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
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Hippiemobile (1968) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Brian Duffy
Located in London, GB
Throbbing Gristle In Culver City (1981) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Brian Duff/Daily Express/Express/Getty Images)
circa 1968:
Young m...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Palm Bay Club - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Bay Club
A young woman at the Palm Bay Club, Miami, Florida, USA, circa 1965.
Photo by Slim Aarons
Silver gelatin print
Paper size 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm
printed 2...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Man Ray in Paris' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Man Ray in his Paris studio with poster for Non-Abstractions exhibition opening (1956) and Peinture féminine (1954)
Slim Aarons
Man Ray in Paris
1956 printed later
C-Print
Estate si...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Swan Dive (1956) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
Swan Dive (1956) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Alamy)
1st March 1956.
A man swan diving from the high diving boar...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Cross of St. Helena - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cross of St. Helena is a black and white photograph realized in the early 20th century by Alinari.
Preserved in the Christian Museum of Brescia.
Titled in the Italian language on t...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pool At Las Brisas
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pool At Las Brisas
Guests in the pool at the Las Brisas Hotel, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972.
Slim Aarons Chromogenic C print
Printed Later
S...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Annette Funicello with the Boys
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Annette Funicello with the Boys c. 1960's
C print
20 x 16 inches
Edition of 50
Photographs are printed on Archival Hahnemühle paper (luster)
estate signed and numbered in...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
James Deann At A Car Rally - Oversize Limited Print
By Frank Worth
Located in London, GB
James Dean At A Car Rally 1955 (colorised)
by Frank Worth
paper size 40 x 60 inches / 101 x 152 cm
edition of 6 only in this size
Archival pigment print
unframed
Note other si...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Autographed Portrait of Dieter Borsche - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed portrait of Dieter Borsche is a beautiful b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the smoking German actor with big pier...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat
1987 (printed later)
Archival pigment print
14 x 14 inches
Signed and numbered edition of 40
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, ...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Portrait of Miranda Martino - Golden Period 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.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
'Golfing Pals' (1977) - Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Golfing Pals (1977) - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
At the 16th hole on Pebble Beach golf course, singer and film star Bi...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, C Print
Slim Aarons - Tania Mallet - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Tania Mallet' by Slim Aarons
Glamorous Actress Tania Mallet relaxes on a red-curtained four poster bed in Eleuthera, in the Bahamas. She is best known f...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Queen Elizabeth - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elizabeth - Vintage Photo realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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 album session, 1974. (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate.
Edition size varies acco...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Norman Parkinson 'Marisa Berenson in a feather hat, 1966'
Located in New York, NY
Marisa Berenson is photographed wearing a feather hat for a 1966 issue of Vogue magazine. Yves Saint Laurent dubbed her "the girl of the Seventies".
Marisa Berenson in a feather hat...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Norman Parkinson 'Celia Hammond in Goggles for Queen Magazine, 1964'
Located in New York, NY
Celia Hammond is photographed by Norman Parkinson wearing goggles and a headdress made of silk chiffon for Queen magazine in 1964. Hammond became a favorite model of Parkinson's and ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Norman Parkinson 'Paris Drama, Jean Patchett wearing Balenciaga, Vogue 1950'
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson captures Paris Drama, Jean Patchett wearing Balenciaga, Vogue Magazine, 1950
Jean Patchett wearing Balenciaga, Vogue, 1950
C print
Estate stamped and numbered editi...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Montgomery Clift in New York, 1952'
Located in New York, NY
American actor Montgomery Clift photographed in New York for British Vogue, November 1952.
Montgomery Clift in New York, 1952
Silver gelatin print
Estate stamped and numbered editio...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Norman Parkinson 'Duchess of Feria, 1982'
Located in New York, NY
Nati Abascal, the Duchess of Feria, photographed with her black stallion ‘Idle Ruler’ in Barbados for Town & Country magazine, in 1982.
Duchess of Feria, 1982
C print
Estate stamped...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Twiggy – at David Steen’s Home, Surrey, 1967 Limited Estate Print
By David Steen
Located in London, GB
Twiggy – at David Steen’s Home, Surrey,
Lesley Lawson (born 19 September 1949) is an English model, actress, and singer widely known by the nickname Twiggy. She was a British cultu...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Deborah Harris in a mermaid's tail, 1990'
Located in New York, NY
Deborah Harris is photographed on location in Malaysia wearing a custom-designed mermaid’s tail by Bob Mackie for Town & Country in February of 1990. This story was photographer Norm...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Ingrid Boulting at Lacock Abbey. Vogue, July 1970'
Located in New York, NY
Ingrid Boulting wearing a dress from Suliman at Bond Street Fashion Market. Photographed at Lacock Abbey, former home of the nineteenth-century photographic pioneer William Henry Fox...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Norman Parkinson 'Jerry Hall in Jamaica, 1975'
Located in New York, NY
Jerry Hall at Montego Bay, Jamaica wearing Juvena makeup with fashion by Walter Albini and Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, 1975
Jerry Hall in Jamaica, 1975
C print
Estate stamped and num...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Fiona Campbell-Walter for Vogue, July 1951'
Located in New York, NY
Fiona Campbell-Walter (later Baroness Thyssen) on an English beach wearing an Estrava coat with a raffia hat from Eaton. British Vogue, July 1951
Fiona Campbell-Walter for Vogue, Ju...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Norman Parkinson 'Rachel Fitzgerald on BBC, 1953'
Located in New York, NY
Model Rachel Fitzgerald for Vogue’s ‘Export Book’ story featuring BBC, June 1953.
Rachel Fitzgerald on BBC, 1953
Silver gelatin print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on ve...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Norman Parkinson 'Clio Goldsmith in Tobago for Vogue, April 1975'
Located in New York, NY
Clio Goldsmith in Tobago for British Vogue, 15 April 1975
Clio Goldsmith in Tobago for Vogue, April 1975
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
with certificate ...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Apollonia van Ravenstein in Barbados. Vogue, July 1973'
Located in New York, NY
Apollonia van Ravenstein at the Crane Beach Hotel in Barbados wearing a Jane Cattlin swimsuit with a Charles Batten hat, chiffon scarf from Liberty and Saint Laurent Rive Gauche sand...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Norman Parkinson 'Jerry Hall in feathered Dior, 1975'
Located in New York, NY
Jerry Hall is photographed wearing a one-shouldered satin column dress and feathered coat by Dior during a British Vogue photoshoot at the Palace of Versailles. The image, taken Sept...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Teenage Kicks C-type Limited Edition Oversize
By Jamie Beeden
Located in London, GB
'Teenage Kicks' C-type Limited Edition
by Jamie Beeden, personal work.
A portrait of a young girl at a club in Tufnell Park, London 2003.
Jamie's body of work includes varied maga...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Historical Photo - Wallis Simpson - Vintage Photograph - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo - Wallis Simpson is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
It belongs to a historical album including historical moments, royal famili...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Groucho Marx - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Groucho Marx is a black and white photograph realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Johnny Rotten - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Johnny Rotten - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
Johnny Rotten, 1976 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate.
Edition size vari...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
David Bowie With The Spiders - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
David Bowie With The Spiders - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
David Bowie with the Spiders, 1973 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate.
Edition size var...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bowie In The Mirror - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Bowie In The Mirror - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
David Bowie looking into a mirror at Haddon Hall, Beckenham in March 1972 during an interview for Club International ma...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Gorgeous Joan (1931) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
Gorgeous Joan (1931) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(photo Glasshouse Images / Alamy Archives )
Joan Crawford, on-set of the Film “Possessed”,
1931.
Additional Informati...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Checkered Flag - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Checkered Flag
The checkered flag signals the end of the race during the 1963 Nassau Speed Week.
Slim Aarons Archival Pigment Print.
Printed 2024.
Sli...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Miss America Participants - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Miss America Participants is a photograph realized in the 1960s
Good conditions.
The artwork is realized in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Marianne Faithfull 1964 Decca Studios in London Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Marianne Faithfull is photographed at Decca Studios in London, 1964. Faithful was discovered by the manager of the Rolling Stones Andrew Loog Oldham and became one of the lead female...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cricket in Antigua (1960) - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cricket in Antigua (1960) - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Cricketers on the field during a match between the Leeward Islands and the MCC, Antigua,
West Indies, ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Thom Yorke - signed Limited Edition Oversize print (2006)
Located in London, GB
Thom Yorke - signed Limited Edition Oversize print
Thom Yorke (Radiohead) red
May 11 2006
Amsterdam Mojo Cover Shoot
(photo Kevin Westenberg)
unframed
signed and numbered by the artist.
limited to an edition of 3
Printed 2020
This Size 60x40''/ 152x101 cm
About the Image:
Thomas Edward Yorke is an English musician and the main vocalist and songwriter of the rock band Radiohead. A multi-instrumentalist, he mainly plays guitar and keyboards, and is known for his falsetto. Yorke was born in Northamptonshire.
Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke, brothers Jonny Greenwood and Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien and Philip Selway. They have worked with producer Nigel Godrich and cover artist Stanley Donwood...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Autographed Portrait of The Kessler Twins - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Portrait of The Kessler Twins is a b/w photographic portrait, with the added value of the blue ink autographs by Alice and Ellen Kessler.
Original Title: Alice und Ellen Kes...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Iggy Raw Power - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Iggy Raw Power - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
Iggy Pop, Raw Power album cover photograph, 1973 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are nu...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Gino Paoli - Vintage Autographed Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Gino Paoli - Vintage Autographed Photograph is a vintage photo, realized in the 1960s.
Signature and dedication by the singer Gino Paoli: "Ai lettori di "Letizia" da un amico Gino P...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Thom Yorke of Radiohead - Signed Limited Edition Print (2006)
Located in London, GB
Thom Yorke of Radiohead - Signed Limited Edition Print
Thom Yorke of RADIOHEAD
MAY 11 2006
AMSTERDAM, MOJO COVER
(photo Kevin Westenberg)
NB All prints are signed and numbered by the artist.
Unframed
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Edition limited to 25 only this size
Printed 2020
This size image: 24 x 20" / 60 x 50 cm
About the image:
Thomas Edward Yorke is an English musician and the main vocalist and songwriter of the rock band Radiohead. A multi-instrumentalist, he mainly plays guitar and keyboards, and is known for his falsetto. Yorke was born in Northamptonshire.
Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke, brothers Jonny Greenwood and Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien and Philip Selway. They have worked with producer Nigel Godrich and cover artist Stanley Donwood...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
The Japanese Director Akira Kurosawa - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Japanese Filmmaker during a Television Show.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Paola Borboni and Bruno Vilar - Photo - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Paola Borboni and Bruno Vilar is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1978.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Norah Jones - signed Limited Edition Oversize print (2006)
Located in London, GB
Norah Jones - Signed Limited Edition Oversize print
Mojo Magazine
November 17, 2006
Los Angeles
(photo Kevin Westenberg)
Unframed
Signed and nu...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Jean Cocteau - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Jean Cocteau - Vintage Photo is a black-and-white photograph that was realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Kate Moss At 16 - signed limited edition print
By Jake Chessum
Located in London, GB
An Unknown Kate Moss At 16
by Jake Chessum 1990
limited edition
edition size 20 only this size
printed 2024
Archival pigment print
numbered and signed by the artist
unframed
ships securely from London England
Framing options available
Jake Chessum
British-born, New York-based photographer Jake Chessum’s portfolio includes Amy Winehouse, Robbie Williams, David Bowie, Jay Z, Snoop Dogg, Coldplay, The Beastie Boys, Beck and beyond.
Jake grew...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Portrait of Ray Bradbury - Vintage Photograph - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Ray Bradbury - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the 1990s.
Good conditions.
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Reliquary, Christian Museum - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Christian Museum - Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the early 20th century by Alinari.
Consular diptych depicting Boethius and Lampadius. Ivory bas-relief ...
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Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Tina Turner On Stage - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Tina Turner On Stage - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
Tina Turner on stage in London, 1974 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate.
Edition size varies...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ahmedabad 151213-18 (India, Street Dancer, Movement, Rhythm, Vibes, 30% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Lord Fauntleroy
Ahmedabad 151213-18
High Gloss Metal Print
with Float Mount Hanger
Year: 2015
Size: 12 inches diameter
Signed: On Label
Edition: 7
COA provided
Lord Fauntleroy is a ...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Metal
Marianne Faithfull 1964 Decca Studios in London Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Marianne Faithfull poses during a photoshoot in London in 1966. Faithful was discovered by the manager of the Rolling Stones Andrew Loog Oldham and became one of the lead female arti...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'Bettina Graziani' Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bettina Graziani (1964) Limited Edition Estate Stamped C Type Print
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
French fashion model Bettina Graziani (Simone Micheline Bodin) (1925 – 2015) adjusting t...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, C Print
Throbbing Gristle In Culver City (1981) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Suzan Carson
Located in London, GB
Throbbing Gristle In Culver City (1981) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Suzan Carson/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
Singer and bassist ...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
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.