Conceptual Black and White Photography
CONCEPTUAL STYLE
In 1967, artist Sol LeWitt wrote that in “Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.” He was giving a name to an art movement that had emerged in the 1960s in which artists were less focused on their medium being something traditionally “artistic” and instead engaged in using any object, movement, form, action or place to express an idea.
LeWitt’s work was featured alongside an assemblage of notes, drawings and outlines by other artists in “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” a groundbreaking show at New York City’s School of Visual Arts curated by Mel Bochner, another leading exponent of Conceptualism. Building on radical 20th-century statements, like Fountain (1917) by French artist Marcel Duchamp, Conceptual artists around Europe and North and South America were not interested in the commercial art scene and rather directly challenged its systems and values.
Stretching into the 1970s, this movement has also been called Post-Object art and Dematerialized art. Conceptual art reflected a larger era of social and political upheaval. Pieces associated with the style range from Roelof Louw’s Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) — a work of installation art that sees fresh oranges stacked into a pyramid from which visitors are allowed to take one orange away — to On Kawara’s “Today” series, which saw the Japanese artist carefully painting a date in white acrylic on canvases consisting of a single color from 1966 to his death in 2014. Artists such as Ed Ruscha, who created the Twentysix Gasoline Stations book — a collection of photos of gas stations that is widely said to be the first modern artists’ book — made photography a major platform for Conceptual art, as did Bruce Nauman, who burned one of Ruscha's books and then photographed it for his own.
Conceptual art’s legacy of questioning artistic authorship, ownership and how to work with complex ideas of space and time had a significant influence on the decades of culture that followed, and it continues to inform art today.
The collection of Conceptual photography, paintings and sculptures on 1stDibs includes artworks by John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth and others.
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Style: Conceptual
Limited Edition Japanese Photography, #189 Yunoyani Village, Nigata Prefecture
Located in New york, NY
The photograph Toshio Shibata, #189 Yunoyani Village, Nigata Prefecture, 1989 by Japanese photographer Toshio Shibata is hand-signed (on recto) by the photographer. The 13" x 19" pri...
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1980s Conceptual Black and White Photography
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Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Pigment, Arc...
Savannah Spirit, Film Strip
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Erotica to save our souls.
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
ARTSY: May 28, 2019: The Photographers Fighting Instagram’s Censorship of Nude Bodies, by Kelsey Ables. ...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Savannah Spirit, Hold Onto Power (Black and White Nude Photography B&W)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this self portrait, Savannah Spirit turns the tradition of black and white female portraiture back on itself. The muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own.
Through her artistic, social and curatorial projects, Spirit also takes on technology and social media censors, who assume that the unclothed body of a human, especially of those who identify as female, is pornography that must be controlled. Her artwork asserts that a woman is her own muse.
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
Press
FORBES: Savannah Spirit Wants to Trigger Your Trump
VICE: Erotic Art Fights Trump with Scenes of Female Pleasure
BULLETT: The Art Show Fighting Fascism with Erotica
HUFFINGTON POST: Artists Are Resisting Trump's Misogyny with Erotic Art
DAZED: The Erotic Show Taking on Donald Trump
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
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Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage pinup...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
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Archival Pigment
Untitled - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative Photography
By xulong zhang
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' 2015 -
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, 21.5 x 27cm.
Archival Print, based on an 8x10" Polaroid Negative Scanning.
Signed, embossed stamp and artist certificate.
Not mounted.
Short Bio:
Xulong Zhang has been engaged in fashion portrait photography for 30 years and loves the Polaroid medium and began to working with Polaroid photography in 2000. He traveled to 34 countries for his Polaroid projects..
Vita:
1999 Has won the title “Ten Elites” in the 3rd China Portrait Photography.
2000 Named the World Chinese Artist, known as “The Prince of Album”
2001 September, CCTV special report on “Zhang Xulong’s Body Art Photography” gained strong feedback from the community.
2002 January, published “Strategies for Commercial Portrait Photograph” by Zhejiang Photography Publishing.
2002 February, launched the concept of “Tang Yun” and greatly accepted by the market. His idea has spread across whole China’s photography industry.
2002 July, launched the concept of “Picasso’s scene backdrop” for kids photography and shocking the whole industry.
2002 August, published “Ms.Tang’s Body Art Portrait Album”, the first female body photography in China, by People’s Arts Publishing
2002 September, a personal exhibition entitled “seeing memory” in the ancient city of Shanxi Province, the 2nd session of the Pingyao International Photography Festival.
In December of 2002, he was invited to give lectures in Malaysia and auction off the “Fruitful Achievements” exhibition in Kuala Lumpur, donating all money to the Kuala Lumpur Charitable aid for nursing homes and orphanages, won the "goodwill ambassador" title of honor in Kuala Lumpur.
2003 February-March, held the exhibition of “White Valentines” at Beijing International Trade and Exhibition Centre.
December 2003, pioneered the new concept of "Royal Wedding", and completed the album of “Invasion 2004” wedding photography books published by Jilin art press.
In December 2003 was awarded the 2003 annual contribution of the Chinese human body photography.
2003 Published “China Portrait Culture”.
2004 January, published Body Art & Portrait album “Chun Hua Qiu Shi”.
2004 March, held the exhibition of “Body Art & Portrait photography” in Chengdu.
2004 May, featured on a special report of “Match En China” in Paris.
2004 September, Pingyao international photography festival held entitled "the ambiguity of ancient legacy" xu-long Zhang body art exhibition 2005 August.
2005 August, accept the German star weekly "Der Stern" special report of “China nude” photography...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Polaroid
Nipple Detail (Black and White Nude Photography, B&W Nude)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit
We The Nipple
30 x 30 inches
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
Edition of 5
Signed by artist
Erotica to save our souls.
Latest press
ARTSY: May 28, 2019: The Photographers Fighting Instagram’s Censorship of Nude Bodies, by Kelsey Ables. First artist featured: Savannah Spirit.
In this self portrait, Savannah Spirit turns the tradition of black and white female portraiture back on itself. The muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own.
Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Her artwork asserts that a woman is her own muse. Through her artistic, social and curatorial projects, Spirit also takes on technology and social media censors, who assume that the unclothed body of a human—especially a female human—is by definition, pornography, in need of control.
Press
FORBES: Savannah Spirit Wants to Trigger Your Trump
VICE: Erotic Art Fights Trump with Scenes of Female Pleasure
BULLETT: The Art Show Fighting Fascism with Erotica
HUFFINGTON POST: Artists Are Resisting Trump's Misogyny with Erotic Art
DAZED: The Erotic Show Taking on Donald Trump
Internal:
Savannah Spirit, Black and White Photography, Black and White Nude...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
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Archival Pigment
Palm Springs 7
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Further to Fly is a series of Wet Plate Collodion Photograms that continues in my practice of using drawings on mylar layered with light-sensitive materials in the darkroom to create...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogram
7000 Oak Trees - Original Vintage Photo by Buby Durini - 1984 ca.
By Joseph Beuys
Located in Roma, IT
7000 Querce (7000 Oaks) is an original b/w photograph representing the indoor of the Marino Gallery (in Mignanelli Square, Rome) where Joseph Beuys' exhibition was held in the Eighty...
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1980s Conceptual Black and White Photography
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Photographic Paper
Beuys' Exhibition - Original Vintage Photo by Ruby Durini - 1084 ca.
By Joseph Beuys
Located in Roma, IT
Beuys' Exhibition is an original b/w photograph representing the indoor of the Marino Gallery (in Mignanelli Square, Rome) where Joseph Beuys' exhibition was held in the Eighty's. Th...
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1940s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
I Am My Own Muse (Black and White Nude Photography, Self-Portraiture)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Through her artwork and curation, Spirit takes on technology and social media censors who operate on the assumption that any unclothed body is pornography.
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
Savannah Spirit
Listening to Debussy
Edition 2/3
Edition of 3
"We are unique beauty, we are strong, we are equal, we are body-positive, we are elegant, we are powerful, we are vulnerable. We are our own muses."
Exhibition History:
Woman
March 31st – May 1st, 2018
Undercurrent Projects
Also featuring works by: Lillian Bassman, Elinor Carucci, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Nona Faustine...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Swan, With Leda (Limited Edition of 25) - 30x40 In Fine Art Print
Located in New York, NY
This 2009 photograph by legend photographer, John Stoddart depicts “The Swan with Leda.” It was inspired from the mythology of the Greek story of Leda and the Swan, when the God Zeus...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Untitled 1.14" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 1.14" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina
García de Marina was born in Gijón (Spain) in 1975. He emerged thru a deep transformation in 2010. A do...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
"Untitled 1.22" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 1.22" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina
García de Marina was born in Gijón (Spain) in 1975. He emerged thru a deep transformation in 2010. A do...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Edition 3/10 - Tree Roots and Branches, Blickling Estate, Norfolk Photograph
By Paul Cooklin
Located in Eye, England
Edition 3/10 - Tree Roots and Branches, Blickling Estate, Norfolk Photograph
Edition of 10 + 5 APs.
Front mount: Signature and edition number with artists blind stamp
Back mount: Pr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Black and White Photography
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Photographic Paper
Untitled
Located in Toronto, Ontario
William Wegman (b. 1943) is an American photographer celebrated for his whimsical images of his beloved Weimaraner dogs.
This photograph is from Wegman's "Improved Photographs" seri...
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1970s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
William S Burroughs, by Robert Mapplethorpe
Located in London, GB
Gelatin silver print
9 3/4 x 7 7/8 in
24.9 x 20.1 cm
Printed by Radar Publikationen and Edition K.L.A.G. credit stamps verso. Photographers credit stamp verso.
Print pulled from por...
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20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography
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Photographic Paper
East of Lancaster, CA by Robbert Flick, 1981, Silver Gelatin Print, Photography
By Robbert Flick
Located in Dallas, TX
East of Lancaster, CA by Robbert Flick is a 16 x 20 in silver gelatin print. This print features 49 small images of black and white landscapes presented in a grid. Each image measures 1 5/8 x 2 1/8 inches. This print is from Robbert Flick's Sequential Views series from his America Roads Portfolio. It is signed, titled and dated by Robbert Flick.
Robbert Flick, Professor Emeritus, is a Southern California artist who uses photography as his primary medium. He has been exhibiting his photographs for over 50 years and his work has been shown and collected by numerous private and public venues both nationally and internationally. He is the recipient of multiple fellowships and in 2001 was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts. The retrospective Robbert Flick: Trajectorieswas shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2004 accompanied by a comprehensive exhibition catalog co-published by LACMA and Steidl. In 2016 Nazraeli Press published “Robbert Flick LA Diary”. He is represented by ROSE Gallery in Santa Monica and Robert Mann...
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1980s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Savannah Spirit, Reach
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit
Reach
24 x 24 inches
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag.
Edition 1 of 5
Signed by artist
Latest press
ARTSY: May 28, 2019: The Photographers Fighting In...
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2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled, MT Inv. No 11-1-120 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 11-1-120
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 17,9 x 13 cm (7 x 5 1/8 in.)
Unique
Print only
Tichý, pract...
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Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Orthochromatic Positive - Black & White Photography of a Typewriter
By Samuel Field
Located in Cambridge, GB
Samuel Field's still life of an Olivetti Typewriter, is given depth in the orthochromatic process he has used. Isolated in monochrome you appreciate the details of this vintage utili...
Category
1980s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Photographic Paper, C Print, Silver Gelatin
Untitled, Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Landscape Photography
By xulong zhang
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' - 2013,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival Print, based on a Polaroid 665, 27x21.5cm.
Signed, embossed stamp and artist certificate.
Not mounted.
Xulong Zhang
Short Bio:
He has been engaged in fashion portrait photography for 30 years and loves Polaroid photography. In 2000, he began to develop Polaroid photography and traveled to 34 countries for photography.
Vita:
1999 Has won the title “Ten Elites” in the 3rd China Portrait Photography...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Polaroid
Orthochromatic Negative - Black & White Photography of a Typewriter
By Samuel Field
Located in Cambridge, GB
Samuel Field's still life of an Olivetti Typewriter, is given depth in the orthochromatic process he has used. Isolated in monochrome you appreciat...
Category
1980s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Photographic Paper, C Print, Silver Gelatin
A Nation of Shopkeepers - Black and white, portrait photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
This series of portraits were shot by Richard Heeps whilst he was studying Photography in Northwich. They beautifully capture a time of life. Here they have been compiled together fo...
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1980s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Photographic Paper, C Print, Silver Gelatin
Untitled, Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Landscape Photography
By xulong zhang
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Untitled' 2013, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid 665, 21.5 x 27cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed stamp and artist certificate.
Xulong Zhang...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Reel to Reel, Stretham
By Samuel Field
Located in Cambridge, GB
Photographed in the British Recording Studio that in the 1980's recorded music by Julian Cope of the Teardrop Explodes and the Stranglers. It was the he...
Category
1990s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin
Orthochromatic Negative (Antique Olivetti Typewriter)
By Samuel Field
Located in Cambridge, GB
This bold graphic piece fantastically captures the iconic Italian Olivetti Typewriter.
This artwork is a limited edition of 25, lustre photographi...
Category
1980s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin
Of course we all wanted to look like Peggy Castle at the Wagons West Party, 2015
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
I met my dearest friend Dottie when I was a nurse, 2014
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
I've always preferred my own birthday, 2013
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
I loved demonstrating aerials, 2013
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
When he was a baby, 2011
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Swan, With Leda (Limited Edition of 25)
Located in New York, NY
This 2009 photograph by legend photographer, John Stoddart depicts “The Swan with Leda.” It was inspired from the mythology of the Greek story of Leda and the Swan, when the God Zeus...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Surrealist Fake Limb Prosthetic Factory Photo
By Shimon Attie
Located in Surfside, FL
These are vintage prints from the 1980's. The last photo shows of a label from an accompanying piece (there were three sequence shots in this series) but is not on this piece. They l...
Category
1980s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Palm Springs 8
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Further to Fly is a series of Wet Plate Collodion Photograms that continues in my practice of using drawings on mylar layered with light-sensitive materials in the darkroom to create imagined landscapes. The illustrations used in the series are based on reference shots I took in Palm Springs...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogram
Palm Springs 1
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Further to Fly is a series of Wet Plate Collodion Photograms that continues in my practice of using drawings on mylar layered with light-sensitive materials in the darkroom to create...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Photogram
David Bowie Scary Monsters Clown full contact sheet large format print by Duffy
By Brian Duffy
Located in Austin, TX
Museum quality fine art, limited edition contact sheet print of David Bowie in the Scary Monsters Clown costume from the official Duffy Archive.
Taken from the original 1980 negativ...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Reel to Reel, Stretham - Black and white conceptual photography
By Samuel Field
Located in Cambridge, GB
Photographed in the British Recording Studio that in the 1980's recorded music by Julian Cope of the Teardrop Explodes and the Stranglers. It was the he...
Category
1990s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin
Blomberg 1, Laser cut archival pigment ink print, signed, numbered, framed
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Blomberg 1, Laser cut archival pigment ink print, signed, numbered, framed
Ideas of home and dislocation have always been compelling to me as the child of immigrant parents who arri...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Braunschweig 1, Laser cut archival pigment ink print, signed, numbered, framed
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Braunschweig 1, Laser cut archival pigment ink print, signed, numbered, framed
Ideas of home and dislocation have always been compelling to me as the child of immigrant parents who...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Raven Skull" Diptych from Comparative Anatomy Portfolio Pacific Northwest 1993
Located in Portland, OR
DIANNE KORNBERG (1945)
RAVEN SKULL, Diptych from Comparative Anatomy Portfolio, 1993
A selenium toned gelatin silver print edition 7/15. Housed in a high quality hardwood frame with acid free and UV materials.
Kornberg is a Professor Emerita at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon, she relocated her studio to an Island in the San Juan Archipelago in Washington State. Since that time she has been collaborating with two poets, making prints that are photo based but also incorporate drawing, painting, software artifacts and text.
Kornberg earned a BFA from the University of Washington...
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1990s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Invacuo Project #19. B&W Portrait inspired by the Gezi Park resistance movement
By Koray Erkaya
Located in Miami Beach, FL
In his new photographic art series, Erkaya revolts against individual and social de-sensitization. In order to address the memory and to increase awareness, he uses “gas” against everyone –without discrimination. He tests his models with gas in the specifically prepared labyrinth made of mirrors. When we see ourselves in the eyes of the models in the mirrors...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Invacuo Project #18. B&W Portrait inspired by the Gezi Park resistance movement
By Koray Erkaya
Located in Miami Beach, FL
In his new photographic art series, Erkaya revolts against individual and social de-sensitization. In order to address the memory and to increase awareness, he uses “gas” against everyone –without discrimination. He tests his models with gas in the specifically prepared labyrinth made of mirrors. When we see ourselves in the eyes of the models in the mirrors...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
When I posed for a camera club, 2012
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
I wanted to meet a rich husband, so I modeled in auto shows, 2016
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
My co-worker was always jealous of my blonde hair, 2013
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Studying piano is one of my favorite hobbies, 2012
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
My Funeral, 2013
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
When they lifted me on the piano, I had no choice but to oblidge, 2016
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
My dreams came true the day I did hair for a fashion show, 2013
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
His first haircut, 2011
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-437 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-437
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 11,8 x 20,4 cm (4 5/8 x 8 in.)
Unique
Print only
Tichý, prac...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"WH2" Photography 48" x 84" inch Edition 1/6 by Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"WH2" Photography 48" x 84" inch Edition 1/6 by Giuliano Bekor
From WILD HORSES series
Archival exhibition Giclee Baryta print
Not framed. Ships in tube.
WILD HORSES series
A man, it is said, never forgets a great horse, nor the horse a great man. Put the thoroughbred, the draft horse, the Lipizzaner stallion, and the wild Mustang, into the same coral, and they act as equals – no blinders, no misery, no slavery. Man, though, must harness and lash the horse. In becoming the horse – wearing his mane, strapping on his saddle, chomping on his bit – his civilized skin peels away. A terrible beast is let loose.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Internationally recognized photographer, Giuliano Bekor, holds a portfolio that includes work from the realms of fashion, beauty, celebrity, advertising, and fine art.
Giuliano’s photography has been featured in top publications around the globe, and his client list includes an endless file of beauty industry leaders, advertising agencies, celebrities, producers, and artists.
With 30 years in the industry, Giuliano has perfected his craft to an exceptional level of expertise. Composed of light, color, space and form, Giuliano brings ideas conceptualized in his own imagination into reality throughout his work.
Currently living between New York and Los Angeles, Giuliano is often on the move traveling for work and inspiration. Always the restless visionary, he ceases to continually express his fresh and nuanced style.
For Giuliano Bekor, a photograph is an image that comes into being consciously, composed of light, color, space and form. Like a painter, he sketches, refining ideas through pen and pencil well before the shutter clicks. A camera is strictly a means to an end, a way of making a palpable visual record of an idea that gestates in his mind, gains shape by his hand, and resolves through his eye as it peers through the lens.
His subject is the human body, almost always nude. These images delve into the splendor of the body - how it can express the inner meaning of who we are. Limbs, torsos, muscles and bones are exposed as though carved out of a supple, glowing stone that flexes and twists. Many of these photographs feature subjects posed with the eyes obscured, the face covered.
If we look closely, Bekor says, we can see that the body is as much a window into the soul as the eyes. This is a gallery of the soul etched into the forms we assume in the physical world. Through exaggerated contrast between light and dark, smooth and textured, vaporous and tactile, Giuliano deliberately filters the extraneous.
The camera captures the image, but for Bekor each exposure is a transformation - of himself, his subjects, and us. He is digging into uneasy turf, fraught with tension: masculine/feminine, heroic/cowardly, shameless/shameful, eternal/fleeting. The intensity of detail, the fiercely exquisite perfection of the bodies themselves, the unflinching, scrupulous engagement of the lens, negates all pretense of politeness. Confronted, we are summoned to look. So we must. And we do. And we experience the beautiful human forms we inhabit and the silent, eloquent language they speak.
EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
Giuliano Bekor’s most recent fine art photography solo shows include:
2019 - March Lips The cool HeArt gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tacita Dean, Aerial View of Teignmouth Electron - Contemporary Photography
By Tacita Dean
Located in Hamburg, DE
Tacita Dean (British, born 1965)
Aerial View of Teignmouth Electron, Cayman Brac 16th of September 1998, 2000
Medium: Gelatin silver print on paper
Dimensions: 21 x 26 cm (8 1/4 x 10...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled, MT Inv. No. 11-1-170 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No. 11-1-170
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 19,2 x 11,6 cm (7 1/2 x 4 5/8 in.)
Unique
Print only
Tichý...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Surrealist Fake Limb Prosthetic Factory Photo
By Shimon Attie
Located in Surfside, FL
These are vintage prints from the 1980's. The last photo shows a gallery or museum label from an accompanying piece (there were three sequence shots in this series) but is not on thi...
Category
1980s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jackie Chavez
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed, titled, and dated.
Gelatin silver print
20 x 16 in.
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Christo's Wrapped Monument to Vittorio Emanuele - Installation, Building
By Ugo Mulas
Located in Dallas, TX
Gelatin Silver Print
22 x 28 in.
Edition of 75
Numbered and signed by Christo.
Frame included.
Black frame: 22 3/8 x 28 3/4 x 1 1/8 in
Ugo Mulas is born on August 28, 1928 in Pozzol...
Category
20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled Self-Portrait (Cherie Hiser), from the New Mexico Portfolio
By Cherie Hiser
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 125
Signed in ink on print margin.
Photograph is from The New Mexico Portfolio published in 1976 by the Center of the Eye Photograp...
Category
20th Century Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
`Untitled 16`-Shadow Within-wolf nature b/w animal
Located in Oslo, NO
`Shadow Within`
Norway/USA
2010-2013
70 cm x 110 cm. (28 in. x 43 in.) Edition 6 + 2 a.p.
100 cm x 150 cm. Edition 3 + 1 a.p.
Archival ink cotton paper (archival pigment print)...
Category
2010s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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