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Série : Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
€2,500
Série : Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
€2,500
Breathless | Saint Tropez
Serge Guerand
Photography - 53 x 80 cm Photography - 20.9 x 31.5 inch
€1,980
S.H
Rossella Mercedes
Fine Art Drawings - 33 x 24 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 9.4 x 0 inch
€79
There is a Place where everything dissolves. Tanger, Morocco 2023
Tina Smeraldi
Photography - 40 x 60 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 inch
€1,750
Evasione Solitaria. Solo Escaping. Ireland
Tina Smeraldi
Photography - 40 x 60 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 inch
€1,750
Pharrell Williams II. Portrait intervened by the artists
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 187.9 x 132 x 3 cm Photography - 74 x 52 x 1.2 inch
€7,254
Antonio Banderas, Portrait intervened by the artists
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 187.9 x 132 x 3 cm Photography - 74 x 52 x 1.2 inch
€7,254
Pharrell Williams, Third Eye, Photography on canvas Intervened by the artists
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 187.9 x 132 x 3 cm Photography - 74 x 52 x 1.2 inch
€7,254
El Perdido
Patrick Beaulieu
Photography - 27.9 x 35.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11 x 14 x 0.1 inch
€1,400
Lewis Hamilton II, Portriat on canvas Intervened.
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 187.9 x 132 x 3 cm Photography - 74 x 52 x 1.2 inch
€7,254
Jon Kortajarena, Portrait on canvas Intervened by the artists
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 187.9 x 132 x 3 cm Photography - 74 x 52 x 1.2 inch
€7,254
Toni Garrn, Portrait Intervened by the artists.
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 187.9 x 132 x 3 cm Photography - 74 x 52 x 1.2 inch
€7,254
Fenêtre entre ciel et mer
Juliette Alhmah
Photography - 60 x 40 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
€1,200
Gaudí 30
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€400
Desvelando Gaudí 013
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€400
Cheval cloitré
Mathieu Pujol
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€1,200
C918 - 21
Stephane Charpentier
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€1,800
Street comfort
Paul J Bucknall
Photography - 61 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 16 x 0.1 inch
€638
Reed Bowie Jagger Hug
Mick Rock
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€2,460
Nick Cave Portrait
Detlev Schneider
Photography - 111 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 43.7 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
€4,700 €3,290
Pharrell Williams #3 Portrait intervened by the artists
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 114 x 82.5 x 0.3 cm Photography - 44.9 x 32.5 x 0.1 inch
€5,803
Eiffel Tower, Tokyo - Japan - Large size Black & White Fine Art Print
Fabrizio La Torre
Photography - 110 x 70 x 0.3 cm Photography - 43.3 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
€2,290
Frida Kahlo en xochimilco, México, (Framed)
Leo Matiz
Photography - 39.5 x 59.7 x 0.3 cm Photography - 15.55 x 23.5 x 0.1 inch
€3,385
Le temple d'argent au Japon
Thierry Bazin
Photography - 37 x 37 x 0.5 cm Photography - 14.6 x 14.6 x 0.2 inch
€490
Pont - Domaine de Chamarande - Essonne
Thierry Bazin
Photography - 37 x 37 x 0.5 cm Photography - 14.6 x 14.6 x 0.2 inch
€490
Le Quai de Seine à Paris - série bords de Seine
Thierry Bazin
Photography - 27 x 27 x 0.5 cm Photography - 10.6 x 10.6 x 0.2 inch
€290
Le Quai aux fleurs à Paris - série bords de Seine
Thierry Bazin
Photography - 27 x 27 x 0.5 cm Photography - 10.6 x 10.6 x 0.2 inch
€290
Série Love is in the air 4 - 1/2
Line Taarnberg
Photography - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€400
Série Love is in the air - 9
Line Taarnberg
Photography - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€400
Profondeur insondée
Marie-Fa Lazzari
Photography - 42 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€320
Le talon Murmure à l'Oreille
Éric Lambé
Print - 43.5 x 41 x 0.1 cm Print - 17.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
€250
Magnetic Radiation 99 (Large)
Seb Janiak
Photography - 180 x 135 cm Photography - 70.9 x 53.1 inch
€7,289
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
Fragmented-Untitled 6
Ying Chen
Photography - 203.2 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 80 x 60 x 0.1 inch
€3,869
Taking pictures/ Their life-Cameroon
Gilbert Ryu
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€750
Reserved/Their life-Cameroon
Gilbert Ryu
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€750
Miss Guy, NYC (Extra Large)
Michael James O'Brien
Photography - 203.2 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 80 x 60 x 0.1 inch
€14,508
Tabboo! (Stephen Tasjian), NYC (Extra Large)
Michael James O'Brien
Photography - 203.2 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 80 x 60 x 0.1 inch
€14,508
Lavinia Co-op, NYC (Extra Large)
Michael James O'Brien
Photography - 203.2 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 80 x 60 x 0.1 inch
€14,508
Dorian Corey, Wigstock, NYC
Michael James O'Brien
Photography - 152.4 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 inch
€7,737
Kabuki Starshine, Wigstock, NYC
Michael James O'Brien
Photography - 152.4 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 inch
€7,737
Lady Bunny, Wigstock, NYC
Michael James O'Brien
Photography - 152.4 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 inch
€7,737
Girlfriend, Portfolio of 9 photographs
Michael James O'Brien
Photography - 167.6 x 129.5 x 0.3 cm Photography - 66 x 51 x 0.1 inch
€14,508
Tatacoa II, Pigment Prints
Miguel Winograd
Photography - 91.9 x 110 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36.2 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
€2,418
Untitled 18
Ghylan Safadi
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 75 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 29.5 inch
€2,128
Retratos #29
Leonardo Fernandez Della Pietra (Lolo)
Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 10 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.9 x 3.9 inch
€300
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!