Contemporary Portrait Photography
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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Inchoy by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2019
Located in Coltishall, GB
The steady gaze of Inchoy and her child.
John uses simple natural light and builds primitive makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets! The suffuse light allows him to ca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Karepo Nawa by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met this young Himba girl near to a place called Etengwa in the far north of Namibia. We trekked a few kilometres in the midday heat, over a rocky hill to a small village within wh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Fula Nomad at Golondi by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
The man was sat in the shade during a huge village market in a place called Golondi in Niger. We drank the salty, sweet tea that the nomads of the Sahel and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Assaita by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2008
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young man of the Afar culture in the town of Assaita. Many men spend the afternoons in loud debate in mud buildings and courtyards. Often with fistfuls of miraa leaves (ghat) and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Fire of the Himba by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Himba women have a devotion to red ochre powder and butter fat that exceeds even the Hamer of the Omo valley in Ethiopia. They apply huge amounts to almost their entire bodies inclu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Lion of the Kalahari by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
This Himba elder was at a huge funeral gathering in the western Kaokoland between the largest town of the area, Opuwo, and Otjitando. The area was flat, and very dry, with a strong w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Malasso by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2009
Located in Coltishall, GB
I came across the intense stare of this Pokot lady at a Friday market on a mountain summit in northern Kenya; it was the same market where I photographed a Samburu goat herder wrappe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
At the Edge of the Jade by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait with Acrylic Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Lake Turkana, or the ‘Jade Sea’ is a vast body of water in Kenya’s far north. It is surrounded by a barren landscape of red and black volcanic rocks, where rain falls for little more...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Ltiriyan by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met Ltiriyan at the water wells in Laisamis, part of the Rendille lands of Northern Kenya. He was with nine or ten Rendille warriors relaxing in the heat of the day, and they happily sat around and talked with me through my guide for an hour or so before preparing their camels to head off into the desert again.
Ltiriyan was the most outspoken of the young warriors...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Mukuru by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
The small settlement of Otjitando in Namibia’s Kaokoland doesn’t seem far off the main gravel road on the map. In reality it is a hellish journey that requires regular running in fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Otjitando by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2010
Located in Coltishall, GB
Himba woman from Namibia
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and his subjects in their d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Nambuele by John Kenny. 26.5 x 18" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2012
Located in Coltishall, GB
Nambuele illustrates the hair craft of the Mumuhuila of southern Angola, whose women take an obsessive pride in their hairstyle. Although it may change as a girl enters different st...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
At the Heart of Huile by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Young Mumuhuile woman from the Huile region of southern Angola.
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with na...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
The San Man by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A picture of joy. KhoiSan bushman from Namibia
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Himba Child ll by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Himba child from Namibia
John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and his subjects in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
''Capturing a Moment'' Fine Art Photography Limited Edition Print of 2/5
Located in Port Talbot, GB
Edition of 2/5
The stunning fine art portraits by fine art photographer Laurentina Miksys have been described as opulent, timeless, and emotionally expressive. When they have a sou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Rag Paper
From series ''Capturing a Moment'' Limited Edition Print of 2 of 5
Located in Port Talbot, GB
Edition of 2 of 5
The stunning fine art portraits by fine art photographer Laurentina Miksys have been described as opulent, timeless, and emotionally expressive. When they have a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Black and White
Haywood Magee, Louis Armstrong on Stage Limited Edition Photographic Print 30x40
Located in San Rafael, CA
American jazz trumpeter and bandleader Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong (1900 - 1971), shouts after clarinettist Edmund Hall's solo, on stage during the band's British tour, May 19, 1956. A...
Category
1950s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
“On the River” Fine Art Photography Limited Edition Print of 1
Located in Port Talbot, GB
Edition of 1
The stunning fine art portraits by fine art photographer Laurentina Miksys have been described as opulent, timeless, and emotionally expressive. When they have a sou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Black and White
Bob Marley "Smoke"
By Peter Simon
Located in New York, NY
Estate Stamped
Please allow 4 weeks production time.
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Spaghetti
Located in Knokke-Heist, VWV
Limited edition fine art photograph by Romina Ressia.
Last print available.
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lorenzo Agius - Madonna and the Monocle, madonna, colour, photography, 30x40 in
Located in London, GB
Lorenzo Agius (b.1962)
Madonna and the Monocle
2005
digital C-Type print
60 x 48 in. / 40 x 30 in. / 24 x 20 in.
signed and numbered
printed later
This wo...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Digital
Kate Moss, Sicily
By Jamie Hince
Located in New York, NY
Limited Edition
Next available edition printed upon purchase.
Other sizes available. Please allow 4 weeks for production.
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
George Harrison, The Beatles
By Emilio Lari
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer
Please allow extra production time.
Other sizes available.
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
George Harrison, The Beatles
By Emilio Lari
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer
Please allow extra production time.
Other sizes available.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
“Motherland” Fine Art Photography Limited Edition Print of 1/5
Located in Port Talbot, GB
Edition of 1/5
The stunning fine art portraits by fine art photographer Laurentina Miksys have been described as opulent, timeless, and emotionally expressive. When they have a sou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Black and White
''Skin'' Limited Edition Print of 1
Located in Port Talbot, GB
Edition of 1
The stunning fine art portraits by fine art photographer Laurentina Miksys have been described as opulent, timeless, and emotionally expressive. When they have a soul...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Black and White
An Intense Encounter by John Kenny - Portrait, C-type Print with Acrylic Face
Located in Coltishall, GB
This Tamberma man is from a small village called Nadoba in Togo, about ten kilometres from the Benin border. The village is renowned for its facial scarification.
A fiery wind b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
“Motherland” Fine Art Photography Limited Edition Print of 1/5
Located in Port Talbot, GB
Edition of 1/5
The stunning fine art portraits by fine art photographer Laurentina Miksys have been described as opulent, timeless, and emotionally expressive. When they have a sou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Black and White
“Motherland” Fine Art Photography Limited Edition Print of 1/5
Located in Port Talbot, GB
Edition of 1/5
The stunning fine art portraits by fine art photographer Laurentina Miksys have been described as opulent, timeless, and emotionally expressive. When they have a sou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Black and White
Tom Waits "Small Change" Album Cover Outtake
By Joel Brodsky
Located in New York, NY
Estate Stamped
Other sizes available.
An outtake from Joel Brodsky's brilliantly imagined setting for Tom Waits Small Change album, `1976
Category
20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Kurt Cobain; "Smoking A"
Located in New York, NY
Limited Edition
Signed by Jesse Frohman
Next available edition printed upon purchase. Please allow 3 weeks for production.
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
“Motherland” Fine Art Photography Limited Edition Print of 1/5
Located in Port Talbot, GB
Edition of 1/5
The stunning fine art portraits by fine art photographer Laurentina Miksys have been described as opulent, timeless, and emotionally expressive. When they have a sou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Black and White
''Ballet Dancer'' Fine Art Photography Limited Edition Print of 5
Located in Port Talbot, GB
Edition of 5
The stunning fine art portraits by fine art photographer Laurentina Miksys have been described as opulent, timeless, and emotionally expressive. When they have a soul...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Black and White
Floral Wicker Bag, Goodwood Revival - Vintage Fashion Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
This stylish artwork, 'Floral Wicker Bag' taken at the glamorous retro event Goodwood Revival, perfectly captures feminine sophistication with a vintage vib...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper, C Print
Cowgirls
Located in Detroit, MI
Cowgirls, Archival film photograph with frame, 2019
Raised in the American West, this region has resonated in mythical proportions within Antonia Stoyanovich...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Paper
''I See You'' Fine Art Photography Limited Edition Prints Of Two
Located in Port Talbot, GB
Edition 1/2
The stunning fine art portraits by fine art photographer Laurentina Miksys have been described as opulent, timeless, and emotionally expressive. When they have a soul, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Color
Keith Richards and Ron Wood, Los Angeles, CA, 1979
By Henry Diltz
Located in New York, NY
Signed, Titled, and Numbered by Henry Diltz
Other sizes available.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Floral Striped Dress, Goodwood Revival - Vintage Fashion Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
This stylish artwork, 'Floral Striped Dress' taken at the glamorous retro event Goodwood Revival, perfectly captures feminine sophistication with a vintage vibe.
This artwork is a l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Namaste, Poovar, Kerala
Located in Cambridge, GB
Namaste, portraits from the streets of India.
This artwork is a limited edition of 25, gloss photographic print. It is accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate of authentici...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
“Catching Feathers” Fine Art Photography Limited Edition Print of 1
Located in Port Talbot, GB
Edition of 1
The stunning fine art portraits by fine art photographer Laurentina Miksys have been described as opulent, timeless, and emotionally expressive. When they have a soul...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Color
Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, Grateful Dead, NY, 1972
By Peter Simon
Located in New York, NY
Estate Stamped
Please allow 4 weeks production time.
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jim Morrison of The Doors, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA, 1968
By Henry Diltz
Located in New York, NY
Limited Edition photograph, hand signed by photographer Henry Diltz
Please allow extra production time
Category
20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
''I See You'' Fine Art Photography Limited Edition Prints Of Two
Located in Port Talbot, GB
Edition 1/2
The stunning fine art portraits by fine art photographer Laurentina Miksys have been described as opulent, timeless, and emotionally expressive. When they have a soul,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Color
Baragoi by John Kenny, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount,
Located in Coltishall, GB
The town of Baragoi is half a day’s drive from Lake Turkana. It is a green oasis amidst a parched landscape. The majority of the town’s inhabitants, including this striking woman, ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Samburu Shepherd by John Kenny, C-type Print with Acrylic Face
Located in Coltishall, GB
Every Friday the highest mountain pass in northern Kenya comes alive as its normally wind-battered and deserted shacks become the focus of a market. It is the only place in West Samburu where Pokot and Samburu tribal groups are able to meet in a tense and uneasy truce.
From a cliff top, looking out over northern Kenya’s rugged scenery, a nervous Samburu trader pointed at small moving objects...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Rendille Radiance by John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face
Located in Coltishall, GB
This enchanting Rendille lady is from a large village in the Kaisut Desert in northern Kenya. She was living in one of the ‘purest’ parts of the Rendille homeland, where their langua...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, and Peter Tosh, 1978
By Peter Simon
Located in New York, NY
Estate Stamped
Please allow 4 weeks production time.
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Grateful Dead, 1970
By Peter Simon
Located in New York, NY
Estate Stamped
Please allow 4 weeks production time.
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
''Bonding Time'' Fine Art Photography Limited Edition Print 1 of 5
Located in Port Talbot, GB
Edition of 1/5
The stunning fine art portraits by fine art photographer Laurentina Miksys have been described as opulent, timeless, and emotionally expressive. When they have a so...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Black and White
Samburu Adornment by John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met this young married Samburu in the middle of a busy market in western Kenya. She was with a group of young women browsing the wooden stalls dotted across the dusty red earth in the lowlands of the Matthew’s Range. In Samburu communities young men spend years as warriors – a wandering lifestyle which make it impossible for them to marry. Instead they take girlfriends and give them beads and necklaces to indicate their relationship.
Samburu girls adore receiving these presents and adorn themselves in more and more necklaces. The girl in this picture, although now married to an elder, still shows her beads from the time of being promised to a warrior: they are the band of 8 or so thin necklaces...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Grateful Dead, 1972
By Peter Simon
Located in New York, NY
Estate Stamped
Please allow 4 weeks production time.
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
ANA AMERICA
By Ruby Rumie
Located in New York, NY
inkjet print on satin paper, laminated in luster matte.
Edition of 5
from the portrait series titled WEAVING STREETS
printed upon order
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Carly Simon, VT, 1970
By Peter Simon
Located in New York, NY
Estate Stamped
Please allow 4 weeks production time.
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Turkana Girl of Loiyangalani by John Kenny, C-type Print with acrylic face mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met this girl from the Turkana community of Loiyangalani very near to the shores of Lake Turkana. She was walking with her head covered to provide some protection from the fierce m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Cowboy of Wamba by John Kenny, C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
I met this remarkable Samburu elder at the livestock market near to Wamba, a town in the heart of the Samburu district. It is a ‘Samburu Only’ event, where the social aspect of meeti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
John Bonham, Led Zeppelin, 1970
By Peter Simon
Located in New York, NY
Estate Stamped
Please allow 4 weeks production time.
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jazz Photograph of Miles Davis by Frank Stewart, 'Miles in the Green Room'
Located in White Plains, NY
'Miles in the Green Room' by American photographer Frank Stewart, 1981. Pigment print, 28 x 40 inches. Edition 5 of 15, Recent Print, signed lower right corner. This photograph features Miles Davis at Avery Fisher Hall during the Miles Davis Comeback Concert.
Stewart's jazz photographs highlight an intimate association with their subjects, that enables him to portray situations off-stage that otherwise would remain unknown to most of us. He works with film and digitally, using no artificial illumination other than stage lighting, and the prints employ subtle tones of black, grey, and white. Viewers are able to connect with the emotional range of the musicians and vocalists depicted and to grasp the deeply understood parallels between Stewart's vivid photographic forms and spaces, and the dramatic sounds and silences of jazz music.
Frank Stewart initiated his career in jazz photography traveling with Ahmad Jamal and his group shortly after receiving a degree in photography from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (1975). Stewart's focus on jazz was solidified from 1989-92 when he accompanied the Wynton Marsalis...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Pigment, Digital Pigment
Contemporary portrait photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary portrait photography available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add portrait photography created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Stefanie Schneider, Tyler Shields, Urizen Freaza, and Clare Marie Bailey. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Photographic Paper and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary portrait photography, so small editions measuring 1.58 inches across are also available.
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