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![Photography, Jerry Lewis, Harry Hammond](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/898386_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Change point of view Pink, Sagrasse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2161702_1_grid.jpg)
Change point of view Pink
Sagrasse
Sculpture - 30 x 21 x 20 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 8.3 x 7.9 inch
$503
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![Photography, Above the clouds #5, Cody Choi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/216451_1_grid.jpg)
Above the clouds #5
Cody Choi
Photography - 50.8 x 76.2 x 0.1 cm Photography - 20 x 30 x 0 inch
$659
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![Photography, Self portrait #21, Cody Choi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/216436_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Self portrait #22, Cody Choi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/216433_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Self portrait #24, Cody Choi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/216415_1_grid.jpg)
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![Fine Art Drawings, Kid, Hom Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177768_1_grid.jpg)
Kid
Hom Nguyen
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$14,425
![Fine Art Drawings, Woman, Hom Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175118_1_grid.jpg)
Woman
Hom Nguyen
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$10,959
![Photography, Above the clouds #4, Cody Choi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/216445_1_grid.jpg)
Above the clouds #4
Cody Choi
Photography - 50.8 x 76.2 x 0.1 cm Photography - 20 x 30 x 0 inch
$659
![Painting, Human, Hom Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2099604_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Quartier de l'Albacin, Grenade, Yves Brayer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1555386_1_grid.jpg)
Quartier de l'Albacin, Grenade
Yves Brayer
Painting - 19 x 24 x 2.5 cm Painting - 7.5 x 9.4 x 1 inch
$6,150
![Print, Temple grec, Charles Lapicque](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/134857_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Jazz, Harry Hammond](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/898416_1_grid.jpg)
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![Photography, Nat King Cole, Harry Hammond](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/896934_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Corrida aux Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Yves Brayer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1281000_1_grid.jpg)
Corrida aux Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
Yves Brayer
Print - 49.5 x 64.5 cm Print - 19.5 x 25.4 inch
$447
![Painting, You Man, Hom Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/863103_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Back to 1500 Pink, Sagrasse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2158603_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Change point of view, Sagrasse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2006577_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Back to Rock, Sagrasse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1996689_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Untitled, Maria Carbonero](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1350156_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Small Puffy Candy Or, Sagrasse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173364_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Small Puffy Candy Argent, Sagrasse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173356_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Small Puffy Candy Or, Sagrasse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2143183_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Femme à l'écharpe noire, Sounya Whang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1427646_1_grid.jpg)
Femme à l'écharpe noire
Sounya Whang
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,040
![Painting, Jeune courtisane fumant, Sounya Whang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1165959_1_grid.jpg)
Jeune courtisane fumant
Sounya Whang
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$805
![Photography, Above the Clouds #3, Cody Choi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/195031_1_grid.jpg)
Above the Clouds #3
Cody Choi
Photography - 76.2 x 101.6 x 0.1 cm Photography - 30 x 40 x 0 inch
$863
![Photography, Sillage #4, Cody Choi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/195019_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sans-titre, Charles Lapicque](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1272036_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sans-titre, Charles Lapicque](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1272033_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sans-titre, Charles Lapicque](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1272030_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sans-titre, Charles Lapicque](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1272027_1_grid.jpg)
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![Photography, Structural Beauty, Alexander Benz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1011279_1_grid.jpg)
Structural Beauty
Alexander Benz
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$514
![Fine Art Drawings, La Paix, Hom Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175111_1_grid.jpg)
La Paix
Hom Nguyen
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$14,425
![Print, Sin título, Jaume Plensa](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2140498_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Entité, Hom Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2094279_1_grid.jpg)
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![Print, Le repos des cavaliers sur la plage, Yves Brayer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1280976_1_grid.jpg)
Le repos des cavaliers sur la plage
Yves Brayer
Print - 49.5 x 64.5 cm Print - 19.5 x 25.4 inch
$447
![Print, La cabane gardiane, Yves Brayer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1280955_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Le bar des artistes, Yves Brayer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1184100_1_grid.jpg)
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![Print, Le magasin aux accessoires, Yves Brayer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1184088_1_grid.jpg)
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![Print, Cabane en Camargue, Yves Brayer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1183875_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Le conteur arabe, Fez, Yves Brayer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1183863_1_grid.jpg)
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Femme coréenne s'habillant
Sounya Whang
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$1,085
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![Painting, Joey Starr, Hom Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1017825_1_grid.jpg)
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![Print, Partage de midi, Charles Lapicque](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/328771_1_grid.jpg)
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Lithographie originale de Yves Brayer
Yves Brayer
Print - 54 x 57 x 0.3 cm Print - 21.3 x 22.4 x 0.1 inch
$280
![Photography, Cliff Richard, Harry Hammond](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/898929_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ligne de vie, Hom Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1243425_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Touchy, Alexander Benz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1261395_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Look Look, Alexander Benz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1161360_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, This Or Nothing, Alexander Benz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1154088_1_grid.jpg)
This Or Nothing
Alexander Benz
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$514
![Photography, In Bed With Helmut, Alexander Benz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1058619_1_grid.jpg)
In Bed With Helmut
Alexander Benz
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$514
![Photography, The 3rd day #5, Cody Choi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/195013_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Dancer: Bobo, Cody Choi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/194653_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, 'Nat King Cole', Harry Hammond](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/896922_1_grid.jpg)
Black and White Portraits
The allure of black and white. Color can articulate reality and reflect realism, but taking it away focuses on contrast and the use of monochromatic tone to set an atmosphere that draws the viewer in. This increase in impact has been harnessed by photographers since the first successful black and white images were taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce in the early 19th century, leading to further success in 1825 when he managed to produce a black and white image of a window. Naturally colored photographs would not be developed until 1891 when Lipmann Gabriel applied the phenomenon of optical light wave interface. And yet, the black and white photograph continued, particularly in portraiture. Why? Practically, black and white photographs have a longer archival shelf-life but artistically, color isn’t needed to capture the emotion, depth, expression and indeed reality through dramatic tone and contrast of the figure in front of the lens. You only need to recant Dorothea Lange’s widely circulated Migrant Mother (1936) to see how a single black and white portrait can become a symbol of plight. In our works, artists like Maud Bernos and James Sparshatt favor portraits devoid of color… portraits that draw you the viewer in and leave you to fall into their enduring monochromatic depths.