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Portrait Photography For Sale
Period: 1980s
Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Norman Mailer - Vintage Photograph by Nancy Crampton - 1988
Located in Roma, IT
Norman Mailer by Nancy Crampton - Vintage Photo is a black-and-white photograph that was realized for Playbill in 1988.
Good condition
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
A Nation of Shopkeepers - Black and white, portrait photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
This series of portraits were shot by Richard Heeps whilst he was studying Photography in Northwich. They beautifully capture a time of life. Here they have been compiled together fo...
Category
1980s Conceptual Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin
The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet - Vintage photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Actress Barbara Bouchet during her program "Body Body".
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bryan Adams Singing Passionately
Located in Austin, TX
Bryan Adams, Canadian rock star who rose to fame in North America with his album Cuts Like a Knife. His album Reckless made him a global superstar and cemented him as one of the stap...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Paris, France, Cities, Black and White Portrait Photography, Bows by RF
Located in New york, NY
A black-and-white image shot on film in Paris, France in the 1980s, Roberta Fineberg’s subject is a young French-African girl with braids, ribbons, and bows that RF photographed in f...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper, Photographic Film
Untitled (Mike Tyson enters the ring. . .)
By Lori Grinker
Located in New York, NY
Mike Tyson Enters the Ring for His Bout with Conroy Nelson Latham, NY
November 22, 1985
Signed and numbered, verso
Gelatin silver print
14 x 11 inches
(Edition of 15)
$1,500
20 x...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Broadway star Ethel Merman
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Broadway star Ethel Merman photographed April 29, 1982. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with...
Category
1980s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Portrait of F. Frizzi, A. Martines and E. Gardini - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Fabrizio Frizzi, Alessandra Martines and Elisabetta Gardini posing for the tv program "Europa Europa".
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Jeff Koons 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 artist Jeff Koons smoking while sitting on a toilet and holds two models in his arms....
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Freddie Mercury of Queen, last performance Wembley Stadium 1986 by Denis O'Regan
Located in Austin, TX
Fine art 20x24" print of Freddie Mercury of Queen on stage at
Wembley Stadium, London, 1986, taken by acclaimed photographer, Denis O'Regan. This was Fred...
Category
1980s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dancer, Choreographer & New York City Balletmaster Peter Martins
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of dancer and choreographer Peter Martins, 1983. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity.
Jack...
Category
1980s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marilyn Monroe . Passed out on the bed . The last sitting
By Bert Stern
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Marilyn Monroe by Bert Stern (1964)
passed out on the bed
circa 2009
hand double signed and dated by Bert Stern
COA hand signed by bert stern
edition of 72
perfect condition
Category
1980s Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Khomeini Returning To Iran - Vintage Photograph - 1983
Located in Roma, IT
Khomeini Returning To Iran is a vintage black and white photograph realized on 2/01/79 in Tehran.
Khomeini leader of the revolution of 1979 in Iran, came to Iran, after 15 years of ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman at Academy Awards - Vintage photo - 1989
Located in Roma, IT
Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman at Academy Awards is a vintage photo, realized in the 1989.
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Queen arriving at Knebworth by helicopter 1986 by Denis O'Regan
Located in Austin, TX
Fine art 20x24" print of rock band Queen, Freddie Mercury, Brian May, John Deacon and Roger Taylor, arriving by helicopter to Knebworth Park in the UK. Taken by acclaimed photographe...
Category
1980s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Suzanne and Shark Jaw
Located in New York, NY
Shot on a 20x24 Polaroid camera, "Suzanne and Shark Jaw" from her 1986-91 “Transformations” series is a one-of-a-kind print made only rarer by the limited availability of the device’...
Category
1980s Portrait Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Meredith Monk & Ping Chong performing their travelogue series 'Paris'
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Meredith Monk and Ping Chong in "Paris", 1987. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certi...
Category
1980s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Norman Parkinson 'Duchess of Feria, 1982'
Located in New York, NY
Nati Abascal, the Duchess of Feria, photographed with her black stallion ‘Idle Ruler’ in Barbados for Town & Country magazine, in 1982.
Duchess of Feria, 1982
C print
Estate stamped...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
The Italian Actress Laura Belli - B/w Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian actress Laura Belli in a scene from "Gamma", by Salvatore Nocita.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Untitled (D’Amato and Tyson) [Cus D’Amato demonstrates his peek-a-boo style]
By Lori Grinker
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (D’Amato and Tyson)
Cus D’Amato demonstrates his peek-a-book style for Mike Tyson (age 13-14). Catskill, NY, 1981
Signed and numbered, verso
Gelatin silver print
11 x 14 ...
Category
1980s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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Untitled (After the Fight) [Mike Tyson]
By Lori Grinker
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (After the Fight)
Mike Tyson after he knocked out Conroy Nelson in 30 seconds, Latham, NY. Nov. 22, 1985
Signed and numbered, verso
Gelatin silver print
11 x 14 inches
(E...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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France, Mythology Inspired Black and White Photography, Diane the Huntress
Located in New york, NY
A black and white photograph of a woman dressed in costume - goddess of the hunt, the moon, and nature - in mythology, Diana, the huntress a maiden with blond braids and a gold tiara. The mask on the back of the goddess invites us into the spirit world ... the subject photographed at a countryside masked ball in St Martin d'Ardeche, France.
Diana the Huntress, France, 1989 by Roberta Fineberg is a signed 14 x 11 gelatin silver print in an edition of 5.
Provenance: RF Archive
***
Artist's Bio:
As a visual artist, Roberta Fineberg (RF) focuses on the themes of serendipity, inventiveness, and the development of ideas for her photography, video, installations, works on paper, and painting. Drawn to experimentation, she explores diverse mediums and concepts such as the ephemeral (Butterfly Series), stolen moments (documentary photography), play, timelessness, the enduring, and the significance of matter.
RF, living in New York City, began her career as an editorial photographer while studying in Paris. In France she contributed both photography and writing to publications, landing a column (photos and text) with The Saturday Review while exhibiting photographs in public spaces. Roberta Fineberg’s freelance photography appeared in Le Monde, Jeune Afrique, Paris Match, L’Officiel Femme, Ms, Weltwoche, Vanguardia, among others with images licensed through stock agencies. Photographs were selected for cover art at W.W. Norton, St. Martin’s Press, Harcourt, Bookspan, Simon & Schuster, etc. Print Regional Design Annual New York (2003) awarded her for book jacket photography for If Wishes Were Horses. In 1997 Macmillan published City Riders: A Story of Riding and Friendship her first book of black-and-white photographs and a story about three teenage girls in the 1990s who rode horses at the now-defunct Claremont Riding Academy and oldest stable in New York City.
In 2023, RF created an interactive installation, works on paper on the female body, in a public space. In July 2022, Fineberg’s Double Helix was included in a Sotheby’s auction in New York City and exhibited in the preview show Contemporary Discoveries. Selected exhibitions include Time Gallery New York (2022), Phyllis Harriman Gallery New York studio shows (2020, 2022), CADAF online art fair (2020), Gallery122 New York pop-up group...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Grace Jones, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography, Portrait
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Combined Edition 25
Also available in 50 x 60 cm/ 20 x 24 inch
and as combined Edition 10 in
76 x 101 cm / 30 x 40 inch
101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch
Portrait of the Jamaican model, s...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Monica Vitti and Franco Carraro - Vintage b/w Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Monica Vitti and Franco Carraro is a vintage black and white photograph realized by Agenzia Giornalistica Italia S.p.A in the 1980s. Good condition.
Monica Vitti is born in Rome on November 3, 1931. Admitted in 1950 to the Academy of Dramatic Art (where she will return in 1986 as a teacher), and graduated in 1953, she immediately tackles the scenes in L'avaro di Molière (1954), The island of the parrots of S. Tofano (1954), They founded a city of C. Meano (1954), Mother Courage and her children of B. Brecht (1954). Between 1956 and 1959 she also participated in television broadcasts and acted in numerous adaptations of famous theatrical texts. She made her film debut playing secondary parts in Laugh, Laugh, Laugh! by E. Anton, 1955; A mink coat by G. Pellegrini, 1956; Le dritte di M. Amendola, 1958. Dubbing actress of Il scido di M. Antonioni (1957), she meets the director who, after having directed her to the theater in I am a camera by J. Van Druten (1957) and in Secret Scandals by Antonioni and E. Bartolini (1957), he calls her as the protagonist in L'avventura (1960), a film with which V. is a leading actress. Always led by Antonioni, from now on she will play suffering characters who embody a profound crisis of feelings. Apart from a brief television parenthesis (a transposition of the short story The White Nights by F. Dostoevskij, directed by V. Cottafavi), La notte (1961), L'eclisse (1962) and Deserto rosso (1963) belong to a happy partnership with Antonioni (who will be revived episodically for the production of The Mystery of Oberwald [1980], a courageous experiment of intertwining cinema and electronic techniques, propitiated by the exhumation of a play by J. Cocteau, L'aigle à deux têtes). In the second half of the Sixties, however, the producers showed that they preferred her as an actress endowed with caricatural flair, fine humor, vitalistic exuberance, communicative immediacy; and audiences pay her a growing success, not always corresponding to the quality of her filmography or the variety of her interpretations, among which are the very convincing ones in Modesty Blaise...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Donna Karan
Located in New York, NY
Lucille Khornak (American), "Donna Karan", Black and White Screen Print on Harmon paper, 16 x 20, Late 20th Century
Hand signed by Lucille Khornak
Available sizes: 11 x 14...
Category
1980s Abstract Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
The Drugs Offered by VEB - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
The drugs offered by VEB is an original black and white photograph realized by an anonymous photographer
With the note in five languages on the rear.
Good conditions.
200 differe...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Divine with feathers, 21st Century, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Edition 25
Also available in 101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch, Edition 10
Black and white portrait of artist Divine with feathers on her head.
From personality portraits and advertisin...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Joan Jett - limited edition Mick Rock Estate print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Joan Jett - signed limited edition print
Joan Jett, I Love Rock'n'Roll album cover photograph, 1981. (photo Mick Rock)
paper size : 24x20 inches / 51 x 61...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Italian Actress Agostina Belli - Bb/w Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Actress Agostina Belli during "Vanità", a TV show directed by Giorgio Capitani.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Opera in China - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Opera in China is a photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Photo on the set of " Scugnizzi"by Nanny Loy - 1989
Located in Roma, IT
The scene from" Scugnizzi" of Nanny Loy is an original vintage photograph from the XLVI exhibition Venice cinematographic festival.
With the description on the rear.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Palace Hotel, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1980s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features people ice skating at the Palace Hotel, St. Moritz, Switzerland, 1989.
This is an...
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Male Model Torso
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
From The Jon Gould Collection of Andy Warhol Photographs
Each photo is unique and blind embossed “Andy Warhol” in the lower right corner
Provenance: Gift of the Artist to Jon Goul...
Category
1980s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Joan Jett - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Joan Jett - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
Joan Jett, I Love Rock’n’Roll album cover photograph, 1981. (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Newport Mainstays, Newport, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1980s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Rudulph Ellis Carter holding a picnic in Newport in 1987.
This is an estate stamped and ...
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
Alessandra Martines with Massimo Ranieri - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Alessandra Martines and Massimo Ranieri during the tv program "Fantastico".
Photo by Sandra Onofri
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Harry Dean Stanton and Dean Stockwell - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Harry Dean Stanton and Dean Stockwell in a scene from "Paris, Texas", a 1984 drama film directed by Wim Wenders.
Good condition.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Man with Newspaper, 1989 - Black and White Photographic Print on Hahnemuhle
Located in Brighton, GB
Man with Newspaper is a Black & White print on Hahnemuehle Paper in this size of 24” x 34” in an edition of 10.
Michael Ormerod was a British photographer with a distinct and powerf...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White
Devil in the Flesh - Film of Marco Bellocchio - 1986
Located in Roma, IT
Devil in the Flesh - Film of Marco Bellocchio is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1986.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Films of Andy Warhol, Whitney Museum framed poster (Hand Signed by Billy Name)
By Billy Name
Located in New York, NY
Billy Name
Films of Andy Warhol, Whitney Museum of American Art (Hand Signed by Billy Name), 1988
Offset Lithograph
Very rare vintage poster - hand signed by Billy Name on the front.
Frame Included
Very rare vintage poster - when hand signed by Warhol...
Category
1980s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Lithograph, Offset, Permanent Marker
Lamu Jazz- Signed limited edition woman portait print, Contemporary black white
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Lamu Jazz - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, Edition of 5
This image was captured on film in 1988. The negative was scanned creating a digital file which was then...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Black and White, Pigment...
David Parsons in Paul Taylor's 'Arden Court', signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of David Parsons in Paul Taylor's "Arden Court", 1984. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes direc...
Category
1980s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Brigitte Bardot at a young age
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...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Joyful Jazz Trumpet Player in Silhouette Floating Orange Sunset Los Angeles
Located in Miami, FL
At sunset, a trumpeter strikes a high note above it all. The dreamy, out-of-focus lights of hip Los Angles represents his music in visual terms. Funk is ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Dutch Actress Maruschka Detmers - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Dutch Actress Maruschka Detmers in a scene from the movie "Devil in the body" a movie by Marco Bellocchio.
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Ornella Muti - Vintage Photograph - Early 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Ornella Muti with her husband.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Nest
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Staging Pictures: Early Polaroids focuses on Stivers' working Polaroid prints, shot with a Hasselblad Polaroid back for instant proofing of lighting and composition of his subjects. ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fan Mail (1952) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Fan Mail (1952) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962), wearing a red negligee trimmed with black lace, sorts o...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Enzo Jannacci and Milva - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Enzo Jannacci and Milva is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the music, cinema, and art of Italy with celebrit...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Liza Minelli with husband
By Adam Scull
Located in Cologne, DE
Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and choreographer. Known for her commanding stage presence and powerful alto singing voice, Minnelli i...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Jasper Johns and Leo Castelli, legendary Pop artist and his dealer, FRAMED
By Hans Namuth
Located in New York, NY
Hans Namuth
Jasper Johns and Leo Castelli, ca. 1985
Color Photograph
Frame included
Provenance: from the Marjorie and Anselm Talalay collection, Cleveland, OH.
Rare original color p...
Category
1980s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Leonard Bernstein - Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Leonard Bernstein is a photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
8 of March, Italian students - Photograph of the Feminist Movement - 1988
Located in Roma, IT
8 of March, Italian students -Historical photographs about the feminist movement is an original black and white photograph realized in 1988 by the Agency of "Ansa" in Rome.
With the...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Milena Cantu' and F. Leali - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Milena Cantu' and F. Leali is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the music, cinema, and art of Italy with cele...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress Agostina Belli - Vintage photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Actress Agostina Belli in a scene from the movie "Telefoni bianchi" by Dino Risi.
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Prof. Hans Haacke, Cooper Union
By Paul Garrin
Located in New York, NY
Prof. Hans Haacke, Cooper Union, 1980
Vintage silver gelatin print (unique)
14 x 11 inches
signed
Paul Garrin began working with photography and vide...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Italian Actress Enrica Bonaccorti - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Enrica Bonaccorti
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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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