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Portrait Photography For Sale
Period: 1960s
Period: 1950s
Lounging gracefully on the wing, 1972
Located in Cologne, DE
This photograph from 1972 captures a stylish, vibrant scene featuring two people on a small airplane. A young woman, wearing a pink floral dress and sunglasses, lounges gracefully on...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, C Print
Kennedy, Jackie Rides White Horse, Looking Right, 1963
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Jackie Rides White Horse, 4027_0076 -- JBK on Horse at Merrywood, her mother's estate. This image looks best in the 11 x 17 size. The 17 x 22 size is soft. Image size is 13.75" x 20"...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Giclée
New York, Brooklyn, African American Lifestyle 1960s, Fashion Show
Located in New york, NY
Fashion Show, Brooklyn, New York, USA 1963 by Leonard Freed is a 19" x 13" signed and numbered archival pigment print in an edition of 10. Signed by the estate, Freed's widow Brigitte Freed, on back of photograph. Available: 3/10.
Provenance: Freed Estate
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Artist’s Bio:
Leonard Freed (1929-2006) was an American photographer from Brooklyn, New York. His "Black in White America" series made him known as a documentarian, a social documentary photographer. Freed worked as a freelance photographer from 1961 onwards and as a Magnum photographer Freed traveled widely abroad and, in the US, photographing African Americans (1964-65), events in Israel (1967-68, 1973), and the New York City police department...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Autographed Portrait of Lilo Pulver and Helmut Schmid - 1950's
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed portrait of Lilo Pulver and Helmut Schmid is a b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the Austrian actors, famous during the German cinema during the Fifti...
Category
1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Offset
New York City, Two American Artists Helen Frankenthaler and David Smith
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
Painter Helen Frankenthaler and sculptor David Smith in Frankenthaler's studio in New York City, 1957 is a gelatin silver print, 20” x 16”, signed and stamped by the Glinn estate. Th...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
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
The Rolling Stones, Los Angeles, 1965
Located in Los Angeles, CA
50 x 60 cm
Digital C-Type Print
Edition of 15
Price does not include tax.
Category
1960s Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Elizabeth Taylor On The Set Of 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
Kennedys, Hyannis Port, Jackie, Magazine Cover, 1959
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Kennedy, nb_100 -- Published on the cover of the Ladies Home Journal in 1961, this photo was actually taken in Hyannis Port in 1959 before JFK became president. THE 24” x 36” SIZE OF...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Giclée
Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall at a Party
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Incredible candid image photographed by Globe Photos Photographer Nate Cutler at the premier of How to Marry a Millionaire in 1953.
How to Marry a Millionaire is a 1953 American screwball comedy film directed by Jean Negulesco and written and produced by Nunnally Johnson. The screenplay was based on the plays The Greeks Had a Word for It (1930) by Zoe Akins and Loco (1946) by Dale Eunson and Katherine Albert. It stars Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, and Lauren Bacall as three fashionable Manhattan...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Sun Worship (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Bianca Volpato sunning herself at Capri in a lilac coloured bikini.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Antique Signed Original Rare Humphrey Bogart Portrait Photograph
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage signed and extremely rare photograph of Humphrey Bogart by Philippe Halsman (1906 - 1979). Signed. Framed. Measuring 17 by 21 inches overall and 10.25 by 13.25 photograph a...
Category
1960s Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Martin Luther King Motorcade
By Ted Williams
Located in New York, NY
Ted Williams
Martin Luther King Motorcade, 1964
Silver gelatin print
16 x 20 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition
with certificate of authenticity
Dr. Martin Luther King waves to the crowds as he drives in a motorcade on the way to make a speech at the ‘Illinois Rally for Civil Rights’ at Soldier Field in Chicago, IL, US, June 21, 1964.
Ted Williams (1925-2009) first heard jazz on the radio as a youngster in the 1930s in Wichita, Kansas. The sounds of Earl Hines, Duke Ellington and Cab...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Twiggy In Red Trousers, 1967 Limited Estate Print
By David Steen
Located in London, GB
Twiggy – at David Steen’s Home, Surrey,
Lesley Lawson (born 19 September 1949) is an English model, actress, and singer widely known by the nickname Twiggy. She was a British cultu...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Girls in the Windows, Contemporary Fashion Photography, A/P Available
By Ormond Gigli
Located in New york, NY
Girls in the Windows, 1960 by Ormond Gigli, is a 38" x 38" (image size) archival pigment print signed by the photographer in an edition of 45 ... is sold out.
One piece remains, however, an A/P (artist's proof) Ed. 4/8. The print is signed, titled, and numbered on recto (front of photo) in ink. Print Provenance: artist's archive.
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Girls in the Windows is one of the most collectible photographs...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Hugh Pendleton
By Bruce of LA
Located in New York, NY
Vintage silver print
10 x 8 inches, sheet size
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
One of the most famous names in physique photography, Bruce Bellas (1909–1974)—best known under the pseudonym Bruce of Los Angeles—is remembered today as a pioneer of beefcake. Beginning in the 1940s and continuing until his death in the 1970s, Bruce of LA photographed...
Category
1960s Other Art Style Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Kings of Hollywood (Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, James Stewart, Van Heflin)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This iconic photograph is finally available again, for the first time in over a year.
In this classic black and white photograph, film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Eartha Kitt Stunning Smile
Located in Austin, TX
This elegant and glamorous black and white studio portrait features Eartha Kitt smiling to the camera with her back turned.
Eartha Kitt was an American singer, actress, dancer, act...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
James Dean (1955) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Roy Schatt
Located in London, GB
James Dean (1955) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(photo via A.F. Archive/Alamy Archives)
1955
James Dean (1931 - 1955)
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Size: 16x20''
Printed...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Anette Funicello with Classic Cadillac
Located in Austin, TX
Retro 1950's image featuring Annette Funicello, the beautiful girl next door of the era with a Cadillac de Ville. The child star rose to fame as one of the most prevalent Mouseketeer...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Untitled (Cowboy) / P00075
By Jim French
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Polaroid print (Unique)
Signed in pencil, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Price includes framing.
Jim French first began drawing and then photographing male erotica in the 1960s. Originally a successful fashion illustrator, French and an old army buddy partnered to open a mail order company in New York City they called Luger. French contributed homoerotic drawings of hyper-masculine types such as soldiers, cowboys, and bikers. Eventually he bought out his business partner, and by 1967, under the pseudonym Rip Colt, he founded the now infamous Colt Studio...
Category
1960s Other Art Style Portrait Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Esther Williams, Poolside, Estate Edition, 1950s Florida
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American swimmer and movie star Esther Williams by the pool in Florida, 1955.
Slim Aarons
Esther Williams
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer.
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
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: Slim Aarons, Esther Williams, midcentury modern, Vintage Esther Williams, Vintage Poolside Series, Vintage Movie Stars, Vintage Swimmers...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Eduardo Chillida
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an offset lithograph portrait of Eduardo Chillida, published in Derrière le Miroir (DLM) No. 143. Known for its high-quality reproductions, Derrière le Miroir featured works ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Offset
Williamsburg, New York City, USA, Jewish Diaspora Street Photography 1950s
Located in New york, NY
Capturing the Jewish diaspora and the Hasidic community in Brooklyn, New York in the 1950s, this is subject matter which American photographer Leonard Freed from Brooklyn widely cov...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigme...
New York Picnic (1959) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New York Picnic (1959) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
A chauffeur unpacks a picnic hamper from a Rolls Royce, against the New York skyline.
1952
Additional Info...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, C Print
Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, Chuck Wein, Iconic Black and White Photography
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
A 20" x 16" (18.5” x 12.5” image size) gelatin silver print of Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, and Chuck Wein, 1965 by Burt Glinn with the photographer's blind stamp on recto (front lef...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
James Deann At A Car Rally - Oversize Limited Print
By Frank Worth
Located in London, GB
James Dean At A Car Rally 1955 (colorised)
by Frank Worth
paper size 40 x 60 inches / 101 x 152 cm
edition of 6 only in this size
Archival pigment print
unframed
Note other si...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pan
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print
Signed, dated, and numbered, verso
15 x 15 inches, image
(Edition of 25)
Sold out.
22 x 22 inches, image
(Edition of 15)
$9,000
31 x 31 inches, image
(Edition of 1...
Category
1960s Other Art Style Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
James Deann At A Car Rally - Oversize Limited Print
By Frank Worth
Located in London, GB
James Dean At A Car Rally 1955 (colorised)
by Frank Worth
paper size 40 x 60 inches / 101 x 152 cm
edition of 6 only in this size
Archival pigment print
unframed
Note other si...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Holiday Hair Check, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s urban portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Faith Gibbons checks her hair in the mirror of a motor scooter, Bermuda. She is wear...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Burt Reynolds Swimming with His Basset Hound
Located in Austin, TX
"Retro 1960s black and white capture featuring young star actor Burt Reynolds shirtless in the pool with his Basset Hound pup.
Burt Reynolds was an American actor, considered a sex ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
A female dancer frozen mid-performance
Located in Cologne, DE
This evocative black-and-white photograph from 1952, taken by German photographer Klaus Redenbacher, captures a moment of poised intensity and expressive motion in a studio setting. ...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Muhammad Ali Training
Located in Austin, TX
Color capture of Muhammad Ali training in a boxing ring.
Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer and activist. Nicknamed "the Greatest", he is regarded as one of the most si...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Gunter Sachs & Mirja Larsson - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Gunter Sachs & Mirja Larsson is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1960s.
The photo depicts the photographer, Gunter Sachs with his second wife, Mirja Larsson.
Good con...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Fire Hydrant, Harlem, Portrait Photography of African American Children 1960s
Located in New york, NY
Punctuated by documentary photo essays such as Black in White America, Fire Hydrant is one of Leonard Freed's most iconic in the Harlem series. In the image of Fire Hydrant, two chil...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digital Pi...
Surfer Kids loading surf boards
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 25
Signed and numbered in black ink on print margin.
Signed, titled, dated, print date and misc. notations in pencil on print verso
AVAILABLE SIZES:
11 x 14 in., Edition ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Grace Kelly Carrying Groceries
Located in Austin, TX
This black and white portrait features American movie actress Grace Kelly, best known for her roles in "To Catch a Theif", "Rear Window", and "High Society". The actress is pictured ...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The St. Regis, New York, Estate Edition, Event Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s event photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an aerial view of diners at the St. Regis, New York.
This is an estate stamped and hand numbe...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Louis Armstrong, Berlin 1965
Located in Cologne, DE
This black-and-white photo captures jazz legend Louis Armstrong playing his trumpet during a performance in Berlin in 1965. Armstrong, with intense focus, holds the trumpet close to his lips, his cheeks slightly puffed as he blows into the instrument. The lighting creates a dramatic effect, highlighting the shine of the trumpet and his facial expression, which conveys his passion and dedication to the music. Dressed in formal attire, Armstrong stands in the spotlight, embodying his iconic status as one of jazz music's greatest figures. The background is blurred, keeping the focus on Armstrong and his trumpet.
The print is new, Highest Quality on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta. More sizes up to 150x150 cm available on request.
About Tassilo Leher:
Born in the dark years of World War II, Tassilo Leher became an icon of photographic art in divided Germany. As the son of war correspondent Karl Leher, whose lens captured moments of contemporary history, he was born in 1940 in the heart of Berlin.
He shared not only the studio in the picturesque Prenzlauer Berg with his father, but also the mysterious world of the darkroom. While Karl Leher, an early riser, made use of the morning hours, Tassilo found his creative flow only by midday, often working late into the night.
His camera knew no bounds: from the dazzling stars of East German show business like Phudys, Karat, Hildegard Kneef, Manfred Krug, Bubi Scholz, to international greats such as Dean Reed, Karel Gott, Jiri Korn, and Costa Cordalis – all found themselves in front of his lens.
The Friedrichstadt-Palast and numerous film sets became his stages, where he played with light and shadow to perfectly frame famous...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White
Louis Armstrong, Berlin 1965
Located in Cologne, DE
This black-and-white photo captures jazz legend Louis Armstrong playing his trumpet during a performance in Berlin in 1965. Armstrong, with intense focus, holds the trumpet close to ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White
Bette Davis in front of the Queen Mary
Located in Austin, TX
Actress Bette Davis posed in front of the Queen Mary, circa 1967.
Bette Davis was an American actress of film, television, and theater. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Untitled Portrait
By Seydou Keïta
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes framing with UV Plexi ($900 value), free shipping, and a 14-day return policy.
Seydou Keïta
Untitled Portrait, 1952 - 1955 (02158)
23...
Category
1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Designers' Homes, Viky Reynaud wearing Desses Dahlias, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Designers' Homes, Viky Reynaud in Desses with Dahlias -- Photographed by Mark Shaw for a November 1953 issue of LIFE, socialite Viky Reynaud, a recent high school graduate, models a ...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Giclée
Van Johnson and Ava Gardner Sitting in Car
Located in Austin, TX
This black and white capture features Ava Gardner sitting besides Van Johnson driving car.
Van Johnson was an American film, television, theatre and radio actor, singer, and dancer....
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Black and White: Mary Jane Russell, Le Pavillion
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print
Signed in pencil, verso
11 x 14 inches, sheet size
9.75 x 12.5 inches, image size
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Lillian Bassm...
Category
1950s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Woman Protestor, March on Washington, African-American Civil Rights Photography
Located in New york, NY
Woman Protestor, March on Washington, 1963 by Leonard Freed, is a 14" x 11" gelatin silver photograph, signed and stamped on verso (back of photo) by the estate, Brigitte Freed (wife of the photographer). The photo is in Leonard Freed's book “This Is the Day: The March on Washington'' (p. 50).
Leonard Freed enjoyed documentary storytelling and as a "concerned photographer" his work demonstrated humanitarian concerns. The photographer travelled to New York, Washington, D.C., and throughout the South, capturing the daily life of African-Americans. Documenting the 1960s Civil Rights Movement from the East Coast to the Deep South, Freed’s photo essay culminated in the book Black in White America, which contributed to Freed's becoming one of the well-known documentary photographers of 20th Century America.
After Freed’s death in 2006 his widow, Brigitte Freed was inspired to compile a book on the March on Washington from her late husband’s archive when she heard then-Senator former President Barack Obama remark to an audience of civil rights activists, “I stand here because you walked.”
The March on Washington series is a powerful visual testimony, capturing protests that culminated in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream'' speech, delivered at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
Provenance: Freed archive.
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Artist’s Bio:
Leonard Freed (1929-2006) was an American photographer from Brooklyn, New York. His "Black in White America" series made him known as a documentarian, a social documentary photographer. Freed worked as a freelance photographer from 1961 onwards and as a Magnum photographer Freed traveled widely abroad and, in the US, photographing African Americans (1964-65), events in Israel (1967-68, 1973), and the New York City police department (1972-79). Freed's coverage of the American civil rights...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
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
Kennedy, Jackie sits at JFK’s Senate Desk, 1959
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Jackie sits at JFK’s senate desk in 1959 nb_048. Image size is 22" x 32" (for 24" x 36" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited edit...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Giclée
Rudolf Nureyev at Copenhagen Royal Theater - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Rudolf Nureyev - Copenhagen Royal Theater, Vintage Photograph is a black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Elizabeth Taylor On The Set Of 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
James Dean Behind Fence in Giant - Oversize Limited Print
By Frank Worth
Located in London, GB
James Dean Behind Fence in Giant 1955
by Frank Worth
James Dean in thought seated behind a barbed wire fence for his role in the film 'Giant', 1955.
James Byron Dean was an Ameri...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Artist Salvador Dali photographed in the Ritz Hotel in Barcelona, Spain
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of artist Salvador Dali photographed in the lobby of the Ritz Hotel in Barcelona, Spain in May 1966. Jack M...
Category
1960s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ginger Rogers in Fur Coat
By Bud Fraker
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white studio portrait of Ginger Rogers in a fur coat, circa 1953.
Ginger Rogers was an American actress, dancer and singer during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She won an A...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Cable Car Ride in San Francisco, 1960s
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
This black-and-white photograph captures the classic charm of San Francisco’s iconic cable cars. Taken in the 1960s, the image shows a boy hanging from the side of the cable car as i...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Sam and Dave Horns Section
Located in Memphis, TN
R&B and Soul act Sam and Dave perform during the Soul Together concert at Madison Square Garden in June, 1968. They are known for their powerhouse soul hits like "Soul Man" and "Hold...
Category
1960s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
New York City, World Series Win, Black and White Baseball Photography 1950s
Located in New york, NY
World Series Win, New York City, 1954 by Leonard Freed, is a 14" x 11" gelatin silver later ("lifetime") print, signed on verso (back of print) by the ...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Elvis Presley: The Kiss
By Lloyd Dinkins
Located in Austin, TX
Candid closeup of "The King" Elvis Presley blowing a kiss at the camera in 1957.
Elvis was an American singer, musician, and actor. He is regarded as one of the most significant cu...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Film still of Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white portrait of actress Elizabeth Taylor in headdress for her role in Cleopatra, circa 1963.
Cleopatra is a 1963 American epic historical drama film directed by Joseph L...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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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The noted lensman brought a bold sense of irony to fashion photography in the 1950s and '60s, transforming the industry. But his work in street photography, documentary filmmaking and abstract art is just as striking.
Chris Levine’s Portrait of a Shut-Eyed Queen Elizabeth Sparkles with Crystals
Celebrate the queen's Platinum Jubilee with a glittering, Pop-art version of the most famous and thought-provoking photo of Her Royal Majesty.
In Milan, La DoubleJ Celebrates Women of Design through Portraiture
During Salone del Mobile, Robyn Lea photographed some of the most powerful creative forces in the European design industry, decked out in J.J. Martin’s maximal fashion line.
Lori Grinker’s Artful Photographs of a Young Mike Tyson Are a Knockout!
The New York photographer tells us how an encounter with the then-13-year-old boxer led to a decade-long project that saw them both go pro.
John Dolan’s Photographs Capture the Art and Soul of a Wedding Day
In a new book compiling 30 years' worth of images, the photographer reveals that it's the in-between moments that make a wedding special.