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
Amedeo Nazzari - Photo - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Amedeo Nazzari is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$89 Sale Price
25% Off
Dorotea Aslanidis - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Dorotea Aslanidis - Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$89 Sale Price
25% Off
Exhibition - Life in Italy - Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Exhibition - Life in Italy in 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 ...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$62 Sale Price
25% Off
Portrait of Martin Heidegger - Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Martin Heidegger is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$107 Sale Price
25% Off
Training of Soldiers - Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Training of Soldiers is a vintage photograph realized in the mid-20th Century.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$53 Sale Price
25% Off
Neil Young's Concert - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Neil Young's Concert is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$125 Sale Price
25% Off
Portrait of Maria Sole Baldari - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Maria Sole Baldari is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$80 Sale Price
25% Off
Atlantic City by Louis Malle - Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Atlantic City by Louis Malle is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1980.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$89 Sale Price
25% Off
Philippe Noiret In Pose - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Philippe Noiret In Pose is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$125 Sale Price
25% Off
Alain Delon in The Assassination of Trotsky - Photo - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Alain Delon in The Assassination of Trotsky is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1972.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Jean-Paul Belmondo - Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Jean-Paul Belmondo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$143 Sale Price
25% Off
Princess Alexandra of Kent - Historical Photo - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Princess Alexandra- Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to historical album including photo repo...
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$143 Sale Price
25% Off
Massimo Ghini - Photo- 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Massimo Ghini is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$80 Sale Price
25% Off
Devil in the Flesh - Film of Marco Bellocchio - 1986
Located in Roma, IT
Devil in the Flesh - Film of Marco Bellocchio is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1986.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$80 Sale Price
25% Off
Sonia Braga - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Sonia Braga is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$143 Sale Price
25% Off
Alberto Asor Rosa - Photo- 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Alberto Asor Rosa is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$62 Sale Price
25% Off
Venezia, Gondole - Photo by Cindi Emond - 2017
Located in Roma, IT
Photographic paper, matt pearl finish.
Excellent condition.
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$763 Sale Price
25% Off
Emilio Lussu - Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Emilio Lussu is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$58 Sale Price
25% Off
Angela Faramo - Vice President of Palermian Prison - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Angela Faramo - Vice President of Palermian Prison is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Franco Reviglio, Belkacem Nabi and Clelio Darida - 1986
Located in Roma, IT
Franco Reviglio, Belkacem Nabi and Clelio Darida is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1986.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$80 Sale Price
25% Off
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Maria dei Miracoli Church - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Maria dei Miracoli Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulo...
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$53 Sale Price
25% Off
Marcello Mastroianni in 8 1/2 by Federico Fellini - Photo - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Marcello Mastroianni in 8 1/2 Federico Fellini is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1963.
It is taken on the set of Fellini's masterpiece, with Marcello Mastroianni ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Dutch Old Master's Mural, Amsterdam - Photo by Cindi Emond - 2016
Located in Roma, IT
Street art in Amsterdam, bike parked in front and fallen leaves on the ground
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Agata by Bellini - Venice - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Agata by Bellini is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulously captu...
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$71 Sale Price
25% Off
A Scene of the Film Au revoir les Enfant - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
A Scene of the Film Au revoir les Enfants is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1987.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$71 Sale Price
25% Off
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
Fioretta Mari - 1983
Located in Roma, IT
Fioretta Mari is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1983.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Giovanni e Paolo Church - Vintage Photo- 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Architecture and Art Photo - S. Giovanni e Paolo Church is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1920s. It belongs to masterpiece of art and architecture album meticulousl...
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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
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
$134 Sale Price
25% Off
The Actor Cary Grant - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Actor Cary Grant.
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$62 Sale Price
25% Off
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 French Actress Claudine Auger - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The French Actress Claudine Auger on the set of the movie "Escalation".
Goo condition.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sylva Koscina - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Sylva Koscina - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Sylva Koscina is considered one of the be...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$179 Sale Price
25% Off
Virna Lisi - Golden Age of Italian Cinema - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Virna Lisi - Golden Period of Italian Cinema is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1990s.
Good conditions.
Virna Lisi Born on November 8, 1936, she began her film...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$179 Sale Price
25% Off
President Kennedy's Family - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
President Kennedy's Family is a vintage photograph realized in the early 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$305 Sale Price
25% Off
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
Saint Patrick Parade - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Saint Patrick Parade is a photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1960s 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
$179 Sale Price
25% Off
The Marx Brothers - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Marx Brothers in a scene from the movie "Horse Feathers" by Norman Z.Mc Leod.
Good condition.
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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
Marisa Pavan and Jean-Pierre Aumont - Vintage Photo - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Marisa Pavan and Jean-Pierre Aumont - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$143 Sale Price
25% Off
Liberty Statue - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Liberty Statue - Photograph is a photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$107 Sale Price
25% Off
Gianni Morandi - Vintage Photo - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$161 Sale Price
25% Off
A Scene from the Movie "Crimes of the Heart" - Vintage b/w Photo - 1986
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Sissi Spacek, Diane Keaton and Jessica Lange in a scene from the Movie "Crimes of the Heart".
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$135 Sale Price
24% Off
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
$80 Sale Price
25% Off
Autographed Portrait of Elma Karlowa - Original b/w Postcard - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed Portrait of Elma Karlowa is a superb b/w photographic portrait of the Yugoslav, naturalized German, film and television actress, Elma Karlowa (Zagreb, Croatia,1932–Munich...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
$143 Sale Price
25% Off
Gianni Morandi and Claudio Villa - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi and Claudio Villa - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ho Chi Minh During a Party - Vintage B/W photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Ho Chi Minh during a party is an original black and white photograph realized by an Anonymous photographer in 1960s.
With the handwriting on the rear.
Stamp of "PHOTO KEYSTONE copyr...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$161 Sale Price
25% Off
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
Vintage Portrait of Giorgio Gaber - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Portrait of Giorgio Gaber
Photograph , hand dedicated lower center. 1980s.
20 x 29 cm <; 27 x 37 cm with frame.
Good conditions!
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$161 Sale Price
25% Off
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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$197 Sale Price
25% Off
The Italian Actress Ornella Muti - Vintage Photograph - Early 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Ornella Muti during the Venice Film Festival.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$86 Sale Price
40% Off
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.