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Portrait Photography For Sale
Slim Aarons: Tiger Morse (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Tiger Morse sits in her shop, 'A la Carte' in New York, 1964.
Andy Warhol star and fashion designer Joan "Tiger" Morse is pictured here with her signature black lace and a feathered mask, with a cigarette and long holder. She was a regular at Max's Kansas City, a society girl turned radical designer and creative dropout.
She frequently lied about her past, and her biography remains a bit mysterious. She has been called “La Passionaria of the dropout subculture.” She would say, “I work all day and I swing all night." Her celebrity clients ran the gamut from Jackie Kennedy to Frank Zappa.
She was known for only using manmade materials, including vinyl, Mylar, sequins, and electric lights. Her pop designs include the Love / Hate dress, which said "Love" on the front and "Hate" on the back.
Tiger was in two Andy Warhol factory films, Tiger Morse, 1967 and **** (Four Stars). She was the subject of Tiger Morse, while **** also featured Tiger, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, and Ultra Violet. Her designs can be seen on the cover of the "We're Only In It For The Money" album, which parodies The Beatles Sargent...
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
John Lennon, London
Located in Westwood, NJ
Terry O’Neill’s candid photojournalistic portraits of creative and political luminaries have included Brigitte Bardot, The Beatles, Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, and Frank Sinatra,...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Done Crying (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Done Crying (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory #14083...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Farrah Fawcett Majors
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
A behind-the-scenes image of Fawcett’s portrait photo shoot. When she comes to see the finished product, Warhol notes in his diary: “…I didn’t think Farrah liked it, but then she studied them for about half an hour and finally she love it…And she looked pretty, her hair was all washed, and she looked very very nice. She’s sweet.”
Farrah Fawcett...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Debbie Harry photograph East Village 1977 (The Foreigner)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Cooler than cool... Debbie Harry, New York, 1977, photographed on the set of "The Foreigner" by celebrated New York underground photographer Fernando Natalici.
The Foreigner (direct...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital
Pulp
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print by photographer Pat Pope of Pulp, shot in London for the March 1996 edition of Melody Maker.
Available in two sizes, 16x20" and 20x24" - Edition 250
Category
Late 20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
In the Blazing Sun at George Airfield
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
In the Blazing Sun at George Airfield, 1951
C print
20 x 16 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
British fashion model Wenda Parkinson wearing...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
The Beastie Boys by Pat Pope
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of the Beastie Boys by photographer Pat Pope, taken in Germany in early 1995. British music paper, the Melody Maker commissioned Pat to take a series of ...
Category
Late 20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bert stern "Marilyn Monroe in Toga " 2012
By Bert Stern
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Bert stern
Marilyn in Toga
No 17/36
Mythical photo of the last seance (1962)
Ink jet print by bert stern
2012
signed on both sides
certificate signed by the artist in his lifetime
single copy
25 X 38 cms
perfect condition
never exposed to light.
New from antique stock...
Category
2010s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons, Hello There, 1955 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1955: Film star Diana Dors (Diana Fluck) (1931 - 1984) in blonde bombshell pose on a satin covered bed
Slim Aarons
Hello There, 1955
Lambda Print
4 sizes available
Slim Aarons Estat...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Morrissey
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print by photographer Pat Pope of Morrissey. Taken in 1997 for the August edition of Melody Maker and shot in London, England. The Melody Maker feature was tit...
Category
Late 20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Nick Cave - Large format contact sheet print
Located in Austin, TX
Nick Cave by Chris Cuffaro, taken in Los Angeles, California in 1991
Large, 32" high x 24" wide, proof sheet print, signed and marked as an artist proof by Chris Cuffaro
Category
Late 20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Red Hot Chili Peppers contact sheet- large artist proof print
Located in Austin, TX
The Red Hot Chili Peppers contact sheet print, taken in 1991 by Chris Cuffaro
Measures 32" high x 24" wide, hand signed and marked as an Artist Proof Print
Category
Late 20th Century Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Waiting - Contemporary, Nude, Figurative, Polaroid, Photograph, expired
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Waiting (Sidewinder) - 2005
48x47cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory No. 3173.
Not ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Verbier Skiers, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Verbier Skiers, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
This mid-1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at Verbier....
Category
1960s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
The Games we played (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Games we played (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 artist proofs.
Archival C-Print print, based on a Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label, art...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Janet, Black and White Photographic Portrait, Nude
Located in New york, NY
Janet, 1981 by Louis Stettner is a 20 x 16in gelatin silver print on fiber paper. In an edition of 5, the photograph Ed 2/5 is signed both recto (photo front) and verso (photo back)....
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Max, smoking in Car (29 Palms, CA) - 58x56cm, analog, Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Max, smoking in Car (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
58x56cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, printed on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, matte su...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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
Frank Sinatra - Looking out - New Jersey - Estate Stamped
Located in Chicago, IL
Frank Sinatra in his early years. Circa 1940. Hoboken, NJ. Taken by a family member.
Giclee 300gsm smooth archival rag paper and archival ink
Each fine print is numbered and emboss...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized Minis - 'Prom Night' - signed, loose
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Mini
Prom Night (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
signed in front, not mounted.
Digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid.
Polaroi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
The Film The Eyes, the Mouth - Vintage Photo - 1982
Located in Roma, IT
The Film The Eyes, the Mouth is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1982.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Venezuela, Pelicans, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 19 x 30, 1 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Suriname, River, Palmtrees, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 23, 5 x 29, 1 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Michael Jackson Smooth Criminal 2024
By Nick Veasey
Located in München, BY
Edition 15, framed Chromaluxe
Michael Jackson doing his smooth criminal dance move.
A man with x-ray vision, NICK VEASEY creates art that shows what it is really like inside.
Nick...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Self Portrait with Mask
By Andy Warhol
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Andy Warhol. "Self Portrait with Mask" is a Polaroid, Polacolor by American pop artist Andy Warhol. The artwork is numbered AWL184.
Andy Warhol — who famously said th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Polaroid
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
Portrait of Madonna, Digital Pigment Print by Alan Herr
By Alan Herr
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alan Herr, American (1954 - )
Title: Madonna
Medium: Digital Print Photograph, Signed in Marker
Size: 19 x 13 inches
Category
1980s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Public Enemy
Located in New York, NY
Public Enemy, 1996
Archival pigment print
48 x 48 inches
Signed and numbered edition of 25
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, known principally for h...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Leopard #3 ”-Contemporary Animal signed limited edition fine art, black panther
By Tim Platt
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Leopard #3 - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 3
A series of studio portraits of a panther, or black leopard. Panthers are more commonly known these d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pig...
Potenza
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
"Barack Obama, Occidental College, No. 34" Lisa Jack, President Photography
Located in New York, NY
Lisa Jack
Barack Obama, Occidental College, No. 34, 1980
Signed, dated, and numbered on the reverse
Gelatin silver print
12 x 17 3/4 inches
Edition 4/75
Provenance:
M&B, Los Angeles...
Category
1980s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
George Hurrell, "Robert Taylor", original photograph from original negative
Located in Chatsworth, CA
An original photograph from the original negative shot by George Hurrell in 1936 and printed at a later date. It depicts the late iconic actor, Robert Taylor...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
View looking down the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Italy, 1960. Opened in 1890, the covered arcade is on the northern side of ...
Category
1960s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Galápagos, Seals, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 29, 1 x 23, 4 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Ecuador, Rio Pastaza, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 23, 2 x 23, 2 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Untitled (Kate #11)
By Chuck Close
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Chuck Close
Title: Untitled (Kates #11)
Year: 2005
Medium: Digital pigment print on Hahnemuhle Satin paper
Edition: 25; signed, dated and numbered in pencil
Sheet: 17 x 22 inches (43.18 x 55.88 cm)
Frame: 19 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches (49.53 x 62.23 cm)
Certificate of Authenticity included
For its September 2003 issue, W. magazine commissioned artists Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami, Lisa Yuskavage...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
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
Bob Gruen 'John Lennon - Four Portraits'
By Bob Gruen
Located in New York, NY
Bob Gruen
John Lennon Four Portraits
1974 (printed later)
C-print
30 x 30 inches images printed separately
Signed and numbered edition of 75
Bob Gruen (born 1945) is an American pho...
Category
1970s Post-Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Beauty and the Beast
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a tiger skin rug in the trophy room at socialite Laddie Sanford's home in Palm Beach, Florida.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition o...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Flutist Ransom Wilson, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Flutist Ransom Wilson in 1977. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes directly from th...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Terry O'Neill 'Sean Connery on the Moon'
Located in New York, NY
Sean Connery on the Moon, 1971
Silver Gelatin Print
Estate signature stamped and numbered edition of 50
with certificate of authenticity from ...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ned Brower, 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 musician and actor Ned Brower.
From personality portraits and advertising campaign...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Holiday Hair Check
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Faith Gibbons checks her hair in the mirror of a motor scooter, Bermuda, 1958. She is wearing a striped Irish linen overblouse by Donald Davies of Dublin.
Slim Aarons
Holiday Hair Check...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Cybill Shepherd, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Memphis, TN
Cybill Shepherd was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and after winning a beauty pageant, became an enormously successful model. Shepherd had an All-America...
Category
1970s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
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
Galápagos, Postoffice, Signs, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 23, 2 x 23, 2 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
On the Sugarbush Slopes, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stockbroker A Albert Sack Jr playing backgammon with Betsy Pickering on a polar bear rug at his chalet at the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort in in Warren...
Category
1960s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Self-Portrait
By Andy Warhol
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Andy Warhol. "Self-Portrait" is a Polaroid, Polacolor by pop American artist Andy Warhol. The artwork is numbered FA01.00130 and AWL203.
Andy Warhol — who famously sa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Frank Sinatra - Live at The Sands
Located in Chicago, IL
Live at The Sands – Frank Sinatra circa mid 1950s. Performing at the Copa Room, Sands Hotel. Las Vegas, NV.
Giclee 300gsm smooth archival rag paper and arch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Slim Aarons, Apres Ski, Gstaad (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Apres Ski
1963 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
A group of women reclining on the snow in Gstaad with rugs covering their knees, 1963.
Estate stamped ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Christian de Sica And Elsa Martinelli in Gstaad'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Christian de Sica and Elsa Martinelli
1977 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
I...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
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
Marbella Club Bather, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A guest takes a break from the sun at the Marbella Club, Marbella, Spain, 1976. Aarons never used a stylist, or a makeup artist. Natural sun lights the c...
Category
1970s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Strange Math (The Princess and her Lover)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Strange Math (The Princess and her Lover) - 2007
part of the 29 Palms, CA project.
Edition of 10,
20x24cm.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certif...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Chevalier André Leon Talley on the Pont Alexandre III, Paris, 30 June 2013
Located in New York, NY
Chevalier André Leon Talley on the Pont Alexandre III at six in the morning, Paris, 30 June 2013
Photographed by Jonathan Becker
Contemporary
44" x ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Skiing In Vail, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A group of skiers stand in line waiting for the ski lift in Vail, Colorado, USA, 1964.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the ...
Category
1960s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Bert Stern, "Feeling Good, " original photograph, hand signed
By Bert Stern
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original chromogenic photograph that was 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
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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