Face Portrait Photography
to
270
2,054
1,219
439
457
516
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
30
2,743
1,931
1
2
34
86
60
251
520
467
451
349
2,315
978
216
159
23
10
6
5
5
3
2
1
1
1
2,687
1,464
528
12,564
6,507
6,395
5,888
4,708
4,656
3,112
1,370
1,369
1,357
1,221
819
818
814
781
673
618
597
593
582
1,609
1,385
1,346
1,310
866
172
170
123
86
59
608
1,922
2,599
1,703
Art Subject: Face
Displaced by John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic Face-Mount.
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young man of the Nuer culture with distinctive scarification on his forehead. The photograph was taken in Ethiopia but like many of the Nuer he had been displaced from his home in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Limbo From The Series "Arte Erotica". Digital figurative photo collage
By Alen Opsar
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Limbo, 2018 From The Series Of Arte Erotica by Alen Opsar
Archival pigment print
AP
Portraying herself like virgin mother to society, her soul wanders in Limbo to find and to accept...
Category
2010s Pop Art Color Photography
Materials
Color, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Soil, 2021 C-print mounted in dibond perspex face in tray frame
Located in London, GB
Soil, 2021
C-print mounted in dibond perspex face in tray frame
113 x 103 cm
44 1/2 x 40 1/2 in.
Edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs
(IVZ061)
For Isabelle van...
Category
2010s Old Masters Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Past the Minutes (The Getaway) - The Last Picture Show - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Past the Minutes - The Getaway (The Last Picture Show) - 1999
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist Inventory #69...
Category
1990s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Domina, Portrait. Limited edition fashion color photograph.
By Lèa Bon
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Dreams and fantasies from the past and present are portrayed by Léa Bon’s subjects, which she uses as her own personal dolls.
Léa Bon work is a profound exploration of dreams and fa...
Category
2010s Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Marilyn Monroe in Black Swimsuit Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
This black and white full length vintage original photograph features starlet Marilyn Monroe posed smiling in a black bathing suit.
--
One-of-a-kind original vintage press print fr...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Henry (Stay) - starring Ryan Gosling - Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay', featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie Sc...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Pitali by John Kenny. Portrait, Unmounted C-type Print, 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
Sometimes a more practical hair arrangement is needed for warriors and braids are rolled into a net that is tied to keep the hair firm. Once the hair is long, a warrior will only sha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Evan Dando - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Evan Dando - Oversize Signed Limited Edition Print
Evan Dando, frontman of American band The Lemonheads, photographed in a cemetery in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Cover shoot ...
Category
1990s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
She, 2014 C- Type Print, Dibond / Perspex face mounted in tray frame
Located in London, GB
She, 2014
C- Type Print, Dibond / Perspex face mounted in tray frame
Framed:
113 x 103.1 cm
44 1/2 x 40 1/2 in
Available editions: 7/7 AP1 AP2 AP3
Edition of ...
Category
2010s Old Masters Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Marilyn Monroe in Monkey Business Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white promo photo of Marilyn Monroe posed in a bathing suit for her role in "Monkey Business", circa 1952.
--
One-of-a-kind original vintage press print from the Celebrity...
Category
1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White
La Dama Del Callejón by James Sparshatt. 20" x 20" Photo on brushed aluminium
Located in Coltishall, GB
Every Sunday afro-Cubans gather in the Callejon de Hammel to play the drums and sing the harsh vocals of rumba.
The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cuban...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
Sell your soul - Mephisto performing in Faust
Located in Cologne, DE
Sell your soul!
Exclusive set photography of the film version of Goethe's Faust, Gustaf Gründgens as Mephisto, 1960.
Gustaf Gründgens had already played Mephisto more than 600 time...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Accident - The Getaway (The Last Picture Show) - Polaroid, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Accident - The Getaway (The Last Picture Show) - 2000
20x25cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist Inventory #341.
...
Category
1990s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Donald J. Trump - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Donald J. Trump- Vintage Photo is a black-and-white photograph, realized by Randy Drouke in the 1980s.
Good condition.
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Raquel Welch, Los Angeles, 21st Century, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Edition 25
Also available in 101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch, Edition 10
Black and white portrait of actress Raquel Welch.
From personality portraits and advertising campaigns to maga...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rufus Wainwright - Signed Limited Edition Print (2010)
Located in London, GB
Sting - Signed Limited Edition Print
Press Shoot
New York City
January 5 2010
(photo Kevin Westenberg)
NB All prints are signed and numbered by the artist.
Unframed
Signed...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet - Vintage photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet in a scene from "Scarlatto e nero" by Jerry London.
Lightly damaged.
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Self-Portrait (Oscar, BAFTA, Tony Award, Labour Party) (27% OFF LIST PRICE)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Glenda Jackson
Self-Portrait (Oscar, BAFTA, Tony Award, Labour Party)
Black & White Photograph on Photographic Paper
Year: 1980s
Image Size: 4.5 x 3.5 i...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Farrah Fawcett Majors
By Andy Warhol
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This is a unique photographic work taken by Andy Warhol behind-the-scenes at Fawcett’s portrait photo shoot. When she comes to see the finished product, Warhol notes in his diary: “…I didn’t think Farrah liked it, but then she studied them for about half an hour and finally she love it…And she looked pretty, her hair was all washed, and she looked very very nice. She’s sweet.”
Farrah Fawcett...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Young Callas - Vintage Original Photograph of Maria Callas - End of 1950-51
By Maria Callas
Located in Roma, IT
The Young Callas is a beautiful black-white photographic portrait of the nascent opera star realized by an unknown artist around the 1950-51.
On the verso the black ink stamp on the...
Category
1950s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Mick Jagger, 1973
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Francesco Scavullo (after)
Title: Mick Jagger, 1973
Portfolio: A Photographic Retrospective, Volume I: Song
Medium: Gelatin Silver Print
Year: 2004
Edition: 99/150
Signed: Si...
Category
Early 2000s Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Découpage
By Sonia Sieff
Located in München, BY
Edition of 7
Also available in 73 x 100 cm / 28.7 x 43.3 in, Edition of 3, price on request
A naked woman lies very lascivious on her back on a couch and is holding a cigarette in h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Divine Nude No.45 by Ronald Martinez - Fine art photography, Renaissance, woman
Located in Paris, FR
Divine Nude No.45 is a limited-edition photograph by French contemporary artist Ronald Martinez.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 2 dimensions:
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
1 Stefanie Schneider's Mini 'Girl Nude' - signed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
1 Stefanie Schneider Mini 'Girl Nude' - 1999 -
signed in front, not mounted.
1 Digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid.
Polaroid sized open Editions 1999-2016
10.7 x 8.8cm...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Portrait of Nadine Gordimer - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Nadine Gordimer is a black and white photograph realized in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Soup
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Known for her whimsical and intuitive style, Taylor uses digital technology to build evocative photomontages of what she terms "dreamlike worlds inhabited by everyday objects." Inspi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
$1,700
Madonna (Burned) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Madonna (Burned) - 1999
48x47cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory No 334. ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Narween (Saigon) - vintage, Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog, Photograph
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Narween (Saigon) - 2003
58x56cm,
Edition 4/5.
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid.
Artist inventory Number 469.04.
Signature labe and Cert...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Audrey Hepburn Fish Portrait
Located in Austin, TX
Unique and stunning black and white capture of star actress Audrey Hepburn posed with a peculiar fish-shaped weathervane.
Audrey Kathleen Hepburn was a British actress. Recognised a...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Portrait of 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
$85 Sale Price
40% Off
Alek Wek
By Max Cardelli
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print
signed, verso
16 x 12 inches, sheet
14 x 10.5 inches, image
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
About the Artist:
Born in 1965 in ...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,160
Desert Center - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Color, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Desert Center (Stranger than Paradise) - 2000
Edition of 10,
20x20cm.
Archival Print, based on a Polaroid.
Mounted on dibond with matte UV-Protection.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory No. 1986.
Published in Stranger than Paradise, Hatje Cantz (monograph)
Stefanie Schneider: A Discovery on Polaroid.
An essay by Eugen Blume
How is it that the photographic works of Stefanie Schneider do not allow anything other than one single association, namely that of America? Because they were taken in America itself? That fact alone would not yet be a compelling argument. Many photographs of America possess a reckless ambivalence which allows even the different country of their own particular creator to seem so similar as to be confused with America itself. Does this ambiguity have something to do with the ongoing, accelerating Americanization of the entire world? Or is it simply connected with our personal clichés which we attribute to a country the size of North America as valid expressions of its very essence, thereupon negligently allowing it not only to dwindle down into any size whatever, but also to expand to a great extent, from Germany by way of Luxembourg right through to Japan?
Now it is certainly true that the figures of Thelma and Louise in the desert do not represent an American reality, not even after their resurrection as Radha and Max in the series 29 Palms from 1999. Strangely enough, it is nature which allows this utterly artificial scene to grow into an American verity. The harsh sunlight in the barren landscape establishes the fundamental tone out of which the women emerge in excessive hysteria from beneath their colored wigs. It is inherently absurd to celebrate the feminine aspect in the middle of a mercilessly inhospitable environment. The image of the two women is a monument of resistance, the meaningful assertion of a lifestyle which stands in contradiction to each and every convention. The pictorial structure and the captured movement along the edge of the format are a means of blending the glaring luminosity with the plot in a manner which perhaps functions successfully only in the “simple” instant technique of the Polaroid. Stefanie Schneider’s pictorial narratives are striking in their formal elegance. She utilizes the chemical faults of the Polaroids, their tendency towards overexposure and double-images as a sovereignly controlled means of artistic design. The defects become, as it were, metaphorical levels which plumb depths lying far beneath the surface. The overly bright colors and schlieren seek out the uncanny; they provide a counterweight to a narration that is deliberately kept superficial. They tell of an invisible strand. They illuminate, in the truest sense of the word, underground processes. Although we are familiar with a series featuring American flags which could not indicate the site of its narrations any more clearly, nevertheless there remains a fundamental doubt as to whether the initially described association with America is identical with that which we deem to be America in a geographical sense.
Although I have in the meantime been in America several times, in both South and North America, deep down I remain uncertain as to whether the New World actually exists. Columbus’ error of continuing to believe, even when having arrived on land, that he was encountering the India which was the actual goal of his journey has burrowed down deep into the European unconscious as a cultural convention. Peter Bichsel’s amusing story “Amerika gibt es nicht” (There is no America) still remains today an undeniable truth: America’s northern half is a film, not a continent. Everything which signifies the U.S.A. – from the Indians, whose most noble savages were invented in Europe, all the way to September 11th and the subsequent war in Iraq, the aliens and the revival of the dinosaurs, the terminators as governors and presidents as actors and vice versa, the electric chairs, the godfather Marlon...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
1970s Fashion editorial photo Turban and Feathers
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Kenn Duncan (1928-1986). Woman with Turban and Feathers, ca. 1973. 11 x 14 inches; 12 x 15 inches framed. The print was used for publication in After Dark Magazine. From the estate of William Como, Editor in Chief, After Dark Magazine.
Kenneth Duncan was born September 22, 1928, in New Jersey. He began his career as a skater and then a dancer. After breaking his foot and taking a six-week course on photography at a YMCA, he became a photographer. Duncan worked as a principal photographer for After Dark and Dance Magazine. His photographs also regularly appeared in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Life, Time, and Newsweek. In addition, he photographed a score of Broadway shows, including Hair, Applause, The Elephant Man, and Sophisticated Ladies and many dance and Broadway stars including Chita Rivera...
Category
1970s American Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Willie Nelson by Ebet Roberts
By Ebet Roberts
Located in Austin, TX
Willie Nelson at The Palladium in NYC on December 11, 1980 by Ebet Roberts.
Signed limited edition, hand printed silver gelatin print.
Ebet Roberts began her career in 1977 when sh...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Liam and Noel Gallagher backstage Oasis at Wembley by Jill Furmanovsky
Located in Austin, TX
Signed, limited edition print of Oasis, Liam and Noel Gallagher by Jill Furmanovsky. Taken backstage before the gig at Wembley Stadium in July 2000.
Signed and numbered by Jill Furm...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pride - Jennifer Lopez Portrait Intervened by the artists. From the Blue series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This artwork was created by the artistic duo Hunter & Gatti (2010–2023). These works are part of the archive managed and exhibited by Cristian Hunter.
The artist's technique consists of the use of two prints, the first print is the original photography, and the second print is a blurry version of the image printed on glass. The glass version of the picture is shattered with an iron tool to be able to control the rupture. The artists glued the glass parts on top of the original picture, creating a blurred effect.
The artists explore even further the infinite possibilities of transformation by turning something as temporary as a fashion editorial, into something completely different and original; a unique piece of art.
Series titled "BLUE", where they keep questioning the fashion photography industry by creating a new visual identity of their images moving them away from their origin, as a vehicle for testing ideas and as a form of interrogation of the creative process itself, through this series.
Cristian Hunter’s work starts from that belief. His photographs —created over a solid international career— are not mere documents, but open territories where painting, texture, and gesture expand photography into new dimensions of meaning.
Hunter explores how an image can shift in meaning over time—how context, memory, and manual intervention can transform what was once captured into something newly revealed. Each piece is an invitation to look again, to uncover what lies beneath the visible. Guided by the premise that “nothing stays still,” he works from his personal archive, reinterpreting it, giving new life to what was once lived, and breaking the linear flow between past and present.
His lens has captured renowned figures such as Pharrell Williams, Penélope Cruz, Jennifer Lopez...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Oil, Archival Pigment, Black and White
Fashion, Iconic, Portrait of a Tribal Woman in Kenya, Youthful, Iconic, Jewelry
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Ray of Light"
In this award-winning image, a young Rendille woman named Mindisayo basks in the sun.
The print series Desert Song: Compositions of Kenya exhibits classic, timeles...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Gene Wilder in Mel Brooks' "Frankenstein Junior" - Photo - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Gene Wilder in Mel Brooks' "Frankenstein Junior" is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1974.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
John Wayne and Elizabeth Allen in Donovan's Reef
Located in Austin, TX
John Wayne and Elizabeth Allen in Donovan's Reef, circa 1963.
Donovan's Reef is a 1963 American adventure comedy film starring John Wayne and Lee Marv...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Mursi traditions by John Kenny. C-type Print with Acrylic faced mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
Mago National Park in southern Ethiopia is home to the Mursi, one of the most well known tribes of the Omo valley. The area is inhospitable to outsiders, because of the heat, humidi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled 9 Paris, From the series La Notte, Black and White Photograph
By Arslan Sükan
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Sükan created the ‘La Notte’ series as he was working for international magazines documenting the fashion shows and backstage as well as the social times of the fashion world in Pari...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment
Frank Zappa by Lynn Goldsmith
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of Frank Zappa taken in 1978 by Lynn Goldsmith
Signed limited edition #2/20 - signed, numbered and titled by Lynn Goldsmith
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
22 May, I
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered on label, verso
12 x 18 inches
(Edition of 10)
24 x 35.5 inches
(Edition of 8)
From the series, "Him"
This artwork is offered by ClampAr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Wonder Room, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Wonder Room, limited edition color print, signed and numbered
Maggie Taylor's digital creations are emblematic, afterimages that invite, transport, and are unforgettable. Taylor's ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lech Walesa- Historical Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Lech Walesa- Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the 1980s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical moment and political...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Dietrich File, Portrait. Limited edition fashion color photograph.
By Lèa Bon
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Dreams and fantasies from the past and present are portrayed by Léa Bon’s subjects, which she uses as her own personal dolls.
Léa Bon work is a profound exploration of dreams and fa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Eture by John Kenny. 36 x 24" portrait photo with Acrylic Face-Mount 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
A young Rendille girl
A return to Kenya. On this trip John took a different approach to lighting. Building makeshift studios from locally acquired white sheets held up by four war...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
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 Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Pete Townshend - 20th Century Photography, Musicians, The Who, Guitar
By David Steen
Located in Brighton, GB
Edition of 50.
Pete Townsend is a striking portrait, on fibre paper, from iconic 20th Century photographer David Steen. Steen’s introduction to photography was as a 15-year-old scho...
Category
1970s Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones - 20th Century Monochrome Photographic Print
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 Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Photographic Paper
Lady of Naggaroth #2. Portrait. Limited edition color photograph. Fashion
By Lèa Bon
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Dreams and fantasies from the past and present are portrayed by Léa Bon’s subjects, which she uses as her own personal dolls.
Léa Bon work is a profound exploration of dreams and fa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Jean-Paul Belmondo and Gina Lollobrigida in Mare Matto - Photo - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Jean-Paul Belmondo and Gina Lollobrigida in Mare Matto is a vintage black and white photograph realized in 1963.
Good conditions.
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Chaim Weizmann
By Lotte Jacobi
Located in Kansas City, MO
Lotte Jacobi
Chaim Weizmann
Photograph
Year: 1948
Size: 13.9x10.8in
Signed in the print
Lotte Jacobi Copyright Annotation lower left, recto
Ref.: 924802-1355
Lotte Jacobi (August 17, 1896 – May 6, 1990) was a leading American portrait photographer and photojournalist, known for her high-contrast black-and-white portrait photography, characterized by intimate, sometimes dramatic, sometimes idiosyncratic and often definitive humanist depictions of both ordinary people in the United States and Europe and some of the most important artists, thinkers and activists of the 20th century.
Jacobi's photographic style stressed informality, and sought to delve deeper into the traits of her subjects than traditional portraiture. She made a point of photographing subjects in their own environments, and talking to them while she worked. She explained the reasoning behind her approach this way:
"I just try and get people to talk, to relax, to be themselves. I don't like a passive, bored subject. I do portraits because I like people, and I want to bring out their personalities. Many photographers today, I think, are bringing out the worst part of people. I try and bring out the best."
Jacobi is perhaps best known for her "portrait of Albert Einstein (Princeton, 1938), whom she photographed candidly, seated at his desk, dishevelled and dressed in a leather jacket, a work that was refused by Life magazine for its simplicity." Other personality-driven portraits include "Eleanor Roosevelt sitting back, gesturing, and obviously speaking in midsentence; Marc Chagall depicted as a jovial family man; Thomas Mann appearing as thoughtful as his work; and more candid, gentle portraits of Einstein." Other celebrated subjects included poets W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, and May Sarton; philosopher Martin Buber; writer J.D. Salinger; writer and activist W. E. B. Du Bois; scientist Max Planck; artist Käthe Kollwitz; the actress and singer Lotte Lenya; the singer and activist Paul Robeson...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$977 Sale Price
34% Off
Portrait of Valeria Golino - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
The Italian Actress Valeria Golino in a scene from "Love Story", a movie by Francesco Maselli.
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Grain by Grain - black and white abstract photography, limited edition of 20
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
"Grain by Grain" is a poetic exploration of identity and transformation, captured in Ugne’s signature monochromatic style. This evocative photograph contemplates the interplay betwee...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
La Dama del Callejón by James Sparshatt. Palladium Platinum Print - Float Frame
Located in Coltishall, GB
Every Sunday afro-Cubans gather in the Callejon de Hammel to play the drums and sing the harsh vocals of rumba.
The Spirit of the Revolution series documents the generation of Cuban...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Platinum
Potawatomi Indian
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nick Vedros
Potawatomi Indian
Archival Pigment Print on Epson Legacy Platine 100% Cotton Fibre, 314 gsm, Acid and Lignin free
Year: 1987
Size: 8x10in
Edition: 15
Signed, dated and n...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
$790 Sale Price
34% Off
David Bowie : Natural Villains monochrome 33" x 40" print by Markus Klinko
Located in Austin, TX
New release July 2022. Museum quality fine art print of David Bowie by photographer Markus Klinko, from his celebrated collection "Bowie Unseen", released for the first time in 2016....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
$14,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Read More
This Week-Old Calf Named Bug Is One of Randal Ford’s Most Adorable Models
In a recent collection of animal portraits, he brings fashion photography to the farm.
11 of Annie Leibovitz’s Most Talked-About Photographs
See why the famed photographer's celebrity portraits have graced magazine covers and become headline grabbers in their own right for five decades and counting.
Queen Elizabeth’s Life in Photos
She was one of the most photographed women in history, but the world’s longest-reigning queen remained something of a mystery throughout her decades on the throne.
Photographer to Know: William Klein
The noted lensman brought a bold sense of irony to fashion photography in the 1950s and '60s, transforming the industry. But his work in street photography, documentary filmmaking and abstract art is just as striking.
Chris Levine’s Portrait of a Shut-Eyed Queen Elizabeth Sparkles with Crystals
Celebrate the queen's Platinum Jubilee with a glittering, Pop-art version of the most famous and thought-provoking photo of Her Royal Majesty.
In Milan, La DoubleJ Celebrates Women of Design through Portraiture
During Salone del Mobile, Robyn Lea photographed some of the most powerful creative forces in the European design industry, decked out in J.J. Martin’s maximal fashion line.
Lori Grinker’s Artful Photographs of a Young Mike Tyson Are a Knockout!
The New York photographer tells us how an encounter with the then-13-year-old boxer led to a decade-long project that saw them both go pro.
John Dolan’s Photographs Capture the Art and Soul of a Wedding Day
In a new book compiling 30 years' worth of images, the photographer reveals that it's the in-between moments that make a wedding special.