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![Print, Femme à la pipe, Jules Pascin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/606957_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Wicked Game | Ponza, Italy, Serge Guerand](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/427287_1_grid.jpg)
Wicked Game | Ponza, Italy
Serge Guerand
Photography - 53 x 80 cm Photography - 20.9 x 31.5 inch
€1,980
![Photography, Io, Clara Antonelli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1582611_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Senza titolo, Elio Marcucci](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/153112_1_grid.jpg)
Senza titolo
Elio Marcucci
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 30 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€330
![Fine Art Drawings, Natural Woman, Tiago Magro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1126164_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Bertrand de Broc, Maud Bernos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/101377_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Your hand+mine= love #MyMum, Udo Roosen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2116728_1_grid.jpg)
Your hand+mine= love #MyMum
Udo Roosen
Photography - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€2,000
![Photography, Frank Zappa, Fillmore East, NYC, 1968, Elliott Landy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1162749_1_grid.jpg)
Frank Zappa, Fillmore East, NYC, 1968
Elliott Landy
Photography - 45.5 x 61 x 0.1 cm Photography - 17.9 x 24 x 0 inch
€1,000 €800
![Painting, Saudade, Marie de Rocca Serra](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/632160_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Roadster, Franck Leclerc](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1739772_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Ying Yang, Alex Pariss](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/168622_1_grid.jpg)
Ying Yang
Alex Pariss
Fine Art Drawings - 140 x 110 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 55.1 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
€1,000
![Photography, Chantilly, Ahmet Sel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/152350_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Plume 2006 Feather, Popi Zoidi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/905475_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, La Nageuse - Série Clope, Johan Desma](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/555214_1_grid.jpg)
La Nageuse - Série Clope
Johan Desma
Photography - 80 x 120 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 inch
€1,890
![Print, Corazón, Flor Garduño](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/792822_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Portrait de Paul Gauguin, George-Daniel de Monfreid](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/633228_1_grid.jpg)
Portrait de Paul Gauguin
George-Daniel de Monfreid
Print - 17.3 x 12.2 x 0.1 cm Print - 6.8 x 4.8 x 0 inch
€4,900
![Print, Searching, Huaiqing Wang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/550417_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Terlingua, Daniel Ashe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2045361_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Fruit lover, Thomas Louvagny](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1515069_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Nature Morte au Pichet, Demetrios Galanis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/665007_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Temple Trasher, Mister Tucks](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/474616_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Nicolas de Staël dans son atelier, Denise Colomb](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2141832_1_grid.jpg)
Nicolas de Staël dans son atelier
Denise Colomb
Photography - 30.8 x 38 cm Photography - 12.1 x 15 inch
€1,600
![Photography, Barrio Chino, Barcelona, Henri Cartier Bresson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2124156_1_grid.jpg)
Barrio Chino, Barcelona
Henri Cartier Bresson
Photography - 56 x 37.8 x 0.1 cm Photography - 22 x 14.9 x 0 inch
€8,580
![Photography, Lion staring, Eric Isselée](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/910809_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled, Viktor Sheleg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/698607_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Ours au poisson, Jean-Michel Chesné](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/382979_1_grid.jpg)
Ours au poisson
Jean-Michel Chesné
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 19.7 inch
€850
![Photography, Autoportrait, Pavlo Mazai](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1255389_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Peace, Gris1](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/101635_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Children, Gabriele De Stefano](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/686652_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, This is so Illegal, Yann Merran](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/45166_1_grid.jpg)
This is so Illegal
Yann Merran
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€700
![Fine Art Drawings, Secret Invasion, Lenil Yu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/32080_1_grid.jpg)
Secret Invasion
Lenil Yu
Fine Art Drawings - 44 x 28 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.3 x 11 x 0.4 inch
€2,600
![Photography, Adriana Rayén, Diego Echevers Torrez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1905057_1_grid.jpg)
Adriana Rayén
Diego Echevers Torrez
Photography - 33 x 33 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13 x 13 x 0 inch
€1,355
![Photography, Two Girls and a Tyre, Tony Potts](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1649463_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Voir les yeux fermés - sans titre #19, Fabrice Domenet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/948621_1_grid.jpg)
Voir les yeux fermés - sans titre #19
Fabrice Domenet
Photography - 30 x 30 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 inch
€1,100
![Print, View of Rotterdam, Ria Klaveren-Exel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/699234_1_grid.jpg)
View of Rotterdam
Ria Klaveren-Exel
Print - 46.3 x 57.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 18.2 x 22.6 x 0.1 inch
€400
![Print, The Hooded, Antoine Malliarakis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/652578_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Tenerife, Anaga Forest, Fabien Olart](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2158597_1_grid.jpg)
Tenerife, Anaga Forest
Fabien Olart
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€500
![Photography, ''Gunina''en Givenchy, Paris le 5 Août 1955 Elle Magazine, Georges Dambier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1985997_1_grid.jpg)
''Gunina''en Givenchy, Paris le 5 Août 1955 Elle Magazine
Georges Dambier
Photography - 74 x 68 x 2 cm Photography - 29.1 x 26.8 x 0.8 inch
€3,500
![Photography, Christian Lattier Portrait, Christian Lattier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1210806_1_grid.jpg)
Christian Lattier Portrait
Christian Lattier
Photography - 17.5 x 16.5 cm Photography - 6.9 x 6.5 inch
€4,900 €2,450
![Fine Art Drawings, Viola, Michel Flamme](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/101989_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, From Valentina to O, Guido Crepax](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/649500_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Junior, Klaus Roethlisberger](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2093631_1_grid.jpg)
Junior
Klaus Roethlisberger
Photography - 70 x 53 x 0.2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 20.9 x 0.1 inch
€540
![Print, Magnum Photos 75 - Édition limitée, Dennis Stock](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1655517_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, The Breaking Wave, Gustave Le Gray](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/896046_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Œdipe I, Guy Oberson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/657972_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, fkaTwigs, Kate Garner](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2168578_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Children of Bafmeng / Their life-Cameroon, Gilbert Ryu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1458192_1_grid.jpg)
Children of Bafmeng / Their life-Cameroon
Gilbert Ryu
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€750
![Photography, The music inside, Andreas Sundgren](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1142385_1_grid.jpg)
The music inside
Andreas Sundgren
Photography - 140 x 105 x 0.1 cm Photography - 55.1 x 41.3 x 0 inch
€3,203
![Photography, Untitled, Claudio Abate](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/645378_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Sourire Parisien, La Fabrique du Sourire](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/52189_1_grid.jpg)
Sourire Parisien
La Fabrique du Sourire
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 15 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 5.9 inch
€250
![Sculpture, Sin título (Prayer Flags Series), Imanol Marrodán](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2153282_1_grid.jpg)
Sin título (Prayer Flags Series)
Imanol Marrodán
Sculpture - 45 x 52 x 0.5 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 20.5 x 0.2 inch
€221
![Photography, Belmondo / Paris Match (1), Gragnon François](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1788183_1_grid.jpg)
Belmondo / Paris Match (1)
Gragnon François
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€2,000
![Photography, Truffaut, 1966 / Paris Match, Philippe Le Tellier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1788177_1_grid.jpg)
Truffaut, 1966 / Paris Match
Philippe Le Tellier
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€600
![Photography, Temporality 1, Edin Mustafic](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1741458_1_grid.jpg)
Temporality 1
Edin Mustafic
Photography - 51 x 37.5 x 1.5 cm Photography - 20.1 x 14.8 x 0.6 inch
€600
![Photography, Magritte X 3, Duane Michals](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1320075_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Servitude, Tome 3, Planche 31, Eric Bourgier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/585375_1_grid.jpg)
Servitude, Tome 3, Planche 31
Eric Bourgier
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 47 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 18.5 inch
€4,000
![Photography, Bettie Page 'Brushing Hair', Bunny Yeager](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/476179_1_grid.jpg)
Bettie Page 'Brushing Hair'
Bunny Yeager
Photography - 61 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 20 x 0.1 inch
€4,839
![Print, Choreography, Sweetuno](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/475501_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Noir, Gabriel Quirant - Pidet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2104071_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Wrapped vendor, Vassil Anastasov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1867806_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Dietrich / Paris Match, Paul Slade](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1801818_1_grid.jpg)
Dietrich / Paris Match
Paul Slade
Photography - 80 x 53 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 20.9 x 0 inch
€1,600
![Photography, Guerre d'Algérie, 1962, Maurice Jarnoux](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1788129_1_grid.jpg)
Guerre d'Algérie, 1962
Maurice Jarnoux
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€600
![Photography, Kelly, Aumont / Paris Match, Jack Garofalo & Michou Simon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1788117_1_grid.jpg)
Kelly, Aumont / Paris Match
Jack Garofalo & Michou Simon
Photography - 55 x 55 x 0.1 cm Photography - 21.7 x 21.7 x 0 inch
€1,600
![Photography, Paris - Passage de la Voûte, Vladimir Bazan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1686495_1_grid.jpg)
Paris - Passage de la Voûte
Vladimir Bazan
Photography - 49 x 38 x 1 cm Photography - 19.3 x 15 x 0.4 inch
€560
![Photography, Alek Wek, Thierry Le Gouès](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1682970_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Flower 6, Dzovig Arnelian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1518759_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Lis Lève toi et Marche, Olivier Rebecq](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1003194_1_grid.jpg)
Lis Lève toi et Marche
Olivier Rebecq
Photography - 75 x 50 x 1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€580
![Fine Art Drawings, Elliptic, recherche n°7, Clémentine Chambon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/424338_1_grid.jpg)
Elliptic, recherche n°7
Clémentine Chambon
Fine Art Drawings - 40.8 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.7 x 0 inch
€700
![Photography, 1 - La descente de Persephone, Mita Vostok](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/259108_1_grid.jpg)
1 - La descente de Persephone
Mita Vostok
Photography - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€800
![Photography, Love, Petite Poissone](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2145720_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, 24h du Mans, Jacques Violet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1905693_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Charito Zarate Torino, Ryan Arbilo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1089225_1_grid.jpg)
Charito Zarate Torino
Ryan Arbilo
Photography - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€800
![Photography, Chanel Haute Couture, Bruno Bisang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/800910_1_grid.jpg)
Chanel Haute Couture
Bruno Bisang
Photography - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€4,000
![Fine Art Drawings, The Tiger, Maria Ginzburg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/680007_1_grid.jpg)
The Tiger
Maria Ginzburg
Fine Art Drawings - 48 x 70 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.9 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
€350
![Print, Shadow of Camels, Tullio Diamanti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/649746_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Untitled, Martina Merlini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/321373_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Jugement, Sara Hoummady](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1537521_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Instability 8, Elise Zakhour](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1315257_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Johanna, Courrèges Haute couture, Champs-Elysées, Paris, Peter Knapp](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1122192_1_grid.jpg)
Johanna, Courrèges Haute couture, Champs-Elysées, Paris
Peter Knapp
Photography - 21.2 x 21.2 x 0.5 cm Photography - 8.3 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
€3,600
![Photography, Serie Vera y Victoria, Mar Sáez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/242896_1_grid.jpg)
Serie Vera y Victoria
Mar Sáez
Photography - 48 x 68 x 3 cm Photography - 18.9 x 26.8 x 1.2 inch
€600
![Photography, Famille Pignatelli, Rome, 1987, Patrick Faigenbaum](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2141839_1_grid.jpg)
Famille Pignatelli, Rome, 1987
Patrick Faigenbaum
Photography - 50.2 x 60.8 cm Photography - 19.8 x 23.9 inch
€1,500
![Photography, Opera Garnier, Paul Khayat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1963698_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Memento I, Mattia Listowski](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2147994_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Richard Wright, Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii, Jacques Boumendil](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2146557_1_grid.jpg)
Richard Wright, Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii
Jacques Boumendil
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€650
![Photography, Splash, Christie Goodwin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1520589_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, El templo de santa Barbara, Justo Pastor Acea Gomez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/629118_1_grid.jpg)
El templo de santa Barbara
Justo Pastor Acea Gomez
Painting - 67 x 95 cm Painting - 26.4 x 37.4 inch
€1,200
![Print, Olympia Fragment (La Franca 9), Ben Nicholson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/459196_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Calacuccia, Sophie Mabille](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/449295_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Long, Edgar Nabla](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/441012_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Jeanne Hébuterne - Planche 64, Nadine Van Der Straeten](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/234592_1_grid.jpg)
Jeanne Hébuterne - Planche 64
Nadine Van Der Straeten
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.4 inch
€490
![Photography, Guerre d'Algérie / Paris Match, François Pages](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1788153_1_grid.jpg)
Guerre d'Algérie / Paris Match
François Pages
Photography - 55 x 55 x 0.1 cm Photography - 21.7 x 21.7 x 0 inch
€600
![Photography, François Mitterrand à Solutré, Patrick Artinian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1106235_1_grid.jpg)
François Mitterrand à Solutré
Patrick Artinian
Photography - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€700
![Design, Chaise, Serge Delaune](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/4127_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!