Famous black and white photography prints go for a lot of money in the art market. The black and white photographs of Alfred Cheney Johnston, a contemporary of Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz are gaining steam.
Alfred Cheney Johnston was the famed photographer of the Ziegfeld Follies. Cheney shot thousands of stunning black and white photographs. They’re stunning because of his fine art training. While Cheney was still in art school the medium of photography was gaining ground as an acceptable art medium. Thankfully Cheney listened.
During the Jazz Age, before the big stock market crash which triggered the Great Depression of the 1930’s, Alfred Cheney Johnston was in great demand. Upon Cheney’s death thousands of his photographs were discovered in his studio. The black and white photographs were inherited by a close friend. This media is then practiced to generate a finishing representation or picture.
