Dark photographic compositions
Highlighting the darkness. It seems almost like an oxymoron, but in photography certain techniques can do just that. Much like darker tones found in painting, dark photographic compositions can echo melancholy, somberness or loneliness – whether that is in a dimly lit nightscape or a densely packed crowd void of light in the urban landscape. Both black and white and color photography can create dark compositions, playing with the hues of browns, black and grays that emerge within photographic processes. By using contrast to highlight a subject, such as an item, gaze, or outline, it might suggest a dark emotion or feeling of loneliness, danger and even intimacy and adventure. In Artsper's own selection of works, Christophe Dabreau notes that he observes his subjects and attempts to “bring to light" a view hidden in shadow. Whilst Cécile Baldewyns' work aims to tell stories and reveal secrets of her desires and sorrow through dark compositions. Though her work has been deemed both sensual and disturbing, isn't the foreboding and dramatic nature of dark tones the perfect setting for it?
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Old Calendar
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 101 x 76 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$2,551
Making The Moon
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 76 x 101 x 0.01 cm Photography - 29.9 x 39.8 x 0 inch
$2,551
High And Wild
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 101 x 76 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$2,551
Quiet Singer
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Photography - 101 x 76 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$2,551
Perfect Body
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Photography - 51 x 76 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$1,813
You are a story
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 76 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 29.9 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$1,813
Green Candle
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 76 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 29.9 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$1,813
Every Song II
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Photography - 76 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 29.9 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$1,813
West Of The Day II
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 61 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 24 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$1,515
You Are A Story
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Photography - 61 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 24 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$1,515
Softest Place
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 51 x 61 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 24 x 0 inch
$1,515
High And Wild
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 51 x 41 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$1,088
Green Candle
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Photography - 51 x 41 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$1,088
Golden Storm
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Photography - 51 x 41 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$1,088
Faces In The Crowd II
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 51 x 41 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$1,088
Every song II
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Photography - 51 x 41 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$1,088
Green Candle
Justin Pumfrey
Photography - 61 x 51 x 0.001 cm Photography - 24 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$1,404
Jour d’été sur les quais, 2019-2022
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Photography - 18 x 27 cm Photography - 7.1 x 10.6 inch
$585
Libraires sur Seine, 2019-2022
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Photography - 18 x 27 cm Photography - 7.1 x 10.6 inch
$585
Autos Tamponneuse (3)
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Photography - 13 x 19 x 0.1 cm Photography - 5.1 x 7.5 x 0 inch
$585
Soft With Scars
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Photography - 41 x 30 x 0.01 cm Photography - 16.1 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$544
California poppy
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Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.01 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$544
Conversation improbable
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Photography - 19 x 13 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.5 x 5.1 x 0 inch
$585
Jem Jender, Studio, NYC
Michael James O'Brien
Photography - 91.4 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Satyr, Drawing Restraint 7, Matthew Barney studio, NYC
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Photography - 61 x 43.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 17 x 0.1 inch
$4,000
Matthew Barney Portrait
Michael James O'Brien
Photography - 61 x 43.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 17 x 0.1 inch
$4,000
Matthew Barney Portrait
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Photography - 61 x 43.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 17 x 0.1 inch
$4,000
Matthew Barney, Isle of Man
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Photography - 61 x 43.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 17 x 0.1 inch
$4,000
Satyr, Drawing Restraint 7, Matthew Barney studio, NYC
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Photography - 43.2 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 17 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$4,000
Matthew Barney, Cremaster 5
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Photography - 43.2 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 17 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$4,000
Constance (Girlfriend), NYC
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Photography - 91.4 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Tabboo! Wigstock, NYC
Michael James O'Brien
Photography - 91.4 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Joey Arias Channeling Billie Holiday, NYC
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Photography - 91.4 x 61 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
TThe Last Sea, Skull, Brandon, Diptych
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Photography - 76.2 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
In the Evening (Diptych), n.d.
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Photography - 76.2 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Gypsy - L'Ombre de Toi - Meme, Paris
Julie Peiffer
Photography - 80 x 80 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 inch
$1,065
L'escalier. 6,09 m crue de la Seine
Julie Peiffer
Photography - 80 x 80 x 0.04 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$1,755
Moon Shin, Portrait à la cigarette
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Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$3,393
Still life with Tulips, Garden Gloves and a Fluted Opalina Vase, Antwerp
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Photography - 203.2 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 80 x 60 x 0.1 inch
$15,000
God will take the form I need
Sofia Alazraki
Photography - 110 x 86 x 0.2 cm Photography - 43.3 x 33.9 x 0.1 inch
$3,000
Autos tamponneuses (2)
Irène Jonas
Photography - 13 x 19 x 0.1 cm Photography - 5.1 x 7.5 x 0 inch
$585
Autos tamponneuses (1)
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Photography - 13 x 19 x 0.1 cm Photography - 5.1 x 7.5 x 0 inch
$585
Alabama Street. From the series Lost in transition
Ying Chen
Photography - 203.2 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 80 x 60 x 0.1 inch
$4,000
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Ying Chen
Photography - 203.2 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 80 x 60 x 0.1 inch
$4,000
Atlanta skyline
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Photography - 203.2 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 80 x 60 x 0.1 inch
$4,000
Peachtree Street
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Photography - 203.2 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 80 x 60 x 0.1 inch
$4,000
Plaza and viaduct
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Photography - 203.2 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 80 x 60 x 0.1 inch
$4,000
Gaudí 30
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Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$468