1980s Portrait Photography

Norman Parkinson Jerry Hall , 1976 C print 40 x 30 inches each Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso American model Jerry Hall wearing a swims...

Afghan Girl by Steve McCurry is a 24 x 20 inch digital C-print on Fujiflex Crystal Archive Supergloss paper. One of Steve McCurry's most iconic images, this photograph features a you...

"Tina Turner 'The Back'" framed black and white photograph by Lynn Goldsmith. Image size: 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. This photograph was previously displayed in a guest room of the orig...

Khomeini Returning To Iran is a vintage black and white photograph realized on 2/01/79 in Tehran. Khomeini leader of the revolution of 1979 in Iran, came to Iran, after 15 years of ...

Cicciolina Puppet - Vintage Photograph is a black and white photograph realized in the 1980s. Good conditions with slight foxing.

Vintage Photo. The Italian actress Laura Belli in a scene from "Gamma", by Salvatore Nocita.

Vintage Photo with stamp. The Irish actor Gabriel Byrne.

Sara Puppet (Ciriaco De Mita) - Vintage Photograph is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s. Good conditions with slight foxing. Typed description in Italian o...

Serena Puppet - Vintage Photograph is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s. Puppetry of "Samson and Delilah" Good conditions with slight foxing.

Margherita Boniver is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s. Stamped on the rear. Good conditions.

Margherita Boniver is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s. Stamped on the rear. Good conditions.

Thomas Walde and Reporter Gerd Heidemann is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s. Typed note on the rear in German. Good conditions.

Margherita Boniver is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s. Stamped on the rear. Good conditions.

Entro Organizzazione, PSI - Vintage Photograph is a black and white photograph realized in the 20th century. Hand-written on the rear. Good conditions.

Margherita Boniver is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s. Stamped on the rear. Good conditions.

Slim Aarons Paola Mussetti, 1982 C print Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Norina Pisciotto poses at the v...

Vintage Photo

Slim Aarons New York Debs 1958 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Leading New York debutante...

Dizzy Gillespie is a vintage photograph realized in the 1980s. Good conditions.

Naples #287 by Jed Fielding is a silver gelatin print. This photograph depicts a baby face looking at the viewer with a woman on the phone passing in the bac...

Sheila Metzner’s unique photographic style has positioned her as a contemporary master in the worlds of fine art, fashion, portraiture, still life and landscape photography. Looking at Metzner’s photographs is a captivating experience. Innocent, sensual, and sexual, each photo, regardless of subject, exhibits and elicits deep emotion. It is nearly impossible to just glance at Metzner’s photos; they beg to be studied. She says, “Photography in its most basic form is magic…This image, caught in my trap, my box of darkness, can live. It is eternal, immortal. The child in the image will not age as the living child will.” Sheila Schwartz was born in 1939 to an orthodox Jewish family in a poor section of Brooklyn. While attending the School of Industrial Art in Manhattan (now the High School of Art and Design), she was awarded the Mayor Robert F. Wagner scholarship to the college of her choice. She chose Pratt Institute, where she majored in visual communication. Her fondness for painting and sculpture also led her to study with abstract artists Jack Tworkov and James Brooks. After graduating in 1961, Sheila worked as an assistant to Lou Dorfsman at CBS Network Advertising. Five years later, she was hired by the Doyle Dane Bernbach advertising agency as its first female art director, and in 1968 she met and married director, creative director, and painter Jeffrey Metzner. While pregnant with their first child, she was riding in a cab with her mentor and friend, photographer Aaron Rose, discussing whether or not to give up her career in advertising. “He said, ‘You should be a photographer. You live like an artist. You have a good eye, you’d be good at it.’ ” Metzner started taking pictures, amassing them slowly over the next 13 years, while raising her and Jeffrey’s five children—Raven, Bega, Ruby, Stella and Louie. Jeffrey’s two daughters from a previous marriage, Evyan and Alison, were also a regular part of the family. “When they were really small, I’d be with them during the day, photographing and printing at night. At eight or nine in the evening, when they were all asleep, I’d take a shower to wake up and put on high heels and lipstick, which I wore then, to give me the feeling of being ready to work.” She continues, “My children never interfered. When I couldn’t travel because of them, I would find a place in upstate New York and call it Antarctica or Egypt. I found microcosms.” Nine years later, Metzner had accumulated a box of 22 pictures. One of them, a black-and-white photograph titled “Evyan, Kinderhook Creek,” caught the eye of John Szarkowski at the Museum of Modern Art, which he included in his famous and controversial exhibition “Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960.” The New York Times art critic Hilton Kramer loved the picture and soon it became the dark-horse hit of the exhibition. Later that year, Metzner’s first solo show at the Daniel Wolf Gallery in New York drew record crowds. Metzner was now ready to work in color, but not just conventional color. Of her subjects, she once said, “If I use a rose, I want it to be the essential rose—the rose Beauty brought to her father from the Beast’s garden.” Now she aspired to an essential kind of color. “I wanted something that would last. I was looking for Fresson even though I didn’t know they existed.” The Fresson family works outside of Paris and specializes in a labor-intensive four-color “process de charbon” method, which they invented in 1895. Some prints can go up to seven colors, and are pigment prints, the only true archival color print. Metzner is one of just ten American photographers with whom they are willing to work. Fresson prints are the perfect complement to Metzner’s style—soft, sensuous, and grainy, the prints resemble paintings, with a finish which Metzner describes as “a glaze on fine porcelain. The moment I saw the neutral gray,” she adds, “I knew it was perfect.” In 1980 Metzner showed her Fresson color prints at her second solo exhibition at the Daniel Wolf Gallery. This show led to commissioned editorial work for such magazines as Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Rolling Stone. She secured an exclusive contract with Vogue for the next eight years. Metzner considers her portrait of actress Jeanne Moreau for Vanity Fair a turning point in her career. “It gave me a chance to show my work to a broader audience. I wasn’t just producing photographs for the art world.” Of Sheila’s foray into fashion, critic Carol Squiers says, “At a time when fashion photography was caught between sterility and the snapshot, Metzner created a sumptuous vision that stimulated the entire field.” Metzner also started doing commercial photography around this time. Her first client was Valentino, soon to be followed by Bloomingdale’s, Perry Ellis, Revlon, Shiseido, Saks Fifth Avenue, Paloma Picasso, Victoria’s Secret, Levi’s, Ralph Lauren, and fragrances for Chloe and Fendi (the Fendi campaign won a Fragrance Foundation Recognition Award). Her work also appeared on John Mellencamp...

Edition 25 Also available in 76 x 101 cm / 30 x 40 inch, Edition 25 Black and white portrait of Chris Harris. From personality portraits and advertising campaigns to magazine layo...

Vintage Photo. Italian actors Marcello Mastroianni and Laura Morante in a scene from the movie "Le due vite di Mattia Pascal", directed by Mario Monicelli.

Vintage Photo. The Italian Actress Eleonora Giorgi and Ivo Garrani in "La Traversata". Lightly damaged.

Pierre Vincent Marais and his wife Isabelle holiday with friends at Gelliceaux House, their home on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines, February 1989. Slim Aarons Estate Editi...

Vintage Photo. The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet.

Artist: Alan Herr, American (1954 - ) Title: Zappa 1 Medium: Digital Print Photograph, Signed in Permanent Marker Edition: AP Size: 13.5 x 13 inches

Vintage Photo. The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet in a scene from the movie "Amore vuol dir gelosia", by Mauro Severino. Lightly damaged.

Slim Aarons Lina Wertmuller 1982 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Lina Wertmuller, Italian...

Slim Aarons Donna Stefanella 1984 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Donna Stefanella Vanni ...

This Vintage Photo shows the Italian Singer Fiorella Mannoia.

Vintage Photo. Mrs. Martin Luther King jr., presents the Non violent Peace Prize to Sir Richard Attenborough of England in Atlanta.

Vintage Photo. The Actress Barbara Bouchet during "Sereno Variabile", a program by Luigi Costantini.

Vintage Photo. The Italian actress and singer Loretta Goggi during "Il bello della diretta".

Vintage Photo. The Actress Agostina Belli during "Vanità", a TV show directed by Giorgio Capitani.

James and Alexandra Hamilton, the 5th Duke and Duchess of Abercorn holiday on Windermere Island in the Bahamas, with their children Sophia and James, April 1980. 40 x 60 inches $395...

James and Alexandra Hamilton, the 5th Duke and Duchess of Abercorn holiday on Windermere Island in the Bahamas, with their children Sophia and James, April 1980. 40 x 60 inches $395...

James and Alexandra Hamilton, the 5th Duke and Duchess of Abercorn holiday on Windermere Island in the Bahamas, with their children Sophia and James, April 1980. 40 x 60 inches $395...

James and Alexandra Hamilton, the 5th Duke and Duchess of Abercorn holiday on Windermere Island in the Bahamas, with their children Sophia and James, April 1980. 40 x 60 inches $395...

Vintage Photo. A scene from the movie "Cry Freedom" by Richard Attenborough.

This Vintage Photo shows two of the protagonists of the Program "Fermate il colpevole".

Vintage Photo. The Italian Film Producer Vittorio Cecchi Gori.

Vintage Photo. The Italian Actress Giulietta Masina and the Actress Silvia Popovska in a scene from "Frau Holle" by J.Jakubisko.

Vintage Photo. The Italian Actress Lauretta Masiero in a scene from "Principesse, violini e champagne", by Gianfranco Bettetini.

This Vintage Photo shows the Italian Singer Luciano Ligabue.

Vintage Photo. The Actress Barbara Bouchet in a scene from the movie "Non si sevizia un paperino" by Lucio Fulci. Lightly damaged.

Vintage Photo. The Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni in a scene from "Enrico IV" by Marco Bellocchio.

Vintage Photo with stamp. The Irish actor Gabriel Byrne.

Vintage Photo. The Italian Actress Lauretta Masiero during the "Maurizio Costanzo Show".

Vintage Photo. The Actress Agostina Belli during "Vanità", a TV show by Giorgio Capitani.

Vintage Photo showing the producer Mario Cecchi Gore and the movie Director Pasquale Squitieri.

This Vintage Photo shows the Actress Isabella Goldman.

Oscar Obregon Salazar Gomez Velez Guzman y Murphy (centre, left) with Karen Murphy, Robin Goodland and Melissa Engelhardt at the Villa Nirvana hotel, Acapulco, Mexico, 1986. Compli...

Oscar Obregon Salazar Gomez Velez Guzman y Murphy (centre, left) with Karen Murphy, Robin Goodland and Melissa Engelhardt at the Villa Nirvana hotel, Acapulco, Mexico, 1986. Compli...

Oscar Obregon Salazar Gomez Velez Guzman y Murphy (centre, left) with Karen Murphy, Robin Goodland and Melissa Engelhardt at the Villa Nirvana hotel, Acapulco, Mexico, 1986. Compli...

Oscar Obregon Salazar Gomez Velez Guzman y Murphy (centre, left) with Karen Murphy, Robin Goodland and Melissa Engelhardt at the Villa Nirvana hotel, Acapulco, Mexico, 1986. Compli...

Signed limited edition 16x20" silver gelatin print of Bernard Sumner by Kevin Cummins. This stunning shot of the New Order frontman was taken in New York Cit...

Delfina Costa-Delord and Alessia Costa-Delord posing for a portrait, each wearing a hat, in Asolo, Italy, in September 1988. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity...