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Portrait Photography For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: Early 1900s
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Sunbathing In Burgenstock, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Lilian Hanson sunbathing by a pool at the Bürgenstock Resort Lake Lucerne in Canton Nidwald...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Lucky Luciano, Sicily, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Sicilian-born American gangster Charles 'Lucky' Luciano (1897 - 1962) walking with friends...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Behind Smoke (Thomas Hart Benton Plate #29)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Michael Mardikes
Behind Smoke (Thomas Hart Benton Plate #29)
Year: 1956, 2021
Archival Pigment Print on Premium Rag
Image Size: 13.5x19 in
Paper Size: 17x22 in
Edition: 7
Monogrammed...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
'Dali's Party, ' Estate Edition, ft Surrealist Salvador Dali in New York
By Slim Aarons
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...
Category
1950s Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Marilyn Monroe, New York City, USA, 1956
Located in New York, NY
Marilyn Monroe, New York City, USA, 1956
1956/2023
Signature stamp, verso
Archival pigment print
6 x 6 inches, sheet
3.75 x 5.5 inches, image
This work is offered by CLAMP in New...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
New England Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A young skier prefers to carry his skis down the slope in New Hampshire, 1955.
New England Skiing
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Numbered and stamped by the ...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Autographed Portrait of Billy Wilder - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed Portrait of Billy Wilder is a colored photograph reproducing the photographic portrait of the Austrian-American film director, Billy Wilder (A...
Category
1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons, Carlton Hotel (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958.
Slim Aarons
Carlton Hotel
Lambda Print
4 sizes available
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
60 x 60 inches
$5100
48 x 48 inches
$4500
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 x 20 inches
$3000
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 *
Slim Aarons photographed the Carlton Hotel, in Cannes, in 1958. The hotel was built in 1911, located at 58 La Croisette in Cannes on the French Riviera. It was designed by architects Charles Dalmas and Marcellin Mayère and built for Henry Ruhl, a Swiss hotelier. It is famous for hosting movie stars from around the world during the annual Film Festival. Famously, the hotel was a central location for the Alfred Hitchcock film To Catch a Thief starring Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. In 1970 it featured in the Peter Sellers/Goldie Hawn comedy There's a Girl in My Soup and exterior scenes were filmed at the entrance to the hotel and on the hotel beach. The hotel lobby scene and interior scenes were done on a film set. While staying at the Hotel Carlton during the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, Academy Award winning movie star Grace Kelly had an arranged meeting and photo shoot with Prince Rainier III of Monaco; they married in 1956.
In the summer of 1983 the hotel and its private beach featured prominently in the music video for the Elton John song I'm Still Standing. (The video also appears in the 2019 film Rocketman.) During the shooting of the video the Carlton was the scene of a drunken party involving John and the band Duran Duran that has since become something of a legend at the hotel. Significant damages to the rooms in John's suite resulted.[2] Both exterior and interior shots appear in New Order's 1993 music video for the single, "World (The Price of Love)", and exterior shots of the front of the hotel and the jetty leading out of the beach appear in Steps´ 1999 music video for their single "Love's Got a Hold on My Heart".
The Carlton Cannes has been the target of several high-profile jewelry...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Ten Commandments Movie Scene
Located in Austin, TX
Awesome recolored image of Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner posed in elaborate costumes for a scene in the 1956 film The Ten Commandments
This listing is for a limited edition archiv...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Autographed Portrait of Horst Buchholz-Toni Sailer - Vintage b/w Postcard- 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Horst Buchholz - Toni Sailer is a b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait, likely from a movie, of the German actor, Horst Buchholz (Berlin, 19...
Category
1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Esther Williams, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1950s figurative photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Esther Williams, American aquatic actress and former swimming champion, relaxing in a F...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, La Jolla, San Diego.
This is an estate stamp...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Omiccioli and Villoresi at Vetrina di Chiurazzi - Vintage Photo - 1953
Located in Roma, IT
Omiccioli and Villoresi in Vetrina di Chiurazzi is a vintage leaflet, realized in 1953.
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons 'Kings of Hollywood' (New Year's at Romanoff's)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) enjoy a joke at a New Year's party held at R...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Capucine 1957
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Capucine
French actress Capucine, (Germaine Lefebvre) (1933 – 1990) fanning herself at a New Years Eve party held at Romanoffs in Beverly Hills.
Paper size 20 x 16" inches / 51 x 4...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Esther Williams, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1950s figurative photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Esther Williams, American aquatic actress and former swimming champion, relaxing in a F...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Inga Lindgren And Poodles, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swedish model Inga Lindgren, wife of Argentinian finance minister Ceferino Alonso Irigoyen, wears designs by Vera Stewart with her standard poodles Aja...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Reg Lancaster 'Francoise Hardy' Limited Edition Photographic Print, 20x16
Located in San Rafael, CA
1969: French singer, Francoise Hardy sitting on a motorbike. (Photo by Reg Lancaster/Express/Getty Images)
As an authorized Getty Images Gallery partn...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
The Actor Cary Grant - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The American Actor Cary Grant is an original black and white photograph realized in the 1950s.
Portrait of the American actor with his third wife Betsy Drake.
Slightly blurry.
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Historical Photo - Viva Fidel - 1956
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Viva Fidel is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1956. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical moment and political e...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Young Price Charles of Wales - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Young Price Charles is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1950s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical moment and political events, me...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons 'Susanna Boylston Bolton'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Susanna Boylston Bolton
1965 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition 1 of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Susanna ‘Sukey’ Boylston Bolton, Newport...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Vintage Marilyn Monroe
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original vintage photograph taken by Milton Greene circa 1950's. This image depicts Hollywood icon and legendary beauty, Marilyn Monroe. This piece bears the Milton ...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons 'Joan Collins, Pink Accessory'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
circa 1955: Film star Joan Collins in a pink and white bedroom with an accessory pink poodle.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from ...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Pink Accessory, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
circa 1955: Film star Joan Collins in a pink and white bedroom with an accessory pink poodle.
Slim Aarons
Pink Accessory, Estate Edition
Chromogenic Lambda print
1955, Printed Later...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Marilyn In New York Taxi Cab
By Ed Feingersh
Located in London, GB
Actress Marilyn Monroe rides in the back of a car with Dick Shepherd on March 30, 1955 in New York City, New York.
(Photo by Ed Feingersh)
A beautiful Limited Edition (ed size...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Saks Fifth Ave, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman modelling an outfit for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot.
This is an estate...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman has last-minute adjustments made to her dress at a debutante ball.
This is a...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman has last-minute adjustments made to her dress at a debutante ball.
This is a...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman has last-minute adjustments made to her dress at a debutante ball.
This is a...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman has last-minute adjustments made to her dress at a debutante ball.
This is a...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Esther Williams, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1950s figurative photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Esther Williams, American aquatic actress and former swimming champion, relaxing in a F...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Esther Williams, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1950s figurative photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Esther Williams, American aquatic actress and former swimming champion, relaxing in a F...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Autograph Portrait of Sabine Bethmann - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed Portrait of Sabine Bethmann is a b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the German cinema actress, Sabine Bethmann (born in 1931). Around the 1950s.
Photo...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Backgammon By The Pool, Palm Beach, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary-Beth Turner playing backgammon by a ...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Ernest Hemingway - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Ernest Hemingway - Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in 1950s.
Good conditions.
A historical moment of the past through the art of photography ...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons 'Beauty and the Beast'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a tiger skin rug in the trophy room at socialite Laddie Sanford's home in Palm Beach, Florida.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition o...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Kings of Hollywood (New Year's at Romanoff's) Estate Edition Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) enjoy a joke at a New Year's party held at R...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Fan Mail', Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962), wearing a red negligee trimmed with black lace, sorts out her fan mail shortly after her film 'The Asphalt Jungle' had been released, Beverly Hills, 195...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
New England Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked 'Ski Instructors Only' in New Hampshire, 1955.
New England Skiing
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Numbered and s...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Young Fidel Castro - Vintage b/w Photo-1957
Located in Roma, IT
Young Fidel Castro - Vintage b/w Photo realized in 1959 in New York, Stamped Copyright by:
Black Star, London.
Good conditions.
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Jawaharlal Nehru and Nikita Sergeevič Chruščëv by Associated Press Photo - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Associated Press Photo, Jawaharlal Nehru and Nikita Sergeevič Chruščëv, 1955.
Rare b/w photo of Nehru, the First Minister of India (1947-1964), spiri...
Category
1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons - Nassau Beach Hotel - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Nassau Beach Hotel
The outdoor swimming pool at Nassau Beach Hotel, Nassau, Bahamas, 1959. The hotel was the first to built by Howard Johnson outside the United States.
Gorgeous pr...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Inga Lindgren And Poodles, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swedish model Inga Lindgren, wife of Argentinian finance minister Ceferino Alonso Irigoyen, wears designs by Vera Stewart with her standard poodles Aja...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Marilyn Quiet Moment 1955 (Framed)
By Ed Feingersh
Located in London, GB
Marylin Monroe relaxes on a couch in her hotel room at the Ambassador Hotel in New York City.
TITLE: MARYLIN QUIET MOMENT 1955
PHOTO: ED FEINGERSH
PAPER: SILVER GELATIN RESIN PRINT...
Category
1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Bert Hardy 'Mountain Stage' Tour de France Limited Edition Photograph 20x16
By Bert Hardy
Located in San Rafael, CA
August 18, 1951: Cyclists competing in the Tour de France riding through the French Alps. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5381 - The Greatest Show On Earth...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons - Family Snapper 1959 - Official Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Family Snapper 1959
Babe Paley (Mrs William Paley) by the pool. Her husband, William Paley is snapping the photographer at their cottage, Round Hill...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jim Kimberly, California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Jim Kimberly and Kim Wadsworth at the Beverly Hills Hotel, California.
This is an estate ...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Autograph Portrait of Ted Herold - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Autograph portrait of Ted Herold is a b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the German singer, and actor. Around the 1960s.
On the back, a list of his best songs!
...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
In the Station - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
In the Station- Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized by the Agency of "Dufoto, Roma"
With the copyright, the stamp of Agency"and the hand-note, and ...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Prado Visitors, Madrid, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features visitors at the The Prado Museum (Museo Nacional del Prado) viewing Diego Velázquez's maste...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Ernest Hemingway - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Ernest Hemingway - Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
A historical moment of the past through the art of photogra...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Autographed Portrait of John Huston - Vintage Postcard - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed porta of John Huston is a colored postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the American director, John Huston (1906-1987).
Around the 1960s.
With the additional value of the liquid black ink autograph by John Huston, on the lower margin at the center, this vintage autographed photograph, in perfect condition and under a ivory-colored passepartout (cm 29 x 39) is absolutely to collect for the cinema connaisseurs!
On the front, an amazing color Macerata urban landscape.
John Marcellus Huston (Nevada, 1906 – Middletown, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and visual artist that travelled widely, settling at various times in France, Mexico, and Ireland. Huston was a citizen of the United States by birth but renounced U.S. citizenship to become an Irish citizen and resident in 1964. He later returned to the United States, where he lived the rest of his life. Huston wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen...
Category
1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper
Norman Parkinson 'Audrey Hepburn with Flowers'
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Audrey Hepburn with Flowers
1955
60 x 40 inches
Estate stamped and numbered on verso
Norman Parkinson, born in 1913 and passing in 1990, was an icon in the realm o...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Vintage Autographed b/w Postcard by Ruth Stephan - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
This is a Autographed Postcard Signed by Ruth Stephan.
A beautiful b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the German film and stage actress, Ruth Stephan (Altona, 19...
Category
1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
The Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni arriving in Rapallo to meet Michele Morgan.
Very good condition.
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons 'Truman Capote at Home' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Author Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) relaxes with a book and a cigarette in his cluttered apartment, Brooklyn Heights, New York.
Truman Capote at Home
1960's
C print
Estate signature ...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Christmas Swim: Rita Aarons' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, swimming in a pool festooned with floating baubles and a decorated Christmas tree, Hollywood, California, 1954. Two children play in th...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
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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