50 wonderful black and white pictures from the masters of photography

Black-and-white pictures have some inexplicable mystery and atmosphere inherent only to them. We invite you to admire fifty such masterpieces from recognized masters.

What is important in black and white photography? It depends on who is looking at her. If you are a professional in this field, you will probably pay attention first of all to chiaroscuro, angle and other important photographic details. If you are a simple observer, you will most likely be interested in the whole composition as a whole — so to speak, the "beauty and uniqueness" of the picture. Whatever category you belong to, you will surely like some (or even all) black-and-white photos from this issue. They were made by masters of their craft who knew how to submit a picture devoid of colors.

1. Pedro Luis Raota

2. Stanko Abadzic

3. Henri Cartier Bresson

4. Pedro Luis Raota

5. Pentti Sammallahti

6. Edouard Boubat

7. Roy DeCarava

8. Peter Marlow

9. Emmet Gowin

10. Garry Winogrand

11. Ferdinando Scianna Capizzi

12. Herbert List

13. Abbas

14. Herbert List

15. Vivian Maier

16. Josef Koudelka

17. Dorothea Lange

18. Pedro Luis Raota

19. Bruno Bourel

20. Pentti Sammallahti

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23. Piergiorgio Branzi

24. Janine Niepce

25. Siegfried Lauterwasser

26. Edouard Boubat

27. Enzo Sellerio

28. Eduardo Teixeira Pinto

29. Elliott Erwitt

30. Henri Cartier Bresson

31. Edouard Boubat

32. Christer Stromholm

33. Thomaz Farkas

34. Ara Guler

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37. Jan Saudek

38. Larry Towell

39. Leonard Freed

40. Henri Cartier Bresson

41. Fan Ho

42. Shirley Baker

43. Toni Schneiders

44. Margaret Bourke

45. Henri Cartier Bresson

46. Shirley Baker

47. Willy Ronis

48. Leonard Freed

49. Ed Kashi

50. Mario Cattaneo