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Portrait Photography For Sale
Muhammad Ali (Point Left)
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 25
Signed and numbered by Al Satterwhite
Paper size: 16 x 20 in.
AVAILABLE SIZES:
11 x 14 in., Edition of 25
16 x 20 in., Edition of 25
24 x 36 in., Edition of 25
36 x 54...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tibet Woman
Located in New York, NY
Steve McCurry has been one of the most iconic voices in contemporary photography for more than 30 years, with scores of magazine and book covers, over a dozen books, and countless ex...
Category
Early 2000s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Boy with Chalked Numbers, NYC by Harold Feinstein, 1956, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Denton, TX
Boy with Chalked Numbers, NYC by Harold Feinstein is a 14 x 11 inch gelatin silver print, and is edition 3/200. This photograph features a boy sitting on the ground, surrounded by nu...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Portrait
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Portrait, ca. 1975. Period print measuring 8.75 x 11.25 inches. Unframed.
Studio stamp on verso.
Mounting and framing services available.
Victor Arimondi (November 8, 1942 – July 24, 2001) was an Italian American photographer and model who lived and worked in Europe before moving to the United States in the late 1970s. His early fashion photography, his portraits of Grace Jones and other artists, and his male nudes photographed in New York and San Francisco captured the pre-AIDS culture of the 1970s and early 1980s.
Arimondi's nudes were collected in several books, including David Leddick's award-winning[1] The Male Nude, (New York: Taschen 1998, 2005 and 2015). The photographer's later work documented homeless individuals in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood and the toll of the AIDS epidemic on the city. His photographs, featured in several posthumous exhibitions, also are in the collections of Sweden's museum of modern art, Moderna Museet, and San Francisco's GLBT Historical Society.
Biography
Arimondi was born Vittorio Maria Tevitti to his unwed mother, Alessandra Calligaris, in Bologna, Italy on November 8, 1942. His mother struggled financially, which left an impression on her only child. In 1948, she temporarily left him at a children's boarding school and orphanage in Italy to move to Sweden for a job. There she met and married Bruno Arimondi, who adopted her son. The family returned to Naples, Italy in 1952 where Victor graduated from high school.[1]
In 1960, Arimondi returned to Sweden to study at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, although he did not graduate. Meanwhile, he worked at several blue collar jobs, including as a mailman, before he gave up on traditional full-time work to pursue what he considered more essential— a life of creative expression. He created costume-like clothing for himself and friends and at age 19 became a fashion model.
Even as a teenager, the Italian born photographer who spent his 20s and 30s primarily based in Sweden, noted that he preferred fantasy to the trials of real life.[1] That conflict, and his passion for beauty as well as his sexual energy, were major factors in his life and his work.[2]
From 1965 through 1972 Arimondi worked as model in London, Milan, Germany, New York and Stockholm, appearing in catalogs and fashion magazines including Vogue , Harper's Bazaar and Esquire and on the runway in several Valentino fashion shows.
In 1972 he decided to try working on the other side of the lens as a photographer to better express his creativity.[2]
Arimondi moved to New York in 1979 and continued to build his photography portfolio.
Portrait of Bearded Man, New York City, 1979
Two years later, in 1981, he moved to San Francisco where he lived and worked for twenty years until his death of AIDS at age 58 on July 24, 2001.
The year he moved to San Francisco, Arimondi opened a photo gallery in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood for a short time. When he struggled financially, he gave up on trying to earn a living through commercial fashion photography and closed the gallery.[3]
Arimondi returned to modeling for the financial benefits, though he did so on less of an international scale than in his early years.
He continued to create photographic portraits of the denizens of the San Francisco gay and arts cultures, to shoot male nudes and publish his work in magazines, and he began to compose and photograph evocative still lifes using his own photographic images. Many of them touched on the death of dozens of his former photography models from AIDS.
Arimondi was in the midst of a new photography project that brought together his background as a fashion photographer and his more recent social documentary work when he died several months after he learned he was HIV-positive.[4] The project featured his former colleague, haute couture cover model Ivy Nicholson,[5] who he found living homeless in San Francisco. Several of the haunting portraits he took of her were later included in a noted group exhibit at SF Camerawork.
Art
Arimondi's early photography in the 1970s in Stockholm included portraits of the stars of Sweden's fashion, theater and dance worlds. His first two photography exhibits were in Stockholm and met with mixed reviews. But as he matured as a photographer and tapped into his fashion world contacts, Arimondi landed a number of commercial fashion jobs, including shooting for the Italian designer Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A.'s I.Magnin department store ad that ran in Vogue.
Marlboro Man Nude, New York City,1980.
He also shot other artists and models for his own portfolio, including Grace Jones, the Norwegian actress, Liv Ullmann, and the American writer, Norman Mailer.
Arimondi's aesthetic vision was focused on fantasy and drama, and he prided himself on pushing limits.[6]
Although less well-known than his San Francisco contemporary...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Couple at Party from the Getty Archive - Romantic Black & White Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Taken from the world’s largest photographic archive, (Hulton Archive and Getty Images), the Getty Images Gallery collection features an extraordinary time capsule of the last century...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White
Beaton, Audrey Hepburn, Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1981. Published and pri...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Poolside Waiting, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a waiter by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, January 1970. The house was...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Female Nude in Yoga Pose, Black and White Photograph of Woman, Kate #10
Located in New york, NY
Kate #10, 2002 by Leonard Freed is an 8" x 10" hand printed. Signed by the photographer black and white photograph, stamped "vintage" by the Freed estate. Model and yogini Kate remai...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Everlong
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Everlong - 2016,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2016-2003.
Not mounted.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Harlem Beauty Contest, African American Fashion, Black and White Photograph
Located in New york, NY
Beauty Contest, Harlem, 1963 by Leonard Freed is a 16" x 20" gelatin silver print, signed verso (on back) by the Freed estate. The image appears in Amer...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali
Located in Austin, TX
Candid capture of Boxing legend Muhammad Ali smiling with Malcolm X at an event.
In 1962, Ali met Malcolm X, who soon became his spiritual and political mentor. Ali first met Malcol...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Janis Joplin, 1969
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Francesco Scavullo (after)
Title: Janis Joplin, 1969
Portfolio: A Photographic Retrospective, Volume I: Song
Medium: Gelatin Silver Print
Year: 2004
Edition: 106/150
Signed: ...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Michael Jackson Seated, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Edition 10
Also available in 40 x 50 cm / 16 x 20 inch, Edition 25
Portrait of superstar Michael Jackson.
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, Bette Midler, Grace Jones and Frank Zappa to name a few. A partial list of the films that he has generated graphics and publicity for include “The Hurt Locker”, “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “King Arthur”, “Tootsie”, “The Big Chill”, “Bull Durham...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Elizabeth Taylor with Sunglasses for Giant - Oversize Limited Print
By Frank Worth
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...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Spectral (Kings Road) - unique solarized gelatin silver artist print
By Mona Kuhn
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.
Spectral (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
limited edition solarization photograph printed by the artist + 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
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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. Mona Kuhn lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Solo Exhibitions
2025
Mona Kuhn: Y Tu Desnudo será Un Gran Poema, Museum of Contemporary Art, Malaga, Spain
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Lianzhou Museum of Photography, China
2024
Mona Kuhn: The Schindler House, A Love Affair, Galerie XII...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Willie Nelson, Spicewood, Texas
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on print verso.
Image size: 16 x 16 inches
Paper size: 20 x 20 inches
Category
20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dust III, Kenya, Elephant, animal, wildlife, color photography, africa
Located in München, BY
Edition 15
More sizes on request
For several days I went out with these baby elephants of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust to the bush in Tsavo East, Kenya. Together with their ke...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tom Waits, Northern, California
Located in Denton, TX
Open Edition
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on print verso.
Paper size: 22 x 17 in., Image size: 15 x 15 in.
Michael O’Brien is an American photographer noted for his compelling portraits of famous figures such as Willie Nelson, Larry McMurtry, George Strait, Tim Duncan, Kinky Friedman...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Palm Trees - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Palm Trees is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1970s.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments, places,...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Two Georges 25 x 17 signed limited edition b/w archival pigment print
Located in Norwich, GB
Iconic and rare limited edition print direct from the negative, signed lower right hand margin and stamped with photographers own blind stamp.
This is Number 3/25.
Paper size 25 x 17...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Giclée, Archival Pigment
Self-Portrait - Contemporary, Polaroid, Color, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Self-Portrait - 2020,
Part of the series shot during the second UK lockdown.
Edition of 10. 20x20cm.
Digital C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Not mounted.
Leanne Surfleet is an analo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Willie Nelson, Drinking a Lone Star
By Jay Dickman
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of Willie Nelson by Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, Jay Dickman, taken on the road in 1978
Signed limited edition prints, printed on Epson Heavywei...
Category
Late 20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Giclée
Italian Party - Getty Archive, 20th Century, Food Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Taken from the world’s largest photographic archive, (Hulton Archive and Getty Images), the Getty Images Gallery collection features an extraordinary time capsule of the last century...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White
Queen Elizabeth II, signed photograph, by Dorothy Wilding
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Queen Elizabeth II, portrait photograph by Dorothy Wilding.
Bromide photograph. 1953. Laid onto board. Signed by the Queen below the photograph, dated 1953.
Dorothy Wilding was th...
Category
1950s English School Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Intimate Portrait of Iconic Wild Horses on Sable Island, Equestrian, Horizontal
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Trinity"
Everything about Sable Island - it's wild landscape and its wild horses - come together in this iconic photograph.
Representative of the unparalleled, untamed essence o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
UC Berkeley Campus, 1960s
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
This black-and-white photograph offers a glimpse of the University of California, Berkeley, campus during the 1960s. The iconic Sather Tower, also known as the Campanile, stands prou...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Dust III, Kenya, Elephant, animal, wildlife, color photography, africa
Located in München, BY
Edition 15
More sizes on request
For several days I went out with these baby elephants of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust to the bush in Tsavo East, Kenya. Together with their ke...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Fairy' - signed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Fairy (Heavenly Falls)' - 2016 -
signed in front, not mounted.
1 Archival Color Photograph based on the original Polaroid.
Pola...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
David Bowie Smoking Clown from Scary Monsters by Duffy
By Brian Duffy
Located in Austin, TX
Museum quality fine art print of David Bowie smoking a cigarette in the Scary Monsters Clown costume from the official Duffy Archive.
Taken from the original negatives, these offici...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Koylia, Finland (Two Kittens Playing in a Field)
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Pentti Sammallahti was born in 1950 in Helsinki, Finland. Sammallahti was surrounded by works from his grandmother, Hildur Larsson, who was a photographer in the early 1900s. Sammallahti has been photographing the world around him with a poetic eye since the age of eleven. At the age of nine, he visited "The Family of Man...
Category
1970s Minimalist Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Girl with Flag - Black and White Photograph, Black Artist, Child, Portrait
Located in Denton, TX
Girl with Flag by Earlie Hudnall, Jr., presents a portrait of a young African American girl holding a small American flag. She is dressed in white, and looking over her shoulder. She stares into the distance with a blank, almost melancholy look on her face.
Signed, titled, and dated by Earlie Hudnall, Jr in pencil on print verso.
Gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 in.
*Images and video show photograph in size 20 x 16 in. Frame not included
Earlie Hudnall, who is one of the most notable African American photographers...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Frida in Pink and Green Blouse
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 30
Titled, dated, numbered and signed by Nickolas Muray's Estate
Nickolas Muray Photo Archives.
Paper size: 22 x 18 in., Image size: 13 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.
"Muray and Kahlo w...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Carbon Pigment
Resting Hot Rod, Bakersfield, California - Contemporary color photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Part of Richard Heeps 'Man's Ruin' Series, this was shot in Bakersfield, California two years after, he photographed Wendy Resting, they make a great pair.
This artwork is a limited...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Brigitte Bardot Holding Puppies
Located in Austin, TX
Candid black and white capture of actress Brigitte Bardot holding two puppies.
Brigitte Bardot is a French former actress, singer, and model as well as an animal rights activist. Fa...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
David Bowie Smoking Clown by Duffy
By Brian Duffy
Located in Austin, TX
Museum quality fine art print of David Bowie smoking a cigarette in the Scary Monsters Clown costume from the official Duffy Archive.
Taken from the original negatives, these offici...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Elvis Presley Petting Dog
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white candid capture of Elvis Presley sitting in a living room, petting a dog.
Elvis Presley, known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Known as the "...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Hand Signed Limited Edition Print - Capucine 1957
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
1957: French actress Capucine, (Germaine Lefebvre) (1933 - 1990) fanning herself at a New Year's Eve party held at Romanoffs in Beverly Hills.
DESCRIPTION
Slim Aarons - Signed Life...
Category
1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Wrestling Match on Clinton Street, 1990 by Tria Giovan - Portrait Photography
By Tria Giovan
Located in Brighton, GB
Wrestling Match on Clinton Street, 1990
From a 6cm x 9cm negative, scanned in 2020
Archival Pigment Print available in this size of 16" x 20" in an Edition of 12 with 3 Artist Proo...
Category
20th Century American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sophia Loren Pouring Champagne
Located in Austin, TX
A classic image featuring legendary Italian film actress Sophia Loren getting ready to pour some champagne into a fancy glass on New Year's Eve.
Sophia Loren was born 20 September ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Frank Sinatra and Peter Lawford
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white capture of Frank Sinatra and Peter Lawford in front of the Sand's Motel sign in Las Vegas, NV. This capture was taken as a promotion for the film "Ocean's Eleven".
O...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Untitled, Senegalese model
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Victor Arimondi (1942-2001). Portrait of Senegalese Model, ca. 1975. Period print measures 8.5 x 11.5 inches; 17 x 20 inches frames. Artist studio stam...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
North By North West (1959) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
North By North West (1959) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(Photo by Pictorial Press / Alamy Archives)
1959,
Cary Grant in the film North...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Eve Babitz and Marcel Duchamp playing chess during Duchamp's Pasadena Art Museum
Located in New York, NY
Listing is for an unframed print and includes free shipping to the continental US and 14-day return policy.
Julian Wasser
Eve Babitz and Marcel Duchamp pl...
Category
1960s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Elizabeth Taylor with Lasso
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
This stunning colored image features the lovely Elizabeth Taylor spinning a lasso on the set of the 1956 film "Giant". Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and ...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Florence Pritchett Smith, Venice, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1950 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features model turned fashion editor turned society hostess, Florence Pritchett Smith, covers her sleevel...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Clara Bow: The Roaring 20s' "It Girl"
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning black and white promotional portrait of Clara Bow gazing into the camera.
Clara Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and ...
Category
1920s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Night Fishing from Pier, Coney Island
Located in Denton, TX
Edition 3/200
Gelatin silver print
14 x 11 in.
Signed, dated and numbered in black ink on print margin.
Harold Feinstein was born in Coney Island, New York, in 1931. He began photo...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Paper Dress
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Staging Pictures: Early Polaroids focuses on Stivers' working Polaroid prints, shot with a Hasselblad Polaroid back for instant proofing of lighting and composition of his subjects. ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Frida Kahlo by Nickolas Muray, 1939, Platinum Print, Portrait Photography
Located in Denton, TX
Frida Kahlo by Nickolas Muray is a 20 x 16 inch platinum print, available in an edition of 50. This photographs features a portrait of Frida Kahlo wearing ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Platinum
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized Minis - The Girl IV (The Girl) - signed, loose
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Mini
The Girl IV (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2016
signed in front, not mounted.
Digital Color Photographs based on the Polaroids.
Polaroid sized...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Mick Jagger in Performance
Located in Austin, TX
Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones in a tub for his role in Performance.
Performance is a 1970 British crime drama film directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, written by Cammel...
Category
1940s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Tranquility - Contemporary, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Tranquility - 2019,
20x20cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid, not mounted.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Photographic Paper
David Bowie Aladdin Sane contact sheet by Brian Duffy with gold frame
By Brian Duffy
Located in Austin, TX
David Bowie Aladdin Sane contact sheet print from Brian Duffy, taken during the phot shoot for the Aladdin Sane album cover. The print features the Aladdin Sane album cover in color ...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Lobster Girl, Fright Nights, West Palm Beach - Dye Sublimation Print, 2017
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order and lead times are between 15-20 days.
All prints include VAT and are sold as print only.
This print may be available in another size, please contact the gallery for more information.
"Lobster Girl. Fright Nights, West Palm Beach...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Dye, Color
Led Zeppelin Outside the Chateau Marmont
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white capture of the band Led Zeppelin during their infamous visit to Chateau Marmont, circa 1969.
This listing is for a limited edition archival print.
What's included:
...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Untitled Story II by Camille Brasselet - Contemporary photography, woman, hotel
Located in Paris, FR
Untitled Story II is a photograph by French contemporary artist Camille Brasselet.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 2 dimensions:
*50 cm × 75 cm...
Category
2010s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Pigment
Frank Sinatra at Sands Hotel
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Artistic colorized photograph of Frank Sinatra in front of the Sands Motel in Las Vegas with his Ford Thunderbird.
Frank Sinatra was an American singer and actor. Nicknamed the "Cha...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Catherine Wilke by Slim Aarons - Limited Edition Glamour Model Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced t...
Category
20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
Grace - Contemporary British Art, Animal Photography, Owl, Tim Flach
By Tim Flach
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days.
'Grace' is a stunning C-Type print by contemporary British photographer Tim Flach available in this size in Edition 3/10.
Flach has mainly become renown for his highly stylized animal portraits, which are far removed from traditional wildlife photography...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Marc Chagall, France, Contemporary French Photographic Portrait of Artist
Located in New york, NY
Marc Chagall in His Studio, France, 1984 by Jean-Michel Voge is a 23.4" x 16.5" archival pigment print edition 2/5 printed by the artist on Japanese Awagami handmade paper -- signed ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Arc...
Warhol Superstar Jackie Curtis signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Warhol Superstar Jackie Curtis photographed May 21, 1970. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the verso. Comes dire...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Iggy Pop in Painter's pants, Contemporary, celebrity, Photography
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Edition 10
Also available in 40 x 50 cm / 16 x 20 inch, Edition 25
Portrait of famous singer Iggy Pop in Painter's pants.
From personality portraits and advertising campaigns to m...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Frida Kahlo in Blue Silk Dress
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 30
Titled, dated, numbered, and signed by Nickolas Muray's Estate
Nickolas Muray Photo Archives
Paper size: 19 x 16 in., Image size: 12 2/3 x 9 3/4 in.
"Muray and Kahlo were at the height of their on-again, off-again, ten-year relationship when these pictures were taken. Their affair had started in 1931, after Muray was divorced from his second wife, and shortly after Kahlo’s marriage to Mexican muralist...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Carbon Pigment
Untitled (Cowboy on Horseback)
Located in Denton, TX
Signed in pencil on mount margin.
Toned gelatin silver print.
Framing not included.
Western photographer, Bank Langmore, traveled extensively with cattle drives...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Grace Jones for After Dark
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Victor Arimondi (1942-2001). Portrait of Grace Jones, 1975. Period print measures 8 x 11.75 inches; 10.25 x 13 inches framed. Artist studio stamp on ve...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
New York City, Brooklyn, Cities, Black-and-White Photography, Coney Island Girl
Located in New york, NY
An image of a young woman on an amusement park ride shot on film by Roberta Fineberg, the portrait was made in New York in the late 1980s a time of innocence and edginess, tenderness...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Elvis Presley Laughing at a Press Conference
By Phil Roach
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white photo of Elvis Presley laughing at a press conference in Las Vegas, his arms raised, on 7/31/69.
Elvis Presley, also known simply as Elvis, was an American singer, ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Frank Sinatra at Sands Hotel
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
An artistically composed and colored photograph of Frank Sinatra in front of the Sands Motel with his Tbird. Sinatra at the Sands is a live album by Frank Sinatra accompanied by Coun...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Flag Cake
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Blackmon's images offer a fantastic and surreal commentary on contemporary American family life while referencing a 19th Century Flemish painting – they are intricate tableaux, combi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Rolling Stones "Mick Feeding Goat"
Located in Austin, TX
The Rolling Stones "Mick Feeding Goat" - Outtake from the famous photo shoot of The Rolling Stones for their Beggars Banquet album at Sarum Chase mansion, ...
Category
1960s Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Strange Math (The Princess and her Lover)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Strange Math (The Princess and her Lover) - 2007
part of the 29 Palms, CA project.
Edition of 10,
20x24cm.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certif...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Lone Wild Horse Looks Over Tall Grass, Meditative, Calming, Equestrian
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Windy Solitude"
This best-selling image features a single horse on Sable Island as he looks back at the camera. "
The print series Discovering the Horses of Sable Island documents...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Joni Mitchell 1983 vintage 8x10" Print by Norman Seeff
By Norman Seeff
Located in Austin, TX
Original vintage 8x10” work print from Norman Seeff of Joni Mitchell. Hand printed in 1983 at the time of the photoshoot, signed on the back by Norman Seeff and also featuring his studio stamp.
In excellent condition having been stored flat in a climate controlled room
These Norman Seeff vintage...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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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