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![Painting, Tjöm, Klem](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/467068_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Stalker, Jinny Yu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/330370_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Spring Station South, Jan Hendrix](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/223615_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Last London Bus, Bert Hardy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2165973_1_grid.jpg)
Last London Bus
Bert Hardy
Photography - 31 x 41 x 0.01 cm Photography - 12.2 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$1,233
![Photography, Anchor, Monica Denevan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1013187_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Banana leaves #2, Ed Reddon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/920181_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Trellick Tower, Peter Trulock](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/885261_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Spiral Stairwell, Raymond Kleboe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/885228_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, La Fenice, Erich Auerbach](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/884955_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, #6789LV, Will $treet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/494332_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Le rond de dés, Marcel Mariën](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/46386_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Le signal codé (Our cipher), Apollonia Saintclair](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/222832_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Mur 001, Sophie Bassouls](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2162748_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Carry On Tea Break, Larry Ellis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2157363_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw France, Jean-Claude Sauer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2077833_1_grid.jpg)
Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw France
Jean-Claude Sauer
Photography - 61 x 45.7 x 5.1 cm Photography - 24 x 18 x 2 inch
$1,350
![Photography, Bond St., NYC, Joseph Cela](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1899879_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, 2 women with bouquet of roses, Frantisek Drtikol](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1171764_1_grid.jpg)
2 women with bouquet of roses
Frantisek Drtikol
Photography - 26 x 19 cm Photography - 10.2 x 7.5 inch
$1,345
![Painting, Ville En Pollution, Maria Teresa Bertina](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/702129_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, La veste du peintre, Guillaume Lavigne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/452073_1_grid.jpg)
La veste du peintre
Guillaume Lavigne
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$897
![Photography, Sauter (Überspringen), Kurt Buchwald](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/445662_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, ... C’est Naturel !, Chahrazed Fekih](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2160767_1_grid.jpg)
... C’est Naturel !
Chahrazed Fekih
Photography - 20 x 10 x 0.2 cm Photography - 7.9 x 3.9 x 0.1 inch
$561
![Photography, Laura, Laurent Poleo Garnier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2160009_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Paesaggio, 1980, Mario Giacomelli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2104323_1_grid.jpg)
Paesaggio, 1980
Mario Giacomelli
Photography - 21 x 32.8 x 0.1 cm Photography - 8.3 x 12.9 x 0 inch
$1,457
![Print, Sans-titre, Jean-Marc Bustamante](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/954792_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Le chaos est une structure, Philippe Piccardi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/866478_1_grid.jpg)
Le chaos est une structure
Philippe Piccardi
Photography - 60 x 60 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 inch
$196
![Print, Sous le réverbère, Jean-Louis Toutain](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/639072_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, In Flow V, Melanie Dulson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/635214_1_grid.jpg)
In Flow V
Melanie Dulson
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 44 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 17.3 x 0 inch
$1,065
![Photography, Série pêche, Manakara, Pierrot Men](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/547048_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Michel, Marc Couturier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/30756_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Inside in the Garage I., Martin Kallay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1208124_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Huts, Pierre Boncompain](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/652719_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled, Martina Merlini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/510899_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Cigarette et cendrier, Pierre Boillon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2159555_1_grid.jpg)
Cigarette et cendrier
Pierre Boillon
Photography - 60 x 42 x 3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 16.5 x 1.2 inch
$605
![Photography, White Sea#3, Fabian Albertini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1337388_1_grid.jpg)
White Sea#3
Fabian Albertini
Photography - 150 x 120 x 3 cm Photography - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$8,408
![Photography, Boxes of Flowers, James Fink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1200762_1_grid.jpg)
Boxes of Flowers
James Fink
Photography - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.6 cm Photography - 20 x 16 x 0.25 inch
$850
![Photography, Searching for the stars, Mik Mød](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/882471_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Commissionaire's dog, Kurt Hurton](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/546331_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, The Everything, Tony Nahra](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/42985_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Frond, Ben Cope](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2143731_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Jeanne Moreau / Paris Match, Jack Garofalo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1801812_1_grid.jpg)
Jeanne Moreau / Paris Match
Jack Garofalo
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$2,153
![Photography, Breaking lemmings, Robert Stieghorst](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/634413_1_grid.jpg)
Breaking lemmings
Robert Stieghorst
Photography - 30 x 26 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 10.2 x 0.4 inch
$1,457
![Photography, Tokyo Pic Nic II, Motohiko Hasui](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1616154_1_grid.jpg)
Tokyo Pic Nic II
Motohiko Hasui
Photography - 45.5 x 56 x 0.3 cm Photography - 17.9 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$561
![Photography, Tour Eiffel, Manon Leprevost](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1249374_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Jeune touareg, Emmanuelle Barbaras](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/319855_1_grid.jpg)
Jeune touareg
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Photography - 45 x 38 x 1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 15 x 0.4 inch
$785
![Fine Art Drawings, Fille aux sacs poubelles, Eugenia Jaeger](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/267124_1_grid.jpg)
Fille aux sacs poubelles
Eugenia Jaeger
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 inch
$897
![Photography, Tre Archi_09_2021, Serena Zeppilli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1291188_1_grid.jpg)
Tre Archi_09_2021
Serena Zeppilli
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
$673
![Photography, Sans titre 3, Thierry Valencin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/9286_1_grid.jpg)
Sans titre 3
Thierry Valencin
Photography - 43 x 33 x 3 cm Photography - 16.9 x 13 x 1.2 inch
$1,177
![Photography, Les femmes guerrières, Charles Bayonne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173275_1_grid.jpg)
Les femmes guerrières
Charles Bayonne
Photography - 80 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,345
![Photography, Fluidity of a woman V, Katya Taneva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2008101_1_grid.jpg)
Fluidity of a woman V
Katya Taneva
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.2 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$3,857
![Photography, Culinary Atronomy #1, Andrés Rozo Samer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1182999_1_grid.jpg)
Culinary Atronomy #1
Andrés Rozo Samer
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,273
![Print, 100th Anniversary Celebration Coffret # 6 - Bangkok, Fabrizio La Torre](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1026045_1_grid.jpg)
100th Anniversary Celebration Coffret # 6 - Bangkok
Fabrizio La Torre
Print - 29.7 x 21 x 0.3 cm Print - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$729
![Photography, Tom Jobim, Thiago Barros](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/835020_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Get a Clue I Got You Cornered Trump, Carla Sumarlidson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/652911_1_grid.jpg)
Get a Clue I Got You Cornered Trump
Carla Sumarlidson
Painting - 182.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 72 x 36 x 1 inch
$1,738
![Print, Power Flower, Anne Kari Ødegård](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/490642_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, A bird without a song, Haude Bernabé](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/449316_1_grid.jpg)
A bird without a song
Haude Bernabé
Sculpture - 102 x 65 x 72 cm Sculpture - 40.2 x 25.6 x 28.3 inch
$10,987
![Photography, Sans Titre n°3, Kahina Carina](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/446271_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, French Kiss, Pierrick Van Troost](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2174258_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Michael Jackson VI, David Nutter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2155490_1_grid.jpg)
Michael Jackson VI
David Nutter
Photography - 50.8 x 61 x 5.1 cm Photography - 20 x 24 x 2 inch
$2,550
![Photography, Majuli 15, Dorian François](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/190405_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais, Sébastien Béghuin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1585485_1_grid.jpg)
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais
Sébastien Béghuin
Photography - 60 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,513
![Fine Art Drawings, Homeland, Anet Duncan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/112702_1_grid.jpg)
Homeland
Anet Duncan
Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 21 x 7 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.2 x 8.3 x 2.8 inch
$762
![Print, Sitka, Peter Alexander](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/366528_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Elizabeth Taylor Spain, Burt Glinn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2076609_1_grid.jpg)
Elizabeth Taylor Spain
Burt Glinn
Photography - 45.7 x 61 x 5.1 cm Photography - 18 x 24 x 2 inch
$1,350
![Photography, Photographie de John Steinbeck, Roy Schatt](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1939731_1_grid.jpg)
Photographie de John Steinbeck
Roy Schatt
Photography - 24 x 23 x 1 cm Photography - 9.4 x 9.1 x 0.4 inch
$774
![Photography, Agnès Varda - Les plages d'Agnès, Jean-Loup Gautreau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1006440_1_grid.jpg)
Agnès Varda - Les plages d'Agnès
Jean-Loup Gautreau
Photography - 30 x 40 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
$336
![Photography, Joiner’s Shop Cairo, Gabriel Lekegian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/898068_1_grid.jpg)
Joiner’s Shop Cairo
Gabriel Lekegian
Photography - 76.2 x 101.6 cm Photography - 30 x 40 inch
$1,110
![Photography, The Taj Mahal At Agra, Shepherd & Robertson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/895971_1_grid.jpg)
The Taj Mahal At Agra
Shepherd & Robertson
Photography - 101.6 x 152.4 cm Photography - 40 x 60 inch
$630
![Photography, Memories I, Victoria Dearing](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2125632_1_grid.jpg)
Memories I
Victoria Dearing
Photography - 27.5 x 44.5 x 0.3 cm Photography - 10.8 x 17.5 x 0.1 inch
$561 $448
![Photography, Wally ghost 01, Thomas Campion](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2008569_1_grid.jpg)
Wally ghost 01
Thomas Campion
Photography - 75 x 50 x 2 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$617
![Photography, Untitled II. From the Series Chiromorphose, Nico Baixas / Gos-com-fuig](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1963758_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled II. From the Series Chiromorphose
Nico Baixas / Gos-com-fuig
Photography - 49.8 x 49.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 19.6 x 19.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,250
![Photography, C1031 - 00, Stephane Charpentier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1798299_1_grid.jpg)
C1031 - 00
Stephane Charpentier
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$1,009
![Photography, Basquiat, Bruce Meritte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1606455_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Danse noire, Edouard Mazaré](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1335918_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Spiral Staircase, Herbert Felton](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/885222_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Guggenheim Museum, Keystone](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/884937_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Baïkal 11, Mikaël Lafontan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/361243_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, De l'un à l'autre 1&2 (diptyque), Jean-Freddy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/324232_1_grid.jpg)
De l'un à l'autre 1&2 (diptyque)
Jean-Freddy
Painting - 81 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,233
![Print, Eye of Life, Andrew Schoultz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/283342_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Vassilis with farm equipment, Jen Sloan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2148498_1_grid.jpg)
Vassilis with farm equipment
Jen Sloan
Photography - 35 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,009
![Photography, Straight to heaven, Stephanie Powell](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2147383_1_grid.jpg)
Straight to heaven
Stephanie Powell
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$729
![Painting, Matrix 1, Adolf Gil](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/118744_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, 1979 Chevaux Horses, Chen Chin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1015137_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Untitled (Temple), Jim Kazanjian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/52969_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Epilogue 6, Ziad Naitaddi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2147415_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Dior Paris, Bart Van Leeuwen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2069691_1_grid.jpg)
Dior Paris
Bart Van Leeuwen
Photography - 88.9 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Photography - 35 x 30 x 2 inch
$2,000
![Photography, Looking for balance, Danielle Mano Bella](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1938840_1_grid.jpg)
Looking for balance
Danielle Mano Bella
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.3 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,682
![Photography, Cardiff by night, Jodi Bieber](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/124828_1_grid.jpg)
Cardiff by night
Jodi Bieber
Photography - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$2,489
![Painting, Sans titre, Roger-Edgar Gillet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1122948_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Untitled, Olivier Marin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/59262_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Duck at the edge of the world, Giles Daoust](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/46127_1_grid.jpg)
Duck at the edge of the world
Giles Daoust
Photography - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,121
![Sculpture, Gaia sphère, Patrick Lamouroux](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/408646_1_grid.jpg)
Gaia sphère
Patrick Lamouroux
Sculpture - 98 x 48 x 48 cm Sculpture - 38.6 x 18.9 x 18.9 inch
$4,933
![Photography, Octopus#3, Jean-Baptiste Sénégas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/383126_1_grid.jpg)
Octopus#3
Jean-Baptiste Sénégas
Photography - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$1,009
![Sculpture, L'ours, Jean-Louis Toutain](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/35463_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!