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Portrait Photography For Sale
Brigitte Bardot by Robert Cohen for AGIP - Silver Gelatin B and W Photography
By Robert Cohen
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Robert Cohen for AGIP. Brigitte Bardot in 1967.
Features:
Original silver gelatin print photograph unframed.
Press photograph...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Omnia Vanitas No.5 by Ronald Martinez - Fine art photography, still life, apple
Located in Paris, FR
Omnia Vanitas No.5 is a limited-edition photograph by French contemporary artist Ronald Martinez.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in one size:
*46...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Skiing In Stowe (1962) - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiing In Stowe (1962) - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
A young woman waiting to go on a ski run in Stowe,
Vermont, USA, 1962.
Additional Information:
Unframed
...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
M. Reza Pahlavi
Located in Toronto, ON
20" x 16" Unframed
Limited Edition Estate Photograph of 20
Hand Signed by Marcel Sternberger
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
African-American Civil Rights Photography, Washington Protest, Woman on Bus
Located in New york, NY
Woman on Bus, from the March on Washington, 1963 (printed later) by Leonard Freed, is a 11" x 14" gelatin silver print, signed and stamped on verso (back of photo) by the estate, Brigitte Freed (wife of the photographer). The photo is from Leonard Freed's series This Is the Day: The March on Washington and is on p. 81 of the book (Getty Museum, 2013).
American photographer Leonard Freed enjoyed documentary storytelling and was a "concerned photographer" whose work demonstrated humanitarian concerns.
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 Paper, Silver Gelatin
Princess Nude, Portrait, Fine Art Photography
Located in München, BY
Image size: 70x55 cm
12 Limited Editions + 2 Artist Proofs
Platinum
Massive Wengé, Passe-Partout + Museum Glass
frame size: 110x95 cm
Evocative, sensual and voluptuous, Marc Lagrang...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Platinum
Peter and Britt
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Peter and Britt, 1967
Sharing a lilo, film stars Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980) and his glamorous wife model and actress, Britt Ekland spend their holiday on the Costa Smeralda, 1967.
...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Muhammad Ali, Fifth Street Gym, Miami (Hitting the Bag)
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 25
Signed and numbered by artist.
Paper size: 16 x 20 in.
AVAILABLE SIZES:
11 x 14 in., Edition of 25
16 x 20 in., Edition of 25
24 x 36 in., Edition of 25
Acclaimed pho...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Insatiable (Wastelands) - Contemporary, Polaroid, 21st Cetury, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Insatiable - he came to my Valley (Wastelands)
Edition 2/5 , 57x56cm, 2003,
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
based on a Polaroid.
Artist i...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$1,946 Sale Price
35% Off
Marilyn Monroe Smiling for Paparazzi Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white candid capture of starlet Marilyn Monroe smiling for gathering paparazzi.
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One-of-a-kind original vintage press print from the Celebrity Vault archives. Own a piece of history and kick-start your collection with our one-of-a-kind pieces of your favorite celebrities.
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"The Marilyn Monroe community was shocked and stunned at the untimely passing of truly one of the greatest Monroe sculptors of all time, Kim Goodwin...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Ella Fitzgerald at the Downbeat in New York
Located in Austin, TX
Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Milt (Milton) Jackson, and Timmie Rosenkrantz, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., circa Sept. 1947.
Ella Fit...
Category
1940s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Play among the Stars (Till Death Do Us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Play among the Stars (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005
50x49cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature labe...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Andy in Drag Having Makeup Done
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts inventory number wri...
Category
1980s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Marilyn Monroe . Wine on the bed . The last sitting (1962)
By Bert Stern
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Marilyn Monroe by Bert Stern (19642
wine 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
Untitled (D’Amato and Tyson) [Cus D’Amato demonstrates his peek-a-boo style]
By Lori Grinker
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (D’Amato and Tyson)
Cus D’Amato demonstrates his peek-a-book style for Mike Tyson (age 13-14). Catskill, NY, 1981
Signed and numbered, verso
Gelatin silver print
11 x 14 ...
Category
1980s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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Photograph of Brigitte Bardot - Marc Allegret 1956
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Photograph of Brigitte Bardot - Marc Allegret
Silver print
On the set of "En effleurant la marguerite
Circa 1956
24,8x15
1200 euros
Category
1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sleeping Beauties II (Till Death) - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sleeping Beauties II (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005
Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective,...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Equestrian Beauty #6
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
Eye of the Beholder, 1974 - Bronze Bathing Beauties Suntanning on French Riviera
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Eye of the Beholder, 1974 - Bronze Bathing Beauties Suntanning on French Riviera by Slim Aarons
16 x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
...
Category
20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
Japan – A geisha playing the gekkin - Hand-colored Meiji Period photograph
Located in Middletown, NY
Yokohama, Japan: c 1880's.
Hand-tinted albumen print, 10 1/8 x 8 inches (258 x 203 mm), unmounted; pencil inscription in Japanese on verso; light cockling
[Nagasaki University Libra...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Watercolor, Photographic Paper
Flora 12 - Contemporary Nude Photography Limited Edition C-Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Flora 12 is a vibrant Digital C-Type print in this size in a Limited Edition of 15 by contemporary photography duo Tortora & Travezan.
Photography duo Tortora & Travezan create vibr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Digital, Photographic Paper, C Print
Leonard Dalsemer
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Leonard Dalsemer and his family at their villa in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Undercurrent Projects is p...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Bert stern Marilyn laughing in the famous Dior dress
By Bert Stern
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Exceptional photo of Marilyn in her Dior black dress during her last session for Vogue magazine.
Photographed by Bert Stern.
Very limited edition of 72 copies.
Signed on the front an...
Category
2010s Portrait Photography
Materials
Lithograph
"We Summon You Home, We Owe Them Nothing" - portraiture - 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
Ele, mixed media silk screen print on paper, female portrait
Located in Dallas, TX
This gorgeous artwork on paper was created initially with a screen print base of the model, then Rosie hand finishes the work with a unique splash and painted composition. Some call them Unique Prints. The base image is only used 12 times and this is the AP
Rosie Emerson, born in 1981, is a contemporary artist working almost exclusively on representing the female form. Emerson’s figures draw reference from archetypes old and new, from Artemis to the modern day super model, each solitary figure, an allegory of her own fantasy. Interested in surface, the interplay between photography and painting. Emerson’s works are playful constructs; Photography is used, not as a device for capturing reality but for creating romanticised optical illusions.
Inspired by her love of theatre, performance, shrines and rituals, she uses lighting, costume, set and prop making, alongside printmaking and painting to create other worldly one off pieces. Her photography is inspired by both the drama of the baroque, and ethereal qualities of Pre Raphaelite works. Other important influences include late medieval and renaissance paintings, Japanese prints, and magical realist literature.
Emerson’s screen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Rag Paper, Graphite, Screen
$2,080 Sale Price
20% Off
David Bowie - limited edition Mick Rock Estate print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
David Bowie - signed limited edition print
David Bowie, 1976. (photo Mick Rock)
paper size : 24x20 inches / 51 x 61 cm
Stamped and numbered by the Estate.
Archival pigment print...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Beatles at Abbey Road, 1967 'smoke' b/w photograph 17 x25 inch
Located in Norwich, GB
The Beatles at Abbey Road Studios, March 30th 1967 during the recording of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, take a lunch break. Later that day they after recording they made the...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Portrait of Connie Francis - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Connie Francis is a vintage photoraphic print on single-coated paper.
Ink stamp of Mondial News Press on the back.
Perfect conditions.
Di...
Category
1960s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$197 Sale Price
25% Off
Gabriela at Eleven - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Childhood, abstract
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Gabriela at Eleven - 2019
25x31cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Photograph printed in Canson Barita Fiber Rag 340gr,
based on a reclaimed Fuji Instant Film Negative (not mo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Girl down the Road (The Last Picture Show) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Girl down the Road (The Last Picture Show) - 2006
Edition of 10,
58x57cm.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Archive Fuji Chrystal Paper, based on the Polaroid.
Artist...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
Untitled (Beachshoot) - Polaroid - featuring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Beachshoot) - 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 21396.
...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Polaroid, Color, C Print, Archival Paper
The Crashed Cars - Vintage Photograph - 1956
Located in Roma, IT
The crashed cars is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1956.
On their way to an evening party in connection with the Paediatric Congress in Copenhagen, three doctors coll...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$126 Sale Price
25% Off
Hello There
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Hello There
1955 (printed later)
Chromogenic print
20 x 20 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity.
1955: ...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Elizabeth Taylor, Hollywood Star 1950s on Film Set, Black and White Photography
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
Burt Glinn photographed one of the most highly-paid celebrity actresses, Elizabeth Taylor, 1959 on set during the filming of "Suddenly Last Summer". In the candid photo, he captures ...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper, Photographic Film
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Lioness Holding Cub in Mouth, Maasai Mara – Nick Brandt, Lion, Africa, Animals
By Nick Brandt
Located in Zurich, CH
NICK BRANDT (*1966, England)
Lioness with Cub in Mouth, Amboseli
2012
Platinum print
Sheet 71,12 x 88,9 cm (28 x 35 in.)
Edition of 15, plus AP's; Ed. no. 2/15
print only
Nick Brandt is a contemporary English photographer. His work focuses on the disappearing natural world. Since 2001, he has photographed the changing African continent and established a style of portrait photography of animals in the wild.
– Photography, Documentary Photography, Animal, Africa, Wildlife, Nature, Lion Baby...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Platinum
Japan – Daibutsu, Hiogo, Kobe – Hand-colored Meiji Period photograph
Located in Middletown, NY
circa 1890.
Hand-tinted albumen print, 7 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches (200 x 260 mm), numbered B 289 and captioned in negative at lower right. Unmounted; housed in an archival mat with clear...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Watercolor, Photographic Paper
"Embedded Worth" - contemporary digitally manipulated portraiture, 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
Lila and Sam from the movie Stay with Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
A piece of art from the movie 'Stay' by Stefanie Schneider
Stefanie created the art for both main actors Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling in the movie 'Stay' directed by Marc Forster. S...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Radha Mitchell on the Set of 'The Crazies' - Polaroid, Women, expired, movies
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Radha Mitchell on the Set of 'The Crazies'' - 2009
24x30cm
Edition of 10,
digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature Label and Certificate.
Artist inventory 11678.
not moun...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
La Concha Clientele
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests at the La Concha Beach Club, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Undercurrent Projects is prou...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Lucky Luciano, Sicily, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Sicilian-born American gangster Charles 'Lucky' Luciano (...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
New England Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked 'Ski Instructors Only' in New Hampshire, 1955.
New England Skiing
Black and White Photography
Slim Aa...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
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
Ferocious I
Located in New York City, NY
Leandro Franco
Ferocious I, 2019
16 x 12 inches (Photograph size)
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of 20
Framed
Suggested framed size 24 x 20 inches.
Ask us about framing details and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Frida with Granizo by Nickolas Muray, 1939, Platinum Print, Photography
Located in Denton, TX
Frida with Granizo by Nickolas Muray is a black and white portrait of Mexican surrealist painter Frida Kahlo with her pet fawn, Granizo.
Platinum Print
Image size: 11 x 10.5 in.
Pa...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Platinum
Phyllis Diller
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work was acquired directly from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The work is in pristine condition and has never been framed.
This is a unique work which comes w...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
New York Picnic, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Premium Rates Apply. A chauffeur unpacks a picnic hamper from a Rolls Royce, against the New York skyline.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Waiting in the Shade, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman shelters under a parasol on a beach on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, 1967.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim...
Category
1960s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Skiing at St. Moritz, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers on a slope in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1978.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
Collector w...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Dali Cyclops
Located in Buffalo, NY
The work offered for sale here is an original vintage silver gelatin print hand created by Halsman and used as the cover proof for the "Dali Mustache Book".
Philippe Halsman was at one point considered the best photo-portraitist in France. He had an incessant interest in faces: “Every face I see seems to hide—and sometimes fleetingly reveal—the mystery of another human being.” Halsman’s photographs of politicians, celebrities, and intellectuals were featured widely in magazines like LIFE and Vogue. His more famous subjects included the likes of Marc Chagall, Le Corbusier, Audrey Hepburn, and Albert Einstein. He also had a 37-year collaboration with Salvador Dalí, which resulted in several famous surrealist series including the “Dalí’s Mustache” portraits...
Category
1950s Surrealist 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 Mustique, February 1989.
Slim Aarons Estate E...
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
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 Mustique, February 1989.
Slim Aarons Estate E...
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Holiday in Mustique, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pierre Vincent Marais and his wife Isabelle holiday with friends at Gelliceaux House, their home on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines, February 1...
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Mustique, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
March 1973: Linda Ashland relaxes in a beach hammock on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stam...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Mustique, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
March 1973: Linda Ashland relaxes in a beach hammock on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stam...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Holiday in Mustique, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pierre Vincent Marais and his wife Isabelle holiday with friends at Gelliceaux House, their home on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines, February 1...
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
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
Skaal House In Stowe, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The glass-fronted triangular Skaal House, lit up at night, in the Stowe Mountain ski resort in Stowe, Vermont, 1962. A pair of skis leaning against the wal...
Category
1960s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Greta Garbo
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Clarence Sinclair Bull was one of the great masters of the Hollywood portrait. As head of the stills department at MGM for over thirty years, he helped to pioneer the art and craft o...
Category
1930s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ice Bar in Lech, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Customers at the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
C...
Category
1960s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
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 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.