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C Print Color Photo Mississippi Juke Joint Photograph African American Americana
C Print Color Photo Mississippi Juke Joint Photograph African American Americana

C Print Color Photo Mississippi Juke Joint Photograph African American Americana

By Birney Imes

Located in Surfside, FL

BIRNEY IMES, Mississippi, b. 1951 "Riverside Lounge, Shaw, 1986" Dimensions: Chromogenic print, 14" x 16.5" sight. Framed 21" x 25". Birney Imes (born 1951) is an American photogra...

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1980s American Realist Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print

Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American
Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American

Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American

Located in Surfside, FL

Hatay is a visual artist, photographer, healer and a former Rock and Roll photojournalist. the yellow photocopied poster/info sheet is not included. Born in Scotland of a Hungarian...

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20th Century American Modern Figurative Photography

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Color

Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American
Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American

Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American

Located in Surfside, FL

Hatay is a visual artist, photographer, healer and a former Rock and Roll photojournalist. the yellow photocopied poster/info sheet is not included. Born in Scotland of a Hungarian...

Category

20th Century American Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Color

Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American
Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American

Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American

Located in Surfside, FL

Hatay is a visual artist, photographer, healer and a former Rock and Roll photojournalist. the yellow photocopied poster/info sheet is not included. Born in Scotland of a Hungarian...

Category

20th Century American Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Color

Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American
Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American

Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American

Located in Surfside, FL

Hatay is a visual artist, photographer, healer and a former Rock and Roll photojournalist. the yellow photocopied poster/info sheet is not included. Born in Scotland of a Hungarian...

Category

20th Century American Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Color

Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American
Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American

Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American

Located in Surfside, FL

Hatay is a visual artist, photographer, healer and a former Rock and Roll photojournalist. the yellow photocopied poster/info sheet is not included. Born in Scotland of a Hungarian...

Category

20th Century American Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Color

Fire Hydrant, Harlem, African Americans 1960s, Gelatin Silver Photo, Signed
Fire Hydrant, Harlem, African Americans 1960s, Gelatin Silver Photo, Signed

Fire Hydrant, Harlem, African Americans 1960s, Gelatin Silver Photo, Signed

By Leonard Freed

Located in New york, NY

Punctuated by documentary photo essays such as Black in White America, Fire Hydrant is one of Leonard Freed's most iconic in the Harlem series.

Category

1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Large Painting Photo Collage Martin Luther King African American Civil Rights
Large Painting Photo Collage Martin Luther King African American Civil Rights

Large Painting Photo Collage Martin Luther King African American Civil Rights

Located in Surfside, FL

This depicts civil rights icon MLK, the Statue of Liberty, Iwo Jima, an assemblage of mixed media photographic images and painted collaged elements. A powerful, moving work, an ode t...

Category

1990s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Glass, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Photographic Paper

Signed Gelatin Silver Civil Rights Era Photo, African-American Soldier in Berlin
Signed Gelatin Silver Civil Rights Era Photo, African-American Soldier in Berlin

Signed Gelatin Silver Civil Rights Era Photo, African-American Soldier in Berlin

By Leonard Freed

Located in New york, NY

The image of the black soldier in Germany jump started Freed's civil rights' era photo series. Noticing the black soldier standing in front of the wall, the photographer witnessed ...

Category

1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Botanical Tats 1 (other sizes available)

Botanical Tats 1 (other sizes available)

By Rob Brinson

Located in New York, NY

Female centric archival pigment print. Beautiful photo of African American woman. B/W. About the artist: For over 50 years, photography has been his medium of artistic explora...

Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

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Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American
Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American

Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American

Located in Surfside, FL

Hatay is a visual artist, photographer, healer and a former Rock and Roll photojournalist. the yellow photocopied poster/info sheet is not included. Born in Scotland of a Hungarian...

Category

20th Century American Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Color

Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American
Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American

Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American

Located in Surfside, FL

Hatay is a visual artist, photographer, healer and a former Rock and Roll photojournalist. the yellow photocopied poster/info sheet is not included. Born in Scotland of a Hungarian...

Category

20th Century American Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Color

Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American
Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American

Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American

Located in Surfside, FL

Hatay is a visual artist, photographer, healer and a former Rock and Roll photojournalist. the yellow photocopied poster/info sheet is not included. Born in Scotland of a Hungarian...

Category

20th Century American Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Color

Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American
Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American

Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American

Located in Surfside, FL

Hatay is a visual artist, photographer, healer and a former Rock and Roll photojournalist. the yellow photocopied poster/info sheet is not included. Born in Scotland of a Hungarian...

Category

20th Century American Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Color

Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American
Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American

Color Rock & Roll Photo Hand Signed Woodstock Music Festival African American

Located in Surfside, FL

Hatay is a visual artist, photographer, healer and a former Rock and Roll photojournalist. the yellow photocopied poster/info sheet is not included. Born in Scotland of a Hungarian...

Category

20th Century American Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Color

C Print Color Photo Mississippi Juke Joint Photograph African American Americana
C Print Color Photo Mississippi Juke Joint Photograph African American Americana

C Print Color Photo Mississippi Juke Joint Photograph African American Americana

By Birney Imes

Located in Surfside, FL

BIRNEY IMES, Mississippi, b. 1951 "Riverside Lounge, Shaw, 1986" Dimensions: Chromogenic print, 14" x 16.5" sight. Framed 21" x 25". Birney Imes (born 1951) is an American photogra...

Category

1980s American Realist Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print

Large Painting Photo Collage Martin Luther King African American Civil Rights
Large Painting Photo Collage Martin Luther King African American Civil Rights

Large Painting Photo Collage Martin Luther King African American Civil Rights

Located in Surfside, FL

This depicts civil rights icon MLK, the Statue of Liberty, Iwo Jima, an assemblage of mixed media photographic images and painted collaged elements. A powerful, moving work, an ode t...

Category

1990s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Glass, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Photographic Paper

Fire Hydrant, Harlem, NYC, Black and White Photo 1960s African American Children
Fire Hydrant, Harlem, NYC, Black and White Photo 1960s African American Children

Fire Hydrant, Harlem, NYC, Black and White Photo 1960s African American Children

By Leonard Freed

Located in New york, NY

Punctuated by documentary photo essays such as Black in White America, Fire Hydrant is one of Leonard Freed's most iconic in the Harlem series.

Category

1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

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African American Photos For Sale on 1stDibs

An assortment of african american photos is available on 1stDibs. A selection of these works in the Modern, Contemporary and Abstract styles can be found today in our inventory. If you’re looking to add african american photos that pop against an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include that feature elements of black, brown and more. Many versions of these artworks are appealing in their rich colors and composition, but Nona Hatay, Leonard Freed and Fred McDarrah produced especially popular works that are worth a look. The range of these distinct pieces — often created in paper, photographic paper and c print — can elevate any room of your home. Not every interior allows for large iterations of these items, so small african american photos measuring 10 inches across are available.

How Much are African American Photos?

The average selling price for african american photos we offer is $2,000, while they’re typically $850 on the low end and $5,500 for the highest priced.

Finding the Right Photography for You

Find a broad range of photography on 1stDibs today.

The first permanent image created by a camera — which materialized during the 1820s — is attributed to Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. The French inventor was on to something for sure. Kodak introduced roll film in the 1880s, allowing photography to become more democratic, although cameras wouldn’t be universally accessible until several decades later. 

Digital photographic techniques, software, smartphone cameras and social-networking platforms such as Instagram have made it even easier in the modern era for budding photographers to capture the world around them as well as disseminate their images far and wide. 

What might leading figures of visual art such as Andy Warhol have done with these tools at their disposal?

Today, when we aren’t looking at the digital photos that inundate us on our phones, we look to the past to celebrate the photographers who have broken rules as well as records — provocative and prolific artists like Horst P. Horst, Lillian Bassman and Helmut Newton, who altered the face of fashion and portrait photography; visionary documentary photographers such as Gordon Parks, whose best-known work was guided by social justice; and pioneers of street photography such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, who shot for revolutionary travel magazines like Holiday with the likes of globetrotting society lensman Slim Aarons.

Find photographers you may not know in Introspective and The Study — where you’ll read about Berenice Abbott, who positioned herself atop skyscrapers for the perfect shot, or “conceptual artist-adventurer” Charles Lindsay, whose work combines scientific rigor with artistic expression, or Massimo Listri, known for his epic interiors of opulent Old World libraries. Photographer Jeannette Montgomery Barron was given a Kodak camera as a child. Later, she shot on Polaroid film before buying her first 35mm camera in her teens. Barron's stunning portraits of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Warhol and other artists chronicle a crucial chapter of New York’s cultural history.

Throughout the past two centuries, photographers have used their medium to create expressive work that has resonated for generations. Shop a voluminous collection of this powerful fine photography on 1stDibs. Search by photographer to find the perfect piece for your living room wall, or spend some time with the work organized under various categories, such as landscape photography, nude photography and more.