2138570_1_grid.jpg)
Chroniques du Métro : Stalingrad
Gauthier Bouret
Photography - 50 x 75 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch
€750
![Photography, Éphémère passage, Gauthier Bouret](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2136557_1_grid.jpg)
Éphémère passage
Gauthier Bouret
Photography - 50 x 75 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch
€750
![Photography, Harmonie monochrome : Le Pont des Arts V, Gauthier Bouret](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2134198_1_grid.jpg)
Harmonie monochrome : Le Pont des Arts V
Gauthier Bouret
Photography - 50 x 75 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch
€750
![Photography, Williamsburg: Monochrome of the urban soul II, Gauthier Bouret](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2129521_1_grid.jpg)
Williamsburg: Monochrome of the urban soul II
Gauthier Bouret
Photography - 50 x 75 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch
€750
![Photography, Sucubo I, Léa Bon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2123535_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Notre Dame de Paris III, Gauthier Bouret](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2120790_1_grid.jpg)
Notre Dame de Paris III
Gauthier Bouret
Photography - 75 x 50 x 1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€750
![Photography, Notre Dame de Paris II, Gauthier Bouret](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2120787_1_grid.jpg)
Notre Dame de Paris II
Gauthier Bouret
Photography - 50 x 75 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch
€750
![Photography, Fluidity of a woman I, Katya Taneva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2008095_1_grid.jpg)
Fluidity of a woman I
Katya Taneva
Photography - 150 x 100 x 0.2 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
€6,140 €5,526
![Photography, Arrivée de l'American Circus, José Nicolas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1898853_1_grid.jpg)
Arrivée de l'American Circus
José Nicolas
Photography - 60 x 40 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
€1,200
![Photography, C627 - 26, Stephane Charpentier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1798431_1_grid.jpg)
C627 - 26
Stephane Charpentier
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€900
![Photography, B175 - 19, Stephane Charpentier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1798365_1_grid.jpg)
B175 - 19
Stephane Charpentier
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€900
![Photography, C1174 - 12, Stephane Charpentier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1798260_1_grid.jpg)
C1174 - 12
Stephane Charpentier
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€900
![Photography, Palmeraie de Fay Largeau, José Nicolas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1755006_1_grid.jpg)
Palmeraie de Fay Largeau
José Nicolas
Photography - 52 x 84 x 1 cm Photography - 20.5 x 33.1 x 0.4 inch
€1,500
![Photography, Mer de glace, José Nicolas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1753242_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Jour 37 - 5/4, Akiza](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1154988_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Criminal Minds, Ellis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/789984_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Climb Every Mountain, Ellis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/700914_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Equinox, Ellis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/700908_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Paysage dans le Désordre, Pascal Rabaté](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/683031_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Paysage dans le Désordre, Pascal Rabaté](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/609747_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Piet & Marjan C, Blandine Galtier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/282007_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Sans titre, Julien Drogoul](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179941_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Sans titre, Julien Drogoul](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179933_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, MOON SHIN Portrait et Sculpture, John Craven né Conte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2145528_1_grid.jpg)
MOON SHIN Portrait et Sculpture
John Craven né Conte
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
€5,900
![Photography, Je suis une forteresse, Jan Saudek](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2121270_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Adia, Thierry Le Gouès](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1682928_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Instant 8, Blandine Galtier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/166984_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Boulangerie la Nuit, Lionel le Jeune](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/967599_1_grid.jpg)
Boulangerie la Nuit
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.5 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch
€550
![Photography, Immeuble, Lionel le Jeune](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/967596_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Acrobate, Lionel le Jeune](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/953649_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Une Place, photo primée Fisheye magazine, Rmn Grand Palais, Lionel le Jeune](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/928419_1_grid.jpg)
Une Place, photo primée Fisheye magazine, Rmn Grand Palais
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.4 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch
€950
![Photography, Abris, Lionel le Jeune](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/928410_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Bridge, Tree and Rock in Fog, Alentejo, Gonçalo Martins](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/894192_1_grid.jpg)
Bridge, Tree and Rock in Fog, Alentejo
Gonçalo Martins
Photography - 27 x 35 x 0.1 cm Photography - 10.6 x 13.8 x 0 inch
€160
![Photography, Untitled 25 (Hussein Chalayan), Arslan Sükan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/832071_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled 25 (Hussein Chalayan)
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
€2,910
![Photography, Untitled 71 (Alexander McQueen), Arslan Sükan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/832059_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled 71 (Alexander McQueen)
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€2,910
![Photography, Untitled 31 (Paris), Arslan Sükan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/832029_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled 31 (Paris)
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
€3,881
![Photography, Untitled 27 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium, Arslan Sükan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/832017_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled 27 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
€3,881
![Photography, Untitled 25 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium, Arslan Sükan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/832011_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled 25 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
€3,881
![Photography, Untitled 23 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium, Arslan Sükan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/832005_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled 23 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
€3,881
![Photography, Untitled 22 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium, Arslan Sükan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/832002_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled 22 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
€3,881
![Photography, Untitled 21 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium, Arslan Sükan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/831999_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled 21 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
€3,881
![Photography, Untitled 20 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium, Arslan Sükan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/831993_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled 20 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
€3,881
![Photography, Untitled 18 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium, Arslan Sükan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/831984_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled 18 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€3,881
![Photography, Untitled 17 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium, Arslan Sükan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/831981_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled 17 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€3,881
![Photography, Untitled 16 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium, Arslan Sükan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/831978_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled 16 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€3,881
![Photography, Untitled 13 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium, Arslan Sükan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/830913_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled 13 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€3,881
![Photography, Untitled 12 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium, Arslan Sükan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/830910_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled 12 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
€3,881
![Photography, Untitled 10 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium, Arslan Sükan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/830904_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled 10 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
€3,881
![Photography, Untitled 9 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium, Arslan Sükan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/830901_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled 9 (Paris), From the series La Notte, Medium
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
€3,881
![Painting, La Nuit Étoilée, Jérôme Garrido](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/608733_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dark Side, Jérôme Garrido](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/608724_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Lady Monster and Mr Walker, Martin Kallay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/579216_1_grid.jpg)
Lady Monster and Mr Walker
Martin Kallay
Photography - 75 x 50 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 inch
€2,100
![Sculpture, Boogie Woogie (AJ49), Adrienne Jalbert](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/511415_1_grid.jpg)
Boogie Woogie (AJ49)
Adrienne Jalbert
Sculpture - 100 x 57 x 57 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 22.4 x 22.4 inch
€11,000
![Photography, Signal, Yves Bordes Lapeyre](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/488113_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Dernière séance, Yves Bordes Lapeyre](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/487660_1_grid.jpg)
Dernière séance
Yves Bordes Lapeyre
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
€550
![Photography, Sans 3, Lucien Hervé](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/276736_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Sans 2, Lucien Hervé](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/276730_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Milan, the tramway, Fabien Olart](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2160258_1_grid.jpg)
Milan, the tramway
Fabien Olart
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€500
![Photography, Dijon, the shadow, Fabien Olart](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2159974_1_grid.jpg)
Dijon, the shadow
Fabien Olart
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€500
![Photography, Coat surfing, Farah Slimani](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2157860_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Skyline - Photographie argentique - Paris, Jules Gorce](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1789014_1_grid.jpg)
Skyline - Photographie argentique - Paris
Jules Gorce
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€600
![Photography, Garde - Photographie argentique - Paris, Jules Gorce](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1788969_1_grid.jpg)
Garde - Photographie argentique - Paris
Jules Gorce
Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
€500
![Photography, Bout Du Monde - Photographie argentique - La Rochelle, Jules Gorce](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1788945_1_grid.jpg)
Bout Du Monde - Photographie argentique - La Rochelle
Jules Gorce
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€600
![Photography, Patriote - Photographie argentique - Paris, Jules Gorce](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1788942_1_grid.jpg)
Patriote - Photographie argentique - Paris
Jules Gorce
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€500
![Photography, Birds, Gonçalo Martins](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1365495_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, 20142, Gonçalo Martins](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1310811_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, 1995 Portrait d'Arnaud, Christer Hamp](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1240053_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Western - Duel, Lionel le Jeune](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1220919_1_grid.jpg)
Western - Duel
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 51.1 x 75 x 0.5 cm Photography - 20.1 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch
€950
![Photography, Western, Lionel le Jeune](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1220916_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Western, Lionel le Jeune](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1220913_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!