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Art Subject: Portrait
Portrait of Garibaldi - Original Albumen Print with Hand-Written Notes - 1860/70
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait and Patriotic Epitaph written by Garibaldi is a CDV albumen print, datable around 1870 circa.
The portrait contains a patriotic dedication on the front and a long epitaph hand-written on the back.
Very good condition, slight signs of wear on the edges, typical of an object touched and revered and in any case written in pen on almost its surface. Cm 9,5 x 5,5
In the picture a reproduction of an unpublished painting by Garibaldi, which can be placed for its physiognomy and clothing in the years after the "Expedition of the Thousand" (1860). The photographic print also dates around 1860/1870. On the front low margin there is written a powerfull patriottic slogan: "Venite a morire con me" (come die with me), on the back, in same ink and same handwriting there is a long epitaph, readable for almost all of its entirety, reminiscent of a young and strong man who fell for Italy.
Unfortunately this long and poetic text, written on the small surface of the CDV, presents some illegible words written on the iedges, which certainly contained the signature, the date and probably the name to which it is dedicated.
in the text there are no coretions, but the punctuation and the stylistic form, with some repetitions, suggests that it was written in one go.
The handwriting, compared to other autographs by Garibaldi seems the same, especially in the use and in the form of capital letters, used as on other similar writings by Garibaldi to emphasize the words closest to the idea of death for the homeland.
It is reasonable to think that this portrait was given to the loved ones of an important fallen soldier, by Giuseppe Garibaldi as his habit. There are other similar documents, in which the hero dedicates poetic verses to famous or friends, in this case, however, the expressive power refers to images of the period of the first Italian battles...
Category
Late 18th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
' Blonde Bombshell ' - Jean Harlow 1933
Located in London, GB
DINNER AT EIGHT, Jean Harlow, 1933/ Everett Collection.
stunning and vivid photograph of the first sex symbol, Jean Harlow.
12x16 inches Archival Pigment...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
'Ava Gardner Portrait' Oversize Limited Edition silver gelatin print
Located in London, GB
'Ava Gardner Portrait' Limited Edition silver gelatin print
ca 1950
Portrait of the actress Ava Gardner circa 1950. (photo by Pictorial Press / Alamy Archives)
(photo by Pictorial...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Rita Hayworth Smiling in Silk
Located in Austin, TX
This beautiful vintage portrait features Rita Hayworth smiling in Lingerie her head tilted back and eyes closed. Rita Hayworth was an Ameri...
Category
1940s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
OASIS
By David Bailey
Located in London, GB
David Bailey
OASIS, 2006
Archival Inkjet on paper
Signed by the artist, on verso
Image: 50.8 x 50.8 cm
Sheet: 58.4 x 58.4 cm
Edition of 15
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
$27,151
Look Away, 1990
By Todd Burris
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 1 of 25
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is prod...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marilyn Monroe . Marilyn Monroe pink angel . The last sitting
By Bert Stern
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Bert stern
Marilyn Monroe pink angel
Mythical photo of the last seance (1962)
ink jet print by bert stern
2012
signed on both sides
certificate signed by the artist in his lifetime
...
Category
2010s Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Embedded Worth" - contemporary digitally manipulated portraiture, Kehinde Wiley
Located in Atlanta, GA
This listing is for an unframed print.
Tokie Rome-Taylor is inspired by the works of Harmonia Rosales, Kehinde Wiley, Tawny Chatmon, Ayana V. Jackson, Omar Victor Diop, Deborah Roberts...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Pigment
The Last Sitting: Marilyn With Pearls (hand signed C-Print)
By Bert Stern
Located in Aventura, FL
C-print on paper. Hand signed lower front, hand signed and dated on verso by Bert Stern. Hand numbered 12/72 on verso. Artwork size: 11.75 x 13.875 inches. Frame size: approx. 18...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Paper
$3,712 Sale Price
25% Off
Dolly Parton
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print
Signed and numbered, verso
10 x 8 inches, sheet
(Open Edition, Unsigned)
$1400.00
20 x 16 inches, sheet
(Edition of 25)
$3500.00
30 x 30 inches, sheet
(Edition of 5)
$12,000.00
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Please note that prices increase as editions sell.
Forty years after he began documenting the country-music scene in and around Nashville, Henry Horenstein’s deep love for the music and its people continues. Having spent a lifetime around performers and fans, he has been granted access to the high-glamour backstage at the Grand Ole Opry in its heyday, as well as the rough-and-tumble dive bars...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
David Bowie and Elizabeth Taylor
Located in New York, NY
- Lifetime signed print.
- Musician David Bowie shares a cigarette and a hug with actress Elizabeth Taylor in Beverly Hills in 1975. This photograph captures the first occasion that ...
Category
1970s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
David Bowie Diamond Dogs by Terry O'Neill
Located in Austin, TX
Rare, signed silver gelatin print of David Bowie with a large barking dog for publicity shots for his 1974 album ‘Diamond Dogs’ in London.
12x16" silver gelatin darkroom print, sign...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'Talking Heads' musician/singer/songwriter David Byrne, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of musician/singer David Byrne, founding member and principal songwriter of the American New Wave b...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Antique Signed Original Rare Humphrey Bogart Portrait Photograph
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage signed and extremely rare photograph of Humphrey Bogart by Philippe Halsman (1906 - 1979). Signed. Framed. Measuring 17 by 21 inches overall and 10.25 by 13.25 photograph a...
Category
1960s Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Audrey Hepburn b/w photograph LIFETIME print silver gelatin
Located in Norwich, GB
Terry O’Neill CBE is one of the world’s most collected photographers, with work hanging in national art galleries and private collections worldwide. From presidents to pop stars, he ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Joan Crawford in Above Suspicion
Located in Austin, TX
This black and white portrait features American film and television actress Joan Crawford. Known best for her roles in films such as Possessed, Sudden Fear, and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane...
Category
1940s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Keith Richards sitting in front of Bentley, 1966 — Signed Limited Edition Print
Located in London, GB
Keith Richards sitting in front of Bentley, 1966 — Signed Limited Edition Print, 1966 —
Signed Limited Edition Print
by Gered Mankowitz
Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones is pho...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bert stern "Marilyn Monroe in Toga " 2012
By Bert Stern
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Bert stern
Marilyn in Toga
No 17/36
Mythical photo of the last seance (1962)
Ink jet print by bert stern
2012
signed on both sides
certificate signed by the artist in his lifetime
single copy
25 X 38 cms
perfect condition
never exposed to light.
New from antique stock...
Category
2010s Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief
Located in Austin, TX
Awesome closeup publicity still of Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in their roles for the Hitchcock film To Catch a Thief.
To Catch a Thief is a 1955 American romantic thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, from a screenplay by John Michael Hayes based on the 1952 novel of the same name by David Dodge...
Category
1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
A-HA - Vintage Autographed Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
A-HA - Vintage Autographed Photograph is a vintage photo, realized in the 1980s.
Signature and dedication by the band a-ha to the readers of the magazine Foto Music
Good condition....
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Kim Basinger and Michael Keaton on the set of "Batman" - Vintage Photo -1989
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Kim Basinger and Michael Keaton stars of the 1989 Film "Batman" by Tim Burton.
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
I am online #8
Located in New York City, NY
Gabriel Wickbold
I am online #8, 2015
44 x 64 inches
160 x 110 cm
Edition of 5
Archival Pigment Print
Framed (Matt Black)
Signed on verso + Signature Lab...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Musician/Composer Philip Glass iconic studio portrait, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Musician/Composer Philip Glass iconic studio portrait, 1984. Signed by Jack Mitchell on the prin...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mattia
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Norman Parkinson 'Fiona Campbell-Walter for Vogue, July 1951'
Located in New York, NY
Fiona Campbell-Walter (later Baroness Thyssen) on an English beach wearing an Estrava coat with a raffia hat from Eaton. British Vogue, July 1951
Fiona Campbell-Walter for Vogue, Ju...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dolly Parton in a Cadillac by Jim Herrington
Located in Austin, TX
Dolly Parton in Joelton, Tennessee, 1997.
17x22" Archival pigment print on baryta 315 gsm, acid-free, 100% cotton-fiber paper. Edition 75
Signed on recto by photographer Jim Herrin...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Artist in Exhibition - Life in Italy - Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Artist in Exhibition - Life in Italy in 1960s is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the cultural and artistic ...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Eagles Vintage 8x10" Print by Norman Seeff
By Norman Seeff
Located in Austin, TX
Original vintage 8x10” work print from Norman Seeff of The Eagles. Hand-printed at the time of the photoshoot and stamped with the official Norman Seeff studio stamp.
In excellent condition having been stored flat in a climate controlled room
These Norman Seeff vintage...
Category
Late 20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sveta (Sentenced for Murder): Women’s Prison
Located in New York, NY
Total edition of 7
Signed and numbered, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
“Sailboats and Swans” is a series of portraits of prisoners in Russia ...
Category
2010s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marilyn Monroe, "Ballerina"
Located in New York, NY
Ed. 18/20, estate-stamped. Unframed print.
Milton H. Greene, famous for his fashion photography and celebrity portraits from the golden age of Hollywood, met Marilyn Monroe on a pho...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Michael Ochs 'Brigitte Bardot' Limited Edition Photograph, 16 x 12
By Michael Ochs
Located in San Rafael, CA
Brigitte Bardot with cigarette in hand by photographer Michael Ochs, originally taken in 1962. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
As an authorized Getty Images Gallery...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Kate Bush
By David Bailey
Located in London, GB
David Bailey
Kate Bush, 1978
Archival Inkjet on paper
Signed by the artist, on verso
Image: 36.83 x 36.83 cm
Sheet: 42 x 59.4 cm
Edition of 10
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
$16,290
Frank Sinatra - Live at The Sands
Located in Chicago, IL
Live at The Sands – Frank Sinatra circa mid 1950s. Performing at the Copa Room, Sands Hotel. Las Vegas, NV.
Giclee 300gsm smooth archival rag paper and arch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Sergey (Sentenced for Murder): Juvenile Prison for Boys
Located in New York, NY
Sergey (Sentenced for Murder): Juvenile Prison for Boys
Russia
2009
Signed and numbered, verso
Archival pigment print (Total edition of 7 + 2 APs)
This work is offered by CLAMP in...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The True Marilyn (1956)
Located in Buffalo, NY
The work offered for sale here is an original vintage silver gelatin print hand created by Halsman in 1956.
This work comes in an archival frame presentation. The image alone is approximately 9 x 13. The work was acquired directly from the artist and comes with a COA and lifetime guarantee.
Philippe Halsman was at one point considered the best photo-portraitist in France. He had an incessant interest in faces: “Every face I see seems to hide—and sometimes fleetingly reveal—the mystery of another human being.” Halsman’s photographs of politicians, celebrities, and intellectuals were featured widely in magazines like LIFE and Vogue. His more famous subjects included the likes of Marc Chagall, Le Corbusier, Audrey Hepburn, and Albert Einstein. He also had a 37-year collaboration with Salvador Dalí, which resulted in several famous surrealist series including the “Dalí’s Mustache” portraits...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
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.
Good conditions.
Anna Magnani was born in Rome, Italy (not i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Rolling Stones: The Early Years
Located in Austin, TX
Jagger, Wyman, Watts, Richards & Brian Jones the 'other' British rock band making their mark on the scene in the mid-'60s. Here are the Rolling Stones in their early years. Depicted ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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 Color Photography
Materials
C Print
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 o...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Marlon Brando Kissing Dog, Libertyville, IL 1950 - Large Format Black & White
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
This is a large scale black and white photo of Marlon Brando as a young man at his family farm with his dog. In 1951 Life Magazine asked Art Shay to photograph Marlon Brando at his family home in Libertyville, IL. This is one of the photos from that shoot. In 2000, Art Shay published Album for an Age: Unconventional Words and Pictures from the Twentieth Century. This artwork is matted and framed.
Art Shay
Marlon Brando Kissing Dog...
Category
1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Singer/songwriter David Byrne & dancer/choreographer Toni Basil, signed by Jack
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of musician/singer David Byrne, founding member and principal songwriter of the American New Wave band 'Talking Heads', with dancer and music video choreographer Toni Basil...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
George Barris, "3B" from The Last Photos, original photograph, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This photograph of Marilyn Monroe was shot by photographer, George Barris, in 1962 in Los Angeles, California. This photograph is from a ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
David Bowie "The Same Old Kyoto" by Sukita
Located in Austin, TX
16" x 20", signed limited edition print of David Bowie, titled "The Same Old Kyoto" by Masayoshi Sukita.
“Bowie had come to Japan to film a commercial for a...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
The Observer, Jackson Nash Portrait by Graham Nash
By Graham Nash
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous archival digital photograph, limited edition giclee by Graham Nash (American, b. 1942) of a Nash's first born son Jackson, age five, looking into an aquarium in his San Francisco house...
Category
1980s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Laid Paper
Paul McCartney [Mirror]
By David Bailey
Located in London, GB
David Bailey
Paul McCartney [Mirror], 1967
Silver Gelatin Print
Signed by the artist, on verso
Image: 43.1 x 43.1 cm
Sheet: 50.8 x 60.9 cm
Edition of 25
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
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David Bowie
By Jake Chessum
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of David Bowie by Jake Chessum.
Jake recalls the session: “I shot David Bowie at a house in Fulham in May 1995. I grew up on ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Burt Lancaster - Vintage Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Burt Lancaster is a vintage photo, realized in the 1960s .
The artwork is a well-balanced composition.
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Play among the Stars (Till Death Do Us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Play among the Stars (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature labe...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Portrait of Katharine Houghton - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Katharine Houghton is a black and white photograph realized in 1968.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sergio Leone Kissing his Daughter - Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Sergio Leone Kissing his daughter is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Kate Moss at 16
By Jake Chessum
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print of Kate Moss by Jake Chessum, taken when she was an unknown 16 year old model, just starting her career.
Jake recalls, "I had heard of Kate as she was...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jed Johnson in Black Lacoste Shirt
By Andy Warhol
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This is a unique photographic work taken by Andy Warhol. Jed Johnson was one of Warhol’s longest-lasting boyfriends and lived with Warhol for multi...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Reg Lancaster 'Birkin and Gainsbourg' Limited Edition Photographic Print, 20x30
Located in San Rafael, CA
By photographer Reg Lancaster, English actress Jane Birkin and French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, at home in Paris, 1969.
As an authorized Getty Images Gallery partner, we ...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
16 x 20" Tony and Academy Award Winner Cicely Tyson, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
16 x 20" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Tony and Academy Award Winner Cicely Tyson, 1995. It is signed by Jack Mitchell on the recto and in pencil o...
Category
1990s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,750 Sale Price
48% Off
Keith in Exile – Unlimited Graphix Series (2022)
By Norman Seeff
Located in Austin, TX
Keith in Exile – Unlimited Graphix Series (2022) by Norman Seeff
Open edition museum quality archival pigment print of Rolling Stones guitarist, Keith Richards, created, printed and signed by Norman Seeff.
Measures 38" × 50"
This new art print by Norman Seeff was taken from Norman's original 1972 portrait session for the Exile on Main St...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Raoul Salan - Portrait - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Raoul Salan is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Norman Parkinson 'Elizabeth Taylor and her Shih Tzu dog, 1972'
Located in New York, NY
British-American actress Elizabeth Taylor wearing a wig designed by Michael Rasser to match her Shih Tzu dog, Mariposa. Cover story for ‘Woman’ magazine on December 9, 1972.
Elizabe...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Palm Beach Society' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jim Kimberly and his wife (far left) and friends with his white sports car and white boats moored on Lake Worth. A Palm Beach socialite, Kimberly acts as Honorary Consul of Jordan. April 1968. (Slim Aarons / Getty Images)
Slim Aarons
Palm Beach Society...
Category
1960s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Donald Sutherland
By Andy Warhol
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This work is unique.
Dated 'SEP 24 1982' on the reverse.
Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Andy ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lovers
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print
Signed and numbered, verso
20 x 16 inches, sheet
(Edition of 25)
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Forty years after he began documenting the country-music scene in and around Nashville, Henry Horenstein’s deep love for the music and its people continues. Having spent a lifetime around performers and fans, he has been granted access to the high-glamour backstage at the Grand Ole Opry...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Authentic Portrait Photography for Sale on 1stDibs
Portrait photography can be a powerful part of your wall decor. Find a provocative and compelling portrait that speaks to you and you might find that the photograph will speak to your guests too.
Prior to the development of photography, which eventually replaced portrait paintings as a quicker and more efficient way of capturing a person’s essence, the subject of a portrait had to sit for hours until the painter had finished. In 1839, chemist and Philadelphia-based photographer Robert Cornelius didn’t have to wait very long for his portrait. In a matter of minutes, he captured what many believe to be the first portrait photograph. This shot was also the first self-portrait (or what we now call a “selfie”), and fine photography quickly became an art form.
Landscape photography, nude photography and portrait photography are very popular in today's modern interiors. A portrait can reveal a lot about the person in it. It can also add a narrative touch to your decor. You’ll often find that photographs of loved ones work well as decorative touches. A portrait of a family member or dear friend can help turn a house into a home, warming any space by evoking fond memories.
While family portraits can stir emotion, portraits of celebrities and important historical figures can also add a rich dynamic to your space. Portraits of famous musicians or intriguing actors hung in your dining room or home bar shot by Gered Mankowitz or Annie Leibovitz might inspire deep conversation over meals or drinks. Douglas Kirkland is also famous for his celebrity portraits. His photojournalism made him much sought after by Hollywood studios to document the filming of movies. In Kirkland’s powerful depiction of Hollywood stars, he excellently captures the glamour of their lives.
Other artists like Elliott Erwitt stand out by turning portraiture into a playful art form. Before graduating from high school in Hollywood, Erwitt had already begun to teach himself to take pictures, inspired by the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson. In image after image, Erwitt captured what photographers call “the moment” with rapier wit and penetrating humanity.
Portrait photography can be incredibly expressive, setting the tone and mood for a room. And there are different ways of incorporating portrait photography into your interior decor. If you’re thinking about adding color photography to a bedroom or living room, the colors of the portraits can become part of the room’s palette, while portraits shot in black and white won’t disrupt an existing color scheme.
On 1stDibs, find a vast selection of portrait photography from different eras, including 1950s portraits, 1960s portrait photography and more.
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