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Voyou! Edition de 3 différents rehaussés. Drippping. signés..
JP Malot
Print - 50 x 70 cm Print - 19.7 x 27.6 inch
€300
A letter to my lost childhood
Solomon Jamy Brown
Photography - 100 x 70 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
€2,500
Lewis Hamilton. MacLaren. Espagne. 1
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Grain sur les grandes voiles d'Antibes. France
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,300
Mika Hakkinen. Monaco. F1. Tout prêt des rails
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Ayrton Senna. Brésil 1994.
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Ayrton Senna. Imola. 1994
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Alain Prost Ferrari. Spa Francorchamps. Belgique
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Repos du Zèbre. Parc de Tarangire. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€800
Poules et poulailler. Sénégal
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€800
Les trois grâce. Parc du Serengeti. Tanzanie.
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€800
Couple d’Éléphant. Parc de Tarangire. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€800
S… like Self Portrait v.3.3..... a 5 Ply Work
LosOtros Mj Tom
Painting - 100 x 355 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 139.8 x 0.4 inch
€4,000
Vanity tribute to Andy
Ron English
Sculpture - 68 x 54 x 45 cm Sculpture - 26.8 x 21.3 x 17.7 inch
€13,500
Ayrton Senna. Brésil 1994. F1
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
€800
Temporal Disorder - 7
Radu Corneliu Sarion
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€500
Temporal Disorder - 6
Radu Corneliu Sarion
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€500
Temporal Disorder - 16
Radu Corneliu Sarion
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€500
Naomi Campbell
Thierry Le Gouès
Photography - 80 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0 inch
€5,950
Sandrah # 2
Andreas Sundgren
Photography - 140 x 105 x 0.1 cm Photography - 55.1 x 41.3 x 0 inch
€3,206
Paulina #1
Andreas Sundgren
Photography - 140 x 140 x 0.1 cm Photography - 55.1 x 55.1 x 0 inch
€3,206
Le Grand Geroldseck 1
Jean Valera
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€190
Cabinet of Souls (Armoire à Âmes)
Laura Makabresku
Photography - 20 x 20 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 inch
€325
Série : Berlin nord-est / rues
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€2,500
Série : Berlin nord-est / rues
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€2,500
Série : Berlin nord-est / rues
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€2,500
Série : Berlin nord-est / rues
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€2,500
Série : Berlin nord-est / rues
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€2,500
Série : Berlin nord-est / arrière-cours
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€2,500
Série : Berlin nord-est / arrière-cours: Kastanienallee
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€2,500
Série : Berlin nord-est / arrière-cours: Buanderie dans la cour arrière
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€2,500
Série : Berlin nord-est / arrière-cours
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€2,500
Série : Berlin nord-est / arrière-cours: L'ange déchu - Église Élisabeth
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€2,500
Série : Berlin nord-est / arrière-cours
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€2,500
Série : Berlin nord-est / arrière-cours - Stargarder Straße
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€2,500
Série : Berlin nord-est / arrière-cours - Oderberger Straße
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€2,500
Série : Berlin nord-est / arrière-cours - Kastanien Allee
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€2,500
Série : Berlin nord-est / arrière-cours
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€2,500
Série : Berlin nord-est / arrière-cours - Oderberger Strasse
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€2,500
Série : Berlin nord-est / arrière-cours - Kastanienallee
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€2,500
Série : Berlin nord-est / arrière-cours - Kastanienallee
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€2,500
Lunar - Collection Morocco
Rodrigo
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.01 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€1,250
Le petit marseillais - Collection Hey Mars
Rodrigo
Photography - 23.8 x 14.7 x 0.1 cm Photography - 9.4 x 5.8 x 0 inch
€750
Michael Jackson &Muhammad Ali and wife, Veronica Parker Ali 1977
Ron Galella
Photography - 60 x 78 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 30.7 x 0.8 inch
€5,100
Do u suffer 4 your sanity?
Justin Chan
Photography - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Photography - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
€7,800
Fragmented-Untitled 6
Ying Chen
Photography - 203.2 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 80 x 60 x 0.1 inch
€3,881
Fragmented-Untitled 2
Ying Chen
Photography - 203.2 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 80 x 60 x 0.1 inch
€3,881
Beware of dog - Collection Urban Culture
Rodrigo
Photography - 35.1 x 27.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13.8 x 10.7 x 0 inch
€700 €560
Bosque Tropical Húmedo Nuquí
Miguel Winograd
Photography - 110 x 91.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 43.3 x 36.2 x 0.1 inch
€4,366
Doucement elles se réveillent
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
€350
Mon amie la brume
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 13 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 5.1 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€350
Pêcheur de brumes
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 13 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 5.1 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€350
Frailejón el Verjón (Detalle), Pigment Print
Miguel Winograd
Photography - 110 x 91.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 43.3 x 36.2 x 0.1 inch
€2,425
Tatacoa I, Pigment Prints
Miguel Winograd
Photography - 96 x 78 x 0.3 cm Photography - 37.8 x 30.7 x 0.1 inch
€3,396
Frailejones el Verjón. Archival Pigment print.
Miguel Winograd
Photography - 78 x 96 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30.7 x 37.8 x 0.1 inch
€2,910
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!