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Portrait Photography For Sale
Period: Late 20th Century
Period: 1910s
Princess Lucy Ruspoli, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Princess Lucy Ruspoli at Rougemont, near Gstaad, Switzerland, February 1984.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered ...
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
10525 - Stranger than Paradise, 125x125cm each - Polaroid, 20th Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'10525 (Stranger than Paradise) 1999,
5 pieces, each 128x125 cm plus 10 cm in between each print together 128x640cm,
Sold out Edition of 3. Artist Proof 1 of 2, analog C-Prints, pr...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Pool Side - not mounted - 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative Photograph, Woman
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Pool Side (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
Edition 6/10,
58x56cm.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, on Crystal Fuji Archive Paper.
based on the Polaroid
Artist inventory Number 619....
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Steve Wood 'Grooming Freddie Mercury' Limited Edition Photographic Print, 20x16
Located in San Rafael, CA
Rock singer and frontman Freddie Mercury (Frederick Bulsara, 1946 - 1991), of the popular British group Queen, has his moustache groomed. (Photo by Steve Wood...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Ebony Jet, Girlfriend Series, NYC, Black and White Portrait Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Men, Women, and Drag, draws inspiration from his diverse roles as a photographer, poet, and activist. His work often intersects with themes of identity, social justice, and cultural ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Tabboo! Stephen Tasjian. NYC. Girlfriend Series. B&W Portrait Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Men, Women, and Drag, draws inspiration from his diverse roles as a photographer, poet, and activist. His work often intersects with themes of identity, social justice, and cultural ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Long Way Home II with Radha Mitchell and Max Sharam
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Long Way Home II' (Stranger than Paradise), 1999, 20x20cm, Edition 6/10
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, not mounted
Berlin based artist Stefanie Schneider enlarges expired Polaroid stock into burned-out C-prints. The glossy images almost completely dissolve into lurid color abstractions. The shiny pink of a sex kitten's glittery body suit becomes an electrified, free-floating color field. The vivid, flame-orange hair of a 70's sexploitation film star vibrates against the dusty gray of the sky above an LA desert. Skin tones and facial details in the figures are completely lost. They are refugees from Faster Pussycat...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Bob Gruen 'John Lennon - Peace-Liberty'
By Bob Gruen
Located in New York, NY
Bob Gruen
John Lennon NYC
1974 (printed later)
40 x 30 inches
Signed and numbered edition of 75
Also available as a color C-print
Bob Gruen (born 1945) is an American photographer ...
Category
1970s Post-Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
By The Pool In Acapulco
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A tanned man surrounded by young women in bikinis by the pool at Warren Avis's villa in Acapulco, Mexico, January 1978.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Un...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Bates Motel I (The last Picture Show) - based on a Polaroid Original - Proof
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Bates Motel I (Last Picture Show)
Proof b4 Printing, 38x36cm, 2005
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist,
based on a Polaroid, signed on front.
This is a raw analog C-print, h...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Tree at Night (The last Picture Show) - based on a Polaroid Original - Proof
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Tree at Night (Last Picture Show)
Proof b4 Printing, 38x36cm, 2005
analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist,
based on a Polaroid, signed on front.
This is a raw analog C-print, h...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Villa del Balbianello, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Lake Como, Italy
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Immerse yourself in the tranquil luxury of Lake Como with this exquisite Slim Aarons photograph featuring Italian mountain climber and explorer Guido Monzino (1928-1988), captured at his Villa del Balbianello...
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Ardizzone's House, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Overlooking Ardizzone's House, on the water's edge in Portofino, Italy, July 1985.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim...
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Hunter S. Thompson in Cozumel by Al Satterwhite, 1974, Archival Pigment Print
Located in Denton, 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 ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jerry Hall & Antonio Lopez at The Jamaica Inn
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson
Jerry Hall & Antonio Lopez at The Jamaica Inn
1975
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
Caption: Antonio Lopez is photographed filming Jerry H...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
President Ronald Reagan
Located in New York, NY
President Ronald Reagan
Archival pigment print
image size: 48 x 48 inches
Signed and numbered
edition of 10
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, k...
Category
1980s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
California Blue Screen - Polaroid, Contemporary, Women, Self-Portrait, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
California Blue Screen, 1997, 44x59cm cm, sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 1/2 (last AP), analog C-Print, printed by the artists, based on an expired Polaroid, Certificate and Sig...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Ardizzone's House, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Overlooking Ardizzone's House, on the water's edge in Portofino, Italy, July 1985.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim...
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Truman Capote Candid
Located in Austin, TX
Truman Capote was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and the true crime...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Radha Leopard Dress II with Radha Mitchell based on a Paloroid Original
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Radha leapard dress II' (29 Palms, CA) - 1999,
20x20cm,
Edition 9/10,
Archival C-Print, based on the expired Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory Number ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Rockefeller Brothers, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1980 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Rockefeller brothers in their Radio City, New York office. Left to right, Laurance (1910 - 2...
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Rockefeller Brothers, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1980 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Rockefeller brothers in their Radio City, New York office. Left to right, Laurance (1910 - 2...
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
French Bath
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Joyce Pallardy relaxes at the Villa Macopa, the home of Mrs Andre Hammel in St Tropez, August 1977.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Undercurrent Projects i...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
President Donald Trump
Located in New York, NY
President Donald Trump
1985
Archival pigment print
48 x 48 inches, edition of 10, $12,000
36 x 36 inches, edition of 15, $7,000
24 x 24 inches, edition of 25, $5,000
14 x 14 inches,...
Category
1980s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Swimmers", New York, NY, 1995
By Jose Picayo
Located in Hudson, NY
This photograph is printed on Japanese Paper.
The price is for an unframed photograph.
11" X 14" Edition of 25.
The Robin Rice Gallery is pleased to announce, 25 Years of Polaroi...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Djimon Hounsou, Los Angeles, 21st Century, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Edition 10
Also available in 40 x 50 cm / 16 x 20 inch, Edition 25
Black and white portrait of actor and model Djimon Hounsou crying.
From personality portraits and advertising ca...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled (Lower West Side Revisited)
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original gelatin silver print by American social documentary photographer Milton Rogovin depicting a resident of Buffalo's Lower West Side in the early 1980's. This work is hand s...
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Villa Nirvana
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Undercurrent Projects ...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Iconic Slim Aarons Estate Edition Winter Wear, Cortina d'Ampezzo
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Manuela Bormanero and a friend holiday in the Italian ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo, March 1976.
Estate edition. Estate stamp embossed on recto, hand numbered in ink on recto.
Increasingly heralded for his influence, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) made a career out of photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." Aarons is known for his iconic images of Hollywood glamour and luxurious people, places and lifestyles.
Aarons began his career as a combat photographer in World War II. Though he earned a Purple Heart for his service, he declared that combat had taught him that the only beach worth landing on was decorated with beautiful people enjoying themselves in the sun.
Slim Aarons is noted for his documentation of the Beautiful People over 50 years, encompassing high society, celebrity, aristocracy, and the jet set. He was born and raised in New York City and New Jersey and later New Hampshire. He took up photography as a teenager. At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and was later appointed official photographer at the United States Military...
Category
1970s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Habitation Leclerc
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bathers walking down steps to the swimming pool at Habitation Leclerc, Haiti, January 1975. They are followed by a waiter with cocktails.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your frame...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Montecatini, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marie-Louise Scio at the Tettuccio Terme in Montecatini, Italy, June 1980.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons ...
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Water Babe, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
February 1989: 'Town & Country' writer Meg O'Neil relaxes by the pool on the island of Mustique, in the Grenadines.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included...
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Dizzy Gillespie
By David Bailey
Located in London, GB
David Bailey
Dizzy Gillespie, 1981
Archival Inkjet on paper
Signed by the artist, on verso
Image: 36.83 x 46.78 cm
Sheet: 42 x 59.4 cm
Edition of 15
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Queen On Stage - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Queen On Stage - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
Queen on stage at the Rainbow Theatre, London, 1974 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate
Edition size ...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Peter Gabriel - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Peter Gabriel - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
Portrait of Peter Gabriel, 1973 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate.
Edi...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Queen Reflected - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Queen Reflected - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
Queen reflected in a mirror, London 1974 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate.
Edition size varies a...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bowie As Ziggy - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Bowie And Ronson On Stage - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
Portrait of David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust, 1973 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate.
Editio...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bowie And Sax - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Bowie And Sax - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
David Bowie during the ‘Saxophone’ Session in London 1973. (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate.
Editi...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bowie Beverly Hills - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Bowie Beverly Hills - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
David Bowie, Beverly Hills, 1972. (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate.
Edition size varies accord...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bowie Close Up - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Bowie Close Up - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
Close up portrait of David Bowie, 1973 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate.
Edition size varies acco...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Freddie Mercury - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Freddie Mercury - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
Portrait of Freddie Mercury, 1974. (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate.
Ed...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
David Bowie - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
David Bowie - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
Portrait of David Bowie, 1973 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate.
Edition size varies according to print...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Freddie Mercury On Stage - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Freddie Mercury On Stage - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
Freddie Mercury on stage with Queen, the Bohemian Rhapsody years, 1973-1975 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are num...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
David Bowie - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
David Bowie - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
Portrait of David Bowie, 1973 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate.
Edition size varies according to print...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lou Reed Transformer - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Lou Reed Transformer - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
The iconic Transformer album cover portrait of Lou Reed, 1972 (photo Mick Rock).
All p...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Abercorns On Windermere
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
James and Alexandra Hamilton, the 5th Duke and Duchess of Abercorn holiday on Windermere Island in the Bahamas, with their children Sophia and James, April 1980.
40 x 60 inches
$395...
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Druridge Bay, England, 1998
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Pentti Sammallahti is a benchmark figure in contemporary Finnish photography. His works depict nature eroded and broken down by civilization, but he does not put man and the environm...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Cecily Godfrey in Hong Kong'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Cecily Godfrey, Hong Kong
1979 (printed later)
Lambda C-print
Estate Edition of 150
Cecily Godfrey relaxes by the pool at her home in Hong Kong, 1979. Her husband Gerald...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Marie-Louise Scio, Tettuccio Terme, Montecatini, Italy, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons
Marie-Louise Scio (Tettuccio Terme, Montecatini, Italy, 1980)
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Marie-Louise Scio poses in a leotard at the Tettuccio Terme in Montecatini, Italy, November 1980
Undercurrent Projects is proud to offer this vibrant photograph, printed by the Slim Aarons estate. It is part of the estate's only official limited run, of 150. Estate stamp embossed on recto, hand numbered in ink on recto, with certificate of authenticity from the estate (not a secondary gallery licensing from the estate).
Increasingly heralded for his influence, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) made a career out of photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." Aarons is known for his iconic images of Hollywood glamour and luxurious people, places and lifestyles.
Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Getty Images Gallery, London. Photographs are printed utilizing the original transparency held at the archive source.
Aarons began his career as a combat photographer in World War II. Though he earned a Purple Heart for his service, he declared that combat had taught him that the only beach worth landing on was decorated with beautiful people enjoying themselves in the sun.
Slim Aarons is noted for his documentation of the Beautiful People over 50 years, encompassing high society, celebrity, aristocracy, and the jet set. He was born and raised in New York City and New Jersey and later New Hampshire. He took up photography as a teenager. At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and was later appointed official photographer at the United States Military Academy at West Point. During World War II he served as an army combat photographer for Yank magazine in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. After the war he became a freelance photojournalist, first based in Hollywood, then Rome, then New York. His photographs appeared in many magazines, including Life, Holiday, Town & Country, Look, Venture, and Travel & Leisure. His first book A Wonderful Time (1974) is considered a classic.
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Internal: Slim Aarons, Acapulco, Red and White Stripes, Mexico, Vintage Glamour, Midcentury Photography, Vintage Resort...
Category
1970s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Commander Whitehead
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Commander Edward Whitehead (1908 - 1978), the public face of Schweppes, leans on a silver Rolls Royce at Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974. Commander Whitehead served in ...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Afghan Girl - Color Photograph, National Geographic, Portrait, Documentary
Located in Denton, TX
One of Steve McCurry's most iconic images, this portrait features a young Afghan girl with piercing green eyes wearing a red head scarf.
Afghan Girl by Steve McCurry is a 24 x 20 i...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Digital
Port Life, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A man stops to watch a young woman tie her sandals on the pavement in Portofino marina, August 1977.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and s...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Peggy Guggenheim
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
September 1978: Peggy Guggenheim (1898 - 1979) in the Palazzo Venier Dei Leoni, Venice. The palace houses her private art collection, including Picasso's 'On the Beach', pictured to ...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
St Tropez Garden
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An elegant woman poses in a garden in St Tropez, August 1977.
20 x 30 inches
$3000
20 x 24 inches
$2500
16 x 20 inches
$2150
10 x 12 inches
$1350
Complimentary dealer shipping t...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Beach In Positano, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Aerial view looking down on sunbathers and parasols on the beach at Positano, Italy, 1979.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by ...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Merle Haggard by Jim Herrington
Located in Austin, TX
Merle Haggard in Temecula, CA, 2000 by Jim Herrington
17x22" Archival pigment print on baryta 315 gsm, acid-free, 100% cotton-fiber paper. Edition 75
S...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Frank Zappa in Slinkypants, Concert Photograph by Alan Herr
By Alan Herr
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alan Herr, American (1954 - )
Title: Zappa in Slinkypants
Medium: Digital Print Photograph, Signed in Permanent Marker
Size: 13.5 x 13 inches
Category
1980s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Leonard Dalsemer
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Leonard Dalsemer and his family at their villa in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Undercurrent Projects is p...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
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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