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Portrait Photography For Sale
Period: 2010s
Period: 1910s
Capricorn, Nude, Fine Art Photography
Located in München, BY
Image size: 100 x 125 cm 7 Limited Editions + 2 Artist Proofs Archival Pigment Print White Floating Box frame size: 125 x 153 cm Evocative, sensual and voluptuous, Marc Lagrange's ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Platinum

I see you (50x50cm) - 21st Century, Women, Nude, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
I see you, 2016, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs Based on the Polaroid Digital C-print, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2017-114 This p...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Marlboro Out the Window (These Boots are made for walking)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A color photograph showing a young woman in boots with a pack of Marlboro
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2010s American Modern Portrait Photography

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Digital Pigment

Asleep - Contemporary, Portrait, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Asleep, 2020 50x50cm, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory - PL2020-833. ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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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...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Equestrian Portrait of a World Class Horse with a Braided Mane, Square
Located in US
"Nautilus II" A braided mane adds to the perfection of this horse in this classic, detailed equestrian portrait. The print series Equus: Light & Form focuses on the details of so...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Divine Nude No.32 by Ronald Martinez - Fine art photography, Renaissance, woman
Located in Paris, FR
Divine Nude No.32 is a limited-edition photograph by French contemporary artist Ronald Martinez. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 2 dimensions: ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print

Divine Nude No.21 by Ronald Martinez - Fine art photography, Renaissance, woman
Located in Paris, FR
Divine Nude No.21 is a limited-edition photograph by French contemporary artist Ronald Martinez. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print

Eve Arnold - Bar girl in a brothel, Photography 1954, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
A model in Harlem, New York City in 1968. All available sizes and editions: 20" x 24", Edition of 25 + 3 Artist Proofs 24" x 34", Edition of 25 + 3 Artist Proofs "Eve Arnold, born ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Eve Arnold - Marylin Monroe, Photography 1960, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Marilyn Monroe on the set of ‘The Misfits’, Reno, Nevada, 1960. All available sizes and editions: 24" x 20", Edition of 25 + 3 Artist Proofs 34" x 24", Edition of 25 + 3 Artist Proo...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Eve Arnold - Marylin Monroe Car, Photography 1960, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Marilyn Monroe on the set of ‘The Misfits’, Reno, Nevada, 1960. All available sizes and editions: 24" x 20", Edition of 25 + 3 Artist Proofs 34" x 24", Edition of 25 + 3 Artist Proo...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Divine Nude No.6 by Ronald Martinez - Fine art photography, Renaissance, woman
Located in Paris, FR
Divine Nude No.6 is a limited-edition photograph by French contemporary artist Ronald Martinez. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print

Sidewalk
Located in Sante Fe, NM
“When I began taking pictures,” Blackmon says, “ I was primarily interested in documenting the lives of my five sisters and myself as we raised families in the Ozarks in the 21st cen...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Black Dahlia N°2, Balearic Island, 21st century, contemporary, photography
Located in München, BY
Edition of 10 Fashion and fine art embrace each other in the photography of Jacques Olivar (b. 1941), where the miseen-scene often subtly references literature and film. Olivar orig...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Eve Arnold - Charlotte Stribling (also known as Fabulous), 1950, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
All available sizes and editions: 24" x 20", Edition of 25 + 3 Artist Proofs 34" x 24", Edition of 25 + 3 Artist Proofs "Eve Arnold, born in 1912 to Russian-immigrant parents in Ph...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Lone Wild Horse Looks Over Tall Grass, Meditative, Calming, Equestrian
Located in US
"Windy Solitude" This best-selling image features a single horse on Sable Island as he looks back at the camera. " The print series Discovering the Horses of Sable Island documents...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

The Nine Lives of Cindy, porcelain plate & official COA in box Lt Edition of 100
Located in New York, NY
Cindy Sherman The Nine Lives of Cindy, 2019 Printed Bone Porcelain 12 1/2 in diameter Limited Edition of 100 Plate signed verso and also accompanied by plate signed documentation card/official Certificate of Authenticity In original box Produced exclusively for the National Portrait Gallery in the United Kingdom on the occasion of the 2019 Cindy Sherman exhibition which also traveled to the Vancouver Art Gallery. Acquired directly from the National Portrait Gallery before it sold out. Cindy Sherman Biography: Born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Cindy Sherman lives and works in New York NY. Her ground-breaking photographs have interrogated themes around representation and identity in contemporary media for over four decades. Coming to prominence in the late 1970s with the Pictures Generation group alongside artists such as Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince and Louise Lawler, Sherman studied art at Buffalo State College in 1972 where she turned her attention to photography. In 1977, shortly after moving to New York, Sherman began her critically acclaimed Untitled Film Stills. A suite of 69 black and white portraits, Untitled Film Stills sees Sherman impersonate a myriad of stereotypical female characters and caricatures inspired by Hollywood pictures, film noir, and B movies. Using a range of costumes, props and backdrops to manipulate her own appearance and to create photographs resembling promotional film images, the series explores the tension between artifice and identity in consumer culture which has preoccupied the artist’s practice ever since. Sherman continued to channel and reconstruct familiar personas known to the collective psyche, often in unsettling ways. In 1981, the artist created her Centerfolds, a series of photographic double spreads inspired by men’s erotic magazines...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Ceramic, Porcelain, Paper, Mixed Media, Screen

Guitar girl - Polaroid, Black and White, Women, 21st Century, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Guitar girl - 2020 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-919. Not moun...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Seagull, Photography, Limited Edition, Animal, blackandwhite
Located in München, BY
A seagull in the sky. Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist JJK is a pseudonym for one of the world's most successful photo artists. In his series "Always in my mind", he...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Portrait of a Young Woman Wearing Traditional Tribal Jewelry, Africa, Fashion
Located in US
"Mindisayo's Gaze" In this best-selling image, a young women in the Rendille tribe of Northern Kenya wears the unique jewelry and ornamentation of this culturally-rich region. The...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Sometimes - Contemporary, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Sometimes' - 2019, 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL219-661. ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Photographic Paper

The way we were - Contemporary, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'The way we were' 2019, 20x20cm, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL219...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Intimate Portrait of a Sable Island Horse's Beautiful Mane, Fashion, Iconic
Located in US
"Untamed" The manes of the horses of Sable Island are uniquely styled by the island's natural ecosystem - especially the salty air. The print series Discovering the Horses of Sab...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Intimate Portrait of Iconic Wild Horses on Sable Island, Equestrian, Horizontal
Located in US
"Trinity" Everything about Sable Island - it's wild landscape and its wild horses - come together in this iconic photograph. Representative of the unparalleled, untamed essence o...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Q XV
Located in Hudson, NY
Edition # 1/4 This is the framed, varnished giclee print on Museo wax priced. Print is also available unframed in three paper sizes. Quiescence - 2009 A mixture of portraits and ...
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2010s Modern Portrait Photography

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Giclée, Varnish

Await (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Await (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 50x60cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #13084. ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Still - Contemporary, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Still' 2019, 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inven...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Only Elvis signed limited edition print
Located in London, GB
Only Elvis by B A T I K signed limited edition print pop art print of the infamous mock arrest mugshot of Elvis Presley. Archival pigment print paper size 20x16 inches / 51 x ...
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2010s Pop Art Portrait Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Seagull, Photography, Limited Edition, Animal, blackandwhite
Located in München, BY
A seagull in the sky. Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist JJK is a pseudonym for one of the world's most successful photo artists. In his series "Always in my mind", he...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Dust III, Kenya, Elephant, animal, wildlife, color photography, africa
Located in München, BY
Edition 15 More sizes on request For several days I went out with these baby elephants of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust to the bush in Tsavo East, Kenya. Together with their ke...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Fashion-Inspired Portrait of an Elite White Horse with a Black Bridle
Located in US
"Etched in Stone" This best-selling, award-winning image features the defined musculature of an all white-horse against a black backdrop. The print series Equus: Light & Form focus...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Divine Nude No.38 by Ronald Martinez - Fine art photography, Renaissance, woman
Located in Paris, FR
Divine Nude No.38 is a limited-edition photograph by French contemporary artist Ronald Martinez. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 2 dimensions: ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print

Bent Sound - underwater portrait of Njomza Vitia - archival pigment print 35x50"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
"Bent Sound" - An ethereal underwater fine art photograph that captures the intersection of music and movement through a portrait of singer Njomza Vitia. This submerged portrait tran...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Bent Sound - an underwater portrait of singer Njomza Vitia - aluminum 24x36"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
"Bent Sound" - An ethereal underwater fine art photograph that captures the intersection of music and movement through a portrait of singer Njomza Vitia. This submerged portrait tran...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Metal

Goddess, Photography, Story teller, Hollywood, Water, Dress, Red
Located in München, BY
Edition of 3 More sizes on request. A woman in a red dress dives into the water. Tyler Shields is an American Photographer, screenwriter, director and former professional inline sk...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

Bedside View - In Celebration of Pride Month
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community. a sexy young girl lies in bed bathed in sunlight
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2010s American Modern Portrait Photography

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Digital Pigment

The Bathing Suit
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Digital color print on Pearl photo paper, based on original Impossible film, Edition 1/10, Signed on the back with Certificate, not mounted Whether in color and black and white, van...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

'Lord Byron' Indigenous Dartmoor Pony
Located in Hudson, NY
Edition #1/1. This is a Photograph on canvas with Mixed Media. This is the framed price: $3,000. ”Dartmoor “depicts the wild ponies of Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England. The ...
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2010s Modern Portrait Photography

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Digital

Black Tears II, animal, wildlife, black and white photography, cheetah
Located in München, BY
Edition of 12 more sizes on request A Cheetah mum is sitting in the savannah. Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His photographs are among the most s...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Nastasia with Gun - Polaroid, Contemporary, Portrait, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Nastasia with Gun (High Desert) - 2019 Edition 1/10, 50x50cm, Digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. Stefanie Schneider: A German...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

14 November, III
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print Signed and numbered on label, verso 12 x 18 inches (Edition of 10) 24 x 35.5 inches (Edition of 8) From the series, "Him" This artwork is offered by ClampAr...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Landscape Iceland Black and White, Contemporary Art, Photography, 21st Century
Located in Mexico City, MX
Landscape Iceland, 2018 Contemporary Art, Photograph Printed on cotton paper, unmounted Limited Edition Ships rolled up
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper

Divine Nude No.14 by Ronald Martinez - Fine art photography, Renaissance, woman
Located in Paris, FR
Divine Nude No.14 is a limited-edition photograph by French contemporary artist Ronald Martinez. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 2 dimensions: ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print

Lee
Located in Hudson, NY
Edition number #3/10 Heal brings us through a world of stillness and sensual nature, which subverts your perception with her unique photography style. They are reminiscent of class...
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2010s Modern Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Ligne d'horizon, Marseille
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 beautiful naked woman is kneeing on a stone bank and looks into the blue sky. You can o...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Haley and the Birds (29 Palms, CA) - based on the Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Haley and the Bird (29 Palms, CA) - 2013 50x50cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist inventor...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Ladybird (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Ladybird (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) 2019 - Edition of 10, 20x20cm, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid Artist inventory 22256. Signature label and Certificate. Not...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Miss Moneypenny (Heavenly Falls) - Jane Bond, Polaroid, Contemporary, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Miss Moneypenny (Heavenly Falls) - 2016 48x47cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist inventory ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

The other day I was sure I knew what is good and what is bad - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The other day I was sure I knew what is good and what is bad (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2015 50x50cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Digital C-Print, based o...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Jersey Girls (Magenta), Wildwood, New Jersey - Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Jersey Girls Magenta, photograph from Richard Heeps Jersey Shore series. Vintage matchbooks from New York's Chelsea Flea Market featuring nudes from the 1940's are reimagined by Rich...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Divine Nude No.3 by Ronald Martinez - Fine art photography, Renaissance, woman
Located in Paris, FR
Divine Nude No.3 is a limited-edition photograph by French contemporary artist Ronald Martinez. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print

Untouchable Light
Located in München, BY
Edition of 10 More sizes available on request. Silhouette of a woman in black and white. Artist Statement: Art is the air that I breathe. I grew up in an artistic family, surround...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

African Pot III by Tamary Kudita - Portrait photography, African women, cactus
Located in Paris, FR
African Pot III is a limited-edition photograph (Digital Print on Baryta Fine Art paper) by contemporary artist Tamary Kudita. This photograph is sold unf...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Digital

Divine Nude No.26 by Ronald Martinez - Fine art photography, Renaissance, man
Located in Paris, FR
Divine Nude No.26 is a limited-edition photograph by French contemporary artist Ronald Martinez. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in only one dimen...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print

A Poem dictated by the Corset #33 [From the series Mademoiselle Jean]
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
33 A Poem dictated by the Corset, 2007/2018 [From the series Mademoiselle Jean] This photo is in her book The Eyes of the Fox, 2018 and before in her TicKL Magazine, 2007 Digital color print based on original Polaroid on pearl photo paper, not mounted Hand signed & numbered by the artist...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Giraffe in grass, Giraffe, animal, Africa, black and white photography
Located in München, BY
Edition No. 7/12 image size 28,5 x 35,6 cm signed and numbered Framed with mat and anti-reflex glass A giraffe is lying in the tall grass in front of Mount Kenya. Joachim Schmeisse...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christian Rothmann ROBOTNICS Series C-Print 2019 Edition S (Edition of 10) 12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm) Signed, dated and numbered verso Other Edition Sizes available: - Edition M (Edition of 6) 35.4 x 23.6 inches (90 x 60 cm) - Edition L (Edition of 6) 47.2 x 31.5 inches (120 x 80 cm) - Edition XL (Edition of 3) 88.8 x 58.8 inches (225 x 150 cm) PUR - Price Upon Request -------------- Since 1979 Christian Rothmann had more than 40 solo and 80 group exhibitions worldwide. Christian Rothmann had guest lectures, residencies, art fairs and biennials in Europe, Japan, USA, Australia and Korea. Christian Rothmann (born 1954 in Kędzierzyn, Poland ) is a painter, photographer, and graphic artist.⁠ ⁠ In 1976 he first studied at the “Hochschule für Gestaltung” in Offenbach, Germany and moved to Berlin in 1977, where he graduated in 1983 at the “Hochschule der Künste”. From 1983 to 1995 he taught at the university as a lecturer and as an artist with a focus on screenprinting and American art history. To date, a versatile body of work has been created, which includes not only paintings but also long-standing photo projects, videos, and public art.⁠ ⁠ Guest lectures, teaching assignments, scholarships and exhibitions regularly lead Rothmann to travel home and abroad.⁠ ------------------------ Rothmann's Robots These creatures date back to another era, and they connect the past and the future. They were found by Christian Rothmann, a Berlin artist, collector and traveler through time and the world: In shops in Germany and Japan, Israel and America, his keen eye picks out objects cast aside by previous generations, but which lend themselves to his own work. In a similar way, he came across a stash of historic toy robots of varied provenance collected by a Berlin gallery owner many years ago. Most of them were screwed and riveted together in the 1960s and 70s by Metal House, a Japanese company that still exists today. In systematically photographing these humanoids made of tin - and later plastic - Rothmann is paraphrasing the idea of appropriation art. Unknown names designed and made the toys, which some five decades on, Rothmann depicts and emblematizes in his extensive photo sequence. In their photographs of Selim Varol's vast toy collection, his German colleagues Daniel and Geo Fuchs captured both the stereotypical and individual in plastic figures that imitate superheroes which were and still are generally manufactured somewhere in Asia. Christian Rothmann looks his robots deep in their artificially stylized, painted or corrugated eyes - or more aptly, their eye slits - and although each has a certain degree of individuality, the little figures remain unknown to us; they project nothing and are not alter egos. Rothmann trains his lens on their faces and expressions, and thus, his portraits are born. Up extremely close, dust, dents, and rust become visible. In other words, what we see is time-traces of time that has passed since the figures were made, or during their period in a Berlin attic, and - considering that he robots date back to Rothmann's childhood - time lived by the photographer and recipients of his pictures. But unlike dolls, these mechanical robots bear no reference to the ideal of beauty at the time of their manufacture, and their features are in no way modeled on a concrete child's face. In this art project the robots appear as figures without a context, photographed face-on, cropped in front of a neutral background and reduced to their qualities of form. But beyond the reproduction and documentation a game with surfaces is going on; our view lingers on the outer skin of the object, or on the layer over it. The inside - which can be found beneath - is to an extent metaphysical, occurring inside the observer's mind. Only rarely is there anything to see behind the robot's helmet. When an occasional human face does peer out, it turns the figure into a robot-like protective casing for an astronaut of the future. If we really stop and think about modern toys, let's say those produced from the mid 20th century, when Disney and Marvel films were already stimulating a massive appetite for merchandising, the question must be: do such fantasy and hybrid creatures belong, does something like artificial intelligence already belong to the broader community of humans and animals? It is already a decade or two since the wave of Tamagotchis washed in from Japan, moved children to feed and entertain their newly born electronic chicks in the way they would a real pet, or to run the risk of seeing them die. It was a new form of artificial life, but the relationship between people and machines becomes problematic when the machines or humanoid robots have excellent fine motor skills and artificial intelligence and sensitivity on a par with, or even greater than that of humans. Luckily we have not reached that point yet, even if Hollywood adaptations would have us believe we are not far away. Rothmann's robots are initially sweet toys, and each toy is known to have a different effect on children and adults. They are conceived by (adult) designers as a means of translating or retelling history or reality through miniature animals, knights, and soldiers. In the case of monsters, mythical creatures, and robots, it is more about creating visions of the future and parallel worlds. Certainly, since the success of fantasy books and films such as Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit, we see the potential for vast enthusiasm for such parallel worlds. Successful computer and online games such as World of Warcraft...
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2010s Modern Portrait Photography

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C Print

Two Wild & Famous Horses on Sable Island, Black & White Photography, Horizontal
Located in US
"Soul Mates" Running freely over the island's 13 square miles, the iconic wild horses of Sable Island are the perfect picture of freedom....
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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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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