Face Portrait Photography

Vintage Photo. The Italian Actress Ornella Muti in a scene of a movie.

Vintage Photo. The American Actor John Wayne in a scene from the 1960 Film "The Alamo".

Blockhead Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist A man at the market sells carved wooden heads and looks like one of the wooden heads himself. JJK is a pseudonym for one o...

Autographed porta of John Huston is a colored postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the American director, John Huston (1906-1987). Around the 1960s. With the additional value of the liquid black ink autograph by John Huston, on the lower margin at the center, this vintage autographed photograph, in perfect condition and under a ivory-colored passepartout (cm 29 x 39) is absolutely to collect for the cinema connaisseurs! On the front, an amazing color Macerata urban landscape. John Marcellus Huston (Nevada, 1906 – Middletown, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and visual artist that travelled widely, settling at various times in France, Mexico, and Ireland. Huston was a citizen of the United States by birth but renounced U.S. citizenship to become an Irish citizen and resident in 1964. He later returned to the United States, where he lived the rest of his life. Huston wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen...

Vintage photo. Lightly blurry.

Gianni Morandi - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s. Good conditions.

Ernest Hemingway - Vintage Photograph is an original black and white photograph realized in the 1950s. Good conditions. A historical moment of the past through the art of photogra...

Randy (Wastelands) - 2003 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 1180. Signature label and certi...

Vintage gelatin silver print (Edition of 100) Signed and numbered, verso 11 x 14 inches, sheet This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Duane Michals is one...

Vintage Photo. The Dutch Actress Maruschka Detmers in a scene from the movie "Devil in the body" a movie by Marco Bellocchio.

Portrait of John Ruskin by Charles Philip McCarthy is a Photogravure realized in 1890 circa. Print realized on hight quality cotton paper in big size ...

Vintage Photo. The Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni in an elegant pose. Good condition.

"Caroline (LED)" (FRAMED) Photography 40" x 30" in Edition of 3 by Larsen Sotelo FRAMED Giclee (Archival Ink) print on 310G Platine Fibre Cotton Rag w/satin finish 40” X 30” inch L...

This is a Autographed Postcard Signed by Ruth Stephan. A beautiful b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the German film and stage actress, Ruth Stephan (Altona, 19...

Radiohead Radiohead, Oxford, 2001 by Kevin Westenberg- Signed Limited Edition Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and movie stars for over 25 years. His technique of lighting, colour and composition has helped to produce his own unique visual style. All prints are signed and numbered by the artist. Paper size 16x20 inches Edition size varies according to print size. Other sizes available (in inches): Luxe 16x20 (Edition of 25) Large 20x24 (Edition of 25) Longe 24x30 (Edition of 25) Grande XL 30x40 (Edition of 10 (+2 a/p)) Giant 40x60 (Edition of 3 (+1 a/p)) FRAMING: Please note that this piece is unframed – however, we offer a full framing service. If you would like this piece framed, please contact us for a quote. Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Philip Selway, Nigel Godrich, Stanley Donwood...

Albumen Portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi is an albunen photographic print made by Giovanni Puppo in Milan around 1870. Dim: 14,5 x 11 Header of photographer on the lower edge on the...

Hide Out (Wastelands) - 2003 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 1168. Signature label and Cert...

1987 Gelatin silver print Signed, titled, and dated in black ink, verso 20 x 16 inches, sheet size 14.5 x 14.5 inches, image size This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in N...

Baby Queen Elizabeth II is a vintage vintage press print . Good conditions.

Vintage Photo. The Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni. Good condition.

Breaking the Waves (Zuma Beach) - 1999 20x25cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artists Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist Inventory #110....

Vintage Portrait of Anna Magnani is a vintage b/w photographic print on single-coated paper. Good condition. Anna Magnani was born in Rome, Italy (not in Egypt, as some biographies...

Arabic girl is a silver salt print realized in the early 20th century. Hand signed lower right in red pencil, not readable. Includes frame

Before the Storm (Zuma Beach) - 1999 20x24cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artists Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist Inventory # 22741...

Japanese women in Tokyo is an original vintage Albumen print hand colored, on single cardboard: 26 x 34 cm. Realized between the 1880s and the early 18...

Flying (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 part of the 29 Palms, CA project. 40x48cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #7980. Not mounted. LIFE’S A DREAM (The Personal World of Stefanie Schneider) Projection is a form of apparition that is characteristic of our human nature, for what we imagine almost invariably transcends the reality of what we live. And, an apparition, as the word suggests, is quite literally ‘an appearing’, for what we appear to imagine is largely shaped by the imagination of its appearance. If this sounds tautological then so be it. But the work of Stefanie Schneider is almost invariably about chance and apparition. And, it is through the means of photography, the most apparitional of image-based media, that her pictorial narratives or photo-novels are generated. Indeed, traditional photography (as distinct from new digital technology) is literally an ‘awaiting’ for an appearance to take place, in line with the imagined image as executed in the camera and later developed in the dark room. The fact that Schneider uses out-of-date Polaroid film stock to take her pictures only intensifies the sense of their apparitional contents when they are realised. The stability comes only at such time when the images are re-shot and developed in the studio, and thereby fixed or arrested temporarily in space and time. The unpredictable and at times unstable film she adopts for her works also creates a sense of chance within the outcome that can be imagined or potentially envisaged by the artist Schneider. But this chance manifestation is a loosely controlled, or, better called existential sense of chance, which becomes pre-disposed by the immediate circumstances of her life and the project she is undertaking at the time. Hence the choices she makes are largely open-ended choices, driven by a personal nature and disposition allowing for a second appearing of things whose eventual outcome remains undefined. And, it is the alliance of the chance-directed material apparition of Polaroid film, in turn explicitly allied to the experiences of her personal life circumstances, that provokes the potential to create Stefanie Schneider’s open-ended narratives. Therefore they are stories based on a degenerate set of conditions that are both material and human, with an inherent pessimism and a feeling for the sense of sublime ridicule being seemingly exposed. This in turn echoes and doubles the meaning of the verb ‘to expose’. To expose being embedded in the technical photographic process, just as much as it is in the narrative contents of Schneider’s photo-novel exposés. The former being the unstable point of departure, and the latter being the uncertain ends or meanings that are generated through the photographs doubled exposure. The large number of speculative theories of apparition, literally read as that which appears, and/or creative visions in filmmaking and photography are self-evident, and need not detain us here. But from the earliest inception of photography artists have been concerned with manipulated and/or chance effects, be they directed towards deceiving the viewer, or the alchemical investigations pursued by someone like Sigmar Polke. None of these are the real concern of the artist-photographer Stefanie Schneider, however, but rather she is more interested with what the chance-directed appearances in her photographs portend. For Schneider’s works are concerned with the opaque and porous contents of human relations and events, the material means are largely the mechanism to achieving and exposing the ‘ridiculous sublime’ that has come increasingly to dominate the contemporary affect(s) of our world. The uncertain conditions of today’s struggles as people attempt to relate to each other - and to themselves - are made manifest throughout her work. And, that she does this against the backdrop of the so-called ‘American Dream’, of a purportedly advanced culture that is Modern America, makes them all the more incisive and critical as acts of photographic exposure. From her earliest works of the late nineties one might be inclined to see her photographs as if they were a concerted attempt at an investigative or analytic serialisation, or, better still, a psychoanalytic dissection of the different and particular genres of American subculture. But this is to miss the point for the series though they have dates and subsequent publications remain in a certain sense unfinished. Schneider’s work has little or nothing to do with reportage as such, but with recording human culture in a state of fragmentation and slippage. And, if a photographer like Diane Arbus dealt specifically with the anomalous and peculiar that made up American suburban life, the work of Schneider touches upon the alienation of the commonplace. That is to say how the banal stereotypes of Western Americana have been emptied out, and claims as to any inherent meaning they formerly possessed has become strangely displaced. Her photographs constantly fathom the familiar, often closely connected to traditional American film genre, and make it completely unfamiliar. Of course Freud would have called this simply the unheimlich or uncanny. But here again Schneider almost never plays the role of the psychologist, or, for that matter, seeks to impart any specific meanings to the photographic contents of her images. The works possess an edited behavioural narrative (she has made choices), but there is never a sense of there being a clearly defined story. Indeed, the uncertainty of my reading here presented, acts as a caveat to the very condition that Schneider’s photographs provoke. Invariably the settings of her pictorial narratives are the South West of the United States, most often the desert and its periphery in Southern California. The desert is a not easily identifiable space, with the suburban boundaries where habitation meets the desert even more so. There are certain sub-themes common to Schneider’s work, not least that of journeying, on the road, a feeling of wandering and itinerancy, or simply aimlessness. Alongside this subsidiary structural characters continually appear, the gas station, the automobile, the motel, the highway, the revolver, logos and signage, the wasteland, the isolated train track and the trailer. If these form a loosely defined structure into which human characters and events are cast, then Schneider always remains the fulcrum and mechanism of their exposure. Sometimes using actresses, friends, her sister, colleagues or lovers, Schneider stands by to watch the chance events as they unfold. And, this is even the case when she is a participant in front of camera of her photo-novels. It is the ability to wait and throw things open to chance and to unpredictable circumstances, that marks the development of her work over the last eight years. It is the means by which random occurrences take on such a telling sense of pregnancy in her work. However, in terms of analogy the closest proximity to Schneider’s photographic work is that of film. For many of her titles derive directly from film, in photographic series like OK Corral (1999), Vegas (1999), Westworld (1999), Memorial Day (2001), Primary Colours (2001), Suburbia (2004), The Last Picture Show (2005), and in other examples. Her works also include particular images that are titled Zabriskie Point, a photograph of her sister in an orange wig. Indeed the tentative title for the present publication Stranger Than Paradise is taken from Jim Jarmusch’s film of the same title in 1984. Yet it would be dangerous to take this comparison too far, since her series 29 Palms (1999) presages the later title of a film that appeared only in 2002. What I am trying to say here is that film forms the nexus of American culture, and it is not so much that Schneider’s photographs make specific references to these films (though in some instances they do), but that in referencing them she accesses the same American culture that is being emptied out and scrutinised by her photo-novels. In short her pictorial narratives might be said to strip films of the stereotypical Hollywood tropes that many of them possess. Indeed, the films that have most inspired her are those that similarly deconstruct the same sentimental and increasingly tawdry ‘American Dream’ peddled by Hollywood. These include films like David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990) The Lost Highway...

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...

Funeral in Tizi-Ouzou of Prince Francesco is a vintage photograph on photography paper, realized by an anonymous photographer With the stamp of Associated press and type-note on th...

B / W photo that immortalizes Mick Jagger and wife in the early nineties.

Vintage Portrait of Monica Vitti is a vintage black and white photograph realized by Agenzia ANSA in 1970s. Good condition. Monica Vitti is born in Rome on November 3, 1931. Admitt...

Venice Film Festiva, Venice 1983. Portrait of actress Jennifer Beals. Vintage Photo, good condition.

This Autograph by Gerlinde Locker is reported on this b/w postcard reproducing a beautiful photographic portrait of Gerlinde Locker (Liz, 1938), the Austrian actress, active in Germa...

23.6 x 15.7 in (60 x 40 cm) Digital C-Type Print Edition of 15 Price does not include tax.

Vintage photo, awarded by the National Association of Movie Theater Owners, during a banquet at the Americana Hotel. Irregular edges.

The Italian Actors Marcello Mastroianni and Laura Morante in "Le due vite di Mattia Pascal" by Mario Monicelli (1985). Vintage b/w photo, very goo condition.

This Vintage Photo shows the Italian Film Director Marco Bellocchio. Good condition.

Vintage dye transfer print from the portfolio "Transformations" (Edition of 50) Signed and numbered, verso 30 x 24 inches, mount size 22 x 15 inches, image size This artwork is off...

The actors Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison while talking. Vintage Photo. Good condition.

Lou Castel and Angel Molina on the set of "Gli occhi e la bocca" by Marco Bellocchio (1982). Vintage b/w Photo. Good condition.

This black ink Autograph by Marianne Koch is reported on this b/w postcard reproducing a beautiful photographic portrait of the German actress. Photo realized around 1960s. This postcard is in excellent condition. Marianne Koch (Munich,1931) German actress of the 1950s and 1960s, best-known for her appearances in Spaghetti Westerns and adventure films of the 1960s. She appeared in more than 65 films, Koch had numerous leading roles in the German cinema of the middle century...

This early 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features fashion model Liz Pringle drinking from a coconut at the Round Hill resort, Montego Bay, ...

Vintage Photo. The Italian Actress Valeria Golino in a scene from "Love Story", a movie by Francesco Maselli.

This Vintage Photo shows the Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni in the early 1980s. Good condition.

Vintage Photo. The French Actress Claudine Auger in 1970s.

Vintage Photo. The Italian Actor Marcello Mastroianni receiving a slap on the set of a movie. Good condition.

Bjork Bjork, New York, 1998. by Kevin Westenberg- Signed Limited Edition Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musician...

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...

Autograph portrait of Gertrud Kückelmann is a b/w 1961 postcard reproducing a photographic portrait of the beautiful German actress, Gertrud Christine Franziska Kückelmann (Munich, ...

Vintage Photo. The British Actor Stewart Granger.

Promo Film Festival, Stanley Kubrick directing, end 1980s. Vintage b/W Photo of the famous American Director Stanley Kubrick, directing Shining. In Pe...

Vintage Photo. The American Actor John Wayne shortly before his Death. A little blurry.

Vintage Photo. A scene from the movie "The Devil's Eye" by Ingmar Bergman, 1960.

Signed Portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi is an albumen print realized by Lugi Montabone, Florence 1870 circa. The portrait is signed with a dedication handwritten by Garibaldi on the lower edge of the cardboard. Excellent conditions. Cardboard cm 11 x 16, print cm 10 x 14 This unique document of Italian history reproduces a famous photographic portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi, taken by Luigi Brogi at the end of his life. In the portrait the famous hero wears a poncho and a beret, the face looks very tired but retains a fierce expression on the face. The pose of this photograph, exactly like the clothing, suggests that this photo is a tribute to another portrait made by Brogi but in 1866, in which Garibaldi poses in the height of his celebrity, dressed in the same South American tradition clothing. The incredibly characteristic element of this exceptional document concerns the autograph: the handwriting part is certainly written by Garibaldi's hand but with discontinuous and angular signs, an evident than tender sign of the senility of the "hero of the two worlds". Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi (4 July 1807 – 2 June 1882) was an Italian general, patriot, and republican. He contributed to the Italian unification...

Portrait of Miranda Martino - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 20th Century. Fair conditions with oxidation.

SPC Curtis Jones, 22, El Paso, 554th MP Co (standing), PFC Brian Niess, 18, Lake Ann, Michigan, 554th MP Co (sitting), Forward Operating base Kamdesh, Afghanistan Digital C-print Si...

Vintage Photo. The American Actress and Singer Abbe Lane in Rome, at the edges of the Trevi Fountain. Photo by Associated Press Photo.

Gianni Morandi - Vintage Photo is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1980s. Good conditions.

The Japanese director Akira Kurosawa receives the Gold Palm from the British Actor Dirk Bogarde and Kirk Douglas, for his film "Kagemusha" during the Cann...