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Portrait Photography For Sale
'Nice Pool' Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Nice Pool'
60 x 60" inches / 152 x 152 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printed in 2025
Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of ...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Beaton, Buster Keaton, Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in Southampton, NY
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
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
NASA Sun Visor by Neil Armstrong, Vintage Apollo 11 Photo of Buzz Aldrin 1960s
By Buzz Aldrin
Located in New york, NY
An 11 x 14 black and white print of Buzz Aldrin from the original negative before Nasa added “more” space on the top of the image, which is a more common version of Visor. The 11 x 1...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Lightness of Being / Freedom Edition (Queen)
By Chris Levine
Located in London, GB
A laminated giclée print on aluminium composite panel. Produced in 2021. An image derived from the sittings for Equanimity, which depicts Queen Elizabeth II with her eyes closed. Edi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Giclée
Texas, Portrait Photography, Country Music Singer Willy Nelson, 3 prints
Located in New york, NY
Willy Nelson, 1993 by American photographer Leonard Freed is a series of (3) photographs, gelatin silver press RC prints, which are each signed verso (bac...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper, Photographic Film
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
Paris, Jazz Music, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Daughter China Moses, 1980s
Located in New york, NY
In 1986 African-American musician Dee Dee Bridgewater left the United States and moved to Paris, France where she lived for the next fifteen years with her family, two daughters and ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Arc...
$1,500 Sale Price
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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
MAN RAY (1890-1976), MRS ROWELL, 1930 Photogravure, FIRST EDITION
By Man Ray
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Man Ray (American born, 1890 - 1976)
Title: MRS ROWELL
Date Of Negative: 1930
Type Of Print: Authentic Vintage Sheet Fed Photogravure/Heliogravure.
Date Of Print: 1934 1st Ed...
Category
1920s Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Photogravure
Cowboy by Stuart Redler. Black and white photo of cowboy with a saguaro cactus
Located in Coltishall, GB
A cowboy in contemplative pose in front of a saguaro cactus. The man is wearing a stetson hat and smoking a pipe. The image evokes the solitude of life on the plains and seems to e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style 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
Beaton, Audrey Hepburn, Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in Southampton, NY
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
$716 Sale Price
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The Bird Watchers
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport and are unforgettable. Taylor's images are built, layer by layer and object by object, through a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marilyn Monroe Posed on Car
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Circa 1945 in Los Angeles, California: Before she was the famous Marilyn Monroe, was known as Norma Jeane Dougherty, seen here siting on a sports car in Hollywood.
Marilyn Monroe wa...
Category
1940s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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
Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Tinderbox' - signed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde's Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Tinderbox' - from the series A Girl called N. - 2019
signed in front, not mounted.
1 Archival Color Photograph base...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Archival Paper, Polaroid, Lambda, Color
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
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
"Audrey Hepburn 'Two for the Road" 20 x 24 in Ed. 18/50 signed by Terry O'Neill
Located in Culver City, CA
"Audrey Hepburn 'Two for the Road" 20 x 24 in Ed. 18/50 signed by Terry O'Neill
Signed and numbered by Terry O'Neill in early 2000 in Los Angeles
Comes in white frame as shown in p...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
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
Audrey Hepburn in Gown with Dogs
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white glamour portrait of actress Audrey Hepburn posed smiling in a gown, walking poodles on leashes.
Audrey Hepburn was a British actress. Hepburn had a successful career...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Floaties - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Floaties (Beachshoot) - 2005
20x20cm, Edition of 10,
digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid
Certificate and Signature label,
artist Inventory # 1431.
Not mounted.
The Tooth of Time
It is obvious that the photographer Stefanie Schneider has a background in film. All her pictures live from the dust-filled eroticism of American road movies. For Hitchhikers, the thirty-seven-year-old artist sent her protagonists into the desert.
The air shimmers. Desert. A highway, massive autos, dusty kisses. One is familiar with these sorts of images from films, even if one hasn't yet seen this particular one. In any case, it seems to be older: The tooth of time has gnawed at the photos; they are discolored, strangely and incorrectly exposed, covered with white spots.
False! The photographic series Hitchhikers was created this year; the photos got their patina because the photographer Stefanie Schneider only uses film which has passed its expiration date by up to five years, and which accordingly reacts to light in unpredictable ways. Where one's assumptions are correct is in the matter of the cinematic allusions: Schneider received a degree in film at the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen and was a cutter for several years. In the USA, she was responsible for the scene photos in the feature-film debut (Everything put together) of Marc Forster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland) and out of tha collaboration developed her own photographic series Suburbia.
Hitchhikers is similarly structured and actually consists of stills, in this case without the accompanying film: loosely staged pictures in which the protagonists have space for spontaneous improvisations. No plot, but moods which seem familiar to us. Schneider remarks that during the shooting she was thinking of Thelma and Louise.
The series is marketed along with other works of Schneider by the Editions Galerie Lumas, the Galerie Caprice Horn in Berlin, and the Zurich gallery nd-projects. The Lumas branch in Munich is featuring Schneider in the exhibition Polaroid Movie through February 28, and starting on February 23 the feature film Stay runs, in which Schneider's pictures play a crucial role. And the thirty-seven-year-old artist, who lives alternately in Berlin and Los Angeles, continues to work on her filmography. At the moment she is developing along with Marc Forster a concept of transferring her typical photographic aesthetic into moving pictures...
Category
Early 2000s 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
Graciela by James Sparshatt. 36 x 36” photograph printed direct on aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
Graciela was for many years an institution in Old Havana. Always dressed beautifully, a cigar clamped between her teeth, a grin at the ready. A witness to the Cuban revolution and 50...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
Backstage Faithfull (1974) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Backstage Faithfull (1974) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Hoare/Express/Getty Images)
15th February 1974:
English singer and actress Marianne Faithfull sitting in a dressi...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Six Sons and Daughters of John Wayne - Vintage Photo - 1982
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo. Dedication of the John Wayne Elementary School.
New York
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ann Miller as a Witch
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white portrait of actress Ann Miller posed in a witch costume, circa 1946.
Ann Miller was an American actress and dancer. She is best remembered for her work in the classi...
Category
1940s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
My Girl (Till Death do us Part) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
My Girl (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #92...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Girl Blowing Bubble Gum, Wall, South Dakota, 1986 - Color Photographic Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Girl Blowing Bubble Gum, Wall, South Dakota by Michael Ormerod is a stunning Color Print on Hahnemuhle Paper in an Edition of 20 in this size.
Sta...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color
Portrait of a Young Woman in Late 1960s Hippie Fashion
Located in Cologne, DE
A striking black-and-white studio portrait by Klaus Redenbacher captures the essence of late 1960s counterculture. The young woman, pictured in profile, wears a richly patterned head...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Willie Nelson running a marathon, Austin TX 1977
Located in Austin, TX
Willie Nelson, taken in 1977 during a running race in Austin Texas. Taken by photographer, Scott Newton
Scott Newton recalls, "Willie Running Race (For Stehlin Foundation Cancer Benefit-Run For Your Life) outside the Austin Opry House entrance on Academy Drive, Austin TX...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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
Cristal (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Cristal (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005
49x48cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Aubrey O'Day nude
Located in Austin, TX
Aubrey O'Day by Markus Klinko, from a stunning collection of contemporary nudes from celebrated photographer, Markus Klinko, featuring amongst others, Dita Von Teese and Stoya
This ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Grace Jones, 21st Century, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Edition 25
Also available in 101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch, Edition 10
Black and white portrait of the singer and actress Grace Jones.
From personality portraits and advertising cam...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marilyn Monroe Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Still Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white film still of actress Marilyn Monroe in her role for "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", circa 1953.
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One-of-a-kind original vintage press print from the Celebrity Vault a...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Le Petit Parisien, Paris, France, Iconic Contemporary French Photography
By Willy Ronis
Located in New york, NY
A much sought after photograph Le Petit Parisien, 1952 by French photographer Willy Ronis is a black and white image, a gelatin silver print, measuring 30 x 23,5 cm 12 x 9in. The w...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Grace Kelly in a Swimming Pool
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning black and white capture of Grace Kelly smiling in a swimming pool.
Grace Kelly, also known as Grace of Monaco, was an American actress and Princess of Monaco as the wife of...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Brigitte Bardot with cigar - Spain, 1971 - co signed by Terry O'Neill and Bardot
Located in Chicago, IL
French actress Brigitte Bardot on the set of "The Ballad of Frenchie King" in Almeria, Spain, 1971
Co signed by Brigitte Bardot and Terry O'Neill
40 x 60 inches
Edition Size: 50 +...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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
$1,200 Sale Price
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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
Terisa [Tom as Carol]
Located in New York, NY
Vintage dye transfer print from the portfolio "Transformations" (Edition of 50)
Signed and numbered, verso
30 x 24 inches, mount size
22 x 15 inches, image size
This artwork is off...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style Portrait Photography
Materials
Dye Transfer
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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
$2,000 Sale Price
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Marilyn Monroe - The Iconic Andy Warhol
Located in Austin, TX
In 2022 Andy Warhol’s Shot Sage Marilyn was sold for $195 million, making this iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe the most expensive work by a U.S. artist ever sold at auction.
Warh...
Category
1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Bucking Bronco - Black and White Monochrome Large Photographic Print
Located in Brighton, GB
'Bucking Bronco' is a black and white photographic print by Michael Ormerod.
Featured in the 2024 posthumous solo exhibition, 'Michael Ormerod: Vanishing Point'.
Michael Ormerod w...
Category
20th Century American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Photographic Paper
The Beatles at Abbey Road London 1967 b/w oversized contact sheet LOST
Located in Norwich, GB
a strip of negatives. The long roll of negatives was then cut into strips of six, usually with five or six frames on each strip. These strips were then laid carefully onto a sheet of...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Giclée, Archival Pigment
Brigitte Bardot in Bed with Dog
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white candid capture of actress Brigitte Bardot lying in bed with a dog under the sheets.
Brigitte Bardot is a French former actress, singer, and model as well as an anima...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards Candid with Newspaper
Located in Austin, TX
This candid capture features a young Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones, sitting with a newspaper circa 1967.
The Rolling Stones were at the forefront of the Briti...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Historical Places Photo- Old Folkestone - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Places Photo- Old Folkestone is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century. It belongs to historical album including masterpieces of historical pl...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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
Paris, France, Longchamp, Vintage 1980s Black and White Photograph of Parisians
Located in New york, NY
Paris Longchamp, 1989 by Leonard Freed is stamped and signed verso (back of photo), a gelatin silver vintage print, 16" x 12". The documentary photograph captures chic beautiful peop...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Casablanca Iconic Scene
Located in Austin, TX
Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid. Filmed and set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate (Bogart) who must choose between his love for a woman (Bergman) and helping her and her husband (Henreid), a Czech resistance leader, escape from the Vichy-controlled city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Germans. The screenplay is based on Everybody Comes to Rick's, an unproduced stage play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison. The supporting cast features Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt...
Category
1940s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Runaway Ride (The Getaway) - The Last Picture Show - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Runaway Ride - The Getaway (The Last Picture Show) - 1999
40x40cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist Inventory #345.
...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Bob, Mick and Pete, 1978 - Oversize Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
Bob, Mick and Pete, by Michael Putland, 1978
Limited Estate Edition
Bob Marley, Mick Jagger and Peter Tosh backstage after the Rolling Stones concert at the Palladium Theatre, New Y...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Jimi Hendrix Poses With A Cigarette, 1967 — Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Jimi Hendrix poses with a cigarette, 1967 —
Signed Limited Edition Print
by Gered Mankowitz
Legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix is pictured head-on during a session at Mankowitz's st...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'David Bowie Aladdin Sane - Eyes Open - Limited Edition Signed by David Bowie
By Brian Duffy
Located in London, GB
David Bowie Aladdin Sane Eyes Open
40 x 40 inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size limited edition of 25
Archival Pigment Print
Hand signed by David Bowie
Edition 23/25
Taken by Duffy...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Untitled (Group Shower)
By Luke Smalley
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print
Stamped and numbered, verso
20 x 24 inches
(Edition of 10)
30 x 40 inches
(Edition of 5)
50 x 60 inches
(Edition of 3)
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, loc...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
The Who under a Union Jack flag
By Art Kane
Located in Austin, TX
The Who under a Union Jack flag, 1968 by Art Kane
Shot in 1968 in NYC in Morningside Park near Columbia University, Art Kane had plenty of fun with The Who. Kane described them as “...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Hedy Lamarr - Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Hedy Lamarr is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
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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