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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Price: $1 to $2,500
Style: Modern
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, Ital...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Shaken not Stirred, 1968 - 20th Century, Photography, Roger Moore, James Bond
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times expected between 15-20 days.
A gorgeous black and white fibre print, available in other sizes.
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 – social and political images that both made the news, as well as images from behind the headlines, which show the human race at work and play.
This stunning collection of photographs...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Photographic Paper
Sun Worship (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Bianca Volpato sunning herself at Capri in a lilac coloured bikini.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Historical Photo - BenKhedda - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo-BenKhedda is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical album including historical mom...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Lady - Vintage Photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Lady is a Photograph, Hand-dedicated on paper realized in 1910.
Good conditions.
With a Passepartout.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi - Photograph by C. Bernieri - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi is a precious Silver Salt print on paper, realized by Cesare Bernieri in 1861-1864.
Hand-signed and stamped on the lower.
Exposed in 1867 at the Pari...
Category
1860s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Silver Gelatin
Lyre - Vintage Photograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Lyre is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862.
The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of the government, of the laws, of th...
Category
1860s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
View Of Rome - Vintage Photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
View Of Rome - Vintage Photograph is a Vintage Photograph in the early 20th Century.
Four photographs, two on the front and two on the rear: Sculptures of the first century, tombs.
...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
View Of Rome - Vintage Photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
View Of Rome - Vintage Photograph is a Vintage Photograph in the early 20th Century.
Four photographs, two on the front and two on the rear: Temple of Juno, Wall of Romulus, and Wal...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Lyre - Vintage Photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lyre is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862.
The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of the government, of the laws, of th...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Farmers - Vintage Photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Silver slat photograph of a painting, hand dedicated to Carlo Ferrari by Simonetta Alfoso realized by G.B. Berra in the early 20th Century.
Four photographs, two on the front and tw...
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Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Lady - Photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Lady is a Vintage Photograph in the early 20th Century by Debenham Gould in Glen View Studio.
With a Greenish Passepartout and Cover wrote: Debenham Gould, Glen View Stu...
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Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Mrs Gilles - Photograph by Renzo Cinti - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Mrs Gilles is a Photograph realized by Renzo Cinti in the 1940s.
Good condition included a cream-colored carboard passpartout (32x23 cm).
Hand-signed by the artist on t...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Portrait of Mrs Gilles - Photograph by Renzo Cinti - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Mrs Gilles is a Photograph realized by Renzo Cinti in the 1940s.
Good condition included a cream-colored carboard passpartout (32x23 cm).
Hand-signed by the artist on t...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Jinx in goggles, Florence, Italy by Ruth Orkin, 1951, Silver Gelatin Print
By Ruth Orkin
Located in Dallas, TX
Jinx in Goggles, Florence, Italy by Ruth Orkin is a black and white portrait of a woman, wearing goggles with a white cap underneath. This photograph is part of Orkin's series, Ameri...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Gasthof Post Pool by Slim Aarons (Landscape Photography, Winter, Skiing)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda, C Print
Old days Photo - Mother and Daughter - Vintage Photo - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old days Photo - Mother and Daughter is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic albu...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Statue - Vintage Photograph - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Statue - Vintage Photograph is a Photograph applied on a Passepartout realized in the late 19th Century
Good conditions, aged with a cutting on cardboard support on the lower, , Han...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Audrey Hepburn Smiling with Head Back, 1954
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn, 54_0309a_a -- Audrey Hepburn was photographed for the June 1954 issue of Mademoiselle. Her dress is a Claire McCardell creation. THE 24” x 36” SIZE OF THIS IMAGE IS O...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Giclée
Slim Aarons 'Ursula Pacelli in Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Ursula Pacelli
1957 (printed later)
Chromogenic print
Signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate.
Ursula Pac...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin 1970 signed limited edition
Located in London, GB
Led Zeppelin
photographer Jorgen Angel
Artist(s): Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin
Location: Copenhagen
Date: 28th February 1970
Era: The 1970's
printed this year
Edition: hand signed Li...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
William Carroll, Norma Jeane Triptych, original photograph
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This triptych is three original photographs printed from the original camera negatives, shot by Bill Carroll in 1945, and printed in 2010. These images depict a young Norma Jeane at ...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Casablanca - Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart Original 1942 Print
Located in London, GB
Casablanca - Original 1942 photograph
Vintage 1942 Casablanca Lobby Card:
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and he...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
New Orleans, LA, 1995
By Bill Phelps
Located in Hudson, NY
Through light and shadow, a gaze, a mindset, Bill Phelps fourth solo show at the Robin Rice Gallery VISITOR inspires the imagination. About life, about being, eye and heart his great...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Audrey Hepburn at Home, Heron Day Bed, Looks Down, 1954
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn, r18_4 -- Audrey Hepburn at home. This image is an out take from the photo shoot for the cover of the April 19, 1954 international issue of Life magazine. Image size i...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Giclée
Her Royal Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II In Lilac - signed limited edition
Located in London, GB
HRM Queen Elizabeth II visits a new maternity ward at the Lister Hospital in 2012 in Stevenage.
The Queen was on a two day tour of the East Midlands as part of her Diamond Jubilee to...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Brooklyn Two, NY, 2010
By Bill Phelps
Located in Hudson, NY
Through light and shadow, a gaze, a mindset, Bill Phelps fourth solo show at the Robin Rice Gallery VISITOR inspires the imagination. About life, about being, eye and heart his great...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Florence One, Italy, 2023
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
Captain Oates (1910-13)
Located in London, GB
Captain Oates (1910-13)
(photo by Herbert Ponting)
Scott’s Last Expedition, the ‘Terra Nova’ at the Icefoot Ross Island
British Antarctic Expedition South Pole
Herbert George Pon...
Category
1910s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Florence Three, Italy, 2023
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
Poolside Interruption by Slim Aarons (Portrait Photography, Figurative)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda, C Print
Boca Raton by Slim Aarons (Landscape Photography, Color Photography)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Party in Marbella by Slim Aarons (Portrait Photography, Figurative Photography)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda, C Print
Il Pellicano Pool by Silm Aarons (Landscape Photography, Figurative, Nude)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Hilton Hotel Pool by Slim Aarons (Landscape Photography, Color Photography)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Villa Nirvana by Slim Aarons (Landscape Photography, Portrait Photography)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
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20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
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C Print, Lambda
Kate Moss At 16
By Jake Chessum
Located in London, GB
An Unknown Kate Moss At 16
by Jake Chessum 1990
limited edition
edition size 20 only this size
printed 2024
Archival pigment print
numbered and ...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pantz Pool, 1985 by Slim Aarons (Portrait Photography, Nude Photography)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Laura Hawk at Paestum by Slim Aarons (Portrait Photography, Landscape)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Palm Beach Idyll by Slim Aarons (Nude Photography, Portrait Photography)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
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20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
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C Print, Lambda
Ali In Training (1966) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Ali In Training (1966) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by R. McPhedran/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
American heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali throws bare-handed punches in the ri...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Man Ray, Juliet - 1932/1991, Silver Gelatin Print, Dada, Surrealist, Modern Art
By Man Ray
Located in Hamburg, DE
Man Ray (1890-1976)
Juliet, 1945/1991
Medium: Silver Gelatin Print (posthumous print)
Dimensions: 30.5 x 24 cm
Stamped: "Copie d'une épreuve originale - ADAGP Man Ray Trust"
Conditio...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Acapulco Pool by Slim Aarons (Landscape Photography, Nude Photography)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Leisure in Antibes by Slim Aarons (Seascape Photography, Nude Photography)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Slim Aarons Style 'Inga Lindgren And Poodles'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Inga Lindgren And Poodles
1956 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Swedish model Inga Lindgren...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Poolside Party by Slim Aarons (Poolside Glamour, Poolside Gossip Photography)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Lilla Silvi - Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Lilla Silvi is a vintage photo, realized in the 1950s.
Hand signed and dedicated.
The artwork is a well-balanced compostion.
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Dedicated to Monsieur Ferrari - Vintage Photo by C. Speyer - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Dedicated to Monsieur Ferrari is an Artwork realized by the photographer C. Speyer in 1920s, and decidated to painter Carlo Ferrari.
Photo on paper. Hand Signed on the right corner ...
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper
Saint Tropez, 1971 by Slim Aarons (Nude Photography, Portrait Photography)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Molly Wilmot's Pool by Slim Aarons (Portrait Photography, Landscape Photography)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Eduard Shevardnadze and George Shultz - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Historical Photo is a vintage photo, realized in the 1980s.
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Italian Fascism Era - Litwinoff - Mussolini - Vintage Photo - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Italian Fascism Era - Litwinoff - Mussolini is a vintage photo, realized in the 1930s .
By Agence Trampus.
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sculptor Aurelio Mistruzzi Playing Bowls - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sculptor Aurelio Mistruzzi Playing Bowls is a vintage photo, realized in the Mid-20th Century .
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Pope Pius XII - Vintage Photo - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Pope Pius XII is a vintage photo, realized in the 1950s .
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Leisure and Fashion, Colony Hotel by Slim Aarons (Nude Photography)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
For a limited time only these Slim Aarons prints are available to purchase at 15% discount. Please contact the gallery for any queries.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produ...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
Historical Photo - Royal Family of England - Vintage Photo - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
A rare photo of the Royal Family of England in 1940s, with George VI, Queen Mary, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Early George Bowes-Lyon, a young Queen Elizab...
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1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Old Days - Dogs - Vintage Photo - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old Days - Dogs is a vintage photo, realized in the Mid-20th Century .
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Old Days - Portrait of Sculptor Aurelio Mistruzzi - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
of Sculptor Aurelio Mistruzzi is a vintage photo, realized in the Mid-20th Century ..
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
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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.
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