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![Photography, Kostas, Gor Avetisyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2002791_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Philippe, Gor Avetisyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2002788_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Michel, Gor Avetisyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2002764_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Bis non repetitat, Nagsoul](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/173236_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Lost Village_11, Yasuo Kiyonaga](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1596819_1_grid.jpg)
Lost Village_11
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 100 x 70 x 3.5 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.4 inch
$1,342
![Photography, Equanimity 15, Bruno Palisson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1462977_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Spirit of Forest 20372, Yasuo Kiyonaga](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1457595_1_grid.jpg)
Spirit of Forest 20372
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 40.8 x 28.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 16.1 x 11.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,790
![Photography, Spirit of Forest 9999, Yasuo Kiyonaga](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1457574_1_grid.jpg)
Spirit of Forest 9999
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 40.8 x 28.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 16.1 x 11.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,790
![Photography, Spirit of Forest 2020, Yasuo Kiyonaga](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1457457_1_grid.jpg)
Spirit of Forest 2020
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 40.8 x 28.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 16.1 x 11.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,790
![Photography, Spirit of Forest 1932, Yasuo Kiyonaga](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1457439_1_grid.jpg)
Spirit of Forest 1932
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 40.8 x 28.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 16.1 x 11.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,790
![Photography, Spirit of Forest 1263, Yasuo Kiyonaga](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1457430_1_grid.jpg)
Spirit of Forest 1263
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 40.8 x 28.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 16.1 x 11.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,790
![Photography, Spirit of Forest 1236, Yasuo Kiyonaga](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1457418_1_grid.jpg)
Spirit of Forest 1236
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 40.8 x 28.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 16.1 x 11.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,790
![Photography, Ebony Jet (Girlfriend), NYC, Michael James O'Brien](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1175658_1_grid.jpg)
Ebony Jet (Girlfriend), NYC
Michael James O'Brien
Photography - 152.4 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$8,000
![Photography, Wall Street, New York City, Leonard Freed](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/648867_1_grid.jpg)
Wall Street, New York City
Leonard Freed
Photography - 48.3 x 33 cm Photography - 19 x 13 inch
$3,000
![Print, Homeless Black, Death NYC](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/512981_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Marilyn LV Pink, Death NYC](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/509090_1_grid.jpg)
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![Print, Marilyn Offset Green, Death NYC](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/485026_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Vers l'exil, Charles Lapicque](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/328801_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Audrey Hepburn Laying Down, Bert Stern](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/166255_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Páramo Chingaza and Caballo el Palmar, Pigment Prints, Miguel Winograd](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1198725_1_grid.jpg)
Páramo Chingaza and Caballo el Palmar, Pigment Prints
Miguel Winograd
Photography - 110 x 183.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 43.3 x 72.4 x 0.1 inch
$4,000
![Print, 193r, Pierre Muckensturm](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/601962_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, EM2020-20, Bill Kane](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/695397_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Storm Series (Ref 845), Jaanika Peerna](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/582765_1_grid.jpg)
Storm Series (Ref 845)
Jaanika Peerna
Fine Art Drawings - 46 x 46 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.1 x 18.1 inch
$1,284
![Fine Art Drawings, Storm Series (Ref 844), Jaanika Peerna](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/579285_1_grid.jpg)
Storm Series (Ref 844)
Jaanika Peerna
Fine Art Drawings - 46 x 46 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.1 x 18.1 inch
$1,284
![Photography, The Fastest Sagittal (Peregrine Falcon), Hugh Turvey](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/312412_1_grid.jpg)
The Fastest Sagittal (Peregrine Falcon)
Hugh Turvey
Photography - 80 x 80 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 inch
$1,589
![Photography, Marc Chagall et Bella Rosenfeld à Venise, Italie, Vittorio Pavan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1377801_1_grid.jpg)
Marc Chagall et Bella Rosenfeld à Venise, Italie
Vittorio Pavan
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$671
![Photography, Record No.6, Daido Moriyama](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1358604_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Ghosts Walk - Ghosts & Aliens Series, Anna Levesh](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1307733_1_grid.jpg)
Ghosts Walk - Ghosts & Aliens Series
Anna Levesh
Photography - 77.4 x 58 cm Photography - 30.5 x 22.8 inch
$1,174
![Photography, Old and Young, Karol Kállay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1295817_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Saints, Karol Kállay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1295802_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Concentration, Karol Kállay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1295787_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Two Cigarettes, Karol Kállay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1295763_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Esperanza, James Sparshatt](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/587433_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Un jour, un instant dans le temps (MR20), Marie Aimer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/470836_1_grid.jpg)
Un jour, un instant dans le temps (MR20)
Marie Aimer
Painting - 29 x 44 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.4 x 17.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,007
![Print, Ragolles et béruchet, François Houtin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/38015_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Tuareg vision of intensity, John Kenny](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/28583_1_grid.jpg)
Tuareg vision of intensity
John Kenny
Photography - 67 x 45 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,052
![Photography, Love, Light & Lines, Kamal Obat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2194544_1_grid.jpg)
Love, Light & Lines
Kamal Obat
Photography - 60 x 49.8 x 2.5 cm Photography - 23.62 x 19.6 x 1 inch
$450
![Photography, Roll, Théo Gosselin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2181445_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Ray Winstone (2000), Kevin Westenberg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/890322_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Bat For Lashes Halo, Kevin Westenberg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/881478_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Composition - II, Marino Marini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/632514_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, A Moment with Mario, James Sparshatt](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/598125_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, N°100.150-24 19 (NG86), Nicolas Galtier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/575199_1_grid.jpg)
N°100.150-24 19 (NG86)
Nicolas Galtier
Painting - 100 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$4,809
![Photography, Music, Kalliope Amorphous](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187756_1_grid.jpg)
Music
Kalliope Amorphous
Photography - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.1 cm Photography - 20 x 16 x 0.05 inch
$2,200
![Photography, The Body Electric, Kalliope Amorphous](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187755_1_grid.jpg)
The Body Electric
Kalliope Amorphous
Photography - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.1 cm Photography - 20 x 16 x 0.05 inch
$2,200
![Photography, Patti Smith & Lou Reed, Ocean Club, NYC 1976, Bob Gruen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2138390_1_grid.jpg)
Patti Smith & Lou Reed, Ocean Club, NYC 1976
Bob Gruen
Photography - 61 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Photography - 24 x 20 x 2 inch
$2,500
![Photography, Elton John & Stevie Wonder, 1975, Bob Gruen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2138292_1_grid.jpg)
Elton John & Stevie Wonder, 1975
Bob Gruen
Photography - 50.8 x 61 x 5.1 cm Photography - 20 x 24 x 2 inch
$2,500
![Photography, John Lennon and Elton John, Record Plant, NYC 1974, Bob Gruen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2138287_1_grid.jpg)
John Lennon and Elton John, Record Plant, NYC 1974
Bob Gruen
Photography - 50.8 x 61 x 5.1 cm Photography - 20 x 24 x 2 inch
$2,500
![Photography, Paysage 4, Sébastien Castillo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1267203_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Paysage 1, Sébastien Castillo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1267152_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, El barbudo, James Sparshatt](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1197942_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Christian Dotremont, Pierre Alechinsky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/771657_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Marilyn in Famous Black Dress (1962), Bert Stern](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/435072_1_grid.jpg)
Marilyn in Famous Black Dress (1962)
Bert Stern
Photography - 48 x 33 x 1 cm Photography - 18.9 x 13 x 0.4 inch
$2,785
![Fine Art Drawings, Myst 64, Nagsoul](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/434445_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Lx064. Lisbonne Portugal, Olivier Perrin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192805_1_grid.jpg)
Lx064. Lisbonne Portugal
Olivier Perrin
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$336
![Photography, The secret, Mihaela Ivanova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1893960_1_grid.jpg)
The secret
Mihaela Ivanova
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$615 $554
![Photography, I am not there, Mihaela Ivanova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1823214_1_grid.jpg)
I am not there
Mihaela Ivanova
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$593
![Photography, Spirit of Forest, Yasuo Kiyonaga](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1461540_1_grid.jpg)
Spirit of Forest
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 130 x 97 x 10 cm Photography - 51.2 x 38.2 x 3.9 inch
$4,138
![Photography, Winter wind, Mihaela Ivanova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1155006_1_grid.jpg)
Winter wind
Mihaela Ivanova
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$761
![Photography, Fickle Memory 02, Yasuo Kiyonaga](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1151115_1_grid.jpg)
Fickle Memory 02
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$895
![Photography, Winter wind II, Mihaela Ivanova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1124301_1_grid.jpg)
Winter wind II
Mihaela Ivanova
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$761
![Painting, Force sauvage I, Pierre Le Preux](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/641667_1_grid.jpg)
Force sauvage I
Pierre Le Preux
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,125
![Print, Visions Variations II, Célia Eid](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/377688_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Centauros III, Amrita Bilimoria](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202457_1_grid.jpg)
Centauros III
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 101.6 x 152.4 x 0.5 cm Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.2 inch
$5,500
![Print, MOD 3, Yannis Kounellis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/187579_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, MOD 1, Yannis Kounellis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/187570_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, MOD 2, Yannis Kounellis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/187561_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, De la casa y el árbol III, Joan Hernández Pijuan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/180055_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Invasion, Alex Manea](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1053705_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Totem suit, Farah Slimani](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2158921_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Las manos desoladas, Oswaldo Guayasamin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/15557_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, My Name Is Rabbit, László Moholy-Nagy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/897948_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Bono, Kevin Westenberg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/881964_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Paris confinement, Bruno Fournier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/745170_1_grid.jpg)
Paris confinement
Bruno Fournier
Photography - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$1,063
![Photography, Série : Se faire passer pour Mao, Nathalie Daoust](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/463270_1_grid.jpg)
Série : Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$2,796
![Photography, Série : Se faire passer pour Mao, Nathalie Daoust](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/463255_1_grid.jpg)
Série : Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$2,796
![Print, Toro II screenprint, Marc Prat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/379940_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Roll, Théo Gosselin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2181453_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Angry, Joanna Glazer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1649046_1_grid.jpg)
Angry
Joanna Glazer
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$324
![Print, El grito, Oswaldo Guayasamin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/15869_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, The capability to transform into any shape, On Hansen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1344687_1_grid.jpg)
The capability to transform into any shape
On Hansen
Photography - 69 x 100 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27.2 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
![Photography, Pearl Jam (1992), Kevin Westenberg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/888609_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Bayou dreaming, James Sparshatt](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/884871_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Depeche Mode, Kevin Westenberg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/882900_1_grid.jpg)
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NY Apartments - 1953 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76.2 x 76.2 cm Photography - 30 x 30 inch
$3,367
![Photography, Paris confinement Musée d'Orsay, Bruno Fournier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/745188_1_grid.jpg)
Paris confinement Musée d'Orsay
Bruno Fournier
Photography - 17 x 31 x 1 cm Photography - 6.7 x 12.2 x 0.4 inch
$951
![Photography, Paris confinement Pont des Arts, Bruno Fournier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/745185_1_grid.jpg)
Paris confinement Pont des Arts
Bruno Fournier
Photography - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,063
![Photography, Paris tour tour Eiffel 1, Bruno Fournier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/651678_1_grid.jpg)
Paris tour tour Eiffel 1
Bruno Fournier
Photography - 24 x 18 x 1 cm Photography - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0.4 inch
$895
![Painting, Self Portrait… aka Yella v2.6 Dream Within A Dream, LosOtros Mj Tom](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/431145_1_grid.jpg)
Self Portrait… aka Yella v2.6 Dream Within A Dream
LosOtros Mj Tom
Painting - 100 x 280 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 110.2 x 0.4 inch
$3,579
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!