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Art Subject: Portrait
Morrissey
Located in Austin, TX
Signed limited edition print by photographer Pat Pope of Morrissey. Taken in 1997 for the August edition of Melody Maker and shot in London, England. The Melody Maker feature was tit...
Category
Late 20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Chevalier André Leon Talley on the Pont Alexandre III, Paris, 30 June 2013
Located in New York, NY
Chevalier André Leon Talley on the Pont Alexandre III at six in the morning, Paris, 30 June 2013
Photographed by Jonathan Becker
Contemporary
44" x ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pamela Anderson - Los Angeles, CA 1994
Located in Toronto, ON
Archival Pigment Print
COA Hand Signed by Michael Grecco
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Brooklyn One, NY, 2009
By Bill Phelps
Located in Hudson, NY
The Robin Rice Gallery announces the new exhibition VISITOR by photographer Bill Phelps.
Through light and shadow, a gaze, a mindset, Bill Phelps fourth solo show at the Robin Rice ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
President Kennedy with his Daughter - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
President Kennedy with is daughter is a vintage photograph realized in the 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Photograph of William S. Burroughs at the Chelsea Hotel
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
William S. Burroughs was an influential American writer and poet and a central figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s. He is perhaps best known for his 1959 novel Naked Lunch...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Tales of Bitter Doom #14
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Tales of Bitter Doom #14' by Carmen De Vos,
Edition of 7, 30x30cm, 2018
digital c-print, based on a Polaroid mounted on Dibond - gloss coating,
hand sign...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Polaroid
M. Reza Pahlavi
Located in Toronto, ON
20" x 16" Unframed
Limited Edition Estate Photograph of 20
Hand Signed by Marcel Sternberger
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Rockwell's Triple Self-Portrait
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 3 of 3, 2 APs
Large Size: 36 x 26 inches
STATEMENT:
e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Henry Geldzahler and Jean-Michel Basquiat
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Jean-Michel Basquiat first attracted attention for with graffiti work on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the late 1970s. Basquiat first met Andy Warhol in 1980. At this point, Pat Hackett had been working for Warhol for about a decade already. This was also the year Hackett and Warhol published Popism: The Warhol Sixties. As two valuable additions to The Factory, Hackett and Basquiat most likely spent a good amount of time together.
Henry Geldzahler...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Princess Ruspoli
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Princess Lucy Ruspoli stands in front of a colourful wall of old skis in Lech am Arlberg, Austria, February 1979.
Slim Aarons worked mainly for society publ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Greta Garbo
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Clarence Sinclair Bull was one of the great masters of the Hollywood portrait. As head of the stills department at MGM for over thirty years, he helped to pioneer the art and craft o...
Category
1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Steve McCurry 'Afghan Nomad Girl'
Located in New York, NY
Afghan Nomad Girl
1990
C-Prints printed on FujiFlex Crystal Archive Super Gloss Paper
60 x 40 inches
Signed and numbered edition of 10
with certificate of authenticity
Steve McCurry...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Milton Greene, "Bowler Hat II" from the Black Sitting, original vintage photo
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original vintage photograph by Milton Greene in 1956. This photograph depicts Hollywood Icon Marilyn Monroe, who was a close friend and business partner of the artist. This piece is a part of Greene's series entitled "The Black Sitting...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Jane Fonda
By Andy Warhol
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Andy Warhol. "Jane Fonda" is a Polaroid, Polacolor by American pop artist Andy Warhol. The artwork is numbered FA04.05052, FA04.05059, FA04....
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Color Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Slim Aarons, Melina Mercouri (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Melina Mercouri 1961
Printed Later.
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
1961: Greek actress Melina Mercouri (1925 - 1994) sitting at a stre...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Guitar, 1993
By Todd Burris
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 1 of 20
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
Boy (Film by Nagisa Oshima)- Vintage Photo - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo in black and white of 1969
Tetsuo Abe in a scene of the film " Boy" directed by the Japanese Nagisa Oshima and presented at the 1969 Ve...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Michael Caine (Signed)
Located in New York, NY
AP from an edition of 50, signed by Terry O'Neill.
Terry O’Neill CBE is one of the world’s most collected photographers with work hanging in national art galleries and private coll...
Category
1970s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Audrey Hepburn Sitting with Dog
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white studio portrait of actress Audrey Hpeburn posed sitting with a Yorkie.
Audrey Hepburn was a British actress. Hepburn had a successful career in Hollywood and was rec...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Wrestler's Embrace
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 10.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is pro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Carole Lombard, 1931 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography)
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
Carole Lombard, 1931 - Cecil Beaton (Portrait Photography)
Signed on front of mount
Stamped with photographer's ink stamp on reverse
Silver gelatin prin...
Category
1930s Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Gay Liberation
By Lori Grinker
Located in New York, NY
Gay Liberation
2015
Signed and numbered, verso
Archival pigment print
12 x 18 inches
(Edition of 5)
$3,500
This work is offered by ClampArt in New Y...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Crying Child in Stroller, Vintage Print - Female Street Photographer
By Vivian Maier
Located in Miami, FL
Female Street Photographer Vivian Maier captures a riveting moment of a child consumed in grief. The physiological and psychological anguish dominates her...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Steve Jones "The father of nuclear fusion" - Vintage Photograph - 1989
By Agenzia Ansa
Located in Roma, IT
Steve Jones "The father of nuclear fusion" is an original, vintage, and black and white photograph realized by "Agenzia Ansa" in 1989.
With the description...
Category
1980s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Aroused from The Last Sitting
By Bert Stern
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original chromogenic print that was hand developed from the original negative by Bert Stern. This photo is part of The Last Sitting p...
Category
1960s Other Art Style Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Australia - Durch den Wallendelly River - Original Vintage Photo 1893
Located in Roma, IT
Australia - Durch den Wallendelly River - 25 Mai 1893 - It is part of a journey to Asia and Oceania performed by prince Franz Ferdinand von Osterreich Este (1863-1914), heir to the t...
Category
1890s Portrait Photography
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Vintage Portrait of Gene Pitney with his Mother - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Gene Pitney with his Mother is a vintage photographic print on matt single-coated paper.
Photograph from United States unknown agency, printed from 6 x 6 film
Excellent...
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Tina Turner (backstage at a Rolling Stones concert)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Image dimensions: 10 x 8 in.
Framed dimensions: 18.125 x 16.625 in.
Work is framed to archival standards by Handmade Frames of Brooklyn, New York.
Stamped on ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Painted Spirit_Brooke Shaden_Photo_Velvet FineArtPaper, ed 1/15_Figure
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
BROOKE SHADEN
The Painted Spirit, 2020
Photo on Velvet Fine Art Paper
10 × 10 in. Unframed
18.25 x 18.25 in. Framed
Edition 1 of 15
Channeling the light and darkness inherent in hu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Marilyn in the slanted scarf
By Bert Stern
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Marilyn in the Slanted Scarf
Bern Stern
print on photo paper
inkjet technique
paper dimension: 48 X 33 cms
photo dimension: 25.4 X 25.4 cms
50 copies
phot...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Candy Darling
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Polaroid print glued to board.
This work is unique.
Stamped twice on the reverse by both The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Andy Warh...
Category
1970s Pop Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Divine and Stephen Aronson
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundation inventory number.
The work comes wi...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Japan – Geisha Girl with Fan – Hand-colored albumen print
Located in Middletown, NY
Yokohama, Japan: c 1885. Hand-tinted albumen print, 10 1/2 x 8 inches (268 x 204 mm), hand-numbered 1103 in negative. Unmounted; housed in an archival mat with clear mounting corner...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Watercolor, Photographic Paper
Man Ray -- Femmes #9, 1930S
By Man Ray
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Man Ray
Femmes # 9, 1930S
Gelatin silver print, printed in 1981 by Paolo Vandrasch with the supervision of Juliette Man Ray
Photo size 30 x 22 cm
Frame size 51.3 x 41.2 x 2.5 cm
Edition 17 of 35
Caption label signed in black ink by Paolo Vandrasch and Juliette Man Ray on the verso
Framed
This beautiful female portraits by Man Ray have an interesting story to tell. The printing technique - the so-called pseudosolarisation – is obtained by illuminating the paper for a fraction of time during the development phase, which gives the faces a mysterious and intriguing quality. This image was made in 1981 under the direction of his wife Juliet from the original negatives in an operation involving three other important Milanese figures: the photographer Mario Carrieri...
Category
1930s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
JOHN & YOKO, 1980
By Lilo Raymond
Located in Aventura, FL
Gelatin silver print. Hand signed and dated on front by the artist. Unknown edition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered.
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Smoke, 1990
By Todd Burris
Located in Hudson, NY
Black and White, Women, Portrait, Fashion, Model, contrast, smoke, soft blur, aesthetic, B&W, Woman, smoking, smoke, portrait, abstract portrait, blur, photography, Todd Burris, arch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Raquel Welch, 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 the actress Raquel Welch.
From personality portraits and advertising campaigns to ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pat Hackett with conjoined twins banana
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Pat Hackett is a writer and editor, as well as a frequent collaborator, friend, and confidante of Andy Warhol. She edited and wrote the introduction to The...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Marie-Chantal & Robert Miller
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work is unique.
Stamped on the reverse by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso.
The work comes with an Authentication Letter from the ...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Boy with Bee
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 50
Signed, titled, dated and numbered by Keith Carter
Gelatin silver print
Paper size: 20 x 16 in., Image size: 15 x 15 in.
Keith Carter is an American photographer who i...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sade (Nude) – Albert Watson, Black & White, Celebrity, Fashion, Sade, Nude, Art
Located in Zurich, CH
Albert WATSON (*1942, Scotland)
Sade (Nude), 1992
Archival pigment print
142 x 107 cm (55 7/8 x 42 1/8 in.)
Edition of 10, plus 2 AP
Print only
Drake purchased a series of Albert's ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Joan Collins Relaxes, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Film star Joan Collins relaxes with her pink poodle on her pink bed.
Slim Aarons
Joan Collins Relaxes, Estate Edition
Chromogenic Lambda print
1955, Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Memory of a Dream' - signed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Memory of a Dream' (29 Palms, CA) - 2008 -
1 Archival Color Photograph based on the original Polaroid.
Polaroid sized open Editio...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Chet
By Jose Picayo
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 40.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is prod...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Laura Harring and Naomi Watts Mulholland Drive Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Laura Harring and Naomi Watts Mulholland Drive
Signed Limited Edition
Cannes, 2001
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provoc...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jane Fonda in hair and makeup at The Factory
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work.
Dated 'MAY 03 1982' (on the reverse).
Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundati...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Albert Einstein
By Yousuf Karsh
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Karsh is a master 20th Century photographer. Karsh is known for his portraits of authors, scientists, artists, statesmen, musicians, and other dis...
Category
1940s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Marilyn With Diamonds, Laughing Marilyn Monroe
By Bert Stern
Located in Carmel, CA
Sometimes referred to as Marilyn with Pearls or Marilyn Laughing into Camera.
Taken with 35mm hence the format, image size smaller. Printed on 16x20 paper.
Signed on front in pen. T...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
N.Y.C (New York City)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This photograph titled "N.Y.C (New York City) 1974 is an original gelatin silver print by famous German photographer and artist Michael Andreas Russ, born 1945. It is signed, titled and dated in the back by the artist. The photograph size is 14 x 11 inches, framed is 20.75 x 16.75 inches. It is framed in a wooden dark brown frame. it is in excellent condition.
About Michael Andreas Russ.
Michael Andreas Russ (born January 1945 in Berlin) is an German/American photographer, photo designer and film director. Russ' career as a photographer began in New York in the late 1960s where he photographed his fellow acting students. Self-taught, he eventually moved to his own studio off Union Square, Manhattan and connected with the local underground art scene. Photograph by Russ was published on the cover of “Art Direction Magazine of Visual Communication” with a Gertrude Stein quotation: “The composition in which we live makes the art which we see and hear” In his early years Russ focused on men's fashion magazines and erotic sequential photographic scenes for Playboy Press books. He eventually experimented with distinctive photographic techniques, turning 35mm black and white film into chemically toned, masked, solarized and hand colored, one of a kind silver gelatin prints. These 'TinTones' as Russ would call them eventually became the trademark of his work. They were published in popular fashion and lifestyle magazines and brought him international recognition in the art world. His work was published in major fashion, lifestyle and avant-garde magazines, GUNNARS, Mode International, Mode Avant Guarde, PHOTO Magazine, Zoom (photography magazine), as well as German Playboy (magazine), Photo Reporter and cover art to IL Magazine. He also contributed sequential 'sujets de chambre' to Vogue magazine His erotic postcard edition "The Compagnie" became part of the permanent collection of the Musée des arts décoratifs de Paris...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Hurry (Till Death Do Us Part) - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hurry (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2005
Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024.
20x24c...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Lombardi Huddle, Green Bay Packer Coach Vince Lombardi 1966 by Art Shay
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Famed Green Bay Packer coach Vince Lombardi photographed at Lambeau Field in 1966 by Art Shay. The angle of this shot is particularly interesting. Art was definitely up close and personal with the coach and players that day! This photograph is not framed. Please contact the gallery for framing options.
Art Shay
Lombardi Huddle, 1966
silver gelatin print, printed later
20h x 16w in
50.80h x 40.64w cm
ASY15080
“Art Shay’s photography shakes you up, sets you down gently, pats you on the head and then kicks you in the ass.”
Roger Ebert
“[Shay’s work] ranks with some of the greats of the 20th century.”
Ellen & Richard Sandor, Renowned photo collectors
“I’ve admired Art Shay’s work for almost forty years, and he keeps getting better. He can do anything with a camera, but what he mostly does is capture real moments and transform them into visual poetry. His work continues to be an inspiration to me.”
William Friedkin, Director of French Connection
“Art Shay is one of our finest photographers. His work over the past fifty years has artfully captured the beauty, humor, and pathos of America.”
Studs Terkel
“Art Shay is one of the best photojournalists I know. I’ve been a fan of his work since the early 1950s - before the launch of playboy magazine.”
Hugh Hefner
“Algren, Terkel, Royko, they gave us a voice. Art Shay gave us a face.”
Tony Fitzpatrick, Chicago Artist
“Art Shay is America’s Cartier-Bresson.”
Thomas Dyja, author of The Third Coast
“Chicago’s Art Shay in many ways is to American photography what Nelson Algren was to American writing: that rare and absolutely necessary citizen who’s blessed with a cold eye, a clear head, and a warm heart. What is it about Chicago that keeps giving us men like this?”
Russell Banks, Novelist
“The best images of Simone de Beauvoir and her times have been passed down to us by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gisele Freund, Robert Doisneau, Georges Brassai, and in America, the Chicago-based Art Shay, all world-class photographers.”
Christophe Loviny, Art Editor, Paris
“Art Shay is the best photo-journalist Chicago ever produced.”
Arthur Siegel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Beauty and the Beast
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a tiger skin rug in the trophy room at socialite Laddie Sanford's home in Palm Beach, Florida.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition o...
Category
1950s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Marlon Brando: The Chase
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white scene from The Chase starring Marlon Brando and Angie Dickinson, circa 1966.
The Chase is a 1966 American drama film, directed by Arthur Penn, written by Lillian Hel...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Truman Capote (with the birthday cake "he made")
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Depicting Truman Capote holding a birthday cake "he made." Truman Capote was an acclaimed 20th-century American novelist. His most influential works include Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The GTO's 1968 Groupies, signed limited edition silver gelatin print
By Baron Wolman
Located in Austin, TX
The GTO's by Baron Wolman, taken in San Francisco in 1968 as part of Baron's Groupies series, taken for Rolling Stone magazine.
Limited edition number 6/150, signed and noted by Baron Wolman
11x14” hand printed silver gelatin print.
The GTOs (Girls Together Outrageously) were an all-girl group from the Los Angeles area, specifically the Sunset Strip scene. Featuring Miss Pamela...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Patsy Pulitzer (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Patsy Pulitzer leaning against a seaplane belonging to the Everglades Flying Service, at Palm Beach, Florida, 1955.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
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
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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