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Portrait Photography For Sale
Style: Contemporary
Style: Pop Art
Paris, Jazz Music, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Daughter China Moses, 1980s
Located in New york, NY
In 1986 African-American musician Dee Dee Bridgewater left the United States and moved to Paris, France where she lived for the next fifteen years with her family, two daughters and ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Arc...
Gentlemen of Havana. 3 framed photographs of cigar smokers by James Sparshatt
Located in Coltishall, GB
A set of three framed silver gelatin prints by James Sparshatt. These black and white portraits of cigar smokers in Havana, Cuba, were taken at the turn of the 21st Century.
Each...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
James Dean Pushing Porsche at Car Rally
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white action shot of actor James Dean loading his Porsche on to a trailer at a car rally.
James Dean was an American actor. He is remembered as a cultural icon of teenage...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Fire
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fire - 2017,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs
Archival Print, based on aPolaroid, not mounted.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2017-108.
Kirsten Thys...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper, Black and White
Zarina - Signed limited edition nude art print, Black white photo, Sensual Model
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Zarina - Limited edition archival pigment print, 1987 - Edition of 5
This image was captured on film. The negative was scanned creating a digital file which is then printed...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Arc...
Billie Holiday at the Downbeat
Located in Austin, TX
This capture features Billie Holiday at Downbeat, New York, N.Y., circa June 1946
Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young...
Category
1940s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Africa, Painted Faces, Tribal Women Ethiopia, Photography on Japanese Paper
Located in New york, NY
Painted Faces, 1996 by Jean-Michel Voge, is a contemporary color photograph 13" x 19" of two women with painted faces from the Surma tribe in the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, Africa.
Th...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...
Lucille Ball: Glamour in Fur
By Ray Jones
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning and glamorous image of Lucille Ball in fur.Lucille Ball was an American actress, comedian, model, film-studio executive, and producer. She was the star of the self-produced ...
Category
1940s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Elton John, Cher, Bette Midler, and Flip Wilson
Located in Austin, TX
Elton John, Bette Midler, Cher, and Flip Wilson in a group portrait, 1978.
What's included:
- Limited Edition Archival Print
- Numbered Certificate of Aut...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York City, Harlem, Fire Hydrant, Iconic Black and White Photography 1960s
Located in New york, NY
Fire Hydrant, Harlem, 1963 by Leonard Freed is a 14" x 11" gelatin silver print signed by the photographer on verso (back of photo).
Provenance: Freed estate
LITERATURE: W. A. Ewin...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Elizabeth Taylor on the Set of Giant
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Beautiful selectively colorized image of actress Elizabeth Taylor on the set of the 1956 film Giant.
Giant is a 1956 American epic Western drama film, about sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates. Directed by George Stevens from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from Edna Ferber...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Al Pacino Smoking, 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 famous actor Al Pacino smoking.
From personality portraits and advertising campaig...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
New York, Brooklyn, African American Lifestyle 1960s, Fashion Show
Located in New york, NY
Fashion Show, Brooklyn, New York, USA 1963 by Leonard Freed is a 19" x 13" signed and numbered archival pigment print in an edition of 10. Signed by the estate, Freed's widow Brigitte Freed, on back of photograph. Available: 3/10.
Provenance: Freed Estate
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Artist’s Bio:
Leonard Freed (1929-2006) was an American photographer from Brooklyn, New York. His "Black in White America" series made him known as a documentarian, a social documentary photographer. Freed worked as a freelance photographer from 1961 onwards and as a Magnum photographer Freed traveled widely abroad and, in the US, photographing African Americans (1964-65), events in Israel (1967-68, 1973), and the New York City police department...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Exercise at Home
By Luke Smalley
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print
Stamped and numbered, verso
20 x 24 inches
(Edition of 10)
30 x 40 inches
(Edition of 5 + 1 AP)
50 x 60 inches
(Edition of 3)
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Please note that prices increase as editions sell.
Luke Smalley was an American artist known for his photographic work, which pairs a coolly minimalist aesthetic with a retro nostalgia. Images from his early in his career were inspired by fitness manuals and yearbooks c. 1910. This is not surprising since Smalley graduated with a degree in sports medicine from Pepperdine University and worked for a number of years as a model and personal trainer. Smalley shot the bulk of his photographs in his home state of Pennsylvania, using real high school athletes as models.
“Exercise at Home” is Luke Smalley’s second major body of work. Shot in and around the tiny Pennsylvania town the artist called home, Smalley revisits themes of adolescent growing pains acted out under the guise of earnest athleticism. Teenagers engage in simple yet strange competitions meant to establish their standings amongst one another. Two youths practice boating safety...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Jayne Mansfield in Coat
By Bert Six
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white portrait of Jayne Mansfield posed in coat, circa 1955.
Jayne Mansfield was an American actress and Playboy Playmate. A sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s, Mansf...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Ezra, color photograph from Homegrown, limited edition, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Ezra is a color photograph from Homegrown and is signed and numbered by the artist
“When I began taking pictures,” Blackmon says, “ I was primarily interested in documenting the l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Debbie Harry Blondie 1977
By Brian Duffy
Located in Austin, TX
Debbie Harry of Blondie - London 1977 limited edition print by Brian Duffy.
Debbie Harry of “Blondie” wearing a Patti Smith Group T-shirt shot...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bent Sound - underwater portrait of Njomza Vitia - archival pigment print 35x50"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
"Bent Sound" - An ethereal underwater fine art photograph that captures the intersection of music and movement through a portrait of singer Njomza Vitia. This submerged portrait tran...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
James Dean Smiling
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white capture of star actor James Dean candid and smiling.
James Dean was an American actor with a career that lasted five years. His roles typified the teenage disillusio...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York, Policeman with Puppet and Gun, Black and White Limited Ed Photography
Located in New york, NY
Policeman with Puppet and Gun, New York City, USA 1979 by Leonard Freed is a black and white limited edition photograph from Freed's Policework series.
The photograph, 13" x 19" is an archival pigment print with the photographer's copyright stamp and estate signature by the photographer's widow, Brigitte Freed. The print is in an edition of 10. Available: 1/10, 10/10.
Provenance: Freed Estate
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Artist’s Bio:
Leonard Freed (1929-2006) was an American photographer from Brooklyn, New York. His "Black in White America" series made him known as a documentarian, a social documentary photographer. Freed worked as a freelance photographer from 1961 onwards and as a Magnum photographer Freed traveled widely abroad and, in the US, photographing African Americans (1964-65), events in Israel (1967-68, 1973), and the New York City police department (1972-79). Freed's coverage of the American civil rights...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigme...
Long Way Home III, analog, 128x125cm
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Long Way Home III' (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999
128x125cm,
Edition 1/10,
analog C-Print, based on a Polaroid, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
Not mo...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Diana Ross, 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 famous American sing...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Oui, mon Cul #11 [Les Foxy Femmes de Carmen De Vos] - Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Oui, mon Cul #11, 2015
[Les Foxy Femmes de Carmen De Vos]
30x25cm, edition of 7
Archival color print based on original Polaroid
on beautiful PHOTO RAG ULTRA SMOOTH
305gsm - 100% cot...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
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Sitting Lionesses, Serengeti – Nick Brandt, Lion, Lioness, Africa, Animals, Wild
By Nick Brandt
Located in Zurich, CH
NICK BRANDT (*1966, England)
Sitting Lionesses, Serengeti
2002
Platinum print
Image 69.5 x 88 cm (27 3/8 x 34 5/8 in.)
Sheet 76.5 x 99 cm (30 1/8 x 39 in.)
Edition of 25; Ed. no. 16/25
Framed
Nick Brandt is a contemporary English photographer. His work focuses on the disappearing natural world. Since 2001, he has photographed the changing African continent and established a style of portrait photography of animals...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Platinum
Radha Shooting II (Long Way Home) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Pop-art, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Radha Shooting II (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999
38x36cm, Edition of 30,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid,
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory No 259.34.
Not mo...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Jayne Mansfield on Balcony
Located in Austin, TX
Jayne Mansfield visits Villa Borghese, Rome Italy 1964.
Jayne Mansfield was an American actress and Playboy Playmate. A sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s, Mansfield was known ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Diane Sawyer
Located in New York, NY
Diane Sawyer
Archival pigment print
image size: 48 x 48 inches
Signed and numbered edition of 25
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, known principally...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Salvador Dali in Venice
Located in Austin, TX
Photo of Salvador Dali in Venice holding cane and looking up.
Salvador Dali was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
"Paul I Can Hear Myself" Photography 21" x 18" in Ed. of 25 by Howard Grafton
Located in Culver City, CA
"Paul I Can Hear Myself" Photography 21" x 18" in Ed. of 25 by Howard Grafton
Signed and numbered on the back by the publisher
The Beatles on the Ed ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
Djala - Tim Flach, Contemporary British Art, Animal Photography
By Tim Flach
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days.
'Djala' is a stunning C-Type print by contemporary British photographer Tim Fl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Audrey Hepburn Smiling with Dog
Located in Austin, TX
Unique black and white capture of actress Audrey Hepburn smiling while holding a pet Yorkie.
Audrey Hepburn was a British actress. Hepburn had a successful career in Hollywood and w...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Diva and the Boy (Beachshoot) - 9 pieces - Polaroid, Vintage, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Diva and the Boy (Beachshoot) - 2005
Edition of 10 plus 2 artist Proofs.
37x36cm each, installed 126x123cm.
9 archival C-Prints, based on the 9 Polaroids.
Certificate and Sig...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Marilyn Monroe Riding Elephant Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Awesome black and white capture of film actress Marilyn Monroe smiling while riding an elephant.
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One-of-a-kind original vintage press print from the Celebrity Vault archives. Ow...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Amelia Earhart Flight over Washington D.C.
Located in Austin, TX
After appearing before a Senate Committee on air safety, Amelia took off in the Department of Commerce's new safety plane for a flight over Washington D.C.. 1936.
Amelia Earhart was...
Category
1930s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Bouteille à la mer, Paris
By Sonia Sieff
Located in München, BY
Edition of 7
Also available in 73 x 100 cm / 28.7 x 43.3 in, Edition of 3, price on request
A beautiful naked woman with brown hair stands in a classic house in Paris in an erotic p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
1st Year Anniversary
By Luke Smalley
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print
Stamped and numbered, verso
20 x 24 inches
(Edition of 10)
30 x 40 inches
(Edition of 5)
50 x 60 inches
(Edition of 3)
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, loc...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Rimon, Photography, Limited Edition
Located in München, BY
Limited Edition of 10
Framed size 27 x 37 cm
All works are Archival Pigment prints, floating in an all black wooden frame behind museums glass.
More sizes on request.
Sara Punt's w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jewish Diaspora 1950s, Yeshiva Students New York, Black-and-White Photography
Located in New york, NY
Yeshiva Students, New York City, 1954 by Leonard Freed is a black-and-white photograph of three young Jewish Youth, studying at a yeshiva. This is a gelatin silver lifetime print, 16...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Robert Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy, Campaigning in Indiana USA, Photography 1960s
By Burt Glinn
Located in New york, NY
Robert Kennedy (RFK) and his wife Ethel Kennedy, campaigning in a small town in Indiana USA in 1968 is a color photograph, 16” x 24,” an archival pigment...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Rag Paper
Radha and Max on Dirt Road (29 Palms, CA) - analog, Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Radha and Max on Dirt Road (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
Edition 8/10.
60x67cm including white frame.
Analog C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist inv...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
China girl- Intimate signed limited edition sensual fine art print, Contemporary
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
China girl - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 8
This image was captured on film in 1999.
The negative was scanned creating a digital file which was t...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
Rita Hayworth Sunbathing
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white candid image of Rita Hayworth in Burbank, walking along a beautiful street scene.
This listing is for a limited edition archival print.
What's included:
- Limited ...
Category
1930s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white promo photo of Marilyn Monroe posed for her role in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", circa 1953.
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One-of-a-kind original vintage press print from the Celebrity Vault ar...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Rock Hudson on a Motorbike
By Don Ornitz
Located in Austin, TX
Star actor Rock Hudson. Hudson was one of the top leading men in film during the 50's and 60's era and achieved stardom with roles in films such as Magnificent Obsession, All That He...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Laundry
By Luke Smalley
Located in New York, NY
Digital C-print
Stamped and numbered, verso
20 x 24 inches
(Edition of 10)
30 x 40 inches
(Edition of 5)
50 x 60 inches
(Edition of 3)
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, loc...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Spare Parts (29 Palsm, CA) - Contemporary, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Spare Parts' (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
Edition 3/5, 128x125 cm,
Analog C-Print, based on a Polaroid, enlarged by the artist,
Not mounted, Artist inventory 792.18
With Radha Mitchell and Max Sharam
Living and working in Los Angeles and Berlin, Stefanie Schneider's scintillating situations take place in the American West. Situated on the verge of an elusive super-reality, her photographic sequences provide the ambience for loosely woven story lines and a cast of phantasmic characters.
Schneider works with the chemical mutations of expired Polaroid film stock. Chemical explosions of color spreading across the surfaces undermine the photograph's commitment to reality and induce her characters into trance-like dreamscapes. Like flickering sequences of old road movies Schneider's images seem to evaporate before conclusions can be made - their ephemeral reality manifesting in subtle gestures and mysterious motives. Schneider's images refuse to succumb to reality, they keep alive the confusions of dream, desire, fact, and fiction.
Stefanie Schneider received her MFA in Communication Design at the Folkwang Schule Essen, Germany. Her work has been shown at the Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, the Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt, the Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Museum für Moderne Kunst Passau, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Foto -Triennale Esslingen.
“It was Stefanie Schneider, who inspired me to start the company THE IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT after seeing her work, which seems to achieve the possible from the impossible, creating the finest of art out of the most basic of mediums and materials. Indeed, after that one day, I was so impressed with her photography that I realized Polaroid film could not be allowed to disappear. Being at the precise moment in time where the world was about to lose Polaroid, I seized the moment and have put all my efforts and passion into saving Polaroid film. For that, I thank Stefanie Schneider almost exclusively, who played a bigger role than anyone in saving this American symbol of photography.” –Florian Kaps, March 8th 2010 (“Doc” Dr. Florian Kaps, founder of “The Impossible Project”)
Exhibitions Selected (selected)
2017
BLICKFELD] Analoge Fotografie, Kommunale Galerie Steglitz-Zehlendorf (G) (catalog), (upcoming)
Kunstverein Bad Homburg Artlantis, Bad Homburg (G)
2016
Instantdreams, Instantdreams Gallery, Berlin
(S)
2015
Desert Voices, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G) with Pamela Littky
Blue Nudes, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G)
2014
Summer Show, Galerie Catherine et André Hug, Paris, France (G)
6 Finalists, Saatchi Gallery London (G)
Instantdreams, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (S)
Grand Opening, De Re Gallery, Los Angeles (G) with Banksy, Andy Warhol, Alison Bignon, Sophie Dickens, Victor Gingembre and others
2013
Heather's Dream, Short, nominated for the German Short Film Award 2013 (Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis)
Images
For Images (Artists fir Tichy), GASK - Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, Kutná Hora, Czech Republic, (G) with Richard Prince, Nan Golding...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Marilyn Monroe Candid Artistic Portrait in White Dress Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white artistic and candid portrait of Marilyn Monroe in front of stores wearing a white dress.
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One-of-a-kind original vintage press print from the Celebrity Vault archi...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Actor Girl II (29 Palms, CA)- including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Actor Girl II (Stage of Consciousness) - 2008
including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Brigitte Bardot Smiling in a Garden
Located in Austin, TX
Beautiful black and white 1950s capture of star actress Brigitte Bardot posed smiling in a garden.
Born and raised in Paris, Bardot was an aspiring ballerina during her childhood. S...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
The Beatles in Heavy Coats
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white capture of The Beatles posed in heavy coats.
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The core lineup of the band comprised John Lennon, P...
Category
1960s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Elizabeth Taylor Behind the Scenes
By Frank Worth
Located in Austin, TX
This iconic and elegant portrait captured by celebrity photographer Frank Worth features actress Elizabeth Taylor on the set of the film "Giant" for her role as character Leslie Bene...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital
Half Angels Half Demons - Zebra #26, Black and White Photography
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Half Angels Half Demons - Zebra #26, 2008 by Mauricio Velez
Black & White Photography
Archival Pigment Print
Image size: 29 in. H x 29 in. W
Sheet size: 32.5 in. H x 32.5 in. W
Edit...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Pink Bardot Triptych - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Pink Bardot Triptych - Oversize
by Batik
Stunning artwork on exquisite vivid Hahnemühle art paper.
Limited Edition to 3 only this size.
A beautifully cr...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Tim - Preserver of Peace, Platinum, animal, elephant, black and white photograph
Located in München, BY
Joachim Schmeisser
"Tim - Preserver of Peace", Kenya 2019
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
4 Handmade Platinum Palladium Prints
Signed, titled and numbered
Sheet size 76 x 112 cm / 30 x 44.1 inc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Platinum
14 November, III
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered on label, verso
12 x 18 inches
(Edition of 10)
24 x 35.5 inches
(Edition of 8)
From the series, "Him"
This artwork is offered by ClampAr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ryder Mounting Up
Located in New York, NY
Toned gelatin silver print
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, recto
14 x 11 inches, sheet
(Edition of 25)
20 x 16 inches, sheet
(Edition of 25)
24 x 20 inches, sheet
(Edition of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Equestrian Portrait, Classic, Black Horse with Bridle, Reins, and Bonnet
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Black Diamond"
This award-winning image is a fashion-inspired portrait of an elite horse wearing the attire of his discipline.
The print series Equus: Light & Form focuses on the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mick and Bianca in Paris
By Michael Norcia
Located in Austin, TX
Mick Jagger and Bianca Perez posed candid in doorway during a visit to Paris, September 1971.
Mick Jagger is an English singer, songwriter, actor, and film producer who has achiev...
Category
1970s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, 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.
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