Artistic Black and White Portraits

A range of artistic portraits focusing on various figures, emphasizing composition, pose, and the elegance of monochrome photography.

Poet Galaktion Tabidze, Anonymous

Berenice Abbott, Portrait of Lucia Joyce, 1925-30, printed 1982, gelatin silver print.

John Barrymore (1882-1942), American Actor, full-length seated Portrait, Francis Joseph Brugiere, 1922

Paul Wiecke as a tasso

Lady Astor as a masculine-dressed by coy Southern Belle. July 30, 1952.

Berenice Abbott, Portrait of Pierre de Massot, 1925-30, printed 1982, gelatin silver print.

Portrait of Charles Fletcher Lummis. Date/Period: 1897. Print. Cyanotype. Height: 150 mm (5.90 in); Width: 98 mm (3.85 in). Author: Aemilian Scholl.

Portrait of Paul Wiecke

Raphael Kirchner -, Maler, Illustrator, Unknown, Photographer

Poet Galaktion Tabidze, Anonymous

01/01/1975. Paco de Lucía with Casilda Varela, his wife.

Charles Baudelaire, poeta francés. 1857.

Vsevolod Valerianovich Kurdyumov - poet, playwright ca. 1915.

Berenice Abbott, Portrait of Sylvia Beach, 1926, printed 1982, gelatin silver print.

RICHARD HARRIS in CROMWELL (1970), directed by KEN HUGHES.

'Master Henry Hertherington', c1893. Artist: Henry Herschel Hay Cameron.

BIENVENIDA , MANOLO MANUEL MEJIAS JIMENEZ MATADOR DE TOROS ESPAÑOL . DOS HERMANAS 1912 - 1938;.

ANTONIO BACHILLER Y MORALES - 1812/1889 - ESCRITOR CUBANO.

Lewis Powell, aka Lewis Payne and Lewis Paine, 1844 - 1865. American, executed by hanging for involvement in conspiracy which resulted in assassination of American President Abraham Lincoln.

Tatiana Hilarionowna Princess of Metternich-Winneburg, born Princess Vassiltchikova, Anonymous

Portrait of an actor, Anonymous, 1900 - 1960 photograph unknown photographic support gelatin silver print

Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) by Anonymous /Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, Moscow/1914-1916/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Jean-Louis Barrault (1910 - 1994), French actor, director and mime artist.

United States: April 9, 1923 A portrait of Egyptian scholar, writer and lecturer Bishara Nahas who believes the curse of King Tut Ankh Amen killed Lord Carnarvon, the discover of King Tut's tomb.

Trader Faulkner as he appeared on the Broadway stage this year as Richard in the lady's not for burning. he wants to see his name in lights there. November 21, 1951.

Aubrey Beardsley, Evans, Frederick Henry (1853-1943)

Studio portrait of John C. Napier. Cartes de visite, Photographs. 1863. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. African Americans, Washington (D.C.), African Americans , Men

Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha by Anonymous /Private Collection/Photograph/Tsar's Family. House of Romanov

Paul Wiecke as Hamlet

Portrait of Karl With.

Historic photograph, Caesar, around 1930

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko, Anonymous

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko, Anonymous

Coloured photos of Jose de Guadalupe Mojic, Victor McLaglen and Conchita Montenegro. Fray Jose de Guadalupe Mojica (14 September 1895 - 20 September 1974) was a Mexican Franciscan friar and former tenor and film actor. He was known in the music and film fields as Jose Mojica. Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen (10 December 1886 - 7 November 1959) was a film actor who held both British and American citizenship. Conchita Montenegro (born Concepcion Andres Picado; September 11, 1911 - April 22, 2007) was a Spanish model, dancer, stage and screen actress.

Antonio Gala (1937-). Escritor Español.

Jean-Louis Barrault (1910 - 1994), French actor, director and mime artist.

Woman, 1925-1930, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

A silver gelatin photograph by Nicola Perscheid depicting Heinrich Vogeler, produced around 1924 on bromsilbergelatine development paper, showing the subject in portrait format with focus on facial features and attire.

EMILIO GUTIERREZ CABA in QUE HACEMOS CON LOS HIJOS (1967), directed by PEDRO LAZAGA.

Gregory Stroud popular Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Baritone appear in the role of Pish-Tush in "The Mikardo" on Saturday at the Theatre Royal. January 12, 1936. (Photo by Lafayette).

Rudolph Valentino 1926

Mrs. Audrey Carle - Policeman Husband Convited Of Her Husband. November 10, 1946.

Property of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France Mr. René Guérin, son , (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Monsieur René Guérin , fils). Portrait, man, Human being, France, Boulogne, Portraits, Mr Guérin

JULIA DEAN in THE CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE (1944), directed by ROBERT WISE.

Portrait of Felix Timmermans, Gyselinck, 1921 photograph Tielt baryta paper gelatin silver print historical persons

Richard Tauber as Wilhelm Master in "Mignon" by Ambroise Thomas

Curt diver as Tannhäuser

Miss B Hopkins, 205 Hanson St, 11 October 1930, Wellington, by Cuba Photographic Studio.

Property of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France Mrs. François Marie , (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Madame François Marie). Woman, shipwrecked image, portrait, Human being, Mme François Marie 7, 2 1918 France, Boulogne, Portraits, Mme François Marie

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930), Anonymous

Italian actor Ruggero Ruggeri (1871-1953) in Act I of Sly by Giovacchino Forzano, Italy, photo by De Marchi, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XVLII, No 49, December 5, 1920.

Philip Glass (born 1937) in 1989. American composer.

Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and prominent aesthete. Photograph taken in 1882 by Napoleon Sarony

Peppino. Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden (German, 1856 - 1931)

Lamberto Maggiorani, on-set of the Italian Film, "The Bicycle Thief", aka "Ladri di Biciclette", Ente Nazionale Industrie Cinematografiche, 1948

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900), an Irish writer. A lyricist, novelist, playwright and critic, he became one of the best known and at the same time most controversial writers in Victorian Britain, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

Heifetz

Properé d'bre to Albert Kahn , Boulolo, France maleamnia Kaminna , (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Madame Salomonia Kamenka). Woman, portrait, hairstyle , headgear, mode, Human beings, clothing, France , Boulogne , Portraits , Mme Caminca

Portrait of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovitch of Russia (1860-1919) by Russian Photographer /Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk/1867-1869/Albumin Photo/Russia/Tsar's Family. House of Romanov

Portrait image, probably depicting Brazil Jack. Porträttbild, förmodligen föreställande Brazil Jack.

JOHN GIELGUD in RICHARD III (1955), directed by LAURENCE OLIVIER.

Alfonso XIII (Spanish: Alfonso LeÛn Fernando MarÌa Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de BorbÛn y Habsburgo-Lorena;English: Alphonse Leon Ferdinand Mary James Isidore Pascal Anthony of Bourbon and Habsburg-Lorraine;17 May 1886 ñ 28 February 1941) was King of Spain from 1886 until 1931.

El cantante y compositor de rock, Miguel Ríos.

VANESSA REDGRAVE in JULIA (1977), directed by FRED ZINNEMANN.

ROBERT SHAW in YOUNG WINSTON (1972), directed by RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH.

Photograph of Binnie Barnes (1903-1998) an English actress.

Portrait of the poet Sergei Yessenin (1895-1925) by Nappelbaum, Moisei Solomonovich (1869-1958)/Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, Moscow/1919/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

1957. Dalí before a portrait of Felipe IV in a photograph dedicated to Miguel Utrillo, collaborator of Blanco y Negro.

Georg Grosch as Wilhelm Master

JOE DALLESANDRO in HEAT (1972), directed by PAUL MORRISSEY.

Yehudi Menuhin, famous violinist. September 16, 1935.

Vladimir Leonidovich Durov (1863-1934), Anonymous

B.L. Mabley and mother

Portrait of Isabella II of Spain (1830-1904) Queen of Spain. Dated 19th Century

Photographic print of Curly, the young Crow Indian Scout and only survivor of the Custer massacre. Photographed by Richard Throssel (1882-1933) a Cree photographer, who documented life on the Crow Reservation at the beginning of the 20th century. Dated 1907

Maxim Gorky (1868 - 1936), Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method, and a political activist. Gorky was active in the emerging Marxist communist movement. He publicly opposed the Tsarist regime, and for a time closely associated himself with Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov's Bolshevik wing of the party. For a significant part of his life, he was exiled from Russia and later the Soviet Union. In 1932, he returned to the USSR on Joseph Stalin's personal invitation and lived there until his death in June 1936.

Jack London (1876-1916), American Novelist, half-length Portrait, by Arnold Genthe between 1906 and 1916

PAUL NEWMAN in HOMBRE (1967), directed by MARTIN RITT.

Anefo photo collection. Johan Schmitz as Gijsbrecht van Aemstel. December 29, 1949

Indian spiritual teacher, Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1985). Date: 1935

AMANDA PLUMMER in DANIEL (1983), directed by SIDNEY LUMET.

Peter Voss (29 June 1891 - 9 January 1979) was a German film actor.

Stage producer Vsevolod Meyerhold by Anonymous /Moscow Photo Museum (House of Photography)/1930/Colour Lithography/Russia/Portrait

El escritor y editor español, Carlos Barral, retratado el año 1969.

Portrait of Franz Kafka, 1883 1924, German-speaking Bohemian novelist, digitally edited according to a photograph and a self portrait Portrait of Franz Kafka, 1883 1924, German-speaking Bohemian novelist, digitally edited according to a photograph and a self portrait Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 20636424

John Barrymore (born John Sidney Blyth; February 14 or 15, 1882 - May 29, 1942) was an American actor on stage, screen and radio.

John JACKSON Esq, boxer known as Gentleman Jackson, 1769-1845, mezzotint, 1810, after Ben Marshall 1767-1835

Leon Trotsky (Police photo) by Anonymous /Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk/1898/Photograph/Russia/Portrait,History

MAXIMO GORKI (1868-1936) ESCRITOR Y POLITICO RUSO Y FIODOR CHALIAPINE (1873-1938) CANTANTE DE OPERA (BAJO) Y ACTOR RUSO. MAXIM GORKY. Feodor Chaliapin.

Jack London, 1876-1916, American writer. From the book The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories, America, Volume 16, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

John Lonsdale, 1788-1867, Bishop of Lichfield. Painted by DJPound after a photograph by Maull and Polyblank. From the book The Drawing-Room of Eminent Personages, Volume 2, published in London 1860, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, record date not stated

Senator Robert La Follette, of Wisconsin, 1911. As the 1924 Progressive Party Presidential candidate, he won 17% of the national popular vote (BSLOC_2017_2_142)

Portrait of Franz Liszt (Raiding, 1811-Bayreuth, 1886), Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor. Painting by Henri Lehmann (1814-1882), 1839.

'This is a Photograph of J. Krishnamurti', c1911, (1911). Artist: Unknown.

Wilhelm I. oder in deutscher Sprache Wilhelm I. vollständiger Name: Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig von Hohenzollern, Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig von Hohenzolle...

Joseph Frank Keaton (October 4, 1895 - February 1, 1966), known professionally as Buster Keaton, was an American actor, comedian, film director, producer.

HERNANDEZ , ANGELA. MATADORA DE TOROS ESPAÑOLA. ALICANTE 1946 -.

Detective. Christian Boltanski; French, born 1944. Date: 1972-1973. Dimensions: . Black-and-white photomechanical reproduction mounted on paper, glass, and tape. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Isidora Dolores Ibárruri Gómez (9 December 1895 12 November 1989), known more famously as La Pasionaria, was a Spanish Republican leader of the Spanish Civil War and communist politician of Basque origin.

France, Vendee, La Roche-sur-Yon. Simone Veil statue

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