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Portrait Photography For Sale
Skiing Holiday, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition. Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiing Holiday, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition. Winter Portrait Photograph
This late 1970s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features A...
Category
1970s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Pulqueria, Mexico, 1926
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Museo De Arte Moderno, Mexico Bosque De Chapultepec, Exposicion Inaugural El Dia 20 De Septiembre De 1964’ stamp on verso with artist, title, collection, EW birth/death date, number,...
Category
20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Olimpia Hruska, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Swedish model Olimpia Hruska, wearing a bikini, poses against a rock on the Costa Smeralda...
Category
1960s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Lost (Stranger than Paradise) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Lost (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999
Edition of 10,
50x50cm.
Archival C-Print, on Archive Fuji Chrystal Paper, based on the Polaroid.
Artist inventory number: 20375.
Signature la...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
16 x 20" Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams signed by Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
16 x 20" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams, photographed in 1966, numbered 5/12. It is signed by Jack Mitchell in pencil on th...
Category
1960s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
16 x 20" Composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
16 x 20" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein, photographed in 1977. It is signed by Jack Mitchell on the recto and in pencil on the verso. Comes...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$2,275 Sale Price
33% Off
Divan, Paris
By Sonia Sieff
Located in München, BY
Edition of 7
Also available in 73 x 100 cm / 28.7 x 43.3 in, Edition of 3, price on request
A naked woman is lying prone on a red sofa in her apartment in Paris
These stunning phot...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Forza
Located in New York City, NY
Large-scale photograph from the Equine Beauty series.
The legendary and complex relationship between humans and horses is an enduring one. The horse’s distinctive blend of grace and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
$17,600
On The Slopes Of Sugarbush, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Two skiers inspecting their skis on the slopes of the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort in Warren, Vermont, United States, April 1960.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authen...
Category
1960s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Nirvana contact sheet- large artist proof print
Located in Austin, TX
Nirvana contact sheet print by Chris Cuffaro taken in Los Angeles, California for Creem Magazine on July 22nd, 1991.
Large format 32" x 24" print - signed and marked as an Artist Pr...
Category
Late 20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Shaken Not Stirred' 1968
By Peter Ruck
Located in London, GB
'Shaken Not Stirred' by Peter Ruck 1968 Silver Gelatin Print
English actor Roger Moore, downs a Martini, 17th July 1968.
Moore has recently been awarded his second Bravo Otto award...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
ZZ Top, Humble, Texas - Color Portrait, Musicians, Barber Shop, Photography
Located in Denton, TX
ZZ Top, Humble, Texas by Michael O'Brien is a color portrait of the members of the American rock band, ZZ Top. Formed in Houston, Texas, the band consisted of vocalist-guitarist Bill...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Norman Parkinson 'Jane Birkin'
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Jane Birkin
1969 (printed later)
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21
English-French actress, singer, songwriter, and model Jane Birkin photographed wearing a ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mustique Tranquility, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Meg O'Neill, a writer for Town and Country magazine, relaxing by the infinity pool at Colin Tennant's home on the West Indies island of Musti...
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Marilyn With Diamonds, Laughing Marilyn Monroe
By Bert Stern
Located in Carmel, CA
Sometimes referred to as Marilyn with Pearls or Marilyn Laughing into Camera.
Taken with 35mm hence the format, image size smaller. Printed on 16x20 paper.
Signed on front in pen. T...
Category
1960s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ski Slope In St. Moritz, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers (bottom) on a slope in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
Co...
Category
1960s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Pool At Carvoeiro, Estate Edition (the Algarve, Portugal)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' Pool at Carvoeiro, a newly available Estate Edition photograph, is a graphic image of holidaymakers round a pool in Carvoeiro, Portugal, July 1970.
Visual Description: Red, green and blue umbrellas around a turquoise pool, ringed by the white arced beach of Carvoeiro, Portugal.
Slim Aarons
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Printed Later
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Photograph is unframed
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150).
Internal: vintage '70s portugal, vintage poolside, vintage swim...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Halt by Mark Harvey. B+W Photo of horses legs. Stallion of power
Located in Coltishall, GB
Halt – by Mark Harvey
A moment of control. The horse is brought ot a halt during dressage. Dramatic light and flying sand captures this dynamic, authoritative moment as power comb...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Cathy and Shannon) - 2004
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inven...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print
Tropical Mustique, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
February 1989: Pierre Vincent Marais holidays with friends on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Aut...
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Chalet Costi, Zermatt, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Chalet Costi, Zermatt, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers outside the Ch...
Category
1960s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Marilyn Monroe in Black Swimsuit Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
This black and white full length vintage original photograph features starlet Marilyn Monroe posed smiling in a black bathing suit.
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One-of-a-kind original vintage press print fr...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Subway 30, NYC 1980s, New York City, Kids, Photograph, Subway, Limited Edition
By John Conn
Located in Riverdale, NY
John Conn New York City Subway photographs. These limited edition fine art photographs were originally taken between 1975 and 1982. Each black and white photograph is signed and numbered. Edition of 15. 20x30 image printed on 24x36 archival paper. This is framed in a black frame to 28x38.
In this series, Conn captured the graffiti and one of the most crime ridden periods in New York. According to one source “In the 1980s, over 250 felonies were committed every week in the system, making the New York subway the most dangerous mass transit system in the world.” One image captures an Irish...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Homeless
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nick Vedros
Homeless
Archival Pigment Print on Epson Legacy Platine 100% Cotton Fibre, 314 gsm, Acid and Lignin free
Year: 1990s
Size: 10x13in
Edition: 12
Signed, dated and numbered...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
$790 Sale Price
34% Off
''Nude in Blue'' Dutch Contemporary Portrait of Nude Female on Blue
Located in Utrecht, NL
Passionate, sensitive and an eye for detail, light and color, this is the working method of Dutch photographer Ursula van de Bunte (1969). She is a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Plexiglass
The Two Georges 24 x 35inch 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 1/10.
Paper size 24 x 25...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Giclée, Archival Pigment
"Heavy Is The Head That Wears The Crown" - contemporary portrait, Kehinde Wiley
Located in Atlanta, GA
This listing is for an unframed print.
Tokie Rome-Taylor is inspired by the works of Harmonia Rosales, Kehinde Wiley, Tawny Chatmon, Ayana V. Jackson, Omar Victor Diop, Deborah Roberts...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Pigment
Tom Kelley 'Dorothy Dandridge'
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Dorothy Dandridge on the microphone
c. 1950's
C print
28 x 22 inches
Edition of 50
Photographs are printed on Archival Hahnemühle paper ...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Field of Briar (Sidewinder) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Field of Briar (Sidewinder) - 2005
Edition of 10,
20x24cm.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory No. 3141.
Not mounted.
"...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Keith Haring photograph 1984 (1980s Keith Haring darkroom photo)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
1980s Keith Haring photograph:
Rare vintage original Keith Haring darkroom photograph by New York underground photographer Lawrence Horn. Signed & d...
Category
1980s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
All Aboard, Monaco, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of Friends boarding a riva boat in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
This is an estate stamped...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Brigitte Bardot with Cigar in Spain, 1971 - Platinum Lifetime Print
Located in Chicago, IL
French actress Brigitte Bardot on the set of "The Ballad of Frenchie King" in Almeria, Spain, 1971
Platinum lifetime print. (lifetime signed)
20 x 24 inches
Edition Size: 50 + 10 ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Platinum
"Picasso Sitting", Photograph by Richard Ham 1945
By Richard Ham
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Richard Ham, American (1920 - )
Title: Picasso in Paris Studio - Picasso Sitting
Year: 1945, Printed in 2009
Medium: Gelatin Silver Print, signed and numbered in ink
Edition...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Wheels, 3rd Ward, Houston, Texas
Located in Denton, TX
Open Edition
VINTAGE gelatin silver print
Paper size: 14 x 10 in., Image size: 10 x 10 in.
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on print verso.
Earlie Hudnall, who is one of the most...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Salvador Dali's Party, Estate Edition Photograph [Surrealist Dinner, Green+Red]
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1959: Surrealist painter Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) with a red-haired woman in a green dress at a vintage ball in New York. The artist is captured with his characteristic walking st...
Category
1950s Surrealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
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Slim Aarons, Pool In St Tropez (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests around the pool at a villa in St Tropez, France, circa 1970.
Slim Aarons
St Tropez Pool
Lambda Print
4 sizes available
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
40 x 60 inches
$3950
30 x ...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Lauren, New York
Located in Hudson, NY
Edition #1/10
The listed print is a framed price . It is also is available in 2 additional paper sizes, unframed.
In her new collection of photographs, British born photographer H...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dr Dre
By David Bailey
Located in London, GB
David Bailey
Dr Dre, 2001
Archival Inkjet on paper
Image: 50.8 x 63.58 cm
Sheet: 58.4 x 71.2 cm
Edition of 10
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
$27,857
Bravo
By Jan Rattia
Located in New York, NY
Chromogenic print
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
22.5 x 30 inches
(Edition of 5 + 2 APs)
45 x 60 inches
(Edition of 3 + 2 APs)
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, loc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
$3,000
Clark Gable
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is a photolithograph from the original negative by Laszlo Willinger, original shot in 1938 and printed at a later date. It depicts American film actor and military officer, Clark Gable, who was often referred to as "The King of Hollywood". He is most well-known for his roles in the films "Mutiny on the Bounty...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Terry O'Neill 'Sean Connery as Bond' (Sheriff)
Located in New York, NY
Terry O'Neill
Sean Connery as Bond
1971 (printed later)
silver gelatin print
20 x 16 inches
Estate signature stamped and numbered edition of 50
with certificate of authenticity
Scot...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons, Francine Brandt (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Francine Brandt by a swimming pool in Acapulco, Mexico, January 1961.
Slim Aarons
Francine Brandt
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping t...
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven) - Landscape, Horse, Boys
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven). Part of the 29 Palms, CA project. - 2006,
20x24cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs,
archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signatur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Polaroid, Color, C Print, Archival Paper
"Marvin Gaye'" framed photograph from original Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Vegas
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Marvin Gaye'" framed color photograph. This photograph was originally displayed in a guest room of the original Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, and comes with a cer...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Such Things" One of a kind Photography on canvas by Doron
Located in Carmel, CA
Doron - "Such Things" Photography on canvas. Diptych, framed.
An original piece. One of a kind.
The painting comes with a certificate of authenticity and a letter of appraisal.
Re...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Canvas, Digital
$3,500 Sale Price
50% Off
Frank Sinatra - Me and My Shadow
Located in Chicago, IL
Portrait of Frank Sinatra circa 1939. Taken at their apartment on Garden St, Hoboken, NJ. Photo by Nancy Sinatra Senior. This striking photo is one of the family’s favorites. This is...
Category
1930s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Chet
By Jose Picayo
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 40.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is prod...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$2,700
Marilyn Monroe . Passed out on the bed . The last sitting
By Bert Stern
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Marilyn Monroe by Bert Stern (1964)
passed out on the bed
circa 2009
hand double signed and dated by Bert Stern
COA hand signed by bert stern
edition of 72
perfect condition
Category
1980s Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Serenitas Horse Portrait
Located in New York City, NY
Large-scale photograph from the Equine Beauty series.
The legendary and complex relationship between humans and horses is an enduring one. The horse’s distinctive blend of grace and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
North Coast Native
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This early silver gelatin print is signed and dated in pencil on the front of the mount with the artist's Green Street label and typed title on the back of the mount. Likely printed ...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Fish Trap by Stuart Redler. Black and white photo of fisherman on Lake Inle
Located in Coltishall, GB
Series: People
Location : Lake Inle, Myanmar
Stuart Redler's black and white images use bold contrast to emphasize both structure and emotion.
The tones of his archival prints are...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Archival Photographic Print 'Andy Warhol With Red Campbell's Soup' 1985/2025
Located in New York, NY
The archival photographic pop-art print, ‘Andy Warhol with Red Campbell’s Soup’ was created in 1985 by photographer Andrew Unangst. Taken in New York City, Unangst had the opportuni...
Category
1980s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Mother with Sons, 3rd Ward, Houston, TX
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, titled, dated and print type in pencil on print verso
Vintage gelatin silver print
Earlie Hudnall, who is one of the most notable African American photographers living today, has extensively documented the African American neighborhoods in Houston, Texas.
After serving as a Marine in Vietnam, he enrolled at Texas Southern University, where he studied art under the direction of John Biggers, who became a great friend and mentor. During his time at TSU, he was hired to be a photographer for the Model Cities Program, part of Lyndon Johnson...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Ursula Andress'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Posing At Cap Ferrat
1954
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Swiss actress Ursula Andress in It...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
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
Jim Morrison of The Doors by Art Kane
By Art Kane
Located in Austin, TX
Jim Morrison, taken in 1968 by Art Kane
Art Kane and Jim Morrison hit it off and spent the shoot discussing culture, literature and current events. Kane photographed Morrison for Li...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons, Pool In St Tropez (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests around the pool at a villa in St Tropez, France, circa 1970.
Slim Aarons
St Tropez Pool
Lambda Print
4 sizes available
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
40 x 60 inches
$3950
30 x ...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Jean-Michel Basquiat photograph 1979 (Nick Taylor of Gray)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Photograph of Jean Michel Basquiat, New York, 1979:
This rare Basquiat photograph was taken from Nicholas Taylor’s well-documented portfolio exploring his friendship with Jean-Michel Basquiat - a friendship which began when both collaborated on the historic New York No Wave band, “GRAY” in the late 1970s; before the two briefly lived together in the East Village. Selections from Taylor's portfolio were most notably exhibited as part of the Basquiat retrospective at London's Barbican in 2017 and have been featured in numerous noteworthy publications on Basquiat.
Gelatin Silver Print. 1979.
11 x 14 inches.
Edition of 4 A/P's. Signed, dated and numbered 1/4 in pencil on the recto.
Some minor surface waves; otherwise very good overall vintage condition.
Provenance: Obtained directly from artist.
Lot 180 is an authorized dealer rep of Nick Taylor...
Category
1980s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
What's It All About from The Last Sitting
By Bert Stern
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original chromogenic print that was hand developed from the original negative by Bert Stern. This photo is part of The Last Sitting portfolio, taken six weeks before...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Rolling Stones: The Early Years
Located in Austin, TX
Jagger, Wyman, Watts, Richards & Brian Jones the 'other' British rock band making their mark on the scene in the mid-'60s. Here are the Rolling Stones in their early years. Depicted ...
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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