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![Photography, Brutal 2, Francesco Romero](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/421668_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Nins, Adolf Gil](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/769173_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Skeme and Lava - N.Y.C Legends, Big Daddy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/680880_1_grid.jpg)
Skeme and Lava - N.Y.C Legends
Big Daddy
Photography - 20 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$280
![Painting, Le Roi du Silence, Julien Gorgeart](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2136620_1_grid.jpg)
Le Roi du Silence
Julien Gorgeart
Painting - 52 x 78 x 1 cm Painting - 20.5 x 30.7 x 0.4 inch
$6,487
![Photography, Untitled (foliage), Mikael Siirilä](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1118841_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Tiim, Donald Mitchell](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/547009_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Bes a l'aigua, Robert Llimós](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/367446_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Bivalva, LN Le Cheviller](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/693624_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Mirella Petteni, Oslo, F.C. Gundlach](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1750839_1_grid.jpg)
Mirella Petteni, Oslo
F.C. Gundlach
Photography - 59.7 x 50.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.5 x 19.75 x 0.1 inch
$7,900
![Photography, Ray of light ,C Chaplin, Tigi Van Gil](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1803390_1_grid.jpg)
Ray of light ,C Chaplin
Tigi Van Gil
Photography - 110 x 120 x 2 cm Photography - 43.3 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$8,948
![Photography, Dance Moods - Lacina Coulibaly, Antoine Tempé](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/673386_1_grid.jpg)
Dance Moods - Lacina Coulibaly
Antoine Tempé
Photography - 60 x 50 x 4 cm Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$4,250
![Print, Spjutmo, Yaya Herman Dune](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/28291_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, A corps ouvert, Daria Nelson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1758543_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Seize the moment, Xuchan Xu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/970686_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Tokyo, Christer Stromholm](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1984575_1_grid.jpg)
Tokyo
Christer Stromholm
Photography - 28.5 x 20.5 x 1 cm Photography - 11.2 x 8.1 x 0.4 inch
$4,000
![Photography, Beach 33, Marc Harrold](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1721208_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Paul Mc Cartney of The Beatles at George V Hotel, Roger Kasparian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/597036_1_grid.jpg)
Paul Mc Cartney of The Beatles at George V Hotel
Roger Kasparian
Photography - 100 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$4,271
![Print, Interior de la Iglesia de Espejo (Cordoba) en septiembre de 1937, Equipo Realidad](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/183817_1_grid.jpg)
Interior de la Iglesia de Espejo (Cordoba) en septiembre de 1937
Equipo Realidad
Print - 69 x 71 cm Print - 27.2 x 28 inch
$336
![Print, Sans titre, Laurent Le Deunff](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/301570_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Tetris, DaSilva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1940070_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, La mer et la montagne, Jérome Obiols](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1476273_1_grid.jpg)
La mer et la montagne
Jérome Obiols
Photography - 100 x 140 x 0.1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0 inch
$4,138
![Photography, De Myrha à Babylone - Série poussette crèche 2, Valérie Donzelli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1102749_1_grid.jpg)
De Myrha à Babylone - Série poussette crèche 2
Valérie Donzelli
Photography - 22.5 x 22.5 cm Photography - 8.9 x 8.9 inch
$336
![Photography, Lignes de fuite, Igor Conroux](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1721802_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Amen !, Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/74104_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Eiger, Thomas Crauwels](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1631109_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, 35)1/10 Fissure violette 2/10, Isis Bi-M](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/527831_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Roche crayeuse II, Ilanit Illouz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1905567_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Phenomena, Laure Winants](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1902693_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Série 'Terres brûlées II', Luc Médrinal](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/556717_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Fairfax, Lewis Baltz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1966296_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Kraken, Thomas von Wittich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/930243_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sans titre, Taroop & Glabel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/89449_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, No Aloha - diptyque, Romain Sein](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/267874_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Les oiseaux, Marc Pollini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1878096_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Dans les rues de Biot, Raph Eye's](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1969266_1_grid.jpg)
Dans les rues de Biot
Raph Eye's
Photography - 30 x 20 x 4 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
$157
![Photography, En Carafe, Cédric Fontaine](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1744545_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, I see you, Mauro Ochoa](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2096691_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Mind the cloud, Juli Manara](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2123148_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, E2, Jean-Paul Veison Marcelli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/596808_1_grid.jpg)
E2
Jean-Paul Veison Marcelli
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.3 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$176
![Photography, Big in big, Sven Svensøn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2009118_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Jeune femme, Albena Vatcheva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/768348_1_grid.jpg)
Jeune femme
Albena Vatcheva
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$464 $442
![Photography, Kate Moss défilé Vivienne Westwood, Guy Marineau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2216393_1_grid.jpg)
Kate Moss défilé Vivienne Westwood
Guy Marineau
Photography - 42 x 28 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16.5 x 11 x 0 inch
$1,957
![Photography, Peak of the Moment 1, Lukas Dvorak](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2183115_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, No title (No52), Suki Da](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2214612_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Translacìon 360° II, Francisco Vázquez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2217102_1_grid.jpg)
Translacìon 360° II
Francisco Vázquez
Photography - 50 x 76 x 0.3 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.9 x 0.1 inch
$671 $604
![Photography, 139.07.09, Kampert Klaus](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2136286_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Mythology, Nobuyoshi Araki](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202094_1_grid.jpg)
Mythology
Nobuyoshi Araki
Photography - 107 x 81 x 0.2 cm Photography - 42.1 x 31.9 x 0.1 inch
$24,606
![Photography, Line Obsession, Delphine Diallo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2191445_1_grid.jpg)
Line Obsession
Delphine Diallo
Photography - 30 x 22 x 2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 8.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,076
![Photography, Paula on the beach, John Isaacs](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202115_1_grid.jpg)
Paula on the beach
John Isaacs
Photography - 130 x 130 x 0.8 cm Photography - 51.2 x 51.2 x 0.3 inch
$17,895
![Photography, Catch Me If You Can, MARC LAGRANGE](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203616_1_grid.jpg)
Catch Me If You Can
MARC LAGRANGE
Photography - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$10,625
![Photography, Sans titre, Rasmus Mogensen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/313501_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Série Lignes Blanches, A, Stefan Hoareau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/27614_1_grid.jpg)
Série Lignes Blanches, A
Stefan Hoareau
Photography - 100 x 100 x 0.3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$4,362
![Design, Geisha, Nobuyoshi Araki](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1678611_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Blind Faith, Dwayne Martin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/670149_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, A Weak Road #31, Liu Tao](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1615449_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, 2050-69, Van de Camp & Heesterbeek](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1140291_1_grid.jpg)
2050-69
Van de Camp & Heesterbeek
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$3,915
![Photography, Golfers - black and white photography, Allan Teger](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/631923_1_grid.jpg)
Golfers - black and white photography
Allan Teger
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$1,678
![Photography, Chaise Longue, AJ Barnes](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/570579_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Oblivion. Hidden identity., Joanna Chudy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/640302_1_grid.jpg)
Oblivion. Hidden identity.
Joanna Chudy
Photography - 50 x 60 cm Photography - 19.7 x 23.6 inch
$839
![Photography, Nudo con giglio, Massimo Attardi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1312611_1_grid.jpg)
Nudo con giglio
Massimo Attardi
Photography - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,026
![Photography, Les enveloppes - image 5/13, Sarah Salazar](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1457280_1_grid.jpg)
Les enveloppes - image 5/13
Sarah Salazar
Photography - 140 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 55.1 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,678
![Painting, Untitled 2, Reem Yassouf](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/335113_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, #40 - Free As A Veil, Eric Lespinasse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1956858_1_grid.jpg)
#40 - Free As A Veil
Eric Lespinasse
Photography - 72 x 128 x 2 cm Photography - 28.3 x 50.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,073
![Photography, Abandon, Maximilien Diaz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1679511_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Room 310 - 12 Prints Collector Portfolio # 3 - Fine Art Photography, Eric Ceccarini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1252728_1_grid.jpg)
Room 310 - 12 Prints Collector Portfolio # 3 - Fine Art Photography
Eric Ceccarini
Print - 30 x 21 x 0.3 cm Print - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$906
![Fine Art Drawings, Ocean (dialog), Nadia Heart](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/548575_1_grid.jpg)
Ocean (dialog)
Nadia Heart
Fine Art Drawings - 75 x 75 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.5 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$783
![Photography, Ancient Dunes, Photograph, Archival ink jet, Aaron Knight](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1815603_1_grid.jpg)
Ancient Dunes, Photograph, Archival ink jet
Aaron Knight
Photography - 76.2 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$720
![Photography, La lune n'a rien à craindre des loups #3, VAM / Jean-Pierre Gilson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2098623_1_grid.jpg)
La lune n'a rien à craindre des loups #3
VAM / Jean-Pierre Gilson
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$1,901
![Photography, We are air 5, Raul Diaz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2094036_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Série Amazonas, Bianca Lee Vasquez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/299116_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Mother and Child, Fritz Monshouwer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1595790_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Nu II., Bernabé del Castillo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/348184_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Lady in Lace, Tran Huy Hoan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1195746_1_grid.jpg)
Lady in Lace
Tran Huy Hoan
Photography - 96.5 x 88.9 x 0.6 cm Photography - 38 x 35 x 0.25 inch
$4,000
![Photography, L'emprise, Sinistaj Mario](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1472262_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Le Pays de la Soif, Christian Hincker dit Blutch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/607389_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Centaur, Antonio Masini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/676212_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Haskins Posters Front Cover, Sam Haskins](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1620684_1_grid.jpg)
Haskins Posters Front Cover
Sam Haskins
Photography - 61.2 x 52.7 cm Photography - 24.09 x 20.76 inch
$7,100
![Photography, Phoebe, La Barque, André Carrara](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2005062_1_grid.jpg)
Phoebe, La Barque
André Carrara
Photography - 18 x 15 x 2 cm Photography - 7.1 x 5.9 x 0.8 inch
$839
![Photography, Kate Moss At 16, Jake Chessum](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2161557_1_grid.jpg)
Kate Moss At 16
Jake Chessum
Photography - 101 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$3,579
![Photography, Nude Carla Bruni, Harper Bazaar 1992, Philipe Robert](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2137012_1_grid.jpg)
Nude Carla Bruni, Harper Bazaar 1992
Philipe Robert
Photography - 100 x 75 x 5 cm Photography - 39.4 x 29.5 x 2 inch
$12,303
![Photography, Elena Mar, odalisca en mio patio, Alberto García-Alix](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2162042_1_grid.jpg)
Elena Mar, odalisca en mio patio
Alberto García-Alix
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$16,777
![Photography, Ma liberté, Luc Masson-Todeschini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2113347_1_grid.jpg)
Ma liberté
Luc Masson-Todeschini
Photography - 25.9 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 10.2 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$336
![Photography, Wagon Wheel, Greg Lotus](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1977141_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Photo numero 5, Mr Stewood](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1901964_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Metaphysical Body Landscape #55, Anna Laza](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/749859_1_grid.jpg)
Metaphysical Body Landscape #55
Anna Laza
Photography - 27 x 40 cm Photography - 10.6 x 15.7 inch
$492
![Photography, Fiddlehead Fern, Mark Arbeit](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2120568_1_grid.jpg)
Fiddlehead Fern
Mark Arbeit
Photography - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.3 cm Photography - 20 x 16 x 0.5 inch
$2,200
![Photography, Sensum, Nicola Bertoglio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2087859_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Zach à Caro, Zach](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1355295_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, L'impératrice des tielles, Marjorie Accarier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/638313_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Les Aventures de Rin-tin-tin, Tom de Pékin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/75274_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Glance Towards the Oblivion, Fathi Hassan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2190813_1_grid.jpg)
Glance Towards the Oblivion
Fathi Hassan
Photography - 76 x 50 cm Photography - 29.9 x 19.7 inch
Price upon request
![Photography, Hands Off, Lars Beusker](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2148035_1_grid.jpg)
Hands Off
Lars Beusker
Photography - 126 x 166 x 5 cm Photography - 49.6 x 65.4 x 2 inch
Price upon request
![Photography, Men Working, Ken Heyman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2216312_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!