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Portrait Photography For Sale
Faces, Vintage Color Photograph Digital Photo Collage Print Asian American
Located in Surfside, FL
This was from Muse X publishers. It came in a plastic bag signed Emily Cheng. (the plastic bag is not included) It is on Fuji crystal photo paper. It depicts two Asian faces in a cub...
Category

1990s Conceptual Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print

Sam (Stay) - starring Ewan McGregor
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay'. Featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie's art was the art both created during the movie. Stefanie's images were also used for Ryan Gosling's memory sequence, for the end titles, for edits in between and as art paintings hanging in several scenes within the movie. This Piece: Sam (Stay) - starring Ewan McGregor, 2006, 49x48cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, matte surface, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 5026. Not mounted. ----- Torsten Scheid, “Fotografie, Kunst, Kino. Revisited.”, FilmDienst 3/2006, page 11-13

 Photography Art Cinema. Revisited Stay expands a traditional connection through new facets Interwoven between the media of photography and film is a veritable mesh-work of technical, motific, metaphorical and personal interrelationships. Extending from photo-film which, as in La Jetée by Chris Marker (France, 1962) is a montage of single, unmoving photographs all the way to the portrayal of photographic motifs in Hollywood cinema―most recently in Memento (USA, 2000) and One hour photo (USA, 2002)―is the range of filmic-photographic interactions on the one hand, and from the adaption of modes of cinematic production to the imitation of film stills on the other. For instance, with the legendary Untitled Film Stills (1978) of the American artist Cindy Sherman, who later made her debut as a film director with Office Killer (USA, 1997) and thereby, like many others, changed sides: Wim Wenders, Robert Frank and Larry Clark are doubtlessly the most successful of these photographic-filmic border crossers. This brief survey provides only a vague indication of the dimensions of this intermedial field, which in fact extends much further and is constantly being cultivated. Also as a motif in film, photography has experienced a historical transformation: Photographers were once considered to be technicians who mastered a craft but never achieved the status of artists. Photographer-figures were caught in the allure of beautiful appearance, incapable of penetrating to the actual essence of things. Such depth was reserved for literature or painting. When photography in film touched upon the sphere of art, then most often as its contrasting model, as the metaphor for a superficial access to the world. Coming to mind are Fred Astaire as a singing fashion photographer in Stanley Donen’s musical film Funny Face (USA, 1957), or the restless lifestyle-photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni’s genre-classic Blow up (GB, 1966). For the doubting Thomas, only that exists which can be photographed. He ultimately enters the world of fantasy and thereby the field of art only unwillingly, when he becomes entangled in the world of his images. The last of his detail-enlargements shows only the photographic grain and has lost all connection to reality. The photograph looks as if it had been painted by Bill, the painter who is both friend and antagonist to the protagonist.

 Photography as Art It was first around the end of the last century that numerous filmmakers discovered photography as a genuine art form. In The Bridges of Madison County (USA, 1995) a sensitive Clint Eastwood stands, camera in hand, on the threshold of artistic status, and in Smoke (USA, 1994) a tobacco merchant ripens into a philosopher through his involvement in photography. Finally, in John Water’s parody of the art market, Pecker (USA, 1998), a provincial tom-fool is hyped into celebrated stardom amid the New York art scene because of his blurred snapshots. This film about a postmodern Kaspar Hauser in photographic art (with clear parallels to Richard Billingham, the British shooting...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Jerry Garcia, NYC 1971
Located in Toronto, ON
Open and Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints Hand Signed by Bob Gruen 8" x 10" Unframed Open Edition 11" x 14" Unframed Open Edition 16" x 20" Unframed Open Edition 20" x 24" U...
Category

1970s Other Art Style Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Elizabeth Taylor with Sunglasses for Giant - Oversize Limited Print
Located in London, GB
Elizabeth Taylor with Sunglasses for "Giant" 1955 by Frank Worth This iconic and elegant portrait captured by celebrity photographer Frank Worth features actress Elizabeth Taylor o...
Category

1950s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Star Wars, Chewbacca, Sience Fiction Filmstill, 1977
Located in Cologne, DE
The original Star Wars trilogy, formerly marketed as the Star Wars Trilogy (and colloquially referred to as the 'original trilogy'), is the first set of three films produced in the S...
Category

1970s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Black and White

Inughuit Hunter I - Greenland
Located in Munich, DE
Limited Edition of 25 More sizes on request Sebastian Copeland is considered a photographer "who has created works of outstanding artistic quality and conveys messages of urgent glo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Man with Pocket Watch by Thomas Kennaugh, 2023, Photograph and Daguerreotype
Located in Dallas, TX
*Listing includes framed archival pigment print and daguerreotype Man with Pocket Watch by Thomas Kennaugh is an enlarged and enhanced print of a dagu...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Other Medium, Archival Pigment

Stars in the Dance - Contemporary, Conceptual, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Stars in the Dance', 2009 30x30cm. Edition 1/10. Archival C Print based on a multiple exposure Polaroid, mounted under Plexi. Signed on back. 'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars' - Oscar Wilde This piece will be exhibited at the Bombay Beach Biennale in the newly founded Polaroid Museum in it's permanent collection. The Museum opens its doors in March 23rd, 2019. AND in the "Instant Dreams" Polaroid curation by Stefanie Schneider at Saatchi's The Other Art Fair in Los Angeles 28/03/19 - 31/03/19. Urizen Freaza was born in Tenerife in 1982 and is based in Berlin since 2010. He's a self-taught photographer and film-maker. Self-taught meaning that this is a path he's still walking, while hoping there is always more path to walk. He's a member of the Film Shooters Collective and part of the team behind the analogueNOW! festival in Berlin. Vita: Group exhibitions: 2018 'Feel', Brooklyn Film Camera, New York, USA 2017 'The decisive light', Projekteria, Barcelona, Spain 2017 'The face', Darkroom Gallery, Vermont, USA 2017 'A surreal vision', Galería LoosenArt, Roma...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Blondie rooftop hammock by Lynn Goldsmith signed limited edition 20x24" print
Located in Austin, US
Signed limited edition 20x24"" print of Blondie members, Chris Stein and Debbie Harry relaxing in a hammock on the rooftop of their New York City apartment in 1978 by Lynn Goldsmith....
Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Marcel Proust
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol Marcel Proust, ca. 1976 Acetate positive acquired directly from Chromacomp, Inc. Andy Warhol's printer in the 1970s. Accompanied by Letter of Provenance from the representative of Chromacomp, Andy Warhol's printer Frame included: Elegantly framed in a museum quality white wood frame with UV plexiglass. Measurements: Frame: 17.75 x 14.75 x 1.5 inches Photograph: 10.75 x 7.75 inches This unique photographic positive acetate is of the 19th and early 20th century French novelist Marcel Proust, who's chef d'oeuvre A la recherche du temps perdu inspired some Warhol titles. Warhol would transfer the acetate to a transparency, allowing an image to be magnified and projected onto a screen. Warhol created a silkscreen painting of Marcel Proust and sent this acetate to his printer, Chromacomp, Inc. for consideration as a silkscreen multiple, which was never made. This acetate was brought by Warhol to Eunice and Jackson Lowell, owners of Chromacomp,Inc. a fine art printing studio in New York City. During the 1970s and 1980s, it was the premier atelier for fine art limited edition silkscreen prints; indeed, Chromacomp was the largest studio producing fine art prints in the world for artists such as Andy Warhol, Leroy Neiman, Erte, Robert Natkin, Larry Zox, David Hockney and many more. All of the plates were done by hand and in some cases photographically. Warhol had considered creating limited edition prints with Chromacomp of his famous portrait of Proust based upon this photographic image. The original painting was commissioned by art dealer Marie-Louise Jeanneret for a group of Italian collectors and avid Proust enthusiasts, Warhol's original four acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen works were based on a famous 1895 photograph of the French novelist captured by Otto Wegener. Marcel Proust, the distinguished French novelist, literary critic, and essayist, achieved renowned for his monumental 1908 seven-volume novel In Search of Lost Time. The literary masterpiece delved into the intricacies of memory, time and the profound complexity of the human experience. Proust's literary genius revolutionized the landscape of literature, leaving an enduring impact on the Parisian cultural scene at the turn of the century. About 50 years later, Andy Warhol emerged as a visionary artist who challenged artistic conventions, exploring themes that resonated with Proust's own ideas. Warhol, a trailblazer in his own right, delved into philosophical reflections on consumerism, mass production and the nature of fame. His artistic endeavors mirrored Proust's explorations, albeit through a contemporary lens, as he sought to redefine the boundaries of art and popular culture. About Andy Warhol: Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? —Andy Warhol Andy Warhol’s (1928–1987) art encapsulates the 1960s through the 1980s in New York. By imitating the familiar aesthetics of mass media, advertising, and celebrity culture, Warhol blurred the boundaries between his work and the world that inspired it, producing images that have become as pervasive as their sources. Warhol grew up in a working-class suburb of Pittsburgh. His parents were Slovak immigrants, and he was the only member of his family to attend college. He entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in 1945, where he majored in pictorial design. After graduation, he moved to New York with fellow student Philip Pearlstein and found steady work as a commercial illustrator at several magazines, including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and the New Yorker. Throughout the 1950s Warhol enjoyed a successful career as a commercial artist, winning several commendations from the Art Directors Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. He had his first solo exhibition at the Hugo Gallery in 1952, showing drawings based on the writings of Truman Capote; three years later his work was included in a group show at the Museum of Modern Art for the first time. The year 1960 marked a turning point in Warhol’s prolific career. He painted his first works based on comics and advertisements, enlarging and transferring the source images onto canvas using a projector. In 1961 Warhol showed these hand-painted works, including Little King (1961) and Saturday’s Popeye (1961), in a window display at the department store Bonwit Teller; in 1962 he painted his famous Campbell’s Soup Cans, thirty-two separate canvases, each depicting a canned soup of a different flavor. Soon after, Warhol began to borrow not only the subject matter of printed media, but the technology as well. Incorporating the silkscreen technique, he created grids of stamps, Coca-Cola bottles, shipping and handling labels, dollar bills, coffee...
Category

1970s Pop Art Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Film

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

Margarita (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Margarita (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 126x125cm, Edition 1/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection. ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Metal

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...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Lovers, San Francisco.
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Fisher Ross. Untitled, ca. 1975-80. Gelatin Silver print, sheet measures 8 x 10 inches; 17 x 21 inches framed. Artist studio stamp on verso. Excellent cond...
Category

1970s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Marilyn I, aka Jane Bond (Heavenly Falls) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Marilyn aka Jane Bond - (part 1) (Heavenly Falls) - 2016 50x49cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print based on the Polaroid Certificate and signature label. Artist inventory number: 19...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Akku, Inughuit Elder - Greenland
Located in Munich, DE
Limited Edition of 25 More sizes on request Sebastian Copeland is considered a photographer "who has created works of outstanding artistic quality and conveys messages of urgent glo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Inughuit Hunter III - Greenland
Located in Munich, DE
Limited Edition of 25 More sizes on request Sebastian Copeland is considered a photographer "who has created works of outstanding artistic quality and conveys messages of urgent glo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Inughuit Hunter II - Greenland
Located in Munich, DE
Limited Edition of 25 More sizes on request Sebastian Copeland is considered a photographer "who has created works of outstanding artistic quality and conveys messages of urgent glo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Cries and Whispers (Till Death do us Part) - triptych - Woman, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Cries and Whispers (Till Death Do Us Part) triptych - 2007, 20x24cm each, 20x80cm installed, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. 3 Archival C-Prints, based on 3 Polaroids. Cert...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Love Scene against the Wall from Sidewinder
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Love Scene against the Wall" (Sidewinder) - 2007, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. 4 x 20x20cm, 20 x 100 cm installed with gaps in between each piece. 4 Archival C-Prints, b...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Dolls (Till Death do us Part) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dolls (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2016 50x49cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C- Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist inventory numb...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Cleaning up (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - part of the 29 Palms, CA project
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Cleaning up (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - 2010, Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs. 30x40cm each, installed 30x190cm. 4 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Archive Fuji Chr...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Portrait of Andy Warhol, hand signed by BOTH Andy Warhol and Christopher Makos
Located in New York, NY
Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol Portrait of Andy Warhol taken by photographer Christopher Makos (Hand signed by BOTH Andy Warhol and Christopher Makos), 1986 Gelatin Silver Print, hand signed and annotated by Andy Warhol, Hand signed by Christopher Makos with studio stamp and copyright Hand signed and annotated "Xtra" by Andy Warhol; hand signed, dated and stamped by Christopher Makos with copyright Frame included: elegantly framed in a museum quality wood frame with UV plexiglass; there is a die cut window on the back to reveal the signatures, annotations and copyright stamp A rare proof hand signed by both photographer and subject: Hand signed and annotated "Xtra" by Andy Warhol on the back; hand signed, dated and stamped by Christopher Makos with this copyright Measurements: Frame: 19 x 16.75 x 1.75 inches Photograph: 12.25 x 10.25 inches About Christopher Makos: Christopher Makos was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, grew up in California, and moved to New York after high school. He studied architecture in Paris and briefly worked as an apprentice to Man Ray. Andy Warhol, Makos' good friend and frequent portrait subject, called Makos "the most modern photographer in America." His photographs have been exhibited in galleries and museums such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Tate Modern in London, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the IVAM in Valencia (Spain) and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. His pictures have appeared in magazines and newspapers, including Paris Match and Wall Street Journal. He is the author of several important books, like the volumes Warhol/Makos In Context (2007), Andy Warhol China...
Category

1980s Pop Art Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin, Pencil

Unbelievable Wild Horse With Beautiful Mane, Iconic, Vertical
Located in US
"Legend" This wild horse's mane stands out among the rest of the 500 horses on Sable Island. It is the grandest and most regal of them all. The print series Discovering the Horses...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Copts 07 - Signed limited edition portrait print, Black white, Coptic Christians
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Copts 07- Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 2012 - Edition of 5 Man in a market, Cairo, Egypt. In assignment for ARTE & LE LOUVRE 2012 Exhibition in Le Louvre, Pari...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Ar...

Tom Kelley : Gal in Baggie Surfer Suit
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley Ann St. Marie c. 1950's C print 38 x 30 inches Edition of 45 Photographs are printed on Archival Hahnemühle paper (luster) estate signed and numbered in the border Captio...
Category

1960s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Skiing Holiday by Slim Aarons (Portrait Photography, Landscape 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

Materials

C Print, Digital

Ready-For-The-Party Croco 4/5 - Contemporary Animal Portrait Photography
Located in Vienna, AT
Verena Prenner Ready-For-The-Party Croco 4/5 - Contemporary Animal Portrait Photography Edition 4/5+II AP C-Print, 70 x 60 cm Print is unframed and comes with sticker signed by the a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Color

Twins Entwined, 1991: Identical twins photographed together in studio portrait.
Located in Toronto, ON
Twins Entwined, 1991: Photographed by Ron Baxter Smith. Identical Twins, Mark and Ian, shot together in a studio portrait. Shot with 4 x 5 Polaroid Type 55 Positive/Negative; Sinar &...
Category

1990s Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

The Moment of Truth (Heavenly Falls) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Moment of Truth (Heavenly Falls) - 2016 50x49cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C- Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist invent...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Brigitte Bardot dancing, black and white
Located in Cologne, DE
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot, born 28 September 1934, often referred to by her initials B.B. is a French animal rights activist and former actress, singer, and model. Famous for portra...
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20th Century Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Black and White

Ted Williams 'Count Basie'
Located in New York, NY
Ted Williams Count Basie 1950's (printed later) Silver gelatin print 30 x 40 inches Estate stamped and numbered edition 25 with certificate of authenticity Count Basie at the Trian...
Category

1960s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Waiting for Randy (Wastelands), analog, not mounted, 5/5
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Waiting for Randy (Wastelands), 2004 - Edition 5/5, 58x56cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inven...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

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 # 21395. ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Li(e)be (Stage of Consciousness) with Udo Kier - analog, Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
L(i)ebe (Stage of Consciousness) - from the 29 Palms, CA project - 2007 starring Udo Kier 75x90cm, Edition 4/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid....
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Metal

Wild Things (Till Death do us Part) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wild Things (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005, 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Invent...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Untitled (Suburbia) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog, Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Suburbia) - 2004 featuring actress Radha Mitchell 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid, Signed on verso with Certificate...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Jackson 5 and Janet Jackson, NYC 1975
Located in Toronto, ON
Open and Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints Hand Signed by Bob Gruen 8" x 10" Unframed Open Edition 11" x 14" Unframed Open Edition 16" x 20" Unframed Open Edition 20" x 24" U...
Category

1970s Other Art Style Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Nicola (Nicky) Weymouth
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol Nicola (Nicky) Weymouth, ca. 1976 Acetate positive, acquired directly from Chromacomp, Inc. Andy Warhol's printer in the 1970s. Accompanied by a Letter of Provenance from the representative of Chromacomp Unique Frame included: Elegantly framed in a museum quality white wood frame with UV plexiglass: Measurements: Frame: 18 x 15.5 x 1.5 inches Acetate: 11 x 8 inches This is the original, unique photographic acetate positive taken by Andy Warhol as the basis for his portrait of Nicky Weymouth, that came from Andy Warhol's studio, The Factory to his printer. It was acquired directly from Chromacomp, Inc. Andy Warhol's printer in the 1970s. It is accompanied by a Letter of Provenance from the representative of Chromacomp. This is one of the images used by Andy Warhol to create his iconic portrait of the socialite Nicola Samuel Weymouth, also called Nicky Weymouth, Nicky Waymouth, Nicky Lane Weymouth or Nicky Samuel. Weymouth (nee Samuel) was a British socialite, who went on to briefly marry the jewelry designer Kenneth Lane, whom she met through Warhol. This acetate positive is unique, and was sent to Chromacomp because Warhol was considering making a silkscreen out of this portrait. As Bob Colacello, former Editor in Chief of Interview magazine (and right hand man to Andy Warhol), explained, "many hands were involved in the rather mechanical silkscreening process... but only Andy in all the years I knew him, worked on the acetates." An acetate is a photographic negative or positive transferred to a transparency, allowing an image to be magnified and projected onto a screen. As only Andy worked on the acetates, it was the last original step prior to the screenprinting of an image, and the most important element in Warhol's creative process for silkscreening. Warhol realized the value of his unique original acetates like this one, and is known to have traded the acetates for valuable services. This acetate was brought by Warhol to Eunice and Jackson Lowell, owners of Chromacomp, a fine art printing studio in NYC, and was acquired directly from the Lowell's private collection. During the 1970s and 80s, Chromacomp was the premier atelier for fine art limited edition silkscreen prints; indeed, Chromacomp was the largest studio producing fine art prints in the world for artists such as Andy Warhol, Leroy Neiman, Erte, Robert Natkin, Larry Zox, David Hockney and many more. All of the plates were done by hand and in some cases photographically. Famed printer Alexander Heinrici worked for Eunice & Jackson Lowell at Chromacomp and brought Andy Warhol in as an account. Shortly after, Warhol or his workers brought in several boxes of photographs, paper and/or acetates and asked Jackson Lowell to use his equipment to enlarge certain images or portions of images. Warhol made comments and or changes and asked the Lowells to print some editions; others were printed elsewhere. Chromacomp Inc. ended up printing Warhol's Mick Jagger Suite and the Ladies & Gentlemen Suite, as well as other works, based on the box of photographic acetates that Warhol brought to them. The Lowell's allowed the printer to be named as Alexander Heinrici rather than Chromacomp, since Heinrici was the one who brought the account in. Other images were never printed by Chromacomp- they were simply being considered by Warhol. Warhol left the remaining acetates with Eunice and Jackson Lowell. After the Lowells closed the shop, the photographs were packed away where they remained for nearly a quarter of a century. This work is exactly as it was delivered from the factory. Unevenly cut by Warhol himself. This work is accompanied by a signed letter of provenance from the representative of Chromacomp, Andy Warhol's printer for many of his works in the 1970s. About Andy Warhol: Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? —Andy Warhol Andy Warhol’s (1928–1987) art encapsulates the 1960s through the 1980s in New York. By imitating the familiar aesthetics of mass media, advertising, and celebrity culture, Warhol blurred the boundaries between his work and the world that inspired it, producing images that have become as pervasive as their sources. Warhol grew up in a working-class suburb of Pittsburgh. His parents were Slovak immigrants, and he was the only member of his family to attend college. He entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in 1945, where he majored in pictorial design. After graduation, he moved to New York with fellow student Philip Pearlstein and found steady work as a commercial illustrator at several magazines, including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and the New Yorker. Throughout the 1950s Warhol enjoyed a successful career as a commercial artist, winning several commendations from the Art Directors Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. He had his first solo exhibition at the Hugo Gallery in 1952, showing drawings based on the writings of Truman Capote; three years later his work was included in a group show at the Museum of Modern Art for the first time. The year 1960 marked a turning point in Warhol’s prolific career. He painted his first works based on comics and advertisements, enlarging and transferring the source images onto canvas using a projector. In 1961 Warhol showed these hand-painted works, including Little King (1961) and Saturday’s Popeye (1961), in a window display at the department store Bonwit Teller; in 1962 he painted his famous Campbell’s Soup Cans, thirty-two separate canvases, each depicting a canned soup of a different flavor. Soon after, Warhol began to borrow not only the subject matter of printed media, but the technology as well. Incorporating the silkscreen technique, he created grids of stamps, Coca-Cola bottles, shipping and handling labels, dollar bills, coffee labels...
Category

1970s Pop Art Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Film

Boy George, NYC 1983
Located in Toronto, ON
Open and Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints Hand Signed by Bob Gruen 8" x 10" Unframed Open Edition 11" x 14" Unframed Open Edition 16" x 20" Unframed Open Edition 20" x 24" U...
Category

1980s Other Art Style Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Unknown Girl 01 - Street Portraits (Stranger than Paradise)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Unknown Girl 01 - Street Portraits (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 Edition of 10, 40x40cm. Archival Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Invento...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Slim Aarons 'Paola Mussetti in Sardinia'
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Paola Mussetti, 1982 Fiber print Paola Mussetti, a science student from Turin, poses in a bikini in Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, Italy, in August 1982. (Photo by Slim Aarons...
Category

1980s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Underwater Drink (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Underwater Drink, 1972 Chromogenic lambda print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. A woman drinking from a...
Category

1970s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Wild things (Till Death do us Part) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wild Things (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005, 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Invent...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Bumi
Located in Saint Louis, MO
With his multimedia portraits, Moroccan artist Hassan Hajjaj thrives in a space between cultures, traditions, mediums, and artistic movements. The subjects of his photography range f...
Category

2010s Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda, Wood

Untitled (Beachshoot) - with Radha Mitchell, analog, Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Beachshoot) - 2005 50x50cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Mounted under Plexiglass (matte) with Aluminum backing. Signe...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Elephant With The Blue Boxing Gloves Ed. 1/3 - Contemporary Portrait Photography
Located in Vienna, AT
Verena Prenner Elephant With The Blue Boxing Gloves - Contemporary Portrait Photography C-Print ed. 1/3+2 AP Print is unframed and comes with a sticker signed by the artist "The Ele...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print

Ted Williams 'Billie Holliday'
Located in New York, NY
Ted Williams Billie Holiday 1948 (printed later) Silver gelatin print 30 x 40 inches Estate stamped and numbered edition 25 with certificate of authenticity Billie Holiday on-stage...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Joan Jett, LA 1978
Located in Toronto, ON
Open and Limited Edition Silver Gelatin Prints Hand Signed by Bob Gruen 8" x 10" Unframed Open Edition 11" x 14" Unframed Open Edition 16" x 20" Unframed Open Edition 20" x 24" U...
Category

1970s Other Art Style Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Brainpower II, III and I. Triptych. From The Horses Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Brainpower I, Untitled I, and Untitled II (Triptych) 2018 by Juan Lamarca From the Horse Series Fine Art Cotton Paper Overall size: Image size: 16.5 in H x 36 in W Frame size: 17.7 ...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Black and White

Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized Minis - 'Saigon' - signed, loose
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Mini Saigon (Stranger than Paradise) - 2003 signed in front, not mounted. Digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid. Polaroid sized open Editions 1999-2023...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

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C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid, Archival Paper

The Party is over (Oxana's 30th Birthday) starring Radha Mitchell
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The party is over (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - 2007 48x46cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Arti...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

J Class Sailing Yachts on the Open Seas, Black and White Photography, Horizontal
Located in US
"Majesty at Sea" With only 9 of these iconic boats still left on the water, and with history of competition in the Olympics and Americas' Cup races, these boats represent the apex o...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Untitled (Beachshoot) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Women, Beach, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled (Beachshoot) - 2005 48x46cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 18572. ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Massimo Listri 'Venaria Reale XIII Torino'
Located in New York, NY
Venaria Reale XIII Torino, 2018 C-print Signed, titled, dated and numbered edition of 5 on artist's label on verso. The photographer is based in Florence, and is fascinated how h...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

C Print

Loneliness doesn't exist outside of your mind! - Polaroid, Contemporary, color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Loneliness doesn't exist outside of your mind! (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 38x48cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Si...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

Star Wars, Chewbacca and Luke, Sience Fiction Filmstill, 1977
Located in Cologne, DE
The original Star Wars trilogy, formerly marketed as the Star Wars Trilogy (and colloquially referred to as the 'original trilogy'), is the first set of three films produced in the S...
Category

1970s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Black and White

Saigon - Red Hot Chili Peppers Desecration Smile - Anthony Kiedes Collection
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Saigon - 2003 50x49cm. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 463. Signature label and Certificate. This piece has been used by the RED HOT C...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

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

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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