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![Photography, 7.03. 2018, Prisca Lobjoy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2190787_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Femme à l'enfant (Namibie), Alastair Mc Naughton](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206471_1_grid.jpg)
Femme à l'enfant (Namibie)
Alastair Mc Naughton
Photography - 28.5 x 20 cm Photography - 11.2 x 7.9 inch
$112
![Photography, Ensayo, James Sparshatt](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/9969_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Yseult - Paris - L'Olympia - Concert d'IBEYI - série photo noir et blanc, Lucas Perrigot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202179_1_grid.jpg)
Yseult - Paris - L'Olympia - Concert d'IBEYI - série photo noir et blanc
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
$673
![Photography, Nadege - Paris - Bibliothèque François Mitterand - série photo noir et blanc danse et architecture, Lucas Perrigot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202177_1_grid.jpg)
Nadege - Paris - Bibliothèque François Mitterand - série photo noir et blanc danse et architecture
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
$648
![Photography, Liliboy - La pause - Nord-sur-Erdre - Festival La Nuit de l'Erdre - Groupe Deluxe 2019 - série photo noir et blanc, Lucas Perrigot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202176_1_grid.jpg)
Liliboy - La pause - Nord-sur-Erdre - Festival La Nuit de l'Erdre - Groupe Deluxe 2019 - série photo noir et blanc
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
$648
![Photography, Leron Thomas trompettiste - Nantes - Stéréolux - Concert de GUTS - série photo noir et blanc, Lucas Perrigot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202173_1_grid.jpg)
Leron Thomas trompettiste - Nantes - Stéréolux - Concert de GUTS - série photo noir et blanc
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
$648
![Photography, Jimmy Jay - Saint-Herblain - La Carrière - Festival Hip Opsession 2013 - série photo concert noir et blanc, Lucas Perrigot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202158_1_grid.jpg)
Jimmy Jay - Saint-Herblain - La Carrière - Festival Hip Opsession 2013 - série photo concert noir et blanc
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
$648
![Photography, IBEYI - Deux minutes avant la scène - Paris - L'Olympia - série photo concert noir et blanc, Lucas Perrigot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202154_1_grid.jpg)
IBEYI - Deux minutes avant la scène - Paris - L'Olympia - série photo concert noir et blanc
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
$673
![Photography, IBEYI & JR - Paris - L'Olympia - série photo concert noir et blanc, Lucas Perrigot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202153_1_grid.jpg)
IBEYI & JR - Paris - L'Olympia - série photo concert noir et blanc
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
$673
![Photography, Coste Hôtel Dieu - Nantes - série photo noir et blanc danse et architecture, Lucas Perrigot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2201946_1_grid.jpg)
Coste Hôtel Dieu - Nantes - série photo noir et blanc danse et architecture
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
$648
![Photography, Le rêveur, 2019-2022, Irène Jonas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2201360_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Noor, Daniel Holfeld](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195427_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Back Silhouette (S), Tyler Shields](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200862_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Umbrella Silhouette II (S), Tyler Shields](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200510_1_grid.jpg)
Umbrella Silhouette II (S)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 57.2 x 76.2 cm Photography - 22.5 x 30 inch
$5,000
![Photography, Umbrella Silhouette II (XS), Tyler Shields](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200509_1_grid.jpg)
Umbrella Silhouette II (XS)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 38.1 x 50.8 cm Photography - 15 x 20 inch
$2,500
![Photography, Match Silhouette (S), Tyler Shields](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200162_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Lipstick Cigarette II (XS), Tyler Shields](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199358_1_grid.jpg)
Lipstick Cigarette II (XS)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 38.1 x 50.8 cm Photography - 15 x 20 inch
$2,500
![Photography, Pays #184, Philippe Bréson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198811_1_grid.jpg)
Pays #184
Philippe Bréson
Photography - 27 x 27 x 0.2 cm Photography - 10.6 x 10.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,009
![Photography, Pays #207, Philippe Bréson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198796_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Provocateur, Tyler Shields](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192549_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Botanical Studies - The B-Sides - No. 04, Matthias Conrad](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180909_1_grid.jpg)
Botanical Studies - The B-Sides - No. 04
Matthias Conrad
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,962
![Photography, Tokyo 9, Raynald Najosky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198500_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Mont Fuji, Raynald Najosky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198484_1_grid.jpg)
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![Photography, Sumo III, Raynald Najosky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198122_1_grid.jpg)
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![Photography, Sumo 7, Raynald Najosky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198118_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Sumo 8, Raynald Najosky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198117_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Sumo 8, Raynald Najosky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198115_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Tokyo II, Raynald Najosky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198113_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Tokyo III, Raynald Najosky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198112_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Poissons, Raynald Najosky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198108_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Temple II, Raynald Najosky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198107_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, E.Doll n°07, Softtwix](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178723_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, E.Doll n°57, Softtwix](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178722_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, E.Doll n°45, Softtwix](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178721_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, E.Doll n°52, Softtwix](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178720_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, E.Doll n°03, Softtwix](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178717_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, E.Doll n°40, Softtwix](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178715_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, E.Doll n°48, Softtwix](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178714_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, E.Doll n°52, Softtwix](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178713_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, E.Doll n°18, Softtwix](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178712_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, E.Doll n°29, Softtwix](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178711_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Earth and Water series, Jenny Owens](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209748_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Earth and Water series, Jenny Owens](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209746_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Stone Window, Jenny Owens](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209745_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, xx series, Jenny Owens](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209743_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, xx series, Jenny Owens](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209742_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, xx series, Jenny Owens](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209734_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Femmes au bord du Gange, Alastair Mc Naughton](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206475_1_grid.jpg)
Femmes au bord du Gange
Alastair Mc Naughton
Photography - 19 x 51 cm Photography - 7.5 x 20.1 inch
$112
![Photography, Contortionnistes, Alastair Mc Naughton](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206474_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Jongleur aux oiseaux, Alastair Mc Naughton](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206473_1_grid.jpg)
Jongleur aux oiseaux
Alastair Mc Naughton
Photography - 24.5 x 34 cm Photography - 9.6 x 13.4 inch
$112
![Photography, Danseuses à Cuba, Alastair Mc Naughton](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206472_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Desert Acrobats, Alastair Mc Naughton](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206470_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Opera house seagull, Alastair Mc Naughton](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206469_1_grid.jpg)
Opera house seagull
Alastair Mc Naughton
Photography - 24.5 x 34 cm Photography - 9.6 x 13.4 inch
$56
![Photography, Piscines, Alastair Mc Naughton](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206454_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Bob Marley at Berkshire Music Glen, 1978, Michael Grecco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202628_1_grid.jpg)
Bob Marley at Berkshire Music Glen, 1978
Michael Grecco
Photography - 40.6 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 20 x 2 inch
$3,000
![Photography, Who will fly you there, Grzegorz Sikorski](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2194112_1_grid.jpg)
Who will fly you there
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 80 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$280
![Painting, Traveling Light,, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186151_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Deluxe - Le saut final - Nantes - Salle de concert Stéréolux 2019 - série photo noir et blanc, Lucas Perrigot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202152_1_grid.jpg)
Deluxe - Le saut final - Nantes - Salle de concert Stéréolux 2019 - série photo noir et blanc
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
$648
![Photography, Charles X - La coopérative de Mai - Clermont-Ferrand 2016 - Les Nuits Zébrées de Nova, Lucas Perrigot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2201940_1_grid.jpg)
Charles X - La coopérative de Mai - Clermont-Ferrand 2016 - Les Nuits Zébrées de Nova
Lucas Perrigot
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
$639
![Photography, Phonebooth Silhouette (XS), Tyler Shields](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200515_1_grid.jpg)
Phonebooth Silhouette (XS)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 38.1 x 50.8 cm Photography - 15 x 20 inch
$2,500
![Photography, Two Swans (XS), Tyler Shields](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200497_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, The Lady and the Lion (S), Tyler Shields](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200207_1_grid.jpg)
The Lady and the Lion (S)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 45.7 x 45.7 cm Photography - 18 x 18 inch
$2,500
![Photography, Girls Night Out Silhouette, Tyler Shields](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199003_1_grid.jpg)
Girls Night Out Silhouette
Tyler Shields
Photography - 38.1 x 50.8 cm Photography - 15 x 20 inch
$2,500
![Print, L 1977-3, Hans Hartung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/389612_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Premières vacances, Sud de la France, Christelle Yambayisa](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195242_1_grid.jpg)
Premières vacances, Sud de la France
Christelle Yambayisa
Photography - 105 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 41.3 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,130
![Photography, Digestion, Paris, Christelle Yambayisa](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195241_1_grid.jpg)
Digestion, Paris
Christelle Yambayisa
Photography - 70 x 105 x 1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 x 0.4 inch
$2,130
![Photography, Premiers bouchons, Nice, Christelle Yambayisa](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195237_1_grid.jpg)
Premiers bouchons, Nice
Christelle Yambayisa
Photography - 105 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 41.3 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,130
![Photography, Même combat, New York, Christelle Yambayisa](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195218_1_grid.jpg)
Même combat, New York
Christelle Yambayisa
Photography - 70 x 105 x 1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 x 0.4 inch
$2,130
![Photography, Jardin Suspendu, Singapour, Christelle Yambayisa](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195209_1_grid.jpg)
Jardin Suspendu, Singapour
Christelle Yambayisa
Photography - 70 x 105 x 1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 x 0.4 inch
$2,130
![Photography, Surfer en roulant, Singapour, Christelle Yambayisa](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195207_1_grid.jpg)
Surfer en roulant, Singapour
Christelle Yambayisa
Photography - 105 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 41.3 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,130
![Photography, Au bout de l'horizon, Kenya, Christelle Yambayisa](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195200_1_grid.jpg)
Au bout de l'horizon, Kenya
Christelle Yambayisa
Photography - 70 x 105 x 1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 x 0.4 inch
$2,130
![Photography, 22.08.2019, Prisca Lobjoy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2190715_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Totem, André Masson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/651951_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Énigme, André Masson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/651936_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Figue, André Masson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/651927_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Martin Scorsese - 2006, Michael Grecco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202631_1_grid.jpg)
Martin Scorsese - 2006
Michael Grecco
Photography - 40.6 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 20 x 2 inch
$3,000
![Photography, Lucy Liu - Holmby Hills, CA 1999, Michael Grecco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202629_1_grid.jpg)
Lucy Liu - Holmby Hills, CA 1999
Michael Grecco
Photography - 40.6 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 20 x 2 inch
$3,000
![Photography, Joaquin Phoenix - Los Angeles, CA 2002, Michael Grecco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202621_1_grid.jpg)
Joaquin Phoenix - Los Angeles, CA 2002
Michael Grecco
Photography - 40.6 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 20 x 2 inch
$3,000
![Print, N°78/90, Pierre-Luc Poujol](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202489_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Drezniak, Michael Grecco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202070_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, The Fabulous Billygoons, Boston, MA, 1980, Michael Grecco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202068_1_grid.jpg)
The Fabulous Billygoons, Boston, MA, 1980
Michael Grecco
Photography - 40.6 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 20 x 2 inch
$3,000
![Photography, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Steven Severin, and Budgie - Boston, Massachusetts Circa 1980, Michael Grecco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202065_1_grid.jpg)
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Steven Severin, and Budgie - Boston, Massachusetts Circa 1980
Michael Grecco
Photography - 40.6 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 20 x 2 inch
$3,000
![Photography, Lene Lovich - Boston, Massachusetts Circa 1980, Michael Grecco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202064_1_grid.jpg)
Lene Lovich - Boston, Massachusetts Circa 1980
Michael Grecco
Photography - 50.8 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Photography - 20 x 16 x 2 inch
$3,000
![Photography, La Peste (L- R) Peter Dayton, Mark Karl, and Roger Tripp - Boston, Massachusetts, 1980, Michael Grecco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202062_1_grid.jpg)
La Peste (L- R) Peter Dayton, Mark Karl, and Roger Tripp - Boston, Massachusetts, 1980
Michael Grecco
Photography - 50.8 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Photography - 20 x 16 x 2 inch
$3,000
![Photography, Killing Joke - Back Stage, Boston, Massachusetts 1980, Michael Grecco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202061_1_grid.jpg)
Killing Joke - Back Stage, Boston, Massachusetts 1980
Michael Grecco
Photography - 40.6 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 20 x 2 inch
$3,000
![Photography, The Neighborhoods - Boston, MA, Michael Grecco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202059_1_grid.jpg)
The Neighborhoods - Boston, MA
Michael Grecco
Photography - 50.8 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Photography - 20 x 16 x 2 inch
$3,000
![Photography, The Neighborhoods - Boston, MA (II), Michael Grecco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202058_1_grid.jpg)
The Neighborhoods - Boston, MA (II)
Michael Grecco
Photography - 50.8 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Photography - 20 x 16 x 2 inch
$3,000
![Photography, Members of the band the B52's - Boston, 1980, Michael Grecco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202056_1_grid.jpg)
Members of the band the B52's - Boston, 1980
Michael Grecco
Photography - 40.6 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 20 x 2 inch
$3,000
![Photography, Members of the band The B-52's - Boston, 1980 (II), Michael Grecco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202055_1_grid.jpg)
Members of the band The B-52's - Boston, 1980 (II)
Michael Grecco
Photography - 40.6 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 20 x 2 inch
$3,000
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!