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Isabelle Van Zeijl - Rebirth Portrait, Photography 2020, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Rebirth Portrait C-print on Fuji Paper Collection: THE REBIRTH OF THE DUTCH FLOWER One size: 44.5 x 40.5 Edition of 8 + 2 Artist Proofs THE REBIRTH OF THE DUTCH FLOWER COLLECTION Is...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital, Arch...

Sade 'Love Deluxe' – Albert Watson, Black & White, Celebrity, Fashion, Sade
Located in Zurich, CH
Albert WATSON (*1942, Scotland) Sade 'Love Deluxe', 1992 Archival pigment print 142 x 107 cm (55 7/8 x 42 1/8 in.) Edition of 10, plus 2 AP Print only Drake purchased a series of Al...
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Fashion-Inspired Portrait of an Elite White Horse with a Black Bridle
Located in US
"Etched in Stone" This best-selling, award-winning image features the defined musculature of an all white-horse against a black backdrop. The print series Equus: Light & Form focus...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Glass Eyes" Photography 56" x 40" in Edition 1/3 by Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Glass Eyes" Photography 56" x 40" in Edition 1/3 by Larsen Sotelo Not framed. Ships in a tube Comes with COA Available sizes: Edition of 15: 35" x 25" inch Edition of 7: 42" x...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Photography

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Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée

Slim Aarons, Marietine Birnie, Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Slim Aarons Estate Ed.)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marietine Birnie after a day snorkeling at the Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comina), Malta, July 1959. Slim Aarons Marietine Birnie, Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna Chromogenic Lambda Print Slim Aa...
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1950s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Himba Woman by John Kenny. 54 x 36" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and his subjects in their day to day attire. The C-t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

Twiggy In Red Trousers, 1967 Limited Estate Print
Located in London, GB
Twiggy – at David Steen’s Home, Surrey, Lesley Lawson (born 19 September 1949) is an English model, actress, and singer widely known by the nickname Twiggy. She was a British cultu...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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C Print

Bob Gruen 'John Lennon - Four Portraits'
Located in New York, NY
Bob Gruen John Lennon Four Portraits 1974 (printed later) C-print 30 x 30 inches images printed separately Signed and numbered edition of 75 Bob Gruen (born 1945) is an American pho...
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1970s Post-Modern Portrait Photography

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C Print

Isabelle Van Zeijl - Resource, Photography 2020, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Rebirth C-print on Fuji Paper Collection: THE REBIRTH OF THE DUTCH FLOWER One size: 62.2 x 56.7 Edition of 8 + 2 Artist Proofs, 9 left THE REBIRTH OF THE DUTCH FLOWER COLLECTION Isa...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital, Arch...

Four Kings of Hollywood, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A series of four shots of film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) enjoying a joke at...
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1940s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Emulsion, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

Slim Aarons, Apres Ski, Gstaad (Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Apres Ski 1963 (printed later) Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate edition of 150 A group of women reclining on the snow in Gstaad with rugs covering their knees, 1963. Estate stamped ...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Rebecca, Tiffany Vase, Large Scale Sheila Metzner Photograph
Located in Surfside, FL
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...
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1980s Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print

Milton H. Greene 'Princess of Monaco Grace Kelly'
Located in New York, NY
Milton H. Greene Grace Kelly 1955 (printed later) All archival pigment prints, signed on reverse by the Estate American actress and then Princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly for an Ameri...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons, Hello There, 1955 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1955: Film star Diana Dors (Diana Fluck) (1931 - 1984) in blonde bombshell pose on a satin covered bed Slim Aarons Hello There, 1955 Lambda Print 4 sizes available Slim Aarons Estat...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Villa Nirvana
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Undercurrent Projects ...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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C Print

Public Enemy
Located in New York, NY
Public Enemy, 1996 Archival pigment print 48 x 48 inches Signed and numbered edition of 25 William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, known principally for h...
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1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons: Tiger Morse (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Tiger Morse sits in her shop, 'A la Carte' in New York, 1964. Andy Warhol star and fashion designer Joan "Tiger" Morse is pictured here with her signature black lace and a feathered mask, with a cigarette and long holder. She was a regular at Max's Kansas City, a society girl turned radical designer and creative dropout. She frequently lied about her past, and her biography remains a bit mysterious. She has been called “La Passionaria of the dropout subculture.” She would say, “I work all day and I swing all night." Her celebrity clients ran the gamut from Jackie Kennedy to Frank Zappa. She was known for only using manmade materials, including vinyl, Mylar, sequins, and electric lights. Her pop designs include the Love / Hate dress, which said "Love" on the front and "Hate" on the back. Tiger was in two Andy Warhol factory films, Tiger Morse, 1967 and **** (Four Stars). She was the subject of Tiger Morse, while **** also featured Tiger, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, and Ultra Violet. Her designs can be seen on the cover of the "We're Only In It For The Money" album, which parodies The Beatles Sargent...
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1960s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Potenza
Located in New York City, NY
Large-scale photograph from the Equine Beauty series. The legendary and complex relationship between humans and horses is an enduring one. The horse’s distinctive blend of grace and...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

Divine Nude No.9 by Ronald Martinez - Fine art photography, Renaissance, bodies
Located in Paris, FR
Divine Nude No.9 is a limited-edition photograph by French contemporary artist Ronald Martinez. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print

Divine Nude No.4 by Ronald Martinez - Fine art photography, Renaissance, men
Located in Paris, FR
Divine Nude No.4 is a limited-edition photograph by French contemporary artist Ronald Martinez. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 2 dimensions: *...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print

Al Pacino LA, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography, Scarface, Portrait
Located in München, BY
Combined Edition 10 Also available in 101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch and as combined Edition 25 in 40 x 50 cm / 16 x 20 inch 50 x 60 cm/ 20 x 24 inch This picture shows a scene of the movie blockbuster "Scarface" with Al Pacino. From personality portraits and advertising campaigns to magazine layouts and fine art work, Greg Gorman has developed a unique style in his profession. His distinctive use of light in his black and white portraits is one of the identifying aspects of a Gorman photograph. Gorman’s strength has been photographing motion picture and music personalities. His work has been used in film advertising and publicity campaigns as well as album and CD covers. Some of the motion picture celebrities that he has photographed include Ben Affleck, Lauren Bacall, Alec Baldwin, Antonio Banderas, Kim Basinger, Marlon Brando, Pierce Brosnan, Kevin Costner, Bette Davis, Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Andy Garcia, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Dustin Hoffman, Sophia Loren, Al Pacino, Barbra Streisand, Kiera Knightley, Clive Owen, Jennifer Lopez and John Travolta. In the music field, Mr. Gorman has worked with Elton John, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Morrissey, John Mayer...
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1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Skiing Waiter, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A skating cocktail waiter at the Palace Hotel in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1978. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Sli...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Marbella Club Bather, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A guest takes a break from the sun at the Marbella Club, Marbella, Spain, 1976. Aarons never used a stylist, or a makeup artist. Natural sun lights the c...
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1970s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Keep Your Cool (Backgammon in Acapulco) (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank 'Brandy' Brandstetter in a swimming pool at Acapulco, 1978. Slim Aarons Keep Your Cool (Backgammon in Acapulco) Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate. Certificate of Authenticity included. Collector will get the next number in the edition 72 x 48 inches $4900 60 x 40 inches $3950 40 x 30 inches $3350 30 x 20 inches $3000 Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). * Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Internal: Slim Aarons Poolside Glamour Photography, Vintage Backgammon, Vintage Sport, Acapulco, Vintage Pools, Vintage Games...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Breviarum
Located in New York City, NY
Large-scale photograph from the Equine Beauty series. The legendary and complex relationship between humans and horses is an enduring one. The horse’s distinctive blend of grace and...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons, In Vogue Acapulco (Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
In Vogue, 1966 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate edition of 150 Vogue magazine editor Topsy Taylor, a visitor to Acapulco, circa 1966. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Holiday in Mustique, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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...
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1980s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Sucubo II, Diptych. Limited Edition Portrait Photograph.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Why do we dream of a simple and unique image of Eden; What happens when pain represents our sanctuary... Léa Bon work is a profound exploration of dreams and fantasies, transcending...
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2010s Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Terry O'Neill 'Audrey Hepburn Dove'
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn Dove, 1967, Printed Later Silver gelatin print 72 x 48 inches Estate signature stamped and numbered edition of 50 with certificate of authenticity Terry O'Neill CBE (...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Forza
Located in New York City, NY
Large-scale photograph from the Equine Beauty series. The legendary and complex relationship between humans and horses is an enduring one. The horse’s distinctive blend of grace and...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

Realm (Kings Road) - unique solarized gelatin silver artist printed photograph
Located in San Francisco, CA
In Kings Road (2022) Mona Kuhn lyrically reconsiders the realms of time and space within the midcentury architectural elements of the iconic Schindler House in Los Angeles. Built by Austrian architect Rudolph M. Schindler in 1922, the house was both a social and design experiment and an avant-garde hub for intellectuals and artists in the 1920s and ’30s. The body of works incorporates chromogenic color prints, reflecting vignettes and materials of the building's emotional architecture, juxtaposition with unique solarized gelatin silver prints capturing traces of an ethereal human presence. Realm (2022) Kings Road: A Rudolph Schindler House 30" x 40" / 76cm x 102cm /edition of 12 15" x 20" / 38cm x 56cm / edition of 12 true size solarized gelatin silver print printed at artist darkroom in Los Angeles (10 days handling time) original photograph accompanied by signed artist certificate: artist signature label (8x10") signed/editioned/dated/titled by the artist + stamped for authenticity label is placed centered on verso of the mounted print __________________ About the artist Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art. For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia. Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Stanley/Barker Editions published Kuhn's Bushes & Succulents in 2018. In 2021, Thames & Hudson published a career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn's most recent publication Kings Road (2022) with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum traveling exhibition shown in Europe and the US. Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris; The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London; Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland; Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and Australian Centre for Photography...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Salvador Dali's Party, Estate Edition Photograph [Surrealist Dinner, Green+Red]
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1959: Surrealist painter Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) with a red-haired woman in a green dress at a vintage ball in New York. The artist is captured with his characteristic walking st...
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1950s Surrealist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Steve McCurry 'Afghan Nomad Girl'
Located in New York, NY
Afghan Nomad Girl 1990 C-Prints printed on FujiFlex Crystal Archive Super Gloss Paper 60 x 40 inches Signed and numbered edition of 10 with certificate of authenticity Steve McCurry...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

Lech Ice Bar, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A bartender mixes a drink for a customer at the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and sta...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Mustique, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
March 1973: Linda Ashland relaxes in a beach hammock on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stam...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Holiday in Mustique, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pierre Vincent Marais and his wife Isabelle holiday with friends at Gelliceaux House, their home on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines, February 1...
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1980s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Florence Two, Italy, 2023
Located in Hudson, NY
Moody, Figurative, Woman Portrait The Robin Rice Gallery announces the new exhibition VISITOR by photographer Bill Phelps. Through light and shadow, a gaze, a mindset, Bill Phelps ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Divine Nude No.26 by Ronald Martinez - Fine art photography, Renaissance, man
Located in Paris, FR
Divine Nude No.26 is a limited-edition photograph by French contemporary artist Ronald Martinez. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in only one dimen...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print

Slim Aarons, Melina Mercouri (Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Melina Mercouri 1961 Printed Later. Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate edition of 150 1961: Greek actress Melina Mercouri (1925 - 1994) sitting at a stre...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Constelattio Horse Riding
Located in New York City, NY
Large-scale photograph from the Equine Beauty series. The legendary and complex relationship between humans and horses is an enduring one. The horse’s distinctive blend of grace and...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

Tom Kelley 'Dorothy Dandridge'
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley Dorothy Dandridge on the microphone c. 1950's C print 28 x 22 inches Edition of 50 Photographs are printed on Archival Hahnemühle paper ...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Breviarum
Located in New York City, NY
Large-scale photograph from the Equine Beauty series. The legendary and complex relationship between humans and horses is an enduring one. The horse’s distinctive blend of grace and...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

Terry O'Neill 'Sean Connery on the Moon'
Located in New York, NY
Sean Connery on the Moon, 1971 Silver Gelatin Print Estate signature stamped and numbered edition of 50 with certificate of authenticity Re-c...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Apres Ski, Squaw Valley, Estate Edition, Snowscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A party of skiers adjourn for drinks at Palisades Tahoe (formerly Squaw Valley), CA 1961. The festive mood is reflected in the colorful vintage skiwear, in red, yellow, blue, white and orange. In the background, snowy white and tree-topped mountains rise against a brilliant blue sky. This iconic image of casual glamour sets a tone for winter adventure. This site was the host for the 1960...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Christy Turlington, Luxor, Egypt, 1987 – Albert Watson, Celebrity, Fashion, Art
Located in Zurich, CH
Albert WATSON (*1942, Scotland) Christy Turlington, Luxor, Egypt, 1987 1987 Archival pigment print Image 142 x 107 cm (55 7/8 x 42 1/8 in.) Edition of 10; Ed. no. 9/10 Print only ...
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1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Hommage a Lolita Lempicka
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Hommage a Lolita Lempicka • Paris, 2005 Printed on Hahnemühle Archival Paper, mounted on alu-dibond, framed in a black shadow frame, signed and dated. Artwork - H 80.00 cm x W 59.7...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

Princess Caroline of Monaco (Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Princess Caroline of Monaco, with her pet dog Tiffany, Monte Carlo 1977. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authent...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Terry O'Neill 'Raquel Welch in ‘Myra Breckinridge’'
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn Relaxing, 1970 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 50 American actress Raquel Welch wearing a stars and stripes suit in ‘Myra Breckinridge’, a 1970 America...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Swimmer and Sunbather, Tahoe, Estate Edition. Vintage 50s California Nevada line
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An underwater swimmer and a sunbather at the Cal Neva Lodge on the shore of Lake Tahoe, 1959. The Cal Neva resort and casino straddles the border between Nevada and California and the line on the bottom of the pool marks the state boundary. It was owned by Frank Sinatra from 1960 to 1968. Slim Aarons Swimmer and Sunbather Cal Neva Lodge, Lake Tahoe Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Printed Later Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer. 60 x 40 inches $3950 40 x 30 inches $3350 30 x 20 inches $3000 Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer. Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Internal: Vintage Sport, Midcentury Modern, Vintage Lake Tahoe, Vintage Glamour, Vintage Slim Aarons, Vintage Cal Neva Lodge, American Realist, Midcentury sport, Midcentury Glamour, California Nevada State Line, Midcentury Tahoe, Lake Tahoe Trip, Vintage Watersports...
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1950s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons, Il Pellicano Pool, 1987 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers relax beside the swimming pool of Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, 1987 Slim Aarons Il Pellicano Pool, 1987 Lambda Print 4 sizes available Slim Aarons Esta...
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1980s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

George Hamilton in Capri
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American actor George Hamilton relaxes on a deckchair in Capri, 1968. George Hamilton in Capri Slim Aarons Estate Edition 40 x 30 inches Estate stamp...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Douglas Booth and Aleksander Skarsgard, Diptych. Photo intervened by the artists
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Douglas Booth and Aleksander Skarsgard, Diptych, 2015 by Hunter & Gatti From the IWMYAS Series Acrylic & Oil on Archival Pigment Print Overall Frame size: 29 in H x 50 in W x 2 in D ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Oil, Acrylic, Archival Pigment, Mixed Media

"Oryza Sativa, Flax Variegated" - portrait, Black Ancestry, embroidery
Located in Atlanta, GA
This archival pigment print on linen with embroidery and gold paper collage featuring hues of brown, yellow and orange. Tokie Rome-Taylor is inspired by the works of Harmonia Rosales...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Linen, Thread, Archival Pigment

Massimo Listri 'Braccio Nuovo, Musei Vaticani I'
Located in New York, NY
Braccio Nuovo, Musei Vaticani I, 2011 C print edition of 5 39.5 x 47 inches Edition of 5 47.5 × 59 inches Edition of 5 71 x 88.75 inches Edition of 5 framing options also avai...
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2010s Modern Portrait Photography

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C Print

Slim Aarons, Marietine Birnie, Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comino), Malta
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marietine Birnie snorkeling at the Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comino), Malta, July 1959 Slim Aarons Marietine Birnie, Blue Lagoon (Kemmuna / Comino, Malta, 1959) Chromogenic Lambda Print Slim Aarons Estate Edition 48 x 48 inches $4500 40 x 40 inches $3950 30 x 30 inches $3350 20 x 20 inches $2500 Estate stamped and hand numbered edition with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Chromogenic Lambda print from the original transparency Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Undercurrent Projects is proud to offer this vibrant photograph, printed by the Slim Aarons estate. It is part of the estate's only official limited run, of 150. Estate stamp embossed on recto, hand numbered in ink on recto, with certificate of authenticity from the estate (not a secondary gallery licensing from the estate). Increasingly heralded for his influence, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) made a career out of photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." Aarons is known for his iconic images of Hollywood glamour and luxurious people, places and lifestyles. Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Getty Images Gallery, London. Photographs are printed utilizing the original transparency held at the archive source. Aarons began his career as a combat photographer in World War II. Though he earned a Purple Heart for his service, he declared that combat had taught him that the only beach worth landing on was decorated with beautiful people enjoying themselves in the sun. Slim Aarons is noted for his documentation of the Beautiful People over 50 years, encompassing high society, celebrity, aristocracy, and the jet set. He was born and raised in New York City and New Jersey and later New Hampshire. He took up photography as a teenager. At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and was later appointed official photographer at the United States Military Academy at West Point. During World War II he served as an army combat photographer for Yank magazine in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. After the war he became a freelance photojournalist, first based in Hollywood, then Rome, then New York. His photographs appeared in many magazines, including Life, Holiday, Town & Country, Look, Venture, and Travel & Leisure. His first book A Wonderful Time (1974) is considered a classic. The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Internal: Slim Aarons Marietine Birnie Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comina), Malta, July 1959. Vintage Glamour Mid-century Modern Vintage Beach Photography...
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1950s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Profile of a Giraffe (Limited Edition of 25) - Animal Photography
Located in New York, NY
New York City based wildlife and street photographer Viet Chu, captured this striking shot of a Giraffe on a dark background. His focus is to inspire us with the beauty and vitality ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Chevalier André Leon Talley on the Pont Alexandre III, Paris, 30 June 2013
Located in New York, NY
Chevalier André Leon Talley on the Pont Alexandre III at six in the morning, Paris, 30 June 2013 Photographed by Jonathan Becker Contemporary 44" x ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Lila and Sam from the movie Stay with Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A piece of art from the movie 'Stay' by Stefanie Schneider Stefanie created the art for both main actors Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling in the movie 'Stay' directed by Marc Forster. S...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, 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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