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Portrait Photography For Sale
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Act I, Scene 3
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 25. Alex Prager creates highly staged, theatrical, and cinematic photographs inspired by a wide range of references and influences—street photography, classic Hollywood c...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Frida with Cigarette
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition 4/30 Titled, dated, numbered, copyright, and signed by the Nickolas Muray Estate. Nickolas Muray Photo Archives. Giclee print, 15 1/2 x 11 in. "Muray and Kahlo were at the height of their on-again, off-again, ten-year relationship when these pictures were taken. Their affair had started in 1931, after Muray was divorced from his second wife, and shortly after Kahlo’s marriage to Mexican muralist...
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20th Century Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Giclée

Pharrell Williams, Photography on canvas. Mounted on a stretcher
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Pharrell Williams Original Portrait, 2017 by Hunter & Gatti From The series, I will make you a star Pigment print on canvas. Size: 74 H x 52 W in. Signed front and signed back Mo...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Black and White

Inga Lindgren and Poodles by Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries. Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days. Currency fluctuations may cause the price to change. This is a contemporary print from the Getty Archive using Slim Aarons negatives. Please contact the gallery for information about other print sizes. All prints feature a Slim Aarons blindstamp, and are accompanied by a Slim Aarons Certificate of Authentication issued by Getty. 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. "Inga Lindgren...
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20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Digital, Resin, Black and White

Skiing in Vail by Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries. Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
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20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Lambda, C Print

Dean Martin, Las Vegas
Located in London, GB
lifetime edition silver gelatin fine art archival print 72 x 48 in. (paper size) edition 10 of 50 signed and numbered Notes: Dean Martin prepares to go on...
Category

1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Orcas Island, Wa State. circa 2000
Located in New York, NY
Billy Childish (b. 1959, Chatham, Kent, United Kingdom; lives and works in Whitstable, Kent) is known for his introspective, autobiographical, and deeply emotional paintings, writing...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Mantras and Sun Family Diptych, Mixed media Vintage Photo. Framed
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Mantras and Sun Family Diptych by Leobardo Huerta Mixed-media Vintage photograph drawn on with pen and acrylic paint. Overall size: Frame size: 18 in. H x 33 in. W x 1 in. D Sheet ...
Category

2010s Portrait Photography

Materials

Acrylic

Painter. Chatham Dockyard, 2020
Located in New York, NY
Billy Childish (b. 1959, Chatham, Kent, United Kingdom; lives and works in Whitstable, Kent) is known for his introspective, autobiographical, and deeply emotional paintings, writing...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

The Way of the West No. 12
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes free shipping for unframed prints in the continental US and a 14-day return policy. Please inquire for framing options. We offer framing from our New York and Los Angeles gallery...
Category

2010s Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

The Circus
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Printed later. Signed on the back of the print with date in pencil. Camera Obscura label on back of mat. Overmatted to 20 x 16 inches so frame-ready. Provenance: Camera Obscura Galle...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Colette, Paris
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Printed later. Signed on the back of the print with date in pencil. Camera Obscura label on back of mat. Overmatted to 18 x 22". Provenance Camera Obscura Gallery (Denver) 1980s to p...
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1930s Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Woman in Canary Burqa by Steve McCurry, 2002, Digital C-Print, Photography
Located in Dallas, TX
Woman in Canary Burqa by Steve McCurry is a 24 x 20 inch digital c-print on FujiFlex Crystal Archive Supergloss paper, available in an edition of 30. This photograph features a portr...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Digital

Lake Tahoe Couple, Slim Aarons - Portrait Photography, Nude Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries. Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days. Currency fluctuations may cause the price to change. This is a contemporary print from the Getty Archive using Slim Aarons negatives. Please contact the gallery for information about other print sizes. All prints feature a Slim Aarons blindstamp, and are accompanied by a Slim Aarons Certificate of Authentication issued by Getty. 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. "Lake Tahoe Couple" is a beautiful Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type print from 20th Century photographer Slim Aarons. If you look carefully, you are able to see the words, "Nevada" and "California" spelled out in tiles on the swimming pool floor. The world of Aarons’s photographs...
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20th Century Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital

Materia VI, From The Series Materia, Abstract Limited Edition Color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Materia VI, 2023 by Mikael Kenta From the Series Materia Archival Pigment Print with a 1 cm white border. Image size: 75 cm. H x 60 cm. W Edition of 15 + 1AP Unframed _____________...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color

Materia V, From The Series Materia, Abstract Limited Edition Color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Materia V, 2023 by Mikael Kenta From the Series Materia Archival Pigment Print with a 1 cm white border. Image size: 75 cm. H x 60 cm. W Edition of 15 + 1AP Unframed ______________...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color

Materia II, From The Series Materia, Abstract Limited Edition Color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Materia II, 2023 by Mikael Kenta From the Series Materia Archival Pigment Print with a 1 cm white border. Image size: 75 cm. H x 60 cm. W Edition of 15 + 1AP Unframed _____________...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color

Elvis Presley, Stars. Portrait. Digital Collage Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Elvis Presley, Stars, by Paloma Castello From The Castelloland series Digital photographs on glossy pearlescent paper 40" x 30" inches Edition of 5 + 1 AP 2023 Castelloland works wi...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color, Digital Pigment

Materia III, From The Series Materia, Abstract Limited Edition Color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Materia III, 2023 by Mikael Kenta From the Series Materia Archival Pigment Print with a 1 cm white border. Image size: 75 cm. H x 60 cm. W Edition of 15 + 1AP Unframed ____________...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color

Materia IV, From The Series Materia, Abstract Limited Edition Color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Materia IV, 2023 by Mikael Kenta From the Series Materia Archival Pigment Print with a 1 cm white border. Image size: 75 cm. H x 60 cm. W Edition of 15 + 1AP Unframed _____________...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Afghan Girl by Steve McCurry, 1984, Digital C-Print, Portrait Photography
Located in Dallas, TX
Afghan Girl by Steve McCurry is a 24 x 20 inch digital C-print on Fujiflex Crystal Archive Supergloss paper. One of Steve McCurry's most iconic images, this photograph features a you...
Category

1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Digital

Dining al fresco on Capri, Slim Aarons - Portrait Photography, Landscape Photo
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries. Please bear ...
Category

20th Century Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital

Elvis Presley, Tropical Jungle. Portrait. Digital Collage Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Elvis Presley, Tropical Jungle, by Paloma Castello From The Castelloland series Digital photographs on glossy pearlescent paper 40" x 30" inches Edition of 5 + 1 AP 2023 Castellolan...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color, Digital Pigment

Materia I, From The Series Materia, Abstract Limited Edition Color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Materia I, 2023 by Mikael Kenta From the Series Materia Archival Pigment Print with a 1 cm white border. Image size: 75 cm. H x 60 cm. W Edition of 15 + 1AP Unframed ______________...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color

Skiing Waiters, 1962 by Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries. Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category

20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Color, C Print, Photographic Paper, Lambda

Elvis Presley, The Sea. Portrait. Digital Collage Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Elvis Presley, The Sea, by Paloma Castello From The Castelloland series Digital photographs on glossy pearlescent paper 40" x 30" inches Edition of 5 + 1 AP 2023 Castelloland works ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color, Digital Pigment

Frida Kahlo in the Blue House, Coyoacán, Mexico. 1943. Color Portrait
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Frida Kahlo in the Blue House, Coyoacán, Mexico. 1943 Unframed Digital Print on Hahnemuhle Bamboo Paper Image size: 14 in. H x 10in. W Sheet size 18 in.H x 14in W Edition 1/15, Printed later by the Leo Matiz Estate Leo Matiz, one of the most important photographers in Latin America, lived in Mexico in the 1940s and was a close friend of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, whom he immortalized with his camera. The estate of Leo Matiz in collaboration with the conservators of the artist's clothes was inspired by these vibrant traditional Mexican dresses...
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1940s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Color

Willie Nelson, Spicewood, Texas
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on print verso. Image size: 16 x 16 inches Paper size: 20 x 20 inches
Category

20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Marilyn Monroe, 1954 from Getty Archive
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days. Taken from the world’s largest photographic archive, (Hulton Archive and Getty...
Category

20th Century Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Black and White

Elvis Presley, Tatacoa Desert. Portrait. Digital Collage Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Elvis Presley, Tatacoa Desert, by Paloma Castello From The Castelloland series Digital photographs on glossy pearlescent paper 40" x 30" inches Edition of 5 + 1 AP 2023 Castelloland...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color, Digital Pigment

Carroll Shelby/Sebring, FL by Al Satterwhite, 1964, Archival Pigment Print
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 25 Signed, titled, dated and numbered. Paper size: 20 x 16 in. AVAILABLE SIZES: 11 x 14 in., Edition of 25 16 x 20 in., Edition of 25 "The discovery of fast cars and auto racing rocked my world as a high school student in the early 1960s. After graduating I did everything I could to wrangle assignments to cover two of the biggest international endurance races held annually in Florida. The Daytona 24-Hour and Sebring 12-Hour races were the highlight of my early years as a photographer. Covering racing events in the Sixties was a lot different from what it is today. Access to the racers and the cars was much easier and there were far fewer photographers covering any event. As a fan and a photojournalist in search of a great story, I usually hung around Carroll Shelby’s pit. Shelby and his Cobras were always race winning contenders. “Shel” was easy to work with and to be around. He let me do what I wanted and go where I pleased to capture a story. At the 1964 Sebring race, Shel was recovering from surgery, alternating between crutches and a wheelchair. As his good friend and motor racing artist Bill Neale...
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Eve Babitz and Marcel Duchamp playing chess during Duchamp's Pasadena Art Museum
Located in New York, NY
Listing is for an unframed print and includes free shipping to the continental US and 14-day return policy. Julian Wasser Eve Babitz and Marcel Duchamp pl...
Category

1960s Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Sunbathing in Capri by Slim Aarons (Nude Photography, Portrait Photography)
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries. Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category

20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Lambda, C Print

Elvis Presley, Tropical Island. Portrait. Digital Collage Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Elvis Presley Tropical Island, by Paloma Castello From The Castelloland series Digital photographs on glossy pearlescent paper 40" x 30" inches Edition of 5 + 1 AP 2023 Castelloland...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment, Color

Naples #287 by Jed Fielding, 1983, Silver Gelatin Print, Photography
Located in Dallas, TX
Naples #287 by Jed Fielding is a silver gelatin print. This photograph depicts a baby face looking at the viewer with a woman on the phone passing in the bac...
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1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Fuscae I & II, Diptych. Portrait intervened by the artists
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Fuscae I & II 2019, by Hunter & Gatti Acrylic And Oil Pastel On Pigment Print Overall size: : 43 cm. H x 66 cm. W Individual size: 43 cm. H x 33 cm. W Unique Unframed This piece is ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Acrylic, Black and White, Archival Pigment

Frida by the Lamp
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed, titled and dated. Image size: 11 3/4 x 7 3/4 in, Mount size: 20 x 16 in Lucienne Bloch was a prolific artist. Born in Switzerland, she soon moved with her family to American...
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20th Century Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Frida Biting Her Necklace by Lucienne Bloch, 1933, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Dallas, TX
Frida Biting Her Necklace by Lucienne Bloch is a 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inch silver gelatin print. This photograph is mounted on a 16 x 20 inch mount board with a window mat. It is signed on print recto by artist in pen and has a signature label on mount verso with title, date, artist name and copyright information. Frida Biting Her Necklace features a portrait of Frida Kahlo sitting in a chair while biting her necklace. Her head is slightly turned as she stares at the viewer. Lucienne Bloch was a prolific artist. Born in Switzerland, she soon moved with her family to American in mist of the growing tensions of war and anti-Semitism. At the young age of 15 years old, she attended The Cleveland Institute of Art and later in life enrolled in the Ecole National et Superier des Beaux Arts in Paris. Exceeding in her artistic endeavors, she worked for a number of established artist such as sculptor, Anotine Boudelle, and architecture Frank Lloyd Wright. However, it was her encounter with Mexican Muralist, Diego Rivera, and painter Frida Kahlo that solidified Bloch artistic style. Bloch became a closed friend of the couple, as well as, the chief photographer of the Rockefeller Center mural Diego Rivera was working on in New York before it was destroyed. In addition to her photographs, Bloch was a Fresco muralist for the Federal Arts Project of the Works Progress...
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20th Century Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Francesca Woodman, Providence, RI
Located in New York, NY
Francesca Woodman in Providence, Rhode Island (1976) photographed by George Lange. 14 x 11" archival pigment print 21 x 17 x 2" frame with UV plexgias Edition 2 of 10, signed and e...
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1970s Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

Salty Clowns, Untitled 1 - Portrait Photography, Still-life Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order and lead times are between 15-20 days. Unique 10" x 8" Salt Paper Print toned with Selenium and Varnished with Lavender and Beeswax. The practice and potential of Photo Therapy is something that has long interested Rachel Louise Brown, so during the pandemic lockdowns, she decided to explore for herself, photography’s power to heal. Building a small studio set in her living room, she used the performative nature of self-portraiture as a tool to cope with her grief, frustration and fear, instinctively gravitating towards clowns as a subject. Alongside conjuring clown characters, having hired archival and historical outfits from the National Theatre & Clown Museum and attempted the art of clown make up, Brown was keen to learn new analogue techniques – particularly some of the earliest ones that have led to the world of photography as we know it today. Since then, Brown has attempted to master the historical alchemical process of salt printing. Invented by William Henry Fox Talbot in the mid-1830s, salt printing was the earliest photographic method capable of fixing a negative to positive image on paper. Using salt water...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper

The Mermaid. Weeki Wachi Springs - Portrait Photography, Nude Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order and lead times are between 15-20 days. This print may be available in another size, please contact the gallery for more information. "The Mermaid. Weeki Wachi Springs. 2017" is a Dye Sublimation Print on Aluminium. This print is available from an Edition of 10 + 2 Artist Proofs in this size. Rachel Louise Brown...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Dye, Color

Prosperity on the Corner
Located in Dallas, TX
Vintage Silver Gelatin Print. Title, date and signature on mat margin 1980 stamp in black ink twice on mount verso
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1930s American Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Francesca Woodman, Providence, RI
Located in New York, NY
Francesca Woodman in Providence, Rhode Island (1976) photographed by George Lange. 11 x 14" archival pigment print 17 x 21 x 2" frame with UV plexgias Edition 2 of 10, signed and e...
Category

1970s Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

Francesca Woodman, Providence, RI
Located in New York, NY
Francesca Woodman in Providence, Rhode Island (1976) photographed by George Lange. 14 x 11" archival pigment print 21 x 17 x 2" frame with UV plexgias Edition 2 of 10, signed and e...
Category

1970s Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

Francesca Woodman, Providence, RI
Located in New York, NY
Francesca Woodman in Providence, Rhode Island (1976) photographed by George Lange. 11 x 14" archival pigment print 17 x 21 x 2" frame with UV plexgias Edition 2 of 10, signed and e...
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1970s Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

Desert House Party, Slim Aarons - Portrait Photography, Figurative Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries. Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category

20th Century Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, Digital, Color, C Print

Poolside Socialites, Slim Aarons - Figurative Photography, Portrait Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries. Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
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20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital

The Carousel. Palm Beach Zoo. West Palm Beach - Still-life Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order and lead times are between 15-20 days. This print may be available in another size, please contact the gallery for more information. "The Carousel. Palm Beach Zoo. West Palm...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Dye, Color

Axolotl - Contemporary British Art, Animal Photography, Underwater, Walking Fish
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order and lead times are between 15-20 days. All print prices include VAT. 'Axolotl' is a stunning C-Type print by contemporary British photographer Tim Flach. Edition 3/10. Flach has mainly become renown for his highly stylized animal portraits, which are far removed from traditional wildlife photography...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

Palm Springs Party, Slim Aarons - Portrait Photography, Figurative Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries. Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category

20th Century Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, Digital, Color, C Print

Mixed Media
Located in New York, NY
2012, pigment print photograph, 14 x 11 inches, Edition of 12
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Pigment

Happy Marilyn, 1956 from the Getty Archive
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days. Taken from the world’s largest photographic archive, (Hulton Archive and Getty...
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20th Century Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, Black and White

Hunter S. Thompson in Cozumel by Al Satterwhite, 1974, Archival Pigment Print
Located in Dallas, TX
Hunter S. Thompson in Cozumel by Al Satterwhite features a portrait of Hunter S. Thompson sitting at a table while pouring a beer into a glass. This photograph is listed as a 17.75 ...
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1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Funk in Tuscany, Slim Aarons - Portrait Photography, Still-life Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries. Please bear ...
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20th Century Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital

Poolside Gathering, Slim Aarons - Figurative Photography, Portrait Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries. Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category

20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital

Francesca Woodman, Providence, RI
Located in New York, NY
Francesca Woodman in Providence, Rhode Island (1976) photographed by George Lange. 14 x 11" archival pigment print 21 x 17 x 2" frame with UV plexgias Edition 2 of 10, signed and e...
Category

1970s Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

Monaco Grand Prix, Slim Aarons - Color Photography, Portrait Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries. Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
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20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda

Big Red
Located in Dallas, TX
Image size: 44 x 31 inches Archival Pigment Print Edition 1/7
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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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