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![Print, Le hameau sous la neige, Jacques Deperthes](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/337924_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Via Veneto #1, Gilles Mercier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/23466_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Christer Stromholm, Christer Stromholm](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1983033_1_grid.jpg)
Christer Stromholm
Christer Stromholm
Photography - 30 x 24 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
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![Photography, Lion, Jean-Pierre Ronzel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/104356_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Iris No. 45, Elizabeth Becker](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/513467_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Pan Pipes, Bernard Testemale](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2014062_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, The Cockpit, Bernard Testemale](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2014053_1_grid.jpg)
The Cockpit
Bernard Testemale
Photography - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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![Photography, Henderson Four, Bernard Testemale](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2014047_1_grid.jpg)
Henderson Four
Bernard Testemale
Photography - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
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![Photography, BMW WR 750, Bernard Testemale](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2014044_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, 356 Speedster, Bernard Testemale](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2014026_1_grid.jpg)
356 Speedster
Bernard Testemale
Photography - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
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![Photography, Corps raccords - Série 1, image 4/7, Sarah Salazar](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1457478_1_grid.jpg)
Corps raccords - Série 1, image 4/7
Sarah Salazar
Photography - 60 x 40 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
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![Photography, 24h du Mans 1970-La MS 660 n°31de Beltoise et Pescarolo à une roue de la Porsche 917K n°23 d’Attwood et Herrmann, 13 juin 1970., Jacques Violet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2095746_1_grid.jpg)
24h du Mans 1970-La MS 660 n°31de Beltoise et Pescarolo à une roue de la Porsche 917K n°23 d’Attwood et Herrmann, 13 juin 1970.
Jacques Violet
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
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![Photography, 24h du Mans 1970-La Porsche 917 LH n°3 de G. Larrousse et Willi Kauhsen suivie par la Chevron B16 de C. Baker et D. Martland. 13 ou 14 juin 1970., Jacques Violet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2095563_1_grid.jpg)
24h du Mans 1970-La Porsche 917 LH n°3 de G. Larrousse et Willi Kauhsen suivie par la Chevron B16 de C. Baker et D. Martland. 13 ou 14 juin 1970.
Jacques Violet
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
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![Photography, La femme sans tronc, Pierre Gély-Fort](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1258764_1_grid.jpg)
La femme sans tronc
Pierre Gély-Fort
Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Méditation sur la beauté n°1 : L'insaisissable, Anne Colson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/106114_1_grid.jpg)
Méditation sur la beauté n°1 : L'insaisissable
Anne Colson
Photography - 30 x 40 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
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![Photography, Leviathan, Kramer O'Neill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1764516_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Parfum d'automne, Jean-Michel Landon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1373010_1_grid.jpg)
Parfum d'automne
Jean-Michel Landon
Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
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![Print, Regarde moi - Digital Art digigraphie, Izabela Lewkowicz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1226910_1_grid.jpg)
Regarde moi - Digital Art digigraphie
Izabela Lewkowicz
Print - 70 x 50 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
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![Fine Art Drawings, 5 minutes de discrétion, Jack Hironimus](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/106240_1_grid.jpg)
5 minutes de discrétion
Jack Hironimus
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 41 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 16.1 inch
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![Fine Art Drawings, Au royaume, Dominique Simon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/652812_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, E3, Jean-Paul Veison Marcelli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/596811_1_grid.jpg)
E3
Jean-Paul Veison Marcelli
Photography - 80 x 120 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
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![Photography, Eczéma domestique 8, Thomas Deschamps](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/482140_1_grid.jpg)
Eczéma domestique 8
Thomas Deschamps
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
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![Photography, Mao Library, Catherine Henriette](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/425178_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Un charcutier plein d’imagination et une cliente perplexe, Paris, années 1950, Maurice Bonnel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1409142_1_grid.jpg)
Un charcutier plein d’imagination et une cliente perplexe, Paris, années 1950
Maurice Bonnel
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
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![Print, Le souffle dans tes cheveux - Reproduction digigraphie, Izabela Lewkowicz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1174665_1_grid.jpg)
Le souffle dans tes cheveux - Reproduction digigraphie
Izabela Lewkowicz
Print - 70 x 50 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
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![Photography, La barre, Alexane Leprieult](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/57190_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Horned Mask, Mario Hounkanrin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/162841_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Eczéma domestique 2, Thomas Deschamps](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/482116_1_grid.jpg)
Eczéma domestique 2
Thomas Deschamps
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
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![Painting, Carita Sisters, Marian Williams](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1054689_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Arthur Rimbaud, Lionel le Jeune](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1257408_1_grid.jpg)
Arthur Rimbaud
Lionel le Jeune
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 35 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
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![Painting, Stand Still, (Triptych/Triptyque), Marian Williams](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/952662_1_grid.jpg)
Stand Still, (Triptych/Triptyque)
Marian Williams
Painting - 25 x 75 x 3 cm Painting - 9.8 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
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![Print, Retirement Plan A, Marian Williams](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/638256_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Tchad, regard furtif, José Nicolas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1753644_1_grid.jpg)
Tchad, regard furtif
José Nicolas
Photography - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
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![Photography, Petites filles goranes, José Nicolas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1753536_1_grid.jpg)
Petites filles goranes
José Nicolas
Photography - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
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![Photography, Menton, José Nicolas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1898847_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, 005- American Circus Paris, José Nicolas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1941129_1_grid.jpg)
005- American Circus Paris
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
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![Photography, 001-American Circus Paris 1985, José Nicolas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1941096_1_grid.jpg)
001-American Circus Paris 1985
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
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![Photography, Les chats de Schrödinger (10), Arthur Di Nunzio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1834269_1_grid.jpg)
Les chats de Schrödinger (10)
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Les chats de Schrödinger (1), Arthur Di Nunzio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1834128_1_grid.jpg)
Les chats de Schrödinger (1)
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Les chats de Schrödinger (8), Arthur Di Nunzio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1834212_1_grid.jpg)
Les chats de Schrödinger (8)
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Les chats de Schrödinger (7), Arthur Di Nunzio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1834209_1_grid.jpg)
Les chats de Schrödinger (7)
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Les chats de Schrödinger (6), Arthur Di Nunzio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1834206_1_grid.jpg)
Les chats de Schrödinger (6)
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Les chats de Schrödinger (5), Arthur Di Nunzio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1834203_1_grid.jpg)
Les chats de Schrödinger (5)
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Les chats de Schrödinger (4), Arthur Di Nunzio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1834200_1_grid.jpg)
Les chats de Schrödinger (4)
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Les chats de Schrödinger (3), Arthur Di Nunzio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1834197_1_grid.jpg)
Les chats de Schrödinger (3)
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Les chats de Schrödinger (2), Arthur Di Nunzio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1834194_1_grid.jpg)
Les chats de Schrödinger (2)
Arthur Di Nunzio
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
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![Print, Inside Out, MissMe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/658959_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Résille I, Marie de Duve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2189926_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, No title (No34), Suki Da](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1978950_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Femme allongée, Antoniucci Volti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/134986_1_grid.jpg)
Femme allongée
Antoniucci Volti
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
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![Print, Sin titulo, Pablo Picasso](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/181093_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Sans titre, Rasmus Mogensen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/313618_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Birth, Cécile Baldewyns](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/512099_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Femlin with golf ball for playboy, LeRoy Neiman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/56075_1_grid.jpg)
Femlin with golf ball for playboy
LeRoy Neiman
Fine Art Drawings - 50.8 x 43.2 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 17 x 1 inch
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![Print, Extase, Ernest Pignon-Ernest](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/704943_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, De tu a tu XI, Teresa Riba](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/215644_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Etude de Fille, Ernest Pignon-Ernest](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/606390_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, No title (No59), Suki Da](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1944315_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, No title (No96), Suki Da](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2121558_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le Chasseur, Bruno Roudil](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/705828_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, L'Idée du chevalier - knight's idea, Marino Marini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/632541_1_grid.jpg)
L'Idée du chevalier - knight's idea
Marino Marini
Print - 51.5 x 38 x 0.2 cm Print - 20.3 x 15 x 0.1 inch
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![Photography, Reigen (Roundelay), Leni Riefenstahl](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/476269_1_grid.jpg)
Reigen (Roundelay)
Leni Riefenstahl
Photography - 37.5 x 49.8 cm Photography - 14.75 x 19.62 inch
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![Photography, No title (No62), Suki Da](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1063236_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Body Painting par Keith Haring, Patrick Sarfati](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/892155_1_grid.jpg)
Body Painting par Keith Haring
Patrick Sarfati
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
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![Photography, No Title (No54), Suki Da](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1131021_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, No title (No11), Suki Da](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1131024_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, No Title (No51), Suki Da](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/917217_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, No title (No47), Suki Da](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/871266_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, No title (No46), Suki Da](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/855654_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, No title (No127), Suki Da](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1744872_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, No title (No104), Suki Da](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1467696_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, No title (No87), Suki Da](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1233279_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, No title (No46), Suki Da](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1167459_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Née de la vague, Lucien Clergue](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/752235_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Nude Woman, Marcel Gromaire](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/631632_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, No title (No11), Suki Da](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1165968_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, No title (No47), Suki Da](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1165962_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, No title (No67), Suki Da](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1165956_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, No title (No46), Suki Da](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1164279_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Euphoria, Yevgeniy Repiashenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1777131_1_grid.jpg)
Euphoria
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
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![Photography, No title (No62), Suki Da](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1898007_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Marisa Papen 3, Samuel Cueto](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1116465_1_grid.jpg)
Marisa Papen 3
Samuel Cueto
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.4 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.2 inch
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![Painting, Femme à moitié nue aux bas, Emile-François Chambon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/709617_1_grid.jpg)
Femme à moitié nue aux bas
Emile-François Chambon
Painting - 20 x 27.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 10.8 x 0.1 inch
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![Painting, Tranzyt, Sancko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/444198_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Nu au sol, André de Dienes](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/151837_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, No57 SPIRIT Series, Yevgeniy Repiashenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/833616_1_grid.jpg)
No57 SPIRIT Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 50.8 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20 x 20 x 0.1 inch
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![Photography, Gone with the wind, Lesya Rozova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/874737_1_grid.jpg)
Gone with the wind
Lesya Rozova
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.01 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
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![Photography, No44 SPIRIT Series, Yevgeniy Repiashenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/975186_1_grid.jpg)
No44 SPIRIT Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 120 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Arabesque, Yevgeniy Repiashenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/459061_1_grid.jpg)
Arabesque
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 91 x 91 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.8 x 35.8 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Flame, Yevgeniy Repiashenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/380465_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, la légèreté, Yevgeniy Repiashenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1197333_1_grid.jpg)
la légèreté
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 91 x 61 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.8 x 24 x 0 inch
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![Photography, No62 SPIRIT Series, Yevgeniy Repiashenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1176495_1_grid.jpg)
No62 SPIRIT Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 120 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0 inch
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![Photography, Jeune Nuit, Yevgeniy Repiashenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1153497_1_grid.jpg)
Jeune Nuit
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 120 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0 inch
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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!