Moholy-Nagy Black and White Photography

Photography by László Moholy-Nagy. A posthumous print from the original negative, circa 1973 Stamped by Foto Moholy-Nagy and Galerie Khlim. In original good condition. László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was a Hungarian painter...

László Moholy-Nagy photography. Stamp: "Nachlass Lázló Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) (= Estate of Lázló Moholy-Nagy" and "einmalige Auflage für die Griffelku...

Photography by László Moholy-Nagy. A posthumous print from the original negative, circa 1973 Stamped by Foto Moholy-Nagy and Galerie Khlim. In...

László Moholy-Nagy photography. Stamped by Foto Moholy-Nagy and Galerie Khlim. In original good conditions. László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was a Hungarian painter...

László Moholy-Nagy photography. Stamped by Foto Moholy-Nagy and Galerie Khlim. In original good condition. László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) was a Hungarian painter and photogr...

Photography by László Moholy-Nagy. A posthumous print from the original negative, circa 1973 Stamped by Foto Moholy-Nagy and Galerie Khlim. In...

Vintage black and white photograph, photography by Josef Ehm. "Resting Model II", circa 1960s, gelatin silver print. Josef Ehm: Czech, 1909-1989. Born in Habartov. Apprenticed i...

Jack Robinson (1928-1997): Ten Portraits Ten black and white prints on paper, c. 2007, with the artist's blindstamp lower right and the Jack Robinson Archives...

Biker in a mirror black and white photograph Gravure print by Burk Uzzle 1980 Gravure print (1984, France). Burk Uzzle is an American photojournalist, previously member of Mag...

Jack Mitchell black and white photograph of Andy Warhol as filmmaker. This silver gelatin print is dated 1968 on the back. 11 x 14 in. Rare image, original print. Jack Mitchell (1925 - 2013) Photographer for the American Ballet Theater, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dance magazine. His Photos appeared in Time, Life, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Vogue, New York Times. Permanent collection National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of African American History...

Pictorialist photograph of a young woman. Silver print in the original oak frame. Inscribed on reverse R.S. Paddock, Early 20th century. Pictorialism is the name given to an intern...

Robert Frank Untitled from the Americans, 1958, Beats Culture, Black & White. Photogravure print, mid-century, France,wax tissue mounted on conservation matboard. Influenced by the work of Jakob Tuggener and Bill Brandt, as well as Walker Evans, Frank, a native of Switzerland, Frank was fascinated by documentary photography and the notion and image of "America." Frank secured a Guggenheim fellowship in 1955 to do something new and unconstrained by commercial diktats. "The Americans" was first published in 1958 in France, before its first run in the US in 1959. The photographs were shocking and notable for their distanced view of both high and low strata of American society, creating a complicated portrait of a period that was, then and now, considered to be a skeptical portrait of post-WWII American values but also deeply empathetic and profoundly evocative of ubiquitous loneliness. Frank found a tension in the gloss of American culture and wealth over race and class differences, which gave his photographs a clear contrast to those of most contemporary American photojournalists, as did his use of unusual focus, low lighting and cropping that deviated from accepted photographic techniques. Shortly before the book was published in France, Frank returned to the US (1957) and met Jack Kerouac on the sidewalk outside a party. They started chatting. Frank showed him some of his photographs. Kerouac immediately told Frank "Sure, I can write something about these pictures." Kerouac would write the introduction to the American edition of the book, published two years later. Sociologist Howard S...