Black and White Photography

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Find and buy cutting edge black and white photographs from around the world by leading, contemporary photographers.

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Mike Gerra's Blog

My Eyes' Mind: Most would admit that I'm more of a photographer than a blogger. Here you'll find musing on photography, links to my portfolio and all my photographs, and those of many others. You be the judge. I'd love to hear your comments.

Mike Gerra's Photographs

Mike Gerra's Website: My own body of work. It spans 400 black and white prints of landscapes, cityscapes and peoplescapes from around 30 countries.

Black and White Photographers

Wilson, Alan: Street photography from Scotland, Ireland, and France.
Thernavskij, Aleksander: Russian photographer's urban scenes, as well as a large portrait of the man, himself.
Grutchfield, Walter: Portraits, landscapes, fire hydrants; all of Walter's favorite things.
Graupner, Frank and Olaf Kortz: Black and white urban and street photography from Germany.
Popovitch, Gregory: Black and white street photographs taken in Paris, New Mexico, San Francisco, Italy, Prague and New Orleans.
Gintowt, Alexander: Images of New York City.
Jakobiec, Wojciech: Street photography from Canada, Morocco, and Europe.
Allikas, Greg: Street photography from the 60s, 70s, and 80s
Pou, Jordi V.: Photographer living in Lleida, Spain; artistic photographs of big cities all around the world.
Reinhardt, Oliver: Urban photography from Europe, America and Australia.
Shintani, Koichi: Large collection of urban scenes, and portraits from Japan.
Resnick, Mason: New York City street photography.
Mencher, Eric: Urban scenes from around the world; Cuba, Spain, and Rwanda.
Quintero, Quini: Documentary style photographs of La Habana, Paris, London, and Bath.
Gamborg, Kristian: Fraction of Light - a series of industrial abstracts.
Dresher, D. F.: Street photographs capturing the face behind some mask, quiet and alone.
Hartmann, Mario: Mostly urban photography by this German photographer. New York, Berlin, and other locations. Some color photographs.
Newton, Larry: Urban images, primarily from New Orleans, as well as petroglyphs, and flowers.
Czap, Nick: Features two series of monochromatic photographs of motel rooms, and shop windows. Also, an interview with the artist, and his biography.
Gardiner, R: Black and white photography of New York and London, night photography.
Spirer, Jeff: Urban scenes, primarily in San Francisco.
Paulin, Frank: Street photography primarily of New York City in the 1950s.
Saxe, David: Urban scenes from Italy, and southern France. Primarily interiors, and exteriors of large, old buildings.
Lazic, Leo: Collection of enigmatic urban landscapes from the UK.
Guarionex: Abstract images of architectural, and urban details such as doors, peeling paint, steps, and pavement.
Shukwit, Geralyn: Images of New York, Detroit, Washington. Includes a FDNY 9/11 memorial exhibit.
Isom, Madeleine: Abstract architectural photography of New York City, Chicago, San Francisco and Paris.
Stewart, Martin: Urban photography taken from scotland, paris and tokyo.
Fuller, Matthew: Black and white cityscapes including Rio, Havana, Paris. Includes night shots.
Fields, Mark Stephen: Includes an urban Philadelphia gallery
Urwin, Richard: Urban photography around Europe, particularly in the United Kingdom.
Abrams, Richard: Musicians, performers, and workers on the streets of Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
Moreau, Andre: Shows urban landscapes and street scenes.
Hoppe, Dieter: German photographer's photographs of New York City. Mostly B+W.
Shibata, Noriyoshi: Photographs taken in back alleys of big Asian cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Tokyo, as well as travel images from Tibet and woman divers of Boso Peninsula, Japan.
Muhler, Roland: Photographs of architecture, manhole covers and some color works from Germany. Features galleries and a short artist biography.
Jorgensen, Sune: Urban landscapes from England, Denmark, Italy and Norway. Features galleries and an artist biography.
Hideki, Casai: Gallery of monochromatic urban landscape and abstract photography. [English and Japanese]
Alt, Anne K.: Urban landscapes from Chicago and Seattle. Features galleries and artist statement.
Ladd, Jeffrey: Features a collection of people, New York street and subway photography. Includes galleries, biography, details of exhibitions and information about publications.
KIos, Waldemar: Street photography from London by a Polish born photographer.
Beckerman, Dave: Black and White Photography of New York (Mostly).
Lebreton, Dominique: Eclectic collection of images from Dominique's travels.
Pobega, Mike: Capturing the extraordinary in the ordinary, from the streets of New York to the wilderness of Wyoming.
Gerra, Mike: Black and white images of landscape and cityscape from over 30 countries.

Cameras and Accessories

Find best equipment reviews and resources

Digital Camera Reviews: A resource for digital photography news, reviews of the latest digital cameras and accessories, a digital camera buyers guide, and comprehensive side-by-side comparisons.
Imaging Resource: Another good place for thorough and independent reviews of digital cameras and related equipment.

Black and White Printing, Printers, Print Supplies

Purchase supplies, Find equipment reviews and resources

InkjetMall: inkjetmall.com is an online resource for digital printmakers, supplying printers, quality inks and papers, workflow and support services.
MIS Associates: This is where I buy most of my B+W printing supplies. MIS is a one-stop-shop for quality inkjet printers (especially Espon), standard and specialty B+W and color inks, papers. They also offer downloadable profiles and good support.
Inkjetart.com: Another good place to fine inkjet printers, accessories, ink and quality papers.
Red River Paper: Red River offers a broad range of quality paper stock in hundreds of formats.
Hawk Mountain Papers: Great archival print papers in all the standard sizes.
Piezography - Jon Cone Editions: Piezography is home to Jon Cone, a digital print-making pioneer. Piezography refers to his system of pigment-based inks, workflow techniques, printer profiles and software that allows for fine art black and white printing on inkjet printers.
Dick Blick: If you're lucky to live east of the Mississippi you may find a Dick Blick art supply store in your home state. If not, check out Dick's website. I think it's one of the best places in the galaxy for artist materials regardless of whether art (and/or photography) is your profession or passion or both.

Resources, Tips, Techniques and Online Communities

Photo.net Community: This is one of the best and largest general photography communities on the web. Here, you'll find great advice forums and support from experienced photographers, both amateur and professional.
There are over 3300 edited articles and reviews on photography equipment and technique. The audience is mainly photography enthusiasts, but with a significant number of semi-professionals and professionals.
The Luminous Landscape: Another wonderful site devoted to landscape, nature and documentary photography using digital and traditional image processing techniques. Here's you'll find thousands of instructive articles, tutorials, product reviews, travel and technical discussions, and inspiring portfolios.
Photo District News (PDN) Online: Photo District News is an award-winning monthly magazine for professional photographers, and has been covering the industry for over two decades. Each month, PDN covers news and analysis, interviews, marketing and legal advice, photographic techniques, and portfolios of the latest photographic work.