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Portrait Photography For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: 1920s
Terry O'Neill Bruce Springsteen on the Sunset Strip, Los Angeles, 1975
Located in Chicago, IL
This photo captures a 25-year-old Bruce Springsteen just after his visit to Tower Records. Springsteen was in LA promoting his new album, Born to Run, 1975. The album was Springsteen...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Elvis Presley 1960 portrait
Located in Austin, TX
Fine art print of Elvis Presley from the collection of acclaimed photographer. Lynn Goldsmith, taken in 1960
These prints are open edition and come with full certification.
Availab...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Sunbathing In Burgenstock, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Lilian Hanson sunbathing by a pool at the Bürgenstock Resort Lake Lucerne in Canton Nidwald...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Palm Beach Pastels (1959) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Pastels (1959) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Socialite Alice Topping relaxing by a swimming pool in Palm Beach, Florida, ...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
James Dean - Black and White Monochrome Print, Getty Archive
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
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
Brigitte Bardot - Fashion Icon with Vintage Car
Located in Austin, TX
Brigitte Bardot Hollywood starlet posed with a vintage car, circa 1970.
Brigitte Bardot is a French former actress, singer, and model as well as an animal rights activist. Famous fo...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Helen Frankenthaler, Painter New York City, Photograph of Woman Artist in 1950s
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
A documentary portrait of Helen Frankenthaler (1925-2011) in her studio in New York in the 1950s. Frankenthaler has remained a major American woman artist and female force of nature ...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Reg Lancaster 'Birkin and Gainsbourg' Limited Edition Photographic Print, 30x40
Located in San Rafael, CA
By photographer Reg Lancaster, English actress Jane Birkin and French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, at home in Paris, 1969.
As an authorized Getty Images Gallery partner, we ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Harlem 1958 by Art Kane
By Art Kane
Located in Austin, TX
The most famous photograph in Jazz?
Entirely possible, and considered as such by jazz and photography fans and scholars alike. Shot for Esquire Magazine in August 1958 , it was Art Kane’s first major assignment as a photographer. Kane pitched the idea of a huge group portrait to be shot on location in Harlem. No one knew, with the early call hour of 10:00 am whether anyone would show up, but they did. 58 legendary giants of jazz including Lester Young...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Led Zeppelin: Yellow Zeppelin
Located in Austin, TX
Awesome capture of the members of Led Zeppelin captured standing behind a yellow wall, smiling as their heads poke above.
Awesome capture of the members of Led Zeppelin captured standing behind a yellow wall, smiling as their heads poke above.
Led Zeppelin was an English rock band formed in London in 1968. The group consisted of vocalist Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham. With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, they are regularly cited as one of the progenitors of heavy metal, although their style drew from a variety of influences, including blues and folk music...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Sammy Davis Jr. Smoking
Located in Austin, TX
Incredible 1960 close up of The Rat Pack's Sammy Davis Jr. side portrait smoking a cigarette. One of the best images we have released in years.
One of Sammy Davis, Jr.s enduring leg...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Classic Comedian and Film Stars of the 30s
Located in Austin, TX
This black-and-white group portrait features some of the greatest stars of the 1920s and 30s all standing together and chatting. From left to right: Bela Lugosi...
Category
1930s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Muhammad Ali in Car
By Curt Gunther
Located in Austin, TX
Famed boxer Muhammad Ali posed sitting in a vintage car.
Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer and social activist. A global cultural icon, widely known by the epithet "Th...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Car Crash at Woodhead - Vintage Photograph - 1962
Located in Roma, IT
Car crash at Woodhead is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1962.
The photo depicts a car that falls into a ravine at Woodhead, Cheshire. Mr. John Henry Jones, Labour Memb...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Terry O'Neill 'Faye Dunaway Oscar'
Located in New York, NY
Faye Dunaway Oscar Outtake (Stare) Los Angeles
1977, Printed Later
Silver Gelatin Print
30 x 30 inches
Edition of 50
Estate signature stamped and numbered edition of 50
with certific...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Rita Hayworth Posed with Dog
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white studio capture of Rita Hayworth posed smiling while petting a dog, circa 1939.
Rita Hayworth was an American actress, dancer, and pin-up girl. She achieved fame in t...
Category
1930s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Naomi Campbell
Located in München, BY
Total Edition of 15
signed and numbered
Also available in:
100 x 100 cm / 39.4 x 39.4 in
Black and white portrait of Supermodel Naomi Campbell in Paris...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Julian Assange
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Julian Assange
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature Label and Certificate.
Not mounted.
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
Audrey Hepburn on the Set of "Sabrina"
Located in Austin, TX
This candid black and white capture features Audrey Hepburn, star of "Sabrina", candid on the set, posed against a large studio light.
Film and fashion icon Audrey Hepburn was a Bri...
Category
1950s 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
Kate Moss At 16
By Jake Chessum
Located in London, GB
An Unknown Kate Moss At 16
by Jake Chessum 1990
limited edition
edition size 20 only this size
printed 2024
Archival pigment print
numbered and ...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Playboy Bunny doing her make-up b/w archival photograph 17 x25 inch
Located in Norwich, GB
The first Playboy Club in London opened in 1965, following legalisation of gambling in the United Kingdom. Herrmann was dispatched by the Sunday Times to take fly-on-the-wall documen...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
President Donald Trump, Dove of Peace
Located in New York, NY
Donald Trump, Businessman 1985
Archival pigment print
48 x 48 inches, edition of 10, $12,000
36 x 36 inches, edition of 15, $7,000
24 x 24 inches, edition of 25, $5,000
14 x 14 inch...
Category
1980s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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
Kate Moss 1993, Paradise Island Bahamas, Original Print Custom Framed
By Herb Ritts
Located in London, GB
For the 1994 Pirelli Calendar shot on the Paradise Island in the Bahamas, photographer Herb Ritts set out to capture in a series of nudes what he called “the gentle innocence” of Kat...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Glass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print
Otto Fenn 1956 Andy Warhol photograph
By Otto Fenn
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Otto Fenn (1913-1983). Andy Warhol, 1956. Gelatin silver print, 9 7/8 x 10 inches; 11 x 14 sheet. Studio stamp, verso.
Biography:
Otto Fenn photographed fashions, decorations and food for Harper’s Bazaar, Town & Country, Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home Journal, McCall’s, House Beautiful and House and Garden magazines.
Among the celebrities he photographed were Tallulah Bankhead, Jackie Gleason, Sid Caesar, Bette Davis, Yves Montand and Rosalind Russell. He also did Lord & Taylor’s advertising photography.
Mr. Fenn served as chairman of the Sag Harbor Historic Landmarks District. He lived in the Nathan P. Hand house, which dates to the 1600′s and is named for a whaling captain who once owned it.
Since 1964 Mr. Fenn and Mr. Krug operated the 1964 Sag Harbor Antiques Shop.
Born in Manhattan, Mr. Fenn grew up in Lincoln Park, N.J. He studied at the New York School of Design and taught painting there.
Early in his career he made sets for summer theater and backgrounds for fashion sittings and painted murals for the 1939 World’s Fair and the passenger ship America...
Category
1950s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Andy Warhol, Baroness de Waldner unique acetate of Brazilian actress provenance
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol
Baroness de Waldner, ca. 1975
Unique Acetate positive
This piece comes with a signed letter of provenance from the representative of Chromacomp, Warhol's printer.
Frame i...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Mixed Media
President Jimmy Carter
Located in New York, NY
President Jimmy Carter
Archival pigment print
14 x 14 inches
Signed and numbered
edition of 15
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, known principal...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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
Louis Armstrong: Legendary Musician with Big Smiles
Located in Austin, TX
This portrait features jazz legend Louis Armstrong up close, posed with a big smile.
Louis Armstrong was an American trumpeter, composer, singer, and occasional actor who was one o...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Bedroom Plant (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bedroom Plant (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
58x56cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certifica...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Video Game Arcade, 1988 by Tria Giovan - Portrait Photography
By Tria Giovan
Located in Brighton, GB
Video Game Arcade, 1988
From a 6cm x 4.5cm negative, scanned in 2020
Archival Pigment Print available in this size of 16" x 20" in an Edition of 12 with 3 Artist Proofs
Print size...
Category
20th Century American Realist 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
Emilio Lussu - Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Emilio Lussu is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Actors Amedeo Nazzari and Irene Genna - Vintage b/w Photograph - Late 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
The Italian Actor Amedeo Nazzari and his wife Irene Genna.
Vintage Photo.
Good condition.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Un’isola nell’aria
By Urs Lüthi
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed, numbered and dated. Edition of 75 copies.
Original photograph from the portfolio “Un’isola nell’aria”, Vol. IV
Includes passepartout. Image Dimensions : 34 x 46 cm
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Man Ray, Échiquier Surréaliste: 1934/1991, Silver Gelatin Print, Dada
By Man Ray
Located in Hamburg, DE
Man Ray (1890-1976)
Échiquier Surréaliste (Surrealist Checkerboard), 1934/1991
Medium: Silver Gelatin Print (later print)
Dimensions: 30.5 x 23.7 cm
Stamped: "Copie d'une épreuve...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marbella Club (1976) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marbella Club (1976) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
A guest takes a break from the sun at the Marbella Club,
Marbella, Spain, 1976.
Additional Informatio...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Raquel Welch 1966 LIFETIME silver gelatin b/w photograph
Located in Norwich, GB
Terry O’Neill CBE is one of the world’s most collected photographers, with work hanging in national art galleries and private collections worldwide. From presidents to pop stars, he ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photography
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of women r...
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Donald Trump, Dove of Peace
Located in New York, NY
Donald Trump, Dove of Peace 1985
Archival pigment print
image size: 48 x 48 inches
Signed and numbered edition of 10
William Coupon is an American photog...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Thunderball, 1965 - Sean Connery as James Bond during filming of Thunderball
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
Ryan O'Neal
By Andy Warhol
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Ryan O'Neal" is a Pop art Polaroid, Polacolor portrait photograph by Andy Warhol in 1971. The artwork is 4 1/4 x 3 3/8 inches each and, with the frame, is 9 x 9 x 1 1/2 inches each...
Category
20th Century Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Gstaad Town Centre, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the town centre at the ski resort of Gstaad, Switzerland.
This is an estate stamped and...
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Barbara Stanwyck in Fur Stole
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white capture of actress Barbara Stanwyck in fur stole.
Barbara Stanwyck was an American actress, model and dancer. A stage, film, and television star, during her 60-year...
Category
1930s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Brigitte Bardot b/w silver gelatin photograph.
Located in Norwich, GB
Terry O’Neill is one of the twentieth century's most accomplished and collected photographers, whose work hangs in national galleries and private collections around the globe. Since ...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Lambda
David Bowie, New York, 21st Century, 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
Black and white portrait of Singer and Songwriter David Bowie with guitar.
From personality portraits and advert...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Beaton, Marlon Brando, 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
The Who - Pete Townshend 1979 - Limited Edition Estate print
Located in London, GB
Pete Townshend of the Who Madison Square Garden New York 1979
Large limited Estate edition (ed size 50 only this size)
silver gelatin print.
numbered and signed by the Estate on reverse
stamped with blond embossed Archive stamp on front
paper size 20x16" inches / 51 x 31 cm
Certificate of authenticity supplied.
unframed
Framing available on request
Ships securely from London England
OTHER SIZES AVAILABLE pls enquire
About Michael Putland the photographer :
Born in 1947, Michael grew up in Harrow where he took his first pictures at the age of nine before leaving school at sixteen to work as an assistant to various photographers including Time-Life photographer, Walter Curtain and the legendary motor racing photographer, Louis Klemantaski. In 1969 he set up his own studio and by 1971, he was the official photographer for the British music magazine Disc & Music Echo. His first assignment for them that year was to photograph Mick Jagger in London.
From the editorial work for Disc and Music Echo, Sounds and later Smash Hits & Q magazine amongst others, to the 1973 tour with The Rolling Stones that led to a long-standing relationship working with the band, Michael has shot prodigiously including for major record labels including CBS, Warner, Elektra, Polydor, Columbia Records and EMI. Relocating to New York in 1977, it was here that Michael founded the photo agency, Retna.
It has been said that Michael photographed everyone from Abba to Zappa … when looking at his archive this is actually true.
Now living in East Sussex, recent 2016 exhibitions include “Off The Record” at The Lucy Bell Gallery in Hastings showing images both on and off stage including previously unseen contact sheets; whilst Ono Arte in Bologna, Italy is hosting a David Bowie show. Autumn 2014 saw Michael’s 50 year retrospective at the Getty Gallery...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bob Gruen 'John Lennon - Peace-Liberty'
By Bob Gruen
Located in New York, NY
Bob Gruen
John Lennon NYC
1974 (printed later)
40 x 30 inches
Signed and numbered edition of 75
Also available as a black and white silver gelatin print
Bob Gruen (born 1945) is an...
Category
1970s Post-Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Andy Kissing John Lennon, Black and White Photography of Famous Artists
Located in New york, NY
Andy Kissing John Lennon, 1978 by Christopher Makos is an 8 x 10in vintage gelatin silver print on fiber paper of celebrity artist Andy Warhol kissing John Lennon of the Beatles band.
The photograph is stamped (black ink) on verso (photo back).
Provenance: Private Collector
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Artist’s Bio:
Christopher Makos (1948- ) is an American photographer and visual artist. He studied architecture in Paris and was an apprentice to Man Ray. Andy Warhol was Makos' good friend and frequent portrait subject. His photographs of Andy Warhol have been exhibited in galleries and museums, including the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao,Tate Modern in London, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, IVAM in Valencia (Spain), Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, among others. Makos’ pictures have appeared in publications, including Paris Match and the Wall Street Journal. The visual artist is the author of numerous books, such as Warhol/Makos In Context (2007), Andy Warhol China...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Norman Parkinson 'Iman in a Jane Cattlin bikini, Tobago. Vogue, 1976'
Located in New York, NY
Iman at King Peter’s Bay, Tobago wearing a Jane Cattlin bikini. British Vogue, May 1976
Iman at King Peter's Bay, Tobago. Vogue, May 1976
Silver gelatin p...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
David Bowie The Archer
Located in Austin, TX
This iconic image of David Bowie as The Thin White Duke was taken by renowned Rock photographer, John Rowlands, on February 26th, 1976, at Maple Leaf Gar...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
David Bowie "Rebel Rebel" Dutch TV appearance
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of David Bowie by Barry Schultz. Taken in Hilversum, Holland at the TOP POP TV studios. Bowie mimed (several times) "Rebel Rebel" the hit single from the...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary 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
Speedy I, Los Angeles, 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 a nude male model in front of a wall.
From personality portraits and advertising c...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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
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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