Modern Portrait Photography
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
The Duke of Windsor in London - Vintage B/W photo - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
The Duke of Windsor in London is an original photograph realized in 1940-1941 by an Anonymous photographer.
With the description typing script on ...
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1940s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Italian Director Marco Bellocchio - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
This Vintage Photo shows the Italian Film Director Marco Bellocchio.
Good condition.
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Allegorical Ceiling - Vintage Photograph by Tiepolo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Allegorical ceiling by Tiepolo is an original vintage photograph realized in "Villa Nazionale Venezia" in Venice by Naya photograph agency.
With the description on the lower.
Good ...
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Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Portrait of Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison - b/w Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
The actors Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison while talking.
Vintage Photo.
Good condition.
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Portrait of Anna Magnani - Vintage B/W photo - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Portrait of Anna Magnani is a vintage b/w photographic print on single-coated paper.
Good condition.
Anna Magnani was born in Rome, Italy (not in Egypt, as some biographie...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
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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.
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1980s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Marthe Keller and Marcello Mastroianni - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage color Photo.
The actors Marthe Keller and Marcello Mastroianni.
Good condition.
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1980s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Christmas - Color Photograph by Plinio Martelli - 2009
Located in Roma, IT
Christmas is a colored photographic print realized by Plinio Martelli in the 2009.
Very good conditions.
Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower margin of the photograph. Original title: Pittrice
Plinio Martelli (1945-2016) After scientific studies he graduated from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin with masters such as Enrico Paolucci and Mario Calandri...
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Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Actress Angela Molina with Lou Castel - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1982
Located in Roma, IT
Lou Castel and Angel Molina on the set of "Gli occhi e la bocca" by Marco Bellocchio (1982).
Vintage b/w Photo.
Good condition.
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1980s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Portrait of Arleen Dahl - Original b/w Photograph - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Arleen Dahl is an original b/w photograph about Hollywood '40 realized by De Wan Studios.
On the back "Beautiful Arleen Dahl is assisted with her w...
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1940s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Workers from all over the world - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Workers from all over the world is an original black and white photograph realized by an anonymous photographer
With the stamp of "Avanti" hand-note on the rear.
Good conditions.
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
The Italian Actor Amedeo Nazzari - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
The Italian Actor Amedeo Nazzari.
Vintage Photo.
Good condition.
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Charlton Heston - Original b/w Photograph - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The American actor Charlton Heston on the set of "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952).
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
This Vintage Photo shows the Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni in the early 1980s.
Good condition.
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1980s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
E.G. Robinson, M. O'Sullivan, H. Courtright - Original b/w Photograph - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Jane Russell and Gloria Green is an original b/w photograph about Hollywod '40 realized by De Wan Studios.
On the back " Edward G. Robinson, Maureen O'Sullivan...
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1940s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
The French Actress Claudine Auger - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The French Actress Claudine Auger in 1970s.
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Lucybelle Crater and her 15 year old son's friend
Located in New York, NY
From a portfolio of ten gelatin silver prints from original Meatyard negatives (1959-71)
Printed April 1974
Edition of 130
Credit stamp, verso
7 x 7 inches, image
15 x 12 inches, 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...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Portraitt of Leonard Bernstein while Conducting - Color Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Bernstein conducting, '80's. cm 19.6 x 25.1.
In back a blue ink stamp of the photographer Galliano Passerini.
Good conditions except some discoloration in left margin.
Photo of o...
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1980s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni receiving a slap on the set of a movie.
Good condition.
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
The French Actress Claudine Auger - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage b/w Photo.
The French Actress Claudine Auger with her cat.
Lightly blurry.
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Leonard Bernstein Conducting - Vintage B/W Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Interesting Stolen Shot of Leonard Bernstein conducting. Vintage B/W Photo of the second biggest conductor of all the times (after Carlos Kleiber and before Von Karajan and Toscanini...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Portrait of Renato Zero - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage photograph by AGI, Renato Zero, c.a. 1970. 17.6 x 24 cm.
Vintage b/w photo that portrays the singer-songwriter Renato Zero in his early seventies, with his eccentric stage costumes...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Italian Protests - Avanti Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Italian protests on immigration, vintage photograph is an original black and white photograph realized by an anonymous photographer.
With the hand-note on the rear.
Good conditions...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Autograph Portrait of Gertrud Kückelmann - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1961
Located in Roma, IT
Autograph portrait of Gertrud Kückelmann is a b/w 1961 postcard reproducing a photographic portrait of the beautiful German actress, Gertrud Christine Franziska Kückelmann (Munich, ...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography
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Paper, Photographic Paper
Portrait of Miranda Martino - Golden Age of Italian Cinema - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Miranda Martino - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 20th Century.
Fair conditions with oxidation.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Autographed Portrait of Ernst Deutsch - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed Portrait of Ernst Deutsch is a b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the Austrian-German film actor, Ernst Deutsch (1890 – 1969).Around the 1960's.
Photo: Jose Buhs, Berlin.
With the additional value of his blue ink autograph on the lower margin at the center, this autographed postcard is in perfect condition and absolutely to collect for the German cinema connaisseurs!
Ernst Deutsch, also known as Ernest Dorian (Prague, 1890 – Berlin, 1969)
The Jewish Austrian actor, Ernst Deutsch was protagonist in 1916 in the world première of Walter Hasenclever's Expressionist play The Son in Dresden was praised.Deutsch also played the antihero Famulus in Paul Wegener...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography
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Paper, Photographic Paper
Dalida by Ledino Pozzetti - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Dalida by Ledino Pozzetti is a vintage photographic print on single coated paper.
Photograph by Ledino Pozzetti for Fotoreporter Associati ( f.r.a.) Milano.
Agency ink stamp on the...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Ahmedabad 150306-101 (India, Holi Festival, Warm, Saffron, Hand, Calm, ~30% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Lord Fauntleroy
Ahmedabad 150306-101
2015
Archival Pigment Print on Matte Paper
Size: 24 x 24 inches (60.96 x 60.96cm)
Edition: 9
Signed, titled and dated on label
COA provided
Lord...
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2010s Modern Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment
Ahmedabad 150306-33 (India, Holi Festival, Warm, Saffron, Hand, Calm, ~30% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Lord Fauntleroy
Ahmedabad 150306-17
2015
Archival Pigment Print on Matte Paper
Size: 24 x 24 inches (60.96 x 60.96cm)
Edition: 9
Signed, titled and dated on label
COA provided
Lord...
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2010s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Autographed Portrait of Gerlinde Locker - Original b/w Postcard - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Gerlinde Locker's Memorabilia is a beautiful b/w postcard, reproducing a photographic portrait of Gerlinde Locker (born April 28, 1938 in Linz, Austria) , the Austrian actress, activ...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Gianni Morandi - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Gianni Morandi, Gastone Moschin, Philippe Noiret - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi, Gastone Moschin, Philippe Noiret - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Portrait of Anna Magnani - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Portrait of Anna Magnani is a vintage b/w photographic print on single-coated paper, realized in 1960s
Good conditions.
Anna Magnani was born in Rome, Italy (not in Egypt,...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Portrait of Dave Stewart and Spiritual Cowboys - Vintage Photo - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Dave Stewart and Spiritual Cowboys is a vintage photographic print on Agfa RC paper.
Hand-written notes on front lower edge, outside the print.
Excellent conditions.
D...
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1990s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Portrait of Anna Magnani - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Portrait of Anna Magnani is a vintage b/w photographic print on single-coated paper, realized in 1960s
Good conditions.
Anna Magnani was born in Rome, Italy (not in Egypt,...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Dizzy Gillespie - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Dizzy Gillespie - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Vintage Portrait of Anna Magnani - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Portrait of Anna Magnani is a vintage b/w photographic print on single-coated paper, realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Anna Magnani w...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Sylva Koscina - Vintage Photo - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sylva Koscina - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Sylva Koscina is considered one of the be...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons - Bettina Graziani - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
French fashion model Bettina Graziani (Simone Micheline Bodin) (1925 – 2015) adjusting the sail of a boat, Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, 1964.
Gor...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment
Tom Kelley : Gal in Baggie Surfer Suit
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Ann St. Marie c. 1950's
C print
38 x 30 inches
Edition of 45
Photographs are printed on Archival Hahnemühle paper (luster)
estate signed and numbered in the border
Captio...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment
Riders in the Desert
By Erich Andres
Located in Cologne, DE
This striking black-and-white photograph captures two horseback riders in the expansive desert landscape of the American Southwest, likely from the 1960s. The riders, both wearing cl...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography
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Black and White
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.
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Milton Greene, "Marilyn with Lute", cibachrome print from original transparency
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is a cibachrome print from the original transparency, shot by Milton Greene in 1953. Marilyn Monroe collaborated with Milton Greene in September of 1953 for this photoshoot, shortly after she finished filming for her hit film, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes". After Monroe saw the proofs from this shoot, she was blown away. She sent two dozen roses and a letter to Greene, stating that the images were the most beautiful she had ever seen. However, these rare photographs...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Gianni Morandi and Marcella Martoli - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi and Marcella Martoli - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
The Protest - Historical Photographs About the Feminist Movement - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
The protest - Historical photographs about the feminist movement is an original vintage photograph realized by anonymous photographer
With the stamp of th...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Vintage Portrait of Anna Magnani - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Portrait of Anna Magnani is a vintage b/w photographic print on single-coated paper, realized in the Mid-20th.
Good conditions.
Anna Magnani was born in Rome, Italy (not in...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Portrait of Painter Carlo Ferrari - Original Original Photograph - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original photo on yellowish paper realized in 1870 by an Anonymous Artist of the XIX century.
Included original passepartout: 32.5 x 26.5 cm.
The state of preservat...
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1870s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
The End of the Trip of Stoyadinovitch - Vintage Photo - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
The end of the trip of Stoyadinovitch is an original b/w photo realized in December 1937 by Trampus Agency, Paris. The original hallmark "Photoreportage Trampus" on the back. On the back it is glued a piece of paper with the typewritten caption (title, description and date. The artwork is in very good conditions except for a light fold on the upper left corner.
The artwork represents the meeting of Mussolini with the Prime Minister Stoyadinovitch, in the center of the photo and Count Ciano on the left at Venice Palace...
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1930s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Young Chinese Boys - Original Silver Salt Photograph - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Young Chinese Boys is an original Silver Salt print photograph realized by an Unknown photographer in late 19th century.
Fair conditi...
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Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Reg Lancaster 'Yves Saint Laurent' Limited Edition Photographic Print, 20x16
Located in San Rafael, CA
April 7, 1965: Yves Saint-Laurent, ex-wonder boy of Dior, working at his own fashion house in Paris. (Photo by Reg Lancaster/Express/Getty Images)
As an authorized Getty Images Gall...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Portrait of Miranda Martino - Golden Age of Italian Cinema - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Miranda Martino - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the mid-20th Century.
Fair conditions with oxidation.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Ancient View of Kobe - Vintage Photo -1890s
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient View of Kobe is an original vintage albumen print on single cardboard realized in the 1890s.
Hand-written ink caption in Italian at the bottom of the print. Good conditions ...
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19th Century Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Vintage Portrait of Iva Zanicchi - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The vintage photograph of Iva Zanicchi is an original black and white photograph realized by the Agency of "AND KRONOS, Roma"
With the copyright and the stamp of Agency" and the han...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Portrait of Ornella Muti - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Ornella Muti in a scene from "Chronicle of a Death Foretold", a 1987 Film by Francesco Rosi.
Lightly damaged.
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1980s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Portrait of Ornella Muti Getting the "Donatello" - Vintage Photograph - 1988
Located in Roma, IT
Rome, 05.05.1988
The Italian Actress Ornella Muti at the David di Donatello Award.
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1980s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Anna Magnani - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Anna Magnani - Vintage Photo is a vintage b/w photographic print on single-coated paper, realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Good conditions.
Anna Magnan...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Portrait of Ornella Muti - Vintage Photograph - Early 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Ornella Muti in "'O Re", a 1989 Italian historical commedia all'italiana film written and directed by Luigi Magni.
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1980s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Gianni Morandi and Dalida - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi and Dalida - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Modern portrait photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Modern 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, red, purple, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Mark Shaw, Slim Aarons, Terry O'Neill, and Kevin Westenberg. 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 Modern portrait photography, so small editions measuring 0.63 inches across are also available. Prices for portrait photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $22 and tops out at $152,896, while the average work sells for $1,806.