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Portrait Photography For Sale
Period: 1970s
Period: 1910s
Freddie Mercury - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Freddie Mercury - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
Freddie Mercury in purple, London, 1974 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate.
Edition size varies acco...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Queen Album Cover - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Queen Album Cover - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
Iconic Queen 2 album cover, London, 1974 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the ...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Gianni Morandi - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi.
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
David Bowie - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
David Bowie - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
David Bowie backstage, 1973 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate.
Edition size varies according to print s...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Nicole’s Silver Boots Stretched on Floor, Studio 54
Located in New York, NY
Nicole’s Silver Boots Stretched on Floor
Studio 54, NY, NY
June 1977
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
Gelatin silver print
20 x 16 inches
(Edition of 5 + 2 APs)
$3000.00...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
David Bowie - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
David Bowie - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
David Bowie, 1976 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate.
Edition size varies according to print size.
Unfr...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tim Curry Rocky Horror - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Tim Curry Rocky Horror - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate
Tim Curry, in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, 1974 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by...
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
Bowie And Ronson On Stage - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Bowie And Ronson On Stage - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
David Bowie and Mick Ronson Guitar Fellatio, 1972 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate.
Edit...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bowie In Suit - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Bowie In Suit - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
David Bowie in a mint green suit, 1973 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate.
Edition size varies accordi...
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
Freddie Mercury, London, 1974 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate.
Edition size varies according to p...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dingle, Co. Kerry, Ireland, 1978
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
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Five Fashionable Rejects (With JudiJupiter) Studio 54, NY, NY October 1978
Located in New York, NY
Five Fashionable Rejects (With JudiJupiter)
Studio 54, NY, NY
October 1978
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
Gelatin silver print
20 x 16 inches
(Edition of 5 + 2 APs)
$2...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jackie Onassis, new girl in town; Black and White; Paris, 1970s, 29, 8 x 20, 1 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was an American socialite, writer, and photographer who became First Lady of the United States as the wife of President John F. Kennedy. Her popularity as First Lady was due to her devotion to historical preservation of the White House, her fashion sense, and her devotion to her children, which endeared her to the American public. During her lifetime, Jackie was regarded as an international fashion icon. Her ensemble of a pink Chanel suit and matching pillbox hat that she wore in Dallas, Texas, when the president was assassinated on November 22, 1963, has become a symbol of her husband's death.
(wikipedia)
Description: Jacky Onassis, new...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Michael Caine - 20th Century Photography, British Films, Actor, The Italian Job
By David Steen
Located in Brighton, GB
Edition of 50.
Michael Caine is a striking portrait, on fibre paper, from iconic 20th Century photographer David Steen. Steen’s introduction to photography...
Category
1970s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Evel Knievel on Motorbike
Located in Austin, TX
Retro 1970s photograph featuring Evel Knievel, the legendary motorcycle daredevil who became one of the greatest American icons of the 1970s. Over his career, he attempted more than ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Warhol Superstar Holly Woodlawn portrait for After Dark signed by Jack
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Andy Warhol Superstar Holly Woodlawn a sensation in Warhol's 'Trash' photographed in 1970, in a turkey feather cape. Signed by Jack Mitc...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
16 x 20" Composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
16 x 20" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein, photographed in 1977. It is signed by Jack Mitchell on the recto and in pencil on the verso. Comes...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Fred Bongusto and Maurizio Costanzo - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Fred Bongusto and Maurizio Costanzo - Vintage Photograph is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
John V. Lindsay - Vintage Photograph - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
John V. Lindsay is a black and white vintage photo, realized in October 25th 1971.
The photo depicts J. V. Lindsay, the mayor of New York City from 1966 to 1973and candidate for U.S...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Marquess of Waterford (1970) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marquess of Waterford (1970) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
The Marquess and Marchioness of Waterford and their elder son, the Earl of Tyrone, in the ground...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Bob Gruen 'John Lennon - New York City'
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
Bob Gruen (born 1945) is an American photographer known for his rock 'n' roll photogr...
Category
1970s Post-Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Saturday Night Fever" Original Vintage 1977 Movie Film Cinema Lobby Card
Located in London, GB
"Saturday Night Fever" Original Vintage 1977 Lobby Card
Condition Mint
Original vintage 1977 lobby card from the film "Saturday Night Fever" directed by John Badham
FRAMING:
Pleas...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Color
Paul McCartney, Family, Black and White Photography 25, 3 x 20, 7 cm
By John Young
Located in Cologne, DE
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With a line-up comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they are regarded as the mo...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Von Furstenberg (1977) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Von Furstenberg (1977) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
His Serene Highness Heinrich von und zu Furstenberg with his new wife Maximiliana von und zu Furstenberg in t...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc (1976) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc (1976) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Guests standing by a white Rolls-Royce convertible courtesy car at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc,
A...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Colin Tennant (1973) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Colin Tennant (1973) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, on the island of Mustique, which he owns privately,
March 1973.
Addition...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Bowie In Suit - limited edition Mick Rock Estate print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Bowie In Suit - signed limited edition print
David Bowie in a mint green suit, 1973. (photo Mick Rock)
paper size : 24x20 inches / 51 x 61 cm
Stamped and numbered by the Estate....
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hotel Il San Pietro, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests at the Hotel Il San Pietro in Positano, Italy, August 1979.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stampe...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Dustin Hoffman On Set - Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
STRAIGHT TIME, Dustin Hoffman on set, 1978, Everett Collection.
Beautiful mint condition Open Edition Silver Gelatin Resin Print
measuring a large 20 x 24 inches / 51 x 60cm's
...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Portrait of Joseph Beuys - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Joseph Beuys is an original b/w photograph representing a profile of the renowned German contemporary artist, Joseph Beuys with his typical felt hat . This photo was very likely realized after 1972, surely by Buby Durini.
In excellent conditions.
On the back, the title " Prof. Joseph Beuys" (typewritten and in Italian), and two black stamps " Foto Buby Durini" and " Lucrezia De Domizio" with all the contact details...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet - Vintage Photograph - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet in Rome (25.6.70).
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Self Portrait in Black Leather I
By Peter Berlin
Located in New York, NY
Vintage gelatin silver print
Signed in black ink, l.r.
14 x 11 inches, sheet size
13 x 9 inches, image size
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Born in ...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Brigitte Bardot at a press conference, Canada, 1977
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
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Sean Connery Snooker – County Wicklow, Ireland, 1973 Limited Estate Print
By David Steen
Located in London, GB
Sean Connery – County Wicklow, Ireland,
1973
David Steen recalls: “Sean looked like a killer that day, all dressed in black, the sort of bad boy you’d see in an old western movie, you could just imagine him on the back of a horse being chased by others. I lit this photograph with a torch, I had someone stand on a chair and point it down onto his face, I needed to maintain the mood of the snooker hall, so flash was out of the question.”
Limited Edition David Steen Estate Print
Limited Edition: All prints are limited editions, no further prints are produced once sold
Paper size - 44 x 31 " / 111 x 78 cm
Limited to 20 only this size
All prints are bespoke and printed to order
stamped and numbered by the Estate
Copyright: © David Steen / The David Steen Archive
David Steen’s introduction to photography was as a 15-year-old school leaver joining Picture Post where he had the good luck to be taken under the wing of the legendary Bert Hardy as an assistant. It was the ultimate training ground in photojournalism, and the launch pad for his career.
David’s reunion with Picture Post after doing his National Service (as special photographer based in Eygpt, covering the major trouble zones) was short-lived. The magazine was losing ground and closed. He moved to Fleet Street, first to a bright new Mirror title, Woman’s Sunday Mirror, where incidentally he picked up First Prize in Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Best Pictures of the Year Award for his sequence of ‘Birth of a Baby’, the progress of a young woman delivering her own baby under hypnosis.
He was 21, the youngest ever to be awarded this prize. There followed time as a staff photographer with The Daily Mail; Fleet Street was the hub of the world. Then on to freelancing…Queen magazine, Nova, the Sunday Times Magazine, international magazines around the world, over the years covering projects as diverse as riots in Harlem to a film set in Acapulco, a battered wives’ refuge to the Queen and family at Sandringham: the hopeless, the homeless, the glitterati. Trained on the maxim ‘every picture tells a story’ he has focused on film stars, actors, criminals, politicians, prime ministers and countless men, women and children going about their everyday lives.
David Steen believes himself to be lucky. He thinks lucky; luck is being in the right place at the right time, having the luck to have a loving family and enduring friends and winning a three-year battle against cancer.
Asked by aspiring photographers for his best advice, his stock reply is: ‘Get up early.’
David Steen † 1936 – 2015
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Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Tina Anselmi - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Tina Anselmi is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1970s.
The photo depicts the politician, Tina Anselmi; she was a partisan and Minister of Labour in 1976.
Good conditio...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress Lea Massari - Vintage photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Lea Massari on the set of a movie.
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Black and White Photography, 1970s, 23, 7 x 17, 7 cm
By Ernst Haas
Located in Cologne, DE
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With a line-up comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they are regarded as the mo...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
The Italian Actress Lea Massari - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Lea Massari on the set of a movie.
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Brigitte Bardot: Hollywood's French Icon
Located in Austin, TX
This stunning closeup features French bombshell actress Brigitte Bardot in a wide-brimmed hat.
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot, often referred to by her initials B.B. ., is a French fo...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Artist Helen Frankenthaler with her recent work, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of famed painter Helen Frankenthaler in her Manhattan studio with recent work, 1971. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the print verso. Comes dire...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (Guy Mendes) [Boy Dressed as Airplane Pilot]
Located in New York, NY
Vintage gelatin silver print
Signed in black ink, recto
Credit stamped and numbered, verso of mount
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
An optician by trade, Ralph Eugene Meatyard was a self-described “dedicated amateur” photographer. He pursued his own vision to produce an exquisitely enigmatic, widely admired body of work. Meatyard began taking photographs in 1950, roaming the backwoods and towns in Kentucky, experimenting with framing, multiple exposures, and blurring to produce haunting, abstracted images of natural and manmade environments. In the late 1950s, he began incorporating monstrous, oversized latex masks...
Category
1970s American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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The Big Smoke (1971) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
The Big Smoke (1971) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)
2nd February 1971:
Seagulls drift above the waters of the Thames w...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Reggie Jackson Looking Back
Located in Austin, TX
Retro 1960's portrait of Reggie Jackson in his Angels uniform, candid and looking back over his shoulder while on the field.
Reggie Jackson is an American former professional baseb...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
George Foreman: Legendary Fighter II
Located in Austin, TX
A spectacular 1970s action shot featuring heavyweight champion George Foreman in his prime.
George Foreman is an American former professional boxer, entrepreneur, minister and auth...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Bodybuilding Ballerina
By Michael Norcia
Located in Austin, TX
Retro 1970s photograph depicting a young Arnold Schwarzenegger, the champion bodybuilder who was Mr. Olympia a staggering seven times showing the elegant side of himself as he takes ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Muhammad Ali Training in Florida
By Jeff Joffe
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning color image of Muhammad Ali training in Florida, 1970.
Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer, activist, and philanthropist. Nicknamed 'the Greatest', he is widel...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Gholam Reza Azhari - Former Prime Minister of Iran - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Gholam Reza Azhari - Former Prime Minister of Iran is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1978. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ladies Of Lyford Cay
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Grace, Mrs Dauphinot, Marina Posson and Baroness Meriel de Posson in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974.
20 x 30 inches
$3000
20 x 24 inches
$2500
16 x 20 inches
$2150
...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Star Wars, 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
Warhol Superstar Holly Woodlawn Signed
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Warhol Superstar Holly Woodlawn, 1970. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the verso. Comes directly from the Jack...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Artist Jasper Johns in his studio with new work, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
Artist Jasper Johns photographed in his New York City studio in 1971. Vintage silver gelatin exhibition photograph made by Jack Mitchell. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the front and rev...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Warhol Superstar Candy Darling, portrait for After Dark, signed by Jack
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Warhol Superstar Candy Darling photographed for After Dark Magazine, June 21, 1971. Signed by Jack Mitchell in pencil on the print verso...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Star Wars, 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
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi - Vintage Photograph - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Antonella Lualdi in a scene from "è stato così". Rome, 7/2/1977.
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet. 25-4-1970
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Speedboat Landing - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Speedboat Landing
A Magnum motorboat belonging to Count Filippo Theodoli arrives at the private jetty of the Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Italy.
Paper size 30 x 20" inches ...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Portrait Photography for Sale on 1stDibs
Portrait photography can be a powerful part of your wall decor. Find a provocative and compelling portrait that speaks to you and you might find that the photograph will speak to your guests too.
Prior to the development of photography, which eventually replaced portrait paintings as a quicker and more efficient way of capturing a person’s essence, the subject of a portrait had to sit for hours until the painter had finished. In 1839, chemist and Philadelphia-based photographer Robert Cornelius didn’t have to wait very long for his portrait. In a matter of minutes, he captured what many believe to be the first portrait photograph. This shot was also the first self-portrait (or what we now call a “selfie”), and fine photography quickly became an art form.
Landscape photography, nude photography and portrait photography are very popular in today's modern interiors. A portrait can reveal a lot about the person in it. It can also add a narrative touch to your decor. You’ll often find that photographs of loved ones work well as decorative touches. A portrait of a family member or dear friend can help turn a house into a home, warming any space by evoking fond memories.
While family portraits can stir emotion, portraits of celebrities and important historical figures can also add a rich dynamic to your space. Portraits of famous musicians or intriguing actors hung in your dining room or home bar shot by Gered Mankowitz or Annie Leibovitz might inspire deep conversation over meals or drinks. Douglas Kirkland is also famous for his celebrity portraits. His photojournalism made him much sought after by Hollywood studios to document the filming of movies. In Kirkland’s powerful depiction of Hollywood stars, he excellently captures the glamour of their lives.
Other artists like Elliott Erwitt stand out by turning portraiture into a playful art form. Before graduating from high school in Hollywood, Erwitt had already begun to teach himself to take pictures, inspired by the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson. In image after image, Erwitt captured what photographers call “the moment” with rapier wit and penetrating humanity.
Portrait photography can be incredibly expressive, setting the tone and mood for a room. And there are different ways of incorporating portrait photography into your interior decor. If you’re thinking about adding color photography to a bedroom or living room, the colors of the portraits can become part of the room’s palette, while portraits shot in black and white won’t disrupt an existing color scheme.
On 1stDibs, find a vast selection of portrait photography from different eras, including 1950s portraits, 1960s portrait photography and more.
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