Saturday, March 10, 2012

Beautiful Black-And-White-Photography

Beautiful Black-And-White-Photography

Toni Frissell
In 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 7
Alin Ciortea presents examples of modern street photography. In black and white, of course.
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Birds
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.
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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.
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Larry 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.
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Aneta 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 16
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.
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Gary Winogrand 18
Taking a shot just at the right moment.
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Larry Louie 20
Woman Of Tibet. Realism at its best. Awarded with International Photography Awards in 2007.
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Gabriele Caretti 22
Tour Eiffel: extraordinary contrast and perspective. Strong, clean and very precise shot.
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Ghost Town Charm 24
Excellent lighting.
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Ansel Adams 26
One of the most famous contemporary black and white photographers. Classic!
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Maurizio 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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Top 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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Michele 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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Snyder Alison
This photo has been taken in South Crillon Glacier, Washburn.
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Abbas 38
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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Patrick Figaj 40
Ceremony.
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Jack 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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Arndt 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.
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Ralph 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]
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Elliott 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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Roy Mckeown 52
Snowy Sheep.
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Adam Hinton
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Van Shnooken Raggen 55
Two Warehouses.
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Rodney Smith 57
Rodney Smith has his own understanding of professional black-and-white-photography. Unusual, abstract and surrealistic works.
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Drole Deciel 59
Smiley.
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Shazeen 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.
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Scott Bush 63
Berk-plage – France. What a sky! A really strange squadron: octopussy, teddy bear and skates.
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Pedro Meyer 65
Pedro Meyer shows the life of people across the globe. This photo was taken in Rio De Janeiro.
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Mitch Dobrowner 68
Mitch Dobrowner is famous due to his Earth photos.
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Robertino Nikolic 73
lighting plays with geometry. Or geometry plays with lighting? The winner of the Black & White Spider Awards 2007.
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Matthias Just 75
747.
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Unknown 77
Capturing the right moment at the right point of time.
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Bert (Quasebart) 79
Perfect timing, perfect lighting. A dreamy shot.
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Hughes Leglise-Bataille 81
That’s a quite unusual perspective for a photograph.
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Santosh Korthiwada 83
“No peeping please!” Very powerful, emotional and somehow sad photo.
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Rui Palha 85
Rui Palha photographs simple people in simple situations. Result: extraordinary photos of simple things surrounding our life.
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Watanabe 89
Straws.
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Lauren 91
Two Tree Hill. The composition looks very surreal, yet powerful and beautiful.
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G. Diaz Deleon
Ventana XIV. Geometric minimalism at its best.
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Maurizio Polese 94
Escape. Unusual angle, unusual perspective.
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Jana Stolzer 96
Nameless.
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Vega Omer 98
Struggling to survive.
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Ezra Caldwell 100
Dog snout. Sometimes the moments from our life are the most valuable moments we should enjoy and keep in mind.
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Last Click

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Classics 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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Mark Daniel Owen 108
I heart you. Do you see what we see?
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