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Portrait Photography For Sale
Rhinoceros #2, Albuquerque, NM, 2013 - Animal Portrait Photography
By Brad Wilson
Located in Paris, FR
'Rhinoceros #2, Albuquerque, NM, 2013' is a limited-edition fine art photograph by American photographer Brad Wilson. Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta Paper, 2013...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
East Village Bums, Tramps Smoking and Drinking at Blue Green Wall
Located in Miami, FL
Four East Village down-and-out derelicts and apparent friends sit on a step and engage in a lively chat. They are smoking and drinking. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the...
Category
1960s Impressionist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Thomas Ruff, Queen in Car - Double-sided digital pigment print, Signed Print
By Thomas Ruff
Located in Hamburg, DE
Thomas Ruff (German, b. 1958)
Queen in Car, 2021
Medium: Double-sided digital pigment print on cardboard (glossy front, matt verso)
Dimensions: 15 x 20 cm
Edition of 30: Hand-signed ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Prelude to 220, or 110 - A Shocking Performance Art
By Chris Burden
Located in Miami, FL
An artist who puts his life on the line for his art.
Chris Burden was at the forefront of the conceptual art movement in the early 1970s. Prelude to 220, or 110 is one of his most ...
Category
1970s Conceptual Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Sunbathing in Venice, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Italy
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sunbathing in Venice
A woman sunbathes wearing a novelty straw sun hat with built-in sunglasses, Venice, 1954.
In this delightfully whimsical photograph by Slim Aarons, taken in 1...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Gelatin silver print of Bette Midler by Andy Warhol
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance.
Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso.
Pro...
Category
1980s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Taxi Portrait - Lost in Thought in New York City
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk's signature hi-color/design photography merges with photojournalism in this introspective New York City Taxi Portrait.
Signed, dated, numbered low...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Death comes to you, Day of the Dead, Dia de los Muertos, Isla Mujeres, Mexico, 2
Located in Toronto, ON
Death comes to you, Day of the Dead, Dia de los Muertos, Isla Mujeres, Mexico, 2023
Photograph by Cosmo Condina in Black and White of a woman dressed for the celebration of the Day ...
Category
2010s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Longwood Waterlilies
Located in Norwalk, CT
This image is part of my Floraphilia portfolio that has been an ongoing visual exploration for over two decades. A B&W portfolio was first published in Lenswork Magazine in 2010, a s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Frenzied Pedestrians at Crosswalk Times Square - Street Photography Literally
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk nabs the frenetic energy of Times Square, where the streets are as over-stuffed as the billboards. They are one and the same and powered by an ele...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
"The Beatles at Candlestick Park" 1966 framed photograph by Jim Marshall
By Jim Marshall
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"The Beatles at Candlestick Park" photograph by Jim Marshall depicts George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and John Lennon at their final concert at Candlestick Park in San Fr...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Stallion Portrait: Slickly - Mane - Champion Horse's hair portrait print
Located in London, GB
Slickly was a world champion miler and leading French sire.
Series: Studio Portraits, Slickly - 'Mane', 2009 by John Reardon
Archival Pigment Print on Ha...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Col...
"Deborah Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie on Their Roof in NYC" framed photo
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Deborah Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie on Their Roof in NYC 11/28/80" black and white photograph by Allan Tannenbaum. Image size: 9 x 13 inches. The text to the right of the photo...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Jimi at Woburn Festival 1968" framed B&W photograph by Michael Putland
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Jimi at Woburn Festival 1968" framed black and white photograph by Michael Putland of Jimi Hendrix at the July 6, 1968, Woburn Music Festival in England. "Jimi at Woburn Festival 1...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Cape Cross - Studio Portrait, Stallion, Champion, Equine Art Print Unframed
Located in London, GB
Cape Cross (13 March 1994 – 21 April 2017) was an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse. He is a son of the July Cup winner Green Desert and Cheveley Park Stakes, winner Park Appeal who ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Bla...
"The Cure Gets Caught on Columbus Ave., NYC 4/11/80" photo by Allan Tannenbaum
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"The Cure Gets Caught on Columbus Ave., NYC 4/11/80" black and white photograph by Allan Tannenbaum. Image size: 9 x 13 inches. The text reads: "The Cure New York City 1980. In 1978, the Sussex ensemble led by Robert Smith changed its name from Easy Cure to the name that would follow them into the pages of music history - the Cure. Their debut album, 'Three Imaginary Boys...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Fifth Avenue at Rush Hour with Extreme Intense Light, Neutral Palette
Located in Miami, FL
Occupying the lower third of the picture plane, a herd of humans stride down Fifth Avenue. They form an overall pattern. The top of the picture is also comprised of a simple pat...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Adele Collins, Vogue
Located in New York, NY
Ed. of 21, estate-stamped. Includes black frame.
Norman Parkinson was the preeminent fashion photographer in Great Britain from the late 1930s until his death in 1990. Born in 1913,...
Category
1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled (from the series A Bee in the Rose)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Erica Kelly Martin is an artist and photographer, based in Los Angeles, whose work centers on recurring themes of identity, transformation, and the paradox of human existence, conden...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Graduation Dress, Yosemite Valley
By Ansel Adams
Located in Tulsa, OK
Ansel Adams
Graduation Dress, Yosemite Valley, 1948, printed 1974
Signed and numbered in pencil on mount recto. Adam's Portfolio VI stamp on mount verso
Gelat...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Women on Top
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Limited Edition, Unique Variant Print.
Two women in round toed-pumps with skirts blowing in the wind, three men in overcoats with hats in their hands. This flirty diptych was inspired by the glamorous style of the 1960's, turning the tables and putting women on top, men below with hats off.
+ Cyanotype hand-printed on Arches BFK Rives French watercolor paper
+ Deckled Edges on all four sides
+ Signed and editioned on front in pencil
+ Letter of Authenticity
+ Printed in Los Angeles, CA
WHAT IS A CYANOTYPE?
cyan = blue
type = print
Cyanotype is a historic photographic processes, invented in 1842 and used by Anna Atkins–the first female photographer. The process involves coating watercolor paper with light-sensitive chemistry made of iron salts. Photographic negatives are laid on top, exposed in the sunlight, and then washed in water to develop into the deep Prussian-blue unique to cyanotypes. Brings a moment of beauty and conversation to any space.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Alexandra DeFurio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Film, Watercolor, Magazine Paper, Color, Photogram
"Fishing For New Friends" Photography, Color, Aluminum Dibond Mounted Print
Located in New York, NY
"Fishing For New Friends" Photography: Aluminum Dibond Mounted Print, Giclée Fuji Metallic Paper, High Gloss Lamination
Dimensions: 20 x 30 in, 16 x 24 in, or 12 x 18 in
These photog...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
White Lipped Tree Viper #3 - Animal portrait photography, green snake
By Brad Wilson
Located in Paris, FR
'White Lipped Tree Viper #3, Albuquerque, NM, 2016' is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Brad Wilson from the ‘Affinity’ series which features studio portraits of w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Barbra Streisand (fur hat)
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Lawrence Schiller. “Barbra Streisand (fur hat)” is a figurative photograph, vintage silver gelatin photograph in black and white by American artist Lawrence Schiller. The artwork is signed on the verso.
Lawrence Schiller only remembers the 60s in this way: Fast. As in: Blur. Which is, for those who lived through it, as accurate a description as one is likely to find about the decade that began with optimism and ended in chaos. It was ten years of turmoil and exploration. And through this turbulent and tumultuous decade, it often seemed that whenever a headline-making news event occurred, Lawrence Schiller was there. Schiller was not just lucky to be in the right place at the right time; he was prescient. He was there to cover the event, to add to it, to help us see it, to aid its meaning and its depth. "It was a time in which things happened awfully fast," Schiller says of the decade. "It was a wild, wild period; an uncontrolled period. I don’t think you had any sense of perspective in the 60s. You had to wait and look back at it, because it was a period in which things were happening that had no rhyme or reason to it. But by the end of the ‘60s I had covered so many stories, had so many magazine covers, I had somehow become part of that decade’s history. And I already had my eye on the future."
When Lawrence Schiller got the assignment from the French magazine, Paris Match to photograph Marilyn Monroe on the 20th Century Fox set of Something’s Got to Give, he thought nothing of it. It wasn’t to be a private, studio shoot. He wasn’t going to set up lights, create backgrounds, or use a tripod. Just another assignment, he figured. Monroe by then was firmly established as a figment in the imagination of most young men. The orphan Norma Jean had recreated herself as the blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe. She’d appeared in twenty-nine films by the time Schiller photographed her in black and white and color in May, 1962. The world was unprepared for the moment when Marilyn jumped in the swimming pool in a flesh-colored bikini and came up out of the water au natural. She was all smiles and in her element: the sex goddess...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-War Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Moon Eyed
By Terry Bell
Located in Toronto, ON
Moon Eyed, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2021. Edition of 10.
Terry Bell photographs the ordinary and makes it nothing short of extraordinary. He lives and photographs around his home in Nov...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
L’artiste est dans la cave
By Urs Lüthi
Located in Torino, TO
Urs Lüthi with his various alter egos and androgynous self-portraits raises questions about identity through the use of the body. Faces uncertain between masculine and feminine, bodi...
Category
1970s Performance Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Donald Baechler
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A set of four (4) photographs by Andy Warhol. “Donald Baechler” is a set of four Polaroids, Polacolors by American Pop Artist Andy Warhol. The artwork is numbered FA05.00957, FA05.00...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Dust III, Kenya, Elephant, animal, wildlife, color photography, africa
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 15
More sizes on request
For several days I went out with these baby elephants of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust to the bush in Tsavo East, Kenya. Together with their ke...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
David Byrne
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Dated "SEP 21 1982" on the verso.
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation i...
Category
1980s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Julian Schnabel 4 Polaroids
By Andy Warhol
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A set of four. photographs by Andy Warhol. "Julian Schnabel 4 Polaroids" is a set of four Polaroids, Polacolor by pop artist Andy Warhol. The work is numbered FA05.01027, FA05.01022,...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Lorenzo Agius - Madonna in the Library, madonna, colour, photography, 24x20 in
Located in London, GB
Lorenzo Agius (b.1962)
Madonna in the Library
2005
digital C-Type print
60 x 48 in. / 40 x 30 in. / 24 x 20 in.
signed and numbered
printed later
This work is available in the follo...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Digital
Self Portrait
By Andy Warhol
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Andy Warhol. "Self Portrait" is a gelatin silver print by American pop artist Andy Warhol. The artwork is numbered AWL116.
Andy Warhol — who famously said that, “In t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Barbra Streisand
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This black and white photograph is a portrait of Barbara Streisand backstage, getting ready for a performance. It is a beautiful and intimate portrait of the celebrity.
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Greenwich village Street Scene with Colorful Walls - Street Photography
Located in Miami, FL
In the 1970s, color photography was still not recognized as fine art. As a street photographer, Mitchell Funk breaks with traditional black and white photography and shoots on the ...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Joan Collins Relaxes - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Joan Collins Relaxes - Estate Stamped
Film star Joan Collins relaxes with her pink poodle on her pink bed. (Photo by Slim Aarons)
...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Showtime diptych I
Located in MADRID, ES
Photography, printed on Fine Art cotton smooth paper 310 g/m2, glued to Dibond Aluminium. 100 x 100 x 0,5 cm + 100 x 100 x 0,5 cm. Unique piece with these dimensions.
Showtime, by F...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lorenzo Agius - Madonna and the Monocle, madonna, colour, photography, 30x40 in
Located in London, GB
Lorenzo Agius (b.1962)
Madonna and the Monocle
2005
digital C-Type print
60 x 48 in. / 40 x 30 in. / 24 x 20 in.
signed and numbered
printed later
This wo...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Digital
Halston, Dolly Parton & Andy Warhol at Studio 54
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work is unique.
Stamped on the reverse by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso.
The work comes with an Authentication Letter from the Andy Warhol Authentication Board, Inc.
Provenance: Gift of the Artist to Pat Hackett to Hedges Projects...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Porsche Girl
By Seek One
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media on wood. Resin finish optional. Homage to late great Bridget Bardot.
About the Artist:
Seek One has been featured in Forbes, Maxim, Haute Luxury among others. He...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Mixed Media
Donald Baechler Polaroid Triptych
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
The series of three polaroids of Donald Baechler sold together.
Donald Baechler is an American painter and assemblage artist who came into recognition amid the bourgeoning art scene ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Bryan Ferry and Bob Feiden
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation inventory number.
The work comes wi...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Self-Portrait
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A polaroid by Andy Warhol. ""Self-Portrait"" is a Post-War Polaroid by American Pop Artist Andy Warhol. The work has been given the Warhol Foundation authentication number AWL200 and...
Category
Mid-20th Century Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Susan Sontag and Gloria Vanderbilt
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation inventory number and initialed Tim ...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
A Modified Style Of Hair Dressing, 1921
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Edward S. Curtis
Modified Style Of Hair Dressing
1921
Photogravure Print
22 x 18 inches
Vintage large format Curtis Portfolio Photogravure, Portfolio 12, Plate #428, The North Ameri...
Category
Early 20th Century Other Art Style Portrait Photography
Materials
Photogravure
Chanel Vertical, 1990
By Todd Burris
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print.
Edition 1 of 15.
CURRENT EXHIBITION - runs through September 4th, 2016. Any framed photographs purchased during the show will be available after September 4th. If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production.
Shipping time depends on method of shipping.
Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph.
ABOUT: Since the early ‘90s, gallerist Robin Rice and designer Antony Todd...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Silver Gelatin
Sisters 1
Located in LEVALLOIS-PERRET, FR
Quality fine art print of creative portrait photography in a limited edition. Inspired by the portrait of Gabrielle d'Estrées and her sister. Kayee explores close relationships with ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Digital Pigment
Bob Dylan, BBC TV studios, London
Located in New York, NY
Bob Dylan, BBC TV studios, London, 1965
Limited Edition Photograph, hand signed by photographer Barrie Wentzell
#26/50
Category
20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Bleary" 35 MM Ilford black and white photograph by Sofia Malamute
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Bleary" 35MM Ilford black and white photograph by fine art and fashion photographer Sofia Malamute. Photograph of model Jamie Bochert shot for MAD Fall/Winter 2014. Image size 25 x ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Chris Harris, Los Angeles, 21st Century, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography
By Greg Gorman
Located in Munich, DE
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...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marella Agnelli
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work is unique.
Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Polaroid
KATE MOSS # 1 - Custom paint of Luna Blue - Diamond Dust
Located in New York, NY
Fashion shot of Kate Moss. Hand pulled acrylic, enamel screen print and diamond dust on linen. Will ship rolled.
About the Artist:
Russell Young currently lives and works in C...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Enamel
Andy Warhol with Tony Shafrazi and Ronnie Cutrone
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Tony Shafrazi had represented Keith Haring until the artist’s death in 1990. Shafrazi said of his first time ever entering The Factory in 1965, “I remember putting down my suitcase and looking out the window and seeing some people on the fire escape across the street. I realized that it was Andy Warhol’s Factory. So I went up to the Factory, and I remember Andy coming to the elevator and seeing me dressed up in this little mod, shiny, mohair suit...
Category
1980s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Rudolf Nureyev, New York City, 1963-Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography)
Located in London, GB
Rudolf Nureyev, New York City, 1963-Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography)
Signed, inscribed with title and dated on accompanying artist’s label
Silver gelatin print, printed l...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Halston Holding American Flag at Warhol's Montauk Estate
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Dated 'Jul 6 1982' (on the reverse).
Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The And...
Category
1980s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Trumpet Jazz Musician and Statue of Liberty
Located in Miami, FL
The photo represents a synthesis of Americana. Jazz meets the Statue of Liberty during a perfect sunset.
Signed, dated lower and numbered 3/25 lower right recto, unframed, printe...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Salvador Dalí, 1963 - Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography)
Located in London, GB
Salvador Dalí, 1963 - Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography)
Signed, inscribed with title and dated on accompanying artist’s label
Silver gelatin print, printed later
Availabl...
Category
1960s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Paul Newman in the motion picture "Cool Hand Luke", black and white portrait
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This black and white portrait of actor Paul Newman was taken by Lawrence Schiller in 1967 on the set of the movie "Cool Hand Luke".
A silver gelatin photograph by Post War artist Larry Schiller. This celebrity photograph...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-War Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Deeda Blair
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This image is a portrait of Deeda Blair. A fashion icon, Blair has been greatly involved in philanthropic causes, working with biomedical scientists and ve...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Portrait Photography for Sale on 1stDibs
Portrait photography can be a powerful part of your wall decor. Find a provocative and compelling portrait that speaks to you and you might find that the photograph will speak to your guests too.
Prior to the development of photography, which eventually replaced portrait paintings as a quicker and more efficient way of capturing a person’s essence, the subject of a portrait had to sit for hours until the painter had finished. In 1839, chemist and Philadelphia-based photographer Robert Cornelius didn’t have to wait very long for his portrait. In a matter of minutes, he captured what many believe to be the first portrait photograph. This shot was also the first self-portrait (or what we now call a “selfie”), and fine photography quickly became an art form.
Landscape photography, nude photography and portrait photography are very popular in today's modern interiors. A portrait can reveal a lot about the person in it. It can also add a narrative touch to your decor. You’ll often find that photographs of loved ones work well as decorative touches. A portrait of a family member or dear friend can help turn a house into a home, warming any space by evoking fond memories.
While family portraits can stir emotion, portraits of celebrities and important historical figures can also add a rich dynamic to your space. Portraits of famous musicians or intriguing actors hung in your dining room or home bar shot by Gered Mankowitz or Annie Leibovitz might inspire deep conversation over meals or drinks. Douglas Kirkland is also famous for his celebrity portraits. His photojournalism made him much sought after by Hollywood studios to document the filming of movies. In Kirkland’s powerful depiction of Hollywood stars, he excellently captures the glamour of their lives.
Other artists like Elliott Erwitt stand out by turning portraiture into a playful art form. Before graduating from high school in Hollywood, Erwitt had already begun to teach himself to take pictures, inspired by the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson. In image after image, Erwitt captured what photographers call “the moment” with rapier wit and penetrating humanity.
Portrait photography can be incredibly expressive, setting the tone and mood for a room. And there are different ways of incorporating portrait photography into your interior decor. If you’re thinking about adding color photography to a bedroom or living room, the colors of the portraits can become part of the room’s palette, while portraits shot in black and white won’t disrupt an existing color scheme.
On 1stDibs, find a vast selection of portrait photography from different eras, including 1950s portraits, 1960s portrait photography and more.
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