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Portrait Photography For Sale
Period: 1960s
Period: 1950s
Hats on the Beach, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Memphis, TN
"Hats on the Beach." This fashion photograph features two models playing checkers on the beach in coordinating swimsuits and monochrome hats. Robinson was a fr...
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1950s Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Verbier Skiers, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Verbier Skiers, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph This mid-1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at Verbier....
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

On the Sugarbush Slopes, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stockbroker A Albert Sack Jr playing backgammon with Betsy Pickering on a polar bear rug at his chalet at the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort in in Warren...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Anthony Perkins, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Memphis, TN
Anthony Perkins was the son of the distinguished Broadway actor Osgood Perkins. He won an Academy Award nomination in just his second film, Friendly Persuasion (1956). In 1960, he appeared as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Psycho, and from then on, Perkins was strongly identified with that one role. When photographed by Jack Robinson on May 21, 1968, Perkins had just made Pretty Poison playing a mentally disturbed man opposite Tuesday Weld. He was married to the photographer Berry Berenson...
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1960s Portrait Photography

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Chalet Costi, Zermatt, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Chalet Costi, Zermatt, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers outside the Ch...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Ski Slope In St. Moritz, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers (bottom) on a slope in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate Co...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Pool At Carvoeiro, Estate Edition (the Algarve, Portugal)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' Pool at Carvoeiro, a newly available Estate Edition photograph, is a graphic image of holidaymakers round a pool in Carvoeiro, Portugal, July 1970. Visual Description: Red, green and blue umbrellas around a turquoise pool, ringed by the white arced beach of Carvoeiro, Portugal. Slim Aarons Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Printed Later 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. 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). Internal: vintage '70s portugal, vintage poolside, vintage swim...
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1950s American Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Ted Williams 'John Coltrane playing the saxophone'
Located in New York, NY
Ted Williams John Coltrane playing the saxophone 1960 (printed later) Silver gelatin print 30 x 30 inches Estate stamped and numbered edition 25 with certificate of authenticity Ca...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Edie Sedgewick 'Superstar'
Located in New York, NY
Edie Sedgewick 'Superstar' 1966 (printed later) Silver gelatin print Signed and numbered by the artist 11 x 14 in - 25 + 5 AP - $ 8,000 16 x 20 in - 30...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

New England Skiing
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 Aa...
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1950s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

Mick Jagger On Stage at Altamont, December
Located in Los Angeles, CA
24 x 20 in (60.9 x 50.8 cm) Archival Pigment Print Edition of 50 Price does not include tax.
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1960s Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Bert stern Brigitte Bardot so french
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Bert stern Brigitte Bardot so French inkjet print by Bert stern 2010 edition of 50 copies 48 X 33 cms (image 36 x 25 cms) signed on the front and back by the artist signed, dated and...
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1960s Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper

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

Materials

Lambda

Skiing Waitress, Vermont, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Ski 'bum' Alice Clement, a waitress and dishwasher at Stowe, Vermont when not on the slope...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Ice Bar in Lech, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Customers at the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate C...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Chalet Costi, Zermatt, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Chalet Costi, Zermatt, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers outside the Ch...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Elvis Presley Graceland
Located in Austin, TX
Retro 1957 photograph depicting music's new sensation Elvis Presley posing for a photo outside of his new Memphis, Tennessee home, Graceland. This early portrayal was captured on Apr...
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1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Lawrence of Arabia Camel Scene
Located in Austin, TX
The wonderfully recolored image captures Peter O'Toole in his role as T.T. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia. This listing is for a limited edition archival print. What's included: - ...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment

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

Slim Aarons, Francine Brandt (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Francine Brandt by a swimming pool in Acapulco, Mexico, January 1961. Slim Aarons Francine Brandt Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping t...
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1960s American Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Burt Lancaster - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Burt Lancaster  is a  vintage photo, realized in the 1960s . The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper

Esther Williams Poolside, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American actress and former swimming champion, Esther Williams, in a Florida swimming pool, 1955 40 x 40 inches $3950 30 x 30 inches $3350 20 x 20 inches $3000 Complimentary deal...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Warren Beatty, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Memphis, TN
Warren Beatty dropped out of Northwestern University to study acting with Stella Adler. He made his film debut in Elia Kazan’s Splendor in the Grass (1961). In 1967, Beatty teamed ...
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1960s Portrait Photography

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams
Located in Senoia, GA
8 x 10" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams photographed January 20, 1966. This is a print tha...
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1960s Pop Art Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Dancer/Choreographer Paul Taylor studio portrait
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Paul Taylor studio portrait taken April 3, 1964. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certif...
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1960s Pop Art Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Jimi Hendrix Backstage
Located in Austin, TX
Awesome candid capture of the rock god Jimi Hendrix, seated backstage. Jimi Hendrix was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only fo...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment

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

Materials

Lambda

Skiing In Stowe, Vermont, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman waiting to go on a ski run in Stowe, Vermont, USA. This is an estate stamp...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

In the Blazing Sun at George Airfield
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson In the Blazing Sun at George Airfield, 1951 C print 20 x 16 inches Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso British fashion model Wenda Parkinson wearing...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Andy Warhol at his Factory at 33 Union Square, LAST ONE signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14 inch vintage silver gelatin photograph of Andy Warhol at his Factory at 33 Union Square West in New York City with 16mm film reels and posters for Tu...
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1960s Pop Art Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

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

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

Materials

Lambda

Crying Child in Stroller, Vintage Print - Female Street Photographer
Located in Miami, FL
Female Street Photographer Vivian Maier captures a riveting moment of a child consumed in grief. The physiological and psychological anguish dominates her...
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1950s American Realist 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

Audrey Hepburn in Givenchy dress at 'Villa Rolli"
Located in New York, NY
Ed. of 21, estate-stamped, posthumous print. Includes black frame. Norman Parkinson was the preeminent fashion photographer in Great Britain from the late 1930s until his death in 1...
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1950s Portrait Photography

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C Print

Dmitris Kritsas at the Temple to Poseidon, Sounion, Greece, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Dimitris Kritsas, a fashionable young couturier, poses among the gleaming Doric columns of the temple to Poseidon at Sounion, 1967 48 x 48 inches $4500 40 x 40 inches $3950 30 x 3...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Capote At Home, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the author Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) relaxing with a book and a cigarette in his clutter...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Keith Richards, Phoenix
Located in Los Angeles, CA
47.2 x 31.5 in (120 x 80 cm) C-Type Print Edition of 10
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1960s Portrait Photography

The True Marilyn (1956)
Located in Buffalo, NY
The work offered for sale here is an original vintage silver gelatin print hand created by Halsman in 1956. This work comes in an archival frame presentation. The image alone is approximately 9 x 13. The work was acquired directly from the artist and comes with a COA and lifetime guarantee. Philippe Halsman was at one point considered the best photo-portraitist in France. He had an incessant interest in faces: “Every face I see seems to hide—and sometimes fleetingly reveal—the mystery of another human being.” Halsman’s photographs of politicians, celebrities, and intellectuals were featured widely in magazines like LIFE and Vogue. His more famous subjects included the likes of Marc Chagall, Le Corbusier, Audrey Hepburn, and Albert Einstein. He also had a 37-year collaboration with Salvador Dalí, which resulted in several famous surrealist series including the “Dalí’s Mustache” portraits...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Kennedy, Jackie in Palm Beach, 1963
Located in New York, NY
Jackie in Palm Beach, 1963, nb_151. Image size is 10" x 15" (for 11" x 17" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper. Each...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Giclée

President Kennedy with his Daughter - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
President Kennedy with is daughter is a vintage photograph realized in the 1960s. Good conditions.
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper

Cary Grant Seated Looks Right, 1955
Located in New York, NY
Cary Grant Seated Looks Right, 1955. Image size is 22" x 22" (for 24" x 36" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper. Eac...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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Giclée

Lucille Ball Smoking
Located in Austin, TX
This black-and-white vintage image features American actress and slapstick comedian Lucille Ball sitting outdoors in the sunlight, smoking a cigarette. Lucille Ball was best known...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment

Marietine Birnie, Blue Lagoon, Malta, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Marietine Birnie snorkeling at the Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comina), Malta, July 1959. This ...
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1950s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Grace Kelly at the Premiere of Rear Window
Located in Austin, TX
This stunning recolored portrait features actress Grace Kellythe "Princess of Grace"attending Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window premier in 1954. She is captured here looking at the came...
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1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment

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 'Tania Mallet'
Located in New York, NY
Tania Mallet 1960, Printed Later C print 20 x 20 inches Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Caption: Actress Tania Mall...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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C Print

Elvis Presley With Rolls Royce at His Graceland Mansion
Located in Austin, TX
1960's image of Elvis Presley, the King of Rock n' Roll at his castle in Graceland posing with his beautiful Rolls Royce. The photo is a later-generation example and is a re-strike t...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Kennedy, Jackie on Sofa, Hands on Lap, 1961
Located in New York, NY
Kennedy nb_116_117_v4 -- A version of this photo of Jackie, taken by Mark Shaw for the cover of “Look” magazine in 1961, has been seen frequently due to the fact that it was mistakenly distributed all over the world by the White House as an “official White House photo.” In fact, Mark Shaw retained the rights to all his photographs, an unusually forward thinking decision at that time. Image size is 16" x 16" (for 17" x 22" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper. Each print is Estate stamped on the back and signed and numbered by David Shaw, and accompanied by a letter of authenticity. Lead time is four to six weeks, but we often receive them sooner. *Please note this image is available in several sizes. Prices increase as editions sell out. Portrait photography in color of Jackie Kennedy sitting on her knees on a sofa. She looks directly into the camera and places her hands on her lap. She is wearing a white dress. This is an interior photograph of a living room. The walls are beige and the floor is carpeted. The sofa and armchair are beige with a floral pattern. There is a dark wood coffee table with books...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Giclée

Elizabeth Taylor with Sunglasses for Giant - Oversize Limited Print
Located in London, GB
Elizabeth Taylor with Sunglasses for "Giant" 1955 by Frank Worth This iconic and elegant portrait captured by celebrity photographer Frank Worth features actress Elizabeth Taylor o...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Ted Williams 'Sarah Vaughan'
Located in New York, NY
Ted Williams Sarah Vaughan 1948 (printed later) Silver gelatin print 40 x 60 inches Estate stamped and numbered edition 25 with certificate of authentic...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

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

Boy (Film by Nagisa Oshima)- Vintage Photo - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo in black and white of 1969 Tetsuo Abe in a scene of the film " Boy" directed by the Japanese Nagisa Oshima and presented at the 1969 Ve...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper

Norman Parkinson 'Jane Birkin'
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson Jane Birkin 1969 (printed later) Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 English-French actress, singer, songwriter, and model Jane Birkin photographed wearing a ...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

John F. Kennedy on an Airplane
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white capture of President John F. Kennedy on an airplane. John F. Kennedy, often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the Un...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Frank Sinatra, Miami, FL, 1965
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Dominis worked for Life magazine during the Vietnam war and later also went to Woodstock. In the 1970s he worked for People magazine. From 1978 to 1982 he was an editor for the Sport...
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1960s Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Marilyn Arabian
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Marilyn Arabian Bern Stern Print on photo paper Inkjet technique Paper dimension: 48 X 33 cms Photo dimension: 35.6 X 25.4 72 copies Photo of 1962 Dra...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Inkjet

Vintage Portrait of Gene Pitney with his Mother - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Gene Pitney with his Mother is a vintage photographic print on matt single-coated paper. Photograph from United States unknown agency, printed from 6 x 6 film Excellent...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper

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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