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
Lauren Bacall and Wilfred Hyde - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Lauren Bacall and Wilfred Hyde - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$180 Sale Price
25% Off
Marilyn In New York Taxi Cab
By Ed Feingersh
Located in London, GB
Actress Marilyn Monroe rides in the back of a car with Dick Shepherd on March 30, 1955 in New York City, New York.
(Photo by Ed Feingersh)
A beautiful Limited Edition (ed size...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Photo of a Statue by Girolamo Santacroce - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo of a Statue by Girolamo Santacroce is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress and Singer Loretta Goggi - Vintage b/w Photo - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian actress and singer Loretta Goggi during "Il bello della diretta".
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$99 Sale Price
25% Off
Louis Armstrong and his Wife - Historical Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Louis Armstrong is a photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$162 Sale Price
25% Off
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Tibor de Nagy Portrait Photo NYC Gallery
Located in Surfside, FL
Tibor De Nagy - October 11 1960
Photographer is Fred McDarrah
Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off-Broadway actors, troubadours, politicians, agitators and social protests.
Fred captured Jack Kerouac frolicking with women at a New Year’s bash in 1958, Andy Warhol adjusting a movie-camera lens in his silver-covered factory, and Bob Dylan offering a salute of recognition outside Sheridan Square near the Voice’s old office.
Not just a social chronicler, McDarrah was a great photo-journalist.
For years, McDarrah was the Voice's only photographer and, for decades, he ran the Voice’s photo department, where he helped train dozens of young photographers, including James Hamilton, Sylvia Plachy, Robin Holland...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Hotel Sports 1958 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Sports
Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes.
Paper size 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bert Hardy 'Mercedes Racer' Limited Edition Photographic Print by Getty, 20x16
Located in San Rafael, CA
Argentinian race car driver Juan Fangio (1911 - 1995) in his Mercedes at Le Mans, June 1955. The race saw the death of Mercedes team mate Pierre Levegh and 80 spectators. Original Pu...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Eddie Vedder by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam
by Kevin Westenberg- Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrif...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Louis Armstrong and His Wife - Photo- 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Louis Armstrong is an original photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$162 Sale Price
25% Off
Zucchero Fornaciari - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Zucchero Fornaciari is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$126 Sale Price
25% Off
Stan Laurel - Vintage Autographed Photograph - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Stan Laurel - Vintage Autographed Photograph is a vintage photo, realized in the 1940s.
Hand-signed by the actor Stan Laurel and his friend and colleague Oliver Hardy the most famo...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$432 Sale Price
25% Off
Life in Italy in 1960s - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Life in Italy in the 1960s is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the cultural and artistic events in Italy in t...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$72 Sale Price
25% Off
The Italian Actress Eleonora Giorgi and Ivo Garrani - Vintage b/w Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Eleonora Giorgi and Ivo Garrani in "La Traversata".
Lightly damaged.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bobby Grossman ANDY WARHOL WITH POLAROID SX70, THE FACTORY C-Print
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Bobby Grossman (American, 1940-2018)
Marking(s); notes: marking(s); 1979
Materials: chromogenic print on Plexiglas
Dimens...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Charles Aznavour - Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Charles Aznavour is a photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$126 Sale Price
25% Off
Sophia Loren - Oversize Archival Pigment Print
Located in London, GB
Sophia Loren - Venice 1955
Oversize Archival Pigment Print
Absolutely Exquisite HUGE 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size print.
Unframed.
Produced on authentic Hahnemühle p...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Gianni Morandi - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$126 Sale Price
25% Off
Life in Italy in 1960s - Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Life in Italy in the 1960s is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the cultural and artistic events in Italy in t...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$81 Sale Price
25% Off
Life in Italy in 1960s - Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Life in Italy in the 1960s is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the cultural and artistic events in Italy in t...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$81 Sale Price
25% Off
Kevin Westenberg, Billy Bob Thornton 2001 Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Billy Bob Thornton 2001 Signed Limited Edition
By Kevin Westenberg
Archival Pigment Print, Signed Limited Edition
Print size 24 x 30 inches / 61 x 76 cm
signed
numbered
edition s...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Life in Italy in 1960s - Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Life in Italy in the 1960s is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the cultural and artistic events in Italy in t...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$81 Sale Price
25% Off
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 Magn...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$180 Sale Price
25% Off
Man with Tattooed Forehead
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print
Studio stamp in red ink, verso
12 x 9.5 inches, sheet
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Robert Doisneau (1912-1994), along with ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Lawrence Lipton Photo Beatnik Beat Writer
Located in Surfside, FL
Lawrence Lipton May 17 1965
photographer Fred McDarrah
Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmod...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni in an elegant pose.
Good condition.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$162 Sale Price
25% Off
Historical Photo - Vintage Photograph - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
It belongs to a historical album including historical moments, royal families, and political ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$72 Sale Price
25% Off
Lynmouth, Great Britain - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lynmouth, Great Britain is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century. It belongs to historical album including masterpieces of historical places including c...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$90 Sale Price
25% Off
The Desperation of a Mother - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The desperation of a mother is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1970s..
The four photograms depict a dramatic moment of a Cuban mother, Mrs Sabrina Gomez, for the murd...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$108 Sale Price
25% Off
Dizzy Gillespie Playing the Trumpet - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Dizzy Gillespie playing the trumpet is an original black and white photo realized in the 1970s.
The photo depicts John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie trumpet ...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$162 Sale Price
25% Off
The Italian Actress Agostina Belli - B/w Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Actress Agostina Belli during "Vanità", a TV show by Giorgio Capitani.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$54 Sale Price
25% Off
Leonard Bernstein - Photo- 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Leonard Bernstein is a photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$180 Sale Price
25% Off
Bronco by Morgan Silk - Portrait Photography, Landscape Photography
By Morgan Silk
Located in Brighton, GB
'Bronco' is a quirky Archival Inkjet Print by photographer Morgan Silk.
It is available in this size of 17" x 24" in a limited edition of 25.
Morgan Silk has been involved in crea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Kurt Cobain by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Kurt Cobain
by Kevin Westenberg- Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and movi...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Franco Battiato - Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Franco Battiato is a photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$90 Sale Price
25% Off
Slim Aarons, Helen Dzo Dzo, Palm Springs (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur, 1970
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and other guests at the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, Ca...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Horses - Photo- Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Horses is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the early 20th Century.
Good conditions with come folding and missing parts.
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$72 Sale Price
25% Off
Hans Bellmer, Modern Black and White Photograph
Located in Long Island City, NY
Unknown Artist - Hans Bellmer, Medium: Photograph, Size: 15 x 11 in. (38.1 x 27.94 cm), Description: From the collection of the late Larry Saphire.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Truman Capote by Jerry Yulsman - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
By Jerry Yulsman
Located in Roma, IT
Truman Capote by Jerry Yulsman- Vintage Photo is a black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
'Poolside Pairs' Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside Pairs' Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print, Printed Later
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace) and Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art d...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, 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
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Capucine 1957
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Capucine
French actress Capucine fanning herself at a New Years Eve party held at Romanoffs in Beverly Hills.
Paper size 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm
Estate Stamped Collection ...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Oberon's Lunch - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Oberon's Lunch
Film star Merle Oberon and lunch guests at her villa, La Consentida, Acapulco. The star is second from the right facing the camera. Circa 1966.
40 x 60" inches / 101...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Worker Drinking (Thirst), 1950's black and white photograph by Yakov Khalip
By Yakov Khalip
Located in New York, NY
Worker Drinking (Thirst), 1950's black and white photograph by Yakov Khalip
Worker Drinking (Thirst)
1950
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil, verso
Other various inscriptions and...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
American Girl in Italy
By Ruth Orkin
Located in Denton, TX
Open Edition
Blind stamp on print margin.
Signed by Ruth Orkin Estate, titled, dated and copyright date in pencil on artist stamp.
Gelatin silver print
Paper size: 11 x 14 in., Image size: 8 3/4 x 13 1/4 in.
Ruth Orkin (1921 - 1985) was an American photojournalist and filmmaker. Orkin photographed many celebrities and eminent personalities amongst the likes of Einstein, Marlon Brando, Alfred Hitchcock, Doris Day, and Tennessee Williams. She travelled the world on assignments from magazines such as LIFE and Look, and her most celebrated photograph from those travels is “An American Girl in Italy...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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,
1967
Lesley Lawson (born 19 September 1949) is an English model, actress, and singer widely known by the nickname Twiggy. She was a British...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Charles Trenet and Jean Cocteau - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Charles Trenet and 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
Stewart Granger and Caroline LeCerf - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Stewart Granger and Caroline LeCerf in Via Veneto Rome .
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$144 Sale Price
25% Off
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
$180 Sale Price
25% Off
Terry O'Neill 'Brigitte Bardot, Les Petroleuses' (signed)
Located in New York, NY
Brigitte Bardot, Les Petroleuses
1971
Silver gelatin print
edition of 50
24 x 20 inches
Signed and numbered edition of 50
rare
Brigitte Bardot on the set of the film ‘Les Petroleu...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Presidential Parade Washington President Eisenhower - Vintage Photograph - 1957
Located in Roma, IT
Presidential Parade Washington President Eisenhower 1957 is a vintage photograph.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$144 Sale Price
25% Off
Portrait of Philip Edmond Wodehouse - Vintage Photo - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Philip Edmond Wodehouse by De Jongh Studio, Lausanne, is a vintage photo, realized in the late 19th Century .
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
19th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$162 Sale Price
25% Off
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Pop And Society 1968 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pop And Society
From left to right; singer Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness and Mick Jagger (of the Rolling Stones) sit on a sofa u...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Frida by the Lamp - Black and White Photograph, Woman Artist, Frida Kahlo
Located in Denton, TX
Frida by the Lamp by Lucienne Bloch is a black and white portrait of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo sitting in an armchair with a tall lamp behind her.
Signed in pen by artist on prin...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Silvia Monti on the Set of the Film Oppio - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Silvia Monti on the set of the film Oppio is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1972.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$54 Sale Price
25% Off
London Changing of the Guard - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
London changing of the Guard is a photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$90 Sale Price
25% Off
Japanese Women in Tokyo - Original Albumen Print - 1880s/90s
Located in Roma, IT
Japanese women in Tokyo is an original vintage Albumen print hand colored, on single cardboard: 26 x 34 cm.
Realized between the 1880s and the early 18...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$450 Sale Price
25% Off
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 Mid-20th Century.
Good conditions.
...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$180 Sale Price
25% Off
Ted Allan, "Frank Sinatra" on set of "Von Ryan's Express, " original photograph
By Ted Allan
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This photo was shot on set of Von Ryan's, Express, in 1964 (movie released in 1965). Sinatra played Colonel Joseph Ryan, an America pilot shot down and imprisoned in Italy during WWI...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons 'Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc' (1976) Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc
Guests standing by a white Rolls-Royce convertible courtesy car at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976
Paper size 30 x 30 inches / 76 x 76...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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.