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
Terry O'Neill 'Raquel Welch in ‘Myra Breckinridge’'
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn Relaxing, 1970
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 50
American actress Raquel Welch wearing a stars and stripes suit in ‘Myra Breckinridge’, a 1970 America...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Terry O'Neill 'Alice Cooper and Family, Los Angeles'
Located in New York, NY
Alice Cooper, Los Angeles, 1974, Printed Later
Silver gelatin print
40 x 40 inches
estate stamped and numbered edition of 50
with certificate of authenticity
Terry O'Neill, Alice ...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Massimo Listri 'Braccio Nuovo, Musei Vaticani I'
Located in New York, NY
Braccio Nuovo, Musei Vaticani I,
2011
C print
edition of 5
39.5 x 47 inches Edition of 5
47.5 × 59 inches Edition of 5
71 x 88.75 inches Edition of 5
framing options also avai...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Brooklyn One, NY, 2009
By Bill Phelps
Located in Hudson, NY
The Robin Rice Gallery announces the new exhibition VISITOR by photographer Bill Phelps.
Through light and shadow, a gaze, a mindset, Bill Phelps fourth solo show at the Robin Rice ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, 1963 from the Getty Archive
Located in Brighton, GB
Taken from the world’s largest photographic archive, (Hulton Archive and Getty Images), the Getty Images Gallery collection features an extraordinary time capsule of the last century...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White
Slim Aarons 'Skiing In St. Moritz, Palace Hotel'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Skiing In St. Moritz
1983
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Countess Jan Bonde in the Palace H...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Mother with Sons, 3rd Ward, Houston, TX
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, titled, dated and print type in pencil on print verso
Vintage gelatin silver print
Earlie Hudnall, who is one of the most notable African American photographers living today, has extensively documented the African American neighborhoods in Houston, Texas.
After serving as a Marine in Vietnam, he enrolled at Texas Southern University, where he studied art under the direction of John Biggers, who became a great friend and mentor. During his time at TSU, he was hired to be a photographer for the Model Cities Program, part of Lyndon Johnson...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marilyn Arabian
By Bert Stern
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Marilyn Arabian
Bern Stern
Print on photo paper
Inkjet technique
Paper dimension: 48 X 33 cms
Photo dimension: 35.6 X 25.4
72 copies
Photo of 1962
Dra...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Terry O'Neill 'Brigitte Bardot Hands On Hips'
Located in New York, NY
Brigitte Bardot, Hands on Hips
1971
Silver gelatin print
24 x 20 inches
Signed and numbered edition of 50
Brigitte Bardot on the set of the film ‘Les Petroleuses’ a.k.a. ‘The Legen...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Princess of Monaco Grace Kelly
Located in New York, NY
Milton H. Greene
Grace Kelly
1955 (printed later)
All archival pigment prints, signed on reverse by the Estate
American actress and then Princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly for an Ameri...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Prosperity on the Corner
By John Albok
Located in Denton, TX
Vintage Silver Gelatin Print.
Title, date and signature on mat margin
1980 stamp in black ink twice on mount verso
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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
President Kennedy with his Daughter - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
President Kennedy with is daughter is a vintage photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Monocled Miss (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renata Boeck enjoying breakfast in bed at the Regency Hotel in New York, 1964.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
S...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
What's It All About from The Last Sitting
By Bert Stern
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original chromogenic print that was hand developed from the original negative by Bert Stern. This photo is part of The Last Sitting portfolio, taken six weeks before...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Milton Greene, "Bowler Hat II" from the Black Sitting, original vintage photo
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original vintage photograph by Milton Greene in 1956. This photograph depicts Hollywood Icon Marilyn Monroe, who was a close friend and business partner of the artist. This piece is a part of Greene's series entitled "The Black Sitting...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Egyptian Head, 1999
By Bill Phelps
Located in Hudson, NY
Each year, Robin Rice celebrates a Salon style exhibition to showcase her gallery artists and invite new ones.
With Robin’s extensive experience as a gallery curator, all Robin Rice...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Pictorialist Photography, "Pensive Woman"
Located in Rochester, NY
Pictorialist photograph of a young woman. Silver print in the original oak frame. Inscribed on reverse R.S. Paddock, Early 20th century.
Pictorialism is the name given to an interna...
Category
1910s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Boy (Film by Nagisa Oshima)- Vintage Photo - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo in black and white of 1969
Tetsuo Abe in a scene of the film " Boy" directed by the Japanese Nagisa Oshima and presented at the 1969 Ve...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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
Steve Jones "The father of nuclear fusion" - Vintage Photograph - 1989
By Agenzia Ansa
Located in Roma, IT
Steve Jones "The father of nuclear fusion" is an original, vintage, and black and white photograph realized by "Agenzia Ansa" in 1989.
With the description...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ethnographic Photos from Colombo Sri Lanka - Original Albumen Prints - 1890s
Located in Roma, IT
Views of Colombo photograph is a set of 3 original vintage albumen prints on single cardboard: 25 x 34 cm.
Size of photos: 10x14, 10x9.5 and on the rear 21.5 x 27.5
Good conditions...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Untitled (Cowboy on Horseback)
Located in Denton, TX
Signed in pencil on mount margin.
Toned gelatin silver print.
Framing not included.
Western photographer, Bank Langmore, traveled extensively with cattle drives...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jim Morrison of The Doors in Hollywood
By Ed Caraeff
Located in New York, NY
Ed Caaraeff
Jim Morrison, 1969
C print
60 x 40 inches
Singed and numbered edition of 50
Jim Morrison of The Doors performing at The Aquarius Theatre in Hollywood as part of the Elektra Records Showcase Concert Series, Hollywood, CA, 21 July, 1969.
ED CARAEFF is a name recognized by anybody who is anybody in the music industry. A photographer, illustrator and graphic designer, he has directed art for, photographed, and designed hundreds of record album covers from 1967 to 1982 for numerous artists, including The Stooges, Elton John, Steely Dan, Carly Simon, Three Dog Night...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Vintage Portrait of Gene Pitney with his Mother - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Gene Pitney with his Mother is a vintage photographic print on matt single-coated paper.
Photograph from United States unknown agency, printed from 6 x 6 film
Excellent...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Terry O'Neill 'Muhammad Ali'
Located in New York, NY
Terry O'Neill
Muhammad Ali, 1972, Printed Later
C print
24 x 20 inches
Estate signature stamped and numbered edition of 50
with certificate of authenticity
Terry O’Neill CBE is one ...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Nude Portrait - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
Located in London, GB
Nude Portrait - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized
(Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Alamy)
A woman poses for a nude studio portrait.
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Si...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Cardin Hat Over Paris
Located in New York, NY
Cardin Hat Over Paris, 1960
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
British model Celia Hammond wearing a pink coat by French fashion designer Pierre Cardin for Q...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Frida at the Border - Black and White Photograph, Portrait, Woman Artist
Located in Denton, TX
Frida at the Border by Lucienne Bloch is a black and white photograph of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo standing amongst others in a city street scene.
Mount size: 20 x 16 in.
Image s...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Edie Sedgewick 'Superstar'
Located in New York, NY
Edie Sedgewick 'Superstar'
1966 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
Signed and numbered by the artist
11 x 14 in - 25 + 5 AP - $ 8,000
16 x 20 in - 30...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Man Ray, Pablo Picasso, Picasso 1930-1935, Cahiers d'Art (after)
By Man Ray
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Stamp-signed and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Picasso 1930-1935, 1936. Published and printed by Éditions des Cahiers d'Art...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Norman Parkinson 'Legroux Soeurs’ Hat, 1952'
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
Silver Gelatin
007 Catches Ursula from the Getty Archive - Black and White, James Bond in Film
Located in Brighton, GB
Taken from the world’s largest photographic archive, (Hulton Archive and Getty Images), the Getty Images Gallery collection features an extraordinary time capsule of the last century...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White
Designer's Homes, Ghislaine Lounges in Elsa Schiaparelli's Home, Back, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Ghislaine Lounges in Elsa Schiaparelli's Home -- Mark Shaw photographed Elsa Schiaparelli's best-known model, Ghislaine de Bosisson in an ankle-length dress lounging on an elongated ...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Giclée
'Shaken Not Stirred' 1968 Baryta Print
By Peter Ruck
Located in London, GB
'Shaken Not Stirred' by Peter Ruck 1968
English actor Roger Moore, downs a Martini, 17th July 1968.
Moore has recently been awarded his second Bravo Otto award for most popular te...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Frida on White Bench - Portrait, Celebrity, Frida Kahlo, Painter, Artist
Located in Denton, TX
Frida on White Bench, New York, by Nickolas Muray is a colorful portrait of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. This iconic image features the woman artist sitting on a white bench in fron...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ted Williams 'Dr. Martin Luther King'
By Ted Williams
Located in New York, NY
Ted Williams
Dr. Martin Luther King, 1964
Silver gelatin print
16 x 20 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition
with certificate of authenticity
Dr. Martin Luther King makes a sp...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Andrew Leaving Liverpool - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Andrew Leaving Liverpool realized in the 1960s.
Photo by Charles Daws
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Designer's Homes, Teal Dior Gown in Gold Room, Red Furniture, 1960
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Designer’s Homes Teal Dior Gown in Gold Room. Furniture adjusted to Red -- Outtake from a 1960 photo shoot for Life Magazine, this image was photographed in a grand Parisian residenc...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Giclée
Norman Parkinson 'Audrey Hepburn wearing Givenchy in Italy, 1955'
Located in New York, NY
Belgian-born British actress Audrey Hepburn is photographed wearing a Givenchy afternoon cocktail dress from his Spring/Summer 1955 collection at 'Villa Rolli', a farmhouse in the Al...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Brighton, Street Photographer, United Kingdom 1956
Located in Cologne, DE
This black-and-white photograph, taken in Brighton in 1952, depicts a street photographer labeled "Official Beach Photographer," standing confidently with his vintage camera on a tri...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White
Norman Parkinson 'HRH Princess Anne'
Located in New York, NY
HRH Princess Anne
1971
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
Her Royal Highness Princess Anne sits in a car for a portrait to celebrate her 21st birthday, 1971....
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat
1987 (printed later)
Archival pigment print
24 x 24 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
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
Frida Kahlo, The Breton Portrait - Black and White Portrait, Celebrity, Woman
Located in Denton, TX
Frida Kahlo - The Breton Portrait by Nickolas Muray is a portrait of the Mexican painter commissioned by Andre Breton.
14.63 x 11.63 in.
Carbon Pigment Print
Edition of 30
Signed by...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Carbon Pigment
The Royal Family
Located in New York, NY
The Royal Family
1980's
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
A portrait of members of the British royal family; L-R: HR...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Beaton, Edith Sitwell, Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cecil Beaton, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1981. Published and pri...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait of Rudolf Nureyev - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Rudolf Nureyev- Vintage Photograph is a black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Boy with Chalked Numbers, NYC by Harold Feinstein, 1956, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Denton, TX
Boy with Chalked Numbers, NYC by Harold Feinstein is a 14 x 11 inch gelatin silver print, and is edition 3/200. This photograph features a boy sitting on the ground, surrounded by nu...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'Beauty and the Beast' Slim Aarons
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Beauty and the Beast
1959 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Ca...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Pussyfooting 2 (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Pussyfooting 2
1958
Chromogenic print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Actress Dee Hartford, wife of film produce...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Norman Parkinson 'Twiggy, British Vogue, 1967'
Located in New York, NY
Twiggy, British Vogue, 1967.
Twiggy, British Vogue, 1967
Silver gelatin print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
with certificate of authenticity
Norman Parkinson (...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Norman Parkinson 'Celia Hammond wearing goggles, for Queen magazine, 1964'
Located in New York, NY
Celia Hammond wearing goggles, for Queen magazine, 1964
Celia Hammond wearing goggles, for Queen magazine, 1964
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 21 on verso
with certi...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
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.
Slim Aarons Archival ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Frida Biting Her Necklace by Lucienne Bloch, 1933, Silver Gelatin Print
Located in Denton, TX
Frida Biting Her Necklace by Lucienne Bloch is a black and white portrait of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Frida playfully bites her necklace as she poses for her portrait.
Gelatin ...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Norman Parkinson 'Iman at King Peter's Bay in Tobago for Vogue, May 1976'
Located in New York, NY
Somali-American fashion model and actress Iman at King Peter’s Bay, Tobago wearing a Shuji Tojo swimsuit. British Vogue magazine, May 1976.
Iman at King P...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Jerry Schatzberg Untitled (Mask)
Located in New York, NY
Jerry Schatzberg
Untitled (Mask), 1964
archival print
20 x 24"
ed. of 20
$12,500
40 x 40"
ed. of 9
$20,000
From creator of poetic images to compelling storyteller, Jerry Schatzber...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Norman Parkinson 'Apollonia van Ravenstein in Palm Beach, 1983'
Located in New York, NY
Dutch fashion model Apollonia van Ravenstein at the Lannan Foundation, Palm Beach, wearing a Mary McFadden dress on Ronald Bladen’s The X. Town & Country, October 1983.
Apollonia va...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
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