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
Gianni Morandi and Ornella Vanoni - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Gianni Morandi and Ornella Vanoni - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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
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
Signed Portrait Cab Calloway - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cab Calloway Portrait is an original photograph realized in the half of 20th century.
Black and white photograph depicting a portrait of Cab Calloway
H...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$314 Sale Price
25% Off
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.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
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.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons 'Susanna Boylston Bolton'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Susanna Boylston Bolton
1965 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition 1 of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Susanna ‘Sukey’ Boylston Bolton, Newport...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Women at Work - Historical Photographs About Women Rights - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Women at work- Historical photographs about women rights is an original black and white photograph realized by Roberto Schezen.
With the copyright, the ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$62 Sale Price
25% Off
Women at Work - Vintage Photograph About Women Rights - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Women at Work - Vintage Photograph About Women Rights is an original vintage photograph realized by an anonymous photographer.
With the stamp of Avanti"...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1943
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine in a scene from the 1943 movie "Jane Eyre".
Good condition.
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Franco Battiato - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage b/w photograph of the very original Italian singer-songwriter Franco Battiato at his debut, in the Eighties, when he returns to Pop music after...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$125 Sale Price
25% Off
Ernest Hemingway - Vintage Photograph - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Ernest Hemingway - Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in 1950s.
Good conditions.
A historical moment of the past through the art of photography ...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$143 Sale Price
25% Off
Cavaglieri, Verona - Original Photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cavaglieri, Verona photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in Palazzo Ridolfi in Verona.
With the description on the lower.
Good conditions.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$53 Sale Price
25% Off
Autographed Postcard by Angelica Hauff - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
This is a Autographed Postcard by Angelika Hauff.
Reproducing the gorgeous Austrian actress, this postcard, in excellent comditon, reports the blac...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Shreya and Harsha, Diptych. From The Third Gender of India Series. Framed.
By Jill Peters
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The term "hijra" applies to a very diverse group of people in India who identify as third gender. They can range from a natural born hermaphrodite to a male cross dresser. Dating bac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Gaddafi Revolutionary Poster on a Building - Vintage B/W photo - Early 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Gaddafi revolutionary poster on a building is an original black and white photograph realized by Italian photographer
Luigi Marcelletti in the e...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Autographed Portrait of Carlos Thompson - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed Portrait of Carlos Thompson is a b/w photographic portrait of the handsome Argentine actor, with the additional value of a blue ink autograph on the lower margin at the center. Around the 1960s.
This is a Autographed photo, in perfect condition, and absolutely to collect!
Juan Carlos Mundin-Schaffter, known as Carlos Thompson (Santa Fe, 1923 – Buenos Aires, 1990)
The Argentine actor of German and Swiss descent, Carlos Thompson, played leading roles on stage and in films in Argentina. He went to Hollywood in the 1950s and was typically cast as a European womanizer. He moved to Europe and appeared in a large number of German films. He was chiefly known to English speakers for his appearance as Carlos Varela in the 1963 ITC Entertainment series The Sentimental Agent. In the late 1960s, Thompson left acting to become a writer and TV producer. Thompson married German-born actress Lilli Palmer...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
$143 Sale Price
25% Off
Minneapolis Two, MN, 1997
By Bill Phelps
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative , Portrait, Timeless
The Robin Rice Gallery announces the new exhibition VISITOR by photographer Bill Phelps.
Through light and shadow, a gaze, a mindset, Bill Phelps fo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Autographed Portrait of Willy Hagara - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Willy Hagara's Memorabilia is a b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the Austrian singer around the 1960s.
With the additional value of his red ink autographs on th...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
$143 Sale Price
25% Off
Mussolini In Command - Vintage B/W Photograph - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
'Mussolini In Command' is a b/w photographic print on glazed paper, the stamp of agency Trampus, Paris and cliché applied on the back, here Mussolini is in the command post...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$314 Sale Price
25% Off
Gianni Morandi - 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
$143 Sale Price
25% Off
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
Autograph Portrait of Ted Herold - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Autograph portrait of Ted Herold is a b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the German singer, and actor. Around the 1960s.
On the back, a list of his best songs!
...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Speedboat Landing - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Speedboat Landing
A Magnum motorboat belonging to Count Filippo Theodoli arrives at the private jetty of the Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Italy.
Paper size 30 x 20" inches ...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
George Barris, "P7" from The Last Photos, original photograph, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This photograph of Marilyn Monroe was shot by photographer, George Barris, in 1962 in Los Angeles, California. This photograph is from a ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni arriving in Rapallo to meet Michele Morgan.
Very good condition.
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$143 Sale Price
25% Off
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.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Actor Marcello Mastroianni - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1985
Located in Roma, IT
The Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni on the set of "I soliti ignoti vent'anni dopo" directed by Amanzio Todini.
Vintage b/w Photo.
Good condi...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$125 Sale Price
25% Off
Ancient Portrait of Geishas, Nagasaki - Vintage Albumen Print - 1880s/90s
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Portraits of Geishas from Nagasaki is a set of five original vintage albumen prints on single cardboard: 34 x 26 cm.
They were realized between the 1880s and the early 1890s...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
President Richard Nixon
Located in New York, NY
President Richard Nixon, 1990
Archival pigment print
14 x 14 inches
Signed and numbered
edition of 40
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, known pri...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Autographed Portrait of Maria Litto - Original b/w Postcard - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed Portrait of Maria Litto is a beautiful b/w photographic portrait, with the additional value of the blue ink autograph by the German ballet d...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Women at Work - Historical Photographs About Women Rights - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Women at Work - Historical Photographs About Women Rights is an original black and white photograph realized by Enrico Giuseppe Moneta
With the copyright and the stamp of the artist...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$62 Sale Price
25% Off
The Feast - Historical Photograph About the Feminist Movement - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
The Feast - Historical photographs about the feminist movement is an original black and white photograph realized by anonymous photographer
Good conditions.
A historical testimonia...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$62 Sale Price
25% Off
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
Women at Work - Historical Photographs About Women Rights - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Women at Work - Historical Photographs About Women Rightsis an original black and white photograph realized by Roberto Schezen
With the copyright, the stamp of the artist, photograp...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Britney The Forest 2004 Markus Klinko Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
Britney The Forest
Photo by Markus Klinko
Limited Estate Edition
C Print
Produced from the original transparency
Certificate of authenticity supplied
Paper size 20×24 inches/ 51...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
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
$179 Sale Price
25% Off
Technology, Computer Generation - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Technology, computer generation is an original photograph realized by Uliano Lucas.
With the stamp of the photographer on the rear.
Good conditions.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$179 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
$125 Sale Price
25% Off
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
Klaus Maria Brandauer - Vintage Photo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$103 Sale Price
25% Off
Portrait of Anna Magnani (AP) - Vintage B/W photo - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Portrait of Anna Magnani (AP) is a vintage b/w photographic print on single-coated paper realized by Associated Press Photos.
Good condition.
Anna Magnani was born in Rome,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$161 Sale Price
25% Off
Women Theatre for Women - Photograph - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Women theatre for women s an original black and white photograph realized by an Anonymous photographer in 1930s in Italy during Fascism.
With the stamp of "G...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
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.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Tom Kelley : Surfer Girl
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Surfer Girl c. 1950's
C print
30 x 38inches
Edition of 25
Photographs are printed on Archival Hahnemühle paper (luster)
estate signed and numbered in the border
Caption: ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Autographed Portrait of Paul Westermeier - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Autographed Portrait of Paul Westermeier is a b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the German film actor, Paul Westermeier (Berlin, 1892 – 1972).Around the 1960's.
...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
$125 Sale Price
25% Off
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.
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$71 Sale Price
25% Off
Science in Progress - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical photograph, Science in progress is an original black and white photograph realized by an Anonymous photographer in the 1960s.
With the handwriting on the rear.
Stamp of C...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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
Work Beginning at the 1941 Universal Exhibition - Vintage Photo - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
Work beginning at the 1941 Universal Exposition is an original photograph realized in 1937. B/w photograph printed by Agence Trampus, Paris. The original hallmark of the agency (phot...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$323 Sale Price
25% Off
Autograph Portrait of Joachim Hansen - Vintage b/w Postcard - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Joachim Hansen's Memorabilia is a b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the German film and television actor, Joachin Hansen (1930 – 2007), around the 1960s.
With t...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, 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
Materials
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 ...
Category
19th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Autographed Portrait of iLilli Palmer und Johanna Matz -Vintage Postcard - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Autograph portrait of Lilli Palmer and Johanna Matz is a b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the German artist and actoress Lilli Palmer...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$134 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
$125 Sale Price
25% Off
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.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
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.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$129 Sale Price
40% Off
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.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$107 Sale Price
40% Off
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.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
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.