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Sally Mann. Sally Mann (born Sally Turner Munger; May 1, 1951) [ 1] is an American photographer known for making large format black and white photographs of people and places in her immediate surroundings: her children, husband, and rural landscapes, as well as self-portraits.
Lunch atop a Skyscraper is a black-and-white photograph taken on September 20, 1932, of eleven ironworkers sitting on a steel beam of the RCA Building, 850 feet (260 meters) above the ground during the construction of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York City. It was arranged as a publicity stunt, part of a campaign promoting the skyscraper.
Included were methods for viewing a set of three color-filtered black-and-white photographs in color without having to project them, and for using them to make full-color prints on paper. [ 62 ] The first widely used method of color photography was the Autochrome plate, a process inventors and brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière began working ...
A Great Day in Harlem. Coordinates: 40°48′25″N 73°56′27″W. A Great Day in Harlem. A Great Day in Harlem or Harlem 1958 is a black-and-white photograph of 57 jazz musicians in Harlem, New York, taken by freelance photographer Art Kane for Esquire magazine on August 12, 1958. [ 1] The idea for the photo came from Esquire ' s art ...
Robert Mapplethorpe. Robert Michael Mapplethorpe ( / ˈmeɪpəlˌθɔːrp / MAY-pəl-thorp; November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits, and still-life images.
V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays a U.S. Navy sailor embracing and kissing a total stranger [ 1] —a dental assistant—on Victory over Japan Day ("V-J Day") [ 2] in New York City 's Times Square on August 14, 1945. The photograph was published a week later in Life magazine, among many photographs of ...
Helmut Newton (born Helmut Neustädter; 31 October 1920 – 23 January 2004) was a German-Australian photographer. The New York Times described him as a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications."
Monochrome photography is photography where each position on an image can record and show a different amount of light, but not a different hue. It includes all forms of black-and-white photography, which produce images containing shades of neutral grey ranging from black to white. [ 1] Other hues besides grey, such as sepia, cyan, blue, or ...