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
'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
Gianni Morandi and Elisabetta Virgili - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi and Elisabetta Virgili - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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
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
The "Vergine del Roseto"- Civic museum by Stefano da Zevio - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The virgin of the Roseto - Civic museum is an original black and white photograph realized in the Civic museum in Verona.
With the description on the lower" Anderson-Roma"
Good con...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Manuel Benítez Pérez El Cordobés - Bullfigter- Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Manuel Benítez Pérez El Cordobés - Bullfigter is a photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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
The Portrait of Mussolini before his rise to the power - Vintage Photo - 1934
Located in Roma, IT
The Portrait of Mussolini before his rise to the power is an original b/w photo realized in August 1934 by Agence Trampus (Paris). On the back there is the original hallmark of the A...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$269 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
$179 Sale Price
25% Off
Manuel Benítez Pérez El Cordobés - Bullfigter- Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Manuel Benítez Pérez El Cordobés - Bullfigter is a photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Mrs. Red Skelton Poses - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Mrs. Red Skelton Poses is an original b/w photograph about Hollywod in the 1940s, realized by De Wan Studios.
On the back "Mrs. Red Skelton poses for her ...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$269 Sale Price
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Robert Kennedy during his election campaign - Photo by Robert Grossman - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
This Robert Kennedy during his election campaign is a b/w photograph by Henry Grossman taken very likely in 1968.
Print on polished paper with stamp of...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Alfred Hitchcock and Grace Kelly - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The film director Alfred Hitchcock with the actress Grace Kelly.
Vintage Photo.
Lightly damaged.
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$215 Sale Price
25% Off
King George 6th and Mother Queen - Vintage Photograph - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
King George 6th and Mother Queen is a photograph realized in the 1940s.
Good conditions.
The artwork is realized in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$107 Sale Price
25% Off
The Dukes of Windsor Visiting New York - Vintage Photograph - 1956
Located in Roma, IT
The Dukes of Windsor Visiting New York is a vintage photograph realized in 25/09/1956.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$215 Sale Price
25% Off
The Italian Actress Ornella Muti - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Ornella Muti with Dino Risi and Patrick Dewaere on the set of the movie "La stanza del vescovo".
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$100 Sale Price
40% 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
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
The Actor Cary Grant - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The American Actor Cary Grant is an original black and white photograph realized in the 1950s.
Portrait of the American actor with his third wife Betsy Drake.
Slightly blurry.
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$89 Sale Price
25% Off
Coronation Procession - b/Photograph by J. Daziaro - 1896
Located in Roma, IT
Coronation Procession is an original photograph realized by Joseph Daziaro (1896).
The photo represent the coronation procession of Zar Nicola II in 1896,...
Category
1890s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
$673 Sale Price
25% Off
Portrait of Rose Fitzgerald - Vintage Photo by Ron Galella - 1960s
By Ron Galella
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Rose Fitzgerald is a b/w photograph by Ron Galella taken in the 1960s.
Print on Baryta paper. Stamp of the photographer and stereotype on the back. In perfect conditions.
The photo pictures Rose Elisabeth Kennedy (1890-1995) was the wife of Joseph Patrick Kennedy...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$305 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
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...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$179 Sale Price
25% Off
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 Century
Good conditions.
Anna Magnani was born in Rome, Italy...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$179 Sale Price
25% Off
The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet - B/w Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$80 Sale Price
25% Off
Gail Getty - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Gail Getty is a vintage photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$98 Sale Price
25% Off
The Irish actor Gabriel Byrne - Bb/w Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo with stamp. The Irish actor Gabriel Byrne.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Singer Fiorella Mannoia - B/w Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
This Vintage Photo shows the Italian Singer Fiorella Mannoia.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$53 Sale Price
25% Off
The Italian Actress Milena Vukotic - B/w Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Milena Vukotic on the set of a movie.
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Princess Margareth and Her Husband - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Princess Margareth - Photograph is a photograph realized in 1960.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$161 Sale Price
25% Off
Fred Astaire and Adele Astaire Douglas- Vintage Photo - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo. Fred Astaire and Adele Astaire Douglas in Scottsdale (Arizona).
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$107 Sale Price
25% Off
The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet with Enrico Montesano - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet in a scene from the movie "Amore vuol dir gelosia", by Mauro Severino.
Lightly damaged.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Film Producer Vittorio Cecchi Gori - Vintage b/w Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Film Producer Vittorio Cecchi Gori.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Federico Fellini, Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni - Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Federico Fellini, Giulietta Masina, Marcello Mastroianni. Picture taken at the Leonardo Da Vinci's airport before the actors left Rome to present "8 e 1/2" in New York.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$197 Sale Price
25% Off
In the Office - Vintage Photograph by Enrico Giuseppe Moneta - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
In the Office - Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized by Enrico Giuseppe Moneta
With the copyright and the stamp of the artist on the rear.
Good con...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Gill with Pillow
By Sam Haskins
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Date stamped with facsimile of signature in grey ink, l.r.
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
About the artist:
Born and raised in South Africa...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Michael Stipe by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Michael Stipe
Spaceman Stipe
by Kevin Westenberg- Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying im...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Wedding Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong - Vintage Photograph - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Wedding Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong is a vintage photograph realized in 06/05/1960.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted in a well-b...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$202 Sale Price
25% Off
Princess Margareth and Husband in London - Vintage Photograph - 1962
Located in Roma, IT
Princess Margareth and husband in London - is a photograph realized in 1962.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actress Ornella Muti - Vintage Photograph - Early 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Ornella Muti with her family.
Lightly blurry.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$100 Sale Price
40% Off
Hollywood Boulevard - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Hollywood Boulevard 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
Rudolf Nureyev – Applying His Make-up 1976 Limited Estate Print
By David Steen
Located in London, GB
Rudolf Nureyev – Applying His Make-up for the Filming of ‘valentino’, London,
1976
Limited Edition David Steen Estate Print
Limited Edition: All prints are limited editions, no ...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver - Vintage Photo - 1988
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver, the lead cast of "Working Girl".
Good condition.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$161 Sale Price
25% Off
The Italian Actress Ornella Muti - Vintage Photograph - Early 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Ornella Muti with her husband.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$86 Sale Price
40% Off
'Pool At El Venero' Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Pool At El Venerol' 1967
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Guests by the pool at 'El Venerol', the villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala, Marbella, Spain, August 1967....
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Color, Digital
Slim Aarons - Nicholsons 1959 - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Nicholsons
Cafe Nicholson in New York, 1959.
Paper size 50 x 50 / 127 x 127 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printed in 2025
Limited to 150 p...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fashionable Virna Lisi - Vintage B/W Photographic Print - 1961
Located in Roma, IT
Fashionable Virna Lisi is an amazing vintage b/w photo of the Italian actress herself realized in 1961 by the famous Italian designer and photographer Willy...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$161 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
Cary Grant with Barbara Harris - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Cary Grant with his last wife Barbara Harris.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$161 Sale Price
25% Off
Autograph Portrait of Sabine Bethmann - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed Portrait of Sabine Bethmann is a b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the German cinema actress, Sabine Bethmann (born in 1931). Around the 1950s.
Photo...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Paul Getty Sr. - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Paul Getty is a vintage photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$161 Sale Price
25% Off
President Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
President Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier is a vintage photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$413 Sale Price
25% Off
Gianni Morandi - Vintage Photo - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1990s.
Good conditions.
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$116 Sale Price
25% Off
The Italian Actress Ornella Muti - Vintage Photograph - Early 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Ornella Muti.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$86 Sale Price
40% Off
Portrait of Ornella Muti - Vintage Photograph - 2000s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Ornella Muti in the movie "Terra del Fuoco".
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$100 Sale Price
40% Off
Portrait of Ornella Muti - Vintage Photograph - 2000s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Ornella Muti on the set of the film "Terra del Fuoco".
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$100 Sale Price
40% Off
Portrait of Paolo Guarienti - Original Photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Paolo Guarienti is an original black and white photograph realized in Civic museum in Verona.
With the description on the lower "Anderson-Roma"
Good conditions.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
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
Materials
Photographic Paper
$107 Sale Price
25% Off
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
Materials
Photographic Paper
$116 Sale Price
25% Off
Untitled (Guy Mendes) [Boy Dressed as Airplane Pilot]
Located in New York, NY
Vintage gelatin silver print
Signed in black ink, recto
Credit stamped and numbered, verso of 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...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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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.