Beautiful Black-And-White-Photography
Toni FrissellIn her legendary photos Toni Frissell impresses with a strong trend toward surrealism or realism. The photo presented below, although in black and white, is both extremely sharp and clear. To achieve such level of clarity in black and white is extremely hard.
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Alin Ciortea presents examples of modern street photography. In black and white, of course.
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Unfortunately, the photographer is unknown. The photo seems to be taken at exact the right moment from exactly the right angle with a perfect lighting. Black and white can be powerful as well.
Sally Mann 10
This photo, titled Candy Cigarette, not just displays something, it tells a story. It is both emotional and beautiful. This is what the originality of black-and-white-photography is all about.
11Larry Towell 12
This shot was taken in El Salvador. Child with star mask during “Day Of The Dead”. Other child in background rolls tire for repair in garage where he works at an adult’s job. The photo is full of tiredness and stubbornness. Simple motif conveying strong emotions.
13Aneta Kowalczyk 14
Aneta Kowalczyk specializes in portrait photography. Some of her photos are provoking, some are strange and some are extremely beautiful. The example below displays the beautiful side of black and white photography.
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Nick Brandt is a renown animal photographer which has become famous with his book of photographs, “On This Earth”, which was published in October 2005.
17Gary Winogrand 18
Taking a shot just at the right moment.
19Larry Louie 20
Woman Of Tibet. Realism at its best. Awarded with International Photography Awards in 2007.
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Tour Eiffel: extraordinary contrast and perspective. Strong, clean and very precise shot.
23Ghost Town Charm 24
Excellent lighting.
25Ansel Adams 26
One of the most famous contemporary black and white photographers. Classic!
27Maurizio Polese 28
Polese’s works pay close attention to small, tiny details. The tones are perfects and compositions are beautiful which is why the photos are presented in this post. Notice the sharp contrast and the lighting at the first image below and the sharp pathway leading to the light in the second one.
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30Top 10 Wired.com Reader Black-and-White Photos 31
Ten extraordinary black and white photographs sent to the Wired.com editorial by its readers.
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34Michele Clement 35
Artistic yet beautiful and extremely powerful shot. Michele Clement is the winner of Black & White Spider Awards 2007 in category “Outstanding Achievement”.
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This photo has been taken in South Crillon Glacier, Washburn.
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Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami on the hills surrounding the captital, where his film “Taste of Cherry”, which was co-awarded the Golden Palm in Cannes 1997, was shot.
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Ceremony.
41Jack Radcliffe 42
Alison’s life in black and white photos. The significance of these pictures emerges in retrospect. “When my daughter Alison was born, in the tradition of a new parent, I began to photograph her, initially in a separate and private body of work. However, in the process of documenting Alison’s growth, I developed a passionate interest in human relationships and capturing intimate moments in the lives of family and friends.”
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44Arndt Laude 45
Alignment. Sometiems all it takes is to be at the right place in the right moment and take a shot under the right angle. That’s what happened here.
46Ralph Gibson
Staircase is an example of Gibson’s high-contrast, minimalist black and white compositions have influenced a generation of photographers. By isolating the essential elements of a scene, his pictures show a style that is unique and immediately recognizable. [via 47]
48Elliott Erwitt 49
Erwitt, an advertising and journalistic photographer known for his black and white candid shots of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings — the master of the “indecisive moment”.
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51Roy Mckeown 52
Snowy Sheep.
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54Van Shnooken Raggen 55
Two Warehouses.
56Rodney Smith 57
Rodney Smith has his own understanding of professional black-and-white-photography. Unusual, abstract and surrealistic works.
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Smiley.
60Shazeen Samad 61
Simple yet excellent composition. This photo manages not just to show something, but to capture a moment of life in all its beauty and vividness.
62Scott Bush 63
Berk-plage – France. What a sky! A really strange squadron: octopussy, teddy bear and skates.
64Pedro Meyer 65
Pedro Meyer shows the life of people across the globe. This photo was taken in Rio De Janeiro.
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67Mitch Dobrowner 68
Mitch Dobrowner is famous due to his Earth photos.
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72Robertino Nikolic 73
lighting plays with geometry. Or geometry plays with lighting? The winner of the Black & White Spider Awards 2007.
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Capturing the right moment at the right point of time.
78Bert (Quasebart) 79
Perfect timing, perfect lighting. A dreamy shot.
80Hughes Leglise-Bataille 81
That’s a quite unusual perspective for a photograph.
82Santosh Korthiwada 83
“No peeping please!” Very powerful, emotional and somehow sad photo.
84Rui Palha 85
Rui Palha photographs simple people in simple situations. Result: extraordinary photos of simple things surrounding our life.
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88Watanabe 89
Straws.
90Lauren 91
Two Tree Hill. The composition looks very surreal, yet powerful and beautiful.
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Ventana XIV. Geometric minimalism at its best.
93Maurizio Polese 94
Escape. Unusual angle, unusual perspective.
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Nameless.
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Struggling to survive.
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Dog snout. Sometimes the moments from our life are the most valuable moments we should enjoy and keep in mind.
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Crossing Lines 102
103Classics in Lego 104
An illustrative summary of iconic pictures with their pairs of Balakov’s Lego figure pictures 105 which are reconstucting famous moments in the history of mankind.
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107Mark Daniel Owen 108
I heart you. Do you see what we see?
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Simply Love!
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